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Good morning, and welcome to the regular meeting of City Council on Tuesday, February twenty-fourth, two thousand twenty-six.

Would a clerk please take the role?

Mr.

Charlotte.

Mr.

Cog.

Ms.

Gross.

Mr.

Mosley.

Mrs.

Salonetro.

Mrs.

Salonetro.

Here.

Mr.

Strasberger.

Here.

Mrs.

Warwick.

Mr.

Wilson.

Mr.

Lavell President.

Here.

Six members present.

Thank you.

For those who are able, please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance for me and standing for a moment of silence.

May I have a second?

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Our next order of business is proclamations.

We have two to be read into the record.

Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does recognize Lieutenant Commander Bud's distinguished career involving many aspects of law enforcement and thanks him for his lifetime of service to the city of Pittsburgh and to the country and wishes him a happy retirement.

And be it further resolved that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby declare Saturday, February twenty-eighth, to be Lieutenant Commander Barry Bud Day in the City of Pittsburgh.

And Councilmember Wilson presents now, therefore be it resolved that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh recognizes and honors Ronald Carter Jr.

for his outstanding accomplishments in athletics and public service and commends the example he continues to set for future generations.

And be it further resolved that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby declare Saturday, February 28th, 2026, to be Ronald Harter Day, Carter Junior Day in the City of Pittsburgh.

May we have a motion to approve?

So move.

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Hi.

Our first registered speaker is Chief Pomai.

Chakman Yahalihi.

Do not see them online.

Our next registered speaker is Ajmil Matson here.

You may begin.

Good morning.

Thanks for having me.

Imagine with the team.

I uh live in the Pilot Park neighborhood.

I'm a local startup founder, and I conducted an independent financial diagnostic as far as my executive MBA practicum at the University of Pittsburgh.

So over the past few months, I audited the IRS financial disclosures of our region's tactical economic development ecosystem.

My objective was to assess capital deployment efficiency across the city.

The primary finding of this practicum is this.

Pittsburgh does not suffer from a liquidity crisis.

It suffers from a structural capital allocation failure driven by institutional hoarding and extreme administrative blood.

If you look at the operational models of our state-funded intermediaries, the data reveals severe administrative friction.

Furthermore, identified significant capital leakage into non-productive closed loop ecosystems.

The private sector overhead ratios of this magnitude and private asset transfers will trigger an immediate organizational restructuring.

Here they are subsidized subsidized by the public goodwill.

So I ask for municipal intervention is identifying inefficiency is only step one.

Step two is implementation.

While this council does not write federal tax code, you possess total authority over municipal land use, public financing, and city procurement.

Therefore, further progressing this council draft and execute three specific ordinances within your middle jurisdiction.

Number one, leverage your zoning authority.

I'm asking to mandate a fair share of compliance check before this council approves any institutional master plans or zoning variances for universities and healthcare collaborates.

Their lowest paid worker.

If they fail the test, the zoning permit is denied.

Number two.

Leverage your public finance authority.

I'm asking to place an immediate moratorium on all pending tax and commitment financing packages, specifically former foundation owned real estate like Almado LP and Household Green.

Not a single municipal tax ownership subsidizer's infrastructure and totally demonstrated 10% minimum allocation of their local endowment to regional startups.

Number three, leverage your procurement authority.

I'm asking to pass an efficiency rider moving forward here in municipal grants, city contracts or CD BG funds may be awarded to any intercommunity who's at the administrative right exceeds 15% or who utilizes funds for 51c7 service reclusions.

Council Members, you don't you cannot fix a municipal budget deficit while the city's economic engines are burning the field before it reaches a years.

Realigning these institutions requires your legislative leverages, not passive partnership.

I'm happy to submit the full diagnostic brief and ordinance frameworks to your offices.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Kenneth Stockert.

Is Kenneth Stocker with us?

If not, our next speaker is Ryan Levert Patek.

Hi.

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Hi.

Uh okay.

Uh my name is Brian Tech.

I'm a Junefield resident and I work downtown in one of the office buildings.

Every day I either ride my bike or I take the bus to work.

During uh last month's large snowstorm, there were multiple places where bike lanes uh uh sorry protected or partially protected bike lanes or completely neglected from snow removal.

Um these bike lanes were not placed randomly.

Uh they offer a safer way for commuters like myself to navigate otherwise dangerous areas uh to bike them, uh snow and ice piles and just snow accumulation in these bike lanes, forces people on bikes back into more dangerous driving lands if bike riders are able to uh use their bikes at all.

Other cities dealt with this with snow and bike lanes in a variety of ways.

Some cities use uh 4x4s with plows uh that can also be used on sidewalks.

Other cities have dedicated bike lane plows, and further other cities use modified tractors.

Um some of the money that they got from uh UPMC to purchase really anything uh to plow the protected and semi-protected bike lanes throughout the city so that bike commuters and uh bike riders like myself can continue to safely move through our city uh while on our bikes.

The saying goes, if you build it, they will come.

Um council members, you have built it.

We are here, and now is the time to ensure that um everybody that uses a bike can continue to see.

Safely use these bike lanes regardless of snow.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Christine Bagnies.

Is Christine Bagnis with us?

If not, our next speaker is Dr.

Ronald Miller.

Dr.

Dr.

Ronald and Miller.

Brookline in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in the Pittsburgh City Ally Network, and Al Awali neighborhood in Mecca.

Pittsburgh City Neighborhood Network, which I founded both of them in 2025.

Saudi Arabia UN New York email correspondence at KSA mission-gov.net.

I'm the Global Intelligence Society candidate for president 2028 ACE 1448 AH.

That's after Hijra.

I became a member of the American Academy of Religion in the early 2000s, and within the University of Pittsburgh Department of Religious Studies, I taught modern Israel.

Concerns of council include connection of religion into local government and the child.

And biblical infallibilist, inerrantist Salonetro.

We have uh de facto, in my view, theocratic oligarchy, and I reject this.

Uh God uh has been added in the Pledge of Allegiance since 1954.

God is consistently added in the uh home rule charter oath of office, 5 January 2026, for example.

God is in uh the inauguration prayers, 5 January 2026.

God in the mayoral blessings, and uh council of proclamations and wills of council 2010 to uh 26 of which I am aware.

Pittsburgh City Council doesn't define God, but insinuates it into all this.

Uh what do you mean by God?

Uh often I am asked, do you believe in God?

And my response immediately is what do you mean by God?

Uh some entity, some being which is omniscient, omni omnipotent, and omnipresent.

Um where was that God of Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, during the genocides of Jews by Germans, Palestinians by Israelis, Sikhs by English, uh Tutsies by Ramont Rwandans, indigenous by uh Spanish, English, and U.S.

Americans.

And where was the divine Jesus post-Nica when Roman Catholic priests and others were violating our children in this city?

There is no evidence from the proclamations, no evidence from the Office of Mayor that there's condemnation of this.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Reverend Dale Snyder.

I represent the Hill District and I live in Staten Heights to the honorable council president and council members.

I come here today representing members of my church as old as 107 years old, who never understood why the URA took their church.

The city has set a precedent.

The URA, the SCA, and the city convey 2.5 acres of land for F and B Tower Bank.

And they also gave land acres to the Live Nation project for $10.

If the city can do that for corporation entertainment venues, it can do the same for 214-year-old congregation.

Through intimate domain, the URA took our church.

They took two of our apartment buildings, and we owned a parchments next to our church.

For that, they paid us 223,000.

The URA had his own appraised replacement costs of our church of over 700,000.

This displacement scattered 3,000 member church and uprooted a community institution.

This is a new administration, and with it comes new opportunity.

The URA, the SCA, and the city agree the only way that we could get our land back was through the penguins, which we signed an agreement with the Penguins to give Bethel land.

The Penguins forfeited their development rights, and the URA now can give us our land back directly, free and clear, as agreed upon for development.

The urgency of this is the tax credit application for affordable housing is due in October.

We have the cost of the land to put into the performer.

This will be a shovel-ready project and would create a win-win for the city and for the church.

Bethel has a memorandum of understanding with track development tied to Pittsburgh $50 million choice neighborhood grant.

We have invested in pre-development plans and have preliminary drawings for 125 affordable housing mixed use.

We accept the council, this administration act with courage, with justice, and with the knowledge that Pittsburgh history and futures are watching.

We don't want history to repeat itself.

When one administration, we experience a moment of joy only for the next administration to come and break those promises.

It is our hope that this administration will fulfill the commitment made by the last two administrations and do right by Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Bethany Cameron.

Good morning, Council members.

My name is Bethany Cameron.

I live in Overbrook, and I'm here again with InformUp.org, a local news nonprofit, which reports weekly on public meetings and includes surveys so we can represent readers' preferences back to their elected officials.

The survey closed on February 23rd, and we received twenty seventy-three total responses representing all nine council districts.

Number one, regarding storm impacts on pedestrian infrastructure and mobility, we asked residents how much did snow and ice on sidewalks, curb cuts, or transit stops affect your ability to get around your neighborhood.

About 41% said the conditions significantly affected their mobility, meaning they had to change plans or find alternate routes.

38% said travel was inconvenient but manageable, but nearly one in five said they could not leave home or reach where they needed to go.

A resident from Mount Washington said, I am in a power wheelchair.

I was stuck multiple times trying to cross streets due to snow pile-ups.

Resident from the Southside Flats said I'm 30 and able-bodied, so navigating around the snow banks at bus stops was relatively okay for me, but that would be impossible for anyone with mobility issues.

It's important for the city to prioritize those who walk, take transit, and bike in addition to those who drive.

Number two, on infrastructure priorities.

We asked, how should Pittsburgh prioritize infrastructure spending raised from the $56 million bond?

Number one, sidewalks and pedestrian infrastructure ranked as the top priority.

Preventive bridge and maintenance and reopening closed bridges followed closely second, and roads and potholes ranked in the middle.

Parks and public buildings ranked lower overall.

A resident from Bloomfield said bonds cannot be used for short-term investments like filling potholes or simple sidewalk repairs.

They have to be used for longer lasting improvements, like repairing the city-county building downtown, and our decaying rec centers to encourage and support more residents in the city.

Great to see you today.

A complete report will be sent to your offices later on.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Honey Rosenblum.

Good morning, Councilmembers.

Uh my name is Honey Rosenblum, and I work downtown.

Uh, with this afternoon's shot spotter renewal vote, I wanted to weigh in and urge you not to spend more money and resources on ShotSpotter, which is an effective secretive surveillance technology that does nothing to reduce the violent crime, is grossly expensive and produces false positive reports that unnecessarily send police into communities that are already over policed.

Pittsburgh has already spent $8.3 million on Shot Spotter contracts, and we haven't seen a reduction in gun violence at all.

Uh the technology does nothing to support the trauma that victims of gun violence face in the actual aftermath of a shooting.

And so why are we entertaining spending more money on the system that does little more than expand extend the surveillance of citizens by private company that actively makes money off of there being gun violence?

A lot of other cities have canceled their contracts, including Chicago, Atlanta, Memphis, and Milwaukee.

Uh because the technology is not cost effective.

Uh in fact, contracts delivered critical are diverted critical resources away from legitimate uses instead of supporting uh the actual city.

Uh, just as the city controllers report found, the technology is just as effective as calling 911, which many other uh cities found and cancel their contracts.

The real impact of ShotSpotter is it expands police surveillance technology, technology that ICE can piggyback us of to harass, detain, and deport our neighbors, like Bruno Goides da Silva, Jose Flores, and Martin Escalante, just to name a few.

In other cities, ShotSpotter has led to death and wrongful incarceration.

Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old who was chased, shot, and killed by Chicago PD in response to a ShotSpotter alert.

Uh, was unarmed at the time and he was not holding a gun and he was raising his hands at the time he was shot and killed.

Michael Williams spent 11 months in Cook County jail after the Chicago police department asked the shot spotter's parent company to change the location of a gunfire alert so they could charge him with murder.

The state attorney later dropped the charges due to a lack of usable evidence, but if we renew our shot spotter contract, it's really only a matter of time until Pittsburgh ends up in one of these harrowing headlines.

The money we use to spend on shot spotter would be much better utilized investing in community-based responses to gun violence.

We know that gun violence is driven by poverty and systematic disinvestment in poor black and brown communities.

Preventing gun violence requires investment in programs that people need to thrive, educational and job opportunities, quality housing, access to Magellan's health support, and community resources.

So I reiterate, please do not vote to renew the contract this evening, as it will only lead to the enrichment of a company that profits off of gun violence, is not based in the city, and has a vested entrance into increasing the problems that are st that keep us stuck in this cycle of violence.

Your job as city council persons is to ensure a livable city for Pittsburghers, despite their marketing department's exaggerated and now write false claims.

Shotspotter does not make us more safe.

Invest in our communities and the various community support groups working to prevent violence in our neighborhoods.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Bobby Fan.

Good morning.

My name is Bobby Fan.

I'm the former director of the Data Justice Project and currently board member of PRT.

I work in the city of Pittsburgh.

And I am commenting this morning also on the Shotspotter contract as council has a special hearing later on the contract today.

City Controller Heisler has put it together a report on ShotSpotter that raises a number of questions about the system.

Is ShotSpotter is just as effective as 911?

Why is the city spending millions of public funds on the system?

The data indicates that 911 calls additionally decreased after the deployment of ShotSpotter.

When you look at the response times for ShotSpotter, the response times are compared to 911 calls, and both response times are increasing.

But it is curious why shot spotter response is so much quicker than 911 when both are being reported to the same real-time crime analysis center.

When you look at 2022, 911 response time, report to dispatch was five minutes.

Report to route was seven minutes.

The time from dispatch in route to from dispatch to in-route was a very long period of not two minutes.

Well, for shot spotter, this difference was less than 30 seconds.

So just won that either Pittsburgh police are vastly prioritizing Shot Spotter alerts over 911 calls, or there's a serious issue with the Pittsburgh dispatch system.

Officers going into the neighborhoods where Shot Spotter has been installed, which are predominantly black neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, are going in with no context except the idea that a gun has been fired.

With many documented accounts of shot spotter alerts corresponding to everything from roofing work, gas explosions, tires, balloons, plastic soda bottles popping.

The likelihood that police are going into a neighborhood on a false alarm is far higher than with a 9-1-1 call.

This escalates the risk of heightened police response, as we've seen in other cities due to deaths due to police responses to Schrotters, such as with a 13-year-old boy Adam Toledo in Chicago.

What's more worrying is that the company has been known to declassify acoustics to match requests for police, who they are nationally willing to do as their clients.

This has resulted in the wrongful imprisonment of people like Michael Williams, where Schock's bladder alert for fireworks was reclassified, and its location changed to put him behind bars.

This use of Schroswater data as court evidence is common practice and gives police license to retroactively justify actions through a company that is conveniently listening, recording all sounds that uses faulty machine learning to classify those sounds and freely reclassifies them on request of police.

This type of corrupt business partnership, the zero accountability measures, and total potential for excuse is paid for by the city and its taxpayers.

The city is already too strapped for funds to salt its roads or dedicate efforts to a comprehensive plan.

Does it make sense to spend increasing millions of dollars for five more years or longer on a technology that is just as effective as 901 and maybe deprioritizing those response times and by extension the use of 911 itself?

Thank you very much.

Our next speaker and our last registered speaker is Courtney Meadows.

Good morning, Council.

Uh, my name is Courtney Meadows.

I'm a resident of uh the Historic Hill District, pastor of the Central Baptist Church and President and CEO of the Central New Development Corporation.

My wife and I have been honored to uh call the Hill District home for over a year now, and we are deeply invested, not just spiritually, but civically and economically in the flourishing of our community.

I was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama.

I'm a proud son of the South, and I understand the historic and systemic struggles faced by persons of color, indigenous communities, immigrants, and many others who have too often been pushed to the margins.

And while those stories are often associated with the South, we know they are not confined to the South.

And so as we conclude the observance of the black of this black history month, my hope is that it will be more than just a ceremonial remembrance.

I hope it becomes catalytic, a moment where we leverage not only memory but understand the importance of our power, where we use our seats of influence and our positions of leadership to ensure that equity, housing, economic opportunity, public safety, and youth investment are not simply aspirations but live realities in neighborhoods like the Hill District.

Central will celebrate 135 years of ministry this year.

We've stood through redevelopment and displacement and cultural shifts and generational change.

And so I stand here honoring the legacy of my predecessors, like Reverend Hornell Talley and Isaac Green and Victor Grigsby, and I honor the work that so many like Reverend Snyder are doing in the community who understand that the church is not just a worship center, but it is a witness center and a strategy center.

And so I ask you to please remember the Hill District, remember its history, remember its resilience.

I ask you to remember Amongs efforts to dismember its economic, educational, and cultural and communal potential.

And so we are here to partner.

Central Baptist and Central New Development Corporation, we stand ready to collaborate on workforce development, affordable housing, youth mentorship, violence prevention, and wherever we can find initiatives of common good.

But remember, leadership requires courage, collaboration, conviction, partnership, action, and we are ready and willing to partner with you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And now our actual last speaker is Ikohana Hal Malkina.

Greetings and good day.

My title is Chief Nikahana Howard McCoy and the Grand Incident Aircraft Confederacy of Aboriginal American people.

And I also would like to vote no for shock father, but it's a reactionary poll, not preventative.

Investment for active programming for our community instead of paying money on civilian.

I would like to talk about the racial racial tension to add an all-time high all across the globe.

Americans have been asked the shelter and place to help Know Children, also known as Mexico today.

From Puerto Wanna to Tijuana, their cities are under siege, all because the United States decides to provide key intelligence to aid and the current execution of an illegal and large notorious drugless American American in harmful way without warning.

Could you imagine being caught in such chaos?

Something more must be done to protect innocent lives from such egregious action.

My suggestion is that local government agencies pressure federal agencies to issue travel advisory.

Yeah, you might be saying it's already happening, but it is the U.S.

Department of State is responsible for such warning and failed to get a warning out in a time in America.

This is unacceptable.

Obviously, we canceled my daughter's trip to Costa Rica due to the rising tensions in the area.

Unfortunately, some parents aren't as work as I am, and they found themselves in a similar situation if more isn't done to protect them with a banned notice of travel advisory.

The other one letter I wish to bring here to your attention concerning parking.

Councilman Bobby Hilton, take on a parking authority board.

I can't believe you allowed the board to raise the fees for parking.

What justifications would you have for such an increase?

Parking has gone from 25 to 40 and now $60 fine downtown.

And it's unacceptable.

What and where is all the money going that you've raised was these parking wards?

It's enlightening.

And if you don't have a credit card, you'll surely not welcome to park downtown.

Well, you'll get one of those $60 tickets.

24-hour parking on the south side.

More must be done.

This is not New York, and nor do we want it to become New York.

New York is overpopulated, over taxed, and over civil and underrepresented.

And we don't want that for our channel.

We have a fiduciary responsibility to the people of the city.

Thank you very much.

That exhausts our list of registered speakers.

If there's anyone in chambers wishing to speak, please come forward at this time.

Provide your name and neighborhood for the record.

Carlino Jump Polo Panther Hollow.

This is my 18th testimony before City Council with the intention to bring to light the illegal skate park issue in Panther Hollow to provide council members with a clear understanding of why the illegal skate park must be shut down and to heal our community.

Previous testimonies are on the website, Pantherhollow Playground.com.

Our community is very grateful that seven of the nine council members have not publicly supported the illegal skate park.

My comments today are directed to council members Barbara Warwick and Bob Charler, who have publicly supported it and are the faces and voices of the skateboarders for the city.

Councilmember Warwick already has multiple playgrounds in our neighborhood in the run in Greenfield.

And Councilmember Charlin has said that he would welcome Escape Park next to his home.

Why then has neither of them attempted to build the do-it-yourself skate park in their own neighborhoods?

Could the answer be that they are fully aware that none of their longtime residents or homeowners would actively support such an action?

In my very first testimony, I discussed the need to awaken your dignity and to end this injustice against our community.

Each person has their own concept of dignity, and I shared mine with its seven components.

However, one component is universal, a person's principles.

Councilmember Charlotte has also never answered that question.

In the spirit of integrity, I will now ask the council members another easy question to which they already know the answer.

Which longtime residents or homeowners in Panther Hollow have told you that they support the skate park.

I would define a longtime resident as one who has lived in Panther Hollow for at least 10 years.

Please provide the answer by the end of today in an email to me with CCs to your fellow council members.

However, if you do not know of any longtime resident or homeowner, please make that known in an email as well.

I will provide your answers to Mayor Corey O'Connor and the appropriate administrators for this issue.

Please put your integrity into action.

Please put your integrity into action.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Good morning.

I see why y'all made my mom the way she is.

Y'all already start the meeting late, and you sit and talk while someone's speaking.

Y'all get paid to listen to people speak.

Because she's not here in your face.

You sit there and talk to them.

Like that was rude.

You can talk after or before.

Y'all already start the meeting late.

So let me start with my speech.

My name is Unique Brown.

I'm a domestic violence survivor.

And I'm going to calm down because I might be scaring some of y'all.

Because I know that, you know, we can't be too emotional about stuff.

But anyway, I'm a domestic violence survivor.

And before I say anything else, I need you to understand how much it costs a woman like me to stand up here over and over again with no answers.

When you survive abuse, you don't just walk away with memories.

You walk away with fear that lives in your body.

You walk away with a voice that is silent so many times you almost forget how to use it.

You're told you're lying, you're told you're dramatic.

You told no, you're told no one's gonna believe you.

When when I finally escaped it, when I finally reached out for help from the women's center and shelter, the CEO gave me a lot of runaround.

She acted like it was help, but it hurted me and my kids even more.

And when I wanted to file a grievance, she said called a director's action line.

I called them, which I know is only going to be a complaint, and then they read back what she had to say to me.

So I made her another email and said I need to go internally with this.

But what she told the director's action line is just that I made a TikTok naming their shelter and the location and residence in the shelter.

Never gave a screenshot, never gave proof, just her words against mine, and I proved I have a TikTok.

I don't use it.

I don't have any videos.

I never posted a video.

Why is it okay for her to lie like that just to shut me up?

Because she didn't help me the way she was posted.

And there's nobody that can do nothing about it.

Really?

I went to county council, and they didn't do anything.

She told me she could get me to talk to DHS.

I haven't heard anything from anyone.

So I'll be at County Council looking like my mother at Bethany Hollow the whole time.

Because I didn't sign up to speak.

But she's gonna film me sitting there.

Because it don't make no sense.

I'm a little tiny plucked guy.

Why is it so hard for y'all to erase me?

Why is it so easy?

Why?

I'm done.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Lord.

The missing child, Ceres Taylor.

Lord, I want to truly live to experience your abundant joy, not trudge down predictable roads or strive for short-sighted goals.

Help me to punch, breathe deeply, and fill my soul with the overwhelming delight that comes from knowing you.

Help me become radiant, the person you created me to be as I walk in your light.

In Jesus' name, amen.

The wisdom for today comes from Proverbs.

Chapter 6, verse 30 through 31.

Excuses might be found for a thief who steals because he is starving.

But if he's caught, he must pay back seven times what he stole, even if he has to sell everything in this house.

You're yawning, Lavelle.

Identity theft fraud, the Vale.

That's the theft I'm talking about.

Insurance fraud.

Computer fraud, Lubelle.

You are on every board, blocking people's communication, stealing the paying people to steal them now so they don't show up for court.

Really?

You think you're invisible?

I promise you you're not.

Pinkaboo, we see you now.

I promise you we do.

And everybody you're attached to.

I curse to death every voodoo practitioner in the world.

Every witch, wizard in Warlock, in this building, in the world.

I curse you to death.

You and your bloodlines.

Keep lighting them candles and doing voodoo.

Death rituals.

You still pay people to take me out with Vale?

It's a it's a y'all.

It's money on my head, y'all.

It's money right now.

Somebody's out there waiting to take me out.

They paying the hides better.

Do I look invisible, Isabel?

Do I look scared?

No, I'm not.

I'll live in fear.

I will never live in fear.

Ever.

Thank you, Martin Luther King Jr.

for this quote.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity, not just in this nation.

All humanity, Lavelle.

Donald Trump, if I'm not from this country, why you hold me hostage?

I have all humanity to spread this message too.

You cannot keep me here.

In Jesus' name.

I will continue to pray to be removed.

Jeremiah 4936 says, I will bring against Elon the four winds, quarters of heaven.

I will scatter them to the four winds, and there will not be a nation who whose Elon's exiles do not go.

I'm an exile in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Thank you very much.

Next speaker, please.

Next speaker, please.

Seeing no further speakers, we'll move on to the presentation of papers.

Beginning with Councilman Charlotte, Chair of Human Resources.

Thank you.

Councilman Carkill, Chair of Public Safety and Wellness.

No new papers, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Gross, Chair of Innovation Performance, Asset Management and Technology.

I believe she has one paper.

Resolution providing for the issuance of a warrant in favor of levy convention centers, aka levy premium food service, in the amount of $9,077.40 to pay for costs incurred for cyber training security.

I believe at the request of the administration, there is a request to waive roll eight.

Councilwoman Gross, would you like to make that motion?

Yes, thank you, Mr.

President.

I'd like to waive relates to this person.

Is there a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye, I close.

Bill uh 175 will be on tomorrow's standing committee agenda.

That takes us to Councilman Mosley, Chair and the Government of Educational Affairs.

Councilman Mosley presents bill number 176.

Resolution amending resolution 37 of 2026, which authorize the cooperation agreement or agreements with the City of Pittsburgh Equipment Leasing Authority for the purchase and leasing of vehicles, equipment, and accessories, equipment support infrastructure, and professional services in fiscal year 2026 by increasing the authorized amount by one million dollars to a new total of 28,188,019 for additional items to be added to the plan.

And Bill No.

177.

Resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the Department of Public Works to enter into an agreement or agreements with Pittsburgh Water to allow Pittsburgh Water access to city property in South Side Park in order to maintain the stormwater orc tanks in the park for the phase one of the city's South Side Park Project at no cost to the city.

And that moves us to Councilwoman Salonetro, Chair of Public Works and Infrastructure.

Councilwoman Salonetro presents bill number one seventy-eight.

Resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the Department of Public Works and or the Director of the Department of Finance to enter into an agreement or agreements and/or lease or leases with three rivers waterkeeper for stewardship over the island marina by three RWK at an annual fee of one dollar for a period of five years with a five-year option to renew.

And Bill 179 resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh to enter into a supplemental agreement or agreement with A.

Liberoni Inc.

for costs associated with construction for the Sylvan Avenue Multimodal Path Project, providing for the payment of the cost thereof not to exceed $1,732,504 and 13 cent, a net increase of $86,733 and 76 cent, reimbursable at various rates.

And Councilwoman Salonetro, I also see there's a request to wave rule eight on bill one seventy-nine.

Do you wish to make that motion?

Yes, you create wave rule eight.

Senator Pierce wants to go.

Is there a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Bill 179 will be on tomorrow's standing committee agenda.

That moves us to Councilman Strasberger, Chair of Finance and Law.

No new papers, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Warwick, Chair of Recreational Youth and Senior Services.

Uh no new papers, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Councilman Wilson, Chair of Land Use Economic Development.

Councilman Wilson presents bill number 180, resolution authorizing council's consent to an extension pursuant to 92205D of the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances of the deadline for the planning commission to act on Council Bill 2025-2250.

This is a final vote on extension, so we'll need a roll call vote.

Mr.

Charlotte.

Aye.

Mr.

Clark Hill.

Aye.

Ms.

Gross.

Mr.

Mosley.

Mrs.

Salonetro.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Mrs.

Strasberger.

Aye.

Aye.

That was Mosley.

Okay.

Mrs.

Warwick.

Aye.

Mr.

Wilson.

Mr.

Lavelle President.

Aye.

Eight ayes, zero no's.

Thank you.

And I have five.

If we if we can first do the appointment requiring a vote.

Council President Navell presents bill number one eighty-one.

Resolution appointing Chelsea Arthur Suckup as a member of the public art committee of the public art and civic design commission for a term concurrent with that of the mayor.

So we need either a motion to interview or to approve.

Motion approved.

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

The appointment has been approved.

Now we have three informing appointments.

Bill 182, resolution informing City Council of the reappointment of Anthony Coghill as a member of the Board of Directors of the Sports and Exhibition Authority for a term to expire January 1st, 2030.

Bill 183, resolution informing City Council of the appointment of Jacob Williamson as a member of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission for a term concurrent with that of the mayor.

And Bill 184, resolution informing City Council of the appointment of Tom Joyce as a member of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission for a term concurrent with that of the mayor.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Motion to read receive and file.

Second.

All favor say aye.

Aye.

All three appointments have been received and file.

And last is a communication.

Bill 185.

Bill 185.

Communication from Rhea Price, Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget, submitting to City Council.

The attached status update from the grant's office for the weekended February 20th, 2026.

Also need a motion to read receive and file.

To move.

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Communication have been received and filed.

We'll now move on to unfinished business.

Bill 19.

Resolution appointing Eric Sloan as the director of the Department of Parks and Recreation.

Need a motion to approve.

Motion to approve.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

The appointment has been approved.

Our next order of business is reports of committee for final action, beginning with Council Mo Councilperson Erica Strasberger, presenting the committee of finance and law.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Councilburston Strasburger presents Bill No.

169.

Report of the Committee on Finance and Law for February 18th, 2026 with an affirmative recommendation.

Bill 105.

Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant payable to CLEO Consulting and full and final payment for the remaining costs for a historic survey of the Beachview District and an amount not to exceed $5,000 over one year.

Bill 106.

Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of a single payment in 2026 to Benjamin Mayhew and his attorneys.

Philip Front Shell, LLC at a cost not to exceed $60,000.

In full and final settlement of litigation in the Allegheny County Court of Common Please.

Bill 107.

Resolution authorizing the mayor and the city solicitor on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh to enter into a professional services agreement with the law firm of Fisher Phillips, LLP, in connection with issues involving labor disputes at a cost not to exceed $60,000 over six months.

Bill 108.

Resolution amending resolution 130 of 2025, which amended resolution 603 of 2024 by authorizing the mayor and the city solicitor on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh to enter into a professional services agreement with the law firm of Fisher Phillips, LLP, in connection with issues involving labor disputes by increasing the approved amount by 275,400 for new amended total costs not to exceed 485,400 over two years, and bill number one eleven resolution to authorize and direct the incurring of non-electoral debt through the issuance of a series of general obligation bonds of the city of Pittsburgh in the maximum aggregate principal amount of $56,000.

You have heard the reading and title of the bill.

Is there any discussion?

Seeing none, the bill is not ready for final action.

All in favor of the passage of the bill, vote aye.

Aye.

Mr.

Coghill.

Aye.

Ms.

Gross.

Aye.

Mr.

Mosley.

Aye.

Mrs.

Salonetro.

Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye.

Mrs.

Strasberger.

Aye.

Mrs.

Warwick.

Aye.

Mr.

Wilson.

Aye.

Mr.

Lavelle, President.

Aye.

Nine ayes, zero no's.

The bill having received a legal required number of votes is passed finally.

That moves us to Councilman Anthony Cogkill, presenting the committee of public safety and wellness.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Councilman Coghill presents bill number 170.

Report of the committee on public safety and wellness for February 18, 2026 with an affirmative recommendation.

Bill 95.

Resolution authorizing the mayor, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into an agreement or agreement with the Pennsylvania Office of the State Fire Commissioner for the purpose of receiving grant funds from the fire company and emergency medical services grant and any amount not to exceed $20,000 to purchase trauma bags.

And Bill 96.

Resolution authorizing the mayor, the director of Office of Management and Budget, and the Director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into an agreement or agreements with the Pennsylvania Office of the State Fire Commissioner for the purpose of receiving grant funds from the fire company and emergency medical services grant.

Any amount of $9,336 for training and certification of its members.

You've heard the reading and titled the bill.

Is there any discussion on the bill?

Seeing none, the bill is not ready for final action.

All in favor to pass the bill will aye rename is called.

Those opposed will vote no.

Will the clerk please take the roll?

Mr.

Charland.

Aye.

Mr.

Coghill.

Aye.

Ms.

Gross.

Aye.

Mr.

Mosley.

Aye.

Mrs.

Salonetro.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Mrs.

Strasberger.

Aye.

Mrs.

Warwick.

Aye.

Mr.

Wilson.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Mr.

Lavelle.

Aye.

Nine ayes, zero nos.

The bill has received the legal requirement number of votes is passed finally.

That moves us to Councilwoman Kim.

Council Councilwoman Kim Salonetro presenting the Committee of Public Works and Infrastructure.

Councilwoman Salonetro presents bill number 171.

Report of the Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure for February 18, 2026 with an affirmative recommendation.

Bill 102.

Resolution providing for an amended reimbursement agreement or agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for costs associated with the preliminary engineering.

Final design, right of way, and construction phases of the Smithfield Street Reconstruction Project, and providing for the payment of the cost thereof not to exceed $9,890,000, an increase of $620,000 from the previous resolution, reimbursable at 80%, and the municipal share of Commonwealth incurred costs not to exceed $45,000, a $2,000 decrease from the previous resolution.

Bill 103.

Resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh to enter into a supplemental agreement or agreements with CDR McGuire Inc.

for project design management services and reviews in connection with various City of Pittsburgh projects to add funding for the preliminary engineering and final design phases, increasing the total not to exceed amount to $4,064,876, an increase of $1,266,407 from the previously authorized agreement, reimbursable at various rates depending on the project.

Bill 104.

Resolution amending resolution 634 of 2025, authorizing the mayor and the director of the Department of Public Works to enter into an agreement or agreement with land force to conduct urban forestry programming in an amount not to exceed $50,000 over a period of four years for a new not to exceed amount of four hundred sixty-five thousand five hundred dollars over a period of four years.

You have heard the reading entire bill.

Is there any discussion?

Seeing none, the bill is not ready for final action.

All in favor to pass it the bill will vote aye.

Renee is called.

Those opposed will vote no.

With the clerk, please take the roll.

Mr.

Charland.

Aye.

Mr.

Coghill.

Aye.

Ms.

Gross.

Aye.

Mr.

Mosley.

Aye.

Mrs.

Salonetro.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Mrs.

Strasburger.

Aye.

Mrs.

Warwick.

Aye.

Mr.

Wilson.

Aye.

Mr.

Lavelle President.

Aye.

Nine ayes, zero nos.

The bill having received the legal required number of votes.

It is passed finally.

That takes us to Councilman Body Wilson presenting the Committee of Land Use Economic Development.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Councilman Wilson presents bill number 172.

Report of the committee on land use and economic development for February 18, 2026, with an affirmative recommendation.

Bill 2025 2385.

Primary uses to add a definition for waste transfer station and standards associated with the use.

Seeing none, the bill is not ready for final action.

All in favor to pass the bill for aye or names called.

Those opposed will vote no.

Will the clerk please take the roll?

Mr.

Sharland.

Aye.

Mr.

Coghill.

Aye.

Ms.

Gross.

Aye.

Mr.

Mosley.

Aye.

Mrs.

Salonetro.

Aye.

Mrs.

Strasberger.

Aye.

Mrs.

Warwick.

Aye.

Mr.

Wilson.

Aye.

Mr.

Lavell President.

Aye.

Nine ayes, zero no's.

The bill have received legal requirement numbers votes is passed finally.

That moves us to Councilwoman Deborah Gross, presenting to the Committee of Innovation Performance, Asset Management and Technology.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Gross presents bill number 173.

Report of the committee on innovation performance and asset management and technology for February 18, 2026, with an affirmative recommendation.

Bill 97.

Resolution amending resolution 147 of 2025, which added funding for maintenance services related to the Falcon Red Document Scanning Station by authorizing the mayor and the director of the Department of Finance to extend the agreement with OPEX Corporation for equipment maintenance services and associated software licenses at a cost not to exceed $28,015 for a new total not to exceed $164,000, $686.

You have heard the reading and titled the bill.

Is there any discussion?

Seeing none, the bill is now ready for final action.

All in favor to pass to the bill will vote aye.

Renam is called.

Those opposed will vote no.

Mr.

Charland.

Aye.

Mr.

Cockhill.

Ms.

Gross.

Aye.

Mr.

Mosley.

Aye.

Mrs.

Salonetro.

Aye.

Mrs.

Strasberger.

Aye.

Mrs.

Warwick.

Aye.

Mr.

Wilson.

Aye.

Mr.

Lavelle President.

Aye.

Nine ayes, zero no's.

The bill haven't received the legal required number of votes is passed finally and finally, Councilman Carey Mosley, presenting the committee on intergovernmental and educational affairs.

Councilman Mosley presents bill number one seventy-four.

Report of the committee on intergovernmental and educational affairs for February 18, 2026 with an affirmative recommendation.

Bill 98.

Resolution authorizing the mayor, the Director of Office of Management and Budget, and the Department of Public Safety to enter into an agreement or agreements with the Department of Homeland Security for the purpose of receiving grant funds for the purpose from assistance to firefighters grant in an amount not to exceed $958,712.72 for fire apparatuses, vehicle training.

The grant requires a match from the City of Pittsburgh and an amount not to exceed $95,871 and $28 for this stated purpose for a total cost not to exceed $1,054,584.

Bill 99, resolution authorizing the mayor, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Department of Public Safety to enter into an agreement or agreements with the Department of Homeland Security for the purpose of receiving grant funds from the Port Security Grant Program in any amount not to exceed $96,931 for the purchase of protective vehicle barriers for water slide events.

The grant requires a match from the City of Pittsburgh in an amount not to exceed $32,310 for this stated purpose for a total project not to exceed $129,241.

Bill 100 resolution adopting plan revision to the City of Pittsburgh's official sewage facilities plan for 7872 through 7874 Susquehanna Street at no cost to the city and Bill 101 resolution adopting plan revision to the City of Pittsburgh's official sewage facilities plan for 179 Steuben Street 20th ward at no cost to the city.

You have heard the reading entire bill.

Is there any discussion?

Seeing none, the bill is now ready for final action.

All in favor of the passage of the bill will vote aye random is called.

Those opposed will vote no.

Will the clerk please take the roll?

Mr.

Charland.

Aye.

Mr.

Coghill.

Aye.

Ms.

Gross.

Aye.

Mr.

Mosley.

Aye.

Mrs.

Alanetra.

Aye.

Aye.

Mrs.

Strasberger.

Aye.

Mrs.

Warwick.

Aye.

Mr.

Wilson.

Aye.

Mr.

Lavelle, President.

Aye.

Nine ayes, zero no's.

The bill having received the legally required votes is passed finally.

That takes us to motions and resolutions.

Anything from members.

If not, our meeting announcements this afternoon at 230.

Council hold a cable cast post agenda discussion on SHOTSPONER, which is chaired by Councilwoman Barbara Ward.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 25th, Council will hold our State Committee meeting.

Speaker Registration will close at 9 a.m.

To register to speak at this meeting, please fill up the sign-up form on the Council Meeting webpage or call to the clerk's office at 412-255-2138.

With that, uh need a motion to approve the minutes and adjourn the meeting.

So moved to the second.

All favor say aye.

We are adjourned.