Penn, Jefferson, and Drexel should pay their fair share of property taxes

Incoming Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. must make identifying sources of sustained funding his highest priority… While PILOTs are voluntary, the superintendent and others are empowered to make an appeal to these institutions to ask them to voluntarily contribute. The practice of nonprofits making PILOTs to their municipal governments is not a new one. During Mayor Ed Rendell’s administration in the 1990s, Philadelphia nonprofits paid PILOTs to the city annually.