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The SuperCommittee met on May 19, 2025 to discuss a range of topics including utility infrastructure, board appointments, energy pricing, recreation updates, and public transit funding. Key discussions centered on the prolonged Columbia Gas sidewalk restoration, which drew sharp criticism from council, and the potential severe impacts of PRT funding cuts on Dormont's bus and light rail services.
Pledge allegiance to the flag the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay. So we're gonna start with Yeah. No, do we I don't think we do one for this? Okay. Um we're gonna start with our visitors from Columbia Gas. And Jared, if you want to maybe um I can I give us some context. So I apologize. I was I was out on vacation last week, but I I saw some back and forth related to some concerns raised by residents regarding the sidewalks and the park plans uh and saw that um you there was a desire from from the mayor to discuss this tonight. So I invited um our contacts with Columbia Gas. Um do you guys want to introduce yourselves? So if you could come up and press the button, um, and yeah, just if you could say your names and reach for the record, great. Uh so my name is Carla Parks. Um, I'm with Public Affairs Department for Columbia Gas. I am John Gilmore. I am an engineer with Columbia Gas. So, first of all, thank you for having us. Um, and thank you for your patience through this entire process. Um, right now, Columbia Gas is in the process of updating our infrastructure throughout 26 counties. So, again, thank you for your patience. We understand that it is an inconvenience with roads, sidewalks, with everything associated with having a project. I will say the first part of Columbia Gas is understanding how we operate. So we have many different departments working together. We have engineers, we have project managers, we have restoration specialists, and they're all trying to work together for one goal. And at the end of the day, it's really just completing the project. So the way that we operate is the first step is that we have main line in we do the main line first. So we replace all of the main line on a project. The second step is doing all the service lines for you know, all of the residents. The last step, unfortunately, is restoration. The reason why we do that is because it for equipment purposes and things like that, it's easier just to kind of do it all in you know one day um to bring in restoration. So if you're seeing 13 months pass by, that is why. So I just wanted to address that part. Um, in regards to the sidewalk issues, and Jared, thank you for forwarding that over to me. Um, I did meet with the internal team. Um, our contractor did go out on Friday. He did put extra stone in there so that a wheelchair is able to get over it, and then they will be. I did receive an update from our um project manager that I just want to read. So um, just as an update, they will go back out and they will put mix just so it is a flat surface next week. Um, any contact information, I will forward over to Jared so that you guys know who is working on what. The good thing is is that I know about it now, and that I think we're gonna kind of just develop a process in having communicate regular communication. So we're gonna set up calls once a month. Jared and I talked about this over the phone today, where you know, our project manager will be on there, our engineer will be on there, and we're all gonna be working together to really just lay out where things land with a schedule, and then that everybody's on the same page.