Good morning and welcome to the regular meeting of City Council on Tuesday, March 24th, 2026.

Where Clerk please take the role.

Mr.

Charland.

Mr.

Coghill.

Ms.

Gross.

Mr.

Mosley.

Yeah.

Mrs.

Salonetra.

Here.

Mrs.

Strasberger.

Here.

Mrs.

Warwick.

Here.

Mr.

Wilson.

Mr.

Lavelle, President.

Here.

Six members present.

Thank you.

For those who are able, please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Remain standing for a moment of silence.

Pledge Allegiance.

One nation under God.

Indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Our next order of business is to amend the agenda or a motion to amend.

All favor say aye.

Aye.

Our next order of business is public comment.

I would like to remind everyone that the rules of council state that comments are limited to matters of concern, official action or deliberation, which may be for city council and profanity would not be permitted.

Our first register speaker is Madeline McGrady.

Hi, good morning, Council.

Maddie McGrady.

Thank you so much.

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Our next speaker is Antoinette Caldwell.

Good morning, members of the council.

My name is Antoinette Cobwell.

I'm from the Brighton Heights area, and I would like to speak today about the Pittsburgh's form of interacting with its youth.

On March 24th this weekend, juvenile officers each used pepper spray.

Three juveniles were arrested.

Their ages weren't were not disclosed.

And there was a crowd of over 40 juveniles.

They were dispersed by police officers using pepper spray after they didn't respond to trying to de-escalate the situation verbally.

Usually you act out because it's in human nature to want to be able to find a community and fit in.

Community isn't just shared space and it isn't shared thoughts, it's ideals, and it's an emigration of shared responsibility and effort.

I put effort in by coming to speak.

My parents can put effort in by trying.

And you can all put effort in by listening to what I have to say.

By trying, and that's the epitome of change.

You have to put two feet in front of the other, even if one foot goes back.

Over 300 homicides of youth between the ages of 15 and 21 have passed, and it's been under a decade, and a spike in violent crimes, especially involving firearms, has happened between 2020 and 2022.

About 71% come from disputes, disputes that can be solved through an understanding.

Learn about how to assimilate into the world before you.

We have to give we have to give them the opportunity to be able to learn and act as the future adults of this world.

And if they don't have that, what do we have?

We're children, and we're still learning different forms of accountability, but we have to have the people who came before us give us the chance to do that.

If we have third locations, like community centers that aren't tied to religion or tied to having payments and have a good form of transportation, not just something where that's available, but someplace that's accommodating.

I feel like it'll be really beneficial.

Other than that, I just want my parents to be able to feel as though they belong.

And that's really all I have to say.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you very much.

Our next speaker is Bethany Cameron.

Good morning, Council members.

My name is Bethany Cameron.

I live in Overbrook, and I'm here once again representing InformUp.org, a weekly, a local news nonprofit which reports weekly on public meetings, asks readers to weigh in on what matters to them, and delivers those survey results back to elected officials like you.

Our community survey ran from March 16th through 20th.

We recorded 120 total responses.

All nine districts were represented.

I'll cover three issues related to license plate readers, comprehensive planning, and emergency vehicle prioritization.

Number one, unlicensed plate reader surveillance.

We asked, how comfortable are you with Pittsburgh police using license plate readers to track vehicle travel history and routes?

75% of respondents said they were either somewhat or very uncomfortable with police license plate, police use of license plate readers.

17% were somewhat or very comfortable.

A resident from Beachview and District 4 said using license plate readers to make profiles of people's movements is dystopian and a step too far in the name of safety.

And a resident from the Upper Hill said, I agree with Gross that licensed data shouldn't go to ICE.

But I also agree with Cockhill that the data can be useful in stopping true criminals.

Number two, on comprehensive planning and who to hear from.

Readers rank those groups as followed.

The top ranking was residents in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods, followed by young people, which they defined as under 31, then small business owners, people with disabilities, renters, non-English speaking residents, seniors, and then homeowners.

Number three, on emergency vehicle upgrade priorities.

We asked if the city can only upgrade a limited number of emergency vehicles, which services should be prioritized first.

Readers ranked emergencies services like uh fire and EMS vehicles first, then garbage collection, followed by road repair crews, uh snow removal and plowing, and finally parks and recreation maintenance vehicles.

All right, thank you so much for listening.

We'll send the full survey reports around as usual.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Ralph Williams.

Thank you, President Lavelle, members of council.

It's been a while.

It's great to be back talking with you today.

I live in Bloomfield now.

I also commute back and forth to Ocean City to take care of Maryland to take care of a relative.

The reason I'm here today is because I'm in town for medical procedure.

Uh I come here a lot for UPMC purposes.

And I wanted to speak today, and I keep track of Pittsburgh news even when I'm in Ocean City, Maryland.

But I want to bring something up real quick, and then Ocean City, Maryland's not Pittsburgh, it's not as big as Pittsburgh.

But they have control of their homeless problem.

They have some tents that were set up outside of a church parking lot because the church didn't have any uh room for them.

You know what the mayor did?

I'll tell you what he did.

He told the church you have within 30 days to get those tents off that parking lot because it's in violation of a city ordinance.

And if the tents are not off the parking lot, we're gonna give you a fine.

See, Ocean City takes control of their of their community, they take control of the homeless, they take control of what goes on in crime.

It's perks out of control, still out of control.

All right, you have city police who don't know what they're doing.

Uh, you know, with ice.

You have three people telling three different stories.

You gotta get it together.

The NFL draft's coming.

And we're picking up garbage and we're doing other things, or we're all happy and hunky dory.

But what's happening in Hunky Dory is you don't have public safety that works.

And you know what's funny?

Everybody's sitting here worrying about ice.

Let me tell you something.

How would you like it if an illegal immigrant broke into your home?

An illegal immigrant stole your car, or illegal immigrant murdered your son, or sexually assaulted your daughter.

Then what are you gonna do when ICE can't come to take them out of here?

Okay.

Think about that for a minute before you make a decision as to whether or not you want to work with ice.

ICE is here to help.

ICE is here to get rid of the troublemakers that you don't want to get rid of.

Okay.

That's that's the story about public safety and ice.

All right.

Next.

I I want to congratulate the young lady who just spoke before me.

All right, but you know what, young lady, I want you to take this back to all your juvenile friends.

All the juveniles that were downtown.

All right.

It works both ways here.

You gotta work with the police.

You gotta work with public safety instead of running around downtown causing chaos.

And you know what?

Public safety's involved in that, and the justice system in this town is involved in that.

We have certain council members here, again, that don't want to work with ice, they don't want to work with justice, they don't want to, they don't want juveniles in jail, they don't want anything else.

The NFL draft's coming.

And you know what I'm telling everybody that's coming up for the draft?

Have eyes in the back of your head.

Stick together, don't separate because of what's of uh of all the crime downtown.

It's great to be back here here and there.

And uh I just want to give you some examples today about what goes on in Ocean City.

And I know what you're telling me.

Ocean City's not as big as Pittsburgh, but at least they got their act together with public safety and the home of us.

Every self a great one.

Thank you for letting me speak to you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Leus Alexander.

Hello.

Um my name is Laise Alexander, and thank you for giving me this space.

Um I have been a resident of Pittsburgh for some years, but now I live in Penn Hills.

And but I came here and I want to say thank you to the council members and everyone that opened the opportunity.

I didn't get anything prepared.

I don't have a beautiful speech.

But I am a citizen and I am an immigrant in the US.

And as a psychotherapist, someone that study here, and I see people every day to help them with their mental health and with their social struggles.

I can tell you from the experience I have in my clinical setting, and also have worked with refugees and immigrants here.

I want to say that I fully support any legislation and initiatives that support immigrants in North City because these people, the some of us think that they come to make trouble.

They are here to make life better for themselves and for residents here.

Nobody comes here.

Okay, I cannot say nobody 100%, but the majority of people coming from different states, coming from Europe, coming from beautiful, well accepted white countries, but also coming from South America, also coming from Africa, coming from Asia.

Everyone is looking for better opportunities for themselves, and they radically help the city to thrive.

I came here, I study, I put all the efforts, and now I'm offering mental health services, and I know so many people that offer their support by cleaning houses to be professors and doctor programs at CMU, and all of them have their same background.

They are immigrants, and they put the best effort for the city.

So I'm here to ask the biggest and warmest consideration for this group of people in our city to ban the collaboration with ICE.

Some people are not coming to therapy anymore.

Some people are not going to the hospitals anymore.

My kid goes to a public school, and some parents are sending them with neighbors.

They're not even going to the school anymore because they are afraid of facing some sort of police enforcement.

So I really want that to be into consideration when you make your votes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And then I'm asking people.

And reach that.

And the patient that won't find them from home.

So that's going to leave the big city.

We must be on Walking Home.

All people.

So they are merely a product of the environment.

You've got to create for them.

With nothing to do.

The large crafting all gave away the rough plane out of boredom and quickly become a fight at the market fair.

The unnecessary big type.

Then for I can't help but think how much of a difference.

Why?

Why, why, why?

Why are our children around age eight?

But somewhere around nine to nine, something happened.

They rape their value.

I'm here to complain that our children are valuable, and yet they can go off.

They are begging for your attention and validation.

And it's time to invest in them.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That is also the register speakers.

If there's anyone in chambers wishing to speak, please come forward at this time, provide your name and neighborhood for the record.

I am burning it from B2 and piggybacking off of what our youth had said and others.

I was downtown on Sunday.

I had to go down and pick up a prescription at CVS.

I've noticed the increase, and I know I can see what's been happening since last year.

These kids are making TikTok videos.

Literally staging fights.

Girls are like kicking off their shoes, and they're all, it's like they're making a big movie.

When I had my foster girls, we had to find places for them to utilize that energy that they have stored up.

I was the only therapeutic foster home in South Hills back then.

And I remember the agencies telling me South Hills is a dead spot.

Downtown Pittsburgh is a dead spot.

So I had to take my girls out.

You have all these buildings downtown.

In 1931, in Beachview, the president had they they made it possible for us to have a rec center that included a theater.

You're hearing all this creativity.

They have all this creative energy.

All these buildings, all of these universities, all of these places that are not paying taxes, create a recenter downtown.

Give them a stage.

Let them create.

Supervise.

Create.

That's for one.

The immigrant situation.

I live in Beach V, the second largest Latino community in the city of Pittsburgh, and I challenge everybody to do what I did this week.

I got off a Potomac and went down the Phantom Bike Lane in my chair, and all the families were out walking, and the first family I came across.

I said hi to them in the past, but I stopped and I made it a point.

They were walking with all their teenage kids, and I said, I am so sorry.

I hope your family is safe.

They're from they are Muslim.

And this lady reached out and hugged me, right?

Had her husband go upstairs and come down with bags of dates.

She said, This is what we we have when we come off of our fast.

That stopping at another store when the family was coming out, the Latino family, and telling them, I am so sorry.

What's happening?

Just letting them know you care.

And the other thing, the elephant in the room.

We have seniors, senior Latinos.

And I don't know if I'm using that word correctly.

Um that need help.

It's a population that is not being protected.

They need help.

I'm trying to help other people in the community, you're trying to help, but we fear for them.

We had those the that dreamer thing where the babies come over, they're safe, but not the seniors.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Good morning, counsel.

My name is Martin.

I live in the Ninth Ward.

You know, I believe in the rule of law.

I don't believe in council who is the legislative branch of the city making laws that people should ignore.

And council should not do that either, as it pertains to federal immigration law.

I'm an old school Democrat.

I'm a Kennedy Democrat, Clinton Democrat, Obama Democrat, and I'm tired of these San Francisco values being infiltrated in our city where you could ignore laws you don't like.

You counsel take an oath to the Constitution.

And you and you're just going to ignore because you don't like what the in the purview of immigration is responsible, the federal government.

That's their responsibility.

If you don't like it, talk to Summer Lee and that and those others who have the same mindset as as you folks do and get a change.

But until that happens, immigration should be followed.

There's a difference between illegal immigration and legal immigration.

What I see that you council people are doing is a quasi sanctuary city legislation.

And I'm not for that.

And most Americans are not.

So you can sit there and drink your lattes and then embrace your San Francisco buddies.

But that shouldn't happen here in Pittsburgh.

Because we believe most of us believe in the rule of law.

And until that changes on the federal branch, then you don't have a right to ignore it.

So just like states don't have the right to ignore extradition papers.

Is that our next step?

If someone in Florida, a person commits a crime in Pennsylvania, goes to Florida.

Can DeSantis say I'm not gonna send them back?

Because I don't I don't think what their laws in Pennsylvania are right, the Commonwealth?

Of course not.

And you folks don't have that right either.

You're the legislative branch.

If you enact the law, I can't ignore it.

Well, I won't ignore it.

Because I believe in the rule of law, and most if you live in this constitutional republic, that's what's foremost in people's minds.

And this is just utter nonsense and a waste of time.

We have bigger issues in this city than and if people of my ilk can differentiate between illegal immigration and legal immigration.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Good morning.

My name is Joan F.

Brown.

I live at 715 Mercer Street.

The um speaker before me.

The only thing that I have a problem with is the way that these uh that um ICE is doing it.

He's killed, they killed American citizens.

Do you understand?

It's the way that they're doing it.

You have they had laws, they have rules.

I don't know what laws they're following.

What laws are they doing?

If they're killing citizens, do you understand?

The only thing we can do is talk, but they have guns and they are killing people.

I don't think it's right.

They're here, some are illegal, some have been here for years.

I lived in California.

And um, when they talk about ice, I I can picture them being down in the um uh it was the area uh warehouse, warehouses.

A lot of Mexicans would be down there.

But I know it's wrong that they came.

The ways the way some of them did, but we don't have a system to um to even help them.

You have a system that is killing them, and that's not right.

Um I'm gonna change my subject for a minute.

This lady, um, her name is Nenore Dorothy Walker.

This lady uh passed, and the reason why I bring her her picture down, she had a funeral, and then we had she had a beautiful funeral.

It was a nice funeral.

It wasn't where it's a lot of sometimes you go with and it's so much crying, and I mean you can see the hurt.

Well, this um funeral was just like a home going.

She's going home.

If uh it depends on how you what kind of religion you believe in.

But um, the family was very nice and very nice because they had beautiful food.

The food was delicious in the repass.

But this lady used to work for Les Latwig.

You remember he said he had um uh he worked with eggs up on Bedford Avenue.

That's where she worked with him at.

Then he went to another part uh well out of the city.

He took her.

He's one of the when he was talking about my girls, she was one of his girls, Les Lawkin.

You know, Les everyone ran for the mirror quite a few times.

Um and he really thought a lot of her.

He even when he ran for a mirror this last time, he came up in the building.

He went Kayleigh where every building.

And um, I wasn't there, but he had left a message, and there was quite a few older people that said they would vote for Les.

Now, um time is up.

You have a nice day everywhere.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Good morning.

I'm Zoltan Jolt Jakob, uh previous name present named Jacob Poole.

I'm from Eastern Europe, and I'm a type of immigration that people don't want to admit in the Pittsburgh area, which is child trafficking, child slave trading, American military organizations and organizations extensions of American military operate in Europe and Eastern Europe, facilities and camps where they gather up people from Europe, children like myself.

I was in a facility for many years on the other side of the Ukraine border in the 90s when people leaving the Soviet Union from Ukraine with thousands of children.

Our records are being changed.

We're out there by American organizations and then brought to America one by one, using medical devices and all sorts of things.

And I've been in the Pittsburgh area alone in captivity using medical devices for almost 30 years, with no minimal human contact, no friends, while being pushed to the University of Pittsburgh, PNC Bank, Giant Eagle, and various slavery conditions.

And I'm still here.

So this is a type of immigration that is rampant in the Pittsburgh area.

Pittsburgh has 50 Eastern European churches, and the national average for Eastern European immigrants in the area is almost 100,000 within the Pittsburgh Metro.

They all living hiding in secrecy using medical for forged medical documents, forged identities, forged everything in captivity with zero police access.

I went to the zone three, zone four, zone five police stations for a period of five years to be harassed out.

They falsified police records for me as a continuation of their child trafficking and child slave trading from Europe and Eastern Europe to the Pittsburgh area.

The University of Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh nationality rooms, and all those things.

Someone advocate for the Pittsburgh 311 police system and some of similar systems like that.

Give out flyers and pamphlets so that every person from Europe and Eastern Europe has access to filing police reports.

So that the international law is not broken by child slave trading, eugenics, slave breeding, forcing immigration, capturing people from Europe and forcing them to be here, and not being able to tell the truth.

I know you can't go to the police, but this is a website.

Because you're probably being held captive using food medical documents, UPMC medical devices, like I am for 30 years, and seven years before that in Europe in American child slave trading camps.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Hi, I'm Holly Hickling.

I'm from East Carnegie.

I wasn't planning on speaking today, but I've suddenly felt a little bit inspired.

Um I wanted to thank the council people who are bringing forward the um immigrant protection legislation.

Very excited about that.

I'm the executive director of the Global Switch Board, we're a human rights organization, and we do a lot with um immigrant serving organizations and immigrant leaders.

Um I just wanted to say for the record, I know you guys know this.

I'm just gonna say it so that everyone knows it.

Um what you're proposing is uh very constitutional, very legal, and what ICE is doing is what is unc unconstitutional, they're not um giving people due process, and um I'm really proud of the city for um starting to take steps towards uh protecting people's constitutional rights in the city.

Um I also wanted to just uplift um a woman who is released from ICE custody in the south side who wandered around for three days and passed away, a Haitian immigrant named Daffy Michelle, and I would really love us to see if we can address making sure we don't allow that to happen to um anyone else in the future.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Good morning, special agent sunshine, the missing child Ceres Taylor.

Lord, thank you for the sunshine.

What would the world be without it?

These people seem to want the sunshine killed.

Y'all still putting hits out on me like for real.

Do you not know and understand that God is not playing with y'all?

People are dying just for the thought in Jesus' name.

First Peter second and nine says, you are chosen, people.

I'm chosen for this to shine a light on your fraud in our government.

A royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, then you may declare the praises of him who calls you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

I can't praise God in this chamber.

Why?

Jealousy, envy, hate.

It's not against the law.

If I sing a song, what you gonna do?

The veil had me locked up.

That's the whole plan to put out the light that God is shining through me on the fraud in our government.

You steal inheritances, you still trust, you steal homes left to children, and make them homeless on the street.

This is my story.

I'm homeless.

Really?

This is what homelessness looks like when you praise God in his name.

Amen.

I will continue to praise him as long as I breathe.

The wisdom for the day comes from Proverbs 19.8, and it says to acquire wisdom is to love oneself.

People who cherish understanding will prosper.

I cherish the understanding that I pray to the most high God for every day.

I will continue to pray for that understanding.

Wisdom, knowledge, strength.

I will continue to pray for.

The first amendment says Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or a bridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for the redress of grievances.

My grievance here today is I have a trust.

I have a estate that this people on this board have stolen.

You're blocking communication with the boards of Carnegie Library.

Really?

That's how you're blocking communication.

Here's a quote from Andrew Carnegie.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberty, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

I hope and pray that justice will be served for every thief, liar, and voodoo practitioner in the world.

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 Sherlin, share a few more resources.

Thank you.

Councilman Carlton, sure of public safety and wellness.

No new papers, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Councilwoman McGross, Sure of Innovation Performance, Asset Management and Technology.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Gross presents bill number 287, resolution authorizing and instructing the Department of Innovation and Performance to publish and submit a report on surveillance technologies.

Bill 288, ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title VI, Conduct, Article 1, Regulated Rights and Actions by adding Chapter 630 B, prohibiting immigration enforcement in city owned or operated spaces, and amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code Title V, Traffic, Article 1, Administration, Chapter 503, Enforcement and Control by adding Section 503.21, prohibiting immigration enforcement in city-owned or operated spaces, and Bill 289, ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code Title VI, Conduct, Article 1, Regulated Rights and Actions by adding Chapter 630C, protecting community spaces.

Thank you.

Councilman Mosley, Chair of Intergovernment Educational Affairs.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Councilman Mosley presents Bill No.

274.

Resolution amending Resolution 352 of 2025, which authorized a professional service agreement and or contract with Buchanan, Ingersoll, and Rooney PC for consulting services for federal government affairs and legislative services by extending the term through the second quarter of 2026 and increasing the approved amount by $15,500 for a new total cost not to exceed $589,000 over 10 years.

And Bill No.

275.

Resolution amending Resolution 353 of 2025, which authorized the professional service agreement and or contract with Malady and Wooten Inc.

for consulting services for state government affairs and legislative services by extending the term through the second quarter of 2026 and increasing the approved amount by $16,500 for a new total cost not to exceed $627,000 over 10 years and three months.

Councilman Mosley.

Yeah, motion to waive rule eight on to 74 and 275.

Second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Bill 274, 275 will be on tomorrow's Sunday committee agenda.

That takes us to Councilwoman Solanetro, Chair of Public Works and Infrastructure.

Thank you, Council President.

Councilwoman Salonetro presents Bill No.

276.

Resolution amending Resolution 240 of 2025.

Effective April 17th of 2025.

Entitled Authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works to enter into an agreement or agreements or the use of existing agreements between the City of Pittsburgh and PASHAC Plus MTR for the professional geotechnical remediation plan and engineering services.

Costs not to exceed 415,170 by increasing the total allocation by the amount of 26,257.50 cent for a new not-to-exceed amount of 441,427 and 50 cent and Bill 277.

Resolution authorizing the director of the Department of Public Works on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh to enter into certain permanent and temporary construction easements in order to advance the stormwater management and noise control improvements to Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Firing Range Project at no cost to the city.

And Councilwoman Strassberger, Chair of Finance and Law.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Council Person Strasburger presents Bill No.

278.

Resolution amending Resolution 933 of 2024, which reappropriated Federal American Rescue Plan funding by updating the approved projects as outlined in Exhibit A, version 10.

Bill 279, resolution amending resolution 838 of 2025, which fixed the number of officers and employees of the City of Pittsburgh for the 2026 fiscal year and the rate of compensation thereof and set maximum levels for designated positions by eliminating one district chief and adding one assistant chief in the Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Emergency Medical Services.

Bill 280, resolution amending resolution 841 of 2025, which authorized appropriations, salaries, and capital expenditures of the parks trust fund for the 2026 fiscal year, beginning January 1, 2026, by increasing the spend amount by 500,000.

Bill 281, resolution amending resolution 60 of 2026, authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Justin Hickox and their legal counsel, Steenland Law, PLLC for a single payment in 2026 in an amount not to exceed $10,000 in full and final of an employment matter.

And Bill No.

285, resolution amending resolution 835 of 2025, which made appropriations to pay the expenses of conducting the public business of the city of Pittsburgh and for meeting the debt charges thereof for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2026.

And Councilwoman Warwick, Chair of Recreation Youth and Senior Services.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Councilwoman Warwick presents bill number 286.

Ordnance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code.

Title 6, Conduct, Article 1, Regulated Rights and Actions by adding a new chapter 630A.

Non-intervention with respect to immigration enforcement.

To place certain restrictions on the collection and use of information related to citizenship and immigration status.

Place certain restrictions on the use of city assets, prohibit certain forms of discrimination in city services, and provide for remedies for violations all under certain terms and conditions.

And for myself, uh Council President Laval presents bill number 282.

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 weekend March 20th, 2026.

Bill 283.

Communication from Sally Statelman, acting executive director, Pittsburgh Land Bank, submitting the Pittsburgh Land Bank's fourth quarter financial report for the year 2025, and Bill 284.

Communication from City Controller Rachel Heisler submitting the attached fiscal report of tax abatement programs dated March 2026.

So moved.

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

The bills have been read, received and filed.

We'll now move on to unfinished business, of which we have two appointments.

Bill 135, resolution appointing Lou Irwin as a member of the Board of Directors of Pittsburgh Water for a term to expire January 1st, 2031.

And Bill 151, resolution appointing Jesse Ainsman as a member of the Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Land Bank for a term to expire January 1st, 2027, serving the remainder of the term for a seat previously held by Tamara Dedukovich.

I need a motion to approve.

Second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Both appointments have been approved.

Our next order of business is reports of committee for final action, beginning with Councilwoman Erica Schrosberger presenting the committee of finance and law.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Councilperson Strasburger presents bill number two sixty-nine.

Report of the committee on finance and law for March 18, 2026, with an affirmative recommendation.

Bill 227.

Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of sergeant's court reporting services for legal transcript services for an amount not to exceed $5,556 and 40 cent over one year.

You have heard the reading inside of the 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.

Renam 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.

Salonetra.

Aye.

Mrs.

Strasberger.

Aye.

Mrs.

Warwick.

Aye.

Mr.

Wilson.

Mr.

Lavelle, President.

Aye.

Nine ayes, zero no's.

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

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

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Councilman Coghill presents bill number 270.

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

Bill 222.

Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of precision auto-express repair and an amount not to exceed $6,347.85 for repairs to a Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Vehicle.

And Bill 223.

Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of the major city's chiefs association in an amount not to exceed $7,500 for payment of annual member dues.

Seeing none, the bills now ready for final action.

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

Renew is 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.

Oh.

Mrs.

Salonetro.

Aye.

Mrs.

Strasberger.

Aye.

Mrs.

Warwick.

Aye.

Mr.

Wilson.

Aye.

Mr.

Lavelle President.

Aye.

Nine ayes, zero no's.

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

And that moves us to Councilwoman Kim Kim Salonetro, presenting the Committee of Public Works and Infrastructure.

Thank you, Council President.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Salonetro presents bill number two seventy-one.

Report of the committee on public works and infrastructure for March 18, 2026 with an affirmative recommendation.

Bill 113.

Ordnance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances.

Title 1, Administrative Article 7.

Procedures.

By adding a new chapter 174, right of way accessibility needs inventory.

Bill 225.

Resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the Department of Public Works on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh to enter into an agreement or agreements with People's Natural Gas Company, LLC, to allow the integration of natural gas service for a city facilities architecture project in Riverview Park at no cost to the city.

Bill 226.

Resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the Department of Public Works and or Director of the Department of Finance on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh to execute an instrument for the declaration of restrictions and covenants and a paternant documents over the vicinity of the city's Spring Hill Park Playground as a condition of a national pollution discharge elimination system permit granted in conjunction with property improvements in the area at no cost to the city and Bill 243.

Resolution authorizing the borough of crafting to take by eminent domain certain permanent and temporary real estate entrance in a portion of a certain parcel of real estate identified by the Allegheny County Assessment Office's block and lot number 39 F 280 located within the boundaries of the City of Pittsburgh.

You have heard the reading in the title of the bill.

Is there any discussion on the bill?

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

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

Remember is called.

Those opposed will vote no.

With a clerk please take the roll.

Mr.

Charland.

Aye.

Mr.

Coghill.

Aye.

Ms.

Gross.

Aye.

Mr.

Mosley.

Aye.

Mrs.

Salonetra.

Aye.

Mrs.

Strasberger.

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 is passed finally.

That moves us to Council Personal Robert Sharland, presenting the committee of human resources.

Councilperson Charlotte presents bill number 272.

Report of the committee on human resources for March 18, 2026, with an affirmative recommendation.

Bill 221.

Resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the Department of Human Resources and Civil Service to enter into a professional services agreement or agreements with industrial organizations solutions, Inc.

for professional consulting services in connection with police officer recruit candidate examinations and selection services at no cost at a cost not to exceed 151,980 over three years.

You have heard the reading and entitled the bill.

Is there any discussion on the bill?

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

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

Mr.

Charland.

Aye.

Mr.

Coghill.

Aye.

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 nos.

The bill having received the legal cardinal votes is passed finally.

That takes us to Councilman Bobby Wilson, presenting the committee of land use economic development.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilwoman.

Councilman Wilson presents bill number two seventy-three.

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

Bill 228.

Resolution authorizing the mayor, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Director of the Department of City Planning to enter into an agreement or agreements with the trust for public land for the purpose of receiving grant funds and the amount not to exceed $25,000 to install signage in the city's greenways.

Bill 229.

Resolution further amending resolution 863 of 2018.

Effective January 1 of 2019 as amended and titled.

Resolution adopting and approving the 2019 capital budget and a 2019 community development block grant program and a 2019 through 2024 capital improvement program so as to reallocate $55,692 and 60 cent of community development block grant cares act funding to two food banks and authorize a subsequent agreement or agreements.

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

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

Those opposed will vote no.

But the clerk please take the roll.

Mr.

Sharland.

Mr.

Coghill.

Aye.

Ms.

Gross.

Aye.

Mr.

Mosley.

Aye.

Mrs.

Salonetra.

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 number votes is passed finally.

That takes us to motions and resolutions.

I'm going to go to Councilman Strasberger and Councilman Strasberger.

If you could first make a motion to amend the agenda.

Motion to amend the agenda to submit additional legislation.

There is second.

Second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

The agenda has been amended.

Councilman Schlossberger.

Thank you.

Thank you for indulgence, Mr.

President.

Um this is this is legislation submitted by the administration that I've agreed to introduce that uh does need to be rule aided, so um needed to be introduced today.

And um introduce it and have the clerk read it for and then I'll make a motion to roll aid after.

So motion to introduce Bill 29.

290.

290.

Is there a second second?

Thank you.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Can you pose?

Would a clerk please read the bill?

Bill 290.

Councilperson Strasburger presents a resolution authorizing the director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into intergovernmental cooperation agreements between the City of Pittsburgh and various government agencies and municipalities for the purpose of cooperative police and public services during the 2026 National Football League draft.

Councilman Strassberger.

Uh motion to weigh the rules of council so that Bill 290 appears on tomorrow's standing committee agenda.

Second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Bill 290 will be on tomorrow's standing committee agenda.

Is there anything else from members?

If not, we have meeting announcements.

This afternoon at 12 o'clock and one.

Council hold executive sessions on litigation matters.

Also, this afternoon at 130, Council will hold a cable cast public hearing on Bill 165, pertaining to a petition relative to the Pittsburgh municipal courts record selection.

Speaker restoration will close at 11:30 today.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 25th at 9 30, Council will hold a pre-agenda interview for the Historic Review Commission with Council Standing Committee meeting to follow at 10 a.m.

Street Registration will close it at 9.

Also tomorrow afternoon at 130, Council will hold a cable cast post-agenda discussion on the fourth quarter 2025 financial report.

And on Thursday, March 26th at 11 a.m.

Council will hold a pre-agenda interview with John McClory for the directorship of the Department of Public Works.

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

So moved.

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

We are adjourned.