City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2022-0952

• File #: 2022-0952
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 11/10/2022
• In control: Committee on Finance and Law
• On agenda: 11/14/2022
• Final action: 12/19/2022
• Enactment date: 12/19/2022
• Enactment #: 32
• Effective date: 1/1/2023
• Title: Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Two: Fiscal, Article V: Special Funds, Chapter 237 "Stop The Violence Fund", ? 237.03 - Uses and Restrictions of the Stop The Violence Fund, by changing the annual percentage budgeted for outside community-based, non-governmental organizations. (Public Hearing held 11/23/22)
• Indexes: BUDGET , TRUST FUND

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/27/2022	1	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
12/19/2022	1	City Council	Passed Finally	Pass
12/14/2022	1	Standing Committee	Affirmatively Recommended	Pass
11/23/2022	1	Committee on Hearings	Public Hearing Held
11/21/2022	1	Standing Committee	Held for Cablecast Public Hearing	Pass
11/14/2022	1	City Council	Read and referred

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Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Two: Fiscal, Article V: Special Funds, Chapter 237 “Stop The Violence Fund”, § 237.03 - Uses and Restrictions of the Stop The Violence Fund, by changing the annual percentage budgeted for outside community-based, non-governmental organizations.

(Public Hearing held 11/23/22)

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Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

Section 1.                     The Pittsburgh Code, Title Two: Fiscal, Article V: Special Funds, Chapter 237 “Stop The Violence Fund”, § 237.03 - Uses and Restrictions of the Stop The Violence Fund, is amended as follows:

§ 237.03 - Uses and Restrictions of the Stop The Violence Fund

(a)                     The City Controller is authorized and directed to create a special trust fund to be entitled the "STOP THE VIOLENCE TRUST FUND" for the purpose of accepting and depositing funds from internal and external sources and the expenditure of those funds for related expenses including, but not limited to, salaries, supplies, materials, professional services, equipment and other services in connection with the City of Pittsburgh's Office of Community Health and Safety and the Office of Community Services and Violence Prevention.

(b)                     The Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Public Safety, are hereby authorized to provide for the payment of expenses for the purposes outlined herein.

(c)                     It is the intention of the City Council that the Fund be used exclusively for the purposes set forth in this Chapter. Therefore, any assets remaining in the Fund at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried into the next fiscal year, including all interest and income earned, as well as any repayments or forfeitures of expenditures and/or grants.

(d)                     A minimum of eighty sixty percent of the annual budgeted expenditures from the fund shall be allocated to outside community-based, non-governmental organizations.

(e)                     The City of Pittsburgh Stop the Violence Trust Fund shall require an annual authorization of proposed expenditures. The annual authorizing resolution may authorize the issuance of requests for proposals, estimates, bids, cost projections, and other allowable contracting procedures pursuant to Chapter 161 of the City Code for each project.

Section 2.                     This Ordinance shall take effect January 1, 2023.