Mayor Cherelle L. Parker

Philadelphians, I hear you! Our budget proposes a $7.1 Million investment to launch the ONE PHILLY POTHOLE SQUAD. @StreetsPhila will have more crews, more equipment, and more action to keep our roads in good repair. With dedicated maintenance teams in each of the city’s six highway districts, the Pothole Squad will respond faster and proactively patrol neighborhoods to fix potholes and roadway defects across Philadelphia!

Today, and every day, we salute all of the individuals who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedoms. We are directing that all flags across Philadelphia municipal buildings be lowered to half-staff in honor of our nation’s military for Memorial Day. God bless them and their families, God bless Philadelphia, our Commonwealth and our Country. 🇺🇸

Congratulations to @PhillyPolice Academy Classes 418 and 419! 💙 Thank you for your service to our City.

Our Fourth of July concert is a historic homecoming for many of Philadelphia’s brightest stars.   By uniting the vision of our city, the global broadcast and production of Scott Mirkin and @esmproductions, the unmatched musical legacy of @theroots and @livenationurban, and @wawa, the One Philly Unity Concert For America will celebrate the soul of Philadelphia and the spirit of our nation on a truly global scale.    There is no place to be other than Philly on July 4th! 🇺🇸

Real advocacy. Real impact.   Lifelong educators, lawyers, and parents have come together to weigh in and make the case on why this Rideshare tax truly matters for our schoolchildren. $1 can drive home funding that is desperately needed to make sure our students have the comprehensive environment they need to succeed.   This is more than just an extra fee for a ride. This is for our city’s schoolchildren and their futures. This is for saving crucial school-based jobs across @PHLschools.    Our kids are worth it!

Philly is the place to be on July 4! 🇺🇸 Get excited, tomorrow we announce all of the incredible celebrations we have in store for America’s 250th.

Polls are open Philly! Cast your votes and make your voice heard today. 🗳️

Through @America250_PA’s Bells Across PA initiative, the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) partnered with @muralarts and artist Akira Gordon to create a Liberty Bell design celebrating the nearly 29,000 City employees who keep the @PhiladelphiaGov moving every single day. Every face, silhouette, and detail reflected on this bell symbolizes the pride, unity, and dedication of our municipal workforce as we prepare to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary in the birthplace of our nation. This bell is for you. We hope that when you see it, you see yourself and the impact of your work. Thank you for all that you do for the people of Philadelphia. Come see and celebrate it on the newly redesigned Thomas Paine Plaza outside of the Municipal Services Building. #OnePhilly #America250 #BellsAcrossPA

With our One Philly, One Future Budget Town Halls, we bring real information to you – the residents, who pay the taxes that fund vital services to our City and Commonwealth. My Administration’s goal is to let you know how your local government is working for you, and to listen to you – really listen to you – on what you want, what you need, and what you value from your government in City Hall. It has been a truly gratifying experience meeting you all across Philadelphia, and I am honored to serve this great City! 8 down, 2 to go. See you at the next one! #OnePhilly

Dr. Constance E. Clayton was the superintendent I grew up with. A trailblazer who expected excellence and believed deeply that Philadelphia’s children were worth investing in. Yesterday was about more than honoring her name on a building. It was about honoring her legacy through action. If Dr. Clayton were here today, I believe she would want us continuing the work by fighting for the kind of education funding that students can see, touch, and feel in their classrooms every single day. That is how we honor her legacy in Philadelphia. By protecting progress for the next generation. 💙📚 #OnePhilly #OurKidsAreWorthIt

Real investment. Real opportunity. From one of the world's largest insurance companies in @ChubbNA, to global food brand @bonduellefoods, and nuclear science company, @TerraPower Isotopes, businesses are choosing Philadelphia. Companies like these show how the city is competing globally for growing businesses and new jobs that will open the door to greater economic opportunity. This is why we are investing in workforce development and making sure Philadelphians – ESPECIALLY those who have been left out of opportunity for too long – are first in line to benefit from this growth. That is how we build economic growth, prosperity, and security in Philadelphia — our economic GPS. We are open for business!

Market East matters to Philadelphia. When I look around and see the streetscape improvements, the 42 new trees planted, more than 8,800 feet of formerly vacant storefronts now activated from Meantime PHL with the creativity of local entrepreneurs, and nine new murals designed by local artists — this is what revival looks like. Thank you to every partner standing with us today for believing in this work and helping us bring visible progress to Market East!

From the beginning, we’ve said this has been about one thing: “Our kids are worth it.” Our proposed rideshare tax is about protecting the progress Philadelphia students, school-based educators, and staff have worked so hard to make. It would generate $48 million in new, recurring revenue to support our schools and invest in opportunity for young people today and into the future. Coupled with an adjustment to another levy on cell phone towers, they will generate $50.4 million in annual recurring revenues for schools and mean zero school-based job cuts. Because when funding falls short, students and the people who support them every day feel it first. And Philadelphia cannot afford to move backward.

Mother’s Day is about acknowledging the people who pour love, wisdom, strength, and care into others every single day. I am who I am because of the village that guided and poured into me along the way. I’m grateful for their inspiration that gives me the opportunity to pass those same lessons of love, faith, and community forward as Langston’s mom and as a leader. 💙 To the mothers, grandmothers, aunties, bonus moms, caregivers, and all mother figures without a formal title who show up with unconditional love, sacrifice, patience, and grace: know today, and every day, that your presence matters. The encouragement you give, the values you instill, and the steady support you provide helps to shape our families, strengthen our neighborhoods, and uplift our city every single day. Today, we celebrate you, we thank you, and we honor the love you pour into others. Keeping doing what you do, so that we’re inspired to keep being our the best of ourselves. Happy Mother’s Day, Philadelphia. 🌸

As Philadelphia 250 and Semiquincentennial celebrations begin, today was a reminder that the story of American democracy starts here. I was proud to welcome U.S. Transportation Secretary @SecDuffy and @USDOT to Philadelphia aboard the Freedom 250 Train at the historic @Amtrak William H. Gray III 30th Street Station, we welcomed fourth-grade students from Washington, D.C., along with students from @PHLschools McCall School, for a day of civic education connected to America’s 250th anniversary. The students then traveled to Carpenter’s Hall for a special Declaration of Independence signing ceremony and the opportunity to experience firsthand the places where our democracy took shape. Special thanks to First City Troop, @INDEPENDENCENHP , our own legendary citizen “Benjamin Franklin,” #PhillyPrideLady Brenda Emery Exon, and all our partners who helped bring history to life for the next generation.

Philadelphians cannot ignore the reality of homelessness on our streets. We cannot walk past it, accept it, or pretend it will solve itself. Our plan is focused on helping people get off the street and stay off by expanding homeless outreach through shelter access and more. Our proposed hotel tax increase would generate $20 million each year to support @PHLCityHomeless efforts, while adding about $4 to a $200 hotel room night. Because every Philadelphian deserves a city that is cleaner, safer, and rooted in dignity for all.

This week is about recognition, respect, and gratitude for a workforce that too often does its work out of sight. We celebrate Correctional Employees Week and the incredible workforce at @PhillyPrisons. Every day, we rely on you. Thank you for your service and your commitment to keeping Philadelphia safe.

For 96 years, the @DellMusicCenter has been one of the city’s great gathering places, where culture, community, and the Philadelphia sound come alive. Generations have come here for the music. But what keeps people coming back is — The feeling. The connection. The pride. The LEGACY. Preserving this legacy matters. That is why we are proposing $1 million in capital funding, to improve the grounds to modernize the experience, while honoring the Dell’s history in our City. None of it works without the great people of Philadelphia. Your support is what sustains this place. Your presence is what gives the Dell life. Let’s make sure the Dell is strong for the next 96!