City of Philadelphia - File #: 010140

• File #: 010140
• Version: 0
• Type: Privileged Resolution
• Status: ENACTED
• File created: 3/1/2001
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 3/1/2001
• Title: Recognizing Jane G. Pepper for her twenty years of excellent and inspired leadership as President of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and as Show Manager of the world-famous Philadelphia Flower Show.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Mariano, Councilmember Mariano, Councilmember Ortiz, Councilmember Ortiz, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Goode, Council President Verna, Council President Verna, Councilmember Krajewski, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Cohen, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Miller, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Longstreth, Councilmember Nutter, Councilmember O'Neill

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
3/1/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass
3/1/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass
3/1/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED
3/1/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED
3/1/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
3/1/2001	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ

Title
Recognizing Jane G. Pepper for her twenty years of excellent and inspired leadership as President of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and as Show Manager of the world-famous Philadelphia Flower Show.
Body
WHEREAS, Since 1981, Jane G. Pepper has been the popular and successful President of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, whose programs and activities have seen tremendous growth under her leadership. More than eight thousand members enjoy a variety of benefits including the award-winning Green Scene Magazine, a fourteen thousand-volume horticultural library, garden tours, lectures, workshops and awards programs. In addition, the Society's acclaimed neighborhood and public landscape greening program, Philadelphia Green, has grown extensively during the past decade, and it is a project that carries out greening projects with organized community groups on blocks in low and moderate income neighborhoods and revitalizes downtown areas and gateway open spaces in partnership with public and private organizations. Today, Philadelphia Green is the nation's largest such program and serves as a model for similar programs in the United States; and

WHEREAS, As Show Manager of the Philadelphia Flower Show, Jane G. Pepper's leadership has helped achieve, for the Show, both national and international stature and it has blossomed into the leading Show of its kind in the nation that hosts mor than three thousand visitors from many corners of the nation and overseas; and

WHEREAS, As Show Manager, Jane G. Pepper continues to attract some of the world's finest horticultural talent to participate in the annual event, including exhibitors from Africa, Germany, Japan, England, France, Holland, Italy, and Belgium; and

WHEREAS, The spectacular gardens created by local nurseries and florists, exhibitors from around the world with their splendid offerings of sculpted gardens and floral artistry have become the hallmark of the Philadelphia Flower Show. ...