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 April 7, 2016 meeting.
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Showing 1-18 of 29 actions from April 7, 2016
Recognizing and honoring the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Congratulating, recognizing and honoring Philadelphia 76ers Legend Allen Iverson for his induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Congratulating the Philadelphia City Planning Commission for being awarded the American Planning Association's 2016 National Planning Excellence Award for a Planning Agency.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Welcoming and encouraging PayPal and other businesses that support Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex and Asexual (LGBTQIA) to relocate to Philadelphia, a City which has always been on the forefront of non-discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.
Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Congratulating the Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti 2015-2016 Boys Basketball Team on winning the PIAA Division AAA State Championship.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Honoring the Saints John Neumann & Maria Goretti High School Girls Varsity Basketball Team for winning the PIAA District 12 AA City Championship and the PIAA AA State Championship game while finishing the season 29-1 and with a national ranking of #7 by ESPN.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Honoring and congratulating Roman Catholic High School Basketball Team, The Cahillites on winning the 2016 Philadelphia Catholic League Championship, The PIAA AAAA State Championship and The District 12 City Title for the AAAA Classification.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
In solemn recognition of the week of May 1 through May 8, 2016 as the annual remembrance of the Six Million Jewish Martyrs who perished during the Holocaust.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Proclaiming and designating the week of April 10 - 16, 2016 as "Philadelphia Crime Victims' Rights Week" to encourage citizens to assist crime victims and to increase community awareness and support for the organizations that help crime victims rebuild their lives.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Calling upon the United States Senate to approve H.R.
Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Authorizing the Committee on Labor and Civil Service to hold hearings to consider the possibility of offering pension buyouts to City employees.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Also naming the 2700 block of Wharton Street "Kevin C.
Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Honoring and congratulating Jay Wright and the Villanova University Men's Basketball Team on winning the 2016 NCAA Men's National Basketball Championship on a last second, buzzer beater three- pointer to defeat the University of North Carolina (UNC) 77-74.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Expressing Council's support for an amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution that would authorize the General Assembly to establish reasonable classes of real property for the purposes of taxation.
Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
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 Twenty-eighth 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.
Authorizing the Legislative Oversight Committee to conduct public hearings to examine the Executive branches enforcement of Bill No.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.
Proclaiming April 2016 as Child Abuse Prevention Month 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.
Authorizing the installation of all-way stop signs at the intersection of Norcom Road and Nature Road.
Introduced and Referred·Pass
Marked unanimous; no member-by-member tally published.