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Open Thread: What Should Be Done About ‘Camp 83?’

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Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, who represents Tuscany-Canterbury parts of Guilford and Charles Village, also praised Rawlings-Blake’s speech for being forward thinking.   Clarke, who is chairwoman of the council’s education committee, said that she is involved and supportive of the mayor’s plan to develop a state partnership that allows the city to build new schools quickly.   But Clarke expressed concerns about some of the proposals in the mayor’s speech such as shifting new employees from a pension system to a 401(k) retirement plan.   “401(k)s, I don’t know much about them except that a lot of people had them and now they don’t [have retirement savings] anymore because of the recession,” Clarke said.   Clarke also said she was not a fan of a user fee for trash and recycling collection in proposed in the mayor’s speech.   “I’ll tell you how [the trash fee proposal] goes over with me—not well. So lets here what this is all about and figure out why we need to raise more money to collect the trash that we’re collecting now. No good reason that I can think of,” Clarke said.

The city is telling homeless people who have made a camp underneath Interstate 83 near the Fallsway that they can no longer stay at the site.

According to the Baltimore Brew, Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, who represents North Baltimore, introduced a resolution on Monday to allow the people to stay there temporarily until transitional housing is found. The city posted notice that the camp will no longer be tolerated starting on Friday.

The City Council’s Housing and Community Development Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the resolution at 1 p.m., Thursday at City Hall.  

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s administration wants to clear the camp because its allegedly been ovverrun by drugs, alcohol and violence, according to the Baltimore Sun.

What do you think should be done about the camp? Tell us in the comments.


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