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Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor

Published January 2, 2024 | Video Starts at 19:15

… manner that many thought would be impossible, you know, out of reach for someone like me. What do you mean? I mean, I want to say it out loud that I was born to a single teenage mother without my biological father present in my life. My grandparents raised me. Mommy. A domestic worker. A domestic worker from Manning, South Carolina. Daddy. A disabled Navy veteran from Accomac County, Virginia, who received public assistance. (19:15–19:21)

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“A quarter of our citizens are living in poverty.”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 33:21-33:25
“Mayor John F Street made the neighborhood transformation initiative a thing people will never forget.”
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“Mayor Jim Kennedy made improving parks, rec centers, and libraries his number one priority.”
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“Mayor Jim Kennedy understood that giving three and four-year-olds access to early childhood education would prepare them for kindergarten.”
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“Mayor Jim Kennedy's efforts to educate our children were not just through rebuild, but through Philadelphia PHL Pre K.”
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“I kept talking about a thing that a lot of people were laughing at me about. It was called intergovernmental cooperation and planning.”
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“If it was God's will and they gave me access to the opportunity to become mayor of this city of Philadelphia, that I alone wouldn't be able…”
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“I stand here as the 100th mayor of the city of Philadelphia, sixth largest city, birthplace of democracy.”
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“My grandparents raised me. Mommy, a domestic worker from Manning, South Carolina. Daddy, a disabled Navy veteran from Accomac County…”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 19:21-19:39
“My grandmother and my grandfather were on public assistance, that they had to receive food stamps and cash assistance to take care of me.”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 19:48-19:59
“I was the first college graduate in my family graduating from Lincoln University.”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 20:42-20:48
“I was the first graduate of an Ivy League institution acquiring a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania.”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 20:52-21:00
“I want to make sure that I talk about what I promise to the people of the city of Philadelphia.”
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“Despite the progress in lowering the number of homicides, we still have far too many senseless shootings, too much gun violence, and too…”
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“Our neighborhoods, they too have been struggling under lots of blight, illegal trash dumping and nuisances that, in essence, degrade the…”
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“We are going to be laser focused on developing and implementing solutions to address our challenges.”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 33:59-34:08
“You deserve to see your tax dollars at work in your neighborhoods in a way that you can all see, touch and feel.”
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“You deserve policies that come from the ground up, with the community involved at every step of the way.”
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“My administration will announce specific plans to increase the number of Philadelphia police officers on our streets.”
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“We can have community policing and strengthen those police and community relationships and we can have accountability at the same time.”
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“I'm also going to declare a public safety emergency.”
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“We are going to expeditiously get every available resource into neighborhoods struggling from scourges of crime, gun violence, drugs and…”
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“Our police commissioner, Kevin Bethel, he's going to deliver plans for those crises and other crimes like car theft, shoplifting.”
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“We are going to use a holistic approach to end in our city the crime, particularly the quality of life crimes that we have seen increase.”
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“We're going to have a data driven and research based approach that is put together by the best law enforcement and public health…”
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“We're going to make our city safe for the people who live here, who work here, and who come into our city from the suburbs and from across…”
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“We will launch a new approach to addressing quality of life issues like illegal short dumping, cleaning up litter and graffiti, fixing…”
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“We're going to expand a successful neighborhood based commercial corridor cleaning program called PHL Taking Care of Business.”
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“We are going to create a one front door opportunity for residents to access all city run home improvement programs in one place at one time.”
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“I talked about a goal of building 30,000 more units of housing.”
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“We're going to order a top to bottom review of the city's land bank to better understand the challenges of developing vacant and city owned…”
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“Within our first 100 days we're going to announce our PHL open for business initiative.”
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“We're going to reduce the rate red tape that it takes and how it makes it harder to do business here in our city by requiring every…”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 48:59-49:18
“Philadelphia is officially open for business.”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 49:40-49:44
“We're going to eliminate the college degree requirements for many city of Philadelphia jobs.”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 49:50-49:57
“We've started to do that already here in the City of Philadelphia for a solid employment opportunities.”
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“We can follow in the footsteps of Maryland along with our great commonwealth and our Governor Josh Shapiro.”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 50:23-50:32
“We're excited about under economic opportunity having something that we've never had in the city of Philadelphia before.”
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“We will have a direct appointment to the office of the Mayor.”
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“We're going to develop a comprehensive strategy to provide meaningful out of school programs and job opportunities for students.”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 52:04-52:14
“We're going to prepare strategy for school building modernization.”
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“We're going to be able to keep our schools open from 7:30 in the morning to 6pm at night, year round.”
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“We're going to do outreach, allowing my team and I to hear directly from those teachers and counselors and those principals.”
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“We're going to seek out committed citizens to serve our students as members of the school board.”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 54:48-54:58
“I have never seen here in the city of Philadelphia, an organized structure that allowed the administration to work directly with the…”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 55:50-56:05
“We will be establishing three roundtables and these three roundtables will each have working groups, subject matter experts.”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 56:05-56:16
“These roundtables will have active vehicles to make and implement new policy in this city.”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 57:00-57:07
“There will no longer be a tale of two cities in Philadelphia. We are going to close the gap between the haves and the have nots.”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 58:04-58:14
“We're going to put people on a path to self-sufficiency.”
Cherelle Parker delivers inaugural address as Philadelphia mayor | Uploaded January 2, 2024 | 58:13-58:18
“We need each and every one of you to be engaged when you get a call from your city government asking you to serve on a committee or on a…”
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“We need those blocks organized and we need you engaged.”
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“The vision was safer, cleaner, greener, with access to economic opportunity for all.”
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