 Get the latest in this story at WBAL.com and the WBAL radio app. The effort to get a property tax cut on the ballot in Baltimore City is not going away. Last week, the Baltimore Elections Administrator Armistead Jones ruled renew Baltimore's petition to get a measure to cut property tax rates by 50% over seven years was unconstitutional and could not go before voters. Jones said it violates the state constitution, which only allows the city council to set property tax rates