Baltimore City Council approves Mayor Scott’s $4.2B budget with no amendments

By Tashi McQueen AFRO Political Writertmcqueen@afro.comAfter weeks of agency hearings led by the Baltimore City Council Ways and Means Committee, the council overwhelmingly approved Mayor Brandon M. Scott’s (D) $4.2 billion budget on June 17.Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby and other members approved Mayor Brandon M. Scott’s (D) proposed $4.2 billion budget on June 17 after weeks of agency hearings and discussions. (Photo credit: AFRO Photo/Tashi McQueen)“Tonight, the Baltimore City Council unanimously voted to pass the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget without any amendments. At the beginning of this budget process, our city was staring down a more than $100 million deficit that we were able to close without cutting services or eliminating the jobs of any city workers,” said Scott in a statement shortly after the vote. “This budget maintains important investments that will sustain our historic reductions in gun violence, bolster our work to support Baltimore’s young people through recreation and parks and unprecedented funding in City Schools and continue to modernize city government to improve services for all residents.”This was the city council’s second year having the ability to cut and re-align funding for the city’s budget. Last year, the council reallocated $10 million to benefit a...