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Councilman Allan Domb (At Large) joined Mayor Jim Kenney and Commerce Director Harold Epps at City Hall for a public signing of Bill 161015 which requires the Department of Commerce to commission an economic study of Philadelphia’s existing tax incentives for businesses, as well as those offered in comparable cities.
The bill was cosponsored by Council President Darrell Clarke (5th District) and Councilman Bill Greenlee (At Large)
Read the bill: http://bit.ly/2oFLQJe
A
You
see
we
had
some
good
some
good
numbers
again
this
this
month
on
the
on
job
creation.
This
bill,
developed
by
Councilman,
Allen
DOM
and
his
staff
will
help
us
do
just
that
by
commissioning
a
thorough
analysis
of
our
existing
incentive
programs
and
those
employed
by
other
cities,
the
Commerce
Department
will
be
empowered
to
make
improvements
to
our
recruitment
strategies.
Ultimately,
this
will
make
us
some
more
competitive
city,
I
like
to
take
the
opportunity
$100,000
introducing
Lee,
who
introduced
the
legislation
for
a
few
words.
B
Today
afternoon,
and
thank
you
mr.
mayor
and
I
also
want
to
recognize
councilman
Greenlee
was
a
co-sponsor
of
the
bill
and
also
council
president
Clark
I'm
extremely
proud
of
this
legislation.
The
mayor's
signing
today
and
thank
him
officially
for
sign
this
bill,
as
well
as
the
administration's
work,
my
staff
and
the
cooperation
from
everyone,
including
the
Commerce
Department,
to
get
this
bill
done.
I
also
want
to
thank
again
council
president
Clark
and
Councilman
Greenlee
for
co-sponsoring
this
business
friendly
legislation
and
all
my
colleagues
for
their
support.
B
As
a
city
government,
we
have
a
principal
duty
to
the
taxpayers
to
effectively
manage
and
maximize
their
tax
dollars.
This
legislation
will
help
us
accomplish
this
objective
and
will
require
the
city
to
regularly
evaluate
or
existing
tax
exemptions
and
incentives
and
measure
the
impact
of
these
programs
so
as
to
ensure
that
they
are
fully
supporting
the
city's
Economic,
Development,
Goals
and
ultimately
improving
Philadelphia's
global
competitiveness.
B
We
have
the
responsibility
of
improving
the
overall
well-being
of
everyone
who
lives
in
works
in
and
does
business
in,
or
business
Philadelphia
I
believe
this
legislation
can
help
produce
better
outcomes.
Basically,
the
goal
of
this
bill
is
to
analyze
our
return
on
our
investment
in
these
different
incentives
and
two
in
a
positive
way
and
determine
how
to
make
each
one
better
than
it
is
today,
with
the
goal
to
expand
the
city's
taxpaying
base.
B
I
look
forward
to
continuing
to
work
with
my
colleagues
on
City
Council,
the
mayor
in
the
administrator
and
to
make
Philadelphia
the
effective
and
efficient
government
our
taxpayers
expect
and
deserve,
and
with
laterite
they
ask
councilman
Greenlee
if
you'd
like
to
say
a
few
words:
okay,
I
guess
we
can
get
right
to
get
right
to
the
signing.
Thank
you.
A
D
Yes,
the
Gatsby
77
requirements
have
a
lot
of
reporting
requirements
around
tax
expenditures,
they're
defined
in
some
ways.
This
legislation
mirrors
that
in
some
ways,
but
also
goes
beyond
and
looks
for
Jesse
77
is
more
of
the.
What
this
legislation
is
going
to
take
us
to
the
so
wat
and
help
us
figure
out
what
next.
A
C
C
A
Because
they're
effective-
and
they
have
basically
created
most-
if
not
all-
of
the
residential
commercial
development
that
we've
seen
in
many
neighbors
across
the
city.
As
a
matter
of
fact,
some
and
had
this
conversation
with
council
members,
including
cosmic
dump,
that
some
neighbors
may
meet
even
more
than
10
years
to
incentivize
we
we
are,
we
have
increasingly
well,
we
have
hopefully
increasingly
poor
City,
but
we
have
a
large
number
of
poor
people
and
we
need
to
incentivize
wealthy
people
to
live
in
the
city
because
they
can
live
in
radnor.
A
They
can
live
in
Voorhees,
they
can
live
wherever
they
want
and
if
they
buy
a
9
million-dollar
condo
and
the
and
the
transfer
tax
is
I,
think
the
transfer
tax
on
one
of
the
condos
we
just
topped
off
was
528
thousand
dollars.
Just
the
transfer
tax
there
you
have
to
incite.
You
have
to
sadly
incentivize
people
at
this
point
still
to
construct
in
the
city,
and
it's
been
very
affect
every
study.
A
You're,
assuming
that
you're,
assuming
that
construction
project
is
done
in
the
first
place,
which
means
if
it
doesn't
get
done,
Yin
have
an
empty
lot
that
you're
paying
taxes
on,
but
it's
a
very
little
tax
incentive
and
remember
the
tax
abatement
is
sold
now
that
things
are
coming
off,
multiple
properties
are
coming
off
every
single
year.
Don't
forget,
however,
that
person
who
can
afford
the
nine
million
our
condo
is
also
spending
money
in
the
city.
They're
eating
in
the
city
there's
shopping
in
the
city.
A
These
are
things
we
wouldn't
have
and
I
recognized
on
the
say,
it's
very
difficult
to
explain
the
long-term
resident.
Why
that's
the
case,
but
until
we
have
an
economy
that
carries
itself
we're
going
to
have
to
we're,
gonna
have
to
send
people
to
live
in
the
city
and
pay
taxes
in
the
city
and
the
lake.
A
Not
necessarily
a
lot
of
these
people
are
empty
nesters,
they
don't
have
children
in
the
schools.
I
mean
we
had
this
canal
and
gave
me
this
example
years
ago,
when
we're
having
this
discussion,
Chase
Utley,
you
used
to
play
for
the
Phillies
right
for
day
how
many
million-dollar
condo
45
million-dollar
condo
in
center
city,
two
years
of
his
rage,
taxes
paid
even
for
the
abatement.
Vapor
was
already
a
four
in
two
years
of
his
wage
taxes.
So
it's
you
know,
it
is
a
trade-off.
B
Sixty-Seven
percent
are
under
four
hundred
thousand
and
twenty
five
percent
of
the
baited
homes,
a
workforce,
housing
and
by
the
way
it
was
the
mayor,
said
in
20
26
new
revenue
to
the
city's
170
million,
of
which
fifty
five
percent
of
the
school
district
forty-five
percent
comes
to
the
general
fund.
But
the
really
interesting
statistic
is
in
the
surrounding
suburbs.
Since
1999,
when
Frank
DeCicco
councilman
diCiccio,
with
his
bill
in
place
from
1999
to
today,
housing
starts
in
the
suburbs.
A
I,
you
know,
ki
did
Council
passed
unanimously.
Probably
yes,
I
may
have.
Sadly,
yes,
I
mean,
if
that's
the
will
that's
the
will
of
council.
It
was
my
bill.
I
recognize
the
problems
associated
with
parking,
and
hopefully
we
can
continue
to
improve
our
mass
transit
and
regional,
rail
and
other
things.
So
people
don't
have
to
worry
about
depending
on
a
car
as
much
as
they
do.
We
there
it's
a
moratorium.
It's
not
an
end
and
I
recognize
that
the
will
of
counsel
when
it's
17
20
signing
it.
A
C
A
What
about
it?
I
mean
I
I,
you
know,
I
wish
they
wouldn't
sue
us.
We
do
my
new
councilman
greenlee
series,
the
sponsor
the
bill.
I
was
not
my
initiative,
but
I
did
that
did
pass
unanimously.
I
believe
her
know
that
did
passed
unanimously.
So
you
know
doing
anything
other
than
signing
it
would
have
made
much
sense.
Plus
women's
packwood
is
an
issue
in
this
country.
A
I
mean
seventy-nine
cents
on
the
dollar
is
what
they're
paid
compared
to
a
similar
job
for
a
man
I
mean,
and
unless
we-
and
I
don't
think
this
was
a
big
owners-
earned
I'm
not
going
to
get
into
the
litigation,
because
it's
now
we're
being
imported,
but
I
didn't.
We
didn't
feel
that
was
big
owners
burden
and,
frankly,
the
chamber
didn't
express
all
that
heavy
opposition
to
it
when
the
bill
was
moving
through
council.
A
So
I
don't
understand
them
up
the
motivation,
but
you
know
we'll
certainly
will
defend
it
in
court
because
that's
councils,
17-0
vote,
indicated
support
and
counsel
and
supporting
community
for
at
least
not
if
you,
if
you
can't
ask
someone
what
they
made
in
their
last
job,
but
you
ask
them
what
they
want
to
make
in
the
new
job.
It's
kind
of
the
same
answer
for
what
I'm
able
to
figure
out,
but
they
see
things
differently
and
we'll
see
how
it
goes.
We,
unfortunately,
is
what
it
is.
A
A
Well,
first
of
all,
you
have
to
understand
that
councils,
a
independent
elected
body,
have
been
elected
on
their
own
they're
independent
officials
who
represent
districts
and
represent
the
city
I.
Think
transparency
is
always
the
best
policy,
but
it's
up
to
them
in
there
it's
their
privative
to
not
or
to
have
to
have
it
or
not.
Have
it
and
I
have
no
authority
or
ability
to
force
them
into
it
or
to
have
a
big
fight
over
it.
I
mean
it's
it's
up
to
the
public.
A
C
A
Great
I
would
say
to
them:
I
appreciate
their
concern
and
I
would
also
appreciate
their
patients
in
order
for
us
to
have
these
type
of
international
national
international
events,
there
is
inconvenience
we're
trying
to
limit
the
inconvenience
as
best
we
can.
This
is
not
going
to
be
the
level
of
the
Pope
with
a
with
a
traffic
box
and
all
those
other
things
I
recognize
that
people
live
on
the
on
the
Parkway
around
the
parkway
or
inconvenience
more
than
others,
but
we
need
to
get
you
know
it.
A
A
One
of
you
look
at
any
other
site
and
we
thought
it
was
with
200,000
people
coming
over
three
days:
free
events
for
families
and
the
and
the
and
the
and
the
the
ability
to
have
this
kind
of
event
Philadelphia
and
to
show
off
our
city
and
our
skyline
and
our
amenities
and
everything
else
is
just
stuff.
We
can't
we
couldn't
afford
to
pay
for
by
advertising
and
I
recognize
people
or
inconvenience
bye.
A
A
Bye,
bye,
bye,
but
let
me
add,
a
fish
that
way
in
order
to
get
them
back
year
after
we
have
to
do
the
best
event
we
can
this
year.
So
that's
that's!
Our
goal
is
to
make
it
such
as
you
know,
fantastic
event
that
they'll
want
to
not
consider
another
city
but
we'll
see
how
we
r
do
our
best
to
put
know
it's
hard,
because
you
know
in
one
hand
we
if
we
didn't
attract
any
of
these
events.
A
People
sail
you're
above
your
boring
city
and
la
you
know,
and
now
we
attract
them
and
people
have.
You
know,
criticism,
that's
and
that's
understandable,
considering
the
inconvenience,
but
it's
only
it's
inconvenient
for
three
days:
it's
not
two
million
people.
It's
two
hundred
thousand
people
and
it'll
be
over
and
we
can
then
take
all
the
benefit
of
all
that
free
publicity
and
what
was
young
related
question.
C
C
A
First
of
all,
rained
number
one
that
was
that
was
the
problem,
and
people
stayed
away
well,
III
I
thought
the
lineup
was
fantastic.
I
think
that
South
Philadelphia
is
a
signature.
Sound
of
philadelphia,
gamble
and
Huff
are
extremely
well
known,
composers,
who
had
literally
scores
and
scores
of
hits,
and
I
think
the
people
I
was
there
that
people
are
out
there
having
a
ball
and
so
what
I'm,
old,
I
I
resemble
that
remark.
A
Well,
I
gotten
criticism
about
I've
heard
criticism
about
that
event
to
then
I
was
watching
it
on
television
and
I,
couldn't
hear
the
songs
because
all
the
f-bombs
were
being
bleeped
out,
so
that
was
that
was
a
source
of
complaint
for
people
who
couldn't
who
felt
that
they
couldn't
take
their
grandchildren,
her
children,
to
the
event
because
of
the
language
and
the
songs
which
doesn't
offend
me.
But
it's
not
a
thing
you
can
watch
on
television
because
it's
you
know
every
third
word
is
a
beep,
so
it
was
hard.
C
A
Wasn't
sleeping
I,
don't
know
where
you
were
but
I
was
I
was
answered
and
I
don't
dance
a
lot.
So
I
was,
I
was
actually
enjoyed
myself,
that
music
is,
and
maybe
it's
selfish
on
my
part,
the
music
of
my
life,
as
my
as
my
seventies,
life
experience,
and
there
are
a
lot
of
people
out
there
who
will
really
having
a
good
time
and,
as
a
matter
of
fact,
some
of
my
younger
staff
were
a
little
concerned
about
the
same
thing
you
were
and
they
were
dancing.
A
When
I
saw
that
mountain
on
the
Parkway
so
we'll
have.
We
will
not
have
the
same
lineup
that
we
had
last
year.
We
will
have
a
new
different
lineup
and
we're
waiting
to
see
who
responds.
You
know
we're
limited
in
the
amount
of
money
we
can
spend
and
we're
also
limited
and
who's
in
the
area
at
the
time,
because
at
the
fourth
of
July
folks
are
in
doing
concerts
in
Atlantic
City,
doing
constant
wells
fargo.