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Philadelphia Council Members David Oh and Helen Gym (At Large) argue for an audit of the Philadelphia Parking Authority during the Stated Meeting of Philadelphia City Council held June 16, 2016.
The discussion was in reference to Resolution No. 160659. http://bit.ly/2jOzb2B
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C
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A
You
most
I'm
sorry
there's
a
motion
on
the
floor,
the
most
of
those
in
the
floor.
So
it's
no
debate
on
the
motion
correct,
so
move
in
property.
Second,
all
in
favor
of
tabling
resolution,
160
69,
those
opposed,
nay,
nay,
eyes.
Have
it
resolution
160
659
is
table.
Oh
now
recognize
Cal
Smith!
Oh!
Thank
you
very
much.
Council
president.
C
This
resolution
is
quite
benign.
It
simply
is
a
resolution
requesting
the
city
controller
to
conduct
a
performance
audit
of
the
Philadelphia
Parking
Authority,
which
has
not
been
audited
since
2009
Philadelphians,
read
in
the
paper
about
the
millions
of
dollars
that
are
collected
in
our
city
and
then
fund
projects
all
over
our
state.
A
lot
of
what
we've
done
today,
which
is
a
difficult,
is
the
issue
of
whether
pre-k
shall
be
funded
by
a
beverage
tax
or
whether
there's
money
in
the
budget
I
believe
there's
money
in
the
budget
to
fund
this.
C
But
what
I
don't
think
we
can
dispute
is
that
from
the
streets
of
Philadelphia,
the
parking
fees
that
are
collected
and
the
hundreds
of
millions
of
dollars
are
not
being
distributed
to
the
city
of
Philadelphia
or
the
School
District
of
Philadelphia,
and
that
we
should
audit
the
parking
authority
on
the
parking
authority
collected
between
2010
and
2015.
One
point:
three:
seven
billion
dollars
gave
the
city
only
394
million
dollars.
C
The
question
is
what
happened
to
the
remaining
nine
hundred
eighty
million
dollars
in
October
2013,
the
Philadelphia
Parking
Authority,
came
before
council
to
request
an
increase
in
fees
and
fines,
stating
that
this
would
provide
an
additional
two
million
dollars
per
year
for
the
Philadelphia
public
schools.
Council
approved
that
request
and
the
very
next
year
funding
to
the
school
district
was
cut
by
3.5
million
dollars.
C
The
next
year
the
Philadelphia
Parking
Authority
came
before
City
Council
to
request
a
50
cent
per
hour
increase
for
parking
meters
in
areas
outside
of
center
city,
such
as
roxboro
Mayfair,
Chestnut
Hill,
many
areas
that
are
challenged
by
heart,
high
parking
fees.
The
request
was
granted
because,
in
particular,
the
testimony
of
the
executive
director
was
that
this
would
generate
7.5
million
dollars
for
the
public
schools
council
approved
this
increase,
and
the
school
district
then
made
a
projection
that
that
year,
the
following
year,
it
would
receive
19.5
million
from
the
Philadelphia
Parking
Authority.
C
In
fact,
it
received
less
than
11.1
million
dollars
and
then
in
2015,
even
though
the
revenues
did
increase
by
5.7
million
dollars
from
2014,
the
parking
authority
increased
its
operating
and
administrative
expenses
by
six
point:
four
million
dollars
there's
a
question:
1
million
dollar
in
bonuses,
only
a
by
the
controllers
office
would
be
able
to
find
out
whether
this
is
true
or
not
or
march.
23Rd.
The
Philadelphia
School
District
learned
from
an
article
in
the
notebook
that
the
Philadelphia
Parking
Authority
would
reduce
payments
to
the
school
district
in
fiscal
year.
C
Twenty
seventeen
by
three
million
dollars
and
therefore
it's
only
budgeted
eight
million
dollars.
The
Philadelphia
School
District
was
not
at
the
table
when
the
city
met
with
the
Philadelphia
Parking
Authority
to
review
its
financial
reports,
it
only
was
invited
to
table
when
this
council
body,
through
its
a
joint
committee,
held
hearings
a
couple
weeks
ago
for
both
the
city
and
the
school
district,
Philadelphia
Parking
Authority
provides
limited
funds
in
comparison
to
what
it
collects,
and
it
only
gives
the
city
and
the
schools
what
is
left
over
after
expenses
and
funding
projects
all
over
our
state.
C
It's
important
to
know
if
the
Philadelphia
Parking
Authority
is
running
efficiently,
if
it's
running
effectively
and
the
last
because
well
we're
here
on
a
beverage
tax,
because
we
don't
have
a
funding
source
that
people
are
comfortable
with.
If
they
don't
accept
that
there's
money
in
the
budget,
they
want
more
money.
The
parking
authority
was
taken
over
by
the
state
in
2001
the
same
year.
C
Our
school
district
was
taken
over
by
the
state,
and
so
the
report
of
the
controller
looked
at
seven
categories:
Center
City
garages
and
it's
summary
states
increases
in
administrative
expenses,
significantly
outpaces
increasing
increases
in
operating
revenues
over
the
six
year
period,
airport
parking
operations
and
it
states
in
consist
approval.
Protocol
exists
for
the
issuance
of
free
parking
passes
to
PPA
personnel
and
the
division
of
aviation
salary
costs.
C
No
consistent,
no
consistency
in
preparing
staff
plans
to
demonstrate
the
need
for
all
personnel
currently
employed
on
street
parking
operations,
no
documented
policies
and
procedures
for
the
determination
of
payment
amounts
due
to
the
city
and
school
district
of
philadelphia
profitability.
The
revenue
bond
activity
significantly
diminishes
pba's
profitability.
Interest
on
debt
was
forty
three
point:
four
percent
of
a
total
expenses
on
average
the
average
the
industry
average
is
only
twenty-eight
percent
new
responsibilities.
Management
did
not
prepare
revenue
and
expense
projections
beyond
one
year
and
finally,
contracted
services.
C
Management
could
not
produce
a
comprehensive
list
of
contracts,
and
it
also
stated
that
they
do
not
have
open
bidding,
which
affects
many
of
our
minority
and
female
owned
businesses
in
the
city.
I
would
like
to
say
that
if
you
look
at
the
first
page
page
1
of
the
handout
that
I
provided,
we
received
to
two
different
sets
of
data
from
the
parking
authority,
total
expenses
from
the
financial
statement
and
total
expenses
provided
to
City
Council
members,
and
you
can
see
that
over
the
five-year
period,
there
is
a
difference
of
24
million
dollars.
C
So
we
do
not
know
what
that
was
for
council.
President
I
think
that
we
have
raised
sales,
tax,
real
estate,
tax
use
and
occupancy
tax
cigarettes,
and
now
we
look
at
soda
real
estate
transfer
tax
all
upon
the
people
of
Philadelphia,
when
in
fact,
the
people's
resources,
the
streets,
the
parking
lots
are
producing
hundreds
of
millions
of
dollars
that
should
be
benefiting
the
people
of
this
city
and
our
schools
and
I
think
it's
incumbent
that
we
continue
to
look
at
that
source
of
revenues.
Rad
then
burdening
the
people
with
more
and
more
taxes.
D
Be
very
brief.
Council
president,
thank
you
very
much
and
thank
you
to
my
colleague
councilman,
oh,
who
laid
out
very
clearly
the
the
concerns
that
that
specifically
address
in
my
interest.
The
funding
for
the
School
District
of
Philadelphia,
the
Philadelphia
Parking
Authority
in
2014,
as
my
count
as
the
councilman
laid
out,
came
and
testified
before
this
council
that
it
would
promise
to
increase
seven,
a
half
million
dollars
to
the
school
district
in
funds.
D
If
we
then
increased
on
street
parking
meter
rates
and
kiosk
fees
between
by
that
measure,
they
should
be
delivering
between
18
to
20
million
dollars
a
year
to
the
public
schools
next
year
they
are
projected
to
deliver
eight.
The
difference
between
10
to
12
million
dollars
is
a
cohort
of
full
councillors
throughout
our
district.
It's
about
books
and
supplies
in
our
schools.
It's
about
children
struggling
to
even
get
water
access.