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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Directors of Public Safety and City Planning to enter into an agreement or agreements or contract or contracts with the University of Pittsburgh and the City University of New York for the purpose of designing and implementing the Pittsburgh Initiative to Reduce Crime, at a cost not to exceed $200,000.
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Whereas, the City has resolved to reduce violence in the City of Pittsburgh; and
Whereas, the City must reduce gun-related violence within its borders; and
Whereas, the City is desirous of modeling its' crime prevention programs after national best practices; and
Whereas, Professor David Kennedy of John Jay College in New York, one of the chief strategists for the Boston Strategy to Reduce Gun Violence, which has been replicated successfully various cities throughout the country and in cities in other countries, has agreed to work with the University of Pittsburgh to design and implement such a plan here; and
Whereas, it is in the best interest of the City to dramatically reduce its violent crime.
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. The Mayor and the Directors of Public Safety and City Planning are hereby authorized and directed to enter into an agreement or agreements or contract or contracts, in a form approved by the City Solicitor, with the University of Pittsburgh and the City University of New York for the purpose of designing and implementing the Pittsburgh Initiative to Reduce Crime.
The Controller is hereby authorized and directed to encumber the funds for the agreement or contract upon execution of said agreement(s) or contract(s). The total amount of said agreement(s) or contract(s) shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00), chargeable to and payable from the following: organization 230000, subclass 150, account 526100, fund 1000, budget year 2008.