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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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Meeting date

September 20, 2012

Council Action2012-09-20
Resolution 120733

This adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold hearings about the condition of Philadelphia’s water infrastructure.

Authorizing City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold hearings to examine the condition of the City of Philadelphia's water infrastructure.

ADOPTED

Other recorded action without a published tally.

Council Action2012-09-20
Resolution 120732

The adopted resolution authorizes City Council’s Committee on Public Safety to hold hearings about programs and services for juvenile offenders in Philadelphia before and when they return to the community.

Authorizing City Council's Committee on Public Safety to hold hearings to examine the programs and services available to juvenile offenders in Philadelphia prior to and upon their reentry into society.

ADOPTED

Other recorded action without a published tally.

Council Action2012-09-20
Resolution 120730

Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution honoring Peter Nero for his lifetime musical achievements and contributions to Philadelphia’s arts and culture.

Honoring the outstanding lifetime musical achievements of Peter Nero, and recognizing his innumerable contributions to arts and culture in Philadelphia as an award-winning pianist and the founding conductor and Artistic Director of the world renowned Peter Nero and the Philly POPS Orchestra.

ADOPTED

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Council Action2012-09-20
Resolution 120675

This adopted resolution authorizes the City to transfer conditional ownership of eight City-owned properties 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 Seventh, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-third, Thirty-seventh and Forty-third 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 improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.

ADOPTED

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Council Action2012-09-20
Resolution 120673

This adopted resolution urges then-Governor Tom Corbett to address Pennsylvania’s transportation funding needs by putting into effect cost-saving measures and new revenue ideas from a 2011 advisory commission report.

Urging Governor Corbett to take action to address Pennsylvania's transportation funding needs by implementing the cost-saving and revenue producing provisions outlined in the Governor's Transportation Funding Advisory Commission Report of 2011.

ADOPTED

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Council Action2012-09-20
Resolution 120672

This adopted resolution authorizes the City’s Commissioner of Public Property to transfer, at no cost, conditional ownership of six City-owned properties in the 36th Ward 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 improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.

ADOPTED

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Council Action2012-09-20
Resolution 120671

This adopted resolution authorizes the City’s Public Property Commissioner to transfer conditional ownership of four City-owned properties at 2146 Ellsworth Street, 2147 Federal Street, 2723 Oakford Street, and 2727 Oakford Street 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 improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code.

ADOPTED

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Council Action2012-09-20
Resolution 120668

This adopted resolution authorizes the Director of the Office of Supportive Housing to apply to Pennsylvania for $500,000 in 2012 Emergency Solutions Grant funding on behalf of Philadelphia and homeless shelter housing and service providers.

Authorizing the Director of the Office of Supportive Housing, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to file a proposal for 2012 Emergency Solutions Grant Program funding with the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development.

ADOPTED

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Meeting date

September 14, 2012

Meeting date

September 13, 2012

Council Action2012-09-13
COMMUNICATION 120718

This communication transmits a proposed bill concerning 2nd Street Brew House’s construction, ownership, and maintenance of an open-air sidewalk café at 1700 South 2nd Street, under certain terms and conditions.

Transmitting a bill authorizing 2nd Street Brew House ("Owner") to construct, own and maintain an open air sidewalk café at 1700 South 2nd Street ("Property"), under certain terms and conditions, accompanied by an explanatory letter from the Street Commssioner.

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Council Action2012-09-13
COMMUNICATION 120717

This communication transmitted a proposed bill concerning Aquinas 2021 Chestnut Street L.P.’s construction, ownership, and maintenance of encroachments in the city right-of-way on parts of Chestnut and Ranstead Streets near 2017–2023 Chestnut Street.

Transmitting a bill authorizing Aquinas 2021 Chestnut Street L.P. to construct, own and maintain various encroachments within the city right-of-way on Chestnut Street between 20th Street and 21st Street and on Ranstead Street between 20th Street and 21st Street, adjacent to the premises at 2017-2023 Chestnut Street, under certain terms and conditions, accompanied by an explanatory letter from the Streets Commissioner.

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Council Action2012-09-13
COMMUNICATION 120716

This communication, which was placed on file, transmits a proposed bill concerning KHP II Chestnut, LLC d/b/a Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants and the construction, ownership, and maintenance of various right-of-way encroachments at 433–441 Chestnut Street.

Transmitting a bill authorizing KHP II Chestnut, LLC d/b/a Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants ("Owner") to construct, own and maintain various right-of-way encroachments at 433-441 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA ("Property") under certain terms and conditions, accompanied by an explanatory letter from the Streets Commissioner.

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Council Action2012-09-13
COMMUNICATION 120715

This communication transmitted a proposed bill to rename the portion of University Avenue between Woodland Avenue and Thirty-Ninth Street as Baltimore Avenue, and to rename the portion of University Avenue Extension between University Avenue and Spruce Street as University Avenue.

Transmitting a bill authorizing and directing the changing of the name of University Avenue, from Woodland Avenue and Thirty-Ninth Street to University Avenue Extension, to Baltimore Avenue, and the changing of the name of University Avenue Extension, from University Avenue to Spruce Street, to University Avenue, accompanied by an explanatory letter from the Street Commissioner.

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Council Action2012-09-13
COMMUNICATION 120714

This communication is recorded with a status of placed on file.

Transmitting a bill authorizing and directing the changing of the name of Preston Street, from Ludwick and Warren Streets to Lancaster Avenue, to Wallace Street, accompanied by an explanatory letter from the Streets Commissioner.

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Council Action2012-09-13
COMMUNICATION 120713

This communication transmitted a proposed bill to extend the period for complying with the terms and conditions of a 2004 ordinance concerning street lines and grades near Aramingo Avenue, Frankford Creek, and Adams Avenue.

Transmitting a bill amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 040511) approved June 21, 2004, entitled "An Ordinance Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 55 in the area bounded by Aramingo Avenue, Frankford Creek, and Adams Avenue, under certain terms and conditions," by extending the period for compliance with the terms and conditions stated therein, accompanied by an explanatory letter from the Streets Commissioner.

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Council Action2012-09-13
COMMUNICATION 120712

This communication is recorded with a status of placed on file.

Transmitting a bill authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 271 by relocating the southeasterly curbline of Delaware Avenue, from Spring Garden Street to Ellen Street, a variable distance northwestwardly and relocating the southeasterly curbline of Penn Street from Delaware Avenue to Ellen Street, sixteen feet northwestwardly, thereby increasing the width of the southeasterly footway areas of said Delaware Avenue and Penn Street, accompanied by an explanatory letter from the Streets Commissioner.

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Council Action2012-09-13
COMMUNICATION 120711

This communication is recorded with a status of placed on file.

Transmitting a bill authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 370 by striking from the City Plan Southampton Road from Bustleton Avenue to its terminus southeastwardly therefrom, under certain terms and conditions, accompanied by an explanatory letter from the Streets Commissioner.

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Council Action2012-09-13
COMMUNICATION 120710

This communication transmitted a proposed bill concerning Senate Street, from about 106 feet west of Rosewood Street to its western terminus.

Transmitting a bill authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 9-S by striking from the City Plan and vacating Senate Street from a point approximately one-hundred six feet west of Rosewood Street to its terminus westwardly therefrom, under certain terms and conditions, accompanied by an explanatory letter from the Streets Commissioner.

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Other recorded action without a published tally.