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Meeting Name: Standing Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 1/23/2019 10:00 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
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2019-1305 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Tabatha Werkmeister, on her own behalf and as guardian on behalf of her minor children, and Grinage Dion Wilson, 3517 Fleming Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 in an amount not to exceed Eighty Thousand Dollars and 00/100 ($80,000.00) in settlement of litigation and as ordered by the Court as described in the Full and Final General Release and Settlement Agreement between the parties. (Executive Session held 1/30/19)Held for Executive SessionPass Action details Video Video
2019-1247 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Farrell & Reisinger, LLC, 436 7th Avenue, Suite 300, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, in an amount not to exceed Ten Thousand Two Hundred Twenty-Eight Dollars and Sixty Cents ($10,228.60) for professional legal services regarding a police matter. (Executive Session held 1/17/19)Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-1248 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, 1600 Market Street, Suite 3600, Philadelphia, PA 19103-7286, in an amount not to exceed Eight Thousand Two Hundred Twenty-Three Dollars and Ninety-Two Cents ($8,223.92) for professional services in connection with a police matter. (Executive Session held 1/17/19)Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details
2019-1249 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLCC, 300 Kanawha Boulevard, East, P.O. Box 273, Charleston, WV 25321-0273, in an amount not to exceed Seventeen Thousand Five Hundred Forty-One Dollars and Sixty-Six Cents ($17,541.66) for professional legal services regarding a police matter. (Executive Session held 1/17/19)Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details
2019-1283 1 ResolutionResolution further amending Resolution No. 797 of 2017, effective December 28, 2017, as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2018 Capital Budget and the 2018 Community Development Block Grant Program, and the 2018 through 2023 Capital Improvement Program,” by increasing PARK RECONSTRUCTION - REGIONAL ASSET DISTRICT PARKS by $54,290.00 from $965,000.00 to $1,019,290.00.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-1284 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution No. 14 of 2019 realigning a total of $4,311,000 $4,322,000 between various accounts within the 2018 Operating Budget. This transfer is necessary for the 2018 close to meet final expenditures for fiscal year 2018.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-1285 1 ResolutionResolution to authorize and direct the incurring of Non-Electoral Debt through the issuance of a series of General Obligation Bonds of the City of Pittsburgh, in the maximum aggregate principal amount of Sixty-Two Million Four Hundred Thirty-Five Thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($62,435,000.00).Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-1286 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Finance to enter into an agreement with Clark Hill to serve as Bond Counsel for the purpose of rendering any and all necessary opinions with respect to the Bonds and preparing such additional documents as may be necessary. Total costs shall not exceed Thirty-Six Thousand One Hundred Twenty-Five Dollars ($36,125.00) and shall be paid using proceeds from the debt issuance.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-1287 1 ResolutionResolution providing for the issuance of warrant in the total sum of Six Thousand Eight Hundred Fifty-Seven Dollars and Two Cents ($6,857.02) in favor of Diane and Ronald J. Bawkey c/o Robert Peirce & Associates, P.C., 2500 Gulf Tower, 707 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, a warrant in the sum of Nine Hundred Eighteen and 08/100 Dollars ($918.08) in favor of the City of Pittsburgh, Treasurer, and a warrant in the total sum of Seven Hundred Twenty-Four and 90/100 ($724.90) in favor of Jordan Tax Service, as final settlement related to the action filed in the Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County. (Executive Session held 1/30/19)Held for Executive SessionPass Action details Video Video
2019-1288 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in the amount of Five Thousand Three Hundred Three Dollars and Thirty-Four Cents ($5,303.34) to Pepper Hamilton LLP, 501 Grant St., Suite 300, Union Trust Building, Pittsburgh, PA l5219 for professional consulting and legal services in relation to False Claims Act litigation. (Executive Session held 1/30/19)Held for Executive SessionPass Action details Video Video
2019-1289 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Gleason & Associates PC, P.O. Box 644816, Pittsburgh, PA l5264-4816 in an amount not to exceed Nine Thousand Nine Hundred Forty-Six Dollars and No Cents ($9,946.00) for professional services in connection with a lawsuit filed in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. (Executive Session held 1/30/19)Held for Executive SessionPass Action details Video Video
2019-1290 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Kittelson LLC, 1008 Woodcreek Drive, College Station, TX 77845 in an amount not to exceed Ten Thousand Eighty-Two Dollars and Twenty Cents ($10,082.20) for professional services in connection with a lawsuit filed in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. (Executive Session held 1/30/19)Held for Executive SessionPass Action details Video Video
2019-1291 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing, pursuant to Ch. 210 (“Acceptance of Gifts to City”) of the City Code, the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Safety to accept a donation from Alcoa Corporation of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) to be deposited into the Public Safety Support Trust Fund.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-1293 2 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and Director of the Department of Public Safety to execute relevant agreements to receive grant funding from the Hillman Family Foundations/Nina Hamilton Baldwin Fisher Foundation to provide funds to support the creation and support of a Domestic Violence Team housed in the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police and further providing for an agreement and expenditures not to exceed FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND ($500,000.00) dollars for this stated purpose.AMENDEDPass Action details
2019-1293 2 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and Director of the Department of Public Safety to execute relevant agreements to receive grant funding from the Hillman Family Foundations/Nina Hamilton Baldwin Fisher Foundation to provide funds to support the creation and support of a Domestic Violence Team housed in the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police and further providing for an agreement and expenditures not to exceed FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND ($500,000.00) dollars for this stated purpose.Affirmatively Recommended as AmendedPass Action details Video Video
2018-1239 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into a license and operating agreement or agreements with HFT Management, Inc., dba Gateway Outdoor Advertising, for services related to installation, operation, maintenance and advertising of transit shelters and associated street furniture.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-1295 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution No. 701, effective November 2, 2015, to now read as follows: "Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Mobility and Infrastructure, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into an Agreement or Agreements with PENNDOT under which PENNDOT will make improvements to and transfer Industrial Highway, approximately 1.2 miles of roadway, to the City, and the City will transfer to PENNDOT two current City street segments, those street segments being: 1) Euclid Avenue from Baum Boulevard to Centre Avenue, approximately 347 feet; and 2) Centre Avenue from Euclid Avenue to Highland Avenue, approximately 1,017 feet."Held in CommitteePass Action details Video Video
2019-1292 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and Director of Human Resources and Civil Service Commission to enter into an Agreement with Willis Towers Watson for services related to supporting the City with development and negotiations of employee benefits that are provided to City employees, for a sum not to exceed One Million, One Hundred Sixteen Thousand Dollars ($1,116,000.00) over four years and for the payment of costs thereof.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-1294 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing a cooperation agreement or agreements, providing for the transfer of funds not to exceed Six Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($6,750,000.00) dollars to the City of Pittsburgh Equipment Leasing Authority for the purchase of vehicles, equipment and accessories for use by City of Pittsburgh Departments and Authorities.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video