Proposed Draft of Mayor Nutter's Speech on Budget Cuts

As mentioned earlier, Mayor Nutter is speaking today to the City of Philadelphia regarding some major budget cuts that will be taking place. According to the text in the draft of his speech as posted on 6ABC.com, some of the major changes will include: reducing police department overtime and leaving 200 vacant positions unfilled; reducing fire department overtime and cutting 5 engine companies and 2 ladder companies; closing 11 libraries and eliminating Sunday hours at three regional libraries; keeping all recreation centers open but in the summer closing 62 of 73 outdoor pools and 6 of 8 indoor pools and in the winter closing three ice rinks unless private funding can be secured; spending less money on street resurfacing and ending residential street cleaning, snow removal on tertiary streets, and bulk and tire collections; laying off more than 220 city employees and eliminating nearly 600 unfilled positions, more than 1,660 seasonal part-time jobs and about 570 contractual, non-city jobs.

Read the full transcript here.