The city of Pittsburgh missed out on getting money from a coalition of nonprofit institutions last year, and will get less in the future than it did under a three-year pact that ended in 2007, officials said yesterday.

That means the Pittsburgh Public Service Fund joins state government on the list of recession victims that are shorting the city, which has a healthy bank balance but expects precarious budgets starting next year.

The fund, which has included around 100 medical, educational, charitable and cultural institutions, volunteered nearly $14 million to the city for the years 2005 through 2007 under a unique agreement aimed at helping the city recover from near-bankruptcy. The final payments came in last year, but were meant to satisfy the fund's pledge for 2007.

Months ago, the fund sent the city a draft agreement that would govern another three years of payments, said the Rev. Ron Lengwin, spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh and for the fund. If it had been signed last year, the city could have gotten payments, he said.

"We had reason to believe that everyone was OK with that draft," he said. "We're waiting for them to sign the agreement."

Campaign money raised for local elections sometimes gets spent in unusual places -- like Europe.

Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato and Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl each spent money meant for electioneering on trips to Europe last winter, according to campaign finance reports filed this month. Both traveled with their wives, and tapped the money provided by supporters to cover costs not picked up by organizations that paid for official parts of the trip.

The $1,033 spent on European travel by Mr. Onorato's campaign, and the $1,911 by Mr. Ravenstahl's political committee, were the farthest-flung expenditures reported from a year that saw many local officials deciding how to use campaign funds to go to events like the Democratic National Convention. The disclosures also come on the heels of Mr. Ravenstahl's and Mr. Onorato's use of campaign money to go to Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa.