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The Mayor has "created a working group of external stakeholders" on homeless feeding issues; it just doesn't have any external stakeholders in it yet.
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The Mayor has "created a working group of external stakeholders" on homeless feeding issues; it just doesn't have any external stakeholders in it yet.
As we posted earlier, Mayor Nutter today announced a new regulation that would ban "outdoor feeding" — a phrase which refers to the free meals given out to the homeless and hungry — in all city parks in Philadelphia. The mayor says food distribution will be allowed on City Hall's apron by permitted groups for the next year.
A press release from the mayor's press office also said that "the Mayor created a working group of external stakeholders and senior Administration staff" to come up with a plan to help those who eat outdoors move inside over the next 90 days.
But (as we noted earlier) at least some food distributors feel left out: Brian Jenkins, president of Chosen 300 ministries, which runs meal programs six days a week and continues one of the largest private meal programs, says he was never contacted by the administration or invited to be part of any working group.
It turns out that he's not the only "external stakeholder" who's not part of the working group: in fact, no one else is either so far. Asked about the composition of the working group the mayor had "created," mayor spokesman Mark McDonald told Hall Monitor in an email that:
"We've created the group but have not assigned outside stakeholder members to it yet."
Two words stand out in that sentence: "assigned," a word which contrasts with its softer counterpart "invited," — and "yet," which means that the mayor announced this proposed regulation well ahead of forming the group tasked with engaging the parties most affected by it.
Project Home's Sister Mary Scullion appeared alongside the mayor at his press conference today. She says that it was "a risk" to appear with the mayor for the announcement, but that "this is an opportunity to move the ball forward" on hunger.
She says she's looking forward to the formation of the mayor's working group but that she won't be on it: "I'm going to form my own group to evaluate, 'Did people really come through?'"
McDonald did mention two administration members that will be part of the group: Health Commissioner Donald Schwartz and Parks & Rec Commissioner Michael DiBerardinis. It's within Schwartz's office that a proposed regulation by the Board of Health would impose new food safety restrictions on outdoor meals; it's within DiBerardinis' office that the mayor's new proposed regulation on any feeding in parks would go into effect.
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