Aye. SECOND READING AND FINAL PASSAGE CALENDAR The ayes are 17, the nays are 0. A majority of all Members having voted in the affirmative, the bill passes. The Clerk will please read title of 000589.
An ordinance amending Section 1(b) of an ordinance, Bill No. 000374, approved August 11, 2000, entitled "An ordinance authorizing the revisions of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 121."
This bill having been read on two different days, the question now is shall the bill pass finally. The Clerk will please call the roll.
Aye. SECOND READING AND FINAL PASSAGE CALENDAR The ayes are 17, the nays are 0. A majority of all Members of Council having voted in the affirmative, this bill passes. The Clerk will please read the title of Bill No. 000604.
An ordinance authorizing the construction of water mains and appurtenant work in a right-of-way partially in and along portions of a private street known as Paleski Road.
This bill having been read on two different days, the question now is shall the bill pass finally. The Clerk will please call the roll.
Aye. The ayes are 17, the nays are 0. A SECOND READING AND FINAL PASSAGE CALENDAR majority of all Members of Council having voted in the affirmative, this bill passes. The next bill to be called for consideration is Bill No. 000605.
An ordinance authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to select and appropriate a certain right-of-way through 8480 Hagy's Mill Road, all under certain terms and conditions.
This bill having been read on two different days, the question now is shall the bill pass finally? The Clerk will please call the roll.
Aye. The ayes are 17, the nays are 0. A SECOND READING AND FINAL PASSAGE CALENDAR majority of all Members having voted in the affirmative, this bill passes. Final bill to be called for consideration is Bill No. 000606.
An ordinance to authorize the Water Commissioner on behalf of the City to enter into agreements with the owners of the properties and their successors of an L shaped private street known as Paleski Road, all under certain terms and conditions.
This bill having been read on two different days, the question now is shall the bill pass finally? The Clerk will please call the roll.
Aye. SPEECHES The ayes are 17, the nays are 0. A majority of all Members of Council having voted in the affirmative, this bill also passes. This concludes our calendar for today. Are there any speeches on the part of the minority? The Chair recognizes Councilman Rizzo.
Thank you, Madam President, I'd like to talk about the bill that I introduced today in reference to grid lock and red light violations.
My bill was intended to make our City a safer and more efficient -
The rules prohibit discussion of special order of business of any businesses before the City Council. Having introduced your bill, that is now business before the City Council and cannot be discussed by a member of Council in the special order.
I was advised that I could speak on it during the discussion period. SPEECHES
Thank you. Are there any other speeches on part of the minority? The Chair recognizes Councilman Cohen.
Madam President, thank you. The newspapers and other media have been lauding Mayor Street on the results of the teachers' contract noting that his hard-guy tactics produced results. It's strange indeed because just the absolute reverse happens to be true. The Mayor erupted on two occasions. He spent months in what seemed to be collective bargaining, or from the union's point of view it was stalling, but we're not sure which it was. But there was considerable progress made from January to August. Then suddenly the Mayor announced that he was opposing terms and conditions and that created a disruption for a number of days, maybe 10 days to 2 weeks, and then at the very end, that very recent SPEECHES television performance of last Friday which the Mayor said there were five issues left, I've conceded four of them to the union, but the fifth one, the last 15 minutes, we've got to get 45 minutes, not 30 minutes, from the teachers; the result was 30 minutes. So apparently, all five points were decided in favor of the position of the teachers' representatives. I think it just shows that in Philadelphia we're a strong labor town. We favor sound collective bargaining. We favor good-faith bargaining. We don't like people to get tough and begin denying other people their rights or to begin threatening others during the bargaining process. The results show that had the contract been decided before the first eruption by the Mayor, it could have been identical to the contract that was finally arrived at. So it proved that tough talk threats don't work in Philadelphia when those threats are aimed at the labor movement. So I wonder why did the media laud the Mayor so greatly. Well, then I remembered the Detroit strike. Mike Ritter owns the papers in Detroit, the free press. For a year and a half they ADJOURNMENT were out on strike because Mike Ritter was playing very tough. They didn't want to bargain in good faith. Then wisdom came to me. I saw the light and now I understand why the media thinks that the Mayor's tough tactics produced results when in fact the opposite is totally true. Thank you, Madam President.
Thank you. Are there any other speeches on the part of the majority? (No response.)
Seeing none, the Chair recognizes Councilwoman Tasco for a motion.
Madam President, I move that Council stand adjourned until Thursday, November 16th, at 10:00 a.m.
It has been moved and seconded that Council stand adjourned until Thursday, November 16, 2000. All in favor will signify by saying aye. ADJOURNMENT (Aye.)
The ayes have it. Council stands adjourned until Thursday, November 16th at 10:00 a.m. Thank you. (Council adjourned at 11:55 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 November 2, 2000, were reported fully and accurately by me, and that this is a correct transcript of the same. RE: STATED MEETING ___________________________ Lisa C. Bradley, RPR and Notary Public