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 May 8, 2003 meeting.
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Showing 19-34 of 34 actions from May 8, 2003
This enacted bill authorizes Wills Eye Hospital at 800 Walnut Street to construct, own, and maintain a roof beam architectural feature that extends over the public right-of-way on South Ninth Street.
Authorizing Wills Eye Hospital, 800 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, its successors and assigns, to construct, own and maintain a roof beam architectural embellishment encroaching above the Ninth street public right-of-way, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted bill provided for Philadelphia voters to consider an amendment to Section 8-200 of the Home Rule Charter concerning the use of cooperative purchasing agreements with other public agencies.
Providing for the submission to the qualified electors of the City of Philadelphia of an amendment to Section 8-200 of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter, providing for the use of cooperative purchasing agreements with other public agencies, as approved by Resolution of the City Council; fixing the date of a special election for such purpose; prescribing the form of ballot question to be voted on; and authorizing the appropriate officers to publish notice and to make arrangements for the special election.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance grants Johnny Mañanas Restaurant at 4201 Ridge Avenue permission to operate a sidewalk cafe on the northeast corner of Ridge and Midvale avenues, with 10 tables for up to 20 people.
Granting permission to Johnny Mañanas Restaurant located at 4201 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19129, to operate and maintain an open-air sidewalk cafe on the northeast corner of Ridge and Midvale avenues, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance provides continued City contributions for health and welfare benefits for city employees who retire under a City pension plan after at least 10 years of credited service.
Amending Title 20 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Officers and Employees," by providing for certain health and welfare benefits for pensioned employees, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance provides health and medical benefits to the spouse and eligible dependent children of a deceased City officer or employee who qualified for service retirement benefits.
Amending Title 20 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Officers and Employees," by enacting the "W. Thacher Longstreth Memorial Survivors and Dependents Medical Care Ordinance," providing certain health and medical benefits to the spouse and dependent children of deceased City officers and employees, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance requires two left-turn green-arrow traffic signals at the intersection of Rising Sun Avenue and Adams Avenue.
Authorizing the installation of two left turn green arrow traffic signals at the intersection of Rising Sun avenue and Adams avenue.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s sidewalk-sales rules to prohibit people and vendors from displaying or selling goods, or leaving sales stands, on sidewalks in the area bordered by and including both sides of Olney Avenue, Cheltenham Avenue, Broad Street, and Fifth Street.
Amending Section 9-205 of The Philadelphia Code, relating to "Sidewalk Sales" and vending in residential areas by adding a new provision prohibiting sidewalk sales and vending in the area bordered by and including Olney avenue, Cheltenham avenue, Broad street, and Fifth street both sides.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance grants Exclusive Enterprises, Inc.
Granting permission to Exclusive Enterprises, Inc., owner of the property 210 East Lippincott Street, Philadelphia, PA 19134 to operate and maintain an open-air sidewalk cafe on the west footway of B street adjacent to 210 East Lippincott street, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorized Philadelphia to enter into a lease with the Philadelphia Municipal Authority for the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center, the Criminal Justice Center, and the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property of the City of Philadelphia, on behalf of the City and in cooperation with the Philadelphia Municipal Authority, to undertake a Project to promote the health, safety and welfare of the residents of the City of Philadelphia; authorizing and approving (i) the Project, (ii) the entering into, execution and delivery of a Lease between the City of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Municipal Authority, (iii) the issuance by the Philadelphia Municipal Authority of bonds in one or more series, to pay the costs of the Project, (iv) the assignment of the Lease by the Philadelphia Municipal Authority to a trustee, and (v) the obligation of the City of Philadelphia to pay rent under the Lease when due; authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to enter into the Lease with the Philadelphia Municipal Authority; authorizing the Director of Finance and other officers of the City of Philadelphia to take such o...
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have amended Philadelphia’s food-establishment rules so that a take-out restaurant could obtain or renew a food establishment license only if the Health Department certified that it met certain requirements in Section 9-2002(1)(a)-(f).
Amending Section 6-301 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Food Establishments," by providing for compliance with certain minimum requirements relating to the operation of take-out restaurants as a condition of obtaining or renewing a food establishment license for a take-out restaurant, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted bill amends Philadelphia’s sidewalk-sales rules to prohibit vendors from displaying, offering, or selling goods, or leaving a stand, on the north side of the 5600–5700 block of Baltimore Avenue.
Amending Section 9-205 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Sidewalk Sales," by prohibiting sidewalk vending on portions of Baltimore avenue.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer, without payment, a City-owned tract with its buildings and improvements near Thirty-first and Oakford Streets to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development ("PAID"), without consideration, a deed conveying fee simple title to a certain tract of City-owned land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate at the southeast corner of Thirty-first and Oakford Streets, generally under and subject to the terms and conditions of the Philadelphia Industrial and Commercial Development Agreement between the City, the PAID, and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorized The Hospitals and Higher Education Facilities Authority of Philadelphia to refinance outstanding 1993 bonds for health centers providing intermediate care and habilitation services.
Declaring that it is desirable for the health, safety and welfare of citizens of the City of Philadelphia that The Hospitals and Higher Education Facilities Authority of Philadelphia undertake a project involving the current refunding of the Authority's Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series of 1993 (Philadelphia MR Project) that remain outstanding, and to issue and sell Revenue Refunding Bonds for the purpose of financing such refunding project; authorizing the Authority to undertake the refunding project; authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City, to enter into a supplemental lease with the Authority providing for such refunding project; providing for the terms of such supplemental lease; covenanting to be bound by the terms of the supplemental lease, providing that the rental payments thereunder do not exceed revenues derived by the City from the operation of the MR Facilities; covenanting to make appropriations in each fiscal year of the City to provide for re...
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance provides for removing the listed Brewerytown Development properties from Philadelphia’s Keystone Opportunity Zone, but only after the property owners and other parties with known interests apply for and consent to the removal and the Commonwealth approves it.
Removing the Properties known generally as the Brewerytown Development from the Philadelphia Keystone Opportunity Zone, subject to the request and consent of the owners of said Properties, under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance expands and updates the boundaries of Philadelphia’s Keystone Opportunity Zone and Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zone, and establishes a Keystone Opportunity Improvement Zone covering areas including Kubach Road, the Naval Business Center, and West Philadelphia.
Providing for the contingent exemption, abatement or credit of certain taxes within specified geographic areas, including by amending Bill No. 970788-A (approved December 30, 1998), relating to the boundaries of the Keystone Opportunity Zone, and by amending Bill No. 010092 (approved February 28, 2001), relating to the boundaries of the Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zone, and by amending Chapter 19-3200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Keystone Opportunity Zone," by providing for a Keystone Opportunity Improvement Zone, and by amending certain effective dates, all under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance names the Free Library of Philadelphia’s West Philadelphia Regional Branch at 125 South 52nd Street the Lucien E.
Naming and designating the West Philadelphia Regional Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia located at 125 South Fifty-second street as the "Lucien E. Blackwell Regional Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia."
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.