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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Councilmembers will ask Nutter to delay library closings
PhillyClout hears that in City Council tomorrow a group of Council members plan to introduce a resolution calling on Mayor Nutter to support a request from library advocates that the city hold off on library closings for three to six months.

Amy Dougherty, director of the Friends of the Free Library, has asked for the delay to allow for time to seek private funding sources. But Nutter has said he does not expect to slow down the closings.

Nutter has announced that he will soon close 11 of the city's 54 libraries as part of a budget-cutting plan to shore up a $1 billion shortfall over the next five years.
Posted by Catherine Lucey @ 5:49 PM  Permalink | File Under: City Council | | City Council | 5 comments
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Posted 02:20 PM, 11/20/2008
CleanupPhilly
Is anybody going to request that the city collect the overdue property taxes? $568 million, half a billion, in uncollected revenue owed the city, just sitting there, waiting for foreclosure. Here's the info from the city: http://www.hallwatch.org/proptax/about/redelinq/stats/summary
Posted 02:28 PM, 11/20/2008
CleanupPhilly
Never in a million years would I have dreamed that Nutter would cut libraries first, and stop wage tax cuts, especially when there is all this city property that's unused, or underused, and the whole discussion of how to grow the property tax base, full market value, fixing the BRT, fixing collections, just hasn't even happened. This like a black hole of bad governance.
Posted 02:29 PM, 11/20/2008
CleanupPhilly
Look at all these city agencies that hold all this property that could be paying property taxes: http://www.hallwatch.org/proptax/about/redelinq/stats/topdelinquents/mailingaddress
Posted 02:31 PM, 11/20/2008
CleanupPhilly
Cops are getting killed, and Nutter is cutting cops -- new hires, highway patrol, instead of focusing on the property taxes that provide the revenue we need. This is a nightmare of old school Philly Democrats. What about Nutter is new?
Posted 02:33 PM, 11/20/2008
CleanupPhilly
New day? New way? This is the corrupt old machine.
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About Chris Brennan and Catherine Lucey
PhillyClout
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.

Catherine Lucey joined the Daily News in 2002. Since then she has written about murderous drug gangs, political protesters and Harry Potter. For the past two years, she covered the 2007 mayoral election. Now that the battle is over, she has moved down to the City Hall bureau where she will report on the Nutter administration.

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