Thank you, Jerry. Good morning. Once again, I'm Mark Shoemaker. I'm a principal with Pelli Clark Pelli, and we have the privilege of working on this sensational project, and it's nice to see the 62 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. continuation of our work obviously as we initially started with Cira One. In dealing with a project of this size, the first step is always to bring clarity to what is a very complex project with a lot of complex issues and also to try to make the best urban decisions initially in terms of placement of the towers and, in this case, the garage as well and to do that in a simultaneous manner, in that the garage and the two towers are all seen as equal co-participants in the success of this design. And what you see here is the result of that analysis over the last two years, in which we felt strongly that the main towers should front Walnut and Chestnut Street directly, putting their narrow sides to 30th Street, which is the narrower of the three streets that we edge, and also in section putting the taller mixed-use tower on Walnut Street. So that the landmark structure is actually on that intersection with Walnut 63 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. and Schuylkill Avenue, and also allows us to step down the massing, as you can see here, down to the massing of both the 30th Street Station and the Post Office, creating what we think is a much more comfortable relationship with these historical buildings and also supplying the gateway landmark structure that is really necessary on Walnut Street, which we see as a mixed-use tower. Also, in plan, we have also taken some pains to shape the building to be very vehicular and pedestrian friendly. The curves you see are as a result of that analysis, starting with what is the south face of the garage and also the two curve sides of the main building on Walnut Street, which will facilitate movement around the block. It also helps to shape and provide a proper space for Cira Place that Jerry mentioned, which is the public space that has been achieved by that clarity that I mentioned first and foremost, which is to 64 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. allow both towers to reach the ground and really isolate the garage in the center, thus allowing that to be very efficient and compact that has allowed us to produce the public space that is Cira Place. Now, the overall architecture of the project is obviously somewhat of an echo of Cira One, but is purposely meant to be an evolution of that. It is a different project with a different program, and as you can see, especially on the Walnut Street tower now, which is the most progressed design at this juncture, it is dramatically different than Cira. It is still trying to create a very dramatic tower and one that soars and actually enlivens the skyline of this part of West Philadelphia and really anchors the overall skyline, but is dramatically different. And it does display the split in the mixed use. The step you see here is where the office building steps back and 65 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. becomes the hotel residential. There is a terrace that is part of the hotel function at that juncture. And the actual cladding of this tower will be somewhat different than Cira One, in that it will have more metal, more different types of glass, much more texture to it. It will have sunshades, and you can start to see the hint of that in this rendering here. So a much more articulated tower responsive to its position relative to its plan, but also to the function that it has. Equally important is the garage itself, and the intent from day one has been to clad that garage much like any other building in a complex. We did not want this to look like the traditional garage. This is a 2,400-car garage. There are 11 floors above and three below to make that happen.
If you have to provide parking for four to five thousand IRS employees -- that's the 66 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. total number of parking spaces, 2,400?
What about the occupants, the hotel, the other employees?
Well, the IRS component is 1,200 to 1,600 of that 2,400. The balance of those parking spaces will be allotted to the other functions of the project.
In size in the garage, we looked at the base requirement for the Internal Revenue Service, which, as Mr. Shoemaker mentioned, is anywhere from 1,200 to 1,600, and they do run flex hours and run at least two and possibly three shifts. And as we looked at size in the overall garage, we felt that the additional 800 spaces would be enough to 67 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. facilitate the requirements of the other two towers. An interesting point of fact is that when we look at the employee population at Cira Centre One, which is a little bit more than 2,000 employees, over 85 percent of those employees use public transportation. Now, that is a 10 to 20 percent premium or increase over 11 what workers in traditional CBD buildings 12 use. 13 So one of our hopes obviously 14 is that as this area begins to expand, 15 that there will become an increasing reliance from the worker population and, frankly, the residential population on using the mass transportation systems that are available there. So one of the lessons we learned through the first building at Cira was, we had actually created a little more parking capacity than we needed based upon what we thought were traditional statistics, but people's 68 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. patterns changed based upon the availability of public transportation, and our hope, quite frankly -- and we're certainly investigating a lot of money on that hope -- is that people will start to use public transportation because of the accessibility at 30th Street Station.
Just one follow-up with that. Aren't there specific code requirements on the number of parking spaces vis-a-vis square footage? I mean, don't we have basic requirements on the number of spaces anyway?
For the record, Carl Primavera, attorney for Brandywine. There are, and we satisfy them. Interestingly enough, the world is somewhat going through a revolution. The Planning Commission and planners are inviting and requiring developers to provide less parking because of the demand for alternate means of transportation. 69 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. Here we have the best of both worlds. We satisfy the level of parking that the City has required, but at the same time, we're hoping that it won't be utilized because we're on the grid here with all the public transportation alternatives. So, again, we hope that when this is done, there will be excess parking so that not only the workers at the IRS, which will take over the Post Office space, but also the buildings will actually have available space for others in the Penn campus. It's an interesting situation. At the Planning Commission yesterday people were saying that the more spaces you build, the more cars you invite. You make it easier for people to take the car instead of using public transportation. So we think we have more than enough to satisfy our requirements, and we hope over time the actual demand will decrease due to public transportation 70 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. infrastructure.
And as part of your LEED certification efforts, will you set aside plug-in stations for alternative vehicles, electric vehicles? Because part of the LEED point system is the set-aside of plug-in vehicle stations in the parking lot.
Also, there was another -- I want to make sure it's accurately reflected in the record. We are in the KOIZ. This was part of the original one. To the extent that we have residential components, we will have it decertified through the Commerce Department. The Commerce Department is aware of this. We've done this in the 71 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. past with Westrum development and something recently for Canus development in Northern Liberties. So that, in effect, any residential component will be carved out of the KOIZ benefits. So we wanted to make sure that was accurately reflected. And then there was one more question that I think one of the Councilpeople on the Committee asked about our transportation analysis, and we do have our transportation engineers from Gannett Fleming and also from Pennoni and others. But, Jerry, can you talk a little bit about the work that's going in with all the players in this area to not only mitigate traffic problems but actually make this a much more healthy traffic flow?
I'd be happy to. I mean, clearly the 30th Street area is one that has been challenged from a traffic standpoint for a period of 72 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. time. When the Postal Service workers were there, they had close to 5,000 workers who were using the parking lot south of Walnut Street as their primary parking facility. As we started to undertake the planning for this project, we worked very closely in consultation with Drexel University, University of Pennsylvania, Super River Development Corporation to really take a look at the overall planning impact of what could happen in the future. We've also, as you heard testimony earlier, spent significant time hiring our own traffic consultants, both from an engineering and traffic flow standpoint, as well as working with City Streets Department and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. I think one of the driving forces behind the Sasaki master plan, which we're in the process of working through, is taking a look at how we can achieve better flow of traffic through 73 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. that area. That will clearly be a collaborative process between what we're doing, the other institutional property owners in that marketplace, as well as working with city and state and probably federal agencies on looking at a longer-term solution.
If I may, Madam President. I wanted to add that we spoke with the Water Commissioner on the new stormwater issue and what green space means, and Brandywine has already been there, so we're in compliance with those rules now and even with the new federal regulations that should come. As we say -- Sherman Harris is outside. We asked him for District Council 33 to agree, because we had to work out their temporary parking agreements. SEIU isn't here. That was, as you know, a tougher one, but we have an agreement there as well, and we worked with the Streets and worked out compromises. 74 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. So we've tried to anticipate any issues -- as well as the institutions. We met with Penn two days ago and toured Friday, and with Drexel, to make sure there's no overlap issues that could arise, because all of the -- when we talk about the three institutions and developments, some of it does overlap. So we've been working hard to make sure that all of this -- that everybody agrees, because it's such a major project and that everybody is working together. And, for example, I know everybody complains about the traffic lights. When you go around the back side of 30th Street, it's not working well. We all agreed with that, and that will be worked out. So we wanted to mention that we hope that the Committee can see to report these out. We think in all our major ways we've tried to comply with everybody who had an issue with regard to this 75 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. project. Thank you.
You're welcome. The Chair recognizes Councilman Kenney.
Thank you, Madam President. I may have to leave before the end of the hearing, but I want to make sure that the record is clear that I'll be supporting yes votes on all the bills, including a request for rules suspension. Will this center be a customer for PGW?
A customer for PGW. I recognize the design and construction issues relative to direct boilers in the building vis-a-vis steam 76 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. loop kind of operation, but we really need the customer base. And if there's any way you can help us expand that customer base within these beautiful and well-constructed and well-designed projects, it would really be helpful to us as a city and PGW as an entity. I mean, I recognize that you may pick up some additional square footage by not having a boiler room, additional costs for the installation and design of the boiler room, but over the long haul, I think you wind up saving money with natural gas. And this is going to be a long-haul project as far as its existence in Philadelphia for many, many years to come. But if you could really evaluate PGW, it would be a big help to us.
Councilman, we will do that. We're actually evaluating that right now. We just have not reached a final conclusion.
Thank you. Thanks. 77 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC.
Are there any other questions? The Chair recognizes Councilwoman Brown.
Thank you, President Verna. I wanted to follow up on Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller's question regarding IRS. In your deliberations with IRS, what was the yield? That they would be guaranteed X number of slots or you're going to rely on the fact that with the marketing of the need for -- not the need for, but the great accessibility for public transportation and hopefully the need to drive will diminish. I'm just curious to know. Because when parents have to change their lives in terms of transportation from one workplace to another workplace, transportation becomes a real factor and parking an even greater factor.
Agreed. One of the requirements of the IRS tenancy was 78 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. that they receive a base 1,200 parking spaces. They determined that based on their own internal assessment of their employee workforce and commuting patterns.
And one of the other points that Carl alluded to is, in thinking through the design elements for this project, one of the reasons for the hotel is that it's a good complementary parking use for the office building. So there tends to be higher levels of parking in the evening to facilitate restaurants, people coming in for the retail arcade and coming to the hotel for meetings usually in the evening versus 79 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. during the work hours. So hotel and office tend to have very good complementary uses in terms of parking.
Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you, Madam President.
You're welcome. The Chair recognizes Councilman Clarke.
Thank you, Madam President. You did say, Mr. Primavera, that this is in a KOIZ?
Yes. The original one -- and Jerry can address that. The original one that allowed for Cira One.
Let me get into the difficult questions now. You're talking about moving the Internal Revenue Service from the Northeast, and that's approximately how many jobs? 80 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC.
It's a range of, as we put in the brochure, between 4,700 and 5,000 jobs.
They would receive an abatement. If they meet one of two criteria, they would receive an abatement of certain City and primarily the corporate net income tax, the Commonwealth level, through December 31st of 2018.
So we're moving jobs from the Northeast that are currently paying all of those benefits to the City of Philadelphia?
No. See, the 81 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. IRS is its own world, and there are some representatives from the federal government here.
So I'll let Jerry go into more detail, but this is actually a home run. The IRS was going to leave the City, go to Bucks County or Montgomery County. So we're keeping them in the City --
And, in effect, we found a huge user in the KOIZ that doesn't take advantage of it because they're the federal government anyway. So they would otherwise be exempt. So, Jerry, can you go into that 82 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. in more detail?
Well, I think one of the good things about this project that we propose is both the Internal Revenue Service, who signed the lease for 860,000 square feet, and the University of Pennsylvania, who has signed the lease for a little more than a hundred thousand square feet, neither one of those organizations really realize any benefit from the KOIZ.
No. The benefits of the KOIZ really flow through to the entity level, not to the employee level.
And that was one of the reasons why Mr. Primavera had mentioned that.
So the KOZ had benefits to the employee wage tax; am I correct? 83 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC.
It's basically like partnerships. I think the criticism had been that partnerships, like law firms and accounting firms, would flow down at the partner level and they would realize benefit. But at what we would call W-2 employees, that's not --
Under the KOIZ legislation, individual employees pay the wage tax. So there's no abatement of the wage tax in the KOIZ, and that's one of the reasons why Mr. Primavera indicated that Brandywine is amenable and happy to do so, to carve out from the KOIZ any residential component.
But were there wage benefits in the KOZ, the original KOZ? 84 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC.
There were not, but I think there's -- and I'd have to defer to the attorneys in terms of there's a nuance relative to if you live in a KOIZ.
How is the residential portion of this carved out?
Well, in the smaller building closest to what will be the IRS, we would geographically carve that out by getting it decertified. I think that's the term of art. With the tall building, if we have Penn houses at the top or condos, that will be vertically carved out. So there are ways to do it, and we're not worried about that. We think this actually works, because, in effect, we're getting people who otherwise wouldn't be relocating in the City elsewhere, so they say, and we're also getting employers who aren't 85 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. paying the types of taxes that are abated anyway. The federal government is exempt --
So actually this is probably the least costly way to maximize the benefit of the KOIZ, and also we're getting tax credits from the federal government. I mean, there's a lot of subsidy that is not coming out of City coffers. There's historic tax credits through the federal government. So this is a pretty painless way to get close to a billion dollars of investment.
I think, Councilman, to add on to Mr. Primavera's comments, as we looked at Cira Centre One, which certainly had its birth out of some controversy --
Right. That's why I'm posing these questions. 86 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC.
Right. I mean, I think we're pleased to report, and have done so at the Commonwealth level, that there's about 2,000 people that work in Cira Centre One. Of those, 940 are new to the City and almost 800 are new to the state. So I think the longer-term prospect -- and we're certainly apt to provide the Council or the Committee afterward what the long-term benefits of that are, but as we look at the track record that we went through on Cira Centre One, it did serve to be a very valuable tool in attracting businesses from -- we brought a couple businesses up from Delaware, a number of businesses in from New Jersey by creating that incentive, through the removal of some of the City tax base, City tax obligations for a period of time.
And the likely tenants in the taller tower, do we have a sense of who they'll be? 87 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC.
We have not identified any tenants at this point. I mean, we certainly have programmed that tower for between 400,000 to 500,000 square feet of office, of which, again, as I mentioned, about 100,000 square feet is already leased to the University of Pennsylvania. We are embarking -- once we have these approvals in place, we'll embark on our marketing program as we did for Cira Centre One, and in that marketing campaign, we approached over 4,000 companies outside of the Philadelphia area to get people back into this zone. Our hope is -- and we're certainly investing a lot of time and energy and money to prove this thesis -- is that with the Cira Centre One building in operation, it having proven its validity in terms of accessibility along the northeast corridor, that we will in fact be able to continue our track record of bringing people into the City from outside the City. 88 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC.
You're welcome. The Chair recognizes Councilman O'Neill.
Thank you, Madam President. Mr. Primavera, with the Byberry project, which Brandywine --
-- was on the front of with Westrum, I believe you did the decertification process, and it is the same process?
Yes. Matter of fact, I'm glad you mentioned that. That was the Westrum project we were thinking about.
And, Mr. Sweeney, I know I mentioned Chicago and things I've read and talked to people 89 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. out there as they've evolved from worrying about height to worrying about the ground level, I really applaud you for not just your explanation but what you are explaining that you've been going through and the fact that you have the public space, you just have it on the north side rather than the south side, and I think it does make more sense there as you're creating a place at the ground level. Thank you.
So we in Council will have absolutely nothing to do with the carving out of the residential? I want the record to be very clear on that, please.
Yes. No, we understand that, that basically as we go through the decertification process, that will be through Commerce. It will come back, I believe, to the Council.
I don't 90 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. think we --
We didn't do it that way? It was strictly through Commerce? I know Vince Dougherty and Duane Bumb were involved in that.
I think because you do it voluntarily, we don't have to do it.
To give it up is easier than to get it. But we've worked with the Commerce Department on this, so we're all on the same page.
Thank you. And the stenographer will not be able to put all of the information in the booklet that was given to us in her notes, so for the record, you did explain that the total cost of this project will be approximately $800 million. How many new jobs will be created and how many permanent jobs will be created?
We actually on, Madam Chairwoman, on of the book, we actually did outline some -- 91 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC.
The stenographer doesn't have the book, so if you will, just --
Oh, I'm sorry. The construction jobs we anticipate will be between 3,700 and 4,400 jobs. And from a permanent standpoint, we anticipate that upon full build-out, including the employees of the Walnut Street tower and the employment by the hotel, we will have between 6,150 and 6,700 jobs that will be there on a permanent basis.
Is there an MBE/WBE proposal for this project? If so, can you tell us what are the goals?
I'd be happy to. Yes, there are. We worked very closely with Councilwoman Blackwell to make sure that we had an Economic Opportunity Plan that had set good goals and strong goals and certainly ones that we think we can execute on. 92 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. Again, for the record, we've identified some participation goals and ranges in the book, which we've outlined that the contracts for professional services will be percent minority 7 owned, eight percent female owned and two 8 percent disabled, and set employee ranges 9 for the project. We set a construction 10 workforce target at 50 percent. And 11 certainly as we've discussed with 12 Councilwoman Blackwell and with the other 13 agencies we've talked to, that's going to 14 require a fair amount of work to get 15 there, but that's certainly what we're 16 committed to do. We are specifying that 17 in all of our construction and 18 subcontractor contracts to meet that 19 goal. Twenty-five percent minority, five 20 percent female and two percent disabled. 21 And on the contractor side, 25 percent 22 minority owned, eight percent female and 23 two percent disabled. 24 So I think we're happy with 25 those standards and we put that in place 93 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. and it was introduced as part of the ordinance.
Thank you very much. The Chair recognizes Councilman Clarke.
Thank you, Madam President. I want to thank you for making that commitment as a part of the EOP plan. One question, with respect to the monitoring entity, are you going to hire an external organization to both identify and monitor those numbers?
We are. We're actually approached from two different standpoints. There will be a Project Oversight Committee that will consist of representatives of Brandywine, the Minority Business Enterprise Council and our District Councilperson or her representatives, and then we anticipate hiring a compliance monitoring firm that will actually ensure through job census 94 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. counts, job site walk-throughs that we're complying with the standards that we set.
I think we're -- I'm speaking just for myself, but I think just about every member of the Committee feels as I do. It's just a magnificent project. When this is passed, the bills are passed, when do you anticipate that you will be able to start work or construction on this and when do you anticipate the completion?
Madam Chairwoman, we actually do have in the book a development schedule. One of the first pieces of it, which did not require any zoning relief, is already under construction now, which is the vehicle maintenance facility for the U.S. Postal Service. That will be done in the third quarter of 2008. The IRS 30th Street Postal Office renovation, some of that 95 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. pre-demolition work is already underway now, and we anticipate that being delivered in the late second, early third quarter of 2010. The demolition of the annex site, we anticipate the exterior demolition starting later in November of this year in terms of site preparation for the garage and the two towers. We are anticipating that the parking garage, again, will actually start construction in the second quarter of 2008, with a delivery date concurrent with the delivery of the IRS facility at the Post Office building in the second, third quarter of 2010. We are proceeding on a path with the Walnut Street and the Chestnut Street tower. The Walnut Street tower, we anticipate starting that in early 2009, with a delivery in third quarter of 2011, and on the Chestnut Street tower, anticipate starting that mid year 2008, with a delivery, again, in the mid part 96 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. of 2011.
One of the interesting things is that -- again, as has been stated -- everything is on a platform. So the first thing we're going to do is reinforce the entire platform, which is a big job and that's why we're already under pressure to get it done, and then the garage component will be available when the rehab of the Post Office building is done, and then we'll go right into the other projects. So it will be a long-going project, and we did hear your comments about minimizing inconvenience and minimizing disruption, and we have a strong logistic plan on how to do that. So it's going to happen quickly and it's going to happen over a fairly long period of time.
Are there any other questions or comments from members of the Committee? (No response.) 97 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC.
Please approach the witness table. The Chair recognizes Councilman O'Neill.
Madam President, I apologize, but I have a very important meeting in my district, and I will just leave my vote as aye on all bills on the Calendar today and also on the rules suspensions that were requested.
How about that one bill where we were questioning about the title?
My 98 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. recommendation on that would be to report it out and then have a new bill 4 introduced to cover it as we go through, because it's really protecting the integrity of the bill, that we have to pull the permits.
And the permits would be able to be obtained. Thank you. Good morning. Is it morning?
Welcome. Please identify yourself for the record.
Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the Committee. My name is Lynn Fox and I am the Business Manager for the Philadelphia Joint Board of Unite Here. Unite Here represents over 9,000 members who live and work in the City of Philadelphia, primarily in the hospitality industry. We became interested in this project mostly because of the hotel piece 99 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. that's going to be part of the project, and I'm here today to tell you that I am very pleased and proud to report that we have reached agreement with Brandywine to ensure that when those jobs actually come into being, they will be good, living-wage jobs that this City can be proud of. I also have to tell you that I bring you greetings and support, along with us, for this project from Mr. Pat Gillespie and the Building Trades Council. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here this morning, but he did ask that I deliver that message to you. And I'm, of course, happy to do that. So we fully support this project. As far as we're concerned, the faster, the better, and it only means good things for the City and it's the beginning of a new era, I believe, of responsible development, and I thank you for your time.
Thank 100 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. you very much.
Madam President, I just wanted to let Ms. Fox know that I was very happy that she brought the greetings from Mr. Gillespie, because they're much more acceptable from you than from him. So thank you very much.
Do we have any other witness that would like to testify? (No response.)
Seeing no one, this will conclude our public hearing. We will now go into our public meeting, and the Chair recognizes 101 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. Councilman Clarke regarding Bill No. 3 070437.
Thank you, Madam President. Madam President, I make a motion that Bill No. 070437 be reported out of Committee with a favorable recommendation and a request for rules suspension as to allow reading at the next session of Council. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and seconded that Bill No. 14 070437 be reported out of Committee with a favorable recommendation; further, that the rules of Council be suspended so as to permit first reading at our next session of Council. All in favor will please say aye. (Aye.)
The 102 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. ayes have it and the motion carries. The Chair recognizes Councilman Clarke regarding Bill No. 070674.
Thank you, Madam President. I know we're in a public meeting, but I did have to ask one question with respect to the EOP plan. Is that going to be attached as an amendment?
I mean, under the law that was passed, it's required to be a part of the legislation.
Actually, we have the brochure with the numbers there, but the actual document I can get to you.
Do you want 103 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. to do it now as an amendment?
Yes. As an amendment to Bill No. 674 we would like to also add, in addition to what we agreed with with the Planning Commission, the actual EOP as worked out by Councilwoman Blackwell's office. We would like to submit right now the brochure that at indicated the actual goals, and as for the actual document, we can actually submit that prior to final passage.
Thank you. Madam President, therefore, I would like to -- we actually have two amendments to Bill 070674. Would you want to do one at a time?
I'd like to propose an approval of the amendment, the first amendment, to Bill 070674. (Duly seconded.)
It 104 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. has been moved and seconded that the amendment be adopted. All in favor will say aye. (Aye.)
Madam President, I would like to propose an approval to the second amendment to Bill 14 070674, which is the Equal Opportunity Plan. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and properly seconded that the amendment be adopted. All in favor will say aye. (Aye.)
The 105 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. ayes have it and the motion carries.
Madam President, I would like to move for the approval of Bill 070674 as amended and request a suspension of the rules to allow the reading at the next session of Council. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and seconded that Bill No. 12 070674 be reported out of Committee with a favorable recommendation as amended; further, that the rules of Council be suspended so as to permit first reading at our next session of Council. All in favor? (Aye.)
The motion has been carried. We will now consider Bill No. 25 070675. 106 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC.
Madam President, I move that Bill 070675 be reported out of Committee with a favorable recommendation and a request for rules suspension as to allow reading at the session of Council. (Duly seconded.)
Before voting on that, I would ask that the Streets Department have a new bill 12 prepared as soon as possible, refer it to Councilwoman Blackwell. We are passing this not to hold anything up, but I am telling you, we can never vote on this bill as is. So please make certain that the title is addressed, and we will expedite a public hearing on that not to delay anything. It has been moved that Bill No. 21 070675 be reported out of Committee with a favorable recommendation; further, that the rules of Council be suspended so as to permit first reading at our next session of Council. 107 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. All in favor will say aye. (Aye.)
The ayes have it. The motion carries. The Chair recognizes Councilman Clarke regarding Bill No. 070676.
Madam President, I move for the adoption of an amendment to Bill 070676. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and seconded that the amendment as proposed earlier be adopted. All in favor will please say aye. (Aye.)
The ayes have it and the motion carries. 108 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. Councilman Clarke.
I move that Bill 070676 as amended be reported out of Committee with a favorable recommendation and a request for rules suspension as to allow reading at the next session of Council. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and properly seconded that Bill No. 070676 be reported out of Committee with a favorable recommendation as amended; further, that the rules of Council be suspended so as to permit first reading at our next session of Council. All in favor will say aye. (Aye.)
The ayes have it and the motion carries. Again, the Chair recognizes 109 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. Councilman Clarke regarding Bill No. 3 070677.
Madam President, I move that 070677 be reported out of Committee with a favorable recommendation and a request for rules suspension as to allow reading at the next session of Council. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and seconded that Bill No. 13 070677 be reported out of Committee with a favorable recommendation; further, that the rules of Council be suspended so as to permit first reading at our next session of Council. All in favor will say aye. (Aye.)
The ayes have it and the motion carries. The Chair again recognizes 110 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. Councilman Clarke regarding Bill No. 3 070678.
Madam President, I move for the adoption of the amendment to Bill 070678. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and seconded that the amendment as proposed earlier be adopted. All in favor will say aye. (Aye.)
The ayes have it and the amendment is adopted. The Chair recognizes Councilman Clarke.
I move that Bill 070678 as amended be reported out of Committee with a favorable recommendation and a request for rules suspension as to allow reading at the next session of 111 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. Council. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and seconded that Bill No. 6 070678 be reported out of Committee with a favorable recommendation as amended; further, that the rules of Council be suspended so as to permit first reading at our next session of Council. All in favor will say aye. (Aye.)
The ayes have it and the motion carries. The record should also reflect that Councilman O'Neill did in fact leave his vote as aye on all bills and amendments, and Councilman Kenney did also. Thank you. This concludes our public meeting. Thank you all very much for your patience. 112 10/17/07 - RULES - BILL 070437, ETC. (Committee on Rules adjourned at 11:55 a.m.) - - - 113 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 October 17, 2007, 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.)