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 October 19, 2000 meeting.
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Philadelphia City Council honored the Sisters of Saint Joseph, which is based in Philadelphia, as the organization celebrated 350 years of service.
Honoring the Sisters of Saint Joseph, which is based in Philadelphia, as they celebrate 350 years of dedicated and loving service.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer conditional ownership of four City-owned properties—2420 North Carlisle Street, 1538 West Seybert Street, and 2304 and 2306 North Tenth Street—to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority without payment.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Sixteenth, Thirty-seventh and Forty-seventh Wards, of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Philadelphia City Council declared October as Mural Arts Month in Philadelphia.
Declaring October as Mural Arts Month in Philadelphia.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted resolution honors and congratulates the Philadelphia Board of Education, the School District of Philadelphia, education organizations, and the Philadelphia Home and School Association for forming a partnership around the PASSBOOK coupon-book fundraising project.
Honoring and congratulating the Philadelphia Board of Education, the School District of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, the Commonwealth Association of School Administrators, and the Philadelphia Home and School Association on forming a unique partnership to raise funds for the School District of Philadelphia through the PASSBOOK Fund-Raising Coupon Book Project.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This adopted resolution urges the Federal Communications Commission to hold hearings and create measurable public-interest standards for television broadcasters using digital airwaves.
Urging the Federal Communications Commission to hold hearings to address public interest considerations for programming, especially as it relates to children and the disabled, and to further promulgate measurable standards that may be utilized by television broadcasters in exchange for their free use of the digital airwaves.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have authorized the Committee on Licenses and Inspections to hold hearings on improving coordination and record-sharing among City agencies.
Authorizing the Committee on Licenses and Inspections to hold hearings on ways to provide better coordination and access to records amongst City agencies and ways in which the Department of Licenses and Inspections can be more proactive for citizens through the increased use of the Internet.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
City Council adopted a resolution urging the Mayor of Philadelphia to return to the bargaining table and actively negotiate a mutually agreeable contract between the School District and the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT).
Urging the Mayor of Philadelphia to return to the bargaining table to actively negotiate a mutually agreeable new contract between the School District and the PFT.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes the City to transfer conditional ownership of 10 City-owned properties in several Philadelphia wards to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority without payment.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Third, Sixth, Twenty-seventh, Forty-fourth, Fifty-first and Sixtieth Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The adopted resolution approved the sale of about one-half acre, known as Parcel E-17A in the Eastwick Urban Renewal Area, from the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation and the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development to JLD, Inc.
Approving the action of the Boards of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation and the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development to sell Parcel E-17A, in the Eastwick Urban Renewal Area - Stage "A" Industrial, containing approximately one-half acre to JLD, Inc.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted measure changes how the City pays contractors for paving or repaving alleys and driveways and building or rebuilding retaining walls when the work is ordered to address a nuisance.
Amending Section 11-506 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Alleys, Driveways, and Retaining Walls," by providing additional methods by which the City may pay contractors the City hires to pave or repave alleys or driveways or to construct or reconstruct retaining walls pursuant to orders to abate nuisances, and by providing a maximum amount that property owners may be assessed for the costs of such work; all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance requires people applying for or renewing a Philadelphia license to carry a concealed firearm to report personal information and details about firearms registered to them and located at property they own, lease, or control.
Amending Title 10 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Regulation of Individual Conduct and Activity" by adding Section 10-828 entitled "Reporting Requirements Upon the Application or Renewal of a License to Carry a Firearm," by requiring upon the application or renewal of a license to carry a firearm concealed in a vehicle or one about the person of an individual, certain reporting requirements, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have required people licensed for certain street-based commercial activities—such as curb markets, street vending, sidewalk sales, sidewalk cafes, newsstands, and similar activities—to obtain written consent from the owner of the adjoining property and file that consent with the City.
Amending Chapter 9-200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Commercial Activities On Streets," by requiring persons licensed under that Chapter (including under Section 9-201 ("Curb Markets"); Section 9-203 ("Street Vendors"); Section 9-204 ("Sidewalk Vendors in Center City"); Section 9-205 ("Sidewalk Sales"); Section 9-206 ("Sidewalk Vendors in Neighborhood Business Districts"); Section 9-208 ("Sidewalk Cafes"); Section 9-210 ("Telephone Booths"); Section 9-211 ("Boxes for the Distribution of News and Printed Material"); and Section 9-212 ("Newsstands")) to obtain the consent of the property owner abutting the location at which the licensed commercial activities are conducted, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted bill authorizes the Water Commissioner to enter agreements with the owners and successors of the private street known as Paleski Road to grant the City a right-of-way for water mains.
To authorize the Water Commissioner on behalf of the City to enter into agreements with the owners of the properties and their successors of a "L" shaped private street known as "Paleski Road" that begins southeasterly of Schuylkill Nature Center's Property, approximately 489 feet southeasterly of Hagy's Mill road, thence in a southeasterly direction for approximately 137 feet and continuing in a southwesterly direction for approximately 635 feet for the grant of a right-of-way to the City for water main purposes.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes the Commissioner of Public Property to obtain a right-of-way through 8480 Hagy's Mill Road and partly along private Paleski Road.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to select and appropriate a certain right-of-way through 8480 Hagy's Mill road for construction, reconstruction, alteration, connection, operation, maintenance, and inspection of water facilities, partly along and within the bed of Paleski road, a private street, from Hagy's Mill road to approximately 489 feet southwesterly of Hagy's Mill road.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted bill authorizes the Procurement Commissioner to contract for construction of public water mains and related work in a right-of-way along portions of Paleski Road and on City property known as Manatawna Farms in Roxborough.
Authorizing the construction of water mains and appurtenant work in a right-of-way partially in and along portions of a private street known as Paleski road and along the southwesterly boundary of Manatawna Farms in the Roxborough area of the City.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance increased Philadelphia’s Fiscal Year 2001 General Fund appropriation by $45 million, from about $2.83 billion to about $2.88 billion.
Amending an ordinance approved April 11, 2000 (Bill No. 000005), adopting the Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2001, by making, in accordance with Section 2-301(a) of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter, certain additional appropriations needed to meet the unanticipated emergency created by a cash flow crisis at the Philadelphia Gas Works.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance changes the location of a planned dead-end turnaround on Chang Street from the easterly side to the westerly side.
Amending Section 1 (b) of an Ordinance (Bill No. 000374) approved August 11, 2000, entitled "An Ordinance authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 121 by striking from the City Plan and vacating a portion of Chang street, and by placing a dead end turn around at the terminus of Chang street, all under certain terms and conditions."
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance amended a 1999 ordinance concerning the vacation of part of Jefferson Street and abandonment of a drainage right-of-way.
Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 990368) approved July 1, 1999, entitled "An Ordinance authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 266 by striking from the City Plan and vacating Jefferson street from Fiftieth street to a dead end turnaround northwestwardly therefrom and striking from the City Plan and abandoning a certain right-of-way for drainage purposes, under certain terms and conditions," 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.