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The City of Pittsburgh's Standing Committees convened on Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 10:00 AM in Council Chambers. Roll call indicated six members present. The agenda was amended, public comment was heard, and committees reviewed and voted on a series of resolutions, invoices, transfers, and grant agreements. All items on the agenda were approved unanimously by voice vote except one zoning code amendment which was held for one week at the administration's request.
Good morning. Committee's meeting for Wednesday, October 14th, 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. The clerk please take the roll. Mr. Charlotte. Mr. Conghill here. Miss Carros. Mr. LeBelle. Mr. Mosley. Miss Salonetra. Here. Miss Warwick. Mr. Wilson. Miss Strasberger Chair. Here. Six members present. Thank you. Our next order of business is to amend the agenda. Is there a motion to amend? Second. Discussion. All in favor? Aye. 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 matters that comments are matters limited to matters of concern, official action or deliberation, which are or maybe before city council, and profanity will not be permitted. Please state your name and neighborhood for the record. But one must learn to discriminate carefully between intentional and unintentional contents of the mind. The former are derived from the ego personality, the latter, however, arise from a source that is not identical with the ego, but is its other side. It is this other side that would have made the secretary forget the invitations. Again, um, good morning to the council members and everybody watching online. Hope everyone's having a blessed morning today. My name's Ava. I live in the North Side. Last week I spoke about roots, the resource center in the North Side that the city of Pittsburgh recently shut down on October 2nd, and have yet to have place with other services that are desperately needed. Um they are exploring other options. Where are the concrete details? There was an 800,000 dollar back end funding for street teams for outreach, yet I haven't seen one person out there. I know that because I'm actually on East Ohio Street every day, interacting with community members, directing them to food and clothing back at community, the independent organization I volunteer at. Mayor Corey O'Connell, um, along with the Office of Community Health and Safety, where what are you doing directly today for the 60 to 80 daily visitors and groups? What happened to funding for organizations like assemble home with children's village and propel schools around May 2025? Do you really hate our black children and neighbors? Do you profit from removing their resources?