2022 BRANDON M. SCOTT, MAYOR CITY OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND AGENCY DETAIL-VOLUME I BOARD OF ESTIMATES RECOMMENDATIONS FISCAL 2022 Board of Estimates: Nick J. Mosby, City Council President Brandon M. Scott, Mayor Bill Henry, Comptroller Jim Shea, City Solicitor Matthew W. Garbark, Acting Director of Public Works City Council: President: Nick J. Mosby Vice President: Sharon Green Middleton First District: Zeke Cohen Second District: Danielle McCray Third District: Ryan Dorsey Fourth District: Mark Conway Fifth District: Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer Sixth District: Sharon Green Middleton Seventh District: James Torrence Eighth District: Kristerfer Burnett Ninth District: John T. Bullock Tenth District: Phylicia Porter Eleventh District: Eric T. Costello Twelfth District: Robert Stokes, Sr. Thirteenth District: Antonio Glover Fourteenth District: Odette Ramos Artwork Credit: The Mayor’s Office of Children and Family Success Phylicia Gee for Live Baltimore Baltimore City Recreation and Parks Table of Contents Introduction 1 Agency Overview, Recommendations, and Details 9 Board of Elections 11 City Council 17 Comptroller 23 Council Services 37 Courts: Circuit Court 43 Courts: Orphans’ Court 51 Employees’ Retirement Systems 57 Enoch Pratt Free Library 69 Finance 79 Fire 115 General Services 155 Health 175 Housing and Community Development 237 Human Resources 291 Law 307 Legislative Reference 327 Liquor License Board 335 Mayoralty 343 M-R: American Rescue Plan Act 351 M-R: Art and Culture 355 M-R: Baltimore City Public Schools 369 M-R: Cable and Communications 375 M-R: Civic Promotion 381 M-R: Conditional Purchase Agreements 391 M-R: Contingent Fund 395 M-R: Convention Center Hotel 399 M-R: Convention Complex 403 i Intentionally Left Blank Introduction FISCAL 2022 AGENCY DETAIL - VOLUME 1 Board of Estimates Recommendations Introduction Intentionally Left Blank Fiscal 2022 Agency Detail INTRODUCTION Municipal Organization Chart THE PEOPLE PRESIDENT OF COMPTROLLER MAYOR CITY COUNCIL CITY COUNCIL BOARD OF ESTIMATES City Council Administrator Services Equity and Civil General Cable & Comm. Finance Fire Health Rights Services Human Information & Legislative General Housing & Law Community Dev. Resources Technology Reference Services Recreation & Transportation Mayoral Offices Planning Police* Public Works Parks BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS CHARTER ORDINANCE AUTHORIZED AUTHORIZED Art Commission Board of Ethics Com. on Aging & Commission for Community Retirement Ed. Women Relations Com. Board of Fire Board of Finance Commissioners Employees' Environmental Fire & Police Retirement Control Board Retirement Board of Municipal Board of & Zoning Appeals Recreation & Parks Hispanic Historical & Inclusionary Commission Architectural Pres. Housing Civil Service Office of the Commission Inspector General Labor Licensing for Parking Authority Commissioner Towing Services of Baltimore City Planning Commission Public Art Public Safety Sustainability Commission Advisory Com. Commission Veterans' Wage Commission Youth Commission Commission ACTS OF STATE LEGISLATURE Board of School Baltimore Board of Circuit Court Orphans' Court Commissioners Museum of Art Elections Baltimore City Enoch Pratt Family League Maryland Zoo Liquor License Public Schools Free Library Commissioners State's War Memorial Sheriff Social Services Visit Baltimore Attorney Commission *The Baltimore Police Department was created by an act of State legislature. The Mayor has the statutory right to hire and replace the Police Commissioner. 3 INTRODUCTION Fiscal 2022 Agency Detail Budget Process Operating Budget Capital Budget City agencies receive guidance documents Mayor’s Office issues guidance documents November identifying City objectives and key strategies. from the Department of Planning. City agencies submit budget proposals Agencies submit requests to the Planning responsive to the City objectives and key December Department. Planning performs detailed strategies. review of agency requests. The Department of Finance evaluates and Planning Commission evaluates agency ranks agency proposals and makes funding January- March requests. Agencies give presentations to the recommendations to the Mayor. Commission on their capital priorities. The Director of Finance sends the Planning Commission and the Board of recommended operating budget to the Board March Finance approve the Six-Year Capital of Estimates. Improvement Program. The Board of Estimates holds a hearing on the budget. Agency heads participate. The April recommended budget is amended as necessary. The Board of Estimates holds a “Taxpayers’ April Night” for final resident input before it votes on the budget. A majority vote of the Board of Estimates May approves the total budget and sends it to the City Council. The City Council holds hearings on the total May budget. Residents and agency heads attend. The City Council holds a “Taxpayers’ Night” for May final resident input before it votes on the budget. June The City Council votes on the budget and sends it to the Mayor. May disapprove some items Mayor June May approve total budget. and approve the rest. The adopted budget is monitored through the City’s system of July expenditure controls. 4 Fiscal 2022 Agency Detail INTRODUCTION Agency Detail User’s Guide The Board of Estimates recommendations are published in the Executive Summary and Agency Detail. These documents constitute the City’s comprehensive budgetary plan. This plan is presented to the City Council for deliberation and public hearings prior to the Council adopting and forwarding it to the Mayor for signature. Once the City Council has approved the budget plan and the Mayor has signed the Ordinance of Estimates, a document entitled Summary of the Adopted Budget is completed. To aid the reader in understanding the budgetary plan, the following sections are included in this document: Table of Contents: A sequential listing by page number for all City agencies and budget exhibits. Introduction: A User’s Guide to explain this document’s organization, a Municipal Organization chart, and a Budget Process flowchart that outlines the steps from agency requests through Ordinance of Estimates. Agency Overviews, Recommendations and Detail: The information is organized in alphabetical order by agency. A divider identifies each agency and the exhibits are organized in the following manner: • Budget Structure Chart • Service Budget Sections • Agency Overview – Service Description – Operating Budget Funds and Highlights – Funding Summary – Capital Budget Funds and Highlights (if appli- – Key Performance Measures cable) – Service Major Budget Items – Agency Dollars by Service – Analysis of General Fund Changes – Agency Dollars by Object – Service Expenditures by Object – Agency Positions by Service – Service Expenditures by Activity – Service Salaries and Wages for Funded Full- Time Positions The Fiscal 2022 Agency Detail book includes Fiscal 2020 actual budgetary expenditures, Fiscal 2021 adopted appropriations, and Fiscal 2022 recommended funding levels by fund, service, activity, and object. Change Tables Each service with General Funds also includes a “change table” that summarizes the changes from the Fiscal 2021 adopted appropriation to the Fiscal 2022 recommended funding level. The reader should note the following items in these tables: Change in Employee Compensation and Benefits The Fiscal 2022 budget reflects the filling of previously vacant positions; changes in longevity pay, step progression, salary changes due to performance or promotion; cost of living salary adjustments; adjustments to budgeted vacancy savings; the removal of the furlough savings included in the Fiscal 2021 budget; and changes in the budget for overtime, contractual personnel, and temporary and part-time personnel. Changes in benefits reflected in the budget are the result of changes in projected payroll taxes (FICA) required, driven by salary changes; changes in the cost of the City’s life insurance, deferred compensation, and wellness program benefits; and changes to other employee benefit costs, excluding healthcare costs and pension contributions. Change in Pension Contributions The Fiscal 2022 pension costs represent an annual contribution into the City’s pension funds, allocated across all pension- eligible positions. There are a number of factors that actuarial firms consider when determining the necessary pension fund contributions required yearly. These include assumptions regarding the rate of investment return; salary increases and average years of service among active employees; administrative expenses; assumptions regarding pre- and post-retirement mortality and pre-retirement disability; the rate of withdrawal from the pension system for employees with various years of service; retirement rates; line-of-duty disability data; cost of living pension payment increases for retirees; and the age of 5 INTRODUCTION Fiscal 2022 Agency Detail current retirees. Together, all of these factors inform that the City must contribute an additional $6.3 million (+7.8%) for civilian employees and an additional $11.0 million (+7.3%) to the City’s pension funds in Fiscal 2022. Change in Active Employee Health Benefit Costs The Fiscal 2022 budget reflects a 7.5% increase in the City’s portion of active employee healthcare premiums that increased in January of 2021; projected increases of 5-9% in active employee healthcare costs as of January 2022, variable by health plan; and the removal of half-year health benefit savings included in the Fiscal 2021 budget per