Vol. III No. 3 (3732)
Keeping You Posted With The Politics Of Philadelphia
January 5, 2012
Philadelphia Daily Record
Savoth Tends Bar
HEADING receiving line at last night’s Chancellor’s Reception of Phila. Bar Association at Park Hyatt Bellevue ballroom were, from left, newly installed Chancellor John E. Savoth and his wife Nancy, and immediate past Chancellor Rudolph Garcia. Hundreds of attorneys, judges and City officials lined up for hours to greet Chancellor Savoth. More pictures page 3. Photo by Bonnie Squires
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Calendar State Rep. Pam DeLissio hosts town hall meeting at Roxborough Mem. Hosp., Wolcoff Audit., 5800 Riodge Ave., 7 p.m. For info (215) 482-8726 or (215) 8798533.
House to the White House”, on political impacts on business, at ACE USA, 436 Walnut St., 5th fl., 8-10 a.m. Continental breakfast. For info Leigh Ann Campbell (267) 287-8497) or leighann@seamlesseventsinc.com . Register by Jan. 17.
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Jan. 11State Rep. Pam DeLissio hosts town hall meeting at Union Fire Hall, 149 Montgomery Ave., Bala Cynwyd, Pa., 7 p.m. For info (215) 482-8726 or (215) 8798533. Jan. 12State Rep. Pam DeLissio hosts town hall meeting at Society Hall, Simpson Hse., 2101 Belmont Ave., 7 p.m. For info (215) 4828726 or (215) 879-8533. Jan. 20-
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Apr. 262012 Centennial Pk. Celebration honoring Joseph Manko, Ryan Howard and Vanguard at Phila. Horticultural Ctr., Montgomery Ave. & N. Horticultural Dr., 6 p.m. For tickets, etc. Arthur (215) 988-9341.
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Legal Luminaries Pack Bellevue For Bar Ass’n’s New Chief MICHAEL SCULLIN, ESQ., Honorary French Consul, congratulates newly installed Chancellor John E. Savoth at Phila. Bar Reception in Savoth’s honor last night. Scullin brought with him legal intern from McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, Ms. Celine Cardosy, from Lyon, France. (Photos by Bonnie Squires)
JUDGE PAMELA DEMBE and State Rep. Babette Josephs were among crowd of luminaries congratulating Chancellor John Savoth.
CHANCELLOR-ELECT Kathleen Wilkinson and her husband Tom Wilkinson, Esq., greeted Chief Justice Ron Castille in receiving line at Bar Association reception.
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Corbett Orders $160 Million Spending Freeze With Commonwealth revenues continuing to come in below estimate for the 2011-12 fiscal year, Gov. Tom Corbett has directed his Budget Office to freeze nearly $160 million in State spending. The Governor also has asked government entities not under his jurisdiction to reduce their spending by nearly $66 million. “Until revenue collections improve, we must take precautions to ensure that the commonwealth budget remains in balance,” the Governor said.
Midway through the State’s fiscal year, revenues are $486.8 million below estimate, the State Dept. of Revenue reported Tuesday. Corbett has directed most agencies to reduce their overall 2011-12 spending by 3%. Some individual appropriations will see spending reductions of up to 10%. The State-related universities – Penn State, the University of Pittsburgh, Temple and Lincoln Universities – will see a reduction of 5%, or $25.7 million, in State funding.
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Public-safety agencies, such as State Police and the Dept. of Corrections, will freeze approximately 1% of their spending. The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency is not being directed to freeze any funds because of the numerous disaster-related emergency-response activities that agency has coordinated this fiscal year, the Governor said. Basic-education subsidy funds paid to school districts will not be affected, and the Dept. of Public Welfare will see a spending reduction of less than 1%, or $55 million. The funds being placed into budgetary reserve across all agencies represent less than 1% of the total $27.2 billion General Fund budget. “We did not make the decision to freeze these funds lightly. If the revenue picture improves in the months ahead and we determine these funds no longer need to remain frozen, we may be able to free up some or perhaps even all of the funds we are now placing into budgetary reserve,” Corbett said. For a list of funds placed into budgetary reserve, please visit the Current and Proposed Commonwealth Budgets section of the Office of the Budget website at www.budget.state.pa.us.
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Mayor Takes A Field Trip To Denver Mayor Michael Nutter is traveling to Denver today on a school project. He is going with education reform
leaders, including representatives from the School Reform Commission, charter schools and the philanthropic community. They will visit Denver education leaders and
evaluate the successful implementation of its district-charter collaboration compact.
Squilla Vows Clean Government
ON HIS SECOND DAY in office, 2nd Dist. Councilman Mark Squilla took it on himself to clean out City hall – literally, starting with his own quarters. Squilla was scrubbing walls and woodwork in his historic new digs yesterday. 5
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BIA Picks New Leaders
JIM SHERMAN
KEVIN GILLEN The Building Industry Association of Philadelphia, the nonprofit organization which supports and promotes residential development in the City, has elected a new president, vice president, and three new board members for 2012 - its 75th anniversary year. The BIA’s new president, starting a two-year term, is Jim Sherman, senior construction official for 6|
JOHN FARINA
ANNE FADULLON
MARY HALL
Ironstone Real Estate, based in University City. Sherman is an experienced construction professional who has successfully completed hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of sophisticated construction projects, most recently for Ironstone Real Estate’s major student housing project for Philadelphia University. He has served as construction manager, general contractor, executive con-
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struction officer, project manager and owner’s representative for companies and clients including Dranoff Properties, Tower Investments, Rouse and Associates, Historic Landmarks for Living and others. Sherman has taught Construction Management at the Temple Center City Real Estate Institute for the past 10 years, has lectured for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, acted as an expert wit-
THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY RECORD ness in construction disputes, is facilities chair at the Germantown Cricket Club, and is a Realtor associated with the Erdenheim, Pa. firm of Higgins & Welch. He graduated with honors with a BS degree in construction management from Drexel University. He is a resident of Glenside, Pa. Anne Fadullon, director of development for the Dale Corp., based in Glenside, Pa., has been elected vice president. Fadullon has more than 25 years of experience in the real-estate development field, including project management, planning, site acquisition and construction implementation, and has administered over 125 residential and commercial development projects, which produced over 1,500 housing units and numerous commercial enterprises including completion of the Neumann North Senior Housing complex with 67 affordable rental units for seniors, and Spring Arts Point, a mixed-income, mixed-use project. She is currently acting as a development consultant on several large-scale, mixed-use hospitality oriented projects in Philadelphia. Prior to joining Dale in 2000, Fadullon was director of development at the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia during the Rendell Administration. A resident of Germantown, Fadullon received a BA degree in Urban Studies and Economics from Lehigh University and a Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
New Board Member John M. Farina is president of US Construction, Inc., a home builder that specializes in design, zoning, and luxury building in Philadelphia. Over the past five years U.S Construction has been involved in the development and construction of luxury homes throughout City and has been a leader in redeveloping vacant and blighted parcels. Farina is a graduate of Rutgers University and has more than 10 years of construction experience. His company is based in Center City. New Board Member Kevin C. Gillen, PhD is vice president of Econsult Corp., based in Center City. With a background in urban economics and real-estate finance, Dr. Gillen is responsible for Econsult’s applied work in the analysis of real-estate developments and operation of real-estate markets, including their fiscal, economic and financial implications, and reports on the current state of the housing market with quarterly house-price indices for the Delaware Valley. Clients include the Philadelphia Housing Authority, Philadelphia Tax Reform Commission, Philadelphia Center City Owners’ Association, Pennsylvania Housing Finance Authority, Schuylkill River Development Corp., the Philadelphia Board of Revision of Taxes and the William Penn Foundation. Dr. Gillen received his PhD in Applied Economics in 2005 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and received both the US Dept. of Housing & Urban Devel-
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opment Dissertation Award and Lincoln Land Institute Dissertation Fellowship. He is a resident of Center City. New Board Member Mary Hall is executive account manager for Tozour Energy Systems, based in King of Prussia, Pa. Hall recently joined Tozour, where she is responsible for large portfolio accounts to help building owners and managers with mechanical systems and energy usage. She previously spent more than 15 years in realestate development in the Greater Philadelphia region. Hall has a BA in business communications and an MBA with a concentration in marketing, both from Rosemont College, and is a licensed Pennsylvania Real Estate Broker. She also serves on the board of Mercy Neighborhood Ministries in North Philadelphia. She is a resident of Charlestown Township (Chester Co.), Pa. The BIA of Philadelphia, established in 1937, is the nonprofit organization which supports and promotes residential development in the City. Goals include member education, working with government and housing agencies on major issues such as tax abatement and the zoning code, and promoting housing affordability by reducing construction costs.
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