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From YouTube: FY2021 Budget Hearings - May 27, 2020 Public Testimony
Description
Committee of the Whole hearing to consider the following items relating to the FY2021 Municipal Budget:
Bill Nos. 200285, 200286, 200287, 200288, 200289, 200290, 200291, and 200292 & Resolution No. 200307
Public Testimony Session #2
More details: www.phlcouncil.com/budget2021
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How
we
will
proceed
with
public
testimony
this
afternoon,
we're
here
today
to
hear
from
you
about
the
proposed
21
budget
and
where
you
believe
this,
the
FY
2010
budget
should
focus,
is
spending
gardens
due
to
the
:
19
emergency.
We
have
implemented
special
procedures
with
respect
to
public
comment
which
were
advertised
and
posted
on
councils
website,
as
sent
out
in
a
press
release.
Speakers
interested
in
giving
testimony
were
asked
to
call
or
email
us
by
3:00
p.m.
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yesterday,
so
that
they
could
take
the
technical
steps
necessary
to
provide
an
opportunity
for
public
comment
in
a
virtual
environment
to
ensure
that
there
is
an
opportunity
for
everyone
here
to
be
heard.
Certain
ground
rules
have
been
established
as
if
bottles,
your
testimony
should
be
about
the
FY
21
and
propose
spending
priorities,
all
those
who
signed
up
to
get
public
comment
or
telephone
at
the
beginning
of
this
hearing
and
invited
to
join
the
hearing.
So
please
make
sure
that
your
phone
is
at
this
time
until
your
turn
to
sign
up,
please.
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Once
you're
asked
to
begin
your
testimony,
timing
will
be
started
30
seconds
remaining
to
your
testimony
and
your
time
you
will
be
mining
up
this
moisture.
A
lot
of
time
has
passed.
You
will
be
asked
to
conclude
your
remark
at
that
time.
Please
mute
your
phone
and
stay
on
the
line
until
the
hearing
is
concluded.
If
you,
sir
wish
to
ask
mr.
state,
please
read
the
name
of
our
first
speaker:
angel
blitz,.
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B
Council
for
their
effort
that
I
heard
there
will
be
a
new
review
of
this
action
to
put
these
resolutions
on
hold
and
allow
time
to
review
from
all
viewpoints.
From
an
artist's
point
of
view,
I
have
been
involved
in
several
one
percent
for
the
arts
projects
with
the
office
of
arts,
culture
and
creative
economy,
and
they
have
shown
numerous
nonprofit
organizations
that
the
cultural
fund
supports.
The
office
also
takes
care
of
the
conservation
of
an
amazing
and
vast
collection
of
public
art,
as
the
philadelphia
museum
does.
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But
without
the
funding
capabilities
through
wealthy
donors,
their
staff
works
tirelessly
and
professionally
to
facilitate
the
sharing
of
ideas
through
art
to
create
warm
and
welcoming
landmarks
for
that
beauty,
vitality
and
excitement
to
the
city.
The
office
is
an
equal
opportunity,
employer
and
works
long
and
hard
and
dryer
gay
is
now
exiting.
B
A
Your
time
is
running
out,
so,
yes,
everybody
I
know
you
may
have
a
significant
amount
of
testimony
to
give
in
a
public
way.
But
you
can
forge
your
information
in
your
testimony
and
it
will
be
a
matter
of
records
and
we
will
insert
it
in
the
document,
but
again
only
when
I
have
two
minutes
and
testify
of
each
individual.
A
B
B
My
name
is
Debra
diamond
I.
Am
the
president
of
campus
Philly
campus
Philly
has
been
the
driving
force
in
Philadelphia's
retention
of
young
college
graduates
and
the
population
growth.
The
city
has
experienced
as
a
result,
25
to
34
year-olds
with
college
degrees,
increased
115
percent
between
2000
and
2017.
Third
obvious
growth
of
college
educated
young
people
is
the
most
racially
diverse
in
the
country
and
the
result
has
been
an
economic
resurgence
for
Philadelphia,
one
that
has
created
the
surpluses
of
previous
budgets.
B
An
additional
140
million
dollars
annually
is
generated
in
city
taxes,
every
additional
25
to
34
year-olds
with
college
degrees.
Episodes
program
have
been
supported
by
the
city
through
a
contract
with
the
Commerce
Department
for
five
hundred
sixty-three
thousand
dollars
a
year.
This
allows
us
to
leverage
an
additional
eight
hundred
thousand
dollars
every
year
on
top
of
that
money
from
partners
in
both
the
city
and
suburbs.
Our
contract
has
been
zeroed
out
of
the
Commerce
Department
and
I'm,
requesting
that
it
be
reinstated
at
the
amount
at
least
a
50%
chance.
B
A
ferry
has
been
a
lifeline
to
college
students.
During
this
current
crisis,
we
provide
online
job,
an
internship
board
for
students,
but
seeing
a
200%
increase
in
traffic
and
a
1400
percent
increase
in
traffic,
our
website
that
provides
resources
for
students
and
the
emotional
physical
health.
During
this
time
how
students
are
going
to
be
a
critical
part
of
the
city's
recovery,
approximately
50,000
college
students
graduate
from
regional
colleges
and
universities.
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C
This
is
John
McEnroe.
Thank
you
very
much
for
letting
me
speak
today,
council
president
and
all
the
council
members,
but
speaking
today,
in
my
role
as
a
vice
chair
of
the
board
for
Eastern
State
Penitentiary,
a
City
and
Historic
Site,
there's
not
only
one
of
the
top
ten
tourist
attractions
in
the
city,
but
a
non-profit
committed
to
historic
preservation
and
social
justice.
Eastern
State
is
just
one
example:
the
range
of
committed
arts
nonprofits
across
Philadelphia
that
contribute
to
the
health
and
vibrancy
of
our
communities.
C
Most
of
those
groups
have
budgets
under
a
hundred
thousand
dollars
a
year
with
three
out
of
every
five
of
them
focused
on
serving
and
providing
direct
services
to
children.
Many
of
these
groups,
the
Philadelphia
cultural
fund,
is
the
key
source
of
support
that
is
critical
to
their
operation.
I
strongly
urge
the
council
to
restore
the
cultural
hub.
C
The
cultural
fund
is
a
critical
resource
and,
unlike
most
any
other
source
of
funding,
this
commitment
is
supporting
all
arts
nonprofits
in
the
city,
particularly
the
smallest
and
most
vulnerable,
that
are
located
outside
Center
City,
as
we
call
the
American
firm.
This
pandemic
I
truly
believe
that
our
community
arts
organization
will
be
critical
assets
that
will
provide
a
safe
and
welcoming
environment
for
children
and
families,
as
they
begin
to
breed
them
a
sense
of
community,
that's
so
central
and
what
makes
Philadelphia
such
a
special
place
to
live
along
with
our
community-based
arts
groups.
C
The
city
is
also
blessed
with
one
of
the
oldest
public
arts
programs
in
the
coast,
which
is
carefully
steward
in
the
largest
collection
of
public
art
of
any
major
city.
One
of
my
favorites
is
algorithms,
a
otros
de
la
luna
by
Raphael
Ferrer,
a
sculpture
that
celebrates
Philadelphia's,
rich
Latino
and
Puerto
Rican
culture,
and
it
was
asked
of
Hall
Park
for
14
years,
we're
going
through
the
dedicated
work
of
the
city's
public
arts
program.
C
Does
the
sculpture
was
able
to
be
restored
and
reinstalled
in
prayer
house
where
the
city's
was
able
average
city
funding
to
get
those
state
and
federal
super
to
research?
This
iconic
enjoyful
sponsor,
fell
back
into
a
safe
and
friendly
Gathering
Place.
We
are
living
through
a
generation
defining
moments
like
no
other
in
our
lives.
I
understand
the
incredibly
difficult
challenges
the
city
and
the
council
are
facing.
C
There
are
now
two
worlds:
the
one
before
the
virus
and
the
one
after
I
urge
you
to
restore
these
cups
of
guys,
continue
to
be
a
resource
for
reflection
and
healing
for
celebration
and
confirmation,
our
public
art,
our
parks
and
our
community
arts
organizations
on
the
delicate
thread
that
weaves
up
together
as
a
community.
Please
preserve
these
modest
but
incredibly
important
program.
Thank
you.
B
My
apologies
so
good
afternoon
my
name
is
Sally
Malik
I'm,
justifying
response
to
bill
number
two:
zero:
zero,
two,
eight
seven
and
two
zero
zero.
Three
zero
seven
I
have
worked
as
an
art
conservator
at
the
Philadelphia
Museum
of
Art
since
1989,
and
it's
my
deeply
held
belief
that
even
in
difficult
times
and
that's
never
fully
abandoned
or
defer
the
public
trust
that
we
hold
both
for
creation
and
preservation
of
works
of
art.
B
I've
worked
closely
with
the
public
art
staff
in
the
office
of
arts,
culture
and
the
creative
economy
through
the
conservation,
Advisory
Committee
for
the
past
40
years
and
through
the
percent
for
art
program
for
the
past
20
years.
The
city's
question
of
public
art
is
the
oldest
and
largest
in
the
nation,
and
the
Advisory
Committee
is
a
model
for
good
collection
stewardship.
We
evaluate
review
proposals
and
preservation
initiatives
for
collections
across
the
city,
I
started
by
the
expertise
of
the
public
art
staff.
Their
guidance
requires
an
informed
understanding
of
the
city's
Corrections.
B
The
state
of
preservation
and
a
pragmatic
sensitivity
to
resources
available.
High
conservation
standards
are
achieved
by
attentive
oversight
to
ensure
the
best
return
on
investment,
a
long
term
outcome.
Where
is
this
more
evident
project
by
the
preservation
of
William
Penn
on
top
of
City
Hall,
but
as
you've
heard?
There's
many
other
examples.
B
The
precentral
art
program
recently
celebrated
at
60th
anniversary.
It
was
the
first
program
of
its
type
in
the
nation.
The
program
is
a
complex
multi-step
process
or
artists,
respond
to
a
proposal
and
present
to
a
jury
of
stakeholders
and
inspected
projects
as
shepherded
through
steps
for
approval
and
realization
the
central
art
sites
arranged
from
the
Philadelphia
International
and
itself
to
police,
building,
playgrounds
and
recreation.
B
Pictures
I
personally
witnessed
a
small
part
of
the
process
and
always
find
it
incredibly
moving
everyone
at
the
table,
and
most
especially
the
representatives
of
the
communities
about
the
section
of
the
artwork
and
its
current
form.
The
percent
for
art
program
is
structured
as
an
intensive
and
dynamic
process
that
ensures
all
voices
are
heard
and
respected.
B
C
C
An
additional
building
to
house
the
fire
trucks.
The
process
almost
two
years
thus
far
is
a
collaboration
involving
various
city
agencies,
the
fire
department,
architects,
Landscape
Architects
in
the
chest,
central
community.
The
artwork
is
designed
specifically
for
the
site,
acknowledging
the
historic
elements,
practices
of
the
firefighters
and
the
essence
of
firehouse
37
is
a
community
hub
at
the
helm.
Are
the
art
experts
at
the
public
art
office
integral.
B
C
C
B
Okay,
can
you
hear
me
I
press
star
six,
yes,
okay,
great
good
afternoon
virtual
Council,
President,
Clark
and
councilmembers?
Thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
express
my
concern
and
support
for
the
office
of
arts,
culture
and
the
creative
economy,
the
philadelphia
cultural
fund
and
the
city's
public
art
program,
which
are
face
elimination
in
the
revised
budget.
B
It
troubles
me
to
think
that,
after
all
this
time,
progress
and
public
appreciation
unconscious
support
that
we
may
be
facing
a
devastating
blow
to
the
support
of
the
cultural
community
and
the
neighborhoods
and
communities
who
benefit
from
our
creative
work
and
I
do
mean
work.
The
arts
and
cultural
community
not
only
offers
creative
approaches
to
for
the
price,
so
dearly
needed
in
our
current
environment
that
collectively
we
are
job-creating
engine.
A
unifying
and
humanistic
first,
a
tourism
Catterick,
an
education
provider
and
an
all-around
economic
benefit
for
the
city.
I
understand
that
extremely
difficult
cost.
B
B
Information
has
one
of
the
largest
and
most
important
collections
of
public
art
in
early
American
cities
and
as
chair
of
the
city's
public
art
Advisory
Committee
I
urge
support
of
this
program,
initially
conservation
and
collection
management,
which
includes
donation
to
the
city
and
relocation
of
artworks,
and
this
program
is
the
steward
of
over
1,000
works
of
public
art
that
are
located
throughout
neighborhoods
in
the
city.
Thank
you
and
I
again
urge
you
to
continue
financial
support
for
arts
and
culture
in
Philadelphia.
I
know
we
have
your
ear
and
I
hope
we
have
your
vote.
B
B
Good
afternoon,
council
president
Clark
and
all
accounts
members,
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
testify
today,
I'm
a
65
year
old,
working
artist
and
community
activists,
the
proposed
budget
would
eliminate
our
office
of
arts,
culture
and
the
creative
economy
and
the
Philadelphia
cultural
funds.
I
urge
you
to
not
support
any
budget.
That
would
do
this.
The
1%
for
our
program,
which
manages
and
implements
public
art
commissions,
as
well
as
taking
care
of
Philadelphia's
public
art.
B
Another
value
of
this
program
firsthand
having
been
a
recipient
of
a
1%
for
our
Commission
and
some
committees
in
support
of
other
1%
for
art
projects.
The
arts
supports
thousands
of
jobs
in
all
kinds
of
businesses.
Our
city's
modest
investment
of
public
money
yields
a
huge
return.
We
will
come
back
from
this
health
crisis.
We
need
the
arts
for
a
healthy
return
and
when
I
say
healthy,
I
mean
in
body
spirit
and
economically
honest
care
deeply
about
Philadelphia.
We
invest
in
the
city
where
civically
engaged,
where
community
activists
we
volunteer.
B
We
give
back
30
years
ago,
artists
after
graduating,
from
the
many
prestigious
art
programs
in
our
colleges
and
universities.
More
often
than
not,
with
Lee
Philadelphia
four
other
cities
and
states
that
has
changed
significantly
in
the
last
20
years
are
staying
here,
making
their
careers
and
raising
families
here
and
people
have.
All
professions
are
moving
to
Philadelphia
in
large
part
because
of
the
arts
here
that
was
recognized
in
2008
when
the
city
created
the
office
of
arts,
culture
and
the
creative
economy.
I
know
and
accept
that
some
cuts
need
to
be
made.
B
A
C
Thank
You
council,
president
Clark
and
all
of
the
council
members
I,
really
appreciate
this
opportunity.
As
a
citizen
and
working
artists
in
Philadelphia
for
over
29
years
to
participate
in
this
healthy
democratic
process,
I
would
like
to
focus
a
little
bit
more
on
the
economic
impact
that
the
art
has.
It's
a
763
billion
dollar
industry
for
the
u.s.
it's
more
than
the
agricultural
and
transportation
sector
does
in
our
whole
country.
It
has
more
than
317
billion
the.
C
Money
that
the
u.s.
all
of
the
government's
put
in
the
three
levels
of
government
put
in
annually
is
only
four
billion
yet
yield
30
billion
in
revenue
exported
out
of
the
country.
I,
don't
understand
how
we
see
all
over
the
country,
the
investment
in
the
arts
and
what
the
artists
do
in
blighted
areas
by
myself
moved
here
in
1991
to
East,
often
in
coral,
and
at
that
time
it
was
very
blighted.
C
Stealing,
the
arts,
all
of
the
arts
throughout
the
communities
in
Philadelphia
is
essential,
not
just
look
to
what
we
already
have,
which
we've
talked
about,
that
this
country
holds
the
greatest
public
art
fund
I
mean
public
art,
art
works
of
any
city
in
the
nation.
Look
to
our
own
city,
you
know
when
you
go
on
the
web.
What
is
it
that
attracts
people
to
the
city?
It's
our
culture.
It's
our
art!
We
have
the
greatest
institutions,
art
art
institutions
in
the
country,
and
we
need
to
help
support
them
and
feed
the
local
communities.
C
B
Council
president
Clark
and
council
members,
thank
you
for
this
opportunity
to
testify
today
and
thank
you
for
introducing
the
resolution
calling
for
the
Kennedy
administration
to
delay
the
elimination
of
the
office
of
arts,
culture
in
the
creative
economy
and
refer
a
few
cultural
financial
councils
had
time
George
you're
the
entire
2021
budget.
I
am
a
40
year
resident
afarid,
obvious
City
I
built
a
national
Matthew
million-dollar
fashion,
business
on
North,
Americans
troupe,
the
1980s
and
helped
lay
the
foundation
for
tangent
in
Fishtown
Enterprise
owned
a
cover
design
in
architecture.
B
The
surest
Enquirer
before
founding
design,
Philadelphia
America's,
first
Design
Festival
at
a
national
model
for
festivals
across
the
country,
currently
I'm,
director
of
education
for
the
Society
of
experienced
designers
and
international
membership
organization,
headquartered
in
Washington,
DC
I
choose
to
live
in
Philadelphia
because
of
our
history,
heritage
and
culture.
I
choose
to
live
here
home
to
the
first
1%
for
our
program
and
thousands
of
pieces
of
Beaubourg
art
that
rival
any
other
across
the
United.
States
choose
to
live
in
Philadelphia
because
of
our
wealth
of
historic
houses.
B
Our
world-renowned
museums,
stellar,
jazz,
herbage
and
internationally
regarded
dance
troupes,
along
with
thousands
of
other
people.
Like
me,
I
choose
to
live
in
Philadelphia
because
I
have
been
able
to
prosper
through
creating
culture.
Here.
Philadelphia
has
never
been
a
sixth
borough
of
New,
York
or
other
city.
It
is
a
unique
and
vibrant
place,
the
birthplace
of
democracy
and
it's
still
evolving
and
telling
a
very
American
story.
Fair
Adelphia
is
a
world-class
City.
One
class
cities
are
rich
in
cultural
resources.
B
That
is
how
world-class
cities
attract
and
maintain
citizens
raise
their
tax
base,
elevate
their
education
systems
and
create
desirable,
visible
urban
communities
as
outside
of
his
art
and
cultural
wealth.
There
are
being
no
reason
to
come
here
as
a
tourist
or
loser
to
go
to
college
relocate
here
to
work,
live
or
raise.
Children
I
have
more
than
around
four
vulnerable
situations,
so
many
people
are
in
today
causing
tremendous
pressures
and
challenges
to
the
city.
B
The
Cruz
community
may
look
like
an
expandable
extra
from
certain
seats
in
this
theater
at
the
amount
of
money
say
by
eliminating
the
office
of
arts,
culture
and
creative
economy
and
the
cultural
fund
is
a
drop
in
the
city's
budget.
The
cities
for
millions
are
investment,
provides
a
return
on
investment
of
3.4
billion
dollars.
How
do
we
save
money
by
throwing
it
away?
B
I
keep
wondering
when
we
reach
the
other
side
of
this
health
crisis,
we'll
say
that
you
would
be
a
vivid
leader,
a
21st
century
example
of
best
practices
or
really
be
culturally
bankrupt,
the
rate,
so
it
is
not
back,
especially
if
it
means
going
back
to
a
time
when
the
city
is
not
among
the
vanguard
of
innovative
American
cities.
I
Drive
Philadelphia
grow
exponentially
through
the
Arts
in
my
40
years
here.
While
we
continue
to
struggle
with
economic
disparity,
let
us
not
throw
away
what
distinguishes
this
city
from
every
other.
B
B
2100
artists,
1800
arts
organizations
protect
the
office
of
arts,
culture
and
creative
economy,
the
city's
public
art
program
and
the
Fair
Adelphia
cultural
fund.
Thank
you
for
recognizing
the
creative
sectors,
significant
significance
to
that
there's
economic
viability
now
and
in
the
future,
and
for
hearing
my
testimony.
A
C
Thank
you
very
much
Council
President,
Clark
and
other
members
of
council.
My
name
is
Messiah
and
I'm,
offering
testimony
in
consideration
of
the
ordinances
related
to
the
amending
of
the
fiscal
year.
2021
budget
specifically
I'm
quite
concerned
about
the
proposed
elimination
of
funding
for
about
your
cultural
fund,
along
with
the
hundreds
of
neighborhood
cultural
organizations,
that
it
supports
the
defunding
of
the
African
American
Museum
in
Philadelphia,
and
the
pleasure
of
the
office
for
arts
culture
and
the
creative
economy.
C
I'm,
the
director
of
the
video
center,
a
new
Health
Center,
located
in
West
Philadelphia
in
certain
neighborhoods
throughout
the
city
to
our
community
history
projects,
neighborhood
screenings,
youth
media
programs
in
our
community
radio
station
I
programs
directly
embedded
with
5,000
Philadelphians.
Each
year
we
have
been
the
proud
recipients
of
the
talisman
David
Cohen
award
made
by
the
Philadelphia
cultural
fund.
C
One
of
the
reviews
greatest
assets
is
that
is
the
culture
that
emanates
from
the
neighborhoods
community.
Culture
is
a
key
reason
that
Philadelphia
is
a
healthy
and
livable
city.
The
history
of
accessible
cultural
institutions
goes
back
to
the
earliest
days
of
the
city.
You
know
skip
my
allusions
to
Benjamin
Franklin
and
AME
mother
Sara,
Beth
Alan,
but
today
and
then
today,
throughout
Philadelphia,
there
are
places
like
the
ty
airport,
cameo
Asian
arts
initiatives
for
Evancho
Brandywine
arc.
C
There
are
themselves
to
the
rich
cultural
resources
of
the
city,
where
the
huge
impact
at
copán
nineteen
pandemic
has
had
on
our
health,
our
lives
and
our
work,
and
that
there
may
be
need
for
spending
contractions
to
keep
the
city
on
solid
financial
footing
the
culture
creating
it
sharing
it
as
part
of
our
identity,
part
of
life.
It
is
essential
for
a
livable,
healthy
City.
It
is
what
keeps
us
civilized
provided
by
our
tax
dollars
to
the
cultural
fund,
sometimes
the
main
source
of
funding
for
the
many
community
rights
organizations
in
the
every
council.
C
Manek
district,
when
many
are
quite
swell,
these
organizations
have
an
outsized
effect
and
impact
on
community
life.
I
also
want
to
make
a
special
plea
to
abandon,
to
not
to
abandon
support
for
the
african-american
Museum
of
Philadelphia,
one
of
the
most
important,
and
certainly
the
most
visible
cultural
institution,
for
a
huge
percentage
of
black
philadelphians
beyond
the
place
of
exhibition
is
the
place
of
gathering
of
creation
and
learning
I
hope.
B
At
the
Barnes
Foundation
and
I'm
treasure
the
bird
as
a
sort
of
your
cultural
fund,
a
University
and
the
University
of
Utah,
so
I
studied
Antony's
and
music
from
both
institutions
also
founded
fortress
Arts
Academy,
a
small
arts
education
program,
serving
primarily
marginalized
youth
and
adults
in
West,
Philly
I'm
here
to
testify
against
hardness,
202,
87
and
Resolution
203
o7,
and
would
be
funding
at
the
Bellevue
culture
fund,
the
African
American
Museum
and
the
Office
of
arts
culture
on
the
creative
economy.
We're
all
painfully
aware
of
the
needs
to
reduce
the
city's
budget
and
I.
B
Do
not
envy
your
tech,
not
that
of
the
mayor's
finance
department
entities.
There
will
surely
be
lasting
ramifications
in
some
of
the
most
vulnerable
communities.
You
know
I'm
paralleled
in
providing
much-needed
general
operating
funds
to
nearly
50
arts
organizations,
many
of
whom
serve
and
are
led
by
people
of
color,
undoubtedly
the
city's
premier
black
cultural
institution
and
is
not
just
for
people
of
African
descent
and
the
OAC
a
new
participant.
You.
B
In
connecting
the
cities,
artists,
programs
and
organizations
with
the
broader
community,
deeper
philippi
funding
signal
or
romance
of
some
of
the
strides
that
we've
made
in
the
city
over
the
past
few
years
around
creating
greater
equity
of
access
to
funding,
particularly
in
the
arts
across
the
city.
The
cultural
fund,
for
example,
is
diligent
and
making
sure
that
is
inclusive
in
its
grant,
making
and
collect
detailed
data
to
make
sure
the
fund
represents
communities
across
the
city.
B
By
eliminating
this
crucial
funding,
we
have
basically
like
these
games
also
table,
and
it
could
be
very
well
the
death
knell
for
several
organizations
and
therefore
the
communities
they
serve,
don't
otherwise
have
access
to
the
Arts
and
Culture.
Additionally,
the
proposed
defunding
of
amp
sent
a
negative
message
about
the
city's
commitment
to
fairness
and
funding,
in
fact,
by
the
funding
organization.
That
means
so
much
to
so
many
people.
You
are
messaging
that
the
rich
culture
and
parts
of
the
city's
largest
racial
demographic
is
not
important.
B
A
B
But
I
definitely
opposed
to
defunding,
eliminate
oacd
and
the
Philadelphia
cultural
fund.
I'm,
an
artist
professional
resident
of
Germantown
I
received
a
tenure-track
post
at
Tyler
School
of
Art,
but
resisted
moving
to
Philadelphia
for
many
years,
instead
choosing
to
commute
from
Brooklyn
and
arches
hotbed,
though
I'll
graduate
from
a
college
track
the
most
talented
artists
around
the
country
market
and
not
really
chose
even
when,
when
they
graduated
that
change
about
some
years
ago,
but
now
she's
remaining
that
retention
of
capital
into
my
own
city's
pocket,
I
chose
to
move
to
Philadelphia
nine
years
ago.
B
For
some
reason,
student
sustains
the
art
opportunity
offered
by
the
LAPD
and
pcs
I.
Think
I'd,
remember
a
resident
in
Germantown
thanking
me
for
making
a
photograph
work
I
created
in
Germantown.
She
said
the
city
allowed
you
to
make
this
piece
and
gave
you
the
money
to
make
it.
They
must
know
we're
still
here
they
haven't
forgotten
us
work,
service'
one
beers
trying
so
that
you
can
impress
little
bit
so
matter
to
the
city.
Resp
artists
are
resilient,
resourceful
and
fences
and
know
how
to
stretch
a
dollar
but
no
dollars.
B
No
acknowledgment
that
didn't
a
me
a
Philadelphia
thank
you
that
is
the
six
barrel
was
not
addressed
myself
as
artistic
community,
and
the
success
of
many
parts
and
customizations
would
be
disingenuous
and
morally
corrupt
determination
would
severely
impact
artistic
and
cultural
fabric
of
the
city.
I,
don't
think
about
another
public
artwork
excreted
through
the
office
at
Stanton
Park
in
West
Allis,
which
would
comprise
the
threat
and
great
favors
or
quotes
an
important
historical
figures
with
to
the
area.
B
Naväge
blackboard
not
only
I,
saw
hand
on
a
blackboard
the
words
when
things
go
wrong,
don't
go
wrong
with
them
happening
today,
lead
to
think
of
those
words.
Things
have
gone
horribly
wrong.
The
strength
of
the
healthcare
system
through
the
incomprehensible
breast
role
becomes
sadness
and
loss
for
many
ways,
the
economy,
but
to
strip
the
art
of
hold
will
only
strike
another
father
prelate
our
beloved
City
Thank,
You
council,
president
Clark
and
City
Council
members.
Thank.
A
B
Great
good
afternoon,
council
president
Clark
and
members
of
City
Council,
my
name
is
Susan
Miller,
Davis
I'm,
an
architect
and
former
director
of
the
Philadelphia
Redevelopment
Authority
public
art
program,
I'm
here
to
testify
about
ordinance,
202
87
in
Resolution
203,
oh
seven,
typically
to
express
my
opposition
to
elimination
of
the
office
of
arts,
culture
and
the
creative
economy.
If
there
will
not
be
a
cultural
fund
and
the
public
art
office,
as
you
all
I
believe
we
all
share.
The
understanding
of
Philadelphia
has
a
long
and
respected
history
of
the
arts
being
available
to
all
citizens.
B
Creation
of
the
Philadelphia
Redevelopment
Authority
public
art
program,
the
first
publicly
mandated
such
program
in
the
United
States
and
its
sister
program.
The
city's
own
percent
for
art
program
are
both
now
over
60
years
old
and
have
led
to
a
wealth
of
public
art
and
cultural
programs
and
activities
throughout
the
city.
B
This
goes
back
to
the
founding
of
this
great
city
that
all
citizens
are
equal
in
the
eyes
of
God
and
the
end
of
government
and
share
the
same
rights
and
access
to
the
benefits
of
good
governance,
including
access
and
exposure
to
a
range
of
arts,
cultural
and
creative
activities,
Sonny
Rollins,
the
jazz
saxophonist.
Without
recently.
Why
does
that
matter?
B
And
his
response
was
quote:
art
both
inspires
us
to
go
out
and
find
something
new
and
highlights
what
we
don't
know
when
I
look
at
a
work
of
art
or
hear
music,
I'm
transported,
I,
don't
know
how
or
where
but
I
know
that
it's
not
part
of
the
material
world.
It
is
beyond
modern
cultures,
political
and
technological
whole.
We're
not
here
to
live
forever.
Humans
and
material
things
died,
but
there
is
no
dying
in
art
I'm.
C
C
An
active
member
of
the
cultural
community
I
am
the
lifelong
Philadelphian
and
I
love.
This
city
I
recently
had
a
book
published
called
getting
to
Philadelphia
and
I
just
completed
a
documentary.
Film
called
Bicentennial
city,
which
I
co-directed
about
the
Bicentennial
in
1976,
and
one
footnote
about
that
is
that
I
love
statue,
our
clothes
pin
and
our
flags
of
the
world
in
the
parkway
all
come
out
of
that
difficult
time
for
our
city.
C
My
two
comments:
the
first
is
that
I
completely
disagree
with
the
elimination
of
the
office
of
arts,
cultural,
creative
economy
and
the
Philadelphia
cultural
fund
and
I
urge
you
to
hit
pause
and
delay
on
the
elimination
of
these
offices
and
least
till
june
1st,
to
have
some
deliberation
and
reflection.
My
second
comment
is
this:
to
put
the
conversation
into
perspective,
that
was
a
budget.
That's
currently.
C
I
handing
1%
of
the
city's
budget,
the
office
of
arts
and
culture
and
the
cultural
fund
has
created
remarkably
effective
and
meaningful
programs
that
touch-
and
this
is
the
important
thing,
every
corner
of
this
city.
This
is
the
exactly
the
kind
of
thing
the
city
should
be
doing,
and
the
people
who
live
there
if
you're
one
it.
The
our
sauces,
really
is
people
working
with
other
people,
and
they
are
top-level
professionals
with
deep
roots
in
the
city
and
the
answer
and
all
of
its
covers
our
communities.
C
They
are
well
respected
and
have
great
credibility,
and
that
is
no
small
thing.
Let's
celebrate
and
be
proud
of
their
work.
Let's
give
ourselves
some
credit
to
as
a
city.
We
know
how
much
poverty
is
here
and
we
know
how
much
create
needed
here,
but
there's
only
so
much
possibilities
here
too,
but
America's
poorest
city
would
be
all
the
poor
without
our
intentional
support
of
the
Arts.
Let's
not
fool
ourselves
into
that.
Somehow
that
the
core
functions
of
this
office
will
continue
without
the
office.
Let's
not
fool
ourselves
about
that.
C
The
arts
and
cultural
office
is
a
meeting
place
inside
the
most
significant
meeting
place
in
this
city.
The
shining
example
itself
is
City
Hall.
The
building
is
more
than
a
building.
City
Hall
embodies
the
convergence
of
the
Civic
and
the
cultural.
This
is
an
emotional
time.
I
know
that
we
all
know
there
will
be
some
cuts,
that
we
need
to
use
all
of
our
resources
and
the
arts
and
cultural
office
is
one
of
them.
I
applaud
you
and
thank
you
for
all
your
work.
It's
no
small
thing
I.
Thank
you
very
much.
B
B
Great,
thank
you,
hello,
I'm,
Barbara
sills
lay
the
executive
director
of
the
Philadelphia
cultural
fund,
I
speak
today
who
employ
the
city
to
restore
funding
to
the
cultural
fund,
so
we
can
continue
to
support
the
city's
nonprofit
arts
and
culture
community.
The
mayor's
budget
zeroes
out
funding
for
the
Philadelphia
cultural
fund.
The
cultural
fund
is
the
way
the
city
supports
the
Arts
in
Philly
and
it
has
since
1994
it
has
earned
its
reputation
for
equity
access,
transparency
and
integrity.
B
349
Philadelphia
arts
organizations
received
a
fiscal
year.
Twenty
grand
76%
of
them
are
led
by
women.
36%
of
them
are
led
by
people
of
color
over
60%,
provide
access
to
the
arts
to
Phillies
children
in
and
out
of
school,
and
these
groups
are
in
neighborhoods
throughout
the
city
in
every
council
district.
The
cultural
fund
is
a
non-profit
but
the
city
contracts
to
provide
annual
general
operating
grants
to
Phillies
arts
organizations.
We
have
a
board
of
directors,
arts
leaders,
community
members
and
representatives
named
by
the
mayor
and
city
council
president.
B
We
hire
a
firm
to
audit
our
finances
annually.
Grant
applications
are
reviewed
through
a
transparent
and
robust
process
that
includes
site
visits
and
peer
panels.
This
operational
structure
enhances
the
integrity
of
the
grant
making
process
and
ensures
continuity
across
mayoral
administrations
in
terms
of
empathy
and
is
rampaging
relationships
and
funding
practices,
I
like
to
say
the
cultural
fund,
disperses
city
funds,
in
a
way
that
truly
is
of
the
people
by
the
people
and
for
the
people
and
the
city
can
be
proud
of
that.
B
Our
allocation
for
the
past
six
years
has
been
3.14
million,
while
a
cut
of
20%
would
be
difficult,
eliminating
funding
would
be
devastating
to
the
arts
in
Philly.
Many
of
our
smallest
neighborhood
based
organizations
would
not
survive,
and
45%
of
our
grantees
are
very
small
operating
budgets
under
150,000.
The
economic
and
social
return
on
the
city's
financial
investment
is
immense
and,
as
Philadelphia
emerges
from
this
crisis,
the
clerk's
must
be
here
for
philadelphians
and
the
philadelphia
cultural
fund
must
be
here
for
the
Arts,
I
hope.
B
B
A
B
Good
afternoon
my
name
is
chairman
board,
chair
of
the
Philadelphia
adult
literacy
Alliance.
The
Alliance
supports
adult
education,
practitioners
and
organization
on
behalf
of
all
the
members
of
the
Alliance.
I
am
grateful
for
the
opportunity
to
speak
today.
Council
president
Clark
Sinagua
inaugural
address
on
January
6
talked
about
the
skills
gap
in
Philadelphia
councilman
Clark.
You
said
we
need
more
adult
education
classes
and
curriculum
offered
to
citizens
across
our
city.
You
continue
to
state.
B
We
need
more
access
to
classes
for
adults
who
want
to
work
but
need
to
learn
the
skills
to
get
the
technology
and
health
care
jobs
of
today
I'm
giving
testimony
today
because
of
the
proposed
budget.
It
has
eliminated
the
office
of
adult
education,
so
AE
in
the
city.
The
office
of
adult
education
has
a
1.1
million
dollar
budget
that
accounts
for
less
than
1%
of
the
school
districts
total
budget.
This
office
has
been
relegated
over
the
past
two
years
to
fit
within
the
office
of
Workforce
Development.
B
All
there
is
a
recommendation
to
shift
workforce
to
the
Commerce
Department.
There
has
been
no
discussion
of
keeping
the
office
of
adult
education
I'm
happy
to
have
heard
that
there
is
now
consideration
to
keep
the
office
of
adult
education.
Five
council
members,
Delmar
Richardson,
Tom,
Green,
Camilla,
Sanchez
and
Beth
had
all
expressed
the
dire
need
for
adult
education
services
to
our
main
and
office
of
the
city.
I
hope
the
remaining
council
members
do
the
same.
Last
year
away.
Ii
served
5,000,
adult
learners
through
my
place.
B
The
flagship
program
established
in
2014,
that
is,
the
only
one
of
its
kind
in
the
country
and
I've,
had
hundreds
of
volunteers
successfully
complete,
complete
tutor
training
to
serve
our
adult
learners,
which
is
a
free
service.
In
addition,
ie
operates
50
key
spots
with
over
58,000
I'm.
Really
participant
is
now
exiting
in
the
right
direction
to
address
the
digital
divide
in
Philadelphia
they
offer
free
computer
access.
This
is
resulted
in
providing
1,100
individuals
with
digital
literacy
training.
What
would
we
do
without
this
infrastructure?
Council
members?
B
If
you
truly
believed
we
needed
more
adult
education
prior
to
the
Cova
19
pandemic,
as
we
can
change
that
as
we
continue
watch
the
unemployment
rate
skyrocket.
Now
is
the
time
to
invest
in
adult
education.
We
again
urge
you
and
all
councilmembers
to
reconsider,
eliminating
this
crucial
office
for
the
most
vulnerable
Philadelphia.
Thank
you
for
your
time
and
opportunity
to
speak.
Please
stay
safe.
Thank.
C
I'm
all
right,
thank
you,
sir
yeah,
and
thank
Council
for
taking
the
extra
precautions
to
allow
us
to
testify.
My
name
is
Lance.
Haver
I
would
like
to
thank
the
city.
Workers
would
continue
to
provide
necessary
services,
sometimes
placing
their
health
at
risk,
so
the
city
can
continue
to
function.
I
urge
council
to
reject
the
mayor's
proposed
budget.
It
will
not
solve
our
economic
difficulties
and
will
only
serve
only
make
our
economic
recovery
harder.
C
Over
the
last
thirty
years,
we
should
have
learned
that
addressing
economic
downturns,
but
layoffs,
cuts
and
services
and
greater
burdens
on
working
people
is
counterproductive.
A
way
to
revitalize
our
economy
is
by
investing
in
our
people,
these
horses
and
small
businesses
which
create
jobs.
The
only
thing
the
council
should
cut
is
the
payments
to
the
stadium
and
Convention
Center
bondholders,
because
the
debt
is
the
debt
of
the
authorities,
not
the
city's
debt.
The
city
is
not
legally
mandated
to
pay
it
this
year.
C
If
we
can
ask
more
landlord
and
mortgage
companies
forgo
some
payments,
certainly
we
can
ask
the
bondholders
do
the
same.
Let's
redirect
the
bond
payments
to
our
city
and
our
schools,
because
our
deficit
is
not
a
structural
but
situational
deficit,
we
can
and
should
borrow
at
the
historically
low
interest
rates
to
close
the
deficit
and
continue
to
keep
people
working,
provide
necessary
service
and
do
whatever
we
can
to
lower
the
burdens
on
Philadelphia.
That
should
include
an
exchange
for
funding
80%
of
scepters
local
match
requiring
septa
to
allow
unemployed
Philadelphians
to
ride
for
free.
C
While
they
look
for
work,
we
must
realize
the
tremendous
challenges
our
small
business
and
art
venues
will
face
as
they
try
and
be
open
the
desirability
of
living
in
the
city
of
the
restaurants,
bars
and
art
venues.
If
we
want
to
continue
the
growth
Philadelphia's
economy
and
our
population,
we
must
do
what
we
can
to
help
them
succeed.
Council
should
form
a
small
business
committee
meet
with
small
businesses
and
find
ways
to
change
the
zoning
and
tax
structures.
C
We
can
reward
developers
who
dedicate
50
percent
of
the
retail
space
to
independent
businesses
and
use
homestead
provisions
to
give
those
stores
a
more
equal
playing
field
council
should
also
help
for
adopting
a
net
bid
process.
This
means
the
low
bid
to
this
city
will
be
the
price
bid
less
the
taxes
paid
to
the
city,
businesses
that
pay
city
taxes
will
no
longer
be
a
disadvantage
to
businesses
have
moved
away
escaping
the
city
taxes.
Thank
you
again
for
my
opportunity.
B
B
Miss
:
good
afternoon
this
is
Rachael
Island
from
community
legal
services.
I
mean
the
managing
attorney
of
the
housing
community.
Legal
services
and
I
appreciate
the
opportunity
to
testify
this
afternoon
I'm
here,
to
encourage
you
to
maintain
stable
funding
both
for
the
Philadelphia
vision
prevention
project,
known
as
tap
as
well
as
to
return
the
general
fund
dollars
committed
to
the
Philadelphia
housing
trust
fund
for
fiscal
year.
2021
tap
was
created
by
City
Council
on
2017,
recognizing
that
not
only
does
poverty
cause
evictions,
but
evictions
also
caused
prolonged
poverty.
B
Additionally,
the
mayor's
eviction
task
force
found
that
evictions
are
a
serious
racial
justice
issue
of
Philadelphia.
Households
headed
by
black
women
with
children,
are
most
likely
to
face
forced
booze,
exacerbating
racial
disparity.
In
this
fiscal
year,
pepp
receives
2.1
million
for
critical
eviction
prevention
work,
but
the
mayor's
budget
proposes
only
500,000
gutting
representation
of,
and
support
for,
tenants
facing
eviction
in
the
midst
of
upend
of
it.
So
what
truly
a
master
drop
in
the
budgetary
bucket
path
has
been
incredibly
successful
over
the
past
two
and
a
half
years.
B
The
data
shows
that
95
the
tenants
help
BiPAP
have
successful
outcomes
for
their
family
path.
Tenants
are
twice
as
likely
to
obtain
agreement
that
stipulates
that
their
landlords
make
repairs,
keeping
families
safe
and
improving
housing
conditions
throughout
the
city
path,
attorneys
help
clients,
negotiate
agreements
with
their
landlords
to
work
out
an
affordable
payment
agreement
or
reduce
the
amount
of
rent
owed,
which
increases
the
value
of
rental
assistance.
When
available,
that
has
made
a
lot
of
progress
over
the
past
three
years
and
Philly
was
in
a
better
position
to
deal
with
the
pandemic.
B
Because
of
that
during
this
pandemic,
PAP
is
assisting
hundreds
of
renters
who
are
facing
a
legal
lockout,
ensuring
that
their
homes
are
safe
and
helping
Philadelphian
to
block
their
income
negotiate
with
their
landlord.
So
they
will
not
face
eviction
when
the
courts
reopen.
Maintaining
PAP
also
makes
sense
from
a
budget
standpoint.
A
recent
report
shows
that,
for
every
dollar
invested
in
legal
representation
for
renters,
the
city
sees
an
economic
return
or
welcome.
B
B
And
so
grateful
to
educate
today
for
restored
funding
for
the
Philadelphia
cultural
fund,
I'm
the
founder
and
executive
director
of
art,
well,
a
midsize
nonprofit.
In
the
last
20
years,
our
law
has
served
more
than
37,000
students
K
to
12,
primarily
in
North,
West
Southwest
and
Northwest
Philadelphia
and
partnership
with
schools
and
neighborhoods
support
for
the
from
the
Philadelphia
cultural
fund
is
critical
to
art.
Well,
providing
sustained
arts
education
to
students
include
overwhelming
challenges
and
death
investments,
and
yet,
through
the
earth,
discover
the
power
of
imagination,
equity,
resilient
celebration
and
community
member
labor
arts.
B
Education
is
a
civil
right
and
necessarily
for
a
free
and
fair
arts
and
for
education.
Studies
have
proven
that
students
who
participate
in
arts
programming
or
three
times
more
likely
to
go
and
graduate
from
high
school
and
exponentially
more
likely
to
graduate
from
college
and
vote
and
volunteer
at
James,
Rhodes,
Elementary
and
they'll
quickly
realize
our
students
couldn't
write
poems
because
they
couldn't
wait.
So
for
the
past
five
years,
we've
toured
1st,
2nd
and
3rd
graders
and
waiting,
so
they
can
all
be
by
force
the
spring
at
Parkway
Northwest
high
in
Olney.
B
Our
teaching
artists
help
these
students
create
their
own
black
joy
project
and
leave
town
hall
meetings
right
now.
We're
all
aware
how
this
pandemic
threatens
the
breath
of
life.
They'll
provide
spaces
for
students,
degree
even
as
Mara
virtual
programs.
They
help
students
express
their
fears,
find
healing,
kept
their
strength
from
their
voices,
celebrate
their
cultures
and
communities.
When
the
brother
of
an
art
law
student
was
a
gift
victim
of
gun
violence,
he
decided
to
write
a
poem
instead
of
retaliating
with
a
gun.
B
A
B
You
I
good
afternoon,
everyone
City
Council
and
one
of
the
co-founders
with
the
earth
Lodge,
which
is
17
years
old,
is
one
of
the
oldest
most
widely
respected
are
applaud
from
the
internet.
What
I
want
to
know
is
when
the
coded
lockdown
is
over.
Do
you
want
a
city
with
theater
with
dance
the
daughter
of
the
streets
with
the
galleries
with
young
families,
reviving
aged
our
neighborhoods
with
restaurants
and
bars,
teeming
with
life
and
community
life
famous
for
anyone
of
any
age
or
any
income
level
can
make
earth?
B
Also,
the
art
in
city
hall
program
displays
art
moved
by
citizens
from
school
children
to
the
fire
departments
of
professional
artists,
o
ACCE
also
oversees
two
important
public
art
programs
for
their
national
models:
one
lincoln's,
the
oldest
and
largest
collection
of
public
art
in
the
nation
and
the
other
Commission's
new
public
art
via
the
widely
copied
percent
for
art
program.
Not
only
is
our
the
Civic
grid
and
the
source
of
joy
and
pride,
it
is
also
profitable.
The
city's
art
sector
generates
three
four
billion
dollars
in
economic
activity:
718
157
million
in
city
tax
revenue.
B
The
cost
of
the
city
is
only
one
tenth
of
one
percent
of
the
city's
budget.
According
to
Pew
and
alia,
cutting
the
earth
budget
is
Pennywise
and
pound-foolish.
Unless
we
recognize
too
complex
the
complexities
that
make
our
city
great,
we
will
be
undercutting
the
conditions
that
fuel
our
vibrant
city
life
I
want
to
add
that
you
can
read
more
testimonials
from
all
of
the
public.
A
C
A
A
C
C
When
I
started
at
Eastern
State
Penitentiary
as
its
full-time
first
full-time
employee
1995,
our
annual
budget
was
less
than
$100,000.
The
first
grant
that
we
ever
received
was
from
the
Philadelphia
cultural
fund.
25
years
later.
In
an
era
when
many
Americans
believed
that
mass
incarceration
is
the
civil
rights
issue
of
our
times,
Eastern
State
has
become
the
closest
thing
our
nation
has
to
a
National
Prison
museum.
We're
also
proud
second-chance
employers,
believing
that
people
who
have
experienced
incarceration
need
to
play
a
central
role
in
connecting
the
general
public,
complex
and
emotional
topics.
During
the
quarantine.
C
Our
programming
is
shifted
to
focus
on
the
impact
of
Kovach
19
on
incarcerated
Americans.
Today
we
employ
68
people.
Last
year
we
hosted
three
hundred
and
ten
thousand
visitors.
That's
not
holy!
That's
just
daytime
historic
site,
visitors,
210,000
businessmen,
the
most
popular
visited
cultural
attractions
in
the
region.
Our
success
story
with
its
critical
early
support
from
the
Philadelphia
cultural
fund
is
not
unusual.
In
fact,
it's
typical
it's
how
the
cultural
fund
has
always
worked
to
this
day
about
half
of
the
funds.
C
Grantees
have
operating
budgets
less
than
one
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
dollars
with
little
or
no
paid
staff.
The
cultural
funds,
rigorous
peer
review
process,
encourages
professionalism
and
structure
to
small
and
emerging
organizations
and
critically
that
provides
peer
support.
Even
as
it
evaluates
for
excellence,
the
coastal
fund
often
serves
as
a
gateway
to
larger
funding.
Many
larger
funders
see
cultural
fund
approval
as
a
fear
of
approval,
a
first
step
towards
increased
capacity.
C
In
fact,
the
film
of
the
cultural
funds,
peer
reviewed
focus
on
small
and
medium
community
and
neighborhood
based
organizations
is
the
strategy
that
many
largest
organizations
are
now
moving.
Funding
organizations
are
moving
towards
today.
In
other
words,
the
structure
and
priorities
of
our
city's
cultural
fund
have
been
30
years
ahead
of
their
time.
Birds
that
the
office
of
US,
cultural
and
creative
economy
developed
the
cultural
to
be
maintained
at
meaningful
levels.
So
our
city's
small
and
neighborhood
cultural
organizations
are
not
left
completely
without
support,
good
and
greatest
economic
downturn
in
living
memory.
C
Many
of
them
do
not
survive.
Additionally,
our
city
needs
to
be
in
a
position
to
return
to
full
investment
to
this
critical
office
and
it's
critical
fund
in
the
coming
years
without
having
to
rebuild
them
from
scratch.
Thank
you
so
much
president
and
members
of
City
Council
for
your
time
and
careful
consideration.
B
Can
you
hear
me?
Yes,
greetings,
council
president
clark
and
all
who
serve
city
council?
Thank
you
for
this
opportunity
to
speak
with
you
and
thank
you
for
barbara
fizzle
for
giving
me
this
opportunity
to
represent
some
of
the
artists
today
again
is
antoinette
coward.
Gilmore
I
am
the
founder,
CEO
and
artistic
director
of
dance
for
neo
repertory
ensemble.
Yes,
premier
is
a
contemporary
modern,
non-profit,
professional
dance,
company
and
organization.
B
B
Therefore,
our
company
name
is
dance
for
purpose.
We
burn
a
cultural
fund
grantees
since
2007.
We
are
a
small
organization
and
we
are
greatly
appreciative
of
the
funding
that
we
see
for
the
receive
from
the
seductive
cultural
fund,
because
it
provides
our
population
with
quality
programming,
and
it
allows
us
to
maintain
our
studio
in
historic,
German
town,
which
is
the
studio
of
dance.
For
me,
we
provide
programming
to
a
very
diverse
multicultural
population
here
in
our
city,
an
earth
brain
pride
and
we
pride
ourselves
and
giving
holistic
programming
to
our
population.
B
and
Robert
Leslie,
the
imperative
culture
fund
I
come
from
that
long
legacy
of
freedom
theater
under
their
leadership,
and
they
were
very
determined
to
make
sure
that
the
voice
of
some
of
the
artists
had
a
voice
in
our
city.
I
implore,
you
a
lot
as
many
of
our
artists
to
continue
that
way
and
to
keep
our
community
thriving
through
the
arts
and
the
culture
I.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
Thank.
A
B
You
all
for
having
me
today
to
testify
regarding
bill
number
two:
zero
zero:
two,
eight
seven
and
resolution:
two:
zero:
zero:
three
zero
seven.
My
name
is
Amy
Ballard
and
I
work
for
the
Helms
Academy
in
West,
Philadelphia
and
I'm
here
today
to
oppose
the
proposed
elimination
of
the
office
of
adult
education
in
the
city
budget.
B
I
want
to
be
very
clear
that
the
future
of
Philadelphia
will
suffer
deeply
without
the
office
of
adult
education
and
there
are
37
years
of
guidance
and
experience
and
institutional
wisdom
and
the
relationships
they
have
built
across
the
city
among
education
providers.
One
of
the
city's
greatest
concerns
right
now,
as
we
approach
the
post
kurby
19
time
is
our
economic
rebuilding
and
to
rebuild
the
city.
You
need
to
start
with
the
people.
B
We've
already
seen
the
devastating
effects
of
unemployment
during
this
time,
both
to
our
economy
and
to
our
system's
well-being,
and
it's
evident
that
those
who
have
the
least
in
our
society
have
been
affected
the
most.
So
the
recovery
is
about
more
than
just
getting
jobs,
but
it's
about
providing
Career,
Pathways
and
educational
opportunities.
The
lesson
it
suggests
that
over
half
a
million
adults
in
Philadelphia
lacked
the
skills
that
are
required
by
employers.
So
the
question
is:
who
is
stepping
up
to
fill
that
gap?
B
It's
the
Adult
Ed
providers
in
the
city
and
each
year,
5,000
adults
are
connected
to
these
programs
through
the
office
of
adult
education.
So
with
the
already
high
levels
of
poverty
in
the
city
and
our
current,
almost
unfathomable
levels
of
unemployment,
thousands
of
our
citizens
need
adult
education
now
and
the
knowledge
and
work
and
dedication
of
the
office
of
adult
education
staff
is
not
replaceable
through
unknown.
B
A
B
Good
evening
this
is
McConnell
Community
Development
Corporation's,
testifying
unbuilt
to
zero
zero.
Two
eight
seven
pH
CDC
urges
Council
in
the
administration
to
restore
funding
to
demo
funds
commitments
that
have
Philadelphia
Housing,
Trust
Funds,
so
number
one
eight
zero,
seven,
four
four
approved
by
council
in
2018.
As
the
compromise
of
the
construction
impact
tax
legislation
required
an
appropriation
to
the
Housing
Trust
Fund
at
least
equal
to
expiring
tax
abatements.
In
the
preceding
year,
the
mayor's
proposed
FY
21
budget
to
eliminate
that
general
fund
commitment
is
encompassed
with
that
statute.
B
This
will
eliminate
one,
a
nine
point:
eight
million
for
rental
housing
production
and
preservation
and
throughout
the
successful
Philly
first
home,
buying
program
that
distributed
more
than
5.7
million
over
the
last
year
in
grants
to
first-time
homebuyers.
This
will
negatively
affect
our
lowest
income.
Tenants,
who
desperately
need
a
safe,
affordable
home,
then
hurt
low
to
moderate-income
buyers
who
deserve
a
shot
at
the
stability
homeowners
should
provide
in
these
trying
times.
These
are
important
for
our
economic
recovery,
creating
jobs
and
tax
revenue.
Philadelphia
should
ensure
a
minimum
housing
trust
fund
commitment
of
20
million
this
year.
B
If
legislation
pending
in
Council
has
adopted
that
will
extend
addiction
moratorium
and
prevent
that
increases
for
12
months,
these
Housing
Trust
Fund
dollars
will
be
needed
to
stabilize
affordable
housing
units
that
operate
without
profit
margins
and
with
razor-thin
passwords
to
ensure
that
tenants
are
living
in
units
that
are
well
maintained
and
operated.
We
do
a
quad
mayor
Kenny
for
proposing
to
continue
funding
for
most
of
our
commercial
corridor.
Oh
Graham.
B
They
are
vital
so
ensuring
that
we
have
the
staff
on
the
ground
in
our
neighborhoods
helping
businesses
reopen
safely
access
grants
and
loans,
they
need
to
survive
and
keep
the
corners
clean
and
safe.
We
also
urge
Council
and
the
administration
to
direct
more
fun
that
CHL
koba
19
funds
have
been
run
by
Commerce
and
CDC
could
quickly
and
effectively
provided
by
targeting
businesses.
That
cannot
ask
the
state
or
federal
program
is
critical
to
create
more
equity
in
the
recovery
process.
B
They're
also
concerned
about
the
decrease
in
Commerce
Department
funding
and
staff
that
could
hamper
many
of
these
programs.
Finally,
we
hope
house
will
continue
to
support
the
CBC
tax
credit
program
and
ensure
all
the
participants
were
able
to
continue
at
full
staff
functioning
during
crises.
Thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
testify
Thank.
A
B
Sigh
greetings,
Council
and
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
speak.
Addressing
goal
number
two:
zero:
zero.
Two
eight
seven,
my
name
is
Nigel
Bois
I
am
the
executive
director
and
founder
of
the
color
girls
Museum
in
Germantown
September
11th.
We
will
celebrate
our
fifth
birthday
to
see
GM's
primary
audience
or
ordinary
black
women
and
girls,
but
not
only
black
women
and
girls.
The
museum
has
been
in
the
last.
B
The
museum
has,
in
the
last
five
years,
attracted
national
or
international
interest,
she's,
the
first
institution
of
her
kind
to
celebrate
document
and
archive
the
stories
and
perspectives
of
ordinary
color
girls,
PGM
attract
school
groups,
University
classes,
sororities,
women's
groups,
churches,
families
and
friends.
I
heard
a
professor
say
that
she
tells
her
graduate
students
to
budget
is
an
expression
of
our
priorities,
as
we
try
to
imagine
what
the
future
will
look
like,
not
just
in
our
city
but
in
the
world.
B
We
only
know
that
we
do
not
know
this
pandemic
pandemic
has
been
so
very
humbling.
I
have
already
lost
friends
and
family
I
am
waiting
right
now
for
a
family
member
to
be
released
from
a
hospital.
It
is
the
arts
that
will
continue
to
ground
us
in
our
humanity.
It
is
the
music
we
train
in
the
morning
that
makes
it
possible
for
us
to
face
another
day
of
social,
distancing
and
more
death.
It
is
the
photograph
the
oil
painting,
the
garden
that
reminds
us
to
take
a
deep
breath.
B
When
we
didn't
even
know
we
were
holding
our
breath,
it
is
the
cross
against
us
again,
a
quote
Lyon
of
sculpture.
We
pass
upon.
We
hear
that
sums
up
to
perfection,
our
fear
and
our
faith
are
some
additional
diagnostic
therapeutic
art
heels
and
we
need
the
medicine.
We
need
the
hospitals
and
clinics
they
work
from
to
survive.
Yes,
indeed,
our
classrooms
in
our
public
spaces,
our
museums
and
our
homes.
We
use
the
hospitals
and
clinics.
These
are
urgent
care
facilities.
Art
is
a
practitioner
or
is
an
essential
worker.
B
B
Hello,
thank
you
for
asking
that's
five.
Today
my
name
is
Juanita
white
and
I.
Am
a
co-founder
and
executive
director
of
Theatre
in
the
X
and
the
X
is
a
theatre
company
founded
in
2013
to
provide
access
to
quality
arts
experiences
in
West
Philadelphia.
We
provided
access
by
removing
the
barriers
of
location
and
price
from
the
community
offering
programming
at
no
cost
in
their
own
neighborhood
many
ways:
business
community
and
what
sort
of
you
do
not
have
access
to
mainstream
Center
City
venues,
so
we
bring
to
them.
B
Our
main
programming
is
an
annual
production
in
August
and
Malcolm
X
parked
at
52nd
and
Pine
Street,
which
sees
over
600
attendees
each
year
of
all
ages
and
walks
of
life.
We
prevent
everything
from
new
place
to
musical,
but
our
production
of
the
wares
and
2018
the
Philadelphia
cultural
fund
has
been
a
funder
of
fear
in
the
X
for
4
years.
We're
currently
in
year
two
of
a
three
year
general
operations
grant,
and
it
is
the
only
general
operation
grant
our
organization
receives.
B
The
investment
of
the
city
through
the
cultural
fund
is
essential
for
our
budget
as
a
small
organization,
especially
the
restricted
nature
of
the
funds.
We
are
also
first-time
recipients
of
a
cultural
fund
that
used
enrichment
grants.
Those
funds
will
go
directly
towards
building
out
education
program,
curriculum
to
provide
sort
of
neighborhood
schools
with
a
6-week
theater
education
program
for
free.
We
hope
that
the
city
of
Philadelphia
will
continue
to
maintain
the
cultural
fund
so
that
they
are
able
to
continue
to
support
small
organization
like
ours
that
provide
free
and
accessible
theater
to
the
community.
B
A
C
And
I
am
the
executive
director
of
the
Philadelphia
parks
alliance.
I
am
here
on
behalf
of
a
coalition
of
ninety
five
groups
that
support
funding
the
essential
services
that
Parks
and
Rec
will
provide
a
response
to
Cova
19.
You
recognized
the
unprecedented
budget
challenge
that
Kovac
19
is
created,
but
we
are
also
troubled
by
a
basic
truth.
The
african-american
and
low-income
communities
that
are
disproportionately
impacted
by
Cova
19
are
also
most
impacted
by
budget
cuts
to
programming
at
rec,
centers
and
lack
of
maintenance
at
neighborhood
parks.
C
C
We
will
do
our
utmost
to
extend
parks
and
rec
programs
and
stewardship
activities
in
this
time
of
crisis,
but
cuts
to
Parks
and
Rec
staff.
Those
often
insurmountable
challenges
to
our
partnerships
and
threaten
the
countless
volunteer
hours
that
are
essential
to
make
parks
and
rec
run.
Our
coalition
includes
from
our
Park
Conservancy
after-school
activities,
partnership
and
Savini,
horticultural
society
sod
off.
You
use
sports
collaborative
the
Philadelphia
parks
alliance
and
over
95
rec
advisory
councils,
Friends
of
park
and
out-of-school
time
groups.
C
A
A
C
Right,
thank
you
good
afternoon,
members
of
council
and
councilmember
Ernest
Sanchez
in
particular,
nice
to
hear
your
voice.
My
name
is
Dan
Shapiro
and
I'm.
Vice
chair
of
Philly
neighborhood
networks
prior
to
co-founding,
pnn
I
was
chief
staff
attorney
to
this
body
city
council
and
was
on
it's
legal
staff
and
one
capacity
or
another.
C
For
22
years
today,
we've
heard
many
impassioned
pleas
for
maintaining
services
that
are
on
the
chopping
block
in
the
mayor's
budget,
Philly
and
n,
and
the
Alliance
for
a
just
Philadelphia,
of
which
it
is
a
member,
believes
that
this
council
can
raise
the
money
it
needs
to
avoid
many
of
these
cuts.
Today,
I
want
to
focus
on
two
of
these
proposals.
One
is
increasing
the
rate
of
the
gross
receipts
tax.
The
other
is
green
position
of
the
re-imposition
of
the
personal
property
tax.
C
The
gross
receipts
tax
is
a
very
low
tax
that
it
paid
almost
entirely
by
the
city's
largest
corporations
and
by
many
businesses
that
are
located
outside
of
the
city
that
sound
goods
and
services
into
the
city.
We
propose
doubling
its
current
very
low
rate,
two
point:
zero
zero
to
eight
percent,
which
would
still
leave
it
well
below
its
historical
high
of
point:
zero,
zero,
three
nine
percent
in
the
90s,
and
we
also
proposed
exempting
even
more
small
businesses
from
the
tax
in
believe
this
proposal.
C
C
This
was
a
pure
low
tax
on
both
corporations
and
individuals
who
can
afford
to
pay.
As
we
all
know,
during
the
last
30
years,
the
rich
have
grown
incredibly
richer
to
a
great
extent
due
to
massive
tax
cuts.
This
is
a
moment
for
them
to
give
back.
The
PPTA
is
approximately
seventeen
million
dollars,
and
last
year
was
in
effect,
since
then
stock
market
values
of
triple.
C
So
it's
likely
revenue
from
all
pack
with
triple
as
well
that
in
the
city
at
least
another
fifty
million
dollars,
if
actually
in
first,
which
wasn't
when
last
in
effect,
it
could
range
considerably
more.
In
response,
what
about
ideas?
Some
people
say
we
can't
take
wealth
away
from
the
rich,
it's
going
to
hurt
the
economy,
and
we
all
know
that
in
the
end,
this
budget
will
inevitably
be
taking
wealth.
The
only
question
is
from
boom,
those
from
whom
there
is
nothing
else
to
take
or
those
who's
right.
C
A
B
Including
people
with
disabilities
and
families
of
color
with
the
lowest
incomes
in
our
city
before
this
pandemic,
more
than
half
of
all
city
renters
and
almost
one
and
every
three
homeowners
were
cost
burdened
now
because
of
the
virus.
Many
more
philadelphians
are
struggling
to
pay,
rent
and
mortgages,
buy
food
and
pay
for
medical
care.
By
taking
away
another
resource,
you
are
adding
to
the
burdens
of
an
already
overburdened
population,
the
cut
in
funding,
combined
with
already
low
resources.
B
There
is
333
million
dollars
less
to
support
housing
programs.
This
results
in
a
33
percent
reduction
in
the
amount
of
affordable
units
the
city
can
build
in
the
year.
300
families
not
having
help
buying
their
first
home
over
1,000
homeowners,
not
being
able
to
repair
their
homes
and
being
forced
to
live
in
unsafe
conditions
at
more
than
150
people
with
disabilities
being
trapped
in
dangerous
nursing
homes,
because
there
is
so
little
affordable,
accessible
housing
in
our
city.
B
The
City
Council
not
stop
the
mirrors
cuts
to
the
housing
trust
fund,
more
people
will
struggle
to
stay
housed
or
afford
accessible
housing
and
more
people
will
die
from
covet
19
because
they
are
trapped
in
unsafe
and
condition
like
nursing
homes
and
shelters.
It
is
imperative
that
Marik
and
City
Council
honor
their
commitment
and
return
the
general
fund
dollars
commuted
to
the
housing
trust
funds
for
fiscal
year
2021.
B
Name
is
Lydia
Ram,
Iraq
and
I'm
a
second
year
masters
student
in
mental
health
counseling
at
the
University
of
Pennsylvania,
a
clinical
researcher
at
chop
and
a
current
Philadelphia
resident
I
want
to
thank
the
City
Council
for
giving
me
the
opportunity
think
about
the
importance
of
education
equity
fund.
During
my
junior
year
at
Penn
I
participated
in
a
program
through
the
Nutter
Center
isms
that
took
undergraduates
into
West
Philadelphia
schools
to
teach
neurology
I
went
to
a
senior
high
school
science
class,
one
for
one
hour
teach
a
subject
in
which
I
had
no
formal
training.
B
The
program
I
participated
in
gave
us
information
on
the
topics
institutions
about
educating
us
on
said
poppy
in
the
classroom.
The
students
were
super
out
since
I
asked
these
questions
that
were
not
in
the
information
she
often
that
they
thought
to
answer
their
questions
after
one
semester,
not
to
continue
with
the
program
because
they
realized
I
wasn't
helping
these
students
in
a
long-lasting
way.
It's
experiences
showed
me
that
mega
nonprofits
are
interacting
to
Philadelphia
city
schools.
Without
considering
that
schools
actually
need
the
past
years
of
players.
B
There
have
been
two
reports
of
threat
paint
residue
from
the
poor
successes.
It
reports
about
the
changing
water
and
supportive
advertiser's
repeated
exposure
to
lead
in
excessive.
It's
a
public
health
concern.
It
can
lead
to
long
term
consequences
such
as
learning
difficulties,
hearing
loss
and
seizures.
B
We
need
to
prioritize
the
health
of
students,
but
that
involves
everyone,
including
welcome
Megan,
on
topic:
Anthony
Fauci
schools,
hi
I'm
sandy
bacilli
parents,
teachers
and
students
as
mayor
honey,
established
reputation
as
the
fund
for
the
university
spent
10,
who
contribute
meaningfully
facili
by
financing
public
schools,
universities
and
silas
services
in
lieu
of
passes.
The
tempest
contribute
to
the
community
in
which
it
resides
in
service
since
its
Norris
immediate
health
problem
students
the
best
chance
to
succeed
in
school.
B
A
A
A
B
B
B
B
Medical
studies
consistently
show
that
being
outside
can
lower
blood
pressure
and
reduce
stress
studies,
show
that
being
in
nature,
boosts
our
immune
system
and
the
time
of
cozied
19
pandemic
for
those
with
weakened
immune
systems
and
high
blood
pressure
are
particularly
vulnerable
to
this
disease.
This
is
especially
important.
B
Philadelphia
is
blessed
with
one
of
the
largest
public
park
systems
in
the
world.
Toxic-Free
Philly
supports
our
public
parks
and
we
strongly
oppose
any
budget
cuts
to
them.
It
is
important
that
our
parks
are
adequately
funded
and
absolutely
safe.
One
component
of
such
a
safety
program
is
the
elimination
of
synthetic
herbicides
that
have
been
used
to
remove
unwanted
weeds
and
vegetation.
There
are
many
serious
side
effects
include
cancer
and
weakening
of
the
immune
system.
B
Therefore,
going
forward
we're
asking
that
such
use
be
stopped
and
the
city
as
the
city
reopens
we
transition
to
effective
non-toxic
methodologies.
The
protocol
is
known
as
integrated
pest
management
and
could
be
used
to
accomplish
the
same
goal
of
maintaining
our
beautiful
public
spaces.
We
congratulate
our
Department
of
Parks
and
Recreation
for
beginning
the
process
by
partnering,
with
the
National
Organization
non
toxic
neighborhoods
to
launch
two
organic
pilot
projects
thanks
to
councilmember
Cindy
bass.
B
Within
this
time,
when
we
are
living
with
a
code
19
pandemic,
we
need
to
quickly
expand
from
pilot
projects
to
citywide
implementation
and
increase
funding.
The
use
of
integrated
management
systems
will
not
only
protect
our
health
that
will
not
cost
more
than
what
we
spend
now
our
residents
deserve
no
less
and
our
health
demands
it.
Thank
you
so
much
for
your
consideration.
B
C
B
We're
you
scan
through
all
the
classes
that
thank
you
sure,
we'll
keep
you
up
all
night
and
fabric
relief,
saying
that
you
have
an
art,
but
that's
how
I
feel
every
year.
That's
how
I
felt
every
year
so
far
with
being
with
the
next
name
hard
in
the
last
I'm
coming
in
the
coming
school
year,
I
would
be
a
fourth
grader
the
hardest
year,
yet
throughout
high
school
art
has
always
been
there
to
calm
me
down.
Oh
there's
been
classes,
checked
me
out.
B
It's
been
a
bad
day
or
regular
everyday
pressures
of
being
a
student
I've
always
had
an
outlet
to
let
out
all
my
frustrations.
That
is
true
for
about
a
lot
of
my
peers
as
well.
Alright
hope
is
yeah
best
at
school,
so
we
can
stay
focused
on
learning.
So
please
when
discussing,
but
when
discussing
budget
cuts,
please
protect
our
schools
programs.
Thank
you.
C
C
The
neighborhoods
that
face
the
worst
risk
of
contracting
over
nineteen
two
recent
studies
show
that
Philadelphia's
Latino
neighborhoods
face
its
proportionate
risk
of
contracting
Corbett.
Nineteen
one
is
by
the
economy
League
and
the
other
one
is
by
the
Federal
Reserve
Bank
of
Philadelphia
as
a
city
address
its
budget.
It
must
not
forget
the
old
adage
that
a
chain
is
only
as
strong
as
its
weakest
link.
Philadelphia
cannot
afford
to
further
ignore
its
most
vulnerable
communities
during
this
crisis.
That
is
we're
getting
shortchanged
on
many
fronts
and
the
city
budget.
C
Prior
to
the
health
emergency
super
Baptist,
Latino
home
the
paradox
in
Philadelphia,
the
owners
have
difficulty
accessing
homeless
services
relative
to
the
community's
representation
among
the
city's
poor
I
think
this
increases
during
this
health
emergency.
Are
we
going
to
ensure
that
there
is
equity
and
the
delivery
of
homeless
services?
Please
do
not
let
the
city
hide
from
meeting
this
challenge
because
of
this
crisis.
C
It
is
also
in
all
of
our
interests
that
we
maximize
preservation
and
creation
of
affordable
housing
service
supports
investing
a
minimum
of
20
million
and
Jemison
dollars
into
the
Philadelphia
has
addressing
preserving
rental
production
to
help
leverage
other
federal
dollars
like
low
income,
housing
tax
credits
to
fill
in
gaps
in
production
of
Europe
units,
supporting
rental
preservation,
maintaining
banking
and
closing
cost
assistance
like
a
first
homebuyer
program.
Server
is
also
very
concerned
about
the
increase
in
property
taxes.
C
You
can't
regret
out
of
a
stone,
there's
a
difficult
for
low-income
families
to
pay
the
rising
property
taxes
before
the
pandemic.
Now
the
city
wants
to
be,
then
we
understand
the
need
to
seek
more
revenue
and
the
state
uniformity
clause.
That
said,
the
city
needs
to
sort
of
certified
tax
relief
and
tax
foreclosures
programs.
We
also
want
to
make
sure
that.
C
Commitment
to
the
safety
and
fairness
for
everyone
network,
the
city
must
keep
its
word
employee
public
partnerships.
Finally,
please
provide
maximum
support
for
the
office
of
immigrant
affairs.
At
this
crazy
crisis
continues
to
change.
We
need
to
make
sure
that
all
our
neighbors,
including
people
who
are
limited,
English
Proficient,
are
informed
and
empowered.
Thank
you.
A
B
The
proposed
budget
clearly
values
putting
more
police
on
the
street
over
opening
space
and
clean
public
facilities
in
the
city,
where
residents
of
all
ages
are
welcomed
and
encouraged
to
grow
and
learn,
heal
and
recover
and
engage
with
each
other
and
healthy
and
productively.
Our
children
shouldn't
be
paying
the
cost
of
the
pandemic
fund.
Adventures
programs.
C
C
C
A
B
You
I'm
Alicia
Dorothy
for
any
community
advocate
for
202
87.
We
are
in
changing
times
with
this.
Current
holders
are
changing
times,
services
and
resources
that
and
I
was
secure
for
our
knees
and
adjust
to
the
changing
times.
I
volunteer
for
our
city,
delivering
food
and
census
information,
I'm,
hearing
the
concerns
of
those
vulnerable
because
of
the
pandemic
and
before
the
pandemic
city
workers
would
like
to
know
why
no
one
in
City,
Council
has
been
laid
off.
B
I
would
like
to
ask
their
City
Council
at
large,
be
laid
off,
but
also
like
to
ask
for
cities
to
employ
people
to
bake
PPE
vulnerable
members
of
our
society
also
need
court
support.
Please
funders
offenders,
association
and
stop
feeding
the
fear
of
crime
to
collaborate.
The
need
for
more
policing
virtual
health
support
is
needed
for
all
of
us.
Please
budget
for
support
services
that
help
the
city's
changing
times.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
A
A
A
A
B
B
Vip
is
one
of
six
legal
service
agencies
that
make
that
path
and
we
are
unique
and
that
we
recruit
train
and
provide
support
to
volunteer
attorneys
to
represent
tenants
in
their
addiction
cases
as
an
organization
we
work
with
over
1,000
attorneys
and
to
help
us
to
train
these
attorneys,
as
well
as
your
attorneys,
to
represent
chemists.
To
put
it
simply,
have
health
tenants
in
Philadelphia,
from
heavens,
are
represented
by
lawyers
and
eviction
hearings.
Everyone
benefits,
50%
of
their
dolphins,
are
Venturi's
near
America's,
poorest,
big
city
with
rising
unemployment
and
the
CodeRed
pandemic.
B
Tenants
are
in
an
extremely
vulnerable
position
that
the
mayor's
budget
proposes
a
75%
decrease
to
have
funding.
People
need
stable
housing
now
more
than
ever,
and
over
the
past
two
and
a
half
years.
95
percent
of
the
tenants
hope
that
about
successful
outcomes
and
their
eviction
cases
now
is
not
the
time
to
cut
the
funding
by
the
tenants
who
do
not
have
representation
tenants
represented
by
path.
B
Attorneys
are
more
likely
to
negotiate,
affordable
payment
arrangements,
enter
into
agreements
for
their
landlords
for
more
time
their
property
and
negotiate
repairs
to
the
property
they
are
living
in
beyond
providing
legal
representation
and
eviction
cases
cat
runs
an
in-court
health
center,
a
tenant
helpline,
a
website
and
community
outreach
funding
will
keep
the
city
safer
and
investing
in
pet
now
will
save
money
and
resources
later
the
tenants
cannot
access
legal
representation
and
there
are
math
addictions.
The
city
will
be
increased
homeless,
health
harms
and
displacement
to
our
city's
most
vulnerable
residents.
B
B
B
Illusion
to
dress
a
portrait
is
valuable
because
it
gives
me
a
way
to
express
my
feelings
also
teaches
me
to
see
the
world
in
a
different
way.
This
helps
me
in
the
classroom,
because
there
are
many
ways
to
think
about
a
problem.
If
one
was
not
an
option
at
fourth
I
mean
living,
her
I
would
have
never
found
my
passion.
It
is
hard
to
express
how
much
gratitude
I
have
from
this
grace
in
the
art
program.
She
has
established
that
Nevinger,
the
artwork
she
was
doing.
B
The
students
was
one
of
the
main
factors
we
chose
Nevinger
five
years
ago
for
our
son
didn't
live
in
the
building,
building,
bringing
cheer
imagination
and
beauty
to
the
forefront
when
so
many
negative
notions.
Swirl
around
parents
Minds
when
deciding
to
enroll
their
children
in
Philadelphia,
School
District
art
has
helped
transform.
So
many
students
lives.
B
As
for
my
son,
he
loves
nothing
more
than
the
creative
thinking
process
of
what
he
will
do,
which
miss
grace
taught
him,
and
this
helps
him
with
writing
and
complicated
math
problems
and
other
subjects
he
had
struggled
and
even
struggled
with
his
art
projects
at
time.
The
art
class
has
taught
him
to
see
things
through
not
give
up
and
whatever
happens,
can
be
amazing.
B
She's
doing
live
art
classes
during
this
difficult
time
and
my
son
all
the
difficult
feelings
he
has
right
now
and
be
absorbed
in
the
artwork
I
understand
that
some
tough
decisions
need
to
be
made
because
of
budget
constraints,
but
please
keep
in
mind
how
important
art
is
to
helping
support
the
academic
subjects
and
also
shape
our
children
into
grounded
creative
and
pathetic
human
beings,
which
we
mean
now
more
than
ever.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
B
Okay,
hi
I'm
Kerry,
Resident,
Director
strategic
partnerships
that
Habitat
for
Humanity
Philadelphia.
Thank
you
for
your
time
today.
This
crisis
has
exposed,
so
many
of
our
social
fragilities
is
dramatically
illustrated
the
inequities
of
all
kinds
that
diminish
our
resiliency
as
a
city.
If
our
exposed
our
collective
stability
to
be
more
intertwined
than
we
choose
to
acknowledge,
ensuring
that
everyone
has
access
to
safe,
decent
and
affordable
housing
is
one
of
the
key
steps
towards
greater
stability
in
our
ongoing
resistance
resilience.
B
We
hear
about
health
sheltering
at
home
education,
economic
stability,
crime
reduction
safety
and
keeping
families
intact,
and
we
care
first
and
foremost
about
housing
and
investing
in
housing
is
an
upstream
strategy.
Ultimately,
it
saves
the
city
and
taxpayers
more
dollars
from
more
expensive
social
instrument,
service
interventions
down
the
line
at
habitat.
We
do
repair
it
and
we
build
and
sell
homes
to
first-time
low-income
homeowners.
B
I'm
not
going
to
talk
about
our
programs
here
today,
but
at
this
time,
when
staying
safe
means
staying
at
home,
we
were
departing
to
hear
that
the
proposal
the
mayor's
proposed
proposed
cuts
for
the
general
fund
dollars
going
to
the
Housing
Trust
Fund
for
fiscal
year.
21
now
is
not
the
time.
The
now
is
the
time
to
invest
more
in
the
housing
trust
fund.
We
need
more
resources
for
the
fund
as
building
and
preserving,
affordable,
accessible
housing
will
be
critical
for
the
city's
recovery
from
this
pandemic.
B
Cuts
to
the
housing
trust
fund
means
your
affordable
home
preservation
and
repair
activities
that
address
critical
health
and
safety
concerns
and
more
residents
living
in
conditions
that
lead
to
injury
and
illness,
and
in
this
case,
possibly
death.
Ingress
families
can
ever
access,
affordable
homes,
rental
or
owned.
It
means
the
city's
fragile
homeowners
will
be
more
vulnerable
to
losing
their
only
financial
assets,
and
ultimately
it
means
these
cuts
will
require
more
investment
down
the
road.
B
A
B
Name
is
a
co
pham.
I
am
calling
about
bill
number
two:
zero
zero,
two,
eight
seven.
We
need
to
continue
funding
for
arts,
culture
and
creative
economy
and
Adelphia
cultural
parent
fund.
These
are
well
designed
program
to
empower
many
people.
Why
not
reduce
it
for
20%?
Instead
of
taking
away
King
I
came
from
Tokyo
50
years
ago
to
study
art
at
the
Pennsylvania
Academy
of
Fine
Arts
I.
B
My
students
cannot
talk
and
cannot
move
in
the
conventional
way,
but
in
spite
of
that,
we
make
painting
using
hot,
attach
with
a
paintbrush.
Fx
is
a
baseball
hot.
My
students
really
love
art,
art
and
City.
Hall
is
a
very
inclusive,
well-designed
program
to
show
everybody's
ability
mega.
This
is
the
Austral
bacon
in
school.
He
knows.
Every
kid
in
Philadelphia
should
get
the
respect.
I
serve
a
City,
Hall
art
committee.
I
was
trying
to
create
this
summer's,
exhibit
to
celebrate
American
with
Disability
Act,
then
City
Hall
art
was
taken
away.
I'm
done
in
court.
B
A
B
My
name
is
I
know
and
regatta.
Pond
is
now
exiting
president
has
asked
me:
District
Council
47.
Thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
present
testimony
today
concerning
build
two
zero
zero.
Two
eight
seven
I
would
like
to
focus
on
several
areas
of
class.
Two
hundred
contracted
services
in
the
proposed
budget
excuse
me
specifically
pH
MCC
and
prison
contracts.
While
the
city
is
laying
off
employees
and
not
very
necessary
positions,
p.m.
HCC
is
hiring
as
though
there
is
no
budget
deficit.
B
Ph
MCC
should
not
have
an
umbrella
contract
to
which
the
city
can
add
services
without
City
Council
oversight.
The
same
is
true
of
contracted
services
at
the
Philadelphia
prisons,
where
city
employees
can
provide
some
of
the
contracted
services
since
the
medical
and
psychiatric
services
or
on
a
capitated
rate
with
significant
reductions
in
the
inmate
population,
there
should
be
a
commensurate
reduction
in
these
contracts.
B
These
are
just
two
contracts
in
a
category
of
the
city
budget,
which
is
grown
exponentially
and
now
rivals
the
close
100
category
of
city
employees
without
significant
scrutiny
over
the
close
200
category,
City
Council
Falls
in
its
due
diligence
in
assessing
the
revised
FY
21
budget
presented
by
Mayor
Kenny.
Thank
you
very
much.
A
C
Sure
just
turn
this
down:
Thank
You
councilmember
Sanchez
nice,
to
hear
your
voice,
and
thank
you
all
Council
for
letting
me
testify
today.
My
name
is
Robert
Surratt
ski
and
I
serve
as
president
to
see
here.
Purple
corporation
today,
I
speak
to
you.
In
my
capacity
of
president
of
the
terrible
parking
Association
represented
in
2000,
men
and
women
were
employed
by
the
parking
industry
and
the
311,000
500
workers
work
in
Center
City
who
depend
upon
us.
C
We
are
asking
you
to
oppose
the
mayor's
proposed
parking
tax
increase
from
22
and
a
half
percent
to
27
percent
I
would
do
a
crippling
20%
tax
increase
parking
parking
remains
the
only
industry
in
Philadelphia
to
have
its
own
tax,
it's
subject
to
the
Houston
occupancy
tax
and
pay
the
seven
other
taxes
and
fees
that
make
it
so
difficult
for
us
to
have
businesses
the
in
Philadelphia.
The
parking
industries.
Cumulative
tax
burden
currently
equates
to
between
40
and
55
percent
of
what
the
public
pays
to
park.
C
The
vast
majority
of
our
employees
live
in
the
city
and
that
made
careers
in
the
parking
industry.
In
fact,
parking
has
been
one
of
the
few
industries
that
offer
career
advancement
to
those
who
are
unable
to
a
fluid
obtaining
a
college
degree
and
can
be
a
pathway
out
of
poverty.
For
many,
in
addition
to
our
industry,
provide
a
vital
service.
It
is
the
only
form
of
our
transportation
infrastructure
that
self
funds
and
actually
helps
subsidize
the
city
tax
base.
C
C
Industry
is
also
worried
about
a
second
wave
of
covert
19
virus
and
the
devastating
impact
a
second
stay
at
home
border,
but
have
on
our
businesses
and
employees
rather
than
imposing
an
even
more
unsustainable
burden
on
the
industry
and
the
citizens
who
count
on
it.
We
believe
we
shall
be
doing
everything
we
can
to
encourage
workers,
shoppers,
diners
convention
attendees
and
those
patronizing,
our
fevers
and
cultural
institutions,
to
come
back
to
Philadelphia
and
reboot
reboot
our
economy
at
this
trying
time.
Thank
you
for
letting
me
testify.
C
A
C
I've
been
lucky
enough
to
grow
up,
surrounded
by
creativity,
music,
theater
and
film
have
always
played
a
large
role
in
my
life
because
of
this
I
came
to
Masterman
Coast
on
the
arts,
for
programs
at
school
were
key
and
fueling
that
fire
from
choir
to
the
school
movies
to
go
to
cello
and
bass.
Instrumental
lessons
Masterman
has
provided
opportunity
after
opportunity
to
immerse
myself
in
music,
art
and
performance.
These
programs
have
given
me
opportunities
and
achievements
in
my
school
and
personal
life.
They
continue
to
nurture
my
skills,
my
interest
and
my
purpose.
C
The
creative
arts
aren't
just
lessons
and
talents
their
tools,
ways
that
we
see
paintings
and
sculptures
the
ways
that
we
make
music.
These
are
things
that
have
the
power
to
shape
the
lives
of
young
students.
You
go
to
school
for
knowledge
and
we
go
to
school
for
skill.
The
arts
provide
both
of
those
and
that's
why
arts
education
is
at
the
core
of
student
achievement
and
engagement.
C
It
allows
students
to
connect
to
each
other
and
unwind
I've
been
lucky
enough
to
grow
up,
surrounded
by
creativity,
but
not
everyone
has
an
opportunity
as
programming
at
school,
intrusive
students
to
themselves
our
passions
and
future
careers
schools
where
we
grow,
where
we
find
friends,
well-being
and
purpose
that
isn't
possible
without
the
arts
funding.
We
need
that's
why
we
asked
you
to
hold
arts
education
funding
safe
from
any
potential
budget
cuts.
Q.
A
B
My
name
is
Ashley
seer
Levine
I
serve
as
the
chief
operating
officer
for
easy
park.
It
works
for
easy
park
for
over
13
years
and
I've
lived
in
the
city
of
Philadelphia
for
most
of
my
life
and
currently
raising
my
family.
Here,
you'd
apparently
manages
over
14
parking
lots
and
garages
throughout
the
city
of
Philadelphia
I'm
calling
today
to
make
you
aware
the
impact
is
essential
parking
tax
increase
because
and
have
on
our
bottom
line
and
our
ability
to
continue
to
operate
employee
loss.
B
B
Continued
operations
or
provide
parking
for
people
who
undoubtedly
utilize
parking
to
be
safe,
alternative
methods
of
transportation.
Even
if
the
city
decides
to
leave
their
taxes
due
to
the
lack
of
customers,
there
won't
be
anything
left
to
give
it's
important,
it's
very
hard
to
Claxton
NC
parking
lot.
We
hope
the
city
will
identify
better,
more
creative
ways
to
fill
the
budget
deficit
of
your
people.
Thank
you
for
your
time
and
opportunity
to
speak
today.
Thank.
B
A
B
Please
proceed.
Thank
you
I'm
alive,
so
clean
a
member
of
one
Pennsylvania
and
a
long
time
we
taught
in
census
worker
I,
worked
at
Burger,
King,
wah,
wah
and
Target
and
I'm,
testifying
about
the
need
to
restore
to
350,000
cut
from
the
mayor's
office
of
Labor.
In
the
most
recent
budget
proposal,
yesterday,
I
was
interviewed
in
the
inquiry
about
the
needs
of
past
question,
one
to
create
an
independent
Department
of
Labor,
but
as
important
as
it
is
to
make
the
office
independent
even
more.
Knowing
participant
is
now
an
anomaly.
B
B
If
this
office
is
well
funded,
it
can
be
more
effective,
reach
out
to
more
workers
and
resolve
our
complaint,
but
there's
no
funding.
We
love
for
more
staff
and
community
community
grants
which
are
crucial
to
reach
the
workers
most
in
need
of
little
protection.
Employers
and
employees
will
take
it
more
seriously
because
they
will
see
the
city's
investments
and
emerges
would
have
more
trust
in
the
system
because
their
complaints
will
be
actually
addressed.
Two
years
ago,
most
of
you
voted
to
pass.
One
of
the
strongest
fear
work.
We
work
we
build
in
the
country.
B
My
target
store
was
not
consistently
enforcing
that
law
as
a
week
as
a
few
weeks
ago.
At
this
moment,
employers
are
trying
more
than
ever,
to
take
advantage
of
their
workers.
If
you
want
a
workers
to
feel
the
effects
of
the
important
profession,
this
council
has
please
restore
the
$350,000
to
mayor's
office
of
labor
budget.
Thank
you
thank.
C
I'm,
here
to
speak
on
bail
to
zero
zero,
two
eight
eight,
my
name
is
Todd
Dodger
and
I've
worked
for
easy
part
for
eight
years.
I
was
born
and
raised
here.
I
was
in
Philadelphia
PA,
but
no
customers.
Where
are
the
revenues
coming
from
you,
can't
tax
an
empty
parking
lot?
You
would
think
we
would
be
able
to
provide
relief
at
this
time
to
get
more
people
to
come
into
the
city.
I
started
as
an
attendant
then
work
to
manager
and
now
general
manager.
These
types
of
life-changing
opportunities
are
being
limited
with
each
increase.
C
The
large
portion
of
your
of
our
employees
are
immigrants.
They
were
not
here.
I
came
here
to
raise
a
family
and
better
themselves,
a
large
portion.
We
support
the
immediate
family
here,
an
extended
family
back
home.
The
increase
will
force
automation
and
reduction
of
payroll.
This
will
hurt
immigrant
communities
near
and
far.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
Thank.
B
Shana
Kessler
please
proceed.
Thank
you
for
your
patience.
Thank
you
very
much
councilmember
Sanchez
council
president
and
all
the
other
council
members.
Thank
you
very
much
for
your
time.
I'm
Shana
Kessler
with
the
Vera
Institute
of
Justice.
My
testimony
today
is
regarding
those
two
zero
zero
two
eight
seven
and
two
zero
zero:
three
zero:
seven
to
ask
you
to
safeguard
the
Pennsylvania
immigrant
family
unity
project
or
pipe
up
by
restoring
$200,000
to
the
city
budget.
B
In
2017,
the
Vera
Institute
established
the
faith
Network,
which
provides
strategic
support
and
a
catalyst
grant
to
jurisdictions
that
invest
public
funding,
different
programs.
We
know
that
these
programs
promote
family
unity
due
process
and
stability
for
immigrants
targeted
by
the
federal
government's
anti-immigrant
attacks,
and
my
written
testimony
explains
in
light
of
the
disastrous
impacts
of
code
19
for
people
in
detention.
Centers.
This
work
has
never
been
more
urgent.
We
all
understand
that
when
a
person
is
charged
with
a
crime,
a
lawyer
will
be
provided
for
them.
B
If
they're
unable
to
afford
one
the
principle
that
the
government
may
not
take
away
a
person's
freedom
without
access
to
a
lawyer
is
fundamental
to
our
understanding
of
justice.
Nevertheless,
most
people
facing
deportation
must
navigate
immigration
court
alone,
even
though
they've
a
permanent
family
separation
and
possible
first
return
to
deadly
conditions
in
another
country.
So,
thanks
to
this
city,
leader,
sister's
hopes
for
immigration,
Philadelphia's
we're
still
being
targeted
by
the
federal
immigration
Authority.
B
Even
today,
last
summer
we
were
honored
to
partner
with
the
city
as
a
national
leader
in
the
state
network
because
of
Sarah
Dells
initial
investment,
the
BIA
Institute
and
the
Samuel
FL
fund
joined
the
city
to
launch
a
promising
public-private
partnership
that
is
now
promoting
freedom
and
safety
for
immigrants.
However,
funding
for
the
coming
year
was
not
included
in
the
recently
proposed
executive
budget.
B
Today,
I'm
asking
you
to
save
us
to
ensure
that
clients
have
a
fighting
chance
to
return
to
their
families,
their
jobs
and
their
communities,
their
Adelphia,
the
investment
of
$200,000
in
fiscal
year.
Twenty
one
block
an
additional
$100,000
from
the
fellows
fund
from
a
stability
for
immigrant
Philadelphians
and
send
a
strong
message
that
their
city
stands
with
immigrants,
especially
when
it
matters
most.
Thank
you
very
much
for
your
time.
Thank.
B
My
name
is
Tanner
calum
I'm,
an
artist
living
and
working
in
Philadelphia
I'm,
urging
City
Council
to
vote
against
ordinance
number
202,
87
and
resolution
number
200
307,
which
would
cut
municipal
arts
funding
for
this
coming
fiscal
year,
I'm
the
lead
facilitator
of
a
small
performance
cooperative,
whose
work
has
been
made
possible
by
the
philadelphia
cultural
fund.
A
fund
that
will
not
exist
at
the
mayor's
budget
is
approved
there.
A
single
artist
I've
worked
with
in
the
city
whose
practice
has
not
been
positively
impacted
by
the
Philadelphia
cultural
fund
or
the
office
of
art.
B
Culture
in
the
creative
economy.
I
moved
to
the
city,
because
I
knew
that
Philadelphia
cares
about
its
artists
and
does
everything
in
its
power
to
get
them
to
stay
here.
I
doubt
that
any
of
you
would
choose
to
pass
a
municipal
budget
that
effectively
closes
the
office
of
arts,
culture
and
creative
economy
and
shuts
down
the
Philadelphia
cultural
fund,
where
we're
not
facing
this
completely
unprecedented
public
health
crisis.
So,
instead
of
spending
time
impressing
upon
you,
the
importance
of
the
Arts
I
will
appeal
to
your
economic
shrewdness,
the
Philadelphia
cultural
fund
and
office
of
arts.
B
Culture
and
creative
economy
works
not
only
with
individual
artists
like
myself,
but
also
with
organizations
of
all
sizes,
we're
talking
about
a
vast
percentage
of
our
city's
workforce
by
bringing
Philadelphia's
art
budget
down
to
$0,
we
are
effectively
shooting
our
economy
in
the
foot.
Without
a
municipal
arts
budget,
we
are
taking
away
critical
income
that
allows
artists
and
arts
organizations
to
make
their
impact
on
the
economy.
Artists
will
not
be
able
to
help
you
rebuild
Philadelphia's
economy
without
essential
municipal
support.
B
We
know
that
artists
are
creative
and
resourceful,
but
to
take
away
Philadelphia
support
of
the
Arts
diminishes
the
vital
role
that
arts
play
in
our
souls
and
in
our
economies,
because
city
council
members
are
creative
and
resourceful
too
I
know
that
they
will
be
able
to
approve
a
version
of
the
2021
budget
that
supports
life-sustaining
services
without
sacrificing
the
arts.
One
of
the
reasons
why
I
chose
to
live
and
work
in
Philadelphia
is
because
I
knew
that
I
would
not
have
to
convince
my
leaders
that
the
arts
are
life-sustaining.
Thank
you
for
the
time.
A
C
A
C
Additionally,
I
have
over
a
hundred
employees
that
have
also
been
able
to
earn
a
living.
Because
of
this
industry.
We
service
customers
from
all
parts
of
the
city
and
outside
of
the
city.
They
do
it
for
work.
They
do
it
to
conduct
essential
services
here
in
City,
Hall
and
elsewhere
throughout
the
city
of
Philadelphia.
C
B
Science,
technology
and
other
students.
Most
importantly,
though,
we
said
that
the
safe
space
for
kids
and
teens
to
socialize
in
the
city,
where
there
are
very
often
tech
alternatives
week,
helps
assure
that
libraries
are
not
exclusionary
spaces
where
children
have
to
read
quietly
with
me
whether
they're
welcoming
spaces
for
children
and
teens
places
where
they
can
learn,
explore
and
play
at
their
own
pace,
seeing
other
staff
members
to
work
with
other
patrons
to
apply
for
jobs
and
access
other
resources.
B
When
we
program
I,
held
in
March
of
our
teen
anime
club
to
those
that
the
library
had
asked
her
Club
where
they
could
read,
manga
and
watch
anime
I
had
no
idea
how
popular
the
first
meeting
would
be.
15
teams
showed
up
and
they
vowed
to
bring
your
strength.
The
next
meeting
right
away.
They
were
already
discussing
plans
for
the
club.
The
club
with
19
shot
down,
had
put
the
move
on
toss,
but
NFL
lay
off
will
prematurely
end
it
for
good.
B
In
addition
to
serving
of
the
community
hub,
we
also
serve
as
job
training
for
many
teams.
The
supervising
show
know
to
work
as
team
leadership
assistants
and
we
can
start
working
as
early
of
age.
14
awesome.
This
is
their
first
job
ever
self-worth,
myself,
healthy
ways
with
reading
programs,
writing
resumes,
keeping
track
of
reference
questions
and
many
other
responsibilities.
B
Many
traits
have
told
you
that
the
relative
of
teachers,
librarians
and
other
city
workers
after
college,
so
a
city
struggling
unemployment,
a
limiting
problem
eliminates
of
valuable
paths
of
working
with
week
of
just
one
program
at
Causton
in
2021,
budget
adopted
and
services,
and
teams
should
not
be
made
to
bear
the
burden
of
these
subject
cuts.
Thank
you.
A
C
Thank
you
very
much
for
your
time.
My
name
is
Joni
Eaton
and
I'm.
The
supervising
attorney
of
the
nationality
service
center
here
in
Philadelphia
and
I'm
here
regarding
to
zero
to
eight
seven
and
two
zero
zero.
Three
zero
seven
I'm
asking
you
to
restore
funding
the
Pennsylvania
immigrant
family
unity
project.
This
project
is
a
response
to
the
federal
government's
extraordinary
hostility
towards
immigrant
communities.
Immigration
and
Customs.
Enforcement
or
ice
has
ramped
up
arrests
at
unprecedented
numbers
of
people
into
immigration,
detention
to
face
deportation
proceedings
while
the
taint.
C
So
in
our
area,
that
means
the
York
immigration
court
house
inside
York,
County
prison.
We
know
that
about
70
percent
of
the
immigrants
that
York
do
not
have
an
attorney
at
their
final
hearing
where
they
would
face
a
judge
and
vice
prosecutor
alone,
mayor
Kenney
and
councils
leadership.
We
want
stripe
up
last
year
and
we
have
been
busy
displaying
125
detained
individuals
and
taking
on
44s
clients.
C
Our
attorneys
have
attended
52
hearings
and
critically
we
would
secure
the
lease
for
15
people
and
their
rights
in
visiting
the
immigration
judge,
to
release
them
on
bond
or
by
winning
the
case
outright.
These
exceptions
would
have
been
unthinkable
without
the
assistance
of
a
lawyer.
I
want
to
talk
briefly
about
Jay
without
your
residents
of
those
early
from
Jamaica.
It
was
in
the
u.s.
in
legal
immigration
status
as
childhood,
with
his
mother
who's,
a
US
citizen
and
last
year
he
was
arrested
by
eyes
and
taken
to
York
to
face
deportation.
C
He
was
terrified,
Jay
is
gay,
and
in
Jamaica
being
an
openly
gay
man
can
be
a
death
sentence.
Spite
that
I
argue
that
a
minor
prior
conviction
gave
them
the
right
to
deport
him.
Despite
his
green
card
Michael
intervened
in
the
case.
Our
attorney
found
out
that
the
government
was
just
wrong.
Jay
was
not
affordable.
The
government
had
no
right
to
remove
him.
The
immigration
judge
agreed
and
threw
the
case
out.
Paige
released
his
family
and
now
I'll
be
on
the
US
citizen.
So
this
can't
turn
on
specialized
knowledge
of
immigration
law.
C
The
non-experts
can't
be
expected
to
know.
Jane,
wouldn't
have
been
able
to
show
that
the
government
was
wrong
and
trying
to
deport
you
without
counsel,
and
this
just
highlights
the
fundamental
unfairness
of
having
to
confront
deportation
without
somebody
in
your
corner.
So
for
these
reasons
we
ask
that
we
be
able
to
continue
this
work
and
in
Council,
restores
funding
in
FY
21
and
do.
C
C
My
name
is
rich
Carell
and
I'm,
one
of
the
cofounders
of
protect
our
vote.
Philly.
We
may
be
the
only
College
tonight
offering
a
way
to
bring
money
in
commissioner
D
Lee
testified
yesterday,
but
the
commissioners
need
more
money
because
of
various
increased
costs
and
for
the
first
time
she
listed
additional
costs
of
the
SNF
express
vote,
excel
voting
system
like
paper,
ballots,
testing
and
high
moving
costs.
C
That's
our
huge
new
warehouse
costs
are
high
not
just
compared
to
the
old
machines,
but
compared
to
other
new
voting
systems
and
that's
on
top
of
a
purchase
price
of
twenty
nine
million
dollars
three
times
what
Allegheny
County
spent,
but
only
now
a
year
after
the
rigged
procurement
process.
We
start
to
hear
about
these
costs.
That's
because
the
Commissioner's
Office
is
a
budgetary
black
box.
C
On
one
screen,
which
was
the
big
selling
point,
dozens
of
them
failed
on
Election
Day
in
a
variety
of
ways,
and
now
half
of
them
will
be
gathering
docked,
not
just
because
of
the
pandemic,
but
because
Pennsylvania
is
moving
toward
vote-by-mail
the
terrible
investment
that
was,
we
could
get
that
29
million
dollars
back,
but
the
commissioners
and
the
law
department
are
fighting
tooth
and
nail
to
make
sure.
Yes,
and
s
gets
to
keep
it
you've
been
taking
the
vendor
side
in
lawsuits.
They
seem
to
be
working
for
yes
and
s
rather
than
for
the
people.
C
The
fact
is
we
got
taken
and
if
we
can
get
our
money
back,
we
should
twenty
nine
million
dollars
would
be
a
big
help
right
now
so
before,
given
the
commissioners
more
money,
I
hope
the
members
of
council
will
ask
them
exactly
what
they
need
it
for
and
there's
a
little
money
so
badly.
Why
not
at
least
try
to
get
that
money
back?
Thank
you.
Thank.
A
C
My
name
is
Scott
McCarthy
I
am
also
associated,
will
work
with
protective
order.
Philadelphia
I
am
testifying
today
to
request
that
no
increases
are
made
to
the
budget
for
the
office
of
the
Philadelphia
city
commissioners.
Until
such
time
that
office
begins
to
operate
in
a
more
open
and
transparent
manner.
My
particular
concerns
all
with
how
the
city,
commissioners,
that
operated
in
bad
faith
with
regard
to
their
decision
to
purchase
the
USNS,
Evie
exiled
evolution
and
how
the
commissioners
refused
to
address
questions
posed
to
them
during
their
periodic
sunshine
meetings.
C
The
some
commissioners
steadfastly
refused
to
provide
the
public
adequate
time
and
opportunity
to
evaluate
the
evx
l-dopa
machine
versus
alternative
methods
and
she's,
particularly
in
contrast
that,
however,
Pennsylvania
counties
provided
their
citizens.
This
opportunity,
but
is
most
troubling,
is
that
the
city
commissioners,
at
nationally
in
their
paper
ballots,
which
mean
all
the
most
up-to-date
election
safety
protocols
and
I,
would
have
saved
the
city
overturn
them.
There's
a
versus
purchasing
the
Eevee
Excel.
C
Why
should
we
support
additional
funding,
for
this
app
is
going
to
demonstrate
such
a
blatant
disregard
for
the
city's
finances,
ironically,
in
order
to
address
public
safety
concerns
related
to
the
current
pandemic.
The
commissioners
are
now
embracing
the
use
of
hamlet
paper
ballots
as
the
alternative
to
in-person
voting
at
polling
stations
that
are
using
the
EB
Excel.
Lastly,
I
have
attended
offered
public
comment
during
city
commissioners,
sunshine
meetings
in
every
instance.
The
commissioners
refused
to
answer,
questions
that
oppose
them
or
otherwise
engage
in
any
formal
dialogue.
C
A
A
B
Sanchez
and
the
rest
of
Council,
my
name
is
Gloria
Gilman
I'm,
testifying
about
those
two
hundred
287
and
200
307
I'm,
the
first
chair
of
the
Democratic
Party
second
word:
juror
Philadelphia
neighborhood
networks
and
a
member
of
projector
over
Philly
city.
Commissioner
D
Lee
testified
yesterday
that
the
mayor's
budget
proposal
my
bankrupt
her
office
by
the
November
20
20,
January
rection.
B
This
cannot
be
true,
as
the
fiscal
year
begins
in
July
and
their
reasonable
explanation
has
been
offered
as
to
what
necessary
expenses
between
July,
1st
and
the
beginning
of
November
would
deplete
the
entire
year's
budget.
Please
explore
in
detail
the
actual
investor
expenses
for
the
commissioner's
office
to
do
its
job
during
office
without
adequate
oversight
and
I've
taken
steps
the
staff
gear
to
share
themselves
further
from
public
scrutiny
by
transferring
many
decisions
further.
They
made
by
the
commissioners
and
public
forum
to
in-house
staff,
not
subject
to
the
Sunshine
Act.
You.
B
Performance
failures:
the
change
in
from
betting,
no
excuse
Maryland
voting
enhanced
by
the
public's
awareness
of
how
much
safer
it
will
be
to
vote
by
now,
rather
than
in
person.
Divided
a
missed
opportunity
to
the
commissioners
to
reduce
their
expenses.
Voting
by
now
is
much
cheaper
than
purchasing
and
using
the
machines.
Please.
C
B
C
B
B
I'm
Yael
McCarthy
I'm,
a
Philadelphia
resident
and
a
member
of
protecto
vote
Philly
and
testifying
regarding
bills,
200
287
and
200
307.
The
city
can
correct
a
fiscal
error
made
by
the
city
commissioners
and
save
taxpayer
money
by
recouping
and
mere
allocating
29
429
million
dollars.
The
commitment
commissioners
paid
for
a
faulty
voting
system.
The
machines
cost
three
times
more
upfront
than
the
paper
ballot
system
offered
by
the
same
vendor.
Commissioner
dearly
justified
this
premium
and
change
for
a
first-ballot
feature
which
we
didn't
get.
The
machines
are
fulfilled
in
Northampton
and
in
Fair
adelphia.
B
Council
members,
please
get
our
twenty
nine
million
dollars
back
from
the
vendor.
The
vendor
failed
to
deliver
the
product
as
promised,
and
the
machines
performed
poorly
there's.
A
small
portion
of
the
recouped
money
to
require
a
safe
voting
system
then
apply
the
remaining
money
to
help
our
city
during
this
health
and
budget
crisis.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
Thank.
B
And
protect
your
vote.
Silly
I'm,
commenting
on
our
commissioners
funding
request,
as
you
consider
this
request
now,
just
some
of
what
our
Board
of
Elections
has
asked
for
and
on
since
the
budget
hearings
last
year.
It
shows
a
history
of
wasteful
spending,
misleading
statement
and
a
troubling
determination
to
use
a
controversy
machine
I
wasn't
looking
into
collection
at
the
budget
hearing
last
year,
the
commissioners
quoted
a
chorus
of
29,
which
was
significantly
from
the
20
to
27
million.
B
They
stated
just
a
few
months
earlier
when
selecting
the
Machine,
an
Argus
controller
on
her
reported
that
es
MS
did
not
properly
disclose
lobbying
and
their
good,
giving
our
board
of
elections
a
chance
to
cancel
our
contact
and
start
again
with
many.
Many
public
comments.
Ask
the
council
and
read
instead
from
a
pre-written
decision.
B
E&Amp;F
arguments
in
favor
of
keeping
the
contract
later
controller
won't
release
a
28-page
reporting,
significant
wrongdoing
in
for
trying
machines
to
highlights,
commissioners
Dailey
and
Schmidt
had
years
of
undisclosed
campaign
contributions
and
help
from
yes
developing
their
budget
requests.
Meanwhile,
Allegheny
County,
similar
in
size
affiliate,
proves
the
more
security
system.
B
What
we're
sending
a
lawsuit
filed
in
Thunder
seeks
to
decertify
the
express
vote
Excel
in
PA,
arguing
that
it
violates
the
election
code
and
state
constitution.
This
case
is
still
in
the
courts.
If
the
suit
is
successful
and
the
machines
are
decertified,
the
city
would
be
able
to
change
voting
systems
without
losing
a
penny.
The
commissioners
are
not
prioritizing
safe
boating
and
prudent
use
of
funds.
Council
should
not
reward
them
with
more
funding.
Thank
you
very
much.
A
Thank
you
so
very
much
since
we
have
no
one
else
scheduled
to
testify
or
on
our
list
again.
I
want
to
thank
all
of
the
council
colleagues
who
have
hung
in
there.
We've
been
here
since
3
o'clock
this
afternoon.
This
is
very
important.
It
is
a
very
difficult
budget
and
seeing
no
one
else
left
to
testify.