Issue Papers
Periodically, PICA Staff create Issue Papers on topics relating to City management and the City’s economy or on issues impacting the City’s finances or performance. The following are the most recent + past issue papers PICA has released.
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Staff Report on City Staffing and Overtime
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COVID-19 Impact on City Employee Separations
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PICA 30 Years of Financial Oversight
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Fund Balance and Reserve Fund Comparison
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Study on Police-Court Overtime
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Study on Cost of DROP Program
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Staff Report on City Pension System
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Staff Report on City Department Performance
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
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)