Good afternoon, and welcome to the standing committees meeting for Monday, April 20th, 2026.

All council meetings will be live streamed on the city's website.

And for guest speakers, please do not turn off your microphones.

Our first order of business is roll call.

Will the clerk please take the role?

Mr.

Charlotte.

Mr.

Coghill.

Here.

Miss Gross.

Here.

Mr.

Laval.

Mr.

Mosley.

Miss Salonetra.

Here.

Miss Warwick.

Mr.

Wilson.

Here.

Miss Strasberger Chair.

Here.

Six members present.

Thank you.

Our next order of business is public comment.

I would like to remind all speakers that the rules of council state that comments are limited to matters of concern, official action, or deliberation, which are or may be before city council.

Profanity will not be permitted.

Please state your name and neighborhood for the record, and you will have three minutes to speak.com.

Uh primary USA Teletex is four one two nine six nine seven nine nine seven.

Uh Global Intelligence Society.

Uh candidate for president, twenty twenty-eight.

Um initiative three is particularly important to me, which is local government primacy.

I consider it a privilege and also responsibility as a citizen to do public comment.

Um from this morning, um, a reference from uh Dr.

Bennett uh O'Malo.

This is one of his books from 2008.

Um Play Hard Die Young.

Uh football, dementia, depression, and death.

Uh any of you remember Tony Dorset.

I certainly do.

Uh he would never play.

He says no.

Um, if he knew what would happen to his brain playing for Pitt and for the Cowboys.

Uh three council concerns.

Council one, uh concern one.

Um Pittsburgh City Libraries.

We had a proclamation this morning uh about that.

Uh the CGSII primary module on 40 Bills of Revenue possesses a library, and we have in print the uh papers of Albert Einstein in in German and in English.

Presidential papers of Washington.

Madison Jefferson and Eisenhower.

No uh Carnegie Library Extension uh has these papers, but we do a concern too.

Um international languages.

If you come into this building, you're confronted with with you know uh many languages uh greeting.

Um in the public comments um that I offer here, I systematically use African Housa, Asian Nahongo, it's Japanese, South American Espanol, and European Deutsch.

And I need um annual pay.

Uh, for translators of all four for my books.

Please contact me if you like using the above uh contact information.

One book is uh global intelligence, another introduction to global um international interdisciplinary studies, and a third is sex gen identity formation.

Um a third concern uh that I want to deal with at the moment is um these sister cities.

You know, um from South America, I mean uh consider KUA to be that to be that Mataza's needs are help.

Um Africa, I have no idea why there is no city sister um officially uh from um uh a nation in Africa.

Um two thousand twenty-five.

I founded and copyrighted the Pittsburgh City Aline uh network, PCAN, Pittsburgh City Neighborhood Network, PCNN and the World Neighborhood Network, WNN.

We now have one hundred.

And we include in that one hundred invitations from for us to receive by immigration two hundred to three hundred thousand people.

There being no further registered speakers, we will now take comments from those in the audience wishing to speak.

Is there anyone wishing to speak hello?

My name is Rick Smith from North Oakland District 8.

Um Councilperson Warwick, thank you for the proclamation this morning recognizing Ann Belser in East End Print.

Um to council at large, grateful for the budget work to get the city through this year's challenges, specifically councilperson Gross, advocacy for food and privacy, councilperson Warwick with your fleet protection, councilperson Strasberger for advocacy advocating for climate action and periodic budget reviews, Councilperson Coghill and colleagues for uh managing the cost of the comprehensive plan.

Um this morning's agenda item 392.

It's one of four similar items, but I'll just speak to this one specifically.

As printed, it says it's going to add 58 more vendors to the list, and then if you click on this link to get a document, it says it's going to add 12.

So just a little discrepancy on how many are going to be added.

But more importantly, as I read this, it looks like it's going to increase the cap as it specifies each contract is not to exceed one and a half million, and you increase it by 58, bringing the total to 226 million.

My guess is this is a capped uh account, but it would be good to be able to see that, otherwise it's sort of a jarring read.

Um it also references item 389, which today's agenda also efferences resolution 389 of 2025.

Searching the city's website.

I can't find I can find one three eighty-nine, two three eighty-nine, but I can't find resolution three eighty-nine as I was curious as to the underlying um structures of that.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please.

Are there any further speakers?

There being no further speakers, we will move on to our standing committee's agenda.

Our first committee is the Finance and Law Committee, new papers, Bill 361.

Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Joseph Nitz and their legal counsel Bordis and Bordis PLLC for a single payment in 2026 and an amount not to exceed 85,000 dollars in full and final settlement of litigation filed in the common police court of Allegheny County.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

Seeing none, all those in favor of Bill 361, please say aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation, Bill 362.

Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of foster and foster for payment for professional services rendered in the Act 2011 interest arbitration between the City of Pittsburgh and a fraternal order of police for an amount not to exceed 17,850 over one year.

Motion approved.

Discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 362, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation.

Bill 363.

Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of sergeants court reporting service for legal print transcript services for an amount not to exceed 11,078 and 50 cent over one year.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 363, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation.

Bill 364.

Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Ronald Talarico Esquire for arbitration services for an amount not to exceed $17,726 over one year.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 364, please say aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation.

Bill 370.

Resolution further amending resolution 840 of 2019, effective December 23rd of 2019, entitled.

And the 2020 through 2025 capital improvement program by reducing facility improvements, city facilities by $50,000, and increasing lower heft's run by $50,000.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

Councilmember Councilwoman Gross.

Thank you.

I'll just do an amendment by substitution because it's got the JDE numbers on it.

And I appreciate the council budget office.

Thank you.

Um helping us.

It's a technical amendment just changing the job number.

So motion to amend.

Second.

Thank you.

We have a second a discussion on the amendment.

I do have a question.

I see for 370.

There's two different amendments before us for 370.

I see a different JDE number, but I also see $50,000 being moved around.

Is there is there is there someone who can speak to this?

Are you able to speak to this?

Sure, council.

Uh Kirsten, would you like to join us at the table?

Thank you.

Thank you.

If you could just say your name and position for the record.

Thank you, Director Walmsley.

And can you um help us?

Um maybe go ahead and discuss.

I don't know if we want to read the second amendment as well, because they're companions.

Um which is bill 369, but for now we're discussing 370, which has the JDE number in it.

Yeah, so um the amendment being made here is just to the JDE number.

Umrigally it was a 2025 JDE number, but because it's bond money and needs to be a 2020 job number to match the original funding source.

Um so this is just a technical change there.

The um original amendment was always moving $50,000 from one project to another.

So in this case, it's moving from facility improvements to the lower heads run project.

So that was always the plan.

It's just it's just yeah, yeah.

All right, further discussion.

Madam Chair, would you like to read 369 since we have Kearson here at the table?

Yes, please.

So we will move down to believe it's a different committee.

So public works in infrastructure.

I think we need to stick with one committee at a time.

So let's stick with one 370 and we'll take 369 when we get to that committee.

So any further discussion on 370.

Seeing none, all of all in favor of bill 37.

Well, all in favor of the amendment to 370, please say aye.

Aye.

Amendment is approved.

Further discussion on amended bill.

Seeing none, all in favor of bill 370 as amended, please say aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation.

Thank you.

That takes us to invoices.

Is there a motion on invoices?

Motion to approve.

So second.

Discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of invoices, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Invoices are approved.

It takes us to P cards.

Is there a motion on P cards?

Motion to approved.

Second.

Discussion.

I am pulling up a note from our budget director about P cards.

And there are two notes that um budget director Romsey did want to make us aware of.

Uh two different charges totaling over $5,000.

There are five charges to Blue Pearl Pet Hospital under the Bureau Bureau of Animal Care and Control.

And together they total over $6400, but they're for separate animals and service services provided.

And then under DPW, there are three charges to Pittsburgh Tire Service.

Together, they total $9,422.

They are separate purchases, but um it's our understanding after our budget director did some research that DPW uses this preferred vendor for tire services for heavy equipment such as lawnmowers, backhoes.

In the past, they have tried to get a vendor on contract for this, but it is uh difficult due to specialty items and public works is currently working with procurement to once again see if these services can be brought on as a contract.

So I think some due diligence has happened and um wanted to uh ensure that I passed along that explanation from our budget office.

Any further discussion on P cards.

Seeing none, all in favor of P cards, please say aye.

Aye.

P cards are approved.

That moves us to interdepartmental transfers.

Is there a motion on transfers?

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of transfers, please say aye.

Aye.

Transfers are approved.

That takes us to public works and infrastructure committee chaired by Councilwoman Salonetro.

Excuse me, supplemental new paper, Bill three eighty-eight.

Resolution providing for an amended reimbursement agreement or agreements with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for costs associated with the preliminary design, final design, right of way and construction phases of the Smithfield Suite Reconstruction Project and providing for the payment of the cost thereof not to exceed 10 million one hundred twenty-six thousand dollars, an increase of two hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars from the previous resolution, reimbursable at 80%, and a municipal share of commonwealth incurred costs not to exceed 45,000, a zero dollar increase from the previous resolution 72 of 2026.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

Seeing none all in favor of Bill 388, please say aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation, deferred papers, Bill 300.

Resolution providing for the issuance of a warrant in favor of a Felino Construction Inc.

and the amount of 481,320 for the purpose of emergency snow removal at various locations and providing for the payment of the cost thereof over one year.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

I think I'm gonna have to hold this bill again.

We uh we do have the director here in the in the room, and as far as I know, uh we have not received a detailed invoice from Felino regarding that.

If he wants to come and speak to that, if something has changed, John.

Do we do it?

Well, it's afternoon.

Um were you able to get any detail from them?

Um, we we had called them, we didn't get anything back.

Um I did talk to John Klingerd out.

It's gonna reach out to the owner of the company because he deals with them along with the with the asphalt.

So hopefully I'll hear something back this afternoon.

Okay.

Can I make a motion to hold for two weeks?

Do you think two weeks would be enough?

I hope so.

Okay, can we make a motion to hold for two weeks?

Second.

Discussion.

Seeing none all in favor of a two-week hold on bill three hundred, please say aye.

Aye.

Bill be held for two weeks.

Thank you.

Thank you.

New papers, Bill 335.

Bill 335, ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title One, Administrative Article 7, Procedures, Chapter 174.

Right of way accessibility needs inventory by updating the chapter number to 162B.

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

Sorry.

No.

Okay.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

Councilmember Warway.

This is just a slight change.

Okay.

Further discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 335, please say aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation.

Bill three three fifty-four.

Resolution authorizing pursuant to chapter two ten acceptance of gifts to the city of the city code, the mayor and the director of the department of public works to accept a donation from laborers, district council in the amount of three hundred thousand dollars for the purchase and installation of scoreboards at fields used for youth sports in the city.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 354, please say aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation.

Bill 355.

Resolution authorizing the mayor, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and a director of the Department of Public Works to enter into an agreement or agreements with pirate charities for the purpose of receiving grant funds in the amount of $300,000 to provide upgrades to youth baseball and softball fields.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

I'll call Chief Gilman up just to talk a little bit about the gift.

It's good news.

Yeah, so I just just if you just wanted to, you know, do a little victory laugh on this gift.

Always get to come to the table for that.

Dan Gilman, Chief of Staff of the Mayor.

Thank you, Councilman.

Yes, this is a partnership with Pittsburgh Pirates Charities.

It is about $300,000 to receive new Dura Edge material, which is the type of in-field dirt mix they use at PMC Park.

Some uh home plate tarps, some portable mounds, uh, as well as possibly some hitting pads uh on fences and back stops.

As we see the numbers, we believe it'll be somewhere around 20 fields that will get improvement this year uh through this funding.

And though you just voted for the bill, the laborers three hundred thousand should do ten new scoreboards at new fields this year.

Uh I did want to ask, so um, because I know McGee Field was on the list.

Is that this would not cover drainage on the infield?

I know that's sort of an ongoing, or would that it would this help with the drainage issue?

So this would involve re-laser grading the entire field.

So in terms of how water drains it will have an impact.

I don't know the details of McGee.

If it actually needed additional construction, this would not cover that.

Uh but this will involve full laser grading of the field, removal of the old material and installing the new material.

And the pirates are buying a new laser grader for the city that we'll keep uh after this grant.

Okay, great.

Yeah, no, just anything because it sort of puddles up and stays there for a while.

Yeah.

We have significant challenges at a lot of our fields with that.

And the lay if we do this right now that we'll have two laser graders, we can have two baseball crews.

Uh and that will allow us to actually get all of our fields on a regular laser grading rotation uh with the new dirt.

So through a couple years of replacing the fields and then adding them to a regular rotation.

Now with two baseball field crews, we believe we can get them in much better shape.

Okay.

And I assume DP, we want once this begins the work with the coaches to make sure I know folks are particular about their field.

Absolutely.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Gross.

Thank you, Chief.

I'm not gonna ask you to have all of the sites memorized, but I am hoping that we'll see some of the district seven sites as well.

I'm thinking of several fields that flood frequently, like the Hess field, which I know has been graded before, but it takes vigilance, like constant work on it.

It does, and we are we are finalizing the list based off assessments by professionals.

Uh but uh yes, I know there are multiple district seven fields uh on the list already, and Hetz in particular is certainly on the list.

Thank you.

Really appreciate it.

It's an issue that we've been struggling with for a long time.

It's great news.

Random other question that you may not have the answer to that is just occurring to me.

Since we now have we'll have two laser graders you were saying and two different crews.

Um I'm wondering what else can be laser graded, if not just baseball fields.

Now again, not anything you might be willing to answer now, but there are lots of other places where we're trying to create slopes and control water flow, like certain certain streets, for example.

We've we I think many of us that have hillsides have struggled with the kind of grading of streets.

Don't know if that's a uh uh an applicability for that specific kind of equipment, but uh it's just a random question.

It's a good question, it is way over my knowledge level.

Right.

Thank you.

That's all I have, Madam Chair.

Thank you.

Further discussion, Councilman Cockle, followed by Councilman Mosley.

Well, you're coming with more uh donations then.

I'm trying.

We have one more coming your way, I think, next week.

I'm keeping track, you're three or four times at the table with donations, so we expect it now, you know.

So now I heard you say that um So the Pirates are supplying their we'll say dirt, but it's really crushed red brick that they use for P and C park.

And we've had that in Brookline for some time.

Yeah, the mix is much better than the traditional in terms of how it absorbs the water.

Yeah, it almost never gets rained out.

Brookline, I remember how it opening day three years ago, and it was like pouring down rain.

We're the only spot.

Um don't we're sliding pads, though.

I'm gonna tell you that on this stuff.

It's again, it's like crushed red brick, and it's really good.

So pirates are doing the laser and the infield dirt and other amenities around the facilities.

And the laborers are given 300 cash.

So 300,000.

Yes, the checks already delivered to DC.

I love the labors.

So then that's for us to use for those purposes.

But scoreboards.

Scoreboards.

They're for scoreboard specifically.

Right, right.

Okay, good.

Good.

I'll have to check about the Brookline.

You know, uh where me and the mayor were throwing the ball around.

I know he's got a special interest in that field.

So I I could tell you I I just received a preliminary list of ten fields for the scoreboards.

Uh there was a couple things I had questions on, so it's certainly not finalized, but I I can assure your district was represented on that list as well.

I appreciate that.

Thank you.

That's it for me, man.

Thank you, Councilman Mosley.

Always uh good to see Chief Gilman bearing gifts at the at the Wednesday table.

Um thank you for for joining us.

Um, my question is more about kind of looking into the future, you know, really ecstatic about these partnerships, and I think it opens up a door um to more partnerships.

Um as you know, um I'm I'm a big fan of baseball, and you know, before running for office, I spent a lot of time coaching.

Has there been any discussions looking to the future?

I did I think the laser grading is great as well as the crushed red brick, which you know, as a person who's coached many rec and AAU baseball tournaments.

I know how superior that is, you know, particularly getting back on the field after um a rain event.

Um but my question is is about um has there been any discussions, you know, potentially with the laborers or the pirates or any uh of the other gracious partners to look into like any turf infielding um in some parts of the city because that you know that is kind of the gold standard.

And obviously, we know every single field in the city wouldn't couldn't be turfed, but it did that ever come up in the discussions.

It absolutely did.

We've had a lot of meetings uh with pirates field operations team, public works uh in the charities, and we made the decision uh, and as someone who who does coach baseball uh as well, we have a game at six o'clock tonight, and we're gonna have to be out there early raking the field from the the rain, so I relate to this well.

Uh but the belief is baseball really should be played on dirt.

Uh as to the to your comment of a gold standard.

Right.

Um, there's a reason most professional baseball stadiums still are.

Uh, and it is better for the environment and it is safer on young people's bodies.

That being said, last spring we got in almost no games in little leagues around the city, so it's a balancing act.

We think if we put in this material laser graded on a regular cycle, we can have infield dirt that kids can play on.

If this turns out not to be enough, there's certainly an interest in some of the uh material that we just used at homewood field for football to try that on some in fields in the city.

Uh, but we're gonna try this in year one uh and see where it goes.

I appreciate that.

And and I would also, you know, encourage you and the mayor to also continue conversations with the Pirates.

I do think you know, Pittsburgh would be a great location for uh Major League Baseball's next urban youth academy.

Um, you know, just given um the rich history of baseball in, you know, in this city, uh, you know, whether it was the Pirates, the Crawford's, the Grays, you know, our city just has a as a rich urban, you know, baseball history, uh, going back to the 19th century, and you know, New Orleans has one, Compton has one.

I think at some point, you know, and it's not necessarily the most important thing we're gonna talk about at the table today, but as we you know develop these partnerships and and the pirates um in many ways show their commitment to the city, you know.

Uh I I still gotta give Councilwoman Kale Smith props for that that meeting she called in December.

Like after that meeting, everything's changed.

They're signing rookies to 10-year contracts, and you know, so councilwoman Kel Smith, kudos.

She should throw out a first pitch at some point this season.

Um, but uh, but I do think that, you know, um, I mean, baseball is just so uh important to the fabric, you know, uh of this city, and and I I think it would be important to make that investment um not for the sake of baseball, but for the sake of young people, you know, there's nothing like as you know, being uh at a youth baseball game, you know, baseball is just such a unique sport in the way, you know, requires teamwork in a way that you know, like all the other sports, whether you're playing hockey, football, or baseball, at some point one player can just take the ball and dominate the game.

Where baseball is a game that requires teamwork and you know, folks um, you know, to work together.

So just given the rich history of uh of black baseball and even um you know, fair few people know about the story of the great Barney Dreyfus who built Forbes Field and was very integral with Rode F Shalom, who's a uh a Jewish uh German brother uh that came over and fell in love with the game of baseball and invented modern baseball stadiums.

A lot of people forget that Forbesfield was the first modern stadium in the entire world built with steel and concrete.

So, you know, whether it's the African American community, the Jewish community, or the community at large, you know, we have a rich baseball tradition here in Pittsburgh, and the more we invest in it, I think the more that we give that uh you know, rich tradition and pass it on to the next generation.

And I will say um obviously the pirates' money is a hundred percent going towards our baseball and to be very clear, softball uh included in that.

The the labor's money for scoreboards will mostly go to that, uh, but probably not entirely, for instance, and again, don't hold me to this as we're finalizing, but I think we'll probably be doing Chadwick uh scoreboard there uh in your district councilman and already you know Homewood field is done.

Uh Fort Pitt is well underway.

Uh the planning for quarry for the Southside Bears, you know, is in that master plan and moving forward, canard in the Hill, uh the North Side Field.

Um, right behind Pittsburgh Project.

Uh oh, Pleasant Valley.

So that's a ballot.

Thank you.

Okay, but say Calvin.

Fowler, uh that planning is already going.

So it is heavy investment also in our youth football programs, uh working on some basketball court improvements as well.

All of these programs are part of the mayor's agenda to make Pittsburgh every family's first choice and to hear come about whether or not it's the most important thing on the agenda.

There's a lot of important things, so I don't want to suggest that.

But this we see this as absolutely critical to how we keep families in the city and providing uh the power of sports in community building through our fields and our recreation centers as absolutely paramount in the work that we do.

Yeah.

Thank you for bearing gifts once again, Chief Gilmer.

Thank you.

Further discussion?

Councilmember Warwick.

Just quickly, if the pirates are listening, um we really do, and I know this is like a longer term conversation, but we really do for baseball and uh you know, and and probably other sports, but uh, you know, an indoor facility.

It's the one sport where you know, basketball, there's plenty of opportunity to play inside soccer, you play in the rain, football, you play in whatever weather, but baseball, um, you know, and and and the reality is is that you know, uh our our our teams are driving 30, 40 minutes to Bianco and Cannonsburg, and you know, we should have uh a state-of-the-art facility like that here in Pittsburgh.

So fully agree, and I can say we have had meetings with a number of investors interested in a few sites with Hardball, with the pirates' charities uh about some of those opportunities.

So I don't know what the timeline or where for sure, but I think everybody agrees there's a great need that there's a lot of traveling to the suburbs for this, and we need it in the city.

Further discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 355, please say aye.

Right aye.

Affirmative recommendation.

Thank you, Councilman.

Bill 356.

Resolution authorizing the mayor, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the director of the Department of Public Works to apply for grant funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Community Conservation Partnership Program to provide funding for the Emerald View Park Tree Implementation Project.

The grant proposal includes an ask not to exceed $250,000 with the match not to exceed $250,000 from the City of Pittsburgh's capital budget for total project cost not to exceed $500,000 for this stated purpose.

Second discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 356, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation, Bill 357.

Resolution authorizing the mayor, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and a director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure to apply for grant funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Community Conservation Partnership Program to provide funding for a repaving a portion of the Three Rivers Heritage Trail.

The grant proposal includes an ask not to exceed 250,000 with the match not to exceed 250,000 from the City of Pittsburgh's capital budget for total project cost not to exceed $500,000 for this stated purpose.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 357, please say aye.

Affirmative recommendation, Bill 358.

Resolution authorizing the mayor, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the director of the Department of Public Works to apply for grant funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Community Conservation Partnerships Program to provide funding for the renovation of Fort Pitt Park.

The grant proposal includes an ask of 500,000 with the match not to exceed 500,000 from the City of Pittsburgh's capital budget for total project cost not to exceed 1 million dollars for this stated purpose.

Motion to approve.

Second discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 358, please say aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation in Bill 359.

Resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the Office of Management and Budget to enter into an agreement or agreements with the University of Pittsburgh for the purpose of receiving grant funds and an amount not to exceed $5 million to be used for parks.

Capital improvements, URA main street programs, public safety facilities, equipment, fleet, or special initiatives.

Motion to approve.

Second discussion.

Councilmember Warwick.

This is great news.

And uh I do want to give uh a shout out to Pitt here for you know providing flexibility with these funds because that's that's important, right?

That's sort of giving us the the leeway to to use these funds as needed, you know, in in various areas around the city.

I don't know if there's some restrictions there may be, that's fine, but this sounds fairly broad as far as what these this money can be used for.

So that's all.

Further discussion?

Yeah.

Um I I do have some questions.

I don't know who the right person is to speak to this.

Okay.

Thank you, Acting Director.

And I you might be the right person for this.

So please introduce yourself and then I'll just ask me a quick question.

Uh my name is Rhea Price.

I'm the current acting director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Thank you.

So I mean, I do see flexibility, and that is great.

Um I see it's not an and it's an or, right?

So that it that implies any one of these.

Do we know has there been discussion that you've that you're aware of as to how the decision will be made to apply what we've done?

Yeah, we've not had those discussions.

It just has not happened.

That's correct, yes.

Okay, so what happens to this money after this?

So um we've set up uh a job in uh grants trust fund uh to receive these funds.

And uh yeah, once we decide uh what we're going to use those grants funds, the these grants funds for uh we'll either pay for those items directly out of that job number or perhaps uh reimburse uh departments uh for expenses.

And will that will any of that touch council before it's um spent, or is this the one time that we're sort of interacting with this this funding?

Oh does it depend?

Right.

Um so I don't believe we would have to uh we would technically have to go back to council for that.

But I mean, if if you would request some uh expenditure reports for this, uh we would gladly provide that.

Yeah.

Um I think that would be helpful.

I think that there is public scrutiny of funding that we're receiving, and it would be helpful to get further clarity.

I think one um one comment I saw again and again was great, and it's very vague.

So it would be helpful, I think, to understand for our purposes and for our purposes and talking to the public and being able to speak to these great contributions that um that we know exactly where they're going and what they're being paid for.

Absolutely.

Yeah, thank you.

Further discussion?

Councilwoman Gross.

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair, for raising that issue.

We've you know, we have many trust funds at the city, and very often we draw the distinction between a trust fund.

I I I always uh be not beat up, but use as like a really good example, the Mellon Park tennis bubble trust fund, right?

We don't need to see every appropriation out of that one.

That doesn't need a separate resolution, right?

It's a little bit of money that comes in from the fees for using the tennis bubble, and if there's a patch that's needed, that money's there, or you know, just for ongoing operations.

It's a small, very defined amount of money.

But when we have a large pot, especially one that is completely undefined, um the the trust fund should be structured so that you cannot just write checks out of it.

That's that's what council's weekly agendas are for.

That's why we have agendas 49 weeks a year so that we can see the decision making on the public can see the decision making for large appropriations.

So I don't want to hold up a grant, that's for sure.

But if we need to amend the trust fund that it's going into to require that these decisions come before the public first, um, then that's I think something that council should should take up.

But I'm definitely supportive of receiving the funds.

Uh but I think the public deserves to be including uh knowing how they're being spended and before the fact and not just after the fact.

Thank you.

Councilperson Charlotte.

So I'd chief Gilman walk here.

Probably has a couple things he wants to say.

Thank you, my apologies.

I thought this was on next week's agenda or I wouldn't have left.

Well uh I and I apologize, I I missed some, but I just to be clear, uh the person worked with the university.

The intent is number one that every year we'll work with the university on a proposal within the categories and then include it in the budget that would come to to council as part of the annual budget too.

So when the budget comes forward, I'm making it up.

But if we're gonna spend all million dollars on you know, fix I fixing Brookline Memorial Park, it would Brookline Memorial Park, million dollars under the other category for grants, and highlighting that that was coming out of the donation from the university, whether it was public safety, um Main and Main or Park.

So we certainly want to be fully transparent with council and with the public on where these dollars go going forward.

So it'd be the university that determines or works with you.

No, certainly it's the power.

I mean, this money is donated with no no strings attached or control over where it goes.

Given it is their donations, you know, we'd seek thoughts and input from the university, but ultimately it would be what the mayor proposed in the budget and what council authorized through the budget process that would decide it, not you know, a directive from the university.

Do we see this being more capital expenses or operational expenses?

Capital.

Capital or programmatic, not positions and ongoing, but it could be programmatic, particularly uh potentially within public safety.

You could see it being programmatic for a special program.

Okay.

Uh yeah, I guess obviously when this announcement happened, everyone starts reaching out and is like, oh, can we get this money?

Can we get this money?

Um it will be very helpful to be able to say we're using it on X, and this is this is why we're using it for that.

I know we want to, you know, increase your basketball hours or whatever, uh, but we're actually using it to do this, and and that is just be able to give us a justification to explain to other folks that are now excited about this money, uh, where it would go.

So coming to us as early as possible, I think would be would be helpful with this this money.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

Further discussion.

Council McConkill.

I just hear you commit uh million dollars to Brooklyn.

I said Southside Park.

No, that's it, please.

Uh seeing no further discussion, we will take a vote.

Um all those in favor of bill uh bill three fifty-nine, please indicate by saying aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation.

Thank you.

This really is the last gift I have.

360.

Resolution providing for an agreement or agreements with Johnson.

Marmoran, Marmorin, and Thompson Inc.

for costs associated with construction inspection and contract administration for the raise grant project, providing for the payment of the cost thereof not to exceed $1,116,000 and 87 cent reimbursable at 80%.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 360, please say aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation, Bill 369.

Resolution authorizing the mayor, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the director of the Department of Public Works to apply for grant funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Community Conservation Partnerships Program to provide funding for the Allegheny Riverfront Trail Connectivity Planning Project.

The grant proposal includes an ask not to exceed $50,000 with a match not to exceed $50,000 from the City of Pittsburgh capital budget for a total project cost not to exceed $100,000 for this stated purpose.

Second.

Discussion.

Is this $369 or so this is the companion amendments that has the updated JDE number in the text?

Motion to amend.

Discussion?

Seeing none, all in favor of amending Bill 369, please say aye.

Aye.

Amendment is approved.

Further discussion on bill as amended.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 369 as amended, please say aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation.

Human Resources Committee chaired by Councilperson Charlin.

Bill 347 resolution providing the authorization to make all legitimate expenditures for payments and agreements or agreements with various agencies to provide job development and employment services, wages, infringed benefits for supervisor, staff workers' compensation, unemployment compensation, vocational skills training, and on the job training, outreach, recruitment costs, and administrative expenditures necessary to implement the 2025 Pittsburgh Partnership Employment Program and providing the periodic transfer of funds to be used in a 2025 Pittsburgh Partnership Employment Program and for payment of the cost thereof not to exceed 320,000.

Motion approved.

Second.

Discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 347, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation.

Bill 348.

Resolution providing for the filing of applications by the Commonwealth of PA, Department of Human Services for grants in connection with the Joint Jobs Initiative Program, Employment Advancement and Retention Network, and providing for the authorization to enter into agreements with various agencies and to pay for expenditures for cost to support implement and administer the program.

Cost not to exceed $3,828,594.

Motion to prove.

Second.

Discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 348, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation.

That moves us to land use and economic development committee chaired by Councilman Wilson.

Deferred papers, Bill 320 resolution.

Further amending resolution 863 of 2018.

Effective January 1, 2019, as amended, entitled resolution adopting and approving the 2019 capital budget and the 2019 Community Development Block Grant Program and the 2019 through 2024 capital improvement program.

By reducing facility improvements, recreation and senior centers by 400,000 and increasing remediation of condemned buildings by 400,000.

Motion approved.

Second discussion.

Discussion.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

So I've been going back and forth.

This is the bill that council held for me last week.

It was only five days since we're going from a Wednesday to a Monday.

But it did give me a little bit of time to work with my staff, to work with the council budget office, to kind of have a little bit of communication back and forth with the administration.

So I don't have an amendment today.

I had really hoped that I'd be able to find funds to actually, you know, put back into Bloomfield because just again to be clear, this is removing all of the funding for the facility improvements.

There is from this budget line.

There is a current contract to do assessment of the building in a plan that is moving forward.

But these funds, you know, it's gonna be a it's gonna be uh a big project, so we're gonna need funds um to stabilize this building.

So I have many requests for the neighborhood to kind of put money back.

We're still looking for it.

But again, just so everyone understands, right?

This money is expiring.

The federal government will take it back.

So this move today does put it into projects in other neighborhoods, you know, not in Bloomfield.

Um, not in District 7, um, that are shovel ready, kind of ready to go.

But we're gonna be working with the administration to put funds back into Bloomfield Park and into Bloomfield to replace these funds.

So I know it's a cause of stress for my community organizations and residents.

I got emails over the weekend um about the the I just want to acknowledge the love and appreciation that m uh the public, not just district seven residents have for Bloomfield Park.

Uh, again, the second highest kind of pool attendance that we have in the city.

Um it's a really really busy park.

Um, so we want to make sure um that it's getting the resources that it deserves to serve you know so many residents from so many districts.

So roll stay tuned.

We'll be working on it.

So uh apologies to my colleagues.

I'm I'm gonna I'm I can't in good conscience vote yes on this one, but I do understand the urgency of moving expiring federal funds.

Thank you.

Further discussion seeing none, all in favor of bill three twenty, please say aye.

Aye.

Any no's abstentions?

One no.

So noted.

Affirmative recommendation.

That moves us to innovation performance asset management technology committee chaired by councilwoman gross.

Bill 349, resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant payable in favor of InSight Software LLC for one-time auditing and accounting technology services for an amount not to exceed $5,499.90 over one year.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 349, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation.

Intergovernmental and Educational Affairs Committee chaired by Councilman Mosley.

Bill 350, resolution amending resolution 662 of 2024 entitled resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the Office of Management and Budget to enter into an NFL draft funding agreement or agreements with the Greater Pittsburgh Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc.

Doing business as Visit Pittsburgh for the coordination of municipal, governmental, and other services required for the 2026 NFL draft, cost not to exceed 1 million dollars over three years, plus the value of various in-kind city services to provide authorization for an amendment granting receipt by the city for an amount not to exceed $2 million from Visit Pittsburgh for reimbursement of certain expenses incurred by the city as a result of the 2026 NFL draft.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

Councilmember Warwick.

So just to um this is us getting money or us giving money.

Sorry.

I'm is there someone who could speak to this one?

Okay.

Okay.

So yeah, because we already gave a million dollars to the draft.

So are we getting that money back?

So we're getting two million dollars now.

So yeah, we we had a previous agreement uh with Visit Pittsburgh to provide a million dollars uh for the draft.

And now under the Commonwealth of PA's um 2026 marquee events program, uh we're receiving uh two million dollars in grant funding to be used uh for draft expenses.

So just so I'm clear, so is that are are we getting our million dollars back, or are we just spending an additional two million dollars that is grant money instead of our own money?

Um I guess it it's either you know uh so we paid uh a million dollars up front already, and now we're getting two million dollars.

So we can use just it just put in our general fund?

For draft related expenses.

Is it reimbursed?

Yeah, yeah, it it's reimbursed it's reimbursable expenses.

So a lot of that will be overtime.

On the draft.

Yes, on the draft.

Okay, so but we're not getting our one million back.

We're just this is just m more money being spent on the draft.

It's just a grant.

I get it.

I think I get it.

Okay.

I thought we were made well, first I thought we were paying more money.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I I okay.

So it's still we've we've we've paid a million, but we're also getting some some funding from the the state.

Yeah.

Okay.

Good.

That's all.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councilwoman McGross.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Because yeah, the title of the bill is kind of like a long run-on sentence.

So I just want to make sure we clarify what's being provided and what's being received.

Um so you said that there is two million.

You said we will be getting two million, correct.

But you also said we have to, it's a only for reimbursed.

It's like do we have to itemize reimbursed expenditures?

Yes, we do.

So is one of those the million dollar check we wrote to the draft.

Um honestly, that one I would have to get clarification on.

Would you?

That would be lovely, actually.

Thank you.

Yes.

Yeah.

You know, because it was a little curious that we were writing a check to, you know, the entities that are kind of receiving the revenue and receiving the grants.

And we end, you know, we're told like in other cities there was no such check from the city to to the NFL committee or something like that.

So you know, if if we're you know, spending another two million dollars in kind, what is in the language of grants, right?

If we're if we're we if we have two million dollars of kind of extra expenditures that we wouldn't have had had the draft not happened, but then we get reimbursed for them, we're still as to Councilman Warwick's point, I think, negative a million dollars.

Or not.

So I will get that information.

Yeah.

That'd be great.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you.

Council McCaugheel.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um, from what I understand, and uh just from being on the SCA board dealing with Visit Pittsburgh is and I actually wanted something in writing.

I don't think we ever got anything writing, but this is to cover our overtime costs for whether it's police, EMS, it's state money that was allocated to Visit Pittsburgh and Visit Pittsburgh is to reimburse us.

It can be for more than over time, though, too.

Okay, right.

So expenses.

But I think that, yeah, uh, overtime will be.

I think it's mostly over time.

Right.

Because most of the other stuff is going to be in kind services, I think.

Uh and the million dollars that we committed under the Ganya administration, that's out the window.

That's already gone.

Whether you want to say we're getting a million that's neither here or not.

Right.

Yeah, we that million dollars has been dedicated and processed and is in the hands of whoever is spending it.

Um this two million dollars was specifically from the state, and they ordered or asked Jared Bachner to re that's to reimburse us for mostly overtime expenses, from what I understood.

And that's that's a guesstimation as to what our overtime is gonna cost for the three or four day really four, maybe even five day period.

So that's the way I understood it, and that's the way it sounds to you.

Yes.

Yeah.

That's correct.

Okay.

Okay.

And uh I I think we pay up front and we get reimbursed.

So that money's not coming to us right away.

Right.

That's correct.

So our officers will get paid their overtime.

We will get reimbursed up to two million dollars.

Yes.

If it's more than that, we go talk to the state.

Right.

Like I said, if uh if the overtime does come in under two million dollars and for either items, yes.

Yeah, which I'm sure will be incurring a lot more expenses, whether it be in kind or not.

Um yeah, so we have up to two million dollars.

If our overtime exceeds that, we'll have to go back and talk to the state and Jared and funding it because they said they would make us whole.

Okay.

I will tell you multiple times to me.

So that's just a guesstimation as to what we're paying.

But further discussion?

I did have a question.

So it's my understanding also that there's gonna be overtime is for sure the um the main category that will that will be cost for us during the draft, but peak cards will also be given and used during the draft because it's just the easiest, quickest way for those who are working the draft and security or public works, whatever, to be able to buy food, you know, take care of the needs.

Um will that be if we don't if we don't reach the two million dollar limit by overtime, will those be um eligible for reimbursement?

They should be, yes.

Even though it's a P card and sort of like approved, it's paid it's paid ahead of time and it's already spent that will be reimbursed.

Okay.

Okay.

Yes.

Um council uh member Warwick.

Second round.

Uh yeah, just so um presumably if costs exceed two million there won't be any additional funding coming in.

Um I honestly do not know about that.

Um I haven't had any discussions uh with anybody if uh that scenario does happen, but it sounds like Councilman Coghill has.

So um I would have to get further clarification on that as well.

But um so uh we've uh apparent there is a running tally of uh expected overtime and expenses for the draft, and I believe right now we're at about 1.8 million dollars.

So um fingers crossed we won't go over that two million dollars.

Okay.

Um and I I mean I suppose this pro this feels like maybe something for the controller to look at after the fact, but it I mean just be good to know how much an event of this scale costs just to kind of know for the future, you know, because it's great to get these things coming to the city, but then also just to understand the impact, and we'll have this as a case study moving forward.

Further discussion?

Oh, sorry, councilwoman gross.

Yeah, see that point and and um director Rice, you might not be the right person to answer this question, but the really big obvious buckets of revenue don't come to the city.

Um and so you know, members of the public are observing this, right?

So the hotel tax.

We don't see a penny.

Right.

Um the liquor tax.

We don't see a penny.

Right.

Um so there are kind of uh indirect effects, you would hope.

But what parts of those do come to the city treasury to the general fund?

Um I would have to get back to you on that, but um so the I'm assuming that there will be uh extra sales tax collected, and that's what our rad funding is also does not come to the city.

So we don't collect the RAD tax directly.

We are reliant on the tax board the next year to do both the statutory allocations and then the grant awards.

Yes.

So I'm not even sure that would increase like the parts that are RAD parks maybe.

That would be a really because at least half of that whole county wide pot goes directly to things like the the lower income municipalities for their operating funds, not to the city of Pittsburgh.

It's not on that list, right?

And then you have like you know smaller and smaller pieces of the pie for statutory assets like our rad parks or something like that.

But so yeah.

Um which is split partly with libraries, for example, right?

It's a statutory asset.

Um and then there's a significant portion that's held for just like the grants that the Brad Board can just allocate to every any anything countywide, you know, county parks or something like that.

So um yeah, that's not a direct fund.

That's not that is definitely not direct money to the city, the sales tax.

Um so you know, are there any?

Um so exactly.

So people we know that some of the parking garages that should be do pay parking tax, right?

Have increased the rates from you know $20 an hour to I don't know, thousand dollars a day or something like that.

Um this is anecdotal.

I'm just knowing, you know, seeing what I'm seeing in the newspaper reports.

So at the city.

Which department collects the parking tax?

Uh so yeah.

I do know that I thought I saw Jennifer Lula over there.

She was also raising her hand in case you want to.

Can we date them to the table?

Um, because I think that's really important to know.

We also do have, you know, some um business tax that if someone adds a part-time employee again, might trickle down at the end of the year or something like that.

I'm just gonna talk off the top of my head.

So introduce yourself for us.

I mean, we can potentially see um slight increase.

Oh, yeah, I'm sorry.

It's the middle of the day, it catches me off guard.

Uh Jennifer Gullah, Department of Finance director.

Um, we could potentially see raises in the local service tax, which is your annual $52 a year if someone gets added to someone's payroll.

We could see potential increases to payroll expense tax, which is a tax placed on a company's payroll for those people that are doing business in the city.

Um we could see a bump in parking tax revenue, obviously.

It's no secret.

There's a lot of uh local um parking lots that are absolutely raising.

I think the casino is paying they're raising theirs to 250 dollars or more.

That's gonna be an example.

Like, how do we know what they're charging?

How in any given year, like today before the draft?

How do you know what parking garages they're charging?

And then so how do you compute like how much parking tax they should have paid us?

Actually, a lot of them post that online.

So we're able to go and a lot of parking lots have moved to um managing their lots using um tech instead of actual individuals operating.

So they post those things in all these parking apps.

So those are things.

Yes.

Amazing.

And I mean, not to mention the I mean the school district themselves as well is renting out space in other lots.

I mean, that was public information, they put it out there.

And they'll be paying parking tax as well, whereas usually they do not be.

No, actually they do.

There is a lot in Oakland.

Uh-huh.

So they do already pay parking tax revenue.

Okay, so you'll be looking to see if there's more lots being leased by the hour.

Yep.

Because again, if you're if you're not leasing it out to the public, then you're not paying parking tax.

But if you are at least out to the public, then you are.

Yes.

And then what those rates are, and so you're kind of like doing the ground sleuthing out the groundwork.

Thank you.

That's what I wanted to hear.

So at least that's one pot.

Yes.

Where we might see the only other place would be in fee revenue.

There's vendor permits and things of that nature that PLI obviously is ending are issuing for some of the vendors that are here or taking up storefronts and are also going to be occupying you know, vendor trucks, like in the right-of-way around the actual venue area.

So those things, then we're able to actually use that data and cross-reference it with people that are registered and have paid.

And if they owe tax, then we can go after them that way.

Do you have any expectation that that the revenue from those four or so buckets that you mentioned would surpass a million dollars?

I I don't honestly think so.

Um especially with parking, because obviously there might be areas where we lose spaces.

And so even though I mean, so it might be a wash.

Yeah.

Um, I mean, it's gonna be interesting to see how it all actually shakes out.

That's distressing.

Appreciate it.

Thank you.

I'll leave it there.

Yeah, councilman Cockhill.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

So you're confirming, and council was saying is for the public to know that there is no financial boon for the city of Pittsburgh here.

If we have our expenses covered at the end, that's great.

At the same time, we do recognize regionally restaurants, hotels, you name it.

Obviously, you know, we welcome that commerce coming here.

I think something like this tends to have a longer, like a longer term impact than the actual something that happens over the course of four days.

Right.

So if it brings attention to the city and we show them that we could put on a good party, it may end up translating later to some other events that might be.

Yeah, it's hard to put a number.

No doubt about it, no doubt about it.

But just for the public, and as would Councilwoman Gross and others were saying, people, I think some people are under the impression, oh, the city's getting millions of millions of millions of dollars, which in reality would might cost us a million or so dollars.

And to go back to visit Pittsburgh, they were awarded $10 million from the state of Pennsylvania.

And it was like twisting arms, but we got them to commit two million dollars of that ten to us for overtime expenses.

And we also have at least a verbal agreement that if we go over that, that they are to visit Pittsburgh because they're the recipients of the state funding and the state elected officials, Jay Costa, Wayne Fontana, they all had this conversation with them.

So they are to recover any costs that go over that designated two million dollars.

So just kind of wanted to clarify that.

But yeah, so we'll be lucky if it doesn't cost us anything if we could get out of the draft neutral revenue for the city's coffers.

Um that's that's as good as I think we can do.

Limited amount of income, payroll tax, things of that nature.

But uh yeah, so but but a million dollars we know we already spent off the top, has been committed, it's already gone.

Correct.

Right.

Okay.

Okay.

Well, hopefully, what little revenues we make will make up that million and we get covered the overtime and we break even and all the restaurants and hotels are happy, and you know, we get the image out there of the city of Pittsburgh to the rest of the world, and that's really the true goal.

So we're not looking for a financial, but uh you know we're not looking for financial restitution from the NFL or anything.

We're doing it for the exposure mostly.

But I just want the public to know, as we were all talking here, that there's no financial uh income for the city of Pittsburgh by holding the draft other than exposure, which we can't put a price tag on, and I understand that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Further discussion?

Councilwoman Salonetro.

I just have a question for Acting Director.

You said um we're anticipating 1.8 million that we've already spent.

Is that or is that is that anticipated spending?

That's anticipated.

Okay.

So as far as like as far as uh overtime when you said you were up to 1.8 million, I thought that too.

I thought maybe you may and I thought you had 200,000 wiggle room for overtime.

I was thinking that's not much.

Yeah, yeah.

I just wanted to clarify that, but that's that's it.

No good question.

That's it for me.

Further discussion.

Seeing none all in favor of Bill 350, please say aye.

Iffirmative recommendation.

Thank you very much.

Bill 351.

Resolution authorizing the acceptance of a deed by the city of Pittsburgh for a parcel of rural property from Pittsburgh Regional Transit for the purpose of dedicated a property as public park space to be incorporated into Brookline Memorial Park at no cost to the city.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 351, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation, Bill 352.

Resolution authorizing the mayor and director of the Department of Public Works to enter into an agreement with the Housing Authority at the City of Pittsburgh to access HACP's land for tree planting and trail establishment at a city cost not to exceed one dollar for the duration of the project.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 352, please say aye.

Aye.

Affirmative recommendation, Bill 353.

Resolution approving execution of a contract for disposition by sale of land between the URA of Pittsburgh and Gaia Space, LLC, or related entity for the settlement block 50F, lots 147 and 148.

10th ward of the city, Rosetta Street, District 9, no cost to the city.

Motion to approve.

Second.

Discussion.

Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 353, please say aye.

Affirmative recommendation.

That exhaust our standing committee's agenda.

We do have meeting announcements next week.

Council will hold their regular meeting on Tuesday, April 28th at 10 a.m.

The standing committee's meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 29th at 10 a.m.

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You may also call the clerk's office at 412-255-2138.

Is there anything from members?

Councilman Mosley.

Yeah, I'd like to uh motion for a post agenda on flash crowd disturbances, also known as teen takeovers and flash mops.

Second.

Second discussion.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

We will schedule the post agenda.

Anything else from members.

Seeing none, I will take a motion to approve the minutes and adjourn the meeting.

All in favor?

Meetings adjourned.