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A Resolution of the Council of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, requesting that the Allegheny County Controller perform audits of the Sports and Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, Port Authority of Allegheny County, Allegheny County Airport Authority and Allegheny County Sanitary Authority with all deliberate speed, and authorizing the Controller to undertake such audits.
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WHEREAS, by Ordinance No. 35-07-OR effective October 19, 2007, County Council amended and supplemented the Allegheny County Code of Ordinances by establishing a new Article VI to Chapter 210 regarding the dissolution of County authorities; and
WHEREAS, the Allegheny County Airport Authority (the “Airport Authority”), the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority (“Alcosan”), the Port Authority of Allegheny County (the “Port Authority”) and the Sports and Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County (SEA) are four of the authorities subject to the Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, the Airport Authority, being vested with the Pittsburgh International Airport (“PIT”) and the County Airport; Alcosan, being vested with the County-wide sewage treatment facilities; the Port Authority, being vested with the exclusive responsibility to provide mass public transit throughout Allegheny County, and SEA, being vested with responsibility for some of the larges entertainment venues in the state, including Heinz Field, PNC Park and the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, control some of the County's largest and most significant facilities; and
WHEREAS, during the course of the Airport Authority's oversight, PIT had been beset with a series of fiscal setbacks, including the loss of hub status by U.S. Airways, the loss of thousands of jobs and hundreds of flights; and
WHEREAS, after more than eight years, the Airport Authority failed to reimburse the County, in full, for $42,500,000 in general obligation bonds the County issued relative to PIT, such that ...
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