Council actions
Philadelphia City Council actions
These are actions recorded in Legistar without a published member-by-member vote. They include unanimous decisions, procedural steps such as hearings, notices and amendments, and other entries such as referrals and signatures.
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Council actions
Unanimous actions actions from the March 9, 2000 meeting.
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The adopted resolution requested that Philadelphia, working with appropriate agencies and unions, distribute reminders to all City employees to complete their 2000 Census forms with their City payroll checks.
Requesting that the City of Philadelphia, in conjunction with the appropriate agencies and unions, distribute a reminder to all City employees to complete the 2000 Census forms, coinciding with distribution of the City payroll checks.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted resolution recognized March 2000 as American Red Cross Month in Philadelphia.
Recognizing March 2000 as American Red Cross Month.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The lapsed resolution would have authorized City Council’s Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold hearings about the cost of public transportation for Philadelphia students in grades seven through twelve.
Authorizing the Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold hearings into student transportation costs.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted resolution declares and celebrates March as Women’s History Month in Philadelphia, recognizing women’s contributions to the city and to social change.
Declaring and celebrating March as Women's History Month.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted resolution commends the Kemper Scholars Program and recognizes April 7–9, 2000, as “Kemper Scholar Days” in Philadelphia.
Commending the achievements of the Kemper Scholar Program and recognizing April 7 to April 9, 2000 as "Kemper Scholar Days" in Philadelphia.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance revises the City Plan by vacating specified portions of McNulty Road and Meeting House Road and creating dead-end turnarounds at their new termini.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 376 by striking from the City Plan and vacating a portion of McNulty road and a portion of Meeting House road, by placing on the City Plan a dead end turnaround at the terminus of McNulty road, and at the terminus of Meeting House road, by reserving and placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for drainage, water main and gas main purposes within the beds of Meeting House road and McNulty road being stricken under the authority of this Ordinance, by placing on the City Plan two (2) rights-of-way for drainage purposes and water main purposes and reserving and placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for drainage purposes within a portion of an existing right-of-way for water main purposes, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have created procedures for developing or using City-owned property at Philadelphia International Airport or Northeast Philadelphia Airport.
Amending Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Zoning and Planning," by amending Chapter 14-1500 entitled "Area Surrounding Airports" by adding a new Section 14-1503 entitled "Procedures for the Development or Use of City-Owned Airport Property" requiring City Council approval under certain circumstances for the construction of new City-owned or operated facilities or for the use of City-owned property, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have removed all designated vending locations on both sides of 11th Street and 12th Street between Arch Street and Chestnut Street in Center City.
Amending the Ordinance approved January 3, 1992 (Bill No. 1205-AA), which, pursuant to subsection 9-204(8)(a) of The Philadelphia Code, designates the locations in Center City at which vending is permitted, by deleting all permitted vendor locations on both sides of Eleventh street and Twelfth street between Arch street and Chestnut street, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed proposal would have amended Philadelphia’s prevailing-wage rules for contractors and subcontractors working on City contracts.
Amending Section 1 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 960823-AAA) approved June 1, 1998, entitled, "An Ordinance amending Title 17 of The Philadelphia Code entitled 'Contracts and Procurement,' by amending Section 17-107, entitled 'Contractors: Labor -Management Relationships,' by revising the prevailing wage ordinance, including extending the prevailing wage requirements to certain service contracts, revising administrative and reporting requirements, providing for payment to persons who file complaints and prohibiting discrimination against persons who file complaints, imposing costs for filing appeals, providing for enforcement by withholding certain sums due on contracts, providing for interest on underpayments of wages, and providing for increased penalties, all under certain terms and conditions."
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted bill amends the rules for institutions where Philadelphia may deposit City funds.
Amending Section 19-201 of The Philadelphia Code relating to "City Depositories," by clarifying and updating the list of institutions in which the City is authorized to deposit funds, and by amending certain conditions.
ORDERED PRINTED AND PLACED ON NEXT FIRST READING CALENDAR·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorized the Mayor to amend Philadelphia’s lease agreements with the Philadelphia Eagles and The Phillies concerning Veterans Stadium.
Authorizing the Mayor, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to enter into Amendments to the City's Lease Agreements with the Philadelphia Eagles Limited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership, and with The Phillies, a Pennsylvania limited partnership, co-tenants at City's Veterans Stadium, to provide for certain capital repairs, restorations and replacements to be made to Veterans Stadium in the event that ordinances necessary for the financing, development and leasing of a new football stadium and of a new baseball ballpark are not enacted by City Council and approved by the Mayor by November 3, 2000, all under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance extended until December 31, 2000, the deadline for meeting the conditions of a 1997 ordinance concerning changes to street lines and grades in the area around Poplar, Twelfth, Parrish, and Watts Streets.
Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 970348) approved July 1, 1997, entitled "An Ordinance authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 58 of an area bounded by Poplar street, Twelfth street, Parrish street and Watts street, by revising the lines and grades of Ogden street from Watts street to Thirteenth street and by striking from the City Plan and vacating Myrtle street from Twelfth street to Watts street, all under certain terms and conditions, including the dedication to the City of the unopened portions of the widened portions of Ogden street," by extending the period for compliance with the authorization conditions therein.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted measure adds a 2% tax on qualifying vehicle rentals when the renter takes possession of the vehicle in Philadelphia.
Amending Title 19 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Finance, Taxes and Collections," by adding a new Chapter imposing a tax on the rental of vehicles; all under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorized the Mayor to enter into agreements with the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development (PAID) involving a football practice facility to be developed at Broad Street and Pattison Avenue.
Authorizing the Mayor, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to enter into Agreements with the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development ("PAID") providing for lease from PAID to the City of a football practice facility to be developed at Broad street and Pattison avenue and for leaseback of the said practice facility from the City to PAID, the obligations of the City under the said Agreements to become effective only in the event that ordinances necessary for the financing, development and leasing of a new football stadium are not enacted by City Council and approved by the Mayor by November 3, 2000.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance allows licensed sidewalk cafés on Chestnut Street and Walnut Street between Broad Street and 18th Street without requiring a zoning certificate under the Center City commercial-area rules.
Amending Section 14-1607 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Special Controls for the Center City Commercial Area" by providing that nothing in that section shall prohibit the maintenance of, licensed sidewalk cafés along certain portions of Chestnut street and Walnut street and amending Section 9-208 of The Philadelphia Code entitled "Sidewalk Cafes", by requiring the main restaurant use more than twenty five percent (25%) of its interior gross floor area for seating and that all food served be on non-disposable containers.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance grants 6080 Ridge Avenue Corporation, operating as Coyle's Cafe, permission to operate an open-air sidewalk cafe next to 6080 Ridge Avenue on Ridge Avenue and Conarroe Street.
Granting permission to 6080 Ridge Avenue Corporation t/a Coyle's Cafe, located at 6080 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19128, to operate and maintain an open air sidewalk cafe on the west footway of Ridge Avenue and the south footway of Conarroe Street adjacent to 6080 Ridge Avenue, under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted bill amended the City Code to authorize the City Treasurer to deposit City funds in Pennsylvania Business Bank, subject to the listed terms and conditions.
Amending Section 19-201 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "City Depositories," by authorizing the City Treasurer to deposit funds in Pennsylvania Business Bank, under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This bill is recorded with a status of enacted.
Establishing a no truck parking regulation on Arrott street, both sides from Leiper street to Oakland street.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.