Ballot Question J: Accounts Payable

a different kind of J

the process of paying companies for work done for the city has been plagued with lengthy delays that causes suffering for vendors and jeopardizes ongoing and future city projects.

if passed, the folks tasked with paying 3rd party vendors would shift from the Finance Department to the Comptroller’s office. this may benefit from the comptroller’s office digitizing of bank records and spending board processes, the reorganization and rationalization of accounting standards, and it represents the decentralizing of power in the city away from the the department of finance and the mayor.

there has been no opposition to this measure and nothing jumps out at me as a problem

I’m FOR ballot question J

thanks Taylor Smith-Hams for your research on this measure

resources and further reading:

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/voter-guide/baltimore-city-ballot-questions/

https://www.lwvmd.org/2022_general_election_voters_guides

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/local-government/ballot-measure-would-move-baltimores-troubled-vendor-payment-duties-to-comptroller-PIZSLC4TLFFQNPDGRJGBEKBX2Q/

check out this fun piece in which Catherine Pugh sort of free associates about the ballot questions: https://afro.com/commentary-ballot-questions-know-before-you-go/