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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Unanimous actions actions from the November 3, 2011 meeting.
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Showing 19-33 of 33 actions from November 3, 2011
This lapsed bill would have changed the zoning designations for certain properties in the area bounded by 84th Street, Lindbergh Boulevard, and Mario Lanza Boulevard.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by 84th Street, Lindbergh Boulevard and Mario Lanza Boulevard.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes the Philadelphia Municipal Authority to evaluate and carry out energy-efficiency measures at City Hall, the Criminal Justice Center, the Municipal Services Building, and One Parkway Building.
Authorizing the Philadelphia Municipal Authority, incorporated pursuant to the Municipality Authorities Act (the "Act"), 53 Pa. C. S. Ch. 56, to enter into agreements for programs, evaluations, facility alterations or upgrades designed to reduce energy, water, wastewater or other consumption or operating costs at specified City properties, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorized the City, working with the Philadelphia Municipal Authority, to evaluate and install energy- and resource-saving measures at City Hall, the Criminal Justice Center, the Municipal Services Building, and the One Parkway Building.
Authorizing the Director of Finance and the Commissioner of Public Property on behalf of the City, in cooperation with The Philadelphia Municipal Authority (the "Authority"), to undertake a project relating to the evaluation and implementation of energy conservation measures at City Hall, the Criminal Justice Center, the Municipal Services Building and the One Parkway Building; authorizing and approving: (i) the issuance by the Authority of revenue bonds in connection with the project, (ii) the entering into, execution and delivery of a Service Agreement between the City and the Authority providing for payment by the City to the Authority of amounts necessary to pay the costs of the Project, (iii) the provisions for establishment of credit enhancement, and (iv) the assignment of the Service Agreement by the Authority to a trustee, covenanting that the City will make necessary appropriations in each of the City's fiscal years to provide for payments due under the Service Agreement, and ...
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted bill authorizes Philadelphia’s Procurement Commissioner to enter into a guaranteed energy savings contract with the Philadelphia Municipal Authority.
Authorizing the Procurement Commissioner, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to enter into a guaranteed energy savings contract with the Philadelphia Municipal Authority for the implementation and evaluation of energy conservation measures designed to reduce energy, water, wastewater or other consumption or operating costs at specified City properties, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Aksum, LLC to construct, own, and maintain an open-air sidewalk café at 4630–4632 Baltimore Avenue, with six tables and 12 chairs for up to 12 occupants.
Authorizing Aksum, LLC ("Owner") to construct, own and maintain an open-air sidewalk café at 4630-4632 Baltimore Avenue ("Property"), under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Vientiane Café at 4728 Baltimore Avenue to construct, own, and maintain an open-air sidewalk café with two tables and four chairs, extending about five feet onto the sidewalk while leaving about nine feet clear for pedestrians.
Authorizing Vientiane Café ("Owner") to construct, own and maintain an open-air sidewalk café at 4728 Baltimore Avenue ("Property"), under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance repeals and replaces Philadelphia Code Chapter 21-1100 on community development.
Repealing Chapter 21-1100 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Community Development," and replacing it with a new Chapter 21-1100 that restates and revises the policy of the City of Philadelphia regarding its Community Development Block Grant Program; expands the scope of the Chapter to incorporate related housing and community development programs; requires the preparation of an annual Consolidated Plan for the City that covers, not only Community Development Block Grant funds that the City receives under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, but also all other funds from other sources that the City receives for housing and community development activities and programs; and establishes requirements and procedures relating to the preparation, content, publication, amendment, approval, oversight, administration and implementation of the Consolidated Plan; all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorized the transfer of $6,607,847 within Philadelphia’s Fiscal Year 2011 Water Fund.
Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011 within the Water Fund from certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions to certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorized the transfer of $10,697,007 in Fiscal Year 2011 General Fund appropriations among several City offices, departments, boards, commissions, the District Attorney, and the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania.
Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2011 within the General Fund from certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions to certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted measure amends Philadelphia’s Food Distribution Center District rules by raising the maximum height for buildings, structures, and other improvements from 60 feet to 140 feet.
Amending Chapter 14-600 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Food Distribution Center District," by revising the height restrictions, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance revises the boundaries of Philadelphia’s City Council districts and clarifies how city laws that refer to specific districts should be interpreted.
Amending Chapter 20-500 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Councilmanic Districts," by revising the boundaries of the Councilmanic Districts as they were established by Bill No. 110547 (approved September 23, 2011), and by clarifying how and when the revision of Councilmanic Districts set forth in this Ordinance and in Bill No. 110547 affects the interpretation of other provisions of The Philadelphia Code and other ordinances that reference specific Councilmanic Districts, all under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This vetoed bill would have amended Philadelphia’s zoning code to allow one large static or digital mesh wall-wrap advertising sign on qualifying buildings in the area bounded by 7th Street, Spring Garden Street, 6th Street, and Willow Street.
Amending Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Zoning and Planning," by amending Section 14-1604, entitled "Outdoor Advertising and Non-Accessory Advertising Controls," by permitting certain non-accessory outdoor advertising signs within the area bounded by 7th Street, Spring Garden Street, 6th Street, and Willow Street, under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorizes Philadelphia’s Commissioner of Public Property to lease part of the Northeast Water Pollution Control Plant at 3899 Richmond Street to the Philadelphia Municipal Authority.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to enter into a lease agreement with the Philadelphia Municipal Authority for a certain portion of a parcel of ground located at the Northeast Water Pollution Control Plant, 3899 Richmond Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; all under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance requires employers to give employees the full amount of customer gratuities, including tips paid by credit card without deducting processing fees, by the next regular payday.
Amending Chapter 9-600 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Service and Other Businesses," by adding a new Section regulating an employer's treatment of gratuities left by patrons for employees, including, but not limited to, a requirement that all gratuities be paid over to employees without deduction, including, in the case of a gratuity paid by credit card, any deduction for credit card processing fees; providing penalties for violations; and providing for a private right of action for employees aggrieved by violations of the Section; all under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This pocket-vetoed bill would have established the Callowhill Reading Viaduct Neighborhood Improvement District in the Callowhill Chinatown North area and designated a nonprofit organization to manage it.
Establishing a neighborhood improvement district in an area that generally includes, with the exception of those properties having frontage on north Broad Street, the area bounded by the northeast corner of Broad and Vine streets, the southeast corner of Broad and Spring Garden streets, the southwest corner of 8th and Spring Garden streets, the northwest corner of 8th and Vine streets and the northeast corner of Broad and Vine streets and certain blocks of intersecting streets, within such area, to be known as the Callowhill Reading Viaduct Neighborhood Improvement District, and for which Callowhill Reading Viaduct Neighborhood Improvement District, Inc., a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, would serve as the Neighborhood Improvement District Management Association; approving a plan for the District, including a list of proposed improvements and their estimated cost, and providing for assessment fees to be levied on property owners within the District; authorizing the Director of Com...
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.