The Pittsburgh City Council met on May 13, 2026, at 10:00 AM in Council Chambers to consider a range of legislative items across six standing committees. The meeting included public comment, approval of routine invoices and P-cards, and votes on resolutions related to capital budget amendments, library HVAC grants, city steps projects, data sharing agreements, and software contracts. Several items were held for further review.
Good morning. Welcome to the standing committee's meeting for Wednesday, May thirteenth, twenty twenty six. 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 roll? Mr. Shryland. Mr. Coghill, Ms. Gross, Mr. Lavelle, Mr. Mosley. Here. Mrs. Salinetra. Here. Mrs. Warwick. Mr. Wilson. Mrs. Strasberger, Chair. Here. Five 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 maybe 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. Our first registered speaker is Dr. Ronald Lynn Miller. Call attention to the three rivers Native American Council Center there. And that is that superposition is not retained properly between atoseconds, which is one quintillion of a second, and um microseconds, which is one millionth of a second. Um indigenous Americans in their religious cultures though have a version of um topological information, um braiding, which is necessary for uh that type of superposition to be um retained, and of individual self-control and self-correction, self-correction in the program of quantum computing uh has been inserted by Google uh Willow in particular. Uh and thirdly, of um cool. Um 273 degrees C is what is now operational the goal for 2C in our advanced systems across the United States, and including at Carnegie Mellon University. Thank you. Our next registered speaker is Chiefana Helmakina. Chief, we see the off mute. You can begin when you're ready. Okay, we if you're speaking, we can hear you, yes. Okay, greetings and good day by side of our streets at a house, you know, underground inside the Urban Confederacy of Aboriginal American people. The issue of violence is not an external issue, it's an internal moral issue that has been centering for over 20 years now. It started with a cultural misunderstanding. You see, some cultural systems, customs, and traditions were meant to stay in place. The violence that you see in our youth today is a direct result of outside influence by social service agents, institutions, and policy around child welfare. How does this relate to crime and violence? Well, I'm glad you added. When social services disrupted and interrupted our cultural way of disciplining our children with this hands-off motiving children approach, we as parents lost the brains we once had of our children. So once was a cliche taken directly from the Bible to spare the rod is to spoil the child.