Getting Things Done for Baltimore

In Your Neighborhood

• Mayor Dixon secured approximately $3.5 million to provide for over 400 affordable housing units across the city, including the construction of 80 new affordable for sale homes in the Druid Heights neighborhood.
• Mayor Dixon unveiled plans for the Lexington Square redevelopment. The plan includes over 300,000sf of commercial, 400,000sf of residential and 924 parking spaces in the Westside Superblock (an area bounded by Howard, West Lexington, Liberty and West Fayette Streets).
• Mayor Dixon secured $382,600 for the Living Classrooms Foundation, to implement Operation Safe Streets in east Baltimore.
• Mayor Dixon awarded the Workforce Center at Sojourner Douglas College with $650,000 for workforce development. Participants will have access to a direct job placement program that will place residents in healthcare, construction and hotel/hospitality industry jobs.
• Mayor Dixon pledged $900,000 to support the arts, including funding for the Walters Art Museum to allow them to continue granting free admission.
• Dixon announced that the city will provide free tours daily on Heritage Walk and Mount Vernon Cultural Walk.

Across the City

• Mayor Dixon worked to receive a grant from the federal government to continue the "Operation Safe Streets" program. Operation Safe Streets is a community-based intervention program focused on reducing shootings and homicides.
• Mayor Dixon announced a comprehensive strategy to curb the trafficking and possession of illegal guns in Baltimore. The key elements of the strategy include an illegal gun taskforce, legislation to create a gun offender registry, and the creation of GunStat to track gun crimes.
• Mayor Dixon implemented a new public safety strategy designed to address violent crime through targeted enforcement, community engagement and partnerships with state and federal agencies.
• Mayor Dixon is working to improve Baltimore's roads. She announced Operation Orange Cone which expects to complete 148.5 miles of transportation infrastructure upgrades across the city by mid-November.
• Mayor Dixon re-established the Baltimore Commission for Women which will focus on advancing supporting legislation that would improve the lives of women and combat gender discrimination.
• Mayor Dixon supported the YouthWorks summer jobs program which aims to employ 5,500 area teens to work this summer.
• Mayor Dixon doubled the city's contribution to Community Development Block Grants from last year, providing $6 million to provide affordable housing for hard working Baltimore residents.
• Mayor Dixon announced a new city policy to promote better access to housing for persons with disabilities.
• Mayor Dixon signed the Baltimore "residents first" executive order that encourages those who do business with the City government to hire City residents.
• Mayor Dixon championed and signed a comprehensive smoking ban. The ban was coupled with a program to help City residents quit smoking.
• Mayor Dixon created a traffic task force to look into solutions for improving traffic flows and promoting mass transit solutions.
• Mayor Dixon announced a historic agreement for cooperation in the event of a bio-terrorist attack or public health catastrophe that ensures cooperation with emergency services mobilization and allows for the City to plan and coordinate a response through the City operations center.
• Mayor Dixon unveiled a budget with a $19 million surplus.
• Mayor Dixon will increase the Fire Department's budget by $4.8 million to ensure that the department is properly trained and prepared to respond quickly to fire emergencies.
• Mayor Dixon secured $637,000 for the Maryland Food Bank to train cooks and repackage bulk foods to serve more Baltimore residents.
• Mayor Dixon launched a new HIV awareness campaign.
• Mayor Dixon launched the B'More Healthy Campaign to encourage city residents to take 10 steps to improve their health, prevent illness, and preserve well-being.
• Mayor Dixon helped the Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) secure a US Department of Education grant totaling $995,283 that will fund the Teaching American History in Authentic Baltimore program.
• Mayor Dixon announced that citizens can pay a variety of City bills online.
• Mayor Dixon began the implementation of a six-point plan designed to increase the number and quality of new city police officers. This includes an increase in the Police Department's Recruitment goals.
• Mayor Sheila Dixon established a Sustainability Manager position in the Department of Planning, who will develop a sustainability and environmental management program for the City of Baltimore.
• To keep Baltimore clean, Mayor Dixon has championed legislation that allows the city to ensure real estate owners keep their properties clean. Click here for the Mayor's Clean, Green agenda!