Amending the 2011 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Eight Hundred Forty-Eight Dollars and Ninety Cents ($848.90). This is a donation from Mountainville 30 Crime Watch to the Police Department equipment program.

Amending the 2011 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Fifteen Thousand Nine Hundred Eighteen Dollars and Fifty-Eight Cents ($15,918.58). This is overtime reimbursement from the Allentown School District to the Police Department for additional police coverage at William Allen High School & Dieruff High School during lunch time.

 

Budget and Finance: Acting Chairperson O’Connell

Public Safety: Chairperson Eichenwald

Community and Economic Development: Chairperson Guridy

Parks and Recreation: Chairperson Ray O’Connell

Public Works: Chairperson Schlossberg

Rules, Chambers, Intergovernmental Relations and Strategy: Chairperson Schweyer

Amending the 2011 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Eight Hundred Forty-Eight Dollars and Ninety Cents ($848.90). This is a donation from Mountainville 30 Crime Watch to the Police Department equipment program.

Amending the 2011 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Fifteen Thousand Nine Hundred Eighteen Dollars and Fifty-Eight Cents ($15,918.58). This is overtime reimbursement from the Allentown School District to the Police Department for additional police coverage at William Allen High School & Dieruff High School during lunch time.

An Ordinance signifying the desire and intention of the City of Allentown to organize an industrial and commercial development authority under the Economic Development Financing Law, of 1967, P.L. 251, as amended, for the purpose of acquiring, holding, constructing, improving, maintaining, owning, financing and leasing, either in the capacity of lessor or lessee, industrial, special or commercial development projects and serving as successor contracting authority to the Allentown Commercial and Industrial Development Authority for purposes of administering, providing financing for and undertaking all other activities related to the Allentown Neighborhood Improvement Zone established pursuant to the law governing Neighborhood Improvement Zones, Article XVI-B of the Pennsylvania Fiscal Code, 72 P.S. Section 1, et seq; also to be referred to as Article 178 of Title Eleven, Authorities, Boards and Commissions, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Allentown.

 

 

 

 

Amending Article 171.10 Board of Ethics, by requiring requests for opinions to be filed with the City Clerk who shall forward a copy to each board member by the following day; mandates that the request for an advisory opinion state the provisions of the Code which the complainant alleges was violated; allows the request to be filed by fax or email; requires city officials or employees to provide information to the Board it deems necessary to perform its responsibilities; establishes time frames for issuing advisory opinions; and requires that copies of written advisory opinions be filed in the Clerk’s office with identifying names deleted.

Providing for the vacation of N. Hall Street from Hamilton Street to Linden Street, N. Silk Street from Court Street to Linden Street, Court Street from N. Hall Street to N. 8^TH Street, Edison Street from N. Hall Street to N. Boyer Street (Formerly Vacated), Howe Street from N. Hall Street to east to the dead end, in the Fourth Ward of the City of Allentown:

 

Amending the 2012 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of One Hundred Seventy Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($172,500) reflecting receipt from a Transportation Enhancement Grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (Penn DOT) to install pedestrian safety control along Chew Street from 23^rd Street to 26^th Street that runs through the campus of Muhlenberg College. The Bureau of Traffic Planning and Control is supervising and monitoring the grant.

 

Amending the General Fund by changing the EMS Manager from a 13(N) to a 17(N) and adjusts the salary accordingly.

 

Refunding of General Obligation Bonds, Series of 2003 Bonds, General Obligation Bonds, Series of 2012

 

15. NEW BUSINESS