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Highlights from Mayor Nutter's budget address: in tweetable-sized bullet points!
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Highlights from Mayor Nutter's budget address: in tweetable-sized bullet points!
This morning. the mayor presented his proposed 2013 budget to City Council. We'll be digging deeper into it in the coming days and weeks, but here are a few handily-tweet-sized bullet points:
— The mayor is asking the city's unions to contribute more toward their costs to the city; he wants new hires to sign onto a "hybrid" contract and for current employees to pay more into their pensions.
— Following a citywide reassessment this summer, Philadelphians will pay taxes based on new property values. Some will go up, some down.
— The city anticipates more or less flat property tax revenue, and will actually (if the administration gets its way) be lowering the tax rate — but (see above point) that doesn't necessarily mean you'll be paying less property tax.
— $7 million will be reinvested into neighborhood libraries.
— 400 new police officers will be hired; Nutter says they'll all be placed on "foot patrol," in dangerous neighborhoods (though it's less clear for how long).
— The mayor referred to a new community policing strategy in high-crime areas, but has not yet offered details on how that will work.
— The city will begin investing in a new police HQ to replace the "Roundhouse" at Race & 8th.
— The city will invest in designs plans for a renovation of Love Park as part of its larger effort to "revitalize" the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
— The city will put $1 million back into the Office of Supportive Housing to help maintain the number of beds in shelters when the Ridge Avenue Men's Shelter closes.
— The city will be opening its first ever traffic control center.
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