title
A Resolution of the County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, authorizing a feasibility study of the Allegheny County Airport Authority, Allegheny County Sanitary Authority ("ALCOSAN"), and the Port Authority of Allegheny County ("Port Authority") for the purpose of evaluating dissolution and/or privatization thereof.
body
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”) and the Port Authority of Allegheny County (the “Port Authority”) are three 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; and the Port Authority, being vested with the exclusive responsibility to provide mass public transit throughout Allegheny County, 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 the principal sum of $22,600,000 remains due and owing; and
WHEREAS, Alcosan has, for years, been subject to an environmental enforcement action by the United States Department of Justice concerning Alcosan's failure to abate sanitary sewer overflow and Alcosan has been compelled to submit to a consent decree, which i...
Click here for full text