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 May 12, 2011 meeting.
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This enacted ordinance requires businesses that sell tobacco products, electronic smoking devices, or certain unapproved nicotine products to obtain and display a Tobacco Retailer Permit for each fixed location.
Amending Chapter 9-600 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Service and Other Businesses," to require tobacco retailers to obtain permits for the retail sale of tobacco products and certain other products containing nicotine, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance excludes interest and fees received on loans made under the federal New Markets Tax Credit program from the receipts counted for Philadelphia’s Business Privilege Tax.
Amending Chapter 19-2600 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Business Privilege Taxes," by providing for certain exclusions relating to investments made under the federal New Market Tax Credit program, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted bill authorizes the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer the parcel at 1814-28 West Cheltenham Avenue to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for further conveyance.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to convey to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development, a parcel with an address of 1814-28 West Cheltenham Avenue, for further conveyance, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance allows banks and other City-designated depositories to hold City funds without pledging matching securities as collateral when those funds are fully insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation.
Amending Title 19 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Finance, Taxes, and Collections," by authorizing City depositories to hold City funds without posting equivalent collateral, to the extent such City funds do not exceed the insurance provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted measure amends the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development’s incorporation documents to extend its existence for 50 years from the date the amendment is approved by the Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Adopting an Amendment to Section V of the Articles of Incorporation of the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development by increasing the Authority's term of existence to a date fifty years from the date of approval of Articles of Amendment by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development to buy about 28 acres on the west side of the Schuylkill River between 56th and 58th Streets for up to $3.5 million, plus settlement and other related costs.
Authorizing the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development (PAID) to purchase approximately twenty-eight acres of land situate on the west side of the Schuylkill River between 56th and 58th Streets, under and subject to the terms and conditions of the Philadelphia Industrial and Commercial Development Agreement among the City, PAID, and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted bill amends Philadelphia’s farmers’ market rules to add the sidewalk on the west side of Frankford Avenue between Bustleton Avenue and Pratt Street as a permissible location for a farmers’ market.
Amending Section 9-213 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Farmers' Markets," by adding a permissible location on the sidewalk of the west side of Frankford Avenue between Bustleton Avenue and Pratt Street.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Philadelphia to exchange a City-owned parcel that is part of the Kensington & Tacony Trail with the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for a parcel in the Frankford Arsenal.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to execute a deed to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development ("PAID") and to accept a deed from PAID, and to execute all other necessary documents, for the purpose of exchanging a parcel of City-owned land that is part of a larger parcel commonly called the Kensington & Tacony Trail (the "K & T Trail") for a parcel of land in the Frankford Arsenal (the "Arsenal Parcel") and, upon completion of the City's acquisition of the Arsenal Parcel, incorporating the Arsenal Parcel into the K & T Trail, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks and Recreation, subject to certain provisions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted measure authorizes the Department of Streets to set rules for how refuse, garbage, rubbish, and recyclable materials placed at curbside or other collection points must be disposed of.
Amending Chapter 10-700 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Refuse and Littering," by adding a new Section, authorizing the Department of Streets to promulgate regulations regarding the proper disposal of refuse, rubbish, garbage and recyclable materials set out for collection and to issue notices of violation for the improper disposal of such items, and establishing standards of review for hearings on violations, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to construct, use, and maintain two pedestrian bridges over Civic Center Boulevard and retaining-wall tie-backs beneath the boulevard’s public right-of-way.
Authorizing The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to construct, use and maintain certain encroaching structures in the rights-of-way of Civic Center Boulevard, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the City’s Board of Surveyors to remove and abandon a 20-foot-wide portion of a reserved right-of-way extending southwest from former Thirty-second Street, south of Market Street.
Authorizing the striking from City Plan No. 42 and abandoning of a portion of a certain right-of-way reserved for municipal and public utility purposes which extends southwestwardly from the westerly side of former Thirty-second Street, south of Market Street, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted bill authorizes the Finance Director to establish a dedicated fund for certain revenue from competitively awarded agreements involving areas and facilities in the Fairmount Park system.
Authorizing the Director of Finance to establish a Parks and Recreation Programs and Facilities Fund in which revenue generated from competitively awarded agreements regarding areas or facilities in the Fairmount Park system may be deposited for use to pay expenses for programs and facilities in the Fairmount Park system, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The withdrawn resolution would have honored the Heavy Hitters Youth Boxing Club for its success in boxing and its work mentoring young people in Lawncrest.
Honoring the Heavy Hitters Youth Boxing Club.
MOTION·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes a $12 million transfer within Philadelphia’s Fiscal Year 2011 Grants Revenue Fund.
Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011 within the Grants Revenue Fund from the Director of Finance - Provision for Other Grants to the Managing Director - Division of Technology.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorizes the Director of Finance to transfer $450,000 in Fiscal Year 2011 Water Fund appropriations within the Office of Fleet Management.
Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011 within the Water Fund from the Managing Director - Office of Fleet Management to the Managing Director - Office of Fleet Management.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorized the Director of Finance to transfer $24.295 million for Fiscal Year 2011 into the General Fund from existing General Fund appropriations and the Grants Revenue Fund.
Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011 from the General Fund, certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions and from the Grants Revenue Fund, the Director of Finance - Provision for Other Grants to the General Fund, certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The vetoed bill would have amended Philadelphia’s parking tax rules and set scheduled tax rates for people who park or store vehicles in city parking facilities, including valet parking customers.
Amending Chapter 19-1200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Parking Tax," by providing for scheduled reductions in the rate of the tax beginning in Fiscal Year 2012, and by making certain technical amendments, all under certain terms and conditions.
WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.