City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2024-0575

• File #: 2024-0575
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 6/7/2024
• In control: Committee on Finance and Law
• On agenda: 6/11/2024
• Final action: 6/18/2024
• Enactment date: 6/18/2024
• Enactment #: 423
• Effective date: 6/19/2024
• Title: Resolution providing for ratification and extension by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh of a Declaration of Disaster Emergency for one hundred and eighty (180) additional days thereby making the Declaration effective until December 8th, 2024 in response to the fire at the 2nd Avenue Commons Shelter.
• Indexes: MISCELLANEOUS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/19/2024	1	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
6/18/2024	1	City Council	Passed Finally	Pass
6/12/2024	1	Standing Committee	Affirmatively Recommended	Pass
6/11/2024	1	City Council	Waived under Rule 8	Pass
6/11/2024	1	City Council	Read and referred

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Resolution providing for ratification and extension by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh of a Declaration of Disaster Emergency for one hundred and eighty (180) additional days thereby making the Declaration effective until December 8^th, 2024 in response to the fire at the 2^nd Avenue Commons Shelter.

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WHEREAS, the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh issued a Declaration of Emergency (“Declaration”) in response to the fire at 2^nd Avenue Commons on June 7^th 2024; and

WHEREAS, the Mayor of the City Pittsburgh believes that the Declaration of Emergency should be extended for a period not to exceed one hundred and eighty (180) days from the date of potential expiration, subject to further renewal of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh at such time, in order to provide the City of Pittsburgh with the appropriate means to address the existing disaster emergency created by the fire at 2^nd Avenue Commons; and

WHEREAS, as a result, the Council of the City of Pittsburgh wishes to renew the Mayor’s Declaration of Emergency for a period not-to-exceed one hundred and eighty (180) days;

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

Section 1.                     The Declaration of Emergency, issued by the Mayor of City of Pittsburgh on June 7^th, 2024, attached hereto and incorporated herein as Exhibit A, is hereby extended and renewed by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for a period of one hundred and eighty (180) days from June 7^th, 2024 to December 8^th, 2024, unless terminated earlier, in accordance with all applicable law including City of Pittsburgh Code §113.03 and the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Services Code at 35 Pa. C.S. § 7501.