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Meeting Name: Standing Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 11/13/2019 9:30 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers
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2019-2296 1 Appointment-Requiring VoteResolution appointing Jennifer Richnafsky to serve as a member of the Ethics Hearing Board for a term of three (3) years, to expire June 30, 2022.Interview HeldPass Action details Video Video
2019-2273 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in the amount of Five Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Eight and Twenty Cents. ($5,258.20) to Levy Convention Centers for costs incurred for Government Alliance on Race and Equity Training.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2196 2 ResolutionResolution providing for the sale of certain property, acquired by the City of Pittsburgh at tax sales. ITEMS A through E: [A: 1200 Spring Garden - DELETE, B: 1206 Spring Garden - DELETE, C: 1204 Spring Garden - DELETE, D: 1208 Spring Garden - DELETE], E: 1815 RialtoAMENDEDPass Action details Video Video
2019-2196 2 ResolutionResolution providing for the sale of certain property, acquired by the City of Pittsburgh at tax sales. ITEMS A through E: [A: 1200 Spring Garden - DELETE, B: 1206 Spring Garden - DELETE, C: 1204 Spring Garden - DELETE, D: 1208 Spring Garden - DELETE], E: 1815 RialtoAffirmatively Recommended as AmendedPass Action details
2019-2198 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in the amount of Twenty Five Thousand Two Hundred Twelve Dollars and Fifty Cents ($25,212.50) to Korn Ferry (US), NW 5854, P.O. Box 1450, Minneapolis, MN 55485-5854, for professional services rendered in connection with labor arbitrations. (Executive Session held 11/6/19)Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2199 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the City Solicitor to enter into a Professional Services Agreement with Segal Waters Consulting, 1800 M Street NW, Suite 900 S, Washington, DC 20036-5802, for professional services rendered in connection with labor arbitrations in an amount not to exceed Fifty-Two Thousand Five Hundred Thirty-Eight Dollars and Seventy-Five Cents ($52,538.75). (Executive Session held 11/6/19)Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2225 1 ResolutionResolution transferring the amount of $150,000 from the Office of Management and Budget’s Operating Budget, JDE Account 11101.102200.53.53101.2019, to the Workforce Development Fund, Job Number 0222806700, Fund 28067, Budget Year 2019.Held in CommitteePass Action details Video Video
2019-2251 1 ResolutionResolution providing for the issuance of a warrant in favor of PowerDMS, Inc. in the amount of Twenty-One Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars ($21,800.00) for document management software for the Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Police.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2175 1 ResolutionResolution taking, appropriating and condemning by the City of Pittsburgh, for roadway purposes certain property in the 26th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, owned by Cessy Portuguez and known as 45 Semicir Street, authorizing the payment of just compensation and necessary and incidental acquisition and relocation costs related thereto. (Executive Session held 10/30/19)Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2248 1 ResolutionResolution amending resolution No. 632 of 2019, vacating a portion of Colwell Street and portions of Our Way in the 3rd Ward, 6th Council District of the City of Pittsburgh, by extending the expiration date of the payment from the property owners to the Treasury of the City of Pittsburgh from 105 days to 150 days from the effective date of the resolution, August 1st of 2019.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2254 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution No. 384, effective June 14, 2019, “authorizing the Mayor, the Director of the Department of Public Works and/or the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, to apply for grant funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Developments Greenways, Trails and Recreation Program (GTRP) to provide funding for the planning of the renovation of the Pedestrian Tunnel located in Highland Park. The grant proposal includes an ask of $139,674.35 with a local match of $24,651.93 to be funded from the 2020 City of Pittsburgh Capital Budget. In the event the grant is awarded, this resolution provides for an agreement and expenditures not to exceed ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED TWENTY SIX DOLLARS AND TWENTY EIGHT CENTS ($164,326.28) for this stated purpose,” by adding the JDE JOB NO. and the actual grant amount.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2255 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution No. 383, effective June 14, 2019, “Authorizing the Mayor and Director of the Department of Public Works to apply for grant funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Developments Greenways, Trails and Recreation Program (GTRP) to provide funding for the renovation of multimodal trails located within South Side Park. The grant proposal includes an ask of $250,000.00 with a local match of $37,500.00 to be funded from the 2020 City of Pittsburgh Capital Budget. In the event the grant is awarded, this resolution provides for an agreement and expenditures not to exceed TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED ($287,500.00) dollars for this stated purpose” by adding the JDE JOB NO. and the actual grant amount.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2256 1 ResolutionResolution amending Resolution No. 385, effective June 14, 2019, “authorizing the Mayor and Director of the Department of Public Works to apply for grant funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Developments Greenways Trails and Recreation Program (GTRP) to provide funding for the renovation of the Riverview Park Entrance at Mairdale Avenue. The grant proposal includes an ask of $250,000.00 with a local match of $37,500.00 to be funded from the 2020 City of Pittsburgh Capital Budget. In the event the grant is awarded, this resolution provides for an agreement and expenditures not to exceed TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED ($287,500.00) dollars for this stated purpose,” by adding the JDE JOB NO. and the actual grant amount.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2257 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh and the Department of Public Works to enter into an agreement with the United States Tennis Association’s Facility Grant Application and, should the grant be awarded by USTA, to provide funding for lighting improvements to the tennis courts in Schenley Park. The grant proposal includes an ask of $30,000.00 with a local match of $120,000.00 included in the 2020 City of Pittsburgh’s Operating Budget. In the event the grant is awarded, this resolution provides for an agreement and expenditures not to exceed ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND ($150,000.00) dollars for this stated purpose.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2269 1 ResolutionResolution further amending Resolution No. 796 of 2013, effective December 19, 2013, as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2014 Capital Budget and the 2014 Community Development Block Grant Program; and approving the 2014 through 2019 Capital Improvement Program,” by reducing ARTIST IMAGE RESOURCES by $5,000 and increasing HISTORIC DEUTSCHTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORP. by $5,000 and authorizing a subsequent Agreement or Agreements for operation/administrative expenses, maintenance, purchase of equipment, and/or rehabilitation of neighborhood facilities on behalf of the residents of the City of Pittsburgh.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2270 1 ResolutionResolution further amending Resolution No. 772 of 2016, effective January 1, 2017, as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2017 Capital Budget and the 2017 Community Development Block Grant Program; approving the 2017 through 2022 Capital Improvement Program” by reducing NORTHSIDE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE by $4,085, increasing PUBLIC SAFETY AEDS by $4,085, and authorizing a subsequent Agreement or Agreements for operation/administrative expenses, maintenance, purchase of equipment, and/or rehabilitation of neighborhood facilities on behalf of the residents of the City of Pittsburgh.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2271 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 making various amendments and name changes to City Council line items and authorizing a subsequent Agreement or Agreements for operation/administrative expenses, maintenance, purchase of equipment, and/or rehabilitation of neighborhood facilities on behalf of the residents of the City of Pittsburgh.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2272 1 ResolutionResolution further amending Resolution No. 863 of 2018, effective January 1, 2019, as amended, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2019 Capital Budget and the 2019 Community Development Block Grant Program, and the 2019 through 2024 Capital Improvement Program” by amending various CDBG program line items, adding JD Edwards financial information, and authorizing a subsequent Agreement or Agreements for operation/administrative expenses, maintenance, purchase of equipment, and/or rehabilitation of neighborhood facilities on behalf of the residents of the City of Pittsburgh.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2229 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and Director of City Planning to receive eighty-thousand ($80,000.00) dollars grant award per agreement between the City of Pittsburgh and the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, executed 5/15/19, to support the development of an Emerald View Park Master Plan, and to further enter into contract to hire consultants Merritt / Chase to develop aforementioned master plan with additional City expenditures (local match) not to exceed fifty-five thousand ($55,000.00) dollars, for a total contract value not to exceed one-hundred and thirty-five thousand ($135,000.00) dollars.Held in CommitteePass Action details Video Video
2019-2249 1 OrdinanceOrdinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, Title Nine, Zoning, Article I, Section 902.03 Zoning Map, by changing from CP, Commercial Planned Unit Development, to UNC, Urban Neighborhood Commercial two parcels and a portion of two parcels in the Allegheny County Block and Lot System, 7th Ward; and changing from LNC, Local Neighborhood Commercial, to UNC, Urban Neighborhood Commercial six parcels and a portion of two parcels in the Allegheny County Block and Lot System, 7th Ward. (Public Hearing scheduled for 12/17/19)Held for Cablecast Public HearingPass Action details Video Video
2019-2250 1 ResolutionResolution providing for the implementation of the Residential Parking Permit Program Area “MM” in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood (Council District #5) pursuant to Pittsburgh Code Chapter 549.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2206 1 ResolutionResolution adopting Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh’s Official Sewage Facilities Plan for the 2330 Penn Avenue Condominiums, 2330 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2247 1 ResolutionResolution amending resolution No. 446 of 2018, authorizing a Cooperation Agreement between the City of Pittsburgh (the “City”) and the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (the “Authority”) to divert 75% of the incremental parking taxes from the Garage (as defined below), by increasing the maximum amount from $7,000,000.00 to $10,000,000.00, to fund affordable housing at the proposed City’s Edge development in the Uptown neighborhood of the City of Pittsburgh, increasing the number of parking spaces in the parking garage from 439 to 508, and increasing the number of affordable housing units from 74 to 77.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2252 1 ResolutionResolution authorizing the Mayor and the Directors of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure and Department of Finance, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to execute a Declaration of Restrictions and Covenants over certain City parcels as a condition of a grant for four hundred eight thousand, nine hundred dollars ($408,900) provided by the Allegheny County Sanity Authority Green Revitalization of Our Waterways program for certain green infrastructure elements of the I-579 CAP Project.Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video
2019-2253 1 ResolutionResolution approving Execution of a Deed by and between the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh and City of Pittsburgh, for the sale of Block 83-P, Lot 249, in the 11th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh Council District No. 9 (Broad Street Plaza and Roadway Improvements).Affirmatively RecommendedPass Action details Video Video