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A
So
if
you've
been
to
one
of
these
meetings
in
the
past,
you
may-
and
you
may
notice
some
changes-
we
used
to
do
to
kind
of
citywide
meetings
that
cover
all
the
departments
in
the
capital
budget.
We
like
to
move
the
meetings
around
to
get
some
geographic
diversity.
We
had
an
excellent
format,
called
deliberative
democracy
that
was
really
spearheaded
by
Robert
Cavalier
at
Carnegie
Mellon
University.
They
really
fostered
conversations
in
small
groups
right.
It
was
about
three
kind
of
big
discussion
questions.
A
You
got
a
chance
to
sit
at
a
table,
people
from
other
communities
and
learn
about
their
experiences
with
capital,
infrastructure
and
I
said.
If
it's
working,
you
got
to
explain
your
own
and
we
also
had
a
Q&A
session.
We
also
had
pierogies
so
unfortunately,
this
year
we're
having
to
make
some
changes
going
all
digital
in
light
of
covin.
We
wanted
to
really
dive
a
little
bit
deeper
and
use
this
as
an
opportunity
to
talk
in
more
detail
about
some
different
corners
of
the
capital
budget.
A
So
this
year
we're
doing
three
different
meetings
on
different
portions
of
the
budget.
We're
also
streaming
live
to
YouTube
and
we
want
to
say
especially
a
lot
of
things:
the
Office
of
Community
Affairs,
the
Department
of
innovation
and
performance
and
tonight's
interpreters,
Nick,
Miller
and
Logan
Showalter
for
their
help
supporting
this
meeting
again,
those
two
notes
just
to
help
increase
accessibility
to
the
ASL
interpreters
or
to
mute
your
audio
and
turn
off.
A
Okay,
so
we
have
a
pretty
agenda
tonight.
We
have
to
a
lot
of
important
things
to
discuss
with
some
some
really
intelligent
people,
so
I
don't
to
spend
too
much
time,
but
I
do
want
to
go
through
a
capital
budget
overview.
So
you
have
a
sense
of
kind
of
what's
in
the
budget,
also
how
we
develop
it,
then
we're
going
to
talk
to
the
Commission
on
Human
Relations
and
some
of
the
excellent
work
that
they're
doing
protecting
Pittsburgh
residents,
we're
also
going
to
talk
to
the
Community
Development
Division
of
the
Office
of
Management
and
Budget.
A
This
is
also
a
note
that
if
you
hear
any
acronyms
you
don't
know,
please
let
me
know
feel
free
to
make
a
comment
and
a
chat.
My
new
year's
resolution
is
fewer
acronyms
government
people,
love
acronyms,
but
they're,
not
always
the
most
successful.
So
please,
let
us
know
if
there's
something
that
you
don't
understand.
A
So
tonight
again
we
really
want
your
input
on
what
you
want
to
see
in
the
capital
budget.
We're
gonna
ask
you
to
complete
a
survey
at
the
end
of
the
meeting.
It'll
give
you
a
chance
to
tell
us
kind
of
just
generally
what
you
think
we
should
be
spending
money
on
and
also,
if
you
have
a
specific
project
idea,
you
can
send
that
in
to
us
all
of
those
survey.
A
Responses
are
published
in
the
capital
budget
and
we
also
make
sure
to
share
them
with
departments
and
council
offices
and
then
again
any
of
your
questions
for
the
expert
panel.
There's,
maybe
something
that
somebody
else
in
the
community
is
also
thought
about.
So
it's
great
that
we're
able
to
share
those
things
on
YouTube
and
then
also
with
the
city
council
offices,
so
they
have
an
understanding
of
what's
being
asked
in
the
meetings.
A
It
is
really
more
about
the
physical
infrastructure,
the
things
that
the
city
owns
and
operates,
the
built
environment,
things
like
streets
and
sidewalks
parks,
pools,
playgrounds,
bridges
fall
fields,
but
we
also
have
our
community
about
my
Block
Grant
funds
and
capital
budget,
so
money
for
affordable
housing,
money
for
a
small
business
development,
that's
also
included
in
the
capital
budget,
and
that's
some
of
the
projects
we're
gonna
be
talking
about
tonight.
Do
you
are
ever
on
the
city's
website
and
you're
kind
of
wondering
which,
which
budget
to
look
at?
A
We
have
the
the
more
kind
of
Avengers
style
photo
I
like
this
one,
a
lot
they
get
the
good
kind
of
Washington's
landing
photo
on
the
operating
budget,
but
we've
got
the
good
storm
you
on.
So
the
capital
budget
itself
actually
is
a
six-year
plan.
Larger
projects
can
take
millions
of
dollars
in
in
multiple
years
to
complete.
So
for
each
couple
of
budget
year
we
build
what's
called
a
CIP
or
a
capital
improvement
plan.
A
It's
a
series
of
six
year
plans
within
the
capital
budget
that
really
communicates
how
we
intend
to
spend
money
on
each
of
the
individual
projects.
In
terms
of
the
timeline,
we're
kind
of
right
smack
in
the
middle
of
things
right
now,
this
year's
process
kicks
off,
like
it
has
in
the
past,
with
the
mayor
issuing
a
set
of
priorities.
We're
going
to
talk
about
those
in
a
little
bit
more
detail
in
the
next
slide.
You'll
have
an
opportunity
to
comment
on
the
mayor's
priorities
in
the
survey.
A
If
you
want
to
complete
that
after
the
meeting
and
then
in
May,
our
office
releases
request
for
proposals
from
city
council
offices
from
city
departments
and
also
some
community
partners
who
have
worked
on
capital
budget
projects
with
us
in
the
past
in
June,
we
do
kind
of
a
big
push
for
outreach,
including
these.
These
three
public
meetings,
July
1st,
is
when
the
proposals
are
due
back
to
our
office
and
then
really
through
July
and
August,
we're
having
a
lot
of
meetings
with
Department
leadership
and
project
managers
to
talk
about
the
proposals
that
they
submitted.
A
That's
their
opportunity
to
kind
of
give
us
some
more
context
on
things
in
addition
to
what
they
put
in
the
proposal,
and
it
gives
us
an
opportunity
to
ask
questions
about
timeline
or
feasibility
in
August.
The
capital
program
facilitation
committee
presents
a
summary
report
to
the
mayor's
office
of
recommendations
and
then
in
September,
the
mayor
releases,
the
preliminary
budget
for
both
capital
and
operating
in
November,
though
the
budgets
refined
and
the
mayor,
does
kind
of
that.
State
of
the
City
address.
A
That's
usually
the
second
Tuesday
in
November
and
releases,
the
official
mayor,
mayoral
budgets
for
both
at
home,
operating
and
then
throughout
the
rest
of
November
and
December
city
council
does
live
public
hearings
where
they
kind
of
do
something
similar
to
what
the
capital
program
facilitation
committee.
Does
they
bring
the
departments
in
and
they
ask
some
questions
about
their
projects,
so
the
mayor's
budget
priorities
are
really
a
great
reflection
of
what
the
mayor
wants
to
see
in
the
budget.
A
These
are
in
no
particular
order
by
the
way,
again,
there's
fuller
descriptions
on
the
survey,
so
you
can
read
more
about
those
there,
but
they're
meant
to
inspire
proposal.
Ideas
from
departments
and
really
make
people
think
how
does
this
proposal
fit
into
the
mayor's
priorities?
These
are
shared
again
with
the
proposal
form
itself,
so
they
have
that
kind
of
one-to-one
relationship
and
hopefully
inspire
some
some
great
ideas
from
people.
The
proposal
form
itself
is
relatively
simple,
but
we
do
ask
for
some
key
information.
A
So
one
of
the
things
that
we
ask
the
departments
and
council
offices
to
consider
is
that
six
years
spending
plan
that
capital
improvement
plan.
There
are
multiple
phases
to
a
lot
of
the
projects
we
work
with,
sometimes
there's
a
planning
phase,
a
design
phase,
maybe
two
or
three
years
of
construction.
So
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
planning,
according
accordingly
for
all
of
those
future
phases
to
make
sure
that
you
have
enough
resource
that
you
really
complete
the
project,
the
way
that
it
should
be.
A
We
also
ask
questions
about
the
project
itself
to
get
an
understanding
of
where
it
kind
of
fits
in
with
other
capital
programs.
What
the
need
is
it's
trying
to
be
addressed.
We
also
asked
about
the
operating
budget
impact,
so
if
you're,
if
you're
building
a
new
building,
you
also
need
to
pay
for
the
staff
in
that
building
or
you
need
to
pay
for
the
utility
bills
after
it's
built.
So
that's
kind
of
the
operating
budget
questions
that
we
ask.
We
have
some
projects
that
actually
go
the
opposite
direction.
A
We
have
some
capital
projects,
whether
it's
a
new
piece
of
computer
software
or
plug-in
electric
vehicles.
They
can
actually
help
us
save
money
on
the
operating
budget
as
well.
We
also
ask
all
proposals
to
provide
some
information.
That's
going
to
help
us
score,
so
these
are
actually
the
eight
categories
of
scoring
that
the
capital
program
facilitation
committee
uses
to
score
and
rank
projects.
So
we
just
asked
for
a
straight
response
from
each
of
the
proposals
as
well
and
then
it's
their
opportunity
to
provide
some
justifications
and
further
back
up
for
a
good
score.
A
B
Thanks
Steve,
and
actually
you
had
it
right.
We
write
differently
human
relations
commission
on
human
relations,
all
fine,
so
I
am
going
to
go
ahead
and
share
my
screen:
hi
everybody,
I'm
Megan,
Stanley,
the
executive
director
of
the
Pittsburgh
Commission
on
human
relations
and
bear
with
me
one
moment
while
I
share
my
screen.
If
you'll,
okay.
B
There
we
go
okay,
so
Dave
just
went
over
the
the
capital
budget
and
what
that
looks
like
so.
The
Commission
on
human
relations
is
an
independent
commission
within
city
government
really
charged
with
protecting
residents
from
discrimination
and
investing
investigating
complaints
of
discrimination
on
the
basis
of
employment,
housing
and
public
accommodations
and
our
portion
of
this.
You
know
we
have
multiple
funding
sources,
so
we're
funded
those
in
part
by
the
city's
operating
budget.
We
are
a
fair
housing
assistance
program
for
HUD,
so
we
get
money
directly
from
HUD
for
housing
investigations.
B
We
are
also
a
program
through
EEOC,
so
we
get
money
from
EEOC
at
the
federal
level
and
then
we
also
get
$100,000
so
a
relatively
small
portion,
but
we
try
to
make
it
go
as
far
as
possible
of
the
Community
Development
Block
Grant
funds,
which
is
part
of
the
city's
capital
budget,
and
we
use
that
money
to
ensure
compliance
with
and
really
understanding
of,
the
city
of
Pittsburgh,
fair
housing
ordinances
federally.
There
are
only
seven
protected
classes
in
the
city
of
Pittsburgh.
B
We
have
15,
so
obviously
many
more
protections
and
people
might
not
always
know
and
understand
what
that
means.
If
you
live
in
the
county
versus
the
city,
unfortunately,
you
might
have
different
protections.
So
part
of
our
work
is
to
do
things
like
know
your
rights
workshops
and
community
education
regarding
fair
housing
rights,
and
we
often
partner
with
the
Fair
Housing
Partnership
of
Greater
Pittsburgh.
They
are
also
a
HUD
program,
called
a
fair
housing
initiatives
program.
B
Images,
including
time
lapses.
Housing
issues
like
evictions
how
rent
has
increased
health
issues
and
housings
looking
at
Health
Department
complaints,
neighborhoods
that
maybe
have
less
public
transit
access
and
what
that
means
for
them,
and
the
Fair
Housing
Partnership
provides,
as
I
said,
training
about
fair
housing
rights
both
to
residents
and
to
landlords,
which
I
think
is
really
important,
which
classes
or
groups
of
people
are
protected
and
then
responsibilities
under
the
law.
B
So
our
2018-2019
agreement
with
Fair
Housing
Partnership
is
that
was
year
three
out
of
a
five
year
agreement
with
them
to
provide
these
trainings
and
services,
so
they
provided
fair
housing
trainings
for
the
Department
of
City
Planning,
then
there's
office,
the
housing
services,
continuum
of
care
throughout
the
county,
the
Urban
Redevelopment
Authority
and
the
housing
authority
of
the
city
of
Pittsburgh,
and
they
also
held
three
community
meetings
to
help
inform
residents
and
teach
them
about
their
fair
housing
rights.
Always
taking
questions
and
comments
about
that
and
promoting
the
services
they
have.
B
They
are
also
able
to
do
something
called
fair
housing
testing,
which
is
where
they
get
information
about
potentially
discriminatory
practices
in
housing,
and
then
they
send
out
people
both
in
protected
classes
and
not
in
protected
classes,
to
see
if
there
is
unfair
treatment
and
they
analyze
fair
housing.
Based
on
that,
so
they
perform
ten
fair
housing
assessments
for
members
of
the
of
care,
15
of
those
assessments
for
private
landlords
and
eight
of
private
landlords,
new
construction
for
adherence
with
design
and
construction
standards
that
are
part
of
the
Federal
Fair
Housing
Act.
B
We
also
another
initiative
that
supported
through
our
hundred
thousand
total
in
CDBG
funds
is
a
new
pilot
program.
That's
going
to
be
a
landlord
tenant
mediation
program,
so
this
will
be
launching
in
just
a
couple
of
weeks.
We're
really
excited
about
it,
so
working
with
the
family
mediation
center
of
western
Pennsylvania
and
using
CDBG
dollars
to
fund
that,
and
so
what
that
looks
like
is
essentially
you
know.
B
We
can
only
handle
discrimination,
complaints
and
housing,
but
we
know
there
are
so
many
other
issues
in
housing
and
that
evictions
are
both
a
crisis
in
Pittsburgh
and
nationwide
and
are
incredibly
destabilizing
and
outside
of
the
courts.
There
haven't
really
been
any
venues
where
landlords
and
tenants
could
go
to
a
space
and
talk
through
issues,
and
we
know
that
just
the
mere
filing
of
an
eviction
can
be
really
detrimental
to
a
tendon,
even
if
they
are
able
to
pay
and
stay
in
their
unit.
That
still
follows
them
around.
B
So
this
money
goes
to
support
the
landlord
tenant
mediation
program
to
hopefully
prevent
the
eviction
filings
and
get
to
the
heart
of
the
issues
before
then
and
reduce
housing
displacement
within
the
city
of
Pittsburgh.
We
have
a
pool
of
about
25,
trained
mediators
who
offer
services
pro
bono,
hopefully
mediating,
150
cases
during
the
pilot
year
and
getting
referrals
from
private
landlords
from
tenants
who
are
reaching
out
from
some
of
the
judges.
B
So
if
something
has
been
filed
that
they
would
like
mediation
and
also
from
a
housing
authority
site,
so
that
is
a
brand
new
initiative
that
we
are
happy
to
support
and
finally,
I
just
want
to
show
you
and
I'm
going
to
have
to
stop
hearing
my
screen
and
then
reshare
to
a
new
one.
But
I
just
want
to
show
you
exactly
what
our
collaboration
with
the
create
lab
looks
like
in
real
time
so
I'm
going
to
show
you
are
the
newly
launched
website
for
that.
Oh
one,
second,.
B
Okay,
so
here
you
can
see
the
new
website,
which
is
just
PGH
earth
time,
dot
org.
So
this
website
was
part
of
our
contract,
with
the
create
lab
we've
been
working
with
them
with
other
community
groups
like
the
hill
district
consensus
group
and
urban
kind
Institute
to
really
go
through
different
sets
of
data
and
think
about
how
those
pieces
interact
with
where
a
person
is
able
to
live
and
what
that
means
in
other
realms
of
their
life.
B
So,
for
example,
we
have
data
stories
that
you
can
look
through
on
this
website
about
things
like
affordability
and
fair
housing,
which
is
probably
what
comes
to
mind
initially
public
transportation,
so
going
from
home
to
work
and
back
what.
That
means,
how
much
of
your
income
is
spent
on
that
often
someone's
income
determines
where
they
can
live,
but
then
they
spend
a
much
larger
share
of
their
income
on
public
transit
to
get
to
work.
We
also
for
Earth
Day,
looked
at
housing
in
the
environment
and
have
a
specific
story
about
that.
B
We
also
link
to
an
Earth
Day
video
that
we
did
with
dr.
Jamil
day
of
the
urban
kind
Institute,
and
then
talk
about
housing,
stability
and
just
really
quickly.
You
know
you
can
see
these
maps
are.
A
series
of
these
stories
are
a
series
of
data
maps
that
show
different
images
and
give
you
narration
to
walk
through
and
so
really
just
to
encourage
you
to
go.
B
Look
here,
learn
more
about
data
and
housing
in
Pittsburgh
and
on
all
of
these
you
can
scroll
and
zoom
in,
and
you
can
get
basically
down
to
an
exact
rooftop
if
you
would
like
to
to
better
understand,
what's
going
on
in
your
neighborhood
and
to
people
around
you
in
different
communities
in
Pittsburgh.
So
those
are
the
three
really
big
projects
that
our
share
of
capital
funds,
support
or
conspirators
I
love.
A
A
That's
that's
being
done
right
now
out
of
that
office,
I'm
very
excited
about
especially
the
mediation
program,
the
pilot
and
the
work
that
Megan's
done
behind
the
scenes
and
the
coordination
with
the
housing
authority
and
then
also
with
some
really
important
judicial
people
to
get
that
going,
it's
been
great
and
I'm
hope
I'm
excited
that
I
think
it's
gonna
make
a
big
impact
for
a
lot
of
people
so
up
next.
What
need
you
and
try
sharing
your
screen.
C
A
C
Dave,
it's
true,
and
thanks
Meg
and
I'd.
Sorry
I,
don't
have
any
great
maps
to
show
like
that.
I
also
love
brain
maps
so
next
time
we'll
do
a
great
maps
on
here.
As
dave
said,
my
name
is
whitney:
finnstrom
I'm
senior
manager,
the
community
development
division
of
the
Office
of
Management
and
Budget
and
I
just
want
to
give
you
kind
of
a
brief
overview
in
terms
of
the
federal
funding
that
the
city
receives
and
just
kind
of
give
you
a
road
map.
C
The
city
of
Pittsburgh
is
what's
called
an
entitlement
community,
meaning
that
we
get
funds
from
HUD
do
a
combination
of
factors,
our
population,
our
income
levels,
poverty
levels
and
so
on.
Another
good
reason
to
complete
your
census
form,
because
the
funds
that
the
city
gets
are
really
based
on
the
census
data.
So
that's
really
critical.
C
So
the
Community
Development
Division
is
responsible
for
the
administration
of
the
city's
Federal
Housing
and
Urban
Development
funds
and,
as
I
mentioned
there,
while
there
are
four
big
chunks
of
funds
that
are
received
through
our
office,
and
that
includes
the
K
Development
Block
Grant
bond.
That's
probably
the
most
well
known.
That's
where
we
get
probably
90%
of
the
funding
and
Community
Development
is
through
that
program
that
is
roughly
in
the
neighborhood
of
13.5
million.
That
fluctuates
a
bit
as
we'll
see
a
little
later.
The
next
chunk
of
funding
is
the
emergency
solutions.
C
But
overall,
these
programs
are
the
funds
used
to
dress,
dress,
housing,
economic
and
human
service
needs
of
low
to
moderate
income
city
of
Pittsburgh
residents
and
neighborhoods.
So,
given
that
it's
not
really
a
large
amount
of
funding-
and
it's
got
a
big
mission
to
accomplish
and
the
priorities
for
how
the
funds
are
spent
are
partially
through
it's
a
local
decision.
There
are
some
parameters,
but
comprehensive
plans
can
be
one
tool
to
help
set
those
guidelines,
as
I
mentioned,
and
you
can
see
from
this
quite
glaring
graph.
C
The
city
of
Pittsburgh
has
seen
quite
a
decline
in
its
CDBG
allocations
from
its
heyday
back
in
the
late
70s
early
80s.
It
stayed
relatively
stable
and
the
13.5
million
dollar
range
from
2011
to
the
present.
But,
as
you
can
see,
it's
definitely
not
at
the
level
it
has
been
in
the
past,
and
so
that
of
course
means
that
there's
some
really
tough
decisions
that
have
to
be
made
locally
about
how
CDBG
funds
are
allocated.
C
Sorry
I
make
this
back
up
one
step,
so
the
other
part
about
this
I
just
wanted
to
let
you
know
about
was
said.
The
federal
funding
is
dependent
upon
Congress,
passing
a
budget
federal
budget
and
then
the
president
signing
that
budget
and
then
the
funds
get
allocated
locally.
So
there's
quite
a
long
process
to
get
to
the
point
where
the
city
actually
receives
the
federal
funds
and
we
can
kind
of
benchmark
when
that
process
is
how
well
it's
gonna
go.
You
can
always
guess
how
quickly
or
slowly,
but
just
to
give
you
a
sample
example.
C
C
Like
any
federal
funding,
there
are
very
specific
guidelines
that
have
to
be
met
and
for
CDBG
funds,
Community
Development,
Block,
Grant
funds.
It
has
to
meet
certain
national
objectives,
and
this
includes
SLO
mod
income,
persons
assisting
a
mod
income,
persons
and
I
won't
go
into
all
these
subcategories,
but
area
benefit.
For
example,
that
would
be
a
park
or
a
playground.
So
it's
benefiting
everyone
within
a
certain
area,
but
at
least
51%
of
the
persons
within
that
area
must
be
low.
C
Mod
income
right
next
category
limited
clientele
might
be
someone
who
is
trying
to
access
that
particular
program.
So
we
would
have
to
do
an
income
verification
to
make
sure
that
they're,
actually
income
qualified
and
that
they're
not
making.
You
know
a
certain
income
level
in
order
to
access
the
benefits.
So,
overall,
there
are
three
national
objectives:
it's
to
benefit
low
and
moderate
income
persons,
it's
staying
in
the
prevention
or
elimination
of
slums
or
blight,
and
the
third
is
to
me
in
need
having
a
particular
urgency,
that's
what
we
call
a
national
or
on
urgent
need.
C
C
So
we
use
income
limit
guidelines
to
inform
us
about
what
the
income
criteria
would
be
for
someone
to
qualify
a
printed
for
a
particular
program
that
could
be
for
down
payment
assistance
program
or
you
know
whatever
the
program
might
be.
This
data
is
typically
released
annually
by
HUD
and
it's
based
on
the
US
Census
data
again
another
plug
for
completing
the
census,
because
this
income
data
is
based
in
great
part
on
that.
C
But,
as
you
can
see,
for
family
of
four,
the
median
family
income
is
seventy
nine
thousand
eight,
seventy
five,
the
Pittsburgh
metro
area
for
those
of
extremely
low
income,
as
we
call
it
Missouri
to
therapy
a
very
meeting
income.
You
know
for
a
single
person
that
would
be
categorized
as
making
16,800
for
a
family
of
four.
That
would
be
twenty
two
thousand
nine
hundred
fifty.
C
C
So
while
there
are
a
number
of
guidelines
in
terms
of
how
funds
could
be
used
with
Spanish
and
the
goal
of
the
program
overall
is
to
provide
communities
with
flexibility
to
meet
the
local
needs
as
they
see
fit,
and
so
these
include
public
services
to
low
and
moderate
income
residents
such
as
disabled,
develops
or
seniors.
It
could
be
a
rehabilitation
or
construction
of
a
public
facility
serving
a
CDBG
eligible,
neighborhood
or
clientele.
It
could
be
housing,
related
activities,
economic
development
activities.
C
They
can
be
used
to
make
improvements
and
to
construct
public
facilities
such
as
Complete,
Streets,
recreation,
centers
and
parks
and
playgrounds.
So
you
know
the
number
of
important
categories.
There
are
categories
where
you
cannot
use
these
funds
right,
so
you
couldn't
use
it
for
improvements
to
City
Hall,
for
instance,
or
for
general
repairs,
because
really
the
overall
goal
of
the
program
is
to
foster
long-term
improvements
and
impact
positive
effect
by
impacts
on
communities.
C
The
other
large
component
is
the
neighborhood
economic
development
program
or
what
used
to
be
better
known
as
echo
Advisory
Committee
on
community-based
organizations,
and
the
program
is
really
focused
primarily
on
fostering
residential
and/or
commercial,
real
estate
development
or
to
facilitate
such
development.
And
so,
as
you
can
see,
in
2016,
there
were.
C
The
budget
was
roughly
six
hundred
fifty
thousand
and
that's
also
fluctuated
a
bit
and
for
2020
they're
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
allocated
for
that
particular
program
for
the
NED
program,
as
we
call
it
so
we're
in
the
middle
of
the
process
right
now
of
reviewing
applications
for
both
these
programs
that
Ed
program
or
the
Public
Service
Program.
So
thank
you
for
your
time.
I'm
going
to
hand
it
over
to
Jessica
Smith
pari
now
or
the
Urban
Redevelopment
Authority.
A
And
yeah
well,
Whitney,
stop
sharing
and
justice
starts.
I
do
just
want
to
repeat
Whitney's
plug
for
the
census.
It's
it's
really
important,
especially
if
you
are
low-income
or
you
have
people
in
your
life
who
are
low
income.
A
lot
of
us
do
forty
five
thousand
dollars
for
a
single
persons,
not
a
lot
in
Pittsburgh.
It's
really
important
that
those
those
people
are
represented
in
the
funding
formulas
that
the
government
uses
to
a
lot
money
to
us
and
CDBG
funds.
A
D
Okay,
great,
thank
you
hi
good
evening
everybody.
My
name
is
Jessica
Smith
Cerie
I'm,
the
director
of
residential
lending
and
investments,
housing
lending
Ferdie.
You
are
a
and
I'm
here
with
two
colleagues
Tom
link
to
some
director
of
innovation
and
Susheela
and
Imani
singer
who's
the
director
of
our
development
division,
and
they
are
going
to
help
me
go
through
this
president.
D
So
the
Urban
Redevelopment
Authority.
We
are
the
city's
Redevelopment
Agency
for
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
for
all
the
neighborhoods.
We
exist
to
support
the
city's
economic
development
and
also
Housing
Development,
and
to
create
a
city,
that's
inclusive,
of
opportunities
for
everybody
in
the
community.
D
You
can
see
our
emerging
focuses
on
this
slide,
creating
more
housing
that
is
affordable
to
the
average
Pittsburgher,
encouraging
entrepreneurship
and
small
businesses
to
promote
inclusive
growth
and
quality,
job
creation,
expanding
neighborhood
and
Main
Street
revitalization
and
developing
a
talented
workforce
equipped
for
all
the
skills
that
the
city
needs
in
the
future
and
we're
going
to
talk
about
these
in
a
little
bit
more
detail
here.
So
you
know
I'm
the
director
for
housing
lending
I'm.
So
creating
you
know
more
helping
that
is
affordable
to
the
average
Pittsburgher.
Is
you
know
a
huge.
E
D
Of
ours
and
capital
budget
of
the
city
helps
us
to
do
this,
so
you
can
see.
This
is
an
example
of
last
year's
capital
budget,
and
you
can
see
the
sources
that
come
from
the
capital
budget
to
do
these
activities,
so
the
owner
occupied
housing
source
and
amount
of
seven
hundred
and
eighty
thousand.
So
what
owner-occupied
housing
rehab
is?
You
know
just
any
city
residents
that
fits
those
income
levels
that
would
be
talked
about
for
for
the
funding
sources
that
they
set.
Those
income
levels
they
can
apply
to.
You
are
a.
D
We
have
programs
to
help
repair
their
homes.
The
residential
facade
improvement
program
is
the
same
thing.
We
do
facade
improvements
in
in
certain
areas
in
the
city
that
are
focused
on
development
and
homeowners
can
apply
to
us
for
those
programs
as
well
workforce
for
sale,
housing
and
workforce
rental
housing
were
both
funded
by
Community,
Development,
Block,
Grant
or
CDBG,
and
this
is
the
creation
of
affordable
rental
housing.
D
It's
also
the
creation
of
affordable
for
sale
housing
for
the
most
part,
with
with
the
definitions
that
Whitney
went
over
affordable
for
so
housing
in
the
city
is
affordable.
The
households
at
80%
of
area,
median
income
or
below
an
affordable
rental
housing
is
affordable
to
households
depending
on
the
program
of
the
CDBG,
it's
60%
of
area
median
income
over
low
you.
You
also
can
see
that
the
city,
through
their
capital
budget
last
year,
also
supported
the
Larmour
choice
neighborhood
program.
This
is
the
development
of
over
300
units
in
the
Larmour
neighborhood
through
a
federal
choice.
D
Neighborhood
grant
and
the
city
also
contributed
to
that,
and
then
you
can
see
that
the
city
also
contributes
to
how
thing
and
force
will
happen
through
its
home
program,
so
not
just
CDBG
but
home.
These
are
the
two
federal
sources
coming
from
the
federal
government.
So
if
you
were
to
add
up
the
four
lines
that
say
workforce
for
sale
and
rental
housing,
it's
really
about
almost
four
million
dollars
that
the
city
contributes
for
that.
D
Additionally,
some
of
you
who
are
familiar
with
our
programs
may
notice
that
the
housing
opportunity
fund
is
not
listed
on
this
slide.
This
actually
comes
out
of
the
city's
operating
budget
and
not
the
capital
budget,
but
it
is
also
a
resource
that
the
city
gives
the
URA
to
help
with
the
development
of
affordable
housing
and
also
the
preservation
of
homeowner
housing,
and
through
that
program
we
also
do
virtual
systems
as
well.
D
D
So
you
can
see
that
it
really
helps
people
that
are
in
the
construction
field
in
an
administration
and
help
they're
a
wide
array
of
industries
and
then
workforce
housing
as
well.
When
we
talk
about
four
so
housing
and
even
rental
housing,
we
start
to
hit
closer
to
80
percent
AMI
and
we're
talking
about
teachers
and
nurses
and
police
officers
and
firefighters
and
and
city
employees
that
really
fit
this
definition
of
workforce
housing.
So
the
URA,
through
the
wide
variety
of
programs
that
are
sourced
from
the
city
through
their
capital
budget.
D
F
Thanks
so
much
Jessica,
this
is
Tom
Lenk
I'm,
director
of
business
solutions
for
the
Urban
Redevelopment
Authority
of
Pittsburgh.
Happy
to
talk,
oh
I,
guess
don't
ask
folks
yeah!
Thank
you!
So
much
as
they
say,
I
can't
move
the
slides
myself.
So
these
are
the
dollars
that
are
slated
to
come
to
the
or
a
in
support
of
business
development
in
the
2020
capital
budget.
F
F
Thank
you
so
similar
to
Jessica
slide.
Who
do
we
help
so
the
you're
a
you
know
from
a
small
business
perspective.
You
know
we
are
hyper
local
in
terms
of
who
were
helping
very,
very
small
businesses
in
our
community.
You
know
I'd,
say
almost
invariably
small
businesses
with
less
than
25
employees.
You
know
many
with
less
than
10
employees.
These
are
folks
in
our
neighborhoods
and
our
communities,
our
neighborhood
business
districts,
employing
folks
in
our
communities
on
many
of
our
programs.
F
You
know
really
very
small
local
businesses
and
really
helping
to
impact
the
folks
in
our
community,
so
whether
it's
bakeries
and
food
trucks
and
restaurants
and
service
based
businesses
and
Main
Street
services
serving
businesses
and
almost
everything
in
between
is
really
the
folks
that
we're
helping
on
our
small
business
programs
next
slide.
Thanks
sorry,
so
I
wanted
to
highlight
a
couple
of
programs,
so
the
micro
enterprise
program
is
a
program
that
we
launched
about
two
years
ago.
That
has
been
extraordinarily
impactful,
at
least
in
my
opinion.
F
So
we
it's
a
program
that
provides
up
to
$30,000
loans,
to
you
know
again,
very
small
businesses,
micro
businesses,
I
in
the
city
of
Pittsburgh,
really
to
support
startup
and
growth.
What's
been
very
exciting
about
this
program.
Is
that
it,
you
know,
had
a
media
attraction
in
the
marketplace,
so
lots
of
folks
quickly
were
able
to
take
advantage
of
it
and
we're
able
to
continue
to
you
know,
have
the
program
available
to
city
of
Pittsburgh
businesses.
What's
particularly
exciting
in
this
particular
enterprise
program.
F
Is
that
we've
had
well
over
90
percent
participation
in
the
program
from
minority
and
women-owned
businesses?
Many
you
know
many
black
minority,
women,
businesses
and
black
owned
businesses
have
participated
in
the
program
and
its
really
a
you
know,
turned
out
to
be
a
program
that
provides
critically
needed
capital
for
businesses
that
don't
have
access
to
institutional
capital,
traditional
forms
of
capital
to
seek
grow.
So
we're
particularly
proud
of
this
program
and
excited
to
continue
to
have
it
available
to
the
marketplace,
but
this
is
one
of
our.
F
You
know
highlight
critical
programs
that
we
operate
on
behalf
of
our
small
business
community
here.
The
next
slide.
Please,
thank
you.
So
thinking
about
the
you
know,
when
you
go
back
to
the
abundant
slide
and
entrepreneurial
support,
in
addition
to
direct
lending,
we
also
provide
wraparound
services
and
technical
assistance
to
small
businesses.
One
of
the
programs
that
were
proud
to
have
supported
and
continue
to
support
is
the
catapult
and
gallery
on
Pen
program,
which
is
a
really
a
business
accelerator
for
neighborhood
serving
businesses
and
in
really
hyper
focused
on
minority
and
women
left
businesses.
F
So
it's
to
to
cohorts
that
have
have
moved
through
for
the
catapult,
a
gallery
and
you
know,
100
percent
of
the
businesses
have
been
minority
women,
LED
businesses,
many
lifestyle,
businesses
and
I
neighborhood
serving
businesses
that
we
supported
through
catapult
and
the
slide
changed
on
me.
So
that's
great!
You
can
go
to
the
next
slide.
That's
no
worries!
So,
in
addition,
yet
there's
a
supporting
individual
businesses.
It's
important
that
we
work
to
support
our
main
streets
in
physical
infrastructure
and
our
Main
Street
investments
to
promote
inclusion
and
quality
job
creation.
Here
the
next
slide.
F
One
of
the
key
tools
we
use
in
this
space
is
our
neighborhood
initiatives
fund
and
I'm
gonna.
Ask
my
colleague
sue
she
Nnamani
Stanger,
who
I
believe
is
also
here
to
talk
a
bit
about
this
fund
that
you
really
had
some
fantastic
impact,
and
you
know
our
hope
is
to
continue
to
provide
this
fund
into
the
community
of
moving
forward.
Susheela.
Are
you
there
I'm.
G
Over
the
past
three
to
five
years,
we
saw
a
real
need
from
nonprofits
who
had
small
to
medium
sized
public
realm
projects
throughout
the
city
of
Pittsburgh,
so
rather
than
kind
of
filled
various
requests.
From
time
to
time
we
decided
to
develop
a
low
barriers
program
called
the
neighborhood
initiatives
fund,
and
we
just
received
our
second
round
of
applications.
The
first
round
was
funded
with
city
budget
money.
Thank
you
to
the
city.
The
first
round.
We
had
an
allocation
of
$750,000
and
we
received
over
two
million
dollars
in
grant
requests.
G
So,
unfortunately,
we
were
not
able
to
fund
all
of
them
in
this
2020
round.
We
have
five
hundred
fifteen
thousand
in
CDBG
money
from
the
city
and
our
grant
requests
far
exceed
that
amount,
and
so
really
what
we've
seen
is
a
large
geographic
diversity
of
grant
requests
coming
from
nonprofits,
and
the
purpose
of
the
NIF
program
is
to
help
unlock
the
economic
and
placemaking
potential
within
all
of
Pittsburgh
neighborhoods.
You
know
in
the
Neighborhood
Development
Department
and
the
business
solutions
department.
G
We
really
look
to
implement
the
community
plans
that
are
undertaken
throughout
the
city
and
we
look
to
have
a.
We
look
to
support
the
vision
to
action.
Community
investment
strategy
strategies
that
help
advance
equitable
Pittsburgh.
So
the
NIF
program
really
helps
us
formalize
our
collaboration
throughout
the
city,
and
so
we
really
have
seen
a
lot
of
geographic
diversity
and
the
grant
request
that
we've
received
and.
G
Two
of
the
things
I
want
to
note
one:
the
types
of
projects
that
we
see
fall
into
the
category
vacant,
property
reclamation
and
stewardship.
Historic
preservation,
brownfield
redevelopment,
public
infrastructure
improvements,
and
there
are
two
tiers
available
to
the
grants.
A
Tier
one
grant
that
will
fund
up
to
fifteen
thousand
and
that
does
not
require
a
funding
match.
And
it's
your
two
grant
that
will
fund
up
to
one
hundred
thousand
and
that
does
require
a
one
to
one
match
requirement
and
again.
The
these
nifty
are
specifically
for
nonprofits
throughout
the
city
of
Pittsburgh.
B
D
This
slide
talks
about
responding
to
covet
my
team,
so
as
part
of
the
federal
stimulus
through
the
federal
cares
act.
The
city
has
given
to
you
are
a
some
funding
through.
That
cares
act
out
of
their
CDBG
they've.
Given
you
are
a
seven
million
and
first
three
different
programs.
One
is
the
emergency
small
business
support
program
which
Tom
can
talk
about
in
a
little
bit
more
detail.
The
other
two
are
housing
programs
to
help
provide
a
tenant
rental
assistance
and
to
also
help
provide
homeowner
mortgage
assistance.
D
When
the
CDBG
came
through
the
the
care
stimulus
package,
the
city
giving
the
URA
another
million
for
this
program
and
has
also
asked
you
are
a
to
expand
the
program
to
help
homeowners
with
mortgage
assistance.
So
we
have
actually
this
week
at
the
u.s.
board
meeting
we're
going
to
be
bringing
on
more
providers
social
service
providers
such
as
the
Urban
League
and
action
housing,
YWCA
and
a
handful
of
others
to
operate
these
programs
for
us
and
get
these
money
this
money
to
the
household
semitte
it
and
then
pom.
F
Thanks
Jessica
thanks
so
much
so
yeah,
so
Cove
is
relating
here,
the
five
million
dollars
for
emergency
small.
So
one
thing
I
think
maybe
just
for
folks
listening
and
you
know
folks
who
watch
this
later
in
recording
and
one
of
the
things
I
think
it's
very
proud
of
as
an
agency
is
that
we're
able
to
you
know
quickly,
maneuver
and
have
capacity
to
be
proactive
and
in
supporting
folks
who
need
it
most,
especially
so.
C
F
Know
when
Kovac
Kovac,
you
know,
came
to
our
economy
and
came
to
our
health.
You
know
health
crisis,
especially
for
you
know
in
our
part
of
the
world
in
Pittsburgh,
and
you
know
in
March
week
we
quickly
put
together
an
emergency
loan
fund,
recognizing
that
you
know
some
of
our
most
many
of
the
small
businesses
in
our
community
and
many
of
the
small
businesses
that
are
most
vulnerable
frankly
will
well
need
assistance,
immediately,
emergency
assistance
to
to
stay
alive
just
to
keep
their
lights
on
to
keep
the
themselves
in
business
in
a
crisis
situation.
F
F
These
types
of
things
so
to
help
to
help
small
businesses
in
crisis
and
we've
had
kind
of
an
unbelievable
production
and
response
from
that
we've
we've
actually
helped
nearly
200
individual
businesses
through
that
program
in
well
past
two
plus
million
and
funds
deployed
for
the
emergency
program,
and
the
demand
is
really
steady
and
in
the
need
is
really
tremendous.
You
know
thank
you
to
the
city
and
to
everybody
involved
to
help
bring
more
capital
to
support
our
efforts
to
help
small
businesses
in
crisis
really
from
probit.
F
So,
in
addition
to
the
emergency
loan
fund
at
this
week's,
you
are
a
board
meeting.
The
you
are
a
board
will
consider
authorization
of
a
companion
program
really
to
the
emergency
loan
fund,
a
recovery
loan
fund
to
provide
dollars
to
businesses
as
they
sort
of
move
through
the
recovery
phase
of
covitz
they're
thinking
about
small
businesses
who
need
to
you
know
maybe
you've
been
closed
for
60
days,
and
now
you
have
an
opportunity
to
open
again
and
you
need
to
hire
people
again.
You
need
to
get
inventory
again.
F
You
know
thinking
about
your
ecommerce
presence,
and
perhaps
you
have
cost
related.
Your
health
and
safety
I
mean
think
about
consumer
facing
businesses
that
need
to
make
changes
to
their.
You
know
whether
it's
to
their
storefront
or
front
of
house
how
there's
shop
or
you
know,
retail
restaurant
is
laid
out.
F
There
can
be
a
cost
to
that
super
model,
to
help
businesses
and
move
to
recovery
and
sustain
themselves,
as
we,
you
know,
hopefully
over
time,
move
from
crisis
to
recovery
and
eventually
stabilization
and
eventually,
hopefully
can
get
back
to
a
point
sometime
where
we're
kind
of
you
know
toward
pre
kovat
economic
gains
again
and
can
think
about
business
growth
from
there.
But
you
know
so
that
we're
really
excited
about
that
and
you
think
it's
really
really
really
important
at
this
time
to
have
these
resources
available
to
our
small
business
community.
F
A
Sure,
thank
you
very
much
from
everybody
of
the
Uwharrie
up
next
is
gonna
be
injured
from
City
Planning,
so
Andrew.
If
you
don't
mind
to
turn
on
your
camera
and
start
sharing,
your
screen,
I
was
really
impressed
with
what
the
Uwharrie
had
already
set
up.
So
so
we
worked
pretty
closely
myself
and
Whitney
with
you.
Are
a
staff
and
figuring
out
how
to
distribute
that
care.
Zack
money
right,
the
over
8
million
dollars
that
we
got
to
help
with
the
Cova
19
response,
and
they
already
had
a
lot
of
great
great
things
already
set
up.
A
So
it's
kind
of
easy
to
plug
into
that,
but
also
I,
think
it
addresses
some
some
accessibility
to
capital
issues
that
exist
with
some
of
the
other
small
business
programs
offered
by
the
federal
government
that
really
require
relationships
with
banks
that
may
not
exist,
and
some
other
kind
of
accessibility
issues.
I'm
really
proud
of
the
work
the
youri's
been
able
to
do
to
kind
of
establish
another
path
for
people
Android.
You
know
get.
H
H
Right
excellent
good
evening,
good
evening,
everyone,
my
name,
is
Andrew
I
am
the
acting
director
of
the
Department
of
City
Planning,
and
you
know
I
mean
our
goals
are
really
around
equity,
sustainability
and
resiliency.
It
is
our
job
to
you,
know,
to
establish
and
manage
land
use
for
this
Pittsburgh.
We
do
that
through
a
number
of
ways
and
trying
to
you
know,
bring
forward
and
create
visions
for
our
neighborhoods.
H
That
goes
from
citywide
policy
that
we
do
from
our
you
know
the
city's
climate
action
plan,
our
city's
resilience
strategy
work
around
comprehensive
planning
at
a
city
level
working
at
a
district
scale
with
the
neighborhood
planning
program
that
has
been
in
existence
now
for
the
last
four
years
of
work
through
the
first
phase
of
our
neighborhood
plans
to
zoning
regulations
that
are
developed
as
well
as
implementation
projects
specifically
around.
You
know
its
basic
public
art,
we'll
talk
about
a
little
bit
about
all
of
those.
H
You
know
first
starting
with
neighborhood
plans,
it's
just
something
that
many
of
our
neighborhoods
plans
have
been
funded
through
capital
budget.
You
know
funds
specifically
the
Community
Development
Block
Grant
fund.
The
first
phase
of
those
neighborhood
plans
are
shown
here
on
the
map,
so
working
in
Manchester,
Chateau
and
uptown,
with
the
innovation
district
and
Homewood,
which
Planning
Commission
just
adopted
last
Tuesday
and
and
Hazelwood,
and
so
you
know
with
those
neighborhood
plans.
H
H
We
also
work
on
a
housing
as
a
topic,
and
so
you
know,
Jessica
talked
a
lot
around
the
work
of
you
know
the
Uwharrie
is
doing
around
funding
and
creating
housing
opportunities
for
residents
the
city
of
Pittsburgh.
You
know
Department
of
City
Planning
does
use.
It
does
use
capital
budget
dollars
to
create
plans
that
you
know
that
look
at
overall
citywide
policy,
such
as
the
work
of
the
affordable
housing
task
force
that
was
completed
in
2016
and
housing
needs
assessment.
H
H
And
so
you
know
this
example.
You
know
an
uptown,
you
know
creating.
You
know
a
future
vision
for
that
neighborhood.
You
know
creating
specific
projects,
then
leading
that
to
where
we've
you
know,
used
capital
budget
to
do
more
detailed
study,
work,
and
so
the
two
examples
here
being
some
work
that
we've
done
around
the
fifth
and
in
Witte
intersection
and
then
with
trail
Brook
project
and
the
Uptown
neighborhood
as
well.
H
So
you
know
those
detailed
studies
are
things
that
we
do
for
capital
budget
funds
which
then
allow
for
more
details
and
costs
so
that
we
have
a
good
idea
of
what
a
project
that
ultimately
would
be
taken
on
by
another.
You
know
by
another
department
or
another
organization.
You
know
we
can.
We
can,
you
know,
define
what
this
capital
budget
needs
are
as
a
part
of
that,
and
sometimes
our
plans
lead
directly
to
implementation.
H
You
know
as
a
part
of
that,
so
which
was
something
that
was
really
driven
by
that
community
vision
and
community
desires
and
that
we
were
able
to
you
know
to
use
our
capital
budget
money
to
create
the
plan,
but
then
also
to
use
capital
budget
to
you
know
to
work
on
the
actual
projects.
You
know
that
are
being
implemented
in
the
neighborhood.
H
A
That's
a
great
segue,
so
actually
we're
gonna
get
into
kind
of
our
question
and
answers
portion
of
the
program.
So
if
you
have
any
questions,
some
have
already
done
it.
You
can
indicate
so
in
the
zoom
group
chat,
I
did
notice.
There
are
some
that
are
joining
by
phone,
though
so
I
want
to
hold
a
little
bit
of
space
at
first
to
see.
If
anybody
on
the
phone
wanted
to
unmute
and
ask
their
question.
A
Okay
looks
like
Nicholas
is
going
kick
us
off.
Nicholas
question
Nicholas's
question
is
how
our
green
building
frameworks
being
woven
into
the
proposal
process,
equity
sustainability
and
health
are
just
in
various
I'm.
Sorry
I'm,
very
in
community
building
frameworks,
I'm
wondering
if
the
city
is
expanding
on
this
so
Sheila.
If
you
can
talk
about
kind
of
major
developments
and
what
best
practices
are
there
in
terms
of
the
environmental
framework,
I
will
say:
that's
an
excellent
question
for
another
meeting.
We
have
coming
up
on
Wednesday
I'm
gonna.
Do
a
quick
plug
on
that.
G
A
Gonna
be
on
kind
of
the
recreation
projects,
things
like
parks
and
playgrounds,
but
also
things
like
wreckin
senior,
centers
and
I
know.
Cuz
I've
heard
a
lot
from
the
project
managers
that
NetZero
is
figuring
into
that
design
process
quite
a
bit
so
Sheila.
If
you
just
want
to
talk
about
new
areas,
work
on
that
sorry.
G
Yes
sure:
well,
we
we
do
follow
the
p4
practices,
but
we
don't
have
a
full-blown
p4
checklist
that
we
use
for
developers
that
we
work
with.
We
do
have
an
abridged
version
of
that
for
green
building
practices.
I
Chime
in
well
sure
so
you
said
you
were
using
p4
as
your
kind
of
your
rating
system
going
through
your
development
process.
Is
there
so
I
know
within
the
PL
DP?
There
are
certain
green
building
frameworks
that
are
baked
into
that,
and
you
know
that
process
was
done
years
and
years
ago,
I'm
wondering
if
that
is
being
relooked.
Just
today,
the
International
Living
futures
Institute
just
announced
that
they're.
I
H
David
I,
if
Susheela
has
something
around
the
buildings,
you
know
part
of
part
of
the
Nicholas's
question.
Similarly,
you
know.
In
the
uptown
example,
I
gave
one
of
the
things
that
our
capital
budget
dollars
did
go
towards
was
the
development
of
zoning
code
regulations
as
a
part
of
that,
and
so
with
that
we
created
the
performance
point
system
and
what
that
did
was
it
allowed.
H
For
you
know
women
we
went
through
the
planning
process,
one
of
the
things
that
the
community
asked
for
was
it
asked
for
it
wanted
certain
benefits
to
come
to
the
community
if,
in
exchange
for
the
allowance
for
additional
height-
and
so
there
was
a
lot
of
development
interest
in
things
beyond
what
the
current
zoning
code
allowed
for,
what
we
did
was
build.
That
system
energy
is
one
of
the
you
know.
H
Both
energy
usage
of
buildings,
as
well
as
energy
generation
buy
buildings,
are
some
of
the
bonuses
that
are
built
into
that
performance
point
system,
because
that
was
something
that
the
community
was
asked
it
was
asking
for,
and
although
that
that
Uptown
project
was
funded
by
capital
budget,
what
we
then
were
able
to
do
was
unrelated
to
our
capital
budget
was
expand
that
to
the
35
miles
of
riverfront
when
we
resumed
those
properties.
So
you
know
again,
if
others
that
you
know
want
to
talk
about
you
want
to
talk
about
it.
H
A
So
one
of
the
things
that
we
do,
which
we'll
go
over
in
a
little
bit
with
the
information
from
the
survey
or
comments
from
this
meeting
as
we
pass
them
along
to
the
departments
to
make
sure
that
they
have
a
chance
to
review
them
before
that
deadline
and
that
they
can
develop
a
proposal
and
submit
it
if
there
is
a
need
there
that
they
can
help
with.
So
we
don't
expect
the
public
to
submit
the
proposals
themselves,
there's
a
lot
of
kind
of
technical
questions
and
expertise
that
goes
into
that.
A
But
this
is
a
great
opportunity
for
you
to
kind
of
give
your
priority
for
what
the
departments
and
accounts
offices
should
submit
as
Perez
proposals
and
again
this.
This
process
is
far
from
over
we're
not
really
done
with
the
capital
budget
until
about
mid
December.
That's
usually
when
council
votes
on
the
final
budget,
that's
due
I'm!
Sorry,
that's
effective!
A
couple
weeks
later,
usually
January
1st,
so
we're
we're
kind
of
kicking
off
the
big
public
process
right
now.
A
You
still
have
a
good
six
months,
though,
of
opportunities
to
write
your
council
person
to
make
a
public
comment
to
email,
your
comments
or
questions
or
letters
of
support
to
see
IP
at
Pittsburg
a
gov.
Don't
worry,
I'll
repeat
that
again
at
the
end,
but
there's
a
ton
of
opportunities
for
you
to
have
your
voice
heard
in
this
process.
A
A
So
your
question
from
Cory,
given
that
the
capital
budget
also
includes
the
op
operations
budget,
which
covers
police
funding.
What
are
the
plans
for
divesting
funds
from
the
police
department
and
investment
and
other
community
improvement
projects
and
services?
So
they're
actually
two
separate
budgets,
so
the
salaries
uniforms,
some
of
the
police
vehicles
as
well,
are
in
the
operating
budget
in
the
capital
budget.
We
deal
more
kind
of
with
equipment
and
buildings,
so
our
side
of
things
is
more
kind
of
facility
improvements
for
fire
stations
or
for
police
stations.
A
Occasionally
there
will
be
like
a
big,
a
big
tool
that
comes
through.
We
had
kind
of
a
hydraulic
rescue
tool.
I
think
was
the
last
big
thing
that
we
funded
for
public
safety
in
the
capital
budget,
and
that
was
a
fire
tool
that
was
used
to
help
in
some
crashes,
and
things
like
that.
So
I
think
some
of
what
you're
describing
might
be
in
more
of
the
operating
budget.
A
Are
the
topics
outlined
to
be
discussed
here
tonight
open
to
amendment,
or
are
these
action
items
areas
that
have
been
identified
and
will
be
moving
forward?
The
topics
for
tonight
were
just
kind
of
figured
out
through
trying
to
trying
to
look
at
the
capital
budget
as
a
resident
would
and
figure
out
how
they
think
of
capital
projects.
We
didn't
want
to
keep
it
just
a
certain
departments.
A
If
you
come
back
on
Wednesday
you'll
notice,
that
Andrew
is
going
to
likely
do
double
duty
and
another,
if
not
injure
another
member
of
the
city
planning
staff
is
going
to
be
in
Wednesday's
meeting
about
Recreation
projects,
but
there's
actually
kind
of
a
lot
of
carryover
from
some
projects
to
others,
but
we
just
wanted
to
make
sure
that
we
were.
We
were
putting
them
into
kind
of
buckets.
That
would
help
people
make
sense
of
the
capital
budget
a
little
bit
better.
A
There's
a
question:
can
community
members
submit
project
proposals
that
they
have
worked
on
or
likes
to
spearhead?
We
have
since
we're
spending
city
dollars.
You
want
to
make
sure
that
they're
city
staff
administering
the
projects,
but
if
you
have
an
idea,
I
absolutely
encourage
you
to
email,
your
local
council
person.
You
can
also
email
again
CIP
at
Pittsburgh,
PA
gov.
A
C
A
A
A
lot
of
what
people
are
saying
kind
of
in
the
comments
in
terms
of
defunding,
the
the
police
I
I'm,
not
ignoring
it.
Your
comments
are
gonna,
be
recorded
and
distributed
both
to
council
members
and
to
the
departments
themselves.
So
if
they
can
figure
out
solutions
to
some
of
the
questions
or
if
your
questions
spark
a
project
idea,
that's
kind
of
the
whole
point,
so
the
informations.
A
Well,
this
is
a
good
question.
How
do
you
make
sure
that
black
people
are
involved
in
every
step
of
the
community
projects
and
predominantly
black
neighborhoods?
So
andrew
is
a
city,
planner
I
think
can
probably
answer
this
better,
so
past
danger
in
just
a
second
but
I
will
say
that
I
learned
a
lot.
A
Maybe
2016
I
was
lucky
enough
to
go
to
the
National
Association
of
City
Transportation
officials
conference
and
one
of
the
things
that
they
talked
about
was
kind
of
community
leadership
and
how
there's
communities
where
there's
just
distrust
the
people
just
do
not
trust
the
government.
They've
been
ignored,
they've
been
passed
over
and,
and
you
have
to
invest
the
time
to
understand
where
people
are
coming
from
and
part
of
that
is
being
able
to
speak
to
the
leadership
of
that
community
and
kind
of
get
their
buy-in.
A
H
I
can
I
can
try
to
I,
mean
I.
Think
that
one
of
the
you
know
one
of
the
things
that
we
we
know
is
that
we,
you
know
we
can
always.
We
can
always
try
to
do
better
and
I
think
we're
always
trying
to
evolve.
You
know
how
how
we
do
engagement
and
how
we
work
on
that
with
communities.
You
know
the
city
just
passed,
the
you
know
it's
it's.
You
know
public
engagement
guide,
which
was
created
by
the
department
just
a
year
ago.
H
We
do
use
that
to
guide
a
lot
of
the
neighborhood
planning
work
that
we
do
and
I'd
say
that
you
know,
if
you
look,
you
know
with
the
four
communities
that
were
in
our
first
phase
of
the
neighborhood
planning
process
being
Hazelwood
and
Homewood
shacho,
Manchester
and
Uptown
majority
of
those
are,
you
know,
minority
majority
communities,
and
you
know
so
you
know
with
those
efforts.
The
push
for
us
was
really
having
a
strong
community
partner
that
we
were
working
with.
H
So
whether
that
is
the
Homewood
collaborative
and
you
know
the
organizations
that
make
that
up
when
we
were
in
Homewood
or
working
with
you
know
the
Hazelwood
initiative
or
the
Greater
Haysville
community,
collaborative
and
and
his
would
or
the
Manchester
citizens
corporation.
You
know
working
and
with
those
organizations
and
having
a
lot
of
different,
varied
types
of
engagements
and
so
in
the
Homewood
process,
for
example,
which,
like
I
said
we
just
we
just
had
adopted
last
week,
we
did
large
format
public
meetings,
we
had
meetings
that
250
people
came
out
to.
H
You
know
try
to
help
facilitate
that
through
the
development
of
a
neighborhood
plan,
and
you
know,
and
now
obviously
the
focus
for
us
now
that
we
have
that
first
round
of
neighborhood
plans
done
is
to
be
working
with
those
communities.
You
know
now
to
towards
implementation,
and
so
you
know
in
some
places
you
know
that's
where
we've
had
the
strong
community
infrastructure
in
other
places
such
as
uptown
we've,
we've
known
that
we've
had
to
work
with
communities
to
build
that
and
to
build
that
infrastructure.
H
And
that's
that's,
come
from
you
know
the
Department
of
City
Planning.
That's
come
from
our
office
community
affairs
in
the
mayor's
office.
That's
come
from.
You
know
the
Redevelopment
Authority.
You
know
to
really
kind
of
all
lend
resources
to
that
organization
to
you
know
to
try
to
try
to
to
try
to
organize.
You
know
itself,
and
so
you
know
I'd
say
it's.
It's
very
much
a
different
solution
in
most
communities
that
we
work
in,
but
you
know
really
and
like
I
said
I
mean
there's,
there's
always
more
that
we
can
do.
H
B
Okay,
jump
in
this
is
Megan
thanks
and
Aaron
Ross
I,
just
I,
want
to
thank
you
for
this
question.
I
think
it's
incredibly
important
now
and
always
to
make
sure
that
decisions
that
are
made
or
representative
of
the
communities
that
they're
effective
and
that
you
know
those
people
are
leading
these
decisions
and
having
voice
in
them
and
so
I
think
it's
it's
important
and
thank
you
for
bringing
it
up.
One
of
the
reasons
actually
that
we
started
working
with
create
lab
to
create
these
data.
B
Visualizations
is
because
we
saw
that
you
know
when
people
talk
about
gentrification
and
you
look
at
the
history
and
legacy
of
redlining
in
Pittsburgh
and
what
that
means.
Communities
of
color
have
largely
both
been
left
out
of
decision-making
and
have
really
been
bearing
the
brunt
of
policy
decisions
and
systemic
racism
and
oppression
for
a
very
long
time,
and
so
understanding
in
data
visualizations.
What's
going
on
I.
E
The
chat
doesn't
seem
like
the
best
way
to
get
real
community
input,
but
my
name
is
Jennifer
Rothman
Kennedy
and
the
executive
director
of
Pittsburgh
United,
a
coalition
of
community
labor
face
and
environmental
organizations
that
represent
more
than
125,000
people
in
our
region.
It's
bringing
and
it's
also
a
partner
in
the
economic
justice
circle,
which
has
led
the
call
for
city,
but
a
city
budget,
that's
created
with
a
racial
equity
focus,
that's
more
transparent
and
accountable
in
process
with
increased
community
input.
E
It's
time
for
a
full
ream,
imagining
of
Public
Safety
and
the
accompanying
reallocation
of
funds
to
community
investment,
and
we
must
use
moments
like
these,
where
we
craft
our
city's
moral
document,
our
budget
to
strategically
reallocate
public
safety
resources,
away
from
militarized
policing
and
toward
community
resources
and
economic
development.
Defunding.
The
police
means
investing
our
capital
and
operating
funds
in
black
communities
and
the
things
people
really
need
homes,
living
wage
jobs,
education
and
the
needs
that
ensure
dignified
life
for
every
single
resident.
E
E
I
chose
to
me
to
make
these
comments
because
community
projects
like
affordable
housing
require
a
deep
investment
much
more
than
we
have
been
making
and
no
session
is
planned
on
the
public
safety
capital
budget,
the
planned
police
and
fire
training
facility,
nor
any
part
of
the
operating
budget.
The
administration
and
council
must
begin
with
increased
transparency
and
community
input
hearings
where
the
public
can
examine
the
capital
and
operating
budgets,
especially
the
public
safety
budgets,
and
have
real
conversations
about
priorities
and
racial
equity
in
the
reallocation
of
funds.
E
The
real
problem
is
not
a
few
bad
actors,
with
systemic
foundational,
dehumanization
and
disinvestment
in
black
communities.
We
must
create
a
budget
to
reimagine
public
safety
and
invest
in
the
communities
our
black
and
brown
neighbors,
and
all
of
us
deserve
thanks
and
I
appreciate
the
presentations
tonight,
but
I
think
that
there
are
much
more
robust
forums
we
could
be
having
for
community
input
on
these
topics.
E
A
You
I
appreciate
your
comment.
Just
to
be
explicit,
Wednesday
is
the
best
meeting.
If
you
have
comments
or
questions
about
the
public
safety
facility,
the
training
facility
that's
been
referenced.
In
the
and
again
we
were
I
apologize
if
I
misled
anybody
or
we
weren't
trying
to
cover
anything
up.
That's
just
the
way
that
we
kind
of
think
about
projects
is
more
recreation
based
and
that
a
lot
of
our
facilities
that
the
public
interacts
with
tend
to
be
of
that
nature
too.
A
But
yeah
Wednesday
is
a
good
opportunity
if
units
to
speak
further
about
the
public
safety
training
facility,
Thank
You
Jonah,
for
helping
me
with
some
of
these
notes
else,
I
got
Brendan
texted
me
pictures
of
things
so
I
apologize.
If
I'm
looking
down
at
my
phone,
there
was
a
question
about
where
this
recording
will
be
posted,
so
the
innovation
and
performance
team
they
upload
them
to
YouTube
I,
think
our
Thursday
meet
yeah.
We
did
meeting
last
week
for
transportation
projects
on
Thursday
and
it
went
up
this
morning.
A
H
A
A
A
How
much
Andrew
can
you
speak
is
that
it
is
that
it's
is
that
a
county
program,
so
I
know
that
there's
no
that's
called
PGH
smell,
but
there
is
a
program,
an
app
that
I
use
on
my
phone
to
do
reporting
for
things
that
just
don't
smell
right
and
it's
actually
kind
of
a
fun
yeah
smell
PGH.
But
do
you
know
if
the
county
is
also
doing
kind
of
air
air
quality
monitoring?
I?
H
H
H
C
A
So
Millie
asked
about
a
walkabout,
show:
voters
about
the
lawn
Street
Promenade
you're,
welcome
to
to
email
us
if
you've
any
questions
or
comments.
Again,
you
can
email
those
to
CIP
at
Pittsburgh,
PA
gov.
Your
council
person
also
sometimes
will
take
us
out
on
tours.
We've
gone
on
site
visits
before
with
councilmember
O'connor,
for
example,
to
look
at
a
park
that
needed
some
upgrades.
So
that's
definitely
within
the
realm
of
possibility.
So
yeah.
If
you
just
want
to
let
your
council
person
know,
we
can
probably
coordinate
that
trip.
A
H
And
you
know
so:
we've
we're
so
for
Oakland,
that's
kind
of
the
first
of
our
second
round
of
neighborhood
planning
efforts.
The
city
is
working
on.
We
have
had
a
steering
committee,
that's
been
meeting,
you
know
before
before
kovat
they've
continued
to
meet
virtually
through
covin
and
I.
Think
you
know
we're
trying
to
see.
You
know
how
that
continues
as
we
determine
what
the
public
process
will
be.
I
would
assume
that
you
know
we
will
be
releasing
more
information
soon.
H
The
city
is
in
process
to
in
developing
an
online
engagement
platform,
which
will
you
know
be
where
we
do
part
of
the
work
around
yes
soliciting
resident,
but
for
the
Oakland
plan
and
and
on
an
interim
basis.
You
know
where,
where
that
might
be
the
sole
place
that
we're
doing
soliciting
that
but
then
later
on,
having
you
know
having
other
opportunities
for
residents
to
be
able
to
engage.
You
know,
there's
a
lot
of
that.
H
That
is
really,
you
know,
kind
of
undetermined
right
now,
due
to
the
pandemic,
and
you
know
we
want
to
continue
to
engage
residents
and
can
continue
to
you
know
to
learn
from
our
communities
during
this
period
of
time,
understanding
that
we
want
to
make
sure
that
we
are
doing-
and
you
know
doing
so
in
as
many
ways
as
possible
to
get
as
broad
a
community
engagement
as
as
we
can
through
these
processes.
Yeah.
A
There's
been,
let's
think
of
it,
there's
been
some
kind
of
new
skill
sets
to
learn
with
all
the
digital
stuff,
so
I
wish
it
was
under
different
circumstances,
but
I'm
glad
I've
at
least
been
forced
in
the
new
tools
and
if
things
like
zoom,
so
it
looks
like
that's
most
of
the
questions.
I
do
want
to
shift
gears,
though,
just
to
show
you
that
there's
a
bunch
more
things
that
you
can
do
to
stay
involved
with
a
capital
budget
process.
A
Tonight's
really
just
kind
of
a
kickoff
for
like
I,
was
saying
earlier
really
six-month
process
for
public
input.
So
traditionally
we
were
filling
out
paper
surveys
with
those
I
was
going
back
through
them.
There
we
go,
I
was
going
through
each
of
the
individual
responses.
I
would
tag
them
with
a
geographic
tag.
If
there
was
a
certain
council
district
or
a
project
type.
Sometimes
I
would
just
write
the
department's
name
if
it
was
something
more
general
and
then
each
year
I
would
go
back
and
also
create
kind
of
a
guide
to
let
anybody
who's.
A
Reading
the
document
know
where
they
can
find
questions
or
comments
about
things
like
bridge
repair,
but
there
are
some
examples
here
where
there's
really
good
alignment
between
what
the
public's
been
putting
in
to
our
survey
responses
and
kind
of
what
actually
ends
up
in
the
budget.
We
we
do
make
sure
to
review
all
the
responses
and
we
try
to
make
sure
that
the
departments
have
enough
time
to
actually
review
them
as
well
and
to
respond
with
a
proposal.
A
So
this
is
a
comparison
of
the
2020
survey
responses
we
got
kind
of
on
the
right-hand
side.
That's
just
a
distribution
according
to
the
kind
of
bigger
buckets
that
we
have
in
the
capital
budget.
The
types
of
projects
are
kind
of
broken
out
into
those
seven
buckets
six
buckets.
You
can
see
from
the
survey
responses
that
they
matched
up
fairly
well
with
the
overall
dollar
allocations.
A
A
A
The
next
page
you
the
opportunity
to
actually
give
us
kind
of
specific
sites
if
there's
a
broken
sidewalk
or
if
there's
a
park,
upgrade
that
you
really
want
to
see.
You
can
put
that
information
in
here.
The
next
page
offers
the
opportunity
to
just
kind
of
give
us
more
general
responses
to
what
you
want
to
see
in
the
capital
budget.
This
can
kind
of
be
you
know,
I
want
to
see
more
investments
in
ball
fields
or
something
like
that.
We'll
share
this
information
the
same
way.
A
Additionally,
we
have
a
couple
tools
for
people
to
find
out
more
about
the
capital
budget
also
submit
its
a
more
detailed
feedback.
We
have
a
few
tools
with
balancing
act.
One
is
what
we
call
tax
receipt.
So
you
the
opportunity
to
put
in
annual
income
or
if
you
own,
a
home,
you
can
put
the
value
of
that
in
there
as
well,
and
it
gives
you.
A
A
Well,
in
any
case,
it
definitely
kind
of
an
itemized
receipt
of
the
per
department
and
per
kind
of
project
type
spending,
but
your
specific
contribution
in
city
taxes,
how
that
will
be
broken
out.
Additionally,
there's
two
budget
simulators
one
for
the
capital
budget
and
there's
also
one
for
the
operating
budget.
So
with
these
budget
simulators,
you
have
the
opportunity
to
increase
things
that
are
important
to
you.
A
You
also
have
the
opportunity
to
really
drill
down
if
you
wanted
to
find
out
more
information
about
every
specific
project
and
under
that
project
type
in
the
capital
budget.
You're
welcome
to
do
that.
You
can
also
make
a
comment
at
any
time
about
a
specific
project
that
you
wanted
and
then,
when
you
submit
your
budget,
we
get
both
the
math
on
that
we
get
to
see
what
you
increased
in
decrease.
Then
we
also
get
any
comments
you
may
have
submitted
along
with
your
proposed
budget.
A
Additionally,
you
have
resources
with
your
elected
officials.
You
can
you
can
always
email
your
council
office.
You
can
reach
out
to
the
City
Council
Budget
Office.
They
have
an
office
kind
of
similar
to
ours.
You
can
again
email
us
at
CIP
at
Pittsburgh,
PA,
Cove
and
then
again,
if
you
want
to
complete
the
survey
or
do
your
own
balancing
act,
submission
we're
going
to
be
recording
those
as
well
and
sharing
them
similar
to
all
of
the
comments
we
got
in
tonight's
meeting
this
time,
I'm
gonna,
stop
sharing
my
screen.
A
I
do
really
want
to
extend
a
sincere
thank
you
to
everybody.
Who's
worked
on
the
meeting
and
it
was
a
lot
of
time
spent
from
the
Urban
Redevelopment
Authority
Commission
on
human
relations,
our
own
staff
with
OMB
Andrew
City
Planning.
But,
more
importantly,
thank
you
for
your
day-to-day
work.
The
work
that
you
do
in
communities
is
really
important,
and
hopefully
this
is
a
great
example
of
how
we
integrate
that
into
the
capital
budget.
So,
honestly,
thanks
to
everybody
have
a
good
night.