Elected officials in Baltimore will receive a pay raise at the beginning of the new year.

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Baltimore city government telecom upgrade finally moves forward after mayor and comptroller end long-running spat.

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Despite a report from the city’s audit department that called for lower increases and protests from a packed room of residents about a lack of collection of $25 million in delinquent water bills, the Board of Estimates, Baltimore’s spending board. voted Wednesday to approve a three consecutive years of rate hikes for city water and sewage bills.

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As the city comptroller criticized a plan by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to raise the water rates for Baltimore residents, Baltimore’s spending board on Wednesday set a June 26 public hearing date to discuss the three-year, 37 percent hike.

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Baltimore and its taxpayers had to pay an additional $1.4 million in fiscal 2011 due to faulty accounting procedures, auditors told the Board of Estimates on Wednesday.

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Baltimore City Comptroller Joan Pratt will not appeal the dismissal of her lawsuit over Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s plan to work with Rockville-based Digicon Corp. to install an Internet-based phone system for city employees.

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Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake can continue with her plan to install an internet-based phone system for city employees while fighting a lawsuit by Comptroller Joan Pratt, a judge has ruled.

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After a heated and at times bitter debate between Baltimore’s mayor and comptroller, the city Board of Estimates Wednesday voted down a proposal for a new telephone system with IBM under a $7.4 million contract. At one point, Mayor Stephanie ...

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More than two dozen consultants in the Baltimore mayor’s information technology office work for a Rockville company that sold hundreds of thousands of dollars of phone-related equipment to the office under a no-bid contract. City Comptroller Joan Pratt raised concerns ...

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The Baltimore Board of Estimates on Wednesday noted no objections to an automatic 2.5 percent cost-of-living adjustment for elected officials including the City Council, mayor and comptroller. The board, whose membership includes the comptroller, mayor and the president of the ...

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