Skip to main content
Back to search resultsResolution 120119

Proposing an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter relating to information that must be provided with the annual operating budget, annual capital budget, and capital program, requiring the Finance Director to provide such information, and providing for the submission of the amendment to the electors of Philadelphia.

AI summary

This adopted resolution proposes an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter that would allow City Council to require the Finance Director to provide additional information with the proposed annual operating budget, capital budget, and capital program. The information could include the cost and effectiveness of city functions and the costs compared with benefits of proposed spending, and the amendment would be submitted to Philadelphia voters for approval.

File details

Status
ADOPTED
Introduced
February 16, 2012
Sponsors
BGBill GreenW. Wilson Goode, Jr.David OhCurtis Jones, Jr.Maria D. Quiñones-SánchezKenyatta JohnsonDennis M. O'Brien
View official record ↗

Full text

WHEREAS, Under Section 6 of the First Class City Home Rule Act (53 P.S. §13106), an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter may be proposed by a resolution of the Council of the City of Philadelphia adopted with the concurrence of two-thirds of its elected members; now therefore

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the following amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter is hereby proposed and shall be submitted to the electors of the City on an election date designated by ordinance.

ARTICLE II

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

The Council - Its Election, Organization, Powers and Duties

* * *

CHAPTER 3

LEGISLATION

* * *

§ 2-310. Additional Budget-Related Information.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Sections 2-300 or 2-303, Council may, from time to time, ordain requirements for additional information to be submitted by the Director of Finance to the Council with the proposed annual operating budget, annual capital budget, and capital program, including, but not limited to, information about the cost of performing specific functions, the effectiveness of such functions, and the costs versus benefits of proposed expenditures.

* * *

ARTICLE VI

EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE BRANCH - POWERS AND DUTIES

Director of Finance, Financial Departments, Boards and Commissions, City Treasurer, Procurement Department, and Board of Pensions and Retirement

CHAPTER 1

DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

* * *

§ 6-105. Annual Operating Budget, Capital Program and Capital Budget.

The Director of Finance shall:

* * *

(f) By the time of the submission by the Mayor to City Council of the proposed operating budget ordinance, proposed capital budget ordinance, and proposed capital program, provide to City Council such additional information as Council may from time to time require pursuant to Section 2-310.

* * *

End

File history

Sometimes city council's record keeping is not complete. This timeline reflects the information on the council's legistar website.
  1. Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Favorably recommended; consideration at next stated council meeting

    Pass
  2. Council actionCommittee on Law and Government

    Reported favorably

    Council actionCommittee on Law and Government

    Amended

    Council actionCommittee on Law and Government

    Hearing held

  3. Council actionCommittee on Law and Government

    Recessed

    Council actionCommittee on Law and Government

    Hearing notices sent

  4. Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Introduced and Referred

    Pass