Meeting

Standing Committees · Jun 28, 2023

10:00 AM · Council Chambers · 17 itemsMinutes Details

Legislation Items

Agenda or minutes items connected to this meeting fixture.

OrderFileTitleDiscussionVoteVotes ForVotes Against
12023-1649Resolution amending Resolution 320 of 2023, which authorized the Mayor and the City Solicitor to enter into a Professional Services Agreement with Sable & Sable, LLC, by substituting the entity of Sable & Sable, LLC with that of Meyer, Unkovic, & Scott LLP, for expert legal services in connection with Case Number G.D. 23-002842, in an amount not to exceed Twenty Thousand Dollars and No Centers ($20,000). (Executive Session held 7/10/23)No matched discussionHeld for Executive SessionNot recordedNot recorded
22023-1650Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant at a cost not to exceed Thirty Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($30,000.00) to be issued to Plaintiff Richard Nicholas’s attorneys, Law Offices of Joel Sansone, in in full and final settlement of litigation filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania at docket number 2:22-cv-910.No matched discussionAffirmatively RecommendedNot recordedNot recorded
32023-1651Authorizes a legal-settlement payment to Lancelot Joseph Moncrieff, at a cost not to exceed Four Thousand Three Hundred Seventy Five Dollars and No Cents ($4,375.No matched discussionAffirmatively RecommendedNot recordedNot recorded
42023-1652Resolution further amending Resolution No. 886 of 2021, effective December 27, 2021, as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2022 Capital Budget and the 2022 Community Development Block Grant Program, and the 2022 through 2027 Capital Improvement Program” by reducing FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS - RECREATION AND SENIOR CENTERS by $0.06, reducing FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS - PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES by $629,475.94, and increasing SLOPE FAILURE REMEDIATION by $629,476.No matched discussionAffirmatively RecommendedNot recordedNot recorded
52023-1655Resolution transferring a total of Five Hundred dollars ($500) within the 2023 Operating Budget from Council as a Body to the Department of Parks and Recreation for the purpose of providing a donation for the Brookline Recreation Center’s Summer Back 2 School event.No matched discussionAffirmatively RecommendedNot recordedNot recorded
62023-1614Resolution authorizing the issuance of eight (8) warrants with the total sum of Two Hundred Seventy Five Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($275,000.00). It is further understood and agreed that the payment schedule of the total settlement amount shall be as follows: (i) $19,533.54 payable to Nicole Rulli; (ii) $19,533.54 payable to Nicole Rulli as legal guardian of A.F., a minor; (iii) $19,533.54 payable to Charles Bryant, Jr.; (iv) $19,533.54 payable to Simon Phillips; (v) $19,533.54 payable to Donovan Hayden; (vi) $19,533.54 payable to Jennifer “Jay” Yoder; (vii) $19,533.54 payable to Christopher Wilson Juring; and (viii) $138,265.22 will be issued to Plaintiffs’ attorneys, O’Brien, Coleman & Wright, LLC for fees and expenses related to litigation filed at 2:20-cv-00965 in the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. (Executive Session held 6/26/23)No matched discussionAffirmatively RecommendedNot recordedNot recorded
7Item 0073-2023Approves the P-Card purchases listed in Item 0073-2023.No matched discussionApprovedNot recordedNot recorded
82023-1644Resolution amending Resolution 159 of 2023, which authorized a Professional Services Agreement with Duquesne University for the purpose of spending grant funds not to exceed ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED ($150,500.00) dollars to support the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Inside-Out training program, to correct the type of authorized agreement.No matched discussionAffirmatively RecommendedNot recordedNot recorded
92023-1645Authorizes a City warrant payment to PulsePoint Foundation, PO Box 12594, Pleasanton, CA 94588, in an amount not to exceed SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($6,000.No matched discussionAffirmatively RecommendedNot recordedNot recorded
102023-1646Authorizes a City warrant payment to Purvis Systems in an amount not to exceed TWENTY THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE DOLLARS ($20,985.No matched discussionAffirmatively RecommendedNot recordedNot recorded
112023-1647Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into a Professional Service Agreement or Agreements with The Forbes Funds to provide technical and capacity building assistance to participants of the Stop the Violence grant program, at an overall cost to the City not to exceed ONE HUNDRED NINETY-TWO THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($192,300.00).No matched discussionAffirmatively RecommendedNot recordedNot recorded
122023-1648Resolution providing for a Supplemental Agreement or Agreements with Michael Baker International, Inc. for costs associated with the Boundary Street and Sylvan Trail Projects; providing for payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed Two Million Five Hundred Fourteen Thousand Six Dollars and Eighty One Cents ($2,514,006.81), an increase of Four Hundred Eighty Two Thousand One Hundred and Two Dollars ($482,102.00) from the previously executed agreement (52762-2) as previously authorized by Resolution 262 of 2021.No matched discussionAffirmatively RecommendedNot recordedNot recorded
132023-1653Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department Parks and Recreation, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into a professional services agreement with Homewood Community Sports (HCS) for community liaison services at an amount not to exceed THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AND NO CENTS ($300,000).No matched discussionAffirmatively RecommendedNot recordedNot recorded
142023-1675Resolution further amending and supplementing Resolution 539 of 2016, as amended, entitled “authorizing the Mayor, City Clerk and/or Director of the Department of Innovation and Performance to enter into a Contract or Contracts or Agreement or Agreements with Granicus, Inc., for software upgrades, server hosting services and annual maintenance of Legistar agenda management and video streaming” in order to extend the contract an additional 12 months, for an additional cost of $65,200.49 for a total cost not to exceed $436,906.10.No matched discussionAffirmatively RecommendedNot recordedNot recorded
152023-1654Resolution amending Resolution 378-2017, authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Innovation & Performance to enter into a memorandum of understanding with Allegheny County to receive a regular extract of the Allegheny County property assessment file and to authorize an amendment to the data sharing agreement at no cost to the City.No matched discussionAffirmatively RecommendedNot recordedNot recorded
162023-1173Updates Pittsburgh's sewage facilities plan for proposed land development located at 4554-4564 Penn Avenue at the parcels numbered 49-M-121, 49-M-122, 49-M-123, 49-M-124, 49-M-125, 49-M-126, Pittsburgh, PA 15224.No matched discussionTABLEDAye: 6Burgess, Deb Gross, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb WarwickNo: 0
172023-1612Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department Finance to enter into a Cooperation Agreement or Agreements with the Urban Redevelopment Authority for the City to provide annual contributions of up to Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,500,000) to support a 2023 issuance for affordable housing, at a sum not to exceed Sixty-Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($62,500,000) over twenty-five years. (Briefing held 6/20/23) (Executive Session held 6/30/23)No matched discussionHeld in the Committee on Intergovernmental and Educational Affairs, due back by 7/5/2023Not recordedNot recorded
Order 12023-1649

Resolution amending Resolution 320 of 2023, which authorized the Mayor and the City Solicitor to enter into a Professional Services Agreement with Sable & Sable, LLC, by substituting the entity of Sable & Sable, LLC with that of Meyer, Unkovic, & Scott LLP, for expert legal services in connection with Case Number G.D. 23-002842, in an amount not to exceed Twenty Thousand Dollars and No Centers ($20,000). (Executive Session held 7/10/23)

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Held for Executive Session
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded
Order 22023-1650

Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant at a cost not to exceed Thirty Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($30,000.00) to be issued to Plaintiff Richard Nicholas’s attorneys, Law Offices of Joel Sansone, in in full and final settlement of litigation filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania at docket number 2:22-cv-910.

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Affirmatively Recommended
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded
Order 32023-1651

Authorizes a legal-settlement payment to Lancelot Joseph Moncrieff, at a cost not to exceed Four Thousand Three Hundred Seventy Five Dollars and No Cents ($4,375.

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Affirmatively Recommended
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded
Order 42023-1652

Resolution further amending Resolution No. 886 of 2021, effective December 27, 2021, as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2022 Capital Budget and the 2022 Community Development Block Grant Program, and the 2022 through 2027 Capital Improvement Program” by reducing FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS - RECREATION AND SENIOR CENTERS by $0.06, reducing FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS - PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES by $629,475.94, and increasing SLOPE FAILURE REMEDIATION by $629,476.

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Affirmatively Recommended
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded
Order 52023-1655

Resolution transferring a total of Five Hundred dollars ($500) within the 2023 Operating Budget from Council as a Body to the Department of Parks and Recreation for the purpose of providing a donation for the Brookline Recreation Center’s Summer Back 2 School event.

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Affirmatively Recommended
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded
Order 62023-1614

Resolution authorizing the issuance of eight (8) warrants with the total sum of Two Hundred Seventy Five Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($275,000.00). It is further understood and agreed that the payment schedule of the total settlement amount shall be as follows: (i) $19,533.54 payable to Nicole Rulli; (ii) $19,533.54 payable to Nicole Rulli as legal guardian of A.F., a minor; (iii) $19,533.54 payable to Charles Bryant, Jr.; (iv) $19,533.54 payable to Simon Phillips; (v) $19,533.54 payable to Donovan Hayden; (vi) $19,533.54 payable to Jennifer “Jay” Yoder; (vii) $19,533.54 payable to Christopher Wilson Juring; and (viii) $138,265.22 will be issued to Plaintiffs’ attorneys, O’Brien, Coleman & Wright, LLC for fees and expenses related to litigation filed at 2:20-cv-00965 in the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. (Executive Session held 6/26/23)

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Affirmatively Recommended
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded

Approves the P-Card purchases listed in Item 0073-2023.

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Approved
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded
Order 82023-1644

Resolution amending Resolution 159 of 2023, which authorized a Professional Services Agreement with Duquesne University for the purpose of spending grant funds not to exceed ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED ($150,500.00) dollars to support the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Inside-Out training program, to correct the type of authorized agreement.

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Affirmatively Recommended
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded
Order 92023-1645

Authorizes a City warrant payment to PulsePoint Foundation, PO Box 12594, Pleasanton, CA 94588, in an amount not to exceed SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($6,000.

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Affirmatively Recommended
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded
Order 102023-1646

Authorizes a City warrant payment to Purvis Systems in an amount not to exceed TWENTY THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE DOLLARS ($20,985.

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Affirmatively Recommended
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded
Order 112023-1647

Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into a Professional Service Agreement or Agreements with The Forbes Funds to provide technical and capacity building assistance to participants of the Stop the Violence grant program, at an overall cost to the City not to exceed ONE HUNDRED NINETY-TWO THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($192,300.00).

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Affirmatively Recommended
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded
Order 122023-1648

Resolution providing for a Supplemental Agreement or Agreements with Michael Baker International, Inc. for costs associated with the Boundary Street and Sylvan Trail Projects; providing for payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed Two Million Five Hundred Fourteen Thousand Six Dollars and Eighty One Cents ($2,514,006.81), an increase of Four Hundred Eighty Two Thousand One Hundred and Two Dollars ($482,102.00) from the previously executed agreement (52762-2) as previously authorized by Resolution 262 of 2021.

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Affirmatively Recommended
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded
Order 132023-1653

Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department Parks and Recreation, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into a professional services agreement with Homewood Community Sports (HCS) for community liaison services at an amount not to exceed THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AND NO CENTS ($300,000).

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Affirmatively Recommended
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded
Order 142023-1675

Resolution further amending and supplementing Resolution 539 of 2016, as amended, entitled “authorizing the Mayor, City Clerk and/or Director of the Department of Innovation and Performance to enter into a Contract or Contracts or Agreement or Agreements with Granicus, Inc., for software upgrades, server hosting services and annual maintenance of Legistar agenda management and video streaming” in order to extend the contract an additional 12 months, for an additional cost of $65,200.49 for a total cost not to exceed $436,906.10.

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Affirmatively Recommended
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded
Order 152023-1654

Resolution amending Resolution 378-2017, authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Innovation & Performance to enter into a memorandum of understanding with Allegheny County to receive a regular extract of the Allegheny County property assessment file and to authorize an amendment to the data sharing agreement at no cost to the City.

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Affirmatively Recommended
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded
Order 162023-1173

Updates Pittsburgh's sewage facilities plan for proposed land development located at 4554-4564 Penn Avenue at the parcels numbered 49-M-121, 49-M-122, 49-M-123, 49-M-124, 49-M-125, 49-M-126, Pittsburgh, PA 15224.

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
TABLED
Votes For
Aye: 6Burgess, Deb Gross, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick
Votes Against
No: 0
Order 172023-1612

Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department Finance to enter into a Cooperation Agreement or Agreements with the Urban Redevelopment Authority for the City to provide annual contributions of up to Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,500,000) to support a 2023 issuance for affordable housing, at a sum not to exceed Sixty-Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($62,500,000) over twenty-five years. (Briefing held 6/20/23) (Executive Session held 6/30/23)

Discussion
No matched discussion
Vote
Held in the Committee on Intergovernmental and Educational Affairs, due back by 7/5/2023
Votes For
Not recorded
Votes Against
Not recorded