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From YouTube: Councilmember Domb on Bill No. 210121
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From the Stated Meeting held Thursday, March 4, 2021:
Councilmember Allan Domb's remarks on Bill No. 210121.
Read the bill: https://phila.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4796203&GUID=2F499F5F-043F-417F-8A41-365707463340&Options=ID|Text|&Search=210121
A
Thank
you.
Council.
President,
a
few
weeks
ago
I
stood
in
front
of
the
link
and
employed
the
mayor
to
put
in
place
a
vaccination
plan
big
enough
and
bold
enough
vaccinate
this
city
with
the
speed
our
citizens
demand
in
order
to
get
our
lives
back
our
families
back
and
get
us
back
to
work
for
three
weeks
administration
rejected
the
plan
saying
we
didn't
have
enough
vaccines
to
make
a
site
as
big
as
the
link
necessary.
A
A
A
Two
months
earlier,
and
unfortunately
for
all
of
us
two
months
earlier
than
the
city's
current
plan,
this
plan
can
only
mean
one
thing:
the
city
intends
to
get
all
of
our
vaccines
by
the
end
of
may,
but
remains
woefully
unprepared
to
deliver
them
until
the
end
of
july,
and
that's
if
you
believe
in
the
ability
of
the
city
to
scale
up
to
deliver
them
by
july,
given
the
plan
they
presented.
So
let
me
just
take
a
quick
look
at
the
plan.
A
This
plan
says
that
35
percent
of
the
city's
capacity
to
deliver
doses
by
the
last
week
of
april
will
come
from
fema.
There
are
only
two
problems
with
this
assumption.
First,
the
fema
site
is
set
to
close
by
the
last
week
of
april.
Second,
fema
is
not
responsible
for
providing
capacity
for
the
city's
dose
allocation.
Fema
has
its
own
separate
dose
allocation.
A
Now,
let's
re-run
the
numbers
for
a
moment
using
the
current
white
house
plan
for
vaccine
delivery
and
the
current
understanding
of
fema's
role
in
our
city's
distribution
assume
under
the
biden
timeline.
Our
dose
count
is
200
thousand
per
week
by
the
end
of
april,
and
not
the
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
of
the
continues.
A
A
My
fellow
colleagues,
this
is
a
plan
built
for
failure.
The
philly
fighting
covert
disaster
just
doesn't
happen
on
its
own.
It
happens,
but
because
we
fail
the
plan
jumping
the
line
at
the
convention
center
doesn't
just
happen.
It
happens
because
we
failed
to
play
22
of
the
doses
going
to
african
americans
who
make
up
44
of
philadelphia
doesn't
just
happen.
It
happens
because
we
failed
to
prevent
it
when
the
convention
center
was
chosen
as
a
fema
site.
A
Today
came
out
today,
whyy
reports
that
the
white
neighborhoods
within
walking
distance
of
the
convention
center
are
trying
to
jump
the
line
and
what
is
the
administration's
response?
The
mayor
said
scolding
philadelphians
to
examine
their
conscience.
I
say
to
the
mayor
and
administration:
why
don't?
We
first
examine
our
failed
technology?
A
We
don't
expect
perfection,
but
we
do
expect
leadership
to
admit
when
they
are
wrong,
have
made
mistakes
and
then,
let's
work
together
to
get
it
right.
Just
this
morning,
I
received
a
response
to
my
questioning
of
the
projected
doses
in
the
plan.
The
mayor
says,
the
plan
is
fluid
and
the
charts
are
merely
illustrative.
A
A
I
listened
to
president
biden
when
he
revised
the
timetable
for
doses.
I
assure
you
that
president
biden
was
not
being
fluid
or
illustrative
when
he
announced
his
plan,
and
neither
should
we
until
we
own
up
to
the
real
numbers
and
a
real
plan.
We
will
lose
the
fight
for
racial
equity
and
ensure
that
our
city
will
still
be
fighting
this
pandemic,
while
other
big
cities
in
america
are
on
the
road
to
recovery.
A
Yesterday
I
hosted
a
conference
call
with
our
partners
who
could
get
this
done
and
they
all
stand
ready
to
deploy
the
link
to
deliver
10,
000
plus
vaccinations
a
day
today,
link
doesn't
just
stand
as
the
best
option.
It's
probably
the
only
option
on
large
scale.
We
have
left
to
get
there
by
the
end
of
may.
The
mayor
wants
us
to
hand
over
50
million
dollars
today.
For
this
plan
that
does
not
work.
I
cannot
vote
until.