Kenney had plans. Then the pandemic hit. Can he avoid lame-duck status and get Philly ‘back on track’? Laura McCrystal, Sean Collins Walsh, The Philadelphia Inquirer Mayor Jim Kenney began his second term last year by promising citywide street sweeping, hiring Philadelphia’s first Black woman police commissioner with hopes of reforming the department, and proposing a budget that relied on a booming economy to continue the spending increases of his first term. That all feels like a long time ago. LIVE UPDATES VIRUS TRACKER This year he continues to face the raging pandemic that upended 2020, the resulting economic crisis, and calls to defund the police. Kenney said his goal for 2021 is just to get the city “back on track.” He said he also wants to focus on reducing gun violence, increasing school funding, improving policing, and reducing racial inequities.