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Black History Month
Black History Month, also known as African American History Month, is an annual celebration of the accomplishments and central roles African Americans have had in history. Black History Month has been celebrated since 1915, originally as Negro History Week. Since 1976, every United States President has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month.
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Check us out on @bmorechildren and @gothedistancebmore to learn about local figures who have had a central role in history, rising stars who have a central role in the present, and places to visit to learn about African American accomplishments and contributions.
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Water4All Discount Program
Mayor Scott, Deputy Mayor Faith Leach, and Public Works Director Jason Mitchell announced the launch of the Water4All discount program, a new program designed to provide more equitable access to financial assistance for eligible Baltimore City residents who need help paying their water bills. This new water assistance program provides a monthly discount for water and sewer costs based on a percentage of residents’ income. For the first time, tenants who do not directly pay their water bills are eligible to apply for water payment assistance.
Clarifying Program Eligibility
A formula is used to calculate the maximum a household should pay for annual water and sewer services, based on a percentage of their annual income; the difference between the calculated maximum and the estimated annual water and sewer bill amount would constitute the household´s annual discount.
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Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners Announcement
Mayor Scott recently named former teacher and education expert, Robert Salley, to the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners. Mr. Salley is an educator and U.S. Department of Education Policy Advisory bringing local and national expertise to the school board. Read the full press release here.
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The Baltimore Youth Data Hub
Baltimore’s youth receive services from multiple public agencies and nonprofits. All of these organizations collect data, but they don’t—or legally can’t—share that data with other agencies that support many of the same youth. This lack of information-sharing prevents Baltimore from strategically, effectively, and equitably meeting its young people’s needs. This disjointed approach to service delivery coupled with a lack of transparency, only exacerbates the current and historical inequities we seek to eliminate.
To improve quality of life outcomes for all of our young people, an initiative of Baltimore’s Promise, the Baltimore Youth Data Hub (the Hub) is an integrated data system linking data across youth-serving organizations into an anonymous system subject to community oversight and strict guidelines. With the Hub, stakeholders can better understand interrelated needs of communities and compare services and outcomes across groups by gender, race/ethnicity, place, and program-specific subpopulations (e.g. foster youth or youth experiencing homelessness) to address inequities in resources and opportunities.
 On February 7, 2022, Senator Mary Washington introduced Senate Bill 870: Baltimore City Youth Data Hub—Establishment. In summary, the bill establishes an executive committee and a manager to operate the Hub, restricts youth data from the Open Meetings Act and Public Information Act, and authorizes certain entities to provide data to the Hub.
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