Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 5/19/2021 7:00 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
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15-4273 1  MinutesMarch 17, 2021 Special Meeting to Act on Solicitor Appointment - Sarah RotzapprovedPass Action details Video Video
15-4280 1  MinutesMarch 17, 2021 City Council Meeting MinutesapprovedPass Action details Video Video
15-4283 1  DiscussionControllers Reports   Action details Not available
15-4272 1  AppointmentMaria C. Ocasio, Environmental Advisory Council, 01/02/2024approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-4246 1  OrdinanceBill 39 Public Safety, this evening Amending the 2021 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Fifty-Six Thousand Five Hundred Seventy-Two ($56,572) Dollars from the United States Department of Justice through the Emergency Supplemental Funding program known as the CARES Act to the City of Allentown for COVID-19 related purchases.approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-4247 1  OrdinanceBill 40 Public Safety, this evening Amending the 2021 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Forty-Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Sixty-Four Dollars and Twenty-One Cents ($49,764.21) from the Municipal Police Officer’s Education and Training Commission (MPOETC) for tuition and salary reimbursement from Act 120 Training to be used for building upgrades and repairs on the Police Academy Bldg.approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-4248 1  OrdinanceBill 41 Public Works, this evening Providing for the vacation of South Bryan Street from the centerline of Ester Street to the centerline of vacated Dover Street in the Nineteenth Ward of the City of Allentown:approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-4252 1  OrdinanceBill 42 Rules, Chambers, Intergovernmental Relations and Strategy, this evening Amending the Ethics Code by adding language that states: No elected official, appointed official, or employee shall use City resources in any manner for purposes of any political activity. This prohibition includes, but is not limited to: use of interior locations in city buildings, use of any City equipment; use of time; and use of any City resources; and conducting public or private meetings in City property. Political activity includes, but is not limited to: (1) any campaigns for elected political office, whether contested or not; (2) any support or opposition for or against any political party; and (3) any support or opposition for or against any political based action group. approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-4270 1  ResolutionR68 Authorizes Submission of a Formal Application to the Pennsylvania Office of the Budget for a Grant of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) to support the DaVinci Science Center Downtown Allentown Project.approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-4277 1  ResolutionR69 Certificates of Appropriateness for work in the Historic Districts: 337 N. 8th St., 23 N. West St. and 1507 W. Turner St. approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-4281 1  ResolutionR70 Approves Transfers: $24,000 in Building Maintenance for the rental for a portable chiller and $10,000 for Legal Ads cost increases. approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-4250 1  ResolutionR65 Public Safety, this evening Supports legislation by State Reps. Dan Miller and Austin Davis to make police videos and recordings fall within the RTK lawstabledPass Action details Video Video
15-4271 1  OrdinanceBill 43 Amending the 2021 Grant Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Eight Million ($8,000,000) Dollars. This was the result of a Pennsylvania Redevelopment Assistance Capital Project grant for the Riverfront Revitalization Project.   Action details Video Video
15-4278 1  OrdinanceBill 44 Budget and Finance, forwarded favorably (2 - Siegel, Mota; 1 - Hendricks) Supplementing Part One, Administrative Code, Title Eleven, Authorities, Boards and Commissions of the Codified Ordinances of Allentown, Pennsylvania, by adding a new Article 171B entitled “Campaign Finance Regulations”. The legislation is based on Campaign Finance legislation used in Pittsburgh. It fixes the contribution limit to the federal limits, currently there are no limits – this would limit individuals to $2,900 to campaign, eliminate stacking, limit PAC Contributions to $5000 a candidate. Contributions could not exceed the limitations that are in effect and published by the Federal Election Commission as of the first day of that same calendar year. Political contribution limits for donations made by a political committee to a candidate committee shall be the same as the federal contribution limit for "PAC-Multicandidate" that makes contributions to "candidate committees."    Action details Video Video
15-4282 1  DiscussionCouncil Rules Home Rule Charter   Action details Not available