News Brief | Philadelphia budget workshops to begin today | Interactive map
· February 12, 2009, 5:00 am
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Tonight is the first of Mayor Michael Nutter's budget workshops, run in collaboration with Penn Project for Civic Engagement to help get public input on budget decisions.
All Philadelphia residents are invited to attend.
Nutter announced the Workshops Jan. 15.
He said Philadelphia faces a $1 billion deficit as a result of "global economic decline" and that he was "very sorry" for the lack of public consultation on last fall's budget cuts.
The City's department heads will bring a range of budget scenarios and Philadelphia's citizens will be expected to examine theses real budget alternatives, the Mayor's office said.
Tonight's meeting is at St. Dominic's School, located at 8510 Frankford Ave. in the northeast area of the city.
Project for Civic Engagement director Harris Sokoloff said that these meetings "won't be people giving the city a piece of their mind," but they will have to "work" with real data and difficult decisions.
He added that the most likely problem will be that the "sites can't take the inundation of people" if large crowds show up, but they have contingency plans if that will happen.
The other workshops will take place on the following dates:
-Feb. 18: Mastery Charter School, located at 5700 Wayne Ave. in Germantown
-Feb. 19: St. Monica Senior School, located at 16th and Porter streets in South Philadelphia
-Feb. 23: Pinn Memorial Baptist Church, located at 2251 N. 54th St. in West Philadelphia
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KingofthePaupers
December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
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Jct: ThereÃ?s nothing wrong with small denomination municipal or California State IOUs if anyone can pay their taxes with them. When ArgentinaÃ?s government workers were faced with cuts, their unions talked 6 state governments into paying them with small-denomination state bonds which could be used to pay for state services and taxes by everyone. When the local currency is pegged to the Time Standard of Money (how many dollars per unskilled hour child labor) Hours earned locally can be intertraded with other timebanks globally! In 1999, I paid for 39/40 nights in Europe with an IOU for a night back in Canada worth 5 Hours. U.N. Millennium Declaration UNILETS Resolution C6 to governments is for a time-based currency to restructure the global financial architecture. See http://youtube.com/kingofthepaupers Too bad California IOUs wonÃ?t be accepted in payment for state taxes and services like state bonds were in Argentina. Too bad California IOUs will be denominated too big to use as local currency. Too bad Argentina people were smart enough to avoid the tent-cities catastrophe and California people are too stupid to follow their example. If they make IOUs legal tender, I'll take back every joke I ever made about Girlieman Governor Musclehead if he engineers the California state currency lifeboat. But Philadelphia has an Equal Dollars system that could save them so they might be even stupider.
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