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Ask a Man-About-Town: Answers from a SW Philly block captain, Day 3
Welcome to the third installment of the Clog's new feature, Ask a Man-About-Town. This week, we're interviewing David Adams, a block captain from Southwest Philly, about his work and neighborhood. (If you're new to this series, read our back posts about Adams.)
Ask a Man-About-Town: Answers from a SW Philly block captain, Day 3
Welcome to the third installment of the Clog's new feature, Ask a Man-About-Town. This week, we're interviewing David Adams, a block captain from Southwest Philly, about his work and neighborhood. (If you're new to this series, read our back posts about Adams.)
Since we're wrapping up our time with Adams, we'll need a new man-about-town (or woman-about-town, duh) for next week. If you have any suggestions about who we should talk to — either generally, like a zookeeper or a public defender, or more specifically, like Lord Whimsy — feel free to leave them in the comments or e-mail them to holly.otterbein@citypaper.net.
Q: How do you become a block captain? Are you nominated by your neighbors? — posted by Josh
A: In my case, the former block captain was retiring and asked me if I wanted to step in. Since I had been working with him on block cleanups and block parties and fliers, I pretty much knew the duties and responsibilities and was familiar with the members of the block committee, so I agreed.
If, however, you are starting from scratch, your process begins with the Philadelphia More Beautiful Committee. You should contact them and ask for a block organization petition.
You must get the petition signed by 50 percent of the people on your block, designating a block captain and co-captain, and send it in to PMBC to be registered with the committee. You will receive literature from the committee outlining your block cleanup schedule and other interesting information about city programs. Meet with your neighbors to discuss goals and shared responsibilities.
Q: Do you ever have opposition? — posted by Josh
A: Again, my situation may be unique, but I imagine that if you are the one circulating the block organization petition, the neighbors would assume that you want to be the block captain — in fact, you can tell them that when you ask them to sign the petition. If there is any opposition you can find out then and there, and you can work out resolving it or finding someone else who wants the job and allowing the neighbors to make the selection.
The best way to handle that is to get all the information you can from PMBC, so that you can let anyone else who wants to be block captain know what's involved. The number for PMBC is 215-685-3981.
Thanks, Mr. Adams. Good info!
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