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Standing Committees · May 6, 2026

1:30 PM · Council Chambers · 24 items

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  • Meeting ID: 1409905
  • Type: standing-committee
  • Document: minutes
  • Status: previous

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12026-0450Resolution amending Resolution No. 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.A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 291Affirmatively Recommended2
22026-0420Resolution 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 Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), in full and final settlement of litigation filed in the Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County, at No. GD 25-004124. (Executive Session held 4/28/26)A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 289Affirmatively Recommended2
32026-0426Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh City Code, Title Two: Fiscal, Article IX: Property Taxes, by creating a new Chapter 269: Real Estate Tax Exemptions for Construction or Adaptive Reuse of Buildings on Pittsburgh’s Northside. (Public Hearing scheduled for 6/22/26) SPONSOR /S: COUNCIL MEMBER WILSON A motion was made that this matter be Held for Cablecast Public Hearing. The motion carried. INVOICES INVOICES FOR COUNCIL APPROVAL The following departmental invoices not covered under a contract with the City shall be paid by the City Controller after the invoices have been approved by City Council at the May 6th, 2026 Standing Committees meeting. A completed standard form detailing the expenditures is attached to all of the below listed invoices. No payments will be made to any of the below listed vendors prior the approval of City Council. CITY COUNCIL/ CITY CLERK 412 Clean Teams LLC – donation to The Everyone and Their Mother Fest (Dist. 1) 200.00 Warhola Entertainment LLC – bounce house for Westwood/Oakwood Athletic Association Opening Day (Dist. 3) 390.00 COMMISSION ON HUMAN RELATIONS Lamar – 2 billboards for Fair Housing Month 1,991.00 DEPT OF FINANCE One Call Handles It All – landcare for 3TB property 1,150.00 BUREAU OF POLICE B&R Starters Inc – Auto Squad vehicle inspections 148.95 National Target Company Inc – Academy range targets 583.01 Stopstick LTD – stop sticks for Fleet and Academy 4,999.00 RPC Video – Real Time Crime Center monitor HD splitter 1,339.00 Allegheny Equine Association – medical exam and meds for Mounted Unit horse 359.97 Thick Bikes LLC – parts and installation for Bicycle Unit 101.98 Wood, Caytlin – reimbursement for training registration 4,500.00 Kolat, Nicholas – reimbursement for training registration 1,295.00 DEPT OF PUBLIC WORKS East West Manufacturing & Supply Co – off-contract HVAC and boiler services at Oliver Bath House 1,080.00 Brubach Plumbing – relocation of horizontal rain conductor at Marshall Mansion 4,045.00 DEPT OF PARKS & RECREATION Paint Monkey Inc – 2026 ARTWorks painting artist 450.00 Ornato, Vince – 2026 ARTWorks caricature artist 475.00 Edwin Carl Nelson Wiancko – Riverview Park’s Arbor Day event music 500.00 Service Equipment Company Inc – vibration analysis at Schenley Ice Rink 2,489.50 South Side Ctr Advisory Council – Senior Lunch reimbursement for Draft day #1 88.84 Pro Knitwear – basketball league tees 536.00 DEPT OF MOBILITY & INFRASTRUCTURE Eco-Counter – subscription renewal for pedestrian counter 360.00 A motion was made that this matter be Approved. The motion carried. INTRA DEPARTMENTAL TRANSFERS NONE(Public Hearing scheduled for 6/22/26) A motion was made that this matter be Held for Cablecast Public Hearing. The motion carried. INVOICES INVOICES FOR COUNCIL APPROVAL The following departmental invoices not covered under a contract with the City shall be paid by the City Controller after the invoices have been approved by City Council at the May 6th, 2026 Standing Committees meeting. A completed standard form detailing the expenditures is attached to all of the below listed invoices. No payments will be made to any of the below listed vendors prior the approval of City Council. CITY COUNCIL/ CITY CLERK 412 Clean Teams LLC – donation to The Everyone and Their Mother Fest (Dist. 1) 200.00 Warhola Entertainment LLC – bounce house for Westwood/Oakwood Athletic Association Opening Day (Dist. 3) 390.00 COMMISSION ON HUMAN RELATIONS Lamar – 2 billboards for Fair Housing Month 1,991.00 DEPT OF FINANCE One Call Handles It All – landcare for 3TB property 1,150.00 BUREAU OF POLICE B&R Starters Inc – Auto Squad vehicle inspections 148.95 National Target Company Inc – Academy range targets 583.01 Stopstick LTD – stop sticks for Fleet and Academy 4,999.00 RPC Video – Real Time Crime Center monitor HD splitter 1,339.00 Allegheny Equine Association – medical exam and meds for Mounted Unit horse 359.97 Thick Bikes LLC – parts and installation for Bicycle Unit 101.98 Wood, Caytlin – reimbursement for training registration 4,500.00 Kolat, Nicholas – reimbursement for training registration 1,295.00 DEPT OF PUBLIC WORKS East West Manufacturing & Supply Co – off-contract HVAC and boiler services at Oliver Bath House 1,080.00 Brubach Plumbing – relocation of horizontal rain conductor at Marshall Mansion 4,045.00 DEPT OF PARKS & RECREATION Paint Monkey Inc – 2026 ARTWorks painting artist 450.00 Ornato, Vince – 2026 ARTWorks caricature artist 475.00 Edwin Carl Nelson Wiancko – Riverview Park’s Arbor Day event music 500.00 Service Equipment Company Inc – vibration analysis at Schenley Ice Rink 2,489.50 South Side Ctr Advisory Council – Senior Lunch reimbursement for Draft day #1 88.84 Pro Knitwear – basketball league tees 536.00 DEPT OF MOBILITY & INFRASTRUCTURE Eco-Counter – subscription renewal for pedestrian counter 360.00 A motion was made that this matter be Approved. The motion carried. INTRA DEPARTMENTAL TRANSFERS NONEHeld for Cablecast Public Hearing0
4Item 0016-2026P-CardsA motion was made that this matter be Approved. The motion carried.Approved1
52026-0462Resolution directing the Director of the Department of Public Safety and the Chief, Bureau of Police, pursuant to § 211 of the Pittsburgh Home Rule Charter, to provide Council with a report detailed ing violent crime data on violent crimes committed in the City of Pittsburgh, disaggregated by age group, single years of age, age of victim, and location and neighborhood of crime no less frequently than quarterly. SPONSOR /S: COUNCIL MEMBER WARWICK A motion was made that this matter be AMENDED. The motion carried. Enactment No: 292 A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended as Amended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 292Council with a report detailed ing violent crime data on violent crimes committed A motion was made that this matter be AMENDED. The motion carried. Enactment No: 292 A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended as Amended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 292AMENDED0
62026-0288Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Four: Public Places and Property, by adding Article IX: Use of City Owned or Operated Spaces, Chapter 495 - Prohibiting Immigration Enforcement in City-Owned or Operated Spaces. SPONSOR /S: COUNCIL MEMBER GROSS CO-SPONSOR /S: Council Member Warwick A motion was made that this matter be AMENDED BY SUBSTITUTE. The motion carried. Enactment No: 11 A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended as Amended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 11A motion was made that this matter be AMENDED BY SUBSTITUTE. The motion carried. Enactment No: 11 A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended as Amended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 11AMENDED BY SUBSTITUTE0
72026-0289Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Four: Public Places and Property by adding, Article IX: Use of City Owned or Operated Spaces Chapter 496 - Protecting Community Spaces. SPONSOR /S: COUNCIL MEMBER GROSS CO-SPONSOR /S: Council Member Warwick A motion was made that this matter be AMENDED BY SUBSTITUTE. The motion carried. Enactment No: 12 A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended as Amended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 12A motion was made that this matter be AMENDED BY SUBSTITUTE. The motion carried. Enactment No: 12 A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended as Amended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 12AMENDED BY SUBSTITUTE0
82026-0447Resolution 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 costs associated with construction for the Sylvan Avenue Multimodal Path Project; providing for the payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed One Million Eight Hundred Seventy-One Thousand Eight Hundred Ten Dollars and Ninety-Seven Cents ($1,871,810.97) a net increase of One Hundred Thirty-Nine Thousand Three Hundred Six Dollars and Eighty-Four Cents ($139,306.84), reimbursable at various rates.A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 290Affirmatively Recommended2
92026-0300Resolution providing for the issuance of a warrant in favor of A. Folino Construction, Inc., in the amount of Four Hundred Eighty-One Thousand, Three Hundred Twenty Dollars ($481,320.00), for the purpose of Emergency Snow Removal at various locations; and providing for the payment of the costs thereof, over one year.A motion was made that this matter be Held in the Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure, due back by 5/20/2026. The motion carried.Held in the Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure, due back by 5/20/20262
102026-0414Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Finance, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into an agreement or agreements or amendments thereto with various parties for the purpose of accessing City property while certain railroad crossing at Lock Way East and Lock Way West (Council District 7) are being upgraded or removed, at no cost to the City.A motion was made that this matter be Held in the Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure, due back by 5/20/2026. The motion carried.Held in the Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure, due back by 5/20/20262
112026-0415Resolution amending Resolution 866 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 Zewde 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 Forty-Eight Thousand Dollars ($48,000.00) for a new not to exceed amount of Two Million, One Hundred and Thirty-Seven Thousand, Eighty-Two Dollars and Thirty Cents ($2,137,082.30).A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 284Affirmatively Recommended4
122026-0416Resolution amending Resolution No. 201, effective May 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 Klavon Design Associates, Inc. for the professional landscape architectural services for Sheraden Park I Design. The total cost not to exceed Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00),” by increasing the total allocation by the amount of Ten Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-Five Dollars ($10,945.00) for a new total of Three Hundred Ten Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-Five Dollars ($310,945.00).A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 285Affirmatively Recommended2
132026-0417Resolution providing for an Agreement or Agreements with A. Merante Contracting Inc. for costs associated with the Construction phase of the Smithfield Street Reconstruction project; providing for the payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed Six Million Six Hundred Seventy-Two Thousand Two Hundred Two Dollars and Fifty-Six Cents ($6,672,202.56).A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 286Affirmatively Recommended2
142026-0418Resolution authorizing 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 thereto at no cost to the City, located in the 22nd Ward of the City of Pittsburgh.A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 287Affirmatively Recommended3
152026-0008Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Seven: Business Licensing, Article VII Service Businesses, adding a new Chapter 768: Short-Term Rental Housing. SPONSOR /S: COUNCIL MEMBER GROSS CO-SPONSOR /S: Council Member Coghill and Council Member Wilson A motion was made that this matter be Held in the Committee on Land Use and Economic Development, due back by 6/17/2026. The motion carried.A motion was made that this matter be Held in the Committee on Land Use and Economic Development, due back by 6/17/2026. The motion carried.Held in the Committee on Land Use and Economic Development, due back by 6/17/20260
162026-0419Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, located at 317 East Carson Street, West Tower, Suite 230, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 for the reimbursement for horticultural and forestry work completed in Allegheny Commons, August Wilson, Emerald View, Highland and Riverview Parks in the amount of TWO HUNDRED, FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS and NO CENTS ($250,000.00).A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 288 INNOVATION, PERFORMANCE, ASSET MANAGEMENT, ANDAffirmatively Recommended2
172026-0408Resolution amending Resolution 119 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 November 30, 2027, by increasing the total amount by One Hundred Thirteen Thousand Two Hundred Eighty Dollars ($113,280.00) for a new total not to exceed Three Hundred Sixty Thousand Four Hundred Seven Dollars ($360,407.00).A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 279Affirmatively Recommended2
182026-0427Ordinance amending “Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title I, Administrative, Article VII, Procedures, by adding a new Chapter, ‘Chapter 173A: 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 “162A.” SPONSOR /S: COUNCIL MEMBER CHARLAND A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 13A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 13Affirmatively Recommended0
192026-0385Resolution adopting Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh’s Official Sewage Facilities Plan for 3634 Penn Ave, at no cost to the City.A motion was made that this matter be Held in Committee to the Committee on Intergovernmental and Educational Affairs, due back by 5/13/2026. The motion carried. Enactment No: 308Held in Committee to the Committee on Intergovernmental and Educational Affairs, due back by 5/13/20264
202026-0409Resolution adopting Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh’s Official Sewage Facilities Plan for 217 - 239 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, at no cost to the City.A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 280Affirmatively Recommended4
212026-0410Resolution amending Resolution 571 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.A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 281Affirmatively Recommended2
222026-0411Resolution amending Resolution 297 of 2025, providing for a Reimbursement Agreement or Agreements with Pittsburgh Water for costs associated with the Smithfield Street Phase 1 project where Pittsburgh Water would be responsible for paying 100% of the actual expenses involved in certain work to be described in the Agreement(s), at an amount not to exceed One Hundred Twenty-Three Thousand Dollars ($123,000.00) and further amending Resolution No. 924 of 2024, effective December 18, 2024, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2025 Capital Budget, the proposed 2025 Community Development Program, and the 2025 through 2030 Capital Improvement Program” by increasing Smithfield Street Phase 1 (TIP) by One Hundred Twenty-Three Dollars ($123,000.00).A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 282Affirmatively Recommended2
232026-0412Resolution 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 12th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh designated in the Deed Registry Office of Allegheny County as Block 125-A, Lot 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118,133 (0 Lincoln Avenue & 0 Mayflower Street - Council District No. 9), at no cost to the City.A motion was made that this matter be Held in Committee to the Committee on Intergovernmental and Educational Affairs, due back by 5/13/2026. The motion carried.Held in Committee to the Committee on Intergovernmental and Educational Affairs, due back by 5/13/20262
242026-0413Resolution 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 (0 Chatsworth Avenue - Council District No. 5), Lot 16 (0 Chatsworth Avenue - Council District No. 5), Lot 45 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 57 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 58 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 60 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 62 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 64 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 67 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 68 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 69 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 70 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 71 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), and Block 56-B, Lot 37 (0 Berwick Street - Council District No. 5), at no cost to the City.A motion was made that this matter be Affirmatively Recommended. The motion carried. Enactment No: 283 MOTIONS Councilwoman Strassburger motioned for Post Agenda on Annual Comprehensive Financial Report(ACFR). The motion carried.Affirmatively Recommended2