City of Philadelphia - File #: 090610

• File #: 090610
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 9/17/2009
• In control: Committee on Law and Government
• Final action: 5/13/2010
• Title: Proposing an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter confirming Council's power to enact ordinances that (i) require the City, City contractors and recipients of City financial assistance to provide their employees a minimum level of pay and benefits, and/or that require certain or all City contracts to include provisions mandating compliance with such a requirement; and (ii) provide remedies for violations, including debarment from doing business with the City or receiving City financial assistance for a specified period of time; and authorizing Council to specify procedures for such debarments by conferring powers and duties on existing City agencies, including Council, or by creating new agencies for such purposes; and providing for the submission of the amendment of the electors of Philadelphia.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Sanchez
• Indexes: PHILADELPHIA HOME RULE CHARTER

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
5/13/2010	1	CITY COUNCIL	READ
5/13/2010	1	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	17:0
5/6/2010	1	CITY COUNCIL	FAVORABLY RECOMMENDED; CONSIDERATION AT NEXT STATED COUNCIL MEETING
5/5/2010	0	Committee on Law and Government	HEARING NOTICES SENT
5/5/2010	0	Committee on Law and Government	HEARING HELD
5/5/2010	0	Committee on Law and Government	AMENDED
5/5/2010	1	Committee on Law and Government	REPORTED FAVORABLY
9/17/2009	0	CITY COUNCIL	Referred
9/17/2009	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Proposing an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter confirming Council's power to enact ordinances that (i) require the City, City contractors and recipients of City financial assistance to provide their employees a minimum level of pay and benefits, and/or that require certain or all City contracts to include provisions mandating compliance with such a requirement; and (ii) provide remedies for violations, including debarment from doing business with the City or receiving City financial assistance for a specified period of time; and authorizing Council to specify procedures for such debarments by conferring powers and duties on existing City agencies, including Council, or by creating new agencies for such purposes; and providing for the submission of the amendment of the electors of Philadelphia.
Body
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

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Section 2-309. Leases and Contracts.

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(4) For purposes of this subsection, "Minimum Wage and Benefits Ordinance" means an ordinance that requires the City, those who contract with the City, and/or recipients of City financial assistance to provide their employees with a minimum level of pay and benefits, and/or that provides that certain or all City contracts include provisions mandating compliance with such a requirement. Council's power to enac...