City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2016-0722

• File #: 2016-0722
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 8/26/2016
• In control: Committee on Finance and Law
• On agenda: 8/30/2016
• Final action: 9/13/2016
• Enactment date: 9/13/2016
• Enactment #: 533
• Effective date: 9/20/2016
• Title: Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Finance to enter into an agreement with MuniServices to purchase a subscription service for taxpayer location services as well as training for Finance staff to improve their methods for taxpayer discovery and collection service. Total cost will be a one-time payment not to exceed Seventy Thousand Dollars ($70,000) plus a 32.4% contingency fee of all revenue that MuniServices individually brings in to the City that tax year. This contingency fee is a one-time finder's fee for each new account and will not be applied to following years.
• Indexes: AGREEMENTS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/20/2016	1	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
9/13/2016	1	City Council	Passed Finally	Pass
9/7/2016	1	Standing Committee	Affirmatively Recommended	Pass
8/30/2016	1	City Council	Read and referred

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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Finance to enter into an agreement with MuniServices to purchase a subscription service for taxpayer location services as well as training for Finance staff to improve their methods for taxpayer discovery and collection service.  Total cost will be a one-time payment not to exceed Seventy Thousand Dollars ($70,000) plus a 32.4% contingency fee of all revenue that MuniServices individually brings in to the City that tax year.  This contingency fee is a one-time finder’s fee for each new account and will not be applied to following years.

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

Section 1.                     The Mayor and the Director of Finance are authorized to enter into a contract or agreement, or use of existing contract or agreement with a vendor for the purpose of subscribing to a taxpayer location and collection service that includes training for Finance Department staff.  Said contract or agreement shall be in a form approved by the City Solicitor, in a cost not to exceed seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) plus a 32.4% contingency fee of all revenue that MuniServices individually brings in to the City that tax year for a period beginning January 1^st 2017 and ending December 31^st 2019.  This agreement is subject to the appropriation of funds by City Council in future budget years and chargeable to and payable from:

$10,000 from JDE account 11101.107000.53901.2016, Item Number 1156

$60,000 from JDE account 11101.107000.53901.2017, Item Number 1156