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Meeting Name: City Council Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 10/30/2007 10:00 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
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2007-1889 1 ProclamationWHEREAS, The OASIS Institute is a national nonprofit organization designed to enhance the quality of life for mature adults by providing education about technology to those who do not want to be left out of the technology revolution; and WHEREAS, The OASIS Institute and AT&T foundation are working together to help older adults in the Pittsburgh area to strengthen their technology skills as they become increasingly important; and WHEREAS, The OASIS Institute offers classes for adults over 50 to teach them computer skills such as word processing, job search skills, and how to use email as a form of communication with family and friends; and WHEREAS, AT&T has awarded The OASIS Institute a $1 million dollar grant to expand the Excellence in Technology Partnership in 2007; and WHEREAS, Pittsburgh is among the 18 cities participating in the Excellence in Technology Partnership throughout the country; and WHEREAS, OASIS will hosting the Oasis Connections Conference to meet with AT&T and their 8 other community sponsors that have played a pivotal role in attaining their outreaAdoptedPass Action details
2007-1890 1 ProclamationWHEREAS, hundreds of area agencies have worked continuously with Columbia Gas, Dominion Peoples and Equitable Gas to administer the Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP); and WHEREAS, the agencies and natural gas companies work throughout the year to help provide warmth for the winter; and WHEREAS, families and communities are in need of increased LIHEAP funding and the knowledge about how to apply for funding; and WHEREAS, the agencies and Columbia, Dominion Peoples and Equitable Gas Company collectively have helped provide hundreds of thousands of people resources to help stay warm; and WHEREAS, there is power in numbers working toward a common goal of promoting LIHEAP awareness and helping those in need; and NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby declare Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007, as "LIHEAP DAY" in the City of Pittsburgh.AdoptedPass Action details
2007-1891 1 ProclamationWHEREAS, Carlow University and its Women of Spirit Institute will host the fifth Marie Torre Memorial Lecture on Saturday, November 3rd, 2007; and WHEREAS, the Marie Torre Memorial Lecture Series was established as a partnership between KDKA-TV and Carlow as a living memorial to television anchorwoman Marie Torre; and WHEREAS, Ms. Torre first gained notoriety in 1959 for being the first journalist in the United States to go to jail for refusing to reveal the name of the source for her New York Herald-Tribune story about actress Judy Garland; and WHEREAS, Ms. Torre moved to Pittsburgh in 1962 to work for KDKA-TV, where she was the first female news anchor; and WHEREAS, the Marie Torre Memorial Lecture Series endeavors to honor her memory by seeking out speakers who have demonstrated the highest standards of professional and personal integrity, and who are role models for Carlow students and other young people; and WHEREAS, this year's speaker is CBS News Correspondent Kimberly Dozier who was seriously injured in Baghdad during a car bomb attack in May of 2006 which killAdoptedPass Action details
2007-1892 1 ProclamationWHEREAS, on Saturday, October 27,2007, A Second Chance, Inc. will host The Charlotta E. Saylor Scholarship Fund luncheon and fashion show which will be held at the Churchill Valley Country Club; and WHEREAS, the Charlotta E. Saylor Scholarship Fund is an integral component of the agency, which provides monetary awards to high school seniors who reside in kinship care and have been accepted or enrolled into post-secondary educational institutions. Recipients are determined by the Board of Directors; and WHEREAS, Ms. Charlotta Saylor, educator touched a multitude of young lives in 30 years of teaching at Lincoln-Larimer and Belmar Elementary Schools. She was a teacher who placed special emphasis on the importance of education and goal setting to her students. Ms Saylor encourage them to reach for the stars and many of them succeeded in doing so; and WHEREAS, Ms. Saylor who followed in the footsteps of her mother in 1971, by becoming a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., served on a number of committees within Delta to include Membership Services, Founders Day, Delta AdoptedPass Action details
2007-1882 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of Warrants in the sum of $14,363.98 to Joyce Butler c/o Gregory A. Castelli, Esquire, 2600 Brownsville Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15227, in full and final settlement of an action filed at AR 07-004828, and arising from alleged personal injuries sustained as a result of a trip and fall accident within the crosswalk on Liberty Avenue at the intersection with 6th Street, on or about September 20, 2006, and in the sum of $636.02 to the Treasurer of the City of Pittsburgh for indebtedness to the City.Read and referred  Action details
2007-1883 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor to accept on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, a grant from the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board in the amount of $50,000.00, and authorizing agreement or agreements with qualified agencies for project coordination, and other related services including transfer of salaries, supply purchases, travel reimbursement, and other expenses in connection with the Multiple Pathways to Education Project.Read and referred  Action details
2007-1887 1 Ordinance Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, by repealing TITLE 6: CONDUCT, ARTICLE VII: NUISANCE PROPERTIES, CHAPTER 670: NUISANCE PROPERTIES-ABATEMENT, and adding both TITLE 6: CONDUCT, ARTICLE VII DISRUPTIVE PROPERTIES, CHAPTER 670: DISRUPTIVE PROPERTY ABATEMENT and TITLE 6: CONDUCT, ARTICLE VII DISRUPTIVE PROPERTIES, CHAPTER 670A: DISRUPTIVE PROPERTY APPEALS BOARD.Read and referred  Action details
2007-1886 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works to enter into a Garbage Collection Agreement and an accompanying Equipment Lease with the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh pertaining to the City's provision of collection and disposal services in exchange for the lease of certain refuse collection equipment from the Authority.Read and referred  Action details
2007-1888 1 PetitionPetition from the residents of the City of Pittsburgh requesting a public hearing before City Council relative to the installation of a four way stop sign at the intersection of Stanton and Sheridan Avenues.Read and referred  Action details
2007-1878 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Finance, Law & Purchasing for October 24, 2007.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details
2007-1844 1 ResolutionResolution further amending and supplementing Resolution No. 258, effective April 26, 2000, as amended, entitled "Providing for an Agreement or Agreements, or use of existing Agreements and/or a Contract or Contracts, or use of existing Contracts, and for the purchase of materials, supplies, equipment, and/or services for various projects in connection with the Neighborhood Needs Program in Council District 1; and providing for the payment of the costs thereof," by adjusting various projects in Council District 1. The total amount of all projects is not to exceed $1,000,000.Passed FinallyPass Action details
2007-1867 1 ResolutionResolution Further amending Resolution No.204, effective April 12, 2000, as amended, entitled "Providing for an Agreement or Agreements, or use of existing Agreements and/or a Contract or Contracts, or use of existing Contracts, and for the purchase of materials, supplies, equipment, and/or services for various projects in connection with the Neighborhood Needs Program in Council District 7; and providing for the payment of the costs thereof," by adding DPW Doughboy Monument $15,000 and by reducing District 7 Community Organizational Support by the same amount. Total cost of all projects should not exceed $1,000,000.Passed FinallyPass Action details
2007-1879 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Public Works and Environmental Services for October 24, 2007.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details
2007-1738 1 OrdinanceOrdinance amending and supplementing Title Ten: Building, Chapters 1001 and 1003, of the Pittsburgh Code to add the requirements of federal and state laws, regulations and standards regarding stormwater management for construction sites and for after construction activities have been completed. Passed FinallyPass Action details
2007-1739 1 OrdinanceOrdinance amending and supplementing Chapters 906, 922 and 924 of Title Nine, Zoning, of the Pittsburgh Code to include cross references to the Title Ten: Building, Chapter 1003 stormwater amendments, to provide for enforcement procedures and penalties for violations of Stormwater Management Ordinances or of approved Stormwater Management Site Plans and Stormwater Management Best Management Practices and to conform certain Zoning Code amendments to the Storm Water amendments of Title Ten: Building and of the Pittsburgh Zoning Code.Passed FinallyPass Action details
2007-1740 3 OrdinanceOrdinance Amending and Supplementing Title Four, Public Places and Property, Article III, Sewers, Chapter 433, Illegal StormWater Connections, in order to include federal and state-mandated prohibitions regarding the drainage or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface, of non-storm water discharge from real property including sewage, process wastewater, and wash water into the Waters of the Commonwealth, and to add a definition of "Sale" exempting sales of real property pursuant to the Second Class City Treasurer's Sale and Collection Act, 53 P.S. § 27101 et seq., as amended, from the requirements of the ordinance with regard to sales of real property, and to remove the prohibition against discharging from the Illegal Surface StormWater Connection upon or across public or private sidewalks in conformance with the Allegheny County Health Department's Rules and Regulations for Plumbing and Building Drainage, Article XV.Passed FinallyPass Action details
2007-1880 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Planning, Zoning and Land Use for October 24, 2007.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details
2007-1720 1 OrdinanceOrdinance amending the Pittsburgh Zoning Code, Title Nine, Article One, Chapter 902 Section 902.03, Zoning District Map Nos. 2 and 6 by changing various zoning district classifications in the ESPLEN neighborhood in accord with Map Pittsburgh: Zoning for your Neighborhood, the city's zoning re-mapping project relative to the city's new Urban Zoning Code.Passed FinallyPass Action details
2007-1881 1 ReportReport of the Committee on Housing, Economic Develpment and Promotion for October 24, 2007.Read, Received and FiledPass Action details
2007-1843 1 ResolutionResolution amending and supplementing Resolution No. 861, effective January 1, 2000, as amended, entitled: “Adopting and approving the 2000 Capital; and approving the 2000 through 2005 Capital Improvement Program, by adjusting various line items in conformance with City Council's 2000 Capital Budget amendments,” by adding “North Side Cultural Collaborative“ $2,500 and by making various other adjustments in Council District 1.Passed FinallyPass Action details
2007-1868 1 ResolutionResolution amending and supplementing Resolution No. 861, effective January 1, 2000, as amended, entitled: “Adopting and approving the 2000 Capital Budget and the 2000 Community Development Block Grant Program; and approving the 2000 through 2005 Capital Improvement Program, by adjusting various line items in conformance with City Council's 2000 Capital Budget amendments” by adding DPW Doughboy Monument $15,000 and by reducing District 7 Community Organizational Support by the same amount. Passed FinallyPass Action details