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File #: 2021-1806    Version:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 8/27/2021 In control: Committee on Finance and Law
On agenda: 8/31/2021 Final action: 9/14/2021
Enactment date: 9/14/2021 Enactment #: 580
Effective date: 9/22/2021    
Title: Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (URA) for the completion of projects approved in the City of Pittsburgh's American Rescue Plan, at a cost not to exceed Seventy-Four Million Eight Hundred Seventy-Eight Thousand Eight Hundred and Eleven Dollars ($74,878,811).
Indexes: AGREEMENTS
Attachments: 1. 2021-1806 Cover Letter-URA ARP - Letter_kp signed, 2. Summary 2021-1806
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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (URA) for the completion of projects approved in the City of Pittsburgh's American Rescue Plan, at a cost not to exceed Seventy-Four Million Eight Hundred Seventy-Eight Thousand Eight Hundred and Eleven Dollars ($74,878,811).

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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 Office of Management and Budget, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, are hereby authorized to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh for the completion of projects approved in the City of Pittsburgh's American Rescue Plan, at a cost not to exceed Seventy-Four Million Eight Hundred Seventy-Eight Thousand Eight Hundred and Eleven Dollars ($74,878,811).

Funds to the URA shall be paid from the American Rescue Plan Trust Fund, JDE account 0222905500.53901.00.

Section 2. The projects and dollar amounts to be included in the Agreement or Agreements shall be as follows:

$100,000 Immigration court program match
$2,800,000 Penn Circle 2-way conversion
$2,000,000 Broadway Avenue development
$7,000,000 Avenues of Hope
$2,000,000 Lexington/Homewood development
$1,000,000 Jasmine Nyree campus
$2,000,000 Gladstone
$3,500,000 COVID-19 small business grants
$21,478,811 Housing - for sale home ownership
$5,000,000 Housing - protection of existing affordable housing
$5,000,000 Housing - community land trust
$10,000,000 Housing - homeownership utilities program
$2,000,000 PittSTAR - artists
$1,000,000 PittSTAR - permanent street seating
$10,000,000 Pittsburgh Land Bank

Section 3. The City of Pittsburgh reserves the right to re-appropriate funds from said Agreement or Agreements.

Section 4. Said Agreement or Agreements shall include terms indicating that the URA will follow all rules and compliance g...

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