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
Procedural actions actions from the December 11, 2014 meeting.
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Showing 1-15 of 15 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.
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.
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.
The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Property and Public Works to hold hearings about the current status, existing plans, and timeline for redesigning underused public spaces in Center City.
Authorizing the City Council Committee on Property and Public Works to conduct hearings on the current status, existing plans and timeline for the redesign of underutilized public spaces in Center City Philadelphia, including but not limited to: the apron surrounding City Hall, Thomas Paine Plaza, the courtyard of City Hall and the ground floor of City Hall.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution appoints Doug Hager to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
Appointing Doug Hager to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
REPORTED FAVORABLY, RULE SUSPENSION REQUESTED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution appoints Doug Hager to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
Appointing Doug Hager to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
HEARING HELD
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution appoints Doug Hager to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
Appointing Doug Hager to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
HEARING NOTICES SENT
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution reappoints Howard Lander to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
Reappointing Howard Lander to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
REPORTED FAVORABLY, RULE SUSPENSION REQUESTED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution reappoints Howard Lander to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
Reappointing Howard Lander to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
HEARING HELD
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution reappoints Howard Lander to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
Reappointing Howard Lander to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
HEARING NOTICES SENT
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution appoints Daniel Christensen to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
Appointing Daniel Christensen to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
REPORTED FAVORABLY, RULE SUSPENSION REQUESTED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution appoints Daniel Christensen to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
Appointing Daniel Christensen to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
HEARING HELD
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The adopted resolution appoints Daniel Christensen to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
Appointing Daniel Christensen to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
HEARING NOTICES SENT
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution approved Bernard Brunwasser’s appointment to the Philadelphia Water, Sewer and Storm Water Rate Board.
Approving the appointment of Bernard Brunwasser to the Philadelphia Water, Sewer and Storm Water Rate Board.
HEARING NOTICES SENT
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
City Council approved Nancy Winkler’s appointment to the Philadelphia Water, Sewer and Storm Water Rate Board.
Approving the appointment of Nancy Winkler to the Philadelphia Water, Sewer and Storm Water Rate Board.
HEARING NOTICES SENT
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.