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Votes at a glance: council adopts land bank dispositions, street naming, cooperatives and other resolutions
Summary
During its Feb. 6 session, Philadelphia City Council adopted a set of resolutions on second reading and final passage including several Land Bank dispositions, a street naming for Paula Peebles, the Year of Cooperatives proclamation and multiple ceremonial resolutions.
Philadelphia City Council completed a series of second‑reading and final‑passage votes Thursday, adopting a package of resolutions and ceremonial measures on a voice vote.
Key items adopted on the second reading and final‑passage calendar included:
- Resolution 241144: Authorizing the Philadelphia Land Bank to dispose of multiple parcels located in the Second Councilmanic District in accordance with chapter 16‑700 of the Philadelphia Code. The motion for adoption was moved by Majority Leader Catherine Gilmore Richardson and carried by voice vote.
- Resolution 250022: Naming North Tenth Street between Oxford Street and Master Street as Paula Peebles Way. The motion for adoption was moved by Councilmember Jeffrey J. Young and carried by voice vote.
- Resolution 250054: Authorizing the Commissioner of Public Property to convey fee simple title to several addresses to the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority and authorizing the PRA to transfer those parcels to the Philadelphia Land Bank pursuant to section 16‑405 of the Philadelphia Code. The motion was moved by Councilmember Jamie Gauthier and adopted by voice vote.
- Resolution 250058: Declaring 2025 the Year of Cooperatives in Philadelphia (sponsored by Councilmember Nick O'Rourke); moved, seconded and adopted by voice vote.
Council also adopted a number of ceremonial and policy resolutions read later in the session, including a privilege resolution recognizing February 2025 as Career and Technical Education Month; a resolution commending Students Against Period Poverty; a resolution honoring the life of Temple student Tyler Sabapathy; resolutions recognizing places of importance in Black history; a resolution authorizing a review of the Parent University 2 website; a resolution thanking the Philadelphia Museum of Art for an exhibit; resolutions recognizing Fashion Week and Robert Faulds; a resolution commemorating the Washerwoman strike of 1881; a resolution honoring the Philadelphia Community Outreach Committee (PCOC); a resolution honoring Saint Joseph’s Prep for a state football championship; a resolution recognizing Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month and a resolution honoring the Pan African Sisterhood Health Initiative (PASHI). All were adopted by voice vote as recorded in the meeting transcript.
The transcript records voice‑vote outcomes (the chair announced "ayes have it") but does not include roll call tallies for these final‑passage votes.
