Aye. The ayes are 17, the nays are 0. A majority of all Members having voted in the affirmative, this bill passes. That concludes our Calendar for today. Are there speeches on the part of the Minority? (No response.)
Are there speeches on the part of the Majority? The Chair recognizes Councilman Goode.
Thank you, Madam President. In my hand is a list of 35 recommendations from the Mayor's Economic Development Summit. These recommendations from the 150 participants were conceived, transcribed, and distributed at the summit. On the second day of the summit, there was also a new set of recommendations conceived, transcribed, and presented on large flat screen TVs, but not distributed. On Monday, I requested a copy of the second set of recommendations from both the Commerce Department and Mayor's Office. The first response was, "Okay, we'll send them right over." The next response was, "The recommendations actually don't exist." So my response was a subpoena. I am not requesting at this time a report from the Commerce Department on the summit, but a document that does, in fact, exist. In fact, the Commerce Director told me yesterday in discussion about the subpoena that she had a copy of what I requested in her 35 final recommendations made by the summit participants. I actually handwrote one of them. It was transcribed and presented at the summit along with 34 other recommendations. I believe we are entitled to have a copy of all 35 final recommendations as a standalone document before a report is actually issued. We're also entitled to conduct our own process. I believe that's actually our job. Thank you.
Thank you. The Chair recognizes Councilwoman Blackwell.
Thank you, Madam President. It has been requested by Alex Wright and the United Block Captains of Philadelphia that we let you know they're holding a rally at 12 o'clock in Love Park to announce the United Block Captains of Philadelphia's concerns, their community
Thank you. The Chair recognizes Councilman Ramos.
Thank you, Madam President. I want to take this opportunity to thank the Philadelphia Police Department for a job well done and the cooperation of the Philadelphia Nursing Home and its contractors for the apprehension of a person that is now being accused of cutting the feeding tubes of seven of our very ill people out of Philadelphia Nursing Home. I think we all have an obligation, or at least I see it as such, that we have to pay special attention to those in our City who are very poor, frail, elderly and defenseless. I have requested to hold public hearings and I have asked my dear colleague Marian Tasco who chairs the Committee on Public Health to work with me, and she has agreed at an appropriate time to call for public hearings. I just want for the record to not a witch hunt to try to find or to stigmatize the Philadelphia Nursing Home, but there have been other complaints in the Chambers today. We have the son of a patient who had her feeding tube cut. Mr. Nieves is sitting right behind me, and he's the person that called me in distress and asking for help. His mother not only had her feeding tube cut, but she had bruises on the side of her face in the ear area. We just want to make sure that the people of our City, that when they get to that point of their life with a loved one and they want to send their loved one to a nursing home that they can think that the Philadelphia Nursing Home is a good place to have their loved one, that they will be treated and that they will be cared for, that there will be security and that they will be treated with dignity. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you. I would certainly hope that the gentleman that's in the audience whose mother abused certainly has reported that to the appropriate authorities so that action can be taken. Has he?
Thank you. Are there any other speeches on the part of the majority? (No response.)
Seeing none, the Chair recognizes Councilwoman Tasco.
Madam President, I move that Council stand adjourned until Thursday, October 7th at 10 a.m., 2004.
The ayes have it. Council will stand adjourned until Thursday, October 7th at 10:00 a.m. Thank you. (Council adjourned at 10:50 a.m.) C E R T I F I C A T I O N I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing proceedings of the Council of the City of Philadelphia of Thursday, September 30, 2004, were reported fully and accurately by me, and that this is a correct transcript of the same. RE: STATED MEETING _________________________ Lisa C. Bradley, RPR