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File #: 2003-2594    Version:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 12/9/2003 In control: Committee on Public Works & Environmental Services
On agenda: Final action: 12/22/2003
Enactment date: 12/22/2003 Enactment #: 944
Effective date: 12/31/2003    
Title: Authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into a professional services agreement or agreements, in form and substance satisfactory to the City Solicitor, for the design and delivery of a Street Tree Inventory software program ("Database Application").
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Presented by Mr. Bodack

AS AMENDED

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Authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into a professional services agreement or agreements, in form and substance satisfactory to the City Solicitor, for the design and delivery of a Street Tree Inventory software program ("Database Application").
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WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh, by Ordinance of City Council, requires a comprehensive inventory of shade trees in the City of Pittsburgh and has charged the Pittsburgh Shade Tree Commission with the power and duty to cause the conducting and supervision of such an inventory (Pittsburgh City Code Title Four, Article XIII, Chapter 487, Section 487.06.); and

WHEREAS, the Pittsburgh Shade Tree Commission, to assist in the efficient creation of a tree inventory, requires the development of a computerized database and has requested in writing that the City engage professional services to develop and design such a database; and

WHEREAS, by resolution No. 531 of 1998, effective September 24, 1998, the City Controller was authorized and directed to create a Shade Tree Trust Fund for any and all expenses associated with the operation and implementation of projects relating to the planting and promotion of trees within the City;

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

Section 1: A. The Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works are authorized, on behalf of the City, to enter into an agreement or agreements for professional services, in form and substance satisfactory to the City Solicitor, for the design and delivery to the City of a database application in the nature of a street tree inventory software program.

B. The total amount payable under said agreement or agreements shall not exceed the amount of Five Thousand Dollars ($5000.00), appropriated for the same, chargeable to and payable from the Pittsburgh Shade Tr...

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