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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of City Planning, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to apply for a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development’s Blight Remediation Program to study City owned vacant lots in the Homewood Neighborhood. The grant proposal includes an ask of $25,000.00 with a local match of $2,500.00 to come out of the City of Pittsburgh’s 2020 Operating Budget. In the event the grant is awarded, this resolution provides for an agreement and expenditures not to exceed TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED ($27,500.00) dollars for this stated purpose.
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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 City Planning, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, are authorized to apply for grant funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development’s Blight Remediation Program in the amount of TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND ($25,000.00) dollars to study City owned vacant lots in the Homewood Neighborhood. Matching funds in the amount of TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED ($2,500.00) dollars will be provided from the 2020 City of Pittsburgh Operating Budget, JDE object account 11101.110000.53.53901.2020. In the event the grant is awarded, this resolution provides for an agreement and expenditures not to exceed TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED ($27,500.00) dollars for this stated purpose.