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Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 3/5/2024 10:00 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
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2024-0226 1 ProclamationWHEREAS, the Fraternal Order of Police Fort Pitt Lodge #1 is the voice of those who dedicate their lives to protect and serve our communities; and,AdoptedPass Action details Video Video
2024-0227 1 ProclamationWHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh, as well as the region of Western Pennsylvania, continues to strive for higher levels of construction and development growth;AdoptedPass Action details Video Video
2024-0228 1 ProclamationWHEREAS, e.b. Pepper opened her boutique, “e.b. Pepper”, on March 31, 1987 -- her birthday; and,AdoptedPass Action details
2024-0212 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution 872 of 2021, which authorized the Mayor and Director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into a Professional Services Agreement or Agreements for the continued implementation of the City’s Spay and Neuter Program, by increasing the approved amount by $70,000, for an amended total cost not-to-exceed TWO HUNDRED TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($210,000) over three years.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0213 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution 428 of 2021 which provided for the extension of a professional services agreement or agreements with NCR Corporation, to provide city-wide credit, debit, and e-check payment services for the collection of various program and permitting fees for the City of Pittsburgh by exercising the option to extend the term of the Agreement for three additional years at no cost to the city.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0214 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Innovation and Performance, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into an agreement with Pittsburgh Community Television, Inc., for services related to administering and managing the City’s designated public access channels for a period of two years at an amount not-to-exceed 66% of funding received into designated code accounts for the years 2023 and 2024.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0215 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Innovation & Performance to enter into a content licensing agreement or agreements and amendments thereto with Google LLC, for Google to share certain data with the City, at no cost to the City.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0216 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Citron Alex, P.C. for legal services in connection with a litigation matter in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania filed at 2:18-cv-01567 for an amount not to exceed TEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS AND EIGHTY-EIGHT CENTS ($10,475.88) over one year. (Executive Session held 4/3/24)Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0217 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Network Deposition Services for legal transcript services for an amount not to exceed ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN DOLLARS AND THIRTEEN CENTS ($1,977.13) over one year. (Executive Session held 3/20/24)Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0218 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC for expert legal services in connection with a litigation matter in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania filed at 2:18-cv-01567 for an amount not to exceed EIGHT THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED NINETY-ONE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS ($8,491.50) over one year. (Executive Session held 3/20/24)Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0219 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Michael D. McDowell, Esq. for arbitration services for an amount not to exceed THREE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($3,800.00) over one year. (Executive Session held 3/20/24)Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0220 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Adil-Sharif Alghurairi in an amount not to exceed THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($3,400.00) over one year, in full and final settlement of a claim (23C-0148) for damage to his parked vehicle from a City ES Recycling vehicle on April 21, 2023. (Executive Session held 3/20/24)Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0221 1 OrdinanceOrdinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning, Article 902.03, Zoning Map, by changing From RM-H, Residential Multi-Unit - High Density to UNC - Urban Neighborhood Commercial, certain properties located on Shady Avenue in the 7th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh known in the Allegheny County Office of Deed Registry as Block and Lot Numbers: 84-G-239 and a portion of 84-G-258. (Sent to Planning Commission for Report & Recommendation on 3/15/24) (Report & Recommendation received 5/24/24) (Public Hearing held 10/10/24)Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0222 1 ResolutionResolution providing for the issuance of a warrant in favor of Southwestern Pennsylvania Corporation (“SPC”) in the amount of Thirty-Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($32,500.00) for a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan for Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0223 1 ResolutionResolution providing for a Reimbursement Agreement or Agreements with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for costs associated with the North Avenue Signals and Safety Project, and providing for the payment of costs thereof, not to exceed Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,500,000.00), 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).Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0224 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution 277, effective June 26, 2020, authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of the Department of Public Works to enter into a Second Amendment to the Agreement between the City of Pittsburgh and Pashek + MTR, for professional landscape architectural services for Arsenal Park Phase I Design, to change the fund sources in the contract. The net change of the amendment is decreasing the total not-to-exceed amount by Two Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty Two Dollars and no cents ($2,862.00) from Five Hundred Forty-Four Thousand One Hundred and Seventy-Four Dollars ($544,174.00) to Five Hundred Forty-One Thousand Three Hundred Twelve Dollars and no cents ($541,312.00).Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0229 1 ResolutionResolution adopting the goal of reducing traffic fatalities and serious injuries in road traffic in the City of Pittsburgh to zero and endorsing the Vision Zero strategy to achieve this goal.Read and referred  Action details
2024-0225 1 Appointment-InformingResolution informing City Council of the appointment of Scott Bricker as a Member of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission with a term to expire December 31, 2028.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2024-0117 1 Appointment-Requiring VoteResolution appointing Kyle Webster as a Commissioner on the Commission for Human Relations for a four-year term, which will expire on February 28, 2028.ApprovedPass Action details Video Video
2024-0118 1 Appointment-Requiring VoteResolution appointing Mary Jayne McCullough as a Commissioner on the Commission for Human Relations for a four-year term, which will expire on February 28, 2028.ApprovedPass Action details Video Video
2024-0205 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Finance and Law for February 28, 2024 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2024-0027 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution 858 of 2023, entitled "Resolution making appropriations to pay the expenses of conducting the public business of the City of Pittsburgh and for meeting the debt charges thereof for the Fiscal Year beginning January 1, 2024," so as to reopen the 2024 Operating Budget to accommodate changes in the Department of Public Safety Bureau of Fire, the Department of Finance, and the Department of Human Resources and Civil Service in direct response to the ratified collective bargaining agreement with the International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 1. (Public Hearing held 2/22/24)Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0163 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor to enter into a Professional Services Agreement with Carlow University in an amount not to exceed ONE HUNDRED THIRTEEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED ($113,400.00) dollars to support the creation of a Wellness Index for Black Women.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0164 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Fisher & Phillips LLP for legal services in connection with a collective bargaining matter for an amount not to exceed ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-TWO THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SIXTY DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS ($162,660.50) over one year.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0165 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Thomas Thomas & Hafer, LLP for expert legal services in connection with a litigation matter in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania filed at 2:23-cv-0896 for an amount not to exceed TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE DOLLARS AND SIXTY-THREE CENTS ($2,565.63) over one year.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0166 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Network Deposition Services for certified copies of transcripts for an amount not to exceed ELEVEN THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SIX DOLLARS AND SEVENTY-FOUR CENTS ($11,986.74) over one year.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0167 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Jacqueline Lane in full and final settlement of a claim (23C-0330) for damage to her property as a result of a Pittsburgh Bureau of Police SWAT incident on August 23, 2023, in an amount not to exceed SIX THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY-EIGHT DOLLARS AND NO CENTS ($6,978.00) over one year.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0168 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution 861 of 2023, effective December 27, 2023, which authorized appropriations and salaries of the Stop the Violence Fund for the 2024 Fiscal Year, beginning January 1, 2024, to add positions that report to the Department of Parks and Recreation as authorized by Ordinance 35 of 2023, effective December 16, 2023. The proposed expenditures of the Stop the Violence fund for the 2024 Fiscal Year are hereby appropriated in the sum of $9,852,848 (Nine Million Eight Hundred and Fifty-Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Eight Dollars).Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0172 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution No. 41 of 2024 entitled “providing for the sale of certain property, acquired by the City of Pittsburgh at tax sales. ITEMS A through K: A: 268 Lombard Street, B: 2431 Wylie Avenue, C: 746 Clarissa Street, D: 4918 Rosetta Street, E: 0 Isoline Street, F: 123 Overbeck Street, G: 149 Henderson Street, H: 1400 Tumbo Street, I: 510 Stratmore Avenue, J: 512 Stratmore Avenue, K: 514 Stratmore Avenue” as to add items E: 0 Isoline Street I: 510 Stratmore Avenue, J: 512 Stratmore Avenue, K: 514 Stratmore Avenue.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0206 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Public Safety and Wellness for February 28, 2024 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2024-0155 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution 248 of 2023, which authorized the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership to provide an ambassador program to assist police with non-criminal matters in the Central Business District, by increasing the approved amount by $600,000 for an amended total cost not to exceed ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,200,000) over two years.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0207 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure for February 28, 2024 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2024-0138 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 design services for Fort Pitt Park Phase 1 Improvements at a cost not to exceed Three Hundred Thousand ($300,000.00) Dollars.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0189 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution 650 of 2023, which provided for an Agreement or Agreements with CSX Transportation for costs associated with the Construction for the Charles Anderson Bridge Project; providing for the payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed Four Hundred Thirty-Nine Thousand Two Hundred Twenty-Three Dollars ($439,223.00), federally reimbursable at 100%.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0190 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution 652 of 2023, which provided for an Agreement or Agreements with Allegheny Valley Railroad Company for costs associated with the Construction for the Charles Anderson Bridge Project; providing for the payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00), federally reimbursable at 100%.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0191 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution 743 of 2023, which provided 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 100%.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0208 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Land Use and Economic Development for February 28, 2024 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2023-2230 1 ResolutionResolution providing for the designation as a Historic Structure under Title 11 of the Code of Ordinances that certain structure known as B’nai Israel Synagogue, located at 327 N. Negley Avenue (83-J-210, 83-J-210-1, and 83-J-210-2), in Garfield, in the 11th Ward, City of Pittsburgh. The owner of the property supports the nomination and there is no cost to the City. (Public Hearing held 2/27/24)Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0051 1 ResolutionResolution providing for the designation as a Historic Site under Title 11 of the Code of Ordinances that certain site known as Frick Park, located at 2005 Beechwood Boulevard (127-H-100-01), in the Swisshelm Park, Squirrel Hill South, Regent Square, Point Breeze neighborhoods, in the 14th Ward, City of Pittsburgh. The owner of the property supports the nomination and there is no cost to the City. (Public Hearing held 2/27/24)Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0209 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Recreation, Youth, and Senior Services for February 28, 2024 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2024-0160 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Director of the Department of Parks and Recreation, and/or the Director of the Office and Management and Budget to enter into agreements in individual amounts of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) or less with performers, instructors, artists, referees, and persons with specialized skills in connection with the Departments’ recreational and instructional programs and special events services.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0161 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Parks and Recreation on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh to enter into financial and “in-kind” Sponsorship Agreements valued at $5,000.00 (Five Thousand Dollars) or less for the Citiparks Office of Special Events’ 2024 Season.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0162 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Parks and Recreation to enter into Sponsorship Agreements for the City of Pittsburgh Independence Day Festival (the “Festival”). The Sponsorship Terms will provide a total value of $10,000.00 (Ten Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents).Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0210 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Innovation, Performance, Asset Management, and Technology for February 28, 2024 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2024-0156 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution 630 of 2020, which authorized the City’s Department of Public Safety to enter into relevant agreements to purchase document management software from PowerDMS, Inc., to extend the agreement an additional year for an increase of THIRTY-FOUR THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED SEVENTEEN DOLLARS AND SEVENTY-SEVEN CENTS ($34,317.77).Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0211 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Intergovernmental and Educational Affairs for February 28, 2024 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2024-0157 1 ResolutionResolution adopting Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh’s Official Sewage Facilities Plan for 5255 Butler Street, Pittsburgh PA 15201, at no cost to the City.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0158 1 ResolutionResolution adopting Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh’s Official Sewage Facilities Plan for 220 North Shore Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, at no cost to the City.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0159 1 ResolutionResolution adopting Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh’s Official Sewage Facilities Plan for multiple properties on Centre Avenue, at no cost to the City.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0184 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution No. 935 of 2021, effective December 30, 2021, entitled, “Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Finance, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into a Cooperation Agreement with the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh to document local cooperation and the Housing Authority’s agreement to make payments in lieu of taxes for the Manchester Redevelopment housing development” by authorizing future amendments to be made to the original cooperation agreement at no cost to the city.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video