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Resolution amending Resolution No. 819 of 2019, effective December 16, 2019, entitled "Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of City Planning, in cooperation with the Director of the Department of Public Works, to accept funds from an Allegheny Regional Assets District "RADical ImPAct Grant" in the amount of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) to fund public art projects in Emerald View Park, Frick Park, Highland Park, Riverview Park, and Schenley Park" to restate the recitals and further describe the use of funds.
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Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. The Recitals of Resolution 819 of 2019, effective December 16, 2019, are hereby amended to read as follows:
WHEREAS, the City's Department of City Planning includes a Public Art + Civic Design division, which seeks to introduce new and innovative public art programs around the City of Pittsburgh; and
WHEREAS, the Allegheny Regional Asset District ("RAD") has invested in the creation and preservation of regional public assets and institutions since 1995; and
WHEREAS, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of RAD's funding programs, a "RADical ImPAct Grant" was created to assist current RAD Assets in the creation of bold and inspiring projects; and
WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh cooperated with Allegheny County in a joint application to this grant; and
WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County were together awarded a grant of 1.5 million dollars to fund public art programs, of which $500,000 is allocated for use by the City of Pittsburgh, and
WHEREAS, the City's award will fund five (5) eight (8) public art projects in 20202021, in the amount of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) each for individual amounts ranging from Thirty Thousand and no/100 Dollars ($30,000) to One Hundred Thousand and no/100 Dollars ($100,000), with at least one in each RAD Asset City Park, those being Emerald View Park, Frick ...
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