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Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 1/15/2025 6:30 PM Minutes status: Draft  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
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15-7441 1  ResolutionR1 Authorization of Cooperative Contract(s) in an amount greater than $40,000.00 to provide the City with various goods/services, for H.T. Lyons, Inc.    Not available Not available
15-7440 1  ResolutionR2 Authorization for a Contract with TCW Building Maintenance, LLC in the estimated budgeted sum of $85,000 per contract year for on-call, on-site Overhead Door replacement, repair, inspection and maintenance, at various City owned and/or operated facilities. One (1) bid was received, contract shall be for one (1) with four (4) additional one (1) year renewals beyond the contract expiration period.   Not available Not available
15-7448 1  MinutesDecember 4, 2024 City Council Meeting Minutes   Not available Not available
15-7449 1  DiscussionController PCard Review   Not available Not available
15-7406 1  OrdinanceBill 118 Amending the 2024 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Seven Hundred Thirty-Seven Thousand Two Hundred Nineteen Dollars and Forty-Three Cents ($737,219.43) from LCA for the purpose of construction ADA handicap ramps and for the milling and paving of streets under the City’s Utility Paving Program.   Not available Not available
15-7407 1  OrdinanceBill 119 Amending the 2024 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) from the Ferber Company for traffic signal improvements.   Not available Not available
15-7412 1  OrdinanceBill 120 Amending Part I Administrative Legislation, Chapter 80 Personnel Policies, Section 13 Holidays and Leave Time, Subsection A Holidays by updating the list of paid holidays for full-time non-bargaining employees to include Juneteenth National Independence Day.    Not available Not available
15-7421 1  OrdinanceBill 121 Amending the 2024 Fire Department budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Forty-One Thousand Two Hundred Forty-Two Dollars and Fifty-Seven Cents ($41,242.57) from Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Community and Economic Development grant. These funds will be utilized to support the Bomb Squad and ensure disposal of fireworks.   Not available Not available
15-7429 1  ResolutionR3 City Council hereby authorizes the additional expenditure of $50,000 and authorizes the transfer of $50,000 in City Council Budget for Payment for Legal Services for Brown Nimeroff LLC for expenses related to the 'investigation' from Account #000-01-0101-0001-46 to Account #000-01-0101-0001-44.    Not available Not available
15-7450 1  ResolutionR4 Approves the following transfers: Fire - $207,269.86; EMS - $139,929.12; Public Works - $18,669.15; Mayor’s Office - $18,491.69   Not available Not available
15-7437 1  OrdinanceBill 1 Refer to Public Works Amending the 2024 Liquid Fuels Fund Budget to provide for a transfer of Five Hundred Sixty-Seven Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty-One Dollars and Thirty-One Cents ($567,951.31) from the unappropriated balance of the General Fund. The reason for this transfer is due to an audit that was conducted on the Liquid Fuels funding from 2016-2020. During that audit, a finding was presented that paving of more than one inch had to get prior approval from the Department of Transportation, and that was not done. This was not found in previous audits and corrected once we were made aware.    Not available Not available
15-7438 1  OrdinanceBill 2 Refer to Human Resources, Administration and Appointments Establishing a Latino Advisory Committee to advise the Mayor and Council on issues relating to Latino affairs.    Not available Not available
15-7439 1  OrdinanceBill 3 Refer to Human Resources, Administration and Appointments Establishing a African-American Advisory Council is to advise the Mayor and Council on any relating to African-American issues.    Not available Not available
15-7422 1  OrdinanceBill 4 Refer to Public Safety An ordinance of the Council of the City of Allentown Pennsylvania requiring the city to obtain and maintain a welcoming city rating and work towards a score of no less than three stars from welcoming America; codifying the city's practices related to the provision of city services without regard to refugee or immigration status and requiring city council to advocate for the adoption of similar practices and policies by other municipalities; providing for the repeal of inconsistent ordinances; providing for the severability of the ordinance; and providing that the ordinance shall take effect in accordance with Pennsylvania law.    Not available Video Video
15-7442 1  OrdinanceBill 5 Refer to Parks and Recreation Committee Amending the 2024 Trexler Fund by authorizing a supplemental appropriation from the unappropriated balance of the Trexler Fund in the amount of Eighty-Five Thousand Four Hundred Sixteen Dollars and One Cent ($85,416.01) to the Jordan Skatepark capital budget of the Parks and Recreation Department. These funds will complete the construction of Phase 2 of the skatepark and is part of the 2024-25 Trexler Capital Project allocation.   Not available Video Video
15-7444 1  OrdinanceBill 6 Refer to Community and Economic Development Committee Amending the 2024 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Ninety Thousand ($90,000.00) Dollars from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) to support improvements to upgrade the final pavilion at Rose Garden #1.   Not available Not available
15-7443 1  OrdinanceBill 7 Refer to Parks and Recreation Committee Amending the 2024 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a transfer of Twenty-Four Thousand Four Hundred Seventeen Dollars and Six Cents ($24,417.06) from Irving Pool Improvements capital project into Jordan Skatepark for construction of Phase 2.    Not available Video Video
15-7445 1  OrdinanceBill 8 Refer to Public Works Amending the 2024 Capital Fund Budget to provide for an increase of Three Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($325,000) to the newly created capital account for the design of the traffic signal upgrades at 17th and Linden Street, 17th and Turner Street, 17th and Chew Street, and 17th and Walnut Street intersections. This project is part of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development Multimodal Transportation Fund Grant (MTF-DCED) that the City was awarded. This will fund the design for upgrades to the four intersections on 17th Street. The City was awarded $250,000 as part of the MTF-DCED grant that is reimbursable, and the $75,000 is considered the City’s match that is required per the grant agreement.   Not available Video Video
15-7446 1  ResolutionBill 9 Refer to Community and Economic Development Committee Amending the 2025 General Fund budget by transferring $150,000.00 from the Health Bureau, Administration program to a new Health Bureau, Unsheltered Coordination Services program to fund the Unsheltered Services Coordinator position (11N), with a total annual salary of $68,987.   Not available Video Video
15-7451 1  OrdinanceRequest Suspension of the Rules to introduce Bill 10 and send it to Committee of the Whole Bill 10 Refer to Committee of the Whole, January 29th, 6 PM Authorizing an investigation by an outside agency under Section 210, Investigations, of the Home Rule Charter: :Allentown City Council hereby approves the engagement of Duane Morris to conduct such investigation and make such recommendations set forth and that City Council’s Solicitor work with the solicitor’s office to take all necessary action to implement this ordinance.    Not available Video Video
15-6577 1  DiscussionReference Materials: Council Rules Procurement Code Ethics Code   Not available Not available