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 June 18, 2009 meeting.
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Showing 109-126 of 152 actions from June 18, 2009
This enacted ordinance changes the Philadelphia Zoning Maps for certain properties in the area bounded by Walnut Street, 42nd Street, Locust Street, and 43rd Street.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Walnut Street, 42nd Street, Locust Street and 43rd Street.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance changes the Philadelphia Zoning Maps for certain properties in the area bounded by Walnut Street, 42nd Street, Locust Street, and 43rd Street.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Walnut Street, 42nd Street, Locust Street and 43rd Street.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have prohibited Philadelphia retail businesses from selling or giving away smokeless tobacco products, including snuff, chewing tobacco, and dipping tobacco.
Amending Section 9-622 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Cigarettes and Tobacco Products," by prohibiting the retail sale of smokeless tobacco products and providing penalties for violations, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have prohibited Philadelphia retail businesses from selling or giving away smokeless tobacco products, including snuff, chewing tobacco, and dipping tobacco.
Amending Section 9-622 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Cigarettes and Tobacco Products," by prohibiting the retail sale of smokeless tobacco products and providing penalties for violations, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution confirms Damone B.
Confirming the appointment of Damone B. Jones, Sr., as a member of the Board of Ethics, to serve in the term ending November 16, 2012.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This adopted resolution confirms Damone B.
Confirming the appointment of Damone B. Jones, Sr., as a member of the Board of Ethics, to serve in the term ending November 16, 2012.
READ
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This adopted resolution confirms Damone B.
Confirming the appointment of Damone B. Jones, Sr., as a member of the Board of Ethics, to serve in the term ending November 16, 2012.
FAVORABLY RECOMMENDED; CONSIDERATION AT END OF CALENDAR
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This adopted resolution confirms Damone B.
Confirming the appointment of Damone B. Jones, Sr., as a member of the Board of Ethics, to serve in the term ending November 16, 2012.
REPORTED FAVORABLY
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution confirms Damone B.
Confirming the appointment of Damone B. Jones, Sr., as a member of the Board of Ethics, to serve in the term ending November 16, 2012.
HEARING HELD
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution confirms Damone B.
Confirming the appointment of Damone B. Jones, Sr., as a member of the Board of Ethics, to serve in the term ending November 16, 2012.
HEARING NOTICES SENT
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted measure added rules for how the City must publicize Council bill hearings and committee-reported bills, certain contracts open for competitive bidding, and regulations proposed by City departments, boards, and commissions.
Amending Title 21 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Miscellaneous," by adding a new chapter with provisions relating to how and when required notices shall be published and advertised; all under certain terms and conditions.
READ
Other recorded action without a published tally.
The enacted ordinance changes the curblines of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and nearby intersections between Twenty-First and Twenty-Second Streets, including widening parts of the Parkway’s sidewalks and modifying traffic islands.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 63 and 67 by relocating the northeasterly and southwesterly curblines of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway from Twenty-First Street to points northwest of Twenty-Second Street; relocating portions of the curblines of intersections affected thereby; striking from the City Plan and vacating Callowhill Street from Twenty-First Street to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway; and by placing on the City Plan a right of way for various utility purposes within the lines of Callowhill Street being stricken.
READ
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This lapsed bill would have authorized the City's Commissioner of Public Property to transfer ownership of the parcels and buildings at 2216-2240 North 9th Street to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for a nominal amount.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property on behalf of the City to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development a deed conveying fee simple title to certain parcels of land, with the improvements thereon, located at 2216-2240 North 9th Street, located on the west side of North 9th Street, for further conveyance, under certain terms and conditions.
HEARING NOTICES SENT
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have authorized the City's Commissioner of Public Property to transfer ownership of the parcels and buildings at 2216-2240 North 9th Street to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for a nominal amount.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property on behalf of the City to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development a deed conveying fee simple title to certain parcels of land, with the improvements thereon, located at 2216-2240 North 9th Street, located on the west side of North 9th Street, for further conveyance, under certain terms and conditions.
RECESSED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This enacted ordinance adds a 3.45% annual assessment on net operating revenue, excluding Medicare revenue, for certain nonprofit hospitals in Philadelphia that provide more than 90,000 days of care to Medicaid patients and are subsidiaries of state-related institutions.
Amending Chapter 19-3500 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "General Acute Care Hospital Assessment," by adding an assessment upon the Net Operating Revenue of certain specified hospitals located in the City of Philadelphia; all under certain terms and conditions.
READ
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the President of the Fairmount Park Commission and the Executive Director of Fairmount Park to enter into a lease making the City the landlord and the Center City District the tenant of Sister Cities Plaza.
Authorizing the President of the Fairmount Park Commission and the Executive Director of Fairmount Park to enter into a lease agreement between the City of Philadelphia as landlord and the Center City District as tenant for a certain parcel of land bounded by 18th Street, Logan Square, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Vine Street, commonly referred to as Sister Cities Plaza, under certain terms and conditions.
READ
Other recorded action without a published tally.
The enacted ordinance authorizes four City officials to amend a 1993 lease between the City and the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development.
Authorizing the Executive Director of Fairmount Park Commission, the Recreation Commissioner, the Public Property Commissioner, and the Director of Commerce to execute an amendment to the lease dated November 1, 1993, between the City and the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development ("PAID"), authorized by Bill Number 505 of 1993, and under which PAID entered into a sublease with the Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust, Inc. (the "Trust"), under which, in turn, from time to time, the Trust has entered into sub-subleases with third parties who have restored historic houses and other properties in Fairmount Park in exchange for long-term leases, under certain provisions.
READ
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This enacted ordinance authorizes changes to the City Plan to add portions of Fourth Street and Westmoreland Street in the area between Lawrence Street and Ontario Street, including part of an existing pedestrian walkway.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 157 by placing on the City Plan Fourth Street from Westmoreland Street to Ontario Street, east of Lawrence Street, and Westmoreland Street from Lawrence Street to Fourth Street, partly within the lines of an existing pedestrian walkway, and authorizing the opening of the portion of the bed of Westmoreland Street extending through property owned by the City of Philadelphia, all under certain terms and conditions, including the dedication to the City of the bed of Fourth Street and the portion of the bed of Westmoreland Street not owned by the City.
READ
Other recorded action without a published tally.