Finance Committee reports two bills favorably and clears them for first reading

The Philadelphia City Committee on Finance voted Wednesday to approve an amendment to bill 260508 and to report that bill and bill 260527 from committee with favorable recommendations, asking that Council rules be suspended to permit first reading at the next Council session.

Councilmember Trisco introduced the amendment to bill 260508 and moved its approval; Councilmember Ahmad seconded. "I offer an amendment to bill number 260508," Trisco said, and after a voice vote the chair announced that the motion to approve the amendment had carried. Trisco then moved that bill 260508 as amended be reported from the committee with a favorable recommendation and that the rules be suspended to permit first reading; that motion was seconded and carried by voice vote.

Trisco later moved that bill 260527 be reported from the committee with a favorable recommendation and that the rules be suspended to permit first reading; Councilmember Thomas seconded and the motion carried by voice vote. The chair also noted the presence of Vice Chair Cindy Bass during the session.

Transcript excerpts record the motions, seconds and the chair's announcements that the "ayes have it" or that motions "carry," but the committee did not record individual roll-call votes or numeric tallies in the published transcript; outcomes were announced by the chair as carried.

The transcript records that a copy of the amendment to bill 260508 had been circulated to committee members before the motion, but it does not include language describing the bills' subject matter, fiscal impact, or ordinance/resolution classification. Those details were not specified in the committee transcript and therefore are not reported here.

With no further bills or resolutions on the agenda, the chair concluded business and asked colleagues to hold for the committee of the whole.