Good morning. Morning. Uh before we begin, uh wanted to reflect that uh Nick Custodio is sitting in on behalf of Vice Chair Lisa Dilly. So she still
is uh present proxy. Good morning. I call to order the meeting of the Philadelphia City Commissioners Board of Elections for Wednesday, April 16, 2025. This meeting is in compliance with the Pennsylvania Sunshine Act. The
Philadelphia City Commissioners are a three-member bipartisan board of elected officials in charge of elections and voter registration for the city of Philadelphia. Each commissioner is elected to serve a four-year term that coincides with the municipal election
cycle for mayor and city council. The commissioners set and enforced departmental policies to administer voter registration and conduct elections in accordance with federal and state voter registration election laws. The city commissioners were created by the Pennsylvania assembly in 1711 with a
focus on taxation and held various regulatory powers throughout the centuries. The commissioner started maintaining border list in 1799 and took on more election related responsibility but didn't emerge into its current form until the adoption of Philadelphia homeown charter in
1951. We will start off with public comments before beginning their comments. Commenters shall state whether they live or if they are not a resident of Philadelphia and that they are Philadelphia taxpayer. Public comment is not an opportunity for dialogue or Q&A.
It is public comment. a chance for you to tell us what you think. Each speaker will have two minutes to speak. However, I may extend the time in my discretion. Public comment must concern matters on today's meeting agenda. Finally, it is my responsibility to preserve the order
and decorum of meetings as such profane, slanderous, discriminatory, personal attacks will not be tolerated. If you wish to make a public objection to a perceived sunshine violation, please raise your hand and I will recognize you. Outburst will not be tolerated.
Anyone offered anyone wishing to offer public comment, please step forward. Hearing none, we will now move to a report from the secretary for email public comments. Commissioner Bluestein, are there any public comments? As of 9:45 a.m., there were no email public
comments. Thank you very much. We will now proceed to old business. First, we have a report from director's administration, Mr. Joseph Lynch. Morning commissioners. Morning. This is
our public meeting update for April 16, 2025. For our voter registration report for the election cycle to date, we have processed 89,766 voter registration applications. 4,150 were paper. Delware
and Spring Garden is currently reviewing all applications and correcting mistakes as necessary. As of Tuesday, the County Board of Elections has approved 62,769 vote bymail and absentee applications, which is
1,361 added from last week's total. Of those, 38,631 are paper applications and 24,138 are electronic applications. This includes military and civilian overseas voters. All processing
is currently up to date. Voters who would like to vote by mail for the May 20th municipal primary election can apply for a mailin or absentee ballot at vote.fill.gov. The deadline to apply is Tuesday, May 13th at 5:00
p.m. The poor workers unit is continuing our spring training sessions and so far 1,778 pole workers have participated. The full schedule for the for our election board training seminar is available online at
vote.fill.gov. Thanks to the involved thanks to the involved at 17 program, we have also been able to place 200 high school students as poll workers. We continue to conf we continue to confirming pole workers for the election. We've already received
confirmation for 7,267 pole workers. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, Secretary Bluestein, do you have any questions? I have none. Thank you. Nick, uh, Deputy Custodial,
do you have any questions? I have none. Thank you, Joe. That completes our old business. Uh, we will now proceed to new business. We will begin by considering our first agenda item. We hear from our polling place investigation supervisor, Charles
Strowman. Good morning, commissioners. Morning. I have 13 on the agenda today. The first three will be in the 21st ward, the 19th division, the 20th division, and the 27th division. All moving from the Epic
Church to the Roxboro Memorial Hospital, and that is due to a refusal. Having heard the recommendation of professional staff, I move that we accept the polling place change for war 21 division 19, 20, and 27. Is there a second? Second.
Second. Secretary Bluestein, please call a role. Vice Chair Dey I. I vote I. Chairman Zir. I please proceed. Next three will be in the 25th W. The fourth division, the fifth
division, and the seventh division. all moving from Richmond Library to the Richmond Elementary School and that is due to a refusal for a rebuild project. Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff, I move that we accept the polling place change for Ward
25, division 4, five, and seven. Is there a second? Second. Secretary Blueste, please call a role. Vice Chair Dey I. I vote I. Chairman Seir. Please proceed. Next one will be in the
27th ward, the second division moving from HMS school to the Pen Alexander School and that is due to a refusal due to scheduling conflict. Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff, I move that we
accept the polling place change for war 27 division 2. Is there a second? Second. Second. Secretary Blstein, please call the role. Vice Chair De. I vote I chairman Seir. Uh please proceed. Next one will be in the 29th
ward the second division moving out of the Shardswood town houses 2 to the Vogs big picture high school. It's a PHA area that's due to a refusal for a rebuild project. Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff, I move that we
accept the polling place change for W 29 division 2. Is there a second? Second. Secretary Bluest Team please call a role. Vice Chair Dey I. I vote I. Chairman Seir I. Please proceed. Next two will be in the 51st
ward the second division and the seventh division. Both moving out of Mastery Hardy Williams Charter School to the King Sessing Branch Library and that's back to the original location. Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff, I move that we
accept the poll and place change for wart 51 division 2 and division sec seven. Is there a second? Second. Secretary Bluestin, please call the role. Vice Chair Dey I. I vote I chairman Seabir. I please
proceed. Next one will be in the 51st ward again in the fifth division moving out of Kama Ge School to the King Cessing branch library back to the original location. Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff, I move that we accept the polling place change for
award 51 division 5. Is there a second? Second. Second. Secretary Blstein, please call a role. Vice Chair Dey I. I vote I. Chairman Seir I. Please proceed. Next one will be in the 52nd ward 13th division moving out of
settlement music school west to the Fair View Arms Apartments and that is due to refusal due to a scheduling conflict. Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff, I move that we accept the polling place change for wart 52nd division 13. Is there a second?
Second. Secretary Blues team, please call the role. Vice Chair Dey I. I vote I. Chairman sever uh please proceed. Last one will be in the 52nd ward again the 24th division moving
out of United Christian missing church to the Winfield place and that is due to a refusal. Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff I move that we accept the polling please change for wart 52nd division 24. Is
there a second? Second. Secretary blue team please call the role. Vice Chair Dey I I vote I chairman Seabir I thank you Charlie. You're welcome. Appreciate that. Okay this is uh that
was the last item on our agenda uh before we uh journ uh deputy custodial do you have any business to be raised this meeting? Uh I do not. Secretary Bluestin do you have any other business to be related to this meeting? I do not. Thank you. Hearing no other business. I motion to adjourn today's meeting. Is
there a second? Second. Secretary Bluestin, please call the role. Vice Chair Neely. I. I vote I. Chairman Zabir. Uh, this meeting is a journ. [Applause]