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Wednesday December 14, 2011
Protect Philadelphia Children from Lead Poisoning - Final Vote In City Council Thursday.
This Thursday, December 15th, City Council will cast a final vote on a bill that will protect Philadelphia children from lead poisoning.
Your calls into council over the past two weeks helped move the bill out of committee! Your efforts paid off -- thank you for taking action.
We are on the home stretch. We need to keep calls coming to pass this bill! Please call your City Council member and one Council Member At-Large today and urge them to vote ‘yes’ on the lead poisoning prevention bill.
How will children be impacted? The majority of homes in Philadelphia were built before lead paint was banned for residential use in 1978. If lead paint deteriorates, children ages 0 – 5 are most vulnerable to being permanently injured by it. The good news is that in the last decade the number of children poisoned annually in Philadelphia has dropped from about 5,000 to 1,000. The bad news is that many of these children are poisoned by rental properties, despite the fact that it is unlawful to rent a property with lead hazards.
This bill strengthens the law by requiring landlords to show that their pre-1978 properties will not poison children when they move into a new home.
Call your City Council member and one Council Member At-Large today to urge him or her to vote ‘yes’ on the lead poisoning prevention bill. (Phone numbers are listed below - if you don't know who your City Council person is, click here).
Call and say: “Councilperson _______, I urge you to vote ‘yes’ on the childhood lead poisoning prevention bill No. 100011 requiring rental properties owners to test their pre-1978 properties at turnover to show there are no lead hazards. Landlord shouldn't make money by putting children at risk. You must help protect the city’s children.”
Thanks for doing what you can for kids.
Shelly Yanoff, Executive Director.
District Council Members
District 1 - Councilman Frank DiCicco
(215) 686-3458, (215) 686-3459
District 2 - Council President Anna Verna
(215) 686-3412, (215) 686-3413
District 3 - Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell
(215) 686-3418, (215) 686-3419
District 4 - Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr.
(215) 686-3416, (215) 686-3417
District 5 - Councilman Darrell Clarke
(215) 686-3442, (215) 686-3443
District 6 - Councilwoman Joan L. Krajewski
(215) 686-3444, (215) 686-3445
District 7 - Councilwoman Maria D. Quiñones-Sánchez
(215) 686-3448, (215) 686-3449
District 8 - Councilwoman Donna Miller
(215) 686-3424, (215) 686-3425
District 9 - Councilwoman Marian B. Tasco
(215) 686-3454, (215) 686-3455
District 10 - Councilman Brian J. O'Neill
(215) 686-3422, (215) 686-3423
Councilmembers-At-Large
Councilman W. Wilson Goode, Jr.
(215) 686-3414, (215) 686-3415
Councilman William K. Greenlee
(215) 686-3446, (215) 686-3447
Councilman Bill Green
(215) 686-3420, (215) 686-3421
Councilman Jack Kelly
(215) 686-3452, (215) 686-3453
Councilman James Kenney
(215) 686-3450, (215) 686-3451
Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown
(215) 686-3438, (215) 686-3439
Councilman Frank Rizzo, Jr.
(215) 686-3440
About this E-Alert
Action today means protecting children tomorrow. PCCY sends regular e-alerts to keep our network up-to-date on important issues affecting children and families in our region. Please continue working with us to protect the lives and life chances of our region's children by taking action today.
President: Carolyn Adams
Executive Director: Shelly D. Yanoff
Communications Director: Sid Holmes
Webmaster: Steven E. Fynes
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