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Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 10/31/2023 10:00 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
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2023-2107 1 ProclamationWHEREAS, President Farnam Jahanian, who became CMU’s 10th President in 2018, has spearheaded efforts to enhance the overall CMU experience for students, with a focus on student success, holistic health and wellbeing, and support for a diverse and inclusive climate; and,AdoptedPass Action details Video Video
2023-2108 1 ProclamationWHEREAS, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which aims to raise awareness about a disease that can be treatable, when caught early; and,AdoptedPass Action details Video Video
2023-2109 1 ProclamationWHEREAS, on Saturday, November 4, the Keystone State Wrestling Alliance (KSWA), Pittsburgh’s official professional wrestling organization, adds 5 men to its prestigious Hall of Fame; and,AdoptedPass Action details Video Video
2023-2096 1 ResolutionResolution providing for the authorization to make all legitimate expenditures for payments and agreements or agreements with various agencies for job development and employment services necessary to implement the 2023 Neighborhood Employment Program, and providing the periodic transfer of funds to be used in the 2023 Neighborhood Employment Program for payment of cost thereof, cost not to exceed $210,000.00.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2023-2097 1 ResolutionResolution providing the authorization to make all legitimate expenditures for payments and agreements or agreements with various agencies to provide job development and employment services, wages and fringe benefits for supervisor, staff, workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation, vocational skills training and on-the-job training, outreach, recruitment costs and administrative expenditures necessary to implement the 2023 Pittsburgh Partnership Employment Program; and providing the periodic transfer of funds to be used in the 2023 Pittsburgh Partnership Employment Program, and for payment of cost thereof, cost not to exceed $240,000.00Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2023-2098 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh and the Department of Public Works to apply for a grant from the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County’s Gaming Economic Tourism Fund for the Brighton Heights Healthy Active Living Center Renovation in the amount of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND ($500,000.00) dollars for this stated purpose.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2023-2099 1 ResolutionResolution providing for an amended Reimbursement Agreement or Agreements with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for costs associated with the Construction phase of the West Ohio Street Bridge Project; providing for the payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed Seven Million Seven Hundred Sixty-Four Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-Seven Dollars ($7,764,987.00), an increase of Sixty-One Thousand Dollars and Seventy Cents ($61,000.70) from the previous authorization. This resolution serves to authorize only the amended Reimbursement Agreement or Agreements, at no cost to the City of Pittsburgh. Future Resolutions will authorize the project specific service agreements.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2023-2100 1 ResolutionResolution providing for a Contribution Agreement or Agreements between the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County for costs associated with the Armstrong Tunnel Project; providing for the payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed One Million Thirteen Thousand Seventeen Dollars and Sixty-Two Cents ($1,013,017.62).Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2023-2101 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution 276 of 2020 in order to authorize an increase of payment to the United States Army Corps of Engineers for certain remediation work to flood control devices along Saw Mill Run, at an amount not to exceed Six Hundred Eleven Thousand Four Hundred Sixty-Eighty Dollars and Seventy-Nine Cents ($611,468.79), representing an increase of Two Hundred Ninety-One Thousand Four Hundred Sixty-Eight Dollars and Seventy-Nine ($291,468.79) with such increase to be paid through issuance of a warrant.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2023-2102 1 ResolutionResolution providing for an Agreement or Agreements with SAI Consulting Engineers for costs associated with the Construction Management and Construction Inspection phases for the Charles Anderson Bridge Project; providing for the payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed Two Million Eight Hundred Fifty-Four Thousand One Hundred Eighty-Six Dollars and Eleven Cents ($2,854,186.11), federally reimbursable at 95%.Waived under Rule 8Pass Action details Video Video
2023-2102 1 ResolutionResolution providing for an Agreement or Agreements with SAI Consulting Engineers for costs associated with the Construction Management and Construction Inspection phases for the Charles Anderson Bridge Project; providing for the payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed Two Million Eight Hundred Fifty-Four Thousand One Hundred Eighty-Six Dollars and Eleven Cents ($2,854,186.11), federally reimbursable at 95%.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2023-2103 1 ResolutionResolution further amending Resolution No. 772 of 2016, effective January 1, 2017, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2017 Capital Budget and the 2017 Community Development Block Grant Program; approving the 2017 through 2022 Capital Improvement Program” by reducing WEST OHIO STREET BRIDGE (TIP) by $130,500, reducing STREETSCAPE AND INTERSECTION RECONSTRUCTION by $20,088.09, and increasing RAMP AND PUBLIC SIDEWALK by $150,588.09.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2023-2104 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution #280 of 2023, which authorized the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Finance to enter an agreement with OPEX Corporation for maintenance services related to the FalconRED document scanning workstation, by adding additional funding to cover maintenance services at a cost not to exceed Two Thousand Three Hundred Sixty-Five Dollars ($2,365.00).Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2023-2105 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution No. 482 of 2022, which authorized the City of Pittsburgh to extend a Professional Service Agreement(s) with STR Grants, LLC for software services relating to the eProperties Plus profiling system by a term of one year at an additional cost not to exceed Fifty-four Thousand Six Hundred Fifty-Eight Dollars and Sixty-Five Cents ($54,658.65), and adding ten (10) additional user licenses.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2023-2106 1 ResolutionResolution providing for the issuance of a warrant in favor of US Ignite in the amount of Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00) for annual dues for US Ignite Communities membership only.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2023-2111 1 ResolutionResolution further amending Resolution No. 863 of 2018, effective January 1, 2019, as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2019 Capital Budget and the 2019 Community Development Block Grant Program, and the 2019 through 2024 Capital Improvement Program” by reducing MON-OAKLAND CONNECTOR/FOUR MILE RUN by five hundred thirty one thousand three hundred fourteen dollars ($531,314.00) and increasing PLAY AREA IMPROVEMENTS by five hundred thirty one thousand three hundred fourteen dollars ($531,314.00).Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2023-2112 1 ResolutionResolution providing for the issuance of a warrant in favor of ACTION-Housing, Inc. for services relating to the installation of streetlights at the Flats on Forward mixed-use development, for a sum not to exceed Twenty-Three Thousand Four Hundred Dollars ($23,400.00) and for the payment of the costs thereof.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2023-2110 1 ResolutionResolution further amending Resolution No. 772 of 2016, effective January 1, 2017 as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2017 Capital Budget and the 2017Community Development Block Grant Program; approving the 2017 through 2022 Capital Improvement Program” by reducing LYNN WILLIAMS HIGH RISE by $2,500 and ST. AMBROSE MANOR by $1,299.35 and increasing PITTSBURGH HIGHER GROUND FOUNDATION, INC. by $3,799.35, and authorize subsequent Agreements.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2023-2090 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Finance and Law for October 25, 2023 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2023-1946 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution No. 723 of 2022, effective December 27, 2022, entitled "Resolution adopting and approving the 2023 Capital Budget, the 2023 Community Development Program, and the 2023 through 2028 Capital Improvement Program" by reducing PARK RECONSTRUCTION - PARKS TAX deliverable “TRAIL ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN (PARKS TAX)” by $150,000.00 and increasing PARK RECONSTRUCTION - PARKS TAX deliverable “WEST END PARK DRIVE (PARKS TAX)” by $150,000.00.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2023-2054 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Chartiers Valley District Flood Control Authority in an amount not to exceed One Hundred Seventeen Thousand Two Hundred Four Dollars and Zero Cents ($117,204.00) over one year, relating to full and final settlement of a case filed in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas at g.d. 21-013484Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2023-2056 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Finance (on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh) to acquire all rights, title and interest to the property located on Coyne Terrace in the 15th Ward and identified as Block 54-R, Lot 92 in the Deed Registry Office of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and known as the “Coyne Terrace Stairs” for the sum of Six Thousand Nine Hundred dollars ($6,900.00) plus all necessary and incidental expenses in connection with such acquisition.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2023-2057 1 OrdinanceOrdinance amending and supplementing Section 197.09 of the City Code under Article XI of Title One: Administrative, by creating a process to recruit new members, increasing the relevancy of qualification standards, and improving other internal administrative affairs of the Ethics Hearing Board.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2023-2091 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Public Safety and Wellness for October 25, 2023 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2023-2059 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Public Safety to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for the purpose of receiving and spending grant funds in the amount of ONE MILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000.00) to support the Office of Community Health & Safety’s efforts to develop and pilot a Post Overdose Support Team (POST) to respond to overdoses with teams of certified peer recovery specialists and case managers.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2023-2092 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure for October 25, 2023 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2023-2052 1 ResolutionResolution granting a vacation of an unused, unopened portion of Lacy Way, in the 14th Ward, 9th Council District of the City of Pittsburgh.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2023-2053 1 ResolutionResolution granting unto DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, their successors and assigns, the privilege and license to construct, maintain and use at their own cost and expense, seven (7) bio-retention tree pits and a retaining wall at 1305 Forbes Avenue, in the 1st Ward, 6th Council District of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2023-2075 2 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure to take actions necessary for recordation of temporary construction easements over certain City-owned parcels in order to advance a project for rehabilitation, reconstruction, and repair of the Charles Anderson Memorial Bridge. (Waiver of Rule 8 Requested)AMENDEDPass Action details Video Video
2023-2075 2 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure to take actions necessary for recordation of temporary construction easements over certain City-owned parcels in order to advance a project for rehabilitation, reconstruction, and repair of the Charles Anderson Memorial Bridge. (Waiver of Rule 8 Requested)Passed FinallyPass Action details
2023-2093 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Land Use and Economic Development for October 25, 2023 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2023-1979 1 OrdinanceOrdinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Five: Traffic, Article VII: Parking, Chapter 541: General Parking Regulations, by amending Section 541.04B, entitled Smart Loading Zones, to increase the maximum parking duration, and by revising Section 541.04C, entitled Smart Loading Zone Rates and Penalties, to include a new 4-tiered pricing structure. (Briefing held 10-19-23)Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2023-2031 1 ResolutionResolution further amending Resolution No. 723 of 2022, effective December 27, 2022, as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2023 Capital Budget, the 2023 Community Development Program, and the 2023 through 2028 Capital Improvement Program” so as to grant $100,000 to specific Public Service Grant projects of the Mayor's Office and authorize a subsequent Agreement or Agreements.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2023-2094 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Innovation, Performance, Asset Management and Technology for October 25, 2023 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and Filed  Action details Video Video
2023-2058 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution 177 of 2022, which authorized the Mayor and the City Solicitor to enter into an agreement or agreements with Cycom Data Systems, Inc., for professional services relating to continuing maintenance, support and upgrades to CityLaw, the Department of Law's current legal case management and administrative support software system, by increasing amount by Eleven Thousand Three Hundred Seventy-Six Dollars and No Cents, for a total not to exceed amount Twenty-Two Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty-Two Dollars and No Cents ($22,752.00) over two years.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2023-2095 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Intergovernmental and Educational Affairs for October 25, 2023 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2023-2050 1 ResolutionResolution adopting Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh’s Official Sewage Facilities Plan for 6440 Frankstown Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, at no cost to the City.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2023-2051 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor, the Director of Public Works, and the Director of Finance, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into a permanent easement with the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority (PWSA) for the installation, maintenance, repair, operation, and removal of a sewer line on city-owned property (Parcel ID 82-H-00001-02) at no cost to the City.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video