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 November 21, 2013 meeting.
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Showing 1-18 of 22 actions from November 21, 2013
The adopted resolution respectfully requests that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s Foreign Ministry retain the Consulate General of Israel for the Mid-Atlantic Region in Philadelphia.
Respectfully requesting the Prime Minster of Israel, The Honorable Benjamin Netanyahu, to maintain and support the Foreign Ministry of Israel's diplomatic mission in the United States by retaining The Consulate General of Israel to the Mid-Atlantic Region in Philadelphia.
Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution recognizing and honoring the Alumnae Association of the Philadelphia High School for Girls on its 125th anniversary.
Recognizing and honoring the Alumnae Association of the Philadelphia High School for Girls on its 125th Anniversary.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
City Council adopted a resolution recognizing and honoring the Martin Luther King High School football team for winning the 2013 Philadelphia Public League Class AAA championship, the first in the school's history.
Recognizing and honoring the achievements of the 2013 Martin Luther King High School football team.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution honoring and congratulating the Women’s Law Project on its 40th anniversary.
Honoring and Congratulating the Women's Law Project on its 40th Anniversary.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes joint hearings by City Council committees to explore alternative health care options in Philadelphia, including telemedicine, mobile clinics, online therapy, and non-traditional nursing homes.
Calling for joint hearings by the Committee on Public Safety and the Committee on Public Health and Human Services to explore alternative health care methods, such as, telemedicine, mobile health care clinics, online therapy, and non-traditional nursing homes for low-income families, disabled, and elderly Philadelphia residents.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The adopted resolution authorized City Council’s Joint Committees on Education and Public Safety to hold public hearings about state funding used to construct two new state prisons, SCI Phoenix I and II.
Authorizing the Joint Committees on Education and Public Safety to hold hearings to discuss the use of state funding to construct two new state prisons - SCI Phoenix I & II - while funding has been drastically cut for basic education.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer conditional ownership of 1727 North Lambert Street, a City-owned property in the Forty-Seventh Ward, 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 Forty-Seventh 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 l6-400 of The Philadelphia Code.
Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The adopted resolution honors William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., a Philadelphia native, for his work advancing civil rights, equality, and the law.
Honoring and recognizing the Honorable William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. for his trailblazing efforts in the areas of civil rights, equality, and the law.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Labor and Civil Service to hold public hearings about negotiations between Corizon Health, Inc., and District 1199C.
Authorizing the Committee on Labor and Civil Service to hold public hearings to examine the negotiations between Corizon Health, Inc., and District 1199C to ensure Corizon is in compliance with all provisions of their latest contract with the City of Philadelphia.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes the City Council’s Committee on Public Safety to hold public hearings about information-sharing and other cooperation between Philadelphia agencies, including the Police Department, and U.S.
Authorizing the Committee on Public Safety to hold public hearings to examine the working relationship between the City of Philadelphia, its agencies including the Police Department, and United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and to determine the impact on Philadelphia's immigrant community and whether this information-sharing relationship should be terminated.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This enacted ordinance authorized $4,193,178 in Fiscal Year 2013 appropriation transfers to the Acute Care Hospital Fund within the Department of Public Health.
Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2013 from the Grants Revenue Fund, the Director of Finance - Provision for Other Grants and from the Acute Care Hospital Fund, the Department of Public Health to the Acute Care Hospital Fund, the Department of Public Health - State Payment.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorized a $3,854,411 transfer within Philadelphia’s Aviation Fund for Fiscal Year 2013.
Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2013 within the Aviation Fund from certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions to the Director of Finance - Fringe Benefits.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorized the Director of Finance to transfer $13,545,332 in Fiscal Year 2013 General Fund appropriations among City offices, departments, boards, and commissions.
Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2013 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 bill authorizes Fiscal Year 2014 transfers within Philadelphia’s Grants Revenue Fund.
Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2014 from the Grants Revenue Fund, the Director of Finance - Provision for Other Grants to the Grants Revenue Fund, certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance authorized a $7 million transfer within Philadelphia’s Fiscal Year 2014 Community Development Fund.
Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2014 from the Community Development Fund, the Director of Finance - Community Development Block Grant to the Community Development Fund, the Mayor - Office of Housing and Community Development.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This lapsed bill would have authorized the Department of Licenses and Inspections to issue Philadelphia municipal identification cards to residents who provided approved proof of identity and city residency, including minors.
Amending Title 21 "Miscellaneous," by adding a new Chapter 21-2600, entitled "Municipal Identification Cards," that authorizes the issuance of municipal identification cards, under certain terms and conditions.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s Health Code, Contracts and Procurement Code, and Officers and Employees Code to replace references to “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability.” The changes apply to descriptions of health-center services and lead-paint impacts, the name of a city behavioral health office, and the name and compensation rules of a city board.
Amending Title 6 (Health Code), Title 17 (Contracts and Procurement), and Title 20 (Officers and Employees) all of The Philadelphia Code, by replacing references to "mental retardation" with references to "intellectual disability;" all under certain terms and conditions.
SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Adopted, this resolution urges Mayor Michael A.
Calling on Mayor Michael A. Nutter to immediately issue an Executive Order to require enforcement functions at the Department of Licenses and Inspections to report to the Department of Public Safety, as recommended by the Special Investigating Committee on Demolition Practices in Philadelphia.
ORDERED PLACED ON FINAL PASSAGE CALENDAR FOR NEXT MEETING.·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.