By Wendy Ruderman, July, 10, 2015, Philly

CITY COMMISSION Chairman Anthony Clark, who is up for re-election in November, is hardly ever in his City Hall office, despite new work rules designed to crack down on no-show employees in his department.

The Daily News tried to track him down over six business days over the past two weeks, visiting his City Hall office each day at different times, morning and afternoon. Clark wasn't there. He wasn't on vacation, either, according to office staffers, who gave similar responses:

He's not available. He's not in. He's not here right now.

Asked repeatedly if Clark would be in later, one staffer or another replied, "I can't say for certain," or "I don't know for sure."

Clark did not respond to seven requests from the Daily News to comment.

"I think it's really a sad state of affairs," David Thornburgh, head of the watchdog group Committee of Seventy, said in a recent interview. "As part of your responsibilities of being a commissioner, you have to make yourself accessible to people. That ought to be the culture of the office."

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