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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Procedural actions actions from the October 8, 2009 meeting.
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Showing 1-16 of 16 actions from October 8, 2009
This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committees on Licenses and Inspections and Public Health and Human Services to hold public hearings about how Philadelphia and Pennsylvania agencies cooperate to protect residents from wild animals sheltering in vacant buildings and deteriorating alleyways.
Authorizing City Council's Committees on Licenses and Inspections and Public Health and Human Services to hold public hearings to investigate the state of intergovernmental and intragovernmental cooperation between the Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections, the Pennsylvania Game Commission, the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health relating the protection of its citizens from exposure to wild animals which take shelter in vacant buildings and deteriorating alleyways.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill limits what towing companies can charge owners whose vehicles were reported stolen or illegally used by someone else without authorization.
Amending Section 9-605 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Towing," and Chapter 12-2400 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Towing And Immobilizing of Parked or Abandoned Vehicles," by reducing the amount towing companies can charge owners of recovered stolen or illegally used vehicles.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance grants Bharat Patel, owner of the newsstand at Broad and Arch Streets, permission to install and maintain underground electrical and telephone conduits connecting the newsstand to existing PECO and Verizon facilities.
Granting permission to Bharat Patel, owner of the newsstand at the southwest corner of Broad Street and Arch Street, to construct, use and maintain an electrical conduit with an electrical service line and a telecommunications conduit with a telephone service line in and under the public rights-of-way for the purpose of supplying electrical service and telephone service to the newsstand, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted legislation changes Philadelphia’s rules for publishers’ boxes used to distribute newspapers and other printed material on public sidewalks.
Amending Section 9-211 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Boxes for the Distribution of News and Printed Material," by amending certain specifications for publishers' boxes, increasing licensing fees, amending permissible locations and increasing fines, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Mick Hally to construct, own, and maintain an open-air sidewalk cafe at 1148-1150 S.
Authorizing Mick Hally to construct, own and maintain, an open-air sidewalk cafe at 1148-1150 S. 11th Street, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes John Kile to construct, own, and maintain an open-air sidewalk cafe at 2448 E.
Authorizing John Kile to construct, own and maintain, an open-air sidewalk cafe at 2448 E. Huntingdon Street, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Frank and Ritamarie Olivieri, owners of Pat’s King of Steaks at 901-03 Wharton Street, to legalize existing sidewalk encroachments on the island parcel bordered by Wharton Street, 9th Street, and Passyunk Avenue.
Authorizing Frank and Ritamarie Olivieri, owners of the property Pat's King of Steaks, 901-03 Wharton Street, to legalize various existing sidewalk encroachments located on an island parcel bounded by Wharton Street, 9th Street, and Passyunk Avenue, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted measure authorizes the Water Commissioner to enter into a license agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for the City to occupy submerged lands in the Schuylkill River near Lock Street.
Authorizing the Water Commissioner, on behalf of the City, to enter into an agreement for a license from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to occupy certain submerged lands of the Commonwealth in the Schuylkill River in the vicinity of Lock Street, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance provided for abolishing the Board of Revision of Taxes and assigning property assessment duties to a new Office of Property Assessment.
Amending Title 2 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "City-County Consolidation," by abolishing the Board of Revision of Taxes, by creating an Office of Property Assessment which shall have the powers, functions and duties of the Board of Revision of Taxes with respect to the initial making of property assessments; by assigning certain duties to the Department of Records (as the successor to the Recorder of Deeds) with respect to filing certain information with the new Office of Property Assessment; by creating a new Board of Property Assessment Appeals ("Board"), which shall have the powers, functions and duties of the Board of Revision of Taxes with respect to appeals from property assessments; and by creating a Board of Property Assessment Appeals Nominating Panel to nominate candidates for appointment to the Board; and providing for submission of such amendment for the approval or disapproval of the qualified electors of the City of Philadelphia; fixing the date of a special electio...
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted amendment revised Philadelphia Gas Works’ Fiscal Year 2010 capital budget, increasing the authorized maximum from $72.215 million to $74.767 million.
Amending Bill No. 090325 entitled "An Ordinance approving the Fiscal Year 2010 Capital Budget providing for expenditures for the capital purposes of the Philadelphia Gas Works (including the supplying of funds in connection therewith) subject to certain constraints and conditions, and acknowledging receipt of the Forecast of Capital Budgets for Fiscal Years 2011 through 2015" by approving a revised Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2010.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill amended Philadelphia’s farmers’ market rules to permit a farmers’ market on the sidewalk and curb lane along the west side of Wadsworth Avenue between Bayard Street and Pickering Street.
Amending Section 9-213 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Farmers' Markets," by adding as a permissible location the West side of Wadsworth Avenue between Bayard Street and Pickering Street, all under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted ordinance grants the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania Health System permission to install and maintain three information signs and five planters on the public sidewalk along the 3400 block of Civic Center Boulevard.
Granting permission to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Health System, 3624 Market Street, Suite 575 West, Philadelphia, PA 19104, for the installation of information signs and planters on the public sidewalk located on the 3400 block of Civic Center Boulevard, under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted bill amends Philadelphia’s 21st Century Minimum Wage and Benefits Standard to allow employers that violate it to be barred for up to three years from receiving City financial assistance or bidding on or participating in future City contracts.
Amending Chapter 17-1300 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Philadelphia 21st Century Minimum Wage And Benefits Standard," by providing that those who violate the Chapter may be suspended from receiving financial assistance from the City or from bidding on or participating in future City contracts for a period of time, and further providing that Council may by resolution determine that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a violation of that Chapter has occurred, that the violator should be subject to debarment, and that the appropriate City agency shall, after notice and hearing, make a final determination as to whether there has been a violation of the Chapter and whether debarment should be imposed, 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.
The enacted bill amends Philadelphia’s 21st Century Minimum Wage and Benefits Standard to allow employers that violate it to be barred for up to three years from receiving City financial assistance or bidding on or participating in future City contracts.
Amending Chapter 17-1300 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Philadelphia 21st Century Minimum Wage And Benefits Standard," by providing that those who violate the Chapter may be suspended from receiving financial assistance from the City or from bidding on or participating in future City contracts for a period of time, and further providing that Council may by resolution determine that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a violation of that Chapter has occurred, that the violator should be subject to debarment, and that the appropriate City agency shall, after notice and hearing, make a final determination as to whether there has been a violation of the Chapter and whether debarment should be imposed, all under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted bill authorizes the Mayor to sign a mutual aid and intergovernmental cooperation agreement between Philadelphia and Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties.
Authorizing the Mayor, on behalf of the City, to execute the "Southeastern Pennsylvania Mutual Aid and Intergovernmental Cooperation Agreement," by and between the City of Philadelphia and Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties, 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.
This enacted bill authorizes the Mayor to sign a mutual aid and intergovernmental cooperation agreement between Philadelphia and Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties.
Authorizing the Mayor, on behalf of the City, to execute the "Southeastern Pennsylvania Mutual Aid and Intergovernmental Cooperation Agreement," by and between the City of Philadelphia and Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties, under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.