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From YouTube: Pittsburgh City Council Public Hearing - 7/26/23
Description
Verizon Franchise Agreement
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For
the
record,
we're
joined
today
by
council
president
Teresa
kale
Smith
I'm
council
member
Barb
Warwick,
we'll
now
move
on
to
testimony
from
registered
speakers
once
you're
called
upon.
Please
give
your
full
name
and
neighborhood
for
the
public
record.
Each
speaker
will
have
three
minutes
to
address
Council.
Please
keep
in
mind
that
this
is
an
opportunity
for
the
community
to
speak
directly
to
Pittsburgh
Council
about
the
issue
at
hand
and
a
time
for
Council
to
listen.
Therefore,
Council
will
not
be
responding
to
individual
comments.
Our
first
registered
speaker
is
John
Patterson
great.
C
Do
I
need
to
move
this
microphone?
It's
not
an
okay
great,
it
doesn't
matter
just
speak
loud
good
afternoon.
My
name
is
John
Patterson
I'm
executive,
director
of
Pittsburgh
Community
television,
also
known
as
pctv.
You
can
see
from
my
shirt
we're
in
the
Manchester
neighborhood
and
we
are
the
cities,
Community
media
provider,
I'm
going
to
be
very
brief,
because
I
know
it's
been
a
long
afternoon.
I
just
wanted
to
congratulate
the
negotiating
team
on
behalf
of
PCT
for
a
job
well
done
and
negotiating
this
new
franchise.
C
It
took
a
long
time
to
to
get
it
done
so
I
know
they
work
very
hard
on
it.
I
haven't
read
the
agreement
myself,
but
I
know
that
it's
I've
been
briefed
on
items
that
relate
to
public
education
and
government
media,
which
of
course,
is
pctv,
City,
Channel,
Pittsburgh
and
wreck
to
Tech
very
pleased
to
see
that
it
maintains
the
current
channels
that
we
have.
C
Now
that
this
is
complete,
you
know
we're
looking
forward
to
sitting
down
with
the
city
to
talk
about
Community
media
in
Pittsburgh
and
pctv
on
how
we
can
support
and
nourish
that
going
into
the
future
for
years
to
come
and
we're
definitely
in
favor
of
the
approval
of
the
franchise
and
again
thanks
for
your
work
on
this
and
we
look
forward
to
working
with
the
city.
Thank
you
great.
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Good
afternoon
Heidi
Norman
I
am
the
director
of
the
Department
of
innovation
and
performance.
I
want
to
say
for
the
record
this.
This
was
a
long
haul.
We
we've
been
working
with
Verizon
for
over
a
year
on
negotiating
this
new
franchise
agreement
and
I
want
to
thank
our
Council
Dan
Cohen
he's
been
a
rock
and
very
helpful
and
I
really
want
to
thank
the
members
of
Verizon
who
are
representing
here
today.
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F
Would
be
happy
to
yeah
so
as
Mr
Patterson
from
pctv
explained,
Verizon
will
continue
to
support
three
different
Peg
channels.
They
will
now
be
offered
in
high
definition,
which
is
something
that
both
our
city,
Channel
and
pctv,
have
wanted
for
a
long
period
of
time.
So
that's
very
exciting
that
are
you
right
I
know.