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
Every non-roll-call council action we currently track from the December 22, 2005 meeting.
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Showing 1-18 of 43 actions from December 22, 2005
Unanimous2005-12-22
Resolution 051239Authorizing City Council to retain outside counsel to commence legal proceedings on behalf of the City of Philadelphia seeking action that would provide reasonable remedies for lethal conditions of escalating gun-related violence and trafficking in our City and further provide an increased level of public safety and protection for our citizens.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Council Action2005-12-22
Resolution 051239Authorizing City Council to retain outside counsel to commence legal proceedings on behalf of the City of Philadelphia seeking action that would provide reasonable remedies for lethal conditions of escalating gun-related violence and trafficking in our City and further provide an increased level of public safety and protection for our citizens.
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Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
Bill 051138Authorizing, generally, the continued issuance and sale by the City of Philadelphia of Gas Works Revenue Notes of the City, prescribing the forms of notes and providing for their execution and payment, pledging certain revenues of the Gas Works as security, adopting a rate covenant and directing the imposition and collection of rates and charges sufficient to comply therewith, prescribing the conditions precedent to the issuance of specific series of notes, including a resolution passed by the Bond Committee providing for establishment of credit support for notes, providing for designation of a fiscal agent and sinking fund depositary, providing for establishment of a sinking fund and its management, providing remedies upon default, and providing for amendments and modifications.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
Bill 051137Constituting the Seventh Supplemental Ordinance to the General Gas Works Revenue Bond Ordinance of 1998 (the "1998 General Ordinance"); authorizing the Mayor, the City Controller and the City Solicitor, or a majority of them, to sell, either at public or private sale, Gas Works Revenue Bonds, Sixth Series (1998 Ordinance), of the City of Philadelphia, in two or more subseries (the "Sixth Series Bonds") to be issued to pay the cost of refunding or redeeming all or a portion of certain outstanding Gas Works Revenue Bonds and other Project Costs, as hereinafter more particularly described; and authorizing the application of proceeds of the Sixth Series Bonds for such purpose; authorizing the City to obtain Credit Facilities in the forms of credit enhancement and liquidity for the Sixth Series Bonds; authorizing the City to enter into one or more Qualified Swap Agreements with respect to all or a portion of the Sixth Series Bonds; determining the sufficiency of Gas Works Revenues; covenant...
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
Bill 051136Authorizing an amendment of the Philadelphia Facilities Management Corporation Agreement to extend the repayment period for temporary financing that the City may provide the Philadelphia Gas Works under certain terms and conditions, and authorizing the extension of the repayment date of a $45 million temporary advance previously made by the City pursuant to such Agreement.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
Bill 051101Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2006 within the General Fund from certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions to certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
Bill 051098Authorizing Temple University Health System, Inc.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
Bill 051096Authorizing the extension of and modifications to the trial program authorized by Bill No.
READ
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
Bill 051092Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2005 within the Water Fund from the Water Department to the Water Department.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
Bill 051091Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2005 within the Aviation Fund from the Director of Finance to the Director of Finance - Fringe Benefits.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
Bill 050953Amending Section 14-305 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "'C-4' Commercial and 'C-5' Commercial Districts," by increasing the permitted floor area of lots designated "C-4" in an area of land bounded by Christopher Columbus Boulevard, Vine Street, Water Street and Summer Street.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
Bill 050952Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
Bill 050949Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
Bill 050861Amending Section 5 of an Ordinance (Bill No.050468) approved June 16, 2005, entitled "An Ordinance granting permission to Marie Bontigao, owner of Tabula Rasa Café, tenant of the property located at 944 North 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA, to operate and maintain an open air sidewalk café on the northwest corner of North 2nd Street and Laurel Street, under certain terms and conditions," by extending the period for compliance with the authorization conditions therein.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
Bill 050860Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
Bill 050859Establishing a no truck parking and tow-away zone regulation for an area bounded by and within Vine street to Haverford avenue, Fifty-fourth street to Sixtieth street.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
Bill 050857Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Council Action2005-12-22
COMMUNICATION 051245Transmitting a bill authorizing the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development (PAID), notwithstanding any contrary requirements of the Philadelphia Industrial and Commercial Development Agreement between the City, the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC), and the PAID, to convey fee simple title to a certain property containing approximately twenty-two acres located between Fiftieth and Fifty-second Streets south of Parkside Avenue, for a consideration of Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000), to the West Philadelphia Financial Services Institution, under certain terms and conditions, accompanied by an explanatory letter from the Director of Commerce.
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Other recorded action without a published tally.