Good morning and welcome to the regular meeting of City Council on Tuesday, March 24th, 2026. Will the clerk please take the roll? Mr. Charland. Mr. Coghill. Ms. Gross. Mr. Mosley. Here. Mrs. Salinetro. Here. Mrs. Strassburger. Here. Mrs. Warwick. >> Here. Mr. Wilson. Here. Mr. Lavelle, president. Here. Six members present. Thank you. For those who are able, please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance and 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 it 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. 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 would not be permitted. Once you are called, please state your name, provide your neighborhood for the record, you'll be given 3 minutes to speak. Our first registered speaker is Madeline McGrady. Hi, good morning, Council. Maddy McGrady. Uh I live in Highland Park. Um and I'm speaking today as uh human rights program manager at the Global Switchboard. Um I we're a nonprofit organization stewarding uh network to promote human rights and social justice in the Pittsburgh region. Uh we're home to the All for All coalition for immigrant rights and inclusion, uh Frontline Dignity, and a number of other projects uh focused on supporting immigrants in our region. Um I'm speaking uh today in total support of the proposed legislation to ban cooperation between the city with ICE and Border Patrol except where required by law. Um obviously, these agencies are flagrantly violating people's basic rights to due process, to privacy, uh the right to nondiscrimination and equal protection under the law, and more. Uh 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. Um I want to thank uh Council members Gross, Warwick, and Strassburger for sponsoring this legislation um and for your work to ensure it's as strong as possible. Um to all of Council, uh we urge you to support this package and to pass it without delay. Thank you so much. >> [applause] >> Thank you. Our next speaker is Dr. Ronald Lin Miller. Dr. Ronald Lin Miller, Oakland Central, Kobe, Japan. As in the Pittsburgh City um LIA network. Higashinada, a neighborhood in Kobe. As in the Pittsburgh City Neighborhood Network and the World Neighborhood Network, all of which I have founded. In 2025, Japan, Nippon, uh UN New York email, inquiry@ny. mofa.go.jp. Uh Naikaku Sori Daijin, Taka Ichi, Tensai, Pitts- president uh uh claimant um of the United States, G DJT Baka. Um Global Intelligence Society candidate for president 2028 ACE and Reiwa 10, Global Information Intelligence Network.net. The concerns of Pittsburgh City Council include a focus on the child, um Kodomo in Japanese. Um a concern that I have is consistent with this, an initiative for for the child. Um USA country, Pittsburgh City High School Westinghouse children, are not in the top 10 info intel uh assessments of uh kids worldwide. Nippon country, Kobe 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 XY coordinate grid. Example, uh graph the grid uh graph a grid a five-point info intel data set, uh the time of entry into Pittsburgh City Council regular meetings um on days uh in January, February, and March 2026, uh by a Pittsburgh City councilor claimant. On the x-axis, month, day, PCC meetings 2026, 5 January, 21 January, 17 February, um uh 10 March um and 17 March. On the y-axis, uh Council Room CR time of entry, 10:00 a.m., 10:20, 10:40, 10:20, 10:43. Uh line graph linking the XY uh grid intersection points shows increasingly uh late um CR entry by um An- Anthony Coghill, District 4. We have graphs for all of you. Um this example is from real data verified via Pittsburgh Channel online recordings, uh CR offline uh written records, and in-person observers. Thank you. Our next speaker is Antoinette Caldwell. Good morning, members of the Council. My name is 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 24th this weekend, juvenile officers each um used pepper spray. Three juveniles were arrested. Their ages weren't were not disclosed. And there was a crowd of over 40 um juveniles, they were dispersed by police officers using pepper spray after they didn't respond to trying to de- de-escalate 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 a human's natural reaction? It's not going to be learning to like assimilate and use peace. Usually, you act out cuz it's in human nature to want to be able to find a community and fit in. Community isn't just shared space and it isn't shared thoughts. It's 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 71% come from disputes, disputes that can be solved through an understanding. I feel if youth have a third third location that's not home nor school, somewhere where they can go and learn to have familiarity and bond with their community, I think it would be beneficial to us, to the parents, and the community. If you have no spot to go, how are you supposed to learn to grow in learn about how to assimilate into the world before you. We have to give We have to give them an 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 peers to be able to feel as though they belong. And that's really all I have to say. Thank you for your time. >> [applause] >> 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 16th through 20th. We recorded 120 total responses. All nine districts were represented. Um I'll cover three issues related to license plate readers, comprehensive planning, and emergency vehicle prioritization. Number one, on license 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 Beechview in District 4 said, using license plate readers to make profiles of people's movements is dystopian and a step too far in the name of safety. Um [snorts] 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 Coghill that the data can be useful in stopping true criminals. Uh 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 under 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 uh fire and EMS first, then garbage collection, followed by road repair crews, uh snow removal and plowing, and finally parks and recreation maintenance vehicles. All right, 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 of Maryland to take care of a relative. Reason I'm here today is because uh I'm in town for a medical procedure. Uh I come here a lot for UPMC purposes. And [clears throat] I wanted to speak today and I keep track of Pittsburgh news even when I'm in Ocean City, Maryland. But I want to bring something up real quick and I know Ocean City, Maryland is not Pittsburgh. It's not as big as Pittsburgh. But they have to control their homeless problem. They have some tents that were set up outside of a church parking lot because the church didn't have any uh room for them. You know what the mayor did? I'll tell you what he did. He told the church, you have within You have 30 days to get those tents off that parking lot because it's in violation of an of a city ordinance. And if the tents are not off the parking lot, we're going to 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. Pittsburgh's out of control. Still out of control. All right? You have city police who don't know what they're doing uh you know, with ICE. You have three people telling three different stories. You got to get it together. The NFL draft's coming and we're picking up garbage and we're doing other things or 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 uh sexually assaulted your daughter. Then what are you going to do when ICE can't come to take them out of here? Okay? Think about that for a minute before you make a decision as to whether or not you want to work with ICE. ICE is here to help. ICE is here to get rid of the troublemakers that you don't want to get rid of. Okay? That's that's the story about public safety and ICE. All right? Next. I I I want to congratulate the young lady who just spoke before me. All right? But you know what, young lady? I want you to take this back to all your juvenile friends. All all all all all all the juveniles that were downtown. All right? It works both ways here. You got to work with the police. You got to work with public safety instead of running around downtown causing chaos. And you know what? Public safety's involved in that. And the justice system in this town is involved in that. We have certain council members here again, that don't want to work with ICE. They don't want to work with justice. They don't want to 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 all the crime downtown. Uh it's great to be back here here and there and uh 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's not as big as Pittsburgh. But at least they got their act together with public safety and the homeless. Have a safe and great one. Thank you for letting me speak. Thank you. Our next speaker is Laise Alexander. Hello. Uh my name is Laise [snorts] Alexander and thank you for giving me this space. Um I have been a resident of Pittsburgh for some years, but now I live in Penn Hills. And but I came here and I want to 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 uh 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 100%. [snorts] 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 [snorts] 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 the 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 [snorts] 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're 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 [applause] you. Our last registered speaker is Ikhana Halmalkina. >> [snorts] >> Greetings and good day. My title is Chief Ikhana Halmalkina. I am the granting authority of Aboriginal American people. Yesterday, NFL player Damar Hamlin demonstrated attributes of the same coat of arms and reached back to sow into the community and institution that once voted in him. Which leads me to wonder, just what will it take to compel the leadership of this city to invest in the youth of this city? We must first see them as an investment, as our future leaders. I urge you to invest instead of arrest for they are merely a product of the environment you failed to create for them. Take Liberty Green Park in East Liberty Manor area. Teens often gather there with nothing to do. A large grassy knoll gives away the rough play and out of boredom can quickly become a fight as seen in Market Square where where playful conduct turned into unnecessary fist fights, then pepper spray. I can't help but think how much of a difference some of that American rescue plan money, 335 million to be exact, would have made for these teens to learn a new skill or a trade. Why? Why why why? Why are children not invest invested in from birth to around age eight, but somewhere around nine to 19, something happens to erase their value. I hear the curve claim that our children are valuable and yet they do belong. We need to implement 3D printing, painting, woodworking, gardening, hack t-shirt making, flying drones, partner with some of these institutions, CMU, Pitt, 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. >> [applause] >> 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 Bernadette from Beechview and piggybacking off of what our youth had said and others, I was downtown on Sunday. I had to go down and pick up a prescription at CVS. 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. >> [sighs and gasps] >> When I had my foster girls, we had to find places for them to to utilize that energy that they have 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 Beechview, the president had they they made it it possible for us to have a rec center that included a theater. You hear 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. Supervised create. That's for one. The immigrant uh situation, I live in Beechview, 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, right 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, a 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. Um that 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 this the the dreamer thing where the babies come over, they're safe, but not the seniors. >> [applause] >> Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning, Council. My name is Mark McClean and I live in the ninth ward. Uh you know, I believe in the rule of law. I don't believe in Council, who is the legislative branch of the city, making laws that people should ignore. And and Council should not do that either with as it pertains to federal immigration law. I'm an old school Democrat. I'm a Kennedy Democrat, Clinton Democrat, Obama Democrat, and I'm tired of these San Francisco values being infiltrated in our city where you can ignore laws you don't like. You Council take an oath to the Constitution and you and you're just going to ignore it because you don't like what what the in the purview of immigration is is responsibility of the 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 quasi sanctuary city legislation and I'm not for that and most Americans are not. So you can sit there and drink your lattes and then and and embrace your San Francisco 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. Some just like states don't have the right to ignore extradition papers. Or we Is that our next step? If someone in in Florida who a person commits a crime in Pennsylvania goes to Florida, can De Santis say, "I'm not going to send him back because I don't I don't think what their their laws in 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 a 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 people of my ilk can differentiate between illegal immigration and legal immigration. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning. My name is Yvonne F. Brown. I live at 715 Wylie Street. The the speaker before me, only thing that I have a problem with is the way that these that um 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 have laws. They have 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 been here for years. I lived in California and um when they talk about ICE, I I can picture them being down in the um uh It was the area of warehouse. Warehouses. A lot of Mexicans would be down there. But I know it's wrong that they came, the way some way some of them did, but we don't have a system to um to to even help them. You have a system that is killing them. And that's not right. Um I'm going to change my subject for a minute. This lady um her name is Lenore Dorothy Walker. This lady uh passed. And the reason why I bring her her picture down, she had a funeral and [clears throat] we had She had a beautiful funeral. It was a nice funeral. It wasn't where there's a lot of Sometimes you go and it's so much crying and I mean you can see the hurt. Well, this this um funeral was just like a homegoing. She's going home. If it depends on how you what kind of religion you believe in, but um the family was very nice, a very nice does. They had beautiful food. The food was delicious in the repast. But this lady used to work for Les Slabwick. You remember he had said he had um uh he worked with eggs up on Bedford Avenue. That's where she worked with him at. Then he went to another part of well, out of the city. He took her. He's one of Look, when he was talking about my girls, she was one of his girls. Les Slabwick. You know, Les had one ran for the mayor quite a few times and he really thought a lot of her even when he ran for mayor this last time he came up in the building he went to Kaylee whatever his 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 um um um my time is up. You have a nice day everyone. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good morning. I'm Zoltan Zsolt Jakob. Uh previous name present name Jacob Pool. I'm from Eastern Europe and I'm a type of immigration that people don't want to have in the Pittsburgh area which is child trafficking child slave trading American military organizations and organizations extensions of American military operating Europe and Eastern Europe facilities and camps where they gather up people from Europe children like myself. I was in facility for many years on the on the other side of Ukraine border in the '90s when people leaving the Soviet Union from Ukraine with thousands of children our records are being changed we were 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 30 years with no minimal human contact no friends while being pushed to the University of Pittsburgh PNC Bank and Giant Eagle in various slavery conditions. And I'm still here. So this is the 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 100,000 within the Pittsburgh metro. They're all living hiding in secrecy using medical for forged medical documents forged identities forged everything in captivity with zero police access. I went to the zone three zone four zone five police stations for a period of five years to be harassed out the forged falsified police records for me as a continuation of their child trafficking and child slave trading from Europe and Eastern Europe to the Pittsburgh area. The University [snorts] of Pittsburgh the University of Pittsburgh nationality rooms and all those things. So when I advocate for Pittsburgh 311 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 international law is not broken by child slave trading 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 and you can go to the police but this is a website file go go file police report because you're probably being held captive using forged medical documents UPMC medical devices like I am. For 30 years and seven years before that in Europe in American child slave trading camps. Thank you. Thank you. >> [applause] >> 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. Um 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. Um I just wanted to say for the record I know you guys know this I'm just going to say it so that everyone knows it. Um 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 uh 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 Michelle 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. >> [applause] >> Next speaker please. Good morning special agent sunshine the missing child Seriece 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 out 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 2 and 9 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 that you may declare the praises of him who called 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 going to do Lavelle have 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 trusts you steal homes left to children and make them homeless on the street this 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 19:8 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 estate 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 want to 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 Charland chair of human resources. No new papers Mr. President. Thank you. Councilman Kraus chair of public safety and wellness. >> No new papers Mr. President. >> Thank you. Councilwoman Gross chair of innovation performance asset management and technology. >> Thank you Mr. President. >> Thank you. Councilwoman Gross presents bill number 287 resolution authorizing and instructing the Department of Innovation and Performance to publish and submit a report on surveillance technologies. Bill 288 ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh code title six conduct article one regulated rights and actions by adding chapter 630B prohibiting immigration enforcement in city-owned or operated spaces and amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh code title five traffic article one administration chapter 503 enforcement and control by adding section 503.21 prohibiting immigration enforcement in city-owned or operated spaces and bill 289 ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh code title six conduct article one regulated rights and actions by adding chapter 630C protecting community spaces. Thank you. Councilman Mosley chair of intergovernmental and educational affairs. Thank you Mr. President. Thank you. Councilman Mosley presents bill number 274, resolution amending resolution 352 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 second quarter of 2026 and increasing the approved amount by $15,500 for a new total cost not to exceed $589,000 over 10 years. And bill number 275, resolution amending resolution 353 of 2025, which authorized a professional service agreement and or contract with Malady and Wooten Inc. for consulting services for state government affairs and legislative services by extending the term through the second quarter of 2026 and increasing the approved amount by $16,500 for a new total cost not to exceed $627,000 over 10 years and 3 months. Councilman Mosley. Yeah, motion to waive rule eight on 274 and 275. There's a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Bill 274 and 275 will be on tomorrow's standing committee agenda. That takes us to Councilwoman Strickland Nitro, chair of public works and infrastructure. Thank you, Councilman Mr. President. Councilwoman Strickland Nitro presents bill number 276, resolution amending resolution 240 of 2025 effective April 17th of 2025 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 Pashek 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 277, 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 Councilwoman Strasburger, chair of finance and law. Thank you, Mr. President. >> Thank you. Councilperson Strasburger presents bill number 278, resolution amending resolution 933 of 2024, which reappropriated federal American Rescue Plan funding by updating the approved projects as outlined in exhibit A version 10. Bill 279, resolution amending resolution 838 of 2025, which fixed the number of officers and employees of the City of Pittsburgh for the 2026 fiscal year and 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 280, resolution amending resolution 841 of 2025, which authorized appropriations, salaries, and capital expenditures of the Parks Trust Fund for the 2026 fiscal year beginning January 1, 2026 by increasing the expend amount by $500,000. Bill 281, resolution amending resolution 60 of 2026 authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Justin Hicocks and their legal counsel, Steinlen Law PLLC, 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 285, resolution amending resolution 835 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 January 1, 2026. And Councilwoman Warwick, chair of recreation, youth, and senior services. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Councilwoman Warwick presents bill number 286, ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code title six conduct article one regulated rights and actions by adding a new chapter 638 non-intervention 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 and economic development. No new papers, Mr. President. Thank you. And for myself, Council President Lavelle presents bill number 282, communication from Rhea 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 March 20th, 2026. Bill 283, 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 284, communication from City Controller Rachel Heisler, submitting the attached fiscal report of tax abatement programs dated March 20, 2026. Uh need [snorts] a motion to receive and file. So moved. Second. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? The bills have been re-received and filed. We'll now move on to unfinished business of which we have two appointments. Bill 135, resolution appointing Lou Irwin as a member of the Board of Directors of Pittsburgh Water for a term to expire January 1st, 2031. And bill 151, resolution appointing Jesse Ainsman as a member of the Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Land Bank for a term to expire January 1st, 2027 serving the remainder of the term for a seat previously held by Tamara Dudukovich. Uh need a motion to approve. So second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? The both appointments have been approved. Our next order of business is reports of committee for final action beginning with Councilwoman Erika Strasburger presenting the Committee of Finance and Law. Thank you, Mr. President. Councilperson Strasburger presents bill number 269 reported a committee on finance and law for March 18th, 2026 with an affirmative recommendation. Bill 227, 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 1 year. You've heard the reading and title of the bills. Are there any discussion? Seeing none, the bills are now ready for final action. All in favor of the passage of the bill will vote I when your name is called. Those opposed will vote no. Will the clerk please take the roll? Mr. Striland. I. Mr. Coghill. I. Ms. Gross. I. Mr. Mosley. I. Mrs. Strickland Nitro. I. Mrs. Strasburger. I. Mrs. Warwick. I. Mr. Wilson. I. Mr. Lavelle, President. I. Nine eyes, zero nos. The bill having received the legally required number of votes is passed finally. That moves us on to Councilman Anthony Coghill presenting the Committee of Public Safety and Wellness. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Councilman Coghill presents bill number 270 reported a committee on public safety and wellness for March 18th, 2026 with an affirmative recommendation. Bill 222, 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 223, resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of the Major Cities 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 bills. Are there any discussion? Seeing none, the bills are now ready for final action. All in favor of the passage of the bill will vote I when your name is called. Those opposed will vote no. Will the clerk please take the roll? Mr. Striland. I. Mr. Coghill. I. Ms. Gross. >> Aye. Mr. Mosley. Aye. Mrs. Salinetro. Aye. Mrs. Strassburger. Aye. Mrs. Warwick. Aye. Mr. Wilson. Aye. Mr. Lavelle, President. Aye. Nine ayes, zero nays. The bill having received the legal required number of votes is passed finally, and that moves us to Councilwoman Kim Kim Salinetro presenting the Committee of Public Works and Infrastructure. Thank you, Council President. Thank you. Councilwoman Salinetro presents Bill number 271. Reported to Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure for March 18th, 2026 with an affirmative recommendation. Bill 113. Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title 1, Administrative, Article 7, Procedures. By adding a new Chapter 174, Right-of-Way Accessibility Needs Inventory. Bill 225. 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 city facilities architecture project in Riverview Park at no cost to the city. Bill 226. 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 appurtenant 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 243. Resolution authorizing the Borough of Crafton 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 F280 located within the boundaries of the City of Pittsburgh. You've heard the reading in 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 when your name is called. Those opposed will vote no. Would the clerk please take the roll? Mr. Charland. Aye. Mr. Coghill. Aye. Ms. Gross. Aye. Mr. Mosley. Aye. Mrs. Salinetro. Aye. Mrs. Strassburger. Aye. Mrs. Warwick. Aye. Mr. Wilson. Aye. Mr. Lavelle, President. Aye. Nine ayes, zero nays. The bill having received the legally 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 272. Reported to Committee on Human Resources for March 18th, 2026 with an affirmative recommendation. Bill 221. 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 Organizational 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 3 years. You've heard the reading in 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 when your name is called. Those opposed will vote no. Would the clerk please take the roll? Mr. Charland. Aye. Mr. Coghill. >> Aye. Ms. Gross. Aye. Mr. Mosley. Aye. Mrs. Salinetro. >> Aye. Mrs. Strassburger. Aye. Mrs. Warwick. Aye. Mr. Wilson. Aye. Mr. Lavelle, President. Aye. Nine ayes, zero nays. The bill having received the legally required number of votes is passed finally, and that takes us to Councilman Bobby Wilson presenting the Committee of Land Use and Economic Development. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilman Wilson presents Bill number 273. Reported to Committee on Land Use and Economic Development for March 18th, 2026 with an affirmative recommendation. Bill 228. 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 229. Resolution further amending Resolution 863 of 2018, effective January 1 of 2019 as amended and titled Resolution adopting and approving the 2019 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 in 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 when your name is called. Those opposed will vote no. Would the clerk please take the roll? Mr. Charland. Aye. Mr. Coghill. Aye. Ms. Gross. Aye. Mr. Mosley. Aye. Mrs. Salinetro. Aye. Mrs. Strassburger. Aye. Mrs. Warwick. Aye. Mr. Wilson. Aye. Mr. Lavelle, President. Aye. Nine ayes, zero nays. The bill having received the legally required number of votes is passed finally. That takes us to motions and resolutions. I'm going to go to Councilwoman Strassburger, and Councilwoman Strassburger, if you could first make a motion to amend the agenda. Uh motion to amend the agenda to submit additional legislation. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The agenda has been amended. Councilwoman Strassburger. Thank you. Thank you for indulgence, Mr. President. Um this is this is legislation submitted by the administration that I've agreed to introduce that uh does need to be rule aided, so um needed to be introduced today. And um so I'll introduce it and have the clerk read it for and then I'll make a motion to rule it after. So motion to introduce bill 20 >> June 219. 219. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Would the clerk please read the bill? Bill 290. Councilperson Strassburger presents a resolution authorizing the Director of the Department of Public Safety to enter into 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. The bill has been introduced. Councilwoman Strassburger. Um motion to waive the rules of Council so that Bill 290 appears on tomorrow's Standing Committee agenda. Is there a second? >> Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Bill 290 will be on tomorrow's Standing Committee agenda. Is there anything else for members? >> [clears throat] >> If not, we have meeting announcements. This afternoon at 12:00 and 1:00, Council will hold executive sessions on litigation matters. Also this afternoon at 1:30, Council will hold a cablecast public hearing on Bill 165 pertaining to a petition relative to the Pittsburgh Municipal Courts record selection. Speaker registration will close at 11:30 today. Tomorrow, Wednesday, March 25th at 9:30, Council will hold a pre-agenda interview for the Historic Review Commission with Council Standing Committee meeting to follow at 10:00 a.m. Speaker registration will close at 9:00. Also tomorrow afternoon at 1:30, Council will hold a cablecast post-agenda discussion on the fourth quarter 2025 financial report. And on Thursday, March 26th at 11:00 a.m., Council will hold a pre-agenda interview with John McCulley for the directorship of the Department of Public Works. To register to speak at this meeting, please go to the sign-up sign-up form on the Council meeting webpage or call the clerk's office at 412-255-2138. With that, uh motion to approve the minutes of the journal meeting. So moved. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. We are adjourned. >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Mhm.