City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2010-0294

• File #: 2010-0294
• Version: 3
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 4/6/2010
• In control: Committee on Public Safety Services
• Final action: 6/29/2010
• Enactment date: 6/29/2010
• Enactment #: 455
• Effective date: 7/7/2010
• Title: Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Directors of Public Safety and City Planning to enter into an agreement or agreements or contract or contracts with the Pittsburgh Community Services Inc. and One Vision, One Life Inc. University of Pittsburgh and Professor David Kennedy for the purpose of designing and implementing the Pittsburgh Initiative to Reduce Crime, at a cost not to exceed $200,000.
• Indexes: AGREEMENTS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/7/2010	3	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
6/29/2010	2	City Council	AMENDED	Pass
6/29/2010	2	City Council	Passed Finally, As Amended	Pass
6/23/2010	2	Standing Committee	AMENDED	Fail
6/23/2010	2	Standing Committee	Affirmatively Recommended	Fail
6/22/2010	2	City Council	RECOMMITTED	Pass
6/16/2010	1	Standing Committee	AMENDED	Pass
6/16/2010	1	Standing Committee	Affirmatively Recommended as Amended	Pass
4/14/2010	1	Standing Committee	Held for Cablecast Post Agenda	Pass
4/6/2010	1	City Council	Read and referred

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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Directors of Public Safety and City Planning to enter into an agreement or agreements or contract or contracts with the Pittsburgh Community Services Inc. and One Vision, One Life Inc. University of Pittsburgh and Professor David Kennedy for the purpose of designing and implementing the Pittsburgh Initiative to Reduce Crime, at a cost not to exceed $200,000.

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Whereas, the City has resolved to reduce violence in the City of Pittsburgh; and

Whereas, the City must reduce gun-related violence within its borders; and

Whereas, the City is desirous of modeling its' crime prevention programs after national best practices; and

Whereas, Professor David Kennedy of John Jay College in New York, one of the chief strategists for the Boston Strategy to Reduce Gun Violence, which has been replicated successfully various cities throughout the country and in cities in other countries, has agreed to work with the University of Pittsburgh to design and implement such a plan here; and

Whereas, it is in the best interest of the City to dramatically reduce its violent crime.

Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

Section 1. The Mayor and the Directors of Public Safety and City Planning are hereby authorized and directed to enter into an agreement or agreements or contract or contracts, in a form approved by the City Solicitor, with the Pittsburgh Community Services Inc. for $125,000 and One Vision, One Life Inc. for $75,000 University of Pittsburgh and Professor David Kennedy for the purpose of designing and implementing the Pittsburgh Initiative to Reduce Crime.

The Controller is hereby authorized and directed to encumber the funds for the agreement or contract upon execution of said agreement(s) or contract(s). The total amount of said agreement(s) or contract(s) shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00), chargeable to and payable from the following: organizat...