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HALL MONITOR: Bad Phillies jokes, CQS money, union fights
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HALL MONITOR: Bad Phillies jokes, CQS money, union fights
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We go to City Council meetings so you don't have to.
Attention City Council: Last night's excellent, excellent Phillies game is not an excuse to make bad jokes.
"Welcome to Philadelphia, where every day is a Halladay," Councilman Bill Green told two visiting Ohio politicians, who were apparently bused in as props. Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. took a jab at 'em, too, saying his guests have surely "enjoyed our hospitality … except for on the ball field." Hardy, har. Councilman Jones then introduced a resolution to make Oct. 6-13 "Beat the Reds Week," and by golly, it passed — not without the Ohioans saying "Nay," of course.
Am I being no fun? Probably. Look, I'm stoked about the game, and seeing everyone so cheerful was cool in a we're-all-in-it-together way. But sitting in on today's Council meeting was like listening to a vacation's worth of Dad jokes.
Eventually, Council did some lawmaking (sans Councilwoman Joan Krajewski and Councilman Frank DiCiccio, who were not in attendance):
- Councilman Jim Kenney introduced a resolution, which was adopted, regarding the longstanding labor dispute between paramedics on the scene at fires and the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (PLRB). The paramedics and Council want them to belong in the same collective bargaining unit as firefighters; the PLRB and Mayor Nutter don't. Council passed a bill in May giving them this privilege — and though it was vetoed by Nutter, for reasons outlined here, Council overrode it. The PLRB, however, ruled that they are not firefighters under the law, and thus cannot join firefighters' union IAFF Local 22 — which means they can now strike and may have their pension and health benefits reduced. Kenney's resolution both asks Nutter to let them back into the union, and gives Council the power to hire legal help for the union.
- Now that the Clerk of Quarter Sessions has been abolished, Krajewski's bill that would transfer all of CQS' funds for 2011 to the First Judicial District is up for a vote next session. Good-gov groups have long argued that one reason we should abolish the CQS (and all row offices) is that it will save the city money — however, this bill ensures that it won't save much. For the past year, the CQS budget has been $4.9 million, and the bill would give $4.5 million to the First Judicial District to perform CQS' duties. The idea is that the First Judicial District will be better able to track down the $1 billion of forfeited bail than CQS did — and hopefully that's true, though even President Judge Pamela Dembe said we'd be lucky to get back just 10 percent of that.
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