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2006-0365
| 1 | | Proclamation | NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh acknowledges and commends the work and accomplishments of Ronald F. Maxwell, Mark Bussler, and Inecom Entertainment Company; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby proclaim Tuesday, May 2, 2006 "Horses of Gettysburg Day" in the City of Pittsburgh. | Adopted | Pass |
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2006-0366
| 1 | | Proclamation | NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh recognizes and commends the Hearts in the Park Walk and all sponsors and participants; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby proclaim Saturday, May 6, 2006 "Hearts in the Park" day in the City of Pittsburgh. | Adopted | Pass |
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2006-0367
| 1 | | Proclamation | NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh salutes the Ten Year Anniversary of the Carnegie Science Center Awards, commends the Carnegie Science Center for continuing to raise the profile of science in our everyday lives, and thanks the Carnegie Science Center Awardees for excellence in innovation. | Adopted | Pass |
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2006-0368
| 1 | | Proclamation | NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby declare Tuesday, May2, 2006 "Historic Preservation Day" in the City of Pittsburgh. | Adopted | Pass |
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2006-0369
| 1 | | Proclamation | NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby declare May 2, 2006 "Pittsburgh Symphony Day" in the City of Pittsburgh | Adopted | Pass |
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2006-0370
| 1 | | Proclamation | NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh declares May 6, 2006 as "Light of Life Rescue Mission Day." | Adopted | Pass |
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2006-0371
| 1 | | Proclamation | NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh congratulates and commends Mr. Babusci for his years of dedication to his students and his commitment to education; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby declares Friday, May 5, 2006, "Roger Babusci Jr. Day" in the City of Pittsburgh. | Adopted | Pass |
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2006-0372
| 1 | | Proclamation | NOW, THEREFORE LET IT BE RESOLVED, in celebration and gratitude for his tireless and diligent efforts, the Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby wishes to sincerely commend the Reverend Dr. J. Van Alfred Winsett for thirty three years of dedicated service to both his congregation and to the Hill District community as a whole.
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2006-0373
| 1 | | Proclamation | NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby commend Harry Readshaw for unrelenting efforts and dedication to the citizens of the 36th Legislative District, this dedication has earned him the recognition of Man of the Year; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby proclaim Friday, May 5, 2006 as "Representative Harry Readshaw Day" in the City of Pittsburgh. | Adopted | Pass |
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2006-0374
| 1 | | Proclamation | NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh joins the community in recognizing the NAACP Pittsburgh Branch for its much appreciated and needed service to the African-American Community and for "Still Fighting for Freedom!" | Adopted | Pass |
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2006-0375
| 1 | | Proclamation | NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh extends its thanks and appreciation to the Pittsburgh Action Against Rape for their individual and collective efforts to make their dream for "a country where no sexual violence victim goes un-served or ever feels that there is no path to justice" a reality.
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2006-0376
| 1 | | Proclamation | NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby commend Wallace J. Zielinski for effortlessly fostering knowledge and appreciation of Polish culture, history and traditions to the American people, strengthening understanding and friendship between Americans and Poles and fostering a deeper understanding of Polish heritage among Americans of Polish descent for the enrichment of American Culture and commends him on his acceptance of the Polonian of the Year Award; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby declares Saturday, May 6, 2006 as "Wallace J. Zielinski Day" in the City of Pittsburgh. | Adopted | Pass |
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2006-0377
| 1 | | Proclamation | NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby opposes both state and national franchising legislation currently being considered by the Pennsylvania State Legislature and the United States Congress; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh will send this resolution to all Pennsylvania State Representatives, all Pennsylvania State Senators, the Pennsylvania Congressional delegation, and the two U.S. Senators from Pennsylvania. | Adopted | Pass |
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2006-0356
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution vacating a portion of Preble Avenue in the 27th Ward, 1st Council District, of the City of Pittsburgh. | Read and referred | |
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2006-0362
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution amending and supplementing Resolution No. 891, effective January 1, 2003, as amended, entitled: "Adopting and approving the 2003 Capital Budget and the 2003 Community Development Block Grant Program; and approving the 2003 through 2008 Capital Improvement Program, by adjusting various line items in conformance with City Council's 2003 Capital Budget amendments." by adding Colrain Street Retaining Wall $17,000 and by reducing Concrete Slab Replacement by $17,000.00 in Council District 4. | Waived under Rule 8 | Pass |
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2006-0362
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution amending and supplementing Resolution No. 891, effective January 1, 2003, as amended, entitled: "Adopting and approving the 2003 Capital Budget and the 2003 Community Development Block Grant Program; and approving the 2003 through 2008 Capital Improvement Program, by adjusting various line items in conformance with City Council's 2003 Capital Budget amendments." by adding Colrain Street Retaining Wall $17,000 and by reducing Concrete Slab Replacement by $17,000.00 in Council District 4. | Read and referred | |
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2006-0363
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution amending and supplementing Resolution No. 861, effective January 1, 2000, as amended, entitled: "Adopting and approving the 2000 Capital Budget and the 2000 Community Development Block Grant Program; and approving the 2000 through 2005 Capital Improvement Program, by adjusting various line items in conformance with City Council's 2000 Capital Budget amendments," by adding new line item "Colerain Retaining Wall" $12,821.00, and by decreasing "Overbrook Deck Hockey Court" by $3,636, "Banksville School Bathrooms" $8,000.00 and various other projects to reflect actual expenditures in Council District 4. | Waived under Rule 8 | Pass |
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2006-0363
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution amending and supplementing Resolution No. 861, effective January 1, 2000, as amended, entitled: "Adopting and approving the 2000 Capital Budget and the 2000 Community Development Block Grant Program; and approving the 2000 through 2005 Capital Improvement Program, by adjusting various line items in conformance with City Council's 2000 Capital Budget amendments," by adding new line item "Colerain Retaining Wall" $12,821.00, and by decreasing "Overbrook Deck Hockey Court" by $3,636, "Banksville School Bathrooms" $8,000.00 and various other projects to reflect actual expenditures in Council District 4. | Read and referred | |
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2006-0364
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution Further Amending Resolution No. 424 of 2001, effective June 19, 2001, entitled "Further amending Resolution No. 976 effective January 1, 1996, as amended, Adopting and Approving the 1996 Capital Budget and the 1996 Community Development Block Grant by creating a new line item, City Clerk Office Modernization Project Grant # 2271000 for the purpose of augmenting neighborhood needs programs and/or the District Improvement Fund, and transferring $1,128,892.00 from Grant/Liberty to City Clerk's Office Modernization" by adding Colerain Street Retaining Wall and by reducing Deck Hockey Phillip's Park from $30,000.00 to 0.00 and Brookline T-Ball from $13,000.00 to $11,412.00 in Council District 4. | Waived under Rule 8 | Pass |
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2006-0364
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution Further Amending Resolution No. 424 of 2001, effective June 19, 2001, entitled "Further amending Resolution No. 976 effective January 1, 1996, as amended, Adopting and Approving the 1996 Capital Budget and the 1996 Community Development Block Grant by creating a new line item, City Clerk Office Modernization Project Grant # 2271000 for the purpose of augmenting neighborhood needs programs and/or the District Improvement Fund, and transferring $1,128,892.00 from Grant/Liberty to City Clerk's Office Modernization" by adding Colerain Street Retaining Wall and by reducing Deck Hockey Phillip's Park from $30,000.00 to 0.00 and Brookline T-Ball from $13,000.00 to $11,412.00 in Council District 4. | Read and referred | |
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2006-0353
| 1 | | Resolution | RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE INCURRING OF NON-ELECTORAL DEBT THROUGH THE ISSUANCE OF THREE SERIES OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA (THE "LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNIT") IN THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF TWO HUNDRED FORTY-ONE MILLION NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($241,975,000). | Read and referred | |
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2006-0354
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution providing for the issuance of a $3,145.85 warrant in favor of Katherine M. Secrest, 1413 Morningside Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, in settlement of a claim for vehicle damage due to a PWSA truck, leased from the City of Pittsburgh Equipment Leasing Authority on March 1, 2006. | Read and referred | |
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2006-0355
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution providing for the issuance of a $3,000.00 warrant in favor of Eileen & Paul Schmidt, c/o Brian C. Fawber, Esquire, Schiffman & Wojdowski, 1300 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, in settlement of a lawsuit in which Plaintiff's wife was injured on November 29, 2001. | Read and referred | |
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2006-0358
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution authorizing the City of Pittsburgh to be designated as the Local Sponsor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Protection's Streets Run Watershed remediation plan. | Read and referred | |
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2006-0359
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution Further amending Resolution No. 121 of 2003, effective March 14, 2003 entitled, “Resolution providing for an Agreement or Agreements, or use of existing Agreements and/or a Contract or Contracts, or use of existing Contracts, and for the purchase of materials, supplies, equipment, and/or services for various projects in connection with City Council's 2003 Community Needs Program; and providing for the payment of the costs thereof,” by adding Colrain Street Retaining Wall $17,000 and by reducing Concrete Slab Replacement by $17,000.00 in Council District 4. | Read and referred | |
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2006-0360
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution Further amending Resolution No. 230, effective April 19, 2000, entitled "Providing for an Agreement or Agreements, or use of existing Agreements and/or a Contract or Contracts, or use of existing Contracts, and for the purchase of materials, supplies, equipment, and/or services for various projects in connection with the Neighborhood Needs Program in Council District 4; and providing for the payment of the costs thereof," by adding new line item "Colerain Retaining Wall" $12,821.00, and by decreasing "Overbrook Deck Hockey Court" by $3,636, "Banksville School Bathrooms" $8,000.00 and various other projects to reflect actual expenditures in Council District 4. Total of all projects is not to exceed $970,000.00 | Waived under Rule 8 | Pass |
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2006-0360
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution Further amending Resolution No. 230, effective April 19, 2000, entitled "Providing for an Agreement or Agreements, or use of existing Agreements and/or a Contract or Contracts, or use of existing Contracts, and for the purchase of materials, supplies, equipment, and/or services for various projects in connection with the Neighborhood Needs Program in Council District 4; and providing for the payment of the costs thereof," by adding new line item "Colerain Retaining Wall" $12,821.00, and by decreasing "Overbrook Deck Hockey Court" by $3,636, "Banksville School Bathrooms" $8,000.00 and various other projects to reflect actual expenditures in Council District 4. Total of all projects is not to exceed $970,000.00 | Read and referred | |
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2006-0361
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution Further amending Resolution No. 654, effective October 25, 2001, entitled, “Resolution providing for an Agreement or Agreements, or use of existing Agreements and/or a Contract or Contracts, or use of existing Contracts, and for the purchase of materials, supplies, equipment, and/or services for various projects in connection with City Council's 2001 Neighborhood Needs Supplement Program; and providing for the payment of the costs thereof,” by adding Colerain Street Retaining Wall $31,588.00 and by reducing Deck Hockey Phillip's Park from $30,000.00 to $0.00 and Brookline T-Ball from $13,000.00 to $11,412.00 in Council District 4. | Waived under Rule 8 | Pass |
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2006-0361
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution Further amending Resolution No. 654, effective October 25, 2001, entitled, “Resolution providing for an Agreement or Agreements, or use of existing Agreements and/or a Contract or Contracts, or use of existing Contracts, and for the purchase of materials, supplies, equipment, and/or services for various projects in connection with City Council's 2001 Neighborhood Needs Supplement Program; and providing for the payment of the costs thereof,” by adding Colerain Street Retaining Wall $31,588.00 and by reducing Deck Hockey Phillip's Park from $30,000.00 to $0.00 and Brookline T-Ball from $13,000.00 to $11,412.00 in Council District 4. | Read and referred | |
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2006-0357
| 1 | | Communication | Communication from Acting Controller Tony Pokora submitting the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) as of December 31, 2005. | Read, Received and Filed | |
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2006-0332
| 1 | | Appointment-Requiring Vote | Resolution authorizing the Appointment of Paul Leger as the Director of the Department of Finance, pending Council's confirmaiton. | Approved | Pass |
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2006-0348
| 1 | | Report | Report of the Committee on Finance and Budget for April 26, 2006. | Read, Received and Filed | |
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2006-0342
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution amending the Rules of Council, RULE IX and X, by making various changes to the Standing Committees of Council. | AMENDED | Pass |
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2006-0342
| 2 | | Resolution | Resolution amending the Rules of Council, RULE IX and X, by making various changes to the Standing Committees of Council. | Passed Finally, As Amended | Pass |
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2006-0349
| 1 | | Report | Report of the Committee on Public Works and Environmental Services for April 26, 2006. | Read, Received and Filed | |
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2006-0317
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution granting unto Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15282, their successors and assigns, the privilege and license to construct, maintain and use at their own cost and expense, two security cameras adjacent to City steps located between Second Avenue and the Boulevard of the Allies in the 1st Ward, 6th Council District of the City of Pittsburgh. | Passed Finally | Pass |
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2006-0318
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution vacating a 10 Foot Unnamed Way at Pretense Way in the 17th Ward, 3rd Council District, of the City of Pittsburgh. | Passed Finally | Pass |
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2006-0320
| 2 | | Resolution | Resolution urging the Port Authority of Allegheny County to conduct a traffic study on the effectiveness of the HOV restrictions at the Wabash Tunnel, and to report back to City Council on the findings. | Passed Finally | Pass |
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2006-0350
| 1 | | Report | Report of the Committee on Housing, Economic Develpment and Promotion for April 26, 2006. | Read, Received and Filed | |
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2006-0321
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution directing the Mayor and the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh to convene working meetings with major Downtown stakeholder groups to examine future development incentives and tax abatement programs as a means to spur economic development for residential and office commercial office space and hotel opportunities downtown to create the new Pittsburgh "Shared Tax Abatement for Neighborhood Development" (STAND) District for Downtown; and further directing that recommendations be submitted in ordinance form as a critical part of the Mayor's vision for a new downtown development plan. | AMENDED | Pass |
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2006-0321
| 2 | | Resolution | Resolution directing the Mayor and the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh to convene working meetings with major Downtown stakeholder groups to examine future development incentives and tax abatement programs as a means to spur economic development for residential and office commercial office space and hotel opportunities downtown to create the new Pittsburgh "Shared Tax Abatement for Neighborhood Development" (STAND) District for Downtown; and further directing that recommendations be submitted in ordinance form as a critical part of the Mayor's vision for a new downtown development plan. | Passed Finally, As Amended | Pass |
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2006-0351
| 1 | | Report | Report of the Committee on General Services, Technology and the Arts for April 26, 2006. | Read, Received and Filed | |
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2006-0300
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution providing for an Agreement or Agreements by and between the City of Pittsburgh (“City”) and the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, a not-for-profit corporation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (“Partnership”), for the purpose of supporting the Partnership's effort to construct and operate a wireless communications network in the City's central business district. | Passed Finally | Pass |
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2006-0352
| 1 | | Report | Report of the Committee on Parks, Recreation and Youth Policy for April 26, 2006. | Read, Received and Filed | |
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2006-0319
| 1 | | Resolution | Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Parks and Recreation to enter into a license agreement with Union Real Estate Company of Pittsburgh for the use of property behind Carrick Shopping Center for the 2006 Farmers' Market. | Passed Finally | Pass |
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