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 January 31, 2008 meeting.
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This lapsed resolution proposed amending Philadelphia’s Home Rule Charter to create an independent Police Advisory Commission and require adequate city funding for it.
Proposing an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to create an independent Police Advisory Commission and provide for its funding, and to empower Council to provide by ordinance for the appointment, powers and duties of such Commission, and providing for the submission of the proposed amendment to the qualified electors of the City of Philadelphia.
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 investigate diversity in Philadelphia’s building and construction trades and hold hearings on the issue.
Authorizing City Council's Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to investigate, and to hold hearings on, the issue of diversity within Philadelphia's Building and Construction Trades, 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 reappointed Rev.
Reappointing Rev. Timothy R. Lannon, S.J., to the Board of Directors of the Board of Direct 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 H.
Reappointing H. James Tollett, III to the Board of Directors of the Board of Direct 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 George R.
Reappointing George R. Goldstone, CPM, SRA to the Board of Directors of the Board of Direct 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 resolution appoints Matthew Schure, Ph.D., to the Board of Directors of the City Avenue Special Services District of Philadelphia and Lower Merion.
Appointing Matthew Schure, Ph.D., to the Board of Directors of the Board of Direct 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 Bernie Prazenica to the Board of Directors of the City Avenue Special Services District of Philadelphia and Lower Merion.
Appointing Bernie Prazenica to the Board of Directors of the Board of Direct 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 authorizes City Council’s Commerce and Economic Development Committee and Public Health and Human Services Committee to hold joint public hearings.
Authorizing the City Council's Committees on Commerce and Economic Development and Public Health and Human Services to hold joint public hearings on how the consolidation of anti-poverty applications will stimulate the city's economy while at the same time helping those who most need these services.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes the Council Committee on Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless to hold hearings on Philadelphia foreclosures and the role of subprime mortgages.
Authorizing the Council Committee on Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless to hold hearings on the problems of foreclosures in Philadelphia and the extent to which sub-prime mortgages contribute to this problem and further investigating the possibility of imposing a Moratorium on Sherriff's Sales on those foreclosures resulting from sub-prime mortgages, and other mechanisms for protecting homeowners from homelessness.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on the Environment to hold public hearings about Philadelphia International Airport’s recycling policies and goals.
Authorizing the Committee on the Environment to hold public hearings to examine Philadelphia International Airport's recycling policies and goals, and to explore alternative approaches to increasing the Airport's recycling rate of both public and internal waste.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes the City Council Committee on Streets and Services to hold public hearings about sidewalks closed during construction projects.
Authorizing the Committee on Streets and Services to hold public hearings to investigate sidewalk closures during construction projects and examine ways to improve pedestrian access to these sidewalks by requiring covered and protected walkways around construction sites.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance prohibits street and sidewalk vending on certain portions of 17th Street.
Amending Title 9 of The Philadelphia Code, by amending Section 9-203 relating to Street Vendors and Section 9-205 relating to Sidewalk Sales, by prohibiting street and sidewalk vending on certain portions of 17th Street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance creates Philadelphia protections for people who buy used cars from dealers.
Amending Title 9 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Regulation of Businesses, Trades and Professions," by adding a new Section 9-630, entitled "Sale of Used Cars," providing for protections against sale of cars in need of substantial repairs, commonly known as a "lemon law"; all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes Philadelphia officials to lease City-owned land south of Shelmire Avenue, next to Fox Chase Cancer Center, through the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development and the Fairmount Park Conservancy so Fox Chase can construct, maintain, and operate cancer research and treatment facilities.
Authorizing the President of the Fairmount Park Commission, the Executive Director of Fairmount Park, and the Public Property Commissioner, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to enter into a lease with the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development ("PAID"), to lease City-owned land south of Shelmire Avenue adjacent to the campus of the Fox Chase Cancer Center, Inc. ("Fox Chase") to PAID, under which PAID will enter into a sublease with the Fairmount Park Conservancy ("Conservancy"), a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, under which the Conservancy would enter into a sub-sublease and other agreements with Fox Chase, pursuant to which Fox Chase will construct, maintain, and operate cancer research and treatment facilities on the property; and authorizing the President of the Fairmount Park Commission, the Executive Director of Fairmount Park, the Public Property Commissioner, and the City Solicitor to enter into additional agreements and take all other actions necessary to co...
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed proposal would have changed the curblines and grades of portions of Christopher Columbus Boulevard and Tasker Street, vacated part of Tasker Street, and revised or abandoned certain mapped rights-of-way near the Delaware River.
Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 12-S, 19-S, 71, 238, and 308 by revising the curblines and grades of Christopher Columbus Boulevard from a point approximately nine-hundred feet south of Spruce Street to a point approximately one-thousand two-hundred feet south of Tasker Street, by revising the curblines and grades of Tasker Street from Christopher Columbus Boulevard to a point approximately two-hundred fifty feet westwardly therefrom, by striking from the City Plan and vacating Tasker Street from Christopher Columbus Boulevard to a dead end approximately seven-hundred ten feet eastwardly therefrom, by reserving and placing on City Plan a right-of-way for drainage purposes, water main purposes, gas main purposes, and public utility purposes within the lines of Tasker Street being stricken from the City Plan by authority of this Ordinance, by striking from the City Plan and abandoning a certain right-of-way for water main purposes...
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s zoning maps for certain land in the area bounded by Delaware Avenue, the former Marlborough Street right-of-way, the Delaware River, and former Shackamaxon Street.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Delaware Avenue, former Marlborough Street Right-of-way, the Delaware River and the former Shackamaxon Street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance grants Shailesh Tilvawala permission to construct, use, and maintain conduits under and across the public right-of-way at Eighth and Market Streets to provide electrical and telephone service to his newsstand.
Granting permission to Shailesh Tilvawala, owner and operator of the newsstand located on the northeast corner of Eighth Street and Market Street, to construct, use and maintain conduits for fiber optic facilities in, under and across the northeast corner of Eighth Street and Market Street, 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.
This enacted ordinance establishes the Queen Village Neighborhood Conservation District, covering an area generally bounded by Washington Avenue, Bainbridge Street, 6th Street, and Front Street, with an exception for properties under South Street/HeadHouse Square controls.
Amending Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Zoning and Planning," by adding a new Section 14-908, entitled "Queen Village Neighborhood Conservation District."
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.