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
Unanimous actions actions from the October 8, 2009 meeting.
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Showing 1-18 of 24 actions from October 8, 2009
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Thirty-first and Forty-fifth Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Calling on the School Reform Commission to adopt the principles of the Philadelphia 21st Century Minimum Wage and Benefits Standard.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
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.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Honoring the Pennsylvania National Guard members of the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team upon their safe return to their families from their deployment to Iraq.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Thirty-third Ward of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Recognizing, Honoring, And Celebrating The Business Center for Entrepreneurship & Social Enterprise - For Its for 10 years of success and achievement.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Initiating action to establish a neighborhood improvement district in an area that generally includes Cheltenham Avenue with boundaries of Wadsworth Avenue on the west and Broad Street on the east, Ogontz Avenue with boundaries of Cheltenham Avenue on the north and 67th Avenue on the south and Wadsworth Avenue with boundaries of Cheltenham Avenue on the northeast and Michener Avenue on the southwest; to be known as The Greater Cheltenham Avenue Business Improvement District, and for which Greater Cheltenham Avenue Business Improvement District Inc., a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, would serve as the Neighborhood Improvement District Management Association; approving a preliminary plan for and report concerning the District; and authorizing and directing the Committee on Rules and the Clerk of Council to take all actions that are required by the Community and Economic Improvement Act prior to enactment of an ordinance that would formally establish the District.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Recognizing and Honoring Rebuilding Together Philadelphia.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Approving certain agreements by the Department of Revenue, the Department of Commerce, or both, with various taxpayers, providing for payments to the City relating to the establishment or extension of certain Keystone Opportunity Zones, Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zones, or Keystone Opportunity Improvement Zones, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Honoring Dietz and Watson on their 70th Anniversary.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Calling on the U.S.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
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.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
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.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
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.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Authorizing Mick Hally to construct, own and maintain, an open-air sidewalk cafe at 1148-1150 S.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Authorizing John Kile to construct, own and maintain, an open-air sidewalk cafe at 2448 E.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
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.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
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.
Introduced·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.