Aye. STATED MEETING 211 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING The ayes are 14; the nays are three. A majority of members present voting in the affirmative, the bill passes. Mr. Decker, please read the title of Bill No. 200007-A.
An ordinance amending Chapter 20-1100 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Civil Service Preferences," to provide for a civil service preference for qualified graduates of Career Technical Education Programs in the School District of Philadelphia.
This bill having been read on two different days, the question now is shall the bill pass finally. Mr. Decker, call the roll.
Councilwoman Brooks. STATED MEETING 212 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING
Councilman STATED MEETING 213 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING O'Neill.
Aye. The ayes are 14; the nays are three. A majority of members present voting in the affirmative, the bill passes. Mr. Decker, please read the title of Bill No. 220187.
An ordinance STATED MEETING 214 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING providing for the submission to the qualified electors of the City of Philadelphia of an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to create the Department of Aviation, to transfer the functions of certain City agencies with respect to the operations of the City's airports to the newly-created Department and to provide for additional duties of the Department, as approved by Resolution of the City Council.
This bill having been read on two different days, the question now is shall the bill pass finally. Mr. Decker, call the roll.
Aye. STATED MEETING 215 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING
Councilwoman STATED MEETING 216 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING Parker.
Aye. The ayes are 17; the nays are zero. A majority of all members present voting in the affirmative, the bill passes. Mr. Decker, please read the title of Bill No. 200012.
An ordinance amending Section 19-1301.1 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Homestead Exclusion," to increase the amount of the STATED MEETING 217 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING homestead exclusion.
Yeah. Thank you, Council President. I just have a few remarks before we call this bill up to vote. One, I wanted to personally ask for an affirmative vote from my colleagues on the Save Our Homes Tax Relief Plan which is up for final passage today. The goal of the Save Our Homes Plan is to reduce the impact of residential property assessments which increased by a citywide average of 31 percent this year. As a result, residents will see their property taxes increase significantly, specifically in Black and Brown neighborhoods. The Save Our Homes Plan will also help reduce displacement and make property taxes fairer and more transparent. It is also revenue neutral. STATED MEETING 218 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING The latest projection of spending is that the Save Our Homes Plan will cost the City less than $80 million per year to implement. The increase from the property tax assessments is expected to earn the City an estimated $460 million over the next five years, which is an average of $92 million per year. The Save Our Homes Plan will simply take new revenue that is expected from increased property assessments and give it back to where it belongs, which are the people. The major portion of the Save Our Homes Plan are as follows: Increasing the City homestead exemption from $45,000 to $80,000. This will increase the value of the benefit from $629 per year to $1,120 per year. The Bill No. 200012 is up for final passage today. Originally the initial proposals from our colleagues such as Councilman O'Neill who supported this initiative as well as Councilwoman STATED MEETING 219 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING Jamie Gauthier and Mark Squilla and the Administration is focusing on a homestead exemption of $90,000. That will double it from $45,000 to $90,000. After hearing concerns from the Philadelphia School District about lost tax revenue, the compromise, with your help, Council President Darrell Clarke, working with the Administration, we agreed upon an $80,000 homestead, which still significantly impacts residents who are seeing a significant increase in their property taxes. Also, the bill will allow retroactive enrollment in the Senior Tax Freeze as far as individuals who have enrolled in 2019. This will allow low-income seniors to freeze their property tax assessments at the time they became eligible rather than when they enrolled. Bill No. 220499 is also up for final passage today. The Senior Citizens Property Tax Freeze program helps STATED MEETING 220 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING low-income senior citizens aged 65 or older to permanently freeze their property assessments. To be eligible at this time, a person's income must be $33,500 per year for a single person or $41,500 per year for a married couple. Under my Save Our Homes Property Tax Relief Plan, eligible seniors will have the chance to retroactively enroll in the Senior Citizens Tax Freeze program. Accordingly, those seniors will only pay taxes on the assessment from the year they first became eligible going as far back as 2018. Bill No. 220499, which is a part of the Save Our Homes Tax Relief Plan, is also up for final passage today. In addition, multiple changes have been changed to the Longtime Owner-Occupants Program, known as LOOP, that will significantly increase access for lowand middle-income homeowners. Newly eligible households would increase for STATED MEETING 221 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING thousands of homeowners. Bill No. 220499 is up for final passage. And I want to take a personal note and just thank you, Council President, for your leadership in working in partnership with the Administration to come to some level of resolve for this particular bill in which I sponsored. So I just want to personally acknowledge you and just thank you for working with me over these last couple of days. 5 million in the budget for an outreach campaign.
One thing that we have to understand as a body is that although we have LOOP, although we have homestead exemptions, although we have the tax payment program, although we have the deferred tax payment program as well for STATED MEETING 222 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING individuals who can't pay their full tax at one particular time, if people don't have the information, then what's the point? And so we'll have the ability to go in an aggressive campaign to make sure people know all of the tax relief tools that are available for them to take advantage of. Last, but not least, we also budgeted $1 million to help free legal assistance for low-income renters, because we know at the end of the day, when landlords see an increase in their property taxes, they pass that money down to the actual renter, and we want to make sure that we don't have renters who are being displaced. And so I want to also take a personal note and acknowledge Community Legal Services, who were very, very supportive of this program, but also all the members of the body who signed on for being co-sponsors, and ask for an affirmative vote on the Save Our Homes STATED MEETING 223 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING Property Tax Relief Plan. Thank you, Council President.
Thank you, Councilman. This bill having been read on two different days, the question now is shall the bill pass finally. Mr. Decker, call the roll.
Councilman Domb. STATED MEETING 224 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING
Aye. STATED MEETING 225 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING
Aye. The ayes are 17; the nays are zero. A majority of all members present voting in the affirmative, the bill passes. Mr. Decker, 220284.
An ordinance to adopt a Capital Program for the six Fiscal Years 2023 through 2028 inclusive.
This STATED MEETING 226 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING bill having been read on two different days, the question now is shall the bill pass finally. Mr. Decker, call the roll.
Councilwoman Gym. STATED MEETING 227 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING
Council President STATED MEETING 228 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING Clarke.
Aye. The ayes are 17; the nays are zero. A majority of all members present voting in the affirmative, the bill passes. Mr. Decker, 220285.
This bill having been read on two different days, the question now is shall the bill pass finally. Mr. Decker, call the roll.
Councilman Driscoll. STATED MEETING 229 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING
Aye. STATED MEETING 230 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING
Aye. The ayes are 17; the nays are zero. A majority of all members voting in the affirmative, the bill passes. Mr. Decker, 220286.
An ordinance adopting the Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2023.
This bill having been read on two different days, the question now is shall the bill pass finally. Mr. Decker, call the roll. STATED MEETING 231 6/23/2022 6/23/22 - STATED - 2ND READING