GOODE Economic Opportunity Enforcement

Philadelphia City Council’s Commerce and Economic Development Committee has unanimously approved Councilman W. Wilson Goode, Jr.’s Economic Opportunity Enforcement Legislation, empowering City Council to bring debarment charges against city contractors for failure to make best and good faith efforts to implement economic opportunity plans.

The Philadelphia Code amendment will provide that Council may, by resolution, determine that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a participant, contractor, project developer, or applicant for or recipient of financial assistance has failed to comply with the economic opportunity provisions and should be subject to debarment.

The Nutter Administration testified in support of the legislation.