Official:Amending Title 17 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Contracts and Procurement," by adding a new Chapter, entitled "Outsourcing," to require a cost-benefit analysis before any City contract may be awarded or renewed, under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Jones
Introduced: March 3, 2011
: Committee on Labor and Civil Service
Status: Lapsed
This bill was introduced in the 2008–2011 Council term and when that term ran out. The public record shows no committee vote and no floor vote at any stage, so no member of Council ever went on record for or against it.
That is not unusual here. Of the 8,465 bills introduced between 2000 and 2025, 1,624 lapsed without a single recorded vote. Ninety percent of bills that became law carry a roll call. Three percent of lapsed bills do. How this works.
This bill requires City departments to do a cost-benefit analysis before outsourcing work to private companies and to report their progress publicly.
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