Details Meeting Name: CITY COUNCIL Agenda status: Final Meeting date/time: 3/29/2012 10:00 AM Minutes status: Final   Meeting location: Room 400 Published agenda: Agenda Published minutes: Minutes   Attachments: Meeting Items (55) 55 records Group Clear sorting Clear grouping Group by Type Group by Result Export Export to Excel Export to PDF Export to Word Show: Legislation only Legislation only All agenda items File # Ver. Agenda # Name Type Title Action Result Tally Action Details Video 120268 0     COMMUNICATION Transmitting a message advising Council that bill No. 120105, which was passed by Council on March 22, 2012, was signed by the Mayor on March 28, 2012. READ     Action details Not available 120269 0     COMMUNICATION Transmitting a message advising Council that Bill No. 120018, which was passed by Council on March 15, 2012, was signed by the Mayor on March 28, 2012. READ     Action details Not available 120270 0     COMMUNICATION March 28, 2012 To The President and Members of The Council of the City of Philadelphia Pursuant to Sections 4-604 and 2-307 of the Home Rule Charter, I am today transmitting to the Council the recommendation of the City Planning Commission regarding the following bills: Bill No. 120015 Bill No. 120140 Respectfully, Michael A. Nutter Mayor READ     Action details Not available 120271 0     COMMUNICATION Transmitting a resolution approving the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 2212 North Eleventh street, 2247 North Twelfth street, 2226 North Camac street, 2242 North Camac street, 2250 North Camac street, 2317 North Camac street, 1200 West Dauphin Street, 1215 West Dauphin street, 1220 West Dauphin street, 1227 West Dauphin street, 2336 North Fawn street, 1108 West Nevada street, 1213 West Susquehanna avenue, 1219 West Susquehanna avenue, 1221 West Susquehanna avenue and 1229 West Susquehanna avenue; authorizing the Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Philadelphia Housing Authority and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement, accompanied by an explanatory letter from the Executive Director of the Redevelopment Authority. READ     Action details Not available 120272 0     COMMUNICATION Transmitting a bill authorizing the Procurement Commissioner on behalf of The City of Philadelphia, to enter into a concession agreement for the development, operation and maintenance of an airport advertising program at Philadelphia International Airport; all under certain terms and conditions, accompanied by an explanatory letter from the Deputy Mayor for Transportation and Utilities. READ     Action details Not available 120273 0     COMMUNICATION Transmitting a bill authorizing The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, located at 34th and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, to construct, own and maintain various encroachments within the city right-of-way on East Service Drive between Civic Center Boulevard and Health Sciences Drive, on Civic Center Boulevard between East Service Drive and West Service Drive, and on West Service Drive between Civic Center Boulevard and Health Sciences Drive, under certain terms and conditions, accompanied by and explanatory letter from the Streets Commissioner. READ     Action details Not available 120248 0     Bill Providing for the submission to the qualified electors of the City of Philadelphia of the proposal set forth in a Resolution approved by Council proposing an amendment of The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter relating to the "resign to run" requirement to provide that, as of the date specified, no person who holds an elective public office other than a City office may be a candidate for any City office unless that person first resigns his or her elective office, all for the purpose of leveling the playing field for elected City officials, who are required by the Charter to resign before seeking any public office other than the office currently held; and authorizing the appropriate officers to publish notice and to make arrangements for the special election. Introduced and Referred     Action details Not available 120253 0     Resolution Proposing an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter relating to the "resign to run" requirement to provide that, as of the date specified, no person who holds an elective public office other than a City office may be a candidate for any City office unless that person first resigns his or her elective office, all for the purpose of leveling the playing field for elected City officials, who are required by the Charter to resign before seeking any public office other than the office currently held; and providing for the submission of the amendment to the electors of Philadelphia. Introduced and Referred Pass   Action details Not available 120249 0     Bill Authorizing The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, located at 34th and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, to construct, own and maintain various encroachments within the City right-of-way on East Service Drive between Civic Center Boulevard and Health Sciences Drive, on Civic Center Boulevard between East Service Drive and West Service Drive, and on West Service Drive between Civic Center Boulevard and Health Sciences Drive, under certain terms and conditions. Introduced and Referred Pass   Action details Not available 120254 0     Resolution Authorizing the City Council Committee on Housing, Neighborhood Development, and the Homeless to hold hearings concerning the impact of the Department of Parks and Recreation's proposed Regulation 769785 as it pertains to public feeding in Philadelphia. Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar Pass   Action details Not available 120255 0     Resolution Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Sixth, Twenty-fourth, Forty-fourth and Fifty-first Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code. Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar Pass   Action details Not available 120256 0     Resolution Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Fifty-first Ward of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code. Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar Pass   Action details Not available 120250 0     Bill Renaming and designating Hetzell's Field located at Thompson Street and Columbia Avenue as "Dave Dougherty Field". Introduced and Referred Pass   Action details Not available 120257 0     Resolution Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Fourteenth and Sixteenth Wards of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code. Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar Pass   Action details Not available 120251 0     Bill Authorizing the Procurement Commissioner on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, to enter into a concession agreement for the development, operation and maintenance of an airport advertising program at Philadelphia International Airport; all under certain terms and conditions. Introduced and Referred Pass   Action details Not available 120258 0     Resolution Approving the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for the redevelopment and urban renewal of a portion of the South Central Urban Renewal Area, designated as Parcel Nos. 249 and 250 (rev.) and also sometimes identified by house numbers and street addresses for Parcel No. 249 as 760 South Sixteenth street and for Parcel No. 250 (rev.) as 764 South Sixteenth street; authorizing the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to execute the redevelopment contract with Webster Investments, LLC and to take such action as may be necessary to effectuate the redevelopment contract and disposition supplement. Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar Pass   Action details Not available 120259 0     Resolution Authorizing City Council's Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities to hold hearings to examine the status of the Sunoco refinery in South Philadelphia. Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar Pass   Action details Not available 120260 0     Resolution Urging the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to take action to postpone the termination of electric and natural gas utility service for customers who have pending applications for cash assistance under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar - Rules Suspended Pass   Action details Not available 120252 0     Bill Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012 within the General Fund from the Office of Property Assessment to the Law Department. Introduced and Referred Pass   Action details Not available 120261 0     Resolution Calling for justice in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and standing in solidarity and support of the family of Trayvon Martin. Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar Pass   Action details Not available 120262 0     Resolution Honoring and recognizing Danny "Swift" García for his spectacular achievement of winning the World Boxing Council Light Welterweight Title. Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar Pass   Action details Not available 120263 0     Resolution Authorizing City Council's Committee on Public Safety to conduct hearings on how Youth Courts could reduce juvenile recidivism rates, violence in schools, bullying and in conclusion have an effect on the expenses of incarceration by engaging and empowering previously disconnected youth in a participatory and democratic system. Introduced and Ordered Placed On Next Week's Final Passage Calendar Pass   Action details Not available 120264 0     Resolution Urging the First Judicial District to maintain and expand its nationally renowned Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program. Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar - Rules Suspended Pass   Action details Not available 120265 0     Resolution Honoring and Congratulating The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf on its 192nd Anniversary. Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar Pass   Action details Not available 120266 0     Resolution Recognizing, Honoring, and Celebrating The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University For Its Invaluable Contributions To The Environmental and Natural Sciences As The Oldest Natural History Museum In The Nation-On The Occasion Of The Academy's 200th Anniversary: 1812-2012. Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar Pass   Action details Not available 120267 0     Resolution Recognizing, Honoring, and Celebrating Sharon Pinkenson on the occasion of her 20th Anniversary as Executive Director of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office. Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar     Action details Not available 120035 0     Resolution Recognizing April 2012 as Autism Awareness Month in honor of the individuals diagnosed and living with Autism along with their caregivers and families. ADOPTED     Action details Not available 120233 0     Resolution Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Sixteenth Ward of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code. ADOPTED     Action details Not available 120234 0     Resolution Urging the Pennsylvania Legislature to take action on bills to protect victims of childhood sexual abuse. ADOPTED Pass 16:0 Action details Not available 120235 0     Resolution Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Thirty-sixth Ward of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code. ADOPTED     Action details Not available 120236 0     Resolution Calling upon the Pennsylvania Senate to pass House Bill 1682, without amendment, and further calling upon the Governor to immediately sign it into law. ADOPTED     Action details Not available 120237 0     Resolution Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to execute and deliver to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia, without consideration, deeds conveying conditional fee simple title to certain City-owned lots or pieces of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate in the Nineteenth Ward of the City of Philadelphia, pursuant to Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code and authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia to dispose of such properties for rehabilitation and/or improvement in accordance with the terms of Chapter 16-400 of The Philadelphia Code. ADOPTED     Action details Not available 120238 0     Resolution Proclaiming the week of April 20, 2012 to April 28, 2012 as the "Second Annual Philly Tech Week presented by AT&T," and again honoring the broad Philadelphia technology community. ADOPTED     Action details Not available 120239 0     Resolution Proclaiming April 5, 2012 as "Penn Law Day" to recognize the formal opening of Golkin Hall and to honor the contribution of Penn Law School to legal education, delivery of justice, and legal scholarship. ADOPTED     Action details Not available 120242 0     Resolution Authorizing the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority to use NTI bond proceeds for the acquisition of 4700 Parkside avenue located in the Fourth Councilmanic District, under certain terms and conditions. ADOPTED     Action details Not available 120260 0     Resolution Urging the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to take action to postpone the termination of electric and natural gas utility service for customers who have pending applications for cash assistance under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. ADOPTED     Action details Not available 120262 0     Resolution Honoring and recognizing Danny "Swift" García for his spectacular achievement of winning the World Boxing Council Light Welterweight Title. ADOPTED     Action details Not available 120264 0     Resolution Urging the First Judicial District to maintain and expand its nationally renowned Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program. ADOPTED     Action details Not available 120265 0     Resolution Honoring and Congratulating The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf on its 192nd Anniversary. ADOPTED     Action details Not available 120266 0     Resolution Recognizing, Honoring, and Celebrating The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University For Its Invaluable Contributions To The Environmental and Natural Sciences As The Oldest Natural History Museum In The Nation-On The Occasion Of The Academy's 200th Anniversary: 1812-2012. ADOPTED     Action details Not available 120267 0     Resolution Recognizing, Honoring, and Celebrating Sharon Pinkenson on the occasion of her 20th Anniversary as Executive Director of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office. ADOPTED     Action details Not available 120140 0     Bill Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to convey to the Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development a certain tract of City-owned land situate at 332-52 East Tioga Street, with buildings and improvements located thereon, if any, all under certain terms and conditions. READ AND PASSED Pass 16:0 Action details Not available 120169-A 0     Bill Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012 from the General Fund, certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions and from the Grants Revenue Fund, the Director of Finance - Provision for Other Grants to the General Fund, certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions. READ     Action details Not available 120169-A 1     Bill Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012 from the General Fund, certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions and from the Grants Revenue Fund, the Director of Finance - Provision for Other Grants to the General Fund, certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions. AMENDED     Action details Not available 120169-A 1     Bill Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012 from the General Fund, certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions and from the Grants Revenue Fund, the Director of Finance - Provision for Other Grants to the General Fund, certain or all City offices, departments, boards and commissions. ORDERED PLACED ON FINAL PASSAGE CALENDAR FOR NEXT MEETING.     Action details Not available 120170 0     Bill Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012 within the Grants Revenue Fund from the Director of Finance - Provision for Other Grants to the Managing Director - Office of Innovation and Technology. READ AND PASSED Pass 16:0 Action details Not available 120172 0     Bill Authorizing transfers in appropriations for Fiscal Year 2012 within the Aviation Fund from the Department of Revenue - Sinking Fund Commission to the Director of Finance - Fringe Benefits. READ AND PASSED Pass 16:0 Action details Not available 120003 0     Bill Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 070504) approved July 3, 2007, entitled "An Ordinance authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 197 by striking from the City Plan and vacating the legally open portions of Casper Street from Tioga Street to Russell Street, striking from the City Plan Russell Street from Casper Street southeastwardly approximately three-hundred ten feet to a dead end, and striking from the City Plan and abandoning a certain drainage right-of-way, and by reserving and placing on the City Plan rights-of-way for water main purposes, drainage purposes, and public utility purposes within the beds of the streets being stricken by authority of this Ordinance, if necessary, under certain terms and conditions," by extending the period for compliance with the terms and conditions stated therein. READ AND PASSED Pass 16:0 Action details Not available 120022 0     Bill Authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan Nos. 347 and 350 by striking from the City Plan Strahle Street from Pine Road to the Philadelphia & Montgomery County Line and striking from the City Plan a certain stub portion of Rockwell Avenue which extends northeastwardly from said Strahle Street, under certain terms and conditions. READ AND PASSED Pass 16:0 Action details Not available 120050 0     Bill Granting permission to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, 1234 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to construct, own and maintain open-air passenger shelters and other miscellaneous encroachments on the public sidewalk located at 33rd Street, Dauphin Street and Ridge Avenue, under certain terms and conditions. READ AND PASSED Pass 16:0 Action details Not available 120083 0     Bill Establishing a no truck parking regulation on Front Street, from Olney Avenue to 65th Avenue, both sides. READ AND PASSED Pass 16:0 Action details Not available 120101 0     Bill Amending Section 2 of an Ordinance (Bill No. 090468) approved November 4, 2009, entitled "An Ordinance authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 55 by striking from the City Plan Duncan Street from Aramingo Avenue to The Delaware Expressway and reserving and by placing on the City Plan, and authorizing City acceptance of, a right-of-way for drainage purposes and public utility purposes within the lines of Duncan Street being stricken, under certain terms and conditions," by extending the period for compliance with the terms and conditions stated therein. READ AND PASSED Pass 16:0 Action details Not available 120102 0     Bill Authorizing the construction of stormwater and sanitary sewers and appurtenant work in Arendell Avenue from State Road to a point approximately twenty-four feet northwest of James Street. READ AND PASSED Pass 16:0 Action details Not available 120112 0     Bill Authorizing the Procurement Commissioner to enter into a contract for the construction of stormwater and sanitary sewers and appurtenant work in Kelvin Avenue and Trevose Road from Southampton Road to County Line Road. READ AND PASSED Pass 16:0 Action details Not available 120139 0     Bill Establishing a no truck parking regulation on Greenwood Avenue, from Michener Avenue to Cheltenham Avenue, both sides. READ AND PASSED Pass 16:0 Action details Not available