Aye. The ayes are 17; the nays are zero. A majority of all members having voted in the affirmative, the bill passes. Does the Clerk have any additional resolutions to be considered?
There are no resolutions for consideration on the Calendar, Madam President.
Thank you. That concludes our Calendar for today. Are there speeches on the part of the minority? (No response.)
Are there -- the Chair recognizes Councilman Kelly.
Thank you, Madam President. I'm proud to announce that Philadelphia saved a life yesterday. By now some of you might have heard the news regarding a 72-year-old West Philadelphia woman who suffers from a congenital disorder and wandered from her home yesterday. Thanks to a new technology recently implemented by the City of Philadelphia called SafetyNet, the woman was safely recovered within an hour by the Philadelphia Police Department. Before this program, it could have taken days, even weeks for police to try and locate a person stricken with Alzheimer's, dementia or autism who wandered off. Having saved one life makes all the work bringing this technology to Philadelphia worthwhile. I want to recognize and thank the Philadelphia Police Department for their forward-thinking and support in bringing SafetyNet to Philadelphia. I just want to remind my colleagues and all Philadelphians that if you have a loved one who suffers from Alzheimer's, dementia or autism, we do have technology available in the City of Philadelphia that could save their life, and I encourage you to take advantage of it. For more information, residents can visit the LoJack website and follow the links to SafetyNet or to call my office and speak to my Chief of Staff, John Cerrone. Thank you, Madam President.
Thank you. Councilwoman Miller, you want to be recognized?
I wanted to just state that I'd like to be recorded as voting aye on those when I was out of the Chambers.
The record will so reflect that. The Chair recognizes Councilman Jones.
Thank you, Madam President. Just briefly, I'd like you and my colleagues to join Councilwoman Blackwell and myself at the Save Our Homes rally, northeast corner of City Hall, directly following this session, and hope you'll be able to join us.
Thank you, Madam President. We've been reading recent articles by the Inquirer speaking to the poverty and concentrated poverty in the 1st Congressional District, and I have worked hard prior to my election and definitely through my election to ensure that people who are eligible for funding, whether federal funding or subsidies, obtain them, and for that reason, I was happy to hear that yesterday Governor Corbett extended the deadline of LIHEAP from the original date of March 31st to April 15th, and I want to encourage folks, my Council colleagues and others, to encourage their constituents to enroll in this valuable program, especially on a day like today where there were snowflakes. It was a tough winter and we want to make sure that Philadelphians who are eligible for this program enroll and have an opportunity to enroll. Up to now, 384,000 households in Pennsylvania have enrolled and receive some sort of want to thank our partners, PECO, the Utilities Emergency Fund and others, who have worked with our office in our drive. We've conducted over 12 drives throughout my district enrolling hundreds of people in this valuable program. So please let your constituents know they have until April 15th to enroll and obtain subsidy through the LIHEAP program. Thank you.
Thank you. The Chair recognizes Councilwoman Brown.
Thank you, Madam President. One friendly reminder and very brief remarks. I'd like to remind my colleagues to please join Big Brothers and Big Sisters immediately following this session with their annual update and year, Big Brothers and Big Sisters served 2,600 children, and there still remain 1,500 children on the waiting list looking for big brothers, big sisters and mentors. Lastly, as we close the national formal celebration of Women's History Month, the still prevailing question is, why should we. In a recent report released by the Obama Administration, it is a fact that the earnings gap between men and women, though it has narrowed, this report says that still women only make 75 percent on the dollar of our male counterparts. Further, this report indicated that while women have caught up with men in college attendance, the fact remains that our -this is not translated to that gain in our pocketbooks. So I submit that we must continue to claim this month, not as a statement of history but as an opportunity to remind the nation and the remains a human imperative. In other words, we just don't want pay equity for women, but we want pay equity for families, for our city and for this nation, because I firmly believe that when women thrive, families thrive, and when families thrive, cities thrive. When women aren't paid well, families aren't well cared for. When women are kicked to the curb economically, children suffer and we experience consequences. Fair treatment of women is an investment in the growth, development and success of our city, and while women's leadership is not as rare as it was a generation ago, women represent less than one percent of the Fortune 500 leaders. We're not nearly -- we're absent in the civil rights leadership, and 20 percent of our elected national leadership is women. Pennsylvania, we know, gets a D when it comes to women in leadership, behind Alabama and Mississippi, and so that we still have a ways to go. We want to thank the Obama Administration for this first comprehensive report at women's status in American society, with the last report being done 50 years ago under the leadership of John F. Kennedy. Thank you, Madam President.
Thank you. The Chair recognizes Councilman Clarke for a motion to adjourn.
Thank you, Madam President. I move that Council stand adjourned until Thursday, March 31st, 10:00 a.m. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and seconded that Council stand adjourned until Thursday, March 31st at 10:00 a.m. All in favor will say aye. (Aye.)
The ayes have it. The motion carries. Thank you. (Stated Meeting adjourned at 12:10 p.m.) CERTIFICATE I HEREBY CERTIFY that the proceedings, evidence and objections are contained fully and accurately in the stenographic notes taken by me upon the foregoing matter on March 24, 2011, and that this is a true and correct transcript of same. MICHELE L. MURPHY RPR-Notary Public (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.)