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Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s administration announced Friday that it is establishing 11 “mini City Halls” across Philadelphia where residents can request services like graffiti removal or traffic calming, part of the mayor’s vow to make city functions more accessible.
The “community action centers” will be based in recreation centers and libraries around the city, with one in each of the city’s geographically based councilmanic districts. Each center will be staffed with liaisons who will log requests from residents and community organizations, then follow up to ensure they were fulfilled.
“The people of Philadelphia, they are tired of speeches from those who are elected to public office,” Parker said during remarks at the Logan Public Library in North Philadelphia, where one of the new centers will be located. “They want to see, in a very tangible way, in their own respective lives, government at work in their communities.”
Staff at the community action centers will also convene so-called community councils, or advisory boards of residents who can bring neighborhood-level concerns to the administration’s attention. The creation of those councils fulfills a key first-year promise for Parker, who said while campaigning that she would lean on boards of residents to inform decisions on policy.
