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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Meeting date
December 11, 2014
This adopted resolution appoints Doug Hager to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
Appointing Doug Hager to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
ADOPTED
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This adopted resolution reappoints Howard Lander to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
Reappointing Howard Lander to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
ADOPTED
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The adopted resolution appoints Daniel Christensen to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
Appointing Daniel Christensen to the Board of Directors for the South Street Headhouse District.
ADOPTED
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This adopted resolution calls on the School District of Philadelphia and the School Reform Commission to study the financial and human effects of standardized testing and identify ways to reduce its use.
Calling upon the School District of Philadelphia and the School Reform Commission to analyze the financial and human impact of standardized testing, to identify strategies to minimize its use, and to request a waiver of the Keystone Exams from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in order to adopt assessments that better serve local needs and priorities.
ADOPTED
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This adopted resolution authorizes the City’s Public Property Commissioner to transfer, at no cost, conditional ownership of the City-owned property at 208 Hermitage Street, formerly known as 170 Hermitage Street, to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority.
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-first 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.
ADOPTED
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The adopted resolution authorizes the City Controller’s Office to compare real estate transaction data with City business records to identify brokers and agents who may lack required commercial activity licenses or have not filed applicable City taxes.
Calling on the Controller's Office to implement a tax discovery initiative to determine if real estate brokers and agents who are conducting business in the City of Philadelphia are obtaining the required commercial activity licenses and have filed all appropriate City taxes associated with their businesses and business practice.
ADOPTED
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Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution appointing Jennifer Kates, Courtney Voss, Herb Wetzel, Anjali Chainani, and Angel Rodriquez to the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Land Bank.
Appointing Jennifer Kates, Courtney Voss, Herb Wetzel, Anjali Chainani, and Angel Rodriquez to the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Land Bank.
ADOPTED
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The adopted resolution supports the American Postal Workers Union's efforts to protect living-wage jobs and oppose privatizing postal operations.
Supporting the American Postal Workers Union in its efforts to protect living-wage jobs and its insistence on the highest possible standards of customer services, opposing efforts to privatize postal operations, and calling upon Philadelphians to consider this issue when deciding whether to patronize Staples.
ADOPTED
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The adopted resolution authorizes the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer conditional ownership of six City-owned properties to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority at no cost.
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 Seventh, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Wards 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.
ADOPTED
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This adopted resolution approved Bernard Brunwasser’s appointment to the Philadelphia Water, Sewer and Storm Water Rate Board.
Approving the appointment of Bernard Brunwasser to the Philadelphia Water, Sewer and Storm Water Rate Board.
RECESSED
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City Council approved Nancy Winkler’s appointment to the Philadelphia Water, Sewer and Storm Water Rate Board.
Approving the appointment of Nancy Winkler to the Philadelphia Water, Sewer and Storm Water Rate Board.
RECESSED
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This adopted resolution authorizes the City’s Public Property Commissioner to transfer conditional ownership of 2303 Federal Street, a City-owned property in the 36th Ward, to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority without payment.
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 Thirty-sixth 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.
ADOPTED
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This adopted resolution authorizes the Commissioner of Public Property to transfer, at no cost, conditional ownership of three City-owned properties—1415 South Chadwick Street, 1315 South Dorrance Street, and 2117 and 2121 Latona Street—to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority.
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 Thirty-sixth 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.
ADOPTED
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This adopted resolution authorizes the City to transfer conditional ownership of 2517 West Ingersoll Street, a City-owned property, to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority without payment.
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 building and improvements thereon, situate in the Twenty-ninth 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.
ADOPTED
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This adopted resolution approved a Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority contract to redevelop the property at 3109 Morse Street in the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area.
Approving the redevelopment contract of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, identified by house number and street address as 3109 Morse street; and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Anthony Muhammad and Linda Muhammad and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract.
ADOPTED
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This adopted resolution authorizes the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer, at no cost and under conditions, City-owned properties at 4224 Wyalusing Avenue and 6022 Market Street to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority.
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 building and improvements thereon, situate in the Third and Sixth Wards 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.
ADOPTED
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The adopted resolution calls on the Philadelphia School Reform Commission to add a cost-benefit review of how proposed new charter schools could affect nearby existing schools.
Calling on the Philadelphia School Reform Commission to formally amend its charter school approval criteria to include a cost-benefit analysis of how new charter schools would impact the performance of existing nearby schools, and to give preference to new charter schools planning to locate in neighborhoods with the fewest high-quality education choices.
ADOPTED
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City Council approved the Philadelphia Land Bank’s 2015 Strategic Plan and the property Disposition Policy included in it.
Approving the 2015 Proposed Strategic Plan and Disposition Policy of the Philadelphia Land Bank.
ADOPTED
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