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 December 11, 2014 meeting.
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Showing 1-18 of 67 actions from December 11, 2014
This adopted resolution authorizes the City Council’s Joint Committees on Streets and Services and Public Safety to hold hearings on ways to reduce speeding, including traffic-calming measures.
Authorizing the Joint Committees on Streets and Services and Public Safety to hold hearings on strategies and methods to reduce speeding, such as traffic calming, to make City streets, especially those in neighborhoods, safer for drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists, and investigating how all traffic injuries and fatalities can be significantly reduced leading to the eventual goal of zero deaths, also known as a "Vision Zero" policy.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes the City Council’s Joint Committees on Streets and Services and Public Safety to hold hearings on ways to reduce speeding, including traffic-calming measures.
Authorizing the Joint Committees on Streets and Services and Public Safety to hold hearings on strategies and methods to reduce speeding, such as traffic calming, to make City streets, especially those in neighborhoods, safer for drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists, and investigating how all traffic injuries and fatalities can be significantly reduced leading to the eventual goal of zero deaths, also known as a "Vision Zero" policy.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Streets and Services to hold hearings about best practices in Philadelphia’s mobile food truck industry.
Authorizing the Committee on Streets and Services of the Philadelphia City Council hold hearings to explore best practices within the mobile food truck industry.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Streets and Services to hold hearings about best practices in Philadelphia’s mobile food truck industry.
Authorizing the Committee on Streets and Services of the Philadelphia City Council hold hearings to explore best practices within the mobile food truck industry.
Introduced and Moved to Be Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar - Rules Suspended·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The adopted resolution honors Ready, Willing & Able for helping homeless men and others facing poverty, addiction, incarceration, and other barriers.
Honoring and celebrating Ready, Willing & Able for helping hundreds of men overcome poverty, addiction and crime to become productive, contributing members of our community and responsible fathers to their children in the City of Brotherly Love by providing resources to men such as a transitional housing, recovery services, life skills and living wage employment that promotes healthy households and responsible fatherhood.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
The adopted resolution honors Ready, Willing & Able for helping homeless men and others facing poverty, addiction, incarceration, and other barriers.
Honoring and celebrating Ready, Willing & Able for helping hundreds of men overcome poverty, addiction and crime to become productive, contributing members of our community and responsible fathers to their children in the City of Brotherly Love by providing resources to men such as a transitional housing, recovery services, life skills and living wage employment that promotes healthy households and responsible fatherhood.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
This adopted resolution recognizes and honors Joseph Neubauer upon his retirement as chairman of Aramark.
Recognizing and honoring Joseph Neubauer on the occasion of his retirement as Chairman of Aramark.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This adopted resolution recognizes and honors Joseph Neubauer upon his retirement as chairman of Aramark.
Recognizing and honoring Joseph Neubauer on the occasion of his retirement as Chairman of Aramark.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Education to hold public hearings about Philadelphia colleges and universities’ sexual-assault policies and the national movement toward “Yes Means Yes” affirmative-consent policies.
Authorizing City Council's Committee on Education to hold public hearings regarding Philadelphia's institutions of higher education's policies on sexual assault and the national movement towards the adoption of an Affirmative Consent "Yes Means Yes" policy.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Education to hold public hearings about Philadelphia colleges and universities’ sexual-assault policies and the national movement toward “Yes Means Yes” affirmative-consent policies.
Authorizing City Council's Committee on Education to hold public hearings regarding Philadelphia's institutions of higher education's policies on sexual assault and the national movement towards the adoption of an Affirmative Consent "Yes Means Yes" policy.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Adopted by City Council, this resolution honors the African American Children’s Book Project for its 23rd Annual African American Children’s Book Fair.
Honoring the African American Children's Book Project on the occasion of the 23rd Annual African American Children's Book Fair and that February 7th is the Kick-Off of the National Literacy Initiative - Preserve a Legacy, Buy a Book.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Adopted by City Council, this resolution honors the African American Children’s Book Project for its 23rd Annual African American Children’s Book Fair.
Honoring the African American Children's Book Project on the occasion of the 23rd Annual African American Children's Book Fair and that February 7th is the Kick-Off of the National Literacy Initiative - Preserve a Legacy, Buy a Book.
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 recognizing the long tradition of the Mummer’s Parade and honoring Mummer’s organizations and participants, past and present.
Recognizing and honoring the long tradition of the Mummer's Parade and the many Mummer's organizations and participants, past and present, for their immeasurable contribution to the City of Philadelphia.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution recognizing the long tradition of the Mummer’s Parade and honoring Mummer’s organizations and participants, past and present.
Recognizing and honoring the long tradition of the Mummer's Parade and the many Mummer's organizations and participants, past and present, for their immeasurable contribution to the City of Philadelphia.
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 Council Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings about the Pathways to Job Growth Report by the Central Philadelphia Development Corporation and the Center City District.
Authorizing the Philadelphia City Council Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings regarding the Pathways to Job Growth Report by the Central Philadelphia Development Corporation and the Center City District.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes the City Council Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings about the Pathways to Job Growth Report by the Central Philadelphia Development Corporation and the Center City District.
Authorizing the Philadelphia City Council Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings regarding the Pathways to Job Growth Report by the Central Philadelphia Development Corporation and the Center City District.
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 Council Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings about increasing Philadelphia’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Authorizing the Philadelphia City Council Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings regarding increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour in the City of Philadelphia.
ADOPTED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This adopted resolution authorizes the City Council Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings about increasing Philadelphia’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Authorizing the Philadelphia City Council Committee on Commerce and Economic Development to hold hearings regarding increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour in the City of Philadelphia.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.