The budget, which takes effect July 1, leaves all tax rates flat, increases property tax relief measures amid rising reassessments, and includes hundreds of millions in funding for the mayor’s priorities on public safety and cleaning the city. Parker is expected to sign the legislation into law Friday.
“This has a devastating and disproportionate impact on people like me: Black, brown, undocumented, and gender-oppressed people who do the work to make this city work,” domestic worker Adriana George told Council. “You cannot continue to fail domestic workers. We are the ones who make all other jobs possible.”The last day of a Council session is always busy, with lawmakers pushing a raft of bills through before adjourning for months.
The city could soon be barred from extending its lease at 2100 W. Girard Ave., a shelter in Fairmount where theand Councilmember Jeffery Young, Jr., who represents the district where the shelter sits and authored legislation that blocks the city from renewing its lease at the state-owned site, which is up in 2026. The bill passed Council unanimously.throughout this year’s Council session.