Cable Advisory Committee - Regular Meeting

Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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Government Body
Cable Advisory Committee
Meeting Type
Cable Advisory Committee
Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Meeting Date
April 29, 2026

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184 sections (from 222 segments)

9:07 – 9:270

Good morning, and welcome to the standing committee's meeting for men Monday or for two Wednesday, 04/29/2026. All council meetings will be livestreamed 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 clerk, please take the roll.

9:27 – 9:541

Mister Charland. Mister Cock Miss. Mister. Here. Mister. Mister Wilson, miss Stossberger chair. Here. Five members present.

9:54 – 10:180

Thank you. 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. We have no registered speakers. So are there any speakers who wish to come to the podium?

10:29 – 11:362

Good morning, counsel of selective urgency, counsel of unequal attention, counsel of dismissed voices. I'm going to continue from yesterday on how this city and this council is starting to look the same as the stories that I came from in Washington DC, just dressed up in better language and unsupervised policies. And I'm not here just to sit quietly and watch it repeat. I'm here to make sure my story is on public record, and I'm going to fight with everything I have to make sure people in power do not keep getting away with what's been allowed generation after generation. When is it gonna stop?

11:36 – 11:542

Because what I'm living through right now, this isn't confusion. This isn't miscommunication. This is discrimination. I had a housing offer. I signed paperwork into their program, and then it just disappeared.

11:54 – 12:222

The only answer I get is that it was rescinded, and I'm back on the list for others to pick me up. It's been five months now, and I still have no results, no real answers. And then I have another CEO lying on me lying on me, and nothing happens. Nothing. It feels like being told to follow the rules, then watching the rules change the moment you do.

12:22 – 13:042

It feels like the ground being pulled from under you the moment you thought you finally were able to stand. I'm tired of the systems that work perfectly when it's time to deny us, but suddenly break down when it's time to help us. If a signed agreement can disappear, then your word means nothing. If a CEO can lie and face no consequences, then your titles mean nothing. If I can stand here and tell you all of this and still be told nothing can be done, then what exactly are y'all here for?

13:04 – 13:452

And nobody's here, so obviously nothing. Because nothing can be done if not an answer. It's an excuse. And excuses do not house families. Excuses do not protect children. Assuses excuses do not fix harm. They protect the people who caused it. So I'm putting it on record. A housing offer was made and then taken after I signed. No one told me why. I was told I'll be put back on the list and left there for months with no real answers. A domestic violence survivor. This is allowed in Pittsburgh. Thank you.

13:470

Thank you. Next speaker, please.

13:55 – 14:403

Good morning. Therese Taylor, the missing child, now known as special agent sunshine. How is God serving his purpose through you? Before your day, say this prayer. Lord, I choose your way. Accomplish your will in me, whatever it takes. When you do, things will happen in your life that you never expected. God will bless you beyond all measure. That comes from Galatians six nine. What can you do for God?

14:44 – 15:233

Everybody got their hand out. Give me. Me. Give me. Give me. Give me. It's all about me. Give me. Give me. I do a lot. I hate to focus on me, but with nothing, I still tithe. With no job, no bank account, no credit cards, I still tithe. Somebody gives me $5, that's 50¢. That's my tithe. If you don't know how to tithe, it's 10% of your increase, whatever it is. It doesn't have to go to a church. It can go in a tip jar. It can go to somebody laying on the street. However you see fit. Please give God his 10%.

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Everything that you have comes from him. Why would you not wanna give him his 10%? It's only 10%. Ecclesiastes eight eight says, no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has power over the day of his death. As no one has power over the wind to contain it, so no one is discharged in time of war, So wickedness will not release those who practice it.

15:57 – 16:153

If you are still practicing voodoo, God is removing voodoo practice practitioners by bloodline. Your mom and your sister, your cousin, one of y'all light a candle. All y'all going down. Keep doing it, please, so you can all go because you have to go. You're in the way of these future generation of children.

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They will not not be practicing voodoo of any size, shape, or form in Jesus' name. Freedom in Christ. Galatians five one says, it is for it is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm then and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery, which is why I don't have a real job. My job is I work for the Lord. I come out here and be a blessing because that's the only way I know how to get one. Doesn't take an hour to preach that, so there it is. I love y'all. Thank you, Lord, for using me as a vessel to do your will, not mine. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Thank you. Next speaker, please.

17:12 – 17:524

Good morning. My name is Yvonne F. Brown. We're all the council person. You're the only one here? Only this the one only one. See, I don't understand how they're getting away with it. I don't understand how they're getting away with it. They can stay home. What did they call in? I missed it. But I I started off today. I was gonna say I came down with happy I'm happy. And the reason why I am, you see this shirt? That's what the fathers to take the sons take the fathers to church I mean, school. School. This is the shirt that they had given us. This

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is the

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shirt that they had given us. And then specials agent. You know what? God is good because I got a chance to talk to all of the men that commit that committee. I went to the main ones, and I said that the teenagers, the kids are beating people up on the bus, and they need to go down to Rockford Square. Said they come to the school. They go to the school. And I said, god is good because you're getting ready to go to the school. They said the eighteenth. And I said, will you talk to the children?

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Tell them know what you're doing. And one man said one man said that he'll be up in Perry High School. He said he will make an announcement on the PA. Now they done a good job, and they do go into the schools. These fathers do.

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And some that are are surrogate fathers. But what I'm saying is that I'm telling them, and they agreed, that we need to have the men ride the bus if they're fighting the people. We also need for women. And I had said to doctor Brown that if they started a list, then maybe we could have the names on what days you could come down just to be there with the children. Sometimes they do need an adult to be there because if they're not, they're just doing what they want to and saying what they want to.

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Whereas if we have an adult, they will listen. Some of them will. But we still need for the ones that don't listen for the men to be on the bus. And they said that they were gonna be making announcements. So if any of you parents wanna come down, you can call our president, mister Levelle, and leave your name and number.

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And I'm sure someone in his office can find out what you wanna do and what days. So, please and I thank god that those men came yesterday because I got a chance to tell them something that they need to do. They've done a good job for going to the school. Now let's protect the people in the city, and I thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I am so happy. You really don't realize because I we're losing our children. We're losing them one by one. They're killing each other.

20:18 – 20:544

They're fighting the older people. We have to get the men. A lot of times, that's what they need for a man to speak. But we women can also try to speak to the young girls. We can tell them that this is I mean, why are you doing this? Would you want someone to do it to your family? But I do want you to know, when I'm coming down here and I'm fussing, I'm fighting for the children. I'm old now. Hey. I ain't got that long to be here. But our children, they are our future, and we must we must control them. Thank you.

20:54 – 21:130

Thank you. Next speaker, please. Are there any further speakers? Seeing no further speak we will move on to our standing committee's agenda. Our first committee is the finance and law committee. Deferred papers, bill 16.

21:13 – 21:301

Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh code of ordinances titled two fiscal article five special funds to add a new chapter two thirty nine fleet vehicle fund to create a fleet vehicle fund to fully fund the city of Pittsburgh's fleet needs and establish the purposes for which monies in the fund may be used.

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Motion to approve the discussion.

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Second. For discussion, council member Warwick.

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Yeah. I'd like to hold this for I'd like to motion to hold this for twelve weeks, please.

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Second. Discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of holding bill 16 for twelve weeks, please say aye.

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Aye. Aye.

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Bill will be held. New papers, bill three ninety one.

21:56 – 22:251

Resolution amending resolution three ninety of 2025, which authorized 93 opened in professional service agreements with multiple vendors to provide on call professional services as needed by the various departments of the city of Pittsburgh with each agreement being at an amount not to exceed $750,000 annually for a three year term by authorizing an additional 58 agreements for an updated total of 151 open and professional services agreements.

22:258

Motion to approve.

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Is there a second? Second. Discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of bill three ninety one, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation, bill three ninety two.

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Resolution amending resolution three eighty nine of 2025, which authorized 93 open end professional services agreements with multiple vendors to provide on call professional services as needed by the various departments of the city of Pittsburgh with each agreement being at an amount not to exceed $1,500,000 annually for a three year term by authorizing an additional 58 agreements for an updated total of 151 opened in professional services agreements.

23:238

Motion to approve.

23:27 – 23:400

Second. Discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of bill three ninety two, please say aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation, bill three ninety three.

23:40 – 23:571

Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Yushan Liu in an amount not to exceed $6,084.75 over one year in full and final settlement of a claim for damage to his parked vehicle on Kerry Way from a City ES vehicle on 11/13/2025.

23:598

Motion to approve.

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Second. Discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of bill three ninety three, please say aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation, bill three ninety four.

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Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Exponent Inc. For a single payment in 2026 in an amount not to exceed $16,275.50 and for professional services related to litigation filed in the Common Police Court of Allegheny County.

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Motion to approve.

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Second. Discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of bill three ninety four, please say aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation, bill three ninety five.

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Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Robert Mihowski and his legal counsel, Samuel j Cords and Associates, for a single payment in 2026 in an amount not to exceed $101,256.25 as payment in satisfaction of the terms evidenced by the private agreement executed on the August 2023 and for the full and final closure of the litigation file in the Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County. Motion to approve.

25:14 – 25:250

Second. Discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of bill three ninety five, please say aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation, bill three ninety six.

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Resolution designating banks and lending institutions to act as depositories for the years 2026, 2027, and 2028 in accordance with the Pittsburgh code title two fiscal article three depositories.

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Motion to approve. With discussion?

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Second. Second. With discussion, council president Lavelle.

25:47 – 26:238

Sure. I just want to thank the controller's office, director Gula, customer Schrozberger, customer Wilson, and all those involved with the committee, who put the work in to bring these recommendations forward. Also, just wanna say per discussion that we had around the table, there's interest to try to also find a way to get dollars into credit unions and other smaller lending institutions. And so I've been beginning to draft legislation towards that end, and so I will share that with members as it begins to take fruition.

26:24 – 26:420

Terrific. Further discussion? Like to echo that. Appreciate all the work that, all parties at the table have done, and, appreciate the that future work as well. Seeing no further discussion, all those in favor of bill three ninety six, please say aye.

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Affirmative affirmative recommendation, bill three ninety nine.

26:48 – 27:231

Resolution amending resolution one ninety seven of 2025, which authorized 92 open end professional services agreements with multiple vendors to provide professional services on an on call basis is required related to various professional services as needed by the various departments of the city of Pittsburgh. Each agreement being at an amount not to exceed $750,000 annually for a three year term and providing for funding of the cost thereof by authorizing 39 additional agreements for a new total of 131 open and professional services agreements. Motion to approve.

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Second. Discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of bill three ninety nine, please say aye.

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Affirmative recommendation, bill 400.

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Resolution amending resolution one ninety six of 2025, which authorized 92 open end professional services agreements with multiple vendors to provide professional services on an on call basis as required related to various professional services as needed by the various departments of the city of Pittsburgh, each agreement being at an amount not to exceed $1,500,000 annually for a three year term and providing for funding of the cost thereof by authorizing 39 additional agreements for a new total of 131 open end professional services agreement.

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Motion to approve.

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Second. Discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of bill 400, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation. That moves us on to invoices. Is there a motion on invoices?

28:298

Motion to approve.

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Second. Discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of invoices, please say aye.

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Aye. Aye.

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Affirmative, invoices are approved. That takes us to p cards. Is there a motion on p cards?

28:508

Motion to approve.

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Second.

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Discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of pea cards, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Pea cards are approved. That takes us to public safety and wellness committee chaired by councilman Coghill.

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Bill three eighty three, resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of PFM Group Consulting LLC for payment for professional services rendered in the act one eleven interest arbitration between the city of Pittsburgh and a fraternal order of police for an amount not to exceed $90,588.24 over one year.

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Is there a motion?

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Motion to approve. Second.

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Discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of bill three eighty three, please say

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aye. Aye.

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Affirmative recommendation. That moves us to the public works and infrastructure committee chaired by councilwoman Salanetro.

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Bill three eighty seven, resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the finance to enter into an easement agreement or agreements with Duquesne Light Company for the installation of one pole and one anchor on city owned parcel ID 76 D 102. Motion to approve. Second.

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Discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of bill three eighty seven, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation, bill three eighty nine.

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Resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the department of public works and or the director of the department of finance to enter into an agreement or agreements with the student conservation Association for the purpose of volunteer services provided by the CS SCA, resulting in improving the city of Pittsburgh's environmental conservation at no cost to the city.

30:426

Motion to approve.

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Second. Discussion? Discussion. Council member, Charland.

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Yes. Is someone here to discuss this? Come up here. Right? You come up here.

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Oh, it's Lisa. Lisa.

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You're doing a great job for me, by the way. You really

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Please introduce me.

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Okay. Lisa Toffey, City Forester.

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I'm here. Joanna Lemon with the Student Conservation Association.

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Thanks so much for being here. I I just really kind of on a broad level or top level wanted to find out if you could tell us a little bit about what this what this legislation will do.

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Do you wanna address what you guys were planning on?

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Sure. So Joanna Lemon with the Student Conservation Association, and I'm the partnership manager for our organization. And just as some background, we're a national organization that supports young people working in conservation jobs. So we hire young people around the country between the ages of 14 and 35 for service jobs in public spaces. We've been doing that here in Pittsburgh since 2001 and working in park spaces all over the city and county to provide workforce development jobs and basically work on projects that DPW has for us.

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Most of them are trail projects as well as small infrastructure projects, tree plantings, and tree maintenance. Those are the primary categories that we work in and I'm happy to answer any further questions about that. To date when we work with the city of Pittsburgh we coordinate with the director of DPW and and the forestry department to line up jobs that are appropriate for the young people we work with at no cost to the city. So every year spring, summer, and fall we complete projects for the city that are needed in an alignment with the sustainability plans for each park and we work with park managers to make sure that those those projects are getting getting done appropriately. And so right now we're we're hoping to to enter into a long term agreement so that the flow of of information and the flow communication is just easier for us.

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Right now we have to do permission letters submitted to the city of Pittsburgh and DPW. They look at that permission letter and they assign that to us for every single project we do so there's a lot of back and forth that happens between me our our our team of agreements folks and the city just to do a few pretty basic projects every year. And I think that this agreement would just allow us to streamline that communication to say that, yep, we're in the parks. We're allowed to be doing these appropriate jobs. And then from there, what we would do is we'd still communicate with our park managers and folks at DPW to say, what projects do you need done?

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Then they would tell us and we'd add it to a work plan that we'd we'd we would submit every year.

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Well, I very much appreciate it. Thanks for explaining that. This makes a lot of sense to me. Lord knows we need all the help that we can get, you know, to to

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do everything that that we need

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public works to do. So thank you for, you know, being able to to bring other people in and pitch in. Very thankful for for the efforts here, and we can also if I could throw a pitch in, we can always use

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your help at Southside Park. So

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Yeah. We're typically in Southside Park. We work alongside the friends group every season. So yeah.

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That's what I thought. Yeah. Alright. That's all for me. Thank you, madam chair.

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Thank you. Councilman Wilson and then councilman Cockhill.

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Yeah. I just wanna say that I'm really happy to see this this resolution here because I know the good work that you and your team accomplished at SCA And all the great work that you do at Riverview Park is very much appreciated. And looking forward to seeing what you can what else what else happens in the future with this with this organization. So thank you.

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Thank you.

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Yeah. Councilor McConnell. Thank you.

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Thank you, madam chair. Welcome, Joanna. Joanna. And welcome, Joanna. Hi, Lisa. So you mentioned trail building?

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Yeah. So I have trail building going on in one of my greenways, seldom seen. I didn't know are you involved in that at all?

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Yeah. Have been involved in the greenway since before it was a park. Great. And, yeah, we we work alongside Landforce and the

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project. Yeah.

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Yep. So we kind of split up which which projects need to get done and do the maintenance there for that.

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That's fantastic. I grew up in those woods, honestly. You know, was a kid building shacks and running around, but it's a huge area and they're really making some serious improvements. There are people though that are concerned when we although they planted hundreds of trees, hundreds, which are beautiful. They took out like this weeded, I don't know, just heavy brush area that used to be. You couldn't even walk through there. Mhmm. And they got trees everywhere and steps going up. It's very challenging. I mean, it's a it's a it's a long walk up up the hill. So I love the work that they do. I love the work that you do. And you'll sometimes put half a dozen people on a project or something like that.

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Our youth crews, which are ages 14 to 18, are typically ten ten youth and two adult leaders between the ages of the leaders are between the ages of 21 and 35.

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Yeah. So you carry insurance on them Yeah. They're going over cliffs and things like that. Right? Yeah. So, okay. Yeah. And no cost to the city, your coordinate. Yeah. Well, the coordination may be back and forth, but, you know, that's that's okay.

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Mhmm. Yep. I think also too this is this agreement sort of is an example of how future agreements with other nonprofits can can work because, again, every single project requires a letter of, you know, some type of of a letter from a director giving approval, and we're looking to work earlier to get a work plan for the entire year together. And as projects come up that we feel would be also good candidates, we can just sort of insert those. But it just would be, you know, a blanket type agreement, which is what we'd like to do for some other groups too.

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Alright. And and one of

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your priorities, Joanna, is planting trees?

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Yeah. We have support and funding from DCNR Mhmm. That has made a huge push on urban forestry. And so our spring team is fully funded by DCNR to basically increase the tree canopy and we do that through our workforce. So trees come from different places like Tree Pittsburgh in the city and we we train people to put them in the ground and maintain them and make sure they stay alive.

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That's really cool. Maybe I could work you in on an orchard that I have.

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Mhmm. Yeah.

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And, yeah, probably 40 or so trees there. Mhmm. It's constant. Weeding. Constant, you know, whatever. Your wood chips. Thank you very much. Sure. I might need another load. I'll I'll call you on that. Alright? But and and and I love when they dumped a load there. It was huge. And it covered the entire area, Lisa. So something like that again. We had to move it from there, but Uh-huh. Maybe we can get the kids to move it next to them. So

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Yeah. Yeah. We're always looking for good project work for the youth. So

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Yeah. So if something came up impromptu like that, do you have to go through a bunch of channels to get it all organized and or is it just like, hey. Yeah. We'll go out to the orchard tomorrow.

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It depends. For us, we, right now, we're planning our summer season, and we'll have four crews out in the parks. And then fall, we'll we'll definitely have a team of fall youth as well. So for us, it's just getting it on the calendar. This agreement will allow us way less back and forth because it's like, okay. We've already got in place. Like, the city says we're allowed to work in these places, and we have that permission with this ten year agreement. So then it's just a

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matter Yeah. Good. Good. So if it's something that you you would entertain

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Like I said, whatever we call cleaning up the orchard. Or I mean, you you put it in the system, and then you schedule it and then, you know, at some point, we'll Yeah.

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Yeah. Things come up all the time. We just got a request to do something in Riverview Park with a trail, and it was a perfect project. We were thinking, well, okay. This would work out well. So and I think also too there's sort of a, hopefully, a push towards re naturalizing some of the spaces we have by planting them instead of mowing.

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Got it.

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And going in and redo Yeah. You know, looking at removal of invasives and replanting with the correct Yeah.

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That's what I saw and seldom seen. I mean, it was it amazing with this area that they took that I've always known from one time I was a child, it was like just Space by space. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. It was incredible. Right. Hundreds and hundreds of trees there. So so great work. I'm, of course, some full support and look forward to working with you, Joanna. So thanks for being here.

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Yep. Let us know if there's any projects in your districts. We'll be happy to add them.

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Yeah. K. Great.

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Thank you. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of bill three eighty nine, please say aye.

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Aye. Affirmative recommendation. Thank you both. Thank you. Thank you. That moves us to land use and economic development committee chaired by councilman Wilson.

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Bill three ninety, resolution further amending resolution eight six three of 2018, effective 01/01/2019 as amended, entitled resolution adopting and approving the 2019 capital budget in a 2019 community development block grant program and a 2019 through 2024 capital improvement So it's to reallocate $55,692.60 of community development block grant CARES Act funding to two food banks and authorize a subsequent agreement or agreement. Motion to approve.

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Second.

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Discussion?

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Yeah. Just a one quick question. What is the money coming from? Is there someone who

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can Yeah. There's there's someone here, councilwoman.

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Think she

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They're just walking up right now.

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Kelly Russell, assistant director community development.

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AJ Miller, program supervisor community development.

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Councilwoman, these are our c d c v yeah. CD CV funds. This bill was up a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, there was a math error. So we're just correcting the $63 to make it the correct amount to spend down these funds before the deadline come June 1.

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Okay. So what was it allocated to? Well, I just because I you know, just because I know that we're moving money around, so just to know where it was coming from.

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Absolutely. So this bill, there's not actually new money moving from here. We took the whole amount away from the previous projects and did not add the whole amount to the new food banks. That's why so we're just correcting that $63 that was off. I switched a couple numbers around. Oh,

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I see. Okay. But can you remind me what the money was coming from?

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Yes. So this was coming from three separate projects that had not been able to use their CV funding. So it was partner for work, I think, in action housing, and there was a third one with a really small amount of money that I can pull up. Oh, sorry.

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It sounds like it's neighbor I'm sorry. Neighborhood housing services.

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Yes. Thank you. NeighborWorks. Okay.

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Great. I guess just just to sort of just when when when organizations are sort of coming up against the deadline, is your office working with them to try and help them use the funds that they have or figure out a way to to spend down the money that they're allocated so that we don't run into situations where we have to move it where they lose where they lose funding that they got. Or or did the organization

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say, you know what? We don't need

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this money. Go ahead and For some on something else?

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No. For some of these organizations, it was a combination of both where some spent down the funds but couldn't spend down all the funds or some couldn't spend the funds. And we just wanted to make sure to make one move toward the end with these special funds given this was COVID funding so we could just kind of wrap it all up and kind of get it out the door, so to speak.

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And that's Sorry.

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just gonna say that's why we wanted to give the money to the food banks because they've done this before, especially with this being so far removed from COVID. We had to make sure that how did how did she

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So this is COVID funding, so it's not it doesn't just have all of the restrictions of our regular funding. It has extra restrictions. Yes. So it has to be and initially, it was for responding to the pandemic, and now it has to be for preparing for future pandemics and preventing. So that's why some of the organizations were not able to they were awarded these large amounts, and they were not able to justify the funding as COVID projects specifically, so they did relinquish them.

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Got it. Got it. Okay. Great. No. That that's good. Of course, these few banks can spend money quickly. And then I just just I think I know the answer, but when we give money to the greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank,

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is that are are those funds

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do do they make sure that those funds are going to, you know, smaller food banks in the city or whatever they're using it for that it's being used in the city?

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Yes. They very strictly track all of their beneficiaries, make sure they are only city residents. So what they're actually using this money for is the implementation of a new system that helps them better track their inventory, and they did a lot of math to figure out what percentage of that system benefits just their city of Pittsburgh clients because, our pantries located within the boundaries represent about 16% of their partner pantries. But they keep really good data on making sure their beneficiaries are city residents. Great. Great. And then, of course, the, you know, big fan

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of the squirrel health food bank that serves, much basil with. So okay. Thank you. Thank

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you. Further discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor of bill sorry. Screwed it on. 390, please say aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation. Thank you very much. That moves us to innovation performance asset management and technology committee chaired by councilwoman Gross.

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Bill three eighty four, resolution amending resolution 20 of 2025, which authorized the city of Pittsburgh to enter into a professional services agreement and or contracts with core business technologies for software, equipment, and services related to payment, processing, and cash sharing systems for the Department of Finance and the Bureau of Police by extending the contract by one year and increasing the approved amount by $104,172 and 75 for an amended total cost not to exceed $500,229.35.

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Motion to approve.

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Second. Discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of bill three eighty four, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Affirmative recommendation. That moves us to intergovernmental and educational affairs committee chaired by councilman Mosley.

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Bill three eighty five, resolution adopting plan revision to the city of Pittsburgh's official sewage facilities plan for 3634 Penn Avenue at no cost to the city.

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Motion to approve. Second.

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Discussion. Councilwoman. Yes.

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I'm sitting back here. I apologize.

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So I tried to

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reach out to councilman Moser. I wasn't able to reach him. This project, 3634, is a smaller relative for my committee about project about fifteen minutes, I believe, in Lawrenceville. Everyone's really supportive of the project. However, they have one last piece of paperwork to sign to complete the planning module.

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And as you all know, I prefer that all of the other modules be complete before we approve the sewer modules. And the last piece of the work that needs to be signed is actually their agreement for the inclusionary zoning units. I hope that many of you saw the the really heartwarming media this morning at WESA about the residents who are moving into the brand new completed building of 280 units on Butler Street and just how meaningful those affordable units are for the people who are moving. Either back to Lawrenceville or into Lawrenceville who really needed the affordable apartment. So I'd like to hold this one week.

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I think that the paperwork is easily completed. So motion to hold one week.

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Second.

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Discussion?

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Seeing

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none, all those in favor of a one week hold for bill three eighty five, please say aye.

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Aye. Aye. Aye.

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Bill will be held one week. Thank you. Bill three eighty six.

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Resolution approving and authorizing the mayor and the director of the department of mobility and infrastructure on behalf of the city of Pittsburgh to enter into a right of way license agreement or agreements with the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority in lieu of permits for the occupation of certain portions of the public right of way in the city of Pittsburgh. Motion approved. Second.

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Discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of bill three eighty six, please say aye.

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Aye. Aye.

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Affirmative recommendation that exhaust our standing committee's agenda. We do have meeting announcements. Next week, council will hold both its regular meeting and standing committee meeting on Wednesday, May 6 at 10AM and 01:30PM respectively. To register to speak at these meetings, please fill out the sign up form on the council meeting web page by the deadlines. You may also call the clerk's office at (412) 255-2138. Anything from members? Seeing none, I'll take a motion to excuse the absent member, approve the minutes, adjourn the meeting.

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So moved. Second.

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All in favor? Aye. Meeting adjourned.

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