Mary Pat Fannon and Phil Lee, Thanks for your e-mail about the Meeting. I will not be attending this Meeting. I have thought about it long and hard to make this decision. The Major Trash Sweep in the targeted area (4000 homes) of the Harris Creek Watershed took place between June 16 through August 31,2010. It reduced significantly the amount of Trash going into the Baltimore Harbor from 5 Tons a month at the beginning to less than one Ton a month at the completion of this 10 week period. The Trash Interceptor was a major part of this Sweep Project and we are thankful to John Kellett, the inventor and creator of the Paddle Trash Interceptor for giving Creditability to what we were able to accomplish. However,the Trash Interceptor has been broken and incompetent now for over a year. The recommendations from the Trash Sweep Project have not been implemented. They have been ignored. The Spokesperson for DPW has stated many times recently that the recommended Trash Cans to be given to the Harris Creek Neighborhoods have been tried in the past and have not worked. Left unsaid is the fact that DPW workers contributed to these massive accumulations of Trash in the backyards of vacant houses by not reporting them despite walking these alleys.. Over 100 mini-landfill sites were identified (see the SR 311 Reports) and cleaned up after showing them to Steve Sharkey (DPW Supervisor). The unfairness (Injustice) associated with these mini-landfill raises tho Question,"Do we have two Trash Services for citizens of Baltimore?" What we had hoped to do with the Trash Cans was to reach responsible and concerned Citizens in the Watershed to help along the way and to go after citizens not placing their Trash Bags into proper Trash Cans. We were trying not only to educate Citizens,but change their behavior. To see this approach,you have to have Vision and not a "status quo" attitude. We have failed to do this over the last year. We have had four Meetings with very little DPW response. We have presented these recommendations to DPW in Canton at the Trash Interceptor Site,in the conference room at DPW and twice at City Hall,once at the Hearings of James Kraft (Council Resolution 08-0095R) and the second to City Council President Jack Young's resolution Response to these previous four Meetings has not produced any results or Efforts to improve communication . What has happened to the Trash Interceptor is an example of further dysfunction. What needs to be studied is not only the Interceptor Consultation Report (that has not been provided despite many requests),but all of the DPW maintenance information on the Trash Interceptor... and decision making on the Interceptor over the last year. Lost in all of this is a Vision to clean up a significant amount of Trash from going from the streets and alleys in Baltimore City into the Baltimore Harbor. We were trying to develop a Model in the Harris Creek Watershed that we could apply to the other 26 inlets to the Baltimore Harbor. We had envisioned extending this Model to the East and West of Watershed 246 to see if we could duplicate and get the same results. You can not even attempt to do this with "status quo" thinking. It is like trying to move a mountain. What we needed was a Team within each Neighborhood that would consist of a person from the Neighborhood Association,a DPW Trash Supervisor and a Watershed Outreach Person that would stay on top of the Trash Problem by making monthly rounds in the streets and alleys of each Neighborhoods. Perhaps,this is too much to ask,but this is what we needed to start the Process of bringing back a more Humane Baltimore. Good Luck in your deliberations. Respectfully,Raymond D.Bahr MD Early Heart Attack Care Saves Lives. Act on mild chest complaints and get these symptoms checked out. Chest Pain Centers in Hospitals provide for these chest symptoms to be checked out. Become a Deputy and become part of the solution to the problem in Heart Attack Care Learn how to become certified by taking this short course. www.DeputyHeartAttack.org Ray Bahr MD:-( -----Original Message----- From: Fannon, Mary Pat To: plee ; Fiaschetti, Erin ; Patrick.Dooley ; hvandergaag ; Kraft, James ; Fiaschetti, Erin ; Raymond D.Bahr MD Cc: Augustus, Gussener Sent: Mon, Sep 12, 2011 11:37 am Subject: Meeting with DPW - October 6th, 3 p.m., 6th Floor, 200 N. Holliday Street Hello everyone – for the time being, I’m taking the lead to coordinate your efforts with the Harris Creek waterwheel and the Watershed 246 with DPW. As many of you may know, Steve Robinson has left the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhoods so I’ll try to handle some of the issues he was dealing with here but I am not a subject matter expert on these issues. I have arranged a meeting with DPW on October 6th at 3 p.m. at their conference room on the 6th floor (200 N. Holliday Street). Please attend if possible. The goals for the meeting will be yours – I’ve asked Mr. Lee to put together a list of items for discussion that we can send to DPW staff well in advance of the meeting – hopefully by this Friday. So far there are two items to address before the meeting: 1. You would like to receive a copy of the Harris Creek Water Wheel Report; 2. You would like to have Steve Sharkey's replacement contact Dr. Bahr to discuss how to continue to have the Watershed 246 neighborhoods address the trash and other issues. I will work on these two items and look forward to the rest of the specific issues to be discussed soon. Mr. Lee – you asked that the following be invited to the meeting - Councilman Kraft, Dr. Bahr, Halle VanderGaag, John Kellett. All are copied on this message except for Mr. Kellett as I do not have his contact information. Mary Pat Mary Pat Fannon Mayor's Office of Government Relations City of Baltimore 88 State Circle Annapolis, MD 21401 410-269-0207 Telephone 410-269-6785 Fax 410-948-9167 (Blackberry) MaryPat.Fannon@baltimorecity.gov Mary Pat Fannon and Phil Lee, Thanks for your e-mail about the Meeting. I will not be attending this Meeting. I have thought about it long and hard to make this decision. The Major Trash Sweep in the targeted area (4000 homes) of the Harris Creek Watershed took place between June 16 through August 31,2010. It reduced significantly the amount of Trash going into the Baltimore Harbor from 5 Tons a month at the beginning to less than one Ton a month at the completion of this 10 week period. The Trash Interceptor was a major part of this Sweep Project and we are thankful to John Kellett, the inventor and creator of the Paddle Trash Interceptor for giving Creditability to what we were able to accomplish. However,the Trash Interceptor has been broken and incompetent now for over a year. The recommendations from the Trash Sweep Project have not been implemented. They have been ignored. The Spokesperson for DPW has stated many times recently that the recommended Trash Cans to be given to the Harris Creek Neighborhoods have been tried in the past and have not worked. Left unsaid is the fact that DPW workers contributed to these massive accumulations of Trash in the backyards of vacant houses by not reporting them despite walking these alleys.. Over 100 mini-landfill sites were identified (see the SR 311 Reports) and cleaned up after showing them to Steve Sharkey (DPW Supervisor). The unfairness (Injustice) associated with these mini-landfill raises tho Question,"Do we have two Trash Services for citizens of Baltimore?" What we had hoped to do with the Trash Cans was to reach responsible and concerned Citizens in the Watershed to help along the way and to go after citizens not placing their Trash Bags into proper Trash Cans. We were trying not only to educate Citizens,but change their behavior. To see this approach,you have to have Vision and not a "status quo" attitude. We have failed to do this over the last year. We have had four Meetings with very little DPW response. We have presented these recommendations to DPW in Canton at the Trash Interceptor Site,in the conference room at DPW and twice at City Hall,once at the Hearings of James Kraft (Council Resolution 08-0095R) and the second to City Council President Jack Young's resolution Response to these previous four Meetings has not produced any results or Efforts to improve communication . What has happened to the Trash Interceptor is an example of further dysfunction. What needs to be studied is not only the Interceptor Consultation Report (that has not been provided despite many requests),but all of the DPW maintenance information on the Trash Interceptor... and decision making on the Interceptor over the last year. Lost in all of this is a Vision to clean up a significant amount of Trash from going from the streets and alleys in Baltimore City into the Baltimore Harbor. We were trying to develop a Model in the Harris Creek Watershed that we could apply to the other 26 inlets to the Baltimore Harbor. We had envisioned extending this Model to the East and West of Watershed 246 to see if we could duplicate and get the same results. You can not even attempt to do this with "status quo" thinking. It is like trying to move a mountain. What we needed was a Team within each Neighborhood that would consist of a person from the Neighborhood Association,a DPW Trash Supervisor and a Watershed Outreach Person that would stay on top of the Trash Problem by making monthly rounds in the streets and alleys of each Neighborhoods. Perhaps,this is too much to ask,but this is what we needed to start the Process of bringing back a more Humane Baltimore. Good Luck in your deliberations. Respectfully,Raymond D.Bahr MD Early Heart Attack Care Saves Lives. Act on mild chest complaints and get these symptoms checked out. Chest Pain Centers in Hospitals provide for these chest symptoms to be checked out. Become a Deputy and become part of the solution to the problem in Heart Attack Care Learn how to become certified by taking this short course. www.DeputyHeartAttack.org Ray Bahr MD:-( -----Original Message----- From: Fannon, Mary Pat To: plee ; Fiaschetti, Erin ; Patrick.Dooley ; hvandergaag ; Kraft, James ; Fiaschetti, Erin ; Raymond D.Bahr MD Cc: Augustus, Gussener Sent: Mon, Sep 12, 2011 11:37 am Subject: Meeting with DPW - October 6th, 3 p.m., 6th Floor, 200 N. Holliday Street Hello everyone – for the time being, I’m taking the lead to coordinate your efforts with the Harris Creek waterwheel and the Watershed 246 with DPW. As many of you may know, Steve Robinson has left the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhoods so I’ll try to handle some of the issues he was dealing with here but I am not a subject matter expert on these issues. I have arranged a meeting with DPW on October 6th at 3 p.m. at their conference room on the 6th floor (200 N. Holliday Street). Please attend if possible. The goals for the meeting will be yours – I’ve asked Mr. Lee to put together a list of items for discussion that we can send to DPW staff well in advance of the meeting – hopefully by this Friday. So far there are two items to address before the meeting: 1. You would like to receive a copy of the Harris Creek Water Wheel Report; 2. You would like to have Steve Sharkey's replacement contact Dr. Bahr to discuss how to continue to have the Watershed 246 neighborhoods address the trash and other issues. I will work on these two items and look forward to the rest of the specific issues to be discussed soon. Mr. Lee – you asked that the following be invited to the meeting - Councilman Kraft, Dr. Bahr, Halle VanderGaag, John Kellett. All are copied on this message except for Mr. Kellett as I do not have his contact information. Mary Pat Mary Pat Fannon Mayor's Office of Government Relations City of Baltimonapolis

Mary Pat Fannon and Phil Lee,

         Thanks for your e-mail about the Meeting.  I will not be attending this Meeting. I have thought about it long and hard to make this decision. The Major Trash Sweep in the targeted area (4000 homes) of the Harris Creek Watershed took place between June 16 through August 31,2010. It reduced significantly the amount of Trash going into the Baltimore Harbor from 5 Tons a month at the beginning to less than one Ton a month at the completion of this 10 week period. The Trash Interceptor was a major part of this Sweep Project and we are thankful to John Kellett, the inventor and creator of the Paddle Trash Interceptor for giving Creditability to what we were able to accomplish. However,the Trash Interceptor has been broken and incompetent now for over a year. The recommendations from the Trash Sweep Project have not been implemented. They have been ignored. The Spokesperson for DPW has stated many times recently that the recommended Trash Cans to be given to the Harris Creek Neighborhoods have been tried in the past and have not worked.   Left unsaid is the fact that DPW workers contributed to these massive accumulations of Trash in the backyards of vacant houses by not reporting them despite walking these alleys.. Over 100 mini-landfill sites were identified (see the SR 311 Reports) and cleaned up after showing them to Steve Sharkey (DPW Supervisor).  The unfairness (Injustice) associated with these mini-landfill raises tho Question,"Do we have two Trash Services for citizens of Baltimore?" What we had hoped to do with the Trash Cans was to reach responsible and concerned Citizens in the Watershed to help along the way and to go after citizens not placing their Trash Bags into proper Trash Cans. We were trying not only to educate Citizens,but change their behavior. To see this approach,you have to have Vision and not a "status quo" attitude.  We have failed to do this over the last year. We have had four Meetings with very little DPW response. We have presented these recommendations to DPW in Canton at the Trash Interceptor Site,in the conference room at DPW and twice at City Hall,once at the Hearings of James Kraft (Council Resolution 08-0095R) and the second to City Council President Jack Young's resolution    Response to these previous four Meetings has not produced any results or Efforts to improve communication   .   What has happened to the Trash Interceptor is an example of further dysfunction. What needs to be studied is not only the Interceptor Consultation Report (that has not been provided despite many requests),but all of the DPW maintenance information on the Trash Interceptor... and decision making on the Interceptor over the last year.  
     Lost in all of this is a Vision to clean up a significant amount of Trash from going from the streets and alleys in Baltimore City into the Baltimore Harbor.  We were trying to develop a Model in the Harris Creek Watershed that we could apply to the other 26 inlets to the Baltimore Harbor. We had envisioned extending this Model to the East and West of Watershed 246 to see if we could duplicate and get the same results. You can not even attempt to do this with "status quo" thinking. It is like trying to move a mountain. What we needed was a Team within each Neighborhood that would consist of a person from the Neighborhood Association,a DPW Trash Supervisor and a Watershed Outreach Person that would stay on top of the Trash Problem by making monthly rounds in the streets and alleys of each Neighborhoods. Perhaps,this is too much to ask,but this is what we needed to start the Process of bringing back a more Humane Baltimore.

                       Good Luck in your deliberations.      Respectfully,Raymond D.Bahr MD

Early Heart Attack Care Saves Lives. Act on mild chest complaints and get these symptoms checked out.   Chest Pain Centers in Hospitals provide for these chest symptoms to be checked out.  Become a Deputy and become part of the solution to the problem in Heart Attack Care   Learn how to become certified by taking this short course.     www.DeputyHeartAttack.org      Ray Bahr MD

-----Original Message-----
From: Fannon, Mary Pat <MPFannon@baltimorecity.gov>
To: plee <plee@moffattnichol.com>; Fiaschetti, Erin <Erin.Fiaschetti@baltimorecity.gov>; Patrick.Dooley <Patrick.Dooley@mlis.state.md.us>; hvandergaag <hvandergaag@bluewaterbaltimore.org>; Kraft, James <James.Kraft@baltimorecity.gov>; Fiaschetti, Erin <Erin.Fiaschetti@baltimorecity.gov>; Raymond D.Bahr MD <rdb60@aol.com>
Cc: Augustus, Gussener <Gussener.Augustus@baltimorecity.gov>
Sent: Mon, Sep 12, 2011 11:37 am
Subject: Meeting with DPW - October 6th, 3 p.m., 6th Floor, 200 N. Holliday Street

Hello everyone – for the time being, I’m taking the lead to coordinate your efforts with the Harris Creek waterwheel and the Watershed 246 with DPW. As many of you may know, Steve Robinson has left the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhoods so I’ll try to handle some of the issues he was dealing with here but I am not a subject matter expert on these issues.  I have arranged a meeting with DPW on October 6^th at 3 p.m. at their conference room on the 6^th floor (200 N. Holliday Street).  Please attend if possible.

 

The goals for the meeting will be yours – I’ve asked Mr. Lee to put together a list of items for discussion that we can send to DPW staff well in advance of the meeting – hopefully by this Friday. So far there are two items to address before the meeting:

 

1.        You would like to receive a copy of the Harris Creek Water Wheel Report;

2.        You would like to have Steve Sharkey's replacement contact Dr. Bahr to discuss how to continue to have the Watershed 246 neighborhoods address the trash and other issues.

 

I will work on these two items and look forward to the rest of the specific issues to be discussed soon. 

 

Mr. Lee – you asked that the following be invited to the meeting - Councilman Kraft, Dr. Bahr, Halle VanderGaag, John Kellett.  All are copied on this message except for Mr. Kellett as I do not have his contact information.

 

Mary Pat

 

 

Mary Pat Fannon

Mayor's Office of Government Relations

City of Baltimore

 

88 State Circle

Annapolis, MD 21401

410-269-0207 Telephone

410-269-6785 Fax

410-948-9167 (Blackberry)

MaryPat.Fannon@baltimorecity.gov

 

Dysfunctional Government in the Harris Creek Watershed Trash Cleanup

 It does not look as if Baltimore City Government is seriously interested in cleaning up the Baltimore Harbor of Trash. The Trash Removal Sweep as part of the Harris Creek Watershed (246) Project was very successful in significantly removing more that 4 Tons of Trash per month from going into the Baltimore Harbor at the Harris Creek Outlet on Boston Street in Canton. What was important was that the Trash was easily visible(100 SRs) in large accumulations in the backyards of vacant houses. DPW workers had to see these accumulations,but did not report them raising the question of different DPW Services for where you live. The Exciting aspect of this was the Finding that Trash in the Harbor could be significantly reduced by going up stream to find areas of large accumulations. What was needed to be maintained was the Coordinated Cooperation of  the Trash Team as well as keeping the Trash Interceptor properly working. If this could be accomplished in one of the 26 Outlets to the Baltimore Harbor,it could be duplicated in the other 25 Outlets and a Major Reduction of Trash could be prevented from going into the Harbor.   Thus,what was needed was good communication from DPW along with a Functional Trash Interceptor..... along with the Vision that this Feat was doable.

   Unfortunately,this did not take place. Mary Pat Fannon from the Mayor's Office was informed of this Failure in an e-mail dated Sept 12,2011.. James Kraft and Pete Hammen were given this same e-mail Information. The Watershed Project did identify 12 Best Management Practices that could be incorporated throughout the Neighborhoods in the Watershed. Blue Water Baltimore will be following up on these Projects. It is my opinion that "Status quo" of Baltimore City Services in the area of Trash Removal will continue and not change a lot until the Injustice Issues can be properly dealt with and closer cooperation with the Community Neighborhood Leaders is achieved and maximized optimally. Going forward,I see no real effort to effectively move in this direction. It was for this reason that I elected not to attend the October 6,2011 Meeting  It is my understanding that the last Meeting with DPW did not effectively  deal with the deeper issues that I raised.  I will leave further undertakings to Blue Water Baltimore. Respectfully,Ray Bahr MD

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