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 February 27, 2003 meeting.
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Showing 1-13 of 13 actions from February 27, 2003
City Council recognized and thanked the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Philadelphia Green Parks Revitalization Project on its tenth anniversary.
Recognizing and thanking The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Philadelphia Green Parks Revitalization Project for transforming neglected parks into safe, attractive, and vital community places - On Its Tenth Anniversary.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes the Commissioner of Public Property to transfer, without payment, conditional ownership of certain City-owned vacant lots and buildings in the Sixteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-eighth, Thirty-second, and Thirty-seventh Wards to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority.
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, Twentieth, Twenty-eighth, Thirty-second and Thirty-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.
City Council observed April 4, 2003, as Barbershop Talk Human Family Day.
Celebrating Barbershop Talk Human Family Day.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Philadelphia City Council recognized February 25, 2003, as Reparations Awareness Day.
Recognizing February 25, 2003 as Reparations Awareness Day and urging the U.S. Congress to pass H.R. 40 and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to pass H.B. 315, both entitled the "Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act."
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Philadelphia City Council enacted a resolution honoring the life and memory of Leroy “Sweets” Alexander, a longtime Philadelphia resident and one of the first African American referees in the National Basketball Association.
Honoring the life and memory of the late Leroy "Sweets" Alexander who was one of the first African American Referees in the National Basketball Association.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Philadelphia City Council enacted a resolution honoring Malik Aziz, founder and president of the Ex-Offenders Association of Pennsylvania.
Honoring Malik Aziz.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
City Council adopted a resolution approving the Redevelopment Authority’s contract and development rules for Parcel No.
Approving the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel No. 324 also sometimes identified by respective house number and street address as 1511 North Orkney street and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with the Robert H. Ludwig and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes City Council to hire outside counsel to intervene in Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission proceedings on the Philadelphia Gas Works restructuring plan.
Authorizing City Council to retain outside counsel to intervene in the proceedings before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission relating to the Philadelphia Gas Works Restructuring Plan filed on July 1, 2002 and Docketed as M-0002 1612 to make certain that the PUC fully understands that City Council supports preservation of the existing senior citizen discount, approved by Council ordinance on December 14, 1973.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted resolution honors and commends Dr.
Honoring Erline Bass Nelson.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance requires proposed rate filings for the City’s natural gas distribution operation with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to include a proposal to continue the existing senior citizen discount.
Requiring that any proposed rate filing with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on behalf of the City's natural gas distribution operation include a proposal to continue the existing senior citizen discount; requiring that if any such filing was made prior to the date this Ordinance became law, such filing shall be amended to include a proposal to continue the senior citizen discount; and authorizing and directing the execution of an amendment to the City's agreement with the Philadelphia Facilities Management Corporation to conform with the requirements of this Ordinance; all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted measure repeals and replaces Chapter 17-500 to establish participation goals for disadvantaged-owned businesses in City contracts.
Repealing Chapter 17-500 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Goals for the Participation of Minority, Female and Disabled Owned Businesses in City Contracts," and enacting a new Chapter 17-500 of The Philadelphia Code to establish City Contract participation goals for Disadvantaged Owned Business Enterprises, which are businesses owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, and which presumptively include businesses owned by women, minorities and the disabled.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes the City to remove the legally opened portions of Borbeck Avenue between Algon Avenue and Pennway Street from the City Plan and reserve that area as a right-of-way for gas mains.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 317 and 319 by striking from the City Plan and vacating the legally opened portions of Borbeck avenue from Algon avenue to Pennway street and reserving and placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for gas main purposes, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance amends Philadelphia’s zoning code to prohibit licensed gambling operations in all zoning districts, except for operations licensed under the Local Option Small Games of Chance Act, unless another ordinance expressly allows them.
Amending Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Zoning and Planning," by amending Chapter 14-1600, entitled "Miscellaneous," by adding a new Section prohibiting or regulating the conducting of licensed gambling operations within certain or all zoning districts of the City, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.