At-large Councilmen Bill Green and W. Wilson Goode Jr., both sons of former mayors, have joined forces to take on the multitude of quasi-public agencies that City leaders have depended on for years to stuff with patronage hires, squirrel away money, and handle pet projects without the same scrutiny aimed at City Hall.
The duo introduced a resolution Thursday for Goode's Committee on Commerce and Economic Development "to hold hearings to inquire and investigate the missions, agreements, funding, policies, structure, business plans, operating and capital budgets, coordination efforts and effectiveness of various economic development departments, authories and agencies operating in the city of Philadelphia."
Good luck, gentlemen. In identifying 43 such entities, from the Art Commission to the Zoning Code Commission, from the Plumbing Advisory Board to the Redevelopment Authority to the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, you have taken on one big assignment.
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