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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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May 3, 2007

Council Action2007-05-03
Resolution 070381

This adopted resolution authorizes the Commissioner of Public Property to transfer conditional ownership of certain City-owned lots and buildings to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority at no cost.

Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, 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 Thirty-Seventh, Sixteenth, Forty-Seventh and Thirty-Second Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.

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Council Action2007-05-03
Resolution 070381

This adopted resolution authorizes the Commissioner of Public Property to transfer conditional ownership of certain City-owned lots and buildings to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority at no cost.

Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, 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 Thirty-Seventh, Sixteenth, Forty-Seventh and Thirty-Second Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.

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Council Action2007-05-03
Resolution 070380

This adopted resolution authorizes the Commissioner of Public Property to transfer conditional ownership of certain City-owned vacant lots and improved properties to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority without payment.

Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, 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 Thirty-second, Forty-third, Forty-seventh, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Twenty-eighth Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.

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Council Action2007-05-03
Resolution 070380

This adopted resolution authorizes the Commissioner of Public Property to transfer conditional ownership of certain City-owned vacant lots and improved properties to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority without payment.

Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, 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 Thirty-second, Forty-third, Forty-seventh, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Twenty-eighth Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.

ADOPTED

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Council Action2007-05-03
Resolution 070379

The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Technology and Information Services to hold hearings on whether Philadelphia’s community emergency notification system, known as Reverse 911, could be upgraded and expanded.

Authorizing City Council's Committee on Technology and Information Services to hold hearings to examine and evaluate the feasibility of upgrading and expanding the City's community emergency notification system, otherwise known as Reverse 911.

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Council Action2007-05-03
Resolution 070378

This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Streets and Services to investigate poor drainage and structural defects in sidewalk cutouts in Center City and elsewhere in Philadelphia.

Authorizing City Council's Committee on Streets and Services to investigate why the sidewalk cutouts throughout Center City are not adequately draining and to investigate whether or not there are other locations throughout the City where the sidewalk cutouts are structurally defective; and to determine how the problem of the sidewalk cutouts can be corrected and to have them corrected.

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Council Action2007-05-03
Resolution 070377

The adopted resolution supports making the annual Report Card on the well-being of Philadelphia’s children and youth, along with neighborhood and specialty reports, ongoing publications.

Institutionalizing the annual publication of Report Card: The Well-Being of Philadelphia's Children and Youth, Community Report Cards/Specialty Report Cards and the bi-annual publication of the Children's Budget: Investments in the Children and Youth of Philadelphia as an ongoing Commitment to Assessing and Improving Outcomes for Philadelphia's Children and Youth.

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Council Action2007-05-03
Resolution 070377

The adopted resolution supports making the annual Report Card on the well-being of Philadelphia’s children and youth, along with neighborhood and specialty reports, ongoing publications.

Institutionalizing the annual publication of Report Card: The Well-Being of Philadelphia's Children and Youth, Community Report Cards/Specialty Report Cards and the bi-annual publication of the Children's Budget: Investments in the Children and Youth of Philadelphia as an ongoing Commitment to Assessing and Improving Outcomes for Philadelphia's Children and Youth.

ADOPTED

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Council Action2007-05-03
Resolution 070376

City Council adopted a resolution authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to transfer conditional ownership of certain City-owned lots and buildings in the Sixth, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Wards to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority without payment.

Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, 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 Sixth, Eleventh and Thirteenth Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.

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Council Action2007-05-03
Resolution 070376

City Council adopted a resolution authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to transfer conditional ownership of certain City-owned lots and buildings in the Sixth, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Wards to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority without payment.

Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, 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 Sixth, Eleventh and Thirteenth Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.

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Council Action2007-05-03
Resolution 070375

This adopted resolution urges Philadelphia’s representatives on SEPTA’s board to oppose proposed fare increases, especially for the Shared Ride Program.

Urging the City of Philadelphia Representatives on the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) Board to oppose SEPTA's proposed fare increases especially increases related to the Shared Ride Program.

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Council Action2007-05-03
Resolution 070375

This adopted resolution urges Philadelphia’s representatives on SEPTA’s board to oppose proposed fare increases, especially for the Shared Ride Program.

Urging the City of Philadelphia Representatives on the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) Board to oppose SEPTA's proposed fare increases especially increases related to the Shared Ride Program.

ADOPTED

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Council Action2007-05-03
Resolution 070374

The adopted resolution authorizes the Council Committee on Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless to hold hearings about Pennsylvania’s proposed 2008 Low Income Housing Tax Credit Allocation Plan.

Authorizing the Council Committee on Housing Neighborhood Development and the Homeless to hold hearings and calling on the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency Board of Directors to reject the Agency's proposed 2008 Low Income Housing Tax Credit Allocation Plan which is discriminatory towards projects located in low income neighborhoods.

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Council Action2007-05-03
Resolution 070373

Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution honoring Michael G.

Honoring and Congratulating Michael G. Lutz for his 25 Years of Service to the Philadelphia Police Department and for the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #5 Being Re-named in his Honor.

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Council Action2007-05-03
Resolution 070373

Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution honoring Michael G.

Honoring and Congratulating Michael G. Lutz for his 25 Years of Service to the Philadelphia Police Department and for the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #5 Being Re-named in his Honor.

ADOPTED

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Council Action2007-05-03
Bill 070259-A

This enacted ordinance amended Philadelphia’s contractor rules to require building service employees—such as cleaners, guards, janitors, maintenance workers, and groundskeepers—to receive prevailing wages and working conditions for covered City work.

Amending Section 17-107 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Contractors: Labor-Management Relationships," to require that building service employees, performing labor under certain building service contract, receive the prevailing wage and prevailing working conditions, all under certain terms and conditions.

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Council Action2007-05-03
Bill 070237

This enacted ordinance authorizes Liberty Property Trust Philadelphia Limited Partnership IV, owner of the Comcast Center, to place six raised planters along the north sidewalk of John F.

Authorizing Liberty Property Trust Philadelphia Limited Partnership IV, Eight Penn Center, Suite 1100, 1628 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19103, owner of the Comcast Center at 1701 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19103, for the placement of raised planters on John F. Kennedy Boulevard and the installation of stainless steel security bollards on Arch Street and N. 17th Street adjacent to the Comcast Center, under certain terms and conditions.

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Council Action2007-05-03
Bill 070235

This enacted bill authorizes changes to City Plan No.

Authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 63 by striking from the City Plan and vacating Carlton Street from Twentieth Street eastwardly approximately 98'4" to a dead-end, by striking and abandoning certain rights-of-way for public utility purposes lying in the beds of former Carlton Street and former Uber Street, by striking and abandoning a certain right-of-way for drainage purposes, water main purposes and public utility purposes lying in the bed of former Wood Street, by relocating a certain portion of the curbline on Vine Street 8' in a southerly direction and by relocating a certain portion of the curbline on 20th Street 7' in a westerly direction, all under certain terms and conditions.

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