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Reaction on budget address: Clarke missed it, DA says public safety's being short-changed
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Reaction on budget address: Clarke missed it, DA says public safety's being short-changed
City Council President Darrell Clarke told reporters he could offer no reaction to Mayor Michael Nutter's budget address — because he had not seen it and was not invited to it after Nutter relocated to the Mayor's Reception Room when union members booed him out of City Council chambers. "The budget address is given to Council. That is our format. If he chooses to give it to someone else, that is his prerogative," Clarke said.
There was a bit of substantive talk: Clarke, who has been pushing to find new ways to generate revenue without raising taxes, such as advertising on municipal property and selling off public land more efficiently, seemed to support the Mayor's proposal not to raise taxes for additional school district funding. "At some point, that conversation has to go back to the state," he said.
The Council President added that he had stayed out of the city's negotiations with unions for long enough, and that he would be looking to get involved. Clarke said he's no Bob Brady, but that if the state Supreme Court could intercede, so could he. He's not sure what that involvement might be. Regarding the melee in Council, he said, "It is our intention to never let that happen again."
District Attorney Seth Williams, meanwhile, does have comment: He thinks the mayor is short-changing public safety — effectively putting his office half a million dollars in the hole. Here's his statement.
"The important job of keeping Philadelphia safe requires more than just mere words,” said District Attorney Seth Williams after today’s budget announcement. “ It requires investments in our law enforcement, including the police and District Attorneys Office, and I am surprised that in a time when we are working together to find real ways of reducing gun violence the mayor would choose to effectively cut the budget of the DA’s office. I know our city council prioritizes public safety and I look forward to working with them as they enact the budget for the 2014 fiscal year.”
The Mayor’s proposed budget for the District Attorney’s Office amounts to a net decrease for law enforcement, at a time when Philadelphians continue to suffer from violent crime. While the mayor appears to have provided a very small increase in the office budget, that amount is more than offset by new costs imposed by the city over the last year. The net effect is to put the District Attorney's office a half million dollars in the hole as compared to the previous fiscal year.
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