The Pittsburgh City Council held a Standing Committees meeting on May 18, 2026, to consider a range of legislative items including grants, warrants, ordinances, and public hearings. The meeting began with roll call (8 members present, 1 absent) and public comment. Committees reviewed and voted on numerous resolutions and ordinances across Finance and Law, Public Safety, Public Works, Human Resources, Land Use, Recreation, and Intergovernmental Affairs.
Good afternoon, and welcome to the standing committee's meeting for Monday, eighteenth, 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. Charlotte. Mr. Copio. Miss Gross. Mr. LaVelle. Here. Miss Warway. Mr. Wilson. Miss Strasberger Chair. Here. Five members present. Thank you. Our next order of business is to amend the agenda. Can I have a motion to amend the agenda? So move. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. 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 and profanity will not be permitted. Please state your name and neighborhood neighborhood for the record. You will have three minutes to speak. Our first registered speaker is Dr. Ronald Lynn Miller. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Um nexus of individuals and institutions, uh, which are committed who are committed to the use of optimal information and intelligence in the formation of law at every level, is an extension of the Center for Global Studies International Interdisciplinary, which I founded in 1999. What I did was to make connections with and inclusion in 21 primary disciplines, which include physics, astronomy, chemistry, history, geology, and so on. I do have a very firm commitment to the insinuation of science and scientific methodology and to everything that we do. In other words, what is the evidence for something? One of the most important of the initiatives which I have sponsored and continue to sponsor is the initiative concerning the vote. And we heard people talk this morning about the importance of it. We hear people in the media generally talking about it. But KDKA, WPXI, and others that do not really focus on the core problem. The core problem, as far as I'm concerned, is that our voters, our people, our citizens, are not able to check to make sure that their vote is not been misapplied or misplaced. When we have asked now thousands of people across the United States, do you want your vote to be lost? We have yet to find anybody who says yes. Do you want your vote to be applied to somebody that you don't think you voted for? When we put it in a crude sense, uh you think you voted for Trump and uh in 2020 uh four, and what happened was that your vote was transferred to or applied to Biden. Uh there is almost hysteria when it comes to this. Now, our people who trust you as as counselors to do something about that, to affirm the vote, are not, in my view, at all, coming to terms with this core problem. I have put it to you many ways on many occasions, but as far as I can tell, not one of you, and not Mr.