Pittsburgh Logo
Meeting Name: Standing Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 6/20/2012 10:00 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
Published agenda: Agenda Agenda Published minutes: Minutes Minutes  
Meeting video:  
File #Ver.Agenda #TypeTitleActionResultAction DetailsVideo
2012-0392 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the City of Pittsburgh to enter into an agreement with the Pittsburgh Foundation to document a voluntary commitment from community nonprofit organizations to provide financial assistance to the City for the year 2012. TABLEDPass Action details
2012-0393 1 ResolutionResolution repealing Resolution 712 of 2009, entitled, “Resolution authorizing the Mayor, the Director of Finance and the City Solicitor to enter into agreement or agreements with institutions of purely public charities for the purposes of collecting payments in lieu of taxes.” TABLEDPass Action details
2012-0413 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the City of Pittsburgh to enter into an agreement with the Pittsburgh Foundation to document a voluntary commitment from community nonprofit organizations to provide financial assistance to the City for the years 2012 and 2013.Held in CommitteePass Action details
2012-0489 1 ResolutionResolution providing for an agreement/s, or use of existing agreements and/or a contract/s, or use of existing contracts, and for the purchase of materials, supplies, equipment, and/or services for City Council Neighborhood Needs Program and providing for the payment of the costs thereof by transferring $5,500 from District 1 NN Projects to Observatory Hill Inc. for a surveillance camera. Total cost of all projects is not to exceed $437,779.53.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0465 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a Warrant in the sum of $8,500.00 in favor of Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampi, LLC, c/o Crystal H. Thornton-Illar, 525 William Penn Place, 30th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, in full and final settlement of an action filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania at Bankruptcy Case No. 10-26337-JAD, Adversary Proceeding No. 12-02050 for a Complaint to Avoid and Recover Transfers Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§547,548 and 550. Held in CommitteePass Action details
2012-0466 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the City Solicitor to enter into an agreement or agreements with of W. Christopher Conrad, 300 Washington Road, Suite 302, Pittsburgh, PA 15216 for professional consulting services associated with anticipated or pending litigation, at a cost not to exceed $10,000.00 (Ten Thousand Dollars and No Cents).AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0467 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of the Sheraton Hotel Station Square in an amount not to exceed eleven thousand, nine hundred forty dollars and eighty nine cents, for the Citiparks Seniors Program Volunteer Recognition Gala; providing for the payment thereof.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0498 1 ResolutionResolution providing for an Agreement between the City of Pittsburgh and the Borough of Ingram in connection with the paving of Berry Street and providing for the payment of the costs thereof, by the Borough to the City, of the costs associated with the paving of the Borough's portion of Berry Street. The estimated cost of preparation and completion of work is Fifty Seven Thousand Five Hundred Forty One Dollars ($57,541.00). AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0468 1 ResolutionResolution further amending Resolution No.703, effective October 17, 2011, as amended, entitled “Adopting and approving the 2011 Capital Budget and the 2011 Community Development Block Grant Program; and approving the 2011 through 2016 Capital Improvement Program,” by increasing the “Park Reconstruction” line item by $56,565.00 from $780,000.00 to $836,565.00. AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0478 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and Director of Public Works and/or Director of Parks and Recreation at the request of the citizens of the Arlington Neighborhood, to rename the Arlington Orchard, located at the intersection of Saint Patrick's Street and Arlington Avenue, as “Wayne Lester Memorial Orchard,” effective June 19th, 2012.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0469 1 ResolutionResolution providing for the City of Pittsburgh to receive grant funding based on the filing of applications with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare for grants in connection with the Joint Jobs Initiative Program Employment Advancement and Retention Network (EARN). Providing authorization for the City of Pittsburgh to enter into agreements authorized by the Joint Jobs Initiative Program Employment Advancement and Retention Network (EARN) in an amount not to exceed $3,585,786, as amended; Providing for required assurances; execution of payment vouchers and of certification of authorized signatures; providing for contracts with various agencies/employers for services and programs related to training and employment for the Joint Jobs Initiative Program Employment Advancement and Retention Network (EARN) and providing for the deposit of funds into a bank account.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0470 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 expenditure necessary to implement the 2012 Pittsburgh Partnership Employment Program; and providing the periodic transfer of funds to be used in the Pittsburgh Partnership Employment Program, and for payment of cost thereof, cost not to exceed $100,000.00AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0471 1 ResolutionResolution providing the authorization to make all legitimate expenditures for payments and agreements or agreements with various agencies to conduct a summer youth employment program to youth residing in the City of Pittsburgh, wages and fringe benefits for supervisor/participant/administrative staff, workers' compensation, unemployment compensation, participant physicals, transportation, copier and supplies, and administrative expenditures necessary to implement the 2012 Pittsburgh Partnership Summer Youth Program; and providing the periodic transfer of funds to be used in the Pittsburgh Partnership Youth Program for payment of cost thereof, cost not to exceed $600,000.00.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0472 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 2012 Neighborhood Employment Program, and providing the periodic transfer of funds to be used in the Neighborhood Employment Program for payment of cost thereof, cost not to exceed $100,000.00.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0323 1 OrdinanceOrdinance repealing Ordinance No. 13 of 2007, which amended the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning, Article V, Section 911.02, Use Table, and Section 911.04, Use Standards, relative to the definitions and use standards for restaurants with and without liquor licenses" so as to comply with a ruling by the Court of Common Pleas. Held in CommitteePass Action details
2012-0500 1 ResolutionResolution further amending and supplementing Resolution No. 855 of 2011, entitled "adopting and approving the 2012 capital budget and the 2012-2017 Capital Improvement Program" by transferring $5,500 from District 1 NN Projects to Observatory Hill Inc. for a surveillance camera in Council District 1 Neighborhood Needs.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0504 1 ResolutionResolution providing for a contract(s) or an agreement(s) with the Northside Leadership Conference for housing and development services on Lanark Street in the Fineview neighborhood and on Woodland and Shadeland Avenues in the Brightwood and providing for the payment of the cost thereof; cost shall not exceed $225,000.00.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0473 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution No. 223, effective April 27, 2012, entitled: providing for the filing of a Community Development statement by the City of Pittsburgh with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for a grant in connection with the 2009 Community Development Block Grant Program; providing for the execution of grant contracts and for the filing of other data providing for required assurances; providing for execution of payment vouchers on letter of credit and for certification of authorized signature; the deposit of the funds in a bank account and providing for the payment of expenses within categories, so as to transfer funds in City Council and Public Works from: “Central Outreach Resource & Referral” (-$10,000.00) and “East Liberty/Shadyside Pedestrian Bridge”(-$72,000.00); and transfer these funds to “Schenely Heights Community Development Program” (+$10,000.00) and “Broad Street” (+$72,000.00).AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0474 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution No. 216, effective April 27, 2012, entitled: “Resolution providing for the filing of a Community Development statement by the City of Pittsburgh with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for a grant in connection with the 2006 Community Development Block Grant Program; providing for the execution of grant contracts and for the filing of other data providing for required assurances; providing for execution of payment vouchers on letter of credit and for certification of authorized signature; the deposit of the funds in a bank account and providing for the payment of expenses within categories;” so as to transfer funds in Public Works from: “Allies Bridge Enhancement”(-$107,000.00); and transfer these funds to “Warrington Avenue Reconstruction” (+$107,000.00).AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0475 1 ResolutionResolution amending resolution No. 225, effective April 27, 2012, entitled: providing for the filing of a Community Development statement by the City of Pittsburgh with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for a grant in connection with the 2010 Community Development Block Grant Program; providing for the execution of grant contracts and for the filing of other data providing for required assurances; providing for execution of payment vouchers on letter of credit and for certification of authorized signature; the deposit of the funds in a bank account and providing for the payment of expenses within categories, so as to transfer funds in Public Works from: “Bates Street/Second Avenue Intersection” (-$20,000.00) and “Streets Run Road Flood Control”(-$500,000.00); and transfer these funds to “Disabled & Public Sidewalk” (+$20,000.00), “:Bridge Repairs” (+$200,000.00) and “Warrington Avenue Reconstruction” (+$300,000.00).AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0476 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution No. 222, effective April 27, 2012, entitled “providing for an Agreement or Agreements with various community organizations for operational/administrative expenses, maintenance, purchase of equipment: and/or rehabilitation of neighborhood facilities; and for administrative/operational costs, maintenance, purchase of equipment, and/or rehabilitation of neighborhood facilities of various departmental programs/projects for the benefit of residents of the City of Pittsburgh, at a cost not to exceed $800,000, so as to reprogram funds in City Council from: “Central Outreach Resource & Referral” (-$10,000.00); and transfer these funds to “Schenley Heights Community Development Program” (+$10,000.00).AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2012-0477 1 OrdinanceOrdinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning, Article I, Section 902.03 Zoning Map, by changing from R1D-M, Residential Single - Unit Detached Moderate Density District to RP, Residential Planned Unit Development District, certain property consisting of a parcel identified as Block Number 20-M, Lot Number 59 in the Allegheny County Block and Lot System; Marlow St. & West End Overlook, 20th Ward.Held for Cablecast Public HearingPass Action details