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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Other actions actions from the November 29, 2012 meeting.
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Showing 19-32 of 32 actions from November 29, 2012
This adopted resolution recognizes Vets Journey Home USA, Inc.
Recognizing Vets Journey Home USA, Inc. as an organization that provides a unique program for Veterans to help them deal with the emotional wounds of military service.
ADOPTED
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This adopted resolution honors the United Age Group Track Coaches Association and its director, Ron Jackson, for 35 years of providing organized track and field programs for Philadelphia youth.
Honoring and Celebrating the United Age Group Track Coaches Association and Director Ron Jackson for their 35 years of commitment in developing today's athletes into tomorrow's leaders by tirelessly working to provide quality, organized Track and Field programs for Philadelphia's youth.
ADOPTED
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This adopted resolution recognized November 2012 as Epilepsy Awareness Month in Philadelphia.
Recognizing November 2012 as Epilepsy Awareness Month in the City of Philadelphia.
ADOPTED
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The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Public Safety to investigate and hold public hearings about the adequacy and frequency of training for Philadelphia Fire Department firefighters and other first responders.
Authorizing Council's Committee on Public Safety to investigate and hold public hearings reviewing the adequacy and frequency of training provided to Fire Fighters and other first responder personnel of the Philadelphia Fire Department, and what impact rolling brown-outs are having on training and preparedness.
ADOPTED
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The adopted resolution authorizes the City to transfer several City-owned properties in Philadelphia to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority at no cost.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, 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 Seventh, Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Thirty-third Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvements in accordance with terms of Chapter l6-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
ADOPTED
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The adopted resolution authorizes the City’s Public Property Commissioner to transfer, without payment, conditional ownership of four City-owned properties—806 West Firth Street, 1340 North Hollywood Street, 2555 North Sartain Street, and 2734 North 12th Street—to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, 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 Twenty-ninth and Thirty-seventh Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvements in accordance with terms of Chapter l6-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
ADOPTED
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This adopted resolution approves a Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority contract to redevelop a portion of the New Kensington-Fishtown Urban Renewal Area at 2128 East Dauphin Street.
Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the New Kensington-Fishtown Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 2128 East Dauphin street; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Michael A. Smith and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
ADOPTED
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This enacted ordinance authorizes the City to remove the westerly 10 feet of Twenty-first Street between Race Street and Spring Street from the official City Plan.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 307 by striking from the City Plan the westerly ten feet wide portion of Twenty-first Street from Race Street to Spring Street, under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL
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This adopted resolution authorizes the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer conditional ownership of four City-owned properties—2420 Amber Street, 1925 and 1927 East Harold Street, 2204 East Harold Street, and 2161 East William Street—to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority at no cost.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, 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 Twenty-fifth and Thirty-first Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvements in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
ADOPTED
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The adopted resolution authorizes the City to transfer conditional ownership of 2313 East Ann Street, including its buildings and improvements, to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority without payment.
Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, 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 Twenty-fifth Ward of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvements in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
ADOPTED
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This enacted ordinance authorizes Philadelphia to refinance some or all of bonds issued to fund part of the City Retirement System’s unfunded pension liability.
Authorizing and approving the City to amend the payments due under an Alternative Funding Mechanism for a portion of the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of the City of Philadelphia Retirement System pursuant to the Municipal Pension Plan Funding Standard and Recovery Act, through the execution and delivery of a supplement to a Service Agreement between the City of Philadelphia and the Authority, such amendment of payments to be effected through the issuance of the Authority's bonds to provide funds to purchase outstanding bonds of the Authority previously issued to finance such Alternative Funding Mechanism; authorizing and approving the application of a portion of the proceeds of such bonds to fund a deposit to the City of Philadelphia Retirement System; authorizing and approving the obligation of the City to pay in full when due the payment requirements of such Alternative Funding Mechanism, as so amended; authorizing and approving the Director of Finance, on behalf of the City,...
SIGNED
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This enacted ordinance approved a new ten-year plan and budget for the Manayunk Special Services District through December 31, 2022.
Approving a new plan, estimated costs and proposed method of assessment of the Manayunk Special Services District for and concerning business improvements and administrative services to the Manayunk business district of the City of Philadelphia.
READ
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This withdrawn bill would have revised the City Plan in the area bounded by Lindbergh Boulevard, Dicks Place, Eighty-Sixth Street, Shecktor Place, and a nearby pedestrian walkway.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 314, within the area bounded by Lindbergh Boulevard, Dicks Place, Eighty-Sixth Street, Shecktor Place, and a certain pedestrian walkway which extends from the southwesterly terminus of Shecktor Place southeastwardly and southwestwardly to Lindbergh Boulevard, by striking from the City Plan and vacating certain streets and portions of certain pedestrian walkways, striking from the City Plan and abandoning certain rights-of-way for sewer and drainage purposes and water main purposes, and reserving and placing on the City Plan rights-of-way for sewer and drainage purposes and water main purposes within the lines of the streets and walkways being stricken, such as may be necessary, all under certain terms and conditions, and authorizing acceptance of the grant to the City of the said rights-of-way being placed.
READ
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This enacted ordinance continued the Mt.
Continuing the Mt. Airy Business Improvement District beyond its termination date, in an area that generally includes both sides of Germantown Avenue from 6300 to 7631 and certain blocks of streets that intersect that portion of Germantown Avenue and for which Mt. Airy Improvement District, Inc., a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, is the Neighborhood Improvement District Management Association for the District; approving a final plan and report 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 Commerce, on behalf of the City, to execute an agreement with Mt. Airy Improvement District, Inc. relating to the District; and authorizing Mt. Airy Improvement District, Inc. to assess certain property owners within the District a special property assessment fee to be used in accordance with the approved final plan; all in accordance with the p...
SIGNED
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