Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 9/5/2018 7:00 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
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15-2502 1  MinutesAugust 15, 2018 City Council Contract Approval Meeting MinutesapprovedPass Action details Video Video
15-2525 1  DiscussionControllers Report   Action details Video Video
15-2508 1  AppointmentReappointments Name Authority/Board/Commission Term to Expire Alan Jennings Allentown Housing Authority 11/05/2022 Mary H. Joachim Shade Tree Commission 08/16/2022 Trent Sear Zoning Hearing Board (Alt) 09/06/2022tabledPass Action details Video Video
15-2443 1  OrdinanceBill 48 Recommended Favorably, contingent on getting info below Amending the 2018 General Fund budget to accommodate position changes in the Department of Finance, Bureau of Accounting and Financial Management, eliminating the position of Deputy Finance Director and Treasury and reinstating the Treasury and Accounting Manager position. Job descriptions for the Deputy Finance Director and Treasury and the Treasury and Accounting Manager List of the duties/responsibilities ‘not’ in the new position. Since you alluded it was filled from within, the current paygrade and pay of the person filling the position; and the increase the person will be getting shifting to that position. approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-2460 1  OrdinanceBill 51 Budget and Finance, Recommended Favorably Amending the 2017 General Fund cash balance and the 2017 Capital Fund cash balance to provide for the transfer of cash as directed by the City’s auditing firm Zelenkofske Axelrod, LLC to correct the negative cash balance in the Capital Fund.approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-2475 1  OrdinanceBill 55 Human Resources, this evening Amending the 2018 Risk Management Fund budget by transferring One Hundred Thirty Thousand ($130,000) Dollars from the unappropriated balance into Account 80 – Self-Insured Losses to pay for damage caused by the recent flooding and to continue to fix property damages through our self-insurance program.amendedPass Action details Video Video
15-2475 1  OrdinanceBill 55 Human Resources, this evening Amending the 2018 Risk Management Fund budget by transferring One Hundred Thirty Thousand ($130,000) Dollars from the unappropriated balance into Account 80 – Self-Insured Losses to pay for damage caused by the recent flooding and to continue to fix property damages through our self-insurance program.approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-2476 1  OrdinanceBill 56 Public Safety, this evening Amending the Civil Service Board (CSB) Rules for Police Officers that were adopted pursuant to the provisions of Article 155 of the Codified Ordinances by revising the rules for application and qualifications for appointment of Police Officers and Fire Fighters.tabledFail Action details Video Video
15-2476 1  OrdinanceBill 56 Public Safety, this evening Amending the Civil Service Board (CSB) Rules for Police Officers that were adopted pursuant to the provisions of Article 155 of the Codified Ordinances by revising the rules for application and qualifications for appointment of Police Officers and Fire Fighters.withdrawnFail Action details Video Video
15-2476 1  OrdinanceBill 56 Public Safety, this evening Amending the Civil Service Board (CSB) Rules for Police Officers that were adopted pursuant to the provisions of Article 155 of the Codified Ordinances by revising the rules for application and qualifications for appointment of Police Officers and Fire Fighters.deniedFail Action details Video Video
15-2520 1  ResolutionR106 Appointments of three Police OfficersapprovedPass Action details Video Video
15-2510 1  ResolutionR107 Authorizes Disposition of Certain Records in accordance with the retention and disposal schedules approved by the local Records Committee of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum CommissionapprovedPass Action details Video Video
15-2498 1  ResolutionR108 Sewage Planning Module (215 - 221 N. Fenwick Street)approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-2499 1  ResolutionR109 Sewage Planing Module (126 – 132 North Filbert Street Minor Subdivision)approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-2513 1  OrdinanceBill 57 Public Works, this evening Amending the 2018 Stormwater Fund Budget to provide for transfer to the 2018 General Fund to correct Stormwater expenditures that were charged to the General Fund in the first half of 2018. All funds were budgeted in the newly created Stormwater Fund for 2018. Due to 2017 rollovers and incorrect personnel distribution, the previous General Fund accounts were used causing a negative balance. There is no financial impact in the transfer.    Action details Video Video
15-2519 1  OrdinanceBill 58 Committee of the Whole, forwarded favorably Amending the 2018 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of One Million ($1,000,000) Dollars from the proceeds of the 2018 Short Term Loan.   Action details Video Video
15-2516 1  OrdinanceBill 59 Committee of the Whole, forwarded favorably Amending the Administrative Code, Article 130.28, Financial Procedures, Stabilization Fund, by deleting section nine (9) requiring the loan which created the Stabilization Fund be paid off prior to the expiration of the fixed interest rate of the loan or within ten (10) years, whichever occurs sooner bringing the section into compliance with the proposed refinancing of the debt.    Action details Video Video
15-2524 1  OrdinanceBill 60 Committee of Whole, forwarded favorbaly AUTHORIZING AND SECURING THE ISSUANCE OF ONE OR MORE SERIES OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, IN THE MAXIMUM AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $30,000,000, PURSUANT TO THE PENNSYLVANIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNIT DEBT ACT, TO (A) CURRENTLY REFUND ALL OR A PORTION OF THIS CITY’S (1) GENERAL OBLIGATION NOTE, SERIES OF 2009, AND (2) FEDERALLY TAXABLE GENERAL OBLIGATION PENSION REFUNDING BONDS, SERIES OF 2004, (B) CONSTRUCT, RECONSTRUCT AND REPAIR CERTAIN CITY STREETS AND ROADWAYS, (II) ACQUIRE CERTAIN APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT, AND (III) ACQUIRE THE LEASEHOLD INTEREST OF THE ALLENTOWN COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY IN THE LAND AND REAL PROPERTY LEASED TO SAID AUTHORITY PURSUANT TO THE LEASE AGREEMENT DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 9, 2006, OR SO MUCH OF THE AFOREMENTIONED PROJECTS AS FUNDS SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE, AND (C) PAYING THE COSTS OF ISSUING THE BONDS; ACCEPTING A BOND PURCHASE AGREEMENT; SETTING FORTH THE PARAMETERS, SUBSTANTIAL FORM OF AND CONDITIONS FOR ISSUING THE BONDS; PLEDGING THE FULL FAITH, CREDIT AND TAXING POWER OF THIS CITY    Action details Video Video