Preliminary Baltimore budget is out at bbmr. As always because #budgetsarepriorities some items of note.

(1) Health, Youth and Trauma Sevs $4.4m to $3.1m (-1.3m). Yikes.

(2) Health, maternal child health. $30m to 27.9m (-2.1m). Ouch.

(3) Mayor's office, exec dir. $11.7 to $16.2m (+4.5m) +

Maryland has a $1.4b budget hole.

Which does Wes Moore want more: (1) to govern for now, for everyone in the state

OR

(2) to govern for a hypothetical future presidential run.

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$669 million in context:

-About 15 months of funding the BPD ($540m, gen funds, FY25)

OR

-Over 11 YEARS of for Rec and Parks ($56m)
-About 200 years of YouthWorks funding ($3.3m)
-Nearly 300 hundred years of Service 307, SUD and MH ($2.3m)

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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott in 2021 v. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott in 2024.

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With pay hike, starting Baltimore City School teachers will make just under $59,000. Or $1000 LESS than school police. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-.... School police are eligible for OT; teachers are not.

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