• Among numerous new programs and events, the Parks Department constructed a Bankshots™ course in South Park. Players of all ages and abilities, including di erently-abled participants, proceed through a course of angled, curved, and non-conventionally con gured brightly colored backboards, banking shots o the Bankboards™ and through the rims. The court opened in the fall, and the department will be scheduling programs and events at the course during 2023. • The Department of Public Works (DPW) continued to design, schedule and complete bridge projects to further reduce the number of poorly rated county-owned bridges. Completing seven of these projects in 2022, there remain 20 such bridges, each of which is scheduled for construction or is in the design process. DPW also began major rehabilitation work on the third “Sister Bridge” - the Roberto Clemente Bridge – in 2022. By the end of 2023, all three Sister Bridges will have undergone major rehabilitation to add decades of life to these iconic structures. • The Department of Budget and Finance successfully developed a $3.015 billion total spending plan for 2023, including budgeting for the county’s share of American Rescue Plan funding and the statewide opioid settlement. This is the 21st time in 22 years there has been no property tax millage increase for our county taxpayers. • The Department of Children Initiatives (DCI) leveraged the foundation that it laid in its inaugural year, 2021, by launching the Allegheny Child Care Matters pilot program, already providing subsidized child care for 184 children in 122 working families across the county. DCI also awarded funding to providers that will add nearly 500 high-quality infant and toddler child care slots and over 600 new out-of-school-time slots, and funding to grantees that are serving over 400 children with early literacy programming. COUNTYOF Rich Fitzgerald County Executive ALLEGHENY To: Rich Fitzgerald, County Executive From: William D. McKain CPA, County Manager Date: March 8, 2022 Re: 2021 Allegheny County Highlights Report Cc: Jennifer Liptak, Chief of Staff • Allegheny County Economic Development (ACED) created the Trail Development Fund in 2022, which awarded nearly $25 million to 17 trail and active transportation projects. Included are connections to the GAP trail, the Turtle Creek Connector to the Westmoreland Heritage Trail, the Brilliant Line in Aspinwall, and others, each of which will contribute to the region’s livability, economic development potential and healthy recreation opportunities for our residents. I am pleased to present the 2021 Highlights Report for Allegheny County, summarizing key accomplishments during the year for each of our executive departments. This year’s highlights reflect the hard work and dedication of county employees, who aim to enhance the quality of services for constituents, reduce costs, and operate more efficiently by focusing on technology, customer service, and sustainability. You will nd many more highlights in the attached report, showing that each of our departments turned great ideas into action while also providing our usual excellent quality of service to our residents. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continued to present many challenges to the residents of Allegheny County and to county government in 2021. Once again, our employees rose to the challenge to deliver new services, and to deliver existing services in previously unexpected ways. Some of those highlights include: • In addition to leading the overall public health response to the pandemic, our Health Department (ACHD), with assistance from Allegheny County Emergency Services, set up COVID vaccine clinics across the county, delivering 137,000 shots in arms. This supplemented the work being done by our local healthcare partners, achieving one of the highest vaccination rates in the state. With the assistance from our Department of Human Services (DHS), ACHD also ensured that residents of low-income senior buildings and the homebound also had access to COVID vaccines. • DHS was able to quickly stand-up the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, using a robotic system to process applications, enabling them to providerent and/or utility assistance to 12,486 households in a ten-month period. At the same time, DHS qualified and assisted nearly 2,000 older youths in the child welfare system, who were eligible for pandemic relief cash subsidies. • Remote assistance was provided in nursing homes throughout the county, thanks to DHS’ innovative use of a robot-like “Padbot” to serve as ombudsman to hear complaints, and in the Kane Community Living Centers through their use of “Curavicart” to enable residents to meet with their physicians. Stephen Pilarski, Senior Deputy County Manager
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