State Representative BOYLE INTRODUCES BILL TO REMOVE STATE CONTROL Kevin J. Boyle State Representative • 172nd Legislative District P.O. Box 202172 OF PHILADELPHIA PARKING AUTHORITY Harrisburg, PA 17120-2172 Reform could return more money for Philly schools In January, along with State Rep. Stephen Kinsey, care coverage has left serious doubt among government Kevin J. I introduced a bill to eliminate state control of the officials and the public as to what the state board’s role INSIDE: Philadelphia Parking Authority by June 30, 2018. should have been in stopping the PPA’s unchecked power. Boyle stands up for working Serious questions of mismanagement and lack of the state All the while, the cash-strapped Philadelphia School families, middle class in Pa. board’s oversight have prompted an audit by state Auditor District remains one of the biggest losers. Promised to budget debate General Eugene DePasquale. The deadline proposed in bring in as much as $45 million annually from the PPA, Boyle working to combat my bill will give the Auditor General ample time to do his reports show the school district received as little as $2 heroin/opioid epidemic Boyle investigation and give local authorities time to determine million in one year. Shredder event May 20th whether or not the PPA should be returned to local control. I have formed a coalition with elected officials at the CAPITOL OFFICE: 226 Irvis Office Building • P.O. Box 202172 • Harrisburg, PA 17120-2172 • (717) 783-4944 Spring 2017 Two decades of patronage hiring and promotion practices, federal, state, and local level to call for major changes lpo.kl.0417 DISTRICT OFFICES: Fox Chase – 7801-A Hasbrook Ave. • Philadelphia, PA 19111 • (215) 695-1016 along with employee misconduct cover-ups and sexual within the PPA and my bill serves as the first step in Mayfair – 7420 Frankford Ave. • Philadelphia, PA 19136 • (215) 331-2600 harassment scandals, culminated when Vincent Fenerty allowing these overdue reforms. Jr. resigned last year. The high-level executive’s excessive The bill, H.B. 874, was referred to the Urban Affairs Email: [email protected] Website: www.pahouse.com/Boyle payout of unused vacation and compensatory time, Committee in March. unwarranted pension protection and 15-year health Rep. Boyle recites the SENIOR LUNCH Pledge of Allegiance on May 18th • 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. DEAR FRIENDS AND BOYLE STANDS UP FOR WORKING swearing-in day in January. Fox Chase Rec. Center RESIDENTS OF THE 172ND His priorities for the new 7901 Ridgeway St. • Philadelphia, PA 19111 FAMILIES, MIDDLE CLASS IN PA. session include education, Parking available at the Fox Chase LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT: BUDGET DEBATE law enforcement and Elementary School Thank you for once again putting your faith economic development. He As a member of the House Appropriations Committee, I have an added Entrance to the lot is on Rhawn St. in me to represent the district in Harrisburg. is also eager to continue voice on the state budget. I’m able to raise issues and ask questions of the championing legislation he Please RSVP to (215) 695-1016. As a lifelong resident of Philadelphia, it governor’s office, his cabinet secretaries and the heads of independent had previously introduced. is truly an honor to continue serving the state agencies. The new fiscal year starts July 1, and the 2017-18 budget This includes a continued people of Northeast Philadelphia and could be especially challenging, with up to a $3 billion deficit looming. focus on reducing the cost Rockledge. I am humbled by your support, of higher education, a bill and motivated to keep fighting for working- Issues I raised that would amend the state’s class values in Pennsylvania’s legislature. during this year’s hearings included: hate crimes law to include My legislative priorities for the new sexual orientation, and Support session include advocating for our police a bill that would address for Law Left: Rep. Boyle and officers, increasing education funding, and negligent property owners. Enforcement James Kennedy from continuing to invest in our neighborhoods Congressman Brendan and communities so that we all have a Higher Boyle’s office meet better place to live. Education with constituents at Funding the annual Rockledge REP. BOYLE’S OFFICE CAN HELP YOU WITH: I look forward to representing the 172nd Fall Festival and Car • Car registrations, special tags, handicap placards, titles and • Citations from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives District in Harrisburg this new season, and Basic Show. driver’s license applications for outstanding accomplishments and family milestones hearing concerns and opinions from you, Education Funding • Information on financial assistance for higher education • Inquiries about utilities and the Public Utility Commission my constituents. If you have an issue, need • Assistance in obtaining and completing state forms of all • Issues with insurance companies information, or would like to comment Economic Right: Rep. Boyle speaks kinds • Renewal of state-issued licenses or certifications on current legislation in Harrisburg, don’t Development at the opening of the new hesitate to call my office. My dedicated and • Voter registration and absentee ballot applications • Property Tax/Rent Rebate problems or questions continued on page 2... office for the Northeast professional staff will work to meet your • Unemployment compensation, disability and workers’ • Questions about the state lottery NORC (Naturally Occurring needs. Retirement Community), which compensation • PACE prescription-drug cards for senior citizens helps local seniors who want • Birth and death certificates • Consumer complaints to live independently in their • Issues with the Department of Human Services (food • Liquor Control Board concerns or questions From left, Congressman Brendan Boyle, own homes. The program is stamps, medical and income assistance) • Tours of the state Capitol for individuals or groups Lisa Shousky of Operation Bundle-Up and run by the Jewish Federation Rep. Boyle asks • Pennsylvania income tax questions or problems • Information about federal, state and local government Rep. Boyle display some of the warm coats of Greater Philadelphia in questions during and jackets collected at Rep. Boyle’s office partnership with Catholic • Requests for literature of all kinds – bills, regulations, agencies a state budget for the foster children in our community. Health Care Services. statutes, Pennsylvania maps, senior citizen information Any state government-related matters! hearing. ...continued from page 1 Support for Law Enforcement: Economic Development: Early and Basic Education Funding: Higher Education Funding: BOYLE PUSHES TO RESTORE During a budget hearing with the Pennsylvania State Police, I have been a strong advocate of increasing our state’s Budget cuts during the four years under then-Gov. Tom Pennsylvania’s state universities are consistently rated I vocalized my support for Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to charge revenue stream by implementing a fair tax on our state’s Corbett’s administration are responsible for a significant gap among the most expensive in the nation. Students and their HATE CRIMES LAW municipalities who do not pay for their own police and rely natural gas industry. I asked Revenue Secretary Eileen between the lowest- and highest-funded school districts families are not the only ones affected by high tuition costs. With the recent wave of hate-motivated crimes in on state police. Philadelphians pay about $600 million a year McNulty about missed revenue opportunities from our across the state. The funding disparity in Pennsylvania is Our state’s economic future is also jeopardized. I have our country – including the vandalism of about 100 for our police protection. Rockledge borough, which I also state’s failure to pass a severance tax on the Marcellus among the worst in the country. Secretary of Education introduced legislation to freeze tuition at our state funded tombstones at a Philadelphia Jewish cemetery – I represent, pays $1 million a year. I also asked about police Shale industry and she agreed with me that it has reached Pedro Rivera told me that there is a direct correlation universities until we can figure out a better funding model to believe it’s more important than ever to restore all of efforts to fight heroin and opioid trafficking in Philadelphia “hundreds and hundreds of millions” of dollars in lost funds. between our lagging student test scores and lost funding. sustain quality and affordable higher education in our state. and the region. I have continuously supported funding to implement a Pennsylvania’s hate crime law. universal pre-K and kindergarten program, as well as a The state Supreme Court struck down part of the law funding formula that restores the lost investment once made on a technicality in 2008. I have reintroduced my in our basic education system. bill (H.B. 505) that would have the law again cover crimes motivated by actual or perceived ancestry, BOYLE WORKING TO COMBAT BOYLE INTRODUCES MARCH FOR MEALS RESOLUTION, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, Gov. Tom Wolf signs Rep. Boyle’s bill expanding gender or gender identity. HEROIN/OPIOID EPIDEMIC RAISES AWARENESS OF SENIOR HUNGER emergency vehicle designations for both the Our dedicated law enforcement officials need this FOR THE COMMONWEALTH’S Every year the Meals on Wheels program sponsors the shed light on the many benefits our community programs Philadelphia Prison System and additional ranking tool restored so they can better prosecute and March for Meals campaign, designed to raise awareness of provide to protect the seniors in our community. members of emergency responder units. This new hopefully deter repeats of the cemetery vandalism YOUTH senior hunger and encourage action at the local level. Meals law will make our streets safer and help minimize and the brutal 2014 attack in Philadelphia that sent To celebrate March for Meals Month, I participated in Klein unnecessary danger for our emergency responders who on Wheels enables more than 100,000 Pennsylvania seniors two gay men to the hospital. One of the men had to Combating the current heroin and Life’s home delivery meal program and met many of the work tirelessly to protect our communities. The law also to remain more healthy and independent, saving billions of undergo surgery and have his jaw wired shut; the opioid epidemic afflicting our wonderful seniors in my district who rely on these important allows for high-ranking fire department officials to use dollars in health-care costs and allowing seniors to remain in communities has become a legislative programs. flashing lights in both official and private vehicles when other suffered bone fractures and cuts to his face. their own homes rather than relocating to a nursing facility. Enough is enough! priority for me. With more than 900 And once again, with the generous help of many local responding to emergencies. This is especially needed for overdose-related deaths in 2016 in Sadly, the program’s federal funding has been threatened residents, my office’s annual food drive donated more food volunteer forces, like those in Rockledge Borough. Philadelphia alone, our legislature, in the Trump administration’s federal budget proposal. My than ever before. Thank you again for all the donations our health experts, and our communities need to continue to resolution, H.R. 175, designated March 22, 2017 as March that benefit a local food pantry that serves more than 2,000 work together to fight this crisis. for Meals Day. This year it was more important than ever to Rep. Boyle rallies for safe staffing levels in families in our community. Earlier efforts to address our growing overdose crisis came hospitals and other health-care facilities with Far Left: Rep. when Pennsylvania Physician General Dr. Rachel Levine signed members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Boyle celebrates a standing order to allow the life-saving medication naloxone Nurses and Allied Professionals. March for Meals (also known as Narcan) to be purchased over the counter Month with Klein Life’s home- without a prescription to further combat the epidemic. This Rep. Boyle delivered meals drug can reverse overdoses for a short period to provide time to talks with program and get a person to a hospital. seniors at delivers a meal his annual Last fall, Gov. Wolf announced that the Department of Health to 92-year-old senior lunch provided 128 public high schools in the state with naloxone. Manya Perel. and expo last Yet, only one of those 128 schools to receive the life-saving September at Left: Rep. Boyle antidote was inside Philadelphia. the Villages delivers over 600 That is why I introduced legislation this year that would provide of Pine Valley pounds of food naloxone to all public schools in the Commonwealth. My bill in Fox Chase. collected during has already received support from more than two dozen other his annual Democrats and Republicans across the state. We need to make holiday food sure we prevent needless deaths caused by the prevalence and drive. proliferation of opioids, particularly among our most vulnerable residents. I also oppose repealing the federal Affordable Care Act because tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians would lose coverage for Above: Rep. Boyle was honored to speak at a women’s drug treatment. SHREDDER EVENT legislative event this winter. If you’d like to invite him to speak at a meeting of your organization, please call Additionally, if you or anyone you know is suffering from May 20th • 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. either of his offices at 215-695-1016 or 215-331-2600. opioid addiction, please call our office so we can make 7801 Hasbrook Ave. (outside the Fox Chase office) available to you the resources that exist solely to get help to Please limit your documents to only those that contain personal information. Right: Rep. Boyle enjoys meeting constituents at Mayfair’s those in need. You may bring up to 4 bags of documents to shred. annual Trunk or Treat event in October. ...continued from page 1 Support for Law Enforcement: Economic Development: Early and Basic Education Funding: Higher Education Funding: BOYLE PUSHES TO RESTORE During a budget hearing with the Pennsylvania State Police, I have been a strong advocate of increasing our state’s Budget cuts during the four years under then-Gov. Tom Pennsylvania’s state universities are consistently rated I vocalized my support for Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to charge revenue stream by implementing a fair tax on our state’s Corbett’s administration are responsible for a significant gap among the most expensive in the nation. Students and their HATE CRIMES LAW municipalities who do not pay for their own police and rely natural gas industry. I asked Revenue Secretary Eileen between the lowest- and highest-funded school districts families are not the only ones affected by high tuition costs. With the recent wave of hate-motivated crimes in on state police. Philadelphians pay about $600 million a year McNulty about missed revenue opportunities from our across the state. The funding disparity in Pennsylvania is Our state’s economic future is also jeopardized. I have our country – including the vandalism of about 100 for our police protection. Rockledge borough, which I also state’s failure to pass a severance tax on the Marcellus among the worst in the country. Secretary of Education introduced legislation to freeze tuition at our state funded tombstones at a Philadelphia Jewish cemetery – I represent, pays $1 million a year. I also asked about police Shale industry and she agreed with me that it has reached Pedro Rivera told me that there is a direct correlation universities until we can figure out a better funding model to believe it’s more important than ever to restore all of efforts to fight heroin and opioid trafficking in Philadelphia “hundreds and hundreds of millions” of dollars in lost funds. between our lagging student test scores and lost funding. sustain quality and affordable higher education in our state. and the region. I have continuously supported funding to implement a Pennsylvania’s hate crime law. universal pre-K and kindergarten program, as well as a The state Supreme Court struck down part of the law funding formula that restores the lost investment once made on a technicality in 2008. I have reintroduced my in our basic education system. bill (H.B. 505) that would have the law again cover crimes motivated by actual or perceived ancestry, BOYLE WORKING TO COMBAT BOYLE INTRODUCES MARCH FOR MEALS RESOLUTION, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, Gov. Tom Wolf signs Rep. Boyle’s bill expanding gender or gender identity. HEROIN/OPIOID EPIDEMIC RAISES AWARENESS OF SENIOR HUNGER emergency vehicle designations for both the Our dedicated law enforcement officials need this FOR THE COMMONWEALTH’S Every year the Meals on Wheels program sponsors the shed light on the many benefits our community programs Philadelphia Prison System and additional ranking tool restored so they can better prosecute and March for Meals campaign, designed to raise awareness of provide to protect the seniors in our community. members of emergency responder units. This new hopefully deter repeats of the cemetery vandalism YOUTH senior hunger and encourage action at the local level. Meals law will make our streets safer and help minimize and the brutal 2014 attack in Philadelphia that sent To celebrate March for Meals Month, I participated in Klein unnecessary danger for our emergency responders who on Wheels enables more than 100,000 Pennsylvania seniors two gay men to the hospital. One of the men had to Combating the current heroin and Life’s home delivery meal program and met many of the work tirelessly to protect our communities. The law also to remain more healthy and independent, saving billions of undergo surgery and have his jaw wired shut; the opioid epidemic afflicting our wonderful seniors in my district who rely on these important allows for high-ranking fire department officials to use dollars in health-care costs and allowing seniors to remain in communities has become a legislative programs. flashing lights in both official and private vehicles when other suffered bone fractures and cuts to his face. their own homes rather than relocating to a nursing facility. Enough is enough! priority for me. With more than 900 And once again, with the generous help of many local responding to emergencies. This is especially needed for overdose-related deaths in 2016 in Sadly, the program’s federal funding has been threatened residents, my office’s annual food drive donated more food volunteer forces, like those in Rockledge Borough. Philadelphia alone, our legislature, in the Trump administration’s federal budget proposal. My than ever before. Thank you again for all the donations our health experts, and our communities need to continue to resolution, H.R. 175, designated March 22, 2017 as March that benefit a local food pantry that serves more than 2,000 work together to fight this crisis. for Meals Day. This year it was more important than ever to Rep. Boyle rallies for safe staffing levels in families in our community. Earlier efforts to address our growing overdose crisis came hospitals and other health-care facilities with Far Left: Rep. when Pennsylvania Physician General Dr. Rachel Levine signed members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Boyle celebrates a standing order to allow the life-saving medication naloxone Nurses and Allied Professionals. March for Meals (also known as Narcan) to be purchased over the counter Month with Klein Life’s home- without a prescription to further combat the epidemic. This Rep. Boyle delivered meals drug can reverse overdoses for a short period to provide time to talks with program and get a person to a hospital. seniors at delivers a meal his annual Last fall, Gov. Wolf announced that the Department of Health to 92-year-old senior lunch provided 128 public high schools in the state with naloxone. Manya Perel. and expo last Yet, only one of those 128 schools to receive the life-saving September at Left: Rep. Boyle antidote was inside Philadelphia. the Villages delivers over 600 That is why I introduced legislation this year that would provide of Pine Valley pounds of food naloxone to all public schools in the Commonwealth. My bill in Fox Chase. collected during has already received support from more than two dozen other his annual Democrats and Republicans across the state. We need to make holiday food sure we prevent needless deaths caused by the prevalence and drive. proliferation of opioids, particularly among our most vulnerable residents. I also oppose repealing the federal Affordable Care Act because tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians would lose coverage for Above: Rep. Boyle was honored to speak at a women’s drug treatment. SHREDDER EVENT legislative event this winter. If you’d like to invite him to speak at a meeting of your organization, please call Additionally, if you or anyone you know is suffering from May 20th • 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. either of his offices at 215-695-1016 or 215-331-2600. opioid addiction, please call our office so we can make 7801 Hasbrook Ave. (outside the Fox Chase office) available to you the resources that exist solely to get help to Please limit your documents to only those that contain personal information. Right: Rep. Boyle enjoys meeting constituents at Mayfair’s those in need. You may bring up to 4 bags of documents to shred. annual Trunk or Treat event in October. ...continued from page 1 Support for Law Enforcement: Economic Development: Early and Basic Education Funding: Higher Education Funding: BOYLE PUSHES TO RESTORE During a budget hearing with the Pennsylvania State Police, I have been a strong advocate of increasing our state’s Budget cuts during the four years under then-Gov. Tom Pennsylvania’s state universities are consistently rated I vocalized my support for Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to charge revenue stream by implementing a fair tax on our state’s Corbett’s administration are responsible for a significant gap among the most expensive in the nation. Students and their HATE CRIMES LAW municipalities who do not pay for their own police and rely natural gas industry. I asked Revenue Secretary Eileen between the lowest- and highest-funded school districts families are not the only ones affected by high tuition costs. With the recent wave of hate-motivated crimes in on state police. Philadelphians pay about $600 million a year McNulty about missed revenue opportunities from our across the state. The funding disparity in Pennsylvania is Our state’s economic future is also jeopardized. I have our country – including the vandalism of about 100 for our police protection. Rockledge borough, which I also state’s failure to pass a severance tax on the Marcellus among the worst in the country. Secretary of Education introduced legislation to freeze tuition at our state funded tombstones at a Philadelphia Jewish cemetery – I represent, pays $1 million a year. I also asked about police Shale industry and she agreed with me that it has reached Pedro Rivera told me that there is a direct correlation universities until we can figure out a better funding model to believe it’s more important than ever to restore all of efforts to fight heroin and opioid trafficking in Philadelphia “hundreds and hundreds of millions” of dollars in lost funds. between our lagging student test scores and lost funding. sustain quality and affordable higher education in our state. and the region. I have continuously supported funding to implement a Pennsylvania’s hate crime law. universal pre-K and kindergarten program, as well as a The state Supreme Court struck down part of the law funding formula that restores the lost investment once made on a technicality in 2008. I have reintroduced my in our basic education system. bill (H.B. 505) that would have the law again cover crimes motivated by actual or perceived ancestry, BOYLE WORKING TO COMBAT BOYLE INTRODUCES MARCH FOR MEALS RESOLUTION, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, Gov. Tom Wolf signs Rep. Boyle’s bill expanding gender or gender identity. HEROIN/OPIOID EPIDEMIC RAISES AWARENESS OF SENIOR HUNGER emergency vehicle designations for both the Our dedicated law enforcement officials need this FOR THE COMMONWEALTH’S Every year the Meals on Wheels program sponsors the shed light on the many benefits our community programs Philadelphia Prison System and additional ranking tool restored so they can better prosecute and March for Meals campaign, designed to raise awareness of provide to protect the seniors in our community. members of emergency responder units. This new hopefully deter repeats of the cemetery vandalism YOUTH senior hunger and encourage action at the local level. Meals law will make our streets safer and help minimize and the brutal 2014 attack in Philadelphia that sent To celebrate March for Meals Month, I participated in Klein unnecessary danger for our emergency responders who on Wheels enables more than 100,000 Pennsylvania seniors two gay men to the hospital. One of the men had to Combating the current heroin and Life’s home delivery meal program and met many of the work tirelessly to protect our communities. The law also to remain more healthy and independent, saving billions of undergo surgery and have his jaw wired shut; the opioid epidemic afflicting our wonderful seniors in my district who rely on these important allows for high-ranking fire department officials to use dollars in health-care costs and allowing seniors to remain in communities has become a legislative programs. flashing lights in both official and private vehicles when other suffered bone fractures and cuts to his face. their own homes rather than relocating to a nursing facility. Enough is enough! priority for me. With more than 900 And once again, with the generous help of many local responding to emergencies. This is especially needed for overdose-related deaths in 2016 in Sadly, the program’s federal funding has been threatened residents, my office’s annual food drive donated more food volunteer forces, like those in Rockledge Borough. Philadelphia alone, our legislature, in the Trump administration’s federal budget proposal. My than ever before. Thank you again for all the donations our health experts, and our communities need to continue to resolution, H.R. 175, designated March 22, 2017 as March that benefit a local food pantry that serves more than 2,000 work together to fight this crisis. for Meals Day. This year it was more important than ever to Rep. Boyle rallies for safe staffing levels in families in our community. Earlier efforts to address our growing overdose crisis came hospitals and other health-care facilities with Far Left: Rep. when Pennsylvania Physician General Dr. Rachel Levine signed members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Boyle celebrates a standing order to allow the life-saving medication naloxone Nurses and Allied Professionals. March for Meals (also known as Narcan) to be purchased over the counter Month with Klein Life’s home- without a prescription to further combat the epidemic. This Rep. Boyle delivered meals drug can reverse overdoses for a short period to provide time to talks with program and get a person to a hospital. seniors at delivers a meal his annual Last fall, Gov. Wolf announced that the Department of Health to 92-year-old senior lunch provided 128 public high schools in the state with naloxone. Manya Perel. and expo last Yet, only one of those 128 schools to receive the life-saving September at Left: Rep. Boyle antidote was inside Philadelphia. the Villages delivers over 600 That is why I introduced legislation this year that would provide of Pine Valley pounds of food naloxone to all public schools in the Commonwealth. My bill in Fox Chase. collected during has already received support from more than two dozen other his annual Democrats and Republicans across the state. We need to make holiday food sure we prevent needless deaths caused by the prevalence and drive. proliferation of opioids, particularly among our most vulnerable residents. I also oppose repealing the federal Affordable Care Act because tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians would lose coverage for Above: Rep. Boyle was honored to speak at a women’s drug treatment. SHREDDER EVENT legislative event this winter. If you’d like to invite him to speak at a meeting of your organization, please call Additionally, if you or anyone you know is suffering from May 20th • 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. either of his offices at 215-695-1016 or 215-331-2600. opioid addiction, please call our office so we can make 7801 Hasbrook Ave. (outside the Fox Chase office) available to you the resources that exist solely to get help to Please limit your documents to only those that contain personal information. Right: Rep. Boyle enjoys meeting constituents at Mayfair’s those in need. You may bring up to 4 bags of documents to shred. annual Trunk or Treat event in October. State Representative BOYLE INTRODUCES BILL TO REMOVE STATE CONTROL Kevin J. Boyle State Representative • 172nd Legislative District P.O. Box 202172 OF PHILADELPHIA PARKING AUTHORITY Harrisburg, PA 17120-2172 Reform could return more money for Philly schools In January, along with State Rep. Stephen Kinsey, care coverage has left serious doubt among government Kevin J. I introduced a bill to eliminate state control of the officials and the public as to what the state board’s role INSIDE: Philadelphia Parking Authority by June 30, 2018. should have been in stopping the PPA’s unchecked power. Boyle stands up for working Serious questions of mismanagement and lack of the state All the while, the cash-strapped Philadelphia School families, middle class in Pa. board’s oversight have prompted an audit by state Auditor District remains one of the biggest losers. Promised to budget debate General Eugene DePasquale. The deadline proposed in bring in as much as $45 million annually from the PPA, Boyle working to combat my bill will give the Auditor General ample time to do his reports show the school district received as little as $2 heroin/opioid epidemic Boyle investigation and give local authorities time to determine million in one year. Shredder event May 20th whether or not the PPA should be returned to local control. I have formed a coalition with elected officials at the CAPITOL OFFICE: 226 Irvis Office Building • P.O. Box 202172 • Harrisburg, PA 17120-2172 • (717) 783-4944 Spring 2017 Two decades of patronage hiring and promotion practices, federal, state, and local level to call for major changes lpo.kl.0417 DISTRICT OFFICES: Fox Chase – 7801-A Hasbrook Ave. • Philadelphia, PA 19111 • (215) 695-1016 along with employee misconduct cover-ups and sexual within the PPA and my bill serves as the first step in Mayfair – 7420 Frankford Ave. • Philadelphia, PA 19136 • (215) 331-2600 harassment scandals, culminated when Vincent Fenerty allowing these overdue reforms. Jr. resigned last year. The high-level executive’s excessive The bill, H.B. 874, was referred to the Urban Affairs Email: [email protected] Website: www.pahouse.com/Boyle payout of unused vacation and compensatory time, Committee in March. unwarranted pension protection and 15-year health Rep. Boyle recites the SENIOR LUNCH Pledge of Allegiance on May 18th • 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. DEAR FRIENDS AND BOYLE STANDS UP FOR WORKING swearing-in day in January. Fox Chase Rec. Center RESIDENTS OF THE 172ND His priorities for the new 7901 Ridgeway St. • Philadelphia, PA 19111 FAMILIES, MIDDLE CLASS IN PA. session include education, Parking available at the Fox Chase LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT: BUDGET DEBATE law enforcement and Elementary School Thank you for once again putting your faith economic development. He As a member of the House Appropriations Committee, I have an added Entrance to the lot is on Rhawn St. in me to represent the district in Harrisburg. is also eager to continue voice on the state budget. I’m able to raise issues and ask questions of the championing legislation he Please RSVP to (215) 695-1016. As a lifelong resident of Philadelphia, it governor’s office, his cabinet secretaries and the heads of independent had previously introduced. is truly an honor to continue serving the state agencies. The new fiscal year starts July 1, and the 2017-18 budget This includes a continued people of Northeast Philadelphia and could be especially challenging, with up to a $3 billion deficit looming. focus on reducing the cost Rockledge. I am humbled by your support, of higher education, a bill and motivated to keep fighting for working- Issues I raised that would amend the state’s class values in Pennsylvania’s legislature. during this year’s hearings included: hate crimes law to include My legislative priorities for the new sexual orientation, and Support session include advocating for our police a bill that would address for Law Left: Rep. Boyle and officers, increasing education funding, and negligent property owners. Enforcement James Kennedy from continuing to invest in our neighborhoods Congressman Brendan and communities so that we all have a Higher Boyle’s office meet better place to live. Education with constituents at Funding the annual Rockledge REP. BOYLE’S OFFICE CAN HELP YOU WITH: I look forward to representing the 172nd Fall Festival and Car • Car registrations, special tags, handicap placards, titles and • Citations from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives District in Harrisburg this new season, and Basic Show. driver’s license applications for outstanding accomplishments and family milestones hearing concerns and opinions from you, Education Funding • Information on financial assistance for higher education • Inquiries about utilities and the Public Utility Commission my constituents. If you have an issue, need • Assistance in obtaining and completing state forms of all • Issues with insurance companies information, or would like to comment Economic Right: Rep. Boyle speaks kinds • Renewal of state-issued licenses or certifications on current legislation in Harrisburg, don’t Development at the opening of the new hesitate to call my office. My dedicated and • Voter registration and absentee ballot applications • Property Tax/Rent Rebate problems or questions continued on page 2... office for the Northeast professional staff will work to meet your • Unemployment compensation, disability and workers’ • Questions about the state lottery NORC (Naturally Occurring needs. Retirement Community), which compensation • PACE prescription-drug cards for senior citizens helps local seniors who want • Birth and death certificates • Consumer complaints to live independently in their • Issues with the Department of Human Services (food • Liquor Control Board concerns or questions From left, Congressman Brendan Boyle, own homes. The program is stamps, medical and income assistance) • Tours of the state Capitol for individuals or groups Lisa Shousky of Operation Bundle-Up and run by the Jewish Federation Rep. Boyle asks • Pennsylvania income tax questions or problems • Information about federal, state and local government Rep. Boyle display some of the warm coats of Greater Philadelphia in questions during and jackets collected at Rep. Boyle’s office partnership with Catholic • Requests for literature of all kinds – bills, regulations, agencies a state budget for the foster children in our community. Health Care Services. statutes, Pennsylvania maps, senior citizen information Any state government-related matters! hearing. State Representative BOYLE INTRODUCES BILL TO REMOVE STATE CONTROL Kevin J. Boyle State Representative • 172nd Legislative District P.O. Box 202172 OF PHILADELPHIA PARKING AUTHORITY Harrisburg, PA 17120-2172 Reform could return more money for Philly schools In January, along with State Rep. Stephen Kinsey, care coverage has left serious doubt among government Kevin J. I introduced a bill to eliminate state control of the officials and the public as to what the state board’s role INSIDE: Philadelphia Parking Authority by June 30, 2018. should have been in stopping the PPA’s unchecked power. Boyle stands up for working Serious questions of mismanagement and lack of the state All the while, the cash-strapped Philadelphia School families, middle class in Pa. board’s oversight have prompted an audit by state Auditor District remains one of the biggest losers. Promised to budget debate General Eugene DePasquale. The deadline proposed in bring in as much as $45 million annually from the PPA, Boyle working to combat my bill will give the Auditor General ample time to do his reports show the school district received as little as $2 heroin/opioid epidemic Boyle investigation and give local authorities time to determine million in one year. Shredder event May 20th whether or not the PPA should be returned to local control. I have formed a coalition with elected officials at the CAPITOL OFFICE: 226 Irvis Office Building • P.O. Box 202172 • Harrisburg, PA 17120-2172 • (717) 783-4944 Spring 2017 Two decades of patronage hiring and promotion practices, federal, state, and local level to call for major changes lpo.kl.0417 DISTRICT OFFICES: Fox Chase – 7801-A Hasbrook Ave. • Philadelphia, PA 19111 • (215) 695-1016 along with employee misconduct cover-ups and sexual within the PPA and my bill serves as the first step in Mayfair – 7420 Frankford Ave. • Philadelphia, PA 19136 • (215) 331-2600 harassment scandals, culminated when Vincent Fenerty allowing these overdue reforms. Jr. resigned last year. The high-level executive’s excessive The bill, H.B. 874, was referred to the Urban Affairs Email: [email protected] Website: www.pahouse.com/Boyle payout of unused vacation and compensatory time, Committee in March. unwarranted pension protection and 15-year health Rep. Boyle recites the SENIOR LUNCH Pledge of Allegiance on May 18th • 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. DEAR FRIENDS AND BOYLE STANDS UP FOR WORKING swearing-in day in January. Fox Chase Rec. Center RESIDENTS OF THE 172ND His priorities for the new 7901 Ridgeway St. • Philadelphia, PA 19111 FAMILIES, MIDDLE CLASS IN PA. session include education, Parking available at the Fox Chase LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT: BUDGET DEBATE law enforcement and Elementary School Thank you for once again putting your faith economic development. He As a member of the House Appropriations Committee, I have an added Entrance to the lot is on Rhawn St. in me to represent the district in Harrisburg. is also eager to continue voice on the state budget. I’m able to raise issues and ask questions of the championing legislation he Please RSVP to (215) 695-1016. As a lifelong resident of Philadelphia, it governor’s office, his cabinet secretaries and the heads of independent had previously introduced. is truly an honor to continue serving the state agencies. The new fiscal year starts July 1, and the 2017-18 budget This includes a continued people of Northeast Philadelphia and could be especially challenging, with up to a $3 billion deficit looming. focus on reducing the cost Rockledge. I am humbled by your support, of higher education, a bill and motivated to keep fighting for working- Issues I raised that would amend the state’s class values in Pennsylvania’s legislature. during this year’s hearings included: hate crimes law to include My legislative priorities for the new sexual orientation, and Support session include advocating for our police a bill that would address for Law Left: Rep. Boyle and officers, increasing education funding, and negligent property owners. Enforcement James Kennedy from continuing to invest in our neighborhoods Congressman Brendan and communities so that we all have a Higher Boyle’s office meet better place to live. Education with constituents at Funding the annual Rockledge REP. BOYLE’S OFFICE CAN HELP YOU WITH: I look forward to representing the 172nd Fall Festival and Car • Car registrations, special tags, handicap placards, titles and • Citations from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives District in Harrisburg this new season, and Basic Show. driver’s license applications for outstanding accomplishments and family milestones hearing concerns and opinions from you, Education Funding • Information on financial assistance for higher education • Inquiries about utilities and the Public Utility Commission my constituents. If you have an issue, need • Assistance in obtaining and completing state forms of all • Issues with insurance companies information, or would like to comment Economic Right: Rep. Boyle speaks kinds • Renewal of state-issued licenses or certifications on current legislation in Harrisburg, don’t Development at the opening of the new hesitate to call my office. My dedicated and • Voter registration and absentee ballot applications • Property Tax/Rent Rebate problems or questions continued on page 2... office for the Northeast professional staff will work to meet your • Unemployment compensation, disability and workers’ • Questions about the state lottery NORC (Naturally Occurring needs. Retirement Community), which compensation • PACE prescription-drug cards for senior citizens helps local seniors who want • Birth and death certificates • Consumer complaints to live independently in their • Issues with the Department of Human Services (food • Liquor Control Board concerns or questions From left, Congressman Brendan Boyle, own homes. The program is stamps, medical and income assistance) • Tours of the state Capitol for individuals or groups Lisa Shousky of Operation Bundle-Up and run by the Jewish Federation Rep. Boyle asks • Pennsylvania income tax questions or problems • Information about federal, state and local government Rep. Boyle display some of the warm coats of Greater Philadelphia in questions during and jackets collected at Rep. Boyle’s office partnership with Catholic • Requests for literature of all kinds – bills, regulations, agencies a state budget for the foster children in our community. Health Care Services. statutes, Pennsylvania maps, senior citizen information Any state government-related matters! hearing.