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Resolution authorizing and directing the Mayor and the Director, Department of Finance to terminate the 1991 cooperation agreement between the City of Pittsburgh and County of Allegheny for the lease of the Municipal Courts Building, and further, forthwith, to grant and convey the Municipal Courts Building to the County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or to any other interested party.
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WHEREAS, in 1991, the City, the County of Allegheny (the "County"), the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (the "URA") and the Public Parking Authority of Pittsburgh (the "Parking Authority"; "PPAP") entered into a series of agreements to acquire, clear and prepare the sites related to the construction of the new Allegheny County Jail ("ACJ"), a public safety complex known as the Municipal Courts Building ("MCB") and a surface parking facility; and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to the May 2, 1991 Cooperation Agreement between the City, County, URA and PPAP ("1991 Co-Op"), the City constructed the MCB, which the City is obligated to maintain at City taxpayer expense and the County is entitled to rent-free occupancy for a term to expire November 15, 2046; and,
WHEREAS, at the time of the execution of the 1991 Co-Op, the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh was the appointing authority, subject to Council approval, of up to seventeen (17) city magistrates with jurisdiction over criminal matters and City ordinance violations (see ?? 223-226, Home Rule Charter); and,
WHEREAS, the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh was a statutory member of the Allegheny County Jail Oversight Board until the General Assembly reorganized the Board in 2009, removing the mayoral seat; and,
WHEREAS, the Fifth Judicial District of the Pennsylvania Courts, with the approval of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, began in 2002 the reorganization of the judicial district's minor judiciary and absorbed the former Pittsburgh Magistrates Court, replacing the appointed magistrates with the elected dist...
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