Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott forces vote to OK conduit agreement, circumventing members who sat out meeting

Mayor Brandon Scott charged ahead with a vote Wednesday on a controversial management agreement for the city’s conduit system with Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., reconvening a city spending board meeting to approve the contract after two members of the board sat out the meeting in protest. Comptroller Bill Henry and Council President Nick Mosby, two of five members of the Board of Estimates, did not attend the meeting in hopes of forcing a delay of the deal, which calls for BGE to pay for $134 million in capital improvements to the system over the next four years.