It's been moved and properly seconded. All those in favor indicate by saying aye. (Aye.)
The ayes have it, and that resolution is adopted.
There are no other resolutions on the Final Passage Calendar, Mr. President.
Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 Thank you very much. That completes our Calendar for today. Prior to recognizing members regarding speeches, I will note for the record at this time we will use the Chat feature available in Microsoft Teams to allow members to signify that they wish to be recognized. In order to comply with the Sunshine Act, the Chat feature must only be used for this particular purpose. With that said, are there speeches on behalf of the minority? (No response.)
There appears to be none. Speeches on the behalf of the majority? The Chair recognizes -
Mr. President, Councilmember Oh is in the Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 box.
Okay. Just popped up. Thank you. I'm on delay over here. I got to check that out. The Chair recognizes Councilman Oh.
Thank you, Council President. Thank you, Majority Leader. I actually just did that. I was a little late there. But I just wanted to recognize the film in Philadelphia Concrete Cowboy, you know, directed by Ricky Staub right here in Philadelphia. A lot of the folks at Fletcher Street Stables, the Philadelphia Riding Academy are actually featured in the film, and of course we just gave a resolution, we passed it for Michael "O.G. Law" Ta'Bon for his work Love Over Hate, Education Over Incarceration, all he does to fight gun violence. Wow, what a great job he did acting. He was Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 menacing. It really came through the screen. So all good stuff, and really appreciate what film does to educate people about our history, our culture, our diversity. I learned a few things, and I hope everybody will watch and support the film. It's on Netflix. So please check it out. Thank you.
Thank you, Councilman. I must say that on a personal note, I'm a little excited about the film, because the house that the horse lived in is on the block that I grew up on.
Yeah. My little brother, he got wind of it. He sent me a text and said, yeah, Miss Emma's house is in the movie, right? That was the lady's name in the house.
Pretty significant. Thank you, Councilman. Speeches on behalf of the majority? The Chair recognizes Councilman Thomas.
Thank you, Council President. Just a couple of things. I want to try to be brief. First, I want to start by thanking the Arts and Culture Task Force for the resolution that was introduced earlier today for their great work. I'm looking forward to working with them more as it relates to recommendations that came out of the Arts and Culture Task Force report that was circulated through Council. I'm also looking forward to Arts and Culture Recovery Week this summer, as we really want folks to know that Philadelphia is open for business. I also want to take a minute to thank my Councilmember, Councilmember Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 Parker, and our leader here as it relates to our team on Council, one of our leaders as it relates to our team on Council, for the work that's being done with the sheriff sales. I, like other members of Council, are extremely concerned around this idea of moving to digital. Some of the guidelines and requirements that's coming in order to participate, I think it's really alarming, and I think right now when we're looking at where we are as a city, where we are with our economy, I just can't agree with us moving in that direction. So I just wanted to echo the sentiments of my colleagues as well as the other 13 members of Council who decided to sign on to that letter. I also want to take a moment to say thank you. About two weeks ago, high school sports season ended, and there was only a high school sports season because of this Council body right here. And Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 while we are in the midst of a number of pandemics, including this gun violence crisis that we're trying to fight on a daily basis, we will never know how many lives we saved by allowing them young people to participate in athletic and extracurricular activities over the last two months. We talked today about honoring West Catholic Girls Basketball Team. Had we not put ourselves in the position for young people to participate in extracurricular activities, that institution would not have won its first state championship. Councilmembers had to step up to the plate in order to put us in a position to work with the Health Department as well as the multiple leagues to be able to make that happen. So I want to thank you, Council President, for your leadership. I want to say a huge thank you to the Chair of our Education Committee, Councilmember Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 Maria Quinones-Sanchez, as well as my colleague Councilmember Mark Squilla, who even had Anne from his staff serve on the oversight committee, along with members of my team, to collect film to make sure that if there were any outbreaks at any time, we were able to identify what took place and be able to do the contact tracing. But even in the midst of thinking about that, a kid like Jimmy King, who is Anne's son, who is a senior this year, he had a phenomenal year, a year that he'll probably remember for the rest of his life. I'm thinking about kids like him and kids like Samir Priesthood, who again was a senior whose junior year got cut off, and had we not fought for young people to participate in athletic activity, these young people would have never had an opportunity to touch high school sports again ever. And, honestly, that is something that I know I would have regretted and I know Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 them and their parents would have regretted as well too. So I just want to say thank you to everybody who was involved in that process, because without it being a team effort, led by this Council body, we would not have had a winter sports season for our young people, and that's, again, something that's needed.
The last thing I want to say as I close out, right now we're trying to fight our state partners, because the state is pushing to force our teachers and our young people and our families to take PSSA standardized testing, and we know that as of last night, they've backtracked and said that the testing will only take place for third through fifth graders, but we still think that's wrong. We're in the midst of a global pandemic, and to put that type of pressure on young people as well as teachers, when we all as educators know Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 that young people learn a variety of different ways. So if you're a young person who is more of a kinesthetic learner or you need in-person learning to best maximize your intellectual ability and you've been denied that because we're in the midst of a pandemic, how can we realistically expect you to perform to the best of your ability? And so we want to continue to fight and fight for our children, our families, our teachers, and all stakeholders who are involved in the academic experience our young people partake in on a daily basis, and we want to make sure that we're not putting them in a position to fail. And I believe that forcing any of our students as well as the teachers who administrate standardized testing in a year like this is something that's unfair, and we're going to continue to fight until none of our students are forced or our teachers are forced to participate in this level Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 of standardized testing this academic year. Let's revisit this conversation and figure out what we can do in the fall when we are on a different side of this coronavirus pandemic. Thank you, Council President, and, again, thank you to all my colleagues for your support on a number of different issues and conflicts that we have in the City.
Thank you, Councilman. Thank you for your continued aggressive commitment to these young people in the City of Philadelphia. It's so much needed. We really appreciate it. The Chair recognizes Councilman Green.
Thank you, Council President. I thank you, Councilmember Thomas, for that dedicated advocacy for young people in our city in a variety of ways. It's definitely needed. Thank you Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 for doing that through your role as a member of Council. Also, I want to thank Councilmember Oh, also now been renamed as Deacon Oh, and he'll know the reference to that, for bringing up Concrete Cowboy. It was a phenomenal film, and it really reflected the City of Philadelphia, and when you watch it, you really get the perspective of Philadelphia in that film. Just like in so many ways Do the Right Thing captures New York in that time period, I really felt Fletcher Street and Philadelphia in that film. So it definitely was a great film and a great discussion on father and son bonding. So definitely a great film. I hope everyone gets a chance to see it. As I stated earlier, April is a great month, because we start to really come out of the winter into the early throes of spring, and April is Autism Acceptance and Awareness Month. And some of you may be able to see my pin on my Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 lapel. The pin is a puzzle piece, which is universally and internationally known as signifying autism. And this is a great month, and it's also great here in the City of Philadelphia. And this body has been so supportive of so many things we've done regarding not only awareness but also acceptance, and to bring some of that awareness to the viewing and listening public, some people may not know that we as a city have had a long history in providing support and resources regarding autism. In 1955, the Center for Autism was founded here in the City as a pilot at the University of Pennsylvania. And so autism is something that people have not known about for a long time, but right here in Philadelphia, we have been doing not only advocacy and service provision for young people and also more seasoned people on the autism spectrum going back to 1955. And there's so many institutions in the City that Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 provide outstanding services for families, individuals who are on the autism spectrum, from the Kinney Center for Autism at Saint Joe's University, University of Pennsylvania has an Autism Clinic. Children's Hospital has a Center for Autism. You also have La Salle University has the LADDER Family Center. Also for young people that are on the spectrum who want to go to college, they have options at Arcadia University and West Chester University and Saint Joseph University. We have a number of outstanding developmental pediatricians in the region, and I think of the work at Saint Christopher's Hospital and Children's Hospital and think of Dr. Wendy Ross, who in working with our own airport many years ago created the Autism and AIR Program, enabling young people to be able to travel, working with our Philadelphia International Airport and airlines to provide opportunities for young people to Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 travel through flight. She's also worked with all of our major sports teams in making sure that those venues are friendly for those on the autism spectrum, so the Sixers and the Flyers and the Phillies as well as the Eagles, making sure that those people who want to say "fly Eagles fly" can do that in a friendly setting at those sports venues. The Eagles have also stepped up by creating the Eagles Autism Foundation where they have raised millions of dollars to help provide services and research, and we acknowledge them in resolutions introduced today and will be passed next week regarding their work to help vaccinate those on the autism spectrum as well as their caregivers at Lincoln Financial Field. J.
Drexel Institute, which has worked with our own Philadelphia Autism Project that this body has supported over the years, and Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 they've provided some great programs and services, and working with the Philadelphia Autism Project, they've created the Community of Autism Peer Specialist Program, or CAPS Program, which has become an internationally renowned program helping those on the autism spectrum to become peer supports for younger people on the autism spectrum and also earn employment. And that's been a program that the Philadelphia Autism Project and Drexel through their institute has helped work to promote and grow, as well as our State Senate for autism and Mental Health Partnerships, who has been a strong part of that, as well as our own Community Behavioral Health and Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services. So we have a long and rich history here in the City of Philadelphia and the region of helping those on the autism spectrum. So I wanted to bring Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 that awareness, and we've got to do more in reference to acceptance. And although we've had so much progress and so many other programs that I did not mention, we have so much more work to do. Previously I talked about some of the challenges that I have had and shared some of my personal perspectives in raising a son on the autism spectrum, a black man who is now a young adult. Some of you have seen him when he was very young, to now he has got some hair on his chin and a little mustache and starting to feel his oats, so to say, as a young adult, but he is a black man on the autism spectrum. And I've talked about how when he was younger, taking him to school or when he was at events, we used to put a card in his bookbag to let people know that my son is on the autism spectrum and he can't communicate like others normally can communicate on various issues. And so now as a young adult, having not necessarily a bookbag Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 but having a wallet, but having concerns that he may not be able to communicate with those individuals as they approach him or other type of authorities try to approach him. So I know for parents, especially African American parents, you're very familiar with The Talk. Some of you -- and I would say for those who are not as familiar with The Talk, you should Google The Talk, Procter and Gamble. This is a commercial that Procter and Gamble did a little while ago that really to me crystallizes what the talk is in the African American community. And I know for those on the autism spectrum, we can't really have that type of talk like other parents. Because of the speech and communication challenges, it makes it very difficult. So one of the fears I've often had is that as Julian becomes older and he's out and about and he's not with us and as I've instructed him like I did Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 when he was younger, if someone approaches you, to go into your backpack to give this card, or now being a young adult, go into your wallet to provide your wallet for this card to identify the fact that you're on the autism spectrum, we don't know what would happen as he goes into his wallet and goes into his pocket to reach out and pull out something that may be viewed as offensive or threatening. And so this is a fear and a challenge that I've had as a father. I think it's a fear and challenge that many parents have had for some time, especially those who are African American who have had the talk with their children, and for those African American parents that have a child on the autism spectrum, the challenge of not even being able to have that type of talk with their child. And so that fear really came home last week.
As we were beginning to Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 celebrate the Easter holiday weekend, we learned reports that two police officers were -- excuse me; one police officer, one former police officer were arrested last week based on an incident from August 19th of last year. At that time, both the individuals were police officers. They were off duty and in the Northeast section of our city. They chased a young man who had Asperger's, which is on the autism spectrum, based on a belief that he was involved in some type of criminal activity. During that foot chase, he was able to call his mother and, based on that call, was able -- the mother was able to hear some of the information that transpired during the foot chase. He was beat up and assaulted. After that incident -- and they identified -- and they were off-duty officers, and they identified themselves not as officers but part of Town Watch. After that situation, the Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 Police Department started an Internal Affairs investigation. As that started, one of the individuals retired. Internal Affairs did their investigation, and based on the information received last week, both individuals were arrested, and the other individual, who still is a police officer, is under suspension with the intent for dismissal. So when I talk about -- and I talked about this in the past, about the fears of having a child on the autism spectrum, this is the type of thing I'm talking about. These are the fears that so many parents, especially African American parents, with a child on the spectrum have, and this demonstrates how we have so much more work to do. Now, based on the fact that he was even able to call his mother during his foot chase is something that's somewhat remarkable. Something could have happened where he was not able to do that. And it makes me think of so many Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 countless situations in the history of this nation when people were taking justice into their own hands, and we've heard and seen the stories of so many situations when so many tragic things happened based on these type of situations. So we as a city have so much more work to do in reference to autism awareness and acceptance. We've had so many great institutions over the years that provided the ability for so many of us as parents to dream of the possibilities for our children, but at the same point, although we have these dreams of possibilities and we have the acceptance, awareness of these great possible outcomes for our children, we also have the acceptance and awareness of the dreams and fears of what happened August 19th happening to our children. So we still have so much more work to do. We've come so far, but we have much more work to do. Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 Thank you, Council President.
Thank you, Councilman. Thank you so much. Thank you for your continued both personal and being a strong advocate and spokesperson for a very, very important issue. Appreciate you more than you know. The Chair recognizes Councilman Henon.
Thank you, Council President. Council President, I don't know if you recall, but in 2014, I created a childhood obesity program called Philly Play. Most members were involved. They were partners throughout the City and the Rec Department. I remember in 2014 partnering with you at an event in one of your rec centers and then calling you afterwards at the end saying, I just seen two guys, two cowboys, on horses coming up to the recreation center talking to the community members, talking to the kids, Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 engaging with them, making them feel safe. It was, first, shockingly, right? Because who would have -- I've never seen cowboys anywhere in the City of Philadelphia, let alone North Philly, and it was incredible. I'm so glad I got to witness it. Although I haven't seen the film yet, I look forward to it, but it's just one of those memories that I've had, and if I didn't witness it, you wouldn't believe it to be a Philadelphian. So I'm glad there's going to be a film talking about the concrete cowboys right here in Philadelphia and that you personally have some intimate and personal ties with them that you can relate as my one experience. I have two things I'd like to talk about real quick. Unfortunately, it seems as of late we're losing people who are moving on and passing away who have made an incredible impact with Philadelphia, its members, its Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 organizations as activists, as labor leaders. Today, along with Councilmember Brooks and I believe all members of City Council, we passed a resolution acknowledging the 150th Anniversary of the Philadelphia Fire Department, but I want to offer my condolences on the passing to the Philadelphia Fire Department and the Fireman's Hall Historian, Jack Wright. Philadelphia Fire personnel are Philadelphia's heroes, and their services over the past 150 years makes them one of the oldest municipal fire companies in the country. Fittingly, Jack Wright was one of the leaders in preserving the Department's history, and losing him will have a profound impact on us all. Lastly, I think a little more personal with folks in the labor community and I would imagine some on City Council, this past Sunday, April 4th, we lost an incredible labor giant, Don McGrogan. Don was such a Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 remarkable person. He was kind, he was energetic, and he was one of the hardest working guys I know. He was a labor warrior in UFCW Local 1776. I've worked with him over the past 20 years. I've worked with him side by side with the AFL-CIO's Labor to Labor program and Labor to Neighbor program. He's somebody who not only walked the walk, but he walked the streets, he knocked on doors, he was in our stores that UFCW represented. He was just a gentle giant. He was an incredible person, who was inviting, he was warm. People felt comfortable with him. He was an incredible activist in addition to a labor leader. He was only 62 when he passed away. He was an adored father and friend. He was a talented banjo player with Aqua String Band. He lived in my district, and we have up in Mayfair-Holmesburg, we have a historic Thanksgiving Day Parade, and every Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 Thanksgiving Day Parade that I marched in, I would always be looking for him, because him and his family were out there celebrating community and enjoying who we are as Philadelphia. So next week I'm going to be introducing a resolution in his honor and his family's honor and the UFCW members, in their honor, and I welcome all co-sponsors from our members of Council. So my condolences out to his family and to the membership of UFCW. Thank you for your time, Council President.
Thank you, Councilman. We'll throw some prayers out to their family members. Thank you, Councilman. The Chair recognizes Councilman Jones.
Thank you, Mr. President. Recently many Philadelphians celebrated Passover, Easter, and soon the month of Ramadan, Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 and maybe because of those spiritual holidays, I want to cite Matthew's 25 where it says for I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger in a strange land, and you invited me in. I was sick, and you cared for me. But the most powerful part of this psalm is, they say I was in prison, and you visited me. I say that because as Chair of Public Safety and all of the members on the Public Safety Committee, particularly Councilwoman Brooks and Councilwoman Gym, who are often considered short in height, let me tell you, they are tall in stature. We went up to the prisons last Thursday. And I wasn't escorting them; they were escorting me. They walked through the facility with power and strength of our Council and went into the various pods where 18-year-olds to 27-year-olds, predominantly people of color, were occupying in an environment Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 that was held together, in my opinion, by bubble gum, duct tape, and piano wire. It is very tentative. But I met some of the most courageous correctional officers you will ever meet, many of whom, Mr. President, were female. We during the budget process have to pay attention to what's going on up on State Road. We have a courageous Commissioner who is holding those things together. We walked into places, Mr. President, where all I can say is, it was wasted talent. Idle minds create the devil's workshop, and it was on full display, where guards, in my opinion, correctional officers, pardon me, were not safe. The inmates that were there were not safe, and I would say to you that this situation was exacerbated because of COVID and because of the fact that out of the 4,700 inmates there, the good news is many of them are getting vaccinated, along with the correctional officers. The bad news is, many of them Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 refuse to take the shots. Because of that, you have high degrees of outages based on those correctional officers, which endanger those who come to work and have to stand their post. I want you to know that out of the 1,800 or so correctional officers, there are 330 vacancies. The starting salary there is 44,000 a year. So if somebody is looking for a job, well, there you go. And those correctional officers are an important part of keeping us all safe. I need not point to you what happened to the inmate that was released and then murdered on the prison grounds. But when someone decides that I'm going to be bold enough to go ride up in a prison and assassinate someone, none of us, none of us, none of us, not the correctional officers, not the inmates that are housed there, are safe. So I just want to thank my colleagues that braved it. Brooks and Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 Gym were something else to see, but I would encourage all of my colleagues to take that visit. I can't write a report or give a memo that can adequately describe what we experienced. I am looking forward to the Prison Commissioner's after-action report and corrective steps to make us all safer as Philadelphians. But I want to, again, thank all my members, including Majority Leader Parker, who has expressed great concern about what's going on, and say that during this budget process, to remember Matthew's 25 as we do our work. Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Thank you for your continued presence in a very informed public safety issue. The Chair recognizes Councilwoman Bass.
Thank you, Mr. President. And I want to also thank Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 my colleagues for their work and diligence on this very important issue around what's happening, and particularly, Councilman Jones, you as the Chair of Public Safety have been doing a phenomenal job in terms of keeping the issues out there. I know that you, Councilman Kenyatta Johnson, the great duo that you are, are seen as really keeping the issue in the front. Right now, unfortunately, it's not like it wouldn't be in the front anyway because there's just so much happening in the City, but I just wanted to say thank you for all that you're doing. And, listen, none of us is perfect, but we all work really hard to try to address the issues in the City of Philadelphia. S. Attorney's Office. That includes our own Police Commissioner, Danielle Outlaw. It also includes, it looks like, the FBI and the ATF. I don't have additional details on that, but I just saw a post come across. And, listen, we can use all the help that we can get in our neighborhoods, so I'm very interested to hear what else is going to be said and how that's going to work here for the citizens of the City of Philadelphia. Today, I wanted to just mention that this past Tuesday, April 6th was National Library Workers Day. First, I want to acknowledge the concerned black workers of the Free Library of Philadelphia who have organized and fought racial discrimination, inequality, and mistreatment in our library system for many years. Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 A few weeks ago, a diversity and inclusion training event for the Free Library of Philadelphia's staff took place, and the presenter discouraged over 200 participants from using the terms "white supremacy," "systemic racism," and "white privilege," because they were overused, quote/unquote, overused, and supposedly unnecessary to finding solutions. The presenter also referred to white privilege as one of the other myths out there; therefore, criticizing its use. This type of language denies the black experience and the discrimination and biases that black workers endure every day, and these statements are absolutely unacceptable. Events and messaging like this does not move our library system towards racial justice. White supremacy, systemic racism, and white privilege are very real and prevalent in our world today, and I would like to show my Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 support to the black library workers who have had to suffer through this event. As we celebrate National Library Workers Day, I am again uplifting the concerned black workers' demand for equitable pay and fair treatment. I also wanted to just take a moment and talk about International Transgender Day of Visibility, and this past Wednesday or the Wednesday before past, which was March 31st, 2021, was International Transgender Day of Visibility. This day celebrates the transgender community by educating, spreading awareness, and changing biases about what it means to be trans and gender non-conforming. In Philadelphia and many cities across the country, there is an epidemic of violence against trans people. We have lost many trans people in our own city to anti-LGBTQ homicides, such as Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells, Mia Green, and Tatiana Hall. Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 Trans people also experience higher unemployment, homelessness, attempted suicide, and disenfranchisement rates and are less likely to seek medical attention out of fear of discrimination. LGBTQ youth of color are overrepresented in child welfare, juvenile justice systems, and are unlikely to report harassment, physical assault or sexual violence in schools by school staff. A day of visibility for most trans community is important, because it acknowledges the strength, resilience, and unique characters of trans people and accepts individuals as they are.
I would like to recognize Celena Morrison, the Executive Director of our Office of LGBT Affairs, who was likely the first open trans person to lead a City office, which makes a major step or marks a major step for Philadelphia. I also want to recognize Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 Dr. Rachel Levine, the former head of the Pennsylvania Department of Health who was confirmed to be the Assistant Secretary of Health for the Biden administration. This is another huge step for the LGBTQ community, as Dr. Levine is now the highest ranked trans professional to serve in the federal government. Every day we must continue to raise awareness of the challenges trans and non-gender conforming people face while we also celebrate the strength and perseverance of the trans community. And that being said, I want to thank you, Mr. President, for the latitude in delivering today's speech for the majority. Thank you.
Thank you, Councilwoman. Appreciate you. Appreciate your hard work.
Thank you Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 very much, Council President. I wanted to thank my colleagues for joining together a couple weeks ago and sending a letter over to the Municipal Courts regarding the City Council's Eviction Diversion Program. About a year ago, many of us took a big leap of faith on really making a commitment to housing as a human right. At the start of the pandemic, there was a tremendous amount of uncertainty. There wasn't money that was available for keeping people housed. I think when we talked about whether it was possible for folks to start paying people's rent, we initially got scoffed at by a number of different people in that area, and we made a commitment nonetheless in the city that ranks the fourth highest in the nation in terms of eviction filings, a city that routinely processes about 20,000 evictions a year, 74 percent of whom target a black renter, 70 percent of which target a woman, half Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 of which target a caregiver of a dependent. We knew that evictions were the -- needed to be put on pause and that we need to find a better way. And this Council made a bold step by working together to pass the Emergency Housing Protections Act. We established a pre-filing diversion program with very little money and the stalwart commitment of a number of City agencies, especially our housing counselors, who actually stepped forward to do the mediation work even when there wasn't a guarantee of a reimbursement for their work. That is pretty extraordinary. As a result, we piloted also a rent assist program that started off with $10 million that the City was able to scrape together. That became $28 million by June, thanks to the work of the state. City Council had to put in an additional $8 million to make that state program work, but by the end of the year, we had Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 really shown that we can turn things around, and at the core of it was the diversion program really. It allowed renters and landlords to sit down together before you file for an eviction and talk things through to explore what the options were. And when we had rent assistance money, when we had trained housing counselors, it turns out that an overwhelming number -- we did probably 2,500 mediations between September through February. Ninety percent of them found a resolution other than an eviction, and that's pretty incredible. By the end of the year, Philadelphia becomes the face on the front page of the New York Times about a city that was working overtime to get money out to landlords and tenants and to keep people housed. In January, the state passed, thanks to the Federal Relief Act last year, had 100 million -- $500 million statewide. A hundred million of that Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 comes to Philadelphia. All of us have been spreading around the benefits of Phase 4 of rent assist. The Biden Rescue Plan, with 27 and a half billion dollars devoted to rent assistance, could likely double that. What that means is is that we may not have to see a poverty-based eviction here in the City of Philadelphia. But this really relied on the courts being a partner on this, and to be clear, while we have had a historic Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program that made Philadelphia a model for the nation, thank you so much to Councilman Jones, to Judge Annette Rizzo at the time at the Municipal Courts, and many others who had a role to play on it, we showed that diversion can really make a difference. The question was could we also do it around evictions. And last week, thanks to a letter that was signed by an overwhelming majority of City Council, an appeal to Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 the courts, the courts issued a formal order, temporary for right now but we hope will move towards a permanent basis, that eviction diversion is mandatory. That means that you cannot actually file for an eviction until you first apply for rent assistance and you seek mediation through the diversion program.
This is obviously for non-payment of rent. And this is really transformative. By having the courts recognize the fact that mediation and negotiation, a contact between two parties, can actually result in better outcomes, it means that we don't have to necessarily go back to the way things were. In a city that once did 20,000 evictions, we held it down below 5,000 evictions in 2020. We also made sure that landlords got paid over $60 million in rent checks. From as little as several hundred dollars out to thousands of dollars in rent checks went out to pay people's back rent, to pay people's Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 current rent, and to pay rent going forward. There is a different path from what we have chosen, and we don't have to stick with the old ways. It is also possible that evictions are a driver of poverty, not merely a consequence of it. So when we keep people housed, when we don't throw people out onto the streets, when we keep young kids stable in schools, and our most needy individuals just a little bit more stable for a period of time, we have a chance to see our way through to the other side. And that's in part why I think this conversation that we're going to have about the City budget matters. There are lots of questions that are before us right now, questions about whether we are going to move forward boldly on a path to address gun violence in our city, when we have hearing after hearing that clearly shows that people are struggling, young people are Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 struggling just to even access basic services around trauma therapy and supports, that we need supports within our communities. We've been told over and over again we need extended programming, outreach to communities, especially for young people who are overwhelmingly impacted by gun violence, black and brown youth in particular, and that a decade ago when the last time we saw 400 shootings in our city in 2006, what did we do back then? We cut back on schools. We closed many of them down. Services were cut back in an austerity agenda. We can't pursue that agenda again. Here in the middle of a pandemic, we cannot pursue an austerity agenda. It just does not make sense at this point in time. And if an austerity agenda pits our people against tax cuts for extremely like high-end corporations or income taxes when corporate income taxes are at the lowest point that they've been in Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 decades, then we have to ask ourselves whether all the promises, all the hearings that we've made matter. And so we've got a mission. I know this is going to be a conversation. I think we've shown transformative things that we can do when we help people stay housed, when we fund young people's schools, when we give them the programs that they need to survive, when we deal with people's trauma and their therapy, and we remind ourselves that at the core of a prosperous economy is a healthy individual. It's a healthy neighborhood. It's a supported place. That too is a healthy business environment. A strong city, healthy people, an educated populus is a healthy business environment. There isn't one definition to it. I look forward to that conversation. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Councilwoman, for your continued hard work. Stated Meeting April 8, 2021 It appears that that concludes the speeches on behalf of the minority and the majority. With that, I would like to recognize Councilman Jones for a motion to adjourn.
Thank you, Mr. President. I move that City Council stand adjourned until Thursday, April 15th, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. (Duly seconded.)
Thank you. It has been moved and seconded that Council stand adjourned until Thursday, April 15, 2021, 10:00 a.m. All in favor indicate by saying aye. (Aye.)
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