Presenter
Presented by Mrs. Harris
Title
Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works and the Department of Parks and Recreation to enter into a License, Maintenance and Cooperation Agreement with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy to provide capital improvements/renovations and assist with maintenance/management for Mellon Square Park.
Body
WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 285 of 1998, effective May 29, 1998, the City entered into a Cooperation Agreement with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy ("PPC") to establish an alliance to provide infrastructure improvements, special care, and restoration for the City's four regional parks: Frick, Schenley, Highland and Riverview; and
WHEREAS, the Cooperation Agreement also contemplates the PPC's assistance with other non-regional City parks; and
WHEREAS, PPC now desires to volunteer its services to provide capital improvements/renovations to Mellon Square Park and to assist with the maintenance/management thereof for the benefit of the general public;
WHEREAS, the PPC and the City now wish to enter into a License, Maintenance, and Cooperation Agreement to define the scope of the services to be provided at Mellon Square Park.
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 Works and the Director of the Department of Parks and Recreation are hereby authorized to enter into a License, Maintenance, and Cooperation Agreement with the PPC, pursuant to which the PPC will make renovations/capital improvements to Mellon Square Park and will further assist with the maintenance/management thereof. The term of the License, Maintenance, and Cooperation Agreement shall be no longer than twenty-nine years and 364 days. The Agreement shall be approved by the City Solicitor as to form and substance.