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15-6614 Bill 7 Amending Article III, Retail Pet Shops, by prohibiting the sale of guinea pigs by pet shops.

Legislation Text Bill 7 Guinea Pigs Letter in Support of an Ordinance to Prohibit the Retail Sale of Guinea Pigs and Betta Fish Supports adding Betta Fish as Protected Species

15-6666 Bill 8 Amending the 2024 Trexler Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Eight Thousand Six Hundred and Thirty-Four Dollars and Seventy-One Cents ($8,634.71) from the 2023 Springwood Trust, Trexler operating budget of the Parks Department to the 2024 Springwood Trust, Trexler operating budget for the purpose of purchasing benches and the installation of concrete pads at Trexler Memorial Park.

Legislation Text Bill 8 Trexler Springwood 2023 Funds

15-6667 Bill 9 Amending the 2024 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of One Million, Three Hundred Thousand ($1,300,000.00) Dollars from the Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside (TASA) grant for the purpose of rehabilitating the historic Bogert's Bridge, located in the Lehigh Parkway.

Legislation Text Bill 9 - PennDOT Grant Funds Appropriation

15-6669 Bill 11 Amending the 2024 Fire Department budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Sixteen Thousand Dollars ($16,000.00) from Norfolk Southern Rail, Safety-First grant. This grant is to purchase hazardous materials related equipment for incidents that may occur as a result of a railway incident along the Norfolk Southern railway that runs through the City of Allentown.

Legislation Text Bill 11 Fire Dept Norfolk Southern Rail Grant

15-6670 Bill 12 Amending the 2024 Grant Fund budget to accept Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) from the FY 2023 Distressed Area Recompete Pilot Program Phase 1 strategy development grant.

Legislation Text Bill 12 - Recompete Phase 1

15-6724 Bill 14 Amending the 2024 Capital Fund Budget to provide for an appropriation in the amount of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) from the Trexler Fund to the WPA Structures capital projects account. These funds will be used to repair the stage and columns at Union Terrace Park. This is part of the 2024-25 Trexler Capital Project allocation.

Legislation Text Bill 14 Parks 2024 WPA Allocation

15-6725 Bill 15 Amending the 2024 Capital Fund Budget to provide for a transfer of Nine Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($9,500.00) from WPA Capital Project into the Franklin Park Capital Project. These funds will be utilized for the creation of a concept plan for Franklin Park as part of a grant application.

Legislation Text Bill 15 Parks WPA to Franklin

15-6726 Bill 16 Amending the 2024 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Twenty-Three Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifteen Dollars ($23,915.00) from the 2023 United States Department of Justice Edward Byrne Memorial JAG Grant that will be passed through from the Lehigh County to the City of Allentown Police Department. These funds will be used to purchase traffic equipment.

Legislation Text Bill 16 2023 JAG - Lehigh County Funds

15-6727 Bill 17 Amending the 2024 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Three Hundred Eighty-Five Thousand Dollars ($385,000.00) from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) Grant to the City of Allentown Police Department. These funds will be utilized for reimbursement of expenses for the purchase of integrated fingerprint technology, license plate readers and integrated gunshot technology.

Legislation Text Bill 17 PCCD Grant

15-6728 Bill 18 Amending the 2024 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of One Million One Hundred Eighty-Three Thousand Fifty-Four Dollars ($1,183,054.00) from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) Grant to the City of Allentown Police Department. These funds will be utilized for reimbursement of expenses for the purchase of new city cameras, new in-car cameras for the entire police fleet and new body-worn cameras.

Legislation Text Bill 18 PCCD Grant 2

15-6729 Bill 19 Amending the 2024 General Fund Budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Twenty-Five Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($25,500.00) from the United States Department of Justice Edward Byrne Memorial JAG Grant to the City of Allentown Police Department for the purpose of funding overtime pay of patrol presence in an effort to suppress violent crimes and drug investigations in the Keystone Opportunity Zone in Allentown.

Legislation Text Bill 19 Police JAG Grant Appropriation

15-6730 Bill 20 Amending the 2024 Capital Fund Budget to provide for an increase of Three Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($350,000.00) to the Capital Project Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. These funds have been awarded as an MTF-DCED grant and will be reimbursed when the project is completed. The project includes the replacement of the existing rusted streetlights with 24 new LED luminaires and street light poles.

Legislation Text Bill 20 MLK Jr Dr Lighting Funds

15-6731 Bill 21 Amending the 2024 General Fund budget to provide for a supplemental appropriation of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) from the Khan Partnership for traffic signal improvements.

Legislation Text Bill 21 Traffic Signal Contributions

15-6732 Bill 22 City Council authorizes the City to enter into an Intergovernmental Cooperation Agreement with the Redevelopment Authority of Allentown.

Legislation Text Bill 22 RACA Intergovernmental Agreement