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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works to enter into a Cooperation and License Agreement with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy regarding maintenance assistance for the City’s Mellon Park Walled Garden.
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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, where possible, to also assist in the capital and operational improvements for non-Regional neighborhood park areas; 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 specified maintenance assistance for City’s Mellon Park Walled Garden; and
WHEREAS, the PPC and City now wish to enter into a Cooperation and License Agreement to define the scope of the maintenance services to be provided.
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 Cooperation and License Agreement with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy (“PPC”) for a term not to exceed ten (10) years pursuant to which the PPC will provide specified maintenance assistance at its own cost and expense for the City’s Mellon Park Walled Garden.