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Meeting Name: Standing Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 10/1/2014 10:00 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
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2014-0652 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing issuance of a warrant in the amount of $3,582.00, in favor of Michele Dunlap, 101 Cranberry Pointe Lane, Cranberry Township, PA 16066 in settlement of a claim for a damaged vehicle from City property at Bloomfield Recreation Center near Mott Way on March 1, 2014.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2014-0686 1 ResolutionResolution providing for the issuance of a Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Elliot Newman, Arbitrator, 687 State Route 30, Clinton, PA 15026, in an amount not to exceed Three Thousand Nine Hundred Seventeen Dollars and No Cents ($3,917.00) for payment of professional services rendered in City of Pittsburgh/FOP, Fort Pitt Lodge No. 1, Grievances regarding Officer Garrett Brown and regarding Shift Differential.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2014-0723 1 ResolutionResolution further amending Resolution No. 762, effective January 1, 2006, as amended, entitled “Adopting and approving the 2006 Capital Budget and the 2006 Community Development Block Grant Program; and approving the 2006 through 2011 Capital Improvement Program,” by reducing Mcardle Roadway by $55,845.43 to close the project.TABLEDPass Action details
2014-0728 1 ResolutionResolution providing for the issuance of a warrant in the total sum of Two Thousand Six Hundred Dollars and 00/100 ($2,600.00), in favor of Tucker Independent Medical Experts, Inc., 1082 Bower Hill Road, Suite 100, Pittsburgh, PA 15243, for payment professional services rendered in Tara Clanagan vs. City of Pittsburgh, et al., Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, No. GD 12-021607, and arising from an alleged incident on July 8, 2012 and described more fully in plaintiff's complaint in civil action.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2014-0729 1 ResolutionResolution providing for a Professional Services Agreement in the total sum of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars and No Cents ($250,000.00) to Pepper Hamilton, LLP for professional consulting and legal services in relation to United States ex. rel Freedom Unlimited, Inc., et al v. City of Pittsburgh, et al., inasmuch as Pepper Hamilton, LLP possesses a professional and special expertise in housing and the False Claims Act and related matters. Cost not to exceed $250,000.00.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2014-0755 1 ResolutionResolution providing for the issuance of a warrant in the total sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) in favor of Charles Bonasorte and his attorneys, Maurice A. Nernberg and Associates, 301Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, releasing and discharging the City of Pittsburgh from all claims of liability and damages arising in the action filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania at GD 13-008003, an alleged de facto taking and the separate negligence action filed at GD 13-007064 for property damage arising from a rainfall that occurred on or about August 19, 2011, near Elyria Way (a City right-of-way), chargeable to and payable from Organization 11101.58.58105.108000.2014.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2014-0756 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of warrants in the total sum of $100,000.00, payable as follows: $99,957.00, in favor of Robyn Kitt, c/o Timothy P. O'Brien, Esquire, 1705 Allegheny Building, 429 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 and $43.00 in favor Jordan Tax Service, releasing and discharging the City of Pittsburgh, Nate Harper, Michael Huss and William Bochter from direct liability in any and all claims in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania filed at 2:14-cv-00065, and arising from an alleged incident on February 11, 2012 and described more fully in plaintiff's complaint in civil action.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2014-0809 1 OrdinanceOrdinance Supplementing the Pittsburgh City Code, Title One: Administrative; Article VII: Procedure; Chapter 161: Contracts, by adding Section 161.44 Reasonable Accommodations Due To Pregnancy, Childbirth or Related Medical Conditions.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2014-0810 1 OrdinanceOrdinance amending the Pittsburgh City Code, Title Six: Conduct, Article V: Discrimination; Chapter 659.02 Unlawful Practices, by adding language.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2014-0811 1 OrdinanceOrdinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Two, Fiscal, Article I, Administration, by adding Chapter 219 - Operating Budget, so as to codify Act 47 best practices and Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority requirements regarding the City's Annual Operating Budget.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2014-0838 1 ResolutionResolution authoring the Mayor and the Director of Public Safety to amend Resolution No. 148 of 2011 to increase the not-to-exceed amount allocated for its Spay and Neuter program for the Animal Control Division from $50,000 to $75,000 in order to cover expenses incurred from previously performed spay and neuter procedures as well as additional spay and neuter services currently scheduled on or before December 31, 2014. AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2014-0813 1 OrdinanceAn Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Six, Conduct, Article I, Regulated Rights and Actions, Chapter 602, Panhandling, Section 602.04 Prohibited Conduct" by adding language. AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2014-0803 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works to enter into a grant agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service to protect urban ash trees from Emerald Ash Borer insects. In an amount of $100,000.00.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2014-0804 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works to enter into a Project Cooperation Agreement with Tree Pittsburgh for the purpose of supporting Tree Pittsburgh's efforts to promote and advance the City of Pittsburgh's Urban Forest Master Plan.AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2014-0562 1 OrdinanceOrdinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title Nine - Zoning, Article VII - Review and Enforcement, Chapter 922: Development Review Procedures, Section 922.01.A - Applications and Fees.Held in CommitteePass Action details
2014-0563 1 OrdinanceOrdinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title Nine - Zoning, Article VII - Review and Enforcement, Chapter 923: Reviewers and Decision Makers, Section 923.03 - Zoning Administrator, by adding additional duties.Held in CommitteePass Action details
2014-0805 1 ResolutionResolution providing for the implementation of the Residential Parking Permit Program Area “I I” in the South Side Flats community (Council District #3) pursuant to Pittsburgh Code Chapter 549. AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details
2014-0709 2 ResolutionResolution requesting the approval of an inter-municipal transfer of restaurant liquor license, License No. R-9716 from Palmieri's Restaurant Incorporated, P.O. Box 0176, 101 Penn Plaza, Turtle Creek, PA 15145, to the Applicant, Fifty First Street, LLC, for the premises located at 242 51st, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, restaurant known as Spirit., pursuant to amended Pennsylvania Liquor Code, §4-461.AMENDEDPass Action details
2014-0709 2 ResolutionResolution requesting the approval of an inter-municipal transfer of restaurant liquor license, License No. R-9716 from Palmieri's Restaurant Incorporated, P.O. Box 0176, 101 Penn Plaza, Turtle Creek, PA 15145, to the Applicant, Fifty First Street, LLC, for the premises located at 242 51st, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, restaurant known as Spirit., pursuant to amended Pennsylvania Liquor Code, §4-461.Affirmatively Recommended as AmendedPass Action details
2014-0807 1 ResolutionResolution adopting Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh's Official Sewage Facilities Plan for Lawrenceville Place which is located at the termini of Davison, Carlton, and Bancroft Streets in the 9th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, Pa 15201. Held in CommitteePass Action details
2014-0808 1 ResolutionResolution approving execution of a Contract for Disposition by Sale of Land by and between the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh and the Sports and Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County for the sale of a portion of Block 2-C, Lot 300 situated in 3rd Ward of the City of Pittsburgh in the Mellon Arena Redevelopment Area, on which SEA will construct new streets and associated public infrastructure. (Council District No. 6)AFFIRMATIVELY RECOMMENDEDPass Action details