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Monday, January 26, 2009

City Downsizes from Six Core Goals to Four

So in Mayor Nutter's first budget, he listed six core service areas that he pledged would be the focus of his administration. They were: 1) public safety, 2) education, 3) jobs and economic development, 4) healthy and sustainable community, 5) ethics and customer service and 6) a high performing government. The six goals were listed on the handouts distributed at PhillyStat data tracking sessions and even printed on cards.

Cut to today's PhillyStat meeting on the budget crisis. In the handouts passed around by the city, there were just four goals: 1) sound finances, 2) safe city, 3) smart population and 4) excellent service. We asked Managing Director Camille Barnett about the switch and she said the goals were just condensed "to make it more memorable."

And what about the cards? "They'll have to be reprinted," Barnett said.

Posted by Catherine Lucey @ 4:18 PM Permalink | 6 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:34 PM, 01/26/2009

More jobs...Create better or sound finances...

— pyle70

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:08 PM, 01/26/2009

"Smart, safe and excellent" are all results to time spent in the library!

— ptahan

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:29 PM, 01/26/2009

Right, what is a "healthy and sustainable community" really? Can we really afford free health centers when there is a very good medical infrastructure funded by state/federal medicare/aid? We have numerous city health centers dating from after WWII, and the times have changed. City government isn't expected to do that now that the state and federal government covers it. It's not key to delivering universal health care. Can the city really afford to offer so much free/ultra low cost housing, or exempt so many agencies from paying property taxes, gas, water, and fines? The city really can't be that cushion to so many anymore. The city is not a good place to be a low income warehouse for the state. People will find better schools and safer communities as working class outside the city, and that's OK to allow to happen. Counties can afford to absorb those costs, and Philly has to shed its most costly residents for their own benefit, and ours.

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:32 PM, 01/26/2009

Nutter should keep the "ethics and customer service" line items because he's already delivered on those and will continue. 311 is up, and ethics reform is progressing. Hopefully Nutter's Board of Ethics Task Force will make the Feb. 1 deadline for ethics and campaign finance recommendations for law. With Fumo, we need to get on that as a city. It's critical to showing that Philly is still in a new day, a new way.

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:50 AM, 01/27/2009

Anyone else tired of hearing something about libraries?

— scphillyguy

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:44 AM, 01/27/2009

No matter how much condensing it done, none of what this administration is doing is "Memorable". Camille should be proactive and shrink it down to "HELP".

— moretoit

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Chris Brennan, a native Philadelphian and graduate of Temple University, joined the Daily News in 1999. He has written about SEPTA, the Philadelphia School District, the legalization of casino gambling, state government, the mayor, the governor, City Council and political campaigns.

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David Gambacorta spent a small eternity writing about cops, drug dealers and serial killers. Now he’s writing about power and politics – which sometimes reminds him of the old crime beat. He joined the Daily News in 2005. And yes, he knows you’re not quite sure how to pronounce his last name. E-mail tips to gambacd@phillynews.com

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Catherine Lucey joined the Daily News in 2002 and has written about murderous drug gangs, political protesters and Harry Potter. After covering the 2007 mayoral election, she moved over to the City Hall bureau where she has been reporting on the Nutter administration.

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Jan Ransom, a native New Yorker, joined the Daily News in 2010 after graduating from Howard University. She has since written about the difficulty of filing police complaints, tax deadbeats and life after violent home invasions. She joined the Daily News City Hall Bureau in 2011 and has plunged headfirst into reporting on administration budget battles and City Council shenanigans.

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