Aye. The ayes are 17; the nays are zero. A majority of all members present 2/28/13 - STATED - 2ND READING having voted in the affirmative, the bill passes. Mr. Decker, please read the title of 130007.
An ordinance to amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by the Philadelphia County Border, the Delaware Expressway, 86th Street, Bartram Avenue, 84th Street, Mario Lanza Boulevard, Island Avenue, Penrose Avenue, Delaware Expressway, the Schuylkill River and the Delaware River.
This bill having been read on two separate days, the question is shall the bill pass finally. Mr. Decker, call the roll, please.
Aye. The ayes are 17; the nays are zero. A majority of all members present having voted in the affirmative, the bill passes. Mr. Decker, 121040.
An ordinance 2/28/13 - STATED - 2ND READING amending Chapter 17-1300 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Philadelphia 21st Century Minimum Wage and Benefits Standard," by revising the definition of the employers required to comply with the minimum compensation standards established by this Chapter.
Thank you, Mr. President. I want to speak briefly on this bill just to clarify it for the record. We passed a minimum wage standard in 2005. That standard was set at 150 percent of the federal and state minimum wage. That standard was based upon the state's Job Creation Tax Credit program. That standard is also within our local Job Creation Tax Credit program. So we thought it was an appropriate wage level. Subsequently we have added that any employer that provides full-time 2/28/13 - STATED - 2ND READING benefits has to provide them to each employee. Subsequent we also passed a provision that says that those covered employees have to provide up to 56 hours of paid sick leave. We also actually introduced Charter change legislation that was approved by the voters that confirmed City Council's power to set wage and benefit standards for City contractors. The dispute that we have at the airport is that the Administration says that it does not extend to subcontractors. While clearly the original bill in 2005 did so, every subsequent version of it, including the version we will pass today, clearly says "and subcontractors thereof." So we will not resolve that legal debate today. What we will resolve with this bill, if we win the fight over the subcontractor issue, is the original legislation said that those recipients of leases, concessions, and franchises had 2/28/13 - STATED - 2ND READING to have a minimum threshold of 25 employees. We are striking that. So now those covered employers still have to have more than five employees and still have to have more than a million dollars of annual gross receipts, but that minimum 25 employee threshold is being struck today. So there's two battles that we are fighting. One we can win today by saying that more people should be covered by removing that minimum employee threshold of 25 employees, but, two, we still have the fight over extending this to subcontractors, which I believe is absolutely part of The Philadelphia Code and our powers are actually confirmed under the Charter, in my opinion. Thank you, Mr. President.
Councilman Oh, did you want to be 2/28/13 - STATED - 2ND READING recognized?
I did, Mr. President. But Councilman Goode answered in part the question that I had in his explanation of the process that he is undergoing. But I will say just in general that I do have my concerns, not about this particular issue that Councilman Goode has brought up, but in general as we look at the competitiveness of Philadelphia to create more jobs and better-paying jobs and as we try to improve our schools so people can get better work and we can get more employers into our city, we're looking at job losses. We are on the road to losing tens of thousands of jobs in this city, and according to the testimony that we just had at our hearing on workforce and workforce development, one of the victims of the jobs that we are losing are low-skill, low-wage jobs. We are losing 2/28/13 - STATED - 2ND READING low-skill, low-wage jobs. And everyone talks about high-skill, high-paying jobs, but we really do need low-skill, low-wage jobs. We can't lose those in a city where we have so many people that have dropped out of school, 200,000 residents who are low literate, in the category of low literacy, 300,000 of our residents who have been to prison. We are challenged to find jobs for people in this city that they can have at least to sustain themselves and pay for their bills and possibly move on to better things. I don't think the way to go continuously is try to turn low-wage, low-pay jobs into better and better pay jobs, because the result of which is you're going to lose more and more jobs that way. So I'm just kind of very concerned about this process, and certainly I think the solutions are to bring more jobs in, not try to create a higher paid job out of low-pay jobs. 2/28/13 - STATED - 2ND READING So having said that, my question was answered. Thank you.
Thank you, Councilman. The Chair again recognizes Councilman Goode.
Thank you, Mr. President. I thank Councilman Oh for his comments, but they are completely irrelevant to this piece of legislation. (Applause.)
First and foremost, I would note that we passed this law in 2005. There is no study of this particular law, and it's been included in other studies of living wage laws nationally that shows that what Councilman Oh says is true. So first and foremost, living wage laws work. And there is a concern always with job creation, but there's also a concern about job quality. What I said was, this original law was actually based upon a state Job 2/28/13 - STATED - 2ND READING Creation Tax Credit program, which became the same standard under our local Job Creation Tax Credit program, which says that we're not going to provide someone with a Job Creation Tax Credit unless they're providing a certain level of job quality. What we're saying here is that this law does not apply to every employer in the City of Philadelphia. It does not affect the business environment in general. It simply says that if we're going to provide taxpayer dollars to contractors, to franchises for leases, for concessions, we're not going to subsidize poverty wage jobs. (Applause.)
Thank you, Councilman. Mr. Decker, read the title of the bill again just for the record.
Bill No. 120140, entitled "An ordinance amending Chapter 17-1300 of The Philadelphia Code, 2/28/13 - STATED - 2ND READING entitled 'Philadelphia 21st Century Minimum Wage and Benefits Standard,' by revising the definition of the employers required to comply with the minimum compensation standards established by this Chapter.
Thank you. This bill having been read on two separate days, the question is shall the bill pass finally. Mr. Decker, please call the roll.
Aye. The ayes are 17; the nays are zero. (Applause.)
A majority of all members present having voted in the affirmative, the bill passes. (Applause.)
An ordinance amending Chapter 19-2600 of The 2/28/13 - STATED - 2ND READING Philadelphia Code, entitled "Business Income and Receipts Taxes," by revising the number of businesses that may obtain a credit against business income and receipts taxes upon contributing to certain community development corporations or nonprofit intermediaries engaged in neighborhood economic development activities within the City.
Thank you. This bill having been read on two separate days, the question is shall the bill pass finally. Mr. Decker, please call the roll.
Councilwoman 2/28/13 - STATED - 2ND READING Quinones-Sanchez.
Aye. The ayes are 17; the nays are zero. A majority of all members present having voted in the affirmative, the bill passes. Mr. Decker, do you have any additional resolutions?
A resolution honoring, recognizing and commending the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia on its 40th anniversary for its efforts 2/28/13 - STATED - 2ND READING to promote bicycling, transportation infrastructure, and healthy lifestyles, introduced by Councilman Johnson.
Thank you. The Chair recognizes Councilman Johnson for a motion.
I make a -- I move for the adoption of the resolution. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and properly seconded. All those in favor? (Aye.)
And a resolution celebrating 10 years of United Way's Women's Initiative by recognizing women 2/28/13 - STATED - 2ND READING leaders in philanthropy and volunteerism, introduced by Councilwoman Brown.
The Chair recognizes Councilwoman Brown for a motion.
Thank you, Mr. President. I move for the adoption. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and properly seconded. All those in favor? (Aye.)
The ayes have it. That resolution is also adopted.
And a resolution honoring and recognizing the Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters for their commitment to the Philadelphia civil rights movement and dedication to preserving the memory and legacy of one 2/28/13 - STATED - 2ND READING of Philadelphia's most notable civil rights activists, Cecil B. Moore, introduced by Councilman Jones for Council President Clarke.
Thank you, Mr. President. I move for the adoption. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and properly seconded. All those in favor? (Aye.)
There are no other resolutions on the Final Passage Calendar, Mr. President.
Thank you so very much. none, at this time are there any speeches on the part of the minority? The Chair recognizes Councilman O'Brien.
Thank you, Mr. President. I often reflect on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, and I was reflecting the other night on the capacity and abilities of one Benjamin Rush. As we all are aware of the possible going over the cliff and the obvious gridlock and the statements of what we're against rather than what we're for, there was a period of time when John Adams and Thomas Jefferson didn't talk. There was a period of about eight years. And Benjamin Rush was the facilitator that got that conversation going again, and perhaps Washington could use the wonderful talents of Benjamin Rush in these days. But the other night -- and I'm of this -Council's Got Talent came together around something that we all could support, and that's the significant issue. And we all did so, risking great vulnerability, but I did express that night that I believe in pathological optimism, and I would like to read today a source of that inspiration for pathological optimism, in addition to Jannie from Cheyney. I had the occasion to meet one Edgar Cahn, who helped write the speech that Robert F. Kennedy gave in South Africa. And I viewed the video, and I carried the speech with me on numerous occasions when I'm looking for courage, determination, and perhaps some intellectual empowerment. And I view the video because it was a very special day when Ted Kennedy was able to eulogize his brother using his brother's own words. So with your permission, Mr. President, in the expression of pathological optimism, I'd like to read a timeless speech, one that was articulated with great passion on two occasions, and I would like us all just to listen to these words. That is what Robert Kennedy was given. What he leaves to us is what he said, what he did, and what he stood for. A speech he made to the young people of South Africa on their day of affirmation in 1966 sums it up best, and I would like to read it now. There is discrimination in this world and slavery and slaughter and starvation. Governments repress their people. Millions are trapped in poverty while the nation grows rich and wealth is lavished on armaments everywhere. There are differing evils, but they are the common works of man. They reflect the imperfection of human justice, the inadequacy of human compassion, our lack of sensibility towards the suffering of our fellows. But we can perhaps remember, a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life, that they seek as we do, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can. Surely this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal can begin to teach us something. Surely we can learn at least to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become, in our own hearts, brothers and countrymen once again. The answer is to rely on youth. Not a time of life, but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of these. The cruelties and obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not dogmas and outworn slogans. They cannot be moved by those who cling to a present that is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger that come with even the most peaceful progress. It is a revolutionary world we live in, and this generation at home and around the world has had thrust upon it a greater burden of responsibility than any generation that has ever lived. Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills.
Yet many of the world's great movements of thought and action have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, a young woman reclaimed the territory of France, and it was a young Italian explorer who discovered the new world, and the 32-year-old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. These men moved the world, and so can we all. Few have the greatness to bend history itself, but all of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their a rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. And I believe that in this generation, those with the courage to enter the moral conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the globe. For the fortunate among us, there is the temptation to follow the easy and familiar paths of personal ambition and financial success, so grandly spread before those who enjoy the privilege of education. But that is not the road history has marked out for us. Like it or not, we live in times of danger and in uncertainty, but they are also more open to the creative energy of men than any other time in history. All of us will ultimately be judged as the years pass. We will surely effort we have contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which our ideals and goals have shaped that event. The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic towards common problems and their fellow men alike, timid and fearful in the face of new ideas and bold projects. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals and great enterprises of American society. Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history but the work of our own hands, matched to the reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it we can live. That is the way he lived. That is what he leaves us. My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that he was to us what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. And he said many times to many parts of this nation, to those who he touched and who sought to touch him, some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.
Thank you, Councilman. The Chair recognizes Councilwoman Blackwell -- I'm sorry. Before I do that, there are no other of the minority. Any speeches on the part of the majority? The Chair now recognizes Councilwoman Blackwell.
Thank you, Mr. President. Unfortunately I rise today because we had certainly another shooting in the Cobbs Creek area, and the gentleman who was killed was part of all the programs we share at Malcolm X Park, the Friends of Malcolm X Park. He was part of the Gold Coast Buccaneers, which is an organization that supports and helps young people. They're always involved in clean-ups. They always have a positive attitude to do what they can to improve their quality of life and the quality of life for all in the area. And certainly tonight we will join the people in the neighborhood for a vigil at 6:00 p.m. in the 200 block of South Millick Street. And certainly we pray that days like this will end so that we don't have talk about another loss of great human life in our city. So we say God bless his family, and that we will do all we can to support them. Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you, Councilwoman. The Chair recognizes Councilman Johnson.
Thank you, Mr. President. One announcement on a sad note. I just wanted to acknowledge the passing of a community leader in the cultural arts community but, more importantly, a community leader of Point Breeze, a gentleman by the name of Al Brown. He's the CEO and founder of the Point Breeze Performing Arts Center. Passed away last evening. This is a gentleman, with his wife, who created a very dynamic cultural performing arts program in the heart of South Philadelphia, have mentored young people, City of Philadelphia, the State of Pennsylvania, the United States, and even out the country teaching young people about the importance of education through the cultural arts. And so I just wanted to acknowledge with sadness his passing, and his family will be in prayer through this difficult time. Mr. President and colleagues, throughout this week, my office has been receiving numerous calls from constituents about AVI. An alarmingly high number of these constituents have received assessments which seem widely inaccurate. I toured a block in the Graduate Hospital section with a resident who showed me some of the inconsistencies on his block. He showed me three-story -- he showed me three-story houses with similar square footages on his block with wide variations in was assessed at $286,000, despite the fact that it is currently listed for sale at $625,000, double the assessed value. Another property, one house away with almost identical dimensions, is assessed at $314,000, despite the fact that it was sold in 2012 for $485,000. Let's look at another house less than two blocks away, where an 860 square foot two-story, non-rehabbed house is assessed at $455,000. According to the OPA, this tiny two-story house is worth more than a huge 2,500 square foot three-story house currently assessed at $280,000, but is listed on the market for $625,000. And although I have a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Government Administration and Public Finance, I'm not an expert property appraiser, but something about this process seems fairly inaccurate. I have been receiving these week. And so I am calling on the Administration to explain why we are seeing these disparities. We need more information about how these assessors went about valuing their properties throughout the City so that we can determine whether these new assessments are accurate. The Administration needs to also provide personnel to go out into the community and provide residents with the information they need to be confident that this is a fair, accurate -- and I've received numerous, numerous e-mails questioning the transparency of the process. My staff will be formulating an AVI Response Team to work with constituents throughout the 2nd Councilmanic District, and we'll be reaching out to accounting students from Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania to make sure that all the constituents who are available to receive exemption, they apply for it, to make sure that all our senior citizens apply for the senior citizens tax freeze application, as well as those who believe that their assessments may be inaccurate, apply for the first-level review and appeal application. This is an issue that we will continue to aggressively address as we go throughout this process in addressing AVI and making sure that the process is fair and accurate. Thank you very much, Mr. President.
Thank you, Councilman. The Chair recognizes Councilman Squilla.
Thank you, Mr. President. Continuing my colleague Councilman Johnson about AVI, the University of Pennsylvania economist Kevin Gillen said that mistakes happen. However, you argue that the perfect envy of the good. He says that AVI should be thought of as a process, not a product. There will be continued revisions that make improvements to the data going forward. So looking at that statement, if AVI is a process, then the implementation of it should be a process. This is the reason why I decided today to introduce a phase-in approach. When speaking to OPA, they tell us that most of the appeals they're getting obviously are on parcels that are overassessed, and, therefore, they will be concentrating on all the overassessed parcels this year. But then they informed us that next year they would then look at all the properties that are under-assessed or lower taxed to maybe raise them to what the assessments should be. So since this is going to be an ongoing process for years to come, I do believe that the most fair way to do this, if this is going to be the approach that Council takes to move forward with AVI, is that we should implement this over a time period to make sure that the people who are going to be dramatically affected by some of the mistakes and overassessments or under-assessments will not have to pay in one year what the City has done -- has not done in the previous ten years. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Councilman. The Chair recognizes Councilman Jones.
Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you for your indulgence of acknowledging Ms. Madeline Dunn today, who is 80 years young. And she's going off into the sunset, hopefully to enjoy her senior years, spending time with her grand-kids, maybe even taking up golf, and hopefully she's still going to be the great cook I've But did you know that one in 20 of her peers, elderly, are victims of some type of abuse? And did you know that there were 2,800 cases in 2012 of that type of abuse and many of them performed by the very people that are supposed to be their caretakers? And did you know that as chronicled by Councilwoman Tasco, that they are victims of predatory lending at an alarming rate. They have more recently been victimized by people portraying public utility workers, gas workers, water workers, and they are gaining access to their homes and victimizing them; that there are more peer-related elderly abuse cases by relatives that are in some cases holding our seniors hostage in their own homes for things like Social Security checks and other types of benefits that they are entitled to at this point in their life. So we're encouraged when we Attorney is putting together an Elder Justice Project. Just like we take care of our tender-aged youth, we should take care of those in the fourth quarter of their life, still viable, still important to us. We are introducing that bill today to look at the Philadelphia Corporation for the Aging to add law enforcement to their Board, and the reason that is, Mr. President, is because PCA is often the first respondent, the first person to be able to visualize what's going on in a home, when people aren't being cared for, when people are being taken advantage of, that we as a society are supposed to protect. So as we go forth into our senior years, I see us having senior moments more often, that as they are, we will some day be, and we need to prepare a way for all of us. Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you, Councilman. The Chair recognizes Councilwoman Tasco.
Are all the speeches over? Anybody else to speak? Is there anyone else to speak?
I don't want to bring comedy into a serious discussion; that's why.
I'd just like to say thank you to our colleague Councilman Henon for putting on a grand production last week as the Council Got Talent. (Applause.)
The pain through to go through those acts was all worthwhile, because it was for a wonderful cause, Philabundance. And I just wanted to say to my colleague Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, Jannie from Cheyney, congratulations on your win. (Applause.)
I thought all of the performances by my colleagues were just creative and really wonderful. I mean, it showed that they do have some talent other than being in here every Thursday. But they did a great job. It was a wonderful event, a lot of fun, and I laughed a lot and I thought it was really great. So I just want to say thank you to the Councilman and his staff for a job well done on behalf of Philabundance. (Applause.)
Councilwoman, great minds think alike. That was actually my speech.
Actually, I would also like to thank the Deputy Event Coordinator, Courtney Voss, for the great work she did. Job well done. And thank all of you guys for really coming to the table and doing a great thing. I believe we raised, Councilman, a little more than $30,000 for Philabundance. I want to say that I really appreciate, along with all of the people, all the wonderful stuff you guys continue to do on a consistent basis. The downside of that is, we've gotten a number of calls requesting us to go on tour and raise money for a whole lot of people. So we might have to get an agent. But thank you very much. With that, that concludes the speeches on behalf of the minority and the majority, and I'd like to recognize Councilwoman Brown.
Thank you, to offer a friendly reminder to staff and guests to join us at 12 o'clock wherein we will celebrate for the first time on this last day of African American History Month a celebration of African American History Month. For 45 minutes we'll have song and screenings and, unfortunately, no dance craze movement this year. But we invite all to attend, and your ticket to the Soul Food Lunch is attendance at the performances an hour before. Mr. President, I move that Council stand adjourned until Thursday, March 7th, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and properly seconded. All those in favor? (Aye.)
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