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Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 9/24/2024 10:00 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
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2024-0955 1 ProclamationWHEREAS, Maser Galleries on Walnut Street was founded by husband and wife Ron “Lefty” and Brenda Maser in 1974; and,AdoptedPass Action details Video Video
2024-0956 1 ProclamationWHEREAS, Chorbishop Michael J. Kail celebrated his 50th anniversary of ordination into the priesthood on September 14, 2024; andAdoptedPass Action details Video Video
2024-0957 1 ProclamationWHEREAS, Alpha Omicron Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity will be hosting its Fourth Annual Black & Gold Community Awards Gala on September 28, where members of the Pittsburgh community who exemplify the values of the fraternity will be recognized and honored; and,AdoptedPass Action details Video Video
2024-0958 1 ProclamationWHEREAS, the Northside Church of God, located at 1822 Chateau Street, holds the distinction of being the oldest Church of God in the state affiliated with the denomination’s headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee; and,AdoptedPass Action details Video Video
2024-0941 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Office of Municipal Investigations (OMI) to enter into an agreement or agreements with Versaterm (formerly known as CI-Technologies) to extend the current agreement and amend the name of the vendor, in an amount not to exceed Seven Thousand Two-Hundred and Eighty-Two Dollars and Eighty Cents ($7,282.80) over 1 year, for OMI’s electronic case-management system, IA Pro.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0942 1 ResolutionResolution providing for issuance of a warrant in favor of Rita Porterfield in an amount not to exceed Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000) as a settlement for EEOC case 532-2024-00502 over one (1) year. (Executive Session held 9/24/24)Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0943 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Public Safety to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development for the purpose of receiving and spending grant funds in the amount of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($100,000) to support forensic genetic testing by the Bureau of Police.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0945 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution No. 629 of 2023 further amending Resolution No. 484 of 2022 further amending Resolution No. 647 of 2021 authorizing the Mayor, the Director of Permits, Licenses, and Inspections, the Director of City Planning and the Director of Innovation & Performance to enter into an Amended Professional Service Agreement or Agreements with Buildingeye, Inc. ("Buildingeye") to purchase software and related support services that will create an interactive map for internal and public visual display of planning, permit, license, and violation data, by increasing the approved amount by increasing the approved amount by Forty Thousand Five Hundred Ninety Six Dollars and Zero Cents ($40,596) for an amended total cost not-to-exceed Six Hundred Twenty-Seven Thousand Nine Hundred Thirty-Six dollars and Zero Cents ($627,936) over eight and a half (8.5) years.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0949 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Parks and Recreation to enter on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh into an agreement or agreements with Allegheny County, Department of Human Services, for the City’s operation of its Senior Community Centers. Said agreement or agreement shall be for a term of one year at no cost to the City with compensation to the City not to exceed SEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY-THREE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($773,100.00).Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0946 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Comber Miller, LLC for legal services in connection with a police litigation matter at 2:18-cv-01567 for an amount not to exceed TEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($10,138.00) over one year. (Executive Session held 9/24/24)Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0947 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Summers McDonnell Hudock Guthrie & Rauch, P.C. for expert legal services in connection with a litigation matter in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania filed at 2:18-cv-1567 for an amount not to exceed FIFTEEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($15,200.00) over one year. (Executive Session held 9/24/24)Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0948 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 TWELVE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($12,432.00) over one year. (Executive Session held 9/24/24)Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0950 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Department of Public Works to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with US Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program for the purpose of receiving grant funds in the amount of THREE HUNDRED THIRTY SEVEN THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED SIXTY ($337,960.00) dollars for the installation of solar panels at the City’s Fourth Division.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0951 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the City of Pittsburgh, the Director of Public Works, and Director of Finance to enter into an easement agreement or agreements with Duquesne Light Company to provide, install, use, own, operate, maintain, repair, renew, and finally remove two light (2) poles and one (1) anchor along with thirty (30’) feet of vegetation clearing rights located upon City-owned property in the parking lot of the Pittsburgh Zoo (Parcel ID 82-H-1-0-2) at no cost to the City.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0952 1 ResolutionResolution granting unto INCHEON VENTURES LLC, their successors and assigns, the privilege and license to construct, maintain and use at their own cost and expense, at no cost to the City, new permanent shoring and footers, above-grade unit balconies and building façade elements that will extend into the right-of-way, at 32 39th Street, in the 6th Ward, 1st 7th Council District of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0953 1 ResolutionResolution granting unto THE STANDARD BC LLC, their successors and assigns, the privilege and license to construct, maintain and use at their own cost and expense, at no cost to the City, new permanent building footers and building canopy that will extend into the right-of-way, at 2120 5th Avenue, in the 4th Ward, 1st 6th Council District of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0959 1 OrdinanceOrdinance amending the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title Nine: Zoning Code, Article VI: Development Standards, Chapter 919, Signs, Section 919.03: Nonadvertising Signs, to regulate the use of Non-advertising signs for Major Public Destination Facilities in the RIV-NS District. (Needs to be sent to the Planning Commission for a report and recommendation)Read and referred  Action details Video Video
2024-0954 1 CommunicationCommunication from Jake Pawlak, Director of Office of Management and Budget, submitting to City Council the attached status update from the Grants Office for the week ended September 20, 2024.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2024-0936 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Finance and Law for September 18, 2024 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2024-0705 2 OrdinanceOrdinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Six: Conduct, Article V: Discrimination, Chapter 651: Findings and Policy, and Chapter 659: Unlawful Practices to make medical marijuana patients a protected class and restrict discrimination against them.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0867 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of The Binkley Kanavy Group, LLC for printing services for the Popular Annual Financial Report for an amount not to exceed FIVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($5,275.00) over one year.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0909 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant payable to the Allegheny County Department of Court Records for a single payment in 2024 in an amount not to exceed FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($500,000.00), in payment of the City of Pittsburgh’s Petition to Interplead and discharge of all liability and costs in the litigation filed in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas at G.D. Luciani GD-22-005855 and GD-24-000971; Runco GD-22-005927 and GD-24-000976; Evans GD-22-005929 and GD-24-000975; Engelmeier GD-22-010910 and GD-24-000997; Bench GD-23-001282 and GD-24-000978; Perry GD-23-001280 and GD-24-00973; and Nichols GD-24-000996, GD-24-001072, and GD-24-001046. (Executive Session held 9/17/24)Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0937 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure for September 18, 2024 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2024-0706 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing, pursuant to Chapter 173 of the Pittsburgh City Code, the naming of Room 458 in the City-County Building to the Tim McNulty Press Room. (Public Hearing held 9/11/24)Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0868 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works of the City of Pittsburgh to apply for grant funding from the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County (RAAC)’s Gaming Economic Development Tourism Fund to rehabilitate the Brighton Heights Healthy Active Living Center. In the event the grant is awarded, this resolution provides for an agreement and expenditures not to exceed FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND ($500,000.00) dollars for this stated purpose.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0869 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh and the Director of the Department of Public Works to apply for a grant from the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County’s Gaming Economic Development Tourism Fund for the “Historic Former Carnegie Library of Hazelwood Phase 1 Roof Stabilization Repairs” project. The grant proposal includes an ask of $300,000 with a local private match of $150,000 for a total project cost of FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND ($450,000.00) dollars for this stated purpose.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0870 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh and the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure to apply for a grant from the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County’s Gaming Economic Development Tourism Fund for the 6th Street to Market Square connector project in the amount not to exceed TWO HUNDRED FORTY FOUR THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY SIX ($244,556.00) dollars for this stated purpose.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0871 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh and the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure to apply for a grant from the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County’s Gaming Economic Development Tourism Fund for the Upper McArdle Roadway Bridge Repairs project in an amount not to exceed TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND ($250,000.00) dollars for this stated purpose.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0935 1 ResolutionResolution approving the recommendation made by the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure that the block stone portions of Valonia, Marena and Uvilla Streets located in Elliott be paved with asphalt in accordance with Section 417.06 of the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0938 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Land Use and Economic Development for September 18, 2024 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2024-0749 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to enter into an Agreement or Agreement(s) with Auberle for services relating to Non-Congregate Shelter Services related to the HOME-ARP program, for a total not to exceed One Million Five-Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000.00).RECOMMITTEDPass Action details Video Video
2024-0872 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of City Planning and/or the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with Manchester Citizens Corporation for the purpose of receiving grant funds in the amount of Thirteen Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Two ($13,852) dollars to support the city’s planning effort to study State Route 65 and ways to connect the Chateau and Manchester neighborhoods.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0939 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Recreation, Youth, and Senior Services for September 18, 2024 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2024-0866 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Parks and Recreation to enter into a Sponsorship Agreement(s) with Clearview Federal Credit Union for the 2024 City of Pittsburgh Gingerbread House Display and Tree Lighting Ceremony at no cost to the City.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video
2024-0940 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Innovation, Performance, Asset Management, and Technology for September 18, 2024 with an Affirmative Recommendation.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details Video Video
2024-0864 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the City Solicitor to enter into a Professional Services Agreement or agreements with Matrix Pointe Software, LLC, in an amount not to exceed Three-Hundred and Ten Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($310,000.00) over six (6) years, for software, professional support, and related training services related to litigation case management for the City’s Department of Law.Passed FinallyPass Action details Video Video