As the Baltimore City Council considered the mayor's proposed budget earlier this year, they had new options for shaping how the city uses shared resources. Thanks to a voter-passed referendum, for the first time in more than 100 years the council has more power to move funds around in the budget.
As the council was making their final deliberations, host Kevin Slayton talked with Baltimore City Comptroller Bill Henry and Musaab Ibrahim, Senior Research Assistant with the Maryland Center on Economic Policy, about what these changes mean for city residents.
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