Chester City Council passed several ordinances and resolutions during its Oct. 22 meeting, including a traffic‑calming ordinance, approvals for senior housing and a warehouse/office development, consultant retention related to the city's new solid‑waste hauler, a construction change order for the public works garage, and authorization of a memorandum of understanding for improvements at Seventh Street Park.

Why it matters: the votes change city policy (traffic calming), move private development proposals forward (senior housing and a warehouse/office site), commit the city to contract support and transition activities tied to a new trash hauler, and increase a construction contract to address contaminated soil discovered at a public-works site.

Key votes and outcomes (motions as read into the record):

- Traffic-calming ordinance (Bill No. 4): motion text in the record: "I move that we pass bill number 4 on its last and final reading." Roll call recorded: Gibson Williams — yes; Green — yes; West — yes; Davis — yes; Mayor Ruth — yes. Outcome: approved on final reading.

- SilverCare Senior Housing (resolution amending Resolution No. 94 of 2025): action: "granting preliminary and or final approval to SilverCare Senior Housing for its overall master land development plan" at 2500 W. 9th St. Motion: moved and seconded on the floor; roll call recorded as above. Outcome: approved.

- 742 West Front Street, LLC (resolution amending Resolution No. 96 of 2025): action: preliminary/final approval for subdivision/land development for a warehouse/office/training center (Power Home Remodeling project). Motion: moved and seconded; roll call recorded as above. Outcome: approved.

- MSW Consultants (contract acceptance and retention): resolution accepting MSW Consultants' proposal to support onboarding the new solid-waste hauler, distribution of 10,000 recycling carts, resident outreach and grant support; not-to-exceed amount and hourly rates documented in the proposal; action recorded as "accept the 09/11/2025 proposal of MSW Consultants at the proposed hourly rates and service fees as provided in the attached not to exceed $19,000"; motion moved and seconded; roll-call recorded as above. Outcome: approved (contingent upon final review and approval of the city solicitor as stated in the resolution).

- Davis Construction change order (Public Works facility, ARPA project #27): council approved Change Order No. 14-0001 increasing the original contract ($4,825,353) by $83,014 to a revised total of $4,908,367 to cover excavation and removal of approximately 275 cubic yards of contaminated soil, backfilling, compaction and related work. The resolution also establishes a unit price of $75 per cubic yard for additional contaminated soil removal if required. Motion and roll call recorded; outcome: approved (change order contingent on final solicitor review as noted in the resolution).

- Memorandum of Understanding (Philadelphia Union Foundation and Love.futbol, Inc.) for Seventh Street Park improvements: council authorized a memorandum of understanding to co-develop and activate a community-driven safe play space (new soccer court and improvements to three basketball courts) "with no substantial cost to the city" as written in the measure; motion moved and seconded; roll call recorded. Outcome: authorized.

- Honorary street-name resolutions: council approved honorary renaming of a portion of Sproul Street at West Eighth Street to "Reverend Calvin Bayard Williams Way" and portion of Parker Street at West Fifth Street to "Ike and Tommy Lee Jones". Motions moved and seconded; roll call recorded. Outcome: approved.

- Stormwater Authority board appointment attempt (Isaiah Jones): motion to appoint Isaiah Jones to the Stormwater Authority was moved but did not receive a second and was tabled (record: "We didn't get a second, so that's tabled"). Outcome: no action (tabled).

- Stormwater Authority reappointment (Joan Neal): resolution to reappoint Joan Neal as a member of the Stormwater Authority (term noted to expire 10/28/2030) — motion moved and seconded; roll call recorded. Outcome: approved.

Details and conditions recorded in the meeting: several approvals were contingent on final review by the city solicitor where noted in the resolutions; the Davis Construction change order established an additional unit cost and included language about further approvals if additional contaminated soil is found.

Votes-at-a-glance provenance (transcript excerpts): first related discussion begins with the ordinances reading at 00:26:10 (transcript block: "Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, enacting new article 5 13 ... traffic calming measures"), and the ordinances/resolutions block concludes at approximately 00:57:11 when the council moved to other business. See the meeting transcript for the roll-call lines that record individual yes votes.

Ending note: motions recorded in the transcript use short-form motions ("so moved," "second"). Where the mover/second could not be unambiguously identified in the audio transcript, the record above follows the roll calls and the explicit motion text read into the minutes. Any solicitor contingencies were preserved as stated in the adopted resolutions.