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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 October 29, 2015 meeting.

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Showing 1-18 of 64 actions from October 29, 2015

Council Action2015-10-29
COMMUNICATION 150842

Transmitting a bill authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of the City, to acquire title or a lesser interest such as an easement, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, in parcels of land along the Delaware River and the Delaware River Trail, and authorizing an agreement between the City and the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the PRA to act as the City's condemnation agent, under certain terms and conditions.

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Other recorded action without a published tally.

Council Action2015-10-29
COMMUNICATION 150841

Transmitting a bill constituting the Eighteenth Supplemental Ordinance to the Restated General Water and Wastewater Revenue Bond Ordinance of 1989, as supplemented; authorizing the Bond Committee to issue and sell one or more series or subseries of tax-exempt or taxable water and wastewater revenue bonds and revenue refunding bonds; authorizing agreements to provide credit enhancement or payment or liquidity sources (or any combination of the foregoing) for such Bonds; providing that such Bonds shall bear interest at fixed or variable rates; determining the sufficiency of pledged Project Revenues; authorizing the Director of Finance to take certain actions with regard to the sale of such Bonds, the investment of proceeds thereof and the City's continuing disclosure obligations with respect to such Bonds; setting forth the use of proceeds of such Bonds; covenanting the payment of interest and principal; and supplementing the Restated General Water and Wastewater Revenue Bond Ordinance o...

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Other recorded action without a published tally.

Council Action2015-10-29
COMMUNICATION 150840

Transmitting a bill constituting the Nineteenth Supplemental Ordinance to the Restated General Water and Wastewater Revenue Bond Ordinance of 1989, as supplemented; authorizing the Bond Committee to issue and sell either at public or private sale Water and Wastewater Revenue Bonds; providing that such Bonds shall bear interest at prescribed fixed or variable rates; authorizing agreements to provide credit enhancement or payment or liquidity sources or swap payments (or any combination of the foregoing) for such Bonds; authorizing the Director of Finance to take certain actions with regard to the sale of such Bonds, the investment of proceeds thereof and the City's continuing disclosure obligations with respect to such Bonds; setting forth the use of proceeds of such Bonds; covenanting the payment of interest and principal and supplementing the Restated General Water and Wastewater Revenue Bond Ordinance of 1989.

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Other recorded action without a published tally.

Council Action2015-10-29
COMMUNICATION 150839

Transmitting a bill authorizing the Public Property Commissioner, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to acquire a trestle over Germantown Avenue just below Cresheim Valley Drive and to enter into an agreement to license from PECO Energy Company a certain strip of land running parallel to a portion of Cresheim Creek to be used as part of the Cresheim Trail, all under certain terms and conditions.

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Other recorded action without a published tally.

Council Action2015-10-29
COMMUNICATION 150838

Transmitting a bill authorizing the Public Property Commissioner and the Parks and Recreation Commissioner to execute a document and file it in the Recorder of Deeds office to extinguish a 25-foot easement in favor of the City along former Hamilton Street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Street, under certain terms and conditions.

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Other recorded action without a published tally.

Council Action2015-10-29
COMMUNICATION 150838

Transmitting a bill authorizing the Public Property Commissioner and the Parks and Recreation Commissioner to execute a document and file it in the Recorder of Deeds office to extinguish a 25-foot easement in favor of the City along former Hamilton Street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Street, under certain terms and conditions.

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Other recorded action without a published tally.

Council Action2015-10-29
COMMUNICATION 150837

Transmitting a bill authorizing the striking from City Plan No.

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Other recorded action without a published tally.

Council Action2015-10-29
COMMUNICATION 150836

Tranmsitting a bill authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No.

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Other recorded action without a published tally.

Council Action2015-10-29
COMMUNICATION 150835

Transmitting a bill authorizing the City's Managing Director or his designee to enter into a cable television franchise renewal agreement with COMCAST OF PHILADELPHIA, LLC and COMCAST OF PHILADELPHIA II, LLC, renewing the cable television franchises granted by the City to Comcast for Franchise Areas I, II, III and IV, under certain terms and conditions.

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Other recorded action without a published tally.

Council Action2015-10-29
COMMUNICATION 150834

October 27, 2015 TO THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHA: Pursuant to Sections 4-604 and 2-307 of the Home Rule Charter, I am today transmitting to the Council the recommendation of the City Planning Commission on the following bills: Bill No.

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Other recorded action without a published tally.

Council Action2015-10-29
COMMUNICATION 150833

Transmitting a message advising Council that Bill No.

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Other recorded action without a published tally.

Council Action2015-10-29
COMMUNICATION 150832

Transmitting a message advising Council that Bill Nos.

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Other recorded action without a published tally.

Unanimous2015-10-29
Resolution 150831

Urging the Pennsylvania General Assembly to support H.B.

Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass

Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.

Council Action2015-10-29
Resolution 150830

Celebrating, honoring and thanking our veterans on Veterans Day 2015.

ADOPTED

Other recorded action without a published tally.

Unanimous2015-10-29
Resolution 150830

Celebrating, honoring and thanking our veterans on Veterans Day 2015.

Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass

Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.

Council Action2015-10-29
Resolution 150829

Recognizing and honoring Ms.

ADOPTED

Other recorded action without a published tally.

Unanimous2015-10-29
Resolution 150829

Recognizing and honoring Ms.

Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass

Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.

Council Action2015-10-29
Resolution 150828

Honoring and Recognizing Lisa Ciaranca Kaplan from Andrew Jackson Elementary School on being nationally recognized and awarded the 2015 Escalante-Gradillas Prize for Best in Education.

ADOPTED

Other recorded action without a published tally.