Wednesday, November 6, 2013

November 6 Council Meeting Agenda‏

COUNCIL MEETING
November 6 2012
COUNCIL CHAMBERS

Council Meeting – 7:00 PM
1. Invocation: Jeanette Eichenwald
2. Pledge to the Flag
3. Roll Call
4. Courtesy of the Floor
5. Approval of Minutes: October 16, 2013
6. Old Business
      
7. Communications:

Budget Presentation: Mayor Pawlowski

The budget schedule is listed on the agenda.
           
Tuesday, November 12
6:00 PM            Finance, Revenue Estimates, Risk Management, Debt Service - Equipment and Capital Projects if applicable
Thursday, November 14
6:00 PM            Human Resources 
                        Parks and Recreation, Trexler, Golf - Equipment and Capital Projects if applicable
Thursday, November 21
6:00 PM            Public Works, Solid Waste, Liquid Fuels - Equipment and Capital Projects if applicable
Monday, November 25
5:30 PM           Mayor, Managing Director, IT, Controller, Solicitor’s Office, Council - Equipment and Capital Projects if applicable

6:00 PM            Public Safety: Fire, Police, EMS, Communication Center (E911 Fund) - Equipment and Capital Projects if applicable
Tuesday, November 26
6:00 PM              Community and Economic Development - Equipment and Capital Projects if applicable
Wednesday, November 27
                                    FINAL DAY FOR SUBMITTING BUDGET AMENDMENTS
Monday, December 2   OPEN DATE FOR ADOPTION OF ANY BUDGET AMENDMENTS
                    
Final Day for Adoption of any Budget Amendments
Wednesday, December 4
            6:00 PM            Open for Budget Meeting
            7:00 PM            Adoption of Budgets


8. REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES:
Budget and Finance: Chairperson Schweyer
Public Safety: Chairperson Eichenwald
Community and Economic Development: Chairperson Davis
Parks and Recreation: Chairperson Mota
Public Works: Chairperson O’Connell
Human Resources, Administration and Appointments: Chairperson Davis
Rules, Chambers, Intergovernmental Relations and Strategy:  Chairperson Guridy
Special Committee – Tax Exempt Properties – Chairperson Eichenwald
           
OTHER COMMITTEE REPORTS
OTHER COMMITTEE REPORTS
Controller’s Report
Managing Director’s Report

9. APPOINTMENTS:
            Maria Tjeltveit  Ethics Board Term to End 01/25/2016

10. ORDINANCES FOR FINAL PASSAGE:

Bill 49 Interfund Transfer Appropriation          
Amending the 2013 Water Fund and Sewer Fund – recognizing the receipt of funds from the Water Sewer Lease Concession transaction and placing the funds - $114,710,204.49 and $67,369,485.18 – into Interfund Transfer Accounts of the Water and Sewer Funds

11. ORDINANCES FOR INTRODUCTION:

The budget bills are referred to their respective meetings per the schedule alluded to above, the bills will be reviewed during the same time council is reviewing the respective department’s budget.

Bill 50 Ordinance Pool Fees
Amending Article 400.05, of the Department of Parks & Recreation Fees by adopting a new fee schedule for daily admission and season pass fees, and adopting new categories for the same for the city’s four public swimming pools.

Bill 51 JAG Grant (2012-DJ-BX-0093) Appropriation
Amending the 2013 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Seventy-Three Thousand Six Hundred Forty-Two ($73,642) Dollars from a Department of Justice Grant (2012-DJ-BX-0093) to the Allentown Police Department to provide for the purchase and installation of 15 mobile data transmitters to be installed in police cruisers as a result of a Department of Justice Grant.

Bill 52 JAG Grant (2013-DJ-BX-1021) Appropriation
Amending the 2013 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Sixty-Six Thousand Nine Hundred Two ($66,902) Dollars from a Department of Justice Grant (2013-DJ-BX-1021) to the Allentown Police Department to provide for the installation of license plate reading equipment in several patrol vehicles as a result of a Department of Justice Grant.

Bill 53 EMS Iron Pigs - June to Sept 2013
Amending the 2013 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Nineteen Thousand Eight Hundred Eighteen Dollars and Seventy-Five Cents ($19,818.75) from the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs for providing on-scene emergency medical services.

Bill 54 2014 SWENTERPRISE
An Ordinance of the City of Allentown, County of Lehigh and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, establishing
and adopting the Solid Waste Enterprise Fund Budget for 2014 and appropriating the sum of Eighteen Million Eight Hundred Seventy –Nine Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($18,879,500) to the Solid Waste Fund as more fully detailed in Exhibit A, “City of Allentown 2014 Budget.”

Bill 55 Solid Waste Fee
Amending Article 1131, Municipal Waste Storage, Collection and Disposal by maintaining the Solid Waste
Fee to Three Hundred and Seventy-Five ($375) Dollars.

Bill 56 2014 LIQUIDFUELS
That an appropriation in the sum of Two Million Four Hundred Eighty-Two and One-Hundred-Fifty Dollars ($2,482,150) is hereby made to the Liquid Fuels Fund as more fully detailed in Exhibit A, “City of Allentown 2014 Budget.”

Bill 57 2014 TREXLER
That an appropriation in the sum of One Million Two Hundred Eighty and One-  Hundred Seventy-Two Dollars ($1,280,172) is hereby made to the Trexler Fund as more fully detailed in Exhibit A, “City of Allentown 2014 Budget.”

Bill 58 2014 GOLF COURSE
That an appropriation in the sum of One Million Four Hundred Thirty and Four Hundred and Sixty Three Dollars ($1,430,463) is hereby made to the Golf Course Fund as more fully detailed in Exhibit A, “City of Allentown 2014 Budget”.

Bill 59 2014 Equipment Fund
That an appropriation in the sum of One Million Three Hundred Seven Thousand and Fifty Two Dollars ($1,307,052) is hereby made to the Equipment Fund as more fully detailed in Exhibit A, “City of Allentown 2014 Budget.”

Bill 60 2014 RISK Fund
That an appropriation in the sum of Eighteen Million Twenty-Three Hundred and Three Hundred and Twelve Dollars ($18,023,312) is hereby made to the Risk Management Fund as more fully detailed in Exhibit A, “City of Allentown 2014 Budget.”

Bill 61 2014 DEBT
That an appropriation in the sum of Eight Million One Hundred Seventy-Five and Nine Hundred and Sixty-Five Dollars ($8,175,965) is hereby made to the Debt Obligation as more fully detailed in Exhibit A, “City of Allentown 2014 Budget.”

Bill 62 2014 E911
That an appropriation in the sum of Three Million Three Hundred Sixty-Nine and Seven Hundred and Four Dollars ($3,369,704) is hereby made to the E-9-1-1 Fund as more fully detailed in Exhibit A, “City of Allentown 2014 Budget.”

Bill 63 2013 GF Transaction
Amending the 2013 General Fund, Capital Fund and Risk Fund by transferring money from General Fund to the Capital Fund and Risk Fund.

Bill 64 2014 GENERALFUND
Adopts the General Fund Budget

Bill 65 2014 ARTICLE 331 EIT DECREASE
Reduces EIT Tax

Bill 66 2014 TAXRATE
That a tax for general revenue be levied for the fiscal year, beginning the first Monday of January, A.D., 2014, upon all real, personal and mixed property within the limits of the said City, taxable according to the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, the valuation of such property to be taken from the assessed valuation of the taxable property under the provisions of the law regulating the same, at the rate of Three and Forty-nine Thousand Two Hundred Sixty-seven Hundred Thousandth (3.49267) mills on improvements and Eighteen and Four Sixty-two Thousand Thirty-one Hundred Thousandth (18.46231) mills on land. 

12. CONSENT AGENDA:

Appointment of a Patrolman

13. RESOLUTIONS ON SECOND READING: None
           
14. RESOLUTIONS ON FIRST READING:

R29 Capital Improvements Program
Adopts the Capital Improvements Program for 2014-2018

15. NEW BUSINESS

16.  GOOD AND WELFARE

17.  ADJOURNED







 
Michael P. Hanlon
City Clerk
City Clerk's Office
435 Hamilton Street
Allentown, PA 18101
610.437.7539
Michael.Hanlon@allentownpa.gov
http://www.AllentownPA.gov

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