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"Sunshine Act" Rules Committee:
Philadelphia City Council and City Agencies are in
serious and systemic violation of the
Sunshine Act as evidenced by their own regulations, which are:
(also read
Attorney George Bochetto's 2024 letter to City Council)
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Restricting public comments to "agenda items
only" at all meetings of City Council and City Agencies (with the exception
of School Board meetings),
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City Council is routinely introducing bills
and resolutions at the beginning of each meetings that should have been
included on the regular agenda, and in some cases, council is voting on
these non-agenda items on that same day,
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City Council routinely fills the Stated
Meeting agenda with congratulatory resolutions that add an hour to the
proceedings (including public comments), thereby transforming the atmosphere
from one that should be conducive to conducting the peoples business, to a "booster
club" environment, instead.
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City Council should make it clear that public
comments are for two minutes only, and not continue vary the time limit from
3 to 1 minutes.
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