On Wednesday, September 16, 2026, the Pittsburgh City Council held its Standing Committees meeting at 10:00 AM in Council Chambers. Council members approved routine claim settlements, invoices, transfers, and multiple grant applications, while holding several items for further review, including a $50,000 membership dues request and two Community Development Block Grant amendments.
Good morning and welcome to the standing committee's meeting for Wednesday, September sixteenth, 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. With the clerk please take the roll. Mr. Charlie. Mr. Coghill. Here. Miss Gross. Mr. Laval. Here. Mr. Mosley. Miss Salametra. Here. Miss Warwick. Mr. Wilson. Miss Jossberger Chair. Here. Five members present. Thank you. Our next order of business is to amend the agenda. Can I have a motion to amend? So move. Second. Discussion? All in favor, please say aye. I agenda is amended. 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 for the record. Also uh on a different subject, I-79 highway corridor, agrivoltaics. If Allegheny County could start it off in the southwestern sector of Allegheny County, there is plenty of good land that the uh I'm talking near Washington County uh farmland, the colleges and universities again would take part. Um metal products could be brought in at a cheap cost. I mean, because they'd be shorter and stuff to polls to hold the agrivoltaics, John Fetterman and Dave McCormick might just agree because I've tried to ban Neo Nicks and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania through their Erie County office. Thank you. We will move on to those in the audience wishing to speak. Good morning. Carlino Giampolo, Panther Hollow. I have spoken in front of this council about the illegal Oakland Do It Yourself skate park in Panther Hollow nearly 40 times, with a total of over 10,000 words in the last 14 months since July 15, 2025. This issue is a synergy in which the whole was more than the sum of its parts. It is more than the multiple code violations of no notice to longtime residents or homeowners, no community engagement, no development activities meeting, no planning commission hearing, no zoning board of adjustment hearing, no plans submitted to the city, no permits issued, no city inspections, and no certificate of occupancy. It is more than the excruciating pain of the skateboards crashing onto the concrete, permeating our homes and throughout our neighborhood. It is more than the pain and suffering of our community. It is more than the police receiving a dozen harassment incident reports. It is more than the vulgar graffiti inside the skate park advocating underage drugs, drug use and underage drinking. It is more than rats nesting inside the skate park.