Danielle McCray’s action leaves a grassroots coalition seeking increased PILOTS (payments in lieu of taxes) to Baltimore City by tax-exempt institutions “very disappointed”
The chair of the City Council’s Budget Committee abruptly terminated a hearing today about setting up a task force to recommend how 14 Baltimore hospitals and universities who don’t pay property taxes should recompense the city for their use of municipal services.
Danielle McCray (D, 2nd) walked out of the council chambers as about 40 members of With Us For Us (WUFU) Coalition, formed to increase the amount of money that tax-exempt “anchor institutions” contribute to city coffers, looked on in astonishment…