Mayor John Street was inaugurated for a second term today after winning over Sam Katz in last November's election. Perhaps the real news, though, was that Governor Ed Rendell, Street's predecessor and mentor, was absent from the ceremony, supposedly "on vacation". City council members were also sworn in; noteworthy was a power play by the newly installed members who, in an eleven to seven vote, stripped many of the powers from council president Ann Verna and transferred them to the mayor's office.