Official:Providing for the submission to the qualified electors of the City of Philadelphia of an amendment to The Philadelphia Home Rule Charter establishing and defining the responsibilities of the Office of Sustainability; fixing the date of a special election for such purpose; prescribing the form of ballot questions to be voted on; and authorizing the appropriate officers to publish notice and to make arrangements for the special election.
Sponsor: Councilmember Reynolds Brown
Introduced: November 21, 2013
Signed: May 8, 2014
: Committee on Law and Government
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill proposes changing the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter to establish and define the responsibilities of the Office of Sustainability. The change will be put to a special election on November 4, 2014.
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