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Calling upon the Administration to submit to Council immediately a further revised Five-Year Plan that does not include an assumption about the state providing additional court funding and to provide all requested detail regarding such plan.
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WHEREAS, Pursuant to the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority ("PICA") Act, 52 P.S. ยง 12720.101, et seq., each year Philadelphia is required to submit a financial plan that contains "[p]rojected revenues and expenditures" for the current fiscal year and the next four fiscal years (the "Five-Year Plan"); and
WHEREAS, "All projections of revenue and expenditures" in the Five-Year Plan "shall be based upon reasonable and appropriate assumptions and methods of estimation, all such assumptions and methods to be consistently applied;" and
WHEREAS, Regarding revenue from the state, the PICA Act provides in Section 209(c)(2): "Estimates of revenues to be received from the State government shall be based on historical patterns, currently available levels or on levels proposed in a budget by the Governor;" and
WHEREAS, Pursuant to the 1992 City Council ordinance approving the intergovernmental cooperation agreement between the City and PICA (Bill No. 1563-A), to constitute an "official filing of the City" any revised Five-Year Plan that "will require the adoption of an ordinance by City Council for its implementation" must first be submitted to City Council for preliminary approval by resolution; and
WHEREAS, Pursuant to a July 21, 2009 resolution of PICA, the City was required to submit a revised Five-Year Plan to PICA by August 30, 2009 because the State Legislature had not granted the City the requested authority to increase the sales tax and make pension fund modifications; and
WHEREAS, The revised Five-Year Plan developed by the Administration - known as "Plan C" - required legislative action in the for...
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