Issue Papers

Past Issue Papers:

2008-2012

• Philadelphia Fire Department Study (Report)
• Pennsylvania Convention Center Expansion Project Financial Impacts for State and City (Report)
• Consolidating Philadelphia’s Row Offices (Report)

2006-2007

• Facility Assessment Project (Report)

• City Budget Behind Bars (Report)

• Health/Medical Benefits: Burning a Hole in the Budget (Report)

• Look Before You Leap – The Fiscal Situation that Awaits the Next Mayor (Report)
• Reversing the Trend of Doing Too Little with Too Much: Maintaining the City’s Infrastructure While Reducing Its Dangerously High Debt Load (Report)

2004-2005

• An Ounce of Prevention: Managing the Ballooning Liability of Philadelphia’s Pension Fund (Report)
• From Virtual Realty to Full Value Realty: Preparing for Reassessment (Report)
• The Crime of Inefficiency: The Cost of Policing Philadelphia (Report)

1998-2000

• Philadelphia’s Fiscal Challenge: Finding A Way To Save (Report)

• Good Policy Demands Better Measurement: Philadelphia’s Economic Development Program (Report)

• Philadelphia Must Reduce Its Need for Tax Revenue (Report)

• The Adverse Consequences of Philadelphia’s Continuing Population Loss (Report)

• Caution: Severe Threats to Philadelphia’s Fund Balance Ahead (Report)

1995-1997

• Court Unification and State-Wide Funding: Future Five-Year Financial Plan, Implications for the City of Philadelphia (Report)

• Philadelphia Government Costs: Additional Reductions Required (Report)

• Revenue Stress in the City of Philadelphia (Report)

• Staff Report on the State Funding of the Department of Human Services (Report)
• Continuing Economic Decline: A Foreboding Future for Philadelphia (Report)