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 October 5, 2006 meeting.
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Showing 1-11 of 11 actions from October 5, 2006
The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s joint Committees on Public Safety and Legislative Oversight to hold hearings on whether Philadelphia should establish a 311 Constituent Contact Center.
Authorizing City Council's joint Committees on Public Safety and Legislative Oversight to hold hearings on whether the City should establish a 311 Constituent Contact Center to unburden the current 911 emergency call center and make Philadelphia more responsive to it citizens' concerns.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Public Safety and Legislative Oversight committees to hold public hearings about the decrease in paramedics in Philadelphia.
Authorizing City Council's joint Committees on Public Safety and Legislative Oversight to hold public hearings to investigate how the City of Philadelphia could handle the recent decrease of paramedics in the city, discuss the scope of possible increases in paramedic units which can be made, the improvements in emergency care those additional units will give and how those units could be distributed within city EMS departments.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance grants Manu Patel, who operates a newsstand at Seventh and Market Streets, permission to install and maintain underground fiber-optic conduits across the public right-of-way to provide electrical and telephone service to the newsstand.
Granting permission to Manu Patel, owner and operator of the newsstand located on the northeast corner of Seventh Street and Market Street, to construct, use and maintain conduits for fiber optic facilities in, under and across the northeast corner of Seventh and Market Streets, for the purpose of supplying electrical service and telephone service to said newsstand.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The ordinance grants Atul Amin and A & J Newsstand Corporation Inc.
Granting permission to Atul Amin and A & J Newsstand Corporation Inc., owner and operator of the newsstand located on the southeast corner of Ninth Street and Market Street, to construct, use and maintain conduits for fiber optic facilities in, under and across the southeast corner of Ninth and Market Streets, for the purpose of supplying electrical service and telephone service to said newsstand.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance changes the zoning designations for certain areas of land bounded by Tacony Creek, Rising Sun Avenue, Adams Avenue, W.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Tacony Creek, Rising sun Avenue, Adams Avenue, W. Hill Creek Drive, Hill Creek Circle, S. Hill Creek Drive, Adams Avenue and Bingham Street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings about economic self-sufficiency.
Authorizing the Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings related to economic self-sufficiency.
HEARING HELD
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings about economic self-sufficiency.
Authorizing the Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings related to economic self-sufficiency.
HEARING NOTICES SENT
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted law amended Philadelphia’s new job creation tax credit for businesses that create jobs for people who are formerly incarcerated.
Amending Section 19-2604 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Tax Rates, Credits, and Alternative Tax Computation," by amending the provisions of the new job creation tax credit with respect to businesses that create new jobs for ex-offenders; all under certain terms and conditions.
HEARING HELD
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted law amended Philadelphia’s new job creation tax credit for businesses that create jobs for people who are formerly incarcerated.
Amending Section 19-2604 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Tax Rates, Credits, and Alternative Tax Computation," by amending the provisions of the new job creation tax credit with respect to businesses that create new jobs for ex-offenders; all under certain terms and conditions.
REPORTED FAVORABLY, RULE SUSPENSION REQUESTED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted law amended Philadelphia’s new job creation tax credit for businesses that create jobs for people who are formerly incarcerated.
Amending Section 19-2604 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Tax Rates, Credits, and Alternative Tax Computation," by amending the provisions of the new job creation tax credit with respect to businesses that create new jobs for ex-offenders; all under certain terms and conditions.
HEARING NOTICES SENT
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s rules to prohibit smoking in public places and workplaces and provide penalties.
Amending Chapter 10-600 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Public Places -- Prohibited Conduct," by prohibiting smoking in public places and in the workplace, and providing for penalties, all under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S SECOND READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.