PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philly.com

SAM WOOD, PHILLY.COM
LAST UPDATED: Friday, September 18, 2015

With just over a week until Pope Francis and more than a million pilgrims converge on Philadelphia, event organizers have yet to finalize a contract with the city spelling out what costs they will bear.

Neither the World Meeting of Families nor the city would explain what is holding up negotiations.

“We are in active, regular, and daily discussions with our partners at the World Meeting of Families considering the contractual issues while doing all that needs to be done to prepare for this great event,” Mayor Nutter’s spokesman, Mark McDonald, said in a statement Thursday afternoon. “There will be a signed contract, and there’s nothing unusual about where we are now.”