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 February 2, 2012 meeting.
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Showing 37-48 of 48 actions from February 2, 2012
The enacted ordinance sets a limit of 12 adult dogs and cats combined on residential properties, including no more than two unsterilized dogs and two unsterilized cats.
Amending Chapter 10-100 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Animals," to provide for limits on the numbers of dogs and cats, sterilized and unsterilized, permitted on residential properties, all under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes the City Council Committee on Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs to hold public hearings to identify city programs, Parks and Recreation resources, universities, cultural institutions, and youth-focused nonprofit organizations that could support Philadelphia public school students’ academic needs.
Calling on the Philadelphia City Council Committee on Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs to hold public hearings to determine and identify Parks and Recreation Department resources, along with other City departments' programming, universities, cultural institutions, social and non-profit organizations focused on youth, which can be utilized to aid in the academic enrichment and supplement the academic needs of Philadelphia public school students.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes the City Council’s Public Safety Committee and Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless Committee to hold joint hearings on Philadelphia and Pennsylvania’s preparedness for returning veterans, including those from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Authorizing Council's Committee on Public Safety and Committee on Housing Neighborhood Development and the Homeless to hold joint hearings on the City and State's preparedness for the influx of returning veterans from war, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution urging the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare to reconsider a proposed asset test for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Urging the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare State to reconsider its proposed asset test in order for needy Pennsylvanians to receive benefits under the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program.
READ
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution urging the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare to reconsider a proposed asset test for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Urging the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare State to reconsider its proposed asset test in order for needy Pennsylvanians to receive benefits under the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This adopted resolution appoints Councilmembers Marian Tasco and Curtis Jones, Jr.
Appointing Councilmembers Marian Tasco and Curtis Jones, Jr. to the Philadelphia Gas Commission.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This adopted resolution authorizes the City to transfer conditional ownership of three City-owned properties—532 East Allegheny Avenue, 2634 North Darien Street, and 2329 North Mutter Street—to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority without payment.
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 Nineteenth and Thirty-sixth 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.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Adopted, this resolution urges the Pennsylvania General Assembly to reject House Bill 2029 as unnecessary and inconsistent with constitutional principles.
Urging the Pennsylvania General Assembly to reject House Bill 2029 as unnecessary and inconsistent with our core constitutional principles, and affirming that the Council of the City of Philadelphia welcomes all religious beliefs, traditions and heritages, and has full confidence in the U.S. Constitution and the laws of the state of Pennsylvania and does not entertain any concern that any foreign or religious law offers a threat to the law of the land.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
The adopted resolution calls on the 50-state attorneys general task force negotiating with major banks over the mortgage crisis not to give the banks broad immunity from future lawsuits.
Calling on the Federal Taskforce of States Attorney General's negotiating a settlement with the major banks related to the mortgage crisis, not to offer any settlement that would grant banks immunity to further prosecution, and to preserve each States right to pursue legal action on the broader issues of mortgage abuse.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Education to hold hearings on the Philadelphia School District’s discipline policies and the report “Zero Tolerance in Philadelphia.” The committee is also authorized to issue findings and suggestions on making school discipline more effective and equitable, focusing on the reported effects on poor, Black, and Latino students.
Authorizing the Council Committee on Education to conduct hearings to examine the Philadelphia School District's discipline policy and the recent report "Zero Tolerance in Philadelphia" by the Advancement Project and Youth United for Change, which documents the negative and disproportionate effect of zero tolerance discipline policies on poor and minority students.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Technology and Information Services to hold public hearings about the condition of Philadelphia’s information technology systems.
Authorizing City Council's Committee on Technology and Information Services to hold public hearings for the purpose of determining the current condition of the City's information technology (IT) environment and the Office of Innovation and Technology's plans for improving and supporting the internal requirements of City departments and agencies which will enable the public and City agencies to interact efficiently, creatively, and transparently.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes the Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold public hearings about creating a special purpose zone in one or more struggling neighborhoods.
Authorizing the Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold public hearings investigating the feasibility, advantages and legal measures required to establish a special purpose zone in one or more struggling neighborhoods to spur economic development.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.