Aye. The ayes are 16, the nays are 0. A majority of all Members of Council having voted in the affirmative, this bill passes. The next bill to be can called for consideration is Bill No. 000656.
An ordinance amending Title 22 of the Philadelphia Code entitled "Public Employees Retirement Code," by adding new provisions to restrict the ability of civilian members of Plan J and Plan Y to transfer to Fire Plans A or X and retire immediately, all under certain terms and conditions.
This bill having 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 16, the nays are 0. A majority of all Members of Council having voted in the affirmative, the bill passes. That concludes the Calendar. Are there any speeches on part of the minority? Are there any speeches on the part of the majority? The Chair recognizes Councilman Goode.
Thank you, Madam President. Without referring to any specific pieces of pending legislation, I want to speak very briefly this morning on the issues of integrity and credibility and how people, particularly in the Media, can associate you with things that you have nothing to do with. On the issue influence from lobbying, I can tell people that we all filed campaign expense reports very recently, financial reports. If people were to actually check my report, they will find I have $1,000 in my political bank account which is more proof than anything else that I am not SPEECHES influenced by lobbyists. Beyond that, on in the issue of credibility, there are very few legislatures that can say they spent every single day of their legislative career trying to bring capital credit and financial services to low-income and minority communities. I've produced four public policy papers on that issue. Again, not covered very much by the media. But when it comes time for people to act as if there are fights and people on sides of issues, the media does what they do as a matter of their business. There is pending legislation in this Council, a number of different bills that require careful consideration, require a lot of work. I'm up to this challenge with integrity and credibility, I think, in hand. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Are there any other speeches on the part of the majority. There being none the Chair recognizes Councilwoman Tasco for a motion to adjourn.
Madam President, I move that Council stand adjourned until Thursday, ADJOURNMENT February 15th, at 10:00 a.m.
All in favor of the motion will signify by saying aye. (Aye.)
The ayes have it, and Council stands adjourned until Thursday, February 15, 2001 at 10:00 a.m. Thank you. (Council adjourned at 10:45 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 February 8, 2001, 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