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 September 23, 2004 meeting.
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Showing 19-36 of 49 actions from September 23, 2004
This enacted ordinance authorized Philadelphia to borrow up to $76,251,010 through general-obligation bonds for capital purposes, including transit, streets and sanitation, municipal buildings, parks, recreation and museums, and economic and community development.
Authorizing the creation of a loan or loans to provide funds for and toward various capital municipal purposes; authorizing the Mayor, City Controller and City Solicitor or a majority of them to sell bonds at public or private negotiated sale; setting forth the capital purposes and the amounts for which the proceeds of the loan or loans will be expended, including reimbursement of City capital expenditures; providing for the maturities and for other terms and conditions and for the form of the bonds; providing that certain bonds may be redeemable prior to maturity; providing sinking funds for the bonds and for appropriations to the Sinking Fund Commission for the payment thereof; authorizing agreements to provide credit or payment or liquidity sources for the bonds and interest rate swaps in connection with issuance of the bonds, and certain other actions; providing for obtaining the consent of the electors to increasing the indebtedness of the City of Philadelphia; and fixing a day fo...
ORDERED PLACED ON FINAL PASSAGE CALENDAR FOR NEXT MEETING.
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee of the Whole to hold public hearings about the Philadelphia Fire Department’s proposed deployment changes.
Authorizing City Council's Committee of the Whole to hold public hearings to investigate the Philadelphia Fire Department's proposed deployment; and, in furtherance of such investigation, authorizing the issuance of subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents to the full extent authorized under section 2-401 of the Home Rule Charter.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes the City Council’s Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings on the findings of the Philadelphia 21st Century Economic Development Summit and the Street administration’s proposed Economic Development Blueprint and Investment Fund.
Authorizing the Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings to review the findings and recommendations of The Philadelphia 21st Century Economic Development Summit, to take public testimony related to the Street Administration's proposed Economic Development Blueprint and Investment Fund, and further authorizing the Committee to issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents and other evidence.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes the City Council’s Parks, Recreation & Cultural Affairs Committee and Education Committee to hold joint hearings on the condition of young people in Philadelphia.
Authorizing the Committee on Parks Recreation & Cultural Affairs and the Committee on Education to hold joint hearings on the state of young people in the City of Philadelphia.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes the City Council Committees on Parks, Recreation, & Cultural Affairs and Education to hold joint hearings about the Fund for Children, which receives contributions from the Philadelphia Phillies and Eagles for youth programming.
Authorizing the City Council Committee on Parks, Recreation, & Cultural Affairs and the City Council Committee on Education to hold joint hearings regarding the Fund for Children that was created through the City's negotiations to authorize the construction of Lincoln Financial Field and Citizens Bank Park.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes the Council Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold hearings about the importance of public transportation in Philadelphia and Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Authorizing the Council Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold hearings on the importance of public transportation to the Philadelphia and the Southeastern Pennsylvania region, to evaluate the need for increased dedicated state funding for public transit, and to review strategies to enhance coordinated and comprehensive transportation policy and planning.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have proposed changing the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter’s budget deadlines.
Proposing an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter relating to the date by which the Mayor must submit to Council his operating budget message, proposed operating budget ordinance, and proposed capital budget and capital program, and the date by which the Planning Commission must prepare and submit to the Mayor its recommended capital budget and capital program, and providing for the submission of the amendment of the electors of Philadelphia.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Public Safety to hold public hearings about the community re-entry process for people leaving incarceration and others under the authority of the criminal justice system.
Authorizing City Council's Committee on Public Safety to conduct public hearings to examine and analyze the Community Re-entry process of ex-offenders and persons under authority of the criminal justice system, hear testimony and collect data on related public, private and community based program and policy efforts, so as to determine what actions Council may take to help deliver the resources and support required to operate and promote such programs and policies.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
City Council adopted a resolution honoring the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative and Hill International, Inc.
Honoring the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative (NTI) and Hill International, Inc. for meeting and exceeding the Disadvantaged Business and Minority and Female employment goals for construction and demolition workers.
Introduced
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution calls on the City Council Committees on Finance and Transportation to hold public hearings about the status of SEPTA’s Market Street El Project.
Calling on the City Council Committees on Finance and Transportation to hold public hearings to gain an update on the status of the SEPTA Market Street El Project and its continuing impact on residences, businesses and neighborhoods in West Philadelphia and beyond.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Education to hold hearings about the Emergency Response & Crisis Management Team’s findings within the Philadelphia School District.
Authorizing the Committee on Education to conduct hearings on the Emergency Response & Crisis Management Team's findings within the Philadelphia School District.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes the City Council Committee on Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless to hold hearings about the Philadelphia Commercial Development Corporation’s efforts to revitalize commercial corridors in West Philadelphia.
Authorizing the Committee on Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless to conduct hearings on the revitalization efforts of the Philadelphia Commercial Development Corporation in West Philadelphia.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes the City Council’s Committee on Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless to hold hearings on the economic effects of homelessness in Philadelphia.
Authorizing the Committee on Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless to conduct hearings on the economic impact that homelessness has caused in the city and the possible implementation of a plan to eradicate homelessness in the City of Philadelphia in ten years.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have proposed amending Philadelphia’s Home Rule Charter to create a seven-member Board of Ethics, with members appointed by the Mayor and City Council and the City Solicitor serving as an ex officio member.
Proposing an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter creating and empowering a new Board of Ethics, 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.
This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committees on Legislative Oversight and Public Safety to hold joint hearings about keeping Philadelphia school children safe while traveling to and from school.
Authorizing City Council's Committee on Legislative Oversight and Committee on Public Safety to hold joint hearings concerning the safety of Philadelphia school children as they make their way to and from school.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have amended Philadelphia’s Business Privilege Tax rules to exclude receipts from the first three years of operation for certain new businesses.
Amending Chapter 19-2600 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Business Privilege Taxes," to provide for an exemption from the tax on gross receipts for certain new businesses, under certain terms and conditions.
Re-Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have created a property-tax deferral program for low-income longtime owner-occupants of certain Philadelphia residences.
Enacting a new Chapter 19-3400 of The Philadelphia Code authorizing the Board of Revision of Taxes to grant tax deferrals to longtime owner-occupants of certain properties in the City of Philadelphia.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have authorized removing Salter Street from the City Plan and vacating the portion from Third Street to Orianna Street.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 238 by striking from the City Plan and vacating Salter Street from Third Street to Orianna Street and by reserving and placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for gas main purposes and public utility purposes within the lines of Salter Street being stricken from the City Plan and vacated under authority of this Ordinance, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.