Lowering Baltimore City’s Property Tax Rate
The Maryland Public Policy Institute
Invites you to a policy forum:
Lowering Baltimore City's Property Tax Rate
Many people love city life. But Baltimore City's property tax rate - at least twice that of the rest of the state - often makes it financially impossible for people and businesses to choose. The situation is so bad the city's chief economic developer said recently that projects would not be built if not for tax and other breaks given to developers.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives to developers has not turned the city around, however. It lost 30,000 people and 53,000 jobs in the past 10 years following decades of outmigration. These figures have made many residents question the city's development strategy and pushed lowering property taxes to the top priority of most mayoral candidates this year.
Please join the Maryland Public Policy Institute at a forum to hear competing plans for lowering property taxes from mayoral candidates and other civic leaders as well as alternative plans for reviving the city.
Panelists:
Ryan O'Doherty
Director, Policy and Communications
Office of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Baltimore City
Jody Landers
Baltimore City Mayoral Candidate
Hon. Catherine Pugh
Maryland State Senator
Baltimore City Mayoral Candidate
Otis Rolley
Baltimore City Mayoral Candidate
Stephen J.K. Walters, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Loyola University Maryland
Author of the Maryland Journal article, "How to Make Baltimore A Superstar City."
Moderator:
Christopher B. Summers
President
Maryland Public Policy Institute
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
The Center Club
100 Light Street
Baltimore, Maryland
1:30 to 3:30 PM
Refreshments will be served
Maryland Public Policy Institute policy forums are free of charge
To RSVP, please call (240) 686-3510 or email events@mdpolicy.org