Standing Committees - Regular Meeting
During the Pittsburgh Standing Committees meeting on September 16, 2026, the council discussed several departmental transfers, public safety grants, and held a $50,000 membership due payment for Vibrant Pittsburgh for one week.
About this meeting
- Government Body
- Standing Committees
- Meeting Type
- Standing Committees
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Meeting Date
- September 16, 2026
Published excerpts
Only published remarks appear here. The full transcript is not published.
36 sections (from 39 segments)
Good morning and welcome to the Standing Committee's meeting for Wednesday, September 16th, 2026. 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. Charlin.
Thank you. Our next order of business is to amend the agenda. Can I have a motion to amend? Discussion? All in favor, please say aye. 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 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. You will have three minutes to speak. Our first registered speaker is Dr. Ronald Lynn Miller. I see Dr. Miller. We will move on to Dave Fisher.
Thank you. Our next speaker is Chief Ikohana Helmikina. I don't see Chief with us today. We will move on to those in the audience wishing to speak.
Are there any other speakers? You will not. Are there any other speakers? Seeing no further speakers, we will move on to our Standing Committee's agenda. Our first committee is the Finance and Law Committee, Deferred Papers, Bill 16.
Discussion? Yeah, a motion to hold 12 weeks, please. Oh, sorry.
Yeah, no, no, that's fine. We have a motion to hold 12 weeks. Is there a second? Discussion? Seeing no further discussion, all in favor of a 12-week hold for Bill 2026-16, please say aye. Aye. Bill will be held for 12 weeks. Thank you. New Papers, Bill 847.
Is there a second? Second. Discussion? discussion does anyone know what this is what vibrant pittsburgh is that's a good question vibrant pittsburgh is an organization that aims to build diversity among our businesses throughout the city of businesses and organizations throughout the city of pittsburgh i don't know the details of what a membership gets us but i do know that that is their mission okay um
Yes, I'm happy to do one of two things. One is to put a pin in this, come back to it later in the agenda so we can hopefully get someone to speak to it today at the table or find more clarity by the end of the vote.
We will move on to our next bill then without a vote and come back to Bill 847 and move on to Bill 848.
Discussion? Second. Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 848, please say aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation, Bill 849.
Second discussion. Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 849, please say aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation, Bill 850.
Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 850, please say aye.
That moves us on to invoices. Is there a motion on invoices? So moved. Second. Discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of invoices, please say aye. Aye. Invoices are approved. That takes us to transfers. Is there a motion on transfers? So moved.
Discussion? Council Member Warwick. Yeah, I do have one quick question. So on page 8, is it page 8? There's a transfer to cover costs associated with a new lease for a roots hub. I wanted to ask, just because we've had folks coming, so is there a new hub? I don't know if that's something that we can answer.
I can start, and then I'm happy to have anyone answer further, but we did ask OCHS. This is so that they can provide additional services out of 611 2nd Avenue.
Oh, so this is not the one on, I guess, East Ohio Street. Correct. Okay, understood. That's all.
Yeah, that's fine. Further discussion on transfers? Seeing none, all in favor of departmental transfers, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Transfers are approved. That moves us to P cards. Is there a motion on P cards?
Discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of P cards, please say aye. Aye. P cards are approved. That takes us to Public Safety and Wellness Committee, chaired by Councilman Coghill.
Second. Discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 839, please say aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation, Bill 840.
No, I just really wanted to say thank him for putting those up. I think it's a valuable thing for our first responders to have.
Yes, agreed. Further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 840, please say aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation. That moves us to Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, chaired by Councilwoman Salinetro.
Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 845, please say aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation. That moves us to Bill 846.
Discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 846, please say aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation. That moves us to Land Use and Economic Development Committee, chaired by Councilman Wilson.
Discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of a three-week hold for Bill 768, please say aye. Affirmative recommendation. Excuse me. Bill will be held for three weeks. Bill 769.
Discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of a three-week hold on Bill 769, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Bill will be held three weeks. That moves us to Innovation, Performance, Asset Management, and Technology Committee, chaired by Councilwoman Gross.
Any further discussion? Thank you very much. All in favor of Bill 811, please say aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation. New Papers, Bill 841.
Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 842, please say aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation. Bill 843.
Discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 843, please say aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation. That takes us to Intergovernmental and Educational Affairs Committee, chaired by Councilman Mosley.
Discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of Bill 875, please say aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation. That takes us back up to the top of the agenda. We will return to the discussion on Vibrant Pittsburgh. I believe we have Mr. Cohn who will come and answer some of our questions. So we were back at Bill 847. We have a motion and a second. you want to introduce yourself thank you for operating in special revenue and I think the float with the floor was with councilmember Charlotte yes I was just curious what what this is for fairly significant amount of money
Yeah, I agree with the councilman on this. I mean, 50K, we've just been arguing about 200K to open rec centers, so 50K, that's a lot of money. I'd be open to motion to hold for a week. I'd even, I mean, yeah, I'm definitely curious, too, about what... whether we're using it and if we are using it, if our staff feels like they are benefiting from whatever.
Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, Elizabeth, I echo the sentiments of my colleagues. I guess really what I'd like to know is like what they're attending. I know you don't know this right now, but what events they're attending and who is attending from the city of Pittsburgh or, you know, exactly who's to benefit. So I'm open to at least a one-week hold if members agree. So thank you.
Thank you. Let's see, any comments online? I'll just say for my part, I agree with the sentiment that we need to be careful with every single cent here during these times. That said, this is just the nature of how it comes to us, right? This is one, and then we get another membership and another membership, and I would hate to target... This one, just because it's before us today, and not take a holistic approach to what our memberships are. So actually what I'm going to request, and certainly to the extent that you can please, but also like I called the administration as well, a report to cou
I think that's an excellent idea. I'd love to see an overview of all of our memberships and what advantages that the city of Pittsburgh is getting from them, and then we could go on from there. And I also agree with you. We don't want to single out the first one that we're throwing a red flag up but uh put it on a list i hope of i don't even know how many memberships we have but it's significant i think but uh so yeah i think it's a good idea thanks i support that thank you council member warwick and just some is just um you know for these organizations and again that you know we're sort of la
Pittsburgh taxpayers are going to hand over fairly significant amounts of money. If it would be nice, even individually when these memberships come up, if there could be like a representative from the organization, even online, just to be like, hey, this is what we do, and this is how Pittsburgh has engaged with us in the past. You know what I mean? Just to kind of understand, because conferences are great, those types of things are great, but also, you know...
we're in belt tightening season so thank you all right so the motion on the table do we have a motion a one-week hold motion i don't think we oh sorry so motion to hold for one week second second discussion all in favor of a one-week hold on bill 847 please say aye aye bill be held for one week Thank you very much for coming to join us. Thank you. That exhausts our standing committee's agenda. We do have meeting announcements. Tomorrow, Thursday, September 17th at noon, Council will hold a cablecast public hearing on Bill 2025-2224 as it relates to zoning changes for Banksville Golden Horizons
All in favor? Aye. Meeting is adjourned.
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