Note: The agenda and minutes provided with this task are dated May 6, 2026; however, the metadata specifies the meeting occurred on June 5, 2026. The summary below reflects the content of the agenda, minutes, and transcript, which are consistent with each other.
The Pittsburgh City Council held its Standing Committees meeting, chaired by Councilwoman Strassburger, covering legislative items across seven committees. The meeting included public comment, consideration of resolutions and ordinances, approval of invoices and p-card payments, and a post-agenda motion. Several items prompted detailed discussion, including a resolution on violent crime data, two ordinances restricting immigration enforcement on city property, and a software upgrade for waste collection routing.
Good afternoon and welcome to the Pittsburgh City Council Standing Committee's meeting for Wednesday, May 6, 2026. Our first agenda item is roll call with the clerk please take the roll. Mr. Charlin, here. Mr. Coghill. Ms. Gross. Mr. Lavelle. Mr. Mosley. Here. Ms. Alanetro. Here. Mrs. Warwick. Mr. Wilson. Here. Ms. Strasberger Chair. Here. Seven members present. Thank you. Our next order of business is public comment. I would like to remind all speakers that rules of council state that comments are limited to matters of concern, official action, or deliberation by counsel. Profanity will not be permitted. Please state your name and neighborhood for the record, and you will have three minutes to speak. Dr. Ronald Lynn Miller, downtown neighborhood.orm.com. The primary teletext I use in the United States is 412-969-7997, and you can contact me 24-7. In the Global Intelligence Society, candidate for president, 2028. Initiative three focuses on local government primacy. They really are not mathematically or lexically sophisticated. And I think they really need to understand mathematically how to deal with an XY coordinate grid. Our people are being graduated from the Pittsburgh Public Schools who can't really interpret a graph on an XY coordinate grid. This is just basic, not proficient in performance. And lexically, how do you how do you de decline a noun? How do you conjugate a verb? This is something that they find very difficult to deal with now. The USA, which includes the PPS performance in the program of international student assessment. There are zero for USA and five for Asia. We're not doing what we should do with them. Thank you. Apologies. Is Chief Ikahana Halmakina? Okay. We will move on to our next speaker.