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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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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:20 PM, 11/20/2008
    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
    — CleanupPhilly
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:28 PM, 11/20/2008
    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.
    — CleanupPhilly
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:29 PM, 11/20/2008
    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
    — CleanupPhilly
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:31 PM, 11/20/2008
    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?
    — CleanupPhilly
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:33 PM, 11/20/2008
    New day? New way? This is the corrupt old machine.
    — CleanupPhilly


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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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