What Council did Oct. 29: five bills to the mayor, 15 resolutions adopted, three long-waiting bills still waiting
The Love Park Saucer deal and an airport-area training center lease passed. An incineration ban, a parkland bill and a child welfare charter bill sat for another week. Here is the full record.
City Council's Oct. 29 stated meeting is over, and our records now show what happened to each item. Five bills passed and went to Mayor Cherelle L. Parker. Fifteen resolutions were adopted. Seventeen zoning and other bills got first readings. And several bills that have been eligible for a vote for months were not called up again. Here is the rundown, compared with our preview of the agenda. All results are from the meeting record and each item's matter page.
Our record does not yet include roll calls for Thursday's votes. They will appear on each matter page once the city posts them.
Passed and sent to the mayor
- Bill 260799, Jeffery Young Jr.: the five-year concession deal for the Saucer building in Love Park.
- Bill 260763, Kenyatta Johnson and Quetcy Lozada: the $1-a-year lease of former landfill land near the airport for a union training center. Our story on both.
- Bill 260798, Young: renames Penrose Recreation Center for former state Sen. Shirley M. Kitchen.
- Bill 260638, Anthony Phillips: names the Dorothy Emanuel Recreation Center playground building for Marlene Trice. It had waited in committee since June 11.
- Bill 260567, Mark Squilla: renames Girard Fountain Park on the 300 block of Arch Street as Janet Kalter Park.
Resolutions adopted
- Hotel workers. Resolution 260907 backs Unite Here Local 274 in its contract talks at the Hilton Garden Inn, where workers voted to authorize a strike, KYW reported. Our story.
- Land Bank sales. Jamie Gauthier's three (260903, 260904, 260905) and Jones's (260906). Young's 260908 was not adopted and is still on the final passage calendar.
- New hearings. Council authorized hearings on the police union contract proposal (260932, our story), Parker's H.O.M.E. housing plan (260934, our story), school meals (260930, our story) and protections for domestic violence victims in the courts and police (260937).
- Recognitions for the GALA senior council, JEVS Human Services, Share Food Program, PAWS, the Imhotep Charter football team and National Adoption Month.
Still waiting
- Incineration ban. Gauthier's Bill 250768 has been eligible since Nov. 20, 2025. That is 343 days.
- Parkland between Vine and Fairmount. Squilla's Bill 250807, eligible since Dec. 11, 2025: 322 days.
- Child Welfare Commission. Nina Ahmad's Bill 260076 stayed put, but she introduced a new charter resolution. Our story.
- North Philadelphia remap. Young's Bill 260462, eligible since Oct. 1.
- Phillips's first school meals resolution, 260872, was not adopted, though his new hearing resolution was.
First readings: eligible for a final vote Nov. 12
The Rules Committee's Oct. 27 zoning bills were all read, including the corner-store apartments change to CMX-1 zoning (260516, our story), Driscoll's self-storage limits (260703), Brian O'Neill's new Tenth District Overlay (260704), a Southwest Center City conservation overlay (260690) and Jones's Lancaster Avenue remap (260796), which the Planning Commission voted "not for approval," according to the mayor's transmittal letter. Driscoll's boat speaker bill was also read. Our story.
New bills and messages from the mayor
- Jim Harrity's tax on robot deliveries and driverless rides (260927). Our story.
- Rue Landau's "click to cancel" bill (260925), which would bar automatic renewals of subscriptions and memberships without a customer's explicit consent and require reminders when free trials convert, the Inquirer reported.
- From Parker: a Philadelphia Gas Works capital budget amendment (260910), a request to acquire 8400 Enterprise Ave. for the airport (260911), and letters returning five school rezoning bills unsigned. Our story.
What's next
The next stated meeting is Nov. 12.