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Nutter Not Appealing Firefighter Fund Order, Laid Off Teacher Seniority, Philly Rising Program

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 08/15/13 1:21 am | updated: 08/15/13 1:21 am

The Nutter Administration has decided not to fight last week's order from a city judge for increased payments to the firefighter's union health care fund. Because the Mayor is still appealing the firefighter's 2009 arbitration award, the union last week told a judge that their health care fund was nearly bone dry. The judge ordered the city to immediately provide a lump sum, $6.7 million payment, and to increase its monthly contribution per firefighter. Nutter said he feels it's more important for Commonwealth Court to focus on the entire appeal rather than on this ruling.

The leader of the cityâ€™s struggling school system wants to suspend rules that require laid-off workers to be rehired based on seniority, a move the teachers union said it would fight. Superintendent William Hite plans to ask the School Reform Commission to suspend parts of the state education code at an emergency meeting Thursday. The move would allow Hite more flexibility to hire back staffers at the buildings where they worked but only if the district gets the $50 million it has requested from city and state officials.

The Philly Rising program hosted its inaugural conference in Philadelphia Wednesday. Philly Rising is a program through which the city works with residents to improve life in neighborhoods with high instances of violent crimes. The program began in 2010, but this was the first year for the Philly Rising Conference. Preliminary data shows a decrease of crime in neighborhoods with active Philly Rising programs.

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