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Meeting Details

Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 6/26/2024 6:30 PM Minutes status: Draft  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
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15-7011 1  ResolutionR101 Authorizes Engagement of Professional Services with Bowman Consulting Group, Ltd. in the amount of $12,950 in Public Works for services preparing and submitting applications, application narrative, conceptual plan exhibit, application schedule and cost information, coordination with other agencies, and on-line submissions, informal quotes, 2 responses.    Not available Not available
15-7012 1  ResolutionR102 Authorization for Contract increase in the amount of $150,000.00; an increase from an estimated $30,000.00 per year to an estimated $180,000.00 per year, for a contract previously bid and awarded to Kost Tire Distributors, Inc. (d/b/a Kost Tire and Auto Service, Inc. d/b/a Big E Tire, Inc.) & McCarthy Tire Service Company, Inc. to provide various tires for City vehicles and equipment. The contracts will expire August 30, 2024, It has been requested to utilize the first of four (4) renewal terms and extend the contracts to August 30, 2025. Upon Written notification, these contracts can be extended for an additional four (4) one (1) year terms beyond the contract expiration period.    Not available Not available
15-7013 1  ResolutionR103 Authorization for Contract with Joe Hunt & Associates, P.C. (d/b/a JHA Companies) for $88,400.00 to provide professional consulting and engineering design services related to the Dixon Street Pedestrian Bridge; two (2) bids received; one (1) year contract that can be extended for up to an additional five (5) one (1) terms beyond the contract expiration, with a rate increase of five percent (5%) each year following the contract term.   Not available Not available
15-7014 1  ResolutionR104 Authorization for Contract with Penn Mount Stone, LLC in the amount of $117,016 to provide masonry repair and preservation the WPA Stage in Union Terrace, including both North and South Arms and Pylons.   Not available Video Video
15-7015 1  ResolutionR105 Authorization of Cooperative Contract(s) in an amount greater than $40,000.00 to provide the City with various goods/services. Schaedler Yesco Dist. – Street Lighting for Mack Boulevard & ESRI, Inc. – 2024 ESRI Advantage Program.   Not available Not available
15-7024 1  MinutesJune 5, 2024 City Council Special Committee Co Response Models Meeting Minutes   Not available Not available
15-7023 1  MinutesJune 5, 2024 City Council Meeting Minutes   Not available Not available
15-7027 1  DiscussionController's Report   Not available Not available
15-6944 1  OrdinanceBill 53 Providing for the vacation of North Elizabeth Street from the centerline of Monroe Street to the centerline of vacated Wayne Street in the Seventeenth Ward of the City of Allentown.   Not available Not available
15-6953 1  OrdinanceBill 54 Amending the 2024 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a transfer of Fourteen Thousand Five Hundred Eleven Dollars and Seventy-Four Cents ($14,511.74) from the Street Lighting Upgrade capital account to the Martin Luther King Jr Dr Lighting capital account. This will transfer the unused funds from the completed Street Lighting Upgrade project to the Martin Luther King Jr Dr Lighting capital account.   Not available Not available
15-7029 1  DiscussionParking Fine Bill   Not available Not available
15-7016 1  ResolutionR106 Sewage Planning Module at 714 & 718 West Greenleaf Street   Not available Not available
15-6993 1  ResolutionR107 Sewage Planning Module at 302 E Hamilton Street    Not available Not available
15-7019 1  ResolutionR108 Craig Beavers (Replacing Hannah Clark), Planning Commission, Term Expiration: 06/27/2028    Not available Not available
15-7007 1  ResolutionR109 Authorizes the disposition of certain records within Human Resources.   Not available Not available
15-7021 1  ResolutionR110 Certificate of Appropriateness for work in the Historic Districts: • 25 N 11th St. • 617 ½ N 5th St. • 627 Park St.   Not available Video Video
15-6932 1  ResolutionR98 Denial of a Certificate of Appropriateness – 825 W Gordon Street    Not available Not available
15-6933 1  ResolutionR99 Denial of a Certificate of Appropriateness – 222 N West Street   Not available Not available
15-6947 1  ResolutionR100 Supports an Unsheltered Declaration of Rights.   Not available Video Video
15-7008 1  ResolutionR111 Approves the submission of the formal application for the local share account grant on behalf of the Museum of Indian Culture. This will support Phase 2 of the Lenape Village Park and Trail Project.   Not available Video Video
15-7017 1  ResolutionR112 Allentown City Council seeks to engage the City Controller or other qualified professionals to conduct audits and review expenditures relating to administration's investigations, salary adjustments and bonuses, travel and training expenses, vendor reimbursement, grant funding, performance audit of the Human Resources Department and development of a Personnel Code   Not available Video Video
15-7017 1  ResolutionR112 Allentown City Council seeks to engage the City Controller or other qualified professionals to conduct audits and review expenditures relating to administration's investigations, salary adjustments and bonuses, travel and training expenses, vendor reimbursement, grant funding, performance audit of the Human Resources Department and development of a Personnel Code   Not available Video Video
15-7017 1  ResolutionR112 Allentown City Council seeks to engage the City Controller or other qualified professionals to conduct audits and review expenditures relating to administration's investigations, salary adjustments and bonuses, travel and training expenses, vendor reimbursement, grant funding, performance audit of the Human Resources Department and development of a Personnel Code   Not available Video Video
15-7022 1  ResolutionR113 Authorizes the expenditure funds to hire counsel to pursue any and all equitable and legal remedies against the Mayor to enforce an agreement and enjoin any further obstruction of the Investigation pursuant to Ordinance No. 15948.   Not available Video Video
15-6992 1  ResolutionR114 Approves five transfers: (1) $172,365.88 in Parks and Recreation for construction inspection is part of the construction process for Bogert’s Bridge. The TASA grant we received is being used to pay for construction inspection and construction; (2) $85,100.00 in Stormwater that is needed to provide for legal services necessary for the City to construct formal comments due to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) within a 30 – day public comment period; (3) $49,822.74 in Parks and Recreation for improvements to Cedar Beach include upgraded lighting and new basketball hoops; (4) $33,588.00 in Finance to pay for the invoice received from NW Financial Group, LLC regarding the Allentown Parking Authority Study (Invoice #ALLNTWN2024-01); (5) $20,000.00 in City Council to hire Counsel to litigate the mayor’s obstruction of investigation.   Not available Video Video
15-7004 1  OrdinanceBill 56 Amending the 2024 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a transfer of One Hundred Seventy Thousand ($170,000.00) Dollars from Irving Pool Improvements capital project into Dixon St Bridge to use for design of the bridge and Jordan Skatepark for construction of Phase 2 of the park.   Not available Not available
15-7005 1  OrdinanceBill 57 Amending the 2024 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of One Hundred Twenty Thousand ($120,000.00) Dollars from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) to support construction phase 2 of Jordan Skatepark   Not available Not available
15-7006 1  OrdinanceBill 58 Amending the 2024 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Seven Hundred Fifty ($750.00) Dollars from Keep PA Beautiful in their efforts to support a volunteer event by Giant/Martin Food Stores for supplies to conduct the volunteer event.   Not available Not available
15-7010 1  OrdinanceBill 59 An Ordinance providing for the expenditure of certain monies received by the City of Allentown under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1976, as amended; The Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009; and Title II of the National Affordable Housing Act of 1990, as amended; for the purpose of undertaking programs of housing and community development within the City   Not available Not available
15-7018 1  OrdinanceBill 60 Amending the Ethics Code Section § 36-6 Patronage, by prohibiting the hiring of anyone that has been engaged in remunerated political activity related to the election of City Officials.   Not available Not available
15-7020 1  OrdinanceBill 61 Amending the Ethics Code Section § 36-5 Nepotism, by prohibiting the hiring of an elected official’s spouse or domestic partner, child or stepchild, sibling or stepsibling, parent, or member of his or her household, of an elected official during the office holder’s term and requiting a specific time frame for the Human Resources to carry out the responsibilities of reporting such relationships already prescribed in the code.    Not available Not available
15-7009 1  ResolutionR115 Approves the submission of the Action Plan to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.   Not available Not available