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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October 23, 2007
This lapsed proposal would have added conditions to Philadelphia business privilege licenses, including requirements to prevent public or private nuisances and to follow a Responsible Business Practices Agreement with the surrounding community.
Amending Title 19 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Finance, Taxes and Collections," by amending Section 19-2602, entitled "Licenses," by adding new conditions to the receipt or retention of the license, all under certain terms and conditions.
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This enacted measure changes Philadelphia’s rules for a rotational towing system.
Amending Bill No. 040595 (approved June 15, 2005), entitled "An Ordinance amending Title 9 of The Philadelphia Code ("Regulation of Businesses, Trades and Professions") by amending Section 9-605 ("Towing") to prohibit certain towing upon the establishment of a rotational towing system; to define the parameters of the rotational system; and to make certain technical changes; all under certain terms and conditions," to repeal the effective date provision of that ordinance; and amending Section 9-605 to revise the terms pursuant to which a rotational towing system may be established and towers may operate and provisions regarding the fees that towers may charge; all under certain terms and conditions.
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Meeting date
October 22, 2007
This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on the Disabled and the Handicapped to hold hearings about the needs of children and youth with disabilities and their access to city recreational facilities and programs.
Authorizing City Council's Committee on the Disabled and the Handicapped to hold hearings to investigate and determine the needs of our disabled and/ or handicapped children; to make a determination as to their ability to make full use of our recreational facilities; and to determine and make suggestions to the appropriate City agency what must be done to make fully accessible the programs and our recreational facilities for our disabled and/or handicapped children and youth.
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The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to examine the safety of Philadelphia public school children who ride school buses without seat belts.
Authorizing City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to determine the safety of our public school children who are transported to and from school in school buses not equipped with seat belt restraints; and to determine whether there are not immediate alternatives available for the protection of our children when riding school buses; and to determine the means, methods and criterion used by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission to ensure the safety of children transported to and from school under their supervision.
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This adopted resolution authorized City Council’s Committee on the Disabled and the Handicapped to hold hearings about school transportation for disabled school-age children under the Philadelphia School Reform Commission’s supervision.
Authorizing City Council's Committee on the Disabled and the Handicapped to hold hearings to investigate and determine how many disabled and/or handicapped school age children are transported to and from school under the supervision of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission; and to determine the means, methods and criterion used by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission to ensure the safety of this group of children in transit; and to determine what are the special transportation needs of this group of children and what can be done to address these needs.
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This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on the Disabled and Handicapped to hold hearings about disabled veterans living in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley, especially veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Authorizing City Council's Committee on the Disabled and the Handicapped to hold hearings to investigate and determine how many disabled and/ or handicapped veterans, especially Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans, are living in the Delaware Valley, and Philadelphia in particular; to identify and determine how best to assist these veterans in the receipt of needed medical and/or rehabilitative care; and to further determine ways that we can help the disabled war veteran get back into the mainstream of society; and determine whether or not these disabled veterans would seek to have the Delaware Valley certified by the United States Congress as a Regional Rehabilitation Hub with a rehabilitation medical facility in the Delaware Valley as a means to facilitate the rapid recovery of our service disabled veterans.
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The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold public hearings about why SEPTA has not made the subway exits nearest City Hall and the Municipal Services Building accessible to people with disabilities.
Authorizing City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold public hearings to investigate and determine why SEPTA has not and is not working to make the subway exits most adjacent to City Hall and the Municipal Services Building handicapped accessible; and to determine what criteria has been utilized by SEPTA which has excluded subway accessibility to the disabled and/or handicapped, at these locations; and further determine why monies allocated by SEPTA in their capital budgets have not been utilized at these locations; further such hearings are to be held in conjunction with the hearings authorized in Resolution No. 070084.
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The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold public hearings about how SEPTA serves working people who rely on it to get to and from their jobs.
Authorizing City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold public hearings to determine what and how SEPTA is meeting the demands and the needs of the working public, especially the physically challenged and handicapped worker who relies on SEPTA for their transportation.
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October 18, 2007
This communication is recorded with a status of placed on file.
Transmitting a bill authorizing and directing the placing on City Plan No. 359 of two rights of way for drainage purposes in the vicinity of Saint Thomas Drive, northeast of Tomlinson Road, under certain terms and conditions.
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Transmitting a bill authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to convey a certain tract of land with the buildings and improvements thereon known as 2815 Ridge Avenue, located on the northeast side of Ridge Avenue, to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for nominal consideration, for further conveyance.
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This communication transmitted a proposed bill that would authorize Philadelphia’s Commissioner of Public Property to grant SEPTA an easement across part of a City parcel near 13th Street and Market Street.
Transmitting a bill authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property, on behalf of The City of Philadelphia, to grant to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority an easement across a portion of a certain parcel of land in the vicinity of the intersection of 13th Street and Market Street.
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Transmitting a bill authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2008 within the Grants Revenue Fund from the Director of Finance - Provision for Other Grants to the Law Department.
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Transmitting a bill authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2008 within the Grants Revenue Fund from the Director of Finance - Provision for Other Grants to the Police Department.
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This communication is recorded with a status of placed on file.
Transmitting a bill authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to convey certain tracts of land with the buildings and improvements thereon known as 332-52 East Tioga Street, located on the south side of Tioga Street, to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development for nominal consideration, for further conveyance.
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This communication is recorded with a status of placed on file.
Transmitting a bill authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2008 within the Grants Revenue Fund from the Director of Finance - Provision for Other Grants to the City Commissioners.
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This communication is recorded with a status of placed on file.
Transmitting a bill authorizing LaSalle University, to construct, own and maintain an overhead pedestrian bridge crossing the 5600 block of E. Wister Street, under certain terms and conditions.
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This communication transmitted a proposed bill concerning the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its agents, successors, and assigns constructing, owning, and maintaining encroachments into the right of way along parts of North Broad Street and Race Street.
Transmitting a bill Authorizing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, its agents, successors and assigns, to construct, own and maintain encroachments into the right of way of the east side of North Broad Street between Arch and Race Streets and the south side of Race Street between North Broad and 12th Streets, under certain terms and conditions.
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This communication is recorded with a status of placed on file.
Transmitting a message advising Council that Bill Nos. 070189-A, 070268-A, 070370, 070371 and 070394-A, which were passed by Council on September 27, 2007, were signed by the Mayor on October 18, 2007.
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