On Wednesday, the mayor of Cherielle L. Parker announced meetings for the 10 best positions in her administration, holding positions that were free from just a week – such as the main variety of the city, own and integration capital, which was released last week – and up to 16 months.
Parker called Kehinde “Kenny” Solanke another commissioner of the Behavioral Health Department and Intellectual Disability Philadelphia, or DBHIDS, who manages municipal services for Philadelphians struggling with abuse of substance and mental health and receives most federal funds addressed to the city. The role of Solanke was not full from March 2024, two months after taking up the Parker office.
“I enter this role with humility, a sense of urgency and deep commitment to the inhabitants of this city,” said Solanke, who will play a key role in Parker’s efforts to solve the opioid crisis in Kensington and other districts. “The city is invested in a wide ecosystem of well -being, which recognizes how behavioral health combines with safety, apartments and possibilities, and aims to give people a chance to treat, recover, develop and belonging.”
Solanke has been working for 26 years in the field of behavioral health of the community, a non-profit organization, which coordinates the scope of Medicaid in the field of behavioral health services in Philadelphia, and recently she was the senior director of activity, according to its LinkedIn profile.
The first day of Solanke with the city is September 2, and its salary will be $ 236,000.
Parker also announced on Wednesday that Donna Jackson Stephans will serve as an officer of momentary diversity, own capital and integration, earning USD 180,000 a year.
He replaces Branddee Anderson, who worked for less than a year before she and Tyrell Brown, director of LGBTQ, were released last week. Their termination took place after the inspector’s investigation into the “half -naked” photo, which was best put up by an administrative official, deputy chief of staff Christopher Dailey, sent to Brown in the cruise application.
Parker’s office refused to comment on the incident, citing the city’s confidentiality policy regarding personal matters.
Anderson spoke against its treatment of the city, speaking in an interview with Inquirer last week, that she was “unfair” and questioned the involvement of Parker’s administration in diversity, equality and inclusion.
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On Wednesday, Parker defended her approach to problems with Dei, asking viewers to “look” at the highest officials in her administration, including her three best helpers who are black women.
“I do not think that any reliable person can seriously doubt our Ironclad obligation in diversity, equality and inclusion,” she said.
Parker spokesman said that the administration “quickly” to cast a position on LGBTQ matters, Joe Grace. In the meantime, the main deputy mayor of Vanessa Garrett-Harley supervises the duties of a role, he said.
Matters of immigrants among “uncertainty”
During the next long -awaited nomination, Parker called Charlie Ellison as the director of the Immigrants Office in Philadelphia.
The form was empty since Amy Eusebio, who was appointed during the term of office of former mayor Jim Kenney, resigned days after the office took office by President Donald Trump in January.
Ellison, from South Philadelphia, Ellison, recently played the role of communication at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and previously worked at the Federal Emergency Management Management Administration office.
He said Ellison began with the SZYCIS in 2023 during the administration of President Joe Biden and gave way three weeks ago. He said that Ellison has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in public health at the Temple University, as well as the Spanish certificate at the Chilean University, which he won during his studies abroad.
Ellison is an operational sergeant of the National Guard and has served in the army for 23 years.
He started with the city on July 7, and his salary is $ 135,000.
Among the raids in the workplace by American immigration and enforcement of customs and threats of Trump, the excision of funds for “Temples of City”, including in Philadelphia, Parker said that she had committed to maintaining the policy of a affable city of immigrants, while avoiding a general approach, which may attract the anger of Trump.
Supporters of immigrants called her to a larger voice among Trump’s repression. Ellison seems to be on board the mayor’s approach.
“The city is currently at the best possible course,” Ellison said in a tiny interview, asked what tone the city should accept in relation to immigration in the Trump’s era.
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Neither Parker nor Ellison mentioned Trump by name during a Wednesday press conference.
“There is uncertainty in the air now. People do not know what to expect from their government,” said Parker. “Your city is here to ensure security and protect basic rights.”
In his prepared comments, Ellison discussed how the immigrant communities operate Philadelphia, but did not deal with federal repression on illegal immigration.
“The positive contribution of immigrants is visible in every neighborhood of our city,” said Ellison.
Additional meetings
Some meetings that Parker announced on Tuesday were previously known.
Renee Chenult-Fattah, the Kotwica and the NBC 10 lawyer, is the up-to-date executive director of Philadelphia Human Relaction Commission, the Municipal Citizenship Agency.
Parker appointed Elizabeth Lankinau as the director of the Bureau of Sustainable Development in Philadelphia, a role she had previously taken temporarily.
Leah Pora, who was previously a reporter from NBC 10, was appointed press secretary and deputy communication director. Parker called Cydney Irving-Dasent as the head of children and families for children and families in Philadelphia.
Greg Philips is a up-to-date operational director of the international Philadelphia airport, Nicole Morris is the deputy director of the Human Resources Office, and Mark Dodds is the deputy director of the Department of Manticular Housing and Community Development.
One of the positions that was not announced on Wednesday was the director of the Labor Department, which enforces the provisions on the protection of employees for all Philadelphians and helps to manage his own working force in the city.
When she took office last year, Parker tapped Perritti Divirgilio manage the agency. After retiring, Divirgilio Parker called Christopher Godfrey the work director at the beginning of this year, according to the main deputy mayor of Sinceré Harris.
Godfrey was with the city during an eight -day strike of municipal workers at the beginning of July, as well as during the negotiations of the contractual administration with the District Councils of 33 and 47 of the American Federation of State, Fun and Municipal Employees.
But Parker has never publicly announced his nomination, and Harris said that Godfrey had given way “because of his personal family reasons.” She said that the administration carried out national search to replace it.
