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File #: 060590-A    Version: Name:
Type: Resolution Status: ADOPTED
File created: 6/15/2006 In control: Committee on Law and Government
On agenda: Final action: 3/1/2007
Title: Proposing an amendment to Article VIII, Chapter 5 of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter, entitled "Referenda Approved by the Voters," by adding a new section calling on the citizens of Philadelphia to urge the Philadelphia Board of Revision of Taxes (BRT) to retain its current method of real estate tax assessment and not change the method as proposed under the BRT's Full Valuation Initiative.
Sponsors: Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember O'Neill
Indexes: BOARD OF REVISION OF TAXES, PHILADELPHIA HOME RULE CHARTER
Attachments: 1. Resolutiion No. 060590-A02, As Amended on Floor.pdf, 2. Resolution No. 060590-A02.pdf
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3/1/20072 CITY COUNCIL READ   Action details Meeting details Not available
3/1/20072 CITY COUNCIL ADOPTEDPass17:0 Action details Meeting details Not available
2/22/20071 CITY COUNCIL READ   Action details Meeting details Not available
2/22/20072 CITY COUNCIL AMENDED   Action details Meeting details Not available
2/22/20072 CITY COUNCIL ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S CALENDAR   Action details Meeting details Not available
2/15/20071 CITY COUNCIL FAVORABLY RECOMMENDED; CONSIDERATION AT NEXT STATED COUNCIL MEETING   Action details Meeting details Not available
2/12/20070 Committee on Law and Government HEARING NOTICES SENT   Action details Meeting details Not available
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2/12/20071 Committee on Law and Government REPORTED FAVORABLY   Action details Meeting details Not available
2/12/20070 Committee on Law and Government AMENDED   Action details Meeting details Not available
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6/15/20060 CITY COUNCIL Referred   Action details Meeting details Not available
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6/15/20060 CITY COUNCIL IntroducedPass  Action details Meeting details Not available
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Title
Proposing an amendment to Article VIII, Chapter 5 of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter, entitled “Referenda Approved by the Voters,” by adding a new section calling on the citizens of Philadelphia to urge the Philadelphia Board of Revision of Taxes (BRT) to retain its current method of real estate tax assessment and not change the method as proposed under the BRT's Full Valuation Initiative.
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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 Article VIII of 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 VIII
PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
 
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CHAPTER 5      REFERENDA APPROVED BY THE VOTERS
 
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§8-503. Rejecting the Board of Revision's Full Valuation Initiative
 
We, the citizens of Philadelphia, urge the stopping of real estate tax assessment increases which would result from the Board of Revision of Taxes' use of a new method for figuring tax assessments called “Full Valuation.”
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