COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE and FINANCE - - - - Room 400, City Hall Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Thursday, June 10, 2004 4:30 p.m. - - - - BILL 040501 - An Ordinance authorizing the Mayor, on behalf of the City, to file 10 applications with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and to use the Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program... PRESENT: COUNCIL PRESIDENT ANNA C. VERNA COUNCILWOMAN JANNIE BLACKWELL COUNCILWOMAN BLONDELL REYNOLDS BROWN COUNCILMAN W. WILSON GOODE COUNCILWOMAN JOAN KRAJEWSKI COUNCILMAN JAMES KENNEY COUNCILMAN RICHARD MARIANO COUNCILWOMAN MARIAN TASCO COUNCILWOMAN DONNA REED MILLER COUNCILMAN MICHAEL NUTTER COUNCILMAN BRIAN O'NEILL COUNCILMAN FRANK DICICCO COUNCILMAN JUAN RAMOS COUNCILMAN DAVID COHEN - - - - V A R A L L O Incorporated 1835 Market Street, Suite 600 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 215.561.2220 215.567.2670 I N D E X BILL 040501 KEVIN HANNA, Office of Housing....... PATRICIA SMITH....................... 9 3 06/10/04 - WHOLE - FINANCE
Can we have everyone's attention, please. We're ready to get started on the hearing.
Thank you very much. We thank you all for your patience. We are now finally at the point where we'd like to conclude our hearing on the NTI legislation and CDBG. We will now consider the Committee on the Whole and the Committee on Finance with regard to Bill 040501. And we will ask Kevin Hanna to make one statement with regard to the million. 15 Then, if it's okay, we'll go into stated meeting.
Good afternoon, Council President, Madam Chairwoman. My name is Kevin Hanna. I serve as Secretary of the Office of Housing and Neighborhood Preservation. The statement I guess I need to get across is hopefully one with which everyone is comfortable. Recall that sometime ago, Councilwoman Blackwell had asked that we 4 06/10/04 - WHOLE - FINANCE somehow make available more acquisition dollars. The Administration's original proposal was to provide three, $5 million installments. After being hammered by the Councilwoman as to that being acceptable, we went back and figured out a way to make $15 million available all in this upcoming fiscal year with the understand that's the last $15 million in acquisition; there is no 11 acquisition dollars. The distribution of those dollars, the Administration at first proposed would be through a RFP process. Again, the Councilwoman expressed her strong dissatisfaction with that proposed process, so we went back and essentially applied the same formula to the 15 that had been applied to the original acquisition dollars. Our hope is that a majority of the Councilmembers are okay with that particular way of doing things. And with that, we're ready to move forward if Councilmembers are. Certainly, we as in the Administration, the staff, are 5 06/10/04 - WHOLE - FINANCE prepared to do whatever Council asks us to do, but we propose what we think is a fair and equitable way of, first of all, coming up with at and then distributing the 15 among the 6 10 different Council districts. 7
Mr. Hanna, 8 I think I asked earlier, and I want the record 9 to be imminently clear, we received a copy of 10 your letter under date of June 1st and it 11 outlined specifically what each Councilmanic 12 district would be allocated. Does that still 13 hold true as we speak? And if it does, is 14 that going to be made part of the bill. 15
Yes, that does still hold true. In fact, that letter is attached to the amendments that are necessary in order to make that a part of the bill.
There were amendments to the bill that were circulated earlier, and we believe now we are finally 6 06/10/04 - WHOLE - FINANCE clear on this issue. And if we are right and if all minds are clear, I would like to ask Councilman Ramos would you make a motion that we adopt the amendments to the bill?
I make a motion that we amend Bill No. 040501. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and seconded that the amendment to 040501 be adopted. All in favor? (Aye.)
The amendments are adopted. We will now entertain a motion to report out the bill, as amended, out of Committee.
I'm sorry. I'm going to have to back up. We didn't end our hearing. I'm too busy rushing all day. 7 06/10/04 - WHOLE - FINANCE We have to formally end our hearing into stated meeting. - - - - 8 COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC MEETING COMMITTEE ON WHOLE AND FINANCE - - - - Thursday, June 10, 2004 - - - - Public meeting conducted by the Committee on Whole and Finance, held in Room 10 400, City Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the above date, to consider action on the following: BILL 040501. PRESENT: COUNCIL PRESIDENT ANNA C. VERNA COUNCILWOMAN JANNIE BLACKWELL COUNCILWOMAN BLONDELL REYNOLDS BROWN COUNCILMAN W. WILSON GOODE COUNCILWOMAN JOAN KRAJEWSKI COUNCILMAN JAMES KENNEY COUNCILMAN RICHARD MARIANO COUNCILWOMAN MARIAN TASCO COUNCILWOMAN DONNA REED MILLER COUNCILMAN MICHAEL NUTTER COUNCILMAN BRIAN O'NEILL COUNCILMAN FRANK DICICCO COUNCILMAN JUAN RAMOS 9 06/10/04 - WHOLE, FINANCE - MEETING
Madam President, now that we are in our stated meeting part of this session, will you then entertain the amendment?
Madam Chair, I move that Bill No. 040501 be amended. It IS my understanding that all Members have received a copy of the amendment.
Madam President, is the amendment part of the June 1 letter?
There's two bills. The block grant is on 040501. That looks like this. That's being amended now with rules suspension.
I move for the adoption of the amendment. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and seconded that Bill No. 040501, as 10 06/10/04 - WHOLE, FINANCE - MEETING amended, be reported out of Committee with favorable recommendation and a recommendation for suspension of the Rules so as to permit first reading at our next SESSION of Council. All in favor. (Aye.)
The ayes have it. So that completes the CDBG portion of our bill. (Council adjourned at 4:40 p.m.) - - - - 11 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, June 10, 2004, were reported fully and accurately by me, and that this is a correct transcript of the same. RE: COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE AND FINANCE _________________________ Lisa C. Bradley, RPR