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April 3, 2008

Wrapping up the "Presenting the Agenda" forums

Citizen blogger Susan Zalenski returns to the Great Expectations blog to filed her report from the final neighborhood forum. The District 9 session focused on the final version of the Citizens Agenda for Philadelphia's Future. She writes:

The original City Council District 9 meeting was rescheduled due to “weather.” (It had snowed the day before the meeting.) A group of 50 or so citizens, civic leaders and City Year volunteers showed up at Albert Einstein Memorial Hospital to review the finalized Citizens Agenda for Philadelphia’s Future on Tuesday evening, March 25th.

Some background: District 9 covers Chestnut Hill, East Germantown, East Mount Airy , Glenwood , Hunting Park, Logan, Morton, Nicetown, Ogontz, Penn Knox, Rising Sun - Tioga, Southwest Germantown, West Central, West Mount Airy, Westside and Wister neighborhoods. District 9’s City Council Person is Marian Tasco, who joined the meeting later for the Q&A.

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