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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Directors of the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Finance to enter into a Joint Management and Operating Agreement for The City-County Building.
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WHEREAS, pursuant to the Act of April 18, 1913, P.L. 96, as amended by the Act of March 26, 1915, codified at Pa. Stat. Ann. tit. 53, ? 1331 et. seq., the Pennsylvania General Assembly authorized counties in the Commonwealth and cities in which the county-seat is located to erect a joint city and county building to be used by a city and a county for the conduct of their respective governmental affairs; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the legal authority granted by the Acts of the General Assembly described above, the City of Pittsburgh (the "City") and Allegheny County (the "County") (may also be referred to herein as a Party or jointly as the "Parties") together began the construction of a building in 1915 on a parcel of land bound by Ross Street, Forbes Avenue (formerly Diamond Avenue), Grant Street and Fourth Avenue within the City of Pittsburgh, hereinafter the land and building are collectively referred to as the "Property;" and
WHEREAS, the City and the County completed construction of the building on the Property in 1917; and
WHEREAS, the building constructed by the City and the County consists of nine (9) main floors, mezzanine levels, a subbasement, a basement, two (2) rooftop buildings, and an elevator penthouse, and has the postal address of 414 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Zip Code - 15219, and has been called the "City-County Building," hereinafter referred to as the "CCB;" and
WHEREAS, the City and the County, as the joint owners of the CCB, entered into an agreement dated May 13, 1915, hereinafter referred to as the "Original CCB Operating Agreement," under which the City and the County divided the occupancy of the space in the CCB and agreed to share the costs and expenses of operating, maintaining and repairing the CCB; an...
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