City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2011-1994

• File #: 2011-1994
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 8/30/2011
• In control: Committee on Public Safety Services
• Final action: 9/6/2011
• Enactment date: 9/6/2011
• Enactment #: 574
• Effective date: 9/9/2011
• Title: Resolution authorizing the City to enter into a Grant Agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in the amount of $239,991.48.
• Indexes: AGREEMENTS, GRANT(S)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/9/2011	1	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
9/6/2011	1	City Council	Passed Finally	Pass
8/31/2011	1	Standing Committee	Affirmatively Recommended	Pass
8/30/2011	1	City Council	Read and referred
8/30/2011	1	City Council	Waived under Rule 8	Pass

Presenter
Presented by Ms. Smith

Title
Resolution authorizing the City to enter into a Grant Agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in the amount of $239,991.48.

Body
WHEREAS, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ("FMCSA") provides grant monies for projects involving the Federal grant funding assistance for the implementation of a Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program; and

WHEREAS, the City's Bureau of Police has applied for and received a grant retroactive for May 1, 2011, until September 30, 2012, from FMCSA for this purpose; and

WHEREAS, the parties now wish to enter into a grant agreement setting forth the duties and responsibilities of the parties.

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

Section 1. The Mayor and the Chief of Police are hereby authorized to enter into a Grant Agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, for the receipt of grant monies in the amount of two hundred thirty-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-one dollars and forty-eight cents ($239,991.48). These funds will be used to support the City's commercial vehicle checkpoint program. The Grant Agreement shall be approved as to form and substance by the City Solicitor and monies shall be deposited into the Grants Trust Fund: account 450500, fund 2940, organization code 230000, project PR10070, budget year 2011, Department of Public Safety - Bureau of Police.

Section 2. The Chief of Police, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, is hereby further authorized to enter into agreement or agreements, contract or contracts, and to make all legitimate expenditures required under the terms and conditions of the Grant Agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, outlined in Section 1 of this resolution. Said agreement or agreements, contract or contracts, or expendi...