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Next Great City: Philadelphia  

BUDGET AND FIVE YEAR PLAN 

VOLUME II, ISSUE III

 

 
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Yesterday, Mayor Nutter issued his first budgetary address and five year plan, which outlined his administration's goals- including creating healthy and sustainable communities. The plan embraces many of the Next Great City recommendations, including:

  • increasing funding for Fairmount Park by $1.5 million this year, and $16.5 million over the next five years;
  • dramatically increasing citywide participation in recycling, and boosting funding for recycling by $6.1 million this year and 25.1 million over five years;
  • promoting urban greening by securing funding to plant 25,000 trees, and by including $1 million in the Fairmount Park budget for this purpose;
  • reallocating the costs of stormwater management based on overall and impervious area; and,
  • securing a new city contract with an outdoor advertiser to install new street furniture such as bus shelters and newspaper corrals.  
You can read the entire budget and five year plans on the city's website at www.phila.gov
 
RECYCLENOW PHILADELPHIA NEWS 

A new monthly electronic newsletter is being put out by the Recycling Alliance of Philadelphia to keep the public informed about the progress of the RecycleNOW Philadelphia campaign, when RecycleNOW chapter meetings are taking place, and to answer frequently asked questions about recycling in Philadelphia.

Read the current edition of the newsletter here and sign up to receive the newsletter by sending an email to info@recyclenowphilly.org.
 
VOICES OF PHILADELPHIANS 

The latest edition of Voices of Philadelphians comes from Natalia Palovcak, a resident of the Northwood section of Philadelphia. Natalia submitted a poem by Patricia Pingatore about creating healthy neighborhoods, and shares her desire to clean and green the city she loves.

 
NEWS 
  • An Inquirer editorial looks at the benefits of waterfront transit
  • Philadelphia Weekly covers Whole Foods' decision to forgo plastic bags and the movement away from a plastic bag culture
  • The Philadelphia Business Journal's Go Green! feature on climate change and its impact on businesses
  • The Fels Institute suggests ways to green Philadelphia, creatively in the Inquirer
  • Green for green, Metro's look at Mayor Nutter's budget allocations for environmental initiatives
 
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