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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 Agreements with the Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County (the "SEA"), in order to disperse certain funds to City for and facilitate construction of 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 SEA and City will collaborate on multiple responsibilities of the I-579 construction project; and
WHEREAS, SEA is obtaining funding from multiple sources including a Multi-Model Transportation Fund Grant and Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program ("RACP") Grant, which will each require separate agreements to facilitate grant fund dispersal; and
WHEREAS, the City now wishes to enter into Agreements with the SEA in order to establish certain responsibilities between the parties for the construction of the I-579 Cap Project and to facilitate dispersal of certain funds obtained by the SEA.
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 a Cooperation Agreement with the Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County in order to establish certain responsibilities of both parties with respect to the I-579 Cap Project.
Section 2. The Mayor and Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, on behalf of the City, are further authorized to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County in order to facilitate disper...
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