City of Philadelphia - File #: 070105

• File #: 070105
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 2/15/2007
• In control: Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities
• Title: Authorizing City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold public hearings to investigate and determine why SEPTA has not and is not working to make the subway exits most adjacent to City Hall and the Municipal Services Building handicapped accessible; and to determine what criteria has been utilized by SEPTA which has excluded subway accessibility to the disabled and/or handicapped, at these locations; and further determine why monies allocated by SEPTA in their capital budgets have not been utilized at these locations; further such hearings are to be held in conjunction with the hearings authorized in Resolution No. 070084.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Campbell, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Goode, Council President Verna, Council President Verna, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Krajewski, Councilmember Krajewski, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Miller, Councilmember Ramos, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Reynolds Brown

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/22/2007	0	Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities	HEARING NOTICES SENT
10/22/2007	0	Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities	RECESSED
10/22/2007	0	Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities	HEARING HELD
5/9/2007	0	Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities	HEARING NOTICES SENT
5/9/2007	0	Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities	HEARING HELD
5/9/2007	0	Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities	RECESSED
2/15/2007	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED & REFERRED
2/15/2007	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
2/15/2007	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Authorizing City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold public hearings to investigate and determine why SEPTA has not and is not working to make the subway exits most adjacent to City Hall and the Municipal Services Building handicapped accessible; and to determine what criteria has been utilized by SEPTA which has excluded subway accessibility to the disabled and/or handicapped, at these locations; and further determine why monies allocated by SEPTA in their capital budgets have not been utilized at these locations; further such hearings are to be held in conjunction with the hearings authorized in Resolution No. 070084.
Body
WHEREAS, City Hall and the Municipal Services Building is the "hub" of Philadelphia Government; and

WHEREAS, SEPTA subway exits immediately adjacent to City Hall and the Municipal Services Building are not accessible to the disabled and/or handicapped traveler; and

WHEREAS, Able-bodied Philadelphians are able to travel to City Hall and the Municipal Services building on the SEPTA subway system and exit immediately adjacent to City Hall and the Municipal Services Building, but the disabled and/or handicapped are not; and

WHEREAS, SEPTA has not provided for the subway exits immediately adjacent to City Hall and the Municipal Services Building to be accessible to the disabled and/or handicapped; and

WHEREAS, It is the intent of the City of Philadelphia to make the governmental "hub" accessible to all of its residents; now therefore

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That Council hereby authorizes City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold public hearings to investigate and determine why SEPTA has not and is not working to make the subway exits most adjacent to City Hall and the Municipal Services Building handicapped accessible; and to determine what criteria has been utilized by SEPTA which has excluded subway accessibility to the disabled an...