for for for for for good morning I call to order the meeting of the Philadelphia City commissioners Board of Elections for Wednesday February 19
2025 this meeting is in compliance with the Pennsylvania Sunshine act Philadelphia City commissioners are a three member bipartisan Board of elected officials in charge of Elections and voter registration for the city city of Philadelphia each commissioner is
elected to serve a four-year term that coincides with the municipal election cycle for the mayor and city council the commissioner set and enforce departmental policies to administer voter registration and conduct elections in accordance with federal and state for the registration election laws the City
commissioners were created by the Pennsylvania assembly in 1711 with the focus on Taxation and held various regulatory Powers throughout the centuries the commissioner started maintaining voter list in 1799 and took on more election related responsibilities but didn't emerge into
its current form until the adoption of Philadelphia homo Charter in 1951 we will start off with public comments before beginning their comments commer shall state where they live or if they are not a resident in Philadelphia and that they are a 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 at my discretion public comment must concern matters on today's meeting
agenda finally it is my responsibility to preserve the order and theorum of the meetings as such profane slanderous discriminatory personal attacks will not be tolerated if you wish to make a public objection to a perceived Sunshine
act violation please raise your hand and I recognize you Outburst will not be t tolerated anyone wishing to author public comment please step forward hearing none we will now move to report from secretary for email public
comments secretary blin are there any email 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 our director operation Mr Joe Lynch
Good Morning Joe this is our public meeting update for February 19 202020 2025 at the election Warehouse voting machine service unit has been busy finishing up the blue Crest test and getting ready to begin working on repairs and preparation for
the upcoming primary election the E pole book unit continues to work on Express poll printer testing they also have Network testing scheduled for next week and nid peer-to-peer testing scheduled for March the election materials unit has
been working on to ensure that the supplies needed for our pole workers are ordered organized and ready for packing for our voter registration report for the election cycle to date we have processed 63,800 were paper all applications are
up to date Del and Spring G is currently reviewing all applications and correcting mistakes as necessary the County Board of elction is now accepted mailin and absentee ballot applications voters on the annual mailin and absentee list will be receiving their annual
applications in the mail shortly voters will will need to complete and return their applications to the County Board of Elections to continue to automatically receive their their either a mail in or absentee ballot for the election in
2025 voters May apply online rather than returning the paper application as yesterday we have approved 11,766 vote by mail applications of those 183 are paper applications and
11,583 are electronic applications we have a total of 2,678 electronic applications waited to be processed petitions for the upcoming Municipal primary elections are available on our website at vote.gov the County Board of Elections
office at City Hall Room 142 in r satellite elections office will be printing petition packets for anyone who needs assistance any democrat or republican interested and running for judge of Elections inspector of Elections City controller or district attorney will
need to complete and file their petitions with the County Board of Elections office room 142 the last day of circulate and file nomination petitions is March 11 2025 and the last day for candidates to withdraw is March 26 2025
petitions for judicial offices in the upcoming primary including Superior Court Commonwealth Court Court of Common Pleas Municipal Court are available from the Department of State the ballot drawing for municipal Council candidates will be held at 11:00
a.m. on Tuesday March 18th in city hall room 653 the PA Poli unit is actively preparing to reach out to PA Place locations and conduct field work to secure proof of residence in coordination with the voter registration
unit it will also consistently monitor these these sites in anticipation of the primary election the poor workers unit continues its winter training program which kicked off on January 21st the election board
training seminar schedule is posted on our website vote. f.g to date 1,634 pole workers have registered for the training with 1,2 54 already in attendance satellite election offices
are currently processing online request for mail and ballots while also assisting the public with petition requests additionally we have a community engagement event on February 20th 2025 Black History community resource night from 5: to 7 at our
satellite office number four located at 5610 Lancaster Avenue thanks that's all I have thanks commissioner thank you uh F your Dill do you have any questions I have none thank you secretary blin do you have any
questions I have none thank you I just had one question I guess about the testing are there any issues that we're seeing with the testing so far no it's just just basic issues and things like printers and stuff like that that they have to be reattached to the machine or if they're loose things like that the
normal wear and tear that they fix yeah overall is Pretty good overall it's good yes good thank Jo MH we will now proceed to new business we will Begin by considering our first agenda item a motion to adopt the proposed
polling place media policy is there a second second Commissioners do you have any comments before we proceed the vote thank you I have none I do not secretary blue Stein please call the
rule Vice chair de I vote I I vote I chairman seir I this motion passes and I would just like to thank the staff working together hand in hand uh with the legal department uh to get this uh media
policy done as well overdue that was the last item on our agenda before we adjourn commissioner dly do you have any other business to be raised at this meeting I have none thank you commissioner blin do you have any other business to be raised at this meeting I do not thank you thank you
Commissioners hearing no other business a motion to adjourn today's meeting is there a second second secretary bluee please call a Ru Vice chair d i I vote I chairman seir I this means a journ