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
September 10, 2020
This enacted Philadelphia ordinance prohibits peace officers from using restraints or physical contact that create a substantial risk of asphyxiation when detaining someone.
Amending Title 10 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Regulation of Individual Conduct and Activity," by adding a new Chapter 10-2500, entitled "Prohibited Physical Contact by Peace Officers," to prevent unnecessary death or injury via asphyxiation by prohibiting certain physical contact by peace officers, all under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PLACED ON FINAL PASSAGE CALENDAR FOR NEXT MEETING.
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted Philadelphia ordinance prohibits peace officers from using restraints or physical contact that create a substantial risk of asphyxiation when detaining someone.
Amending Title 10 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Regulation of Individual Conduct and Activity," by adding a new Chapter 10-2500, entitled "Prohibited Physical Contact by Peace Officers," to prevent unnecessary death or injury via asphyxiation by prohibiting certain physical contact by peace officers, all under certain terms and conditions.
AMENDED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
This enacted Philadelphia ordinance prohibits peace officers from using restraints or physical contact that create a substantial risk of asphyxiation when detaining someone.
Amending Title 10 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Regulation of Individual Conduct and Activity," by adding a new Chapter 10-2500, entitled "Prohibited Physical Contact by Peace Officers," to prevent unnecessary death or injury via asphyxiation by prohibiting certain physical contact by peace officers, all under certain terms and conditions.
READ
Other recorded action without a published tally.
The enacted ordinance requires the City to hold a public hearing at least 30 days before sending the Fraternal Order of Police a proposal to enter into or amend a labor agreement covering Philadelphia police employees’ general employment terms and conditions.
Amending Title 17 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Contracts and Procurement," by adding a new Chapter 17-2300, entitled "Public Hearing Required Prior to Execution of a Labor Agreement with City Workers Represented by the Fraternal Order Of Police With Respect To The Workers' Terms And Conditions Of Employment," by establishing certain definitions; and requiring a public hearing within thirty (30) days prior to the City entering into or amending a labor agreement with City workers represented by the Fraternal Order of Police, all under certain terms and conditions.
ORDERED PLACED ON FINAL PASSAGE CALENDAR FOR NEXT MEETING.
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance requires the City to hold a public hearing at least 30 days before sending the Fraternal Order of Police a proposal to enter into or amend a labor agreement covering Philadelphia police employees’ general employment terms and conditions.
Amending Title 17 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Contracts and Procurement," by adding a new Chapter 17-2300, entitled "Public Hearing Required Prior to Execution of a Labor Agreement with City Workers Represented by the Fraternal Order Of Police With Respect To The Workers' Terms And Conditions Of Employment," by establishing certain definitions; and requiring a public hearing within thirty (30) days prior to the City entering into or amending a labor agreement with City workers represented by the Fraternal Order of Police, all under certain terms and conditions.
AMENDED
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance requires the City to hold a public hearing at least 30 days before sending the Fraternal Order of Police a proposal to enter into or amend a labor agreement covering Philadelphia police employees’ general employment terms and conditions.
Amending Title 17 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Contracts and Procurement," by adding a new Chapter 17-2300, entitled "Public Hearing Required Prior to Execution of a Labor Agreement with City Workers Represented by the Fraternal Order Of Police With Respect To The Workers' Terms And Conditions Of Employment," by establishing certain definitions; and requiring a public hearing within thirty (30) days prior to the City entering into or amending a labor agreement with City workers represented by the Fraternal Order of Police, all under certain terms and conditions.
READ
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This enacted measure restores a requirement that people appointed to Philadelphia’s civil service, including police officers, must have lived in Philadelphia for at least one year before appointment.
Amending Section 20-101 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Residence Requirements," by restoring the requirement that no person shall be appointed as an employee in the civil service, including but not limited to police officers, unless he or she has been a bona fide resident of the City for at least one year prior to appointment.
NO ACTION TAKEN
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This withdrawn bill would have changed zoning designations for land in the area bounded by Norris Street, American Street, Berks Street, and 3rd Street and proposed creating the Berks and American Overlay District.
Amending the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Norris Street, American Street, Berks Street, and 3rd Street; and amending Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Zoning and Planning," to amend certain provisions of Chapter 14-500, entitled "Overlay Zoning Districts," by creating the "/BNA, Berks and American Overlay District," all under certain terms and conditions.
MOTION
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This withdrawn bill would have changed zoning designations for land in the area bounded by Norris Street, American Street, Berks Street, and 3rd Street and proposed creating the Berks and American Overlay District.
Amending the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by Norris Street, American Street, Berks Street, and 3rd Street; and amending Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Zoning and Planning," to amend certain provisions of Chapter 14-500, entitled "Overlay Zoning Districts," by creating the "/BNA, Berks and American Overlay District," all under certain terms and conditions.
WITHDRAWN
Steps such as hearings, notices or amendments; no separate tally published.
The enacted ordinance creates the American Street Overlay District in a specified area around American Street.
Amending Title 14 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Zoning and Planning," to amend certain provisions of Chapter 14-500, entitled "Overlay Zoning Districts," by creating the "/AME, American Street Overlay District," all under certain terms and conditions.
MOTION
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Meeting date
September 9, 2020
This enacted ordinance changes the Philadelphia Zoning Maps for certain land within the area bounded by 56th Street, Arch Street, Conestoga Street, and Market Street.
To amend the Philadelphia Zoning Maps by changing the zoning designations of certain areas of land located within an area bounded by 56th Street, Arch Street, Conestoga Street, and Market Street.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
The enacted ordinance requires health care employers to compensate eligible health care and pool employees who contract a communicable disease at work during a pandemic or epidemic declared by a recognized public health organization.
Amending Chapter 9-4100 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Promoting Healthy Families and Workplaces," by adding new definitions and requirements to ensure that certain health care employees are compensated for lost wages and medical expenses in the event they contract a communicable disease at work during a pandemic or epidemic event, all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
Meeting date
August 24, 2020
Meeting date
July 27, 2020
Meeting date
July 13, 2020
The enacted ordinance extends by six months the deadline for completing requirements tied to revising the City Plan for portions of Packer Avenue between Christopher Columbus Boulevard and the Delaware River.
Amending an Ordinance (Bill No. 180293), entitled "An Ordinance authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 34-S and 41-S by striking from the City Plan and vacating the legally open portions of Packer Avenue from Christopher Columbus Boulevard to the Pierhead Line of the Delaware River and reserving and placing on the City Plan a right-of-way for sewer and drainage purposes, water main purposes, and public utility purposes within the lines of Packer Avenue being stricken and authorizing acceptance of the grant to the City of the said right-of-way, under certain terms and conditions."
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This enacted ordinance amends Philadelphia’s rules for contracts that are not competitively bid, including emergency contracts.
Amending Chapter 17-1400 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Non-Competitively Bid Contracts; Financial Assistance," by making revisions, including but not limited to, the exception for emergency contracting; all under certain terms and conditions.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
This enacted bill approves the ninth amendment to the redevelopment proposal and urban renewal plan for the Point Breeze Urban Renewal Area.
Approving the ninth amendment of the redevelopment proposal for the Point Breeze Urban Renewal Area, being the area generally bounded by Washington avenue, S. Twenty-fifth street, Reed street, the rear property lines of the 1400 and 1500 blocks of S. Taylor street, Tasker street, S. 25th street, Moore street and S. Broad street, including the ninth amendment to the urban renewal plan, which provides, inter alia, for changes that would make it consistent with the Point Breeze Redevelopment Area Plan and generally consistent with the most recent Comprehensive Plan approved by the City Planning Commission of the City of Philadelphia.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.
The enacted bill authorizes the City to move the southwest property line of Byberry Road about two feet southwest between specified points northwest of Roosevelt Boulevard, widening that section of the road.
Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 359 by relocating the southwesterly houseline of Byberry Road approximately two feet southwestwardly between a point approximately four-hundred one feet northwest of The Roosevelt Boulevard to a point approximately five-hundred fifty feet further northwestwardly therefrom, thereby widening said Byberry Road between such points, all under certain terms and conditions, including the dedication to the City of the bed of the widened portion of Byberry Road being placed on the City Plan.
SIGNED
Other recorded action without a published tally.