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Authorizing the transfer in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2015 within the General Fund, from the Department of Human Services - Prisons to the Office of Housing and Community Development, to support landscaping and lot-cleaning jobs in the Philadelphia Re-Entry Employment Program for Returning Citizens, under certain terms and conditions.

AI summary

The enacted ordinance authorized a $500,000 transfer in Fiscal Year 2015 funds from Philadelphia Prisons to the Office of Housing and Community Development. The money was to support landscaping and vacant-lot cleaning jobs citywide for people returning from incarceration through the Philadelphia Re-Entry Employment Program, subject to an agreement with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

File details

Status
ENACTED
Introduced
September 18, 2014
Sponsors
Darrell L. ClarkeCurtis Jones, Jr.
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Full text

THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION 1. The Director of Finance is hereby authorized to make the following transfer in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2015 within the General Fund.

FROM: GENERAL FUND

2.28 FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - PHILADELPHIA PRISONS

Purchase of Services $

500,000

Total $ 500,000

Total “FROM” Section $

500,000

TO: GENERAL FUND

2.7 TO THE MAYOR - OFFICE OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Purchase of Services $

500,000

Total $ 500,000

Total “TO” Section $

500,000

SECTION 2. This Ordinance shall take effect when, and only if, the Office of Housing and Community Development and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society have entered into an agreement to hire citizens returning from incarceration to perform landscaping and lot-cleaning services on vacant lots city-wide utilizing the Philadelphia Re-Entry Employment Program.

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File history

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  1. Council actionMAYOR

    No action taken

  2. Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Read and ordered placed on next week's second reading calendar

    Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Ordered placed on this day`s first reading calendar

    Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Suspend the rules of the council

    Pass
  3. Council actionCommittee on Appropriations

    Reported favorably, rule suspension requested

    Council actionCommittee on Appropriations

    Amended

    Council actionCommittee on Appropriations

    Hearing held

    Council actionCommittee on Appropriations

    Hearing notices sent

  4. Council actionCITY COUNCIL

    Introduced and Referred

    Pass