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Alan Butkovitz, City Controller

Prior to his election as Philadelphia City Controller in 2005, Alan Butkovitz served 15 years in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives where he acquired a reputation for hard work, independence and innovative ideas.

As a freshman lawmaker in 1991, Butkovitz led the fight against his own party's leaders to successfully repeal a tax that required senior citizens to include social security, pensions and veteran's benefits as taxable income. It was Butkovitz's proposal to create harsher penalties for drunk drivers who kill that became law and mandates ten year prison terms for any drunk driver who causes an automobile accident that results in a death.

Butkovitz was widely praised for leading a three year bi-partisan investigation into violence in Philadelphia public schools. He authored legislation creating the Office of the Safe School Advocate, the first of its kind in the nation with the authority to fight for victims of school violence and monitor the School District of Philadelphia's compliance with the Safe Schools Act.

Alan Butkovitz was born and raised in Philadelphia, he is a graduate of Overbrook High School, Temple University and Temple University School of Law. He is an attorney who lives with his wife Theresa and their two children Rachel and Edward in Northeast Philadelphia.