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Proposing an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter relating to the public financing of campaigns for elective City office, and the making of appropriations to the Board of Ethics to administer such program and to carry out its other Charter duties.
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WHEREAS, Under Section 6 of the First Class City Home Act (53 P.S. 13106), amendments 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,
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
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CHAPTER 3 LEGISLATION
ยง2-300. The Annual Operating Budget Ordinance.
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(2) The annual operating budget ordinance shall provide for discharging any deficit and shall make appropriations to the Council, the Mayor, and all officers, departments, boards and commissions which form a part of the executive or administrative branch of the City government, and for all other items which are to be met out of the revenue of the City. All appropriations shall be made in lump sum amounts and according to the following classes of expenditures for each office, department, board or commission:
(a) Personal services;
(b) Materials, supplies and equipment;
(c) Debt service;
(d) Disbursements to candidates, with respect to certain of the appropriations made to the Board of Ethics in accordance with subsection (4)(e);
(d) (e) Such additional classes as the Mayor shall recommend in his proposed annual operating budget ordinance.
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(4) In every annual operating budget ordinance:
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(e) For the first two fiscal years immediately following the effective date of this subsection, at least $1...
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