Thank you so much for your testimony. Please state your name and begin.
My name is Steve Berquist speaking in favor of Bill No. 250712 for the 7th Street loading zones. I'm a cycle commuter and proud resident of Southwest Philadelphia, 52nd Street. I live within walking distance of Fred's Water Ice, but I originally come from Minneapolis, a city famous for its impressive urban cycling infrastructure. There are useful protected bike lanes and separated paths all over the city, in purely residential neighborhoods, in both the wealthy and nonwealthy parts of town, on the university campuses and right in the downtown business district. In the city I come from, it is totally normal for children, for elders, for young professionals of all social classes to be sharing any of the many protected bike routes at their own pace to get to their destination safely. They often get there faster than they would if they were driving or taking the bus. This is normal not only in the humid summer months, but also in the three months a year where the daily temperatures are frequently below freezing. I have seen it with my own eyes. When people feel safe in bike lanes, they will use them and that alleviates traffic in the process. I've seen firsthand all the benefits that safe, predictable, useful. Micromobility infrastructure brings to people of all ages, abilities and incomes, whether they're getting there on a bicycle, on an electric scooter or just walking on a path that feels safe. I was so excited to see the new parking protected bike lanes go in on 48th and 47th, my neighborhood, as it represents tangible progress for my adopted home of Philadelphia, one of the country's largest cities and least car-dependent cities, to catch up to the cycling infrastructure of my much smaller hometown. The 48th and 47th Street bike lanes have made my trips into University City and Center City a lot safer. They are an absolute blessing to me. The only time they are frustrating is when a delivery or construction truck is blocking them due to the regular parking on the block being taken up already. We live in a world now with a lot of delivery vehicles and a lot more than existed a few decades ago. So it makes sense to create and enforce loading zones to let those delivery workers do their job supplying the local businesses that make life in West Philly go round, while also letting cyclists like me and people of all ages and abilities get to those same businesses safely without being forced into mixed traffic. Thank you. (Applause.)
Good afternoon. My name is Cecilia Thompson and I'm speaking on Bill 23 250711. It was introduced by my Councilperson Jamie Gauthier on 9/11/2025. They want to change the traffic direction for the 500 block of Preston Street to go into Spring Garden Street rather than Haverford Avenue. I've been a resident since 2017, live in the 4050 Haverford Avenue Apartments. And when those accidents happen, they're right under my apartment where my disabled adult child thinks somebody's gotten killed. That's how loud it is. The accidents are so severe that they would hit -- there's a religious institution and they had these pillars. They would literally knock these pillars over. I believe the reason for these accidents is -- prior to 2017 my building was an empty lot and there were empty lots around there for about 15 years until the city started building. It was a pause during the pandemic, but there's a lot of apartments around there. But before then, you could drive I guess 30 miles from 40th to 41st and Haverford and vice versa. With that stop sign there, people, at least in my neighborhood, think it's a rolling stop so they'll stop a little bit because they think there's a stop sign between 40th and 41st and Haverford and there's not. And then that's when you get these horrific accidents. To my knowledge, nobody has gotten killed. I've sent pictures, videos to former or the honorable former City Councilperson Jannie Blackwell and now to Councilperson Jamie Gauthier. I am asking -- oh, my advocacy was either put a stop sign there or stop light. There was no issue about the accidents. It was who's going to pay for the stop sign or the stoplight. I am asking for the residents of the 500 block of Haverford -- I mean of Preston Street and Green Street, which is a street that when you go down it, you would make a right onto Haverford to have their voice heard. I don't think that the religious institution that I was told that claimed to be advocating for us, they weren't. Our building is across the street from this religious institution and all they had to do was walk across the street and say, hey, this is when the meetings are happening. If it's possible, I don't know what the City Council version of this is, but if you can put a pause until -- instead of telling us what to do, ask us this is what's proposed like these other neighborhoods that I'm hearing. Even if they're for it or against something, they were at least informed. We were not informed to say if we are for or against anything. We don't have a block captain because of the blight that was there before the housing and we don't have committee people that represent us. I am willing to work with my Councilperson Jamie Gauthier. If they can secure the place, I'll have my son and his support person put the flyers everywhere so that people are informed, hey, this is what's being proposed, do you agree or disagree. I think stop signs should be there, but I'm not here to speak on their behalf. I'm for family and parent and community engagement. And at least don't dismiss us because we live in a low-resource area. I live in an area where there's a lot of seniors, a lot of disabled people like myself. And even if they change the traffic, those cars are still going to have to stop and it's still going to be accidents. Because if they're coming down Haverford Avenue and they want to turn on to Preston from 40th and Haverford, you still got to stop. That traffic is not going to stop. I've been living there since 2017 and they treated like the Indy 500. It's terrible. And I don't know if this is a cheaper way by not putting up at least -- I prefer a stoplight, but not putting up a stop sign. Cheaper is not always safer. So if there's any way we can at least have a meeting that includes the residents. And again, I'm going to end with this.
When I just kind of asked on my way here, because they couldn't make this 1 o'clock meeting because they're working like, y'all know yet they're going to change the street, the direction of the street? And they were like, no. I went on Green Street. Nobody on Green Street knew, the residents on Haverford Avenue. From my apartment to 40th and Haverford, they don't know. I got informed about this because I went to the community meeting in Mill Creek, and that's when somebody from the state said, this is what we're going to do. I was like, how come you didn't ask the residents and that's when she told me that. So I --
I do think that -- thank you for your comment. I do think this is a matter for your community residents from your block to reach out to your District Councilmember. It seems like she's been willing to work with communities on issues. I will actually just reach out to Councilmember Gauthier with some of the concerns of those residents and from the folks that are in the building that you live in.
Can I ask a procedure question? Like, I don't know this part of City Council. So when something comes to a committee, what happens after that?
The committee then takes an action or decides to take an action or not take an action on legislation that's before us, so we can move it out of -- there's multiple things that we can do in a committee. But this is the process that allows something to become a law. And this is a part of that process.
Okay. So then it moves out of here and goes to I'm going to say big City Council?
Hello. Good evening, Chair Young and members of City Council. You met two of my neighbors before, Theresa Feo, Greg Benjamin. I live in the same -- I live just one block over from Greg Benjamin. He's my Ward leader. But I am here. My name is Will Tung. I'm a resident of Southwest Philly in Kingsessing, here as a husband and father raising a child in this city. I'm here in support of Bill 250712, which will enable the city to regulate parking and loading on 47th Street in my neighborhood. This bill would enable the city to set parking and loading regulations to suit the way all roadusers use these streets today, especially motorists, taxis, rideshare drivers, delivery companies. Before, the norm would be to illegally double park in the travel lane. So with the loading zones, that will alleviate that. And this bill is part of a larger plan that reconfigured 47th Street to be safer. There's a lot of discussion about the bike lane and the conversion of 47th Street from two-way to one-way. That was a bill that already passed this committee a year ago. That passed this committee, it passed City Council. We're only here to talk about the loading zones. And, you know, for 47th Street, 47th Street is on the High Injury Network. I am proud of my Councilmember Jamie Gauthier for prioritizing safety here and it's among the most dangerous streets in the city. The corridor averaged a major crash every month and two pedestrians struck every year. I know the Chair, you asked for statistics on 47th Street earlier, like hours ago. According to PennDOT, between 2019 and 2023 this corridor on 47th Street saw 45 crashes over the four years, nine pedestrians struck, three of them seriously injured. These are numbers from PennDOT --
Do you know what streets? You said the entire corridor. So what's the north and south streets that --
I believe it's just on Kingsessing to Chestnut, but that's straight from OTIS documents. That's not my figures. I didn't make those up, but those are just straight from the OTIS public engagement documents. There are also over two years of public engagement on this. I saw many of the folks who oppose this at those public engagement meetings. And to claim that this is all done in secret without any consultation with the neighborhood, that's patently false. Hundreds of people came out to these engagement meetings. They were very well-attended. And overwhelmingly, the neighborhood approved of them. The neighborhood, we filled out survey comment cards and the neighborhood overwhelmingly supports the changes. And now, this is a just a vocal minority coming to Council and voicing their opinion, which they're entitled to do. So since the reconfiguration, people using bicycles now have a dedicated safe space to ride. People crossing the street benefit from slower-moving vehicles and shorten crossing distances. And people driving just drive slower on this residential street and are less likely to be involved in a crash that kills or seriously injures someone. So on a personal note, my daughter has to cross 47th Street on her way to and from school. My wife needs to cross 47th Street to get to work and get to her Muay Thai gym. And since this reconfiguration, the cars here drive slower and it's calmer and it's noticeably less stressful for us. This is one less street we have to worry about crossing out of the many streets in West Philly that we cross. So I want to thank you for your time. I also want to express support for the bike lane bill 3 around City Hall. I'm disappointed that that bill has been held and I look forward to that passing this committee. Thank you. (Applause.)
Thank you for your time. Please state your name for the record and begin with your comment.
My name is Ray King and I'm here to advocate for the loading zones in Center City and 47th Street. I just think it makes good sense. It will make it a safer road. Also, for the bike lane around City Hall I know that that bill has been tabled, but I'd like to just say that that is something that the city needs. Okay. Thank you very much. (Applause.)
Thank you so much for your comment. If you can state your name again and proceed with your comment.
Hi. I'm Russell Richie. I spoke earlier as part of the panel with 5th Square. First of all, I want to say thank you so much for enduring hours of this with us. Just doing this on one day was very trying for me. I cannot imagine how it is for all of you to do it day-in and day-out. So thank you so much for your public service. I want to make a comment and ask a question. My comment is that allowing free or underpriced parking on our urban streets to the tune of the RPP is only $75 a year now, that's effectively a massive, massive subsidy to the richest whitest residents of this city. When I moved to the city in Center City several years ago, I paid $200 a month for garage parking in Center City. So do the math. That's thousands of dollars per year that people are getting in free parking in Center City. That's massively unfair to the people that live elsewhere in the city. And that's millions of dollars that the city is leaving on the table that they could spend on Vision Zero, they could spend on SEPTA, they could spend on many other things. So that's my comment. My question is why is the City Hall bike lane bill being held up?
Thank you for your comment. Is there anyone else -- can you call the next commenter?
Hi. I'm Isabelle Melvin and I'm here on behalf of -- whoops, let me get my notes here. Chairperson Young and City Councilmembers of the Streets and Services Committee, thank you very much for what you do for the City of Philadelphia. Thank you for introducing Bill 250718. I fully support this loading zone bill. This bill will make me feel safer as I walk and bike on Spruce and Pine. The pedestrian safety bicycle and accessibility infrastructure has improved so much over the years. Thank you very much for all the hard work you've done. Safety, safety, safety, and I support the City Hall bike lane. And I just want to remind you that just last November on the east side of City Hall, a person driving an SUV struck two people on the sidewalk. Both suffered serious injuries with one victim losing his leg. Crashes like this are fully preventable. Thank you very much. (Applause.)
Good afternoon. My name is Jason Das, resident of District 3. I'm here to support 250712, about the loading zones on 47th Street in West Philadelphia. I live quite nearby, closer to 49th Street across 47th. All the time 47th was terrifying until this year. I basically avoided it. And I'm speaking primarily as a pedestrian in this case. This is a street that was scary to cross because drivers would be constantly trying to run you over. Some of my neighbors, Theresa, Ben, I know, they come to the meetings. I actually disagree with them about bike lanes. I like bike lanes. But I agree with them. Our neighborhood is what we call a car sewer. People driving from Delco to New Jersey and back come right through our little residential neighborhood. It's a problem. 47th Street now it's nice. I love walking on 47th. I seek it out. I walk on it on purpose. The daylighted corners allow us to see what's coming. If you're driving on 47th now, it's nice. It used to be people were trying to drive around you in both directions and you couldn't see at the corners because everybody was parked up to the corners. So as a pedestrian you were getting run over and you couldn't see. As a driver, you couldn't see and you were afraid to run somebody over, and cars were trying to pass you at 60 miles per hour on a little narrow street. So it's better. Thank you, Councilmember Gauthier for spearheading that. As Gauthier mentioned, we had a huge amount of community outreach. People were heard. And overwhelmingly, people were in favor. And now, overwhelmingly people like it. Many of my neighbors couldn't take four hours off on a Monday afternoon to be here, but I've talked to them about this. My neighbor across the street, he's actually bicycling his daughter to preschool now on 47th. This is not something he could have done last year. This is somebody who grew up in the neighborhood, you know, lived here his whole life, and his relationship to the neighborhood is changing. I grew up in Philadelphia in the '80s and '90s and it wasn't like this then, in my memory, I was a kid. But I feel like the cars have gotten worse, traffic has gotten worse. And something like loading zones, daylighted corners are part of the solution. So 47th I said it's better now, but it is incomplete until these loading zones are implemented. We get deliveries to residences, but also there's businesses along there. There's two schools that I can think of off top my head, de Sales and the public school Lee, there's people coming and going, you know, exactly when you'd expect lots of them. They need loading zones. The businesses, we heard about Vietnam restaurant, we heard about Lee's where somebody drove a van into them off 47th last year because they were traveling at a high speed by Baltimore Avenue. So we have a lot of problematic streets in our neighborhood. Fixing 47th doesn't fix all the other ones. I think we can all acknowledge that. That's a commonsense thing, that fixing one street at a time is applying band- aids to a systemic problem that Philadelphia faces and that this subcommittee of Council is tasked with dealing with. And I thank you all for your work on that. Loading zones are a huge part of the solution citywide. So people were talking about the Spruce and Pine loading zones. Sounds good to me. But again, speaking as a resident of Cedar Park, we need them on 47th because now there's a single lane of traffic moving. Where exactly is UPS, FedEx, Amazon supposed to go. The Star Harbor Senior Center, yeah, they need a loading zone right there. Again, a commonsense move. The idea that we're helping Star Harbor by blocking the loading zone -- no, we're helping Star Harbor by putting this loading zone in. We're helping St. Francis School by putting this loading zone in. Are people on other blocks, including mine a little jealous? Yes, yes, we are. We want to see more of this. But meanwhile, I just want to say what is happening on 47th represents what we want to see.
And if that means that somebody driving from Ardmore to Cherry Hill can't drive through my neighborhood at 60 miles per hour anymore, I am okay with that and I expect you are too. Cedar Park was built as what they call a streetcar suburb. So that means people who would take the trolley to Center City for the jobs and otherwise walk around what is still a beautiful, walkable neighborhood, parking is limited. It was, in fact, built before cars. It was not built for cars. There's Garden Court a little bit north of us. They've got parking in the back alleys. We don't have that down where I live. So it's a very small proportion of the most privileged neighbors who own cars, who have cars. The rest of us we're walking, we're taking SEPTA, we're riding bicycles and we're happy about that. People move to this neighborhood on purpose. And Councilmember Gauthier understands that aspect of the neighborhood, these people who want to live in a neighborhood where we can travel via SEPTA, via bicycle, on foot to do our shopping on foot and not be worried about getting run over by people zooming through our neighborhood. Parking, free street parking, that's low on the list of priorities for my neighbors. I'm a little bit of a neighborhood busybody. I talk to a lot of people. It's not like nobody doesn't appreciate a free parking spot. We do of course, but that's not number one priority. We care about safety. We care about families. We care about children being able to ride their bikes. Imagine that. When I was a child in Philly, I could ride my bike --
If you begin to conclude your testimony, sir. Thank you.
So 47th Street, what I'm saying is that it is good but it's incomplete until these loading zones are in. Let's get those loading zones in. Thank you very much. (Applause.)
Thank you for your comment. Please state your name for the record.
Good afternoon. My name is Leonard Bonarek. I am sorry, excuse me. It's been a long day. I'm a resident of 47th Street corridor, been for about eight years, and I'm here to speak in support of Bill 18 250712. Also, while we're here I would like to see the City Hall bike lane bill be reintroduced. I think that's an important piece of infrastructure for our city. But I want to speak about my own personal experiences. Since 47th Street has gone in and these loading zones, as the previous speaker said, are a crucial part of making those successful and making them functional. My experience of just being able to cross the street has changed dramatically. I, on the urging of my loved ones, gave up on confrontations with drivers on asserting my right-of-way to cross the street with my children, holding the hand of my children. When drivers were refusing to stop for us, I got into multiple altercations with people. People got out of their cars, etc. I had to give up on that and just wait for the street to clear while I'm standing at the edge of a crosswalk when there's a stop sign. Since 47th Street has gone in, the crossing distance got shortened to only feet. We can see drivers coming and my 9-year- old child can now cross that street on their own without me coming with them. It has made an enormous difference in my life. And this type of change we have seen it over and over. We saw it on West Chestnut Street when there was the same type of opposition. And we saw West Chestnut Street, that's the section between 33rd Street and 46th, come off of the High Injury Network because these changes were made. I'm looking forward to seeing the updated data that shows that 47th Street is now off of the High Injury Network. So we've seen example after example of this working and I just want to encourage you to never put the convenience needs of a few people ahead of the safety of the rest of us. Thank you. (Applause.)
Thank you for your comment. Please state your name and begin your comment.
Good evening. My name is Lou Huang. I believe I was the last name called, but this is my first time providing comment on a bill before the committee. So I just thank you so much for your time. I've been here for four hours. I just wanted to see if I can get my voice and I was here to comment on Bill No. 250649, that will authorize a permanent protected bike lane around City Hall. I'm a resident of the District 5 neighborhood of Brewerytown and I'm here to speak as my experience as a bicyclist. Bicycling is my primary form of transportation around the city. I regularly bike down the Parkway, which as you know has a dedicated bike lane. And often times I find myself needing to ride past City Hall to reach Center City East or Old City as I did today. But once you reach the southeast end of the Parkway, the bike lanes are disjointed and even nonexistent, and I feel like this is a very dangerous gap in the existing bike network. And I feel like I place my life in danger every time I need to ride around Dilworth Plaza when I'm navigating through the area. So if I'm understanding correctly, PennDOT is installing the bike lane as a pilot. So I look forward to being a regular user of that when it is installed. But I also don't want to be afraid that it is going to go away at any time. So I urge you to bring back Bill 250649 and vote for it in favor of being a permanent bike lane around City Hall. Thank you. (Applause.)
Thank you for your comment. Is there anyone else wishing to testify for public comment? (Witness approached witness table.)
Please state your name for the record and begin with your comment.
Of course, of course. Let me just make sure I got my stuff here. All right. We're good. Hello. My name is Jeremy Blatstein. I'm here in support of Bills 250718 and 250712. I am here on behalf of big bike. Obviously, this is one massive conspiracy, kidding. Let's be clear, safety over everything, safety over everything. It is absolutely insane to say that OTIS and Streets is bought off by the Bicycle Coalition. If anything, it is the other way around, that a few wealthy individuals are trying to kill protective bike lanes and loading zones on Pine and Spruce. I rise today in support of creating more loading zones in Philadelphia, particularly on Pine and Spruce Street, as well as on 47th Street. These streets are some of the most heavily traveled in our city. They carry not just residents but delivery drivers, service workers and small business suppliers. Without proper loading zones, trucks and vans are forced to double park, blocking traffic and endangering cyclists and pedestrians. That creates frustration for drivers, unsafe conditions for bikers and slower service for the very businesses that keep our neighborhoods alive. The bill before us would give OTIS the authority to establish loading zones without requiring separate approval from City Council each time. This is a commonsense reform. It streamlines the process, cuts down on the unnecessary bureaucracy and allows the city to respond more quickly to realities on the ground. Our transportation leaders are best-equipped to analyze traffic flow, safety concerns and business needs in realtime. Giving them the flexibility to act will make Philadelphia streets safer and more efficient. On Pine and Spruce in particular, this will reduce the constant conflict between delivery vehicles and the bike lanes. On 47th Street, it will help local businesses that rely on regular deliveries to operate smoothly without clogging up traffic or endangering pedestrians. Loading zones may sound small, but they make a huge difference. They support local commerce, improve safety and keep our streets moving. I urge City Council to support this bill and give OTIS the authority to designate these zones where they are needed most. And last but not least, not approving the bike lane around City Hall today will only cost the city more money and cause more problems. This shouldn't have even been part of the conversation if the bike lane bill had been introduced sooner by you, and it really -- I do believe that your constituents and the residents of Philadelphia deserve an explanation as to why it's tabled. Thank you. (Applause.)
Thank you for your comment. Please state your name for the record and begin with your comment.
Hi. My name is Robert Brown and I live near South and 11th Street. I'm here to speak in support of the unamended version of Bill 250718. I'm a regular user of Indigo, the city's bikeshare program, and I frequently walk and bike in Center City as a cyclist and a pedestrian. I've noticed fewer cars parked in the Spruce and Pine bike lanes since the new loading zones were installed earlier this year and I've also noticed the parked cars returned when the loading zones were removed. I'm sure the Parking Authority has citation data that can validate my observations. In the three years I've lived in Philadelphia I've never felt comfortable biking in Center City, and this is especially true for the loop surrounding City Hall. I often encounter cars parked in the bike lane near the intersection of 15th and South Penn Square, which forced me to either dismount my bike or move into Dilworth Park to attempt to pass via car lane. Just recently I encountered a car blocking the City Hall bike lane with a vanity license plate that read, Be Secure. Ironically, when I asked the driver why they were blocking the bike lane, they began to shout obscenities at me. Equally ironic is that Google Maps satellite imagery shows a car parked in the same location. About the City Hall bike lane, I commend you, Chairperson Young, and your team for acting quickly to introduce this bill 7 before the summer recess. But I'm concerned about what happens if the bill isn't passed by Council before PennDOT completes the work. Will we lose our opportunity to improve our city's infrastructure? I urge you and the Committee to report out 250649 and 250718 as soon as possible.
Thank you for your comment. Please state your name for the record and begin with your comment.
Hi. My name is Anne Dorn. I'm the Vice-chair of the Pastoral Council at St. Francis de Sales, which is located on 47th Street. But I'm here speaking on my own behalf. I'm here to comment on Bill 250712 about the loading zones. And I'm here to tell you that there is a big safety problem on 47th Street, but the loading zones aren't going to help it at all. The problem is pick-up and drop-off at the school. Many of our school families live outside the neighborhood. They drive, drop their children off at school, then continue on to work and the streets are just not set up for that volume of traffic. So every morning, every afternoon, there's 30, 45 minutes where the situation is unsafe for pedestrians, for children getting out of the car, for drivers. It's just a very unsafe situation. And moving 47th Street to one lane has made the situation much worse. Today we're not here to really talk about that, but I think the decision does need to be revisited. It's certainly true that there have been a number of community meetings. The school itself hosted I believe two of them. I attended one. I talked to the traffic engineers, but our concerns were not taken seriously. For example, we said people are going -- if you make 47th Street one way, parents are going to start speeding up the side streets. And they said, oh no, no, no, that won't happen. And they had some technical explanation for why it wouldn't happen, but we said they already cut through these side streets. Now, of course it's going to get worse. And naturally it did get worse. They just went ahead with their plan. And really the problem with doing all these meetings in advance is when nobody knows what's going to happen, everybody's just making their guess, everybody's just forecasting, of course, the professionals are going to go with their own guess. They're not going to believe you when you tell them what you think will happen. And the situation is now that we've gone with their plan, we see what will happen. It's happening now. Now, it's a level- playing field. The amateurs can say we can point to the evidence that now exist. But at this point, we're told it's too late, we already had those meetings. So I can tell you now that pick-up and drop-off has gotten worse, the situation is unsafe. I'm not a traffic engineer. I can't tell you how to make a safe plan, but I can tell you that the plan that the traffic engineers came up with has not been safe.
Thank you so much for your comment. Is there anyone else in the chambers wishing to testify on these bills today?
You can't speak on behalf of anyone else. You can speak only on behalf of yourself. So we will allow you to speak on your own behalf.
Yes. I'd like to speak on behalf of support of Bill No. 250649, City Hall bike lanes. Although I'm disappointed that the bill was passed on, I'm hoping that you can come to a resolution. This bill will make pedestrians safe, bicyclists safe and make drivers safe. That's all I got. Thank you. (Applause.)
Thank you for your comment. Anyone else wishing to testify? (No response.)
Seeing none, I note for the record a quorum of the committee is here with myself as Chair, Councilmember Bass, CouncilMember Ahmad, Councilmember Harrity. The Committee will now enter into a public meeting. The Chair recognizes Councilmember Bass for a motion on Bill No. 250771.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I offer an amendment to Bill No. 250771. A copy of the amendment has been circulated to all members of the committee and I move that the amendment to Bill No. 16 250771 be adopted. (Duly seconded.)
Thank you. It has been moved and properly seconded that the amendment of Bill No. 250771 be adopted. All those in favor will signify by saying aye. (Aye.)
The ayes have it in the opinion of the Chair. The motion carries and the amendment of Bill No. 250771 has been adopted. The Chair recognizes Councilmember Bass for a motion on the amendments to Bill No. 250718.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I offer an amendment to Bill No. 250718. A copy of the amendment has been circulated to all members of the committee and I move that the amendment to Bill No. 20 250718 be adopted. (Duly seconded.)
Thank you. It has been moved and properly seconded that the amendment to Bill No. 250718 be adopted. All those in favor will signify by saying aye. (Aye.)
The ayes have it in the opinion of the Chair. The motion carries and the amendment of Bill No. 250718 has been adopted. The Chair recognizes Councilmember Bass for a motion on Bill Nos. 240872, 250575, 250576, 250652, 250653, 250710, 250711, 250712, 250713, 250714, 250715, 250716, 250718 as amended, 250723, 250724, 250725, 250770, 250771 as amended and 250772.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that all bills read into the record be reported from this committee with a favorable recommendation and further move that the rules of committee be suspended to permit first reading of this bill at the next session of Council. (Duly seconded.)
Thank you. It has been moved and properly seconded that all bills read into the record be reported from this committee with a favorable recommendation and further move that the rules of Council be suspended to permit first reading of these bills at the next session of Council. All those in favor will signify by saying aye. (Aye.)
The ayes have it in the opinion of the Chair. The motion carries and Bills Nos. 240872, 250575, 250576, 250652, 250653, 250710, 250711, 250712, 250713, 250714, 250715, 250716, 250718 as amended, 250723, 250724, 250725, 250770, 250771 as amended and 250772 will be reported from this committee with a favorable recommendation with a further request that the rules of Council be suspended to permit first reading at the next session of Council. This concludes the business before the Streets and Services Committee. Thank you all for your attendance today and your patience. - - - (Committee on Streets and Services concluded at 5:35 p.m.) C E R T I F I C A T I O N I, hereby certify that the proceedings and evidence noted are contained fully and accurately in the stenographic notes taken by me in the foregoing matter, and that this is a correct transcript of the same. __________________________________ TANEHA CARROLL