COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FISCAL STABILITY AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION - - - Room 400, City Hall Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wednesday, March 14, 2001 2:05 p.m. - - - RES 010024 - Providing for the approval by the Council of the City of Philadelphia of a revised five-year financial plan for the City of Philadelphia covering Fiscal Years 2002 through 2006 and incorporating proposed changes with respect to Fiscal Year 2001, which is to be submitted by the Mayor to the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority pursuant to the Intergovernmental Cooperation Agreement authorized by an ordinance of this Council approved by the Mayor on January 3, 1992 (Bill No. 1563-A) by and between the City and the Authority PRESENT: COUNCIL PRESIDENT ANNA C. VERNA, Chair COUNCILWOMAN JANNIE BLACKWELL, Vice Chair COUNCILWOMAN BLONDELL REYNOLDS BROWN COUNCILMAN DARRELL L. CLARKE COUNCILMAN FRANK J. DICICCO COUNCILMAN W. WILSON GOODE, JR. COUNCILMAN JAMES F. KENNEY COUNCILWOMAN JOAN L. KRAJEWSKI COUNCILWOMAN DONNA REED MILLER COUNCILMAN MICHAEL A. NUTTER COUNCILMAN FRANK RIZZO COUNCILWOMAN MARIAN B. TASCO - - - VINCENT VARALLO ASSOCIATES, INC. Registered Professional Reporters Eleven Penn Center 1835 Market Street, Suite 600 Philadelphia, PA 19103 (215) 561-2220 2 3/14/01 - COMM OF FISCAL STABILITY - RES. 010024
Would everybody please remain? Jim, I need you for this one. We are now going to consider the Committee on Fiscal Stability and Intergovernmental Cooperation regarding Resolution 010024. Mr. Dubow, do you have to be recognized on this resolution?
But there are technical amendments, are there not?
Does anyone wish to be recognized on this issue? Seeing none, this will conclude our public hearing. We will now go into our public meeting, and the Chair recognizes Councilman Kenney Regarding Resolution No. 010024.
Madam Chair, I move that Resolution No. 010024 be approved. (Duly seconded.)
Do we have amendments? 3 3/14/01 - COMM OF FISCAL STABILITY - RES. 010024
No, just technical. It has been moved and seconded that Resolution No. 010024 be reported out of committee with a favorable recommendation. All in favor will signify by saying aye. MEMBERS: Aye.
The ayes have it, and the motion carries. Amen. Thank you all very much.
Thank you. Madam Chair, I did want to say in a public way --
I did want to say just for the record, this has been a pretty interesting budget season. There has been a lot of things back and forth. We have had some -- we spent a lot of time working on this, and just for the record, to clear up anything that happened during 4 3/14/01 - COMM OF FISCAL STABILITY - RES. 010024 the course of the budget season, there are some folks over in the budget bureau who don't necessarily understand the nature of the contact and exchange between myself and the budget director, but I would like to commend him for his performance and level of service during this particular budget season. I think Mr. Dubow has done a great job, but we also know as good as he may be, he doesn't do it all by himself, and there have been a couple of people I think who also deserve a fair amount of recognition. The only two that I think I know are Peggy VanBell and Sharon Kirschenbaum, who have the misfortune -- I'm sorry; who have the fortune of working with Mr. Dubow and trying to keep him straight, but they also work with our own Joan DePaul in terms of the questions -- I ask a couple questions from time to time -- and many others, and they actually get us responses in a timely fashion. I just wanted to say thank you.
And I think we would all echo those remarks. Mr. Dubow, you have been absolutely wonderful to work with and we certainly appreciate it. I think you have made our 5 3/14/01 - COMM OF FISCAL STABILITY - RES. 010024 lives a little easier. Thank you. (Applause.) (Adjourned at 2:15 p.m.) 6 CERTIFICATE I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing proceedings of the Select Committee on Fiscal Stability and Intergovernmental Cooperation of the Council of the City of Philadelphia of March 14, 2001, were reported fully and accurately by me, and that this is a correct transcript of same. ______________________________ Cynthia A. Whyte, RPR (The foregoing certification of this transcript does not apply to any reproduction of the same by any means, unless under the direct control and/or supervision of the certifying reporter.)