Good morning and I call to order the meeting of the Philadelphia City Commissioners Board of Elections for Wednesday, April 30th, 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
commissioner set and enforce 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, but they
focused on taxation and held various regulatory powers throughout the centuries. The commissioner started maintaining border list in 1799 and took on more election related responsibilities but didn't emerge into its current form until the adaption of Philadelphia's home charter in 1951. We
will start off with public comments. Before beginning their comments, commenters will state where 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 at my discretion. Public comment must concern meetings 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'll recognize you. Outburst will not be tolerated. Anyone wishing to offer
public comment, please step forward. Hearing none, we will now move to report from secretary. Email public comments. Secretary Bluest team, 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 of operations, Mr. Joe Lynch. Morning, commissioners. Morning. This is our public meeting update for April 30th, 2025. For our voter registration report
regarding the current election cycle, we have processed 96,848 voter registration applications, of which 4,350 were submitted on paper. Delware and Spring Gardener is currently reviewing all applications and correcting any mistakes as necessary.
The name change of Teny Street to Lount Street has been completed and 12,673 ID cards were mailed at the end of last week. Street list will be available for distribution this Friday, May 2nd. The last day to register to
vote for the upcoming primary is Monday, May 5th. Our registration office at 520 North Columbus Boulevard will be open for anyone wishing to register in person until midnight. As of Tuesday, the County
Board of Elections approved 66,497 vote by mail and absentee applications, which is 2,389 added from last week's total. Of those 39,689 are paper applications and
26,88 are electronic applications. This total 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 and special election can apply for a
mail in or absentee ballot at vote.fill.gov. The deadline to apply is Tuesday, May 13 at 5:00 pm. Friday, May 9th, 2025 is the deadline for filing cycle 2, second Friday pre- primary campaign finance
reports. All candidate committees, political committees, or a committee contributing to candidates for office that have made expenditures to influence a city election must file a report. The bore workers unit is continuing our
spring training sessions and so far 2,468 pole workers have attended the training. Online training is now available. So far 564 com 564 have completed the training online. Thanks to
the involved at 17 program, we have placed 283 students as board workers. We will continue confirming poll workers for the election. We've already received confirmations for 7,710 pole workers, which is 85% of our
need. Thank you. That's all I have. Thank you, Vice Chair Dill. Do you have any questions? I have none. Secretary Blu, do you have any questions? I have none. Thank you. Thank you, Joe. This completes our old business for today's meeting. We will now proceed to new
business. We will begin by considering our first agenda item. A motion to authorize professional staff to establish mobile dropbox locations. A motion to authorize the professional staff to establish mobile drop box
events. Is there a second? Second. Does anyone have any comment before we proceed to vote? I secretary bluestein, please call the role. Vice Chair Daily. I I vote I chairman Spear I motion
passes. We now move to the next agenda item polling place changes. We will hear from Poland police investigate supervisor Charlie Strowman. Morning commissioners. Good morning. Good morning commissioners again. Good morning. So the first one on the agenda
is the sixth ward, the second division moving out of Angela Court Nursing Home to the Lucian Blackwell Community Center 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 W
6, division 2. Is there a second? Second. Secretary Blam, please call a role. Vice Chair Gilly. I. I vote I. Chairman Seir, I please proceed. Next one will be in the 11th ward first division moving at a Mount Calvary Refume Reform United Ministries to the
Cathedral of Faith Baptist Church and that is voter convenience. Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff, I move that we accept the poll and place change for award 11 division one. Is there a second? Second. Secretary Bling, please
call the role. Vice Chair Dy I. I vote I. Chairman Samir I. Please proceed. Next one is the 36 W to 23rd division moving out of Progressive Worship Center to the Arleene Thorp Town Homes and that is due to a refusal. Having heard the
recommendation of the professional staff, I move we accept the poll in place change for a ward 36 division 23. Is there a second? Second. Secretary Blues team, please call the rule. Vice Chair Dey I. I vote I. Chairman Spear I.
Please proceed. Next one is in the 40th word. the fourth division moving out of Bartram Village office PHA to the Richard Allen Preparatory Charter School and that is due to refusal due to construction. Having heard the recommendation of the professional
staff, I move that we accept the poll in place change for award 40 division 4. Is there a second? Secretary Blstein, please call a rule. Vice Chair Dy I. I vote I. Chairman Sabir I. Please proceed. The next two
all lumped together in the 40th ward, the 32nd division and the 41st division moving out of daycare. Your child's word to the Pastoralville Homes Community Center and they are both due to a refusal. Having heard the recommendation of the professional staff, I move that
we accept the poll in place change for ward 40, division 32 and 41. Is there a second? Second. Secretary Blstein, please call the role. Vice Chair Dy I. I vote I chairman Samir. I thank you Charlie. That was the last
item on our agenda before we adjourn. Vice Chair Dylan, do you have any other business to be raised at this meeting? I have none. Secretary Bluestein, do you have any other business to be raised this meeting? I have none. Thank you. I would like to uh recognize Rich. Stand up real quick,
Rich. Man, come on, man. Uh defin like to thank you man for your service. Um you know you was from that that group of uh 21 years. That's right. Thank you. We appreciate you and um you know you came from that group of former
commissioner to tagon. You know you guys know election and don't be a stranger. Nobody has my number. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you Rich. [Applause]
A motion that we adjourn today's meeting. Is there a second? Second. Secretary, please call a rule. Vice Chair Dey I. I vote I. Chairman Seir. I. This meeting is a journ.