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Meeting date/time: 10/14/2025 10:00 AM Minutes status: Draft  
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2025-2344 1 ProclamationNOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby declare October 18, 2025 to be “Iota Phi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Day” in the City of Pittsburgh.  
2025-2351 1 ProclamationNOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby commend the Susan G. Komen Foundation for their unwavering dedication to ending breast cancer; and, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby declare the month of October 2025 to be “Breast Cancer Awareness Month” in the City of Pittsburgh.  
2025-2352 1 ProclamationNOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh proudly recognizes Teresa Marie Ursula Habib and celebrates her extraordinary 80 years of life, love, and devotion; and, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby declare Wednesday, October 15, 2025 to be “Teresa Marie Ursula Habib Day” in the City of Pittsburgh.  
2025-2353 1 ProclamationNOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh proudly recognizes Ashley Cabiness for her outstanding service to our communities and congratulates her on being named to the Fab 40 under 40 Class of 2025; and, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby declare Tuesday, October 14, 2025 to be “Ashley Cabiness Day” in the City of Pittsburgh.  
2025-2356 1 ProclamationNOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby proclaim Tuesday October 14th as “GEORGE FLOYD DAY” in the City of Pittsburgh, and calls upon all residents, institutions, and organizations to reflect upon the enduring lessons of his life and death, to speak truth in the face of injustice, and to stand in unwavering solidarity with all who continue the struggle for freedom, fairness, and equality.  
2025-2357 1 ResolutionResolution transferring the amount of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) within the 2025 Operating Budget from City Council Salaries & Wages, Regular to the Office of the City Clerk for the purpose of professional services.  
2025-2345 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution 798-2023, authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Innovation & Performance, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into an agreement or agreements or amendments thereto with Change Agents Training for access to their Learning Management System and consultative assistance to adapt the City of Pittsburgh Gold Belt Workshop for e-Learning, by increasing the approved amount by Eighteen Thousand Dollars ($18,000) for an amended total cost not-to-exceed Ninety Thousand Dollars ($90,000) over five (5) years. (Waiver of Competitive Process Received)  
2025-2346 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution No. 697 of 2023, entitled “Resolution authorizing a Cooperation Agreement or Agreements with the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh in connection with the URA’s application for a Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grant for the Brighton Heights Healthy Active Living Center in the amount of TWO MILLION TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SEVEN DOLLARS ($2,229,987.00) and authorizing expenditures for this stated purpose,” to increase the grant award amount by FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($500,000.00) to TWO MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE THOUSAND NINE HUDRED EIGHTY-SEVEN DOLLARS ($2,729,987.00).  
2025-2359 1 OrdinanceOrdinance amending supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Six: Conduct, Chapters 651: Findings and Policy, 653: Human Relations Commission, and Chapter 659: Unlawful Civil Rights Practices by simplifying language to offer clarity, defining terms specific to the enforcement of antidiscrimination provisions within City Code, and preserving the antidiscrimination enforcement power of the City in the wake of federal changes.  
2025-2347 1 ResolutionResolution providing for a Reimbursement Agreement or Agreements with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for costs associated with the Preliminary Design phase of the McArdle Roadway Reconstruction Project, and providing for the payment of costs thereof, not to exceed One Million Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,200,000.00) reimbursable at eighty percent; and the municipal share of Commonwealth Incurred Costs at a cost to the City of Pittsburgh not to exceed Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00).  
2025-2348 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into a maintenance agreement with Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership for the Pittsburgh Pedestrian Wayfinding Project, at no cost to the City.  
2025-2349 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the taking, appropriating, and condemning by the City of Pittsburgh, for public roadway purposes certain property in the 20th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, owned by John & Gayle Elstner, located along Herndon Street, and authorizing the payment of just compensation and necessary and incidental acquisition costs related thereto, in the amount not to exceed Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000.00).  
2025-2358 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing Council’s consent to an extension, pursuant to § 922.05.D of the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances (the “Zoning Code”), of the deadline for the Planning Commission to act on Council Bill #2025-1993.  
2025-2354 1 OrdinanceOrdinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title One: Administrative, Article IX: Boards, Commissions and Authorities, Chapter 174A: The Pittsburgh Land Bank, by amending Section 174A.13: Policies and Procedures, Strategic Plan, and Annual Report, to modify the Pittsburgh Land Bank’s annual reporting deadline from December 31 of each year to 120 days following the end of the fiscal year.  
2025-2350 1 CommunicationCommunication from Jake Pawlak, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, submitting to City Council the attached status update from the Grants Office for the week ended October 10, 2025.  
2025-2338 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Finance and Law for October 8, 2025 with an Affirmative Recommendation.  
2025-2290 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Sol Engineering Solutions, LLC, for expert witness services in connection with a litigation matter filed in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas at G. D. 23-000081 for an amount not to exceed SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE DOLLARS AND SIXTY CENTS ($6,569.60) over one year. (Executive Session held 9/30/25)  
2025-2291 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Navada Burwell in an amount not to exceed THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($3,475.00) over one year, in full and final settlement of a claim (22C-0258) for damage to her parked vehicle from an accident with a City PW vehicle on January 19, 2022. (Executive Session held 9/30/25)  
2025-2293 1 ResolutionResolution further amending Resolution No. 857 of 2023, effective December 27, 2023, as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2024 Capital Budget, the proposed 2024 Community Development Program, and the 2024 through 2029 Capital Improvement Program” by reducing BRIDGE PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION FUND (TIP) by Fifty Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($50,000.00), increasing BRIDGE UPGRADES by Ten Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars and Zero Cents ($10,750.00), and increasing SWINDELL BRIDGE (TIP) by Seven Hundred Eighty-Five Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($785,000.00), Seven Hundred Forty-Five Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars and Zero Cents ($745,750.00) of which is reimbursable by the Federal Highway Administration and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation at no cost to the City of Pittsburgh.  
2025-2306 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Finance to enter into an agreement or agreements Clark Hill to serve as Bond Counsel for the purpose of rendering any and all opinions with respect to the Bonds and preparing such additional documents as may be necessary. Total costs shall not exceed One Hundred Thirty-Three Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($133,000.00) over a three-year period with two one-year options to extend the contract and shall be paid using proceeds from the debt issuance.  
2025-2307 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Finance to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with RT Lawrence Corporation for the provision of a remittance processing system. The cost of the remittance processing solution over three years shall not exceed Forty-Five Thousand Four Hundred Seven Dollars and Twenty-Six Cents ($45,407.26). (Waiver of Competitive Process Received)  
2025-2339 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure for October 8, 2025 with an Affirmative Recommendation.  
2025-2297 1 ResolutionResolution providing for a supplemental agreement or agreements with HDR Engineering, Inc. for costs associated with Final Design of the Swindell Bridge Project, and providing for the payment of costs thereof, not to exceed Three Million Six Hundred Eighteen Thousand Eighty-Five Dollars and Thirty-Eight Cents ($3,618,085,38), an increase of Two Million Four Hundred Forty-Four Thousand One Hundred Fifty-Seven Dollars and Eighty-One Cents ($2,444,157.81), reimbursable at 95%.  
2025-2298 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution 309 of 2024, which provided for an amended Reimbursement Agreement or Agreements with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for costs associated with the Preliminary Design, Final Design, & Right of Way phases of the Swindell Bridge construction project, and providing for the payment of costs thereof, not to exceed Four Million Five Hundred Eighty-Five Thousand Dollars ($4,585,000.00), an increase of Seven Hundred Eighty-Five Thousand Dollars ($785,000.00) from the previously executed agreement (54006.2); reimbursable at ninety five percent; and the municipal share of Commonwealth Incurred Costs not to exceed Seven Thousand Dollars ($7,000.00), no increase from the previously executed agreement (54006.2).  
2025-2299 1 ResolutionResolution providing for an amended Agreement for Construction services with Power Contracting Company for the CBD Phase 4 project at a cost thereof, not to exceed Three Million Eight Hundred Twenty-Nine Thousand Four Hundred Ten Dollars and Four Cents ($3,829,410.04), an increase of Seven Thousand Two Hundred Eight Dollars and Eighty-Four Cents ($7,208.84) from the previously legislated contract authorization (610 of 2022);  
2025-2300 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the acceptance by the City of Pittsburgh of the dedication of 35 parcels to the public right of way in the 1st, 3rd, 7th, 8th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 21st, and 22nd Wards of the City of Pittsburgh (Council Districts 1, 6, 7, 8 & 9) at no cost to the City.  
2025-2303 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with Tree Pittsburgh to conduct urban forestry programming in an amount not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00). (Waiver of Competitive Process Received)  
2025-2304 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with Landforce to conduct urban forestry programming in an amount not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00). (Waiver of Competitive Process Received)  
2025-2305 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works, to enter into an Agreement or Agreements, or the use of existing Agreements, between the City of Pittsburgh and Pashek + MTR, for the professional landscape architectural services for Ammon Park, at a cost not to exceed Three Hundred Twenty-Seven Thousand, Eight hundred and Fifteen Dollars ($327,815.00).  
2025-2340 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Land Use and Economic Development for October 8, 2025 with an Affirmative Recommendation.  
2025-2294 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of City Planning to enter into, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh a Professional Services Agreement or Agreements with Evolve Environment: Architecture, to provide services to create historic district design guidelines for the Mexican War Streets and the Manchester Historic Districts, at a total cost not to exceed Thirty Seven Thousand Five Hundred ($37,500) dollars.  
2025-2295 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of City Planning to enter on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh to enter into a Professional Services Agreement or Agreements with Practical Preservation, LLC., to provide historic preservation services to complete an updated architectural inventory and National Register assessment of Civil Rights History for the Manchester Historic District and to revise the National Register form, at a total cost not to exceed Forty Thousand ($40,000) dollars.  
2025-2341 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Recreation, Youth, and Senior Services for October 8, 2025 with an Affirmative Recommendation.  
2025-1971 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing, pursuant to Chapter 173 of the Pittsburgh City Code, the naming of Room 902 of the City-County Building to the John R. Sibbet Conference Room. (Public Hearing held 10/2/25)  
2025-2342 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Intergovernmental and Educational Affairs for October 8, 2025 with an NEGATIVE RECOMMENDATION.  
2025-2062 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into an Agreement, Agreements, and/or Amendments with the Borough of Munhall for the purpose of mutually cooperating in street operations, snow, and/or ice services, at no cost to the City.  
2025-2343 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Intergovernmental and Educational Affairs for October 8, 2025 with an Affirmative Recommendation.  
2025-2292 1 ResolutionResolution adopting Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh’s Official Sewage Facilities Plan for 5804 Bryant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15206 at no cost to the City.  
2025-2301 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing execution of a Deed, pursuant to the Summerset Cooperation Agreement of 2002, by and between the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh and the City of Pittsburgh for the sale of seven (7) parcels located in the 14 Ward of the City of Pittsburgh designated in the Deed Registry Office of Allegheny County as Block 088-L, Lot 150, Block 088-M, Lot 200, Block 088-H, Lot 161, Block 128-R, Lot 100, Block 128-R, Lot 200, Block 129-A, Lot 160, and Block 129-N, Lot 040 (Council District 5), at no cost to the City.  
2025-2302 2 ResolutionResolution authorizing execution of a Deed, by and between the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh and the City of Pittsburgh, for the sale purchase of 21 parcels in the 10th, 14th, 16th, and 24th Wards of the City of Pittsburgh (Council Districts 1, 3, 5, 7, & 9) to be dedicated as public greenspace at no cost to the City.  
2025-2332 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution 208 of 2025, which authorized an amended cooperation agreement or agreements with the City of Pittsburgh Equipment Leasing Authority for the purchase and leasing of vehicles, equipment and accessories, equipment support infrastructure, and professional services in fiscal year 2025, by increasing the authorized amount by Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($750,000.00) to purchase vehicles and equipment for the Department of Public Works, for a new total not to exceed Eight Million Seven Hundred Forty-Nine Thousand Three Hundred Nineteen Dollars and Thirty-Seven Cents ($8,749,319.37).