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 February 3, 2005 meeting.
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Showing 1-18 of 22 actions from February 3, 2005
This enacted bill authorized Philadelphia’s Managing Director to sign a mutual aid agreement creating the Southeastern Pennsylvania Terrorism Task Force with Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties.
Authorizing the Managing Director, on behalf of the City, to execute a Mutual Aid Agreement creating the Southeastern Pennsylvania Terrorism Task Force ("SEPTTF"), under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Temple University to construct, own, and maintain a building that extends up to eight feet into the east footway of North 13th Street beside the Temple University Student Center.
Authorizing Temple University, 1101 West Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, its successors and assigns, to construct, own and maintain a building encroachment on the east footway of North 13th Street adjacent to the Temple University Student Center, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill authorizes the Prince Music Theater, which owns 1412 Chestnut Street, to relocate the Allow Me statue from 235 S.
Authorizing American Music Theater Festival T/A Prince Music Theater ("Prince Music Theater"), the owner of the property 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 to relocate and maintain one statue, the Allow Me statue, which is currently located at 235 S. 17th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, on the façade of 1412 Chestnut Street, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted bill authorizes the Commissioner of Public Property to transfer, for a nominal payment, City-owned land and buildings at 1826–34 South 10th Street to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development a deed conveying, for nominal consideration, fee simple title to certain tracts of City-owned land located at 1826-34 South 10th Street, with the improvements thereon, for further conveyance at fair market value.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The ordinance establishes a citywide system for managing Philadelphia’s public right-of-way, including streets, sidewalks, and related spaces where cables, pipes, wires, poles, and other utility or communications equipment are located.
Amending Chapter 9-300 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Communication," and amending Title 11 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Streets," and adding a new Chapter 11-700 to The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Right-of-Way Management," all to provide for comprehensive management of the right-of-way, including the placement and maintenance of cables, pipes, conduit, poles, wires and associated equipment in or on the right-of-way, and including the establishment of requirements for the issuance and renewal of right-of-way use authorizations, standards and fees for the regulation of the use and occupancy of the right-of-way, and provision for enforcement of such provisions, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance changes how the City calculates the net profits tax credit for taxpayers who receive a credit against net income tax for contributions to community development corporations carrying out economic development activities in Philadelphia.
Amending Chapter 19-1500 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Wage and Net Profits Tax," by providing for the calculation of the credit against net profits tax based upon net income tax liability, where a credit is received against net income tax for contributions to community development corporations undertaking economic development activities within the City of Philadelphia; all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted bill amended a 2002 ordinance concerning the vacation of Cedar Park Avenue between Sixty-ninth Avenue and Haines Street and the creation of rights-of-way for drainage, water mains, and gas mains.
Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 020349) approved September 6, 2002, entitled "An Ordinance authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 242 by striking from the City Plan and vacating Cedar Park avenue from Sixty-ninth avenue to Haines street and by placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for drainage purposes, water main purposes and gas main purposes, under certain terms and conditions," by extending the period for compliance with the authorization conditions therein.
Introduced
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted bill amended a 2002 ordinance concerning the vacation of Cedar Park Avenue between Sixty-ninth Avenue and Haines Street and the creation of rights-of-way for drainage, water mains, and gas mains.
Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 020349) approved September 6, 2002, entitled "An Ordinance authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 242 by striking from the City Plan and vacating Cedar Park avenue from Sixty-ninth avenue to Haines street and by placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for drainage purposes, water main purposes and gas main purposes, under certain terms and conditions," by extending the period for compliance with the authorization conditions therein.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes the Commissioner of Public Property to transfer City-owned land and buildings at 3300–22 North Front Street to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for a nominal payment.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development a deed conveying, for nominal consideration, fee simple title to certain tracts of City-owned land located at 3300-22 North Front Street, with the buildings and improvements thereon, for further conveyance at fair market value.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance creates the Philadelphia Housing Trust Fund to support affordable housing construction, repairs and preservation, accessibility improvements, and assistance to prevent homelessness for eligible lower- and moderate-income households.
Adding Chapter 21-1600 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Housing Trust Fund," to create the Philadelphia Housing Trust Fund and establish the purposes for which monies in the Fund may be used; creating ongoing funding for the Fund by amending Section 10-1001 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Fees of Commissioner of Records," by increasing certain fees for the recording of deeds and mortgages and related documents; and calling for the Creation of the Housing Trust Fund Oversight Board; all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance amends Philadelphia’s zoning maps for portions of the Philadelphia Naval Base.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by the Delaware River, lands belonging to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Terminal Avenue, lands belonging to the Baltimore and Ohio-Pennsylvania Railroad, Twenty-Sixth Street, lines of the Consolidated Rail Corporation, lands belonging to the Pier Hayes Terminal, and the Schuylkill River, this land also being known as the Philadelphia Naval Base.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes the City Council’s Joint Committees on Public Safety and Public Property to hold hearings about the benefits and feasibility of using video surveillance cameras to reduce crime and promote safety in Philadelphia.
Authorizing the Joint Committees on Public Safety and Public Property to hold hearings to determine the benefits and feasibility of employing video surveillance cameras in efforts to reduce crime and promote safety in the City of Philadelphia.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes the Committee on Labor and Civil Service to invite college and university presidents and leading corporate executives to appoint experts to a Labor Forecast Task Force.
Authorizing the Committee on Labor and Civil Service to invite the area's college and university presidents and leading corporate executives to appoint experts to a Council-convened Labor Forecast Task Force to provide Council with expert forecasts regarding the future state of the City's labor force and job market.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution appoints Rev.
Appointing Rev. Timothy R. Lannon, S.J. to the Board of Directors of the City Avenue Special Services District of Philadelphia and Lower Merion.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution appoints H.
Appointing H. James Tollett, III to the Board of Directors of the City Avenue Special Services District of Philadelphia and Lower Merion.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution appoints Michael Woodward to the Board of Directors of the City Avenue Special Services District of Philadelphia and Lower Merion.
Appointing Michael Woodward to the Board of Directors of the City Avenue Special Services District of Philadelphia and Lower Merion.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
City Council adopted a resolution reappointing Howard Wurzak to the Board of Directors of the City Avenue Special Services District of Philadelphia and Lower Merion.
Reappointing Howard Wurzak to the Board of Directors of the City Avenue Special Services District of Philadelphia and Lower Merion.
Introduced
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
City Council adopted a resolution reappointing Howard Wurzak to the Board of Directors of the City Avenue Special Services District of Philadelphia and Lower Merion.
Reappointing Howard Wurzak to the Board of Directors of the City Avenue Special Services District of Philadelphia and Lower Merion.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.