Aye. The ayes are 17; the nays are zero. A majority of all members having voted in the affirmative, the bill passes. The final bill to be considered is Bill No. 110055. 3/3/11 - STATED - 2ND READING
An ordinance authorizing Gerald Rothstein and Frederick Mumenthaler, owners of the property located at 1921 through 23 South Bancroft Street, to legalize an existing encroachment in the right-of-way located on the east public footway of Bancroft Street.
This bill having been read on two different days, the question now is shall the bill pass finally. The Chief Clerk will please call the roll.
Aye. The ayes are 17; the nays are zero. A majority of all members having voted in the affirmative, the bill passes. The Chief Clerk will please read any additional resolutions on today's Calendar.
A resolution urging the United States Senate not to pass H.R. 1, the Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act of 2011, which would result in funding cuts of almost $150 3/3/11 - STATED - 2ND READING million impacting Philadelphia, including a 66 percent cut in funds for the Community Development Block Grant program, and to maintain funding for the impacted programs at the fiscal year 2010 funding levels, introduced by Councilwoman Blackwell.
Thank you, Madam President. I move that the rules of Council be suspended to permit consideration -
Thank you, Madam President. I move for the adoption and note that Councilman Jones co-sponsored it. (Duly seconded.)
It has been moved and seconded that the resolution be adopted. All in favor will say aye. (Aye.)
The ayes have it and the resolution is adopted. Are there any other resolutions?
There are no other resolutions on the Calendar, Madam President.
Thank you. With that being said, that concludes our Calendar for today. The time has come for us to consider the Mayor's presentation of his annual budget message. The Philadelphia Home Rule the Mayor shall submit to Council, no later than 90 days before the end of the fiscal year, his Operating Budget message and Proposed Operating Budget ordinance for the ensuing fiscal year. At the same time, the Mayor shall submit to Council the Recommended Capital Program and Capital Budget as received from the City Planning Commission to the extent approved by the Mayor. I now appoint the following committee to escort the Mayor into the Council Chambers: Councilwoman Tasco, Councilman Clarke, Councilman Kelly and Councilman Rizzo. Please escort the Mayor. (Pause.)
Madam President, the Mayor has arrived. (Standing Ovation.)
Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to introduce the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia, Mayor Michael A. Nutter. Mr. Mayor, welcome. (Applause.)
Madam President, thank you very, very much. It's a pleasure to be here this morning. Majority Leader Councilwoman Tasco, Majority Whip Councilman Clarke, Minority Leader O'Neill -- and I know that Councilman Kelly is standing in for him -- Minority Whip Councilman Rizzo, all members of City Council, I believe Mayor Street is over on the side. Please recognize him. (Applause.)
Distinguished guests, my fellow Philadelphians and certainly members of the City Administration. Let me begin by paying tribute to a great public servant who has served the people of the City of Philadelphia for more than half a century, our great Council President, Anna C. Verna. (Standing ovation.)
One of my proudest moments as a member of this great City Council, Madam President, was to be able to cast my vote for the first female president of City Council in the history of this great city. (Applause.)
Madam President, you have given a lifetime of service to the people of Philadelphia, the 2nd District, the entire City, and for that, we say thank you one more time. (Applause.)
I'd also like to recognize three other members of this body who will be retiring at the end of this term - Councilwoman Joan Krajewski, Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller and Councilman Jack Kelly. Let us thank these three dedicated public servants. (Standing ovation.)
We gather today at the time of great opportunity and great threat, a time of hope and a time of caution, a time when we've won hard-fought stability, but tremendous uncertainty still lies ahead. And though I am fully aware of the further challenges we face in the near future, we will not compromise our goals. We will not adjust our vision, and we will not relent for one second in our pursuit of the 21st century Philadelphia that we know we can be. On January 7th, 2008, when all of us took our oath of office, I promised the people of Philadelphia that -(Some audience members yelling.)
Just a moment. Excuse me. (Some audience members yelling.)
We will respect each other, please. We will (Some audience members yelling.)
Please have them removed. (Some audience members yelling.) (Pause.)
Thank you, Madam President. This is the City of Philadelphia, the City of freedom, liberty and democracy, and we respect everyone's right to express themselves and their issues. (Applause.)
On January 7th, 2008 when all of us took our oath of office, I promised the people of Philadelphia that we would be a safer city, a smarter city, a healthier, greener city, and that our Administration would crack down on corruption, reform truly serve the citizens of our city. I know what I was elected to do. And since day one, working in partnership with this City Council, we have remained focused on these shared goals, moving this city forward and beginning to realize our common vision for a Philadelphia to regain its prominence as not only one of the true great American cities, but as a great global city. We're a safer city today than we were three years ago, with a 22 percent drop in homicides and a 13 percent reduction in violent crime. We're a smarter city than we were three years ago, with more students graduating from high school, going on to college and realizing their full potentials. We're a greener city than we were three years ago, with now more than 200 new acres of green space, 40,000 new trees and a growing national and international reputation as the green city to watch in America. And over the last three years, we have worked hard every day to root out corruption, reform our government and give Philadelphians a City Hall of which they can all be proud. Have we been perfect? No. Have we made mistakes? Of course. Is there much more work to do? Absolutely, yes. But I am proud of the progress that we have made, and I want to thank this City Council for your continued advice and guidance throughout my time as Mayor of this great city. (Applause.)
The last three years have been some of the most turbulent times in our city's long and proud history. But despite the biggest Great Depression, a time when our city faced financial challenges unparalleled in modern times, we fought through this crisis in a way that preserved services, protected our most vulnerable citizens and invested in the future. We closed a $2.4 billion hole in our Five Year Plan. We're spending over $130 million less on operations each year. And we've reduced the size of the workforce by 1,600 positions. And yet, we didn't lay off one police officer, one firefighter, sanitation or health center worker. Not one. (Applause.)
We kept all of our recreation centers open, and last summer, with the help of generous citizens and businesses, all of our swimming pools were open, and they'll all be open in the summer of 2011 as well. (Applause.)
Now, it hasn't been easy, and many people were upset by many of the actions that we took. Well, I was one of them. There is no easy or popular way to tackle a recession. Leadership requires us, both elected and appointed officials, to do what needs to be done to fight for our city and protect our people. We did what we had to do. We did what we said we'd do. And what we did is working. City government today is smaller, spends less on daily operations and is more efficient. Our tax revenues have stabilized. They are no longer dropping like a rock. And because of the cuts that we've already made, and will continue to make, we are able to make investments in essential services without asking for any further tax increase from the businesses of this city. (Applause.)
There are no tax increases in the budget that I propose today. The temporary one percent sales tax increase will expire in FY15, as promised, and the wage and business tax cuts that we suspended will be reinstated in FY14. (Applause.)
The people of Philadelphia have given enough. And so to balance our budget, we will not ask for more revenue from our citizens or businesses. We'll continue to cut spending, an additional $14 million over the next five years on top of the more than $1 billion in cuts in the last two years. We'll find new savings by creating a task force to examine all City facilities and assets, determining where we can consolidate and which ones we no announce a comprehensive plan soon in the coming weeks for putting to productive use the vacant land and buildings owned by the City of Philadelphia. And we'll remain relentless in our pursuit of those who think that they can have a free ride on the backs of law-abiding, tax-paying Philadelphians. Cracking down on tax delinquents and chasing every dollar owed to us has generated more than $85 million in revenue over the last two years, and next year we'll increase delinquent tax collections by more than ten percent. If you owe us money, we're coming to get it. Throughout this crisis, we maintained our focus on the long-term and balanced, targeted spending cuts with temporary tax increases. We protected, not decimated, the services that so many Philadelphians rely upon. And because of took, businesses are investing again. They're beginning to create jobs, and our economy is starting to turn the corner. Starting to turn the corner. We must capitalize on the beginnings of the recovery. We must continue to invest, where we can, in our core priorities if we are to remain an attractive choice for citizens, businesses and jobs. Now, don't get me wrong, our finances still remain very tight. But our responsible and disciplined stewardship of the economy and the cuts that we made in the last two budgets mean that this year we are finally able to make essential investments. To fight crime, we are investing in a new class of 120 police officers this year to hit the streets right at the beginning of next year, and we are taking steps to put in a new class of firefighters as soon as we can. all Philadelphians have the skills and education they need to succeed in today's economy, we are investing an additional $1 million a year in the Free Library, specifically to support and promote adult literacy, a serious issue for our city that we will no longer ignore. To fix, once and for all, our broken property assessment system, we're investing $4.4 million annually. The assessment notices that will go out in the fall of 2012 will be based on the actual values of properties. We're going to fix this system. Citizens have waited long enough. It's time to finish the job. (Applause.)
To update our infrastructure, we will spend $100 million making capital improvements to police and fire stations, rec centers, IT and repaving our streets. To attract more global to Philadelphia, we will begin this year the $5 billion expansion of the Philadelphia International Airport, a project that is expected to create 45,000 jobs over the next 12 years. And to transform the Delaware River waterfront into one of the most dynamic, accessible, exciting urban waterfronts anywhere in the United States of America, we will unveil in June a new master plan that will guide development on the waterfront for the next 25 years. My fellow Philadelphians, because we preserved essential services and with these new investments, our continuing, our relentless march forward to a safer, smarter, greener Philadelphia, businesses are once again investing and creating jobs in our city. And I'm not just talking about major corporations like Teva Pharmaceuticals or GlaxoSmithKline and Urban Outfitters. Small businesses, residents, are opening and expanding in neighborhoods all across Philadelphia. Last year, we doubled the amount of money that we loaned to small businesses, and in the coming year, we will continue to streamline and expand services for local entrepreneurs, who are the lifeblood and backbone of communities across our city. Now, I'm under no illusions. I know that things are still incredibly tough for many of our citizens. Every day as I'm out across our city, I hear heart-breaking stories from Philadelphians who have lost their jobs and are struggling to take care of their families. Well, your struggle is my struggle. And so we will continue to do more to attract and grow businesses that will create jobs for all Philadelphians. And, as I said, I am committed to cutting workers and businesses in Philadelphia that's already in the plan. And working with City Council, it is my expectation that by the end of this year's budget process, we will have a revamped business privilege tax, maybe hopefully with a new name, that will help small businesses remove any disincentives to new companies coming to Philadelphia. The time for change has come. Philadelphia is open for business. We've streamlined the development process. Working with L&I is faster and easier than ever before. And this year, we will complete the rewrite of the Zoning Code, simplifying a convoluted, complex code that has not been fundamentally updated in over 50 years. And working with communities throughout the City, we have created Philadelphia 2035, our first comprehensive plan since 1960, a blueprint for the future development of We are making it faster, easier and cheaper to do business and create jobs in Philadelphia for all Philadelphians. And let me repeat something that I say whenever and wherever I speak about our economy, whether it's at the Chamber of Commerce or in the church pulpit. There can be no real recovery in this city unless minority, female and disabled businessowners and workers also have access to economic opportunity and share in the prosperity. (Applause.)
In the first quarter of FY11, we increased the percentage of City contracts going to minority-owned firms by almost 22 percent, and over the last two years, we have increased the number of firms registered with the City by 25 percent. And let me just give a quick shout-out to the newly expanded It would be the one that's on time and on budget. It opens tomorrow, a project with 30 percent minority participation that led the way on providing economic opportunity to so many throughout our city, the largest economic development project in the history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Continuing this kind of progress will remain a top priority of our Administration. Businesses are investing because we invested in the things that make Philadelphia a great city in which to live, work and raise a family. And there is no better investment that we can make than in our neighborhoods and in our people. We said right from the start that no matter what the recession threw at us, we would preserve core services. We would protect our most vulnerable Philadelphians. And so even though we virtually every department in our city government, we made sure that we kept those rec centers open, that we opened every library, that every young person in neighborhoods throughout our city had a pool to cool off in on those long, hot summers of Philadelphia. These are the places where community comes together, where the community lives. Believe me, I get it. I learned to swim, played basketball and baseball at Sherwood Recreation Center. And as a kid, you really couldn't drag me away from the Cobbs Creek Branch library. These places have a very special meaning to me. But as special as these buildings and facilities are to all of us, they're not what makes a community. The community is made by the people in that community. And helping people, our friends, neighbors and fellow Philadelphians lead a better life is why each and every one of us in this room service. That's certainly why I did. I care very deeply about helping our fellow Philadelphians, some who need a second chance, some who have fallen on hard times, some who need our help the most. That's why we made reentry for ex-offenders such a priority, serving over 500 men and women in the last seven months through RISE, our Office of Reintegration Services for Ex-Offenders, connecting them to jobs and training programs. That's why we have remained dedicated to becoming the first major city in America to end homelessness, helping 2,000 men, women and children move into permanent, affordable housing. That's why we're overhauling our workforce development and job training programs in our city and connecting Philadelphians to job opportunities, last summer placing 13,000 people in work through the Way to Work Philadelphia program. And that's why we started programs to improve the health of people in our neighborhoods, helping 5,000 people take the steps necessary to quit smoking and recruiting 500 stores to our Healthy Corner Store Initiative, giving out grants to help them and providing fresh fruit and vegetables to their customers. We're investing in our communities, and they're stepping up, joining us in a new partnership to move this city forward. Let me tell you about one of those communities, the Hartranft community in North Philadelphia. Over the last year, in Hartranft, we have piloted a new approach to providing neighborhood services, reducing crime and improving the quality of life in our city. Working with the community, we in their neighborhood, and together we implemented solutions.
We demolished 14 dangerous buildings, cleaned and abated 85 vacant lots, removed graffiti from 330 properties and organized four community clean-ups. We opened an indoor pool at the Hartranft Community Center, brought in the Police Athletic League and opened a new community computer lab at the Hartranft Elementary School. It was the folks in the neighborhood, working in partnership with the City and others, who made all of this happen. We trained community leaders through our new Citizen Engagement Academy to help them access existing City services. We brought in volunteers through SERVE Philadelphia to provide support for after-school programs and coordinated partners such as Temple University, the School District of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society who wanted to help and get involved. Well, what was the result of all of that work and collaboration? Well, thanks to this partnership, from February to December of 2010, crime in Hartranft dropped by 16 percent as compared to the previous year. And as community leader Diane Bridges put it, We're turning the hood back into the neighborhood. We're calling it Philly Rising, and we've expanded to three new areas to test this approach in neighborhoods with very different needs - Haddington in West Philadelphia, Frankford in Northeast Philadelphia and the Market East section of Center City to start. Work is already underway in these communities. In fact, this attending a Career Boot Camp in West Philly as a part of the Haddington collaborative, where volunteers will be providing job training, resume writing workshops and interview practice sessions for folks looking for jobs. Philly Rising is going to become the new model of neighborhood service delivery in our city, and in this budget, we'll invest over half a million dollars to take it citywide over the next year or so. Now, despite all of this work, the tough decisions that we made early on and continue to make, the sacrifice already made by our citizens, we know that there are further challenges that we will have to confront. The biggest challenge in our city's future and the biggest threat to our financial stability comes from run-away pension and healthcare costs. In just over ten years, pension from about $200 million to over $550 million a year. Our pension fund is less than 50 percent funded. And pension and healthcare costs combined account for 30 percent of the dollars in our budget. Now, I know that in the current political climate, it's tempting to chase headlines and ramp up the rhetoric. Well, quite honestly, I prefer results over rhetoric. And so let me tell you about the real historic changes that we have achieved in the last year. As a result of the latest police and fire arbitration awards, we are the only major city in the United States of America to offer new, uniformed employees a hybrid pension plan, including a defined contribution element that shares the risk between the City and our employees. If a new police officer or firefighter opts to stay in the existing plan, they will be required to pay 20 month. On healthcare costs, the FOP health plan has moved to self-insurance, adopting the model that we implemented for non-union City employees last year, and we are seeking similar reforms for our firefighters. Now, that's a good start, but it's not enough. The first thing we need to do is also end the DROP program completely. It was conceived out of good intentions, but it has not worked. We were told that it would be revenue neutral, but it has cost us at least $100 million or more. We have the numbers. We've studied, and we've studied the study. It's time for this program to go. )
Next, we need to reform the pension and healthcare costs for our non-uniformed employees. We simply cannot afford the status quo. Though over the last three avoided millions of dollars in terms of increased wages and healthcare costs, I want permanent pension and healthcare cost reforms and work rule changes. And I will work with the leaders of District Councils 33 and 47 through collective bargaining to sign new contracts as soon as possible. I have the greatest respect for our public employees. They work tremendously hard, and often under very difficult circumstances, and over the last two years especially, they've had to do more with less, as we cut spending all across our city government. But we cannot ask the citizens of this city, many of whom have lost their jobs and their pensions over the last few years, to continue to pay for outdated, unsustainable benefit packages for our public employees. We simply just can't afford it anymore. As we continue to work to reform these contracts, we must also face challenges that threaten the stability that we have achieved. The School District of Philadelphia faces a budget deficit next year of upwards of $400 million. We have remained in very close contact with the School District as they have grappled with this deficit. And I look forward to receiving their plan for balancing their budget, a plan that has the least possible impact on students and which preserves, as far as possible, the tremendous gains made over the last few years under the leadership of our Superintendent, Dr. Arlene Ackerman. Please recognize her. (Applause.)
7 trillion deficit. In Harrisburg, Governor Corbett is facing a budget deficit of at least $4 billion. And while we don't know the exact details yet, we do know that cuts will need to be made. And whether it's President Obama's budget, the proposals made by republicans in Congress or the budget that Governor Corbett will introduce to the General Assembly next week, we know that these cuts, if not made carefully and strategically, will have a devastating impact on the City of Philadelphia. At the federal level, programs that we rely upon, such as Community Development Block Grants, funding to help low-income residents pay for heating costs and money to provide internship and job-training opportunities for our young people, are all facing major reductions and threats. At the state level, two of the biggest areas of discretionary spending are education and social services. Now, we in this Chamber have had to make some very difficult decisions balanced the City budget over the last three years. We get it. And I have pledged directly to President Obama and Governor Corbett that I will work with them as they make spending reductions and reform programs so that we are not balancing the budgets on the backs of those who are least able to carry the weight. But just as we fought to preserve core services and continue to move our city forward, we now need to be ready to fight drastic, across-the-board cuts that would reverse the gains made in education, hurt the most vulnerable people in our city and negatively impact our ability to attract businesses and create jobs. And so whether it's in Washington or in Harrisburg, I'm calling on parents and students, businesses and non-profits, advocacy groups and community leaders to join me in making the case for Philadelphia, making the and reasonable funding for education and social services, making the case for not destroying and reversing the progress that we've made in recent years. I don't know exactly what President Obama and the Congress are going to do. I don't know exactly what Governor Corbett and the General Assembly are going to do. But I know what we're going to do. We're going to stand up and fight for the budget that I introduce today. This is a budget that will make us a safer city by putting more cops on the street. It's a budget that will make us a smarter city by tackling the quiet shame of 550,000 Philadelphians who don't have adequate literacy skills. It's a budget that will continue to attract investment and jobs to Philadelphia, to make it easier to build our city and to do business in our government. And it's a budget that will greener and healthier by maintaining investments in our parks, improving our rec centers and pools, and supporting essential public health programs for citizens. We're going to continue to reform this government. We're going to continue to tackle corruption, and we're going to continue to move this city forward. I won't accept anything less for Philadelphia. And I know that this Council and our citizens that we all represent won't accept anything less from me. We've been through an incredibly tough couple of years, and there are further challenges coming our way. We must confront them, and they will test us once again. But I believe that we're a stronger city than we were three years ago, and I believe that this is a time not for dejection and despondency, but for determination, strength, resilience and hope. Hope is what I talked about on that sunny Saturday afternoon in July of 2006 when I stood on a Parkside Avenue porch and announced that I was running for Mayor of Philadelphia. And on that day, did I know that during my first term as Mayor we would be confronted with a massive economic crisis? Of course not.
But what I did know was that even before the recession, our city was in trouble, and I believed that we could be a better place. I believed that we could do something about the madness of violence on our streets and become a safer city. I believed that more of our young people could stay in school and go on to college. I believed that we could transform the image of our city, bringing businesses that would create jobs for Philadelphians and attract more people to live here. And I believed that we no longer needed to tolerate the corruption that stained the reputation of our city long. I believed it because I knew we could do it, and we've made progress in all of these goals. Now, I've had to do some things that I never thought I would do if elected Mayor of Philadelphia - raise taxes, cut back on services, ask people in our neighborhoods to sacrifice. But as I look around the country at other cities that are laying off police officers and firefighters, closing facilities, implementing drastic cuts, I know now that we did what we had to do when we had to do it and we did it. I know that people are struggling, and I know it's still hard out there for far too many Philadelphians. It's my responsibility to fix that, and I take that very seriously and personally. You know, two days ago, Tuesday, we kicked off our fundraising campaign for keeping all of our pools summer, and there were about 30 kids there, kindergartners, from the Myers Recreation Center, and they were sitting at the front rows of the Mayor's Reception Room. Many of you have, of course, been there. And I was talking about how much our rec centers mean to young people. I smiled and looked at the kids. They all had matching red T-shirts on. They just looked so cute. And I started thinking about what the Sherwood Recreation Center meant to me as a kid. And there came a moment where I really had to just kind of pause. I started to become somewhat emotional, and some of you have seen that before. And later on, I was asked, Was that real? It's very real. It's very real. Our children deserve better. These are my kids. These are my rec centers. This is my city. I care very passionately about our city, and so do a lot of other people. Firefighter Michael McGuire as he laid in the hospital. He's in intensive care at HUP, seriously injured as he searched a burning building to help make sure that everyone got out. I ask you to please pray for him and his family. This was one of our public servants. This is our guy. He's our public service hero. He risked his life to save other people. Yeah, this is very real. It's real every day. And it's serving all of you, people of my hometown. It's a tremendous motivator to try to do more every day, to work harder every day, to make this city live up to its incredible potential. We can do better. Now, we still have some hard times ahead. We're going to get through it. The reason we're going to get through it is because we have that Philadelphia spirit. And I know that how we stick together in times of crisis. I know how we fight for what we believe in. But I also know that sometimes we have a tendency to look down on ourselves. We need to get used to the fact that Philadelphia is a city on the rise. The national spotlight that used to only pay attention to Philadelphia's shortcomings is now very focused on a city where more and more people want to live and work and visit. There's a reason why President Obama and Vice-President Biden and some other member of the Cabinet seems to be in Philadelphia almost every other week. There's a reason why last year we had a record 4 million hotel rooms sold. Because people want to visit our city.
And there's a reason why Cliff Lee left $28 million on the table and chose the Philadelphia Phillies over the New York Yankees. )
We're not a secret anymore. Word's getting out. Word's getting out that we're becoming a safer city, a smarter city and one of the greenest cities in America, all run by a government that you can trust. (Applause.)
Do we have much more work to do? Absolutely. But I'm as energized and focused today as I was on the day that I took the oath of office to be your Mayor. We took our hits. We did what we had to do. We're fighting our way back. We're getting things done. Philly, we're on the rise. Let's get to work. Thank you. God bless you, and God bless Philadelphia. (Standing ovation.) (Pause.)
We haven't adjourned yet. Please, we're still in session. the part of the minority? I don't think so. Are there speeches on the part of the majority? Please, as you're leaving, please do so quietly. We're still in session. The Chair recognizes Councilman Green.
Thank you, Madam President. I think we can all agree that if the Mayor does not succeed, we won't succeed. Working together to help him succeed is what we must do. We can proudly acknowledge our accomplishments, many of which are a result of choices this body made, whether keeping libraries open or proposing the least regressive revenue measures possible, acknowledging improvements in transparency. We must acknowledge improvements in reduction of crime. We should proudly acknowledge gains in school test scores and the creation of which have been announced recently. But we must acknowledge that the pace of change, the pace of improvement is so marginal and incremental; for example, we won't be at grade level until the 2150s, and we lose jobs decade after decade, 47,000 in the last decade. We are standing on a burning platform and no one is sounding the alarm. The train that is Philadelphia is going to hit the wall. Not this decade or next, but three or four or five from now. Slowing it down is not sufficient. We must reverse course or get on a different track. That means moving quickly and accelerating the pace of change. It means measuring our outputs and outcomes rather than inputs and spending. It means going paperless. It means blowing up our tax structure. It means getting students to grade level in ten years. It means rapid and rapid shutdown of what does not. We must be a nimble city. We must move aggressively this year for these things to happen by the end of the next mayoral term. These are the things that will make the Mayor successful. I want to make this city and Mayor successful. Our fates are one. Thank you, Madam President.
Thank you. Are there any other speeches on the part of the majority? (No response.)
Seeing no one, the Chair recognizes Councilman Clarke.
Thank you, Madam President. I move that Council stand adjourned until Thursday, March 10th, 10:00 a.m., 2011. (Duly seconded.)
It seconded that Council stand adjourned until Thursday, March the 10th at 10:00 a.m. All in favor will say aye. (Aye.)
The ayes have it. The motion carries. (Stated Meeting adjourned at 11:50 a.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 3, 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.)