Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 7/19/2017 7:00 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
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15-1685 1  MinutesJune 7, 2017 City Council Approval of Contracts Professional Services Meeting Minutes   Action details Not available
15-1689 1  MinutesJune 7, 2017 City Council Meeting Minutes   Action details Not available
15-1713 1  MinutesJune 21, 2017 City Council Approval of Contracts Professional Services Meeting Minutes   Action details Not available
15-1716 1  Minutes June 21, 2017 City Council Meeting Minutes   Action details Not available
15-1679 1  DiscussionInclusionary Zoning Material   Action details Not available
15-1721 1  AppointmentMemo from Mayor Pawlowski regarding Appointments to the Arts Commission for City Council’s consideration. Name Authority/Board/Commission Term to Expire David Mickenberg Arts Commission 01/03/2021 Deborah Rabinsky Arts Commission 01/03/2021 Mr. Mickenberg and Ms. Rabinsky are currently members of this commission. Appointments to the Nuisance Abatement Board of Appeals Rosalie Desilva - Private citizen resident - 2 year appointment - 7/19/2019 Mario (Rigo) Peralta - Private business owner - 2 year appointment - 7/19/2019 approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-1668 1  OrdinanceBill 40 Committee of the Whole, forwarded favorably Amending Part III, Business Regulation and Taxation Code, Title One Businesses and Licensing Code, of the City of Allentown Code by Creating Article 320, Appropriate Mental Health Services, which would prohibit licensed professionals from engaging in counseling, practices, or treatments that seek to change a minor’s sexual orientation or gender identity. AMENDMENT: Add a new section 320.04 entitled: Enforcement: Investigation of Complaints of Violation, Notice and Hearing to read as follows and lettering the current existing paragraph d (copies of the amended version are at the back of the room and on the website). (a) There is hereby established a Complaint Administrator to investigate complaints for the violation of Section 320.02 of this Ordinance. A Licensed Mental Health Professional shall be nominated by the Mayor and confirmed by City Council to serve in this capacity. (b) Neither the Complaint Administrator nor the Appropriate Mental Health Services Appeals Board, established under Section 320.05 of this OrdiapprovedPass Action details Video Video
15-1696 1  OrdinanceBill 41 Community and Economic Development Committee, this evening Amending the 2017 General Fund Health Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Fifteen Thousand Seven Hundred ($15,700) Dollars as a result of a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Bureau of Public Health Preparedness for preparedness and response activities.approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-1697 1  OrdinanceBill 42 Public Works, this evening Amending the 2017 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Nineteen Thousand Eight Hundred Ninety ($19,890) Dollars as a result of a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) for the students of Penn State to conduct an inventory off all the street trees within the City.approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-1694 1  ResolutionR132 Public Works, this evening Recommends Congress support a Carbon Fee and Dividend to Address Climate ChangeapprovedPass Action details Video Video
15-1748 1  ResolutionR142 Authorizes Submission of an Application to the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development’s Multimodal Transportation Fund for a Grant of One Million Six Hundred Two Thousand Four Hundred Eighty-Eight Dollars ($1,602,488) for Use in the Upside Allentown Pedestrian Streetlighting ProgramapprovedPass Action details Video Video
15-1754 1  ResolutionR147 Certificates of Appropriateness for work in the Historic Districts: 34 N. 11th Street and 36 N. 11th Street approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-1747 1  ResolutionR143 Requests more Speed in the Delivery of Justice to the Citizens of Allentown approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-1715 1  OrdinanceBill 43 Refer to Rules, Chambers, Intergovernmental Relations and Strategy AN ORDINANCE DIRECTING THE LEHIGH COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS TO PLACE A REFERENDUM QUESTION BEFORE THE CITY OF ALLENTOWN VOTERS ON THE NOVEMBER 7, 2017 GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT TO AMEND THE CITY OF ALLENTOWN HOME RULE CHARTER TO LIMIT THE TERM OF THE OFFICE OF CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE CITY CONTROLLER TO TWO (2) TERMS    Action details Video Video
15-1752 1  OrdinanceBill 44 Parks and Recreation, this evening Amending the Codified Ordinance Part IV, Streets, Utilities, Public Services, Title 7 – Parks and Hamilton Street, Article 951, Park Regulations by revising the sale of merchandise by mobile vendors - Section 951.12 Sale of Merchandise Prohibited and the standards for the issuance of a use permit – Section 951.18(A-2) – Permits. No mobile food or non-food vendors may vend within Two Hundred Fifty (250’) feet of an event perimeter without written permission from the event organizer. Permitted activities must be organized by a non-profit organization, or directly benefit an Allentown-based non-profit organization. For-profit events are not permitted to be held in a City park unless they directly benefit an Allentown based non-profit organization.    Action details Video Video
15-1751 1  OrdinanceBill 45 Amending Part III, Business Regulation and Taxation, Title 9 - Fees, Article 400, Park and Recreation Fees by revising the fee schedule for special events - Section 400.08 Special Event Fees by establishing a fee for the use of the city podium at $50 and a $200 refundable deposit, and waiving the special event fee for Easter Egg Hunts (noting the fees for pavilions, fields, street closures and all other event requirements must be followed including Certificate of Liability Insurance).    Action details Video Video
15-1753 1  OrdinanceBill 46 An Ordinance providing for the expenditure of certain monies received by the City of Allentown from the repayment of loans made through the Rental Rehabilitation Program.   Action details Video Video
15-1755 1  OrdinanceBill 47 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 1974, 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.   Action details Video Video
15-1714 1  ResolutionR144 Supports an Open Government Platform and Establishes an Ad Hoc Committee to make recommendations to Council and the Administration on an Open Data Policy    Action details Video Video
15-1750 1  ResolutionR145 Approves the Submission of the Action Plan to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development   Action details Video Video
15-1749 1  ResolutionR146 Refer to Public Works Authorizes encroachment of a landscape wall & fence at 313-315 N 27th Street along Monroe StreetapprovedPass Action details Video Video