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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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.
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.
Reappointing Rev.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Reappointing H.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Reappointing George R.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
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.
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.
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.