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This was a SuperCommittee and agenda review meeting held on April 28, 2025, at 6:00 PM. The meeting covered a range of topics including presentations, committee reports, ordinance discussions, and planning for future votes. Key updates included progress on document scanning, banking services, a revised CINTAS contract, engineering studies for Potomac Avenue, a proclamation for Women's Center & Shelter Month, comprehensive plan updates, Keystone Oaks MOU renewal, and parking ordinance revisions. Several public funding requests were discussed and added to the upcoming voting agenda.
Recording in progress. I'll call the meeting to order. This is the supercommittee meeting for April 28th, 2025 and agenda review. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I've got allegiance to a flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right. Huh? Oh no, yes, I am an aggressive pledge sayer. I'm sorry. It's all those years of teaching high school English. Oh, we don't say it. I mean, they say to stand, and the kids don't. I don't know. Do they stand with Bruchier? Yeah. Freedom of speech. I don't we don't comment on it. Okay, anyway, we're so registered comments, but we do have Joanna from the Human Relations Commission who wanted to share a brief update with us. Thank you. Can you say your name and hi? I am Joanna Bolden. My address is 1123 Pierre Mont Avenue, and I'm on the Dormont Human Relations Commission. I apologize, I'm not actually prepared because I just found out I was doing this a little while ago. But I just wanted to give you guys a quick update about what we've been talking about and what we're working on. I think the biggest thing that we're working on right now is a landlord training on fair housing. So the Human Relations Commission is going to be partnering with the with Fair Housing Partnership. Um, and they are going to be providing a training to any of the landlords that we have that are interested in going so that they fully understand fair housing laws, in particular under Dormont's non-discrimination ordinance. Um, and so that they can, you know, so we can get to discrimination and housing at the root. The idea is let's not have it happen in the first place. So I've been working with Melinda and Rachel, who's awesome, and we are going to be um, I think our list is like over 600 landlords. Um don't get too excited. I would be excited if like 10 came. Um so we're gonna send out an invitation for housing partnership. It will have a um registration website. We'll be hosting the event here, and um there is a possibility that we will also extend the invitation to some neighboring municipalities. Um we're gonna do a little bit of information gathering before we make that final decision, but I know that this community and this borough is very committed to you know multi-municipal projects and really trying to work across boundaries. Um, so hopefully that'll be good. Um the human relations commission is planning on having a table at Pride this year. In addition, we are down a member, so we have some new applicants. Um we have three applicants, and so we've read their resumes and we'll look over stuff. I think we may be inviting them to our next uh meeting to just come talk and get to know them a little bit. And last but not least, I wanted to provide an update that's kind of like zooming out from Dormont and looking at issues related to the Human Relations Commission on a state level. Um as you guys know, there's been a lot of changes at the federal level as pertains to discrimination and protected categories. Um the state Pennsylvania Human Relations Act protects um, you know, many categories of people are are covered under protected classes, and that includes under the category of sex that includes gender identity and gender expression. Um it was not written explicitly, but that was the interpretation.