Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 1/19/2022 6:30 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
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15-4827 1  ResolutionR2 Authorization for Engagement of Professional Services with Michael Baker International for $3,995 to prepare a conceptual landscape plan for improvements for the pocket park at 2nd Street and Hamilton Street. This quote was below purchasing requirements and therefore only one (1) quote was necessary.approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-4802 1  MinutesDecember 15, 2021 City Council Meeting MinutesapprovedPass Action details Video Video
15-4820 1  MinutesJanuary 3, 2022 City Council Organizational Meeting MinutesapprovedPass Action details Video Video
15-4846 1  DiscussionController Reports   Action details Not available
15-4748 1  Ordinance Bill 119 Public Works, this evening Providing for the vacation of Chestnut Street from the centerline of North Race Street to the West right of way line of the American Parkway in the First Ward of the City of Allentown: approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-4742 1  OrdinanceBill 120 Public Works, this evening Amending the Article 531.11, Parking Prohibited at Handicapped Area, by creating a provision that at the request of any handicapped person or severely disabled veteran for whom a handicap sign has been erected pursuant to this ordinance, the Allentown Parking Authority may issue to that person a numbered handicap permit and the handicap sign shall be numbered to correspond with the permit. The numbered space may only be occupied by the vehicle bearing the corresponding numbered permit. The Allentown Parking Authority shall erect a sign on or near the handicap sign indicating the restricted nature of the handicap parking space and providing for a penalty for unauthorized parking at a marked handicapped spot. tabledPass Action details Video Video
15-4780 1  OrdinanceBill 124 Parks and Recreation, this evening Amending the 2021 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of One Hundred Nineteen Thousand Seven Hundred Ninety-Three Dollars and Sixty-Nine Cents. ($119,793.69) from the unappropriated balance of the 2021 General Fund to the 2021 Capital Fund as required by Trexler Trust Agreement.approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-4815 1  ResolutionR3 Sewage Planning Module at Sheetz, Inc.   Action details Not available
15-4826 1  ResolutionR4 Certificates of Appropriateness for work in the Historic Districts: • 31 N. 9th St. • 443 N 9th • 809-811 W. Gordon • 1116 W. Linden    Action details Not available
15-4789 1  ResolutionR5 Alex Encelewski, HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD - HARB (Reappointment) Term Expiration: 01/07/2025   Action details Not available
15-4835 1  ResolutionR6 Heidi Westerman, Property Rehabilitation and Maintenance Board of Appeals Appointment, 08/05/2024 (Replacing William Harvey)    Action details Not available
15-4836 1  ResolutionR7 Candida Affa, Nuisance Abatement Appeal Board, 12/31/2024 (reappointment)   Action details Not available
15-4837 1  ResolutionR8 Candida Affa - Vacant Property Review Board/Blighted Property Review Committee, 12/31/2023 (reappointment)   Action details Not available
15-4823 1  ResolutionR9 Authorizes Disposition of Certain Records   Action details Not available
15-4828 1  ResolutionR10 Approves five transfers: (1) $33,860.00 in Finance Director to complete a cost allocation and user fee study as approved by RFP committee; (2) $11,303.36 in Recycling & Solid Waste to correct negative balance in the Permanent Wage Account; (3) $7,379.13 in Traffic Department to correct negative balance in the Premium Pay Account; (4) $6,475.00 in Finance for removing the asbestos in the Finance Suite it was determined that it also needed to be removed from the ceiling in the Director’s Office.(5) $5,419.55 in Streets Department to correct negative balance in the Premium Pay Account. approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-4830 1  ResolutionR11 Requirement for establishing accounts Section 108 Loan Application for the Da Vinci Science CenterapprovedPass Action details Video Video
15-4843 1  ResolutionR12 Authorizes the Administration to Execute All Documents Necessary to Accomplish the Closing on the HUD 108 Loan for the Da Vinci Science Center in the Amount of $5,605,000approvedPass Action details Video Video
15-4838 1  ResolutionR13 Recommends Establishing a Committee to Review Bringing the Fleet Service Repairs Back Under the Control of the City.amendedFail Action details Video Video
15-4838 1  ResolutionR13 Recommends Establishing a Committee to Review Bringing the Fleet Service Repairs Back Under the Control of the City.amendedPass Action details Video Video
15-4838 1  ResolutionR13 Recommends Establishing a Committee to Review Bringing the Fleet Service Repairs Back Under the Control of the City.approved as amendedPass Action details Video Video
15-4834 1  OrdinanceBill 1 Public Safety, this evening Amending the 2022 ARPA Fund Budget to provide for a transfer of Forty-Six Thousand Two Hundred Sixteen ($46,216) Dollars for the upfitting of two (2) new ambulances.    Action details Video Video
15-4841 1  OrdinanceBill 2 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 13931, NOW TITLE NINE (SPECIAL DISTRICTS), ARTICLE 1393 (FLOOD CONTROL) OF THE CODIFIED ORDINANCES, IN ITS ENTIRETY AND REPLACING IT WITH AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FLOODPLAIN AREAS IN THE CITY OF ALLENTOWN; REGULATING USES, ACTIVITIES AND DEVELOPMENT; ESTABLISHING PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND DEVELOPMENT; PROVIDING FOR PERMITS, REGULATIONS, FEES AND PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT HEREWITH.   Action details Video Video
15-4842 1  OrdinanceBill 3 Public Safety, this evening Amending the 2022 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Sixty-Five Thousand ($65,000) Dollars as a result from a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development (PA DCED) Initiative Program to the Allentown Fire Department, Bureau of Emergency Management Services (EMS) to provide funds which will be utilized to purchase an all-terrain ambulance vehicle.   Action details Video Video
15-4844 1  OrdinanceBill 4 HR, Admin and Appts, forwarded Office of the Mayor Reorganization   Action details Video Video
15-4833 1  ResolutionR14 Approves the Submission of an amendment to the 2021 Action Plan to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development – this is a regulatory step to allocate unspent funds from the federal HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME) in the amount of $50,000 for the HADC 418 Liberty Street Project    Action details Video Video
15-4832 1  ResolutionR15 Approves the Submission of an amendment to the 2021 Action Plan to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development – this is regulatory step to allocate unspent funds from the federal HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME) in the amount of $187,288 to Habitat for Humanity’s Tacoma Street Project.    Action details Video Video
15-4831 1  ResolutionR16 Approves the Submission of an amendment to the 2021 Action Plan to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development for Traffic Signals – regulatory requirement to allocate unspent funds from the federal Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) in the amount of $550,000.    Action details Video Video
15-4437 1  DiscussionCouncil Rules Home Rule Charter Contract Procedures   Action details Not available