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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Directors of the Department of Parks and Recreation and Public Works to enter into a Three-Party Project Assistance and Payment Agreement between the City Of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, and D’Appolonia, Engineering Division Of Ground Technologies, Inc. to document the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy’s provision of certain funding for consulting services relating to the Heth’s Run Restoration Project in Highland Park.
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WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 285 of 1998, effective May 29, 1998, the City entered into a Cooperation Agreement, dated April 10, 2000, with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy (“PPC”) to establish an alliance to provide infrastructure improvements, special care, and restoration for the City’s four regional parks: Frick, Schenley, Highland and Riverview; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 364 of 2011, effective May 26, 2011, the City and the PPC agreed to extend the term of the Cooperation Agreement; and
WHEREAS, the PPC now desires to volunteer its services pursuant to said Cooperation Agreement and has offered to provide funding for engineering and landscape design consulting services relating to the Heth’s Run Restoration Project in Highland Park (the “Project”); and
WHEREAS, the PPC and City now wish to enter into a three-party agreement with D’Appolonia, the City’s contractor for certain portions of the Project, in order to document the various payment responsibilities of the parties towards Phase 3 of the Project.
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1.
The Mayor and the Directors of the Department of Parks and Recreation and Public Works are hereby authorized to enter into a Three-Party Project Assistance and Payment Agreement between the City Of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy (“PPC”), and D’Appolonia, Engineering Division Of Ground Technologies, Inc. in order to document the PPC’s provision of certain funding for D’Appolonia’s engineering and landscape design consulting services relating to Phase 3 of the Project and D’Appolonia’s agreement to accept payment from the PPC toward the Project. Pursuant to this Agreement, the PPC will provide financial assistance for Phase 3 Project Work in an amount not to exceed One Hundred Sixty Eight Thousand, Two Hundred Dollars ($168,200.00). D’Appolonia will invoice the PPC directly for its contribution towards Phase 3 work.
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The City’s formal authorization to pay its portion of funding to D’Appolonia for Phase 3 Work in an amount not to exceed One Hundred and Six Thousand, One Hundred Forty-Six Dollars and Thirty Cents ($106,146.30) is set forth in and governed by the City’s On-Call Geotechnical Construction Contract (Controller’s Contract No. 50918) and applicable Work Order No. 3/Letter of Authorization dated January 5, 2016.