Aye. The ayes are 15, the nays are 0. A majority of all Members having voted in the affirmative, the bill passes. The next bill to be called for consideration is Bill No. 040467. THE
An ordinance to amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Rittenhouse Street, Pulaski Avenue, Chelten Street.
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. THE
Aye. The ayes are 15, the nays are 0. A majority of all Members having voted in the affirmative, this bill passes. The last bill to be called for 040873. THE
An ordinance authorizing the extension of the term of the Center City District pursuant to the provisions of the Municipality Authorities Act under 2025 approving the plan estimated cost and proposed method of assessment and charges of the Center City District for and concerning business improvements and administrative services to the Central Business District of the City of Philadelphia for 2005-2009 and approving the estimated cost for debt service through 2025, 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. THE
Aye. The ayes are 15, the nays are 0. A majority of all Members having voted in the affirmative, this bill passes. That concludes our Calendar for today. Are there speeches on the part of the minority? (No response.)
Are there speeches on the part of the Majority? The Chair recognizes Councilman Cohen.
Thank you, Madam President. I think Philadelphia distinguished itself in an election that makes many respect to the results. But in the United States, a great thing is that elections generally speak to who's going to be offensive team and who will be on the defensive. Elections don't decide basic moral questions. The morality of people whose religious views are strong in their opinion is unquestioned. But the question of morality has never been settled with respect to whether it's immoral to pay workers less than a living wage. Many of us feel it is immoral. Many of us feel it's wrong to deny people their full rights. And we think that is as much a question of morality as any question would because it deals with the values of human life. But in any event, most of us in Philadelphia, which did itself really proud in the election, we have nothing in Philadelphia to unhappy about because I think we led the nation in support for the moralities that we think are most important, the rights of working people, the rights of the poor, the rights of women, the rights of immigrants, the people, in other words. We're going to playing defense rather than offense. I think would rather be on an offensive team, but that decision was made by all the people in the United States and it's not to be. But it is clear we have an important job to do, and that is to continue to fight for the things that we think are important and that make United States a great country. But once more, to Philadelphia Democratic Party, I think we showed we have the best democratic party in the nation, and we showed it by the amount of support that Philadelphians gave the democratic ticket here in Philadelphia. Thank you very much.
You're welcome, Councilman Cohen. The Chair recognizes Councilwoman Blackwell.
Thank you, Madam President. I concur with the comments of my colleague. I have never been so pleased as to be on the loud speaker election night and to Danny Glover and to have the whole hip hop team and ministers and other performers as well as elected officials from around the country. And I will say I don't know where these figures come from that nothing changed from 2000 in terms of young people being involved and others. We felt it. We felt the activities industry. We knew that people were motivated. And I've been around long enough to know the real thing when I see it. So I don't know where those figures came from. I don't know if we'll ever know what the real deal was. But we who are here are proud of the effort that occurred. We're proud of the job we did. And all we can do is continue to say, we did the right thing and we did our part and hope that one day the truth comes out. Thank you. (Applause.)
Thank you. And I would concur with you in that I have never seen so many young people become politically involved. I don't ever remember seeing that before. the Chair recognizes Councilman Goode.
Thank you, Madam President. I wanted to echo the sentiments of my other two colleagues and say that Tuesday was actually a very historic day in terms of voter participation. On next Tuesday, and be actually asking citizens to continue that participation. My office, along with the Free Library of Philadelphia will be conducting a seminar entitled "By Request Citizen Participation and Legislative Process." We will do a review City Council's history, how it's currently organized, how laws are made and people will learn interesting tidbits of information like before the 1919 Charter there were actually 139 members of City Council. So for those people who would like to register, they can call my office at (215) 686-3414.
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 18 at 10:00 a.m. (Duly seconded.) THE
It has been moved and properly seconded that Council stand adjourned until Thursday, November 18th. All in favor will say aye. (Aye.)
Council will be adjourned until Thursday, November 18th. Thank you. (Council adjourned at 11:08 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 Thursday, November 4, 2004, were reported fully and accurately by me, and that this is a correct transcript of the same. RE: STATED MEETING _________________________ Lisa C. Bradley, RPR