Presenter
Presented by Mrs. Harris
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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works to enter into an agreement or agreements with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation (“PennDOT”), and/or the Oakland Transportation Management Association (“OTMA”), and/ or the University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (the “University”), including but not limited to agreements for cooperation, access, inspection and reimbursement, regarding the implementation and management of a Pedestrian Safety and Mobility Project for certain intersections on Forbes and Fifth Avenues in the Oakland portion of the City of Pittsburgh.
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WHEREAS, the OTMA has received the award of a Hometown Streets grant (Grant 1) from PennDOT, which grant will consist of Transportation Enhancement federal funding from the United States Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration in the amount of $1 million to be utilized for the Oakland Forbes/Fifth Pedestrian Safety and Mobility Project (the “Project”), a Hometown Streets/Safe Routes to School program; and
WHEREAS, the City has also received a Hometown Streets grant (Grant 2) from PennDOT of Transportation Enhancement federal funding for the Project in the amount of $483,000; and
WHEREAS, the City, PennDOT and OTMA have agreed to combine the Grants for the purposes of the Project; and
WHEREAS, the Oakland Business Improvement District (“OBID”) has agreed to and has granted the Project $63,000 for design and survey work; and
WHEREAS, the University has committed to appropriate and has appropriated the total sum of $250,000 for design, survey and pre-construction work for the Project; and
WHEREAS, the Project contemplates the planning, designing and constructing of improvements to certain Fifth Avenue intersections and certain Forbes Avenue intersections all in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh; and
WHEREAS, f...
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