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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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Other actions actions from the April 26, 2000 meeting.

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Showing 1-3 of 3 actions from April 26, 2000

Council Action2000-04-26
Bill 000166

The enacted measure adds rules for newsstands on Philadelphia public sidewalks, including licensing, fees, location limits, size and design requirements, permitted sales and advertising, maintenance, and removal of abandoned or violating stands.

Amending Chapter 9-200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Commercial Activities on Streets," by adding a new section regulating the location, size, operation and maintenance of newsstands on the public sidewalk, and by making conforming amendments to other sections of the Chapter, all under certain terms and conditions.

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Council Action2000-04-26
Bill 000121

The enacted ordinance grants Cavalier Telephone Mid-Atlantic, LLC, and its successors permission to build, operate, maintain, replace, and remove telecommunications facilities in specified Philadelphia streets and public rights-of-way, including by using certain existing utility and transportation facilities with their owners’ permission.

Granting permission to Cavalier Telephone Mid-Atlantic, LLC, its successors and assigns to construct, maintain and operate, replace, and remove a telecommunications system along, over, in and under the public rights-of-way and City streets and/or to place such telecommunications system on or within the existing facilities owned by Bell Atlantic-PA, PECO Energy Company, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, CSX Corporation, Norfolk Southern, Consolidated Rail Corporation Shared Assets or other entity holding a grant pursuant to other City Ordinances; all under certain terms and conditions.

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Council Action2000-04-26
Resolution 000036

This lapsed resolution would have authorized Council’s Committee on Health and Human Services to hold hearings on Philadelphia’s welfare-to-work programs, including Transitional Work Programs, Philadelphia @ Work, and Work Opportunities.

Authorizing Council's Committee on Health and Human Services to hold hearings on the City of Philadelphia's welfare-to-work efforts, including the Transitional Work Programs, Philadelphia @ Work and Work Opportunities, and to investigate the effectiveness of such programs at placing and retaining former welfare recipients in permanent jobs that promote self-sufficiency, with specific attention focused on length of job programs, the appropriateness of wages paid, the practice of requiring attendance at unpaid training, and the retention rates of former welfare recipients placed into permanent jobs.

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