Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young is proposing a change to the city’s constitution that would bar any deals allowing an outside company to take over Baltimore’s water supply, addressing concerns by activists about whether the water system could be up for sale.
Young plans to introduce a charter amendment at a special meeting of the City Council on Monday at 2 p.m., according to Lester Davis, Young’s deputy chief of staff. From there, the proposal will essentially be fast-tracked. The council’s Judiciary and Legislative Investigations Committee will hold a public hearing on the bill at 3 p.m.—”we expect it to move out of committee favorably,” Davis says—and then go to a second reader vote during the council’s scheduled meeting at 5 p.m.
Davis says Young plans to suspend procedural rules to move the bill immediately to a third reader vote. If it passes, it’ll be on Mayor Catherine Pugh’s desk Monday evening.
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