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From YouTube: Mayor Kenney's Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Address
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Mayor Kenney's Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Address
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We've
experienced
a
great
deal
of
loss,
we
lost
loved
ones,
many
lost
their
jobs
and
others
lost
businesses.
They
worked
years
to
build,
but
I,
for
one
have
never
lost
hope,
hope
for
our
city's
ability
to
rebound
hope
for
our
capacity
to
overcome
and
hope
for
an
eventual
return
to
all
that
makes
philadelphia
great.
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I
base
this
optimism
on
the
strength
and
dedication
I
witnessed
from
the
thousands
of
first
responders
and
city
of
philadelphia
employees.
Over
the
last
year
we
fed
students
and
residents
at
hundreds
of
meal
sites.
We
distribute
ppe
to
front
line
and
essential
workers
we
kept
residents
from
losing
their
homes.
We
opened
our
parks
for
record
use
of
safe
recreation.
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This
plan
builds
on
all
these
efforts
so
that
philadelphians
in
every
neighborhood
can
benefit
from
a
strong
inclusive
recovery.
Over
the
next
five
years,
we
will
move
philadelphia
forward
by
providing
core
services
that
people
depend
on
accelerating
inclusive
economic
growth,
maintaining
the
city's
long-term
fiscal
health
and
reducing
racial
disparities.
A
As
you
can
imagine,
a
significant
part
of
our
five-year
plan
is
dependent
on
the
estimated
1.4
billion
dollars
in
coronavirus,
local
fiscal
recovery
funds.
We're
slated
to
receive
from
the
bite
administration's
american
rescue
plan
this
one
time.
Federal
relief
will
help
ease
the
effects
of
projected
revenue
declines
for
business
closures
and
changes
to
workplace
occupancy
that
were
necessary
to
slow
the
spread
of
the
virus.
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The
american
rescue
plan
will
help
fill
a
gap
this
fiscal
year
and
our
projected
budget
deficit
resulting
from
the
pandemic
for
the
first
four
years
of
the
plan
equally
important.
It
allows
us
to
act
on
the
harsh
lessons
from
this
crisis.
For
example,
we
know
now
more
than
ever,
that
we
must
plan
for
future
disruptions
and
build
a
resilient
fund
balance.
A
The
american
rescue
plan
funds
will
certainly
have
a
positive
impact
on
jump-starting
philadelphia's
economy,
but
I
think
we
can
agree
that
it's
not
enough
to
simply
recover.
We
need
to
rebuild
equitably
while
ensuring
growth
that
benefits
all
every
industry
has
felt
the
brunt
of
the
pandemic,
and
far
too
many
of
our
businesses
are
still
struggling
to
survive.
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I'm
proud
to
report
that
this
plan
proposes
no
tax
or
fee
increases
in
fact,
will
help
businesses
and
residents
by
providing
tax
relief,
we'll
enact
wage
tax
reductions
to
the
lowest
level
in
50
years
and
achieve
the
biggest
wage
tax
rate
cut
in
more
than
a
decade
with
a
deeper
cut.
That
was
even
included
in
the
pre-pandemic
plan
for
fiscal
year
22.
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We
must
continue
to
work
together
to
lobby
harrisburg
for
changes
while
continuing
to
improve.
What's
within
our
control,
to
support
local
business
to
help
our
commercial
corridors,
we
will
provide
three
hundred
thousand
dollars
in
increased
funding
for
storefront
improvement
and
security
grants
and
four
hundred
fifty
thousand
dollars
for
phl
taking
care
of
business
carder
cleaning
program.
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We're
committed
to
closing
the
opportunity
gap
experienced
by
minority
immigrant
and
women-owned
businesses
that
have
been
disproportionately
impacted
by
covet
19.,
for
instance,
we'll
increase
opportunities
for
entrepreneurs
by
engaging
minority
women
in
disabled,
owned
business
in
significant
business
with
the
city,
investing
in
technical
assistance
and
capacity
building
to
help
businesses
grow
actively
advancing
public
and
private
sector
procurement
reform
and
by
establishing
establishing
an
entrepreneur
industry
partnership
and
to
increase
opportunities
for
small
business.
The
city,
thanks
to
leadership
of
council
member
green,
streamlined
the
application
process
for
small
contracts.
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While
we
focus
on
business,
we
cannot
forget
our
workforce.
We
include
three
million
dollars
to
the
office
of
workforce
development.
Two
million
dollars
for
a
transitional
jobs
program,
150
000
dollars
for
the
color
me
back
same
day,
pay
program,
almost
1.5
million
dollars
in
adult
education
programs
and
170
000
for
digital
equity
initiatives.
A
Together
these
investments
in
our
black
and
brown
entrepreneurs
and
workforce,
better
position
philadelphia
to
be
more
adaptable
and
agile
to
the
future
of
work.
It
will
help
us
stay
ahead
and
reap
the
benefits
from
rapid
changes
of
technology,
e-commerce,
remote
work
and
automation,
which
have
been
accelerated
by
the
pandemic.
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Additionally,
in
the
capital
program,
we've
earmarked
20
million
dollars
towards
economic
development
projects
like
the
I-95
cap,
schuylkill,
river
development,
corporation's
christian
to
crescent
and
east
market
and
neighborhood
commercial
center
improvement
projects.
Fortunately,
the
american
rescue
plan
is
not
just
helping
relieve
pressure
on
the
city
budget.
It
will
do
the
same
on
household
budgets
and
bring
federally
funded
benefits
to
more
than
a
million
philadelphians.
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The
stimulus
payments,
the
expansion
of
earned
income
tax
credit
and
the
expanded
child
tax
credit
will
provide
critical
cash
support
to
philadelphians
who
need
it.
We
estimate
that,
together,
the
eitc
and
child
tax
credit
will
help
move
more
than
75
000
philadelphians
out
of
poverty
this
year
and
could
cut
the
rate
of
children
in
deep
poverty
in
philadelphia
this
year
by
half.
But
to
make
the
promise
of
these
new
benefits
a
reality.
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Philadelphians
will
have
to
take
action
and
file
tax
returns,
even
if
they
have
not
done
so
in
prior
years
or
do
not
owe
any
taxes.
So
we
are
committed
to
connecting
philadelphians
with
the
tax
refunds
they
are
entitled
to,
and
we
will
be
urging
congress
to
make
these
one-year
changes
permanent
so
that
our
families
get
out
and
stab
a
poverty
for
good.
A
Over
the
last
few
years,
we
have
worked
to
reverse
old
practices
of
balancing
our
budget
based
on
fines
and
fees
that
mostly
impact
those
who
can
least
afford
to
pay.
So
I
am
pleased
to
continue
our
elimination
of
the
fines
and
fees
that
disproportionately
burden
black
and
brown
philadelphians
with
our
partners.
We've
eliminated
bail
fees,
library,
fines
and
now
we
will
eliminate
fees
that
burden
families
with
individuals
incarcerated
in
our
prisons.
A
I'm
pleased
to
also
increase
funding
for
the
arts
by
1.35
million
dollars,
including
doubling
the
cultural
fund.
Not
only
is
the
arts
community
part
of
the
fabric
that
makes
our
city
great,
but
we
also
view
the
creative
economy
as
a
core
sector
for
recovery,
one
whose
reinvestment
will
pay
dividends
in
the
future.
A
I
am
pleased
to
continue
investments
in
our
shared
public
spaces,
including
2.9
million
dollars,
to
restore
five-day
service,
after-school
programs
and
other
services
at
the
libraries
and
6.9
million
dollars
to
restore
recreation
programs
and
reopen
pools
summer
2021
will
be
exciting
and
enriching
full
of
opportunities
for
learning
and
fun
for
youth
of
all
ages.
We
have
our
school
district
partnership
for
summer.
Academic
and
enrichment
camps
play
streets
parks
and
rec
summer
camps
city
out
of
school
time,
summer
camps
in
the
community,
as
well
as
summer,
work
ready
for
older
youth.
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The
capital
program
includes
a
historic
317
million
dollars
over
six
years
in
street,
paving
and
ada
curb
ramps
with
132
million
in
fiscal
year
22.
This
is
the
largest
single
year
investment
in
the
city's
history
and
will
help
workers,
residents
and
visitors
access
destinations,
reliably
and
safely,
something.
I
know
that's
important
to
council
member
thomas
finally
to
foster
clean
and
safe
communities.
We'll
invest
62
million
dollars
over
five
years
to
expand
mechanical
street,
sweeping
with
a
focus
on
black
and
brown
communities
that
are
often
hit
the
hardest
by
illegal
dumping.
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A
We
must
work
to
eliminate
health
disparities
and
safeguard
residents
from
threats
that
cause
disease
and
injury.
Therefore,
we're
investing
250
000
to
build
on
existing
efforts
to
produce
a
plan
to
improve
racial
equity
in
health
outcomes.
This
includes
preventing
chronic
health
conditions
like
diabetes
and
heart
disease
that
disproportionately
affect
people
of
color.
We
have
to
ensure
all
children
and
families
have
access
to
nutritious
foods,
decrease,
use
of
addictive
and
toxic
products,
and
access
to
safe
green
spaces.
A
We'll
also
invest
one
million
dollars
for
air
management
to
improve
air
pollution
oversight.
Air
pollution,
like
that
emitted
by
boilers
and
generators,
contributes
to
health
problems
like
heart,
disease,
asthma,
lung
disease
and
respiratory
tract
infections.
The
concern
is
greatest
amongst
adults
with
other
health
problems,
children
and
the
elderly,
and
results
in
significant
racial
disparities,
because
our
fight
against
covet
19
is
far
from
over.
The
plan
sets
aside
50
million
dollars
for
coveted
containment
as
part
of
a
75
million
reopening
and
recession
reserve.
This
is
in
addition
to
over
220
million
in
targeted
grant
funding.
A
To
date,
we
have
deployed
over
140
million
dollars
to
the
public
health
and
safety
response
to
purchase.
Ppe
establish
a
surge
medical
hospital,
distribute
meals
to
vulnerable
populations
across
the
city,
stand
up
hotels
where
people
can
safely
quarantine
and
isolate,
improve
the
safety
of
our
shelter
system
and
much
more.
A
In
fact,
across
all
the
funds
we
administer,
investments
in
the
department
of
behavioral
health
and
intellectual
disability
services
are
more
than
1.6
billion
dollars
in
philadelphia,
more
than
double
the
police
department's
budget.
We
also
make
a
strong
commitment
to
fighting
the
opioid
crisis.
Significant
progress
has
been
made
in
saving
lives
by
reducing
overdose
deaths,
but
since
march
of
the
last
year,
covet
19
has
prompted
an
increase
in
fatal
drug
overdoses,
particularly
in
black
and
brown
communities.
A
The
supply
chains
for
help
and
support
have
been
broken.
Drug-Related
violence
is
soared
equally
important.
This
past
year
demonstrated
a
vital
need
to
center
racial
and
social
equity
in
our
opioid
response,
so
the
plan
allocates
four
hundred
thousand
dollars
for
opioid
treatment
and
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
for
the
opioid
response
unit,
our
multi-departmental
effort
to
address
the
opioid
epidemic,
and
later
this
month,
the
opioid
response
unit
will
unveil
its
new
action
plan,
an
overview
of
both
how
far
philadelphia
has
come
and
how
far
we
still
must
go
in
the
fight
against
opioid
use
disorder.
A
I'm
incredibly
proud
of
the
work
being
done,
but
these
are
just
the
first
steps
of
many.
Our
efforts
will
not
end
until
once
again,
there
is
a
healthy
population
and
safe
and
thriving
communities
untainted
by
the
scourge
of
opioids,
while
containing
the
pandemic,
is
among
our
most
pressing
priorities.
We
know
that
in
some
ways
it
pales
in
comparison
to
our
other
long-standing
public
health
crisis,
gun
violence
in
2020,
philadelphia
lost,
402
people
to
gun
violence,
the
most
gun
related
homicides
in
30
years,
with
more
than
140
people
killed.
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As
a
result,
a
total
of
18.7
million
dollars
of
additional
funding
in
fy
22
on
anti-violence
efforts
for
a
total
of
35.5
million
of
investment
over
the
life
of
the
fy
22
through
fy26
five-year
plan.
This
is
an
additional
investment
of
70
million
dollars.
This
includes
new
investments
such
as
1.3
million
to
expand,
proven
violence
and
eruption.
Programs
like
community
crisis,
intervention
programs
and
group
violence,
intervention,
two
million
dollars
in
the
transitional
jobs
program.
A
We
must
then,
the
tide
of
gun
violence,
while
also
addressing
the
systemic
racism
and
policing
that
impacts
black
and
brown
philadelphians.
We've
heard
from
the
public
and
leaders
in
our
communities
that
we
must
reimagine
our
approach
to
policing
to
create
the
safety.
All
philadelphians
have
a
right
to
to
improve
police
response
to
people
calling
9-1-1
in
behavioral
health
crises.
A
The
plan
funds,
a
six
million
dollar
investment
for
improvements
to
the
process
of
triaging,
the
pilot
teams,
another
7.2
million
expansion
of
behavioral
health
mobile
crisis
units
and
a
crisis
hotline
will
improve
how
emergency
mental
health
services
are
delivered
in
crisis
situations.
Working
with
you
all,
especially
with
the
leadership
of
council
member
jones.
We
are
launching
a
new
1.9
million
dollar
citizen
police
oversight,
commission
to
restore
public
confidence,
to
review
residents
complaints
and
to
create
better
police
community
interactions.
A
A
We
know
from
firsthand
experience
how
invaluable
local
control
can
be.
We
saw
it
over
the
last
year
when
it
comes
to
our
public
education
system,
the
city's
coast,
partnership
and
alignment
with
the
school
district
during
the
pandemic,
or
how
we
were
able
to
step
up
to
serve
our
students
most
pressing
needs
over
the
last
year.
A
A
The
five-year
plan
envisions
a
return
of
teachers
and
students
to
classrooms
with
1.38
billion
dollars
in
funding
for
the
school
district
of
philadelphia
over
the
plan.
This
is
on
top
of
the
1.3
billion
that
the
district
will
receive
through
the
american
rescue
plan
and
we'll
invest
a
quarter
of
a
billion
dollars
in
the
community
college
of
philadelphia,
with
54
million
dollars
dedicated
to
the
octavius
caddo
scholarship.
A
This
initiative
will
enable
five
thousand
first-time
students
to
attend
college
tuition
free
and
with
the
supports
they
need,
like
food
books
and
transportation
stipends
to
successfully
earn
their
degree.
I
had
the
opportunity
to
meet
some
of
our
caddo
scholars
earlier
this
year
and
cannot
understate
how
inspiring
they
are.
Students
like
chelsea
hammond
of
holzberg,
who
previously
struggled
with
addiction,
is
now
on
a
path
to
becoming
a
paralegal
or
daryl
claiborne
of
germantown
aims
to
provide
a
better
life
for
his
two
sons.
A
By
earning
his
associate's
degree
at
ccp,
then
continuing
continuing
his
nursing
studies
at
temple.
These
are
two
examples
of
how
this
transformational
program
will
improve
philadelphians
lives
on
a
macro
level.
We
know
that
ccp
is
an
economic
driver
for
our
city.
Increasing
the
number
of
philadelphians
with
two
and
four-year
degrees
is
a
key
component
of
our
inclusive
growth
strategy
and
we're
even
using
the
caddo
scholarship
as
a
catalyst
to
advance
our
other
equity
and
labor
related
goals.
A
In
addition,
phl
pre-k
will
grow
with
700
new
slots
and
will
add
case
management,
support
to
community
schools,
we're
committed
to
funding
education
from
pre-k
to
college,
because
it's
the
key
to
lifting
philadelphians
out
of
poverty.
It's
the
key
to
our
long-term
growth
and
it's
how
we'll
ultimately
attract
enterprise,
because
we'll
have
the
homegrown
talent
ready
for
the
future
of
work.
A
A
We
recognize
the
importance
of
modernizing
service
delivery,
so
we're
investing
five
million
dollars
for
the
operations
transformation
fund
to
redesign
city
operations
and
services
to
efficiently
serve
businesses
and
residents,
and
will
invest
in
major
tools
needed
to
deliver
city
services,
including
I.t
systems,
trash
trucks
and
major
infrastructure
investments
and
across
every
investment.
In
this
plan
we
will
target
our
dollars
and
our
policy
chains
to
reverse
the
impacts
of
structural
racism
and
to
make
concrete
improvements
in
the
lives
of
black
and
brown
philadelphians
in
their
safety,
their
health
and
their
economic
well-being.
A
Our
office
of
diversity,
equity
inclusion,
is
helping
departments
complete
racial
equity
assessment
and
action
plans
to
reduce
racial
disparities
across
many
indicators
for
success,
education,
criminal
justice,
jobs,
housing,
health
and
more.
I'm
proud
that
we
can
avoid
layoffs
in
fiscal
year
22,
but
we
had
to
enact
five
percent
budget
cuts
to
most
back
office
functions.
A
The
fiscal
year
2022
budget
represents
5.25
billion
general
fund
revenues
and
a
5.17
billion
dollars
in
general
fund
expenditures.
This
leaves
us
with
the
general
fund
balance
of
109
million
dollars,
which
is
two
percent
of
revenues,
far
below
national
standards
of
70
percent
or
two
months
of
spending.
A
A
Yes,
I've
covered
a
lot
today
and
there's
even
more
in
these
budget
documents.
In
hundreds
of
pages
of
numbers,
pros
and
charts,
the
operating
budget,
capital
program
and
five-year
plan
serve
as
blueprints
for
the
city's
reopening
in
the
wake
of
the
pandemic.
This
framework
also
represents
what
we've
heard
from
the
community.
This
year,
we
established
a
multi-lingual
online
survey
and
held
a
dozen
focus
groups
and
meetings
which
gave
13
000
people
a
way
to
share
their
recommendations
on
the
city's
revenue
sources
and
spending
decisions.
A
This
is
just
to
start.
We
will
make
improvements
on
this
engagement
process
year
to
year
until
it's
truly
representative
and
inclusive.
I
look
forward
to
further
engagement
through
hearings
and
discussions
with
all
city
council
members,
as
you
fulfill
your
vital
responsibility
to
debate
and
vote
on
the
proposals
in
the
coming
weeks.
A
As
you
review,
please
know
that
this
budget
was
created
with
one
guiding
vision.
The
philadelphians
in
every
neighborhood
can
and
must
benefit
from
what
I
believe
will
be
a
strong
recovery,
every
neighborhood.
That
vision
is
what
guides
me
every
single
day
and
what
keeps
me
going?
It's
a
vision.
I
wrote
about
last
april
in
an
open
letter
to
all
philadelphians.
A
I
looked
ahead
to
a
time
when
the
pandemic
would
be
past
history
and
I
predicted.
When
that
day
comes,
we
will
watch
our
children
head
off
to
school,
play
on
the
sidewalks
and
even
share
snacks
and
hugs,
and
we'll
know
that
when
it
mattered
most,
we
stepped
up.
We
cared
for
one
another
and
we
did
what
was
right
and
we
endured
a
year
later.
I've
seen
firsthand
how
we
have
stepped
up,
how
we
have
cared
for
each
other
and
how
we
have
endured.