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File #: 2021-1635    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 6/17/2021 In control: Committee on Public Safety Services
On agenda: 6/22/2021 Final action: 7/6/2021
Enactment date: 7/6/2021 Enactment #: 440
Effective date: 7/12/2021    
Title: Resolution authorizing the Mayor and Director of Public Safety, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into a Police Traffic Services Grant Agreement with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Division of Highway Safety, for the purpose of receiving funds in the amount of THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND FIFTY-SEVEN DOLLARS AND TEN CENTS ($380,057.10) that will be used for enforcement of drunk and impaired driving as well as related outreach activities.
Indexes: AGREEMENTS, GRANT(S)
Attachments: 1. 2021-1635 Cover Letter PTS grant letter, 2. Summary 2021-1635
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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and Director of Public Safety, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into a Police Traffic Services Grant Agreement with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Division of Highway Safety, for the purpose of receiving funds in the amount of THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND FIFTY-SEVEN DOLLARS AND TEN CENTS ($380,057.10) that will be used for enforcement of drunk and impaired driving as well as related 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 Police Traffic Services Grant Agreement with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Division of Highway Safety for the receipt of grant monies in the amount of THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND FIFTY-SEVEN DOLLARS AND TEN CENTS ($380,057.10). With this grant, the City's Bureau of Police will fund enforcement of violations through sobriety checkpoints and conduct outreach activities designed to raise public awareness of drunk and impaired driving. The Police Traffic Services Grant Agreement shall be approved as to form by the City Solicitor and monies shall be deposited into the following account:
2329400360.45505.00

Section 2. The Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Safety are hereby further authorized on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh to enter into an agreement or agreements and to make all legitimate expenditures required under the terms and conditions of the Police Traffic Services Grant Agreement with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Division of Highway Safety as outlined in Section 1 above. Said agreement or agreements, or expenditures, shall not exceed THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND FIFTY-SEVEN DOLLARS AND TEN CENTS ($380,057.10) chargeable to and payable from the following account:
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