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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh ("City"), to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation ("PennDOT") and the Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County (the "SEA"), concerning the distribution of certain federal grant monies and the assignment of certain responsibilities in connection with the I-579 Cap Project.
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WHEREAS, the City wants to participate in the construction and obtain ownership of a cover over a depressed section of State Route (SR) 579 (a/k/a Interstate 579) between Centre Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard and open green space and certain other improvements over such cover and adjacent property (the "I-579 Cap Project"); and
WHEREAS, the United States Department of Transportation awarded SEA a FY 2016 TIGER Discretionary Grant to be applied toward the construction of the I-579 Cap Project, amounting to nineteen million dollars, ($19,000,000.00); and
WHEREAS, PennDOT has agreed to assist in the receipt of such funds from the FHWA and disbursement to the City, on the Authority's behalf, of the FY 2016 TIGER Discretionary Grant; and
WHEREAS, the City will be collaborating with SEA and PennDOT on the division of construction and administrative responsibilities for the I-579 Cap Project; and
WHEREAS, the City now wishes to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with PennDOT and SEA to establish mechanisms for dispersal of the FY 2016 TIGER Discretionary Grant and determine certain responsibilities surrounding construction of the I-579 Cap Project.
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. The Mayor and Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, on behalf of the City, are now authorized to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the Sports & Exhibition Authority of ...
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