PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia City Council Thursday passed a bill to help fund the festivities planned for 2026. Council also introduced and approved more than a dozen ceremonial resolutions.
March is officially Women’s History Month in the city of Philadelphia. It is also, now, Irish Heritage Month and Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
The council also recognized Teen Tech Week, Consumer Protection Week, and Women in Construction Week. Those were six of 17 so-called “privileged” resolutions approved this week, not to mention non-privileged ones condemning the Department of Government Efficiency in Washington and denouncing Rand Paul’s Right to Work Act, among others.
The time and resources that go into these gestures are compounded by the dozens of speakers who address them in public comments and the ceremonies that often accompany them, whether it be lengthy in-person presentations or street renamings. There is not a single member of council who doesn’t do them, including Council President Kenyatta Johnson, who has to get another member to introduce them for him.
He says he sees no problem.
“That’s just where we’re at as an institution and a legislative body,” he said.