Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake officially handed over the city’s Brooklyn O’Malley Recreation Center to the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Baltimore in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Dec. 3.
The center, located in the Brooklyn section of South Baltimore, was the first of two centers to evolve from city-owned to private, non-profit control in December as part of the Mayor’s Recreation Center Task Force Plan.
Eight centers faced the chopping block during budget negotiations for the 2013 fiscal year. In August four centers across neighborhoods in West Baltimore and other parts of the city closed even as council members and community leaders, outraged, spoke out and marched in protest.
New management keeps two Baltimore area rec centers open
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