The Committee on the Environment, to which was referred Bill No. 120428, entitled "An ordinance amending Chapter 9-3400 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled 'Energy Conservation,' to provide for the benchmarking and reporting of energy and water usage data for certain buildings," respectfully reports it has considered and amended the same and returns the attached bill to Council with a favorable recommendation.
I move that the rules of Council be suspended so as to permit first reading this day of Bill No. 120428. (Duly seconded.)
It's been moved and properly seconded that the rules of Council be suspended as to permit first reading this day of Bill No. 120428. All those in favor? (Aye.)
The ayes have it, and the bill will be placed on our First Reading Calendar for today. The next order of business is the consideration of the Calendar. I note that the bills just reported from committee with suspension of the rules been deemed to have had a first reading. These bills will be placed on the Second Reading and Final Passage Calendar for our next session of Council. As there are no additional bills on the First Reading Calendar, the Chair now recognizes Councilman Jones for a motion concerning the bills on the Second Reading.
Thank you, Mr. President. I move that the rules of Council be suspended to permit the use of a Consent Agenda to consider the following bills on the Second Reading and Final Passage Calendars: Nos. 120229, 120323, 120324, 120325, 120327, 120333, 120334, 120335, 120336, 120344, 120390, 120391, 120410, 120411, 120412, 120422, 120423, 120424, 120425, 120426, 120437, 120438 and 120439. (Duly seconded.)
It's been moved and properly seconded that the rules of Council be suspended to permit 2ND READING the use of a Consent Agenda to consider the bills just read by Councilman Jones. All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. (Aye.)
The ayes have it. The motion carries, and we will consider the Consent Agenda. The Chair again recognizes Councilman Jones for the purpose of calling up bills and resolutions on the regular Second Reading and Final Passage Calendar.
Thank you again, Mr. President. In addition to the bills being considered for the Consent Agenda, the following resolutions and bills are being called up for Second Reading and Final Passage Calendar today: Nos. 120536, 120537, 120229-A, 120213-A, 120393 and 120394. All other bills and resolutions are being held.
Thank you so much, Councilman. Before considering the resolutions and bills, we will consider public comment as follows: Your public comment must concern matters on the Second and Final Passage Calendar. In addition to which, we have a time limit of three minutes. The purpose of this time limit is to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to speak today. We again today have a lengthy Calendar, so we ask you to please acknowledge that three-minute requirement. You will see on the podium that there is a device. When it is green, it's your time to speak. When it goes yellow, 30 seconds before your three minutes are up. And we ask you to please acknowledge that three-minute time limit. Mr. Decker, will you please read the name of the first speaker. And if anyone has not signed up, you may sign up at the table to my left.
Brady Russell, commenting on 120393 and 120394. (Witness approached podium.)
Hey there. Thank you, Council, for having us this morning. Is it okay to go ahead and start?
My name is Brady Russell. I'm the Eastern PA Director of Clean Water Action. We're here today urging Council to either vote no on Bill No. 120393 and 120394 or urging you to delay the bills by two months. The process by which the Administration came to these contracts is troubling and suggests there may be reasons why the Administration did not want a full and appropriate review by environmentalists on the Administration's Solid Waste Advisory Committee. I'm going to list off a few of our concerns, and I have copies of my testimony here to give to folks. The first was that the contracts were never reviewed by the Solid Waste Advisory Committee. Clean Water Action sits on that committee. It was never discussed. The details of the contract have been nailed down apparently since March, availing the City with plenty of time to go to the SWAC. Number two, before this presentation, Clean Water Action had failed to know what a high priority the City places on incineration. From a green perspective, incineration or what the industry likes to refer to as waste-to-energy is only greener than landfills if the green you're talking about is money. It does cost less to incinerate than it does to put in a landfill, but in terms of global warming, it does more harm on balance. Three, we've criticized the Administration for not pursuing an organic waste composting option. They'll note to you that there wasn't such a proposal submitted under RFP, but since the City doesn't collect compost, there's no way for someone to submit an RFP to deal with compost, and if they didn't solicit an RFP for collecting compost, they're obviously not going to get a composting RFP. Number four, under the plan, Covanta's trash is primarily to be incinerated. Clean Water Action will never support a vote for incineration-to-trash in the City, and we should consider doing something else with it. Five, under this plan, approximately 25 percent of Waste Management's waste stream has an uncertain future. The company claims it's going to try to handle that waste in a green way, but there's no guarantee for it. We don't know where it's going. It could all very well end up going to incinerators. Number six, we don't know where Waste Management's spec fuel is going. That's what our trash is going to turn into in terms of fuel. In some places, an old coal plant might actually generate more air pollution than a new incinerator. So we don't really know what the pollution profile for this spec fuel ultimately be. Number seven, we do know that the spec fuel's target market is largely coal-burning utilities and cement kilns. In other words, by getting into the business of spec fuel, Philadelphia is now in the business of sustaining the coal industry. Coal-burning power is not something that we support. Sixty thousand people die across the country every year from air pollution from coal-burning power, and we don't want Philadelphia to be in the City of providing fuel to coal-burning power plants. We have not seen comparisons for the greenhouse gas emissions on the spec fuel yet. We'd like to see those with enough data for our actual experts to evaluate them. And my final comment on it is, Waste Management is likely to use the waste from its commercial contracts in Philadelphia to make the spec fuel. We don't know how many of Waste Management's contracts incentivize recycling, but by finding a way to make money off of this waste stream, it de-incentivizes their incentives to encourage commercial recycling. So, again, we encourage folks to delay a vote on this and give us some more time to evaluate it on both of these contracts, both the Covanta and the Waste Management. Thanks a lot.
Jean Haskell, commenting on 120284. (Witness approached podium.)
Hello, everybody. I'm Jean Haskell. I'm here for the Granny Peace Brigade in support of Resolution 120284, introduced by Councilmember Quinones-Sanchez. The resolution calls on the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama to redirect military spending to fund education, public and private sector family-sustaining job creation, special protection for military sector workers and environmental and infrastructure restoration, care for veterans and their families, and the human services that our cities and states so desperately need. The Granny Peace Brigade is particularly pleased to support this resolution, for we have long pleaded with our legislators to bring the war dollars home. Six years ago, a group of grandmothers joined together to oppose the Iraq War. We did not want our grandchildren or anybody's grandchildren to come home in those awful body bags that we weren't even allowed to see. Six years, two wars later, countless lives lost, countless dollars spent, the prospect of a third war on the table, some of our grandchildren are sitting in overcrowded, underfunded schools, which sometimes lack even books and paper, in buildings that are fire traps and can afford school nurses for only one day a week, and in today's paper, pink slips are going out to support personnel and counselors. Some of our grandchildren are deeply in debt, trying to pay back school loans because they cannot find jobs in this poverty-stricken economy. And some of our grandchildren are coming back from those wars badly in need of healthcare for emotional, mental and physical wounds. They must wait six or more months for treatment, because the VA is so badly underfunded. According to a recent Brown University study, these last two wars and their ripple effects have cost the United States $3.7 trillion, or more than $12,000 per one American citizen. Every day we imagine the things that could be done if that money were redirected back home, and we agonize over the kind of future our grandchildren can expect in this country, which seems to give them less and less each year. Of course we support this resolution. Our grandchildren are counting on us. (Applause.)
Nina Huizinga, commenting on 120284. (Witness approached podium.)
I am here also from the Granny Peace Brigade and I am also commenting in favor of 120284 to transfer money from military spending to domestic priorities. Primarily I'm here to talk about money. We are spending a huge amount of money on the various foreign wars that we have been waging for a lot longer than we waged the Second World War. We have been in Afghanistan for a full ten years. We have been fighting in Iraq, we have been fighting in Yemen, we have been fighting in Somalia, and we have been spending a great deal of money to sustain that effort. In the meantime, when we talk about Philadelphia, we are facing serious financial stress on our system. We don't have enough money to fund our system, even some basic fundamental things such as our public education system. We are forced to close schools. We are forced to cut back on public services. That money could better be directed to our daily needs here at home. And the reality is that our military budget takes up about 60 percent of the money every year that our government spends, and only small percentages are spent on all the other human needs, while we could decrease the military budget. Actually, we could decrease it by 80 percent and still have the largest military budget in the world. The money is being spent in improper ways, and it was never funded correctly. Therefore, the way that these wars have been funded has been by putting our country into debt, and then we have people in Congress who complain about how much debt there is. We need to rearrange our priorities. First and foremost, we need to fund the things that we need here at home. I hope you will seriously consider this resolution and pass it.
Luke McKinstry, commenting on 120539. (Witness approached podium.) MR. McKINSTRY: Good morning. My name is Luke McKinstry and I'm here to comment today on Resolution No. 120539, which proposes that City Council conduct hearings to discuss increasing pay for Election Day poll workers in Philadelphia. I am a member of the staff at the non-profit Committee of Seventy and it is one of my responsibilities to run the non-partisan Election Day Voter Protection Program, which documents Election Day problems and works to improve City elections. Each Election Day we hear from our volunteers and City voters of high instances where polling places are not properly staffed because our limited number of people willing to work. Seventy wishes to reiterate its longtime support of increasing pay for poll workers. As stated in this resolution, pay for poll workers in Philadelphia has not been increased since 1999, and it is now below the federal minimum wage. City Commissioner Chairwoman Stephanie Singer pointed out to this Council in May that Philadelphia is ranked eighteenth among the nation's 20 largest cities in how much it pays its poll workers. As many people in this room know, the Election Day is a very long day, and this year the City's poll workers must enforce Pennsylvania's new voter ID law, which will require them to ask every voter entering the polling place, even neighbors who they have known for decades, to show valid ID in order to cast a ballot. But even without the new ID law, being a poll worker is not easy. Election law is complex and subject to change. Some may recall that just weeks before the 2008 General Election, a federal judge ruled that poll workers to vote by a provisional paper ballot if half the voting machines in their election district were broken. This year poll workers again had a short window to learn the intricacies of the state's voter ID law before the April Primary, which was deemed a soft rollout, but put poll workers in the position of asking for ID from voters and having to explain the new law to voters who did not have one. The experience of deploying the voter protection program has made clear to the Committee of Seventy that high-quality poll workers are imperative to running clean and successful elections. We are pleased that the City Commissioners are making strides to address this issue. We welcome this resolution for hearings, and we encourage its passage when it is called up for a vote. Thank you.
John Grant, commenting on 120284. (Witness approached podium.)
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, I'm commenting on 120284, the resolution to bring defense dollars back to Philadelphia. I'm a Vietnam veteran. I was a 19-year-old kid who had no idea what he was doing over there, and my job was to find the enemy, as a radio direction finder, and they were then bombed and artillery was brought on them, and to this day, I think that war was wrong. So I wanted to preface with that. I also wanted to preface with this. There's a recent poll by the Center for Public Integrity found that 85 percent of respondents supported this statement: "It is time for the Afghan people to manage their own country and for us to bring our troops home." Eighty-five percent of respondents commented on that positively. Ninety percent of democrats and 60 percent of republicans said that they wanted less spending at the Pentagon. We're in an economic disaster in this country. We're in the midst of it. We need to cut back on a lot of things, and we certainly need to cut back on the defense budget. I know all of you, ladies and gentlemen, have American flags on your tables. You know, I don't think the American flag necessarily is attached to the wars that our government is fighting. The good Rabbi at the beginning talked about economic justice and tikkun olam, repair of the world. We really need to repair our world here at home. The problem is, we spend so much money on the military, send it out. Just this morning in the New York Times, we've just had a special ops raid in Afghanistan that killed 11 children, seven women and a number of other people. By doing that, we're creating a lot of enemies. So we're churning and creating more wars instead of slowing them down and using those funds here in Philadelphia where we need them. We need jobs. We need a better education system. We need to approve our education system. I don't have to tell you that. You all know that. We need to reform our criminal justice system, and we need to revitalize our communities. This takes money. So we need to re-prioritize -- redistribute our priorities, I would say, to bring that money to places like Philadelphia where it is really needed. I certainly believe in the national defense. That's not the issue. It's the extent of it, the 700 to a thousand bases around the world. We don't need it. Please support this Resolution 120284. Thank you very much. (Applause.)
Commissioner Stephanie Singer, commenting on 120539. (Witness approached podium.) COMMISSIONER SINGER: Thank you very much. I'm Stephanie Singer. I'm the Chair of the City Commissioners, and we conduct elections in Philadelphia. My fellow Commissioners, Anthony Clark and Al Schmidt, are also in support of this resolution. We'd like to thank President Clarke for the opportunity to speak and Councilman Jones for introducing the resolution. Our poll workers, the people who work at the table, are the bedrock of democracy. They practice tikkun olam twice a year by being there to help conduct elections and make sure that their neighbors can vote. And in this time when we are sending our young people to fight and sometimes die and sometimes come home wounded and broken, our poll workers are defending democracy here at home, and we ask a lot of them. They have an added responsibility for November. They will have to enforce the voter ID law that was recently passed by the state. And it's a big election. It's a big election in November. We have a big presidential election, and we are expecting that there will be lots of attention to Philadelphia and how we carry out our election. And so we are asking even more of our poll workers this year. Our poll workers have not had a raise since 1999. We are down almost eighteenth in how we pay. So we're down with Memphis, Tennessee in how well we pay our poll workers. And even if we were to raise it to prevailing wage, which is what we've asked Council and the Mayor to do in the next budget, that would still -- it doesn't put us at the top. It puts us under New York and under Chicago and under LA and still right down there with Charlotte, North Carolina. So this is -- we're not asking a lot. Our poll workers really are serving all of us here, and I ask that Council consider this resolution and please pass it. Thank you.
Barbara Barnett, commenting on 120539. (Witness approached podium.)
Thank you to the Honorable President of Council and Councilmembers. I am speaking on behalf of the poll workers for the City of Philadelphia. Most important to me is, I have served in many capacities for more than 30 years, and I have served in a number of different jobs at the poll. The job is not that very difficult, but one of the things that I really want to say is, it's important that we get the support, because for an increase in salary, we work long hours. You expect us to be able to provide an accurate accounting of what happens in the election. That's really paramount for what we are about. I think that it is time that we be recognized, since we have not had a raise in such a long time. I want to especially commend our new Commissioner Singer for having proposed this increase for us in wages. We are especially -- I represent Ward 52, Division 14, which is a really difficult one to handle, because it's the district in which our Mayor votes, and we are constantly bombarded by the media, and it's our -- also an additional job is to keep the media out from behind the tables and making room for those who are there to vote officially. So we would appreciate your taking note of our need, and we certainly would benefit. It would be certainly a prudent way of spending funds from the City. Thank you.
Bristol Leake, commenting on 120539. (Witness approached podium.)
Thank you. I got a call late yesterday afternoon and I didn't prepare a speech. I'm Judge of Election for the same place where Mrs. Barnett just mentioned. I consider the job challenging, and I try to do a professional job. It is a busy place, and when Primaries is light, but you still have to put in the time. If you figure out the hours that I put in, it's far less than minimum wage, because I have to have the place ready at 7 o'clock. When the polls are closed, I'm there tallying up and trying to do a decent job. I can't speak for all the polls, but the polls where I am Judge of Election, the employees there that I supervise are dedicated and they do a professional job. I don't want to reiterate some of the things that's already been said, but anything would be an incentive to do an even better job. If we keep going on at this pace, I'm afraid we're going to attract people to the polls manning the polls that are less than professional. Again, we put in long hours and, of course, a lot of things are not considered, picking up the material at the police station, and that's included in my job. I worked as a Clerk on the desk before I became Judge of Election. Frankly, it was easier because I just did a certain job. Now I have to know all jobs and able to do all jobs. You don't hear much about our poll, although the media is there, because it runs smoothly. But let it not be open at 7 o'clock, it would be all over the news. Everybody would know about it. So, again, any increase would be appreciated and certainly could be used by all of us. So we are dedicated, and I'd appreciate -- I want to thank Councilman Jones, and I'd appreciate anything you can do in consideration of increasing the pay. Thank you. (Applause.)
Dennis Winters, commenting on 120393 and 120394. (Witness approached podium.)
Thank you for this opportunity to speak. I'm Dennis Winters. I'm Conservation Chair of the Southeastern Group of the Sierra Club. I'm here today to deliver the remarks of our Chapter Solid Waste Chair Albert Wurth, and I'm told that the copy I've given the stenographer will reach all of you for review. So I'll save you the trouble of reading it again. But I do have these summarizing comments. No euphemistic waste-to-energy renaming will clean up incineration. Transferring the pollution from land-filled waste and throwing it into the air, someone else's air in this case, is not an acceptable solution to Philly's solid waste program and raises serious ethical questions. Incineration results in increased CO2 emissions, whereas landfilling at least allows for the capture of methane from the waste. Zero waste is the only truly sustainable future for waste management, a conclusion being reached by more and more communities, San Francisco being just the latest example. So long as waste-handling alternatives are chosen, recycling will be crippled and never reach its true potential. For instance, all organic matter can and should be composted. After 20 years of obfuscation, the Streets Department should have learned that increased transparency and early public inclusion in the decision-making process would avoid a lot of handering and time-consuming descension. Thank you for this opportunity to speak.
Robert Taylor, commenting on 120284 and 120425. (Witness approached podium.)
Good morning, Mr. President, members of Council, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Robert Taylor, citizen of South Philadelphia and also President of Transport Workers Union Local 700. I'm commenting on Resolution 120284, calling on the U.S. Congress and the President Barack Obama to redirect military spending, sponsored by Councilmembers Sanchez, Greenlee, Brown, Squilla, Jones, Goode and Tasco; and Ordinance 120425, parking regulations. I am delighted that this noble body may become a rare voice for peace in the world. These aggressive wars started under the Bush regime. It was hoped by many that the Obama Administration would curtail our involvement in these foreign entanglements. While the U.S. has thankfully limited our participation in Iraq, sadly this Administration has become involved in fresh new wars such as Libya where members of al-Qaeda, with its flag flying high, had been installed through the National Transitional Council. Now it appears that we will soon be going hot in Syria, then on to Iran and naturally with Russia and China standing right behind them. We need to end these aggressive elective wars. Many of these attacks aren't even called wars. Instead they are called euphemisms such as kinetic action. Yet war is war by any other name. Presidential candidate Ron Paul, quote, believes that acting as the world's policemen and nation-building weakens our country, puts our fighting men and women in harm's way and sends precious resources to other nations. It is time to return to a foreign policy that puts America's security first. The U.S. cannot afford to be involved in supporting military bases in all of these foreign nations. Many of these nations can and should pay for their own military bases and protection. Regarding the 22nd Street parking regulation, I oppose this regulation, among countless others, that needlessly expand into our communities. Of course, I have commented on this matter a number of times. Still the main thing to remember is that these nocuous sounding parking regulations can lead to citizens being thrown in prison. I have friends that desire to remove some of these burdensome regulations. The vast number of new regulations are obvious for all to see. The great question remains, what will it take to remove some of them? Quote, the safety of the people is the supreme law, Maxims of Common Law. Thank you for your attention, and God bless Philadelphia.
John Braxton, commenting on 120284. (Witness approached podium.)
Good morning, members of Council and guests. I am very pleased to be here. I am the Co-President of AFT 2026, the Faculty and Staff Federation of Community College of Philadelphia, and I'm also a delegate from the Philadelphia AFL-CIO Central Labor Council to U.S. Labor Against the War. Everyone in this room recognizes that the City of Philadelphia is in the midst of a serious budget crisis, and of course we are not alone. Forty-six of the 50 states have budgets in the red, and every major city and every major school district is grappling with the budget crisis. What most people don't recognize is that the budget crisis is easy to solve on the national level if we have the political courage and moral integrity to shift priorities nationally. A major source of our budget problems nationwide is, the huge cost of military spending leaves very little money for the rest of our budgetary needs. Take a look at the illustration that we have here, showing that our bridges and infrastructure are straining to the breaking point because we are all bearing the cost of unnecessary wars. Together the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost more than 6,000 American lives and $1.5 trillion, and according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, the real costs will total $5 to $6 trillion. We know that the Iraq War was unnecessary. There were no weapons of mass destruction. There was no connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. What everyone thinks about the advisability of invading Afghanistan is clear. We didn't need a full-scale war and ten years of occupation to get the leaders of al-Qaeda removed. It's time to get out of Afghanistan and bring the $1 million that it costs for each soldier to spend a year there, bring that home and use it where we need it here at home so desperately. This year we will spend 59 cents of every tax dollar on the military, more than we spend for the rest of the federal government's discretionary spending combined. Fifty-nine cents for wars and war preparation, 59 percent; 4 percent for education; 5 percent for health; 5 percent for veterans benefits. And while we're talking about veterans benefits, let's dispense with a common myth. This is not a question of whether or not we are supporting the troops. It's the policymakers in Washington who are not supporting the troops when they put them in unwinnable wars like Iraq and Afghanistan. We are supporting the troops by bringing them home to safety. There is so much more that I could say. I have illustrations with this that I would like to make available to each of the Councilmembers, but I want to close by saying that if you don't take my word for this, take a couple of other great American patriots. Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched, every rocket that is fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and those who are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed, President Dwight Eisenhower. And one more brief quote. I could not again raise my voice without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, my own government. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King. Thank you.
Is there anyone else here who has signed up to provide public comment on today's agenda? (No response.)
Seeing none, this concludes today's public comment period.
Thank you, Councilman Jones. We will now consider today's Consent Agenda. I will ask the Clerk to please read the titles of all the bills on the Consent Agenda. After each title is read, any member may object to the inclusion of the bill on the Consent Agenda. Upon such an objection and without debate, the bill will be immediately removed from the Consent Agenda and placed on our regular Final Passage Calendar. Mr. Decker, will you please now read the titles of the bills on the Consent Agenda.
Bill No. 120299, entitled "An ordinance amending Section 2 of an ordinance (Bill No. 080544) approved November 19, 2008, entitled 'An ordinance authorizing the revision of on a portion of City Plan No. 163 by relocating the southwesterly houseline and curbline of Ridge Avenue near Calumet Street,' by extending the period for compliance with the terms and conditions stated therein"; and Bill No. , Rochelle Davis, and Deborah Davis to construct, own and maintain an enclosed basement entrance at 5512 Woodland Avenue"; and Bill No. 120324, entitled "An ordinance authorizing the University of Pennsylvania to construct, own and maintain a pedestrian barrier within the right-of-way on the median that divides 33rd Street and 34th Street between Spruce Street and Convention Avenue"; and Bill No. 120325, entitled "An ordinance authorizing Whispering Leaves Herb and Sip Shop to construct, own and maintain an open-air sidewalk cafe at 4615 Woodland Avenue"; and Bill No. 120327, entitled "An ordinance amending Title 12 of The Philadelphia Code, by providing a new chapter, entitled 'Bicycle Lanes,' requiring that the designation of bicycle lanes upon streets be authorized by ordinance"; and Bill No. 120333, entitled "An ordinance authorizing the paving of Cross Street from Gates Street to Hermitage Street and Gates Street from Silverwood Street to Cross Street"; and Bill No. 120334, entitled "An ordinance authorizing and directing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 231 by changing the grades of Cross Street from Gates Street to Hermitage Street and Gates Street from Silverwood Street to Cross Street"; and Bill No. 120335, entitled "An ordinance authorizing the revision of lines and grades on a portion of City Plan No. 228 by placing on the City Plan Ridge Avenue, southeast of Walnut lane, northeastwardly to a cul-de-sac turnaround"; and Bill No. 120336, entitled "An ordinance authorizing the paving of Kingsley Court from Ridge Avenue northeastwardly approximately three-hundred fifty-five feet to a cul-de-sac turnaround"; and Bill No. 120344, entitled "An ordinance amending Section 9-407 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled 'Tour Passenger Carriers,' by providing for an additional Tour Passenger Loading Zone on the west side of 12th Street between Market Street and Filbert Street"; and Bill No. 120390, entitled "An ordinance establishing a no parking regulation on Roberts Avenue, north side"; and Bill No. 120391, entitled "An ordinance establishing a no parking regulation on Fox Street, east side"; and Bill No. 120410, entitled "An Nelson Food PA to construct, own and maintain an open-air sidewalk cafe at 2930 Chestnut Street"; and Bill No. 120411, entitled "An ordinance establishing a parking regulation on Harper Street, south side, 30th Street to a point 200 feet west"; and Bill No. 120412, entitled "An ordinance establishing a parking regulation on Mount Vernon Street, north side, 12th Street to 13th Street"; and Bill No. 120422, entitled "An ordinance establishing a parking regulation on Christian Street, south side, 19th Street to 20th Street"; and Bill No. 120423, entitled "An ordinance establishing a parking regulation on Colorado Street, east side, Carpenter Street to Washington Avenue"; and Bill No. 120424, entitled "An ordinance establishing a parking Street, east side, Johnson Street to Oregon Street"; and Bill No. 120425, entitled "An ordinance establishing a parking regulation on Catharine Street, both sides, 22nd Street to 23rd Street"; and Bill No. 120426, entitled "An ordinance establishing a parking regulation on 15th Street, west side, Catharine Street to Christian Street"; and Bill No.
120437, entitled "An ordinance establishing a parking regulation on Sheridan Street, west side, Manton Street to Wharton Street"; and Bill No. 120438, entitled "An ordinance establishing a parking regulation on Sartain Street, east side, McKean Street to Mifflin Street"; and Bill No. "
bills having been read on two different days, the question for each bill now is shall the bill pass finally. The Clerk shall please call the roll, and upon being called, each Councilmember shall vote aye on each of the bills, nay on each of the bills or indicate those bills for which the member is voting aye and those bills for which the member is voting nay. Mr. Decker.
Aye on all bills. The majority of all members having voted in the affirmative for each of the bills, these bills on the Consent Agenda are passed. We will now consider the bills and resolutions on the regular Second Reading and Final Passage Calendar. Mr. Decker, will you please read the title of Resolution 120536.
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 Brewerytown Urban Renewal Area, identified by house numbers and street addresses as 3007 through 9 and 3013 Cabot Street, 3011, 3013 and 3014 West Stiles Street and 3019 West Stiles Street.
The 6/7/12 - STATED - 2ND READING Chair recognizes Councilman Greenlee.
Thank you, Mr. President. I move the adoption of the resolution. (Duly seconded.)
Been moved and properly seconded. Those in favor? (Aye.)
Resolution 120536 is adopted. Mr. Decker, 120537.
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 number and street address as 1909 West Wilt Street.
The 6/7/12 - STATED - 2ND READING Chair recognizes Councilman Greenlee again.
Thank you, Mr. President. I move the adoption of the resolution. (Duly seconded.)
Been moved and properly seconded. Those in favor? (Aye.)
The ayes have it. Resolution 120537 is adopted. Mr. Decker, please read the title of 120229.
An ordinance amending Title 4 of The Philadelphia Code, Subcode PM (The Philadelphia Property Maintenance Code), by amending requirements applicable to vacant premises. 6/7/12 - STATED - 2ND READING
Thank you, Mr. President. Hopefully this will be the final technical amendment to this bill. So I move for the adoption of the amendment. It has been circulated. (Duly seconded.)
Moved and properly seconded. Those in favor of the amendment. (Aye.)
Bill 120229-A is amended and shall be placed on next week's Final Passage Calendar. Mr. Decker, please read the title of 120213-A.
An ordinance authorizing the Parks and Recreation Commissioner to enter into a lease 6/7/12 - STATED - 2ND READING agreement with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, to continue leasing to SEPTA certain land and improvements located in the area bounded by Ridge Avenue, 33rd Street, and Dauphin Street.
This bill having been read on two different days, the question now is shall the bill pass finally. Mr. Decker, please call the roll.
Aye. The ayes are 17; the nays are zero. A majority of all members having voted in the affirmative, the bill passes. Mr. Decker, please read the title of 120393.
An ordinance authorizing the Streets Commissioner to enter into a multi-year agreement with Covanta 4 Recovery for the receipt, transfer, and disposal of municipal solid waste.
This bill having been read on two separate 6/7/12 - STATED - 2ND READING days, the question now is shall the bill pass finally. Mr. Decker, please call the roll.
Aye. The ayes are 17; the nays are zero. A majority of all members having voted in the affirmative, the bill passes. Mr. Decker, 120394.
An ordinance authorizing the Streets Commissioner to enter into a multi-year agreement with Waste Management of Pennsylvania for the receipt, transfer, and disposal of municipal solid waste.
This bill having been read on two different days, the question now is shall the bill pass finally. Mr. Decker, please call the roll.