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B
A
And
we
welcome
you
back
to
black
pittsburgh
matters
and
black
pittsburgh
matters
is
a
series
of
virtual
town
hall
meetings,
affirming
a
city-wide
agenda
that
black
pittsburgh
does
indeed
matter.
Black
pittsburgh
matter
means
that
black
lives
matter.
We
must
protect
the
health
and
safety
of
black
people.
It
means
that
black
communities
matter.
We
must
focus
on
rebuilding
black
communities
and
investing
in
them,
and
it
means
that
black
wealth
matters.
We
must
focus
on
increasing
black
employment
and
entrepreneurial
ship.
B
The
black
community
has
been
disproportionately
affected
by
concurrent
crisis,
the
kovic
19
pandemic
and
its
resulting
economic
crisis
and,
of
course,
racial
relations
and
the
protests
against
police
which
in
which
is
a
public
health
crisis.
Racism
is
normally
in
times
of
crisis
and
great
change
we'll
be
coming
to
you
as
the
black
elected
officials
of
pittsburgh.
Having
means
across
the
city
with
our
constituents,
partners
and
allies
says
we
cannot
do
so
safely
in
the
current
pandemic.
B
We're
now
using
this
media
and
platform
to
come
to
you
in
the
ways
we
can
to
talk
about
what
we're
doing
and
discuss
policy
and
legislation
concerning
black
pittsburgh.
These
means
are
available
via
facebook
youtube
and
the
cds
cable
channel.
You
can
contact
or
ask
questions
via
the
black
pittsburgh
matters,
facebook,
page
or
email
us
at
black
pgh
matters.
That's
black
pgh
matters
all
together
at
gmail.com.
B
You
can
certainly
comment
on
our
live
feed
tonight.
Today's
town
hall
meeting
is
black
pittsburgh
matters.
Black
elected
officials
update.
A
The
pboc
is
comprised
of
seven
elected
officials
from
the
state
county
and
city
levels
committed
to
a
pittsburgh
where
african
americans
can
thrive
while
reverend
burns,
and
I
work
on
a
city
level.
We
coordinate
with
the
pboc
from
the
county
and
state
levels
to
realize
our
shared
vision
for
black
pittsburgh.
B
We
we
are
honored
to
be
joined
today
by
members,
county,
councilwoman,
olivia
bennett
and
county
councilman.
Dewitt
welcome
dewitt
walton,
my
big
brother.
We
welcome
you
to
this
evening,
town
hall
meeting.
I
think
the
first
thing
we
perhaps
want
to
do
a
little
bit
is
talk
about
things
that
are
going
on
in
our
community,
giving
copic
19
resources
and
things
where
people
can
can
go
and
programs
are
helping
them.
Does
anyone
have
any
any
kind
of
public
service
announcements.
C
Well,
I
know
in
the
morn
valley,
where
I
work
at
take
action,
more
valley,
there's
a
bunch
of
stuff
that
we're
going
to
do
that's
being
done
out
there
to
make
sure
that
folks
have
thanksgiving
meals.
Saturday,
austin,
representative,
austin
davis
is
doing
a
food
drive
in
mckeesport
monday,
the
greater
allegheny
penn
state,
I
will
be
doing
a
food
drive
in
mckeesport
and
then
tuesday
or
wednesday.
We're
still
working
that
out.
Take
action.
C
D
And
from
my
perspective,
at
four
o'clock
this
afternoon,
dr
deborah
bogan
of
the
health
director
for
allegheny
county
made
an
announcement
regarding
coven
a
stay-at-home
advisory,
as
we,
as
we
know
across
this
country,
covet,
has
become
very
rampant
and
very
dangerous,
and
here
in
allegheny,
county
cases
of
covet
are
on
the
rise.
D
D
B
Just
this
week,
a
friend
of
mine
in
florida,
she
lost
her
her
brother
and
her
husband
on
successive
days
right.
She
is
she's,
my
age.
We
grew
up
together
here
in
homewood
and
she's
living
in
florida.
Certainly
our
prayers
go
up
to
the
family,
but
they're
both
copic
related.
It
is
not
this.
This
illness
is
not
this
disease.
A
It
should
also
just
be
stress,
because
I
just
became
aware,
literally
as
we're
getting
ready
to
do
this
to
it
of
this
stay
at
home
advisory,
but
I
think
it's
important
to
note
that
right
now,
it's
an
advisory,
but
if
we're
not
heeding
that
advisory,
they
will
make
it
a
mandate
in
order
to
get
this
under
control,
and
so
I
just
think
people
need
to
understand.
Please
do,
as
you've
already
said,
take
this
as
seriously
as
possible
before
it
does
indeed
become
a
mandate
just
on
the
city
side.
A
I
think
it's
also
worth
putting
out
there
for
people
rev
that
actually,
just
today
in
our
city
council
meeting
we
approved
approximately,
I
think,
was
three
million
dollars.
An
additional
cdbg
relief
support
for
people,
mostly
dealing
with
either
rent
insecurity
or
food
insecurity,
and
those
resources
are
going
to
be
able
to
be
accessed
via
the
urban
redevelopment
authority.
A
So
if
you
need
assistance
with
your
rent,
you
can
reach
out
to
the
ura
we're
also
going
to
be
providing
resources
to
food
banks,
sort
of
as
miss
bennett
was
speaking
to
for
those
who
have
food
insecurity.
A
So
if
people
are
struggling,
if
your
business
is
struggling,
we've
seen
statistics
that
possibly
40
of
minority
businesses
may
not
make
it
through
this
pandemic.
But
if
you're
in
need
of
assistance,
also
reach
out
to
the
ura,
because
we've
been
providing
loans
and
grants
and
to
be
able
to
assist
people
as
well.
B
Well,
since
our
last
meeting
america
is
elected
former
vice
president
biden,
where
certainly
councilman,
walden
and
lavelle,
and
I
had
a
chance
to
meet
him
personally.
They've
elected
him
to
be
president,
the
next
president
of
the
united
states,
with
pennsylvania,
allegheny
county
and
black
americans,
playing
such
a
significant
role
in
his
election.
Let's
discuss
the
current
situation
and
how
we
can
use
our
voices
to
achieve
gains
in
representation,
funding,
political
power
and
other
things
for
the
future
of
black
pittsburgh.
So
what
what
does
the
election
we
talked
about
this
the
other
day?
D
D
But
it
also
means
a
lot
to
me
as
a
trade
unionist
for
the
over
overwhelming
majority
of
my
life,
we're
talking
about
workers
rights,
we're
talking
about
moving
toward
a
society
that
raises
the
minimum
wage
that
protects
workers,
rights
that
on
in
terms
of
worker
safety,
entering
in
terms
of
a
voice
at
work,
collective
bargaining,
all
those
things
that
ultimately
result
in
higher
incomes,
because
a
higher
income
raising
per
capita
income
in
pittsburgh
in
black
pittsburgh
means
greater
homeownership,
which
in
turn
creates
familial
wealth
because
homeowners
build
wealth
by
the
value
of
their
property.
D
D
I
happen
to
be
a
member
of
the
united
steelworkers
union
and
we
are
working
diligently
with
the
incoming
administration
to
ensure
that
workers
rights
are
protected,
that
workers
earnings
are
protected
in
trade
policy,
because
it's
clear,
statistically
clear
that
black
workers
in
unions
earn
25
percent
more
for
doing
the
same
work
than
a
than
a
black
worker
that
doesn't
belong
to
a
union.
So
it
means
so
much
in
terms
of
adding
value,
growing
wealth
being
able
to
build
a
future
for
ourselves
and
for
our
children.
D
C
Well,
I
think
that
one
we've
had
we
have
more
voters,
we
have
more
voting
engagement
than
we've
ever
had,
so
I
think
we
should
learn
the
lessons
and
take
out
the
best
practices
and
continue
that
to
make
sure
that
we
keep
folks
engaged
and
we
don't
go
backwards
and
folks
being
disengaged
and
having
to
reignite
folks
every
time
that
there's
a
crisis
in
our
country,
so
that
part,
but
also
as
councilman
walton,
was
saying,
there's
so
many
issues
that
this
presidency,
you
know
will
will
start
to
address
and
actually
you
know
believe
for.
C
First
of
all,
I
believe
science,
so
that
takes
care
of
two
things
right
there,
the
pandemic
and
and
and
climate
change.
So
just
having
some
normalcy.
Somebody
who
actually
like
you
know,
doesn't
think
that
they
know
all
in
our
be
and
are
like
a
demigod
and
somebody
who
actually
listens
to
other
people's
opinions
experts
in
in
different
fields.
C
Even
when
asked
about
the
you
know
how
he
was
going
to
address
the
supreme
court,
the
fact
that
he
said
I'm
going
to
convene
people
who
are
constitutional
experts
and
see
what
their
recommendations
are
to
around
the
supreme
court.
So
that
is
not
a
way
that
we've
been
governed
for
the
last
four
years,
but
that's
the
way
that
we're
kind
of
used
to
being
governed.
C
So
I
think
that
coming
back
to
normalcy
in
in
the
federal
national
level
is
a
great
thing
and
that
it
will
definitely
help
to
move
our
agenda
forward
is
not
the
savior.
No
one,
president
is
ever
a
savior.
The
work
continues.
So
that's.
My
other
hope
is
that
folks
won't
get
complacent
and
and
kind
of
check
out
now
that
we
have
some
semblance
of
normalcy
in
the
white
house.
A
So
live
and
because
I
don't
know
this,
what
is
going
to
happen
economically
as
it
relates
to
the
county
and
potentially
how
it
ties
into
congress
and
the
federal
government
passing
sort
of
another
heroes
act.
I
know
so
the
last
time
we
we
spoke.
I
believe
austin
told
us.
There
was
like
a
five
billion
dollar
shortfall
at
the
state
level.
Here
at
the
city,
we're
around
53
54
million
shortfall.
A
We
just
started
our
budget
process
today
actually
and
we're
essentially
going
to
pass
a
budget-
that's
balanced
for
the
first
six
months
of
the
year,
but
if
we
do
not
receive
relief,
then
we're
going
to
have
to
make
substantial
substantial
layoffs
here.
The
city
which
is
personnel
we're
talking
people.
How
is
the
covid
and
everything
impacting
the
county's
budget,
and
do
you
think
that
some
relief
will
be
helpful
to
the
city?
And,
if
so,
does
the
county
then
pass
on
any
of
those
resources
down
to
the
city?
C
So
we
just
started
our
budget
process
as
well.
We
we
had
our
once.
We
had
our
public
budget
meeting,
maybe
a
week
or
two
ago,
and
then
we
just
had
a
budget,
a
committee
meeting
around
the
budget.
C
We
want
to
say
yesterday
it's
all
running
together,
sorry,
but
so
they
presented
a
balanced
budget,
and
I
don't
I
didn't
hear
of
any
and
in
the
presentations
any
cuts
that
were
going
to
be
necessary,
but
I
also
didn't
hear
anything
and
and
councilman
walton,
I'm
sure,
can
chime
in
and
correct
me
or
add
to
about
you
know
anticipatory
funds
coming
from
the
federal
level
or
state.
C
I
think,
because
we
just
don't
know
what's
going
on
there,
yet
they
they're
still,
they
still
haven't
even
declared
the
president,
the
president-elect,
so
things
that
were
supposed
to
be
you
know
addressed
right
after
the
election
has
been
taking
a
slow
walk.
So
I
I
think
that
it
would
be
kind
of
premature
to
to
talk
about
money
that
hasn't
been
approved.
Yet.
D
Well,
liv
is
correct
in
that
we
did
hearings
almost
a
month
ago,
and
we
had
a
budget
committee
meeting
yesterday
and
on
tues
this
coming
tuesday,
we
will
vote
on
the
20
20
21
20
2020
20
21
budget.
D
D
D
The
lion's
share
went
to
the
county
and
the
room
and
a
significant
portion
of
it
was
passed
along
to
the
city
and
all
of
that
money
has
to
be
spent
by
december
31st.
If
it's
not
spent
by
december
31st.
It
is,
it
is
returned
to
the
federal
treasury
and
there
were
restrictions
on
how
those
dollars
can
be
utilized.
D
They
cannot
that
money
can
only
be
utilized
to
pay
for
dollars
that
were
that
were
spent
as
part
of
the
the
cares
package
or
coveted
relief
to
this
to
the
to
up
to
december
31st,
and
it
doesn't
mean
that
bill's
coming
in
after
december
31st,
the
money
has
to
be
out
of
the
door
from
the
county
to
the
city
for
for
expenses
that
have
been
occurred,
incurred
to
be
able
to
utilize
it
now.
Hopefully,
the
next
session
of
congress
will
provide.
D
The
hero
will
pass
a
version
of
the
heroes
package,
whether
whatever
compromise
will
have
to
be
generated
to
get
that
passed.
I
don't
know
what
it'll
look
like
in
its
finality.
There's
no
one
knows,
but
clearly
there
is
a
a
definite
need
to
generate
additional
funds
for
the
state
to
be
passed
along
to
the
county
and
to
the
municipalities.
D
Now
most
of
those
the
cares
packages
that
I
talked
I
spoke
to
earlier
was
the
city
the
city
received,
I
think,
was
it
was
it
50?
Was
it
either
25
or
55
million
dollars?
Your
you,
as
budget
chair,
have
a
better
idea
of
what
the
city
received
than
I
do.
I
can't
remember
right
off
hand.
D
But
again
the
remainder
of
those
dollars
were
distributed
are
are
to
be
distributed
to
municipalities
and
boroughs
through
cbdg
funding,
and
so
that
is
ongoing
and
hopefully
all
of
those
dollars.
The
desire
is
to
expend
all
of
those
dollars,
and
then
I
pass
not
send
anything
back.
But
if
there's
something
left
at
december,
31st
it
by
law
by
the
law,
it
must
be
returned
to
the
federal
treasury.
B
So
I
I'm,
I
want
to
shift
a
little
bit.
We've
in
the
last
few
weeks
have
had
various
programs
on
police
stuff
we've
had
we
brought
the
people
who
did
the
city's
report
on
reimagining
police.
B
We
have
councilman
leville
and
I
have
unveiled
two
new
offices
and
city
government,
but
one
of
the
things
I'm
interested
liv
bennett
has
is
sort
of
my
go-to
person
to
understand
the
lay
of
the
land
in
terms
of
activism
and
I'm
really
curious.
It's
been,
you
know,
we've
we've
had
now.
You
know
we
had
tremendous
activism
in
the
in
the
summer
and
some
in
the
fall
it's
sort
of
not
not
stopped.
B
It
certainly
has
waned
down
during
the
fall,
probably
because
the
election,
I
guess
I'm
I'm
curious
as
to
where
that
movement
is
now
and
where
do
you
think
it's?
What
do
you
think
it's
going
to
look
like
going
forward?
You
have
your
hands
both
on
the
government
side
and
the
activism
side.
So
I'm
curious.
I'm
really
really
curious
as
to
what
you
think
activism
looks
like,
and
you
know
as
we
more
from
the
fund
the
police
to
whatever
it
is.
C
No
you're
claire,
so
there
there
are
still
things
going
on
right
now:
there's
a
big
push
being
done
through
apa
around
you
all
city
council
to
do
the
brianna,
brianna
taylor
law,
and
so
that's
that's
an
initiative.
I
think
they're
looking
to
do
it
as
a
ballot
referendum.
C
Doing
away
with
solitary
confinement
in
the
jail,
so
there's
a
city
focus
and
then
there's
a
county
focus
that
is
going
on
right
now.
As
far
as
advocacy
and
activism
work,
the
alc
currently
has
a
lawsuit
against
the
county
in
the
jail
for
folks
that
were
in
solitary
confinement,
so
there
there's
definitely
activism
work
going
on
just
because
folks
on
in
the
street
doesn't
necessarily
mean
that
there's
not
work
going
on,
and
we
also
have
to
be
mindful
that
we're
in
a
pandemic.
C
So
if
we're
we're
being
leaders,
we
have
to
be
mindful
of
how
we're
leading
and
leading
people
out
into
the
streets
and
mass
numbers
during
a
pandemic
is
not
always
wise
either.
So
we've
had
to
come
kind
of
get
a
little
bit
more
creative
kind
of
like
we
had
to
do
for
the
election
on
on
what
advocacy
and
activism
looks
like,
so
even
during
we
got
cases
going
on
different
places
for
harassment.
C
We
have
a
woman
in
penn
hills
who
has
been
being
arrested,
going
to
council
meetings,
making
sure
that
their
voices
are
heard
they're
part
of
the
work.
We
have
folks
in
again
mon
valley
that
we're
doing
work
around
city
of
pittsburgh,
so
the
activism
stuff
is
still
there
and
folks
are
still
being
are
still
doing
things
and
making
sure
that
the
marathon
continues
for
lack
of
a
better.
You
know
analogy,
but
but
yeah
I
mean
housing,
I
mean
it's,
it's
all
still,
they're
all
still
issues.
B
As
sort
of
a
follow-up
question
to
that,
so
in
your
opinion,
what
are
the
key
issues
right?
What,
if
we're
going
to
make
things
better
for
black
people
in
pittsburgh
right,
if
we're
going
to,
if
we're
going
to
make
things
better
for
black
communities
and
black
people
in
those
communities?
What
are
in
your
mind
and
you've
in
many
ways,
have
been
in
the
forefront
in
in
some
of
these
things.
B
What's
the
agenda,
what
should
be
the
agenda?
What
are
the
things
we
need
to
focus
on
post
election
to
make
things
better
for
black
people
here
in.
C
Pittsburgh,
I
think
it's
the
same
answers.
It's
the
same
thing
that
was
pointed
out
in
the
gender
equity
report:
healthcare,
access
to
education,
access
to
housing,
affordable
housing.
C
You
know,
workforce
like
dewitt's
work,
crimin
being
equitable
in
the
criminal
justice
system,
so
all
of
those
all
those
things
and
and
then
some
we
have
predictive
policing
that
is
about
to
be
coming
out
soon.
So
we
have
work,
that's
going
on
around
predictive
policing
and
what
that
looks
like
and
how
to
combat
it
and
not
make
it
a
racial.
You
know
not
have
the
racial
implications
that
come
up
come
along
with
technology
advancement,
so
so
yeah.
All
of
that,
we
we
again.
C
We
talked
about
covet
at
the
top
of
the
show
and
talking
about
how
we're
making
sure,
because
we
know
that
black
people
don't
have
the
same
access
to
health
care,
don't
have
the
same
trust
in
the
medical
systems.
How
do
we
communicate
to
this
to
these
communities
in
a
way?
C
That's
that's
relevant
and
that's
gonna
get
them
to
adhere
to
the
guidelines
wearing
a
mess
staying
socially
distant,
not
having
grandma
cousins
in
them
over
for
thanksgiving
dinner,
like
these
are
real
cultural
things
that
that
continue
to
still
need
to
be
communicated.
C
Actually,
the
call
before
I
got
onto
this
one
was
the
call
with
the
black
equity
table
and
that's
exactly
what
they
were
talking
about.
The
road
map
to
what
the
facts
when
the
vaccine
would
be
rolled
out,
what
the
priorities
are
for
the
vaccine
rollout
and
again,
how
do
we
communicate
to
our
communities?
C
What
things
need
to
be
put
out
there
there's
a
big
thing
with
contact
tracing
where
folks
aren't
answering
the
calls
for
contact
raising
or
not
being
totally
totally
honest
with
the
contact
tracers
on
who
they
were,
who
they
had
in
contact
with.
So
just
those
things
answering
the
phone
when
contact
tracing's,
calling
to
try
to
mitigate
these
the
spread
of
the
virus.
So
all
of
these
things,
but
out,
I
think
the
width
has
something
to
say
so
I'll
I'll.
Let
you
go
okay,.
D
You
know
I'm
going
to
start
with
the
words
common
sense
that
much
of
what
we
have
to
do
just
for
just
ask
for
using
commons,
taking
a
common
sense
approach
in
the
budget
that
we're
going
to
vote
on
tuesday
and
yesterday
there
is
an
amendment
proposed
to
reduce
funding
for
the
allegheny
county
police.
D
I
think
that,
from
an
emotional
perspective
that
just
makes
people
feel
good,
but
I
think
there's
a
prac
there's
some
practical
issues
that
come
into
play
that
we
that
we
need
to
deal
with
and
ensure
that
several
things
occur
relative
to
policing.
D
We
have
to
adequately
fund
them
and
at
the
same
time,
we
have
to
look
to
do
a
significant
piece
of
what
you
and
councilman
lavelle
did
in
using
part
of
the
the
resources
that
the
county
has
available
to
do.
To
address
the
mental
health
challenges
that
our
law
enforcement
officers
encounter
every
day
and
may
not
be
best
equipped
to
to
address
those
challenges
and
those
conflicts
that
we
provide.
D
More
resources
and
divert
them
to
the
areas
that
are
in
desperate
need
of
assistance
and
last
but
not
least,
ensure
that
the
screening
process
that
makes
the
decisions
on
who's
hired
that
folks,
that
you
do
a
better
job
of
screening,
that
there
is
that
that
screening
reflects
equity,
cultural
bias,
all
those
things
that
impact
people
and
far
too
often
aren't
addressed
in
the
screening
and
the
hiring
process,
there's
so
much.
That
needs
to
be
done.
D
That
is,
that
is
required.
Now
again,
we
have
an
independent
p
p,
a
a
piece
of
legislation,
the
independent
police
review
board
that
is
sitting
in
councilwoman
bennett's
committee.
D
We
don't
necessarily
agree
on
the
process
that
we
have
to
get
there,
but
clearly
the
original
legislation,
as
proposed
in
my
opinion,
addresses
the
lion's
share
of
those
issues.
Now
again
it
is.
We
have
to
do
everything
humanly
possible
to
make
sure
people
in
the
city
and
in
allegheny
county
have
their
rights
protected
and
respect
from
and
for
law
enforcement.
C
I
would
add
to
that
to
say:
like
you,
you
guys
did
at
the
city.
Part
of
the
goal
of
real
reallocating
funds
in
the
budget
was
to
allocate
funds
to
the
office
of
violence
prevention,
which
is
kind
of
what
the
call
is
when
we're
talking
about.
Defunding
is
actually
reallocating
dollars
from
police
to
community
programs
such
as
office
of
violence
prevention,
who
is
doing
great
intervention,
work
and
they're
concentrated
in
the
greater
parts
of
the
county,
because
y'all
have
a
similar
program
in
the
city
already
so
not
to
be
redundant.
C
They
more
concentrate
on
greater
parts
of
the
county
and
they're
largely
funded
through
grants,
and
they
wanted
to
make
sure
that
they
were
secured
through
the
county
and
receiving
funds
through
the
county.
So
that
was
the
purpose
of
that
and
speaking
of
the
independent
police
review
board,
there
is
an
email
coming
out
tomorrow
with
an
amended
legislation
to,
I
guess:
it'll
come
out
tomorrow.
I
thought
it
would
come
out
today,
but
it
didn't,
but
it
will
go
to
my
council
members.
C
We
will
be
introducing
the
amended
legislation
in
the
next
meeting
to
try
to
get
this
moved
and
done
in
this
year.
Getting
the
police
review
board
done.
So
that's
where
those
stand.
A
Well,
congratulations
on
both
one
I
did.
I
didn't
realize
you
all
were
proposing
moving
dollars
to
your
violence
prevention.
I
think
it's
a
great
office.
They
coordinate
locally
with
our
group
balance
intervention
workers
here
and
so
the
more
resources
that
we
can
provide
to
both
is
only
for
the
betterment
of
our
community.
So
thank
you
for
that.
A
I
want
to
go
back
to
something
you
mentioned
liv
when
you
mentioned
the
black
health
group
that
you
were
recently
on
a
call
with
them
and
I'm
curious
because
during
the
first
wave
we
saw
that
covet
was
absolutely
having
a
disproportionate
impact
on
the
black
community
and
I
haven't
been
a
regular
participant
of
those
calls
every
so
often
I
I
jump
on
one,
but
given
that
you
you
do
actively
participate.
A
Are
we
seeing
that
same
trend
happening
now?
And
if
so
I
mean
you
already
mentioned
common
sense.
Prevention
like
don't,
have
all
your
cousins
over
for
thanksgiving,
but
do
they
need
more
people
willing
to
become
contract
tracers
like
if
people
want
to
help?
How
can
we
do
so?
If,
indeed,
the
numbers
are
still
doing
what
we,
what
we
I'm
assuming
they're
doing.
C
Yeah,
so
yes,
there
is
still
a
very
large
disparity
between
the
white
community
and
black
community
with
the
impact
of
covet
in
the
county.
I
think
they're,
quoting
a
rate
of
like
16
percent
and
on
that
call
black
equity
call
they're,
quoting
more
like
40
percent
infection
weights
in
our
communities.
C
So
definitely
there
is
a
significant
increase
when
we're
talking
about
the
black
community
and
yes,
so
some
of
the
things
like
little
things,
for
example,
when
contact
tracer's
call,
it
was
brought
up
on
the
call
like
if
it
just
says
a
county
number
and
you're
calling
black
folks.
We
don't
know
who
that
is,
if
it
doesn't
say,
contact
tracing,
then
we
ain't
answering
like
that
could
be
child
support
for
all.
C
We
know
so
like
there
are
real
cultural
concerns
and
and
ways
that
we
think
within
our
community
that
is
going
to
hinder
gaining
information
if
we
don't,
if
we're,
not
transparent
and
when
we're
reaching
out.
So
I
think
one
of
the
other
challenges
is
that,
due
to
hipaa,
you
know
when
they
reach
out
their
folks
want
information.
Well,
who
was
it
that
I
was
in
contact
with
we?
They
can't
give
that
so
folks
become
frustrated
with
that
as
well.
C
So
there
was
like
little
cute
graphics
that
they
were
proposing
like
a
cell
phone
to
head
like
ex-boyfriend.
Don't
answer
that
call
ac
covet19
answer
that
call
so
like
just
very
basic
fundamental
communication
like
this
is
what
we
need.
We
need
you
to
be
talking
to
contact
tracers.
C
If
you
were
exposed,
we
need
you
to
be
wearing
a
mess.
We
need
you
to
social
distance,
physically
distance
if
you're
out
somewhere.
I
never
liked
the
term
socially
distance.
In
the
first
place,
it
should
be
physically
distanced,
because
that's
what
we're
asking
folks
to
do
physically
distance
and
and
wash
your
hands
so
and
then
add
it
to
that.
Not
doing
these
small
gatherings,
because
you're
listening
to
the
reports
coming
from
the
achd,
that
is
where
the
huge
infection
rates
are
coming
from
are
not
coming
from
schools.
It's
not
coming
from.
C
You
know
formal
gatherings.
It's
these
informal
gatherings
that
folks
are
having
that
are,
do
are
that
are
becoming
super
spreader
type
events,
so
making
sure
that
we're
really
being
communi
communicating
that
this
is
not.
This
is
not
a
drill.
People
this
is
real.
We
need
you
to
be
doing
everything
possible
and
really
talking
to
your
people.
Like
I
know
in
my
family,
we
gather
for
thanksgiving.
So
I'm
like
talking
to
my
family
like
hey
y'all.
Let's
not
do
that.
C
Zoom
got
no
limits
on
thanksgiving,
let's
go
there
so,
like
just
being
you
know
talking
to
your
own
people
in
your
own
networks
and
because
people
like
we
can
put
out
as
much
communication
as
we
want
to
but
trusted
communication
people
follow
communication
when
they're
coming
from
a
trusted
source
and
trusted
sources
are
people
you
know
within
our
network,
so
achd
can
put
out
whatever
they
want.
The
black
covert
team
can
put
out
whatever
they
want,
but
it
works
a
lot
better.
C
If
daniel
lavelle
is
talking
to
his
auntie
and
was
like
auntie,
you
know
that's
really
not
a
good
idea
like
she's,
going
to
listen
to
that
more
than
she's
going
to
listen
to
a
a
cdc
or,
or
you
know,
governmental
guidelines.
So
I
think
that
you
know
talking
about
our
individual
responsibility
and
not
just
practicing
the
guidelines,
but
also
encouraging
our
people
within
our
spirit,
to
practice
those
guidelines
and
use
those
common
sense
measures.
D
Well,
I'm
gonna
I'm
going
to
again
use
the
word
common
sense.
We
all
know
whether
we
agree
or
not.
D
Fewer
and
fewer
people
in
our
communities
use
standard
means
of
communication
and
information
gathering
very
few
people,
look
at
abc
nbc
or
msnbc
or
cnn,
and
more
people
are
gathering
their
information
from
facebook,
twitter
instagram,
and
this
is
a
conversation
that
I've
had
with
folks
in
positions
of
responsibility,
just
as
I've
had
just
as
I
had
early
on
with
those
same
folks
about
putting
together
the
group
with
highmark
and
upmc,
to
begin
to
do
the
testing
the
multiple
testings
in
various
communities
in
the
city
and
the
county
and
the
the
fqhc's
federally
qualified
health
centers
to
engage
them
in
in
real
ways.
D
We
have
to
use
all
the
tools
at
our
disposal
to
communicate
the
message
we
all
and
it's
just
not
it's
just
not
black
folk-
that
don't
answer
the
damn
phone.
If
you
don't
recognize
the
number
everybody
everybody,
if
you
don't,
I
don't
know
who
they
are:
hey
man
bump
that
mess
you
know.
So
we
have
to
use
creative
approaches
to
do
outreach.
We
have
to
use
social
media,
although
I
am
not
an
avid
fan
of
social
media.
D
I
understand
its
impact
and
that's
why
I
said
how
folks
gather
information.
We
have
to
use
multiple
tools
and
again
it
is
the
municipalities
or
the
county
and
the
city,
and
particularly
the
county,
with
greater
resources
to
craft
those
messages,
with
the
hope
of
getting
people
to
pay
greater
attention
and
using
those
and
using
mask
wearing
physically
distant.
D
D
B
But
you
know
coming
out
of
kovic
we're
not
going
to
be
the
same
and
that's
something
I
think
that
we've
not
had
that
conversation
in
the
black
community
we've
probably
lost
40
50
of
all
the
companies.
You
know
mom
and
pop
stores.
If
you
go
through
the
community,
you
see
they're
closing
down.
Restaurants
have
closed
down.
Black
restaurants
are
closed
down.
I
think
that,
and
black
people
have
been
laid
off
right,
not
you
know
not
being
at
work.
Kovic
has
many
of
them.
You
know
were
in.
B
I
think
we're
gonna
have
to
have
a
serious
conversation
about
how
to
strengthen
the
black
community
if
there
was
ever
a
time
that
we're
gonna
need
more
resources
to
build
more
affordable
housing
and
more
entrepreneur,
space
and
career
space
kovic
has
devastated
our
community
and
we're
gonna
need
disproportionate
amount
of
resources.
B
You
know
luckily
councilman
lavelle
and
I
have
begun
that
with
avenues
of
hope,
but
I
just
think
that
isn't
that
idea
of
investing
in
black
communities,
if
we're
serious
about
black
people,
that
we're
gonna
have
to
do
that
more
now,
because
of
kovic,
that's
gonna,
be
have
to
be
a
major
concern
of
western
pennsylvania
and
not
just
in
pittsburgh,
really
county-wide.
You
know
there
are
block
pockets
of
black
people
throughout
the
county.
They
have
been
ignored
for
many
many
years.
Kovic
has
devastated
them
and
they're
going
to
need
emergencies.
B
Supportive
assistance,
I'm
talking
too
much,
but
I
really
think
we
haven't
talked
about
that
as
much.
What
do
you
guys
think.
D
Let
me
let
me
let
me
let
me
jump
in
there
rick.
I
agree.
I
agree
wholeheartedly
tomorrow
morning
during
our
pbe
elc
meeting,
we're
going
to
have
if
you've
looked
at
your
email.
I
sent
we
sent
out
today
both
a
draft
report
that
we're
going
to
talk
about
tomorrow
morning
and
from
partners
to
work
this
about
four
o'clock.
I
I
had
pam
send
out
anot
a
powerpoint
presentation.
D
I
think
it's
a
three
or
four
slide
power,
powerpoint
presentation
that,
on
on
a
piece
of
that
we
really
have
to,
we
have
to
really
begin
to
figure
out
how
we
tackle
it.
As
chair
of
the
workforce
development
committee
for
pbe
llc,
I
have
those
same.
I
have
similar
concerns
and
I've
had
a
conversation
with
councilman
levelle,
probably
five
six
weeks
ago
regarding
the
lord
hill
project
and
how
that
has
to
be
that's
being
reevaluated
and
how
all
of
these
things
are
impact
and
are
really
impactful.
D
D
We
really
have
to
find
a
way
to
provide
real
support,
whether
it's
through
the
heroes
act,
whether
it's
through
another
round
of
ppp
of
funding.
We
have
to
have
those
conversations
on
a
national
and
a
state
and
a
local
level.
I've
had
a
number
of
buyer
owners
that
have
come
to
me
and
asked
me
hey.
Why
doesn't
the
county?
D
D
The
port
authority
has
lost
and
has
lost
as
much
as
80
percent
of
its
revenue,
the
the
revenue
that
that
funds,
the
port
authority
comes
from
the
state
and
the
federal
government
and
the
remainder
comes
from
the
drink
tax.
D
D
They're
not
easy
answers,
but
we
need
to
have
those
conversations
and,
as
I
shared
as
councilman
level-
and
I
talked
about
now,
shut
up
on
this
point
when
you
look
at
at
businesses,
technology
that
has
been
advanced
as
part
of
kovid
has
demonstrated
that
there's
less
need
for
as
much
office
space,
so
that
has
a
downward
push
on
new
construction
on
utilization
of
existing
office
space
in
the
city
and
in
the
county.
C
So
I
would
agree,
but
I
also
think
we
need
to
talk
about
what
normal
looks
like
after
the
vaccine
as
well,
because
I
think
folks
are
going
to
think
that
once
we
have
a
vaccine
that
everything
goes
back
to
normal,
you
can
walk
around.
You
can
be
close
like
none
of
that
is
true,
so
there
needs
to
be
a
holistic
conversation
of
what
vax.
What
after
vaccine
looks
like
as
well.
C
So
after
you,
so
first
of
all,
the
vaccine
itself
is
a
two
dose
vaccine
at
this
moment.
So
you
won't
even
have
you
won't
even
be
vaccinated
until
about
a
month
after
receiving
your
first
dose?
So
because
you
have
to
take
your
first
dose
and
then
three
weeks
later
take
the
second
dose,
which
is
like
the
booster
dose
and
then
and
then
a
week
from
there
is
where
you
would
get
your
your
vac,
where
you
would
be
immune.
C
So
that's
one
two,
even
with
the
vaccine,
you
will
still
need
to
be
wearing
a
mask
that
has
not,
I
think
folks,
you
know,
will
think
that
I'm
vaccinated.
I
can
just
whip
this
thing
off
and
never
work.
No,
that's
not
going
to
be
the
case.
We
will
be
in
a
in
mess
for
quite
a
while
even
after
the
vaccine
is
here,
and
the
time
frame
also
for
covet
is
not.
It
doesn't
expire
once
the
vaccine's
here
either
the
timeline
that
they
just
said
on.
C
The
call
that
I
just
exited
was
about
three
or
four
years
we'll
be
dealing
with
kovid.
So
this
is
not,
though
we
are
hitting.
You
know,
necessary.
Nice
benchmarks,
as
far
as
getting
vaccine
and
timeline
and
distribution,
and
things
like
that.
That's
still
not,
this
is
still
not
the
end.
We
still
have
some
ways
to
go,
and,
and
until
we
hit
what
we
would
consider
normal
again
when
we're
not
walking
around
with
masks
and
having
the
physically
distance
and
things
like
that.
C
So
the
first
round
would
be
to
help
healthcare
workers
like
essential
workers
and
that's
one
a
then
one
b,
which
is
shortly
like
half
a
step
under
there
is
like
a
vulnerable
population,
so
people
who
are
living.
C
Homes
and
things
like
that,
and
then
I
want
to
say,
there's
a
part
where
there's
vulnerable
communities
and
that
might
be
like
two
I
wanna
hold
on.
I
actually
think
I
do
have
the
distribution
outline
right
here,
but
yeah.
So
it
is
phases
and
the
phase
that
will
get
to
like
general
distribution.
C
They
don't
see
happening
until
about
mid-summer,
early
fall,
so
those
the
early
vaccine,
the
emergency
approvals
that'll
happen
and
those
early
ones
would
get
out
there
like
december
january,
but
until
like
normal
people
like
you
and
me,
won't
probably
have
the
ability
to
go
get
a
vaccine
until
about
june
july
or
so,
and
that's
coming
from
the
state,
dr
levine's
table,
because
the
national
table
had
a
slightly
more
aggressive
timeline.
A
Wow,
thank
you,
that's
very,
very
informative.
Do
you
have
any
last
burning
questions?
Ref?
No,
I'm
good!
Okay!
If
not,
we
have
come
upon
our
seven
o'clock
hour.
I
want
to
thank
both
liv
and
dewitt
county
councilman.
Walton
excuse
me
and
county
councilwoman
liv
bennett.
A
I
want
to
thank
you
all
for
your
time
spending
us
with
this
evening.
I
want
to
thank
you
for
the
information
that
you
provided
with
us
when
we
bring
the
black
collectors
on.
It
really
is
intended
to
be
an
opportunity
to
provide
the
public
with
what
is
actually
happening,
and
especially
you
live
with
providing
information.
C
D
Okay,
you
should
have
get
you
haven't
gotten
it.
Okay,
I'll
make
sure
I'll,
send
it
I'll,
send
it
as
well.
B
Well,
I
want
to
thank
all
of
you
for
watching
and
participating
in
this
town
hall
meeting.
Remember
you
can
watch
this
show
on
facebook,
the
city's
youtube
channel
or
the
city's
cable
channel.
A
new
meeting
will
occur
normally
every
wednesday
by
working
together,
united
purpose,
we
can
transform
our
city
strengthen
it
for
all
of
its
residents.
Pittsburgh
can
only
be
a
city
for
all
when
it
becomes
a
city
where
black
pittsburgh
matters
good
evening
stay
safe
and
be.