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The Committee on Fiscal Stability and Intergovernmental Cooperation of the Council of the City of Philadelphia held a Public Hearing on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, at 2:00 PM, in a remote manner using Microsoft® Teams to hear testimony on the following items:
210269 Resolution authorizing the Committee on Fiscal Stability and Intergovernmental Cooperation to hold a hearing examining the use and impact of the stimulus dollars allocated for Philadelphia under President Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act.
B
Thank
you
good
afternoon.
This
hearing
is
called
to
order
and
I
recognize
the
presence
of
a
quorum
of
committee
members
members
of
the
committee
of
attendance
who
are
attending,
or
vice
chair,
brian
o'neill,
council,
member
gilmore,
richardson
council
member
bass.
This
is
the
public
hearing
of
the
committee
on
fiscal
responsibility
and
intergovernmental
cooperation,
and
the
purpose
of
this
public
hearing
today
is
to
hear
testimony
on
resolution
two
one:
zero,
two
six
nine.
B
I
introduced
this
resolution
with
co-sponsors
council
members,
gilmore
richardson
councilmember
brooks
councilmember
jones,
councilmember,
greene,
councilmember,
canonica
sanchez,
councilmember,
parker,
councilmember
bass,
councilmember,
thomas
and
councilmember
squilla,
and
I
want
to
thank
them
all
for
their
support
on
this
important
topic.
I
understand
that
state
law
currently
requires
that
the
following
announcement
be
made
at
the
beginning
of
every
remote
public
hearing
as
follows.
B
B
He
loved
philadelphia
and
was
a
tremendous
mentor
for
many
of
us
in
showing
us
the
example
of
how
to
give
back
and
help
the
city.
We
all
love
again,
my
condolences
to
his
family
and
friends,
we'll
miss
him
and
we'll
remember
him
in
preparation.
This
hearing
I
was
reminded
of
the
winston
churchill
quote:
never
let
a
good
crisis
go
to
waste
and,
while
I
don't
think
a
crisis
is
ever
good,
it
can
force
us
to
look
at
things
a
bit
different.
B
I
know
it's
common
to
pick
on
government
for
ending
up
behind
the
eight
ball
on
things,
trailing
innovation
or
sometimes
even
blocking
it
for
fear
of
change,
but
I
think
this
body,
especially
in
the
last
year,
has
responded
to
this
pandemic
with
thoughtfulness
about
what
our
people
need
right
now
and
we've
provided
much
needed
leadership
on
major
issues
facing
the
city.
This
resolution
is
in
recognition
of
the
work
and
seeks
to
continue
our
strong
role
in
determining
philadelphia's
trajectory
from
here.
B
On
march
10th,
the
president
of
the
united
states
enacted
a
1.9
trillion
dollar
stimulus
package
named
the
american
rescue
plan
act.
Philippians
stands
to
receive
an
estimated
1.4
billion
dollars
in
assistance
in
order
to
recover
from
the
economic
downturn
brought
on
by
the
covet
19
pandemic
and
bring
back
a
stronger
vibrant
city
with
opportunities
for
everyone
to
get
back
on
their
feet.
Again.
Today,
we
will
hear
from
just
a
subset
of
philadelphia's,
civic
and
community
leaders
who
have
some
interesting
ideas
around
how
we
can
use
this
short-term
investment
for
our
city's
long-term
gain
and
benefit.
B
I
thank
my
co-sponsors
on
this
resolution.
Council
members,
gilmore
richardson
brooks
jones
green
quinoa
sanchez,
parker
bass,
thomas.
I
look
forward
to
this
hearing
and
hope
we
all
use
this
as
an
opportunity
to
brainstorm
and
share
ideas
for
this
coming
budget
season
and
beyond.
Thank
you
and
let's
get
started.
Mr
back,
please
call
the
first
panel
of
witnesses.
D
D
Yes
good
afternoon,
thank
you
so
much.
Mr
chair.
I
just
wanted
to
quickly
come
on
at
the
onset
of
the
hearing,
to
thank
you
for
your
foresight,
your
insight
and
your
leadership
and
ensuring
that
we
have
an
opportunity
to
adequately
review
the
infusion
of
dollars
that
will
be
coming
into
the
city
of
philadelphia
city
of
the
first
class,
not
only
a
city
but
a
county,
a
city
city,
to
really
think
about
how
we
plan
for
this
infusion
of
dollars
in
the
city
of
philadelphia.
D
And
I
think
we
have
to
understand
that.
Not
only
as
we
look
at
the
american
rescue
plan,
but
the
anticipation
of
the
passage
of
the
infrastructure
plan
that
it's
important
for
us
to
have
a
plan
from
a
city
perspective
on
how
that
will
impact
us
in
the
days
ahead
as
we
look
towards
our
recovery
and
making
our
environment
advantageous
to
the
impending
recovery.
D
B
E
Absolutely
thank
you
so
much
councilmember.
My
name
is
michael
gleason.
I
am
a
legislative
manager
for
the
national
league
of
cities
in
washington
dc.
I'm
here
today
to
talk,
as
you
said
at
the
outset,
about
the
1.4
billion
dollars
that
philadelphia
stands
to
get
from
the
federal
government.
This
is
a
transformative
amount
of
money
that
will
be
coming,
and
I
think
one
of
the
things
to
keep
in
mind
and
as
I'll
get
to
my
slide
in
a
second
is
that
this
money
can
be
spent
over
five
years.
E
So,
as
you
guys
are
planning
your
budgets,
thinking
about
the
the
dollars
that
are
coming,
it
doesn't
all
have
to
be
allocated
in
the
first
the
first
year
or
two.
This
is
something
that
can
be
transformative
in
a
way
that
can
make
philadelphia
a
good,
a
much
better
city
and
increase
its
viability
over
the
coming
years
in
the
coming
years
to
come.
E
E
Now
to
just
briefly
walk
through
these,
so
the
first
one
is
to
respond
to
the
public
health
emergency
with
respect
to
the
cove
in
19,
with
covet
19
or
its
negative
economic
impacts.
Basically,
this
is
no
more
restrictive
than
the
the
cares
act
and
you
can
use
this
for
a
number
of
ways
both
for
the
public
health
emergency.
So
if
you're
interested
in
talking
about
ppe
or
other
products
for
first
responders
or
doing
assistance
to
households,
small
businesses
or
non-profits.
E
The
third
is
the
law,
the
reduction
in
revenue,
and
this
will
be
based
on
the
most
recent
budget
prior
to
the
fiscal
pandemic
and
during
the
question
and
answer
session,
I'd
be
happy
to
talk
to
you
about
what
we've
heard
from
treasury
about
exactly
what
that
means.
But
at
this
point,
they're
still
seeking
clarity
and
we
just
had
a
call
with
them
yesterday
as
they're
probing
city
budgets
and
trying
to
understand
better
how
budgets
are
used,
and
so
we
don't
have
an
exact
date
of
the
prior
prior
to
the
emergency.
E
E
This
is
one
where
I
think,
there's
going
to
be
a
lot
of
people
who
are
interested
in
providing
are
doing
investment,
and
it's
also
not
linked,
as
the
other
three
are
where
you'll
see
covet
mentioned
to
any
any
necessary.
You
know
covid
downturn,
so,
for
example,
if
you
have
a
investment
that
you
want
to
make
in
water,
sewer
or
broadband
that
doesn't
necessarily
have
to
be
tied
to
you
know
school
children
not
being
able
to
access
their
wi-fi
because
their
schools
are
closed.
E
B
B
B
F
I'm
sorry
councilman
okay,
good
afternoon,
councilman,
dom
and
the
members
of
the
city
council,
fiscal
stability
and
interior
governmental
cooperation
authority.
My
name
is
harvey
rice
and
the
executive
director
of
the
pennsylvania,
intergovernmental
cooperation
authority,
the
state
oversight
agency
for
the
city
of
philadelphia.
F
As
you
know,
under
president
biden's,
american
rescue
plan
act
or
the
arp,
the
city
is
expected
to
receive
approximately
1.4
billion
in
federal
funds
under
the
kona
coronavirus,
state
and
local
fiscal
recovery
funds.
These
funds
are
to
combat
the
adverse
economic
impact
of
the
kova
19
pandemic
on
city
tax
revenues
and
new
costs
related
to
the
pandemic.
F
These
federal
dollars
can
be
used
to
cover
eligible
expenditures
through
december
31st
of
2024,
and
this
time
period
covers
three
and
a
half
years
of
the
upcoming
fy
22
fy26
five-year
plans.
These
funds
will
be
received
in
two
installments
one
in
may
of
2021
and
one
the
second
installment
a
year
later.
F
This
one-time
allocation
of
federal
support
should
not
be
used
to
initiate
new
programs
that
are
unsustainable
in
future
years,
as
occurred
with
the
school
district
in
fiscal
year.
2011
12,
when
the
arab
fund
came
through,
which
resulted
in
a
projected
500
million
deficit
due
in
part
to
the
loss
of
federal
stimulus
aid.
This
reliance
on
one-time
federal
funding
led
to
the
largest
school
district
deficit
in
recent
district
history.
F
These
federal
stimulus
funds
should
be
used
to
balance
the
budget
in
the
long
term.
In
addition
to
the
projected
budget
gap
of
450
million
for
fiscal
year,
20
2022,
the
general
consensus
among
economists
is
that
the
economy
will
recover,
but
in
a
more
subdued
and
protracted
rate.
Therefore,
the
city
should
ensure
that
these
funds
are
used
to
fill
potential
budget
cut
gaps
in
the
coming
years.
F
The
city
should
again
as
we've
all
as
pika
has
always
recommended.
In
our
five
year,
plans
start
contributing
to
budget
stabilization
reserve
fund
or
the
rainy
day
fund.
The
city
made
its
first
deposit
into
this
rainy
day
fund
in
fiscal
year.
2020
and
was
almost
immediately
used
in
fiscal
year,
2021
to
balance
the
city
budget.
F
Further,
the
city
should
use
these
program
use
programs
in
the
arp
to
the
best
of
their
ability
to
assist
struggling
small
businesses
and
also
assist
those
who
lost
their
businesses
during
the
pandemic
and
support
philadelphia
businesses
in
pursuing
funding
under
the
arp
small
business
assistance
and
support
funding.
In
doing
this,
we
will
increase
our
revenues,
which
will
then
assist
the
budget,
the
city
budget,
going
forward.
F
In
addition
to
utilizing
these
funds
effectively,
the
city
should
make
every
effort
to
maximize
the
amount
of
federal
and
state
stimulus
funds
it
receives.
President
biden's
stimulus
money
should
not
be
the
end
of
opportunities
for
aid
to
the
city.
The
city
will
also
qualify
for
other
funding
from
federal
agencies
somewhat,
which
may
be
funneled
through
the
state,
including
programs
for
housing,
rental
assistance,
the
airport
and
fema.
F
No
money
should
be
left
on
the
table
when
there
will
be
such
great
and
very
need
for
this
post-pandemic
aid.
Prior
the
pandemic,
the
city
was
experienced
a
significant
level
of
tax
growth,
not
seen
in
many
decades,
while
making
great
strides
and
stabilizing
city
finances,
generating
senate
significant
fund
balances.
F
F
Further,
the
pika
board
would
also
hope
to
see
the
city
utilize
these
funds
to
address
some
of
the
recommendations
that
pika
board
has
made
in
the
past
in
our
five
in
our
reports
on
the
five-year
plans.
Thank
you
for
allowing
me
to
testify
at
this
hearing,
and
I
welcome
any
questions
and
I'm
available
to
answer.
F
B
G
G
So
it
is
really
critical
to
understand,
breadth
and
the
depth
of
this
american
rescue
plan
next
slide.
So
we
at
drexel
have
put
together
a
federal
investment
guide
that
looks
at
84
programs
across
19
federal
agencies
that
are
allocated
by
seven
dis,
seven,
different
distribution
methods,
block
grants
to
the
states
block
rents
to
public
authorities
to
the
city
itself,
competitive
grants,
a
tax
incentives,
capital
products.
G
So
the
key
here
is
to
understand
how
to
unders
to
get
your
arms
around
this
and
leverage
it
for
full,
equitable
impact
in
an
effective
way
and
the
focus
on
the
flex
funds
or
the
fiscal
relief
funds
coming
directly
to
city
hall
is
only
one
piece
of
this.
The
government
will
play
many
different
roles
in
the
delivery
of
these
different
funds.
Next
slide,
it
is
key
as
you
pull
yourself
together
here,
to
set
priorities.
G
G
So
once
you
understand
the
available
federal
dollars
establish
local
priorities,
then
you
can
match
make
here
sources
and
uses
next
slide
priorities
or
principles
for
these
funds.
This
is
a
moment
for
transformation,
and
this
is
a
moment
for
leverage
for
funds
to
support
capacity
building
within
the
government
across
public
authorities
and
agencies
with
your
private,
civic
and
non-profit
partners.
So
they
can
leverage
up
other
funds
and
the
impact
of
the
1.4
billion
dollars
that
go
directly
could
be
amplified.
G
So,
let's
just
use
small
business
very
quickly,
and
all
this
is
accessible
on.
The
drexel
website
is
an
example
of
the
cross-cutting
nature
of
the
american
rescue
plan.
Philadelphia,
like
all
american
cities,
starts
with
black
latino
and
asian
enterprises
being
small,
low
payroll,
low
revenue
and
mostly
concentrated
in
sectors
that
are
low
wage
and
low
growth
and
were
disproportionately
affected
by
the
pandemic
so
going
forward.
The
need
here
is
to
think
strategically
about
a
surge
in
black
latino
and
asian
entrepreneurship,
particularly
in
sectors
that
can
professionalize
and
grow
at
scale
next
slide.
G
This
is
where
sources
and
uses
come
into
effect.
When
you
think
about
having
the
maximum
impact
on
black
and
brown
businesses,
we
need
to
think
about
an
ecosystem,
entrepreneurial
support,
access
to
quality
capital
supplier,
diversity
from
ed's
meds
corps,
government,
commercial
corridors
and
sector
upgrading
and
sector
diversification.
Those
are
the
uses.
G
Those
are
the
priorities
coming
from
the
ground
up
with
different
practitioners
playing
different
role,
and
then
you
do
this
matchmaking
exercise
to
federal
sources.
Yes,
the
funds
going
directly
to
the
city,
but
also
the
state
public
authorities,
competitive
funds
and
capital
products.
One
example:
the
state
of
bent
the
commonwealth
of
pennsylvania,
will
be
getting
a
substantial
amount
of
funding
in
state
small
business
credit
initiative,
funds
that
can
match
very
nicely
to
capital
access
to
different
forms
of
capital
for
small
businesses
next
slide.
G
G
B
B
I
have
a
few
questions
for
everybody,
so
I'll
start
off
and
if
my
colleagues
have
any
questions,
please
just
post
your
question
in
the
chat,
room
and
I'll
pick
it
up.
Let
me
start
with
michael
gleason
from
the
national
league
of
cities
on
the
white
house
intergovernmental
call.
Last
week
I
listened
to
gene
sperling
said
the
administration
is
working
diligently
to
create
rules
and
regulations
for
the
use
of
its
funding,
but
the
current
focus
is
on
feedback
rather
than
issuing
final
rules.
E
Absolutely
sir,
we've
been
talking
to
the
the
white
house
into
treasury
directly,
almost
on
a
daily
basis.
On
our
first
call
with
the
treasury
department,
we
learned
that
the
they're,
probably
gonna,
take
all
60
days
that
is
allowed
under
the
statute
to
create
the
allocations,
as
well
as
the
the
rules
they're
trying
to
make
the
rules
as
robust
as
possible
to
avoid
what
happened
under
the
cares
act
where
there
was
nine
iterations
of
rolling
guidance.
E
B
F
We
see
in
talking
to
our
economists
to
assist
pika.
We
see
a
a
slow
but
gradual
increase
in
revenues
in
some
revenues.
You'll
see
like
when,
when
it
opens
up
and
say
the
fall
and
we
see
the
eagles
games
and
the
phillies
games
are
full
capacity.
Then
you're
going
to
see
those
amusement
taxes,
maybe
shift
up
higher
quicker
than
some
other
taxes.
But
we
see
a
gradual
increase
overall
in
all
the
tax
bases.
B
F
B
B
If
I'm
wrong
is
that
besides
the
1.4
billion
dollars,
the
city
is
getting
and
the
1.3
the
school
district's
getting
is
a
whole
other
category
of
federal
funds
that
we
need
to
really
focus
on,
and
I
think
your
presentation
was
like
pick
three
or
four
or
five
areas
of
what
our
focus
is.
Our
focus
should
be
so
if
you
were
looking
at
the
city
of
philadelphia,
what
do
you
think
those
three
four
or
five
focus
areas
specifically
in
your
opinion,
we
should
be
focused
on
that's
number.
B
G
Well,
thank
you
for
those
questions.
We
have
been
working
very
closely
with
many
mayor,
kenny's
staff,
both
the
chief
financial
officer
mike
rashid,
at
commerce
and
dueling
and
planning.
I
mean
it's
an
exceptional
step
and
what
we've
been
doing
across
the
u.s,
led
by
mayor,
garcetti
and
mayor
fisher
of
louisville,
is
to
advise
cities
to
set
up
command
centers,
so
they
can
get
their
arms
around
both
the
funds
that
are
directly
coming
to
city
hall,
but
also
help
leverage
all
these
other
funds.
G
So
every
city
has
a
different
set
of
priorities
frankly,
but
the
common
priorities
and
the
ones.
I
think
that
we've
been
working
very
closely
with
the
philadelphia
equity
alliance
with
paul
levy
and
others
is
to
focus
on
several
things.
Gun
violence
is
a
is
a
critical
issue
and
can
be
addressed
through
multiple
sources:
school
jobs
for
the
summer,
but
also
new
kinds
of
community
investments,
and
we've
we've
put
forward
some
ideas
with
the
philadelphia
equity
alliance,
around
weed
and
seed
kind
of
efforts
that
work
very
well
in
past
decades.
G
Small
business,
the
disparate
effect
on
small
business,
black
and
latino
business
is
very,
very
clear.
So
we
think
there
should
be
a
focus,
as
I
put
forward
in
my
presentation
on
supplier
diversity,
a
lot
of
federal
funding
coming
particularly
for
infrastructure
that
could
affect
construction,
capital
access,
but
also
commercial
corridors,
because
those
are
the
nodes
of
not
just
commerce
but
the
node-specific
life
and
as
businesses
have
been
devastated,
the
corridors
have
been
decimated
and
last
piece
is
homelessness.
G
This
this
has
become
an
issue
gripping
the
major
cities
all
over
the
united
states,
and
there
is
some
funding
directly
to
help
the
homeless
population.
But
again
it
cuts
across
multiple
funding
sources
and
and
could
generate
some
substantial,
innovative
practice
as
we
move
forward.
So
I
would
say:
gun
violence,
small
business
writ
large
and
homelessness
would
be
three
priorities.
I
I
can
see
philadelphia
embrace
it.
B
Thank
you.
I
mean
I
was
on
a
call
maybe
two
weeks
ago,
and
they
said
to
me
that
in
the
past
I'm
going
back
five
ten
even
fifteen
years
ago,
philadelphia
didn't
always
get
their
fair
share
of
these
federal
monies
when
they
came
to
the
table.
So
I
guess
my
my
concern
is:
how
do
we
make
sure
we
get
at
least
our
fair
share
and
not
be
short.
G
G
The
enterprise
center
is
one
of
the
top
entrepreneurial
support
organizations
in
the
entire
country,
a
history
of
focus
on
commercial
corridors,
the
page
initiative
bids
like
center
city
and
university
city
that
are
the
best
in
the
country,
so
you've
got
a
practitioner
base
that
is
deep
and
broad
and
let
them
lose.
I
mean
this
is
the
time
for
them
to
draw
down
more
than
philadelphia's
fair
share
across
these
multiple
sources
towards
the
north,
star
of
equitable
impact.
B
Last
question:
for
me:
I'm
going
to
turn
in
the
long
run
all
this
money
that's
coming
into
our
economy
from
the
federal
government.
What
does
that
mean
for
the
economy
in
five
ten
years
from
now?
Does
that
mean
more
inflation?
What
is
what
what?
What
what
would
you
tell
us
that
we
have
to
look
out
for
and
as
a
city,
what
should
we
be
considering
in
that
light,.
G
Well-
and
this
has
to
be
coupled
with
the
american
jobs
plan,
because
the
american
jobs
plan
is
really
president
biden's
effort
to
build
back
better
and
restructure
the
economy
towards
new
areas
of
innovative
growth.
A
clean
energy
philadelphia
can
play
substantially
in
economic
restructuring.
So
I
think
the
key
here
is
not
just
to
focus
on
the
lowest
common
denominator.
G
B
All
right,
thank
you,
that's
great.
Thank
you
very
much
and
I'd
like
to
recognize
my
colleague,
councilmember
green,
who
joined
us.
I
also
want
to
thank
you
councilman
green,
for
connecting
us
with
the
national
legal
season.
I
know
you
have
some
questions,
so
please
go
right
ahead.
Thank
you,
councilman.
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
I
want
to
thank.
H
This
panel,
in
particular,
I
think
mike
leeson
from
national
league
cities,
we've
been
on
various
panels.
It
seemed
like
we've
been
on
a
road
show
from
your
presentations
for
the
national
black
caucus
and
local
elected
officials,
as
well
as
our
nlc
board.
So
thank
you
for
being
here
and
providing
information,
and
also
I
just
want
to
thank
the.
H
H
And
when
you
think
about
the
fact
that
one,
we
have
a
450
million
dollar
deficit
for
the
fy22,
we
have
significant
issues
with
our
homeless
population
and
those
deal
with
addiction
like
opioid
addiction.
Public
safety
challenges
is
very
well
documented.
You
know,
with
the
49
homicides
last
year,
already
at
a
percentage
much
higher
this
year
already
the
fact
that
the
cause
of
the
pandemic,
we
had
a
significant
reduction
in
the
non-resident
wage
tax
coming
into
the
city.
H
So
I
guess
my
question
considering
how
we
traditionally
have
received
dollars
and
that
we
only
use
the
dollars
that
have
come
based
on
what
a
source
was
either
from
the
state
or
the
federal
government,
and
I'm
curious
awesome
insight.
You
may
have
seen
the
other
cities.
Where
would
you
say
we
should
spend
these
dollars?
I
know
mr
catcher
kind
of
gave
some
perspective.
I
know
mr
gleason,
you
know
from
your
presentation
and
my
knowledge
of
the
american
rescue
plan
like
we
can
spend
some
money
on
infrastructure,
or
should
we
wait
and
spend
money?
H
Hopefully
the
american
jobs
plan
gets
past
the
reconciliation
in
the
fall
and
used
as
an
infrastructure
opportunity.
Ideas
like
earmarks,
which
may
be
coming
back
or
the
rainy
day
fund
or
changing
our
tax
structure,
as
councilmember
mcdonough
has
proposed,
so
consider
this
various
dynamics,
I'm
just
curious.
How
would
you
allocate
dollars
if
you
have
that
perspective?
Do
we
do
a
little
bit
across
a
bunch
of
different
areas,
or
do
we
really
take
these
out
to
really
target
specific
issues
to
make
fundamental
change
and
what
would
those
issues.
G
So
if
you
take
small
business-
and
I
would
say,
set
some
hairy
audacious
goals
for
the
next
decade,
because
your
starting
point
on
black
and
brown
business,
both
in
terms
of
their
number
and
their
size
and
their
sector
needs
a
transformative
impact
they
need.
We
need
an
entrepreneurial
surge
essentially
in
these
communities,
to
build
wealth
and
and
to
grow.
Diverse,
hiring
so
capacity
building
here
could
have
a
tremendous
effect.
G
I
mean
I'll.
Just
give
you
one
example:
the
the
paycheck
protection
program,
as
initially
devised,
went
primarily
to
mid-size
and
larger
small
businesses,
because
they
had
relationships
with
banks
and
financial
institutions.
We
learned
our
lesson
della
clark.
Enterprise
center
basically
created
an
ecosystem
where
bookkeepers
accountants
and
lawyers
were
connected
to
small
black
and
brown
owned
businesses,
who
were
then
linked
to
cdfi's
traditional
banks
and
fintech
lenders.
G
A
small
investment
in
that
ecosystem
will
leverage
up
substantial
amounts
of
private
capital,
which
is
backed
by
public
dollars
and
that's
just
one
example
of
many
in
the
small
business
realm
supplier
diversity,
you're,
looking
at
billions
coming
in
infrastructure
spending,
potentially
that
should
be
in
the
service
of
growing
black
and
brown
pre-construction
construction
and
post-construction
firms.
A
little
investment
in
the
capacity
of
a
new
kind
of
supplier,
diversity
intermediary,
really
a
compliment
to
page
on
the
public
side
deal
with
the
port,
the
airport,
water,
sewer,
pha
schools.
G
That's
the
way
to
grow
this
small
business,
these
small
business
enterprises,
so
I
would
think
about
leverage
and
high
return
on
investment
with
certain
market-oriented
investments
with
other
service
oriented
investments,
there
still
may
be
a
market
effect,
but
the
public
sector
might
dominate
more
more
dramatically.
I
hope
that's
responsive.
F
So
I
would
say
that
is
all
important
though,
but,
however,
I
also
discussed
critical
services,
and
it's
not
just
going
back
to
those
services.
We
need
to
know
what
services
are
needed.
What
service
are
they
performing?
Well?
Are
we
getting
our
best
bang
for
the
buck?
Are
they
really
serving
the
people
that
they're
there
to
serve,
and
I
think
the
city
before
when
this
money
comes
in
before
they
start
just
putting
the
money
back
into
in
into
the
city
services
they
really
need
to?
F
And-
and
I
know
some
people
on
council
as
well
as
pica,
we
have
been
trying
to
get
the
city
to
do
better
performance
measuring
of
the
services
and
the
tax
dollars
are
going
into
those
services
so
that
one
we
are
delivering
the
needed
services
the
most
appropriate
way
and
in
the
most
fiscally
sound
way.
So
I
think
they
need
to
keep
that
in
in
in
their
vision
as
they
see,
these
funds
come
come
in
from
the
federal
government
and
through
the
state
government
and
and
make
sure
that
we
restore
critical
services.
H
And
I
just
have
one
we
follow
connor,
we
have
a
number
of
panelists
and
other
members
of
the
council
would
like
to
testify.
I
just
want
to
give
one
other
analogy,
and
I
think
one
of
the
challenges
is
that,
because
of
the
pain
of
the
pandemic,
not
only
from
all
of
the
lives
lost
businesses
lost
and
jobs
loss.
You
know
people
are
dealing
with
very
significant
economic
challenges
where
others
have.
You
know,
benefited
financially
from
the
pandemic
because
of
stock
market
and
other
types
of
investments.
H
Philadelphia's
example
to
really
grow
black
and
brown
businesses,
and
when
you
see
the
fact
that
we
have
a
25
poverty
rate,
the
fact
of
43
african
american
population,
but
only
six
percent
of
the
businesses
with
employees
are
owned
by
african
americans
15
latin
population,
but
only
four
percent
of
the
businesses
with
employees
are
owned
from
people
of
latin
assent,
so
both
are
different
policy
decisions
on
how
you
spend
dollars.
One
is
direct
assistance,
either
through
direct
dollars.
H
Other
financial
programs
that
directly
go
to
constituents
that
will
be
spent
on
power
perspective
in
the
community,
but
that's
immediate
benefit,
but
some
would
say
a
longer-term
benefit
that
would
provide
a
better
leverage
using
your
words.
Mr
cats
would
be
investing
in
businesses,
but
that's
not
always
the
area
that
gets
the
most
attention,
because
it's
a
lot
easier
for
people
to
see.
Well,
the
benefit
I'm
getting
right
now
is
some
type
of
financial
benefit.
H
H
I
don't
use
the
word
play,
but
better
financial
benefit
for
the
city
by
growing
those
businesses
in
in
various
communities,
especially
specifically
african-american
land
communities,
which
can
provide
additional
revenue
long
term
and
multiply
those
dollars
versus
a
short-term,
immediate
impact
on
dollars
being
spent
in
the
city.
So
I'm
curious
about
your
perspective
on
that.
I
think
conundrum
that
I
see
us
in
the
city
of
philadelphia
and
other
cities
dealing
with.
E
One
of
the
things
that
the
new
york
fed,
the
federal
reserve
bank
actually
came
out
with,
I
believe
last
week,
was
a
study
about
how
stimulus
funds
have
been
used.
So
if
you
provide
a
direct,
you
know
allocation
of
funds
from
the
city's
portion
to
residents,
it
may
be
used
as
savings.
You
know,
provide
safety
nets.
It
may
be
used
to
pay
down
debt,
but
it
may
not
be
necessarily
used
to
provide
the
injection
into
the
economy
that
you're
looking
for.
E
G
Councilman
green,
I
would
just
say
this:
I
I
think
in
the
long
term,
we
need
to
radically
reduce
racial
and
ethnic
and
spatial
disparities
on
income,
health
and
wealth,
and
that's
going
to
require
a
very
close
collaboration
with
the
private
and
civic
sectors.
Philadelphia
has
one
of
the
most
advanced
financial
services
sectors
in
the
united
states.
You've
got
innovative
efforts
emerging,
like
coded
by
kids.
I
think
you're
going
to
hear
from
sylvester
mobley
later
new
kinds
of
capital,
more
equity-like
see
precede
for
black
founders.
G
Latino
founders,
revenue-based
financing,
models
that
are
emerging
in
parts
of
the
country.
I
don't
think
we're
coming
out
of
this
pandemic
with
the
same
kind
of
focus
or
approach
to
growing
black
and
latino
business
as
we
had
pre-code,
but
frankly
pre-coping.
I
don't
think
we
had
any
focus
so
we're
coming
out
of
this
with
a
different
level
of
commitment
and
potentially
with
radically
different
kinds
of
products
which
could
be
sourced
with
private
capital,
but
potentially
catalyzed
by
the
public
sector
and
then
codified
routine
eyes,
as
we've
done
in
prior
parts
of
our
history.
G
So
I
think,
philadelphia,
frankly,
is
primed
to
pioneer
these
products
and
if
you
do
so,
you'll
be
growing
from
within.
But
you
may
be
also
attracting
black
and
latino
entrepreneurs
from
other
parts
of
our
country,
which
would
be
helpful
for
growing
the
population
and
growing
the
pie
so
long
term.
Building
wealth
building
community
wealth
has
to
be
a
central
component
of.
B
Damn
richard
here,
thank
you.
Thank
you,
green.
I
have
one
quick
last
question
or
a
takeaway.
I
want
to
make
sure
I
understood
your
presentation
you're,
basically
saying
that
the
federal
investment
guide
illustrates
how
the
our
funds
and
readiness
from
your
presentation
will
flow
to
84
programs
from
19
fellow
agencies
via
seven
distribution
methods,
touching
15
plus
policy
areas,
and
on
top
of
that
we
also
have
the
1.4
billion
coming
to
the
city,
and
so
what
would
a
recommended
pathway
for
us?
Be?
G
Well,
I
think
you've
got
to
use
just
given
that
the
other
presentations
you've
got
to
use
the
1.4
billion
with
you
know,
with
some
deliberateness
and
you've
got
a
structural
deficit,
it's
very
real.
I
think
paul
levy
and
others
have
put
forward
some
very
interesting
proposals
on
the
tax
side.
The
equity
alliance
and
others
have
put
forward
a
very
strategic,
targeted
areas
of
investment.
Around
gun
violence
around
us.
You
know
summer
school
around,
you
know,
investments
in
small
business
that
could
leverage
up
other
public
but
also
private
capital.
G
So
the
bottom
line,
with
the
1.4
billion
is
you've
just
got
to
be
incredibly
deliberate
about
how
you
use
those
funds,
knowing
that
there
are
other
sources
and
knowing
that
certain
investments
have
leveraging
effects
big
leveraging
effects,
and
so
I
I
think
all
that
has
to
be
taken
into
account.
But
again,
I'm
really
struck
working
in
multiple
cities
in
the
united
states
at
the
depth
and
breadth
of
your
practitioner
community
and
of
the
research
community.
B
B
J
J
Again,
my
name
is
charmaine
matlock
turner,
I'm
the
president
and
ceo
of
the
urban
affairs
coalition,
and
I
appreciate
the
opportunity
to
talk
about
how
the
1.4
billion
in
estimated
federal
aid
coming
to
the
city
of
philadelphia
through
the
american
rescue
plan
can
support.
Those
who
are
most
in
need
in
our
city.
J
J
We
also
commend
that
the
plan
specifies
funding
for
homelessness,
which
we've
talked
about
already
a
little
bit
this
morning
or
this
afternoon,
emergency
rental
assistance,
which
is
absolutely
critical
in
keeping
people
in
their
homes
to
make
sure
that
we
are
fighting
homelessness
as
well
as
efforts
around
eviction
prevention
and
expanding
as
councilman
green.
I
think
talked
a
little
bit
about
earlier
housing,
counseling
funding,
the
continuation
of
relief
for
direct
loan
borrowers
and
fair
housing
activities
for
communities,
families
and
individuals
to
help
stem
historic
inequities
in
our
city
as
we
recover
for
all.
J
J
They
are
adults
from
working
families
and
senior
citizens
uac
and
our
partner
organizations
work
every
day
to
counteract
the
deep
and
often
generational
impact
of
poverty
from
being
a
strategic
partner
and
philadelphia
pre-k.
We're
so
glad
to
see
that
that
was
highlighted
in
the
presentation
by
the
earlier
panel
improving
early
childhood
education
to
leading
on
the
read
by
fourth
leadership:
council:
expanding
early
childhood
literacy
to
providing
a
number
of
life
enrichment
programs
and
activities
throughout
the
year
from
sports
and
wellness
to
after-school
programs
that
support
and
value
working
families
in
philadelphia.
J
I
am
encouraged
that
discussions
on
actions
to
reduce
poverty
led
by
council
president
clark,
you
councilman,
dom
and
councilwoman
keonis
sanchez,
resulted
in
the
creation
of
council's
philadelphia
poverty
action
plan.
As
co-chair
along
with
councilwoman
sanchez
and
you
of
the
reducing
poverty
committee.
I
attest
that
the
poverty
action
plan
features
game-changing,
innovations
that
invest
directly
in
people.
J
They
include
philadelphia's,
first
basic
income
and
local
housing.
Subsidy
programs
expanded
benefit
access
tools
for
untapped
state
and
federal
dollars,
which
I
know
you've
been
a
big
proponent
of
and
supporting,
and
a
robust
partnership
between
the
school
district
of
philadelphia
and
community
college
to
invest
in
community
schools
and
programs
that
close
the
skills
gap
through
transitions
from
poverty,
wage
jobs
to
family,
sustaining
careers.
J
These
recommended
poverty
action
plan
initiatives
are
a
particular
benefit
to
the
city's
working
families
and
low
and
moderate
income
households.
We
recommend
that
additional
funding
should
be
allocated
from
the
city's
stimulus
allocation
under
the
federal
plan
for
the
first
time
in
generations.
The
new
child
tax
credit
will
reduce
child
poverty
nationally,
an
infusion
of
financial
assistance
will
be
provided
for
child
care,
broadband
and
devices
to
homes
without
them.
Food
assistance
and
eviction.
J
I
want
to
thank
city,
council
and
council
members,
clark,
keone
sanchez
and
dom
and
greene,
and
so
many
others
for
leading
the
charge
just
this
week
to
expand
opportunities
in
the
summer
youth
employment
program.
By
identifying
new
funding
for
that
support
this
year
we
expect
to
have
8
000
young
people
working
for
the
summer.
J
I
absolutely
encourage
us,
though,
to
not
stop
there.
We
have
an
opportunity
under
this
plan
to
finally
get
to
what
we
know
is
critical
for
the
next
generation
of
philadelphia's
workers
and
that's
full
employment
for
philadelphia's
teens.
In
the
summer,
an
investment
of
30
million
dollars
in
stimulus
funds
could
take
us
a
long
way
over
the
next
several
years
to
get
to
full
youth
employment.
J
As
our
city
recharges,
we
must
ensure
that
all
philadelphians
grow
with
our
city
through
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion
framework
and
have
equal
opportunities
to
prosper
again.
I
thank
you
for
this
hearing
today
for
all
of
us
having
an
opportunity
to
see
the
big
picture,
but
not
to
forget
about
those
who
are
most
in
need,
who
an
investment
will
build
the
bridge
from
poverty
into
the
middle
class.
B
K
Council,
member
dom,
I
hope
everyone
can
hear
me-
okay,
yes,
first,
I
would
be
remiss
if
I
didn't
acknowledge
united
way
board
member
and
and
treasured
friend,
charmaine
matlock
turner.
Thank
you
for
your
testimony,
council
member.
Thank
you
for
this
opportunity
to
testify
and
thank
you
and
all
your
colleagues
for
your
sure-footed
and
clear-headed
leadership
in
a
very
trying
moment
for
our
neighbors.
Let
me
first
introduce
myself.
K
K
There
was
economic
opportunity,
but
if
you
found
yourself
in
the
bottom
quintile
the
bottom
twenty
percent,
you
found
yourself
and
your
family
moving
backward,
but
by
minus
four
percent.
That
kind
of
disparity
is
untenable,
and
that
is
why
this
is
the
most
urgent
issue
facing
our
city.
As
we
try
to
imagine
a
recovery
that
reaches
every
one
of
our
neighbors
so
to
break
this
down.
It's
a
very
complex
issue,
a
set
of
issues
before
us,
but
poverty
and
opportunity
are
about
wealth
creation,
full
stop.
K
Before
the
stimulus
passed,
we
were
working
with
leaders
from
city
council
to
imagine
ways
to
get
money
directly
into
philadelphians
pockets,
starting
with
every
dollar
that
is
owed
to
them
through
tax
refunds,
benefits
available
at
the
municipal
level
level,
the
state
level
and
the
federal
level
legislation
with
vision
was
passed
by
city
council
in
november
of
2020
to
establish
the
poverty
action
fund
that
provided
for
so
many
a
beacon
of
hope
and
a
commitment
to
all
of
our
neighbors.
That
was
really
precedent.
K
Prescient
council
met
the
moment
and
in
the
face
of
the
pandemic
and
facing
a
yawning
deficit,
this
was
a
bold
vision
and
it
that
put
people
first
and
took
a
risk
on
it.
Looked
at
the
need
for
short-term
provisions
to
reimagine
systems,
so
that
supports
that
could
allow
philadelphians
to
receive
all
that
they
qualify
for
could
begin
to
become
a
reality
in
the
near
term,
inside
of
three
years,
through
a
renewed
spirit
of
collaboration,
focus
and
commitment
among
the
private
sector,
private
philanthropy,
the
public
sector
and
community
partners.
K
For
the
first
time,
we
are
looking
at
a
an
effort
that
stands
to
help
us
scale,
interventions
that
actually
work,
as
the
city
considers
how
to
invest
local
stimulus
funds.
I
encourage
you
to
stay
the
course
on
this
bold
trajectory
as
we
seek
proven
and
promising
solutions
that
respond
to
the
very
real
and
very
urgent
needs
that
our
neighbors
are
facing
and
the
setbacks
that
came
in
front
of
them
as
a
result
of
this
pandemic
that
are
not
limited
to
the
pandemic.
K
There
were
underlying
forces,
including
systemic
racism
that
have
been
holding
so
many
of
our
neighbors
back
from
them,
realizing
their
chance
to
pursue
happiness
and
well-being.
The
first
round
of
investments
could
stand
to
be
a
lesson
for
how
we
think
about
the
future
in
what
we
call
the
family
stability
challenge.
K
It
combines
a
rare
combination
of
trying
to
segment
particular
expertise
that
helps
people
draw
benefits
with
trusted
culturally
relevant
community
organizations
that
have
built
trust
over
decades
by
putting
those
things
by
putting
those
kinds
of
organizations
and
collaborations
together,
we
think
there
will
be
a
new
result.
It
will
reach
every
philadelphia,
zip
code
and
it
will
have
a
direct
benefit
in
terms
of
cash
and
new
income
into
our
neighbors
benefits,
accounts
across
zip
codes
across
areas
of
expertise
and
even
across
different
ideologies.
K
People
have
come
together
because
they
knew
the
urgency
that
we
were
all
up
against.
The
investment
strategy
is
laser
focused
and
it's
focused
on
doing
three
things
well,
and
I
think
this
has
implications
for
the
other
things
we
might
consider
as
we
walk
through
this.
This
murky
future
together
scaling
collaborating
and
being
accountable
to
outcomes.
K
For
years
and
years,
we've
asked
partners
and
communities
to
do
more
with
less,
as
we
often
do,
because
the
scale
of
the
issues
we're
facing
are
greater.
We
need
to
invite
them
to
do
more,
with
more
and
carefully
measure
what
incredible
work
they're
able
to
do
if
they're,
appropriately
resourced
the
poverty
action
plan
invested
in
community-based
organizations
to
provide
on-the-ground
outreach
alongside
trusted
culturally
relevant
organizations
that
have
reach
and
trust
in
communities
that
are
often
overlooked,
or
have
reason
to
not
have
trust.
K
It's
important
to
invest
in
new
technologies,
new
approaches,
new
models
that
can
really
change
the
game
for
getting
income
into
our
neighbors
pockets,
but
that
can
never
replace
familiar
faces
in
your
neighborhoods
who
are
who
are
carrying
a
proverbial
clipboard,
who
are
a
part
of
the
communities
where
these
services
are
being
offered.
It
needs
to
be
at
both
end
new
models,
new
approaches,
curiosity
technology
forward
ideas
and
solutions
with
a
combination
of
being
in
communities
with
people
that
are
trusted.
K
That's
how
we
put
people
first,
the
second
piece
that
is
or
just
before
I
move
on.
We
need
to
know
the
cost
of
not
succeeding
in
this.
In
this
way,
we
know
that
in
the
first
round,
instead
of
stimulus
payments,
a
little
north
of
60
000
philadelphians
did
not
collect
the
payments
that
they
were
owed
and
missed
out
on
a
collective
7
million
more
dollars
in
desperately
needed
support,
and
this
time
around
the
stakes
are
even
higher
for
us
to
get
it
right.
K
Families
with
children
will
receive,
on
average,
an
additional
sixty
six
hundred
dollars
and
could
see
as
much
as
ten
thousand
dollars
in
new
income.
This
is
game
changing
for
lower
income
families
who
are
trying
every
day
to
make
their
their
reality
a
little
bit
better.
The
courageous
vision
of
the
poverty
action
fund,
the
driving
of
scaling
initiatives
to
meet
the
amount
of
need,
the
desire
and
sense
of
urgency,
of
putting
cash
in
people's
pockets
is
what
needs
to
guide
our
future.
K
Are
people
better
in
a
way
that
we
can
demonstrate
for
having
put
forward
programs
that
serve
people's
needs?
That
leads
me
to
the
second
point:
what
is
missing?
This
is
hard
to
measure,
but
its
impact
is
unlimited.
What
is
missing
and
what
is
needed
is
incentivizing
and
investing
in
collaboration
over
the
long
term.
K
It
took
us
more
than
a
minute
to
get
to
this
place
and
it's
going
to
take
courage
and
commitment
to
stay
the
course,
but,
and
it
will
require
more
than
a
little
will
on
the
part
of
members
of
city
council
in
the
administration,
but
for
decades
and
we've
got
to
own
this.
We
have
practiced
the
hunger
games
among
community
organizations
and
we've
also
found
our
way
into
splintering
a
million
worthy
initiatives.
K
But
as
while,
we
practice
the
hunger
games
by
pitting
community
organizations
against
each
other
for
resources
and
have
a
million
splintered
different
initiatives
with
different
objectives
and
not
a
common
center
of
measures.
It
dilutes
our
impact,
and
it
erodes
trust
it
creates
cynicism
on
the
ground.
K
We
believe
that
by
getting
behind
a
unified
poverty
action
plan
with
a
clear
set
of
metrics,
what
lies
beneath
it
is
the
need
to
structure
an
initiative
that
has
emphasized
organizational
humility
and
drives
deep
partnership.
People
need
to
know
why
collaboration
can
scale
our
efforts
and
why
we
will
be
able
to
grow
the
pie
of
resources.
K
The
third
and
I'll
be
finished
at
this
one.
There's
a
family
stability
challenge
underway,
and
the
next
challenge
is
part
of
the
poverty
action
plan
is
about
jobs
and
opportunity
and
throughout
every
challenge
that
we
embark
upon
on
this
public-private
partnership.
That
has
no
precedent
is
to
build
underneath
it
a
measurement
and
accountability
framework
that
helps
us
better
understand
what
works
and
why,
when
it
comes
to
alleviating
poverty
and
driving
opportunity
for
more
of
our
neighbors,
we
will
invest
in
services
that
philadelphians
can
count
on
to
deliver
results.
K
If
we
can't
evaluate
the
impact
of
our
efforts,
the
framework
needs
to
adapt
and
adjust
to
make
sure
that
we
are.
Our
resources
are
being
used
in
a
way
that
really
lift
our
neighbors.
I
want
to
acknowledge
the
leadership
of
council
president
clark
of
councilwoman
sanchez
of
you,
councilman,
dom
for
many
of
your
and
all
of
your
colleagues
who
have
leaned
in
shoulder
to
shoulder
in
a
moment
where
it
was
particularly
hard
to
do,
and
I'm
at
your
service
to
be
of
to
create
the
sense
of
urgency
and
investment
that
our
neighbors
most
deserve.
B
L
L
In
my
testimony
today,
I
draw
on
30
years
as
a
researcher
and
evaluator
studying
community
violence
and
evaluating
promising
neighborhood-based
gun
violence
reduction
initiatives,
not
only
in
philadelphia
but
around
the
country.
I
don't
have
to
tell
you
that
we're
in
a
very
challenging
situation
in
philadelphia,
the
escalation
of
homicides
and
shootings
is
particularly
troubling.
However,
in
the
coming
months,
the
city
and
the
commonwealth
of
pennsylvania
will
have
an
opportunity
to
be
creative
and
direct
resources
to
organize
efforts
to
address
violent
crime.
I
specifically
mean
shootings
as
a
researcher
here
in
philadelphia.
L
I've
evaluated
both
law
enforcement
and
community-based
models
that
include,
for
example,
focused
deterrence,
philadelphia,
ceasefire,
the
kensington
initiative.
What
is
ongoing
now
in
kensington,
the
district
attorney's
cares
model,
which
is
a
trauma-informed
crisis,
support
program
for
survivors
of
homicide.
I've
been
asked
today
to
discuss
evidence-based
solutions
to
gun
violence
and
how
the
city
could
address
philadelphia's
epidemic
of
gun
violence
if
more
resources
were
available.
L
So
at
this
time,
I'd
like
to
go
one
step
further
and
address
what
I
consider
to
be
the
process
and
structural
aspects
of
community
gun,
violence
reduction-
and
I
I
do
believe-
and
I
can
explain
this
more
in
the
questions-
that
we
should
start
by-
creating
a
single
entity,
a
collaborative
guiding
body
that
both
facilitates
short-term
safety
and
long-term
peace,
one
that
generates
enough
returns
on
the
investment
to
fund
future
prevention
and
intervention
initiatives.
Past
the
range
of
this
current
funding,
we
have
a
historic
gun,
violence
problem
right
now.
L
I
think
we're
at
550
shootings
in
less
than
four
months.
The
scale
of
the
solution
has
to
be
equal
to
the
scale
of
the
problem.
We
can't
simply
implement
evidence-based
interventions
that
target
only
the
shooters
or
those
already
arrested
on
gun
charges.
Neither
can
we
do
things
piecemeal
with
little
coordination
and
then
expect
great
reductions
in
violence.
L
So
I
recommend
the
city
use
new
funds
to
create
a
collaborative
entity
that
has
the
singular
focus
of
coordinating
and
implementing
community
driven
state-of-the-art
models
of
gun,
violence,
prevention
and
intervention
in
targeted
areas
that
are
the
home
to
the
most
of
the
gun,
violence,
the
programs
and
services
delivered
should
be
explicitly
coordinated
both
within
and
across
the
neighborhoods,
with
activities
and
results.
Measured
at
every
step.
The
leadership
of
this
group,
which
could
which
would
include
community
voices,
would
work
together
toward
careful
implementation
and
adherence
to
research-based
or
evidence-based
practices.
L
This
entity
could
include,
or
have
a
separate
philanthropic
group
that
can
provide
oversight
and
leadership
towards
this
effort
and
help
leverage
additional
funds.
The
implicit
assumption
here
is
that
an
array
of
carefully
executed,
coordinated,
evidence-based
activities
towards
a
common
goal
can
bring
about
greater
success
with
the
desired
outcomes
than
any
single
set
of
programs
or
activities
operating
in
isolation.
L
So
drawing
on
the
research
evidence,
I'm
going
to
put
forth
six
evidence-based
principles
that
could
help
define
a
collaborative
body
and
achieve
maximum
effectiveness
across
gun
violence
efforts.
Principle,
one
use
data
and
analysis
to
focus
on
a
specific
set
of
neighborhoods
where
most
of
the
violence
is
occurring.
L
The
collective
entity
would
help
oversee
these
locally
based
community-led
efforts
in
each
neighborhood
principle,
two
work
from
a
sound
knowledge
base
using
and
and
really
getting
a
deep
understanding
of
the
community.
We
should
build
from
what
works
and
what
worked
before.
Many
of
you
here
know
that
the
city
and
temple
worked
together
and
implemented
and
studied
philadelphia
ceasefire,
which
was
in
the
22nd
police
district
and
over
a
two-year
period.
The
targeted
hot
spots
had
30
percent
fewer
shootings
versus
the
hot
spots
that
did
not
have
ceasefire
the
program.
L
Utilizes
credible
messengers
from
the
target
area
and
play
a
mentoring
role
in
assisting
their
clients
to
make
choices
that
that
could
impact
the
rest
of
their
lives.
We
need
to
implement
this
effective
program
in
additional
areas
in
the
city
and
continue
to
measure
how
successful
it
is
and
an
important
point
here
is
being
implemented
with
fidelity
and
that
not
all
organizations
have
the
capacity
to
stand
up
a
tried
and
true
model
principle:
three
be
community
driven.
L
L
The
gaps
in
planning,
the
duplication
of
services
that
we
know
exists,
but
we
so
not
want
to
talk
about
interagency
collaboration
and
a
true
partnership
with
the
community
requires
dedicated
staff.
His
job
is
to
coordinate,
build
relationships
and
he'll
be
a
receptive
to
different
approaches
with
the
onset
of
covet
19
and
the
pandemic.
L
The
new
re
with
new
resources,
the
philly
hub,
could
incorporate
a
cease-fire
street
outreach
team,
expand
as
trauma-informed
approach
to
reach
most
major
hot
spots.
We
did
a
return
on
investment
analysis
for
ceasefire
found
a
positive
return,
just
think
what
the
city
could
do
linking
the
collaborative
hub
model
to
ceasefire
principle
five,
and
I
only
have
a
few
more
begin
earlier
by
supporting
primary
prevention.
We
heard
a
lot
about
this
earlier
prioritize
children
and
young
people
focusing
on
building
resiliency
at
all
developmental
stages.
This
includes
high
quality
child
care
head
start,
for
instance.
L
Prevention
in
this
vein
would
lead
to
multifaceted
outcomes
beyond
violence
reduction,
including
academic
success,
increased
employability
and
economic
self-sufficiency.
We
often
don't
think
of
when
someone
says
violence
reduction
or
gun
violence.
We
don't
always
think
about
these
prevention
efforts,
but
they
should
all
be
considered
on
this
continuum
that
work
towards
gun
violence
reduction
principle,
six
make
adequate
resources
available
for
the
comprehensive
strategy.
I'm
just
going
to
mention
two
priorities
here.
L
The
resource
investment
should
be
directed
towards
building
a
culture
of
non-violence
across
prevention
and
intervention
activities
where
we're
looking
closely
at
the
models
that
support
these.
The
norms
that
are
pro-social
and
and
affording
individuals
and
children,
youth
families,
these
social
connections-
this
will
help
build
resilience.
L
Basically,
we
know
that
the
pro-social
connections
are
the
bread
and
butter
of
prevention
through
churches,
athletics,
school
attachment,
adult
role,
modeling
and
peer
mentoring,
such
as
ceasefire
and
cure
violence,
and
the
district
attorney's
cares
programs
offers.
The
second
priority
would
be
ample
provision
of
resources
for
training
and
technical
con
technical
assistance.
That's
expressly
devoted
to
increasing
organizational
and
collaborative
capacity.
This
is
a
lot
like
the
community
capacity
development
that
I
think
it
was
dr
katz
and
and,
and
others
talked
about
in
the
earlier
panel.
It
is
so
common
in
violence
reduction
program.
L
We
forget
how
to
think
about
what
is
needed
in
the
different
communities.
There
are
misunderstandings
and
how
to
target
a
program
to
the
right
population.
It's
often
difficult
to
do.
Implementation
in
programs
that
are
complex
community
providers,
don't
have
sufficient
resources
for
data
systems,
there's
weak
performance
reporting
or
limited
planning
for
sustainability.
L
So
trainings
could
include
a
public
health
approach
to
gun,
violence,
prevention,
data
driven
problem,
solving
risk
and
resiliency
factors,
performance
reporting.
I
think
I
mentioned
a
lot
more
in
my
written
testimony
and
last-
and
we
heard
about
this
before
be
accountable.
We
must
be
collecting
data
on
performance
and
reporting
out
to
the
public
at
regular
periods
and
including
a
plan
for
rigorous
evaluation.
L
Arnold
ventures
and
chan
zuckerberg's
new
justice
accelerator
fund
are
two
great
examples
of
private
foundations,
making
the
commitment
to
research
and
evaluation.
In
conclusion,
I
believe
a
comprehensive,
coordinated
strategy
with
ample
investment
in
a
violence
reduction
infrastructure
with
systematic
research-informed
processes
will
provide
a
lifeline
to
organizations
and
efforts
like
philadelphia.
Ceasefire
cure
violence,
the
group
violence,
intervention,
dao,
cares
school
diversion
program
and
others
that
have
a
proven
track
record.
With
this
coordination
and
increased
capacity,
they
can
expand
their
programs
to
meet
the
scale
of
the
program
and
ultimately
save
lives.
I
Thank
you
so
much
chairman
dom
and
members
of
the
committee
on
fiscal
sustainability
and
intergovernmental
cooperation.
We
really
appreciate
the
opportunity
to
testify
today,
as
councilman
dom
said,
my
name
is
lauren
gilchrist
and
I'm
the
svp
for
research
at
jll
in
philadelphia,
along
with
the
immediate
past
president
of
naiop,
greater
philadelphia
and
the
current
co-chair
of
naoms
government
affairs
committee.
I
The
alliance
is
made
up
of
residents
of
beaumont
the
building
owners
and
managers
association,
the
bia,
the
building
industry
association,
the
gbca,
the
general
building
contractors,
association
and
neop,
which
is
the
commercial
real
estate
developers
association
together.
The
constituents
of
these
organizations
represent
a
cross-section
of
the
largest
owners
developers,
investors,
property
management
firms
and
construction
contractors
in
the
city
across
all
sectors,
including
residential,
commercial
and
industrial,
and
today
I'm
joined
by
three
of
my
colleagues
in
this
capacity
mo
rushdie
from
the
bia
don
haas
from
boma,
as
well
as
ben
connors
from
the
gbca.
I
We
seek
to
partner
with
the
administration,
as
well
as
city
council,
to
achieve
these
goals,
we're
here
today
to
provide
our
thoughts
on
the
unique
opportunity
that
the
funding
from
the
federal
american
rescue
plan
act
presents
to
philadelphia
by
sharing
a
set
of
principles.
We
believe
the
city
should
consider
in
allocating
these
resources,
so
we
have
three
principles:
one.
We
believe
that
the
arp
funds
should
be
used
to
restore
necessary,
covet
19
budget
cuts,
first
and
foremost,
to
allow
the
city
to
fiscally
bridge
the
gap
in
revenues
from
the
pandemic
and
associated
economic
downturn.
I
I
I
We
need
to
entice
employers,
employees,
customers
and
visitors
to
come
back
to
the
city.
We
believe
a
specific
focus
on
making
public
transportation
a
safe
and
healthy
option
for
residents
the
workforce
and
visitors
will
be
critical
to
this
effort,
but
we
also
think
long-term.
You
know
use
for
these
funds
should
lay
the
groundwork
for
sustained
growth.
I
Finally,
as
members
of
the
real
estate
industry
want,
we
want
to
highlight
one
specific
area
where
we
see
an
immediate
need,
we're
beginning
to
observe
a
potential
challenge
in
construction
capacity
overall,
but
particularly
with
regard
to
the
construction
workforce
and
minority
and
women-owned
firms.
Federal
capital
funds
are
being
provided
to
the
city,
the
philadelphia
school
district,
the
airport
and
other
public
agencies
which
is
going
to
result
in
unprecedented
increases
in
construction
demand.
I
Furthermore,
the
residential
real
estate
communities
focus
on
the
timing
of
the
change
of
the
city's
tax
abatement
program
is
creating
a
large
number
of
projects
aiming
to
obtain
permits
this
year
to
start
construction
next
year.
The
convergence
of
these
factors
may
create
a
perfect
storm
where
government
and
the
real
estate
industry
will
face
serious
capacity
issues
with
regard
to
contractors
and
labor.
I
In
conclusion,
we're
facing
a
once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity
and
need
to
succeed
at
the
highest
level
at
this
moment
in
time.
This
is
our
collective
chance
to
promote
the
city's
come
back
from
coped.
The
city
has
had
a
strong
run
in
the
last
10
years,
gaining
jobs,
population
and
tax
revenues,
but
we
cannot
assume
that
this
trend
will
necessarily
continue.
I
These
arp
funds
should
have
a
strong
focus
on
fostering
the
city's
economy
and
create
a
climate
for
the
city
to
have
strong,
sustained
inclusive
growth.
Investments
in
infrastructure,
safe
and
dependable,
public
transit,
workforce
development
and
advancement
of
small
black
and
brown
businesses
will
pay
dividends
for
generations
to
come.
We
greatly
appreciate
the
opportunity
to
testify
today
and
the
alliance
would
be
happy
to
address
your
questions.
B
B
K
B
Sure
so
you
know
you
talked
about
the
funding
and
you
talked
about
the
summer
jobs
program.
I
know
we
had
an
appropriations
meeting
where
we
approved
some
money
but
give
us
an
idea
of
the
types
of
results
we
can
see
when
we
invest
in
those
programs,
the
summer
programs
and
the
benefits.
So
people
can
really
understand
how
important
that
is.
J
They
also
have
dollars
and
resources
available
to
support
themselves
and
their
families,
and
they
make
real
connections
in
the
broader
community
so
that
they
have
other
kinds
of
opportunities,
other
caring
adults
to
connect
to.
So
we
have
looked
at
this
area
for
a
long
period
of
time
and
the
demand
is
there.
Last
summer,
in
the
middle
of
the
pandemic,
20
000
young
people
signed
up
to
say
I
want
to
work
and
what
did
we
have
to
say
to
them?
J
Sorry,
we
really
don't
want
you
to
get
involved
in
those
other
things,
but
we
don't
have
anything
for
you
other
than
the
6
000
that
we
were
able
to
help.
We
believe
that
if
we
ultimately
say
to
young
people
all
of
the
other
things
that
we
need
them
to
know
early
on,
but
that
in
philadelphia
you
have
a
partner
to
the
middle
class
through
youth
employment
opportunities
that
we
are
going
to
see
a
difference
in
not
only
violence
but
really
in
hope.
This
is
not
just
about
talking
about
what
we're
trying
to
fight
against.
B
Thank
you,
I'm
a
big
supporter
of
that
program
and
I
hope
we
can
get
you
more
money
for
it
and
I
think
I
would
love
to
expand
it
by
the
way
to
make
it
an
opportunity
for
our
high
school
students,
in
ninth,
tenth,
eleventh
and
twelfth
grade,
to
take
a
page
out
of
the
christo
ray
book
and
yeah.
Ask
them
to
work
one
day
a
week,
go
to
school
for
four
days
and
have
four
different
job
experiences
for
them.
So,
whatever.
B
K
You
would
think
I
would
know
how
to
do
mute
by
now.
Forgive
me
councilman,
thank
you
for
your
leadership
again
and
let
me
let
me
explain
their
impact
this
way
and
you
you've
asked
this
question
before,
but
I
want
to
make
sure
we
keep
our
eyes
on
the
prize
for
this
kind
of
4.5
million
dollars
of
investment
in
building
a
collaborative
infrastructure
that
combines
the
expertise
of
household
names,
like
benefits,
data
trust
like
campaign
for
working
families.
K
K
Listen,
we've
got
to
pull
this
together.
We
we
have.
We,
we
have
more
greater
resources,
that's
important,
but
the
need
is
so
great
that
if
we
don't
reach
across
our
geography,
our
discipline
our
reach
for
this
one
once
in
a
frankly
generation
effort.
How
can
we
ask
city,
council
and
other
philanthropists
to
focus
their
attention
if
we're
not
willing
to
focus
and
here's?
What's
on
the
line,
councilman
and
I'll
see
the
floor,
we
need
to
get
serious
about
how
we
are
doing
relative
to
other
markets
right.
K
I
would
tell
you
and
I'm
not
trying
to
create
a
controversy
here,
but
baltimore
is
much
better
at
drawing
down
benefits
than
we
are
like
on
the
order
of
their
success
rate
in
terms
of
impoverished
communities
pulling
down
these
benefits
is
they're
about
24
better
than
we
are
at
this
on
a
per
capita
basis.
We
have
to
be
ambitious
about
getting
better
and
demonstrating
that
this
kind
of
work
returns.
K
As
you
know,
the
number
13
to
one
every
dollar
we
invest
in
this
there's
a
13
to
one
now,
there's
diminishing
returns
after
a
point,
but
for
right
now
we're
very
far
away
from
that
point
and
so
driving
this
kind
of
community
investment,
with
expertise
in
partnership,
making
sizable
investment
and
measuring
what
happened.
As
my
university
colleague
mentioned.
If
it's
not
measured,
it
doesn't
matter,
and
it
we
need
to
be
serious
about
measurement,
particularly
as
it
relates
to
our
neighbors.
B
Thank
you.
I
just
want
to
take
a
moment
and
recognize
that
councilman
squilla
has
joined
us,
and
so
is
council
member
quinona
sanchez.
So
thank
you
for
being
here
and
bill.
Let
me
just
ask
you
this
question:
how
can
baltimore
be
doing
a
better
job
than
us
like?
What
do
we?
We
need
to
do
better?
That's
not
good.
What
do
we
have
to
do
to
improve.
K
K
So
you
you
have
to
get
your
best
guess
as
to
what
methodology
is
going
to
yield
the
biggest
return
and
just
in
all,
candor
right
now,
as
I
referenced
before
we
weren't
betting
on
the
collaborative
approach,
we
were
doing
the
hunger
games.
We
were
picking
this
organization,
but
not
looking
into
community
insight.
We
are
looking
at
these
folks
with
the
technology,
which
is
very,
very
important,
but
we
were
not
looking
at
the
clipboard.
We've
got
to
be
more
proximate
to
people's
struggle.
That's
what's
new
about
this.
K
The
second
thing
alan,
is
the
worst
thing
we
could
do.
Excuse
me,
councilmember
is
to
leave,
is
to
do
it
once
for
six
months
and
then
walk
away
and
try
something
else.
Our
initiatives
that
social
change
and
social
mobility
suffers
from
addiction
attention
deficit
disorder.
We
started
on
this
bold
initiative.
We
are
literally
60
days
into
it.
We
have
to
stay
the
course
for
three
years
and
measure
the
return.
K
Otherwise
we
we
will
have
frankly
wasted
resources
and
time
and
frankly
hope
people
are
beginning
to
believe
that
collaborations
can
work,
that
we
should
invest
in
those.
But,
as
I
don't
need
to
tell
my
my
friend
charmaine
this
town
cultivates
cynicism
in
the
water.
We
really
it's
a
spiritual
crisis.
B
L
So
ceasefire
was
a
came
about
through
a
grant,
a
federal
grant
from
that
marla
davis
bellamy
wrote,
but
the
solicitation
required
that
the
government
be
the
fiscal
agent
so
that
2.5
million
dollars
that
started
hit
the
ground.
I
think,
probably
by
the
time
everything
was
implemented,
was
spring
of
2013
that
when
that
ended,
there
was
not
a
commitment
by
the
city
to
continue
supporting
that
street
team
by
temple
university
and
it's
it's
there
and
I
think
you'll
see
that
there
are
different
views
about
why
it
ended.
L
L
Community
groups
and
temple
university
is
a
big
institution,
but
but
a
lot
of
individuals
didn't
take
the
time
to
see
the
individuals
who
were
hired
as
part
of
the
street
team
and
how
it
was
run
and
how
community
driven
it
was
in
the
partnership
approach
that
was
used.
So
when
the
federal
funding
ended,
there
was
no
sustainability
plan
from
the
city
marla
and
myself,
and
a
number
of
colleagues
were
were
scrambling
to
write
grants
to
keep
it
going
to
date.
L
L
Six
million
dollars
should
create
a
huge
return
on
the
investment,
because
we
know
what
I
mentioned
earlier
just
from
ceasefire.
Without
the
hub
model
ceasefire
returned.
I
think
it
was
a
dollar
sixty
in
first
year
health
care
costs.
But
if
you
take
that
down
to
the
social
costs
and
added
in
the
cost
of
a
prison
term,
not
being
employed
other
harms
from
being
involved
in
gun
violence,
I
think
I
jotted
some
numbers
down.
L
L
That
six
million,
so
my
so
in
calculating
that
I
think
mar
it's
I
that
might
be
over
two
years.
So
that's
usually
the
time
that
you
think
about
implementing,
getting
getting
everyone
on
board
and
implementing
it
and
saying
we
need
a
good
two
years
to
have
this
implemented
operational
and
making
an
impact.
So
I
think
that's
about
a
two-year
period
of
costs
and
then
where
the
measurement
would
come
in.
L
L
It's
somewhat
so
arnie
so
what's
happening
in
chicago
now.
Chicago
still
has
cure
violence,
but
they've
also
extended
it,
and
some
of
you
may
know,
there's
a
program
called
ready
chicago.
That
has
decided
that
you
can't
just
do
the
peer
model.
You
also
need
to
get
individuals
involved
into
jobs
and
then
so
the
peer
outreach
model
would
then
go
out
and
do
the
outreach
do
the
violent,
the
mediations
of
and
the
violence
interruption
and
then
try
to
get
those
individuals
into
transitional
jobs.
L
We've
been
saying
this,
and
and
again
I'm
saying
this,
you
know
I
come
from
the
urban
institute.
I
worked
at
a
think
tank
for
20
years
before
I
came
to
temple
university,
where
I
traveled
around
the
country
and
evaluated
all
types
of
programs,
gang
intervention,
prevention,
comprehensive
program,
modeling,
and
I
truly
believe
that
the
central
core
of
this
peer
mentoring,
outreach
coupled
with
if
you
have
the
hub
and
and
resources
available
for
jobs
for
transitional
jobs,
you
can
make
a
huge
dent
in
in
violence,
but
again
it's
implementing
it
with
fidelity.
L
Not
everyone
can
do
it.
I
think
you
know
that
that
another
organization
is
is
running
a
street
outreach
model,
but
they
have
they're
not
trained
in
the
evidence-based
model
and
they're.
Not
you
know
they
don't
have
the
support
of
well
now
the
knowledge
and
support
and
the
training
from
cure
violence
global
to
to
reevaluate
when
when
needed-
and
I
I
think
that
really
matters
too
you
can't
just
take
any
outreach
program-
is
what
I'm
saying
and
say
we
have
some
outreach
workers
put
them
in
the
community
and
it'll
work.
B
L
B
B
I
We
would
have
calculated
that
approximately
only
a
10
percent
of
the
office
workforce
was
actually
in
offices,
which
is
what
supports
you
know
that
that
retail
demand
drop-off.
We
at
jll
believe
net.
We
will
see
a
five
percent
overall
drop
off
in
demand
for
office
space
over
the
next
three
years,
but
the
question
is:
how
do
we
get?
I
You
know
businesses
want
to
have
their
employees
together
when
they
can
host
meetings
and
when
they
can
be
out
and
about
together
and
with
all
the
retail
and
hospitality
closed
with
the
increasing
number
of
homeless
and
panhandling
experiences
that
people
are
having.
I
think
a
lot
of
folks
are
kind
of
going
hold
on.
You
know
we're
not
sure
that
this
is
the
environment
that
we
can
bring
professional.
I
You
know
visitors
to
so
I
think
a
lot
will
depend
upon
quality
of
life
overall,
and
then
we
also
need
to
give
it
a
few
more
months
for
the
corporate
real
estate
community
to
determine
how
much
office
space
they'll
be
using
our
major
corporate
clients.
You
know
have
pushed
the
decision
making
timeline
into
call
it
the
the
summer
and
fall
not
just
for
return
to
work,
but
in
terms
of
you
know,
are
we
going
to
see
people
restack
or
replan
for
offices?
B
Thank
you.
So
I
guess
you
know,
I
think
it's
40
or
41
of
our
workforce
does
not
live
in
the
city
and
pays
us
wage
taxes,
and
so
we
want
to
make
sure
they
come
back
to
the
city
and
work
and
we
have
that
base.
But
it's
not
just
the
wage
taxes
and
the
and
working
the
city,
it's
their
activity
in
the
city.
B
It's
all
the
demand
they
bring
into
the
city
in
the
what
are
they
buying
at
retail
stores
or
restaurants,
or
whatever
they're
shopping
for
that
demand
is
sorely
needed
by
our
retailers
and
entrepreneurs
in
the
city.
For
your
group
lauren,
the
1.4
billion.
What
would
your
recommendations
be
from
the
city's
standpoint?
Would
it
be
transit
safety,
lifestyle,
tax
issues?
Where
do
you
think
you'd
like
to
see
some
of
that
money
invested.
I
Well,
I
think,
as
I
stated
in
my
testimony
first
and
foremost,
we'd
like
to
make
sure
there
are
no
tax
increases.
You
know.
Certainly
you
know
there's
been
discussions
that
we've
had.
You
know
on
many
occasions
about
tax
decreases,
which
would
be
ideal
for
overall
competitiveness,
but,
first
and
foremost,
we
can't
make
it
more
expensive
to
do
business
in
the
city,
and
I
think
that's
one
of
the
real
promises
of
of
the
arp
funds.
I
You
know
the
second
would
be
to
you
know,
focus
on
those
public
transit
issues
that
I
had
mentioned
overall
to
make
sure
that
people
believe
that
they
can
get
to
and
from
the
city
safely
and
then
third,
the
public
safety
and
the
you
know
call
it.
Quality
of
life
issues
are
also
important.
You
know
that
they
feel
comfortable
continuing
to
do
business.
I
I
also
think
that
there
is
a
generational
moment
here,
as
I
think
many
of
the
other
panelists
have
talked
about
and
that
where
we
need
to
be
thinking
about
what
are
the
catalytic
investments
that
we
can
be
making
infrastructure
wise?
That
will
return
multiple
x,
the
dollar
figures
that
we've
been
awarded,
because
when
we
set
the
benchmarks
for
the
long
term,
growth
of
the
city
think
about
that
10
to
20
year
plan.
I
You
know,
as
I
think
you
know,
councilman
you
know
you
put,
you
know
a
certain
percentage
of
you
know
money
into
a
program,
a
project,
a
real
estate
deal
and
it
returns
multiple
x.
You
know
those
investment
dollars,
so
we
need
to
think
about
not
just
how
do
we
stop?
You
know
the
the
bleeding
to
how
do
we
advance
the
economy
to
how
do
we
actually
plan
for
the
kind
of
philadelphia
that
we
all
want
to
be
living
and
working
in
20
years
from
now
and
there's
enough
money
here
to
do
that?
I
And
one
of
the
reasons
we
mentioned
black
and
brown
real
estate,
businesses,
black
and
brown
contractors
was
because
we
believe
that
our
industry
can
play
also
a
catalytic
role
when
we
have
new
projects
to
bring
new
participants
into
the
workforce
through
job
training,
through
education
and
through
participation
in
real
estate.
Moving
forward.
B
M
J
B
D
Yes,
I
had
a
very
quick
comment
for
panel
number
two.
I
just
wanted
to
thank
each
and
every
panelist
from
panel
number,
two
charmaine
matlock
turner
from
urban
affairs
coalition
bill
golderer
from
the
united
way
of
greater
philadelphia,
dr
roman
from
temple
and
lauren
gilchrist
from
the
philadelphia
real
estate
alliance.
D
I
appreciate
a
lot
of
the
feedback
you
shared
and
offered,
and
I
think
that's
really
a
blueprint
for
us
as
we
move
into
the
budget
session
to
figure
out
what
we
are
focusing
on
as
we
look
ahead
to
our
city's
recovery.
So
I
just
wanted
to
thank
you
so
much
for
your
needed
testimony
and
for
some
of
the
recommendations
you
offered.
Thank.
N
N
So,
as
I
said,
my
name
is
logan
weldy,
I'm
a
staff
attorney
and
and
the
legislative
director
for
clean
air
council
we're
an
environmental
nonprofit
based
on
environment
and
health
in
philadelphia,
I'm
also
a
block
captain
and
a
ward
14
committee
person.
I
did
submit
written
testimony
and
I'm
not
going
to
read
everything.
I
also
submitted
a
separate
list
of
policy
ideas
to
laurel.
You
know
I
want
to
say
at
the
outset
that
there
were
a
lot
of
really
good
things
that
people
said
earlier
today.
N
One
of
the
most
important
I
think
is-
and
you
all
know
this
by
now
there
will
be
other
funds,
don't
duplicate
efforts,
work
with
other
agencies,
and
that
was
going
to
be
part
of
my
testimony.
So
I'm
not
going
to
cover
that,
but
you
know
dvr
pc
and
some
of
the
really
great
government
agencies
and
non-government
agencies
in
philadelphia-
and
you
know
it's
already
been
stated
over
and
over.
N
This
is
a
wonderful
opportunity
and-
and
I
know
you
guys-
don't
want
to
squander
this
as
much
as
the
residents
and
and
people
who
work
in
philadelphia
want
this
to
be
successful.
We
need
to
really
maximize
the
investments
and
look
towards
immediate
relief
and
then
long-term
benefits.
You
know
we
need
to
first
address
inequality.
This
city
has
really
a
long
history
of
of
having
racial
divide
and
and
and
we
have
a
high
income,
a
high
low
income
rate
and
this
these
funds
could
be
so
transformative.
N
Someone
else
mentioned
that
a
lot
of
people
hadn't
even
received
their
funds
council.
Member
dumb-
and
I
know
you
have
worked
in
the
past
to
make
sure
people
receive
their
funds.
I
have
a
few
homeless
people
on
my
block
that
I've
worked
with
to
get
them
registered,
so
they
can
receive
these
funds.
I
think
that
would
be
one
of
the
most
important
things
we
could
do.
Is
you
know
someone
mentioned
earlier
that
is
transformative?
N
This
person
literally
has
no
money.
Imagine
he's
getting
1400
that
that
would
change
his
his
life.
So,
whatever
efforts
we
can
do
to
reach
out
to
philadelphians
to
make
sure
they
get
these
funds
with
the
individual
funds,
I'm
not
talking
about
the
1.4
billion.
Obviously,
so,
along
with
kovan
19,
we
are
experiencing
multiple
concurrent
crises.
Our
school
system
is
failing
too
many
people,
the
escalating
gun,
violence
that
we've
heard
a
lot
about
today,
there's
inundation
of
litter,
broken
sidewalks
lack
of
green
space.
N
We've
got
the
highest
asthma
rate,
obesity
rates,
safe
housing
for
people.
We
need
to
address
these
sources
of
drama
and
clean.
Our
council
really
believes
that
this
money
can
go
a
long
way,
but
you,
the
leaders,
must
be
willing
to
open
your
minds
and
think
outside
of
the
box.
Look
towards
other
programs
throughout
the
country
and
even
throughout
the
world
that
have
shown
to
be
cost
wise
and
return.
N
The
on
the
investment
almost
immediately
you've
got
to
look
at
the
data.
When
you
do
look
at
the
data,
you'll
see
that
investing
and
cleaning
up
the
city
is
one
of
the
most
important
things
we
can
do.
I
know
dr
roman
just
spoke
about
gun,
violence
and
council.
Remember
don
she.
She
did
have
a
great
program
that
would
reduce
it
by
30
and
you'll,
hear
I
think
from
another
group
today
about
another
way
to
reduce
gun
violence
and
that's
cleaning
up
neighborhoods
and
greening
them.
N
When
people
live
in
clean
and
green
spaces,
they
just
feel
better.
I
live
in
a
very
trashed
neighborhood.
When
I
walk
into
cleaner
neighborhoods,
I
can
just
feel
the
burden
being
lifted
off
of
my
shoulders.
It's
a
real
thing.
When
you
live
in
a
trash
neighborhood,
you
start
feeling
that
you
know
in
internally,
but
you
know
trash,
isn't
something
that
we
should
just
start
bailing
out
of
the
city
like
we've
been
doing
for
so
long.
Think
about
the
analogy
of
having
a
leak
in
your
house
and
the
leak
is
overwhelming.
N
N
We
have
the
ability
to
stop
some
of
this
from
coming
in
think
about
it.
When
you
go
to
a
grocery
store,
everything
is
packaged
right
when
you
buy
anything,
it's
filled
with
packaging.
You
get
almost
as
much
packaging
with
items
as
you
do
with
the
the
food
or
whatever
product
that
you're
buying.
We
need
to
find
ways
to
reduce
that
the
companies
are
pushing
the
it's
called
extender
producer
responsibility.
N
The
companies
are
literally
making
taxpayers
like
us
pay
for
their
products,
the
excess
packaging
we
need
to
address
all
of
the
litter
in
the
waste.
That's
coming
into
the
city,
because
it's
just
like
the
water
in
your
house,
you
wouldn't
just
bail
it
out
and
we're
spending
100
million
dollars
a
year
getting
all
this
stuff
out
of
the
city.
We
can
stop
doing
that.
N
So
if
I
were
to
spend
this
money,
I
would
dedicate
it
to
litter
cleanup
and
I
would
do
community
centers.
If
we
had.
You
know,
we've
spent
a
billion
dollars
a
year
on
policing
the
city.
Imagine
if
we
spent
a
billion
dollars
a
year
on
helping
the
youth
in
this
city,
find
good
jobs
and
safe
places
to
be
and
safe
places
to
eat.
They
could
take
their
clothes
there
and
wash
their
clothes
if
they
don't
have
a
working.
N
You
know
I
one
time
I
spoke
with
a
teacher
who
said
he
literally
takes
his
kids
home
his
kids
clothes
home
to
wash
them
because
they
don't
have
clean
clothes
and
they're
embarrassed
to
come
to
school
when
they
smell
bad.
We
need
community
centers
to
give
these
kids
hope
we
need
to
have
exciting
classes.
Like
coding,
I
think
you're
going
to
hear
from
someone
later
about
coding.
N
Imagine
if
a
kid
could
you
know
at
7
pm,
go
to
a
community
center
play
a
game
of
basketball,
and
then
there
was
a
coding
class
and
they
could
learn
how
to
code
or
they
could
learn
music,
producing,
there's
a
dj
class
or
something
like
that.
We
need
to
reach
these
kids
on
where
they
are
and
how
the
jobs
of
the
future
are
going
to
be.
You
know,
learning
math
is
great,
but
the
kids
want
to
learn
things
like
coding
and
things
like
comp.
You
know
music
producing.
N
N
You
know
we
are
wasting
money,
we're
chasing
this
flood
in
our
homes
instead
of
cutting
off
the
source
of
it,
we're
putting
kids
into
jail
instead
of
providing,
which
is
we're
spending
tens
of
thousands
of
dollars
every
year
on
a
kid
going
to
jail.
Imagine
if
we
spent
that
money
keeping
the
kid
out
of
jail,
these
are
where
this
money
should
go.
We
need
to
reach
the
youth
and
we
need
to
clean
up
the
city
I
hear
over
and
over
from
council
members
from
the
mayor's
office.
Hey
we're
a
poor
city.
N
We
can't
do
that
in
philadelphia.
Well,
that's
not
an
excuse.
You
know
we
need
to
start
implementing
these
programs
that
are
going
to
make
these
differences
and
stop
us
from
being
a
poor
city.
We
need
to
look
to
the
future
and
this
money
really
should
be
what
changes
the
city
and
someone
said
earlier.
N
You
know
this
is
this-
is
going
to
be
a
once
in
a
generation
type
thing,
and
I'm
glad
council
members
that
I
see
on
this
call
that
you
guys
are
in
charge,
because
I
really
have
faith
that
you
can
do
this
and
I
clean
our
council
and-
and
all
of
us
on
this-
really
want
to
work
with
you.
So
please
call
us
in
and
ask
us
about
these
policy
ideas
and
more
specifics
and
I'll,
just
I'll
wrap
up
in
case
you've
got
any
questions.
N
I
know
you
want
to
hear
from
the
other
people,
but
we
have
one
of
the
best
systems
in
america.
It's
called
the
block
captain
system,
it
is
being
ignored
and
I
pull
my
hair
out
when
I
talk
to
council
members
and
say
we
can't
use
it
because
it's
the
streets
department,
no,
it
is
philadelphia's
program.
N
Take
it
back
and
use
it
ask
these
people
who
are
the
most
dedicated
philadelphians
to
do
something
above
and
beyond
what
the
block
captain
system
currently
asks,
which
is
basically
nothing
we
meet
once
a
year
and
that's
about
it,
ask
us
the
block
captains
and
the
ward.
You
know
ask
the
committee
people
to
do
more,
so
take
the
block
captain
system
back
and
make
it
a
really
robust
system.
Imagine
if
we
gave
an
award
for
the
cleanest
block,
twenty
five
thousand
dollars,
you
say:
hey,
cleanest,
block
in
philadelphia.
You
get
twenty
five
thousand
dollars.
N
O
Hello,
everyone.
Thank
you,
chairman,
dom
members
of
the
committee
for
being
here.
We
really
appreciate
the
opportunity
to
testify
and
all
the
thought,
leadership
and
and
partnership
you
give
to
us
all
year
long.
I
think
we
all
know
that
philadelphia
has
faced
some
pretty
daunting
challenges
right
now
that
are
exacerbated
by
covin.
We
have
surging
gun
violence.
We
have
11
unemployment.
We
have
one
in
five
families:
food,
insecure,
deep
and
long-standing
poverty
and
rising
summer
heat.
O
Today,
landcare
creates
about
250
jobs
each
year,
including
75,
for
returning
citizens,
and
it
creates
paid
work
for
33,
small
businesses
and
non-profits,
79
of
which
are
black
or
brown
lead,
and
yet
only
about
a
third
of
philadelphia's
vacant
lots
are
cleaned
in
green.
Today
I
propose
investing
an
additional
six
million
dollars
per
year
to
significantly
increase
the
number
of
lots
stabilized
each
year,
add
new
community
partners
to
the
program
and
create
75
new
workforce
development
positions
over
five
years.
This
investment
will
extend
the
benefits
of
land
care
to
ten
thousand
more
lots
than
today.
O
Priority
number
two
is
to
significantly
increase
tree
canopy
city-wide,
starting
by
doubling
the
number
of
trees
planted
by
tree
tenders
and
creating
employment
opportunities
for
residents
to
plant,
intend
trees,
data
show
increased
tree
canopy,
reduces
violent
crime,
cuts
asthma
rates
and
reduces
the
urban
heat
island
effect
in
low
canopy
neighborhoods
u.s
forest
service.
Researchers
in
philadelphia
estimate
that
achieving
30
tree
canopy
would
prevent
400
premature
deaths
per
year.
O
I
think
we
should
invest
two
million
dollars
a
year
to
double
to
four
thousand
the
number
of
trees
that
tree
tenders
plant
each
year
in
their
neighborhoods
and
employ
50
residents
to
take
care
of
trees
through
a
youth
stewardship
corps.
And
then
my
third
priority
is
community
gardens.
Establishing
community
gardens
is
critical.
Neighborhood
infrastructure
and
strengthening
75
community
gardens
residents
across
the
city
invest
their
sweat,
equity
and
their
passion
to
turn
vacant
land
into
community
gardens
that
build
community
produce
food
and
remove
blight.
O
O
O
This
philadelphia,
green
equity
initiative
will
really
impact
the
increase,
the
impact
of
greening,
reducing
crime,
cooling
streets,
creating
immediate
employment
and
expanding
food
access,
and
this
is
a
true
investment
that
will
create
an
infrastructure
that
will
drive
equity
far
into
the
future,
and
we,
along
with
our
partners,
are
very
ready
to
help
you
make
it
happen.
Thanks
for
your
time,.
B
D
D
The
urban
heat
island
impact
is
much
greater
from
a
temperature
perspective
than
other
communities
across
our
city,
and
that
was
the
reason
why,
in
the
70s,
my
mother
moved
from
north
philadelphia
and
moved
here
to
winfield,
where
I
still
live,
because
you
know
winfield,
we
have
lots
and
lots
of
trees
and
she
would
say,
don't
cut
down
the
trees.
I
love
it.
Even
if
it
looks
like
a
jungle
around
our
home,
she
would
say
keep
all
of
our
trees.
D
So
I
want
to
thank
you
for
bringing
up
the
tree
canopy
piece,
but
I
wanted
to
drill
down
on
the
workforce
development
component
of
what
you
talked
about
in
the
green
equity
plan,
because
we
we
recently
had
a
briefing
with
senator
casey,
and
you
know
we
talked
about
the
forthcoming
infrastructure
plan.
You
know
the
two
trillion
dollar
plan
and
we
specifically
talked
about
how
you
know
when
we
think
of
infrastructure.
We
think
of
you
know
hard
things
buildings,
but
in
this
particular
plan
we
want
to
focus
on
human
infrastructure
as
well.
D
So
what
I
and
I
thought
that
was
a
very
interesting
concept
of
human
infrastructure
versus
what
we
traditionally
think
of
as
infrastructure.
So
because
of
that,
I
want
to
drill
down
more
closely
on
the
youth
tree,
a
stewardship
court
program
that
you
talked
about
from
an
environmental
perspective
and
also
from
a
workforce
development
perspective.
Just
for
the
record,
can
you
give
us
additional
details
about
that
program
and
some
examples
of
this
program?
That's
an
operation
elsewhere,
particularly
around
the
effectiveness
of
this
program
for
young
people,.
O
Okay,
so
this
is
a
new
idea
for
us
and
we're
about.
We
have
recently
received
a
grant
from
the
knight
foundation
to
do
a
major
reforestation
effort
in
southwest
philadelphia
working
in
partnership
with
bartrams
and
the
community,
and
there
we
will
pilot
this
employing
people
to
help
plant
trees.
So
we
should
have
better
data
a
little
ways
out.
O
So
I
can
certainly
share
more
with
you
offline
councilwoman
and,
I
think,
bringing
together
this
youth
employment
idea
and
also
employing
residents
to
plant
intent.
Trees
is
a
real
opportunity
to
make
this
investment
in
tree
canopy
infrastructure,
a
co-investment
in
the
human
infrastructure,
and
I
actually
started
my
day
talking
with
an
employer
who
employs
people
to
care
for
trees
and
demand
for
labor
to
do
the
job
is
his
greatest
constraint.
So
there
is
real
opportunity
here.
D
Thank
you
for
that,
and
I
wanted
to
to
drill
down
further
there
on
how
we
can
really
collaborate
from
a
workforce
development
perspective
and
the
environmental
perspective,
because
I
think
that's
something
that
we
don't
talk
about
enough
is
to
figure
out
how
we
create
equity
in
the
environmental
space
by
utilizing
workforce
development
as
a
tool.
So
can
you
just
talk
about
that
as
we
continue
to
think
about?
You
know
how
this
plan
will
impact
philadelphia
and,
like
I
said
I
know
you
know.
D
In
fact,
my
office
is
setting
up
a
briefing
with
the
workforce.
Development
providers
and
senator
casey
is
additional
follow-up
from
our
last
meeting.
But
I
just
want
you
to
sort
of
talk
about
for
the
record
why
it's
important
for
us
to
have
growth
in
the
workforce,
development
component
of
our
environmental
work
and
as
we
think
about
how
we
create
equity
in
the
space.
D
O
O
We
are
missing
out
on
things
that
materially
impact
violence,
impact
livability
and
just
make
life
a
little
better,
and
so
we
have
to
flip
from
seeing
these
things
as
kind
of
luxuries
that
we're
happy
to
see
where
they
occur,
to
actually
things
that
should
exist
and
where
they're
absent
we've
got
a
problem.
That's
a
huge
mindset
shift
and
then
we
get
to
your
point,
which
is,
if
we
spend
the
money
to
do
them.
O
O
79
are
black
and
brown
lead
and
land
care
has
been
the
work
that
has
helped
them
scale,
become
mwbe
certified,
find
new
business
opportunities
and
in
the
process
of
managing
them
as
contractors
for
our
work,
we're
able
to
provide
mentorship
support,
connect
them
to
other
resources
and
get
them
growing,
and
we
can
do
the
same
thing
for
jobs.
We
do
it
already
with
land
care
and
basically
the
more
we
spend
on
this
infrastructure
and
the
more
pervasive.
D
Absolutely
so
I'll
definitely
we'll
have
my
team
follow
up
with
you
on
that
I
mean
anyone
who's
interested
in
that
briefing,
but
I
just
wanted
to
thank
you
for
presenting
this
plan
and
I'll
definitely
be
following
up
with
you
and
thank
you
all
for
your
work
on
the
the
subcommittees
as
well.
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
Thank.
B
P
A
20,
20
20
penn
survey
found
that
among
older
youth
recently
are
currently
in
foster
care.
That
is,
youth
under
the
protection
of
the
government.
43
percent
quote
reported
covet
19
is
having
a
negative
impact
on
their
living
situation
and
over
seven
percent
were
living
on
the
street
at
the
time
they
were
surveyed.
P
Our
coalition
believes
that
arp
funds
provide
a
rare
opportunity
to
make
significant
progress
on
the
affordable
and
solvable
problem
of
homelessness
among
young
people
in
philadelphia.
A
meaningful
investment
in
the
targeted
strategy
to
prevent
and
resolve
youth
and
young
adult
homelessness
begins
with
the
following
seven
urgent
priorities.
One
philadelphia
is
one
of
the
few
major
cities
that
does
not
have
a
24-hour
drop-in
center
for
homeless,
youth
and
young
adults
accessing
the
variety
of
youth
services
available
in
the
city
is
made
unnecessarily
difficult,
especially
for
street
homeless.
Youth.
P
Two
our
city
also
fails
to
appropriately
help
or
they're
called
transition,
youth
that
is
the
over
1400
youth
aged
14
to
21,
who
are
in
the
process
of
aging
out
of
the
foster
care
and
juvenile
justice
systems.
Several
hundred
of
whom
age
out
every
year
directly
into
homelessness,
we
recommend
creating
a
director
of
transition,
age,
youth
services
at
the
department
of
human
services.
P
Such
a
wall
will
allow
dhs
to
develop
stronger
accountability
and
coordinate
the
cost
systems
of
care.
Three,
unfortunately,
high
caseloads
in
the
community
umbrella
agency
system
often
interfere
with
the
provision
of
quality
case
management
services
required
by
older
youth.
We
recommend
expanding
core
capacity
by
creating
a
minimum
of
three
new
full-time
transition
case
manager,
positions
in
each
solely
to
work
with
youth,
14
and
older,
to
assure
that
they
are
getting
the
attention
and
support
necessary
for
a
successful
transition
from
care.
P
We
encourage
you
to
invest
stimulus
funds
in
expanding
significantly
for
serving
the
services
of
the
achieving
independence
center,
operated
by
valley,
youth
house
and
life
set
operated
by
my
organization.
Turning
points
for
children
for
youth
who
have
left
or
who
are
about
to
leave
care.
Both
programs
provide
the
intensive
support.
These
youth
desperately
need
to
avoid
becoming
homeless
after
discharge.
P
Dhs
should
also
increase
the
age
limit
for
youth.
In
supervised
living
arrangements,
which
would
reduce
homelessness
and
trauma
for
this
population,
five
peer
support
programs
have
been
proven
effective
at
engaging
any
consumer
and
programs
benefit
from
respecting
the
wisdom
and
skill
that
comes
from
lived
experience.
P
P
And,
finally,
seven.
We
request
that
stimulus
funds
be
utilized
to
restore
funding
for
the
philly
homes
for
youth
coalition
itself.
In
2018,
ohs
specifically
identified
the
coalition
as
its
primary
partner
to
quote,
develop
a
coordinated
response
to
youth
homelessness
in
the
roadmap
to
homes,
strategic
plan,
after
providing
funding
to
facilitate
the
coalition
up
until
last
fiscal
year.
This
funding
was
terminated
in
fiscal
21..
P
We
request
that
coalition
funding
continue
to
be
provided,
at
least
while
the
current
strategic
plan
is
in
the
process
of
being
implemented.
Thank
you
for
your
kind
attention
and
consideration.
I've
attached
additional
information
to
my
written
term,
testimony
which
was
previously
submitted.
Thank
you.
B
Q
Oh,
thank
you,
council,
member,
dom
good
to
see
you
nice
to
see
you.
So
I
respectfully,
I
called
our
mutual
friend
david
graso
halfway
through
this,
and
I
asked
him
to
pray
for
me
because
I
I
believe,
if
I'm
correct
charmaine,
miss
charmaine
is
the
only
african-american
who
spoke
as
of
yet
before
me.
Is
that
correct
possible?
Q
Possibly
I
I
need
a
fact
checker.
Can
we
get
somebody
from
cnn
or
somebody
from
a
reputable
journalistic
organization
other
than
the
inquirer,
to
fact
check
this,
but
just
to
say
all
messages,
because
I
I
don't
need
to
to
look
at
talking
points
I
I
can
speak
from
the
heart
and
I
can
speak
as
a
third
generation
philadelphian
whose
grandfather
moved
up
here
in
1923.
Q
and
if
you
you
know,
1919
was
the
red
summer.
When
all
over
the
country
there
were
riots
white
riots
where
they
were
killing
african
americans
and
most
often
we
only
talked
about
black
wall
street
in
oklahoma,
but
there
has
been
white
violence
against
black
people.
Just
for
speaking
honestly,
like
I'm
going
to
today
or
for
owning
a
printing
press
or
for
having
a
license
to
you,
know
be
an
undertaker
and,
after
all
of
the
international
embarrassments
that
philadelphia
received
when
the
city
had,
I
think
three
uprisings,
multiple
police
scandals.
Q
Q
It's
between
23
000
to
30
000.
And
if
you
go
to
private
school
it
can
be
between
35
to
you
know.
God
knows
what
and
when
you
and
I
first
met,
you
told
me
a
story
about
how
you
first
got
into
real
estate,
all
right
and
I'll.
Ask
you
to
share
that
later
or
you.
Anyone
can
interview
about
that.
But
I
believe
you
got
into
real
estate
because
you
were
inspired
because
there
was
there
was
a
a
wasp
gentleman.
Q
I
I
would
assume
who
excluded
your
family
from
living
in
the
western
suburbs,
all
right,
the
same
western
service
where
my
fiancee's
family
lived
and
my
family
has
been
held
in
shackles
of
structural
racism.
That
is
intentional
right
because
there
are.
There
are
organizations
like
the
society
of
odd
fellows
in
philadelphia.
They
had
a
rule
that
if
you
were
a
mason
or
a
craftsman
and
you
taught
an
african-american
child,
you
would
never
work
again
right.
My
dad's
friend
blau
calhoun.
I
shared
that
story
with
him
because
I
read
in.
Q
The
past
present
future
of
philadelphia.
It's
a
book
that
was
written
about
100.
You
know
it
was
written
in
the
90s,
but
it's
about
a
gentleman
about
100
years
ago,
and
it
describes
that
in
the
intentionality
of
excluding
the
african-americans
who
were
moving
here
in
the
great
migration
when
philadelphia
was
was
defined
as
new
jerusalem,
because
there
were
more
african-american
free
people
here.
Q
For
many
reasons,
right
there
were
expats
who
were
haitians,
who
moved
here
during
the
tucson
uprisings,
who
were
the
barbers
and
the
caterers
of
wealthy
whites,
and
they
were
able
to
make
a
very
good
living
and
they
lived
free
here.
So
african
americans
have
lived
here
since
william
penn
founded
this
city,
yet
only
2.3,
maybe
2.5
percent
of
the
businesses
are
owned
by
african
americans
and
I've
had
to
suffer
through
colleagues.
Q
Q
Q
Q
There
are
people
like
sylvie
howard,
who's,
no
longer
the
city,
harold
epps,
who
was
supposed
to
be
on
this
lineup
desean
hines
at
the
global
identity
project.
There
are
black
and
brown
women
across
institutions,
public
private
partnership,
with
corporations
who
have
to
carry
bullet
points
for
white
people
who
do
not
want
to
change
their
privilege.
Q
And
frankly,
it's
disrespectful
that
there
hasn't
been
a
pacific
islander,
an
asian,
a
native
american
or
an
immigrant,
a
person
of
immigrant
descent,
because
these
economies
are
exploitation
of
labor
right
and
I,
as
a
person,
who's
benefited
from
understanding.
Capitalism
know
that
most
of
these
workforce
development
programs
have
never
done
a
thing
for
a
person
like
me
all
right.
Q
So
I
would
I
I
want
to
be
respectful
to
this
audience
right,
and
I
want
to
also
also
say
that
I've
had
to
temper
what
I
actually
want
to
express
because
of
the
the
amount
of
free,
labor
I've
given
to
the
city.
I've
given
to
philanthropic
organizations
and
I've
given
to
non-profits
that
are
wed
led
by
white
people
who
make
a
very
good
living
off
of
poverty,
pimping
and
the
biggest
poor
black
city
in
the
united
states
and
respectfully.
I
want
to
turn
to
my
brother,
sylvester,
mobley
who's
also
invested
in
african-american
and
women.
Q
B
R
R
R
If
you
look
at
data
around
inequity
in
the
city
of
philadelphia,
what
we've
done
has
not
worked,
so
we
have
to
start
there
and
be
honest
with
ourselves
and
that's
not
to
to
cast
blame.
That's
not
point
to
finger,
that's
to
have
a
an
appropriate
starting
point
for
what
we
need
to
do
to
to
move
forward,
and
within
that
you
know,
we've
had
a
lot
of
conversations
about
poverty.
You
know
people
talked
about
workforce
development.
R
R
We
take
an
approach
where
we
essentially
act
like
a
doctor
who's
treating
a
cancer
patient,
we
give
them
painkillers
to
treat
the
pain
but
never
actually
address
the
cancer.
That's
what
we
do
year
after
year
when
we're
addressing
poverty
and
treating
poverty
as
if
it's
the
problem
at
some
point,
we
do
need
to
back
up
and
start
looking
at
what
drives
poverty.
One
of
the
main
things
that
we
see
is
racial
inequity
and
address
that.
R
As
an
example,
41
of
black
males
who
grow
up
rich
will
end
up
either
lower
middle
class
or
poor
in
their
outcomes.
So
you're,
talking
about
half
of
black
males
who
grew
up
rich,
are
ending
up
either
lower
middle
class
or
poor
they're,
not
ending
up
that
way,
because
they
were
poor
because
that's
not
where
they
started.
They're
ending
up
that
way
because
of
the
role
that
racial
inequity
plays.
If
you
start
to
think
about
how
that
plays
a
role
in
poverty,
our
programs
only
help
people
once
they're
poor.
R
We
don't
do
anything
to
help
people
and
keep
them
where
they
are.
If
you
have
almost
half
of
black
males
who
are
being
pushed
down
the
ladder,
if
you
look
at
you
know
just
social
economic
theater
for
black
families,
if
you're
hemorrhaging
more
black
people
from
the
middle
class,
then
our
programs
are
actually
moving
into
the
middle
class
which,
when
you
look
at
the
data,
our
programs
aren't
moving
many
people
into
the
middle
class.
R
If
we,
if
we're
honest
about,
what's
happening,
we've
created
an
unsolvable
problem,
we
can't
actually
solve
poverty
if
you
have
more
people
moving
into
poverty
and
people
you're
moving
out.
So
at
some
point
we
do
need
to
be
honest
and
take
a
step
back
and
start
to
think
about.
How
do
we
address
the
the
drivers
and
the
roots
of
the
problem
and
recognizing
that
things
like
workforce
development,
you
know
in
its
current
state,
hasn't
worked.
You
know,
councilman
dom.
We've
had
enough
conversations,
you
know
I
always
push
for
tech.
R
R
I
have
a
lot
of
conversations
with
people
running
workforce
development
programs
and,
time
and
time
again,
when
I
look
at
the
jobs,
they're
training
people,
for
you
can
match
those
jobs
up
on
a
list
of
jobs
that
are
currently
being
replaced
by
automation.
So
it's
hard
to
make
the
argument
to
me.
Their
workforce
development
program
is
helping
someone
if
that
job
will
not
exist
in
five
years.
R
You've.
Basically,
given
someone
something
for
today,
knowing
it's
going
to
go
away
and
that
person
is
going
to
be
in
the
exact
same
position
that
they
were
in
today,
the
space
that
has
that
opportunity,
the
space
that
has
the
ability
to
move
people
forward
and
keep
them
where
they
are,
is
the
tekken
innovation
space,
but
we're
not
doing
enough
to
move
black
and
brown
people
in
the
city
of
philadelphia
into
that
space.
R
When
we
talk
about
entrepreneurship,
whenever
we
talk
about
entrepreneurship
in
the
context
of
black
and
brown
people,
it's
always
in
the
vein
of
small
business,
I'm
in
the
tech
space
we're
talking
about.
How
do
you
raise
venture
capital?
How
do
you
build
high
growth,
scalable
companies?
We
never
have
those
conversations
when
we're
talking
about
black
and
brown
people.
I
think
it's
a
missed
opportunity
for
the
city
to
not
have
a
deliberate
focus
on
how
do
we
move
black
and
ground
people
into
the
startup
space,
so
they're
building
scalable
high
growth
companies?
R
We
have
to
at
some
point
shift
the
way
we
think
shift
the
way
we
look
at
these
things
and
recognize
and
accept
that,
if
we're
not
able
to
move
our
black
and
ground
people
into
the
tech
and
innovation
space
in
a
meaningful
way,
we're
not
actually
going
to
solve
these
problems,
we're
just
going
to
keep
committing
resources
time.
You
know
committing
funds
to
to
to
things
and
just
keep
spinning
our
wheels.
So
I'm
gonna,
I'm
gonna,
stop
there
and
yield
to
the.
I
know.
There's
another
gentleman
coming
after
me.
A
Well,
chairman
don,
thank
you
very
much
vice
chair
o'neill,
thank
you
for
having
me
today.
Wow.
We
saved
the
fourth
panel
for
the
incredibly
impactful
panel,
I'm
not
a
member
of
the
philadelphia
civic
community,
so
I've
been
listening
to
this
hearing
now,
for
you
know
now
going
on
three
three
hours
and
and
getting
a
great
education
in
the
city,
and
you
know
taiva
and
sylvester.
A
So
my
focus
is
really
on
government
efficiency,
taxpayer
savings
and
delivering
equitable
service,
regardless
of
zip
code,
and
then
I
could
just
leave
you
with
some
thoughts
generally
about
how,
from
my
perspective
or
our
perspective,
you
might
want
to
think
about
deploying
some
portion
of
this
money
towards
technology.
What
are
kind
of
the
themes
you
might
want
to
consider,
regardless
of
you,
know
which
tech
you
use
so
just
quickly
on
rubicon,
we
are
a
software
company
that
provides
technology
solutions
specifically
for
waste
and
recycling.
E
A
Company's
mission
is
to
end
waste
and
what
that
primarily
means,
of
course,
is
keeping
materials
out
of
landfills
and
councilman
gilmore
richardson
would
be
familiar
with
the
need
to
do
that,
create
more
circularity
in
communities
and
in
supply
chains.
But
we
look
at
that
mission
of
waste
reduction
much
more
broadly,
particularly
with
cities.
We
say:
where
are
the
opportunities
for
cities
to
reduce
wasted
time
wasted
tax
dollars,
wasted
public
labor,
wasted
human
potential?
So
it's
a
holistic
look.
A
We
built
it
on
the
amazon
web
services
platform
and
I'll
go
back
to
why
that's
important.
It's
the
notion
of
being
on
a
cloud-based
platform
and
having
a
cloud-based
solution
so
that
you
have
maximum
flexibility
with
the
technology
has
to
be
secure,
reliable,
intuitive,
but
you,
as
a
city,
want,
if
you're
going
to
invest
in
any
tech.
You
want
flexibility.
A
What
does
the
tech
do
and
then
I'll
kind
of
go
into
an
example?
It
does
some
really
basic
stuff,
but
it's
stuff
that
I
believe
is
very
important
to
the
functioning
of
the
city
and
to
creating
good
quality
of
life
regardless
of
zip
code.
It
ensures
that
every
resident's,
trash
and
recycling
is
picked
up
when
it's
scheduled
to
be
picked
up.
There
are
no
missed
pickups
and
that
every
neighborhood
is
getting
that
same
level
of
service.
A
It
documents
important
quality
of
life,
issues
which
lead
to
communities
kind
of
deteriorating
over
time.
If
they're
not
addressed
whether
that's
litter
bulky
waste
illegal
dumping,
it
sees
that
at
the
source
it
photographs
that
and
it
lets
you
action
that
before
it
becomes
a
larger
problem,
it
focuses
on
reducing
contamination
in
your
recycling
stream.
This
matters
for
environmental
justice
reasons
and
simply
for
economic
reasons.
If
you
can
have
a
cleaner
recycling
stream,
you
as
a
city
can
command
a
better
and
better
price,
getting
those
recyclable
commodities
for
sale
into
the
secondary
market.
A
It
reduces
costs
overall
in
your
municipal
operation,
whether
it's
fewer
vehicle
miles,
traveled,
which
matter
for
things
like
emissions
and
wear
and
tear
and
safety,
or
whether
it's
ensuring
that
your
trucks
are
in
better
shape.
And
finally
I'll
say
this
point
again:
it
ensures
equity
across
zip
codes,
every
neighborhood
in
any
city,
whether
it's
philadelphia
or
pittsburgh.
It
doesn't
matter,
you
have
to
be
providing
the
same
level
of
service
to
every
citizen
and
technology
platforms
can
provide
you
that
line
of
sight.
A
We
look
at
these
trucks
and
we
say
you
as
a
city
have
invested
inordinate
amounts
of
money
in
your
solid
waste
vehicles
and
all
these
various
fleet
vehicles
that
you
have,
and
particularly
your
garbage
trucks.
Your
street
sweepers
they're,
going
up
and
down
every
street
of
the
city
at
least
once
a
week.
A
You
can
do
more
with
them
than
just
pick
up
the
trash.
Could
you
look
for
things
in
the
community
that
need
to
be
remediated
graffiti
potholes
broken,
curb
cuts,
these
kind
of
quality
of
life
issues,
and
if
you
can
get
ahead
of
those,
if
you
could
spot
those
before
the
citizen
calls
to
complain
or
before
they
become
a
crisis.
A
Suddenly,
your
city
is
now
in
the
business
of
delivering
proactive
government
and
that's
really
the
gold
standard,
and
especially,
if
you
do
that
in
the
neighborhoods,
beyond
just
the
the
city
center,
so
now
to
some
a
story
and
then
some
you
know
thoughts
about.
You
know
how
to
think
about
technology
deployment.
A
So
you
have
a
once-in-a-generation
opportunity
here
with
this
federal
money
to
make
long-term
investments,
but
they
have
to
be
ones
that
ultimately
can
pay
for
themselves
right.
You
can't
you
know,
do
something
and
then
a
year
later
you
know:
where
are
the
funds
for
it?
So
you
have
to
think
about
roi
very
thoughtfully
and
I
think
every
panelist
today,
the
subsequent
panels
as
well
has
has
alluded
to
that.
But
you
know
nailing.
The
basics
is
a
thing
right,
so
smart,
efficient,
reliable
service
that
doesn't
discriminate
based
on
zip
code
is
important.
A
A
But
there's
the
public
worker
as
well-
and
this
is
kind
of-
has
been
lost
in
the
pandemic.
So
there
was
a
universal
truth
during
this
pandemic,
and
that
is
the
trash
still
needs
to
get
picked
up
and
the
men
and
women
who
are
doing
that
work,
they're
kind
of
unsung
heroes.
These
are
front
line
workers
who
came
to
work
every
day
during
the
pandemic.
A
They
did
before
they
will
after
and
it
has
been
harder
and
harder
for
these
departments-
solid
waste
departments,
not
just
in
philly
across
the
country,
to
maintain
staffing
levels
and
to
maintain
the
quality
of
service
that
they
need
as
the
city
grows.
So
what
happened
in
covin,
men
and
women
kept
coming
to
work,
but
over
time
quickly
those
numbers
started
to
dwindle,
due,
unfortunately,
to
cover
deaths,
exposure
contact,
tracing
and
next
thing
you
knew
cities
needed
to
start
cutting
recycling
programs
pulling
back
on
services.
A
A
Baltimore
was
having
a
similar
problem
and
in
august
of
2020
baltimore
suspended
curbside
recycling
programs.
They
they
couldn't
get
the
math
to
work
anymore
and
they
had
labor
shortages
residents
obviously
said
well
yeah.
We
have
to
keep
our
sanitation
workers
safe,
but
they
were
also
very
unhappy
to
see
all
of
their
recyclable
material
headed
to
a
landfill.
A
So
in
fall
of
2020
baltimore
actually
used
what
was
then
the
coveted
relief
fund,
so
a
federal
funding
stream.
They
purchased
our
technology
purchasing
technology.
That
would
work
for
you
and
they
did
a
few
things.
They
digitized
their
routes,
so
they
got
paper
out
of
the
process
and
immediately
started
to
get
cost
savings.
They
improved
their
routes
right,
so
they
made
their
routes
smarter
and
basically
cost
less
money
and,
most
importantly,
in
january
of
2021,
so
not
long
after
about
six
months
later,
they
fired
up
their
recycling
program
again.
A
A
So
it
can
happen,
and
I
think
the
main
takeaway
from
baltimore
is.
It
can
happen
quickly,
and
so
you
know,
as
you
say,
to
yourself
as
a
council
and
as
a
city.
How
do
you
want
to
invest
this
money?
Everyone
has
a
different
thing
that
they're
pushing
for
so
I
can
only
speak
from
the
technology
perspective.
A
I
think
some
good
principles
are
flexibility,
agility,
real
roi
and
quick
deployment.
So
you
ask
yourself:
will
a
technology
investment
create
more
optionality
and
flexibility
for
our
city
in
the
future?
Cloud-Based
platforms
and
rubicon
is
one
there
are
many
out
there.
They
are
purpose-built,
they
are
by
design
portable,
so
they
allow
for
that
sort
of
flexibility
and
adjustment
over
the
long
haul.
A
Ask
yourself
is
a
given
solution:
financially
sustainable
and
quickly
deployable.
Where
is
it
going
to
blow
holes
in
your
future
budgets?
Is
it
going
to
take
years
to
demonstrate
roi
and
to
get
deployed
again
sas
technology
software
as
a
service
technologies
like
rubicon?
There
are
others,
they
are
generally
more
affordable.
They
can
generally
be
deployed
in
a
matter
of
weeks
versus
months
or
years,
and
their
cost
can
be
fixed
right.
B
Thank
you
very
much.
Thank
you
and
I
want
to
thank
the
panel.
I
have
a
question
for
sylvester
what
I
think
you
and
I
involved
with
maybe
20
or
25
high
schools
over
the
last
few
years,
where
we
had,
I
think,
was
in
the
10th
grade,
15
students
to
the
10th
and
then
we
went
to
11th
and
12th
and
we
were
teaching
them
tech
and
coding.
Can
you
give
me
an
idea
of
the
results
of
that
and
the
benefits.
R
So,
based
on
those
programs,
more
than
80
percent
have
gone
on
to
college,
so
we
now
have
our
first
groups
that
are
coming
up
on
their
their
senior
years
and
start
to
see
what
the
college
graduation
rates
look
like
for
us.
The
next
step
is
always
higher
education.
There's
a
lot
of
debates
about,
should
kids
go
directly
into
college
or
not
is
college
worth
it.
There's
a
couple
of
things
to
get
missed
in
those
debates.
R
Knowing
that
the
question
we
always
have
to
ask
ourselves
is:
are
we
putting
them
at
a
disadvantage
that
we
don't
prepare
them
for
higher
education?
The
other
part
to
it
is:
we've
historically
done
a
poor
job
at
preparing
black
and
brown
kids
for
higher
education,
and
then
we
throw
our
hands
up
and
say:
well,
maybe
higher
education
isn't
for
everyone?
R
We
feel
like
it's
our
responsibility
to
prepare
them
and
then
let
that
decision
be
driven
by
them
instead
of
us
driving
the
decision,
because
we
won't
prepare
them
for
it.
The
other
thing
that
when
we
talk
about
is
the
degree
worth
it
black
people
are
currently
concentrated
in
the
college.
Majors
the
lowest
return
on
their
on
its
investment.
So
there's
a
concentration
in
the
lowest
paying
college
majors
in
the
college,
majors
that
have
the
highest
return
on
investment,
we're
not
present
at
all.
R
Q
Can
I
just
add
a
little
color
to
what
you're
saying
so
so
alan
a
venture
capital
investment?
Thus
far,
only
two
percent
has
gone
to
black
people,
women
and
people
of
color,
but
men
who
are
born
in
certain
centers
tracks
who
benefit
from
having
aunts
and
uncles,
who
can
do
a
family
round
have
good
and
bad
ideas
where
they
live
off
of
the
capital
investment.
Q
So
corporations
have
an
understanding
of
that
from
an
extractive
capital
exploitation
perspective.
But
I've
heard
many
ideas
today
about
putting
people
in
a
system
of
workforce
development
to
get
them
as
a
part
of
the
labor
economy.
But
I've
heard
very
few
that
are
trying
to
put
them
in
incubators,
accelerators
or
programs,
like
coded
by
kids
or,
if
lab
or
the
institute
of
hip-hop
entrepreneurship,
to
give
people
the
opportunity
to
scale
up
and
be
a
part
of
the
larger
capital
economy.
B
Q
Q
Only
one
percent
of
all
the
capital
investment
and
wealth
managed
in
the
united
states
is
invested
in
black
owned
capital
companies.
All
right,
so
you
know
you
might
know.
I
don't
know
if
you
remember,
I
know
you're
a
busy
man,
but
I
have
another
venture
called
the
collective
right.
We
have
eight
members
in
the
collective
right
we're
attempting
to
raise
fi
a
hundred
million
dollars
to
invest
in
black
and
brown
communities
right.
We
all
went
through
a
road
show
on
opportunity
zones.
Q
R
R
Those
programs
require
funding.
You
know
we
have
to
recognize
that
we're
at
a
we're
at
the
point
that
we're
at
because
of
intentional
disinvestment
in
black
and
brown
communities,
systems
that
serve
black
around
people
programs
that
sort
of
flagging
around
people.
You
can't
solve
this
investment
with
more
disinvestment.
R
So
you
know
as
well
as
anyone
else
it's
tough
to
get
people
to
to
commit
it's
tough,
to
get
people
to
invest
in
it,
and
you
know,
there's
all
kinds
of
reasons.
You
know
what
about
the
school
district
this,
and
what
about
that?
But
the
reality
is
it
all
amounts
to
the
same
thing,
we're
just
not
investing
in
in
these
programs
we're
refusing
to
to
fund
it.
Q
So
alan,
unless
you
know
honestly,
unless
people
look
at
their
capital
stack
unless
they
look
at
their
partners
if
they,
unless
they
think
about
who
they're
going
to
sunset
their
company,
to
who
they're
mentoring
right
who
their
trustees
are.
If
we're
not
looking
at
exit
strategies
for
institutions
that
have
been
structurally
racist
but
have
yet
to
ever
pay
restitution
to
the
black
and
brown
people
who
undergird
the
pension
funds
of
the
city
all
right.
Q
And
if
you
look
at
the
people
who
were
still
working
throughout
the
pandemic
in
the
neighborhood
that
I'm
that
I
live
in,
I'm
fortunate
enough
to
live
in
that
historically
african
american
community,
where
it's
only
three
percent
african-american.
Today
most
of
the
people
who
I
saw
keeping
the
city
alive
were
black
or
brown
and
the
gig
economy
and
healthcare.
And
you
know
the
labor
unions
and
those
are
the
pension
funds
that
undergird
the
capital
investments
of
this
of
this
whole
economy
right.
H
Thank
you,
mr
chair.
I
want
to
thank
the
panelists
for
this
panel
and
I'm
gonna
ask
the
question.
I
asked
earlier
in
reference
to
the
dollars
coming
to
the
city
of
philadelphia,
for
excuse
me
from
the
american
rescue
plan,
and
you
may
have
heard
my
question,
but
I
restated,
and
I
think
it
ties
into
the
commentary
that
was
made
by
both
mr
smith
and
mr
mobley
and
my
concern
when
we
receive
these
dollars
that
once
again
will
probably
sprinkle
dollars
to
a
lot
of
different
initiatives,
but
will
not
make
transformational
impact.
H
And
my
concern
is
that
because
of
the
challenges
and
some
of
the
things
that
have
been
spoken
about
in
this
panel,
specifically,
dolls
were
provided
to
say
this
program.
This
program,
this
program.
That
program-
and
I
think
it's
time
to
what
mr
moby
was
saying-
that
you
know
we'll
keep
putting
money
into
the
same
programs.
But
we
don't
have
a
real
impact,
and
so
we
don't
really
leverage
the
dollars
like,
especially
as
it
comes
to
economic
development.
And
so
when
we
talk
about
entrepreneurship
or
just
wealth
for
communities
of
color.
H
I've
been
beating
my
head
against
the
wall
regarding
the
lack
of
investment
for
businesses,
and
so
what
will
happen
is
if
I
talk
about
entrepreneurship
and
businesses,
especially
business
of
color,
and
want
to
devote
resources
to
that.
Others
will
say
well
what
about
this
type
of
program,
where
we
should
give
this
person
some
money
for
this
program
or
even
direct
income,
which,
yes,
that
from
a
policy
perspective,
will
circulate
dollars
for
a
period
of
time
and
we'll
generate
some
some
economies
and
resources
and
have
a
what
I
would
say,
a
sugar
rush,
but
long
term.
H
Does
that
really
provide
the
benefit?
So
I'm
curious
from
your
perspective
in
reference
to,
and
I
don't
want
to
make
assumptions
of
what
I
think
the
better
budget
dress
will
be
on
thursday,
but
considering
how
we
traditionally
have
done
things.
I
will
hold
out
hope,
but
that
hope
to
white
house
is
fleeting,
because
I
have
a
perspective
of
what
will
end
up
happening
and
there'll.
Be
some
dollars
allocated
to
a
lot
of
different
things
to
say
we're
doing
something
but
really
we're
having
transformational
impact
and
then
we'll
get
to
2025.
H
After
all,
the
dollars
had
been
spent
by
december
2024
and
we'll
ask
where
are
we
and
we've
got
some
insane
issues
and
challenges
we've
had
before?
So
I'm
curious
about
the
idea
of
spending
dollars,
either
through
direct
income
or
financial
benefit
programs
versus
making
real
investments
in
a
transformational
way
in
reference
to
just
wealth
for
people
who
have
moderate
low
income.
R
Yeah,
I
think
I
think
it's
always
a
question
of
what
are
you
actually
solving
for,
and
this
is
something
I
ask
a
lot
because
people
will
say
well,
we
want
to
make
transformational
change,
but
then
they
direct
dollars
the
same
types
of
things.
We've
always
done
so
then
it's
like
well.
Are
you
really
solving
for
transformational
change?
Are
you
solving
for
something
else,
because
that's
not
where
the
money
is
going
to?
R
If
you
think
about
the
impact
that
providing
really
capital,
you
know,
one
of
the
reasons
you
know
we're
currently
raising
a
50
million
dollar
precedence
stage.
Venture
capital
fund
is
because
of
the
direct
impact
that
that
has
like,
if
you
think,
about
the
impact
that
providing
real
investment
capital
would
have
for
black
and
brown
people
who
are
starting
scalable
tech
and
tech
driven
companies
in
the
city
of
philadelphia.
R
You
know
imagine
getting
to
a
point
where
black
kids
are
on
a
basketball
court
talking
about
whose
brother
just
raised
their
series
a
or
whose
you
know
mom's
company
had
an
exit
that
is
transformative
change
right
there,
but
we
have
to
be
willing
to
think
outside
of
the
normal
context
that
we've
traditionally
thought
in
you
know
if
I
had
to
to
advocate
for
where
that
money
would
go,
it
would
go
to
things
like
that.
That
would
drive
that
real
transfer
by
truly
transformative
change
in
the
city
of
florida.
H
Real
quick,
mr
smith,
I'll
let
you
jump
in,
but
I
think
that
perspective
is
so
key,
and
rather
transformational
because
I
remember
palo,
alto
and
stanford
was
okay.
It's
a
nice
school,
but
that
silicon
valley
was
in
silicon
valley
like
we
now
know,
because
of
all
those
exit,
dynamics
and
investments
and
other
type
of
other
entrepreneurial
ventures,
which
then
attracted
the
same
people
and
preventing
the
same
type
of
businesses
over
and
over
again,
and
not
different
type
of
businesses
that
come
from
people
who
are
black
and
brown.
R
Q
So
sylvester,
if
I,
if
I
could
jump
in
for
a
second
councilmember
green
sylvester,
brings
up
a
very
good
point
in
in
business.
People
invest
in
teams
more
than
they
invest
in
the
idea
right.
So
there's
many
startups
that
started
out
with
one
mvp
a
minimal
viable
product,
but
what
they
do
today
is
not
where
they
started.
And
if
I
you
mentioned
one
of
the
problems
in
talking
about
entrepreneurship
versus
workforce
development
in
the
philadelphia
region.
Q
Capital
is
an
international
product,
they're
going
to
invest
in
another
team
and
what
you
articulate
it
was.
We
have
a
intergenerational
relationship
with
people
who
are
exploiting
poverty
through
the
programs
of
servicing
the
poor
and
we
need
to
re-center
and
refocus
and
think
about
our
ecosystem
writ
large
and
think
about
how
to
move
the
paradigm
in
regards
to
the
quality
of
life
of
the
people
who
lived
in
the
most
marginalized
communities
versus
extractive
capitalism,
models
that
are
just
displacing
them
to
chester,
to
delaware,
county
to
montgomery
county.
B
Economy
all
right,
thank
you,
taiyee
councilmember,
green,
any
other
questions.
No.
Thank
you
very
much.
I
want
to
thank
you
each
witness
for
being
here
today.
Thank
you
all
and
thanks
for
your
insight,
very
informative,
and
we
appreciate
your
testimony
today
and
we
look
forward
to
working
with
you
in
the
future
and
I'll
ask
the
clerk
to
call
our
last
panel
of
witnesses.
S
Right
good
afternoon,
good
afternoon,
councilman
first,
let
me
say
this
conversation
has
been
incredible
and
I'm
glad
that
you
called
this
hearing,
obviously
to
talk
about
the
use
of
the
federal
stimulus
dollars,
but
we're
talking
about
inclusive
growth
here
and
how
we
can
as
a
as
a
as
a
city
in
philadelphia.
Do
that
and
honestly,
I
wish
this
was
in
prime
time.
S
S
Although
my
grandfather,
my
great
grandfather
from
north
philadelphia,
I
grew
up
in
richmond
virginia
and
when
I
was
14,
I
benefited
from
an
internship
and
summer
job
and
I
actually
worked
in
politics
at
the
virginia
state
capitol
for
lawrence
douglas
wilder,
who
was
lieutenant
governor
at
the
time,
but
became
the
first
black
african-american
governor
in
the
nation.
So
I
fully
endorse
charmaine,
matlock
turner
and
uac's
summer
jobs
program
that
experience
propelled
me
throughout
my
career
and
I
still
work
in
politics
to
this
day.
S
So
it's
was
so
important
and
I
really
didn't
want
to
do
it.
Actually,
I
cried
and
told
my
mom
I
didn't
want
to
do
it.
She
made
me
write
the
letter
and
submit
it
and
they
selected
me-
and
it
was
the
best
experience
of
my
life
up
to
that
point.
So
it's
so
important
because
kids
don't
dream
about
what
they've
never
seen
and
that
helped
me
out.
S
S
Because
philadelphia
had
a
more
robust
industry,
entertainment
industry
than
richmond
virginia
did
and
it
was
close
to
new
york
so
that
in
itself
talks
about
why
people
move
to
certain
areas,
that's
where
the
industry
they
want
to
be
a
part
of
is,
if
it's
more
robust
there,
then
you
know
that's
part
of
your
decision
making
process.
So
after
law
school,
I
started
the
management
company.
I
work.
I
worked
in
a
couple
of
record
labels
in
new
york.
During
the
time
I
was
in
law
school.
My
brother
was
a
music
producer.
S
S
So
I
ended
up
a
couple
years
doing
that
and
ended
up
working
back
in
politics
working
for
city
council,
because
I
had
that
experience
from
from
the
jump
and
also
my
brother
moved
to
los
angeles,
where
the
industry
is
more
cultivated
of
entertainers
and
entertainment
producers
out
there
and
he's
doing
very
well
out.
There
he's
been
five-time
grammy-nominated
since
he's
moved
to
los
angeles
five
years
ago,
but
that's
once
again
that
industry
attracts
people
to
come
there
just
like.
S
We
want
to
attract
industry
here,
to
attract
more
businesses
to
come
here
and
work
so
worked
in
city
council
16
years
for
who
is
currently
the
city
council
president
a
lot
of
similarities,
but
I
say
there's
a
lot
of
politics
and
entertainment
and
certainly
a
lot
of
entertainment
in
politics.
So
I
I
will
say
that
there
are
similarities,
and
so
ultimately
I
ended
up
doing
a
lot
in
city
council
and
you
know
working
we're
talking
about
using
some
of
these
funds
for
some
of
the
things
we're
talking
about.
S
I
co-authored
the
legislation
that
requires
eops
on
all
city
contracts,
along
with
a
city
attorney
named
howard
rod
who,
since
passed,
I
helped
establish
the
philadelphia
energy
authority
which
has
a
very
successful
clean
energy
jobs
program
and
hiring
a
lot
of
city
residents
and
internships
and
in
full-time
jobs
thereafter
and
helped
produce
events
through
the
business
that
brought
the
business
to
public
sector
together
to
increase
work
opportunities
and
entrepreneurship
opportunities.
So
I
would
just
say
that
I
know
what
we
must
do.
S
I
have
a
good
idea
what
we
must
do
and
let's
work
together
to
make
our
city
safer
to
offer
more
summer
jobs
to
train
people
for
the
jobs
of
today,
like
the
gentleman
was
just
expressing
to
attract
industry
and
to
fuel
inclusive
job
and
business
growth.
So
with
that,
I'm
gonna
move
to
sharing
my
screen.
If
I
can
do
that
here,.
S
I
told
paul
that
might
happen,
so
he
was
right
on
so
what
we're
talking
about
in
philadelphia
at
the
chamber
of
commerce
is
an
inclusive
pro
budget.
I
indicated
that
I
started
working.
I
don't
know
if
I
indicated
that,
but
I
started
working
with
the
chamber
of
commerce
in
2019
in
the
2019
as
local
government
affairs
director
and
also
vice
president.
I
should
say,
and
also
did
a
lot
of
work
with
growth,
which
was
being
more
the
chamber
being
more
intentional
about
going
to
the.
S
C
Thanks
very
much
phil
and
paul
levy
from
the
center
city
district.
I
think
the
core
point
here
is
that
for
decades,
we've
had
to
use
a
greater
share
of
our
locally
generated
resources
to
deal
with
the
unacceptably
high
poverty
rate
in
the
city
and
what
the
american
rescue
plan
does
is
provide
direct
payments
to
millions
of
americans
with
reduced
incomes.
It
provides
job
benefits.
Many
people
spoke
about
this,
but
it
also
includes
a
significant
effort
to
reduce
childhood
poverty
through
an
expansion
of
tax
credits
and
a
broadening
the
affordable
care
act.
C
So
there
will
be
more
income
directly
in
people's
pockets
before
we
think
about
spending
to
1.4
billion,
but
this
1.4
billion,
as
I
think
many
people
said-
can,
over
the
next
several
years,
restore
the
severe
cuts
that
were
made
to
the
operating
budget
last
june
fund.
Many
new
initiatives
that
are
that
address
racial
income
disparities
and
gun
violence,
at
the
same
time
as
we
can
make
new
quality
of
life
and
economic
development,
investments
that
pro
more
expansive
and
equitable
and
inclusive
growth.
C
Just
to
be
clear,
you
heard
this
before
in
2020s.
Those
of
you
in
city
council
had
to
make
the
painful
decision
to
cut
164
million
out
of
the
budget.
There
was
another
75
million
that
was
saved
through
refinancing,
but
you
also,
as
you
heard,
harvey
rice
from
pica
talk
about
how
to
draw
down
funds
from
budget
stabilization
and
had
to
really
draw
on
a
lot
of
rainy
day
funds.
C
The
core
assumption
of
this
work,
which
the
chamber
has
done
ccd,
has
done
as
well
as
the
philadelphia
equity
alliance
all
coming
together
is
that
number
one
is
to
restore
those
cuts.
So
if
you
restore
all
those
cuts,
that's
about
398
million
that
would
be
spent
on
that.
But
assuming
you
want
to
spend
half
of
this
money
in
the
next
year
at
least
302
million
to
program
and
many
people
have
asked
how
should
those
expenditures
be
made?
C
This
is
just
a
visual
summary
of
the
cuts
that
were
made
across
multiple
departments,
plus
the
additional
commitment
that
was
made
from
the
city's
general
fund
to
public
education.
So
all
of
those
to
the
right
were
cuts
that
needed
to
be
made
and
here's
the
history.
I
think
that
we
have
a
chance
to
break
away
from
pre-pandemic.
C
The
city
was
spending
50
percent
of
its
operating
budget
on
dealing
with
crime,
public
safety,
social
services
and
poverty.
Half
of
the
budget
was
spent
there.
Another
23
percent
was
it
spent
on
pension
liabilities
and
employee
benefits
that
left
10
of
the
city's
budget
to
go
to
economic
development,
quality
of
life
parks,
streets,
sanitation
and
then
there
was
a
special
three
percent
that
was
put
into
education
in
the
last
20
years.
C
The
city
spent
between
a
half
and
one
percent
of
general
fund
expenditures,
lowering
the
wage
in
business
tax
that
contracted
to
one
tenth
of
one
percent
for
after
the
recession
and
most
recently
last
year,
all
of
those
were
frozen
and
the
wage
tax
on
suburban
residents
went
up
and
the
basic
calculation
is,
if
just
15
of
those
suburban
residents
who
work
in
the
city
choose
not
to
come
back.
That's
a
loss
of
120
million
a
year.
S
All
right,
thank
you,
paul
much
appreciated,
so
the
chamber,
along
with
outside
business
interests,
are
really
pushing
for
equity
and
growth,
budget
and
usage
of
the
federal
dollars
for
this
purpose
to
produce
gun
violence.
The
programs,
such
as
summer
youth
jobs,
as
I
discussed
earlier,
through
violence
prevention,
longer
term,
community
safety,
policing
initiatives,
50
million
dollars,
spur
minority
business
growth.
A
lot
of
the
comments
that
were
made
earlier
are
very
very
on
point,
and
we
must
be
inclusive
in
our
efforts
all
together.
S
If
we're
going
to
make
our
city
the
city
that
we
know
it
can
be
so
spurring.
Minority
business
growth
growing
black
and
brown
business
businesses
are
regenerating
regenerating
revitalizing,
neighborhood
commercial
corridors
and
new
supplier
diversity
initiatives,
90
million
and
strengthening
the
land
bank
for
affordable
housing,
which
is
something
that
I
know.
Councilman
sanchez
has
been
very
much
about
at
10
million
dollars,
and
I
cannot
forget
to
mention
councilman
parker
and
her
efforts
in
revitalizing
commercial
quarters
throughout
the
city
with
their
taking
care
of
business
program.
S
That
is
something
we
would
love
to
see
further
enhanced
and
and
any
further
initiatives.
On
top
of
that
to
help
our
commercial
quarters,
so
next
we're
talking
about
a
city-wide
business
and
job
city-wide,
business,
job
and
job
growth,
jump
starting
conventions
and
tourism
and
restoring
hotel
jobs.
That's
very
important.
S
The
chamber
has
been
involved
in
the
ready
set
philly
philadelphia
initiative
already
said
philly
initiative
along
with
city
council
and
the
mayor's
office,
and
we
want
to
make
sure
that
people
know
that
it's
safe
to
come
back
and
the
city
is
ready
to
come
back.
I
heard
baltimore
mentioned
earlier
and
I
know
councilman
green
talks
about
this,
often
that
they
run
radio
commercials
and
they're
they're
placards
on
city
buses
that
talk
about
come
to
baltimore
right
now,
we're
ready,
and
so
we
really
need
to
jump
start.
S
What
we're
doing
in
the
region
and
saying
that
our
city
is
safe
to
come
back
to.
Obviously,
we
must
be
safe
as
the
vaccine
rolls
out,
but
we
also
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
being
proactive
and
promoting
philadelphia
as
if
not
the
one
of
the
safest
cities
throughout
regards
to
kobe
19.,
citywide,
business
retention
and
attraction,
very
important.
One
of
the
things
that
I
have
another
thing.
S
I
should
say
that
I've
learned
more
about
after
my
16
years
of
working
city
council
is
that
when
people
talk
about
competitiveness,
you
know
I
used
to
hear
people
saying
listen,
I
have
people
competing
to
put
food
on
the
plate.
What
are
we
trying
to
fuel
competitiveness
and
what
we're
really
saying
is
that
we're
trying
to
attract
more
jobs
in
the
city
and
other
cities
are
kicking
our
butts
in
terms
of
attracting
more
businesses
and
jobs
to
their
cities.
So
we
want
to
create
industry,
it
doesn't
have
to
be
the
entertainment
industry.
S
It's
like
I
talked
about
earlier.
It
could
be
any
any
number
of
industries,
including.
I
know
that
selling
gene
therapy
is
a
big
industry.
That's
the
growth
industry,
that's
coming
along,
and
so
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we
have
plenty
of
industries
here
that
are
attracting
folk
that
are
interested
in
this
that
are
growing
and
hiring
more
individuals.
I
used
to
I
used
to
visit
austin
texas
a
lot
dell.
S
The
increase
in
the
suburban
wage
tax
and
parking
tax
right
now
we're
trying
to
attract
people
to
the
city.
It's
important
that
that
happens.
We
got
to
make
sure
that
people
are
not
priced
out
of
coming
to
the
city,
the
parking
tax.
I
know
that
there
has
been
a
deal
on
the
table
that
was
brokered
by
a
couple
of
council
members
and
making
that
happen,
and
so
we're
happy
we'd
like
to
see
that
reduced
and
then,
of
course,
wage
and
business
tax
reductions.
S
We
talked
about
one
percent
of
the
general
fund
revenues
to
annual
schedule
of
wage
and
and
burnt
reduction,
70
devoted
to
wage
tax
reduction,
30
to
reducing
that
income
portion
of
the
burden
and
that
really
subtotals
or
totals
to,
I
should
say,
302
million
in
investments
that
talk
about
doing
both
equity
investments
and
growth
investments.
So
next
next
slide,
please.
S
So
in
conclusion,
we
have
a
rare
opportunity
with
the
american
rescue
plan.
We
we
know
we're
getting
this
one-time
infusion
over
the
next
couple
of
years.
This
is
not
an
either
or
moment,
but
in
as
well
as
moment,
not
in
either
or
and
and
in
the
past
I've.
I've
been
in
part
of
a
lot
of
either
or
moments,
but
this
is
truly
an
as
well
as
moment.
Philadelph
can
invest
in
reducing
the
root
causes
of
inequity,
as
well
as
promoting
inclusive
growth.
Going
forward.
S
Philadelphia
can
help
retrain
retrain
people
for
the
jobs
of
today,
as
well
as
ensure
they
have
jobs
to
go
to
thereafter
and
philadelphia
can
bolster
black
and
brown
businesses
and
while
ensuring,
as
well
as
growing
the
consumer
base
of
businesses
and
residents
with
whom
for
them
to
do
business
with.
So
we
know
that
inclusive
growth
is
very
important.
S
Equity
is
very,
is
very
important,
and
so
we
want
to
make
sure
that
everybody
is
a
part
of
taking
advantage
of
this
one-time
investment
moving
forward
for
the
city
of
philadelphia
growth
and
with
that
I'll
open
it
up
to
questions
and
to
either
myself
or
the
expert
assault
committee.
Who
are
very
versed
in
all
of
this.
B
M
M
M
Its
effects
surely
mitigated
what
could
have
been
a
larger
disaster,
so
many
people
on
this
panel
today
spoke
passionately
about
their
communities
and
their
opportunities
and
challenges,
especially
in
panel
four
as
executive
director
of
the
iba.
I
work
on
the
needs
of
our
constituents
at
the
intersection
of
lgbtq
plus
and
business
communities,
so
today
I'll
filter,
my
contributions
to
today's
conversation
through
that
lens,
but
I
want
to
stipulate
and
stress
that
lgbtq
plus
folks
are
a
vertical
that
run
through
every
other
community
and
as
applied
to
anything.
I
talk
about
today.
M
The
kovic,
19
pandemic
and
ensuing
economic
crisis
has
sent
shock
waves
through
the
country,
and
the
american
rescue
plan
for
cities
represent
the
lifeline
and
the
largest
positive
fiscal
job
to
their
budgets.
In
decades.
The
decisions
made
in
the
coming
weeks
will
determine
whether
cities
like
philadelphia,
merely
enjoy
a
brief
stimulus
or
seed
a
new
trajectory
of
inclusive
economic
growth.
M
M
To
remedy
this
imbalance,
many
cities
paired
back
essential
services,
which
must
again
be
fortified,
such
as
first
responders,
sanitation,
workers,
planning
personnel
and
other
government
employees
who
faced
hours
that
were
reduced
and
furloughs
through
my
organization's
lens
boost
to
the
local
economy,
can
help
all
lgbtq
plus
people
to
comprehensively
address
the
damaging
economic
effects
of
the
coronavirus
pandemic.
Any
response
must
integrate
the
needs
of
lgbtq
plus
people
and
ensure
that
these
communities
are
not
left
behind
in
recovery
efforts
compared
with
the
general
population.
M
Lgbtq
people
are
at
greater
risk
of
experiencing
economic
insecurities
due
to
disproportionate
economic
hardships,
such
as
higher
rates
of
poverty
and
unemployment,
greater
food
insecurity
and
vulnerability
to
homelessness
and
workforce
discrimination
based
on
sexual
orientation
and
gender
identity.
These
conditions
and
disparities
predate
the
pandemic,
but
they
have
also
been
exacerbated
by
it.
A
key
driver
of
employment,
instability
and
unemployment
among
lgbtq
plus
communities
is
the
prevalence
of
discrimination
when
attempting
to
enter
the
workforce
and
maintain
employment.
M
One-Third
of
lgbtq
plus
americans
reported
that
discrimination
moderately
or
significantly
affected
their
ability
to
be
hired.
One-Third
of
lgbt
plus
americans
had
their
work,
reduced
work
hours
reduced
during
the
coronavirus
pandemic
and
two-thirds
of
lgbtq
plus
households
have
experienced
financial
problems
during
the
coronavirus
pandemic.
M
The
city
should
consider
explicitly
including
lgbtq
plus
identity
in
their
definition
of
minority
owned
businesses,
in
order
to
increase
the
access
to
grants
for
lgbt
on
small
businesses,
which
are
among
those,
the
many
that
have
struggled
throughout
this
pandemic.
Supplier
diversity
literally
keeps
businesses
alive.
M
Lgbtq
plus
owned
businesses
are
often
small
community
based
and
privately
owned.
The
ability
to
host
events
and
have
people
gather
is
a
hallmark
of
queer
businesses,
and
this
is
important
both
economically
and
psychologically.
Historically.
Lgbtq
plus
bars
have
served
as
a
safe
space
for
the
often
marginalized,
queer
community,
lgbtq
plus
folks,
many
of
whom
have
been
estranged
for
their
biological
families,
gathering
business
establishments
with
chosen
family
who
accept
and
understand
them.
We
need
continued,
concentrated
support
for
all
minority
owned
and
disadvantaged
on
businesses,
which
often
make
all
of
our
communities
exactly
what
they
are.
M
Businesses
continue
to
need
capital
to
reopen
doors
and
keep
those
doors
open
and
people
need
outreach
and
skills
development
to
match
them
to
available
jobs.
While
it's
important
to
consider
investments
impact
beyond
the
immediate,
immediate
term,
continuing
to
provide
such
immediate
help
is
necessary,
baseline
for
longer
term
recovery.
M
An
important
lesson
from
last
year's
cares
act
is
that
moving
resources
quickly
through
existing
systems
can
only
exacerbate
economic
and
racial
inequality.
Many
minority-owned
micro-businesses
did
not
access
loans
through
the
federal
government's
paycheck
protection
program.
Due
to
lack
of
awareness,
lack
of
connectivity
and
outright
discrimination,
we
need
guards
at
the
local
level
against
this
happening
again,
local
leaders
have
a
chance
to
invest
in
future
growth
and
prosperity
over
the
next
couple
years,
the
impacts
of
which
will
extend
beyond
near-term
expenditure.
M
M
We
need
to
invest
in
ending
the
epidemic
of
gun
violence.
We
need
renewed
commitment
to
his
hospitality
spaces,
specifically
so
many
lgbtq
plus
owned
businesses
are
in
the
hospitality
and
event
space
and
in
our
own
neighborhood.
They
need
gatherings
to
make
a
living
in
the
world
of
culvin
19.
However,
large
gatherings
have
been
strictly
but
sensibly
prohibited
at
usually
animated,
restaurants
and
bars.
M
For
more
than
a
year
as
philadelphia
digs
its
way
out
of
a
pandemic
shutdown,
even
with
the
miracle
of
vaccines,
we
anticipate
the
pandemic
could
change
the
way
that
the
lgbtq
plus
community
socializes
for
quite
some
time
for
some
folks.
These
are
the
only
places
where
people
can
authentically
be
who
they
are.
M
We
need
to
continue
to
reimagine
ways
to
end
housing,
instability,
homelessness
and
food
deserts
all,
while,
while
understanding
the
historic
inequities
that
made
these
things
happen,
we
applaud
the
new
innovative
law
around
evictions,
which
keeps
people
in
their
homes,
as
the
city
mitigates.
Landlord
relations
and
public
transportation
is
something
we
should
be
concentrating
on
as
well.
What
an
exciting
moment.
This
is
to
focus
on
how
we
move
people
safely
and
effectively
throughout
the
city,
including
those
who
don't
have
or
don't
want
cars.
M
These
councils
should
be
public-private
partnerships
that
include
small
businesses,
neighborhood
leaders,
social
services,
agencies,
philanthropic
leaders,
corporate
heads
and
specifically,
and
intentionally
minority
business
chambers.
Like
mine,
along
with
the
african-american
hispanic,
american
and
asian
american
chambers
of
commerce,
who
have
been
speaking
with
a
unified
voice
throughout
the
pandemic,
these
groups
would
be
tasked
with
aggregating
and
supplementing
existing
recovery
plans,
setting
goals,
recommending
investments
and
tracking
results
from
on
the
ground.
M
B
T
T
As
chairman
said,
I'm
eric
diaz
and
I'm
testifying
today
as
a
board
member
of
the
greater
philadelphia
hispanic
chamber
of
commerce.
As
probably
most
of
you
know.
For
the
past
three
decades,
the
hispanic
chamber
has
been
the
leading
voice
advocating
for
hispanic
business
businesses
in
the
greater
philadelphia
region,
promoting
and
encouraging
the
development
and
advancement
of
economic
growth
in
the
hispanic
community.
T
I'll
hit
on
some
of
the
themes
previously
mentioned
today,
focusing
on
what
our
people
need.
Now,
the
city's
long-term
prosperity,
equity
and
equitable
impact
have
been
hit
hard,
several
times,
effectiveness,
priorities
and
I'll,
be
echoing
and
hopefully
amplifying
several
comments
made
with
respect
to
black
and
brown
small
businesses,
including
the
excluded
as
we
build
back
philadelphia's
economy.
Better,
must
become
the
top
priority
of
both
the
private
and
public
sector.
T
Accordingly,
we
respectfully
but
emphatically
and
urgently
request
that
you
prioritize
support
for
hispanic
small
business
owners
and
entrepreneurs.
As
you
plan
the
allocation
of
funds
from
the
american
rescue
act.
We
encourage
city,
council
and
mayor
kenny's
administration
to
seize
the
opportunity
to
both
balance
the
budget
and
invest
in
the
growth
of
philadelphia's
economy
by
supporting
hispanic
businesses.
T
Investments
deployed
through
the
existing
local
entrepreneurship
ecosystem,
with
the
goal
of
increasing
the
size
and
number
of
hispanic
businesses
will
catalyze
new
jobs,
a
broader
tax
base
and
wealth
creation.
To
achieve
poverty,
elimination
in
philadelphia,
imagine
that
your
approach
should
be
focused,
we
dare
say
for
example,
for
example:
the
city
could
invest
in
scaling
up
hispanic
small
businesses
in
key
industries
where
they
concentrate,
such
as
grocery
child
care,
retail
and
restaurants,
supporting
hispanic
startups,
where
they
are
underrepresented
in
high
wage
and
high
growth.
T
Industries
such
as
technology
and
construction,
would
open
doors
to
new
worlds
of
opportunity
for
this
community
investment
focused
on
long
neglected
commercial
corridors
with
signal
or
resolve
to
respect
the
human
dignity
of
residents,
reinvigorate
the
fight
against
blight,
spark
revitalization
and
restore
hope.
Your
approach
should
be
practical.
Of
course.
Consumer-Facing
businesses
in
the
hispanic
community,
for
example,
tend
to
operate
on
thin
margins
and
face
fierce
competition
in
highly
regulated
environments,
with
inadequate
access
to
information
and
capital.
They
are
precariously
positioned,
economically
and
as
such,
they
are
more
vulnerable
to
disruptions.
T
T
T
The
hispanic
chamber
will,
of
course,
continue
to
support
the
hispanic
community
through
the
end
of
this
pandemic,
which
has
decimated
so
many
hispanic
businesses
and
families,
both
financially
and
personally,
as
our
society
and
economy
recover
from
covet.
We
will
position
our
business
owners
to
grab
that
rebound
and
rise
up
stronger
than
before.
T
They
will
require
access
to
information
and
capital,
though,
to
succeed
this
time,
though,
the
resources
are
available
in
the
form
of
american
rescue
act,
funds,
understanding
that
you
all
have
many
mouths
to
feed
at
city
council.
It's
a
big
city
and
difficult
choices
to
make.
We
implore
council
and
this
administration
to
embrace
this
moment
with
vision.
T
T
Imagine
if
we
rewarded
the
work
ethic
and
the
entrepreneurial
drive
of
the
thousands
of
hispanic
small
business
owners
in
philly
with
equal
access,
just
equal
access
to
capital
information.
Imagine
what
it
would
look
like
if
this
city
council
and
this
administration
sees
this
opportunity
to
extend
a
helping
hand,
not
a
handout,
a
helping
hand
to
lift
up
those
clamoring
to
get
out
of
the
hole
that
they
were
pushed
into.
T
T
Thank
you
all
for
listening.
Thank
you
for
today's
hearing
about
this
crucial
topic.
I
am
the
leaders,
staff
and
members
and
board
and
committee
members
of
the
greater
philadelphia
hispanic
chamber
of
commerce
all
stand,
ready,
willing
and
able
eager
to
work
with
you
all
to
build
a
stronger
and
safer
philadelphia
for
everybody.
Thank
you.
C
Alan,
let
me
try
to
address
that
in
two
ways.
We
could
talk
about
the
great
positive,
which
is
that
between
center
city
and
university
city,
53
percent
of
all
jobs
in
philadelphia
are
concentrated
at
the
center
of
the
transit
system.
That's
a
system
that
brings
people
in
from
across
the
entire
city.
C
The
flip
side
of
that
is
what
everybody
else
has
been
talking
about,
is
the
absence
of
jobs,
so
many
other
places
in
this
city,
and
so
our
strength
is
a
reflection
of
the
fact
that
we
do
not
have
dynamic
job
growth
elsewhere
in
the
city.
I
think,
quite
simply,
you
know
it's
at
the
center
of
the
transit
system.
25
percent
of
the
working
residents
of
every
neighborhood
in
the
city
are
working
downtown,
they're
working
in
university
city.
C
It's
those
larger
firms
that
create
the
supply
chains
that
can
then
purchase
from
small
and
emerging
businesses
across
the
city,
but,
as
I
think
you
know,
as
will
said
in
his
testimony,
we're
at
this
very
unique
moment
where
we
can
invest
in
black
and
brown
businesses.
We
can
invest
in
disadvantaged
businesses,
but
we
can
grow
the
economy
of
the
city
as
a
whole.
We
don't
get
this
moment
too
often,
and
so
I
think
what
you
know.
Clearly
I
mean
we
work
very
closely
with
bruce
katz
on
his
recommendations.
C
As
I
said,
multiple
groups
came
together
here
to
say:
let's
invest
in
economic
development:
let's
invest
in
neighborhood
commercial
carvers,
let's
invest
in
reducing
gun
violence,
but
also
create
a
setting
where
businesses
of
all
kinds
can
grow.
So
it's
a
great
strength.
We
have
in
center
city
it's
at
risk.
If
suburban
residents
choose
not
to
come
back
or
other
workers
can't
get
there,
but
we
need
a
commitment
for
job
growth
citywide.
That's
what
the
opportunity
is
at
this
moment.
B
Okay
well,
thank
you.
I
want
to
thank
this
panel
for
your
testimony
today,
really
appreciate
it
in
the
spirit
of
time
we
are
going
to
move
to
public
testimony,
but
this
is,
of
course,
just
a
start
of
a
conversation
and
again,
thank
you
all
for
being
here
today
and
hanging
in
there.
It's
almost
four
hours.
I.
C
B
B
Thank
you
so
I
want
to
I
understand.
We
have
witnesses
from
the
public
today
and
before
we
begin
to
hear
testimony
from
the
witnesses
we
have
for
today.
Everyone
who
has
been
invited
to
the
meeting
to
testify
or
who
is
providing
public
comment
should
be
aware
that
this
public
hearing
is
being
recorded,
because
the
hearing
is
public.
Participants
and
viewers
have
no
reasonable
expectation
of
privacy
by
continuing
to
be
in
the
meeting,
you're
consenting
to
being
recorded
additionally
prior
to
recognizing
members
for
the
questions
or
comments
they
have
for
witnesses.
B
I
will
note
the
record
at
this
time
that
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
purpose.
I
ask
that
public
witnesses
begin
their
testimony
now
and
please
be
sure
to
state
your
name
for
the
record
before
you
proceed,
and
we
have
our
first
testifier
from
the
public.
J
C
Testimony
to
go
all
right,
my
name
is
linda
caldwell
smith.
I
am
the
interim
co-chair
of
the
friends
of
the
free
library
of
philadelphia.
Thanks
for
the
opportunity
to
speak
on
resolution
number
210269,
the
friends
of
the
free
library
is
an
independent
nonprofit
organization
composed
of
local
groups
at
all
of
the
free,
library's
54
neighborhood
branches.
C
We
work
to
ensure
that
our
communities
have
access
to
the
information
and
resources
they
need
and
deserve
through
their
local
libraries.
We
are
our
community's
voice
in
the
library
system.
Now
I've
heard
a
lot
of
really
good
testimonial
ideas.
Today,
truly
the
american
rescue
plan
will
allow
city,
council
and
mayor
kenny
to
engage
in
some
bold
new
thinking
to
address
our
city's
problems.
C
As
the
post
coveted
recovery
continues,
we
have
a
real
opportunity
to
create
positive
changes
to
address
our
city's
high
poverty
rate,
joblessness
and
other
issues,
but
I
would
remind
the
committee
that
the
free
library
of
philadelphia
could
be
a
powerful
agent
for
this
change
because
we're
in
every
neighborhood,
but
we
need
help
due
to
the
pandemic.
The
free
library
lost
over
200
jobs
and
almost
15
million
dollars
in
city
funding.
C
C
B
C
Good
evening,
council
members,
my
name
is
jeanette
cuevas
and
I
am
a
co-op
developer
with
the
philadelphia
area,
cooperative
alliance
or
pack
up.
For
short,
I
understand
we
are
talking
about
how
to
use
the
1.4
billion
dollar
fund.
That
philadelphia
is
scheduled
to
receive
as
part
of
the
american
rescue
plan
act,
which
is
intended
to
help
our
city
and
economy
recover
from
a
monumental
year.
C
There
are
numerous
reasons
this
tool
is
so
powerful.
First,
research
shows
that
worker
cooperatives
provide
higher
quality
jobs
with
better
wages
than
traditionally
structured
counterparts.
This
is
especially
important
in
industries
characterized
by
inconsistent
worker
wages
such
as
child
care,
media
production,
food
service
and
birth
work.
C
Secondly,
cooperative
structures
can
help
preserve
existing
businesses
as
we
face
the
silver
tsunami,
an
aging
population
of
business
owners.
One
strategy
for
business
preservation
is
to
support
owners
and
selling
their
businesses
to
their
workers.
Another
business
preservation
strategy
is
the
creation
of
purchasing
and
shared
services
co-ops,
which
help
member
businesses
lower
their
costs.
For
example,
I've
worked
with
bodega
store
owner
cornerstone
owner
on
exploring
and
purchasing
cooperative
to
improve
the
sustainability
of
their
individual
corner
stores.
C
This
will
help
these
immigrants
immigrant
businesses
stay
afloat
and
build
community
and
shared
power
among
folks
who
are
previously
isolated
and
competing
for
resources.
Finally,
we
know
it
is
no
secret
to
anyone
that
philly
desperately
needs
more
affordable
housing.
We
know
that
building
housing
cooperatives
on
community
landscapes
is
a
powerful
way
to
ensure
permanent
affordability,
which
is
why
we
are
currently
working
with
a
west
philadelphia
housing
co-op
to
support
their
expansion.
C
We
at
paca
can
speak
to
the
increased
interest
in
cooperative
economics
since
the
pandemic
hit
more
people
are
seeing
how
co-ops
are
necessary
for
philadelphia
to
build
a
resilient
and
equitable
economy
in
which
people
have
agency
and
wealth
is
built
and
shared
within
the
community.
What
we
need
is
a
deep
investment
in
cooperative
development
and
technical
assistance
to
match
that
growing
demand.
I
urge
philadelphia
to
locate
leaders
to
make
that
investment,
and
thank
you
all
so
much
for
your
time.
B
Thank
you
for
your
testimony.
Thank
you
very
much
and
I
believe
this
concludes
the
hearing
on
resolution.
Two
one:
zero,
two,
six,
nine
and
the
hearing
is
adjourned.
I
want
to
thank
everybody
for
their
attendance
and
especially
want
to
thank
my
vice
chair,
brian
councilman
member
brian
o'neill,
and
we
appreciate
everyone
being
here,
so
thank
you
very
much
be
safe
out.
There
have
a
good
evening.
Thank
you.