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Resolution amending Resolution 181 of 2020, which authorized the Mayor and the Director of the Department of City Planning, to enter into mini-grant reimbursement agreements for the 2020 Love Your Block program, in order to add financial account information for projects completed in 2020 as well as projects that were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, at a total cost not to exceed Fifty One Thousand Five Hundred Eighty Two Dollars and Two Cents ($51,582.02)
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Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. Resolution 181 of 2020, entitled “Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of City Planning, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to utilize grant funding previously accepted from Peoples Gas, through Resolution No. 174 of 2017 and Resolution No. 843 of 2015, in the amount of Twenty-Six Thousand Five Hundred And Eighty Two Dollars And Two Cents ($26,582.02) for the Love Your Block Program and further authorizing the Mayor, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into mini-grant reimbursement agreements with qualified nonprofit and community-based organizations to complete block revitalization projects at a cost not to exceed Fifty One Thousand Five Hundred and Eighty Two Dollars and Two Cents ($51,582.02),” is here by amended as follows:
Section 2. The Mayor and Director of the Department of City Planning, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, are authorized to utilize grant funding previously accepted from Peoples Gas in the amount of Twenty-Six Thousand Five Hundred And Eighty Two Dollars And Two Cents ($26,582.02) for the Love Your Block Program.
Section 3. The Mayor and Director of the Department of City Planning, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, are hereby authorized to utilize Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) in funds budgeted in the 2020 Operating Budget.
Section 4. The Mayor and Director of the Department of City Planning, on behalf of the City, are hereby authorized to enter into mini-grant reimbursement agreements with selected qualified nonprofit organizations to complete block revitalization projects at a cost not to exceed Fifty One Thousand Five Hundred and Eighty Two Dollars and Two Cents ($51,582.02).
The mini-grant reimbursement agreements shall be awarded in an amount not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) as indicated in Sections 5 and 6 below. The mini-grant reimbursement agreements will be approved by the City Solicitor as to form and substance and shall contain such other terms and conditions as may be in the best interest of the City. All reimbursements shall be made to groups through the mini-grant reimbursement agreements.
Section 5. The selected qualified nonprofit organizations that have completed projects in 2020 and are awaiting execution of the mini-grant reimbursement agreements are listed below with the proper JDE account number:
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Group Name |
Amount Awarded |
JDE Account Number |
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Bloomfield Garfield Corporation (Octopus Garden) |
$1,500 |
0229400198.58101.00 |
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East Allegheny Community Council (East Commons Garden at Allegheny Commons Park) |
$1,500 |
11101.110000.58.58101.2020 |
|
Friendship Community Group |
$1,500 |
11101.110000.58.58101.2020 |
|
Lawrenceville United |
$3,000 |
0229400171.58101.00 |
|
Project Love Coalition |
$1,500 |
11101.110000.58.58101.2020 |
|
South Side Community Council (Friends of South Side Park) |
$1,500 |
11101.110000.58.58101.2020 |
Section 6. The selected qualified nonprofit organizations whose Love Your Block projects have been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and who will be completing projects in 2021 are listed below with the proper JDE account number:
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Group Name |
Amount Awarded |
JDE Account Number |
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Larimer Consensus Group (African Healing Garden) |
$1,500 |
0229400171.58101.00 |
|
Allegheny West Civic Council |
$1,500 |
0229400198.58101.00 |
|
Pittsburgh Urban Garden Project (Allendale Acres Community Garden) |
$1,500 |
0229400198.58101.00 |
|
Beltzhoover Neighborhood Council |
$1,500 |
0229400198.58101.00 |
|
Bloomfield Garfield Corporation |
$1,500 |
0229400198.58101.00 |
|
Brookline Together |
$1,500 |
0229400198.58101.00 |
|
Boom Concepts |
$5,000 |
0229400198.58101.00 |
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Community Alliance of Spring Garden |
$1,500 |
11101.110000.58.58101.2020 |
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Hill District Consensus Group |
$1,500 |
11101.110000.58.58101.2020 |
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Mount Washington CDC (Neighbors on the Mount) |
$1,500 |
11101.110000.58.58101.2020 |
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Mount Washington CDC |
$1,500 |
11101.110000.58.58101.2020 |
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Mt. Oliver City/St. Clair Community Group |
$1,500 |
11101.110000.58.58101.2020 |
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Operation Better Block (Operation Better Block Cluster 8+9) |
$1,500 |
11101.110000.58.58101.2020 |
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Perry Hilltop Citizens Council |
$3,000 |
0229400171.58101.00 |
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Point Breeze Organization |
$1,500 |
11101.110000.58.58101.2020 |
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Polish Hill Civic Association |
$1,500 |
11101.110000.58.58101.2020 |
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Oakland Planning and Development Corporation (South Oakland Neighborhood Group) |
$1,500 |
11101.110000.58.58101.2020 |
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South Side Community Council |
$1,500 |
11101.110000.58.58101.2020 |
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Stanton Heights Neighborhood Association |
$2,000 |
0229400171.58101.00 |
|
Uptown Partners |
$1,500 |
11101.110000.58.58101.2020 |