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Baltimore City Council President

DUTIES: The city council president is the presiding officer of the Baltimore City Council. The council president is also president of the Board of Estimates and serves as ex officio mayor pro tempore. In the event the mayor s office falls vacant, the council president automatically becomes mayor for the balance of the term.Baltimore’s law making body is the 15-member City Council.The primary responsibilities of the city council are to: Enact ordinances (laws) and resolutions of the city,Review and enact the annual Ordinance of Estimates (Operating and Capital Budgets),Enact revenue ordinances necessary to meet the anticipated expenses of the budget.SALARY: $135,093 as of 2023TERM: 4 yearsHOW ELECTED: The 15th member, the city council president, is elected city-wide.

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    Emmanuel Digman
    (Rep)

Biographical Information

Background: What in your background and experience qualifies you to be the President of the Baltimore City Council?

Crime: What specific plans would you propose to reduce homicides, violent crime, theft and vandalism in Baltimore?

Education: How would you fund public education in Baltimore, while assuring the quality and ongoing structural maintenance of school buildings?

Health: What strategies do you have to address continued health disparities in Baltimore? What will you do to make sure that the Health Department has the resources it needs to serve all residents?

Climate and Environment As we face climate change and sea level rise, what would be your priorities to increase sustainable practices by the city and to increase the city’s resilience?

Housing: What strategies do you propose to remove or rehabilitate vacant buildings and provide affordable housing through the new inclusionary housing bill and other means?

Council Size: What are the advantages and disadvantages of reducing the size of the City Council?

Campaign Phone 410-491-5695
Campaign Mailing Address PO Box 2328
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Glen Burnie, MD 21060
As a born-again Christian, have fought to protect our God given rights during MD General Assembly Legislative Session for 20+ years. I have sworn that I support and defend the Constitution of the US against all enemies, foreign and domestic as a service member. In 2022 MD State Senate race for Baltimore City, received more than twice the number of votes of any other candidate within my party. As a mechanical engineer, computer scientist, team lead, and project manager, needs become solutions.
Family members have retired as officers of the Baltimore Police Department. Therefore with attendance at monthly District Crime and Community Meetings, I have a special relation for their mission. First let us look at the cause of the problem; illegal immigrates, repeat offenders, juveniles, gangs, and globalist elected/unelected leaders. My plan is to network our Constitutional Sheriff and Baltimore Police Departments, community volunteers, reinstall constitutional law, and remove globalists.
Funding is not the problem. The abuse, mishandling, and the unaccountability of the funding is the problem. First remove the top eight people running it at Baltimore City Public School System at Headquarters on North Avenue. Lead a complete reevaluation re-examination and rebuilding of it from the foundation up. We have dedicated educators, teachers, and administrators without needed resources. As an engineer and build project manager I will lead with providing safe and productive buildings.
Time for our city, the state of Maryland, and a combined effort to step up in cooperation with social security to develop a program in which every resident of Baltimore City no matter financial status can have some sort of HealthCare coverage. I will introduce legislation to put this program in developmental effect and follow it through with a special committee to be appointed so that we can make announcements short-term to those residents needing quality health Care that it is now available.
As an engineer and scientist, climate change is a fraud. As for environmental concerns their exist chemical and radiation issues within our city that I can address as on my priority list.
As an engineer and project manager, removal or rehab decision of vacant buildings is a function of cost, property rights, and community impact. Affordable housing is dependent upon income which can take many forms as condominiums, rent-to-buy, rehab investment to name a few. All forms of affordable housing can be developed into an accountable agreement with our city.
We do not need to increase the council size and that's of the elected council members what we do need to do is have our committees made up of reasonable amounts of people who bring quality respectable input and experienced input to the issues that will have to be discussed in sessions before going to the council for vote the people of Baltimore City don't want bigger government they want more effective government that is going to help them with getting issues resolved.