The Department of Planning (DOP) in Baltimore, Maryland works in collaboration with local citizens, neighborhood organizations, city agencies, the Baltimore Arts Promotion Office (BOPA), and other non-profit organizations to manage projects in the area. These projects are designed to restore, improve, and maintain ecologically functional and aesthetically pleasing stream systems. The Community Planning Office (CPO) is responsible for overseeing restoration sites to ensure that the project works according to the design intent. The Department of Measurement and Evaluation (M&E) is tasked with helping to develop national measurement and evaluation standards, processes, and systems.
This department also works collaboratively with all Baltimore Corps personnel in implementing and using effective data systems for data-based decision-making and effective data systems to support, monitor, and communicate progress toward organizational and programmatic objectives. The projects identified in the INSPIRE planning process often create or improve places for residents to play, socialize, and participate in activities. The position of Project Manager (PM) is responsible for managing and controlling assigned projects. This includes overseeing office field operations, site safety, productivity, schedule, quality work, and coordination of commercial contractors and suppliers.
PMNow has more than 20 years of experience helping organizations implement better control over their project management and project planning solutions. The projects involve the installation of Best Management Practices (BMP) to store and treat stormwater runoff. Conversion projects have improved and created acres of vegetated areas that treat runoff from impervious surfaces, reducing the entry of pollutants, sediments, and nutrients into local waterways. Baltimore County has a nationally recognized watershed improvement program to implement stream restoration projects, shoreline improvement and stabilization, reforestation, stormwater runoff, and BMPs.
Project funding is funded primarily by county general obligation bonds and is complemented by state grants from the Maryland Departments of Environment and Natural Resources and grants from the Chesapeake Bay Trust. Community development organizations that have an approved strategic neighborhood revitalization plan can apply for funding through the Baltimore Regional Neighborhood Initiative for projects located in sustainable community areas of Baltimore City and the inner ring road of Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties.
Living shoreline projects
protect shorelines from erosion while incorporating non-structural project design elements. The DOP collaborates with residents, neighborhood organizations, city agencies, the Baltimore Arts Promotion Office (BOPA), and other nonprofit organizations to carry out these projects. The position of project manager (PM) will also provide support to the management of the project through a permanent federal grant for maternal and child health policies and community capacity-building.Projects must build on the strengths of a community, focus on a specific neighborhood or set of neighborhoods, and be part of the approved strategic neighborhood revitalization plan.
