City of Philadelphia - File #: 070882

• File #: 070882
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 10/18/2007
• In control: Committee on Legislative Oversight
• Title: Authorizing Council's Legislative Oversight Committee to hold public hearings to investigate the Administration's failure to enter into contracts necessary to expand the Basic Systems Repair Program in the Seventh Council District as authorized by Resolution No. 070595 (adopted June 14, 2007) and in the Ninth Council District as authorized by Resolution No. 070588 (adopted June 14, 2007).
• Sponsors: Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Savage, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Campbell, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember Krajewski, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Miller, Council President Verna, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Ramos, Councilmember Kelly, Councilmember O'Neill

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
12/11/2007	0	Legislative Oversight Committee	HEARING HELD
12/11/2007	0	Legislative Oversight Committee	RECESSED
11/27/2007	0	Legislative Oversight Committee	HEARING NOTICES SENT
11/27/2007	0	Legislative Oversight Committee	RECESSED
11/27/2007	0	Legislative Oversight Committee	HEARING HELD
10/29/2007	0	Legislative Oversight Committee	HEARING NOTICES SENT
10/29/2007	0	Legislative Oversight Committee	RECESSED
10/29/2007	0	Legislative Oversight Committee	HEARING HELD
10/18/2007	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED & REFERRED
10/18/2007	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
10/18/2007	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced

Title
Authorizing Council's Legislative Oversight Committee to hold public hearings to investigate the Administration's failure to enter into contracts necessary to expand the Basic Systems Repair Program in the Seventh Council District as authorized by Resolution No. 070595 (adopted June 14, 2007) and in the Ninth Council District as authorized by Resolution No. 070588 (adopted June 14, 2007).
Body
WHEREAS, Pursuant to Bill No. 010694, as amended by Bill No. 020036, Council must approve, by resolution, an annual Program Statement and Budget for the expenditure of proceeds of Neighborhood Transformation Initiative ("NTI") bonds; and

WHEREAS, Council approved the annual Program Statement and Budget for Fiscal Year 2008 through its adoption of Resolution No. 070405, as amended (adopted June 7, 2007); and

WHEREAS, Resolution No. 070595 and Resolution No. 070588 included amendments to the Fiscal Year 2008 NTI Program Statement and Budget to authorize additional expenditures for the Basic Systems Repair Program ("BSRP") in the Seventh and Ninth Council Districts; and

WHEREAS, The additional BSRP funds could have been made readily available if the Office of Housing and Neighborhood Preservation ("OHNP") had amended existing contracts with the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation ("PHDC") for the administration of BSRP; and

WHEREAS, The people most in need of BSRP because of their financial condition, disability, and the condition of their homes cannot get the work done because of the failure of OHNP to enter into the necessary contracts with PHDC; and

WHEREAS, Council believes that OHNP's failure to enter into the necessary contracts represents a deliberate and reprehensible effort to deprive the needy homeowners of the Seventh and Ninth Council Districts of these additional resources; and

WHEREAS, It is imperative that OHNP personnel be made aware of the pain that has been inflicted on people with the least ability to persevere t...