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File #: 2004-0320    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 5/4/2004 In control: Committee on Planning, Zoning & Land Use
On agenda: Final action: 5/18/2004
Enactment date: 5/18/2004 Enactment #: 243
Effective date: 5/27/2004    
Title: Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works and the Department of City Planning to enter into an agreement with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy to provide capital improvements/renovations to Schenley Plaza and to assist in the operation and management thereof.
Sponsors: Gene Ricciardi, William Peduto, Sala Udin, Alan Hertzberg, Twanda Carlisle
Indexes: AGREEMENTS
Attachments: 1. Res 243 of 2004 City-Parks Conservancy Schenley Plaza agreement, 2. Res 243 of 2004 Schenley Plaza 2004 memo
Presenter
Presented by Mr. Udin
 
Title
Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works and the Department of City Planning to enter into an agreement with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy to provide capital improvements/renovations to Schenley Plaza and to assist in the operation and management thereof.  
Body
 
WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 285 of 1998, effective May 29, 1998, the City entered into a Cooperation Agreement with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy ("PPC") to establish an alliance to provide infrastructure improvements, special care, and restoration for the City's four regional parks: Frick, Schenley, Highland and Riverview; and
 
WHEREAS, the PPC now desires to volunteer its services pursuant to said Cooperation Agreement, and has offered to provide capital improvements/renovations to Schenley Plaza and to assist in the operation and management thereof for the benefit of the general public;
 
WHEREAS, the PPC and CITY now wish to enter into an Agreement to define the scope of the services to be provided
 
NOW, THEREFORE, intending to be legally bound for and in consideration of the mutual premises hereinafter set forth, the parties hereto agree as follows:
 
Section 1.  The Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works and the Director of the Department of City Planning are hereby authorized to enter into an Agreement with the PPC, pursuant to which the PPC will make renovations/capital improvements to Schenley Plaza and will further assist in the operation and management thereof. The term of the Agreement shall be for twenty-nine years and 364 days.  The Agreement shall be approved by the City Solicitor as to form and substance.