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A
I
just
want
to
say
here
a
few
of
the
things
that
we'll
be
doing
tonight,
we'll
be
hearing
from
bill
orbanek.
Our
budget
director
he's
just
going
to
tell
you
a
little
bit
about
where
we
are.
Why
we've
done
what
we've
done,
give
you
a
little
bit
of
history
and
then
reverend
burgess
and
councilman
lavelle
are
going
to
do
a
powerpoint,
but
I
think
councilman
level
is
going
to
be
able
to
make
it
tonight.
Is
that
correct?
Am
I
correct?
A
Okay,
so
councilman
burgess
will
give
you
a
presentation
that
he
did
he
and
councilman
lavelle
did
to
give
you
some
idea
of
where
we
are
what
we're
doing
and
then
I
want
to.
We
want
to
hear
from
you.
So
what
we
want
to
do
is
not
just
hear
from
you.
We
want
to
actually
have
a
conversation
with
you,
and
so
what
we'll
do
is
call
member
the
registered
speakers.
Do
we
have
registered
speakers,
madam
clerk?
A
A
And
that
you
don't
so
what
I'm
going
to
do
is
call
the
list
of
registered
speakers
first
and
then
we'll
call
other
people
to
give
them
a
minute
or
two
to
also
speak.
It's
not
like
a
public
hearing
where
you
get
three
minutes
and
then
a
minute
if
you
didn't
register
we're
going
to
give
people
about
two
minutes
to
speak
and
then
madame
clark
is
going
to
raise
you're
going
to
be
over
there.
A
Okay,
she's
going
to
raise
a
red
paper
when
your
time
is
up
and
then
we'll
move
on
to
either
council
members
who
will
respond
to
you
and
or
and
give
you
some
answers
or
or
have
some
conversation
with
you
or
we'll
just
say.
Thank
you
for
your
comments
and
then
and
take
consideration
what
you
what
you
have
to
say,
and
if
that
and
after
that,
we'll
go
on
to
the
unregistered
speakers
and
do
the
same
thing.
But
what
we
want
to
do
is
have
a
conversation
we
want
to
be
respectful.
A
We
want
to
hear
from
all
of
you,
but
we
we
always
feel
like.
We
have
you
a
public
hearing
where
we
can't
respond
back
or
we
have
a
post
agenda
where
public
the
public
only
listens.
So
it's
really
difficult.
So
we
thought,
let's
have
an
actual
conversation
with
our
with
our
constituents.
So
I
hope
that
that
you
are
pleased
with
the
meeting
at
the
end
of
the
day,
but
first
we're
going
to
hear
from
the
budget
director
and
then
reverend
burgess.
B
Thank
you,
council,
president
smith.
As
council
president
smith
said,
my
name
is
bill.
Vanek,
I'm
city
council's
budget
director
in
2019
we
passed
the
budget
thought
we
were
doing
really
well
up
until
march
and
then,
as
we
all
know,
the
pandemic
hit
and
businesses
lost
a
lot
of
money,
and
that
was
a
lot
of
tax
revenue
that
we
would
have
been
able
to
get
no
pirate
games
in
the
steelers
games.
So
certain
things
people
didn't
park
downtown
anymore.
B
It
was
the
decision
of
the
administration
at
the
time
to
not
contribute
to
the
unemployment
problem,
so
they
wanted
to
retain
as
many
city
employees
as
they
could
hoping
that
the
pandemic
would
end
sometime
before
this
year.
Unfortunately,
that
didn't
happen
and
we
saw
big
losses
in
revenue.
We
dipped
into
our
rainy
day
fund
our
what
we
call
our
fund
balance
and
spent
over
55
million
dollars.
Out
of
that
running
on
a
structural
deficit
means
you're
you're
spending
a
lot
more
than
you're
taking
in
so
in
2020
in
december.
B
So,
as
a
result,
there
were
draconian
cuts
put
in,
we
were
going
to
lay
off
at
least
600
employees,
somewhere
around
25
of
our
workforce
would
have
been
laid
off
that
included
firefighters,
police,
em,
ems,
emergency
medical
services,
folks,
public
works
workers
refuse
workers,
we've
been
operating
essentially
on
a
skeleton
crew.
Just
barely
able
to
maintain
services
pools
would
have
been
closed.
Rec
centers
would
have
been
closed.
B
Thank
god
the
federal
government
came
through
with,
as
they
determined
367
million
dollars
in
revenue
of
that
there
were
200
the
city
or
the
federal
government
treasury
determined
that
we
lost
and
will
lose
over
the
next
few
years,
approximately
232
million
dollars
in
revenue
in
order
to
operate
the
city,
that's
to
make
sure
everybody's
paid.
That
does
their
job
and
to
make
sure
things
happen.
So,
unlike
our
once,
we
got
this
money,
unlike
our
checking
account
at
home
and
pro
in
the
private
sector.
B
We
all
learned
back
in
grade
school
that
the
legislature's
there,
and,
in
our
case
our
council,
is
there
to
provide
a
not
only
a
check
and
balance,
but
also
to
hold
the
purse
strings
so
that
budget
that
we
passed
in
in
2020
for
2021
was
a
legal
document
and
up
until
july,
and
this
is
why
they
had
to
act
in
july.
B
They
had
to
allocate
those
funds,
additionally
we're
on
a
five-year
plan
and
we're
required
to
produce
a
five-year
budget.
So
all
the
monies
that
we
got,
that
232
million
dollars
was
put
out
in
that
five-year
plan,
the
other
and
because
we're
receiving
the
money
and
you'll
find
out
a
little
bit
more
from
reverend
burgess.
B
A
I'm
just
saying
a
few
words
before
that.
Thank
you,
budget
director
organic
and
I
also
say
we're
joined
by
councilman
bobby
wilson
and
we're
also
joined
in
the
back.
We
have
matt
singer
from
councilman
corey
o'connor's
office
with
that
said,
please
make
sure
and
emily
and
emily
from
erica's
office.
I
apologize
emily
and
please
help
yourselves.
Our
clark's
office
stopped
and
purchased
snacks
and
drinks,
soda
and
water.
Please
help
yourself
throughout
the
meeting.
A
C
Okay,
so
before
I
do
the
presentation,
I
want
to
explain
something
about
how
council
budget
works.
My
name
is
ricky
burgess.
I
am
tied
for
the
longest
serving
member
of
council.
I
am
the
longest
serving
african-american
member
of
council.
I
have
been
budget
chair,
I
think
two
or
three
times,
and
so
I
have
directly
created,
helped
create
budgets,
the
capital
budget
and
in
fact
the
process
we
use
to
create
budgets
is
process
that
I
helped
create
and
legislate
both
on
the
capital
budget
and
the
operating
budget.
So
the
thing.
C
That
we
don't
operate
the
way
another
company
or
most
non-profits,
that
you're
used
to
operating.
We
don't
operate
that
for
the
city
to
spend
money
outside
of
salaries
and
suppliers,
so
salaries
and
suppliers
are
separate
right.
We
we
pay
police
officers,
we
pay
the
staff,
we
buy
paper
pencils
for
for
all
that
stuff.
Once
we
pass
the
budget,
that's
normal
everyday
process
that
goes
on
almost
automatically
anything.
That's
not
that
any
other
disbursement
has
to
have
two
separate
acts
of
counsel
after
it's
been
budgeted.
So
there's
really
three
things
that
happen.
We
design.
E
C
Any
of
it
to
be
spent,
it
has
to
have
two
separate
acts
of
counsel
before
a
dollar
is
spent
right.
So
when
we
go
through
the
american
recovery
act,
what
you're
going
to
see
is
a
budget
for
it
that
budget
literally
gets
put
into
the
operating
budget
in
this
year
2021..
So
we
adjusted
2021's
budget.
We
were
just
2022
budget
2023
budget
going
forward,
but
for
any
of
the
dollars
to
be
spent.
Even
though
we've
passed
a
preliminary
budget,
every
dollar
will
take
two
more
acts
of
counsel.
C
So
there's
lots
of
time
to
have
conversations
to
make
adjustments,
because
counsel
in
a
very
public
way
has
to
now
act
on
every
single
line
item
over
the
next
three
or
four
years,
and
I
think
that's
the
part,
that's
kind
of
confusing
you
know
because
you're
used
to
seeing
people
do
a
budget
and
then
you
can
go,
spend
the
money.
The
city
doesn't
isn't
designed
that
way.
It's
a
very
slow
process
designed
for
public
input,
public
control
and
council
being
the
arbiters
of
that.
C
That's
our
our
primary
job
is
to
oversee
the
budget
sure
and
we
have
melvin
l
from
against
office.
My
friend
and
my
brother,
okay,
so
we're
gonna
talk,
they
are
sean,
is
setting
up
the
powerpoint.
Hopefully
you
can
see
it.
You
have
copies
of
it.
In
your
hand,
the
city
of
pittsburgh
allocation
of
funding
for
the
american
rescue
plan,
and
then
you
have
the
overview
of
what
we're
going
to
be
talking
about
those
sort
of
things
you
see
on
page
two,
all
right,
and
so
let's
talk
about
this
a
little
bit.
C
Normally
a
team
team
team
present
this
with
councilman
levail,
who
is
our
finance
director
who's,
been
had
to
go
out
of
town
suddenly,
and
so
I
am
pitch
hitting
for
him
and
also
doing
my
part
copic
19,
both
for
our
city
and
for
many
of
our
families,
a
crisis
right,
many
of
you
in
your
own
budgets,
may
have
lost
jobs.
You
know,
coke
19
just
was
devastating
for
the
city.
We
lost
tax
revenue,
we
lost
tax
revenue
people
because
they
lost
their
jobs;
they
maybe
couldn't
pay
their
their
own
taxes.
C
But
beside
that,
we
lost
things
like
parking
tax
where
people
stopped
working,
they
stopped
coming
and
parking
their
their
their
cars
downtown.
We
lost
games,
we
lost
steeler
games
pirate
games
because
there
was
no
audience
all
that
is
revenue
that
comes
to
the
city.
So,
in
a
variety
of
ways
the
city
lost
a
significant
amount
of
money
and
put
us
in
dire
economic
crisis.
C
The
only
reason
that
we
were
able
to
continue
to
to
to
survive
is
because,
in
the
last
four
years
council
and
in
the
mayor's
office
has
been
very,
very
conservative,
we've
actually
saved
a
lot
of
money,
and
so
what
we've
run
on
the
last
six
months
has
been
our
savings.
If
we
didn't
have
those
savings,
we
would
have
had
to
lay
people
off,
and
so,
instead
of
laying
people
off,
we
use
our
savings
to
operate
up
until
july.
C
F
C
Received
additional
revenue
by
july
1
2021,
we
have
been,
we
would
have
been
forced
to
lay
off
600
employees,
including
firefighters,
paramedics
and
police
officers,
as
well
as
eliminate
completely
city
services.
There
would
have
been
no
street
cleaning.
Probably
there
would
have
been
no
street
sweeping.
There
may
have
been
no
no
code
enforcement
that
we
would
have
had
to
significantly
begin
to
eliminate
essential
city
services.
C
C
So
you're
not
standing
in
front
of
it.
Thankfully,
the
march
2021
plan
allowed
the
city
to
restore
its
2021
budget
and
require
five-year
plan,
and
this.
C
C
Those
changes
have
to
be
reflected
in
each
of
the
years.
Over
the
next
five
years,
the
american
rescue
plan
provided
federal
funds
to
local
governments.
The
state
of
pennsylvania
itself
received
a
chunk
of
money.
We
won't
talk
about
their
money,
but
they
did
receive
their
own
monies,
we're
talking
locally
about
what
affects
the
city.
There
are
three
local
municipalities
that
receive
this:
a
r
a-r-p-a-r-p-a
money,
the
county
of
allegheny,
received
380
million
dollars
right
now
they
are,
they
are
negotiating
internally
as
to
how
they're
going
to
spend
their
money.
C
The
city
of
pittsburgh
received
335
million
dollars.
The
school
district
of
pittsburgh
received
80
million
dollars.
Now
all
these
monies
were
designed
to
do
with
the
cities
or
the
county,
or
this
or
the
school
board
already
does,
and
because
the
way
our
government
functions
each
government
does
something
different.
That's
why?
When
you
compare
cities,
you
have
to
make
sure
you
compare
cities
to
cities,
because
even
though.
C
C
The
county
of
allegheny,
then
funds
human
services
and
that
the
state
funds,
social
services
through
the
counties
and
all
the
municipalities
in
pennsylvania,
except
for
philadelphia
everywhere
else
in
the
state
of
pennsylvania.
Human
services
are
funded
by
the
county
criminal
justice
in
the
course
district
attorney
court
to
common
pleas.
Now
the
county
county
jail,
they
do
adult
education
through
the
community
college
of
allegheny
county
now,
the
city
of
pittsburgh.
We
do
different
things.
We
do
police
fire,
public
safety
code
enforcement,
we
do
public
infrastructure,
like
public
works
streets,
paving
maintenance,
parking
right
away.
C
C
Through
the
urban
redevelopment
authority,
we
do
for
sale,
housing,
affordable
housing,
business,
economic
and
neighborhood
development
and
finally,
through
the
housing
authority,
we
do
public
housing
and
affordable
housing.
Those
are
the
things
that
the
city
does.
The
school
district
of
pittsburgh
does
something
very
different:
they
do
education,
they
have
pretty
much
three
populations
that
they
serve.
One
is
early
childhood
stuff.
They
have
the
early
childhood
educational
services,
they
do
elementary
school,
they
do
secondary
school
and
the
way
the
state
education
law
is.
C
They
can
provide
services,
I
believe,
up
until
age
21,
once
you
become
21,
you
are
no
longer
eligible
for
public
school
services.
You
have
to
then
either
go
to
the
allegheny
intermediate
unit,
which
is
funded
by
different
funding
stream
for
the
county,
or
you
have
to
go
to
the
community
college
of
allegheny
county
once
you
reach
21
you
age
out
of
resources
for
the
pittsburgh
public
schools.
Now,
let's
talk
about
the
american
rescue
plan
and
how
the
city
is
handling
this,
the
city
is
receiving
in
total
335
million
dollars
in
june.
C
I
believe
we
received
the
first
installment,
which
was
106
167.5
million
dollars
and
next
year
in
june,
at
the
exact
same
time,
we
will
receive
another
167.5
million
dollars.
Now
these
funds
have
specific
streams
attached
to
them.
The
first
thing
the
most
important
thing
is:
the
funds
need
to
be
under
contract
and
spent
by
december
31st
2026.
C
Now,
what
we've
done
is
we've
created
a
trust
fund
to
strengthen
accountability
and
increase
public
transparency.
All
this
money
has
been
put
in
a
trust
fund
so
that
it
is
not
commingled
with
the
operating
or
the
capital
budgets
until
we
put
them
in
that
way,
you
can
you
can
track
every
dollar
coming
in
and
every
dollar
coming
out,
because
every
dollar
has
to
be
spent
in
a
specific
reason
given
to
a
specific
purpose
right.
C
C
Account,
if
you
put
money
in
your
savings
account,
you
have
to
take
it
out
and
put
it
in
your
checking
account
that's
how
we're
operating
these
funds.
The
arp
funds
are
specifically
designed
to
spin
things.
The
city
would
normally
spend
money
on
is
regular
course
of
business.
It
is
not
designed
to
do
new
things
on
purpose.
It's
designed
to
do
the
things
we
already
do.
C
They
are
arp.
Funds
are
designed
to
be
expended
on
essential
city
services,
but
because
of
the
way
they
calculate
it,
there
is
a
small
amount,
most
of
the
money-
great,
maybe
three-fourths,
maybe
80
of
it
will
go
to
the
things
we
do
every
day.
There's
a
small
amount
of
it
that
we
have
some
discretion
on
federal.
Best
practices
indicate
that
any
discretionary
spending
be
invested
primarily
in
long-term
capital
projects,
which
is
why
you
don't
see
money
that
goes
to
social
services.
Why?
You
don't
see
money
going
to
after-school
programs?
C
Why
you
don't
see
money
going
to
feed
more
people,
because
best
practices
say
this
money
should
be
spent.
The
discretionary
money
should
be
spent
in
capital
projects.
That
means
specific
things
that
will
last
five
to
ten
years,
like
housing
like
street
construction,
like
things
like
that,
the
city's
discretionary
spending
should
be
used
for
transformational
purposes
instead
of
transactional
and
temporary
purposes.
C
Significant
arp
funding,
spending
on
non-essential
programs
or
programs
not
substantially
related
to
the
city's
essential
obligations
could
and
would
have
significant
unforeseen,
and,
I
believe,
negative
consequences
again.
The
way
where
city
operates.
We
do
not
operate
like
your
home.
That
is
that,
remember
I
told
you
we
have
these
employees
well,
many
of
our
employees,
budget
negotiate
rather
for
their
salary
separately,
and
some
of
them
go
to
what's
called
bonding
arbitration
one
of
the
ways
they
determine
how
their
salaries
are
is
by
council
spending.
C
We
have
been
very
conservative
since
we
act.
We
looked
at
47,
so
you
haven't
seen
a
large
spike
in
the
police,
the
fire,
the
paramedic
salaries,
because
the
city
has
been
acting
so
conservatively.
If
all
of
a
sudden,
we
start
spending
money
on
things
that
we
normally
don't
spend
money
on.
C
An
arbiter
will
eventually
within
the
next
year
or
two
years
will
say.
Oh
if
you
have
that
it's
like
you
know,
you
know
you
have
extra
food,
you
know
they're.
C
Too,
and
so
we
have
to
be
very
careful
of
how
you
spend
this
money,
because
if
not,
it
will
have
disastrous
consequences
for
the
city
of
pittsburgh.
People
who
things
that
you
do
not
want
to
spend
absorb
exorbitant
will
on
will
absolutely
get
a
windfall
from
these
dollars
if
we
start
spending
them
on
things
that
are
not
city
essential
in
normal
activities.
C
The
city
enacted
the
equity
first
spending
plan
and
councilman
president
smith,
myself,
councilman
level
were
part
of
that,
so
we
actually
sat
down
in
the
room
and
helped
determine
and
negotiate
how
this
spending
would
would
become.
That's
why
we're
somewhat
pretty
well-versed
right
all
right,
so
the
city
enacted
the
equity
first
spinning
plan
to
do
three
things,
one
to
account.
C
To
prioritize
investments
in
community
and
economic
development
projects
in
the
city
block
neighborhoods,
every
dollar
that
we
we
spent,
we
accounted
for
what
the
impact
would
be
on
african-american
neighborhoods,
it
was
deliberate
all
right,
so
you
have
two
sort
of
budget
cheats.
One
shows
you
how
the
federal
government
came
up
with
this
167
million
dollars
and
that's
the
guesstimate.
This
is
how
they
guessed.
We
were
losing
money.
Those
are
the
categories.
C
C
The
next
sheet,
which
is
more
important,
gives
you
an
overview
of
the
spending
categories.
Now
you
have
a
sheet
that
shows
you
every
single
project.
Those
projects
are
divided
up
into
these
categories:
the
operating
budget,
the
capital
budget,
special
project,
lead
paint,
the
ura
parking
authority
pitch
park,
water
sewer
authority
and
one
pgh,
which
is
a
public
private
partnership
created
with
by
the
city
of
pittsburgh
and
we'll
talk.
C
C
The
2002
operating
budget,
so
when
you
actually
see
it
spent
it
won't
be
spent
by
itself.
It
will
be
spent
inside
the
budget
all
right,
so
I
want
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
equity
because
some
of
the
equity
is
apparent.
Some
of
it
is
not
so
I'll.
Try
to
explain
it.
The
first
of
all
the
operating
budget.
Over
the
two
years
we
have
invested
174
million,
so
761
thousand.
C
All
right
now
the
operating
budget
is
the
overall
budget
and
a
lot
of
that's
just
employees
and
salaries
and
investor
things
all
right.
Now,
one
of
the
things
you'll
start
to
see
that
we've
done
is
we
started
to
put
money
into
making
sure
that
we
have
essential
services
that
you
may
not
see
immediately
as
equity,
but
they
are
equity
is
clean
and
safe
neighborhoods.
C
C
Not
the
nut,
that's
particularly
insane
heights.
That's
their
number
one
issue
with
deer,
but
that's
not
the
call
I
get
the
number
one
call
I
get
much
more
than
any
other
call
is
about
lawns
vacant
lots
abandoned
houses,
that's
the
number
one
shovel
my
shovel
shovel
the
snow.
Now
our
fleet
of
equipment
that
we
use
is
aged
and
last
year,
for
instance,
during
the
snow
system,
half
of
the
vehicles
on
any
given
day
were
our
service.
C
Equity,
well,
this
is
how
it
works.
We
shovel
snow,
we
clear
lots
primarily
by
the
amount
of
traffic
that
goes
on
the
roads,
so
called
a
primary
secondary
tertiary
street.
So
in
that
formula
every
day,
fifth
avenue
is
going
to
be
clear
to
snow,
no
matter
what
happens.
Fifth
avenue
is
going
to
be
clear
with
snow
right
all
of
those
major
thoroughfares
fifth
avenue
penn
avenue.
They're
gonna
always
be
clear
with
snow
right,
the
other
ones,
the
ones
that
are
less
traveled.
They
are
later
in
the
process.
C
Okay,
now,
unfortunately,
in
african-american
communities
we
have
lost
a
significant
amount
of
population.
Homework,
for
instance,
is
60
to
70
vacant,
so
there's
very
little
traffic
there
in
comparison.
So
when
the
vehicles
break
down
or
have
problems,
guess
whose
communities
don't
get
plowed
guess
whose
catch
basis
don't
get
swept
out
right
so
by
having
better
equipment.
What
we're
assuring
is
that
more
services
will
make
its
way
into
african-american
neighborhoods,
which
right
now
one
of
the
problems
is
because
the
fleet
is
sold.
C
We're
not
getting
to
those
neighborhoods
and
so
we're
making
a
significant
investment
to
replace
the
vehicle's
fleet
for
patching
potholes,
removing
snow
salting,
the
roads
sweeping
the
streets,
maintaining
catch
basins
to
help
prevent
people's
basements
from
flooding
in
rain
events
right.
All
those
things
are
intertwined
no
resident
deserves
to
live
in
a
neighborhood
with
overgrown
trash,
strong
vacant
lots
and
dilapidating
buildings.
C
If
I
was
in
church
I'd
say
somebody
say:
amen,
it's
it's
it's
just
awful
right
and
one
of
the
things
I
tell
people
is
imagine
if
you
were,
if
especially
in
the
black
neighborhood.
Imagine
what
your
block
would
look
like
if
there
was
no
vacant
lots
and
no
abandoned
houses,
and
if
it
wasn't
abandoned
houses,
it
was
boarded
up
and
that.
D
C
Every
single
every
single
lot
was
clean
and
manicured,
but
what
we're
doing,
for
the
first
time
in
many
many
years
is
we're
putting
18
million
dollars
to
vacant
property
maintenance,
that
is
city,
owned,
vacant
property
maintenance,
six
million
dollars,
demolition
of
unsafe
structures,
two
million
dollars
the
pittsburgh
land
bank,
which
is
take,
which
is
the
vehicle
now
to
take
some
of
these
abandoned
houses,
rebuild
them
and
sell
them
or
rent
them
to
african
american
homeowners,
and
so
our
renters.
And
so
we.
C
Trying
to
turn
some
of
these
vacant
structures
into
homes
for
people
equity
means
increased
preventive
services
instead
of
complete
intervention.
Now
we've
had
a
year,
maybe
a
year
and
a
half
of
protests
of
saying
that
they
want
to
see
something
different.
Well,
we've
dedicated
10
million
to
the
office
of
community
service
to
provide
social
services
and
again
this
will
be
in
a
public
private
partnership,
for
instance
we're
putting
social
workers
in
police
cars
so
that
it
has
happened
a
little
bit
in
zone
five.
They
they
piloted
zone
five.
C
This
will
now
provide
a
city-wide
process,
believe
it
or
not.
If
you
call
911
because
you're
having
an
argument
with
your
husband
guess,
who's
coming
who's
coming,
the
police
are
coming
if
you're,
if
you're
having
a
problem-
and
you
just
you
know
having
a
bad
day
and
you're
yelling
and
screaming
and
making
noise-
and
you
frighten
the
neighbors-
and
you
know.
C
C
So
what
we're
doing
is
we're
spending
social
workers
we're
seeing
people
who
are
trained
to
actually
help
you
with
the
problem
that
you're
having
unarmed
people
who
can
come
and
provide
you
with
the
counseling
that
you
need.
We
spent
10
million
of
this
money
now
there's
other
money
again.
This
goes
in
the
budget.
There
are
other
monies
in
the
budget,
that's
being
just
being
the
safer.
C
Stop
the
violence
fund.
That's
a
different
part
of
money,
not
this
money
in
the
operating
budget
that
will
be
spent
funding,
community-based
organizations
that
do
this
work.
I
think
the
rfp
for
that
funds
is
coming
out
in
the
next
few
months:
capital
budget,
59
million
947,
almost
60
million
dollars
right,
safe
places
and
safe
spaces
for
children.
What
we
learned
in
the
pandemic
is
our
parks
have
been
used
in
the
highest
numbers.
C
C
What's
the
name
of
that
park
sean
morris
park
moore
park,
he
has
a.
He
has
a.
He
has
a
park
in
his
district
that
has
three
or
four
baseball
fields
and
a
football
field
and
a
stadium
to
do
refreshments
and
indoor
bath
indoor
indoor
bathrooms.
He
has
an
indoor
recreation
center
with
two
four
quarts
basketballs.
That's
air
conditioned
with
office
space.
He
has
a
professional
deck
hockey
arena
with
a
scoop
with
a
school
scoreboard.
He
has
it
is,
I
didn't
even
know
it
existed.
C
In
my
district,
you
have
community
centers
that
you
know
bathrooms,
don't
work
and
haven't
been
changed
in
many
years,
and
so
what
we're
going
to
do
is
invest
money
specifically
to
rebuild
some
of
those
recreation
centers.
Some
of
them
are
going
to
be
built
brand
new
from
the
ground
up,
and
these
are
the
centers
and
if
you
look
at
them,
most
of
them
are
in
african-american
communities,
carl
re-rec
center
thaddeus,
stephen
mckinley,
phillips,
hazelwood,
jefferson
wreck,
robert
e
williams,
west
penn
marshall,
manson
paulson,
then
they're
going.
E
C
That
the
residents
who
live
in
those
districts
and
the
other
thing
we're
going
to
do
is
broadband
one
of
the
ways
we're
going
to
modernize
it
is
we
still
have
in
the
black
community
a
digital
divide.
Most
people
in
black
communities
unfortunately,
are
using
their
cell
phones
they're.
Not
they
don't
have
access
to
to
broadband
and
computers
and
we're
putting
right
to
tech
in
all
these
facilities
so
that
we're
going
to
invest
into
technology
for
our
residents.
E
C
C
They
will
not
have
to
go
off
the
bond
and
they
will
not
have
to
raise
rates,
and
so,
even
though
it
does
not
seem
on
its
face
to
be
equity,
it's
absolutely
equity.
We
do
not
want
african-american
homeowners
and
winners
to
have
to
pay
higher
water
bills
and
and
they
deserve
to
have
their
lead
lines
replaced,
and
so
that's
why
that
want
that
money
is
going
to
pwsa
equity
means
clean,
safe,
affordable
drinking
water,
17
million
to
pwsa
protects
it
by
replacing
the
lead
lines,
preventing
the
rate
increases
and
the
in
the
money.
C
On
the
front
end,
or
they
can
borrow,
which
will
be
the
equivalent
of
paying
back
43
million
and
you
the
ratepayer
will
absolutely
have
to
pay
back
that
increase
the
urban
redevelopment
authority.
The
ura
is
allocating
close
to
75
million
dollars.
Now
this
is
where
you
see
our
biggest
thumbprint
is
on
housing.
Equity
means
housing.
People
can
afford.
It
dedicates
two
to
two
million
dollars
to
own
pittsburgh,
to
renovate
vacant
homes
and
sell
them
to
residents
and
families
with
low
and
moderate
incomes.
C
There's
monies
that
go
specifically
to
the
avenues
of
hope
of
rebuilding,
not
only
affordable,
housing,
brand
new
brand,
new,
affordable
housing,
but
also
brand
new
african
american
business
districts,
and
so
this
money
will
be
leveraged
10
on
average
10
times
to
accomplish
that
goal.
Equity
means
more
affordable
housing.
The
plan
dedicates
5
million
to
saving
existing,
affordable
housing
because
of
the
less
expensive
river
housing.
It
is
to
build,
build
new
housing.
C
If
you,
you
know
right
around
one
you're
going
to
see
houses
where
people
used
to
live
and
they
just
walked
away
because
they
couldn't
afford
because
the
market's
depressed,
so
they
can't
get
alone
to
fix
up
their
roofs
or
their
water
or
the
water
heaters
or
the
furnaces.
And
so
what
this
money
will
do
is
provide
resources
so
that
existing
homeowners
can
we
can
get
the
help
they
need
to
stay
in
their
homes,
so
they're
not
recruiting
we're,
not
creating
a
new,
more
population
of
people
who
can't
afford
to
stay
in
the
city.
C
It
allocates
an
additional
10
million
to
assist
qualified
printers
and
homeowners
in
paying
their
utility
bills
equally
misre-establishing
black
businesses
and
black
business
districts.
I
have
been-
I
came
to
homewood
in
1957,
actually
from
theresa's
district,
I
was
born
over
the
west
end.
At
nine
months
old
my
parents
moved
to
homewood
and
I've
been
living
in
homewood
or,
and
I
live
now
three
blocks
from
where
I
was
born
and
raised.
I've
been
here
my
whole
life,
so.
D
C
C
International
hack
maker,
he
sent
hats
all
around
the
world
right
in
homewood.
It
had
a
dairy
queen,
it's
owned
that
their
queen.
It
was
tasty
freeze
on
bene
street,
where
the
tasty
freeze
that
I
know
I
had
a
couple
folk
remember.
C
After
the
riots
in
1968,
most
of
those
businesses
never
reopened,
they.
C
Some
black
but
a
lot
of
jewish
and
other
irish
merchants,
and
they
didn't
come
back
and
we
lost
the
business
district
and
that's
not
just
true
homeless.
True
in
the
hill
district,
it's
true
on
walmart
avenue,
it's
true
in
a
variety
of
places
in
our
city
and
so
what.
B
C
At
the
same
time,
you
want
to
create
new
rental,
affordable
housing,
so
that
you
are
able
to
help
families
live
and
clean,
decent,
affordable
housing.
But
when
you
build
the
structure
on
the
on
top,
you
actually
have
already
built
the
structure
beneath
it
because
you
have
to
build
above.
So
it
is
cheaper
now
for
me
to
go
into
a
structure,
that's
already
built
and
then
design
it
up
for
businesses.
So
you
get
two
birds
with
one
stone.
C
You
multiply
the
effects
of
the
dollars,
and
so
then
you
can
give
below
below
below
average
rents
to
black
entrepreneurs.
You
can
provide
them.
You
may
even
be
able
to
build
out
like
a
restaurant.
One
of
the
things
I
talked
about
that
I
really
hope
to
see
happen.
I
like
to
build
a
restaurant
that
has
all
the
stuff
in
it
and
then
you
have
it
available
to
a
restaurant
eat.
Here
we
got
folks
that
can
cook,
but
they
can't
afford
new
fryers
commercial
kitchen
answer
system.
E
C
Cook
and
start
their
business.
You
know
they're
ahead
of
the
game
and
I
think
we
can
do
that.
So
it's
seven
million
to
rebuild
the
black
business
districts.
There
are
seven
of
them
listed
there
across
the
city,
the
hill
district,
sheridan
homewood,
hazelwood,
larmor,
perrysville
north
bill
seuver
allentown,
and
we
will
rebuild
them
pittsburgh.
One
pittsburgh,
private
partner,
public,
private
partnership-
and
this
is
something
that's
going
to
be
new,
and
this
is
guaranteed
income.
C
There's
going
to
be
a
a
program
that
people
will
apply,
for
it
will
primarily
be
the
eligibility
the
people
it
will
be
for
whoever
is
eligible.
A
large
percentage
will
be
single
mother
of
the
children
only
because
that's
the
population,
we
know
that's
the
largest
that
will
be
eligible.
So
it's
going
to
be
filled
with
that
population.
C
C
D
C
D
Stockton,
california,
I
think
the
program
it
was
modeled.
After
I'm
pretty
sure,
stockton.
California,
is
the
first
of
its
side
of.
C
Its
kind
in
the
country-
it's
modeled
after
that,
and
so
2.5
million
dollars
will
go
to
that,
and
so
that's
an
overview
of
where
the
money
is
going
to
go.
C
A
Thank
you,
councilman
burgess,
with
that
said,
we're
going
to
go
through
our
list
of
registered
speakers
again.
Please
help
yourselves
to
refreshments.
We're
going
to
go
through
our
list
of
registered
speakers,
then
we'll
open
it
up
for
those
who
have
not
registered
when
matt.
A
H
Greetings,
my
title
is
ikahanahau
makina.
I
am
the
grand
inca
to
iroquois
confederacy
of
aboriginal
american
people
and
to
me
the
american
rescue
plan
by
its
title
is
for
the
american
people.
Full
disclosure
of
how
this
money
is
to
be
spent
needs
to
be
understood
by
us.
We
have
no
knowledge
of
what
your
mandates
were
for
the
spending
of
this
money
other
than
your
own
articulations.
We
would
like
to
see
the
documentation
that
came
along
with
the
335
million
dollars.
H
H
We'd
also
like
to
see
the
chadwick
center
be
on
the
list
of
those
renovated
spaces,
and
we
would
also
like
to
contribute
to
the
community
in
that
space.
As
we
have
already
explained
to
you,
we
are
the
indigenous
people,
but
we
seem
to
have
been
left
out
of
this
335
million
dollar
allocation.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
A
A
I
J
Greetings
counsel,
I
am
shaman,
I
am
the
medicine
woman,
the
healer,
the
natural
doctor
roots
doctor
bush
doctor
for
the
iroquois
confederacy
of
aboriginal
american
people,
but
I'm
also
that
same
very
person
here
for
the
city
of
pittsburgh
and
for
the
people
of
pittsburgh,
of
all
ethnicities
and
all
backgrounds,
as
I've
done.
This
work
in
this
community
for
over
16
years.
In
my
brick
and
mortar,
that's
right,
indeed,
liberty.
I
want
to
say
that
it
seems
that
you've
really
given
some
thought
and
you've
come
up
with
these
allocations
of
funds.
J
And
again
I
just
want
to
reiterate
lincoln
limington
has
not
been.
I
don't
see
it
reflected
anywhere
in
there
and
that's
a
community
that
a
lot
of
aboriginal
american
people
founded
a
whole
city.
I
should
say
a
housing
development
in
the
chat
with
belmore
garden
area,
so
that
was
developed
specifically
by
aboriginal
american
people.
There
is
the
lemington
home,
which
is
a
historical
landmark,
and
it
became
a
church
much
later
when
they
opened
up
the
new
one.
That
was
also
established
by
aboriginal
american
people
right
in
1900.
J
So
we
have
a
history
in
this
city
and
we
have
a
history
that
is
very
rich
and
full
with
contributing
and
giving
to
the
wellness
of
all
people
on
our
lands.
If
you
study
our
history
and
your
history
as
well,
you'll
know
that
when
the
13
colonies,
which
were
penal
colonies,
were
established,
we
were
helping
those
indentured
servants
and
some
of
those
slavs
where
the
title
slave
comes
from.
J
We
have
the
martin
luther
king
center
too,
to
that
we've
been
stewarding
and
keeping
clear
of
debris,
and
that
and
those
are
spaces
that
we
can
offer
educational
opportunities
for
people
to
know
who
we
are.
Everyone
should
know
who
the
aborigine
people
are
you're
all
on
our
land
and
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
full,
vocal
and
we're
inclusive
too
as
well,
and
I
thank
you
city
council.
Thank
you
for
getting
my
title.
A
Thank
you.
Thank
you
so
much.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
to
the
clerk's
office
for
that
and
thank
you
for
being
here
for
another
meeting.
Let
me
just
say
that
just
wants.
C
To
respond,
I
think,
remember,
remember
this-
these
dollars
get
put
into
the
in
this
case
the
capital
budget
right
for
additional
projects,
but
this
is
not
the
only
money
we're
spending
on
projects
we
just
allocated
a
park
tax
that
park
tax
will
also
be
put
in
the
operating
budget,
so
that
chadwick,
although
it's
not
on
this
list,
doesn't
mean
it
won't
make
the
list
of
the
projects
we're
doing.
This
is
only
a
partial
part
of
multiple
products
we'll
be
doing
for
our
park
centers.
C
The
park
so
there's
a
park
tax,
that's
a
different,
just
a
different
fund
that
will
also
be
put
into
the
budget.
So
when
you
look
at
the
when
you
look
at
the
2022
budget,
you're
going
to
see
these
projects
plus
a
whole
other
list
of
projects
that
are
park
related,
these
are
not
the
only
ones
we're
going
to
be
doing
and-
and
I
just
don't
remember-.
C
C
K
So
my
name
is
elisa
grishman.
I
want
to
make
a
correction
to
you.
I
checked
on
this.
Actually,
while
you
were
talking
the
largest
and
fastest
largest
group
of
people
living
under
the
poverty
line
and
the
fastest
way
to
become
impoverished
is
actually
having
a
disability
by
several
percent,
and
I
I
listened
to
this
whole
presentation.
I've
read
through
the
things
I
heard
exactly:
zero
mentions
of
accessibility
improvements
that
were
going
to
be
made.
So
I'm
going
to
give
you
the
rest
of
the
two
minutes
that
I
have
to
explain
that.
C
C
So,
disability
accessibility
is
built
in
to
almost
everything
we
do,
even
though
it's
not
separate,
for
instance,
when
we
redo
parks,
centers
part
of
it
is
to
make
them
wheelchair
and
disability
accessible.
Many
of
them
are
not
now,
which
is
why
you
have
to
remodel
them
when
we
build
affordable
housing,
I'm
also
a
member
of
the
housing
authority.
We
have
on
purpose
and
I
think
we
got
an
award
for
it.
C
Also,
we've
built
in
we've
built
additional
units,
and
so
even
though
you
don't
see
a
light
item
that
says
disabled
or
disability,
it's
inside
all
the
things
we
do
all
the
things
we
do
are
in
terms
of
street,
and
you
you
see
the
curb
cuts
that
are
going
on
to
in
the
streets
you're,
seeing
all
that
all
of
there
are
dollars
throughout
our
budget
that
impact
directly
people
with
disabilities.
K
Is
there
any
sort
of
oversight
being
done
to
ensure
that
this
is
being
done
properly,
because
you
mentioned
the
curb
cuts?
Let
me
tell
you
like
even
right
here,
the
curb
cut
doesn't
exist
over
there.
I've
been
recording
it
for
several
years
now
things
like
that.
So
what
guaranteed,
along
the
lines
of
guaranteeing
that
the
water
lines
are
going
to
be
done
properly?
What
guarantee
do
we
have
that?
That's
being
done
properly.
C
So,
council,
our
job,
as
you
know,
is
we
we
allocate
the
dollars
the
actual
doing
of
it
is
done
by
the
mayor
and
the
administration
that's
sort
of
their
their
work,
their
job.
There
are
a
variety
of
experts,
of
course,
both
in
public
works
and
in
the
people.
We
contract
that
that
that
do
make
sure
that
there's
a
level
of
accountability.
C
I'm
sorry,
if
you
give
me
your
name
and
number,
though
sean
where
you
at,
where
are
you
where's
sean?
Is
he
he's
all
right,
so
he's
charged
my
staff
member?
He
will
make
sure
we
get.
He
will
after
me,
if
you're
still
here
one
way
or
another,
and
I
will
chat
with
you
ongoingly
about
specifically
how
disability
is
being
addressed
both
in
our
operating
capital
budget
and
we
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
authorities.
Does
that
seem
fair.
K
F
Hi,
so
how
are
you
I'm
doing?
Okay,
so
in
in
your
presentation,
you
mentioned
that
the
council
has
to
approve
this
spending
two
more
times
before
it
actually
goes
into
law,
and
I
spent
some
time
to
look
up
how
the
budget
is
normally
approved
by
the
council
and,
generally
speaking,
it
looked
like
generally.
The
budgets
proposed
right
about
now
or
about
a
month
ago
and
then
we'll
go
through
a
revision
again
after
discussion
in
november
and
then
approval
in
late
december.
Is
that
correct.
F
Is
the
final
approval
of
of
this
spending
gonna
happen
sometime
at
the
end
of
the
year,
then,
along
with
the
rest
of
the
budget,
or
when
do
you
expect
the
final
approval
to
happen?
Okay,.
C
C
When
you,
when
you
went
online,
the
reason
I
said
almost
is
that
there
was
a
different
process
when
we
were
under
act
47.
We
were
under
act
47
for
many
years,
which
meant
that
we
had
to
submit,
I
believe
in
august,
or
so
we
had
to
submit
a
copy
to
the
act.
47
regulators
and
that
budget
then
got
reflected
in
the
budget
you
saw
in
the
fall.
We
are
no
longer
under
act
47,
so
that
process
is
a
little
different.
The
first
time
you'll
see
the
budget
will
now
be
in
the
fall.
C
There's
not
that
early
period,
because
before
act,
47
had
two
regulators,
two
different
state
appointed
regulators
who
had
to
approve
the
budget
prior
to
us,
passing
it
that
they're
gone
now.
So
now
this
the
budgetary
process
belongs
to
council,
okay.
Now,
so
what
you're
saying
is
accurate
on
the
upcoming
budget,
which
is
year
2022,
so
2022
in
the
fall?
C
C
We
had
what
we
did
recently,
which
we
can
do
with
the
agreement
of
the
mayor
and
council.
We
open
up
the
current
budget
right.
The
current
budget
got
opened
up.
We
already
had
the
process
you
talked
about
for
2021
in
2020
right.
So
what
you
saw
now
is
the
opening
up
of
this
year's
budget,
primarily
so
that
we
could
continue
to
pay
people.
If
we
did
not
open
up
the
budget,
we
would
have
laid
people
off.
We'd
have
to
lay
off.
C
We
either
open
the
budget
up
or
lay
off
600
people
I
understand,
but
when
we
opened
up
the
budget,
so
we
didn't
lay
off
600
people.
Remember
I
told
we
told
you
we
have
to
do
a
five-year
plan.
Therefore
we
are
obligated
when
we
open
it
up
to
make
changes
in
any
of
the
years
we
have
to
make
year.
We
have
to
make
the
changes
to
every
year.
C
Thereafter,
okay,
and
so
what
you
saw
now
was
not
really
a
new
budget,
but
simply
the
amendment
to
2021
budget
and
then
the
process
will
start
all
over
again.
We
will
have
a
longer
process
for
2022,
2023
2024,
and
so
once
we
approve
this
budget
for
the
operating,
and
I
mean
for
the
employees
for
pensions
for
pension
payments,
employee
payments
supplies
normal
city
business.
There's
they
can
just
go.
Do
that
right,
any
contract
that
the
city
has
to
engage
in
any
new
thing
the
city
wants
to
do.
C
That's
not
those
things
has
to
come
before
council
by
law.
The
only
way
it
can
occur
is
council,
and
we
have
a
minimum
of
two
votes
that
we
have
to
do.
The
wednesday
preliminary
vote
has
to
be
introduced
on
a
tuesday
the
following
wednesday,
which
is
eight
days
later.
We
have
a
preliminary
vote
and
then
six
days
later
from
that
which
is
two
weeks
after
it's
introduced,
we
have
a
final
vote,
and
so
there's
a
for
every
line.
Item
there's
a
minimum.
That's
the
clue!
C
That's
assuming
we
don't
hold
it
normally,
there's
a
minimum
of
a
two
week
process
for
the
public
to
engage
us
and
that's
for
every
single
item
other
than
the
stuff.
You
see
that
so,
even
though
you
see
it's
budgeted,
there'll
be
another
two
week
window
for
the
public
to
engage
us
on
each
one
of
the
items
you
have
on
that
white
piece
of
paper.
Minimum.
F
Money
for
the
this,
specifically
the
rescue
plan,
when,
when
do
you
expect
that
to
go
for
a
final
approval,.
C
If
the
the
budget
that
okay,
the
american
rescue
plan,
we
showed,
you
is
already
passed
the
plan
for
it.
This
is
the
plan,
it
is
not.
It
is
not
its
own
thing,
it
is
a
spending
plan
and
then
we
will
use
this
to
transfer
the
money
from
the
trust
fund
into
the
actual
budget.
So
it
is
the
budget
that
actually
where's
the
money
gets
spent
year
by
year
by
year.
L
Yeah,
I
just
want
to
say
that
I
think
a
good
example
is.
There
has
been
some
talk
about
10
million
dollars
to
the
office
of
I
believe
it
was
up
there
as
community
engagement
or
something
it's
it's
the
office
that
oversees
the
ahn
co-response
team.
It's
the
urban
poverty
and
homelessness.
So
right
now
we
contract
with
ahn
to
do
like
the
social
service
stuff
that
we're
talking
about
to
do
that.
Outreach
for
homelessness
and
people
that
are
experiencing
substance
use
disorder.
L
So
you
know
a
lot
of
the
defund,
the
police
conversation.
You
know
this
tries
to
get
at
what
we're
doing
about
how
we
respond
to
the
public
in
certain
manners.
So
if
there's
comment
about
that-
and
there
is
input
about
that-
that
should
come
directly
to
us
on
any
anytime-
you
email
my
office.
You
want
me
email
all
members,
so
you
can
continually
engage
us
to
actually
talk
about.
You
know
how
you
like
to
see
that
program
be
implemented
right
now.
L
It's
in
three
zones:
we're
gonna
do
that
three,
I'm
sorry
city
y
24
7,
and
so,
if
you
see
that
in
your
zone,
if
you
have
experience
with
that
or
you'd
like
to
learn
more
about
it,
you
should
definitely
engage
with
us
because,
as
we
move
forward,
the
10
million
is
allocated
that's
for
over
the
next
two
years,
so
5
million
for
each
year,
that's
just
for
the
for
the
the
actual
contract
so
who
we
contract
with
is
still
up
for
negotiation.
G
L
L
You
know
someone
who
is
facing
eviction.
How
you'd
like
to
see
what
you
think
is
missing
in
in
that
type
of
outreach,
how
you,
how
you
view
people
who
are
experiencing
self-disorder,
how
you
like
how
you
think
they
would
like
to
be
treated?
You
should
engage
with
us
on
this
matter
so
that
that
money
is
spent
appropriately.
L
A
I
A
M
Good
evening
and
thanks,
I,
I
have
a
few
questions
and
so.
A
M
M
Why
should
pittsburgh,
citizens
and
taxpayers
hope
that
the
appointed,
not
democratically
elected
board
of
the
port
of
the
the
urban
redevelopment
authority
will
be
accountable
for
excellence
and
what
the
people
need
with
that
immense
amount
of
resources?
That's
one
question:
another
question
is
on
one
of
the
slides.
M
So
where
is
this
assumption
that
61
million
dollars
will
be
in
lost
revenue
in
a
year
when
your
own
budget
says
that
tax
revenue
will
be
restored
fully.
A
Third
question
and
wrap
it
up
with
this
one.
Please
thank
you
and
if
you
have
comments,
you
want
to
leave
what
you
do.
M
Sure
the
third
question
is
one
of
the
things
that
was
not
in
the
slides
is
an
investment
of
12
million
dollars
for
improved
street
lights,
and
I
it
seems
to
me
and
many
other
people.
I've
spoken
to
that.
This
is
not
the
kind
of
thing
that
rescues
a
community
from
the
effects
of
the
pandemic.
It
may
be
worthwhile.
M
It
may
be
the
sort
of
thing
that
we
should
wait
for
infrastructure
funding,
for
it
might
be
the
kind
of
thing
that
if
it's
got
lasting
value,
that
it
should
be
something
that's
funded
by
bond
financing
and
not
by
american
rescue
plan
funding.
It
seems
to
me
that
we
can
come
up
with
many
many
many
ideas
for
better
spending
of
12
million
dollars
than
changing
the
the
street
lights
in
the
city
to
led
bulbs.
A
Thank
you
thank
you
and
we're
going
to
have
each
respond
reverend.
You
want
to
see
something.
C
C
C
I
would
say
that
there
are
multiplicity
of
projects
such
as
the
low
rise
in
on
on
howard
avenue,
that
it
was
a
part
of
the
houses
on
tioga
and
st,
and
I'm
just
our
state
manager,
the
houses
on
to
oga
and
with
the
other
street
that
the
new
house
is
on
telegram
and
the
other
street
that
the
ura
built
I'll
talk
about
walmart
point
that
was
built
in
in
in
the
heart
alarm.
C
There
are
a
number
of
projects
that
the
ura
has
been
actually
very
successful
in,
so
there
are
some,
so
I
guess
so.
That's
number
one.
So
we've
used
the
government
that
we
have
and
given
the
appropriate
agency,
the
resources
to
do
what
it
is,
we've
asked
them
to
do
and
we
will
measure
their
their.
We
will
hold
them
accountable
to
do
what
they're
designed
to
do.
Second,
and
such
first
answer.
Second
question
you
asked
me
was
why
the
projection.
C
Our
estimates
you
do
you've
been
reading
the
paper
or
watching
tv
there's
something
called
the
variants
right,
there's
a
good
chance
that
we
will
close
this
city
down-
probably,
I
hope
not,
but
I
really
think
somewhere
around
the
fall
around
food
flu
season,
there's
a
good
chance.
We
will
close
down
again
and
we
may
close
down
in
the
winter
time.
So
all
of
these
projections
for
both
this
year
next
year
and
next
year.
After
that,
no
one
could
have
predicted
10
years
ago.
C
We're
gonna
have
to
go
there,
and
so,
even
though
the
projections
are
rosy,
I
personally
am
not
really
optimistic
that
our
that
our
revenue
is
going
to
bounce
back
that
quickly,
I'm
actually
pessimistic.
I
think
that
I
think
we're
going
to.
I
really
believe-
and
I've
talked
to
enough
people
that
that
if,
if,
if
there's
still
this
resistance
to
vaccines,
you're
going
to
see
kovic
variants
having
a
tremendous
impact
of
loss
of
life
and
shutting
down
states?
Third
and
most
importantly,.
C
Take
a
while
I'll
be
rhetorical
if
you
drive
through
our
city,
guess
where
the
places
where
the
street
lights
are
broken
around,
guess
where
the
places
are
at,
where
there's
no
light
bulb
where
the
post
has
has
fallen
off
and
not
be
repaired,
take
a
wild
guess
what
neighborhoods
have
the
least
amount
of
functional
street
lights,
oh
by
the
way,
the
same,
also
trees.
By
the
way
too,
we
have
the
list.
We
have
the
least
number
of
trees
in
the
city
of
pittsburgh.
C
We
have
the
least
number
of
functional
street
lights
in
state
of
pittsburgh,
african-american
neighborhoods,
and
we
know
that
when
you
provide
more
lights
in
african-american
neighborhoods,
you
also
reduce
crime,
there's
a
direct
correlation
to
crime
reduction
and
bright
light.
If
you're
a
homeowner.
What
do
you
do
to
your
house
in
the
dark
places
around
your
house?
You
put
lights
up
because
it
deters
crime.
The
same
thing
is
true
in
our
streets.
If
you
have
dark
streets
where
there's
not
it's
not
lit,
it's
an
invitation
for
people
to
do
bad
things
and.
C
Conversation
this
part,
it's
not
a
conversation,
so
we've
decided
because
of
equity,
to
begin
to
rebuild
the
street
lights,
specifically
in
neighborhoods
that
have
for
many
years.
I
have
a
street
light.
I
know
it's
been
out
15
20
years.
No,
it's
been
about
20
years
in
in
homewood.
I
know
because
I
drive
past.
I
know
it's
been
out
that
long
I've
been.
M
Your
snowplow
example
earlier
city
decides
to
allocate
snow,
plowing
resources
based
on
traffic
volume
instead
of
on,
instead
of
based
on
neighborhood
equity.
If
it
did
it
based
on
neighborhood
equity,
we
wouldn't
there
wouldn't
be
an
equity
issue
in
the
replacement
of
the
fleet
right.
So
it's
only
because
of
those
existing.
A
Continue
this
conversation,
we
can
continue
this,
but
I
want
to
get
to
the
other
people
that
didn't
have
a
chance
to
speak.
Yet
that
might
want
a
chance
to
speak,
but
we'll
stay
here
after
the
meeting
to
continue
con
a
conversation
with
everyone.
So
if
you
want
to
speak
fine,
if
you
don't
want
to
speak,
we'll
talk
to
you
afterwards,
just
come
sit
to
see.
A
A
N
N
Thank
you,
I'm
marcia
bandies
and
my
question
really
is
at
the
beginning
of
the
meeting.
Is
this
on
yeah,
okay,.
N
Okay,
so
at
the
beginning
of
the
meeting
I
kept
hearing
that
that
there
were
two
different
opportunities
after
the
the
budget
was
introduced
to
to
be
able
to
change
it
and
now
what
I
think
I'm
understanding
is
that
really
what
you're
talking
about
is
that
it's
it's
introduced
on
a
tuesday.
It's
voted
the
first
time
on
a
wednesday,
and
then
you
have
two
weeks
to
make
a
before
the
final.
C
Opportunities
for
this
to
occur,
first
of
all,
first
of
all,
when
when
we
introduce
the
budget
itself
right,
the
public
can
come
at
any
time
and
say
I
want
this
done.
I
want
that
done.
That's
going
to
be
a
three-month
process,
but
for
every
line
item
inside
the
budget,
that's
not
specifically
personnel.
C
C
I
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
talking
about
the
same
okay,
the
rescue
fund,
is
not
a
separate
entity.
It
gets
put
into
this
operating
budget
once
it
gets
put
in
the
operating
budget.
It
still
has
to
follow
our
or
a
capital
budget.
It
follows
the
city's
normal
course
of
business
so
that
if
they
want
to
spend
it,
if
it's
not
personnel,
it
is
not.
You
know
staplers
or
paper
clips.
It
has
to
have
a
item
that
comes
before
council
and
has
that
two-week
process
of
engagement.
C
From
the
trust
fund,
at
all
none
of
it
it
gets
transferred
into
the
capital
and
operating
budgets,
and
then
it
follows
the
normal
council
process
of
spending
that
money.
So
you
have
both
conversations
as
the
up
as
the
operating
and
the
capital
budget
are
talked
about
normally
in
the
fall,
but
then
all
through
the
year,
when
we
go
to
spend
any
of
it,
you
have
an
individual
two-week
window
to
talk
about
each
and
every
line.
Item
expenditure.
C
A
O
I
just
have
a
statement,
then
a
question,
but
essentially
what
we're
overlooking
in
equity
is
that
what
you're
talking
about
is
actually
equality.
So
I
was
wondering
what
kind
of
equity
you're
talking
about,
and
you
know
alicia
yeah,
essentially
where's
the
equity
rubric.
How
are
you
looking
at
the
intersectionality,
the
demographics
access?
How
are
you?
How
are
you
weighing
those
things
whenever
you're
determining
this?
Can
you
produce
the
rubric
that
you
put
together
to
put
this
plan
together
and
to
hold
the
ura
accountable
and
to
hold
pwsa
accountable?
O
O
That's
where
my
other
question
was
racial
equity
would
say
that
the
parks
that
you
chose
aren't
just
it
isn't
just
about
race,
we're
looking
at
accessibility,
we're
looking
at
income,
we're
looking
at
the
just
the
data
disaggregated,
so
we
can
identify
who
is
actually
most
marginalized,
who's,
most
impacted
and
most
influent,
and
oh,
some
of
these
items,
like
the
fleet,
the
cars
that
are
through
two
to
three
years,
where
you're
saying
capital
has
to
be
longer
larger
projects.
O
Some
of
these
things
aren't
falling
under
racial
equity
and
if
you
could
provide
us
a
rubric
that
we
can
go
through
and
you
could
provide
the
statement
not
tell
us,
because
we
can
process
this
ourselves,
you
provide
a
rubric
telling
us
that
this
is
how
we
made
these
decisions.
This
is
how
they
were
weighted,
and
then
we,
as
a
public
in
the
two
weeks
span
that
this
lady
explained
to
us.
We
get
a
two-week
span
to
communicate
it
and
not
to
expand
in
that
engagement.
We
can
say
that
this
is
inequitable.
O
This
isn't
racially
equitable.
This
isn't
gender
equity,
this
isn't
access
or
differently,
abled
equity.
This
isn't
equitable
at
all.
It's
equality
and
that's
different.
L
L
I
think
that's
a
great
conversation
for
the
some
of
the
programs
that
the
ura
will
be
in
charge
of
so
right
now
you
know
pittsburgh
black
black
home
ownership
is
doesn't
meet
the
national
average
and
you
know
with
the
the
home
ownership
program
going
through
the
ura.
L
So
there's
I
believe,
there's
22
million
dollars,
22
million
dollars,
and
you
know
to
have
that
equity
lines
there
and
I
think
you're
right
on
point
that
you
know
they
we
should
be.
You
know,
moving
towards.
You
know
increasing.
That
percent.
A
C
You
know
that
would
be
one
of
the
main
goals.
Here's
I'm
gonna,
ask
your
question
directly.
Okay,
so
there
is
an
office
of
equity
in
the
city
of
pittsburgh
that
has
an
equity
lens
on
every
dollar
we
spent,
in
fact,
starting
this
year
in
this
year's
budget,
every
director
who
comes
before
council
has
to
explain
how
they've
used
an
equity
lens
for
every
single
budget
that
they
create
it's
legislation.
I
was
fortunate
enough
to
pass,
I
think,
two
and
a
half
years
ago
that
will
be
implemented.
C
C
Majestic
lane
catching
because
he's
leaving
after
this
month
he's
going
to
the
allegheny
county
conference,
but
he
can
talk
to
you
in
great
detail
about
all
of
the
equity
lenses
that
are
used
in
every
part
of
city
government.
So
what
happens?
Is
they
apply
the
equity
lens
before
we
start
the
conversation?
So
we
start
off
with
decisions
that
already
have
been
have
been
passed
through
an
equity
lens,
and
then
we
begin
to
have
that
conversation
internally
about
how
to
manipulate
the
items
inside
that
lens.
C
So
I
don't
have
it,
but
he
does
have
it
majestic
wayne,
the
assistant
chief
of
staff,
I
think,
director
of
the
office
of
equity.
C
If
you
contact
him,
if
you
get
against
sean
as
my
person,
if
you
give
me
an
email
address
I'll
try
to
get
you
the
information
that
you
want,
but
that's
great
question,
and-
and
I
I
agree
with
you-
I've
passed
maybe
four
or
five
pieces
of
legislation
to
talk
about
this
in
great
detail
that
we
have
to
start
talking
about
and
the
reason
you
hear
me
talk
about
racial
equity.
A
lot
with
black
is
that
in
pittsburgh
we
don't
have
a
lot
of
hispanics
in
pittsburgh.
We
have
primarily
that's.
C
We
primarily
have,
and
the
real
problem
is
by
income
right
it's
by
income.
Unfortunately,
unfortunately,
when
you
take
income
and
race
and
you
isolate
those
two
factors-
and
you
put
them
together
to
me-
that's
where
the
problem
is
in
pittsburgh,
you
have
poor
disproportionately
poor
black
people
being
segregated
in
poor
black
neighborhoods
that
are
not
receiving
the
capital.
Investment
from
the
we
put
more.
The
city
has
put
some
over
the
last
10
years.
The
city
has
put
more
money
into
african-american
communities
in
the
history
of
our
city,
but
you
know
what
hasn't
done
it.
C
The
market
hasn't
done
it.
The
banks
haven't
done
it.
The
reason
that
our
communities
are
in
distress
is
not
because
the
city
has
not
put
money
into
them.
The
reason
our
commuters
are
distressed
is
because
the
banks
have
not
put
money
into
it.
The
corporations
have
not
put
money
in
the
city
accounts
for
maybe
40
of
all
the
dollars
or
maybe
even
less.
The
big
dollar
comes
from
the
corporate
sectors.
Pittsburgh
national
bank
citizens
bank
and
they
guess
what?
If
you're
in
a
block,
if
you're
blocked
in
a
black
neighborhood,
you
can't
get
a
mortgage.
A
P
City
budget
and
they
were
ready
to
come
to
you
in
the
community
to
talk
about
these
coba
relief
dollars
and
they
were
cut
off
at
the
knees
by
this
city
council,
of
course,
she's
frustrated,
of
course,
she's
frustrated
and
so,
and
I'm
trying
to
do
in
three
minutes,
but
few
folks
got
a
little
bit
more
time,
but
calvin
burke
is
just
I
mean
it's
difficult.
P
P
Five
people
got
into
a
room:
the
councilman
president,
daniel
avale,
the
chief
of
staff
of
peduto
and
the
deputy
chief
of
staff.
They
made
all
the
decisions
here.
P
All
why
did
they
allocate
36
percent
of
the
money
for
2021
under
a
lame
duck
mayor,
because
they're
putting
money
out
the
door
left
and
right?
I
thought
I
heard
the
councilman
say
something
like
well.
You
can
only
really
do
things
that
the
city
does
the
cobra
elite
dollar
says
you
can
do
child
care,
you
can
do
home.
Did
the
city.
P
Nice
remember:
there's
campaign
contributions
going
to
the
people
doing
those
rec
centers
36
of
the
money
went
out,
so
I
want
to
talk,
and
this
will
be
the
end.
I
want
to
talk
about
2
million
that
went
to
a
project
at
lexington
park,
slash
homewood,
which
is
really
at
the
end
of
thomas
boulevard,
which
is
point
breeze,
which
is
one
of
the
hottest
areas
for
housing.
P
E
P
P
I
P
G
P
C
So
I
will
thank
you
randall,
as
always
your
articulate
and
not
exactly
truthful,
so
the
unfortunately
the
I
can't
say
things
that
just
sound
good.
I
have
to
tell
you
the
truth.
C
C
It
is
the
housing
near
hamilton,
avenue
the
houses
in
some
of
the
houses
of
armor
the
houses
in
garfield.
The
houses
on
the
hill
were
built
by
kbk
enterprises,
which
is
the
largest
minority
developer
in
the
city
of
pittsburgh,
who
hires
50
to
60
percent
of
the
workers
are
african-american.
C
The
reason
that
I
support
the
reason
I
support
african-american
businesses
is
because
they
hire
african-american
people.
They've
won
awards
for
having
the
largest
percentage
of
african-american
workers
on
their
job
sites.
In
the
history
of
the
city
of
pittsburgh,
I
unashamedly
will
continue
to
support
him
mike
polight
others,
african-american
developers
and
african-american
businesses
that
support
and
hire
african-american
people.
The
best
way
to
get
people
out
of
poverty
is
to
give
them
a
job.
If
I
support
others
who
are
not
african-americans,
they
won't
hire
our
people.
I
don't
think
it's
fair,
maybe
I'm
crazy.
D
C
We
should
not
have
external
people
from
the
community
come
in
and
reap
the
profits
of
rebuilding
our
community
and
we
don't
get
a
piece
of
it,
and
so
I
unashamedly
have
used
every
ounce
of
my
influence
to
make
sure
that
the
redevelopment
of
african
american
american
communities
are
done
by
african-american
people
and,
unlike
you
know
mr
randall
taylor
and
a
lot
of
his
accusations
and
fantasies
go
look
at
the
product.
Go
look
at
the
houses
we
built
on
hamilton
avenue
and
tell
me
if
you
don't
want
your
children
and
grandchildren
to
live
here.
C
Go
look
at
larmer
point
down
the
street
from
here.
Go
look
at
the
houses,
go
look
at
the
quality
of
them.
They
are
they
gravel,
because
my
other
thing
is
this
high
quality
they
rival
any
apartments
anywhere
in
the
city.
They
have
islands,
air
conditioning
computers,
washers
and
dryers
walk-in
closets.
The
units
on
the.
C
So
you
asked
me,
you
asked
me
the
question
you
want
to
ask
me:
you
want
to
ask
me
the
question,
so
the
owners
of
the
properties
I
mentioned
are
joint
owned
by
the
housing
authority
of
the
pittsburgh
of
the
city
of
pittsburgh.
That
has
a
african-american
executive
director
has
an
african-american,
as
the
chairman
of
board
has
a
majority
african-american
members
has
the
largest
percentage
of
african-american
workers
in
the
city
of
pittsburgh.
C
Also
has
the
reward
has
gotten
the
award
for
the
highest
percentage
of
of
allocation
to
african-american
vendors,
so
if
they're
partly
owned
by
entity,
that's
owned
by
the
housing
authority
of
the
city
of
pittsburgh
and
by
the
developer
entity,
it's
a
co-ownership
model.
It
is
not
owned
by
any
developer.
We
do
that
on
purpose,
to
make
sure
that.
D
A
Q
You
just
said
it
yourself,
delta
is
here
it's
back.
It
is
going
to
hurt
so
many
people.
We
are
looking
at
a
lot
of
loss,
death
and
grief
extending
down
to
our
children.
Now
lights
are
not
a
priority
right
now,
when
there
are
other
things
that
are
very
clearly
specified
and
I'd
love
to
talk
to
you
more
about
direct
services
that
this
city
could
do.
The
directive,
assistance
that
could
be
given
to
renters
who
are
facing
homelessness.
A
Is
up
too
all
right?
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
so
much
for
your
comments
and
if
you
want
to
leave
anything
here
or
send
it
to
council,
you
know
how
to
do
that.
So,
okay
are
any
other
members
that
want
to
speak.
Yes,
oh
I'm
sorry,
councilman
wilson
would
like
to
respond
and
then
make
it
brief
please.
So
we
can
get
to
the
speakers.
L
L
So
if
you're
experiencing
you
know,
you
can't
pay
rent
two
on
one
or
the
ahm
program
I
did
mention
will
assist
you
if
you
need
assistance
like
filling
out
the
paperwork,
so
there's
a
few
different
ways
to
engage
like
that,
but
I
just
want
to
make
that
clear,
because
if
you
know
there
is
this
assistance
out
there,
I
want
to
make
sure
that
people
are
aware
that
there's
still
that
money
in
that
in
that
pot.
G
Hi,
how
are
you
hi?
How
are
you
my
name
is
chandler
wolfe.
I
just
have
a
couple
comments
and
questions
as
well.
A
good
portion
of
the
monies
that
are
being
allocated
are
going
to
the
ura,
which
is
a
city
entity
whose
board,
I
believe,
and
unless
you
can
correct
me,
it's
controlled
and
appointed
by
the
mayor.
Is
that
correct?
Okay?
So.
G
I
know
and
and
I'm
sure
a
number
of
people
here
know
that
the
ura
is
the
housing
bank
for
the
most
part
for
the
city
of
pittsburgh
and
the
city
owns,
or
at
least
controls
a
good
portion
of
the
lots
and
vacant
houses
that
they've
acquired
through
acquisition
through
back
taxes,
people
losing
their
homes,
etc.
G
G
There,
I
think,
is
at
least
I
think
I
heard
this
on
the
news
that
around
35
billion
dollars
will
be
coming
to
pennsylvania
as
part
of
this
infrastructure
package.
This
1.2
trillion
dollar
package
that
hopefully,
will
be
approved
in
the
house
very
soon,
and
if
that
happens,
some
of
the
issues
related
to
roads
and
bridges,
etc.
A
good
portion
of
that
since
allegheny
county,
which
is
the
city,
is
part
of
the
county.
G
A
lot
of
that
money
will
flow
down
through
the
city
in
order
to
address
many
other
tunnels
and
roads
and
bridges
that
are
within
the
area
of
the
city.
G
G
Requirement
for
contract
opportunities,
I'd
like
to
see
when
those
contracts
are
let
that
that
minority
businesses
and
people
who
have
businesses
who
are
women
and
minorities
get
a
fair
share
at
those
contract
opportunities
that
really
hasn't
happened.
We've
talked
about
it,
we've
seen
figures
on
paper,
but
a
lot
of
that
has
not
happened,
and
I'd
like
to
see
that
happen
because,
as
as
a
councilman
and
others
have
already
pointed
out,
you're
not
going
to
have
equity
in
this
city.
Unless
people
are
given
jobs
and
opportunities
to
make
money.
C
C
The
city
owns
only
a
fraction
of
what
you
see
says
the
city
of
pittsburgh.
What
has
happened
is
those
tax.
Those
properties
have
become
tax,
delinquent
we've
attached
a
lien
against
the
properties,
but
the
properties
are
still
owned
by
its
original
owner
and
the
person
died
it's
owned
by
the
ears
there's
a
process
we
have
to
go
through
to
clean
those
titles.
The
ura
does
own
some
land,
but
the
bulk
of
the
land
in
the
city.
C
That's
vacant
is
actually
still
in
this
no
man's
land,
one
of
the
things
that
we've
been
trying
to
do-
and
we
hope
the
land
bank
will
help
us
do-
is
to
figure
out
a
process
that
we
on
the
front
end,
can
get
properties
and
clean
the
titles.
The
two
things
that
keep
us
from
building
housing
faster,
the
faster
one
is
we
have
a
hard
time
getting
clear
title
to
land
and
getting
the
it
takes
18
months
to
two
years
and
it's
expensive
for
each
pizza
property.
C
The
second
thing
which,
hopefully
the
infrastructure
plan
helps
us
do,
is
that
when
we
build
new
housing
or
if
you
do
major
repairs
on
the
housing,
the
rules
have
changed
from
when
the
housing
was
built.
If
I
build
anything
new,
you
have
to
dig
up
the
street
and
replace
the
infrastructure
completely
for
any
new
housing
and
that's
an
additional
cost
from
the
housing.
C
C
So
it
becomes
cheaper
for
us
to
build.
We
have
to
do
a
combination
of
building
new
rehabbing
old
right.
We
have
to
do
a
combination
of
those
two
things.
At
the
same
time,
I
don't
know
the
answer
to
the
exactly
to
what
how
they
will,
how
they
will
do
it,
because
it's
going
to
be
done
by
a
number
of
entities
right.
The
city
uses
city
source,
the
ura
uses
city
source
and
someone
else,
so
it
has
to
be
coordinated,
and
I
can't
give
you
that
coordination
right
now.
C
Second
question
was
about
the
infrastructure
plan
about
what
that's
going
to
about
how
to
get
money.
I
think
you
asked
me
okay,
so
I've
been
trying
to
I'm.
I
wish
councilman
lavelle.
He
and
I
work
on
this
together.
We've
implemented
a
number
of
things
to
try
to
keep
black
people.
I
mentioned
one
of
the
things
about
giving
black
businesses
more
more
money.
C
One
of
the
major
problems
we
have
is
the
way
the
city
bids
it
has
to
bid
to
the
lowest
responsible
bidder.
It's
we're
required
to
do
that.
What
happens
a
lot
of
times
is
african-american
businesses,
don't
have
the
resources
to
be
able
to
compete
with
the
larger
non-african-american
businesses,
and
so
it's
not
a
easy.
It's
not
a
level
playing
field.
What
we're
trying
to
do
is
take
some
of
these
contracts
and
break
them
up
instead
of
having
one
large
contract
and
I'm
assuming
you
work
for
ruth
byrd,
smith,.
C
This
work
loved
her
dearly
and
she's
the
person
who
taught
me
to
understand
at
least
a
little
bit
and
so
you're
exactly
right.
We're
working
to
do
that.
The
plan
really
is
to
try
to
take
these
and
you,
your
expert,
you
know,
what's
hot,
is
to
take
these
larger
contracts,
break
them
up
into
smaller
pieces,
so
that
african-american
businesses
will
have
an
opportunity
to
bid
on
them.
That's
the
that's
the
plan
moving
forward,
so
we
have
given.
D
Us
some
thought,
and
there
is
in
all.
C
Of
the
agencies
and
the
city
of
pittsburgh,
an
aggressive
mbe,
mweb
plan
and
a
way
of
tracking
those
dollars.
We
have,
we
changed.
Maybe
three
years
ago
legislation
councilman
leveling
in
did
we
have
software
now
that
changes
the
whole
way
we're
able
to
report
it
out
so
that
that
keeps
us
from
getting.
C
But
then
the
first
90
percent
did
not
go
the
first
25
you
know,
12
months
went
to,
as
you
know,
went
to
a
white
organization
and
then,
oh,
my
goodness,
we
ran
out
of
money
and
the
black
people
there's
no
money
for
you,
so
it
was
used
as
a
vehicle.
Now
we've
kind
of
gotten
a
handle
on
that,
so
they
have
to
start
spinning
down
almost
immediately
to
the
minority
contractor.
So
that's
that's!
Some
of
the
changes
we've
made.
D
R
So
I
figured
this
is
a
good
gateway
to
get
a
question
asked.
There
are
a
couple
things
I
want
to
ask
you
about.
One
is
in
your
opening
statement.
You
said
that
the
budget
is
designed
to
limit
the
ability
of
police,
fire
and
ems
to
get
raises
through
through
collective
bargaining
are
through
arbitration
that
if
we
spend
on
something
else
they
can
say
oh
you're
spending
on
this.
We
want
more
money.
So
your
design,
I
didn't
understand
that
you're
designing
the
budget
to
to
make
sure
that
they
don't
get
any
more
money.
R
That's
what
it
sounded
like.
So
you
can
clear
that
up
the
other
thing
that
was,
you
talked
about
the
liens
being
cleared
up,
but
jordan
tax
services
bought
those
liens
during
the
immersive
administration.
I
believe
it
was
jordan
tax
services
and
now
we're
still
paying
them
to
collect
our
taxes,
but
they're
you
make
it.
They
make
it
impossible
for
us
to
clear
up
the
liens.
So
why
are
we
still
contracting
with
them
if
they're
holding
up
our
development
and
then
the
third
question
I
had
was:
is
there
a
mechanism?
R
You
said
that
in
the
in
later
years
we
can
you
you
we
can
re-vote
on
the
budget,
which
is
great
so
so
the
the
we
open
up
the
budget
we
put
the
money
in
and
and
and
then
the
council
can
re-vote
on
the
budget,
but
does
that
also
apply
to
the
money
that
goes
the
70
million
dollars
to
the
ura?
Is
there
any
way
you
can
re-vote
on
that
budget,
or
does
that
all
just
go
woof?
C
Okay,
so
one
of
the
time
very,
very
question,
so
I
did
this
without
prepared
from
work.
So
sometimes
I
may
not
be
clear
what
I
was
giving.
You
was
actually
an
example.
This
budget
did
not
have
the
police
in
mind
at
all.
We
didn't
discuss
them
in
that
way.
Although
the
president
of
the
united
states,
I
believe
a
month
ago,
did
say
that
cities
should
use
the
money
to
hire
more
police
officers.
As
you
know,
you
you
work,
you
know
the
president
said
that
we
did
not
do
that.
C
The
city
of
pittsburgh
did
not
do
that.
Do
not
intend
to
do
that.
That
is
a
proper
use
of
these
funds
was
to
hire
more
police
officers.
We
could
have
done
that.
We
did
not
what
I'm
suggesting
to
you
is
this
over
the
last,
since
we
got
out
of
that
47,
the
city
has
been
very
responsible
in
how
we
spend
our
money.
We've
actually
put
more
money
in
savings
than
was
required,
and
that's
why
we've
had
this
piggy
bank
that
we've
used
during
copic.
C
That
we
wanted
to
spend,
you
know
100
million
dollars
on
food
on
on
which
I
think
is
wonderful.
I
I
my
first
ministry
in
my
church
was
a
food
bank.
I
believe
I
can't
take
people
being
hungry.
Just
I
can't
take
it.
You
know
I'll,
do
any,
I
understand
being
hungry.
You
know
I've
lived
through
it
myself,
and
so
I
don't
want
anybody
hungry,
but
if
we
start
spending
money
on
things
that
are
not
essential
city
expenditures,
the
way
collective
marketing
works
and
I
use
police
just
as
an
example.
C
They
don't
just
look
at
our
ability
to
pay
anymore.
They
look
at
our
spending
over
time,
and
so
an
argument
could
be
made
because
one
of
the
things,
if
you
look
at
previous
arbitrations,
the
city
has
argued
successfully
that
we've
been
fiscally
responsible
right.
We've
not
made
any
payments
that
we
didn't
absolutely
have
to
make.
So
therefore
we
can
be.
We
can
say
that
you
know
we
can't
afford
a
whole
lot
more
in
this
billion
arbitration.
C
If
the
city
starts
spending
cash
on
things,
it
doesn't
normally
do
or
things
that
are
not
our
mission
like
food.
That's
not
our
mission!
Then
reasonably
I
think
about,
I
would
union
union
negotiation,
I'm
going
to
say
look.
They
have
a
hundred
million
dollars
that
they
spent
on
food
right
that
had
nothing
to
do
with
its
services.
C
Second
of
all,
the
jordan
tax
liens,
it's
a
problem
right,
it's
a
problem
and
we
have-
and
I
can't
remember
we
they're
a
contract.
They
come
up
every
so
many
years,
jordan,
but
but
some
of
them
jordan,
is
part
of
it.
Some
there's
other
problems
other
than
jordan
right,
jordan's,
a
part
of
a
very
problematic
problem
right
of
clean,
clean
loans,
because
we
have
to
we
have
to
find
the
mexican.
We
have
to
prove
that
we
look
for
the
mexican.
C
We
have
to
send
them
certified
letters
when
we
tore
down
the
houses
on
from
most
away
around
the
7400
block
of
hope
for
most
away
when
we
tore
them
down.
We
had
to
find
the
heirs
in
israel
we,
the
person
who
was
the
air,
was
in
israel
and
we
had
to
send
people
literally
to
israel
in
order
to
get
the
liens
clean
in
order
to
tear
down
some
of
the
most
dangerous
people.
Don't
pay
them
anything.
We
paid
jordan.
R
C
Okay,
so
remember,
though,
we
have
a
leverage
over
the
ura
because
we
fund
them
annually.
We
fund
the
authorities
to
fund
the
housing
authorities,
but
we
fund
the
ura.
We
fund
their
administration,
we
fund
them,
so
if
they
start
spending
things
that
we
think
are
inappropriate
in
ways
they're
inappropriate.
C
Not
only
do
we
over
that,
we
confirm
some
of
their
members,
but
we
can
start
to
cut
directly
their
budget,
and
so
we
and
that's
something
we
can
do
for
most
city
departments
right.
We
can't
fire
people,
but
we
absolutely
can
cut
the
budget
right.
We
can.
You
know
we
can
cut
the
budget
so
there.
So
we
have
a
direct
way
of
keeping
the
authorities,
at
least
to
your
aid
accountable.
A
S
You're
welcome
so
one
one
suggestion:
okay,
thank
you.
I.
S
One
suggestion
that
I
have
for
use
of
some
of
the
discretionary
funding
is
to
provide
it
to
the
ura
to
do
home.
Accessibility
features,
and
there
was
a
discussion
several
years
ago
about
either
requiring
or
incentivizing
homeowners
who
take
out
ura
home
loans
to
at
the
same
time
provide
accessible
features
such
as
widening
halls.
S
A
T
Hi
david
geiger
with
the
ura,
we
do
have
a
program
that
works
on
home
accessibility.
We
recently
received
two
grants
from
the
state
totaling
six
hundred
thousand
dollars,
which
is
new
money
into
the
program,
so
we
do
have
some
money
to
spend
and
are
currently
taking
applicants
so.
A
A
So
david
will
leave
some
his
cards
with
you
and
to
the
and,
if
anyone
who
wants
them
so
that
way,
you
know
what
programs,
because
there's
a
lot
of
housing
programs
at
the
ura
right
now
and
so
it'd
be
great
to
find
out
what's
available
and
what
you
know
what
you're
eligible
for
or
someone
you
may
know,
may
be
eligible
for.
Yes,
I'm
sorry
good
evening,
you're
next.
U
Good
evening,
I'm
zenna
scott
I've
sat
here
and
listened
to
this
this
evening.
This
meeting
wasn't
for
us
to
put
input
into
how
this
money
was
spent.
This
was
for
us
to
be
told
how
the
money
would
be
spent.
U
I,
for
one,
am
resentful
that
our
city
council
is
telling
us
this
money
is
going
for
programming
that
has
just
come
about
reverend
burgess.
You
know-
and
I
know-
and
many
other
people
in
this
room
know
that
the
program
you're
putting
together
for
health
workers
for
mental
health
workers
to
go
out
into
the
community
did
not
just
come
about
when
the
feds
gave
you
this
money.
This
was
on.
The
back
burner
had
been
voted
on
before
so
this
didn't
make
people
think
in
this
room.
This
come
about
because
of
this
is
total
bs.
E
U
After
privileged
white
people,
sitting
on
city
council
has
underserved
the
black
and
brown
communities
for
the
past
umpteen
decades.
You
all
should
be
embarrassed
for
you
to
sit
and
talk
about
the
parks
that
you're
going
to
work
on.
You
should
be
embarrassed
because
the
parks
conservative
went
out
to
the
communities
and
asked
them
how
they
felt
about
parks,
tasks
tax
and
about
what
parks
needed
to
be
done.
U
V
My
question
for
the
equity
first
investment
plan
for
ura
is
the
guys
stated
before
me
earlier
that
they're
not
supposed
to
be
spent
on
infrastructures
but
there's
rand,
corp,
corporationers,
fourth,
economy
meters,
police
link,
etc,
county
county
jail,
there's
allocating
department
of
human
services,
duquesne,
university
city
of
pittsburgh.
V
Public
works
if
they're
not
supposed
to
be
spent
on
infrastructures.
How
are
they
being
spent
on
those
and
et
cetera?
Another
thing
was
question
for
you
reverend.
You
said
that
most
that
some
of
the
money
is
going
to
be
spent
on
black
african-american
women,
so
they
can
help
them
with
the
struggling,
though,
if
you
take
them
out
of
being
stateless
identities
and
you
stop
identifying
them
as
black
and
african-american
won't
they
actually
have
constitutional
rights
and
won't
they
even
stop
being
ignored,
including
the
working
class
and
etc.
V
Won't
they
stop
being
ignored
and
being
put
to
the
back
burner
as
the
african
americans
and
black
people.
If
you
stop
identifying
them
as
that,
and
so
they
can
be
considered
to
have
to
do
with
science
and
anthropological
studies
which
that
are
researched,
they're,
not
considered
that
because
they're
called
black
or
african-american
correct.
V
You
could
wait
if
you
want
to
the
next
question:
was
the
treaties
and
such
that's
for
the
airport,
confederacy
and
and
and
the
like,
the
state
can
or
the
city
cannot
own
land
in
no
type
of
way,
so
isn't.
V
Such
because
they're
meant
for
debt,
and
they
mean
debt
that
they
cannot
in
no
type
of
way
be
built
up,
and
if
they
cannot
be
built
up,
won't
the
airport.
Won't
you
put
some
of
that
money
towards
the
airport
confederacy,
so
we
can
put
that
towards
economic
and
social
development
or
judicial
reform,
where
you're
quote-unquote
identified
black
or
black
or
african-american
people
that
are
being
ignored
or
put
under
arrest
in
cohortion,
in
order
to
sign
contracts,
et
cetera,
to
sign
away
their
constitutional
rights
and
such.
Why?
V
Don't
you
put
that
away
towards
that?
With
that
I'll
end
it
you
know,
because
I
only
got
it.
Thank
you.
A
V
My
specific
question
all
right,
which
one.
V
All
right,
the
infrastructure,
with
the
soap
with
the
economy
and
social
development
and
such
with
the
lots
we
or
our
people
have
received
no
economic
redress
or
anything
like
that
when
it
comes
to
our
health
when
it
comes
to
us,
what's
the
question:
why
have
we
not
received
any
income
or
any
type
of
plan,
or
why
were
we
not
addressed
with
any
type
of
okay
redress
or
why?
V
If
these
african-american
or
black
women
excuse
me,
I
apologize
for
calling
you
all
that,
because
you
aren't
that
or
you
know
or
struggling.
Why
do
you
continue
to
tax
them
and
not
tell
them
that
they
are
the
aborigines
of
this
land?
Because
if
you
do
so
that
you
they
won't
struggle,
no
more
correct
and
they'll
be
able
to
grow
food
and
stop
having
to
go
to
giant
eagle
and
pay
for
that
food
right?
Okay,
thank
you.
You're,
not
gonna
answer
my
question.
Okay,.
A
Thank
you,
we're
gonna
respond.
Thank
you.
So
can
I
respond
sure?
Okay,
I'm
just
gonna
respond.
I
know
that
mayor
peduto
has
been
working
with
you.
He
met
with
you.
I
did
ask
him
for
a
follow-up
about
it.
He
did
say
that
he
was
working
to
see
what
he
could
do
after
his
meeting
with
you.
So
I
do
know
that
he
did
say
that
he
was
still
working
on
it
so,
and
that
makes
us
eligible
to
help
you.
A
It
makes
you
eligible
more
for
us
to
be
able
to
help
you
once
you
have
some
specific,
like
guidelines
that
he,
whatever
he
probably
do.
You
remember.
I
remember
he
talked
to
shoma
yeah,
no
ikahon
yeah,
so
okay,
so
you're
having
a
follow-up
meeting,
so
that's
good.
A
So
with
that
said,
I
just
want
to
say
that
we
really
want
to
have
these
these
meetings,
and
I
really
this
is
the
last
of
the
four
meetings
north
south
east
west,
we'll
probably
have
some
additional
meetings
over
our
budget
throughout
the
city
or
maybe
just
back
at
chambers.
We're
supposed
to
return
to
chambers
on
the
20th
and
24th
is
the
meeting
in
person
with
all
members,
but
I
want
to
say
that
I
did
learn
a
lot
from
hearing
a
lot
of
members
and
I
do
hear
a
lot
of
distrust.
A
So
I
want
to
say
that
I
want
to
be
very
clear
about
that
that
I
I
did
hear,
and
I
do
think
that
we
need
to
do
something
with
that
and
with
the
author,
the
money
going
to
the
authorities
that
there
are
seems
like
there's
a
lot
of
concern
and
a
lot
of
people
want
some
guarantee
that
if
money
is
going
to
the
to
pwsa
that
they're
not
going
to
turn
around
and
increase
rates
and
that
there
will
be
some
direct
benefit
to
the
residents,
I
did.
A
I
heard
that
consistently
through
all
the
meetings.
We
also
heard
that,
with
non-profits
at
some
of
the
meetings
that
people
want
accountability,
they
don't
want
us
just
giving
money
to
nonprofits
who
have
said
that
they
do
work
in
the
community
and
the
residents
feel
like
they
don't
see
a
lot
of
benefit
in
return.
So
I've
heard
that
too.
So
I
do.
A
I
know
personally
when
I
go
back,
I'm
going
to
talk
to
the
members
meet
with
the
administration
and
bring
some
of
those
concerns
back
and
see
what
we
can
do
to
help
at
least
address
some
of
those
concerns
or
ease.
Some
of
those
fears.
Do
you
want
to
speak?
Yes,
this,
okay,
this
is
it
then.
Okay,
last
speaker.
W
I
have
a
question:
what
about
women,
who
don't
have
children
who
are
business
owners
like
myself,
so
I
mean
that's
great:
they
get
all
of
that
help.
That's
great
I'm
overlooked
constantly,
because
I
don't
have
children
and
because
I'm
a
business
owner,
I
don't
work
for
anyone.
Okay.
So
how
is
the
ura
going
to
be
able
to
help
me
because
I
personally
don't
believe
in
loans?
I
don't
believe
that
I
should
get
a
loan
from
a
government
entity
to
buy
to
purchase
my
my
first
home.
W
W
W
W
I
would
need
250
000
for
a
house
on
lane
street,
like
that's
absolutely
ridiculous
and
I
want
to
buy
in
that
community,
but
you
all
have
made
it
virtually
impossible
because
the
money
you
have
given
people
to
rehab
these
houses,
they
have
priced
them
at
a
point.
That
is
completely
ridiculous
for
someone
like
myself,
who
wants
to
be
a
first
time
home
buyer
and
who
doesn't
want
to
go
into
debt.
Doing
that
so.
A
So
I
I
heard
what
you're
saying
and
I'm
your
time
is
up
too,
but
I'm
going
to
say
that
the
ura
we
have
sent
money
to
the
ura
for
businesses
and
that's
who
we
work
with.
We
cannot
give
you
money
directly,
but
through
this
program,
maybe
I
don't
know
if
you're
eligible
for
something
it's
not
going
directly
to
single
moms,
it's
going
towards
people
who
need
it
right,
correct,
okay,
and
so
it's
it.
It
just
happens
to
be
that
a
lot
of
single
moms
will
be
eligible
for
the
to
receive
it.
A
So
with
that
said,
I
think
davids
can
also
give
you
some
additional
information
from
the
ura
about
any
types
of
programs.
I
know
we
are
doing
a
lot,
especially,
and
the
avenues
of
hope
is
also
a
project
that
we're
doing
a
lot
on.
So
there's
a
lot
of
direct
funding
from
that
too.
So,
let's
get
you
some
information.
Okay,
you
know
what
that
said.
That's
the
end
of
the
list,
that's
the
end
of
the
speakers
and
I'm
going
to
see
what
members
want
to
say
to
wrap
up
and
I'll
start
with
that.
C
Just
say
thank
you
for
coming.
I
appreciate
president's
vision
of
this.
I
will
say
one
thing
I
don't
normally
say
is
that
council
acts
on
five
votes.
C
C
C
But
this
is
a
government
is
a
process
of
collaboration
and
of
compromise,
and
I
that's
all
I
want
to
say
I
would.
C
Right
we
had
the
largest
turnout
of
all
the
meetings
and
I
think-
and
but
I
will
say
this-
I
I
will.
I
will
say
this-
that
you
you're
right
in
that
some
of
the
programs
existed.
That's
the
whole
point,
that's
what
I
said
earlier.
We're
we're
the
covet
relief
dollars
is
the
fun
programming
that
already
existed,
that
we
want
to
expand
or
they
couldn't
do
it
because
of
copics.
So
most
of
this
are
not
new
ideas.
C
D
C
To
talk,
you
know
individually,
hey
boy
talk
individually
and
we'll
go
from
there.
A
Yeah
sorry,
but
the
babies
always
take
the
take.
The
show
councilman
wilson.
L
Awesome
I
just
want
to
thank
everyone
for
coming
and,
if
you'd
like
to
reach
out
to
me
to
you,
know,
talk
more
deeply
about
some
of
this
stuff,
because
some
of
this
gets
lost
in
the
way
the
the
platform
set
up.
But
I'm
happy
to
have
the
conversation.
It's
very
easy
to
email
me.
It's
just
bobby.wilson
at
pittsburgh,
pa.gov
I'll
stay
afterwards.
If
anyone
wants
to
have
any
clarification,
I
think
moving
forward.
L
I
think
it's
good
to
recognize
that
the
current
platform
that
we
have
is
for
the
budget
process
is
called
potholes
and
pierogies,
and
I
think
that
you
know
based
on
the
interactions
we
have
here.
You
know
the
previous
one
that
I've
been
to
I'm
getting
a
lot
of
insight
into
how
we
can
improve
that,
especially,
I
think
we're
gonna
have
mr
geiger
his
own.
L
Take
his
own
seat
up
here
next
time,
so
we
can
get
go
through
some
of
all
the
programs
that
ura
does,
but
maybe
we'll
have
the
director
up
here.
I
just
think
it's
important
that
you
know
we.
U
L
Be
improved,
so
we
can,
you
know,
have
more
of
that
conversation
with
those
the
bigger
budget
meeting
meetings,
where
you
know
right
now
we're
talking
about
335
million
dollars.
L
I
believe
our
other
budgets
are
two
three
times
that,
depending
on
the
crap
of
an
operating
budget,
but
just
how
we
can
improve
that
process,
so
that
we're
having
these
more,
maybe
we
can
break
up
into
small
groups.
Have
one
of
these
small
conversations
get
multiple
people
from
here
from
the
ura
people
from
the
pwsa?
L
I
just
think
that
would
be
a
good
way
to
improve
the
budget
process
in
the
future
and
also
to
engage
the
community
in
a
direct
format
like
that.
So
I
know
there's
a
lot
of
acronyms
on
like
how
they
do
community
engagement
meetings.
I
think
we
can
implement
some
of
that,
but
appreciate
everyone's
time.
Look
forward
to
the
process.
A
I'm
going
to
thank
you
all
for
coming
to
this
meeting
and
everyone
who
attended
the
meetings.
Previously,
I
want
to
thank
our
clerk's
office
who
stopped
and
got
food.
Please
make
sure
you
take
some
snacks
on
the
way
out
some
drinks
on
the
way
out,
our
camera
crews
and
our
inp
department,
our
sergeant-at-arms,
who
really
does
not
want
to
be
taking
people
up
our
budget
office.
A
I
just
want
to
thank
everyone
and
sean
from
mayor
from
reverend
burgess's
office
for
helping
us
with
the
presentation,
but
I
do
want
to
say:
council
members
gave
up
their
break
to
to
attend
these
meetings,
and
so
it
really
did
mean
something
for
us
to
hear
from
the
people
that
we
that
the
constituents
that
we
serve-
and
we
do
know
that
we
want
to.
A
I
want
you
to
know
that
we
do
want
to
do
what
the
people
who
elect
us
want
us
to
do,
but
it's
difficult
sometimes
because
we
hear
such
different
things
from
each
of
our
neighborhoods
and
from
each
of
our
meetings.
We've
earned
some
different
things,
but
we
have
heard
some
things
that
you've
all
agreed
upon
and-
and
so
I
think
that
you've
given
us
some
things
to
work
on.
So
I
want
to
thank
you
for
for
all
your
stuff
and
we'll
stay
around,
and
I
hope
that.