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Description
Meeting of Council's Committee of the Whole to hear testimony on the following bills/resolutions: Bill Nos. 160170, 160171, and 160172 & Resolution No. 160180 regarding the FY2017 Capital Budget.
Testimony from:
Anthony Clark, Chairman of the City Commissioners;
Al Schmidt, Vice Chairman of the City Commissioners
Lisa Deeley, City Commissioner
http://phlcouncil.com/FY17-council-budget-center
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B
C
Chairman
Bill
Greenlee
who's
tearing
and
members
of
City
Council
I'm,
Anthony,
Clark
chairman
the
city
commissioners
joining
me
here
today.
It's
Commissioner
house,
MIT,
City,
Commissioner,
Lisa,
daily
department,
administrator
Gregor
be
and
Budget
Officer
Valerie
Crawford
keys.
I
am
pleased
to
provide
testimony
on
the
city's
commissioners
fishel
year
2017
operating
budget,
our
proposed
official
year
general
fund
budget
totals
nine
million
six
hundred
seventy
eight
thousand
a
decrease
of
160,000
from
official
year
2016
estimated
obligation.
D
Employee
demographic
breakdown,
as
January
2016,
is
52
white,
37,
african-american,
five
Hispanic
and
one
other
of
whom
28
or
female.
The
department
has
five
bilingual
employees
who
are
fluent
in
Spanish
since
2000
January
2016,
our
department
has
now
hired
for
African
American
employees,
three
white
employees
and
three
of
the
seven
new
employees
are
female.
Over
the
last
four
years,
we've
succeeded
in
increasing
the
number
of
african-american
employees
in
our
department
by
twenty-five
percent.
The
department
has
significantly
increased
the
ethnic
diversity
of
our
workforce.
D
We
remain
committed
to
improving
employment
opportunities
to
people
of
all
ethnic
backgrounds.
Our
goal
over
the
next
year
is
to
add
at
least
one
additional
bilingual
employee
and
to
improve
our
male
to
female
ratio
while
improving
or
maintaining
our
ethnic
diversity.
The
city
commander,
commissioners,
have
worked
with
the
office
of
human
resources
to
create
new
career
paths
for
our
employees.
One
clerical
and
one
technical
this,
along
with
improvements
that
to
the
diversity
of
our
staff,
will
result
in
more
supervisory
opportunities
to
employees
of
all
backgrounds.
D
Our
departments
OEO
goal
for
MW
dbe
contracts
is
twenty-five
percent.
Our
departments
current
level
is
thirty-one
percent
and
we
continue
to
work
to
improve
it
further.
For
example,
we
provide
information
on
all
our
department
contracts
to
the
african-american,
Hispanic
and
Asian
American
chambers
of
commerce
in
an
effort
to
increase
our
participation
rate
Commissioner
Dealey
there.
E
Are
a
few
initiatives
not
budgeted
for
which
we
still
seek
to
implement
during
this
upcoming
fiscal
year,
election
board
pay
election
board
officials
play
an
important
role
in
ensuring
the
proper
conduct
of
elections
in
each
of
our
1686
divisions,
with
the
increasing
complexity
of
the
Election
Code.
Finding
workers
who
are
willing
to
work
every
election
is
important.
An
increase
in
Election
Board
pay
will
help
increase
retention
rates
and
morale.
Currently,
if
election
board
workers
attend
training,
they
receive
$125
or
130
dollars
for
a
14
to
15
hour
day
plus
30
to
45
minutes
of
training.
E
We
know
that
a
dramatic
increase
in
pay
may
not
be
possible.
However,
we
have
found
that
small
incremental
increases
are
more
manageable.
We
would
like
to
increase
board
worker
pay
by
at
least
fifteen
dollars
for
all
board
workers,
including
our
bilingual
interpreters,
over
the
course
of
the
new
of
the
two
fiscal
years,
an
increase
of
five
dollars
in
fiscal
year.
Twenty
seventeen
will
cost
the
city
approximately
eighty
seven
thousand
dollars
per
fiscal
year.
E
We
are
also
interested
in
creating
a
new
mobile
app
to
make
it
even
easier
for
voters
to
access
important
election
information
on
Election
Day,
such
as
their
polling
place,
our
sample
ballot
and
for
them
to
submit
issues.
This
is
the
next
step
in
our
modernization
efforts
which
began
with
the
launch
of
the
commissioners
new
website
in
2013.
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We
send
postcards
to
every
voter
in
Philadelphia
prior
to
the
primary
election
in
April.
This
was
necessary
to
make
sure
infrequent
and
new
voters
are
able
to
find
our
polling
place
in
this
year's
busy
election
cycle.
The
commissioners
would
like
to
do
this
prior
to
every
presidential,
primary
and
general
election
and
prior
to
every
special
election
not
being
held
at
the
same
time
as
the
primary
or
general
election.
E
The
estimated
cost
to
send
postcards
prior
to
the
2016
general
election
is
350
thousand
dollars,
of
which
the
department
will
be
able
to
use
90
thousand
dollars
in
hava
funds.
In
closing,
we'd
like
to
thank
the
dedicated
staff
of
our
department
for
their
hard
work
and
again
thank
City
Council
for
the
opportunity
to
testify.
Today.
We
welcome
any
questions.
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F
B
B
D
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Valerie
Crawford
key
Budget,
Officer
city
commissioners
office.
We
in
the
fiscal
year
17
we
won't
have
the
hava
grant
anymore.
So
we're
going
to
request
during
the
media
transfer.
We
will
need
additional
funding
in
class
200.
So
that's
why
during
that's,
why
in
the
budget
it
was
decreased
because
we
will
need
those
additional
funds
funds
so.
G
F
D
We
continue
to
work
with
the
Department
of
State.
For
example,
we
received
additional
funding
to
mail
off
these
postcards
in
the
primary
which
we
think
were
very
successful
in
helping
to
increase
voter
turnout
and,
more
importantly,
to
help
make
sure
that
registered
voters
know
where
they're
supposed
to
show
up
to
vote
on
Election
Day,
especially
in
a
presidential
election
year.
We
have
a
lot
of
new
voters.
We
have
a
lot
of
people
who
haven't
voted
in
a
while,
so
the
polling
places
may
have
moved
we're
able
to
use.
D
We
have
been
able
to
use
hava
funding
to
offset
those
costs
and
in
talking
to
the
Department
of
State
the
other
day,
we're
able
to
appeal
for
additional
resources
not
dedicated
to
philadelphia
county
but
are
still
available
to
the
state
of
pennsylvania,
so
we're
looking
for
outside
sources
all
the
time,
especially
hava,
grant
funding
to
cover
our
costs.
It's
just
until
we
get
them.
We
can't
okay,
we
can't
budget
them
in
okay.
F
D
There
they've
just
rolled
this
out
right,
so
it's
going
through
there's
some
bumps
along
the
way
and
one
of
the
things
that
we
saw.
That
was
a
challenge
on
the
on
the
front.
End
of
the
program
was
people
registering
online,
but
they
weren't
submitting
their
signature
where
other
now
electronically,
which
wasn't
available
at
first
or
in
in
the
form
that
they
send
in
so
that
caused
a
little
bit
of
trouble.
This
is
a
department
of
state
issue,
it's
not
a
philadelphia
county
issue,
but
it's
something
on
the
ground
that
we
saw
all.
C
F
Registering
or
States
we
do
anything
yeah
all
right,
so
let
me
address
the
elephant
in
the
room
all
right,
so
there
has
been
a
significant
amount
of
controversy
around
the
Commissioner's
Office
in
certain
aspects
of
the
elected
officials,
the
whole
nine
yards,
and
there
have
been
conversations
from
a
number
of
people
or
not
talk
to
you
all
about
personally.
Some
of
the
concerns
that
I've
had
and
understand
it.
Dude
was
a
series
of
meetings
internally
among
the
commissioners,
and
there
was
various
recommendations
from
boasts.
F
D
So
for
the
primary
election,
with
an
expected
huge
increase
in
voter
turnout,
we
haven't
been
answering
all
those
calls
that
we've
read
about
more
or
less
the
same
article
in
The
Enquirer
repeatedly
whether
they
are
accurate
or
in
many
cases,
not
because
really
it's
all
about
staying,
focused
on
making
sure
election
day
runs
smoothly.
It's
I
think
a
frustrating
thing
for
us
to
deal
with,
but
we
can't
allow
ourselves
to
be
distracted
by
by
noise
in
the
background
and
and
groups
that,
however,
main
well-intentioned,
don't
really
know
what
they're
talking
about
right.
All.
F
Believe
in
that
I
have
concerns
about
merit.
Selection,
as
it
relates
to
judges
and
I,
believe
that
then,
the
day
people
had
a
responsibility
to
elect
a
person,
any
other
responsibilities
to
unelected
person
jr.,
we
believe
in
it
and
as
an
independently
elected
official
and
then
subsequently,
my
friends
and
colleagues,
you
know
ask
me
to
sit
up
here
on
budget
hearings
as
the
council
president
from
time
to
time.
There
needs
to
be
changes
as
an
example.
F
This
issue
with
respects
to
public
comment.
I
got
to
tell
you,
we
didn't
ask
for
the
change,
but
they
made
us.
You
know,
have
a
public
comment
before
every
bill
and
I
still
don't
agree
with
it,
because
we
have
public
hearings.
Unlike
the
smaller
counties,
I
mean
they,
they
pretty
much
saudia
didn't
vote,
and
that's
why
that
was
changed
with
respects
to
some
of
our
budgeting
process.
We
revise
some
of
the
Bison
budgeting
process
to
make
it
more
transparent.
F
We
created
an
ethics
officer
internally
resolution
voted
on
in
public
a
lot
of
members
of
council.
So
from
time
to
time
you
need
to
make
revisions
to
give
people
the
comfort
level
so
while
I
agree
and
genuinely
believe
in
the
independent
nature
of
any
elected
official
I
do
understand
from
time
to
time
and
it
very
friendly
and
cordial
way.
There
should
be
conversations
about
how
we
can
improve
the
operation
of
that
entity,
the
elected
officials.
They
have
the
responsibility
and
duty
of
these
various
offices.
We've
done
it.
F
So
that's
why
I
asked
the
question
not
to
give
you
the
impressive
that
somehow,
although
some
people
think
the
mayor
and
council
president
City
Council's
in
charge
of
the
world
and
I
didn't
write
it
rip,
that's
why
I
asked
the
question
and
if
there
are
some
things
that
need
to
happen,
I
think
the
citizens
will
feel
comfortable.
If
that
was
me
public
cuz,
I
know
I've
talked
to
go
on
and
some
things
to
the
ideas
you
have
so
council.
D
President,
we're
not
we're
not
looking
to
just
continue
to
manage
and
keep
things
the
same
way.
It's
about
continuous
improvement
of
this
department
and
I.
Think
the
members
of
council
in
taking
a
look
will
see
dramatic
changes
over
the
last
four
years,
not
just
in
terms
of
our
hiring
practices
and
the
diversity
of
the
department.
But
what
we
make
available
online
now
on
our
Philadelphia
votes
com
website,
which
is
an
incredible
resource
for
voters
for
election
board
workers
for
for
people
interested
in
in
anything
election-related
when
I
first
got
involved.
D
E
As
you
know,
you
and
I
have
discussed
I,
but
I
think
that
there's
no
greater
barometer
on
it's
the
work
that
we're
doing
collectively
than
this
past
election,
where
we
saw
you
know
very
few
problems,
unlike
the
news
that
has
been
reported
in
other
cities
throughout
this
primary
season,
I
really
think
that
the
job
to
staff
did
and
a
seemingly
problem
free
election
is
a
great
indicator
of
our
willingness
to
work
together
and
to
collectively
bring
this
department.
You
know
to
the
level
that
the
constituents
and
the
citizens
of
Philadelphia
deserve
and
respect
to
have.
E
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Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Lisa
in
our
mission,
as
I
created
a
book
trying
to
make
the
public
fully
aware
of
what
our
duties
are.
I
began.
My
book
was
saying
that
the
mission
of
the
philadelphia
city
commissioners
is
to
administer
voter
registration
and
to
conduct
elections
in
accordance
with
federal
state
and
local
election
laws.
Functions
of
this
mission
include,
but
are
not
limited
to
maintaining
the
accuracy
and
currency
of
the
data
imaging
and
paper
documents
in
our
three
files
for
proximity.
C
990
3329
registered
eligible
voters
in
philadelphia,
county
preparing
district
registration
poll
books
for
use
in
determining
voter
eligibility
at
the
polling,
places
on
Election,
Day,
maintaining
boundary
maps
and
descriptions
for
the
1686
of
voting
divisions
in
Philadelphia,
locating
accessible,
assessable
accessible
and
suitable
polling
places
within
each
of
the
city's
69
Awards,
which
is
handicap
accessible.
Now
make
maintenance
service
and
preparation
of
approximately
three
thousand
seven
hundred
electronic
voting
machines
certifying
federal
certifying
office
elections
returns
for
Philadelphia,
okay,.
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D
That's
something
that
we've
been
doing
more
with
the
mayor's
new
office
of
multicultural
affairs,
but
but
also
you
know,
one
of
the
biggest
problems
that
we
have
with
this
is,
as
I
know,
you're
aware,
as
our
Election
Board,
our
Election
Board
workers
at
the
at
the
neighborhood
level.
We
provide
training
for
them.
We
can't
force
them
to
attend
training,
and
one
of
the
bigger
frustrations
is
making
sure.
D
They
don't
work
for
us,
so
we
they
get
paid
through
us,
but
they're,
independently
elected
there,
independently
court-appointed.
So
we
can't
hire
them.
We
can't
fire
them.
We
can't
move
of
them.
We
can't
we
can't
do
any
of
that,
but
stressing
that
in
training
to
make
sure
that
when
someone
comes
in
and
they're
unable
to
communicate
in
English
that
they're
able
to
use
the
language
access
line,
we
provide
a
cell
phone
for
that
purpose.
Is
you
know,
part
of
our
part
of
our
training
to
make
sure
election
boards
are
sensitive.
H
D
We've
asked
I:
remember
you
asking
this
question
in
2012
and
I.
Remember
you
asking
this
question
in
2013
and
each
time
we've
gone
to
the
city
solicitor's
office
to
ask
because
of
the
costs
associated
with
it,
why
not
just
advertise
in
english?
In
an
english-language
newspapers,
you
have
more
resources
to
do
more
advertising
and
the
city
solicitor's
office,
so
their
opinion
was
that
it
would
be
a
violation
of
our
of
our
requirement
to
do
everything
that
we
do
related
to
to
voting
in
English
and
Spanish.
D
D
H
Inquirer,
fifteen
thousand
dollars.
You
can
run
in
that
in
every
single
Spanish
language
paper,
but
that
okay,
here's
that's
one
ideas
you
talked
about.
You
mentioned
earlier
round
election
boards
because
they're,
independently
elected,
is
it
state
code
that
people
are
required
to
run
as
Democrats
or
Republicans
in
the
minority
party
for
the
Election
Board
know.
D
D
B
D
Is
and
really
in
reality,
it's
not
a
nonpartisan
board,
it's
a
bipartisan
board
right
and
and
if
you
have
more
than
Republicans
and
Democrats
it's
more
than
bipartisan,
we
have
people
who
have
run
and
been
elected
as
green
party
election
board
workers,
Whig
party
election,
more
workers
every.
So
somebody
wanted.
H
H
Should
talk
about
that,
so,
let's
go
back
to
our
voter
assistance.
As
you
know,
I
testified
last
year
in
front
of
the
judges,
not
that
they
could
do
anything
about
it,
and
we
talked
about
the
tracking
of
voter
assistance.
Has
the
Commissioner's
Office
promulgated
any
new
regulations
about
maintaining
the
data
around
loader
assistance
on.
D
H
D
D
H
Into
their
114
and
2015,
we
had
eight
times
more
people
doing
voter
assistance
in
the
seventh
Cal
somatic
district
than
in
the
rest
of
the
city.
So
how
are
we
ensuring
that,
in
fact,
those
folks
need
voter
assistance
and
again
I
don't
want
to
make
voting
more
difficult?
But
how
do
we?
How
do
we
measure
that
well.
H
C
E
D
What
a
lot
Greg
comes
up
I
just
want
to
say
that
we,
we
have
been
tracking
those
more
closely
and
comparing
them
in
similar
elections.
Right,
because
we
can't
compare
a
DA
controller
election
to
the
council,
manic
election
cycle
or
presidential
election
cycle,
and
that
helps
identify
at
least
where
these
anomalies
occur.
And
when
curr
on
saying.
Is
that
we're
not
able
to
make
an
assessment
based
on
each
individual
voter,
whether
that
voter
should
or
should
not
be
using
an
assistance
for.
H
B
A
Irving,
voter
registration
administrator,
thank
you
on
the
standard
voter
registration
application,
there's
a
box
which
the
voter
can
check
off
and
state
which
they
need.
Assistance.
Ok,
then
there's
another
line
where
they
can
put
the
reason
why
and
that's
an
affidavit,
so
it's
a
sworn
affidavit
when
they
sign
it
and
when
we
process
those
applications
we
put
that
into
the
system.
So
the
system
has
a
way
of
tracking
people
who
do
require
assistance.
A
H
H
H
A
A
H
A
D
I
D
So,
on
the
outreach
end,
it's
it's
it's
one
of
the
more
important
functions
that
I
think
our
offices
play
and
all
three
offices
have
been
involved
in
in
a
number
of
events
around
around
the
city,
especially
events
where
there
are
new
Americans
right
and
we
make
sure
that
the
materials
are
available
in
different
languages.
The
voter
registration
forms
are
available
in
different
languages,
and
that's
you
know
that
I
think
that's
one
of
the
more
important
roles
that
we
that
we
have.
E
I
I
election
assistance
Commission
that
had
them
available
in
about
a
dozen
languages
right
from
spanish
to
tagalog,
to
you
know
korean
and
hindi
and
japanese
whatnot,
but
oddly
it
wasn't
in
the
in
pennsylvania,
was
just
that
it
was
agreement
between
the
state
of
pennsylvania
and
the
federal
government,
and
you
know
we
have
about
like
60
volunteers
who
got
for
about
a
month
knocking
on
doors.
So
then
an
increase
in
asian
american
voter
registration.
I
You
know
it's
all
non
partisan,
wilton
suggesting
any
way
to
register,
but
typically
from
what
we've
seen
it
has
been
in
the
past
and
currently
still
about
four
to
one
after
Republican
I,
don't
know
about
independent
or
anything
like
that.
That's
the
available
data
to
us.
We
don't
keep
that
ourselves,
you
don't
know
how
they
register
but
they're.
You
know
just
from
you
know
the
the
budget
requests
that
you're
making.
I
D
Of
the
one
of
the
things
that
we're
looking
at
right
now
with
the
I
don't
know,
second
generation
of
our
website
is
to
make
sure
that
websites
available
in
more
than
just
English
and
Spanish.
There
are
some
websites
related
to
elections
that
have
many
more
languages.
So
that's
you
know
something
that
we're
we're
looking
at.
So
it's
not
just
a
matter
of
outreach,
then
we'll
be
able
to
direct
people
to
our
website
as
well,
and
more
people
will
have
access
to
it,
and
we
applaud
your
voter
registration
efforts
every
year.
D
I
Month,
that's
why
we
picked
me
right,
but
let
me
just
finally
conclude
with
just
a
statement
that
you
know
a
lot
of
times.
When
we
go
out
our
volunteers.
We
of
course
run
into
people
who
say
you
know
the
government
doesn't
do
anything
for
me.
I
don't
want
to
register
I'm
just
helping
politicians.
They
don't
do
anything
to
help
us
right.
That's
where
that's
where
we
you
know,
so
it
does
open
up
that
conversation
about
how
you
help
your
community
and
it
has
been
effective.
I
I
will
say
that
just
communicating
or
communicating
that,
just
by
registering
your
help
in
your
own
neighborhood
in
your
own
community,
because
you
show
up
as
a
potential
vote
whereas
before
you
know,
there's
no
vote,
there's
no
vote
in
this
neighborhood,
but
now
you
have
voters
and
they
have
identified
themselves
as
Asian
Americans,
very
helpful
for
us
and
just
letting
them
know
that
letting
the
city
government
know
that
this
is
a
group
of
people
that
are
getting
more
and
more
engaged
in
their
communities
and
in
what's
happening
in
Philadelphia.
So
it's
very
helpful
that
way.
J
There
was
one
election
in
1933
and
there
was
never
any
more
and
nobody
voted
for
anything
because
you
weren't
allowed
to
so
I
think
you're,
safe
guarding
democracy.
My
comment
to
you
is
I
think
you're
doing
a
very,
very
good
job.
I
like
the
innovations.
I
think
it's
very
very
important.
That
outreach
is
important.
I'd
like
to
see
more
of
that
if
it's
possible,
but
of
course
our
budget
restraints
and
I
have
to
give
combinations
to
Commissioner
Dealey.
J
She
had
a
number
of
programs
of
various
high
schools,
and
that
is
the
start
of
the
tradition
of
registering
to
vote.
I
was
fortunate
up
to
attend
the
one
at
lincoln
high
school,
and
I
know
you
had
several
others
throughout
the
city
and
I
just
think
it's
a
great
opportunity
for
young
people
to
get
more
engaged
and
know
the
system.
Sometimes
people
find
it
to
be
intimidating
and
I
can't.
Thank
you
enough
for
doing
that.
And
that
concludes
my
comment.
If
you
want
to
comment
back,
that's
fine,
but
you
don't
have
to
thank.
B
E
D
Okay
and
I,
don't
think,
there's
a
person
in
this
room
that
would
agree
that
that's
enough
right
for
for
essentially
a
14-hour
day.
You
know
either
a
presidential
election
where
turnout
is
incredible
and
it's
stressful
and
intense
to
a
DA
controller
race,
where
turnout
is
nine
percent
and
the
day
I'm
sure
feels
like
it's
20
hours,
long
and
not
14
hours.
D
So
we
give
over
the
last
four
years,
we've
increased
that
with
that
training
amount
right,
because
without
an
increase
in
our
budget,
we've
been
looking
for
ways
to
find
savings,
to
encourage
more
people
to
to
attend,
train
and
then
to
compensate
them
better
for
attending
training.
Since
we
can't
necessarily
always
provide
pay
increases
for
every
election
board
worker,
we
want
to
drive
people
to
train,
to
help
with
all
sorts
of
issues
that
we
see
an
election
day,
because
the
the
training
is
always
changing
and
we've
revised
it.
D
It
used
to
be
an
old
like
fold-out
newspaper
thing
where
you're
flipping
around
you
can't
see
where
everything
is.
We've
now
put
it
together
in
more
of
a
PowerPoint
presentation.
We
provide
copies
of
that.
We
have
that
available
on
our
website.
So
driving
people
incentivizing
people
to
take
training
and
compensating
them
better
kind
of
go
hand
in
hand.
You.
D
Our
turnout,
this
primary
was
around
forty
percent
and
it
swings
dramatically
right.
It
can
swing
from
sixty-five
percent
in
two
thousand
eight
to
nine
percent
and
in
the
last
controller
race,
but
the
rollout
the
rollout
is,
is
very
similar.
Every
election
right,
it's
3525
voting
machines,
it's
1686
divisions
around
the
city.
It's
when
we
have
a
huge
increase
in
turn
out
it's.
How
do
we
accommodate
that?
D
The
same
time,
it
really
puts
an
incredible
strain
on
our
ability
to
be
responsive,
but
we've
worked
with
OIT
to
increase
the
number
of
lines
we
have
and
to
make
sure
those
lines
they
roll
over.
You
know
line,
one
is
busy
goes
to
22
and
busy
goes
to
three
to
make
sure
that
we're
more
responsive
to
that
turnout
and.
C
C
Innovation
of
Technology,
where
you
could
go
to
Philadelphia
votes,
calm
and
push
vote
and
look
for
your
address.
Where
is
my
polling
place,
and
once
you
push
where's
my
polling
place,
you
put
your
address
in
a
box
and
that
address
would
bring
up
your
polling
place.
The
name
of
your
polling
place
the
location
of
your
polling
place,
and
so
we
put
in
a
lot
of
new
technology
in
terms
of
voting
that
would
make
it
very
will
make
it
very
easy
for
you
to
find
your
phone
place.
It.
D
D
H
When,
during
the
appropriations
hearing,
we
talked
about
the
mailing
in
particular
that
was
going
to
go
out
for
the
presidential
election
and
we
talked
about
what
was
going
to
happen
with
the
data
once
once
that
mailing
came
back.
Do
we
have
an
assessment
of
that
mailing?
How
many
of
those
came
back?
We.
D
Have
I
think
around
20
trays
of
Greg
Kervin
can
answer
this
in
more
specificity,
but
I
think
we
have
around
20
trays
of
those
parcel
post
cards
that
came
back.
That
range
from
this
address
doesn't
exist
to
the
voters
to
see
you
know
deceased
or
one
thing
or
another.
Greg
can
speak
to
that.
Councilwoman.
A
Those
that
come
back
with
stickers
on
there
from
the
post
office
saying
that
they
have
moved
here
or
there,
especially
the
ones
that
moved
out
of
town.
We
will
be
sending
a
address
verification
notice
out
to
them.
Hopefully
they
will
respond
if
they
do
respond
and
tell
us
that
they
did
move
out
of
town,
then
we
can
legally
remove
them
from
the
voter
files.
Those
that
responded
by
going
out
and
vote
there's
nothing.
A
H
You're
going
to
do
a
boat
you're,
going
to
do
an
analysis
and
do
the
verification
to
see
who
voted
and
and
who
was
returned
and
for
whatever
reasons
in
terms
of
the
category,
so
you
so
there.
If
there
are
any
odd
patterns
there,
because
I
would
think
of
the
post
office
or
others
if
they
were
returned,
and
then
people
voted.
What
are
you
going
to
do
with
those
well.
A
H
D
H
D
D
And
PWD
did
it
on
the
water
department?
Yes,
and
we
also
Councilwoman
Delian,
reaching
out
to
comcast,
also
worked
with
them
to
put
together
a
at
no
cost
to
the
taxpayers.
A
public
service
announcement
related
to
the
election
when
the
election
is
the
time
the
polls
are
open.
Our
website
to
find
your
polling
place.
Things
like
that.
So.
H
D
Totally
revamped
or
that
there
may
be
an
overstatement,
we
greatly
revamped
the
the
tracking
for
registrations
when
they
come
in.
If
you
remember,
was
one
of
the
biggest
challenges
we
faced
in
2012
was
we
had
tens
of
thousands
of
registrations
that
came
in
on
the
voter
registration
deadline
and
because
the
department,
whenever
there
are
statewide,
petition
challenges
because
of
the
resources
that
Philadelphia
has
it,
because
the
expertise
of
the
people
that
we
have
the
state
will
frequently
consult
and
move
all
petition
challenges
to
Philadelphia.
D
So
in
2012
we
had
a
situation
where
all
of
our
terminals,
our
voter
registration
terminal,
Shore
terminals,
were
occupied
for
weeks
with
voter
challenges
to
statewide
petitions
for
third-party
candidates
that
set
us
behind.
So
when
we
came
up
to
the
voter
registration
deadline
in
2012,
we
already
had
something
of
a
backlog
of
registrations
before
the
final
push
hits.
So
what
we
did
this
last
primary,
with
an
expectation
that
this
is
going
to
occur
again
is
made
sure
we
were
at
zero
by
the
time
the
registration
deadline
came
around
and
greg
was
on.
H
D
Are
it
affects
our
overtime
right
because
we
had
people
just
this
last
election
we
went
into
overtime
earlier
we
have
people
working
late.
Every
night
of
the
week
we
have
people
working
saturday
and
sunday
to
make
sure
that
we
we
hit
those
hit
those
numbers.
So
it's
it's
it's
something
we
anticipate
in
a
presidential
general
election
yeah.
B
H
Able
to
get
all
those
folks
in
the
systems,
because
there's
not
only
in
Philadelphia
but
in
the
counties.
We
have
thousands
of
applications
that
were
sitting
so
yeah
I'm.
Very
much
aware
that
and
then
lastly,
you
know
clearly
there
there
seems
to
be
an
interest
by
the
commissioners
around
the
pro
activity
being
proactive
around
education
of
around
the
the
elections.
H
C
Basically,
we
have,
we
have
pamphlets
and
books
that
we
deliver
it
when
we
all
go
out
to
do
outreach.
Of
course,
I
go
to
the
churches,
the
mosques
and
different
other
locations
doing
outreach
handing
out
books
trying
to
educate
the
public
about
what
we
do
in
terms
of
preparing
elections,
and
if
people
are
17
and
they're
going
to
be
18
by
the
day
of
election.
Of
course,
you
don't
mean
we
them
to
the
point
that
they
can
register
a
lot.
D
Of
the
targeting
has
been
a
lot
of
the
targeting
has
been
in
in
phases
of
people's
life,
where,
as
commissioner
Clark
said,
they're
about
to
become
eligible
to
vote
or
a
lot
of
the
focus
we've
had
is
on
senior
centers
right,
where
people
have
moved
to
an
assisted
living
facility,
so
they're
still
registered
at
their
previous
address
and
approaching
people
there
and
really
kind
of
like
bargaining.
Those
change
of
life
points
whenever
a
person
is
other
eligible
or
their
address
has
changed.
Councilman.
E
M
we
sent
a
letter
out
to
all
the
high
schools
in
the
city
prior
to
the
primary
and
I
plan,
to
do
it
again
over
the
summer
so
that
the
schools
receive
it
for
their
beginning
of
their
curriculum
in
September,
and
what
we've
been
doing
is
a
with
the
help
of
the
staff
we've
been
taking
a
voting
machine
out
to
the
high
schools
or
the
grade
schools.
Whoever
welcomes
us
and
hosting
mock
elections
and
having
the
kids
come
up
and
vote
and
see
how
easy
it
is,
and
then
I
do
some
trivia
with
them.
E
And
you
know
we
go
through
the
voter
registration
form.
It
seems
to
be
really
effective
and
they
really
get
engaged,
especially
in
the
presidential
election.
Because
of
you
know
all
the
publicity
around
it.
So
it's
been
a
great
program
and
I
hope
to
continue
it
and
hopefully,
it'll
continue
to
grow
and
I.
Invite
you
to
join
me.
We
were
at
edison
high
school
and
I
invite
you
to
join
me
anytime,
we're
out
I'll,
send
you
the
schedule.
You.
H
C
You
you
have
to
remember
that
the
judge
of
election
and
the
majority
inspector
there
are
people
who
are
elected
by
the
people
in
their
divisions.
Of
course,
we
make
sure
that
they
get
paid,
but
they,
of
course,
do
the
books,
minority
inspector
majority
inspector
and
the
people
on
the
board
who,
obviously,
when
people
come
the
first
time
they
voted,
they
show
the
ID.
If
they've
been
voting,
they
don't
have
to
if
they
have.
H
D
Election
Board
workers,
as
as
you
stated,
or
really
required,
to
live
in
the
division
when
election
day
comes
around
we're
going
to
make
sure
that
every
election
board
is
up
and
running
all
right.
So
there's
a
kind
of
priority
of
needs
right.
If
we
have
a
polling
place
and
a
gymnasium
where
there
are
two
divisions
there
right,
one
has
a
board
with
six
people
who
show
up.
One
is
aboard
with
nobody.
We
need
that
election
board
to
open
and
the
machines
to
begin
voting
at
seven
o'clock.
D
We
now
do
a
check
for
that
to
save
to
save
money
that
cost
us
some
Election
Board
workers
right
because,
after
a
while
some
election
board
workers
they've
been
signing
repeatedly
a
couple
places
so
they're
not
getting
a
hundred
dollars
for
the
day
hitting
200
hours
of
the
day.
So
we
we
manage
that
change
and
we're
I
think
beyond
that
now
so.
H
Be
good
to
see
you
monitoring
if
there
is
a
if
there's,
if
they're
consistent
problems
in
certain
polling
locations,
everything
be
good
to
know,
you're,
monitoring
that
you
know,
because
it's
easy
to
say
we
don't
have
anybody
in
this
division,
but
that's
every
single
election.
It's
one
thing!
If
it's
like
one
election
by
different,
consistently
there's
a
pattern
there,
one.
E
Of
the
things
that
we
talked
about,
doing,
which
might
help
us
be
able
to
identify
those
areas
is
surveying
our
boards
when
they
come
in
for
training
surveying
them.
You
know
with
regard
to
their
experience
on
Election,
Day
and
and
and
surveying
them
on
their
experience
with
the
training
and
then
we'll
be
able
to
identify,
as
you
say,
areas
where
we
might
have
a
problem
where
you
know
we'll
have
board
members
who
may
not
raise
their
hand.
E
You
know
in
a
public
forum,
at
a
training
session
to
say
you
know,
there's
only
two
people
and
they're
the
same
two
people,
but
they
might
write
it
down
on
a
card
and
put
it
in
a
box
on
their
way
out
of
the
training
class
and
then
we'll
have
a
way
to
identify
that
and
to
identify
areas
where
we
certainly
need
improvement,
and
also
next
year,
as
we
approach
the
elections
of
our
election
boards.
You
know
we
are
certainly
hoping
that
the
people
that
will
run
for
those
offices
all
live.
H
D
D
H
H
G
Thank
You
mr.
chair
I
just
had
some
quick
questions
in
reference
to
helping
people
to
vote.
I
had
opportunity
in
the
early
part
of
this
year
to
go
to
a
voting
training
program
for
people
who
are
autistic
and
trying
to
get
more
adult
special
adults
on
the
autism
spectrum,
who
have
that
letting
difference
and
making
sure
that
they
have
the
tools
and
abilities
to
be
able
to
build
a
voting
machine.
There
were
people
they
are
from
my
recollection
from
commissioners
office.
G
D
Think
there's
been
a
couple
of
things
that
we've
done:
one
is
and
there's
a
whole
range
right.
One
is
working
with
the
Philadelphia
School
for
the
Deaf
and
providing
training.
They
are
producing
a
video
to
assist
with
with
training
for
deaf
voters
as
well.
The
I
think
it's
it
really
goes
hand
in
hand
with
our
outreach
efforts
and
our
commitment
to
continuing
to
increase
our
outreach.
I
G
D
We'd
be
looking
to
do
far
more
than
what
we
required
to
do
right.
We
move
point
places
around
the
city.
It
was
for
a
while,
roughly
a
hundred
polling
places
in
elections
roughly
two
hundred
a
year
just
for
wheelchair
accessibility
reasons
alone,
that
consent
decree
expired,
but
just
because
we're
not
required
to
do
it
anymore
doesn't
mean
we
don't
continue
to
do
it.