City of Philadelphia - File #: 170338

• File #: 170338
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 4/6/2017
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 4/6/2017
• Title: Adopting the report issued by City Council's Joint Committee on Education and Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless approving a Scheduled School Closing Meals Pilot Program that will feed school children in the Third Councilmanic District Recreation Centers during their Spring Break, April 10-13, 2017 and expand city-wide in the Fall of 2017.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Taubenberger, Councilmember Taubenberger, Councilmember Parker, Councilmember Parker, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Bass, Councilmember Bass, Councilmember Domb, Councilmember Domb, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Jones, Councilmember Jones, Councilmember Green, Council President Clarke, Council President Clarke, Councilmember Johnson, Councilmember Johnson, Councilmember Quiñones Sánchez, Councilmember Quiñones Sánchez, Councilmember Oh, Councilmember Oh, Councilmember Henon, Councilmember Squilla, Councilmember Squilla, Councilmember Gym, Councilmember Gym

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
4/6/2017	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar - Rules Suspended	Pass
4/6/2017	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar - Rules Suspended	Pass
4/6/2017	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED
4/6/2017	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED

Title
Adopting the report issued by City Council's Joint Committee on Education and Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless approving a Scheduled School Closing Meals Pilot Program that will feed school children in the Third Councilmanic District Recreation Centers during their Spring Break, April 10-13, 2017 and expand city-wide in the Fall of 2017.

Body
WHEREAS, Resolution 160077 (adopted January 28, 2016) authorized City Council's Joint Committee on Education and Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless to hold public hearings to examine the feasibility of having a pilot program in Philadelphia to feed needy children when schools are closed due to emergencies; and

WHEREAS, On March 14, 2016, City Council's Joint Committee on Education and Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless held a hearing authorized by Resolution 160077; and

WHEREAS, On April 3, 2017 the City Council's Joint Committee on Education and Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless, adopted a final report, and issued the report to the full Council; and

WHEREAS, The Council as a whole now wishes to adopt the report issued by City Council's Joint Committee on Education and Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the report issued by City Council's Joint Committee on Education and Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless on April 3, 2017 (Attached as Exhibit "A") is hereby adopted.

Exhibit A



Scheduled School Closing Meals Pilot
Proposal for Philadelphia
April 2017





























Councilwoman Jannie L. Blackwell, Chair of the Committee on Education, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless



I. Executive Summary

Thousands of children in the city of Philadelphia are food insecure and depend on daily school lunche...