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Proposing an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter relating to the election of the Council President by the voters at large (and reducing the number of other at large Councilmembers from seven to six), the filling of vacancies in the offices of Mayor and Council President, specifying the Council President's powers and duties, and permitting Councilmembers and an Acting Mayor to be candidates for certain other City offices without first resigning their positions, and providing for the submission of the amendment to the electors of Philadelphia.
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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 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 1
THE COUNCIL
?2-100. Number, Terms and Salaries of Councilmen Councilmembers.
The Council shall consist of a President who shall be elected from the City at large, and sixteen other seventeen members, of whom ten shall be elected from districts and seven six from the City at large. The terms of councilmen councilmembers shall be four years from the first Monday of January following the year in which they were elected except that a councilman councilmember elected to fill a vacancy shall serve only for the balance of the unexpired term. Each councilman councilmember shall receive a salary at the rate of $9,000 per annum, or such other sum as the Council shall from time to time ordain, and the President of Council shall receive in addition a salary at the rate of $1,000 per annum, ...
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