(1) Creation of Commission. The Philadelphia Community
Reinvestment Commission is hereby created as an agency in the City of
Philadelphia. The Commission shall be composed of fifteen (15) members who shall
serve without compensation, and its functions shall be to plan and implement
community reinvestment strategies for the City of Philadelphia. The Commission
shall review community reinvestment strategies including, but not limited to,
strategies for leveraging private investment from city depositories, Community
Development Block Grant spending, land reuse plans, and the creation of the
Philadelphia Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI)
Fund.
(2) Composition of Commission. The following persons shall be
appointed as members of The Philadelphia Community Reinvestment
Commission:
(a) The President of City Council or his/her
designee;
(b) The Chair of City Council's Committee on Finance or
his/her designee;
(c) The Chair of City Council's Committee on
Appropriations or his/her designee;
(d) The City's Director of
Finance or his/her designee;
(e) The Director of the City's
Office of Housing and Community Development or his/her
designee;
(f) The Director of the City's Redevelopment Authority
or his/her designee;
(g) The Presidents of the six (6) City
depositories with the largest share of the city's small business lending
market in low- and moderate-income areas (First Union National; PNC Bank, N.A.;
Mellon Bank; Sovereign Bank; Commerce Bank/ Pennsylvania, N.A.; and, Summit
Bank) or their designees;
(h) The President of the National Community
Capital Association or his/her designee representing the city's
CDFIs;
(i) The Executive Director of the Philadelphia Association of
Community Development Corporations or his/her designee representing the
city's community development corporations;
(j) The Executive
Director of the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition or his/her
designee.
In the event that any named organization shall decline to name
a representative or be unable to do so, the Mayor shall designate with the
approval of the City Council a successor organization of generally similar
character, which shall thereupon be entitled to select a member for appointment
to the Commission.
(3) Commission Officers. The Commission shall be
co-chaired by the City's Director of Finance and the President of a City
depository bank selected by the members of the Commission. Other officers may be
selected as deemed appropriate from among the members themselves. Officers shall
serve for two years and shall have such duties as the Commission may from time
to time designate.
(4) Targeted Investments in Women's Business
Development Finance.
[19] The Commission
shall target no less than 51% of the Philadelphia Community Development
Financial Institution Fund for small business capital investments; and no less
than 51% of small business capital investments for women's business
development finance.