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File #: 2020-0588    Version:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 7/21/2020 In control: Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs
On agenda: 7/21/2020 Final action: 7/28/2020
Enactment date: 7/28/2020 Enactment #: 413
Effective date: 7/31/2020    
Title: Resolution amending resolution 153 of 2019 to clarify the parties that will be entering into the Cooperation Agreement of Agreements relating to the shared operation and administration of the City of Pittsburgh Child Care Quality Fund.
Sponsors: Erika Strassburger, Theresa Kail-Smith, Deborah L. Gross, Bruce A. Kraus
Title
Resolution amending resolution 153 of 2019 to clarify the parties that will be entering into the Cooperation Agreement of Agreements relating to the shared operation and administration of the City of Pittsburgh Child Care Quality Fund.

Body
WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution 153 of 2019, City Council authorized the Mayor and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to enter into a Cooperation Agreement or Agreements with the Alliance for Infants and Toddlers (the "Alliance") for the shared operation and administration of the Child Care Quality Fund; and

WHEREAS, in 2017, Allegheny County Department of Human Services ("ACHDS") applied with the support of local partners Trying Together and the Alliance to be designated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Human Services, as the Region 5 Early Learning Resource Center ("ELRC") and ACDHS was selected to serve this role in 2019; and

WHEREAS, the City now wishes to partner with the entities composing the Region 5 ELRC to operate and administer the Child Care Quality Fund; and

WHEREAS, the parties have agreed that Allegheny County (on behalf of ACDHS) shall be the party entering into a Cooperation Agreement or Agreements with the City in order to serve as project manager of the City of Pittsburgh Child Care Quality Fund and further manage the work of ELRC partners Trying Together and the Alliance in this endeavor.

Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

Section 1. Sections 1 and 3 of Resolution 153 of 2019 shall be amended to read as follows:

Section 1. The Mayor and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, are hereby authorized to enter into a[n] Cooperation Agreement or Agreements with Allegheny County, on behalf of the Allegheny County Department of Human Services, [the Alliance for Infants and Toddlers] for the shared operation and administration of the Child Care Quality Fund for a period...

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