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.
Action types
Council actions
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Meeting dates
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Meeting date
December 13, 2018
This lapsed resolution would have authorized joint City Council hearings by the Public Safety Committee and the Special Committee on Gun Violence Prevention.
Authorizing the joint City Council Committees on Public Safety and the Special Committee on Gun Violence Prevention to hold public hearings examining the Administration's anticipated reports on community based gun violence prevention programs and a comprehensive violence prevention strategy, in light of the escalating acts of gun violence in the City of Philadelphia, and to ensure that the City's public safety budget reflects the priorities of these plans.
ADOPTED & REFERRED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have authorized joint City Council hearings by the Public Safety Committee and the Special Committee on Gun Violence Prevention.
Authorizing the joint City Council Committees on Public Safety and the Special Committee on Gun Violence Prevention to hold public hearings examining the Administration's anticipated reports on community based gun violence prevention programs and a comprehensive violence prevention strategy, in light of the escalating acts of gun violence in the City of Philadelphia, and to ensure that the City's public safety budget reflects the priorities of these plans.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution congratulating the Overbrook Monarchs Youth Athletics Association for competing in the 2018 United Youth Football League National Championship Tournament.
Congratulating the Overbrook Monarchs Youth Athletics Association on competing in the 2018 United Youth Football League National Championship Tournament.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have proposed an amendment to Philadelphia’s Home Rule Charter concerning additional transfers into the City’s Budget Stabilization Reserve.
Proposing an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to allow for certain mid-year transfers into the Budget Stabilization Reserve; and providing for the submission of the amendment to the electors of Philadelphia.
Introduced and Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
City Council adopted a resolution honoring Opera Philadelphia for its community initiatives and youth programming.
Honoring and Recognizing Opera Philadelphia for their Community Initiatives Youth Programming and all the work that they do to promote the musical arts to the young people of Philadelphia.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution celebrating the life of Dr.
Celebrating the life of Coast Guard and civil rights pioneer Dr. Olivia Hooker, one of the first African American women to serve in the United States Coast Guard.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution recognizing the Basil and Becky Educational Foundation for honoring African American women who supported the United States and its armed forces during World War II as “Rosie the Riveters.” The resolution also recognizes the foundation’s participation in the documentary film “Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II.”
Recognizing the Basil and Becky Educational Foundation for their work to honor and acknowledge African American women who served the country during World War II as "Rosie the Riveters," and for their participation in the documentary film Invisible Warriors: African American Women in World War II.
Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have asked Philadelphia voters to approve an amendment to the City’s Home Rule Charter allowing certain mid-year transfers into the Budget Stabilization Reserve, also known as the Rainy Day Fund.
Providing for the submission to the qualified electors of the City of Philadelphia of the proposal set forth in a Resolution approved by Council proposing an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to allow for certain mid-year transfers into the Budget Stabilization Reserve; and authorizing the appropriate officers to publish notice and to make arrangements for the special election.
Introduced and Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This bill is recorded with a status of enacted.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Carpenter lane, Greene street, Westview avenue and Sherman road.
Introduced
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have authorized City Council to hold hearings on the non-enforcement of Philadelphia’s Real Estate Non-Utilization Tax.
Authorizing the City Council of Philadelphia to investigate the non-enforcement of the Real Estate Non-Utilization Tax and to find ways to improve the current legislation to provide for additional revenue to offset the cost of City services to maintain abandoned and vacant land and to encourage the sale of abandoned and vacant land.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have authorized Council’s Committee on Health and Human Services to hold hearings on Philadelphia’s welfare-to-work programs, including Transitional Work Programs, Philadelphia @ Work, and Work Opportunities.
Authorizing Council's Committee on Health and Human Services to hold hearings on the City of Philadelphia's welfare-to-work efforts, including the Transitional Work Programs, Philadelphia @ Work and Work Opportunities, and to investigate the effectiveness of such programs at placing and retaining former welfare recipients in permanent jobs that promote self-sufficiency, with specific attention focused on length of job programs, the appropriateness of wages paid, the practice of requiring attendance at unpaid training, and the retention rates of former welfare recipients placed into permanent jobs.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed bill would have prohibited adults from bringing children under age six to movie theaters after 7:00 p.m., unless the movie was rated G for general audiences.
Amending Title 10 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Regulation of Individual Conduct and Activity," to prohibit the attendance of children under the age of six years old at certain movies shown at movie theatre establishments after 7:00 P.M., under certain terms and conditions.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted measure amends Philadelphia’s school tax authorization to allow the School District’s Board of Education to impose, for fiscal year 2001, a tax on residents’ net income from owning, leasing, selling, or otherwise disposing of real property and tangible or intangible personal property.
Amending Chapter 19-1800 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "School Tax Authorization," by amending Section 19-1804 to further authorize the Board of Education of the School District of Philadelphia to impose a tax on net income from real property and tangible and intangible personal property of residents of the School District of Philadelphia.
Referred
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Meeting date
December 12, 2018
This adopted resolution authorizes the City Council’s Committee on Health and Human Services to hold hearings about environmental health disparities and how pollutants affect at-risk Philadelphia neighborhoods.
Authorizing the Committee on Health and Human Services to hold hearings on environmental health disparities and the impact of pollutants in at-risk neighborhoods.
HEARING HELD
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This adopted resolution authorizes the City Council’s Committee on Health and Human Services to hold hearings about environmental health disparities and how pollutants affect at-risk Philadelphia neighborhoods.
Authorizing the Committee on Health and Human Services to hold hearings on environmental health disparities and the impact of pollutants in at-risk neighborhoods.
HEARING NOTICES SENT
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
Meeting date
December 11, 2018
This lapsed resolution would have authorized the City Council Committee on Public Health and Human Services to hold hearings on Philadelphia’s efforts to prevent and treat opioid-related abuse, addiction, and disease.
Authorizing the Committee on Public Health and Human Services to hold hearings to assess the City of Philadelphia's efforts, as coordinated by the Managing Director's office and our Human services departments, to prevent and treat abuse, addiction, and disease related to the use of opioids.
HEARING HELD
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This lapsed resolution would have authorized the City Council Committee on Public Health and Human Services to hold hearings on Philadelphia’s efforts to prevent and treat opioid-related abuse, addiction, and disease.
Authorizing the Committee on Public Health and Human Services to hold hearings to assess the City of Philadelphia's efforts, as coordinated by the Managing Director's office and our Human services departments, to prevent and treat abuse, addiction, and disease related to the use of opioids.
HEARING NOTICES SENT
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
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