The ayes have it. These bills will be placed on our First Reading Calendar today. The next order of business is consideration of the Calendar. I note that the bills just reported from committee with suspension of rules have Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2ND READING been deemed to have had a first reading. These bills will be placed on the Second Reading and Final Passage Calendar for the next session of Council. Since there are no additional bills on the First Reading Calendar, the Chair now recognizes Councilmember Jones for the purpose of calling up resolutions and bills on the Second Reading and Final Passage Calendar.
Thank you, Mr. President. The following resolutions are being called up for Second Reading and Final Passage Calendar today: Nos. 120036, 120088, 120089, 120090, 120092, 120093, 120094, 120095, and 120096. All other resolutions are being held.
Thank you, Councilmember. Before we consider these resolutions, we will consider public comment as follows, one more time. Your comment must concern matters on the Second Reading and Final Passage Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com Calendars for possible action at today's Council session. All speakers must sign in in order to testify. If you have not already signed up, please sign up at the desk to my left. You will be called in the order in which your name appears on the sign-up sheet, and you will have three minutes to speak. In order to be fair -- I want to say this again -- in order to be fair, all those wishing to speak. I intend to hold faithfully to the three-minute limit. When you begin speaking, you will see a green light. Thirty seconds from the time of the expiration of the three-minute limit, your light will turn yellow, which is your reminder to conclude your remarks. Once three minutes have passed, the light will turn red, and that means it's time to end your conversation. And if you don't end your conversation, the Sergeant-of-Arms will disconnect the mike. Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com I would ask the Chief Clerk to please read the name of our first speaker.
Jeannine Lisitski, commenting on 120092. (Witness approached podium.)
Good morning. Women Against Abuse appreciates the ongoing support of City Council in addressing issues concerning domestic violence, and we appreciate the opportunity to provide testimony today. Thank you, Councilmembers Johnson, Jones, Greenlee, Oh, and O'Brien for scheduling this hearing and inviting Women Against Abuse to testify. And thank you to City Council, the Office of Supportive Housing, and Mayor Nutter for ongoing support and advocacy for victims of domestic violence. Women Against Abuse is the leading domestic violence service Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com provider in Pennsylvania and we operate the only emergency shelter in the City for abused women and their children, the nation's first legal center for domestic violence victims as well as transitional housing, the Philadelphia Domestic Violence Hotline and community-wide education to prevent domestic and teen dating violence. Our emergency shelter is funded through the intersection of a number of line items in the City, State and federal budget. As the only emergency shelter in Philadelphia for domestic violence victims, the Women Against Abuse shelter was forced to turn away an all-time high of 7,705 requests for safe shelter in the past fiscal year due to the hundred-bed facility being at full capacity. Our shelter operates at capacity throughout the year. We serve about 615 people per year, but this number pales in comparison to the over 7,000 requests for shelter that we had to Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com turn away. And with the severe lack of other housing for domestic violence victims in Philadelphia, these survivors often have nowhere to go. Philadelphia in fact has the lowest ratio of domestic violence shelter beds in comparison to nearby cities such as Baltimore, DC, and Pittsburgh. This is exacerbated by the fact that many Philadelphians do not have the resources they need to escape abuse. In fact, Philadelphia is recognized as the third poorest city in the nation and the poorest major city in the United States. As the leading domestic violence service provider in the state, programs in our neighboring counties are often reaching out to us for resources. But with only about six shelter beds for every hundred thousand Philadelphians, it is the neighboring county shelters that have to support our residents. In fact, domestic violence shelters in these neighboring counties are serving high Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com proportions of Philadelphia County residents. Without any other place to turn, victims of abuse often return to a violent home. Not only does this put women and children in danger and sometimes in lethal situations, it...
Finish your sentence. I didn't want to cut you off.
So without other places to turn, it puts people in lethal situations. It also puts increased pressure on the City services such as law enforcement, hospitals, child welfare, and the general City shelter system, not to mention the perpetuation of the cycle Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com of violence for our children and for our community at large. We saw a doubling of domestic violence homicide back in '09. This number has sustained at an escalated level. Our police are responding to 115,000 domestic abuse calls per year. We are in a crisis. Thank you.
Megan Kincade, commenting on 120092. (Witness approached podium.)
Good morning, Mr. President, and good morning, City Councilmembers. Thank you for this opportunity to speak with you today. As Jeannine mentioned, Women Against Abuse is the largest domestic violence program in the state and we operate the only emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence and their Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com children in Philadelphia. As the shelter director, I know all too well how short our 100-bed facility comes to fulfilling the need. Unfortunately, we know how prevalent domestic violence is in our community. Reportedly, one in four women have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner, and as advocates, we know that this is likely an underrepresentation of abuse victims, as it is a crime that often goes unreported. With the ratio of only 6.25 shelter beds for every 100,000 Philadelphians, we cannot meet the shelter needs of domestic violence victims in our community at our current capacity. I am very often asked what is the difference between your beds and beds in general City shelters. Our beds are confidential and our services are different than what are provided in every other shelter. At our emergency shelter, we Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com utilize a trauma-informed model of care that is crucial to meeting the needs of children and adults recovering from violence. We have DV-trained behavioral health staff, adult advocates, child advocates, security staff, early childcare providers, and after-school educators. All of our staff receive mandatory 45-hour domestic violence advocacy training to ensure the competent delivery of specialized services to our clients. It is crucial that our staff provide care that is confident in domestic violence to adequately assist our clients in living stably outside of violent relationships. The expertise of advocates in understanding domestic violence provides clients with support in navigating welfare law, housing rights, and safety planning, while empowering clients to build healthy relationships and expand their resources. The women and children who come Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com to our shelter lose all of their physical, financial, and familial support resources and benefit from the expertise of trained family and child advocates able to navigate numerous service delivery services that do not understand their needs. Without competent care in a safe physical environment, victims are at risk of homicide. We know that the most lethal time for a victim is when he or she attempts to or successfully leaves the abusive relationship. What you may not know is that over half of our shelter capacity are children, and the majority of those are under the age of 5 years old. What I want to ask you is, how will we begin to ensure our streets are safe if our families remain unsafe in their own homes? How will our children learn that violence is not a solution if they do not have the opportunity to live outside of it? Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com Thank you.
Marsha Cohen, commenting on 120092. (Witness approached podium.)
Thank you. And I brought copies of my testimony. Can I have it distributed? Thank you, Council, for inviting us here today to provide testimony on the dire need of Philadelphia to create additional emergency shelter beds for victims of domestic abuse and others in the City. Please allow me to introduce myself and our agency. Since 1990, the Homeless Advocacy Project, HAP, has provided free, civil legal services to homeless individuals and families residing and accessing services in Philadelphia's homeless shelters, soup kitchens, overnight cafes, and Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com transitional housing facilities. Last year we hosted over 150 legal clinics in 25 different shelters where we helped over 3,000 homeless men, women, and children with their civil legal needs. While we handle 50 different kinds of civil legal cases, we are perhaps best known for our benefits work. Through our celebrated SOAR Project, we're helping disabled homeless men and women to access SSI benefits on a very rapid basis, and through our Veterans Project, we're helping homeless veterans to access generous disability and pension benefits, often six figures, which helps to bring those veterans completely out of poverty. Both the SOAR and Veterans projects will help clients to exit the state general welfare system, which is becoming more critically important under the Governor's new budget, as you know. The GA is going away. For us, however, the problem Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com that we're here to talk about today began in earnest during the summer of 2010 when our office began receiving daily calls from hysterical parents who had been turned away from shelter at the Apple Tree Center, which is the central intake site for homeless men and for homeless women and families run by the Office of Supportive Housing, OSH, at 1430 Cherry Street. The families were all told by OSH intake workers to make their own arrangements, and thereafter on a daily basis, mothers, sometimes fathers, and their hungry children began waiting in our office while we waited for OSH to call them back. Often families of four or more are made to wait the longest for shelter. This fall we had one family of six who waited over five weeks for shelter placement. During that period, the children slept at different family members' houses and the parents slept in the park and in their car, and the children missed the first three weeks of Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com school. As OSH will tell you, the problem of shelter access is much worse during the summer months when families who have been living doubled and tripled up with friends and neighbors are split at the seams. Okay. My time is up. I will say this: OSH workers have been calling our office to let us know that they've been turning families away in droves and they've been putting children out on the street. DHS workers have been calling our office to ask if it's actually legal for them to remove children from families when there's no shelter. So we are at a critical juncture in our history, and our city really needs to do something about it. We...
Please don't stop in the middle of the sentence. Go ahead.
Okay. As we've Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com talked to OSH, we're contemplating a lawsuit against the City, but that's not really something that we want to do, because we know that we can all solve this problem. And I would invite any Councilmembers who would like to come with me, we go out annually to OSH to interview the families who are experiencing homelessness to find out why they're not being placed in shelter, what made them homeless, and how we can help them, and I invite any of you to come along with us if that would interest you. My information is in the testimony that we handed out. Thank you.
Anne Gemmell, commenting on 120094. (Witness approached podium.)
Good morning, City Council. Thank you, Council President. My name is Anne Gemmell. com I've been a 20-year resident of Philadelphia. I'm a former public school teacher. I have three children, Isabel, Harrison, and Eva, that all attend Philadelphia public schools. I'm a democratic committeewoman in the 2nd Ward and I'm also the political director at Fight for Philly, a coalition of neighborhood organizations working on economic justice. I wanted to thank Wilson Goode for -- can I have a timeout? The microphone is broken. Okay. I can just keep going? Sorry. Thank you, Wilson Goode, for requesting public hearings into the current state of community reinvestment of City depositories into our low-income and minority neighborhoods. com government to make ends meet by cutting City agency budgets, services, and raising taxes. The City has trimmed almost 100 million off its budget during 2008 and 2009, and the School District, as we all know, has faced a massive budget hole that was closed by laying off teachers and cutting programs for students, like my children and many others. Of course, Philadelphia is not alone. Two years after the official end of the Great Recession, Pennsylvania and the nation have yet to fully recover. Sluggish job growth and weak consumer confidence have dampened tax revenue, devastating -- introduced devastating cuts to public schools and colleges, like Cheyney University, like Lincoln University that was honored here today, leaving local governments with fewer resources to cope with the effects of an economic downturn. com are significant culprits. Risky and speculative financial instruments that brought down banks and brokerage houses have also cost us, the taxpayers, millions of dollars. At the instigation of and the marketing, very savvy marketing, of the financial services industry beginning in 2003, Pennsylvania school districts, our own School District, municipalities like Philadelphia and many others began to use qualified interest rate management agreements known as swaps. These risky financial instruments put us, after the crash, put us on the wrong side of declining interest rates and has led to the payout of millions of dollars to the investment banks, the investment banks that caused the Great Recession in the first place. Interest payments and cancellation fees associated with these deals have cost the City hundreds of millions of dollars. com and the City together, 331 million in net interest payments and cancellation fees to institutions like Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs. So at the public hearings, which the date is yet to be set, I'm hoping that Council asks some questions that I want to know the answers to and many other Philadelphia citizens want to know the answers. Our City Treasurer has publicly contested the numbers from the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center Research -- may I finish? Thank you. The first question is, what according to the School District and City is the extent of the damage from these swaps? What is the damage? Let's get a full accounting of an actual number that we can all agree on. Then we need to ask, who made these deals and was the risk adequately explained? com these deals, and how did they or their companies benefit from these deals? How can we, the taxpayers, we, City Council, renegotiate or cancel the currently active deals in order to protect public revenue for coming decades? Because the City is still on the hook for decades to come. What recourse do we have --
It's the last question. What recourse do we have, the City and schools, what recourse do we have to persuade the banks to reinvest into the communities to offset the disastrous impact from these swap deals? And if the banks fail to renegotiate current swaps and offset this disastrous impact, why in the world would we continue to do business with these banks who have caused this disaster to our Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com schools?
Ma'am, your question is pretty long. Ma'am, we have a rule. We have three minutes. I'm sorry.
Ma'am, we have three minutes. You can have the testimony passed around.
Thank you, Mr. President. Just regarding the last speaker's comments, I just want the speaker to know and folks here to know that we have been investigating, staff Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com has been investigating some opportunities, the innovative legal strategies that may be more fully discussed next week, and we're working on them now. There's some interesting opportunities that outside counsel has confirmed may be possible, and we're pursuing those vigorously and hopefully we'll have something more to say next week. Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you, Councilman. (Witness approached podium.)
Good morning. I would like to thank Councilmember Goode for requesting public hearings into current state of community reinvestment by City depository banks within our neighborhoods. My name is Precious Samuel. I have deep roots, educational roots, in West Philadelphia area. I Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com attended elementary school in West Philadelphia. I went to Commodore John Barry for first through fifth grade. I was able to participate in extracurricular activities, such as cooking club, reading club, and chess club. Although Barry School had those programs, I was in overcrowded classrooms with not enough books for students. I was told that I could not receive state-funded lunch because my mother's income was too high, which in fact at that time my mother was a single parent raising two children, struggling to make ends meet each day. During my time at Barry, I was physically and mentally harassed by students, causing my grades to slip and many student suspensions. Where was the counselor that could have stopped me from crying after being bullied? Where was the extra teacher that could have prevented the child from pushing me against the wall? The lack of school Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com funding continues the cycle of bullying, lack of student productivity, and lack of funding for resources and teachers. After graduating elementary school, my mother refused to send me to a neighborhood public school due to the lack of resources and the high level of violence in those schools. As a result, my mother enrolled me in charter schools. I attended Harambee Institute of Science and Technology and I was the first graduating class of Mastery Charter High Lenfest, class of 2005. Later I attended Benedict College, a historically black college and university in Columbia, South Carolina. Parents should not be forced to pull their children out of public schools into charter schools. Many people may argue that schools should be private or charter. My argument is that we fix the problems within the public schools so that my 9-year-old sister can afford a great public school education and not Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com have to travel outside of her neighborhood to do so. Many students gathered in the rotunda of the State Capitol Building on this Valentine's Day and demanded that Governor Corbett fall back in love with public education by creating a budget that funds schools and not prisons. Big banks like Wells Fargo can help ease -(Applause.)
-- can help ease those thoughts of students and remedy a situation by putting funding back into our schools and our communities and ending swap deals. West Philadelphia community members are tired of the fine-print excuses. We no longer want to be left in the dark and forced to deal with the aftermath. Our communities have been broken by the irresponsible greed of our banks. The banks were bailed out and years later after the stimulus dried up, our schools and our communities are Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com suffering cuts to services and to our schools. We, the community members, should have every right to understand and know where our money in our communities are going. Thank you.
Margarita Padin, commenting on 120036. (Applause.) (Witness approached podium.)
Good morning. My name is Margarita Padin. I'm a resident of North Philadelphia. I'm a union member of Carpenters Local 8, and I am Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com here today to make a statement that in the poorest or one of the poorest cities in the country, we have millions of construction dollars going through the City, and City residents such as myself and some other people here with union cards in the skilled trades are being turned down because of our race, gender, and national origin, and we would like the City to address the situation with all the sites in the City where this is happening. Thank you.
Ken Wong, commenting on 120096. (Witnesses approached podium.)
Good morning. CAPTAIN TITUS: Good morning, Mr. President and Council. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com Captain John Titus. I'm representing the active duty. I'm a proud member of the men and women of armed forces. I'm also representing the -- my commander, Admiral John King. We have a Navy base, a Navy command up at Northeast Philly called Weapons System Support Command, and also I'm representing the Greater Philadelphia Veterans Network, a non-profit organization helping veterans to transition, not only link up to the great education institutions here in Philadelphia and also trying to help employers -- educate employers to learn the benefit of hiring a veteran. So I'm here to help sponsor and help contribute to the bill being passed to hire -- I mean to grant credits, tax credits, to employers that hire veterans. Since we have that initial credit here to provide tax credits for companies to hire prisoners, I think it's always our right and should be appropriate to also provide that tax credit to hire veterans. Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com So as I end my career of 30 years and as I've moved my family 11 times, we have chosen the City of Philadelphia, the great City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania to transition, and I hope to continue to help veteran initiatives like Councilman Oh is sponsoring. Thank you very much. (Applause.)
Good morning. My name is Ken Wong and I'm here on behalf of other businesspeople and community leaders here in Philadelphia and the opportunity to help support the bill requesting tax credits for businesses that will hire our great veterans coming back from the war and veterans that are highly trained and very well educated. Here we are in the City of Philadelphia where we have an opportunity to be a leader in the United States and Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com be the first city that will enact a piece of legislation like this that will not only attract many highly qualified and educated veterans to Philadelphia, but also attract a lot of corporations to consider Philadelphia as a base of operation for their companies, and that will help to build our corporate tax base and help to provide more jobs not only for veterans but for everybody else here in the City as we can create an environment, an economic environment, that will help to lead our city back to where it should be and the prominence that the City should have not only nationally but globally. So thank you very much for your time.
Thank you so much for your testimony. (Applause.)
Toni McIlwaine, commenting on 120092. (Witness approached podium.) Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com MS. McILWAINE: Praise the Lord, I want to give honor to God, who is first in my life and definitely the lover of my soul. I never thought I would come here this morning and God would tuggle on my heart to address the position on domestic violence. But I come from a place of domestic violence for at least about 35 years, and so I just sat in my seat and my heart was overwhelmed, because we have to do more about that. I had children and the abuse was so great, it was knives, guns, smacking, dragging. But I remember Councilman Clarke some time ago, years ago, maybe 19 years ago, and he was just running for Council. We was at a block party. And he came up to us and he asked us to sign up, and I was so scared because I was there with my husband, but I was getting abused. But it's just to say that God has a plan for my life, and it's so important that we just put a Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com little bit more effort in domestic violence. I'm still with my husband. He's sick now, but in that position, God has trained me to be able to speak to nations on different issues. So I'm blessed today to be able to address the Council on domestic violence. But we have to do a little bit more for domestic violence, but we have to do more for even the perpetrators, because it's a sick disease. It's like cancer. And most of our people are grown up in their situation, because my family, I came from a family who fought all the time, but I said to myself I would never get in that situation. But as soon as I got old enough, I got married and the abuse stopped. So we have to try to break the train -- I mean, we have to try to break the cycle. We can't just set up groups and groups, but you have to have some power in the groups so that they can be transformed. Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com So I have to thank God that he has transformed my life and he has sent me to college. I'm in college now to be -- I'm in political leadership. But I was scared to come out. I couldn't come out. I couldn't even speak for myself. So I was sitting in that seat and God was tuggling on me, so I had to get up, because when God calls you, you better jump up out of your seat. So I just wanted to say that just do a little bit more, just reach out. We have to get something in place to transform the minds, because these perpetrators are poisoned themselves. So we got to get in the root of it and just take it out so that our kids can be safe. The schools didn't even know that my kids was suffering the way that they was, and they found out later on, because now I'm a minister of the gospel, and so I get out and preach. But just to throw that out there. And God bless you. I wanted to Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com tell you that I'm so proud of you. When I see you stand there, I thank God, because you're bringing order, and that's what God wants. Thank you. (Applause.)
Karen Brown, commenting on 120092. (Witness approached podium.)
I came here to listen today with the domestic violence, because I grew up in a family that had that. My aunt suffered it severely as we were growing up and it became a family secret. I was astonished to learn, as many others in this room, that there's 100 beds in this city. The fifth largest city of the United States and we have 100 beds to protect our women and children against abuse. This is a young Council, a new Council, and I put forth a request. Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING My District Councilpeople, there's blight that the Mayor is trying to get rid of throughout the City. Take these blight homes and turn them into domestic violent homes. There are ten District Councilpeople. That would bring ten more homes to the City. Let's stop building ice skating rinks and let's start building shelters for these women and children. Thank you. (Applause.)
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Decker. We'll now consider resolutions on the Second Reading and Final Passage Calendars. The Clerk will please read the title of Resolution No. 120036.
A resolution Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING authorizing the Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings to review the annual City contract participation goals released by the Finance Department pursuant to Title 17 of The Philadelphia Code.
Thank you, Mr. President. I move for the adoption. (Duly seconded.)
It's been moved and seconded. Those in favor? (Aye.)
The ayes have it. Resolution No. 120036 is adopted. Will the Clerk please read the title of Resolution No. 120088.
A resolution Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING calling on the City Council Committee on Education to hold hearings on changes in schools and their impact on neighborhoods in which they reside.
The Chair now recognizes Councilmember Blackwell.
Thank you, Mr. President. I move for the adoption of the resolution. (Duly seconded.)
It's been moved and seconded. Those in favor? (Aye.)
The ayes have it. Resolution 120088 is adopted. Please read the title of Resolution No. 120089.
A resolution Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Sixteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-Eighth and Thirty-Second Wards of the City of Philadelphia.
Thank you, Mr. President. I move the adoption of the resolution. (Duly seconded.)
It's been moved and seconded. Those in favor? (Aye.)
Those opposed? (No response.) Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING
The ayes have it. Resolution 120089 has been adopted. Will the Clerk please read the title of Resolution 120090.
A resolution authorizing the Council Committee on Public Health and Human Services to hold hearings regarding the impact of the proposed FY 2012 through 2013 state budget on the public health and human services programs provided in Philadelphia.
Thank you, Madam -- Mr. President. I'd like to speak on the resolution.
It's been a madam for a long time. I Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING understand.
Last Tuesday, Mr. President, Governor Corbett presented his proposed 2012-2013 budget to the General Assembly. In his budget address, the Governor announced plans to collapse a number of human services line items, like homeless assistance, mental health services, behavioral health services, and child welfare, into a single funding stream and provide these dollars to Philadelphia and counties around the Commonwealth in the form of a block grant. The purported goal for this new human services development block grant is to provide flexibility to counties in how they spend dollars for their constituents. However, under this new block grant, Philadelphia is proposed to receive a 20 percent reduction from Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING the 2011-2012 state budget, and this cut represents a loss of $42 million in human services programs funded for Philadelphia and will have an impact on the discussion that these witnesses talked about today. Through this guise of flexibility, Philadelphia will be forced to cut funds for homeless assistance versus money for children welfare versus dollars for mental health services. Consequently, this process of pitting vital services against each other will continue throughout the various human services programs provided in Philadelphia. Considering Philadelphia's unemployment rate and the impact of the national recession on our local economy, our constituents truly depend on the safety net that these human services programs provide for our city. This is the reason why I felt that it was so important to introduce this resolution and have a frank discussion on this Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING issue. So on March 20th at 10:00 a.m. in the Public Health and Human Services Committee, we will have an opportunity to discuss the impact of the new human services development block grant with the Administration, advocates, providers, and constituents, and hopefully gain an understanding of how we as a city will address these issues in our upcoming Fiscal Year 2013 budget. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Councilwoman. There has been a motion. (Duly seconded.)
There's a second. It's been moved and seconded. Those in favor? (Aye.)
The Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING ayes have it. Resolution No. 120090 is adopted. Mr. Decker, please read the title of Resolution 120092.
A resolution authorizing City Council's Committee on Public Safety to hold hearings to investigate the availability of emergency shelters in Philadelphia for victims of domestic violence who have been forced from their homes by violence or who need to escape abusive situations.
The Chair now recognizes Councilmember Johnson.
Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to speak on my resolution.
Mr. President, while in my former life as a State Representative, it has always amazed me that the City of Philadelphia Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING funds just one emergency shelter dedicated solely to abused women and their children. Obviously this shortage for domestic violence victims who wish to escape dire situations creates an unhealthy situation not only for women and their children but for all of Philadelphia. We have to be aware that homelessness and domestic homicide rates are on the rise and Women Against Abuse, which resides in the 2nd Councilmanic District, was forced to turn away a staggering number of approximately 7,705 requests for shelter in 2011. In 2010, 116,000 domestic abuse incidents were responded to by the Philadelphia Police Department. From 2007 to 2009, the domestic homicide rate rose almost 50 percent in Pennsylvania. In Philadelphia, from 2008 to 2009, it went up by 71 percent from 21 to 36 homicides. In 2010, according to police Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING statistics, there were 30 domestic homicides in the City. Research conducted by the United States Conference of Mayors on hunger and homelessness has shown that domestic violence is the leading cause of homelessness. Fifty percent of the cities surveyed identified domestic violence as the primary cause of their situation, with 92 percent of homeless women having experienced severe physical and sexual abuse at some point in their lives. This lack of housing puts added pressure on an already overloaded social system, including our hospitals, schools, police department, prisons and behavioral health providers; in other words, everybody. I want to personally ask all of my colleagues to adopt this resolution and vote favorably upon it. And my primary interest in this bill, which is basically working with constituents who Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING have this issue on a day-to-day basis and recognizing that although we can advocate for additional support for those who are suffering from domestic violence, I believe as a city we can do a better job. And so I'm going to step up to the plate and ask all of you for your support as we move forward advocating beyond the hearings on this particular issue. Thank you very much for your patience as well, Mr. President. (Applause.)
Thank you so much, Councilman. Is there a second? (Duly seconded.)
It's been moved and seconded. Those in favor? (Aye.)
The Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING ayes have it. Resolution 120092 has been adopted. Mr. Decker, please read the title of Resolution 120093.
A resolution urging the Pennsylvania General Assembly, Senate, and Governor Tom Corbett to reject House Bill No. 1523 which could impose heavy financial penalties on municipalities that adopt or enforce reasonable regulations of firearms, and to allow the City of Philadelphia to continue its efforts to regulate firearms for the health, safety and welfare of the City.
Thank you. Again, the Chair recognizes Councilmember Johnson.
I'll be brief, Mr. President. I'd like to speak briefly on my resolution.
Please do, sir. Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING
I reintroduced this resolution asking the House, Senate, and Governor Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania to reject House Bill 1523 which will limit the opportunity for the City of Philadelphia and other municipalities to go after those who will not only carry guns, but we need to go after those who sell guns. There are no gun factories in Point Breeze. There are no gun factories in Richard Allen projects. And so what this bill would do -- what this resolution will do is advocate for us to have the opportunity to go after those who sell guns, and I move for the adoption of this resolution. Thank you, Mr. President.
It's been moved and seconded. Those in favor? Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING (Aye.)
The ayes have it. Resolution 120093 is adopted. Mr. Decker, please read the title of Resolution No. 120094.
A resolution authorizing the Committee on Appropriations to hold hearings into the current state of community reinvestment by City depository banks within low-income and minority neighborhoods in the City of Philadelphia.
Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to speak very briefly on this resolution.
I've had the Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING opportunity over the last month to actually lunch at the Union League twice. Yesterday was a Black History Month luncheon where they served fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, collar greens and talked about economic inclusion. A month before that I was invited to an economic outlook luncheon where a Professor Dunkelberg, formerly of LaSalle University, now of Temple University, laid out for the business community there what he thought needs to happen economically in this country. He used a presentation that had caricatures of our President. He said a number of crazy things during his speech. I want to highlight two of them. When he talked about how you become a great nation economically, he said, You have to seek out models for cheap labor. He said, When you talk about cheap labor, some people think that's exploitation. He said, What I call exploitation is giving someone an Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING opportunity that they're going to learn from. The second crazy thing he said was, The thing that is great about this labor market economy in the United States is that we lay off at least three to four hundred thousand people a month. That's a good thing in his mind, because it allows people to find their rightful place in the labor market. Make no mistake, because Occupy Philadelphia is gone, there are still people out there who are angry. There are still people out there who are still hungry. They will show up for public comment. They will show up at hearings. We understand that we are at war and the type of minds we are at war at. And for that, I move for the adoption of this resolution. (Duly seconded.)
Thank you. It's been moved and seconded. All in favor? Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING (Aye.)
The ayes have it. Resolution 120094 is adopted. Thank you. Mr. Decker, please read the title of Resolution 120095.
A resolution authorizing City Council's Committee on Education and Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold joint public hearings to examine the best practices for the Philadelphia School District for career and technical education and how improved technical education will benefit our City's local economy.
I move for the adoption of the resolution. (Duly seconded.)
It's Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING been moved and seconded. All in favor? (Aye.)
The ayes have it. Resolution 120095 is adopted. Mr. Decker, please read the title of Resolution 120096.
A resolution authorizing Council's Committee on Global Opportunities and the Creative/Innovative Economy to hold hearings to investigate the establishment of a tax credit and veterans' assistance program that will allow employers to be eligible for a local tax credit upon hiring Veterans of the United States military.
Thank you. The Chair now recognizes Councilmember Oh. Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING
Thank you, Mr. President. I move for the adoption of the resolution. (Duly seconded.)
It's been moved and seconded. Those in favor? (Aye.)
Resolution 120096 is adopted. The Clerk will please read any additional resolutions on today's Calendar.
A resolution proclaiming March, 2012, as American Red Cross Month in the City of Philadelphia, introduced by Councilwoman Blackwell.
Thank you, Madam -- thank you, Sir President. Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING
It's okay. I'm not that sensitive, so I'm okay. I'm real comfortable with myself.
Thank you. I move for the adoption of the resolution. (Duly seconded.)
It's been moved and seconded. Those in favor? (Aye.)
And a resolution honoring and recognizing Mr. Glenn Ellis, Sr. for his accomplishments in and service to the field of medicine and public health education, introduced by Councilwoman Blackwell.
Thank you. Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING The Chair recognizes Councilwoman Blackwell.
Thank you, Mr. President. I move for the adoption of the resolution. (Duly seconded.)
It's been moved and seconded. Those in favor? (Aye.)
And a resolution recognizing and acknowledging the Energy Coordinating Agency's Green Jobs Training Center as a "Center of Excellence" in the City of Philadelphia, introduced by Councilwoman Reynolds Brown.
Thank you, Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING Mr. President. I move for the adoption. (Duly seconded.)
And a resolution honoring and congratulating Mr. Jim Reed on the occasion of his retirement from Verizon Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, after forty eight years of service, including nineteen years of service as External Affairs Director, introduced by Councilwoman Reynolds Brown.
Thank you. The Chair recognizes Councilwoman Brown.
Thank you, Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com 2/16/12 - STATED - 2ND READING Mr. President. I move for the adoption. (Duly seconded.)
It's been moved and seconded. Those in favor? (Aye.)
And a resolution recognizing, honoring, and celebrating the Northwest Raiders Athletic Association on 40 years of providing positive youth development and community service for children, youth and residents of Northwest Philadelphia, introduced by Councilwoman Bass.
Thank you, Mr. President. I move for the adoption of the resolution. Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com (Duly seconded.)
It's been moved and seconded. Those in favor? (Aye.)
There are no other resolutions for consideration on the Final Passage Calendar, Mr. President.
Thank you, Mr. Decker. That completes our Calendar today. Are there any speeches on the part of the minority?
The Chair recognizes Councilman Oh. Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com
Thank you very much. I'd like to recognize and thank two guests who are here today who spoke, one being Ken Wong, who is a former Commissioner on the President's Advisory Commission for Asians Americans and Pacific Islanders, as well as Co-Chairman of the United States Army Philadelphia Community Advisory Board, and United States Navy Captain John Titus, Director of Operations, Navy Weapons System Support, and also a U.S. Naval Academy graduate. Actually, in their discussions with me, they raised the issue of what can we do for veterans, and they let me know that there was recently signed into law a federal law which provided tax credits for veterans, and they also let me know the various skills and abilities of many of our returning veterans which would benefit our city in terms of economic development. And the reason I bring that up is because we as public representatives, we represent the views Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com voters of our city, and these are two people who came to me, as many people out there have good ideas and I encourage them, go to your elected representatives with your good ideas, be positive and believe that you can bring about change in our city, and you may see one of your ideas become a resolution or a law that will make our city a better place. Thank you.
Thank you so much, Councilman. Any speeches on behalf of the majority? The Chair recognizes Councilwoman Brown.
Thank you, Mr. President. I rise today to touch on what for some is a highly sensitive topic, for others is always a controversial topic and for many of us is deeply provocative, but for still others, including 58 percent of Catholics, we Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com a practical behavior, a preventive behavior, and that is the topic of birth control. I join the millions of men and women across this country, including, as I said, 58 percent of Catholics, who thank the President for standing up to forces while protecting religious freedom on all sides. We are of the view that his Administration should be commended and not criticized. So in the words of three United States Senators, Jeanne Shaheen, Barbara Boxer, and Patty Murray, who spoke eloquently on this topic, it was a -- I quote, It was a historic victory for women's health when the Obama Administration changed the law to require private health plans to provide preventive services, including breast exams, HIV screening, and contraception, for free. This new policy will help millions of women get the affordable care they need. Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com crunch the numbers, the hard reality becomes hopefully more vivid to you. The fact is that $600 a year for prescription contraceptives is a lot for a mother working as a medical technician in a Catholic hospital or a teacher in a private religious school. So, finally, again, in the words of those three United States Senators, ultimately improving access to birth control is a good health policy for good economic policy. It will mean healthier women, healthier families, and healthier children. It will save money for businesses and consumers, and we should hold true to the promise that women should be provided access broadly. When we do that, our nation is better for it. Again, I thank the President for standing up and simply repeating what we already knew, that this is good health public policy. Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com you, Mr. President.
Thank you, Councilwoman. The Chair -(Applause.)
Thank you. I'll be very brief, Mr. President. I'd just like to note that my community, the 50th Ward, lost three wonderful, valuable members of that community this week and they're all buried this week, John Patillo, an outstanding photographer. Many of you may have known and seen him around town just taking pictures of everything and everybody. Lenore Graves, who served on our election board, who was very active in the community. And Dr. Shirley Turpin-Parham, who was very outspoken and most vocal and kept us on our toes. We will miss them all, and I want to thank them personally for their Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com Northwest as well as to the Philadelphia community. Thank you.
Thank you, Councilwoman. Our prayers are with their family. The Chair now recognizes Councilman Greenlee.
Thank you, Mr. President. Just very quickly on Councilwoman Reynolds Brown's comments, which I certainly agree with, but she made some quotes there and I just wanted to add one more that I saw that I think sums up the whole issue, and it was from another Congressperson. It said a woman's health should not depend on who their boss is. I think that says it all. Thank you, Mr. President.
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Thank you. I am in complete agreement that with Councilmember Greenlee and Councilmember Blondell Reynolds Brown with respect to the need to provide preventative healthcare to all Americans, and I think if the government wants to do that out of their own pocket, they should absolutely do that. There should be a debate in Congress. Contraception and other things that are good that actually save the system money in the end should be provided to women, to all citizens. However, this debate is not just about what is the best health policy. It is about individual freedom and religious liberty, and I do not believe that a practicing Catholic, let alone a religious institution or Orthodox Jew or Muslim or anybody else whose faith does not believe in these things, should be required to pay for that for somebody else. If the government -- and the Discover Works Global 888.557.8650 www.dw-global.com -- if the government wants to provide that, it certainly should, but it should not require -- but we should be staunch defenders of religious freedom and individual liberty in this country and in this city. Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you, Councilman. Any other speeches? (No response.)
There being none, I would like to first recognize Tony Radwanski. Tony is retiring this Friday. (Applause.)
Tony, 38 years, actually close to my age. Not quite that close. Tony, thank you so much for your years of service.
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Now, there are no other speeches, the Chair would like to recognize Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown for an adjournment.
I thank you, Mr. President. And we all heartily salute you, Tony, for the good, important work that you've done for so many years. Mr. President, I move that Council stand adjourned until Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. Thank you. (Duly seconded.)
Thank you. It's been moved and seconded. Those in favor? (Aye.)
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