City Council - Regular Meeting

Good morning, and welcome to the regular meeting of city council on Tuesday, 05/12/2026. Will the clerk please take the roll?

Mister Charlin? Mister Cockhill? Miss Gross? Mister Mosley? Here. Missus Salinatra?

Here.

Missus Strausburger? Here. Missus Warwick?

Here.

Mister Wilson? And mister Lavelle, president? Here. Five members present.

Thank you. For those who are able, please for the pledge of allegiance, remain standing for a moment of silence. I pledge allegiance to the flag

United States, sir Henry, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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

So moved. Second.

All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

The agenda has been amended. Our next order of business is proclamations, and I believe councilman Southern Metro, you have one to present.

Can I get the folks up here for Kiwanis? Whereas chartered by Kiwanis International on 05/10/1951, the Kiwanis Club of Sheridan in Pittsburgh has continuously served children in the Sheridan West West Pittsburgh communities for seventy five years. Its members are residents, former residents, and friends from across PA. Each year, the Kiwanis Club of Sheridan contributes thousands of volunteer hours. Annual events include Easter egg hunt, a health safety and fun fair, and a scholarship for community minded locals high school seniors.

The club also maintains the Sheridan bulletin board, neighborhood portal signs, and the American flags and other seasonal flag displays and oversees the Kiwanis Quarter Shelter located at the intersection of Hillsborough and Sheridan Boulevard for community events. Whereas, the Kiwanis Club of Sheridan sponsors five service leadership programs, action club with city connections programs for young adults with intellectual and nonvisible disabilities, Builders Club at Langley Pre k and the Pittsburgh Classical Academy, the Key Club at the Upper Saint Clair High School, and Circle K at Carnegie Mellon University, each offering students a community service opportunities and leadership development. Whereas major fundraisers include the annual pancake breakfast and the spring pasta dinner offering affordable food and fellowship. The Kiwanis Classic Golf Outing featuring a round of golf appreciation lunch and prizes and awards. And whereas, in celebration of its seventy five years of service, the Kiwanis Club of Sheridan will commemorate its milestone with a formal anniversary dinner on May 14 at the Lamont Restaurant atop Mount Washington.

Now, therefore, be it resolved that the city of Pittsburgh does hereby recognize the Kiwanis Club of Sheridan and congratulate them on their seventy five years of service. And be it further resolved that the council of the city of Pittsburgh does hereby declare Sunday, 05/10/2026 to be Kiwanis Club of Sheridan Day in the city of Pittsburgh.

May we have a motion to approve?

So moved. Second.

All in favor, say aye. Aye. Congratulations.

This club does so much for the community. They volunteer. They help our kids out. They are irreplaceable in the community, and there's so many good people involved. Does anybody wanna speak? I'm gonna give this to you. Go

ahead, ma'am. Thank

you, president of council council members. Thank you, guests. We have served the community for seventy five years, and I'm a thirty five year member myself. So it's a great honor to be here, great honor to be recognized by the city council, and we appreciate all you do as well. Thank you so much.

Mary Anne, did you say a few words? No? Okay. Can we get the rest of council up to for a picture?

And we have one to be read into the record.

Council member Strasburger presents, be it further resolved that the council of the city of Pittsburgh extends to mister Hahn its profound gratitude and warmest wishes for a richly deserved next chapter.

May we have a motion to approve?

So move. Second.

All in favor, say aye. Aye. Proclamation has been approved. Our next order of business is public comment. I would like to remind everyone the rules of council state that comments are limited to matters of concern, official action, or deliberation, which may be before city council. Profanity will not be permitted. After you recall, please restate your name, provide your neighborhood for the record. You'll be given three minutes to speak. Our first registered speaker is Farooq Al Saeed. Is Faruk Al Saeed with us? If not, our next registered speaker

And then what's the date that sound for the record?

Thank you. Our next registered speaker is Donna Ray Schilling. Is Donna Ray Schilling with us? If not, our next registered speaker, Doctor. Ronald Miller.

Doctor.

Ronald Miller, United States, Pittsburgh, Knoxville neighborhood. The 3 Rivers Native American Council Center is there. I really think you take should take that very seriously. Laos Vientiane, Jonathanah, neighborhood, the Laos National University Department of Anthropology, the Laos UNNY mission. Email is lao.pr.ny@Gmail.com.

Both the city, Vientiane, and the neighborhood, are in the Pittsburgh City Ally neighborhood on the one hand and the Pittsburgh City Neighborhood Network on the other hand, which I founded in 2025. And the Global Intelligence Society candidate president, 2028, ACE, and 2428 AB, that's after Buddha. Globalinformationintelligencenetwork.net. The American Academy of Religion, the American Anthropological Association, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, I became a member in the early two thousands, so it's been twenty years. Concerns of CONSOL include artificial intelligence and diversity in the ethnicity and religiosity of Pittsburgh, I agree with that, but I would focus more on ultimate value system codes.

The genetic code diversity, of the universal human genome relativizes claimed scientificity of, a biogenetic foundation for race. Indigenous Americans. The genetic diversity in the codes of indigenous Americans is unsurpassed. There is a parallel in Laos, in Laotians. The genetic co diversity of Laotians is multi African, Asian, European regional, inclusive, and it's surpassed by no other that we're aware of, except for possibly Brazilians.

This means that the genetics of both indigenous Americans and Laotians renders classifications such as black race, white race, scientifically baseless, ludicrous, and both, are evidence of the evolution of the universal human genome, which is present in this city.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Bethany Cameron.

Good morning, council members. I am Bethany Cameron. I still live in Overbrook, and I'm here again representing informup.org, a local news nonprofit which reports weekly on public meetings, and ask readers to weigh in on what matters to them then delivers that feedback to their elected officials like you. Our community survey ran from May. A 156 readers responded, and all nine council districts were represented.

We covered three issues, immigration enforcement, rule oversight, teen restrictions in public spaces, and recycling service. Number one, regarding enforcing immigration rules. We told readers that the mayor's office would be responsible for enforcing the new immigration enforcement rules. So we asked how confident readers were that violations would be consistently reported and acted on. 37% of respondents were not sure or needed more information.

31% were confident that violations would be acted on, and 32% were not confident they would be. Number two, regarding factors for teen restrictions in public spaces. We asked readers to rank which factors the city should consider when deciding whether to keep, change, or remove restrictions for teens in public spaces. 65% of readers chose input from community members, 58% chose crime statistics by age and location, 54 purse 54% chose input from businesses, 53% chose observations from police, and 30% chose input from teenagers themselves. The comments on this question were unusually polarized.

A resident from the Central North Side said, on weekdays, they have no choice but to wait for their bus transfers downtown because there are no dedicated school buses. The teens have to be there and should have appealing places to go, not rules about where they cannot go. A resident from Manchester said these kids are assaulting random people just walking through downtown, even senior citizens. They need to be arrested. A resident from Southside Slopes said crime data regarding teens downtown is a futile look downstream of the problem.

Work upstream with the teens and community stakeholders instead. And a resident from Stan Heights said, we need more safe and supportive spaces created for young people by young people. Number three, regarding recycling service priorities. We asked readers, what problem with Pittsburgh's recycling service would you most like the new routing software to fix? 37% of respondents said the current system works fine for them.

28 wanted to increase pickup frequency and 15% reported their recycling is sometimes missed entirely. A resident from Greenfield said garbage and recycling pickup are two of the most needed and appreciated services that the city offers. Kudos to those hard workers. As always, we will send the full report to your offices later today. Thank you for considering this feedback.

Thank you very much. Our next registered speaker is chief Akihana Haumaukina. Chief Akihana, you need to come off of mute if you're with us. I will come back to her. Our next speaker is Jasmine Green.

Got here just in time. That's great. Hi. My name is Jasmine Green. I'm the creative director at One Hood Media. I just wanted to extend an invitation. I was here back in December, inviting everyone to our first youth forum. These are conversations that we have with our community safety group, which is youth between the ages of 16 and 26. This group is you we keep us safe. I know a few of you actually joined us to have conversations with the youth and have really engaging conversations, things that the youth were really impacted by. So I just want to thank you again if you did have an opportunity to come speak with them.

But, yeah, we've been having a lot

of conversations in the city around safety, but a lot of these conversations aren't really centering the youth voices themselves. It's tends to be a lot of adults talking over youth or kind of, like, talking to them about the issues that are most impactful for them. And so just wanna give them a space to speak for themselves, to center themselves in that conversation, and so that we as adults can take what they give us and then make the policies that are actually gonna make them feel safer. So, yeah, I just wanted to give that invitation. It's gonna be this Saturday at 2PM at our Black Box Theater, which is located at 460 Melwood Avenue. Again, running from two to four, it's gonna be two panels with the kids. It's gonna be a great time. So, yeah, just wanted to extend that invitation to everyone. Thank you so much.

Thank you. I wanna go back to Farooq Al Saeed.

Good morning.

Just as Jasmine said, I

just wanna extend the invitation for the the youth forum that we're having. I I think the biggest part is I wanna extend the thanks to city council members that have come and talked to the young people and those who haven't. Still still an open door, still an open invitation. We would love to have you just have some authentic dialogue with the young people in your respective districts. One of the things that, of course, everybody is talking about right now is the curfew and all of the legislation that could possibly come from this or the depress that's been happening, and I think that's the biggest thing right now is just getting young people, not just engaged in the the civic process, but seeing the ramifications of media and how negative press can really impact young people's perspective and how they shape the city going forth.

For the rest of you know, pretty much for the rest of their lives, we wanna keep young people at Pittsburgh, we really have to centralize and show them the importance of their, you know, their value, their input, and just their existence in our communal spaces. One thing that I would also like to highlight is that the young people that we have been engaging with have just they're so they're so brilliant. Right? They are aware of the language and the rhetoric that's being used by some of the developers down here, and they are asking me questions about what defense looks like for young people in spaces that they aren't welcome to. They've come up with amazing questions.

They've come up with amazing suggestions, that they wish that they were included in, at the very beginning of a lot of these processes. And I'm not blaming anybody on councils, and that's not the time for this. But I really hope that, you know, knowing this bit of information and those of you who are engaged with the young people that could potentially be voting for you in a few years that

you have the ability to come

out and and hear them speak, talk to them in very in in very authentic and holistic ways because they are just very concerned citizens. I think that we don't think about young people in Pittsburgh as citizens if they're not voting age yet, and that's exactly what they are. So we'd just like to further extend the invitation that that Jasmine did to to pull up on the Saturday. If you're available, we'll be here from two to four at our space, and also before and after for public comment. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Donna Ray Schilling.

It's beyond my control, but I think the problem is with our youth. I did speak on this in 2011 about sensors being removed. So our children are desensitized by all the violence of vulgarity that they're able to see, which we weren't allowed to see when we were younger. I do think that the board of education and the bus service and the schools should work together. Maybe the school issue bus passes can limit weekend or evening.

And then I do believe that the most deterrent that we have against this is parent involvement. I've seen the dads downtown, the mad dads. They can't be everywhere, but where they are, they are protecting our children and our citizens. So I think if we are able to get bus passes that are extra given to the schools, that they could be given to parents, if parents receiving a free bus pass can ride or stand downtown to make sports for the youth or just knowing that they're present and knowing that, you know, they'll be identified if anything's going on. When I walked this school before, I was told that it was a board education issue.

And then I was told, you know, it's a port authority issue. And now, ten years later, it's a whole city issue. And that that's why I just wanted to get some possible solutions. And then also, and, you know, just try to help them and at least, you know, offer some solutions that's not criminalizing them. That's all.

Thank you.

And now chief Ikohana Hal Malkina.

Greetings and good day. My title is chief Ikohana Hal Malkina and the grand meetups and, you know, things that are happening egregiously in regards to not having anything for the youth to do. This is something that has to be gone very consistently in city council for the past several years. I've been addressing this as a big need, and now it's come full circle where these youth are getting older and have nothing to ir time. If you're not given the meaningful program that they can utilize to enhance the skill set, that they can then turn around and use it as a career path.

You've closed most most of the trades that they would be able to, you know, learn and and gain a skill. You know, you close Connolly. You can only open it as an energy innovation center for adults on Connolly Tech taught technical skills to you. Included in the plan. They are not expendable.

These youth are talented and gifted. We just need to harness and hone in on their gifts and their skills and listen to them. So I I would encourage everyone at city council to take a good good listen and to attend the panel that's happening this Saturday from two to four at one with Black Fox Theater. I would encourage you to engage the youth instead of arresting them and Never. Perhaps a a a child who has been in egregious murder is charged as an adult, but even that's questionable.

So how can we move from addressing the youth as brains that are not fully developed. Right? You wanna charge them as an adult, and they are not capable of making adult decisions. So I think we need to rethink how we engage and address our in this city. Thank you for your time. Thank

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

I am Bernadette from Beachview, and I have witnessed both sides of the Market Square kerfuffles with these kids trying to make competing TikTok videos to up the other towns that are making them, and that's what it's boiling down to. I was there on Saturday and Sunday. I my son was worried about me going down there. He worked at the one restaurant by Market Square, and he was worried about me coming down. And I said, no.

I'm going. I grew up crafting roller rink and Bridgeville roller rink, and I was brought to tears to see the joy on all these ages and all these different cultures of people dancing on their skates, dancing by the stage, it was refreshing. I was against I I wasn't sure if this Market Square thing was gonna work. It works. And it was very nice, and it was very refreshing to see all these families come together.

And I don't know what we're gonna do with the youth. I do notice the uptick now that they can't do Market Square. Now they're getting on the buses and on the trolleys, and they're they're

I don't I don't even

know what you wanna call it, what they're doing to the people. But there's cameras. Having said that, the open house at the beach view healthy active living center yesterday was fantastic. Great job. Great team they have right now. And it's just Melinda, Abby, and Gina are just, like, the the amazing triple they're they're just they're just the best. They look out for all of us. That's it. Have a great day.

Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Good morning, counsel of selective compassion. My name is Unique Brown. First off, I made a post on Black Pittsburgh about us getting together, all the people, all the adults with skills and teaching these skills kids something in some type of space area that we don't have to depend on y'all for because y'all are not gonna do it. But I've already said it to people people I had saw other posts of people trying to do it too. So whoever can get it done, please get it done.

I'm not trying to

do it on my own. But I'm here for the unheard cries of black mothers. The women who carry this city while the silly while this city barely carries them. I stand here today as a black daughter raised by a black mother who spent over twenty years fighting injustice in Pittsburgh. And somewhere along the way, I realized something that broke my heart.

No matter how hard I tried to be different from my mother, I became her. I used to think I would grow up and avoid this thing, avoid these meetings, avoid standing in rooms and begging people in power to care about all people of We the the responsibility of in fixing problems we did not create. My mother spent years fighting for people, helping people, standing up when nobody else would. And now here I am standing in front of you, carrying the same burden and even worse burdens than she can. And, honestly, it's heartbreaking because our daughter should not be growing up preparing for battle.

They should be growing up feeling protected. Exists. But when black mothers cry, we get patience. We get waitlists. We get excuses.

We get told to hold on a little longer while children are already drowning. But my mom fought for over twenty years. Now I'm standing here doing the same thing, and that should break everybody's hope in this room because our daughter should be inheriting police, not protest. But I'm sure y'all wouldn't care about that.

Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Good morning. I'm Jacob Pool, present name, previous name Zoltan Joakiakov. I have a lot of names because I'm brought to the Pittsburgh area from by American military and paramilitary organizations operating in Europe and Eastern Europe, creating camps, children's camps in which I was for a number of years with a thousand children being processed to be slave traded to America, to the Pittsburgh area. And I'm here because I lived in the scroll Scroll Hill area for over fifteen years being forced to attend the University of Pittsburgh in slavery conditions, alone isolated in a controlled environment using my Eastern European identity and names as a form of diversity. And I'm part of at least a 100,000 people like me in the Pittsburgh Metro Area who are brought here under the same conditions as I as I was using force, paramilitary organizations, slave training organizations, operating in Europe and Eastern Europe near conflict zones, gathering people up using force, putting putting putting us into camps and bringing us here, using falsified documents, medical documents, police records, anything at all.

And we're kept in a controlled environment in the Pittsburgh area, being held in the places where we're intensely made of terr terrified of police, going to the police. In fact, I've been to six police stations in the last five years in Pittsburgh area from Zone 1 through Zone 6, and they all sort of laughed at me and harassed me a police station. And it's it's a fact. So I'm I've given out 80,000 blood flyers in the Pittsburgh area, trying to tell people. Go to crimewatch.net, go to Pittsburgh three one one, file police reports online because you're being held captive.

You know, you're in a controlled environment. There are over 50 Eastern European churches in the Pittsburgh area where slavers establish themselves waiting for people like me to show up. Because I can't go to Korea learning to get a job. They laugh me out of their. But if I go to an Eastern European church, a Ukrainian church, a Hungarian church, a Polish church, then people approach me trying to offer me jobs. Construction jobs, under the table jobs. It's all around Pittsburgh, and this is how it works. So I

get out of 80,000

flyers in the Pittsburgh area. Time to to Pittsburgh 311. Go to crimewatch.com.net. File police reports. Document every single person that's around you, forcing you to do things, and then go to international police, go to Europol, file international criminal criminal law complaints, and bring them here so they can document these things.

There are 100,000 people in Episcopal Metro like me. Medical devices forced and forged medical documents held in camps in Eastern Europe for years until we forgot who we were and then brought here for slavery. And this is actively going on. Go to crime1.net,pittsburgh31one. File police support safely online because it's this is an international criminal law violation.

Thank you.

Next speaker, please. Good morning. Mister Bosley represents me in my district. My name is Mark McHugh. You know, I I grew up doing legalized segregation in Jim Crow, but my family instilled responsibility in us. We have respect. And when I heard miss Rosberg on television the other day talking about what's happening with youth and it's that they're coming from poor conditions or poverty. Ma'am, some of these people have thousand dollar phones in their pockets, $400 tennis shoes. It's not poverty. My grandmother always told me, you don't equate someone's actions with how much money they have.

So you grow up in that environment. We grew up with nothing. My grandfather was one of the first black police officers in Pittsburgh, but we had to stand in line to get government cheese, to get government powdered milk. Being a responsible human being, you don't put a monetary value to that. And I get tired of sometimes hearing the limousine liberal concept of how people should act.

There should be responsibilities for your actions. When we used to go downtown, we were told, don't destroy our names by your actions. So we we we knew how to act. To keep blaming it on society for people's risk, how their actions is wrong. You know, when I grew up, you got in trouble. There was Morganza, Thornhill, and 3333 Forbes Avenue Juvenile Court. And you and you and they did not play

in those

days. And I grew up I am 70 years old. I I grew up I have I'm married with four grown men. And how did I keep them alive? Because they saw their father go to work every morning. I've had a job every year since 1972. That's how I instilled values into my children. And I and they were growing up during the gang problems when we lived in Larimer. But my children were untouched because they had a father and a parent who took care of them, and that's the problem in this city. So please save your limousine liberal nonsense for somewhere else. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Good morning. My name is Yvonne F. Brown. I live at 715 Mercer Street in the Katy Rivers Tires. I wanna start off today because yesterday, I had to go to the foot doctor in UPMC Shadyside. In that office well, the first thing is I was talking to the lady to the nurse, and I said, is he a nice doctor? She said, oh, yes. He treats people nice. I said, good. Because he might have to operate on me.

So, anyway, I go in, and he was very nice. I might have have to have operation on both of my feet, but I left there smiling. Can you believe that? The way that I was treated by every person that dealt with me was with respect. Well, I'm here to help you. I I have a job because of you. This is the way they would treat me. That's why I fuss when I come down here in city council because the disrespect. Now these are all looking now, but before, most of the time, they were on their computer. You the at at their but busy not listening to us.

And I wanna say something to the young fellas that are here because we have a bunch of young men in here. I wanna say something to you. You hear them talking about the kids down there at Marcus Square. If you go down there, you can try and stop that. I I hear that one hood is going because what I heard is the police is making a curfew and stuff if you have to be 18. That means they're gonna have to confront one of those they're gonna have to the them boys. They may kill them. Do you understand that we need men? And I had said, one one can do by itself, but we had the fathers that were going into school. Take your fathers to to school day.

I talked to them, and I was saying, can you ride the bus as this lady said? Can can we make sure that the one hood and the children know what they had? They all they all have on a a blue shirt or whatever, and you know there's one hood, and they can ride the buses. So if that kid jump on someone I've seen a woman they had jumped on. They beat the man too. If they do, we have the men and they know who they are. They can stop them. They and then their fathers too. Fathers might be able to help. If if we can start as a woman, I'll go down and try to talk to the whip to girls in there.

These are our they're our future. You are. And you have to stand up and be be a man. Be a man. Don't act like a child. You don't have to have a supervision all the time. You can do it. You can stand, and you can say no. And if you see somebody hurting somebody, stop them. Please. You can do it.

Thank you. Next speaker.

Good morning to Missing Child, Therese Taylor, special agent Sunshine. Thank you, Lord, for everybody that's stalking me, following me, trying to set on fire. Thank you, Jesus, that I'm still here standing. Thank you for your faithfulness in Jesus' name. Thank you for every thief you see stealing my energy slash work to survive.

Thank you, Lord. They're living off of my energy, yet I'm still homeless, and they mock me. But when you mock the poor, you are in contempt with your maker. So please stop. Romans twelve two, young the renewing of your mind.

Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is, his good, pleasing, and perfect will. The wisdom for today comes from Proverbs twenty nine twelve. It says, young men, please listen. If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials become wicked. All of his officials, he listens to their lives. All of his officials become wicked. The reason I brought that message is because there are a lot of officials who have become wicked for listening to lies, especially about me, LaVelle. I'm not a prostitute. I don't do drugs. We all have a story.

Mine ain't pretty. But when I was delivered and set free, I was delivered and set free. Amen? PRTCEO, there was an on call of a man getting on a bus with bed bugs all over him. So now we talk about safety. Really? They're on the buses and trains. I gave you this warning February before last when I left Second Avenue Shelter, January 31. February, I came right here on camera and told you, if you did not get rid of those cloth seats on those buses and trains, there there's they're condominiums for people. They're being transported by people from Second Avenue Shelter.

Confirmation. What you gonna do? Like, you don't think they'll come to you because you are the CEO? They will. God will direct them to you because you don't care about your workers getting their bugs or people riding their buses and trains. This is a stern warning. Quick message. If you did not go to the Greek festival this year for the gyros that were big as your head and that basketball Sunday, all of you deserve a whooping from his sunshine. I love you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please.

Thank you, mister president. Rick Smith from North Oakland district eight. In regards to resolution resolution four seventy two, the data sharing with Johns Hopkins to be introduced by council member Gross later today. Please make it easier for the public to understand what data is being shared and what the anticipated benefit to the city is. Thank you.

Thank you. Next speaker, please. Next speaker, please. Seeing no further speakers, we'll move on to the presentation of papers beginning with Councilman Charlott, Chair of Human Resources.

Good morning, mister president. Good morning.

I'm not comfortable with this thing.

Councilperson Robert Charlem presents bill four seventy. Resolution amending resolution one sixteen of 2024, authorizing the mayor and the director of the Commission on Human Relations on behalf of the city of Pittsburgh to enter into a professional agreement and or contract with MBM Law LLP to provide legal representation as the solicitor of the Commission on Human Relations and providing for the payment of the costs thereof not to exceed $125,000 for a new not to exceed amount of $165,000.

And councilman Cockhill, chair of public safety and wellness. Thank you, mister president. Thank you.

Councilman Anthony Cockhill presents bill four seventy one, resolution authorizing the mayor, the director of the office of management and budget, and the department of public safety to enter into an agreement or agreements with the National Association of County and City Health Officials for the purpose of receiving grant funds from the post overdose training and trauma informed practices in the amount not to exceed $25,000 for training and support of the city's office of community health and safety.

And councilor McGrohn's chair of innovation performance, asset management, and technology.

Thank you, mister president.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Deborah Elgros presents bill four seventy two, resolution authorizing the and the director of the Department of Innovation and Performance to enter into on behalf of the city of Pittsburgh, a data sharing agreement or agreements and amendments thereto with Johns Hopkins University as part of the data science for social social good program at no cost to the city over three years.

Councilwoman Gross, do you wish to waive rule eight?

You know what, mister president? Thank you for asking. I just, asked the administration why they wanted it to be expedited, and if you wouldn't mind waiting until the other bills are read to see if I get an answer. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Certainly. That moves us to councilman Moseley, chair of the new government educational affairs.

Thank you, mister president. Thank you.

Councilman Kahari Mosley presents bill four seventy three resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant payable in favor of Pennsylvania Municipal League for one year subscription in an amount not to exceed $52,962.24. Bill four seventy four, resolution providing for a reimbursement agreement or agreements with Pittsburgh Water for costs associated with the RAISE grant project where Pittsburgh Water would be responsible for paying 100% of the actual expenses involved in certain work to be described in the agreement at an amount not to exceed $50,000. In bill four eighty three, resolution authorizing the mayor and director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure on behalf of the city of Pittsburgh to enter into a cooperation agreement with BikeShare Pittsburgh to provide in kind services and cash support totaling $800,000 as the local match for a city of Pittsburgh congestion mitigation and air quality program grant for Pogo expansion phase three, all at no cost to the city.

And councilwoman Sela Netro, chair of public works and infrastructure.

Thank you, council president.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Kim Salinatra presents bill four seventy five resolution authorizing the mayor and director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure on behalf of the city of Pittsburgh to enter into a cooperation agreement with Friends of the Riverfront for the repaving of Hazelwood Trail located between Blair Street and Hot Metal Bridge. The estimated cost of preparation and completion of work is $125,000. Bill four seventy six. Resolution granting unto h g Blair LLC, their successors and assigned, the privilege and license to construct, maintain, and use at their own cost and expense, new foundation footings below the sidewalk that will extend into the right of way at no cost to the city in the 5th Ward, 6th Council District of the city Of Pittsburgh. Bill four seventy seven, resolution granting unto Almano LP, their successors and assigns the privilege and license to construct, maintain, and use at their own cost and expense.

Four new balconies that will extend into the right of way at no cost to the city in the 15th Ward, 5th Council District of of the city of Pittsburgh. And bill four eighty two, resolution providing for a reimbursement agreement or agreements with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for costs associated with the preliminary design phase of the Pogo expansion phase three project and providing for the payment of the cost thereof not to exceed $4,000,000 reimbursable at 80% with bike share Pittsburgh providing 800,000 at no cost to the city and the municipal share of Commonwealth incurred costs at a cost to the city of Pittsburgh not to exceed $0.

And councilmember Schrosberger, chair finance and law.

Thank you, mister president.

Thank you.

Councilperson Erica Strasburger presents resolution authorizing the mayor bill four seventy eight. Resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the office of management and budget to enter into an agreement or agreements with the Richard King Mellon Foundation for the purpose of receiving grant funds in an amount not to exceed $25,000 for the economic development marketing by the mayor and the economic development team. And bill four seventy nine, resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Meyer, Unclebit, and Scott for expert legal services for litigation filed in the Common Police Court of Allegheny County for an amount not to exceed $18,420 over one year.

And councilor Warwick, chair of recreation, youth and senior services.

Thank you, mister president.

Councilwoman Barbara Warwick presents bill four fifty nine. Resolution providing the recommendation made by the director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure that the concrete portion of Elwell Street from Muir Street to Pittsburgh City limits be paved with asphalt in accordance with section four seventeen point o six of the city code of ordinances. And bill four eighty, resolution authorizing the mayor, director of the office of management and budget, and the director of the department of parks and recreation to enter into an agreement or agreements with the Richard King Mellon Foundation for the purpose of receiving grant funds in an amount not to exceed $630,000 for the city's United States of America's two hundred fiftieth anniversary celebration.

And councilman Wilson, chair of Land Use Economic Development, councilman councilwoman Woolworth. Thank you.

Councilman Bobby Wilson presents bill four eighty one. Resolution approving a conditional use application under the Pittsburgh code title nine zoning article five chapter nine eleven section nine eleven o four a 64 to Passport Academy Charter School applicant for authorization to operate a school, elementary or secondary, General use at 1835 Forbes Avenue, Block And Lot 11 J 56 zoned Uptown Public Realm, District B, 1st Ward Council District Number 6.

Thank you. And I have six. We could first do the informing appointment.

Councilman r Daniel Lavelle presents bill four eighty six, resolution informing city council of the appointment of Rhonda Scherrill as assistant director, secretary, and chief examiner of the Department of Human Resources and Civil Service.

Need a motion to either interview or to approve. Second. All those in favor, say aye.

Aye. Any

opposed? The appointment has been approved. Next, we have two communications.

Bill four eighty four, communication from Ria Price, acting director of the office of management and budget, submitting the city council the attached status update from the grant's office for the week ended 05/08/2026. And bill four eighty five, communication from Rachel Heisler, city controller, submitting a summary worksheet highlighting overtime and premium paid budget use in 2026 dated 05/06/2026.

And we need a motion to re receive and file.

So moved. Second.

All those in favor, say aye.

Aye. Those

have been very received and will be filed. Our next is our legislation.

Bill four eighty seven, petition from the residents of the city of Pittsburgh requesting a public hearing before city council regarding reopening Serpentine Drive in Schenley Park to cars. The Squirrel Hill Historical Society Board and the people signing this petition filled that this road was intended for vehicular traffic, including bikes but not trucks and not intended for pedestrians who have many nearby trails to walk on that go to the same places. Serpentine Drive is the only road on the Eastern Side of Schenley Park that keeps traffic inside the park instead of sending it on long hazardous detours on nearby residential streets, including one that has no sidewalks. Except for the Panther Hollow Bridge, it is the only road that connects the north side of the park with the south side without forcing traffic to leave the park. It is also a safer connecting road to Oakland from the Greenfield Bridge.

The petition is valid in accordance with Home Rule Charter with the Home Rule Charter. Bill four eighty nine, ordinance amending the Pittsburgh code of ordinances titled administrative, article nine, boards, commissions, and authorities. Chapter one seventy nine d, records management advisory commission by repealing chapter one seventy nine d in its entirety. In bill four ninety, ordinance amending amending the Pittsburgh City Code title one administrative article five legislation, chapter one fifty four records management division by adding a new section one fifty four point o three records retention schedules.

Thank you very much. We'll now move on to reports of the committee for final act. Oh, I apologize. Councilman Gross.

Thank you, mister president. Again, I shout out to, as I think assistant chief of staff, Matt Singer, who is always quick to reply even when we're in live session. So the the program is that, is referenced in bill twenty twenty six zero four seven two is the analysis of our permitting data by Johns Hopkins University. I my briefing on it is scheduled for 02:00 this afternoon. So if council is, willing, we could still put it on tomorrow's standing committee agenda, and if there are any concerns about it.

It has a it's not a situation where we're going to lose any funding without moving quickly. It we won't lose a contract if we don't move quickly. It's just there still needs to be reviewed by the law department. So, we'll can find out more information between today and tomorrow. And if there's any, discomfort on council or, the public, we can discuss that tomorrow. So I'll have more information by the end of the day. So I'm comfortable, motioning to waive rule eight so that bill zero four seven two can appear on tomorrow's standing committee agenda. Second.

All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Bill four seventy two will be on tomorrow's standing committee agenda. Thank you, councilwoman. Now our next order of business is reports of committee for final action, beginning with council person Erica Schrozberger, presenting the committee finance and law.

Mister president. Council

person Erica Strasburger presents bill four sixty three, report of the committee on finance and law for 05/06/2026 with an affirmative recommendation. Bill four twenty, resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Mary Ellen DeMarco Ruby for a single payment in 2026 in an amount not to exceed $5,000 in full and final settlement of litigation filed in the Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County. And bill four fifty, resolution amending resolution number 79 of 2026 to increase the maximum principal reimbursement amount of the approved issuance of general obligation bonds while maintaining the approved maximum aggregate principal amount.

've heard the reading and tell the bills. Is any discussion on the bill? Seeing none, the bill is not ready for final action. All in favor of the passage of the bill will vote aye when it is called. Those opposed will vote no. The clerk, please take the roll.

Mister Charlem? Aye. Mister Cockhill? Miss Gross?

Aye.

Mister Mosley? Aye. Missus Salanatra? Aye. Missus Strausburger? Aye. Missus Warwick?

Aye.

Mister Wilson? And mister Lavelle, president?

Aye.

Aye, seven, no, zero.

The bill, having received the legal requirement of votes, is passed finally. That takes us to councilman Anthony Cockhill presenting the committee of public safety and wellness.

Excuse me.

Councilman Anthony Cockhill presents bill four eighty eight, report of the committee on public safety and wellness from 05/06/2026 with an affirmative recommendation. Bill two eighty eight, ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh code title four, public places and property by adding article nine, use of city owned or operated spaces, chapter four ninety five, prohibiting immigration enforcement in city owned or operated spaces. Bill two eighty nine, ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh code title four, public places and property by adding article nine, use of city owned or operated spaces, chapter four ninety six, protecting community spaces. And Bill bill four sixty two, resolution directing the director of the Department of Public Safety and the chief bureau of police pursuant to statute two eleven of the Pittsburgh Home Rule Charter to provide counsel with a report detailing data on violent crimes committed in the city of Pittsburgh, dis disaggregating disaggregated by age group, single years of age, age of victim and location, and neighborhood of crime no less frequently than quarterly.

You've heard the reading and title of the bills. Any discussion on the bill? Councilman Ward.

Yes. So for bill o four six two, I would like to motion to amend the amendment adds, the items to the report, requested by councilwoman Strasburger to add, gender oh, sorry. Councilwoman Gross. Excuse me. Yeah. To add gender and area of residence of perpetrator.

Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? Councilman Gross.

Yes. Thank you, councilwoman Work and your staff for following up on, these two items. It's, I think, gonna be illustrative for us to, look through gendered lens, as we are we have been called to do for nearly ten years now by our gender equity commission. So if we're gonna be digging into data, we don't want to lump, data together when we could be you know, it's it's a basic demographic category. So it's it's great that it's named and included here.

Appreciate that. And, similarly, the area of residence, we're just curious because we don't know. We have, members of the public saying that the, some of the rabble rousers, the people causing trouble, in our public spaces are not city residents. Some are saying they are. And so if we're again, if we're going to be looking at information, I think it's an important question to ask so that we can see the answer. Thank you.

Thank you. Any further discussion on the amendment? If not, all those in favor, say

aye. Aye.

Any opposed? The bill has been amended. Is there any further discussion on the bills? If not, the bill is not ready for final action. All in favor to pass the bill before I renew his call. Those opposed will vote no. The clerk please state the role. Mister Charle?

Aye. Mister Cockhill? Aye.

Miss Gross? Aye.

Mister Mosley? Aye. Missus Salanetra?

Aye.

Missus Strausburger? Aye. Missus Warwick? Aye. Mister Wilson? Mister Lavelle, president?

Aye.

Ayes, eight. No. Zero.

The bill have not received the legal requirement of votes. It is passed finally. That moves us to councilwoman Kim Salinatro, presenting the Committee of Public Works and Infrastructure.

Thank you, mister president.

Thank you.

Councilman Kim Salinatro presents bill four sixty four, report of the committee on public works and infrastructure from 05/06/2026 with an affirmative recommendation. Bill four fifteen, resolution amending resolution eight sixty six of 2025, which authorized the mayor and the director of the department of public works to enter into a professional service agreement between the city of Pittsburgh and Studio Zug for costs associated with the Homewood Park construction project for the construction administration schedule extension and transfer of fee from reimbursable expenses by increasing the total spend by $48,000 for a new not to exceed amount of $2,137,082.30. Bill four sixteen, Resolution amending resolution number two zero one effective 05/14/2022 entitled authorizing the mayor and the director of the department of public works to enter into an agreement or agreements or the use of existing agreements between the city of Pittsburgh and Claiborne Design Associates Inc for the professional landscape architectural services for Sheridan Park One Design. The total cost not to exceed $300,000 by increasing the total allocation allocation by the amount of $10,945 for a new total of $310,945. Bill four seventeen, resolution providing for an agreement or agreements with Amerante contracting inc for costs associated with the construction phase of the Smithfield Street reconstruction project, providing for the payment of the cost thereof not to exceed $6,672,202.56.

Bill four eighteen, resolution authorizing the acceptance by the city of Pittsburgh for dedication of certain right of way in and around North Avenue and Brighton Road in conjunction with the bridge reconstruction there too at no cost to the city located in the 22nd Ward of the City Of Pittsburgh. And bill four forty seven, resolution authorizing the mayor and the director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure on behalf of the city of Pittsburgh to enter into a supplemental agreement or agreements with a Liberoni Inc for a cost associated with construction for the Sylvan Avenue multimodal path project, providing for the payment of the cost thereof not to exceed $1,871,008.10 dollars and 97¢, a net increase of $139,306.84 reimbursable at various rates.

Your further reading the entire bill. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the bill's not ready for final action. All in favor to pass those available, aye, whenever it's called. Those opposed will vote no. Will the clerk please take the role?

Mister Charley? Aye. Mister Cockhill? Aye. Miss Gross?

Aye.

Mister Mosley? Aye. Mister Netra?

Aye.

Missus Strausburger?

Aye.

Missus Warwick? Aye. Mister Wilson? Mister Lavelle present? Aye. Aye is eight. No. Zero.

The bill haven't received a legal partner votes. It is passed finally. That moves us to councilwoman Barbara Ward, presenting the committee of recreation youth and senior services.

Thank you, mister Ward.

Thank you.

Councilman Barbara Warwick presents bill four sixty five, report of the committee on recreation, youth, and senior services from 05/06/2026 with an affirmative recommendation. Bill four nineteen, resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy located at 317 East Carson Street, West Tower, Suite 230, Pittsburgh 15219 for the reimbursement for horticultural and forestry work comp completed in Allegheny Commons, August Wilson, Emerald View, Highland, And Riverview Parks in the amount of $250,000.

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

Mister Charley? Aye. Mister Cockhill? Aye. Miss Gross?

Aye.

Mister Mosley? Aye. Missus Salanetra? Aye. Missus Strausburger? Aye. Missus Warwick? Aye. Mister Wilson? Mister Lavelle, president? Aye. Ayes, eight. No. Zero.

The bill has received a legal crime notice of votes is passed finally. That takes us to councilwoman Deborah Gross, presenting the committee of innovation, performance, asset management, and technology.

Thank you,

mister president.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Deborah L. Gross presents bill four sixty six report of the committee on innovation performance, asset management, and technology from 05/06/2026 with an affirmative recommendation, bill four zero eight, resolution amending resolution one nineteen of 2025, which authorized the mayor and the director of the Department of Public Works to enter into a professional services agreement or agreements with RouteSmart Technologies Inc, which provides trash and recycling routing optimization for the purchase and implementation of navigation software that will provide turn by turn directions to environmental service drivers through 11/30/2027 by increasing the total amount by $113,280 for a new total not to exceed of $360,407. And bill four twenty seven, ordinance amending, ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh code of ordinances title one administrative, article seven procedures by adding a new chapter, chapter one seventy three a, housing data dashboard by amending the chapter number to conform to the numbering in article seven of the Pittsburgh code of ordinances. The new chapter shall be numbered one sixty two a. You've

heard the reading in time 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 before aye or a name is called. Those opposed will vote no. Would the first please take the roll?

Mister Charlem? Aye. Mister Cockhill? Aye. Miss Gross?

Aye.

Mister Mosley? Aye. Missus Salanatra? Aye. Missus Strausburger?

Aye.

Missus Warwick? Aye. Mister Wilson? Mister Lavelle, president? Aye. Ayes, eight. No. Zero.

Thank you. And finally, councilman Carl Moza present the committee of intergovernmental educational affairs.

Thank you, mister president. Thank you.

Councilman Kahari Mosley presents bill four sixty seven, report of the committee on intergovernmental and educational affairs from 05/06/2026 with an affirmative recommendation. Bill four zero nine, resolution adopting plan revision to the city of Pittsburgh's official sewage facilities plan for 02/2013 at no cost to the city. Bill four ten, resolution amending resolution five seventy one of 2021 in order to authorize the mayor and the director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure on behalf of the city of Pittsburgh to amend a cooperation agreement or agreements with the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy for maintenance of plantings and other planting related infrastructure in the public rights of way throughout the city of Pittsburgh at no cost to the city. Bill four eleven, resolution amending resolution two ninety seven of 2025 provide providing for a reimbursement agreement or agreements with Pittsburgh Water for costs associated with the Smithfield Street phase one project where Pittsburgh Water would be responsible for paying 100% of the actual expenses involved in certain work to be described in the agreements at an amount not to exceed $123,000 and further amending resolution number nine twenty four of 2024 effective 12/18/2024 entitled resolution adopting and approving the 2025 capital budget.

They proposed 2025 community development program and the 2025 through 2030 capital improvement program by increasing Smithfield Street Phase one by $123,000. And bill four thirteen, resolution authorizing the Pittsburgh Land Bank to acquire all the city's right, title, and interest, if any, in and to the publicly owned properties in the 15th Ward of the City Of Pittsburgh designated in the deed registry office of Allegheny County as Block 55 P, Lots 15 And 160 Chatsworth Avenue, Council District Number 5, Lot 45575860626467686970, And 71, Monongahela Street, Council District Number 5, And Block 56 B, Lot 370 Berwick Street, Council District Number 5 at no cost to the city.

You've heard the reading and entitled the bills. Any discussion on the bill? Seeing none, the bill is not ready for final action. All in favor of the passage of the bill will vote aye and your name is called. Those opposed will vote no. Will the clerk please take the role?

Mister Charlyn? Aye. Missus Strausburger? Aye. Warwick?

Aye. Mister

Wilson? Mister Lavelle, president? Aye. Ayes, eight. No. Zero.

The bill haven't received the illegal count number of votes. It is passed finally. That takes us to motions and resolutions. Is there anything from members? If not, I just wanna give a quick shout out and congratulate our sergeant of arms, Ira Lewis, for recently completing his master's degree in psychology from Point Park University.

That will take us to our meeting announcements. This afternoon at 01:00, council hold an executive session on litigation. Tomorrow morning at ten, council hold our standing committee meeting. Speaker registration will close at 9AM tomorrow morning. To register to speak at this meeting, please hold the sign up form on the council meeting web page or call the clerk's office at (412) 255-2138 by the deadline. With that, we have a motion to excuse the absent member. Approve the minutes and adjourn meeting.

So so moved.

Need a second? Second. All in favor,

say aye.

Aye. Aye. We are adjourned.