Agenda or minutes items connected to this meeting fixture.
| Order | File | Title | Discussion | Vote | Votes For | Votes Against |
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| 1 | 2025-1503 | WHEREAS, “Trapper” Tom Leturgey, a Cambria County native, moved to Western Pennsylvania in the mid-1980s to attend California University of Pennsylvania (now PennWest California). Since graduating in 1990, his passion for writing, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and professional wrestling has remained a central part of his life; and, | Adopted | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 2 | 2025-1511 | Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Human Resources and Civil Service to enter into an agreement with Goodwill of Southwestern PA for administrative services related to the 2025 Learn and Earn Summer Youth Employment Program at a cost not to exceed Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00). | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 3 | 2025-1512 | Resolution authorizing the Mayor, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Pennsylvania Office of the State Fire Commissioner for the purpose of receiving grant funds from the Fire Company and Emergency Medical Services Grant in the amount not to exceed FIFTEEN THOUSAND ($15,000.00) dollars to for training and certification of Freedom House participants. | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 4 | 2025-1513 | Resolution authorizing the Mayor, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Pennsylvania Office of the State Fire Commissioner for the purpose of receiving grant funds from the Fire Company and Emergency Medical Services Grant in the amount not to exceed FIFTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY SIX DOLLARS AND FORTY EIGHT CENTS ($15,676.48) to purchase Trauma Bags. | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 5 | 2025-1514 | Resolution 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 and amendments thereto with Plante Moran, PLLC to serve as an Enterprise Resource Planning Consultant (ERP), to lead requirements gathering and procurement efforts to support the future implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning system. Total cost is not-to-exceed Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000) over two years. | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 6 | 2025-1515 | Resolution amending Resolution No. 723 of 2022, effective December 27, 2022, entitled "Resolution adopting and approving the 2023 Capital Budget, the 2023 Community Development Program, and the 2023 through 2028 Capital Improvement Program" by reducing FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS - RECREATION AND SENIOR CENTERS by five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) and increasing PARK RECONSTRUCTION by five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00). | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 7 | 2025-1516 | Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the City Solicitor to enter into a Professional Services Agreement or agreements with Blake Consulting LLC, in an amount not to exceed Ten-Thousand Dollars ($10,000) over one (1) year, for expert witness services in connection with ongoing litigation, Case No. 2:24-cv-1234-PLD. (Executive Session held 2/18/25) | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 8 | 2025-1517 | Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure to take all necessary actions to acquire and secure a right-of-way and permanent and/or temporary construction easements, as-needed, including the taking of property by eminent domain if necessary, involving the Swindell Bridge project and providing for the payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed Zero Dollars ($0.00). | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 9 | 2025-1518 | Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into an agreement to provide membership dues with the National Association of City Transportation Officials Inc. (“NACTO”) from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025, not to exceed Thirty-Three Thousand One Hundred Twenty-Five Dollars ($33,125.00). | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 10 | 2025-1519 | Files a communication from Jake Pawlak about status update from the Grants Office for the week ended February 14, 2025. | Read, Received and Filed | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 11 | 2025-1520 | Resolution further amending Resolution No. 857 of 2023, effective December 27, 2023, as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2024 Capital Budget, the proposed 2024 Community Development Program, and the 2024 through 2029 Capital Improvement Program” by updating the name PITTSBURGH FLAG FOOTBALL CORPORATION as a grant to PENNSYLVANIA FLAG FOOTBALL FOUNDATION and authorizing a subsequent Agreement for a total cost of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000). | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 12 | 2025-1521 | 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 increase the cost by Nine Thousand Two Hundred Eighty-Six Dollars and Three Cents ($9,286.03) for a total cost not to exceed Four Hundred Ninety-Eight Thousand Eighty- Eight Dollars and Seven Cents ($498,088.07) to replace end of life hardware. | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 13 | 2025-1507 | Records the Finance and Law committee report for February 12, 2025. | Read, Received and Filed | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 14 | 2025-1459 | Authorizes a City warrant payment to Kittelson, LLC. | Passed Finally | Aye: 8Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, R. Daniel Lavelle, Khari Mosley, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 15 | 2025-1460 | Resolution authorizing the issuance of three (3) warrants with the total sum of TWO HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT THOUSAND ONE DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($248,001.00) over one (1) year. It is further understood and agreed that the payment schedule of the total settlement amount shall be as follows: (i) ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND ONE DOLLARS ($100,001.00) payable to Michael Zokaites and his attorney, Wendy Williams, Esq. ; (ii) SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($70,000.00) payable to Martin A. Dietz, Esq. ; (iii) SEVENTY EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS ($78,000.00) payable to Bruce Thomas and his attorney, Noah Geary, Esq., in full and final settlement of litigation, filed in the United States District Court for the Western District Court of Pennsylvania at consolidated case 2:18-cv- 01567. (Executive Session held 2/4/25) | Passed Finally | Aye: 8Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, R. Daniel Lavelle, Khari Mosley, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 16 | 2025-1461 | Authorizes a City warrant payment to National League of Cities. | Passed Finally | Aye: 8Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, R. Daniel Lavelle, Khari Mosley, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 17 | 2025-1463 | Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the City Controller to enter into a Professional Service Agreement and/or Contract with The Binkley Kanavy Group, LLC for services associated with the Popular Annual Financial Report, including accounting services, production, printing, and mailing. Cost not to exceed Forty Thousand Three Hundred Dollars and Zero Cents ($40,300) over a term of two years. | Passed Finally | Aye: 8Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, R. Daniel Lavelle, Khari Mosley, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 18 | 2025-1508 | Records the Public Works and Infrastructure committee report for February 12, 2025. | Read, Received and Filed | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 19 | 2025-1464 | Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Directors of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure and the Department of Finance, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to execute a Declaration of Restrictions and Covenants and appurtenant documents, in cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh, over certain property and right-of-way in the vicinity of Bigelow Boulevard between Fifth Avenue and Forbes Avenue within the City of Pittsburgh, as a condition of an NPDES Permit granted in conjunction with street and property improvements in the area, at no cost the city. | Passed Finally | Aye: 8Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, R. Daniel Lavelle, Khari Mosley, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 20 | 2025-1465 | Resolution providing for an amended Agreement for Construction services with S.E.T., Inc. for the South Side Signals project at a cost thereof, not to exceed Three Million Eight Hundred Twenty-Two Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-Five Dollars and Ninety-Six Cents ($3,822,335.96), an increase of Five Hundred Forty-Two Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-Five Dollars and Ninety-Six Cents ($542,335.96) from the previously legislated contract authorization (142 of 2022). | Passed Finally | Aye: 8Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, R. Daniel Lavelle, Khari Mosley, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 21 | 2025-1509 | Records the Land Use and Economic Development committee report for February 12, 2025. | Read, Received and Filed | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 22 | 2024-1303 | Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning Code, Article I, Introduction and Establishment, Section 902.03, Zoning Map, to rezone parcels bounded by Neville Street, Forbes Avenue, S Bellefield Avenue, and Bigelow Boulevard in the North Oakland neighborhood from RM-M, RM-VH (Multi-Unit Residential, Moderate and Very High Density), OPR-B (Oakland Public Realm, Subdistrict B), SP-7 (Specially Planned District 7), UI (Urban Industrial), and H (Hillside) to Urban Center Employment (UC-E) and Urban Center Mixed Use (UC-MU) in the North Oakland neighborhood. (Public Hearing held 2/5/25) | Passed Finally | Aye: 8Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, R. Daniel Lavelle, Khari Mosley, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 23 | 2024-1343 | Resolution approving an Institutional Master Plan Application under the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning, Article II, Chapter 905, Section 905.03.D. to Central Catholic High School, property owner, for the Central Catholic High School campus located along Fifth Avenue and South Neville Street, Parcels 52-J-264 and 52-J-118, zoned “EMI”, Educational Medical Institution, 14th Ward, Council District No. 8. (Public Hearing held 2/5/25) | Passed Finally | Aye: 8Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, R. Daniel Lavelle, Khari Mosley, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 24 | 2025-1466 | Resolution providing for an Agreement, or Agreements with Paramount Pursuits, LLC for technical assistance services to nonprofits awarded Neighborhood Economic Development (NED) grants in need of capacity building, in the amount not to exceed Forty-One Thousand Dollars ($41,000.00). | Passed Finally | Aye: 8Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, R. Daniel Lavelle, Khari Mosley, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 25 | 2025-1510 | Records the Intergovernmental and Educational Affairs committee report for February 12, 2025. | Read, Received and Filed | Not recorded | Not recorded | |
| 26 | 2025-1405 | Resolution requesting the approval of an inter-municipal transfer of a liquor license, License No. R- 7710, from Los Patrones, Inc., located at 1138-1141 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238 to the Applicant, REVA HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT, INC. D/B/A REVA MODERN INDIAN CUISINE located at 220 N. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, pursuant to amended Pennsylvania Liquor Code, §4-461. (Public Hearing held 2/11/25) | Passed Finally | Aye: 8Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, R. Daniel Lavelle, Khari Mosley, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 | |
| 27 | 2025-1462 | 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 for professional services relating to eviction prevention for tenants at a cost not to exceed Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000.00) over one year. | Passed Finally | Aye: 8Anthony Coghill, Deb Gross, R. Daniel Lavelle, Khari Mosley, Kail-Smith, Erika Strassburger, Barb Warwick, Bobby Wilson | No: 0 |
WHEREAS, “Trapper” Tom Leturgey, a Cambria County native, moved to Western Pennsylvania in the mid-1980s to attend California University of Pennsylvania (now PennWest California). Since graduating in 1990, his passion for writing, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and professional wrestling has remained a central part of his life; and,
Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Human Resources and Civil Service to enter into an agreement with Goodwill of Southwestern PA for administrative services related to the 2025 Learn and Earn Summer Youth Employment Program at a cost not to exceed Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00).
Resolution authorizing the Mayor, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Pennsylvania Office of the State Fire Commissioner for the purpose of receiving grant funds from the Fire Company and Emergency Medical Services Grant in the amount not to exceed FIFTEEN THOUSAND ($15,000.00) dollars to for training and certification of Freedom House participants.
Resolution authorizing the Mayor, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Pennsylvania Office of the State Fire Commissioner for the purpose of receiving grant funds from the Fire Company and Emergency Medical Services Grant in the amount not to exceed FIFTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY SIX DOLLARS AND FORTY EIGHT CENTS ($15,676.48) to purchase Trauma Bags.
Resolution 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 and amendments thereto with Plante Moran, PLLC to serve as an Enterprise Resource Planning Consultant (ERP), to lead requirements gathering and procurement efforts to support the future implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning system. Total cost is not-to-exceed Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000) over two years.
Resolution amending Resolution No. 723 of 2022, effective December 27, 2022, entitled "Resolution adopting and approving the 2023 Capital Budget, the 2023 Community Development Program, and the 2023 through 2028 Capital Improvement Program" by reducing FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS - RECREATION AND SENIOR CENTERS by five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00) and increasing PARK RECONSTRUCTION by five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00).
Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the City Solicitor to enter into a Professional Services Agreement or agreements with Blake Consulting LLC, in an amount not to exceed Ten-Thousand Dollars ($10,000) over one (1) year, for expert witness services in connection with ongoing litigation, Case No. 2:24-cv-1234-PLD. (Executive Session held 2/18/25)
Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure to take all necessary actions to acquire and secure a right-of-way and permanent and/or temporary construction easements, as-needed, including the taking of property by eminent domain if necessary, involving the Swindell Bridge project and providing for the payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed Zero Dollars ($0.00).
Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into an agreement to provide membership dues with the National Association of City Transportation Officials Inc. (“NACTO”) from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025, not to exceed Thirty-Three Thousand One Hundred Twenty-Five Dollars ($33,125.00).
Files a communication from Jake Pawlak about status update from the Grants Office for the week ended February 14, 2025.
Resolution further amending Resolution No. 857 of 2023, effective December 27, 2023, as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2024 Capital Budget, the proposed 2024 Community Development Program, and the 2024 through 2029 Capital Improvement Program” by updating the name PITTSBURGH FLAG FOOTBALL CORPORATION as a grant to PENNSYLVANIA FLAG FOOTBALL FOUNDATION and authorizing a subsequent Agreement for a total cost of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000).
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 increase the cost by Nine Thousand Two Hundred Eighty-Six Dollars and Three Cents ($9,286.03) for a total cost not to exceed Four Hundred Ninety-Eight Thousand Eighty- Eight Dollars and Seven Cents ($498,088.07) to replace end of life hardware.
Records the Finance and Law committee report for February 12, 2025.
Authorizes a City warrant payment to Kittelson, LLC.
Resolution authorizing the issuance of three (3) warrants with the total sum of TWO HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT THOUSAND ONE DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($248,001.00) over one (1) year. It is further understood and agreed that the payment schedule of the total settlement amount shall be as follows: (i) ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND ONE DOLLARS ($100,001.00) payable to Michael Zokaites and his attorney, Wendy Williams, Esq. ; (ii) SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($70,000.00) payable to Martin A. Dietz, Esq. ; (iii) SEVENTY EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS ($78,000.00) payable to Bruce Thomas and his attorney, Noah Geary, Esq., in full and final settlement of litigation, filed in the United States District Court for the Western District Court of Pennsylvania at consolidated case 2:18-cv- 01567. (Executive Session held 2/4/25)
Authorizes a City warrant payment to National League of Cities.
Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the City Controller to enter into a Professional Service Agreement and/or Contract with The Binkley Kanavy Group, LLC for services associated with the Popular Annual Financial Report, including accounting services, production, printing, and mailing. Cost not to exceed Forty Thousand Three Hundred Dollars and Zero Cents ($40,300) over a term of two years.
Records the Public Works and Infrastructure committee report for February 12, 2025.
Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Directors of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure and the Department of Finance, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to execute a Declaration of Restrictions and Covenants and appurtenant documents, in cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh, over certain property and right-of-way in the vicinity of Bigelow Boulevard between Fifth Avenue and Forbes Avenue within the City of Pittsburgh, as a condition of an NPDES Permit granted in conjunction with street and property improvements in the area, at no cost the city.
Resolution providing for an amended Agreement for Construction services with S.E.T., Inc. for the South Side Signals project at a cost thereof, not to exceed Three Million Eight Hundred Twenty-Two Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-Five Dollars and Ninety-Six Cents ($3,822,335.96), an increase of Five Hundred Forty-Two Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-Five Dollars and Ninety-Six Cents ($542,335.96) from the previously legislated contract authorization (142 of 2022).
Records the Land Use and Economic Development committee report for February 12, 2025.
Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning Code, Article I, Introduction and Establishment, Section 902.03, Zoning Map, to rezone parcels bounded by Neville Street, Forbes Avenue, S Bellefield Avenue, and Bigelow Boulevard in the North Oakland neighborhood from RM-M, RM-VH (Multi-Unit Residential, Moderate and Very High Density), OPR-B (Oakland Public Realm, Subdistrict B), SP-7 (Specially Planned District 7), UI (Urban Industrial), and H (Hillside) to Urban Center Employment (UC-E) and Urban Center Mixed Use (UC-MU) in the North Oakland neighborhood. (Public Hearing held 2/5/25)
Resolution approving an Institutional Master Plan Application under the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning, Article II, Chapter 905, Section 905.03.D. to Central Catholic High School, property owner, for the Central Catholic High School campus located along Fifth Avenue and South Neville Street, Parcels 52-J-264 and 52-J-118, zoned “EMI”, Educational Medical Institution, 14th Ward, Council District No. 8. (Public Hearing held 2/5/25)
Resolution providing for an Agreement, or Agreements with Paramount Pursuits, LLC for technical assistance services to nonprofits awarded Neighborhood Economic Development (NED) grants in need of capacity building, in the amount not to exceed Forty-One Thousand Dollars ($41,000.00).
Records the Intergovernmental and Educational Affairs committee report for February 12, 2025.
Resolution requesting the approval of an inter-municipal transfer of a liquor license, License No. R- 7710, from Los Patrones, Inc., located at 1138-1141 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238 to the Applicant, REVA HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT, INC. D/B/A REVA MODERN INDIAN CUISINE located at 220 N. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, pursuant to amended Pennsylvania Liquor Code, §4-461. (Public Hearing held 2/11/25)
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 for professional services relating to eviction prevention for tenants at a cost not to exceed Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000.00) over one year.