City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2017-1331

• File #: 2017-1331
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 3/17/2017
• In control: Committee on Finance and Law
• On agenda: 3/21/2017
• Final action: 4/4/2017
• Enactment date: 4/4/2017
• Enactment #: 174
• Effective date: 4/10/2017
• Title: Resolution authorizing the Mayor, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to accept grants from Peoples Gas in the amount of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) for the City's "Love Your [Resilient] Block" Program and further authorizing the Mayor, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into mini-grant reimbursement agreements with qualified nonprofit organizations to complete block revitalization projects for the City's Love Your [Resilient] Block Program.
• Indexes: AGREEMENTS, GRANT(S)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/10/2017	1	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
4/4/2017	1	City Council	Passed Finally	Pass
3/29/2017	1	Standing Committee	Affirmatively Recommended	Pass
3/21/2017	1	City Council	Read and referred

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Resolution authorizing the Mayor, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to accept grants from Peoples Gas in the amount of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) for the City's "Love Your [Resilient] Block" Program and further authorizing the Mayor, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into mini-grant reimbursement agreements with qualified nonprofit organizations to complete block revitalization projects for the City's Love Your [Resilient] Block Program.

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Whereas, "Love Your [Resilient] Block" is a block revitalization program created to reduce blight and increase resilience in the City of Pittsburgh by inviting neighborhood groups from across the City to propose volunteer-led projects to transform their blocks, and, if selected by the City through a competitive process, to enter into mini-grant reimbursement agreements with the City to fund these projects; and

Whereas, Peoples Gas has offered to provide grant monies to the City of Pittsburgh in order to fund selected 2017 Love Your [Resilient] Block projects.

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

Section 1.

The Mayor, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, is authorized to accept a grant from Peoples Gas in the amount of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) for the City's Love Your Block Program. Grant monies received will be deposited into 0229400198.48311.00.

Section 2.

The Mayor, on behalf of the City, is hereby authorized to enter into mini-grant reimbursement agreements with selected qualified nonprofit organizations to complete block revitalization projects. The mini-grant reimbursement agreements shall be awarded in an amount not to exceed One Thousand and Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) per mini-grant for the initial rounds of projects for 2017 and in an amount not to exceed Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) for each of two additional grants awarded to one of the selected groups for the best project each season. Grant monies will be pa...