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
Procedural actions actions from the January 28, 2003 meeting.
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Showing 1-18 of 30 actions from January 28, 2003
This adopted resolution calls on the Philadelphia Workforce Development Corporation to assess training opportunities in the building and construction trades and consider financial support for programs such as the Diversity Apprenticeship Program.
Calling on the Philadelphia Workforce Development Corporation to conduct a needs assessment of training opportunities within the Building and Construction Trades, particularly to improve minority and female employment participation through PWDC financial support of initiatives such as the Diversity Apprenticeship Program, and authorizing City Council's Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings into the state of training opportunities for minorities and women in Philadelphia's Building and Construction Trades.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution proposes amending the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to change the composition of the Board of Pensions and Retirement.
Proposing an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter relating to the composition of the Board of Pensions and Retirement, and providing for the submission of the amendment to the electors of Philadelphia.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
City Council adopted a resolution initiating the process to establish the proposed Roxborough District along Ridge Avenue from Main Street to 7220 Ridge Avenue and on certain intersecting blocks.
Initiating action to establish a neighborhood improvement district in an area that generally includes both sides of Ridge Avenue from Main Street to 7220 Ridge Avenue and certain blocks of streets that intersect that portion of Ridge Avenue, to be known as the Roxborough District, and for which Roxborough Development Corporation, a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, would serve as the Neighborhood Improvement District Management Association; approving a preliminary plan for and report concerning the District; and authorizing and directing the Committee on Rules and the Clerk of Council to take all actions that are required by the Community and Economic Improvement Act prior to enactment of an ordinance that would formally establish the District.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
City Council approved the Mayor’s revised five-year financial plan covering fiscal years 2004 through 2008, including proposed changes for fiscal year 2003.
Providing for the approval by the Council of the City of Philadelphia of a Revised Five Year Financial Plan for the City of Philadelphia covering Fiscal Years 2004 through 2008, and incorporating proposed changes with respect to Fiscal Year 2003, which is to be submitted by the Mayor to the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority (the "Authority") pursuant to the Intergovernmental Cooperation Agreement, authorized by an ordinance of this Council approved by the Mayor on January 3, 1992 (Bill No. 1563-A), by and between the City and the Authority.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Tenet HealthSystem Hahnemann, LLC, which owns Hahnemann University Hospital, to install, own, and maintain underground electrical conduits and 23 pedestrian light poles with banner arms in the public footways along Broad, Vine, and Fifteenth Streets next to the hospital.
Authorizing Tenet HealthSystem Hahnemann, LLC, owner of the property known as Hahnemann University Hospital, Broad and Vine Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19102, to construct, own and maintain underground conduit and 23 pedestrian light poles with attached banner arms on and under the west footway of Broad street, the south footway of Vine street and the east footway of Fifteenth street adjacent to the hospital property, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill authorized the City's Commissioner of Public Property to accept ownership of a vacant lot at Eleventh and Venango streets from the School District of Philadelphia.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to accept from the School District of Philadelphia conveyance of title to a certain parcel of land located at Eleventh and Venango streets, formerly the site of Richard Wright Elementary School, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill amended Philadelphia’s Zoning Maps for land in the area bounded by Forty-eighth Street, Brown Street, Forty-fourth Street, and Fairmount Avenue.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Forty-eighth street, Brown street, Forty-fourth street and Fairmount avenue.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s list of banks and other institutions authorized to hold City funds, removing institutions identified as not complying with the City Code’s requirements.
Amending Chapter 19-200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "City Funds - Deposits, Investments, Disbursements," by revising the list of City depositories because of non-compliance with certain provisions of that Chapter, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted measure requires banks and other institutions eligible to hold City funds to submit annual statements describing their community reinvestment goals for low- and moderate-income Philadelphia neighborhoods, including planned loans and investments.
Amending Chapter 19-200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "City Funds - Deposits, Investments, Disbursements," by prohibiting the City Treasurer from depositing funds in banks and institutions that have failed to submit statements of community reinvestment goals for low and moderate income neighborhoods in the City of Philadelphia, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes and requires all-way stop signs at the intersection of Acorn Street and Henry Avenue, following PennDOT regulations.
Authorizing the installation of all-way stop signs at the intersection of Acorn street and Henry avenue.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes all-way stop signs at the intersection of Fifty-first Street and Overbrook Avenue, to be installed and maintained in accordance with PennDOT regulations.
Authorizing the installation of all-way stop signs at the intersection of Fifty-first street and Overbrook avenue.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance provides for all-way stop signs at the intersection of Parkwood Lane and Summit Avenue.
Authorizing the installation of all-way stop signs at the intersection of Parkwood lane and Summit avenue.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance requires all-way stop signs at the intersections of Valley Avenue with Renz Street and with Shalkop Street.
Authorizing the installation of all-way stop signs at the intersections of Valley avenue and Renz street and Valley avenue and Shalkop street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorized putting a Philadelphia Home Rule Charter amendment before voters on November 4, 2003.
Providing for the submission to the qualified electors of the City of Philadelphia of an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter relating to the composition of the Board of Pensions and Retirement, as approved by Resolution of the City Council; fixing the date of a special election for such purpose; prescribing the form of ballot questions to be voted on; and authorizing the appropriate officers to publish notice and to make arrangements for the special election.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted law requires City Council bills or resolutions approving funding for development projects costing at least $50 million, with the City or a City-related agency providing at least 10% of the funding, to include an economic impact statement or specified documentation explaining why one was not prepared.
Amending Title 17 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Contracts and Procurement," by adding a new Chapter requiring that a bill or resolution approving funding for certain development projects must include an economic impact statement, and providing for certain powers and duties of the City Controller in connection with the preparation of economic impact statements; all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have limited how much a property’s taxable assessed value could increase in one year for purposes of calculating real estate taxes, generally capping the increase at 10% while allowing additional increases tied to new construction or improvements.
Amending Section 19-1301 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Real Estate Taxes," by providing that the taxes levied on a property under that section shall not increase in any one year by more than a specified percentage as the result of an increase in the assessed value of the property as returned by the Board of Revision of Taxes, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Lawrence A.
Authorizing Lawrence A. Goldfarb and Gerda Paumgarten of 630 W. Cliveden Street, Philadelphia Pa. 19119, owners of the property at 8605 Navajo street, a.k.a. 310 Rex avenue, to construct and maintain a privately owned water main, stormwater and sanitary sewers, and an electrical service conduit in the roadway of Rex avenue and Navajo street adjacent to the property 8605 Navajo street, a.k.a. 310 Rex avenue, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorized $77.69 million in Fiscal Year 2003 transfers from the General Fund, Grants Revenue Fund, and Community Development Fund into General Fund appropriations.
Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2003 from the General Fund, certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions and from the Grants Revenue Fund, the Director of Finance - Provision for Other Grants and from the Community Development Fund, the Director of Finance - Community Development Block Grant - To Be Allocated to the General Fund, certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.