Official:Providing for the submission to the qualified electors of the City of Philadelphia of the proposal set forth in a Resolution approved by Council proposing an amendment of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter relating to the transfer of the powers and duties of the Fairmount Park Commission to the Department of Recreation (to be renamed the "Department of Parks and Recreation") and reconstituting the Fairmount Park Commission as the Commission on Parks and Recreation, with new powers and duties; and authorizing the appropriate officers to publish notice and to make arrangements for the special election.
Sponsor: Councilmember Clarke
Introduced: June 16, 2005
: Committee on Law and Government
Status: Lapsed
This bill was introduced in the 2004–2007 Council term and when that term ran out. The public record shows no committee vote and no floor vote at any stage, so no member of Council ever went on record for or against it.
That is not unusual here. Of the 8,465 bills introduced between 2000 and 2025, 1,624 lapsed without a single recorded vote. Ninety percent of bills that became law carry a roll call. Three percent of lapsed bills do. How this works.
This bill proposes transferring power from Fairmount Park Commission to a new Department of Parks and Recreation, with a special election to vote on the change.
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