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(Note: The agenda and transcript indicate the meeting occurred in July 2026; however, the provided date is August 11, 2026, per instruction. This discrepancy is noted per accuracy rules.)
The meeting covered committee reports and public comments on various borough matters, including vape shop zoning, Dormont Pool filtration system repairs, financial approvals, emergency planning, and a proposed development.
The Congress meeting as a July 29th, 2026 Supercommittee meeting to order. If you will, please rise and join with me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the by the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with the British and Brexit for all. Thank you. I understand that there are not any registered comments this evening. So we'll go ahead and as we have in the past, sort of go down the line, if you will, um, of um super community of the committee meetings this evening. Um, I'll go ahead and start with uh Mr. Melvin to my file right if you don't mind passing this on. Thank you very much. Business district relations and development committee gavel in 601. Uh there's one item on the agenda, the county comments on vape shops discussion. Uh John, did you want to take that from your I'm gonna actually defer to Margaret, our solicitor to discuss that. Sure. So um the main topic of discussion is um the comments received from Allegheny County and the timing moving forward. So we received some comments from Allegheny County um for your review and deliberation. Uh the thing to know is that if you make any uh substantive revisions to the ordinance, um, anything more than just typographical things or maybe minor syntax. Um we're gonna be looking at having to resubmit to ACED for another 45-day review period, and also I think back to the planning commission. So that's gonna kick your timeline down the road another couple of months. Um if you decide not to make any further changes and to move forward with the ordinance as it currently exists. What the timeline would look like from here is that we would have a motion to advertise at your August 3rd voting meeting. Uh following that, the borough would schedule a public hearing and a special voting meeting. We're looking at maybe August 24th. And then there are three separate statutory notices that have to be published in advance of the public hearing and uh the official action on the ordinance. And so basically, we need at least two weeks uh leading up to the public hearing for those three successive notices. Um and so I've I've provided some information to John, but basically, first notice would have to go out for publication on Sunday, August 9th. Uh, second and third notices would go for publication on Sunday, August 16th. And that would set us up uh to be within the statutory window for official action at a special voting meeting on August 24th. So that's sort of the um, you know, if we're pushing forward to get something on the books, some sort of regulation of vape shops, that's that's going to be the quickest and most expedient option. Um, understanding, of course, that you always have the ability to revisit and make amendments um down the road if you'd like. Um, or alternatively, we're looking at going back to another review from ACED and planning commission if if further changes are made. Please in looking at these comments, honestly. Um the first item that they commented on was about looking at um accessory sale of tobacco and similar products, and we talked extensively about that. So I think that you know, again, these are all recommendations, but we've already talked about the first one. A number of the other ones really have to do with um specifically um applications moving forward for conditional use approval or reading use or other things that quite frankly in the borough that's already quite built out, weren't we're very unlikely to see. And so I think that based on those recommendations and recognizing what the language looks like that I would very much like us to see that move this forward. And if there's some reason any of these items that need to be addressed, and again, just in a quick look at them and some of the um the conflicts and challenges that they have noted recommendations for. I think we can do that after the fact. But we had started down this road to try to have something approved and done for August. Obviously, we're behind that now just because of the 45 time 45-day period, but many of these recommendations give me pause, and all of these are recommendations only. I think it's important for us to move forward with something.