GOVERNMENT REFORM AND THE COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY
This report was produced by the Committee of Seventy, which has been fighting for bettergovernment and fair elections in Philadelphia for more than a century.It is the second report in a series, “Roadmap to Reform.” The first, published in January 2009,offered solutions to unaddressed ethics problems and ideas for strengthening the city’scampaign finance law.Ethics reform and citizen participation have occupied the Committee of Seventy for the lastseveral years, but the current financial crisis has prompted us to move governmenteffectiveness higher on our agenda. The taxpayer dollars dealt with in this report are notmonumental, but we hope we can prompt innovation on a larger scale and advance the belief that government here can be remade despite severe political obstacles.The non-profit Committee of Seventy is aggressively non-partisan. Its work is overseen by a50-member Board of Directors and a smaller Executive Committee. Its funding comes largelyfrom foundations and from the business and legal communities. Daniel K. Fitzpatrick,President & CEO, Citizens Bank, Eastern PA/NJ/DE, is Chairman of the Board. ZacharyStalberg is President & CEO.Ellen Mattleman Kaplan, Vice President of the Committee of Seventy, managed thepreparation of this report. Writing and research were done by Sean Scully; Dave Warner,Jefferson K. Kim, Esquire, Raina S. Mehta, Esquire, Clark D. Robertson, Esquire and DawnL. Vahey, Esquire of White and Williams LLP. Seventy also appreciates the contributions of its law student interns: Jonathan Pron and Kevin Walker. Daniel Bright, Jonathan David andMiguel Williams also contributed.
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