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 February 25, 2016 meeting.
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Showing 1-5 of 5 actions from February 25, 2016
The lapsed resolution would have authorized Council’s Committee on Commerce & Economic Development to hold public hearings about whether Philadelphia should create its own certification process for minority-, women-, or disabled-owned businesses.
Authorizing Council's Committee on Commerce & Economic Development to hold public hearings to determine whether the City of Philadelphia should provide its own certification process for Minority, Women, or Disabled Owned Enterprises
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have authorized the City Council Committee on Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs to investigate and hold hearings about preserving and expanding Philadelphia’s public art.
Authorizing Council's Committee on Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs to investigate and hold hearings on the preservation and expansion of the City's public art, including its voluminous collection of outdoor murals, mosaics, and sculptures.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have authorized public hearings by two City Council committees to review Philadelphia’s franchise agreement with Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc.
Authorizing the Joint Committee on Public Property and Public Works and Technology and Information Services to hold public hearings to review the status of the City of Philadelphia's franchise agreement with Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc., particularly on Verizon's progress in making cable television service available across the City.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have authorized City Council’s Committee on Licenses and Inspections to hold public hearings about the sale of liquor in corner stores throughout Philadelphia.
Authorizing the Committee on Licenses and Inspections to conduct public hearings to investigate the sale of liquor in corner stores throughout Philadelphia.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This withdrawn bill would have repealed a 2015 ordinance concerning a pedestrian walkway and utility rights-of-way along former Thompson Street, from Watts Street to Thirteenth Street.
Repealing an Ordinance (Bill No. 150894) entitled "An Ordinance authorizing the striking from City Plan No. 119 and abandoning of a certain pedestrian walkway reserved within the bed of former Thompson Street, from Watts Street to Thirteenth Street, and the modifying of a certain right-of-way for drainage purposes, water main purposes, gas main purposes, and public utility purposes, also reserved within the bed of said former Thompson Street, by abandoning the right-of-way as to water main purposes, gas main purposes, and public utility purposes, but retaining the said right-of-way on the City Plan as a right-of-way for drainage purposes only, under certain terms and conditions.
READ AND ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK'S SECOND READING CALENDAR
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.