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Meeting Details

Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 5/20/2026 6:30 PM Minutes status: Draft  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
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15-8437 1  ResolutionR65 Authorization of Cooperative Contract(s) in an amount greater than $40,000.00 to provide the City with various goods/services, for HT Lyons, Miller Flooring Company, and Shafnisky Electric Inc.    Not available Video Video
15-8446 1  MinutesMay 6, 2026 City Council Meeting Minutes   Not available Not available
15-8453 1  DiscussionController Report   Not available Not available
15-8421 1  OrdinanceBill 32 Amending § 425-15. Alcoholic beverages, controlled dangerous substances, solicitation and gambling by prohibiting smoking or vaping any substance within 25 feet of playgrounds, recreational fields and courts (including but not limited to baseball, basketball, football, handball, softball, tennis, volleyball, etc.).    Not available Video Video
15-8405 1  OrdinanceBill 34 Amending the 2026 General Fund budget to amend the Fixed Cost Distribution (FCD) for two (2) employees within DCED to change the portions of their salary and benefits expensed to the Grant Fund Recompete Program budget to reflect work performed under the grant.   Not available Video Video
15-8406 1  OrdinanceBill 35 Amending the 2026 General Fund budget to accommodate the upgrade of the part-time Clerk III in the Office of Compliance and the upgrade of the two (2) part-time MWI-Custodial positions in Building Maintenance within the Department of Public Works. The part-time Clerk III, currently M08, would be upgraded to an Administrative Assistant at a proposed pay grade of S07 to better align the job duties and responsibilities of this position. The two (2) part-time MWI-Custodial positions will remain in the same paygrade (M06) but be upgraded to full-time positions to better align job duties and allow for consistent staffing in Building Maintenance.   Not available Video Video
15-8407 1  OrdinanceBill 36 Amending the 2026 Capital Fund Budget to provide for an increase of One Million Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($1,650,000.00) to fund the reconstruction on Lehigh and Union Street as part of the Congressionally Directed Spending Grant the City was awarded. This grant is partially reimbursable and requires match funding.   Not available Not available
15-8408 1  OrdinanceBill 37 Amending the 2026 Capital Fund and General Fund Operating Budgets to provide for a supplemental appropriation of One Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) Dollars from the Allentown Parknership to support improvements to Ithaca Park and Recreational Programming. This is a reimbursement from the Parknership.   Not available Video Video
15-8409 1  OrdinanceBill 38 Amending the 2026 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a transfer of Fifty Thousand Eight Hundred Forty-One Dollars and Forty-Five Cents ($50,841.45) from accounts associated with the completed Dixon Street Pedestrian Bridge and Parks Master Plan projects to the Bogert’s Bridge Rehabilitation project.    Not available Video Video
15-8410 1  OrdinanceBill 39 Amending the 2026 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of One Hundred Six Thousand Three Hundred Twenty-Nine ($106,329.00) Dollars from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) to support construction of the Dixon Street sidewalks.   Not available Video Video
15-8411 1  OrdinanceBill 40 Amending the 2026 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Eight Hundred Thousand ($800,000) Dollars from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) LSA grant to support construction of the MLK Trail Extension Phase 1.   Not available Video Video
15-8412 1  OrdinanceBill 41 Amending the 2026 Capital Fund Budget to provide for an increase of One million Nine Hundred and Five thousand dollars ($1,905,000) to fund the approved Parks Capital Projects as part of the 2026 Capital borrowing.   Not available Video Video
15-8414 1  OrdinanceBill 42 Amending the 2026 General Fund budget to provide for One Hundred Thirty-Six Thousand Three Hundred Nineteen Dollars ($136,319.00) from the General Fund unappropriated balance to the Fire Department operating budget for additional costs to support a second Fire Academy in 2026.    Not available Video Video
15-8439 1  ResolutionR66 Approves the submission of the Action Plan to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.   Not available Video Video
15-8443 1  ResolutionR67 Bryne Heffner-Bair, Arts Commission, 5/21/2031   Not available Video Video
15-8440 1  OrdinanceBill 43 Amending the 2026 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Fifty Thousand ($50,000) Dollars from Bloomberg Philanthropies to administer a third round of the Youth Climate Action Fund.   Not available Video Video
15-8442 1  OrdinanceBill 44 Amending Part I Administrative Legislation, Chapter 12 Authorities, Boards and Commissions, Article XV Council of Youth by updating its purpose and practices.    Not available Video Video
15-8447 1  OrdinanceBill 45 Amends Chapter 19, Civil Service Board, of the Codified Ordinances, titled “Rules of the City of Allentown Civil Service Board Governing the Appointment and Promotion of Police Officers and Firefighters” by removing “Failed to register with the Selective Service System” as a disqualifier for the Civil Service Test. The proposed Bill approves the City of Allentown Police and Fire Civil Service Board’s repeal of its Rules that automatically disqualify an applicant for police officer or firefighter from examination for or selection from an eligibility list if the applicant has failed to register with the Selective Service System. The Bill modernizes the Board’s Rules and harmonizes the Rules with both Pennsylvania law and recently enacted Federal law    Not available Video Video