City of Philadelphia - File #: 170446

• File #: 170446
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: LAPSED
• File created: 5/4/2017
• In control: Committee on Finance
• Title: Authorizing the Committee on Finance to hold hearings to examine the City's Annual Reports requirement as it relates to every City office, department, board and commission that issues any permit, licenses or other document for which a fee is charged in order to ascertain and discuss with the Administration the current availability of these reports and going forward, a schedule which sets out when these reports can be made available to Council for this fiscal year and every fiscal year thereafter.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Domb, Councilmember Johnson, Councilmember Parker, Councilmember Henon, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Bass, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Green, Councilmember Jones, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Gym, Councilmember Taubenberger, Councilmember Squilla, Councilmember Quiñones Sánchez, Councilmember O'Neill, Councilmember Oh

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
6/5/2017	0	Committee on Finance	HEARING NOTICES SENT
6/5/2017	0	Committee on Finance	HEARING HELD
6/5/2017	0	Committee on Finance	RECESSED
5/4/2017	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar	Pass
5/4/2017	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED & REFERRED

Title
Authorizing the Committee on Finance to hold hearings to examine the City's Annual Reports requirement as it relates to every City office, department, board and commission that issues any permit, licenses or other document for which a fee is charged in order to ascertain and discuss with the Administration the current availability of these reports and going forward, a schedule which sets out when these reports can be made available to Council for this fiscal year and every fiscal year thereafter.

Body
WHEREAS, Pursuant to Chapter 19-3000 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Annual Reports Relating to Fees," every City office, department, board and commission that issues any permit, licenses or other document for which a fee is charged in accordance with a City ordinance shall file a report with the Chief Clerk of City Council by January 31 of each fiscal year; and

WHEREAS, Each report filed pursuant to subsection 19-3001(1) shall contain, as to each such permit, license or other document, the following information:

(a) The number issued during the preceding fiscal year;

(b) The estimated costs incurred during the preceding fiscal year in issuing each permit, license, or other document;

(c) The estimated costs incurred during the preceding fiscal year in inspection and other enforcement activities directly attributable to the issuance of such permit, license or other document;

(d) A projection for the current fiscal year of each of the amounts specified in subsections 19-3001(2)(a), (b) and (c);

(e) Any other information the office, department, board or commission believes to be relevant to the setting of an appropriate fee for the issuance of such permit, license or other document; and

(f) A recommendation as to whether the current fee should be revised, and if so, a recommended new fee; and

WHEREAS, As explicitly stated by the Ordinance, enacted in 1994, these reports are to be considered by City Council in determ...