City Council - Regular Meeting

Good morning, and welcome to the regular meeting of city council on Tuesday, 03/24/2026. Will the clerk please take the role?

Mister Charland, mister Cockhill, miss Gross, Mister Mosley. Here. Missus Salanetro. Here. Missus Strasburger. Here. Missus Warwick. Here. Mister Wilson. Here. Mister Lavelle, president. Here. Six members present.

Thank you. For those who are able, please rise for the pledge of allegiance. Remain standing for a moment of silence. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic

for which stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

You. Our next order of business is to amend the agenda. Is there a motion to amend?

So moved. Second.

All in favor, say aye.

Aye. Aye.

Our next order of business is public comment. I would like to remind everyone that the rules of council state that comments are limited to matters of concern, official action, or deliberation, which may be before city council and profanity will not be permitted. Once you are called, please state your name, provide your neighborhood for the record. You'll be given three minutes to speak. Our first registered speaker is Madeline McGrady.

Good morning, counsel. Maddie McGrady. I live in Highland Park, and I'm speaking today as a human rights program manager at the Global Switchboard. I we're a nonprofit organization stewarding a network to promote human rights and social justice in the Pittsburgh region. We're home to the All for All Coalition for Immigrant Rights and Inclusion, Frontline Dignity, and a number of other projects focused on supporting immigrants in our region.

I'm speaking today in total support of the proposed legislation to ban cooperation between the city with ICE and border patrol except where required by law. Obviously, these agencies are flagrantly violating people's basic rights to due process, to privacy, the right to nondiscrimination and equal protection under the law, and more. This legislation is a common sense step and a really important step for us to take to state that immigrants are welcome in Pittsburgh, that immigrants can access city services without fear of our local government in addition to fear of ICE and border patrol, and that we will not be complicit in scapegoating and terrorizing our immigrant communities. I wanna thank council members Gross, Warwick, and Strasburger for sponsoring this legislation, and for your work to ensure it's as strong as possible. To all of council, we urge you to support this package and to pass it without delay.

Thank you so much.

Thank you. Our next speaker is doctor Ronald l Miller.

Doctor Ronald l Miller, Oakland Central, Kobe, Japan, that's in the Pittsburgh City, Ally Network, Higashinada, a neighborhood in Kobe, that's in the Pittsburgh City neighborhood network, and the World Neighborhood Network, all of which I have founded in 2025. Japan Nihon, UN New York email, inquiry@ny.mofa.go.jp. Naikaku Sore Daijin Takaiichi Tensai, president of claimant of The United States, g d j t, Baka. Global Intelligence Society candidate for president 2028 ACE and Raiwa ten. Globalinformationintelligencenetwork.net.

The concerns of Pittsburgh City Council include a focus on the child, kuromo in Japanese. A concern that I have is consistent with this, an initiative for for the child. USA country, Pittsburgh City High School Westinghouse Children are not in the top 10 InfoIntel assessments of kids worldwide. Neon Country, Cove City High School, Nada, is in the top 10. More than 70% of Westinghouse High School kids cannot, but more than 99% of Nada High School children can read and replicate a graph on an x y coordinate grid.

Example, graph the grid graph and grid a five point InfoIntel dataset, the time of entry into Pittsburgh City Council regular meetings days in January, February, March 2026 by a Pittsburgh City Councilor claimant. On the x axis, month, day, PCC meetings 2026, five January 21, January 17, February, and seventeen March. On the y axis, council room CR time of entry, 10AM, 10:20, 10:40, 10:20, 10:43. Line graph linking the x y grid intersection point shows increasingly late CR entry by Anthony Cogill, District 4. We have graphs for all of you.

This example is from real data verified via Pittsburgh Channel online recordings, See our offline written records and in person observers.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Antoinette Caldwell.

Good morning, members of the council. My name Antoinette Caldwell. I'm from the Brighton Heights area, and I would like to speak today about the Pittsburgh's form of interacting with its youth. On on March 24 this weekend, juvenile officers each used pepper spray. Three juveniles were arrested.

Their ages weren't were not disclosed, and there was a crowd of over 40 juveniles. They were dispersed by police officers using pepper spray after they didn't respond to trying to deescalate the situation verbally. I think we have to learn how to provide for our youth before the streets learn how to provide for them. If you're in a spot where you feel unwelcomed, what's the human's natural reaction? It's not gonna be learning to, like, assimilate and use peace.

Usually, you act out because it's in human nature to wanna be able to find a community and fit in. Community isn't just a shared space, ideals, and it's an amalgamation of shared responsibility and effort. I put effort in by coming to speak. My peers can put effort in by trying, and you can all put effort in by listening to what I have to say. By trying, and that's the epitome of change, you have to put two feet in front of the other even if one foot goes back.

Over 300 homicides of youth between the ages of 15 and 21 have passed, and it's been under a decade. And a spike in violent crimes, especially involving firearms, has happened between 2020 and 2022. About seventy one percent come from disputes, disputes that can be solved through an understanding. I feel if youth has a third location that's not home nor school, somewhere where they can go and learn to have familiarity and bond with the community, I think it would be beneficial to us, to the parents, the community. If you have no spot to go, how are you supposed to learn to grow and learn about how to assimilate into the world before you?

We have to give we have to give them the opportunity to be able to learn and act as the future adults of this world. And if they don't have that, what do we have? We're children, and we're still learning different forms of accountability, but we have to have the people who came before us give us the chance to do that. If we have third locations, like community centers that aren't tied to religion or tied to having payments and have a good form of transportation, not just somewhere that's available, but someplace that's accommodating. I feel like it'll be really beneficial. Other than that, I just want my parents to be able to feel as though they belong and that's really all I have to say. Thank you for your time.

Thank you very much. Our next speaker is Bethany Cameron.

Good morning, council members. My name is Bethany Cameron. I live in Overbrook, and I'm here once again representing informup.org, a weekly a local news nonprofit which reports weekly on public meetings, asks readers to weigh in on what matters to them, and delivers those survey results back to elected officials like you. Our community survey ran from March. We recorded a 120 total responses.

All nine districts were represented. I'll cover three issues related to license plate readers, comprehensive planning, and emergency vehicle prioritization. Number one, unlicensed plate reader surveillance. We asked how comfortable are you with Pittsburgh police using license plate readers to track vehicle travel history and routes? 75% of respondents said they were either somewhat or very uncomfortable with police license plate police use of license plate readers.

17% were somewhat or very comfortable. A resident from Beachview and District 4 said using license plate readers to make profiles for people's movements is dystopian and a step too far in the name of safety. And a resident from the Upper Hill said, I agree with Gross that license data shouldn't go to ICE, but I also agree with Cockhill that the data can be useful in stopping true criminals. Number two, on comprehensive planning and who to hear from. We asked folks to rank which groups you think the city needs most to hear from in the comprehensive planning process.

Readers ranked those groups as followed. The top ranking was residents in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods followed by young people, which they defined as 31, then small business owners, people with disabilities, renters, non English speaking residents, seniors, and then homeowners. Number three, on emergency vehicle upgrade priorities. We asked if the city can only upgrade a limited number of emergency vehicles, which services should be prioritized first? Readers ranked emergency services like, fire and EMS vehicles first, then garbage collection followed by road repair crews, snow removal and plowing, and finally, parks and recreation maintenance vehicles.

Alright. Thank you so much for listening. We'll send the full survey reports around as usual.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Ralph Williams.

Thank you, president Lavelle, members of council. It's been a while. It's great to be back talking with you today. I live in Bloomfield now. I also commute back and forth to Ocean City to take care Maryland to take care of a relative. The reason I'm here today is because I'm in town for a medical procedure. I come here a lot for UPMC purposes. And I wanted to speak today, and I keep track of Pittsburgh news even when I'm in Ocean City, Maryland. But I wanna bring some up real quick, and then Ocean City, Maryland's not Pittsburgh. It's not as big as Pittsburgh, but they have control of their homeless problem.

They have some tents that were set up outside of a church parking lot because the church didn't have any room for them. You know what the mayor did? I'll tell you what he did. He told the church you have within have thirty days to get those tents off that parking lot because it's in violation of a of a city ordinance. And if the tenants are not off the parking lot, we're gonna give you a a fine. See, Ocean City takes control of their of their community. They take control of the homeless. They take control of what goes on in crime. That's out of control. Still out of control.

Alright? You have city police that don't know what they're doing, you know, with ICE. You have three people telling three different stories. You gotta get it together. The NFL draft's coming, and we're picking up garbage, and we're doing other things. We're all happy and hunky dory. But what's happy and hunky dory is you don't have public safety that works. And you know what's funny? Everybody's sitting here worrying about ice. Let me tell you something. How would you like it if an illegal immigrant broke into your home? An illegal immigrant stole your car or an illegal immigrant murdered your son or sexually assaulted your daughter? Then what are you gonna do when ICE can't come to take him out of here? Okay? Think about that for a minute before you make decision as to whether or not you wanna work with ICE.

ICE is here to help. ICE is here to get rid of the troublemakers that you don't wanna get rid of. Okay? That's that's the story about public safety and ICE. Alright? Next, I I I wanna congratulate the young lady who just spoke before me. Alright? But you know what, young lady? I want you to take us back to all your juvenile friends, all all all all all the juveniles that were down downtown. Alright? It works both ways here. You gotta work with the police. You gotta work with public safety instead of running around downtown causing chaos. And you know what? Public safety is involved in that, and the justice system in this town is involved in that.

We have certain council members here, again, that don't wanna work with ICE. They don't wanna work with justice. They don't wanna they don't want juveniles in jail. They don't want anything else. The NFL draft's coming, and you know what I'm telling everybody that's coming up for the draft? Have eyes in the back of your head. Stick together. Don't separate because of what's of of all the crime downtown. It's great to be back here here and there, and, I just wanted to give you some examples today about what goes on in Ocean City. And I know what you're telling me. Ocean City is not as big as Pittsburgh, but at least they got their act together with public safety in the home of us. Have yourself a great one. Thank you for letting me speak.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Laiz Alexander.

Hello. My name is Laiz Alexander, and thank you for giving me this space. I have been a resident of Pittsburgh for some years, but now I live in Penn Hills. And but I came here, and I wanna say thank you to the council members and everyone that opened the opportunity. I didn't get anything prepared.

I don't have a beautiful speech, but I am a citizen, and I am an immigrant in The US. And as a psychotherapist, someone that study here, and I see people every day to help them with their mental health and with their social struggles. I can tell you from the experience I have in my clinical setting and also have worked with refugees and immigrants here, I want to say that I fully support any legislation and initiatives that support immigrants in our city because these people that some of us think that they come to make trouble. They are here to make life better for themselves and for residents here. Nobody comes here.

Okay. I cannot say nobody a 100%, percent. But the majority of people coming from different states, coming from Europe, coming from beautiful, well accepted white countries, but also coming from South America, also coming from Africa, coming from Asia, Everyone is looking for better opportunities for themselves, and they radically help the city to thrive. I came here. I study.

I put all the efforts, and I'm offering mental health services. And I know so many people that offer their support by cleaning houses, to be professors and doctor programs at CMU, and all of them have their same background. They are immigrants, and they put the best effort for the city. So I'm here to ask the biggest and warmest consideration for this group of people in our city to ban the collaboration with ICE. Some people are not coming to therapy anymore.

Some people are not going to the hospitals anymore. My kid goes to a public school and some parents are sending them with neighbors. They're not even going to the school anymore because they are afraid of facing some sort of police enforcement. So I really want that to be into consideration when you make your votes. Thank you.

Thank you. Our last registered speaker is Ikehana Haumalkina.

Greetings, and good day. My title is chief Ikohana Hao Makena. I am the grant executive of aboriginal American people. Yesterday, NFL player, Lamar Hamlin, demonstrated attributes of the San Koko Guard and reached back to sow into the community and institution that once sold into him, which led me to wonder, just what will it take to compel the leadership of this city to invest in the use of this city? We must foresee them as an investment and as our future leaders.

I urge you to invest instead of a grant, for they are merely a product of the environment you failed to create for them. Take Liberty Green Park and East Liberty Lawner area. Teens often gather there with nothing to do. A large granny knoll gives away the rough place, I I can't can't help but think how much of a difference some of that American rescue plan money, 335,000,000 to be exact, would have made for these teams to learn a new skill or a trade. Why?

Why? Why? Why are our children not invest invested in from birth to around age eight? But somewhere around nine to 19, something happens to erase their value. I'm here to proclaim that our children are valuable, and, yes, they do belong.

We need to implement three d printing, painting, woodworking, gardening, tech, t shirt making, flying drones, partner with some of these institutions, CMU, to create spaces for our youth. They are begging for your attention and validation, and it's time to invest in them, not arrest them. Thank you.

Thank you. That exhausts our list of registered speakers. If there's anyone in chambers wishing to speak, please come forward at this time. Provide your name and neighborhood for the record.

Hi. I'm Meredith from B2B. And piggybacking off of what our youth had said and others, others. I was downtown on Sunday. I had to go down and pick up a prescription at CVS. And I've noticed the increase, and I know I could see what's been happening since last year. These kids are making TikTok videos. Literally, staging fights. Girls are, like, kicking off their shoes, and they're all it's like they're making a big movie. When I had my foster girls, we had to find places for them to to utilize that energy that they had stored up.

I was the only therapeutic foster home in South Hills back then. And I remember the agencies telling me, South Hills is a dead spot. Downtown Pittsburgh is a dead spot. So I had to take my girls out. You have all these buildings downtown. In 1931, in Beachview, the president had they they made it possible for us to have a rec center that included included a a theater. Theater. You're hearing all this creativity. They have all this creative energy. All these buildings, all of these universities, all of these places that are not paying taxes, create a rec center downtown.

Give them a stage. Let them create. Supervise. Create. That's for one. The immigrant situation I live in Beachview, the second largest Latino community in the city of Pittsburgh, and I challenge everybody to do what I did this week. I got off of Potomac and went down the Phantom bike lane in my chair, and all the families were out walking. And the first family I came across, I've said hi to them in the past, but I stopped and I made it a point. They were walking with all their teenage kids. And I said, I am so sorry.

I hope your family is safe. They're from they are Muslim. And this lady reached out and hugged me, ran had her husband go upstairs and come down with bags of dates. She said, this is what we we have when we come off of our fast. That, stopping at another store when the family was coming out, the Latino family, and telling them, I am so sorry. What's happening? Just letting them know you care

matters.

And the other thing, the elephant in the room, we have seniors, senior Latinos. I don't know if I'm using that word correctly. They need help. It's a population that is not being protected. They need help. I'm trying to help. Other people in the community are trying to help, but we fear for them. We had those the the dreamer thing where the babies come over, they're safe, but not the seniors.

Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Morning, counsel. My name is Mark, and I live in the 9th Ward. You know, I believe in the rule of law. I don't believe in counsel who is the legislative branch of the city making laws that people should ignore, and and counsel should not do that either as it pertains to federal immigration law. I'm an old school democrat, I'm a den Kennedy democrat, Clinton democrat, Obama democrat, and I'm tired of these San Francisco values being infiltrated in our city where you could ignore laws you don't like.

You counsel take an oath to the constitution, and you and you're just gonna ignore it because you don't like what what the in the purview of immigration is is responsibility to federal government. That's their responsibility. If you don't like it, talk to Summer Lee and that and those others who have the same mindset as as you folks do and get it changed. But until that happens, immigration should be followed. There's a difference between illegal immigration and legal immigration.

What I see that you council people are doing is a sanctuary city legislation, and I'm not for that. And most Americans are not. So you can sit there and drink your lattes and thin and and embrace your Sanford six old buddies, But that shouldn't happen here in Pittsburgh because we believe most of us believe in the rule of law. And until that changes on the federal branch, then you don't have a right to ignore it. So just like states don't have the right to ignore extradition papers.

Are we is that our next step? If someone in in Florida who's a person commits a crime in Pennsylvania goes to Florida, can decide to say I'm not gonna send them back because I don't I don't think what their their laws in in Pennsylvania are right, the Commonwealth? Of course not. And you folks don't have that right either. You're the legislative branch.

If you enact the law, I can't ignore it. Well, I won't ignore it because I believe in the rule of law and most if you live in this constitutional republic, that's what's foremost in people's minds. And this is just utter nonsense and a waste of time. We have bigger issues in this city than and and if if people of my can differentiate between illegal immigration and legal immigration. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Good morning. My name is Brown. I live at 715 Mercer Street. The the speaker before me, only thing that I have a problem with is the way that these that ICE is doing it. He's killed they killed American citizens. Do you understand? It's the way that they're doing it. You have they had laws. They had rules. I don't know what laws they're following.

What laws are they doing? If they're killing citizens, do you understand? The only thing that we can do is talk, but they have guns, and they are killing people. I don't think it's right. They're here. Some are illegal. Some have been here for years. I lived in California. And when they talk about ICE, I I can picture them being down in the it was the area of warehouse. Warehouse.

A lot of Mexicans would be down there. But I know it's wrong that they came the ways ways some of them did, but we don't have a system to to even help them. We have a system that is killing them, and that's not right. I'm gonna change my subject for a minute. This lady, her name is Nanor Dorothy Walker.

This lady passed. And the reason why I bring her her picture down, she had a funeral, and then we had she had a beautiful funeral. It's a nice funeral. It wasn't where it's a lot of sometimes you go with and there's so much crying, and, I mean, you can see the hurt. Well, this this funeral was just like a homegoing.

Family was very nice and very nice because they had beautiful food. The food was delicious in the. But this lady used to work for Leslie Labwick. Remember he said he had egg he worked with eggs up on Bedford Avenue. That's where she worked with him at. Then he went to another part of went out of the city. He took her. He's one of the when he was talking about my girls, she was one of his girls. Let's love it. You know, let's say everyone ran for the mirror quite a few times, and he really saw a lot of her.

Even when he ran for a mirror this last time, he came up in the building. K. He went to Kaylee with Irving's building. And I wasn't there, but he had left a message. And there was quite a few older people that said they would vote for less. Now My time is up. You have a nice day, everyone.

Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Good morning. I'm Zoltan Jolt Jakob. Previous name, present name, Jacob Pool. I'm from Eastern Europe, and I'm a type of immigration that people don't wanna admit in the Pittsburgh area, which is child trafficking, child slave trading, American military organizations and organizations extensions of American military operate in Europe and Eastern Europe, facilities in camps where they gather up people from Europe, children like myself. I was in a facility for many years on the on the other side of Ukraine border in the nineties when people leaving the Soviet Union from Ukraine with thousands of children.

Our records are being changed. We're held there by American organizations and then brought to America one by one using medical devices and all sorts of things. And I've been in the Pittsburgh area alone in captivity using medical devices for almost thirty years with no minimal human contact, no friends, who have been pushed to the University of Pittsburgh, PNC Bank, Giant Eagle, and various slavery conditions. And I'm still here. So this is a type of immigration that is rampant in the Pittsburgh area.

Pittsburgh has 50 Eastern European churches, and the national average for Eastern European immigrants in the area is almost a 100,000 within the Pittsburgh Metro. They're all living hiding in secrecy using medic forged medical documents, forged identities, forged everything in captivity with zero police access. I went to the Zone 3, Zone 4, Zone 5 police stations for a period of five years to be harassed out. They falsified police records for me as a continuation of child trafficking and child slave trading from Europe and Eastern Europe to the Pittsburgh area. The University of Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh nationality rooms, and all those things.

So I'm an advocate for Pittsburgh three one one police system and similar systems like that, give out flyers and pamphlets so that every person from Europe and Eastern Europe has access to filing police reports so that the international law is not broken by child slave tradings, eugenics, slave breeding, forcing immigration, capturing people from Europe, and forcing them to be here, and not being able to tell the truth. I want every person in Europe, every child, every immigrant to be given a flyer that says, I know you can't go to the police, but this is a website. Go file a police report because you're probably being held captive using foreign medical documents, UPMC medical devices like I am for thirty years and seven years before that in Europe in American child slave trading camps. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Hi. I'm Holly Hickling. I'm from East Carnegie. I wasn't planning on speaking today, but I've suddenly felt a little bit inspired. I wanted to thank the council people who are bringing forward the immigrant protection legislation. Very excited about that. I'm the executive director of the Global Switchboard. We're a human rights organization, and we do a lot with immigrant serving organizations and immigrant leaders. I just wanted to say for the record, I know you guys know this. I'm just gonna say it so that everyone knows it.

Ever what you're proposing is very constitutional, very legal, and what ICE is doing is what is unconstitutional. They're not giving people due process, and I'm really proud of the city for starting to take steps towards protecting people's constitutional rights in the city. I also wanted to just uplift a woman who was released from ICE custody in the South Side who wandered around for three days and passed away, a Haitian immigrant named Daffy Michel. And I would really love us to see if we can address making sure we don't allow that to happen to anyone else in the future. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker please.

Good morning special agent sunshine the missing child, Therese Taylor. Lord, thank you for the sunshine. What would the world be without it? These people seem to want the sunshine killed. Y'all still putting hits all on me, like, for real?

Do you not know and understand that God is not playing with y'all? People are dying just for the thought in Jesus' name. First Peter second and nine says, you are chosen people. I'm chosen for this to shine a light on your fraud in our government. A royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, then you may declare the praises of him who calls you out of darkness into his wonderful light. I can't praise God in this chamber. Why? Jealousy, envy, hate. It's not against the law. If I sing a song, what you gonna do?

The veil had me locked up. That's the whole plan, to put out the light that God is shining through me on the fraud in our government. You steal inheritances. You steal trust. You steal homes left to children and make them homeless on the street. This is my story. I'm homeless. Really? This is what homelessness looks like when you praise god in his name. Amen?

I will continue to praise him as long as I breathe. The wisdom for the day comes from Proverbs nineteen eight, and it says, to acquire wisdom is to love oneself. People who cherish understanding will prosper. I cherish the understanding that I pray to the most high God for every day. I will continue to pray for that understanding.

Wisdom, knowledge, strength, I will continue to pray for. The first amendment says, congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for the redress of grievances. My grievance here today is I have a trust. I have a a stake that this these people on this board have stolen. You're blocking communication with the boards of Carnegie Library.

Really? That's how you're blocking communication? Here's a quote from Andrew Carnegie. If you wanna be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberty liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. I hope and pray that justice will be served for every thief, liar, and voodoo practitioner in the world. In Jesus' name, amen.

Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Next speaker, please. Seeing no further speakers, we'll move on to the presentation of papers, beginning with councilman Charlton, share of human resources. New papers, mister president. Thank you. Councilman Caulkill, share of public safety and wellness. No new papers, mister president. Thank you. Councilman McGroh, share of innovation, performance, asset management, and technology.

Thank you, mister president.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Gross presents bill number two eighty seven, resolution authorizing and instructing the Department of Innovation and Performance to publish and submit a report on surveillance technologies. Bill two eighty eight, ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh code title six conduct article one, regulated rights and actions by adding chapter six thirty b prohibiting immigration enforcement in city owned or operated spaces and amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh code title five traffic article one administration chapter five zero three enforcement and control by adding section five zero three point two one prohibiting immigration enforcement in city owned or operated spaces, and bill two eighty nine, ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh code title six conduct, article one, regulated rights and actions by adding chapter six thirty c, protecting community spaces.

Thank you. Councilman Mosley, chair of intergovernmental educational affairs.

Thank you, mister president. Thank you.

Councilman Mosley presents bill number two seventy four, resolution amending resolution three fifty two of 2025, which authorized a professional service agreement and or contract with Buchanan, Ingersoll, and Rooney, PC for consulting services for federal government affairs and legislative services by extending the term through the 2026 and increasing the approved amount by $15,500 for a new total cost not to exceed $589,000 over ten years. And bill number two seventy five. Resolution amending resolution three fifty three of 2025, which authorized a professional service agreement and or contract with Melady and Wooten Inc. For consulting services for state government affairs and legislative services by extending the term through the 2026 and increasing the approved amount by $16,500 for a new total cost not to exceed $627,000 over ten years and three months.

Councilman Bozzi?

Yeah. Motion to waive rule eight on 02/4275.

Is a second?

Second.

All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Bill two seventy four and two seventy five will be on tomorrow's standing committee agenda. That takes us to councilwoman Salanetro, chair of public works and infrastructure.

Thank you, council president.

Councilwoman Salanetro presents bill number two seventy six. Resolution amending resolution two forty of 2025, effective 04/17/2025, entitled authorizing the mayor and the director of the department of public works to enter into an agreement or agreements for the use of existing agreements between the city of Pittsburgh and Peshak Plus MTR for the professional geotechnical remediation plan and engineering services cost not to exceed $415,170 by increasing the total allocation by the amount of $26,257.50 for a new not to exceed amount of $441,427.50 and bill two seven seven. Resolution authorizing the director of the Department of Public Works on behalf of the city of Pittsburgh to enter into certain permanent and temporary construction easements in order to advance the storm water management and noise control improvements to Pittsburgh Bureau of Police firing range project at no cost to the city.

And councilmember Strasburger, chair of finance and law.

Thank you, mister president.

Thank you.

Councilperson Strasburger presents bill number two seventy eight, resolution amending resolution nine thirty three of 2024, which reappropriated Federal American Rescue Plan funding by updating the approved projects as outlined in exhibit a version 10. Bill two seventy nine. Resolution amending resolution eight thirty eight of 2025, which fixed the number of officers and employees of the city of Pittsburgh for the 2026 fiscal year in the rate of compensation thereof and set maximum levels for designated positions by eliminating one district chief and adding one assistant chief in the Department of Public Safety Bureau of Emergency Medical Services. Bill two eighty, resolution amending resolution eight forty one of 2025, which authorized appropriations, salaries, and capital expenditures of the Parks Trust Fund for the 2026 fiscal year beginning 01/01/2026 by increasing the spend amount by $500,000. Bill two eighty one, resolution amending resolution 60 of 2026 authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Justin Hickox and their legal counsel, Steenland Law p LLC, for a single payment in 2026 in an amount not to exceed $10,000 in full and final of an employment matter.

And bill number two eighty five, resolution amending resolution eight thirty five of 2025, which made appropriations to pay the expenses of conducting the public business of the city of Pittsburgh and for meeting the debt charges thereof for the fiscal year beginning 01/01/2026.

And councilwoman Warburg, chair of recreation, youth, and senior services.

Thank you, mister president.

Councilwoman Warwick presents bill number two eighty six, ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh code title six conduct article one, regulated rights and actions by adding a new chapter six thirty a, nonintervention with respect to immigration enforcement, to place certain restrictions on the collection and use of information related to citizenship and immigration status, place certain restrictions on the use of city assets, prohibit certain forms of discrimination in city services, and provide for remedies for violations all under certain terms and conditions.

And councilman Wilson, chair of Land Use Economic Development.

No new papers, mister president.

Thank you. And for myself?

Council president Laval presents bill number two eighty two, communication from Ria Price, acting director of the office of management and budget, submitting to city council the attached status update from the grants office for the week ended 03/20/2026. Bill two eighty three, communication from Sally Stadelman, acting executive director, Pittsburgh Land Bank, submitting the Pittsburgh Land Bank's fourth quarter financial report for the year 2025, and bill two eighty four, communication from city controller, Rachel Heisler, submitting the attached fiscal report of tax abatement programs dated March 2026.

I need a motion to read, receive, and file.

So move. Second.

All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The bills have been read, receive, and file. We'll now move on to unfinished business of which we have two appointments.

Bill one thirty five, resolution appointing Lou Erwin as a member of the board of directors of Pittsburgh Water for a term to expire 01/01/2031, and bill one fifty one, resolution appointing Jesse Ainsman as a member of the board of directors of the Pittsburgh Land Bank for a term to expire 01/01/2027, serving the remainder of the term for a seat previously held by Tamara Dudukovich.

Need a motion to approve.

So second.

All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Both appointments have been approved. Our next order of business is reports of committee for final action beginning with councilwoman Erica Schlossberger, representing the Committee of Finance and Law.

Thank you, mister president.

Councilperson Strasburger presents bill number two sixty nine. Reported a committee on financing law for 03/18/2026 with an affirmative recommendation. Bill two twenty seven, resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of sergeant's court reporting services for legal transcript services for an amount not to exceed $5,556.40 over one year.

You've heard the reading inside of the bill. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the bill is now ready for final action. All in favor of the passage of the bill, we'll vote aye. Your name is called. Those opposed we'll vote no. Will the clerk please take the roll?

Mister Charland. Aye. Mister Cogbill. Aye. Miss Gross. Aye. Mister Mosley. Aye. Missus Salanitra? Aye. Missus Strasburger? Aye. Missus Warwick? Aye. Mister Wilson? Aye. Mister Lavelle, president? Aye. Nine ayes, zero nos.

The bill having received a legally required number of votes is passed finally. That moves us on to councilman Anthony Falkier, presenting the Committee of Public Safety and Wellness. Thank you, mister president. Thank you.

Councilman Cockhill presents bill number two seventy, reported a committee on public safety and wellness for 03/18/2026 with an affirmative recommendation. Bill two twenty two, resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of precision auto express repair in an amount not to exceed $6,347.85 for repairs to a Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Vehicle and bill two twenty three. Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of the major city's chiefs association in an amount not to exceed $7,500 for payment of annual member dues.

You've heard the reading and title of the bill. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the bill is now ready for final action. All in favor of the passage of the bill with a aye, your name is called. Those opposed will vote no. Will the clerk please take the roll?

Mister Charland? Aye. Mister Coghill? Aye. Miss Gross? Aye. Mister Mosley? Aye. Missus Salinatra? Aye. Missus Strasburger?

Aye.

Missus Warwick. Aye. Mister Wilson. Aye. Mister LaVelle, president. Aye. Nine ayes, zero nos.

The bill haven't received a legal requirement of votes is passed finally, and that moves us to councilwoman Kim Kim Silenetra, presenting the committee of public works and infrastructure.

Thank you, council president.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Silenetra presents bill number two seventy one. Reported a committee on public works and infrastructure from 03/18/2026 with an affirmative recommendation. Bill one thirteen, ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh code of ordinances, title one, administrative article seven procedures by adding a new chapter one seventy four right of way accessibility needs inventory, bill two twenty five, resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the department of public works on behalf of the city of Pittsburgh to enter into an agreement or agreements with Peoples Natural Gas Company LLC to allow the integration of natural gas service for a city facilities architecture project in Riverview Park at no cost to the city. Bill two twenty six, resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the Department of Public Works and or director of the Department of Finance on behalf of the city of Pittsburgh to execute an instrument for the declaration of restrictions and covenants and appertainment documents over the vicinity of the city's Spring Hill Park playground as a condition of a national pollution discharge elimination system permit granted in conjunction with property improvements in the area at no cost to the city. And bill two forty three, resolution authorizing the Borough Of Crafting to take by eminent domain certain permanent and temporary real estate interests in a portion of a certain parcel of real estate identified by the Allegheny County Assessment Office as Block And Lot Number 39 F 280 located within the boundaries of the city of Pittsburgh.

You you have heard the reading and the title of the bill. Is there any discussion on the bill? Seeing none, the bill is now ready for final action. All in favor of the passage of the bill will vote aye. My name is called. Those opposed will vote no. Will the clerk please take the roll?

Mister Charland? Aye. Mister Cockhill? Aye. Miss Gross. Aye. Mister Mosley. Aye. Missus Salanetro. Aye. Missus Strasburger. Aye. Missus Warwick. Aye. Mister Wilson.

Aye.

Mister Lavelle, president? Aye. Nine ayes, zero nos.

The bill having received a legal required number of votes is passed finally. That moves us to councilperson Robert Charland presenting the committee of human resources.

Councilperson Charland presents bill number two seventy two. Reported the committee on human resources for 03/18/2026 with an affirmative recommendation. Bill two twenty one, resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the department of human resources and civil service to enter into a professional services agreement or agreements with Industrial Organization Solutions Inc for professional consulting services in connection with police officer recruit, candidate examinations, and selection services at no at a cost not to exceed $151,980 over three years.

You have heard the reading and entitled the bill. Is there any discussion on the bill? Seeing none, the bill is now ready for final action. All in favor of passage of the bill will vote aye when your name is called. Those opposed will vote no. Will the clerk please take the roll?

Mister Charland? Aye. Mister Coghill? Aye. Miss Gross? Aye. Mister Mosley? Aye. Missus Salanetro. Aye. Missus Strasburger. Aye. Missus Warwick. Aye. Mister Wilson.

Aye.

Mister Lavelle, president. Aye. Nine ayes, zero nos.

The bill haven't received a legal cardinal votes is passed finally. That takes us to councilman Bobby Wilson presenting the committee of Blame's Economic Development.

Thank you, mister president.

Thank you. Thank you, councilwoman.

Councilman Wilson presents bill number two seventy three. Reported a committee on land use and economic development for 03/18/2026 with an affirmative recommendation. Bill two twenty eight, resolution authorizing the mayor, the director of the office of management and budget, and the director of the department of city planning to enter into an agreement or agreements with the trust for public land for the purpose of receiving grant funds in the amount not to exceed $25,000 to install signage in the city's greenways. Bill two twenty nine, resolution further amending resolution eight sixty three of 2018, effective 01/01/2019 as amended entitled, resolution adopting and approving the twenty nineteen capital budget and the 2019 community development block grant program and the 2019 through 2024 capital improvement program so as to reallocate $55,692.60 of Community Development Block Grant CARES Act funding to two food banks and authorize a subsequent agreement or agreements.

You've heard the reading and title of the bill. Is there any discussion on the bill? Seeing none, the bill is now ready for final action. All in favor of the passage of the bill will vote aye. Your name is called. Those opposed will vote no. Will the clerk please take the roll?

Mister Charland? Aye. Mister Coghill? Aye. Miss Gross? Aye. Mister Mosley? Aye. Missus Salanetro? Aye. Missus Strasburger? Aye. Missus Warwick? Aye. Mister Wilson? Aye. Mister Lavelle, president? Aye. Nine ayes, zero nos.

The bill haven't received the legally required number of votes is passed finally. That takes us to motions and resolutions. I'm a go to councilman Strausberger. And councilman Straussberger, if you could first make a motion to amend the agenda.

Motion to amend the agenda to submit additional legislation.

There's a second.

Second.

All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The agenda has been amended. Councilman Schroisberger?

Thank you. Thank you for indulgence, mister president. This is this is legislation submitted by the administration that I have agreed to introduce that does need to be rule aided, so needed to be introduced today. And so I'll introduce it and have the clerk read it for and then I'll make a motion to roll it after.

So motion to introduce bill twenty Two

two hundred nineteen.

290. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. All those in favor, say aye.

Aye. Aye.

Can you

pose for the clerk, please read the bill?

Bill two ninety, council person Strasburger presents a resolution authorizing the director of the Department of Public Safety to enter inter intergovernmental cooperation agreements between the city of Pittsburgh and various government agencies and municipalities for the purpose of cooperative police and public services during the 2026 National Football League draft.

Bill has been introduced. Councilman Schlossberg?

Motion to weigh the rules of council so that Bill two ninety appears on tomorrow's standing committee agenda.

Is there

a second? Second. All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Bill two ninety will be on tomorrow's standing committee agenda. Is there anything else from members? If not, we have meeting announcements. This afternoon at 12:00 and one, council hold executive sessions on litigation matters. Also, this afternoon at 01:30, council will hold a cable cast public hearing on bill one sixty five pertaining to a petition relative to the Pittsburgh Municipal Courts record selection.

Speaker restoration will close at 11:30 today. Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 25 at 09:30, council will hold a pre agenda interview for the historic review commission with council standing committee meeting to follow at 10AM. Speaker restoration will close at nine. Also, tomorrow afternoon at 01:30, council holding cable cast post agenda discussion on the fourth quarter two thousand twenty five financial report. And on Thursday, March 26 at 11AM, council holding pre pre agenda interview with John McClory for the directorship of the Department of Public Works. To register to speak at this meeting, please hold the sign up council sign up form on the council meeting webpage or call the clerk's office at (412) 255-2138. With that, motion to approve the minutes to adjourn the meeting.

So moved.

Second. All

in favor, say aye.

Aye.

We are adjourned.