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| 1 | 2023-2169 | WHEREAS, Thomas Aquinas Cusick, Jr. was born on September 23, 1946, in El Centro, California to his father, Thomas, Sr. who was a U.S. Marine veteran of WWII and a Pittsburgh Police Officer, and mother Ruth, who died when Tom was 7 years old. He is the second of 9 children; and, | Adopted | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 2 | 2023-2144 | Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Public Safety to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with Allegheny County and the Department of Justice’s Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant for the purpose of receiving and spending grant funds in the amount of EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($85,000) to support the purchase of new holsters. | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 3 | 2023-2145 | Resolution providing for a Supplemental Agreement or Agreements with Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority (“PWSA) to reimburse expenses of PWSA incurred for roadway base and pavement restoration performed by PWSA on behalf of utilities and the City in advance of the Bus Rapid Transit Project, not to exceed Six Hundred Ninety-Six Thousand Seven Hundred and Five Dollars and Ninety- Two Cents ($696,705.92), an increase of One Hundred Thirty-Nine Thousand Seven Hundred and Three Dollars and Sixty-Eight Cents ($139,703.68) to the amount previously authorized by Resolution 474 of 2022. | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 4 | 2023-2164 | Resolution authorizing the taking, appropriating, and condemning by the City of Pittsburgh of certain easements necessary for the completion of temporary support work for land stabilization around Andover Terrace for public transportation purposes through eminent domain and further authorizing the payment of just compensation and necessary and incidental acquisition costs related thereto at an amount not to exceed nineteen thousand dollars ($19,000). | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 5 | 2023-2146 | Authorizes a legal-settlement payment to a single payment in 2023 to Evelyn Mary Miller and her attorneys Woomer & Talarico, LLC, at a cost not to exceed Thirty-five Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($35,000. | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 6 | 2023-2147 | Resolution authorizing the City of Pittsburgh to participate in applicable cooperative purchasing agreements for goods, materials, equipment, supplies, services, or construction, as authorized by the Commonwealth Procurement Code and the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Law for the 2024 Fiscal Year. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 7 | 2023-2148 | Resolution providing for the letting of contracts and for the use of existing contracts for the purchase of materials, supplies and equipment for City Departments, and the maintenance, repair, rental and/or leasing, rehabilitation, renovation, inspection or servicing of City buildings and facilities, and for any miscellaneous services in and for any City Departments, and providing for the payment of the costs thereof for the 2024 Fiscal Year. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 8 | 2023-2149 | Resolution adopting and approving the 2024 Capital Budget, the proposed 2024 Community Development Program, and the 2024 through 2029 Capital Improvement Program. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 9 | 2023-2150 | Resolution making appropriations to pay the expenses of conducting the public business of the City of Pittsburgh and for meeting the debt charges thereof for the Fiscal Year beginning January 1, 2024. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 10 | 2023-2151 | Resolution fixing the number of officers and employees of the City of Pittsburgh for the 2024 fiscal year, and the rate of compensation thereof, and setting maximum levels for designated positions. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 11 | 2023-2152 | Resolution authorizing City Council to approve intra-departmental transfers throughout the 2024 Fiscal Year. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 12 | 2023-2153 | Resolution authorizing appropriations and salaries of the Stop the Violence Fund for the 2024 Fiscal Year, beginning January 1, 2024. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 13 | 2023-2154 | Resolution authorizing appropriations, salaries, and capital expenditures of the Parks Trust Fund for the 2024 Fiscal Year, beginning January 1, 2024. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 14 | 2023-2155 | Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (URA) for the administration of certain 2024 PAYGO-funded projects and programs, and providing for the payment of the cost thereof not to exceed $2,750,000.00. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 15 | 2023-2156 | Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code at Title Two: Fiscal, Article VII: Business Related Taxes, Chapter 245: Earned Income Tax, Section 245.03: Declaration and Payment of Tax, at subsection (d) so as to fix the rate of interest on delinquent Earned Income Tax for the year 2024. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 16 | 2023-2157 | Resolution authorizing all City departments, in conjunction with the Department of Finance, to enter on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh into a facilities usage agreement or agreements during the 2024 calendar year for the purpose of permitting groups to rent City-owned facilities for recreational and community focused activities, in individual amounts not to exceed Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00). (Public Hearing held 12/14/23) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 17 | 2023-2158 | Resolution authorizing the fee schedule for 2024 pursuant to Chapter 170 of the City Code. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 18 | 2023-2159 | Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code at Title Two: Fiscal, Article VII: Business Related Taxes, Chapter 246: Home Rule Tax, Section 246.03: Declaration and Payment of Tax, at subsection (d) so as to fix the rate of interest on delinquent Home Rule Tax for the year 2024. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 19 | 2023-2160 | Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code at Title Two: Fiscal, Article IX: Property Taxes, Chapter 263: Real Property Tax and Exemptions, Section 263.02: Payment Options, Discount and Delinquency Penalty, so as to set the payment, discount, and delinquent dates for the 2024 fiscal year. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 20 | 2023-2161 | Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code at Title Two: Fiscal, Article IX: Property Taxes, Chapter 263: Real Property Tax and Exemption, by fixing the rate of real estate taxation for 2024. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 21 | 2023-2162 | Resolution authorizing the Mayor, the Director of Public Safety, and the Director of Innovation & Performance to enter into a Professional Service Agreement or Agreements with EProval to provide film and event permitting application software, at an overall cost to the City not to exceed TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($250,000) over five years. | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 22 | 2023-2163 | Resolution amending Resolution 650 of 2022 authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Innovation & Performance, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into an agreement or agreements or amendments thereto with Change Agents Training for access to their Learning Management System and consultative assistance to adapt the City of Pittsburgh Gold Belt Workshop for e-Learning by increasing the approved amount by $36,000 for an additional one year with option to renew for one more year ($18,000 per year), for an amended total cost not-to-exceed Seventy Two Thousand Dollars ($72,000). | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 23 | 2023-2165 | Resolution appointing Angela Williams as a Member of the Equal Opportunity Review Commission with a term to expire November 1, 2027. | Approved | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 24 | 2023-2166 | Resolution reappointing James Stitt as a Member of the Shade Tree Commission with a term to expire November 1, 2027. | Approved | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 25 | 2023-2167 | Resolution reappointing BJ Leber as a Member of the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority Board of Directors with a term to expire November 1, 2028. | Approved | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 26 | 2023-2168 | Resolution appointing Kevin Carroll as a Member of the LGBTQIA+ Commission with a term to expire November 2, 2025. | Approved | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 27 | 2023-2139 | Records the Finance and Law committee report for November 6, 2023. | Read, Received and Filed | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 28 | 2023-2055 | Resolution providing for the encumbrance of funds in the amount of $588,514.92 to secure a stay during the City’s appeal of a Fraternal Order of Police grievance award. (Executive Session held 10/30/23) | Passed Finally | Aye: 9Burgess, Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 29 | 2023-2103 | Resolution further amending Resolution No. 772 of 2016, effective January 1, 2017, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2017 Capital Budget and the 2017 Community Development Block Grant Program; approving the 2017 through 2022 Capital Improvement Program” by reducing WEST OHIO STREET BRIDGE (TIP) by $130,500, reducing STREETSCAPE AND INTERSECTION RECONSTRUCTION by $20,088.09, and increasing RAMP AND PUBLIC SIDEWALK by $150,588.09. | Passed Finally | Aye: 9Burgess, Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 30 | 2023-2111 | Resolution further amending Resolution No. 863 of 2018, effective January 1, 2019, as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2019 Capital Budget and the 2019 Community Development Block Grant Program, and the 2019 through 2024 Capital Improvement Program” by reducing MON-OAKLAND CONNECTOR/FOUR MILE RUN by five hundred thirty one thousand three hundred fourteen dollars ($531,314.00) and increasing PLAY AREA IMPROVEMENTS by five hundred thirty one thousand three hundred fourteen dollars ($531,314.00). | Passed Finally | Aye: 9Burgess, Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 31 | 2023-2112 | Resolution providing for the issuance of a warrant in favor of ACTION-Housing, Inc. for services relating to the installation of streetlights at the Flats on Forward mixed-use development, for a sum not to exceed Twenty-Three Thousand Four Hundred Dollars ($23,400.00) and for the payment of the costs thereof. | Passed Finally | Aye: 9Burgess, Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 32 | 2023-2140 | Records the Public Works and Infrastructure committee report for November 6, 2023. | Read, Received and Filed | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 33 | 2023-2098 | Resolution authorizing the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh and the Department of Public Works to apply for a grant from the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County’s Gaming Economic Tourism Fund for the Brighton Heights Healthy Active Living Center Renovation in the amount of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND ($500,000.00) dollars for this stated purpose. | Passed Finally | Aye: 9Burgess, Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 34 | 2023-2099 | Resolution providing for an amended Reimbursement Agreement or Agreements with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for costs associated with the Construction phase of the West Ohio Street Bridge Project; providing for the payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed Seven Million Seven Hundred Sixty-Four Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-Seven Dollars ($7,764,987.00), an increase of Sixty-One Thousand Dollars and Seventy Cents ($61,000.70) from the previous authorization. This resolution serves to authorize only the amended Reimbursement Agreement or Agreements, at no cost to the City of Pittsburgh. Future Resolutions will authorize the project specific service agreements. | Passed Finally | Aye: 9Burgess, Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 35 | 2023-2100 | Resolution providing for a Contribution Agreement or Agreements between the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County for costs associated with the Armstrong Tunnel Project; providing for the payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed One Million Thirteen Thousand Seventeen Dollars and Sixty-Two Cents ($1,013,017.62). | Passed Finally | Aye: 9Burgess, Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 36 | 2023-2101 | Resolution amending Resolution 276 of 2020 in order to authorize an increase of payment to the United States Army Corps of Engineers for certain remediation work to flood control devices along Saw Mill Run, at an amount not to exceed Six Hundred Eleven Thousand Four Hundred Sixty-Eighty Dollars and Seventy-Nine Cents ($611,468.79), representing an increase of Two Hundred Ninety-One Thousand Four Hundred Sixty-Eight Dollars and Seventy-Nine ($291,468.79) with such increase to be paid through issuance of a warrant. | Passed Finally | Aye: 9Burgess, Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 37 | 2023-2141 | Records the Human Resources committee report for November 6, 2023. | Read, Received and Filed | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 38 | 2023-2096 | Resolution providing for the authorization to make all legitimate expenditures for payments and agreements or agreements with various agencies for job development and employment services necessary to implement the 2023 Neighborhood Employment Program, and providing the periodic transfer of funds to be used in the 2023 Neighborhood Employment Program for payment of cost thereof, cost not to exceed $210,000.00. | Passed Finally | Aye: 9Burgess, Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 39 | 2023-2097 | Resolution providing the authorization to make all legitimate expenditures for payments and agreements or agreements with various agencies to provide job development and employment services, wages and fringe benefits for supervisor, staff, workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation, vocational skills training and on-the-job training, outreach, recruitment costs and administrative expenditures necessary to implement the 2023 Pittsburgh Partnership Employment Program; and providing the periodic transfer of funds to be used in the 2023 Pittsburgh Partnership Employment Program, and for payment of cost thereof, cost not to exceed $240,000.00 | Passed Finally | Aye: 9Burgess, Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 40 | 2023-2142 | Records the Land Use and Economic Development committee report for November 6, 2023. | Read, Received and Filed | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 41 | 2023-1666 | Resolution, at no cost to the City, approving a new Institutional Master Plan under the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning, Article II, Chapter 905, Section 905.03.D and Article VII, Chapter 922, Section 922.12.G for Allegheny General Hospital entitled “Hospital Institutional Master Plan” dated March 2023 on property zoned EMI, Educational Medical Institution District, 22nd Ward. Council District No. 1. (Public Hearing held 9/13/23) | Passed Finally | Aye: 9Burgess, Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 42 | 2023-2110 | Resolution further amending Resolution No. 772 of 2016, effective January 1, 2017 as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2017 Capital Budget and the 2017Community Development Block Grant Program; approving the 2017 through 2022 Capital Improvement Program” by reducing LYNN WILLIAMS HIGH RISE by $2,500 and ST. AMBROSE MANOR by $1,299.35 and increasing PITTSBURGH HIGHER GROUND FOUNDATION, INC. by $3,799.35, and authorize subsequent Agreements. | Passed Finally | Aye: 9Burgess, Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 43 | 2023-2143 | Records the Innovation, Performance, Asset Management and Technology committee report for November 6, 2023. | Read, Received and Filed | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 44 | 2023-2104 | Resolution amending Resolution #280 of 2023, which authorized the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Finance to enter an agreement with OPEX Corporation for maintenance services related to the FalconRED document scanning workstation, by adding additional funding to cover maintenance services at a cost not to exceed Two Thousand Three Hundred Sixty-Five Dollars ($2,365.00). | Passed Finally | Aye: 9Burgess, Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 45 | 2023-2105 | Resolution amending Resolution No. 482 of 2022, which authorized the City of Pittsburgh to extend a Professional Service Agreement(s) with STR Grants, LLC for software services relating to the eProperties Plus profiling system by a term of one year at an additional cost not to exceed Fifty-four Thousand Six Hundred Fifty-Eight Dollars and Sixty-Five Cents ($54,658.65), and adding ten (10) additional user licenses. | Passed Finally | Aye: 9Burgess, Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 46 | 2023-2106 | Authorizes a City warrant payment to US Ignite in the amount of Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000. | Passed Finally | Aye: 9Burgess, Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, Kraus, R. Daniel Lavelle, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 |
WHEREAS, Thomas Aquinas Cusick, Jr. was born on September 23, 1946, in El Centro, California to his father, Thomas, Sr. who was a U.S. Marine veteran of WWII and a Pittsburgh Police Officer, and mother Ruth, who died when Tom was 7 years old. He is the second of 9 children; and,
Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Public Safety to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with Allegheny County and the Department of Justice’s Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant for the purpose of receiving and spending grant funds in the amount of EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($85,000) to support the purchase of new holsters.
Resolution providing for a Supplemental Agreement or Agreements with Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority (“PWSA) to reimburse expenses of PWSA incurred for roadway base and pavement restoration performed by PWSA on behalf of utilities and the City in advance of the Bus Rapid Transit Project, not to exceed Six Hundred Ninety-Six Thousand Seven Hundred and Five Dollars and Ninety- Two Cents ($696,705.92), an increase of One Hundred Thirty-Nine Thousand Seven Hundred and Three Dollars and Sixty-Eight Cents ($139,703.68) to the amount previously authorized by Resolution 474 of 2022.
Resolution authorizing the taking, appropriating, and condemning by the City of Pittsburgh of certain easements necessary for the completion of temporary support work for land stabilization around Andover Terrace for public transportation purposes through eminent domain and further authorizing the payment of just compensation and necessary and incidental acquisition costs related thereto at an amount not to exceed nineteen thousand dollars ($19,000).
Authorizes a legal-settlement payment to a single payment in 2023 to Evelyn Mary Miller and her attorneys Woomer & Talarico, LLC, at a cost not to exceed Thirty-five Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($35,000.
Resolution authorizing the City of Pittsburgh to participate in applicable cooperative purchasing agreements for goods, materials, equipment, supplies, services, or construction, as authorized by the Commonwealth Procurement Code and the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Law for the 2024 Fiscal Year. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23)
Resolution providing for the letting of contracts and for the use of existing contracts for the purchase of materials, supplies and equipment for City Departments, and the maintenance, repair, rental and/or leasing, rehabilitation, renovation, inspection or servicing of City buildings and facilities, and for any miscellaneous services in and for any City Departments, and providing for the payment of the costs thereof for the 2024 Fiscal Year. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23)
Resolution adopting and approving the 2024 Capital Budget, the proposed 2024 Community Development Program, and the 2024 through 2029 Capital Improvement Program. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23)
Resolution making appropriations to pay the expenses of conducting the public business of the City of Pittsburgh and for meeting the debt charges thereof for the Fiscal Year beginning January 1, 2024. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23)
Resolution fixing the number of officers and employees of the City of Pittsburgh for the 2024 fiscal year, and the rate of compensation thereof, and setting maximum levels for designated positions. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23)
Resolution authorizing City Council to approve intra-departmental transfers throughout the 2024 Fiscal Year. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23)
Resolution authorizing appropriations and salaries of the Stop the Violence Fund for the 2024 Fiscal Year, beginning January 1, 2024. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23)
Resolution authorizing appropriations, salaries, and capital expenditures of the Parks Trust Fund for the 2024 Fiscal Year, beginning January 1, 2024. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23)
Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (URA) for the administration of certain 2024 PAYGO-funded projects and programs, and providing for the payment of the cost thereof not to exceed $2,750,000.00. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23)
Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code at Title Two: Fiscal, Article VII: Business Related Taxes, Chapter 245: Earned Income Tax, Section 245.03: Declaration and Payment of Tax, at subsection (d) so as to fix the rate of interest on delinquent Earned Income Tax for the year 2024. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23)
Resolution authorizing all City departments, in conjunction with the Department of Finance, to enter on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh into a facilities usage agreement or agreements during the 2024 calendar year for the purpose of permitting groups to rent City-owned facilities for recreational and community focused activities, in individual amounts not to exceed Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00). (Public Hearing held 12/14/23)
Resolution authorizing the fee schedule for 2024 pursuant to Chapter 170 of the City Code. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23)
Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code at Title Two: Fiscal, Article VII: Business Related Taxes, Chapter 246: Home Rule Tax, Section 246.03: Declaration and Payment of Tax, at subsection (d) so as to fix the rate of interest on delinquent Home Rule Tax for the year 2024. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23)
Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code at Title Two: Fiscal, Article IX: Property Taxes, Chapter 263: Real Property Tax and Exemptions, Section 263.02: Payment Options, Discount and Delinquency Penalty, so as to set the payment, discount, and delinquent dates for the 2024 fiscal year. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23)
Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code at Title Two: Fiscal, Article IX: Property Taxes, Chapter 263: Real Property Tax and Exemption, by fixing the rate of real estate taxation for 2024. (Public Hearing held 12/14/23)
Resolution authorizing the Mayor, the Director of Public Safety, and the Director of Innovation & Performance to enter into a Professional Service Agreement or Agreements with EProval to provide film and event permitting application software, at an overall cost to the City not to exceed TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($250,000) over five years.
Resolution amending Resolution 650 of 2022 authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Innovation & Performance, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into an agreement or agreements or amendments thereto with Change Agents Training for access to their Learning Management System and consultative assistance to adapt the City of Pittsburgh Gold Belt Workshop for e-Learning by increasing the approved amount by $36,000 for an additional one year with option to renew for one more year ($18,000 per year), for an amended total cost not-to-exceed Seventy Two Thousand Dollars ($72,000).
Resolution appointing Angela Williams as a Member of the Equal Opportunity Review Commission with a term to expire November 1, 2027.
Resolution reappointing James Stitt as a Member of the Shade Tree Commission with a term to expire November 1, 2027.
Resolution reappointing BJ Leber as a Member of the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority Board of Directors with a term to expire November 1, 2028.
Resolution appointing Kevin Carroll as a Member of the LGBTQIA+ Commission with a term to expire November 2, 2025.
Records the Finance and Law committee report for November 6, 2023.
Resolution providing for the encumbrance of funds in the amount of $588,514.92 to secure a stay during the City’s appeal of a Fraternal Order of Police grievance award. (Executive Session held 10/30/23)
Resolution further amending Resolution No. 772 of 2016, effective January 1, 2017, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2017 Capital Budget and the 2017 Community Development Block Grant Program; approving the 2017 through 2022 Capital Improvement Program” by reducing WEST OHIO STREET BRIDGE (TIP) by $130,500, reducing STREETSCAPE AND INTERSECTION RECONSTRUCTION by $20,088.09, and increasing RAMP AND PUBLIC SIDEWALK by $150,588.09.
Resolution further amending Resolution No. 863 of 2018, effective January 1, 2019, as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2019 Capital Budget and the 2019 Community Development Block Grant Program, and the 2019 through 2024 Capital Improvement Program” by reducing MON-OAKLAND CONNECTOR/FOUR MILE RUN by five hundred thirty one thousand three hundred fourteen dollars ($531,314.00) and increasing PLAY AREA IMPROVEMENTS by five hundred thirty one thousand three hundred fourteen dollars ($531,314.00).
Resolution providing for the issuance of a warrant in favor of ACTION-Housing, Inc. for services relating to the installation of streetlights at the Flats on Forward mixed-use development, for a sum not to exceed Twenty-Three Thousand Four Hundred Dollars ($23,400.00) and for the payment of the costs thereof.
Records the Public Works and Infrastructure committee report for November 6, 2023.
Resolution authorizing the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh and the Department of Public Works to apply for a grant from the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County’s Gaming Economic Tourism Fund for the Brighton Heights Healthy Active Living Center Renovation in the amount of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND ($500,000.00) dollars for this stated purpose.
Resolution providing for an amended Reimbursement Agreement or Agreements with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for costs associated with the Construction phase of the West Ohio Street Bridge Project; providing for the payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed Seven Million Seven Hundred Sixty-Four Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-Seven Dollars ($7,764,987.00), an increase of Sixty-One Thousand Dollars and Seventy Cents ($61,000.70) from the previous authorization. This resolution serves to authorize only the amended Reimbursement Agreement or Agreements, at no cost to the City of Pittsburgh. Future Resolutions will authorize the project specific service agreements.
Resolution providing for a Contribution Agreement or Agreements between the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County for costs associated with the Armstrong Tunnel Project; providing for the payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed One Million Thirteen Thousand Seventeen Dollars and Sixty-Two Cents ($1,013,017.62).
Resolution amending Resolution 276 of 2020 in order to authorize an increase of payment to the United States Army Corps of Engineers for certain remediation work to flood control devices along Saw Mill Run, at an amount not to exceed Six Hundred Eleven Thousand Four Hundred Sixty-Eighty Dollars and Seventy-Nine Cents ($611,468.79), representing an increase of Two Hundred Ninety-One Thousand Four Hundred Sixty-Eight Dollars and Seventy-Nine ($291,468.79) with such increase to be paid through issuance of a warrant.
Records the Human Resources committee report for November 6, 2023.
Resolution providing for the authorization to make all legitimate expenditures for payments and agreements or agreements with various agencies for job development and employment services necessary to implement the 2023 Neighborhood Employment Program, and providing the periodic transfer of funds to be used in the 2023 Neighborhood Employment Program for payment of cost thereof, cost not to exceed $210,000.00.
Resolution providing the authorization to make all legitimate expenditures for payments and agreements or agreements with various agencies to provide job development and employment services, wages and fringe benefits for supervisor, staff, workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation, vocational skills training and on-the-job training, outreach, recruitment costs and administrative expenditures necessary to implement the 2023 Pittsburgh Partnership Employment Program; and providing the periodic transfer of funds to be used in the 2023 Pittsburgh Partnership Employment Program, and for payment of cost thereof, cost not to exceed $240,000.00
Records the Land Use and Economic Development committee report for November 6, 2023.
Resolution, at no cost to the City, approving a new Institutional Master Plan under the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning, Article II, Chapter 905, Section 905.03.D and Article VII, Chapter 922, Section 922.12.G for Allegheny General Hospital entitled “Hospital Institutional Master Plan” dated March 2023 on property zoned EMI, Educational Medical Institution District, 22nd Ward. Council District No. 1. (Public Hearing held 9/13/23)
Resolution further amending Resolution No. 772 of 2016, effective January 1, 2017 as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2017 Capital Budget and the 2017Community Development Block Grant Program; approving the 2017 through 2022 Capital Improvement Program” by reducing LYNN WILLIAMS HIGH RISE by $2,500 and ST. AMBROSE MANOR by $1,299.35 and increasing PITTSBURGH HIGHER GROUND FOUNDATION, INC. by $3,799.35, and authorize subsequent Agreements.
Records the Innovation, Performance, Asset Management and Technology committee report for November 6, 2023.
Resolution amending Resolution #280 of 2023, which authorized the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Finance to enter an agreement with OPEX Corporation for maintenance services related to the FalconRED document scanning workstation, by adding additional funding to cover maintenance services at a cost not to exceed Two Thousand Three Hundred Sixty-Five Dollars ($2,365.00).
Resolution amending Resolution No. 482 of 2022, which authorized the City of Pittsburgh to extend a Professional Service Agreement(s) with STR Grants, LLC for software services relating to the eProperties Plus profiling system by a term of one year at an additional cost not to exceed Fifty-four Thousand Six Hundred Fifty-Eight Dollars and Sixty-Five Cents ($54,658.65), and adding ten (10) additional user licenses.
Authorizes a City warrant payment to US Ignite in the amount of Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.