Councilmembers Mike Driscoll and Jimmy Harrity introduced a resolution at Thursday’s Council session to create a task force to redesign the Philadelphia flag.
The blue and yellow stripes in Philadelphia's flag are a nod to the Swedish colony that occupied the Delaware Valley before William Penn founded his British colony.
Councilmembers Mike Driscoll and Jimmy Harrity introduced a resolution Thursday to create a task force on “city flag reform … in line with vexillological conventions.” has blue and yellow stripes — “the first and third shall be azure blue and the middle pale golden,” per city law — with the city seal at the center. The colors are a nod to the Swedish colony that occupied the Delaware Valley before William Penn founded his in 1682.
Harrity said he doesn’t have a specific idea for what a new flag could look like, but wanted to start the conversation. “It was more me and Mike spitballing that we didn’t like it,” he said. “It’s very old, and we can be a little more inclusive and stuff like that.”stating that Municipal Court Judge Wendy Pew’s ruling to dismiss charges against former Police Officer Mark Dial, who last month shot and killed Eddie Irizarry, was “erroneous.”
Resolutions like this are symbolic statements of Council’s stance on an issue, and they usually pass quickly. But Lozada declined to call it up for a vote this week, forgoing what could have been a tense debate over whether lawmakers should criticize another branch of municipal government.
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