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From YouTube: Community Leaders on Lead Safety 10-31-2016
Description
Philadelphia-area elected officials gathered at City Hall on Monday, October 31, 2016 to discuss ongoing efforts to address concerns about lead-levels, lead safety and the impact of lead contamination on children.
Here, community leaders discuss the importance of addressing lead safety, especially for children and other vulnerable communities and express support for coordinated legislative efforts.
In attendance:
Philadelphia City Council Members:
Council President Darrell Clarke (5th District)
Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell (3rd District)
Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. (4th District)
Councilwoman Cindy Bass (8th District)
Councilwoman Helen Gym (At Large)
State Senator Vincent Hughes (7th District)
State Rep. Maria Donnatucci (185th District)
State Rep. Donna Bullock (195th District)
A
B
Thank
You
senator
use
and
Senator
Heywood's
for
making
this
happen.
This
is
a
remarkable
event.
I'm
really
impressed
that
we
have
come
together
come
together
as
a
village.
It
takes
a
village
right
to
react
to
what's
going
on
so
strongly
and
so
powerfully.
As
the
other
speakers
have
said,
this
is
an
issue
about.
Will
we
have
laws?
We
have
an
understanding
about
this.
We
knew
about
this
problem.
100
years
ago
I
was
looking
sherwin-williams
notified.
B
Everyone
at
lead
paint
was
dangerous
in
1904,
so
we've
had
federal
laws,
we
have
state
laws
and
we
had
local
laws.
Law
we
just
got
passed
in
Philadelphia
I
think
is
a
really
good
law.
It
has
some
very
glaring
problems,
but
it's
a
very
good
law
for
a
powerful
law.
We
have
to
come
together
to
make
sure
that
these
laws
are
enforced,
and
that
requires
two
things.
It
requires
resources
and
it
requires.
B
Will
we
can't
do
what
we're
going
to
try
and
do
without
inspectors
out
there
trying
to
identify
the
problem
without
the
courts,
implementing
the
laws
and
exacting
judgments
without
the
law
department,
taking
this
very
seriously
and
imposing
fines
on
landlords
and
others
who
don't
comply
with
the
law?
We
won't
go
forward
without
those
folks
working
together,
but
we
also
need
the
goodwill
of
landlords
in
the
community
to
make
sure
this
doesn't
happen.
It's
unacceptable
that
we
create
a
situation
where
our
children
are
so
vulnerable.
B
You
know
the
measure
of
a
society
say
is
what
you
do
in
most
vulnerable
members
of
your
population,
infants
and
toddlers,
three-year-old
and
seven-year-olds
being
neglected
and
abandoned
in
this
way
is
inexcusable
and
we're
all
responsible.
We
can
point
to
finger
someone
else,
but
we
don't
come
together
and
address
this
effectively.
It
won't
happen
and
so
I
commend
those
who
are
here
today.
B
I,
look
forward
to
being
able
to
work
together,
I,
look
forward
to
real
concrete,
tangible
enforcement
and
funds
to
make
sure
things
happen,
and
by
that
I
mean,
for
example,
in
local
law
in
Philadelphia.
We
have
in
that
law
of
the
right
for
tenant
to
sue
a
refund
of
rent
if
they,
in
fact
did
have
not
complied
with
in
terms
of
lead,
safe
certification,
a
refund
of
all
event,
they
pay.
You
don't
hear
about
this
very
often
that
has
to
be
enforced.
You
have
make
an
example
and
enforce
those
kind
of
laws.
B
C
C
The
issue
of
lead
is
something
that
I've
been
involved
for
many
many
years,
starting
in
the
early
70s
I
filed
federal
lawsuits
against
federal
agencies
for
their
problems
and
dealing
in
refusing
to
deal
with
lead-based
pain
and
was
successful
in
those
cases.
I
then,
over
the
years,
I've
worked
with
many
of
the
city
council
folks
here
and
got
some
good
laws
passed.
C
Unfortunately,
the
amount
of
resources,
as
everybody
is
mentioned,
has
dramatically
decreased
and
we
can
have
all
the
laws
on
the
books,
but
unless
there
are
resources
to
hire
inspectors
to
go
out
and
do
what
needs
to
be
done,
they're
simply
going
to
be
laws.
We
have
a
law
that
requires
that
landlords
who
rent
the
children
under
six
have
to
get
a.
Let
safe
certification
landlords,
don't
do
it.
The
problem
is
the
health
department
doesn't
have
resources
to
see
that
it's
enforced
and
they
need
the
resources
to
make
it
a
priority.
C
C
We've
heard
about
the
consequences
of
lead
poisoning
for
many
many
years,
but
when
you
come
across
a
child,
who's
been
lead
poisoning
who
can
barely
talk,
who
virtually
has
no
memory,
it's
really
frightening
and
unfortunately
that
is
happening
in
the
city
every
day
and
I'm
so
glad
today
that
we
have
people
from
all
levels
of
government
who
say
they're
going
to
put
the
priority
there
we're
going
to
fight
together
to
get
the
resources
to
get
this
problem
resolved.
Thank
you.
A
I'm
going
to
ask
Thank,
You,
Georgian
and
so
I'm
going
to
ask
Reverend
mark
tyler
from
the
mother,
bethel
AME
church,
minister
Rodney
mohammed,
the
head
of
the
philadelphia
n
double
acp
and
Jerry
Jordan.
Why
don't
you
if
you,
if
you
might,
if
you
know
my,
why
don't
you
come
on
up
and
join
us,
and
if
you
could
comment
briefly
come
on
gentlemen
comment
comment
briefly
on
on
what
it
is.
Our
teachers
have
to
confront
with
this
issue
of
children,
who
are
impacted
with
bled.
D
Thank
You
Reverend
mark
tyler,
passed
her
mother,
bethel
AME
church
and
also
a
member
of
power,
Philadelphians
organized
to
witness,
empower
and
rebuild
powers
been
concerned
with
the
number
of
issues
in
the
city,
most
notably
living
wage
quality,
education
and
fair
funding,
and
also
reform
in
the
criminal
justice
system,
policing
and
mass
incarceration.
But
when
we
launched
six
years
ago,
we
also
had
two
other
bullet
points
that
we've
not
really
lifted
up,
that
I
suspect
will
be
coming
to
the
forefront
very
soon.
D
One
is
quality,
housing
and
the
other
is
access
to
health
care
and
both
of
those
merge
in
this
one
particular
issue.
I'm
standing
here
today,
really
because
of
Jalen
the
young
man
9
years
old,
not
much
younger
than
my
youngest
child,
and
the
reality
is
that
if
life
had
turned
out
differently
for
myself
and
my
wife,
Jalen
could
be
our
children.
D
But
I
want
to
push
back
a
little
bit
on
the
Thank
You,
senator
Hughes
and
Senator
Haywood
and
all
of
our
elected
officials
are
soon
to
be
congressman
and
all
of
those
persons
on
City
Council
who
stand
here
as
we
stand
together,
but
I
want
to
say
that
we
do
have
something.
I
was
ticketed
going
into
a
Rite
Aid
one
day,
I
went
in
for
not
more
than
90
seconds.
D
In
fact,
this
morning,
when
I
woke
up,
I
was
flipping
through
the
channels
and
I
saw
parking
wars
and
sure
enough.
The
episode
was
about
Philadelphia
and
people
who
were
down
there,
trying
to
get
their
cars
out
because
we
put
a
premium
on
ticketing
cars
in
Philadelphia,
and
if
you
don't
pay,
we
put
a
boot
on
it
and
we
take
it
and
the
price
doesn't
come
back
on
the
city.
It
goes
on
the
owner
of
the
car
and,
if
you
want
your
car
you'll
find
the
money.
D
If
you
don't
we'll,
sell
it
and
we'll
take
the
money,
if
we
can
do
that
with
automobiles,
certainly
we
can
do
that
for
our
children
and
for
our
future.
It's
unacceptable,
unacceptable
to
me
to
say
that
we
can't
make
landlords
pay.
We
should
put
a
boot
on
their
rental
income.
We
don't
need
if
they
don't
need
a
warrant
to
boot.
Our
cars,
then
why
do
we
need
a
warrant
if
we
are
proven
with
these
inspectors?
Who
should
be
paid
by
the
way
by
the
fines
and
the
fees
that
come
from
the
landlord's?
D
If
we
find
that
their
level
that
we've
heard
any
amount
of
level
is
too
high,
if
they
have
levels
of
lead
in
their
homes,
we
should
take
the
rent
and
if
they
don't
pay,
eventually
take
the
property
and
I
guarantee
you
that
will
change
things.
We've
got
to
make
this
a
priority
and
when
you
hit
people
in
their
pockets,
people
change
their
behavior.
So
I
want
to
thank
you,
senator
Hughes,
and
let
you
know
that
there
are
people
in
the
community
who
will
stand
up
and
support
you
as
well.
E
Good
morning,
everyone
Minister
Rodney
Mohamed,
president
of
the
Philadelphia
n
double
acp,
just
very
quickly.
I
want
to
thank
Senator
Vincent
Hughes
I
want
to
thank
Senator
Hayward
for
their
leadership.
In
this,
when
I
got
back
from
the
state
conference,
I
begin
to
read
articles
the
n-double-a-cp,
of
course
nationally
has
always
had
resolutions
against
environmental
racism
and
for
those
who
are
the
least
and
the
weakest
in
the
society
being
exposed
to
elements
in
that
that
brought
danger
and
injury
to
their
persons.
E
Here
today,
they
on
the
front
line
and
they're
calling
for
a
fight
in
this
area,
but
the
people
who
should
really
be
doing
is
are
the
tenants,
and
so
we
will
commit
through
our
2017
to
tenant
education,
the
people
that
can
really
educate
them
to
their
rights
and
how
they
can
fight
back,
because
I'm
convinced
that
many
of
them
have
been
convinced
that
they
can't
fight
back,
but
they
can,
and
so
the
n-double-a-cp
will
join
with
the
combined
efforts
here
and
commit
to
doing
that.
Thank
you
very
much.
F
Jerry
Jordan,
president
of
the
Philadelphia
federation
of
teachers
on
the
city,
state
and
federal
level.
Everyone
is
interested
in
making
sure
that
schools
operate
and
function
well,
so
the
kids
get
a
great
education
in
Philadelphia,
as
was
reported
by
Senator
Hayward
Haywood,
that
there
is
water
and
any
number
of
schools.
There
is
lead
in
the
water
in
any
number
of
schools
in
the
city
and
any
amount
of
lead
that
a
child
ingest
is
unacceptable.
F
It
is
bad
for
that
child,
and
so
we
stand
here
representing
the
pft
saying
that
we
will
do
everything
that
we
can
to
make
sure
that
this
problem
is
corrected
so
that
children
are
not
exposed
to
lead
at
home
or
at
school.
It
is
absolutely
important
that
we
do
that,
because
there's
a
cost
for
what
is
happening
to
children
when
children
are
exposed
to
lead,
we
pay
for
it
as
a
society
in
so
many
ways-
and
you
know
from
a
standpoint
of
funding-
remember
the
City
Council
vote
to
provide
funding
for
schools.
F
Members
of
the
state
legislature
do
the
same.
The
cost
of
educating
a
child
with
special
needs,
as
a
result
of
lead
poisoning,
is
going
to
cost
our
society
a
lot
of
money
for
a
lot
of
years.
There
is
nothing
more
important
than
correcting
this
problem
because
our
children,
our
future,
are
depending
on
us.
Thank.