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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.
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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...
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