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File #: 2016-0739    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 9/2/2016 In control: Committee on Public Safety Services
On agenda: 9/7/2016 Final action: 9/20/2016
Enactment date: 9/20/2016 Enactment #: 560
Effective date: 9/26/2016    
Title: Resolution authorizing the Mayor, Director of the Department of Public Safety, and the Chief of Police, on the behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Division of Highway Safety, Police Traffic Services Grant (Federal Fiscal Year 2017), for the purpose of receiving grant funds in the amount of one hundred ninety thousand dollars ($190,000.00) that will be used for Driving Under the Influence enforcement and outreach activities.
Indexes: AGREEMENTS, GRANT(S)
Attachments: 1. Summary 2016-0739
Title
Resolution authorizing the Mayor, Director of the Department of Public Safety, and the Chief of Police, on the behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Division of Highway Safety, Police Traffic Services Grant (Federal Fiscal Year 2017), for the purpose of receiving grant funds in the amount of one hundred ninety thousand dollars ($190,000.00) that will be used for Driving Under the Influence enforcement and outreach activities.

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

Section 1. The Mayor, the Director of the Department of Public Safety, and the Chief of Police, on the behalf of the City of Pittsburgh are hereby authorized to enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Division of Highway Safety, Police Traffic Services Grant, for the receipt of grant monies in the amount of one hundred ninety thousand dollars ($190,000.00). With this grant, the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police will increase public awareness of the problems associated with drinking and driving by conducting sobriety checkpoints. The grant agreement shall be approved as to form and substance by the City Solicitor and monies shall be deposited into the Grants Trust Fund 2329400192.45505.00

Section 2. The Mayor, the Director of the Department of Public Safety, and the Chief of Police, on the behalf of the City of Pittsburgh are hereby further authorized to enter into agreement or agreements, contract or contracts, and to make all legitimate expenditures required under the terms and conditions of the grant agreement with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Division of Highway Safety, Police Traffic Services Grant, outlined in Section 1 of this resolution. Said agreement or agreements, contract or contracts, or expenditures, shall not exceed one hundred ninety thousand dollars ($190,000.00) ...

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