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For more than a year, a Reformers’ Roundtable of individuals and organizations pushing for positive change in Philadelphia has been working to craft the outlines of a reform agenda that focuses on principles that affect how decisions are made in Philadelphia and how the public participates in those decisions. The principles of the R.E.F.O.R.M. Agenda do not reflect a discussion of the priorities of our government or the use of our scarce resources. We do not recommend increasing funding for a certain program or increasing staffing for another. Rather, we set forth what we demand of our city government in terms of how it informs the citizenry about the work of its government and how it involves the citizenry in making governmental decisions. We have drafted the broad brushstrokes of this work in the form of a R.E.F.O.R.M. Compact. Philadelphians then logged in to help write and vote for the most important points within the compact which became the final R.E.F.O.R.M. Agenda.
What happened when?
March 15th - April 4th — Philadelphians edit the R.E.F.O.R.M. Agenda.
April 4th – April 20th — Philadelphians vote on which items will be the final R.E.F.O.R.M. Agenda.
April 20th – April 30th — Candidates respond to the R.E.F.O.R.M. Agenda.
May 8th — Candidates’ responses released! Voters can review the responses and print out their own R.E.F.O.R.M. Ballot.
May 15th — Election Day in Philadelphia. Candidates for Mayor, City Council, City Commissioners and Courts on the ballot.
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