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Resolution 030038

Calling on the Philadelphia Workforce Development Corporation to conduct a needs assessment of training opportunities within the Building and Construction Trades, particularly to improve minority and female employment participation through PWDC financial support of initiatives such as the Diversity Apprenticeship Program, and authorizing City Council's Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings into the state of training opportunities for minorities and women in Philadelphia's Building and Construction Trades.

Introduced Jan 28, 2003Committee on Commerce & Economic DevelopmentOfficial record: City of Philadelphia via Legistar

Introduced by

Councilmember GoodeCouncilmember LongstrethCouncilmember Reynolds BrownCouncilmember MarianoCouncilmember NutterCouncilmember MillerCouncilmember TascoCouncilmember DiCiccoCouncilmember KrajewskiCouncilmember RizzoCouncilmember KenneyCouncil President VernaCouncilmember OrtizCouncilmember CohenCouncilmember ClarkeCouncilmember O'Neill

From the floor

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  1. “To the President of the City of Philadelphia, the Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to which was referred Resolution No. 000691, entitled Resolution calling for hearings into micro enterprise development and neighborhood self-improvement as an economic development strategy in the City of Philadelphia; And Resolution No 020522, entitled resolution authorizing Committee on Commerce and Economic Development…”

    Chief Clerk · Stated Meeting, April 25, 2003 · Apr 25, 2003 · official transcript, this passage

  2. “The ayes have it and Resolution No. 020522 has been adopted. The Chief Clerk will please read the title of Resolution No. 030038. 04/25/03 - STATED - 2ND READING AND FINAL PASSAGE THE”

    Council President Verna · Stated Meeting, April 25, 2003 · Apr 25, 2003 · official transcript, this passage

  3. “The ayes have it, and Resolution No. 030038 has been adopted.”

    Council President Verna · Stated Meeting, April 25, 2003 · Apr 25, 2003 · official transcript, this passage

Status timeline

  1. Jan 28, 2003ADOPTED & REFERRED · CITY COUNCIL
  2. Jan 28, 2003READ · CITY COUNCIL
  3. Jan 28, 2003Introduced · CITY COUNCIL
  4. Feb 27, 2003HEARING NOTICES SENT · Committee on Commerce & Economic Development
  5. Feb 27, 2003HEARING HELD · Committee on Commerce & Economic Development
  6. Feb 27, 2003RECESSED · Committee on Commerce & Economic Development
  7. Mar 13, 2003RECESSED · Committee on Commerce & Economic Development
  8. Mar 13, 2003HEARING HELD · Committee on Commerce & Economic Development
  9. Apr 23, 2003HEARING HELD · Committee on Commerce & Economic Development
  10. Apr 23, 2003REPORTED FAVORABLY · Committee on Commerce & Economic Development
  11. Apr 25, 2003FAVORABLY RECOMMENDED; CONSIDERATION AT END OF CALENDAR · CITY COUNCIL
  12. Apr 25, 2003ADOPTED · CITY COUNCIL

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..Title Calling on the Philadelphia Workforce Development Corporation to conduct a needs assessment of training opportunities within the Building and Construction Trades, particularly to improve minority and female employment participation through PWDC financial support of initiatives such as the Diversity Apprenticeship Program, and authorizing City Council's Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings into the state of training opportunities for minorities and women in Philadelphia's Building and Construction Trades. ..Body WHEREAS, The Phillies and Eagles stadium construction projects, which cost $346 million and $395 million respectively, have not met employment goals of 45 percent for minorities, and 5 percent for women; and WHEREAS, The $295 million Neighborhood Transformation Initiative has set more aggressive employment goals, and the $464 million Convention Center Expansion Project has not yet established employment goals; and WHEREAS, The Diversity Apprenticeship Program (DAP) is a pre-apprenticeship training program for unemployed and under-employed adults seeking job opportunities in Philadelphia's building trades, and seeks to increase the percentage of disadvantaged persons employed in construction jobs; and WHEREAS, In the two years since its inception, DAP, a program of the Philadelphia Revitalization and Education Program, Inc., has successfully moved 49 people into the building trades, and helped 108 people to gain employment; and WHEREAS, DAP, which is funded by the Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor and Industry's Workforce Investment Network, and administered by the Housing Association of the Delaware Valley, is among the most effective and diverse programs of its kind, with training in 29 apprenticeship areas; and WHEREAS, In order to effectively move greater numbers of unemployed and underemployed adults into the building trades, DAP is in need of additional funding; now therefore RESOLVED, THAT THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, Calls upon on the Philadelphia Workforce Development Corporation to conduct a needs assessment of training opportunities within the Building and Construction Trades, particularly to improve minority and female employment participation through PWDC financial support of initiatives such as the Diversity Apprenticeship Program, and authorizes City Council's Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings into the state of training opportunities for minorities and women in Philadelphia's Building and Construction Trades. ..End