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File #: 2018-0852    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 9/7/2018 In control: Committee on Public Safety Services
On agenda: 9/11/2018 Final action: 9/25/2018
Enactment date: 9/25/2018 Enactment #: 651
Effective date: 9/28/2018    
Title: Resolution authorizing the Mayor and Director of the Department of Public Safety, on 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, for the purpose of receiving grant funds in the amount of three hundred fifty thousand twenty four dollars and ninety cents ($350,024.90) that will be used for Driving Under the Influence enforcement and outreach activities.
Indexes: AGREEMENTS, GRANT(S)
Attachments: 1. Summary 2018-0852.docx

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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and Director of the Department of Public Safety, on 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, for the purpose of receiving grant funds in the amount of three hundred fifty thousand twenty four dollars and ninety cents ($350,024.90) that will be used for Driving Under the Influence enforcement and outreach activities.

 

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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 the Department of Public Safety, on 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 three hundred fifty thousand twenty four dollars and ninety cents ($350,024.90). 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 2329400249.45505.00

 

Section 2.                     The Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Safety, on 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 three hundred fifty thousand twenty four dollars and ninety cents ($350,024.90) chargeable to and payable from the Grants Trust Fund 2329400249.50000.00.

Any Ordinance or Resolution or part thereof conflicting with the provisions of the Resolution, is hereby repealed so far as the same affects the Resolution.