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On this episode of CityTalk, John interviews Bill Crean from the Department of Public Works, Patrick Cornell from the Office of Management & Budget, and Christine Luffey from the Bureau of Police.
A
Welcome
to
city
talk
where
we
launch
serious
investigations
and
not
so
serious
investigations
into
what
it
is.
The
people
who
work
for
the
city
of
Pittsburgh
do
meet
bill
cream.
He
is
the
superintendent
of
Street
operations
for
the
Department
of
Public
Works
bill.
Welcome
to
the
program.
Well,
I!
Thank
you.
John,
it's
good
to
be
here
so
superintendent
of
Street
operations
that
sound
it's
like
a
wide
all-encompassing
giant
responsibility.
It.
B
A
B
B
A
sweeper
operator
in
East
End
for
probably
12
years
and
I
got
form
and
job
and
Bob
O'connor
gave
me
the
opportunity,
Street
supervisor
and
the
six
division,
which
was
Town
town
and
a
Strip
District
and
the
North
Shore,
and
that
was
kind
of
baptism
by
fire,
because
we
had
that
the
Steelers
won
that
I
got
in
October
the
Steelers
won
in
January,
oh
boy,
then
we
had
the
g20
September
of
9
and
then
February
of
10
was
the
big
snowstorm.
So
it
was.
A
A
B
A
Sounds
like
the
Department
of
Department
of
Public
Works
from
the
few
people
I've
interviewed
is
one
of
the
few
departments
where
you
can
work
your
way
up
from
the
bottom.
Yes
yeah
very
much.
So
that's
very
interesting!
Yes!
Is
that,
because
you
really
have
to
have
a
hands-on
knowledge
in
order
to
be
able
to
do
your
job.
B
B
A
B
B
B
C
A
B
B
A
Littering
must
drive
you
crazy
too,
then
yeah,
because
your
street
cleaning,
you
were
gentlemen.
Yes,
I
know,
everybody
knows
the
famous
public
service
announcement
with
the
Indian
crying
the
night
of
America.
Yes,
the
Native
American
I
apologize.
Thank
you
for
correcting
me,
but
that's
the
last
time.
Anybody
seem
to
care
about
littering.
B
B
A
B
F
Hello,
my
name
is
Erica
Strassburger
and
I'm
from
Pittsburgh
City
Council
district
8
I
want
the
best
for
my
son,
Evan
and
all
of
the
kids
in
Allegheny
County.
That's
why
I
am
signing
up
for
fund
my
future
by
simply
depositing
one
dollar
or
more.
Every
month,
parents
are
encouraged
to
save
money
to
help
make
their
child's
dreams
after
high
school
come
true.
Just
about
any
savings
vehicle
is
eligible.
I'm
starting
a
PA
529
savings
plan
for
my
son.
F
Enrolling
in
fun
of
my
future
is
as
easy
as
one
enroll
in
fund
my
future
at
fun.
My
future
pjh
org
to
establish
a
savings
account
for
your
child
or
an
existing
PA
529
savings
plan
or
Keystone
Scholars
account.
3
have
fun.
Making
deposits
call
four
one.
Two
four
four
zero.
You
win:
that's
eight
nine
four,
six
for
more
details.
A
Welcome
back
to
city
talk,
say
hello
to
one
of
the
human
beings
who
mans
the
Office
of
Management
and
Budget
patrick
cornell,
patrick
welcome
to
city
ty.
Thank
you
for
having
me
so
Office
of
Management
and
Budget.
That
sounds
challenging.
So
many
numbers
so
complicated
tell
us
about
what
you
do
right.
D
So
the
Office
of
Management,
Management
and
Budget
is
actually
a
bunch
of
different
kind
of
organizations.
Groups
together,
so
there's
the
operating
budget.
That's
what
I
work
on
that
is
day-to-day
expenditures
in
the
city.
Salaries
benefits
professional
services,
electricity,
payments,
water-
you
know
with
PWSA-
are.
A
D
D
It's
variable:
there
are
some
things
that
are
easier
to
anticipate
if
we
sign
a
contract
with
the
vendor
for
a
four-year
term.
We
know
what
that
contract
is
going
to
be
for
most
of
the
out
years.
When
you
get
into
something
like
salaries
and
positions,
it's
a
it's
a
little
trickier,
but
we
still
have
ways
to
anticipate
what
we'll
need
you
know
and
whether
that's
we
know
that
the
mayor
wants
to
have
five
extra
positions
in
three
years
in
this
department
or
something
like
that.
D
D
D
So
there
are
essentially
two
budgets:
the
mayor's
budget
is
presented
to
City
Council,
the
second
Monday
in
November,
as
per
the
Charter,
except
for
a
Veterans
Day
that
has
the
Tuesday
and
then,
after
that,
City
Council
takes
over
and
from
there
they
have
their
own
Budget.
Office
I
believe
you've
interviewed
Phil
Urbana
in
color.
A
D
The
hard
part's
over,
but
then
we
still
have
to
get
ready
for
the
end
of
year
kind
of
close
of
the
books
with
the
controller's
office.
You
know
what
contracts
did
we
expect
to
spend,
but
maybe
an
invoice
came
late,
so
we'll
have
to
kind
of
roll
it
into
January.
So
it's
it's
not
just
like
hands
off
we're
done.
Does.
A
D
The
way
I
like
to
think
about
it
is
we
are
an
internal
or
a
customer
service
office,
but
it's
all
internal.
So,
unlike
you
know,
the
council
offices,
which
are
working
directly
with
constituents
or
parks,
which
you
know,
they're
working
with
people
in
their
parks
and
active,
healthy,
active
living,
centers
and
things
like
that.
We're
working
strictly
internal
to
the
administration
and
council
budget
offices
and
controller
I.
A
D
I've
always
had
an
inkling
for
numbers.
Yes,
I
was
doing
well
with
it
in
high
school,
when
I
got
to
Pitt
for
undergrad
I
majored
in
mathematics
and
economics,
and
that
kind
of
laid
a
good
foundation.
You
know
I'm
not
using
just
pure
math
a
lot
of
it
as
I.
It's
it's
all
Excel
really,
but
a
lot
of
it
is
more
sussing
out
details
and-
and
you
know,
injured
intricacies-
that
I
wouldn't
have
really
just
going
to
do
a
straight
addition.
Subtraction
multiplication
things
like
that.
If.
A
D
D
What
I
tell
my
department,
directors
and
chiefs
is
if
there
is
something
that
you
really
need,
and
the
mayor
and
chief
of
staff
are
on
board,
you
have
to
make
the
hard
decision.
You
know
what
are
you
gonna
cut
elsewhere?
Sometimes
it
could
be
easy.
You
know
what
we
thought
we
wanted
to
buy.
You
know
this
workstation.
Well,
maybe
that
can
wait
for
another
year.
If
that
frees
up
the
money,
then
you
know
it's
easy
to
be
a
little
more
flexible,
so
the
budget
guidelines
we
have
are
for
a
fixed
dollar
spend
amount
there.
D
It
there
is
some
wiggle
room
as
you
go
through
the
year.
We
typically
move
things
around
within
a
department.
You
know
closer
to
the
end
of
the
year.
If,
for
example,
your
supplies
money
is
short,
but
there's
a
little
bit
of
extra
money
and
professional
services
council
can
approve
a
transfer
to
move
that
over
usually
once
or
twice
a
year.
We
move
money
between
departments,
it's
called
an
interdepartmental
transfer.
A
D
A
lot
of
that
would
fall
into
procurement,
which
is
one
of
the
other
divisions
of
the
Office
of
Management
and
Budget
they're,
the
ones
the
team
that
works
for
RFPs.
You
know
requests
for
proposals
where
you're
really
looking
for
the
best
quality
product
at
the
best
price
for
the
city.
You
know
also
commodity
bidding.
That's
what
the
procurement
team
does
do.
D
It's
not
generally
not
tedious.
What
I
really
like
about
my
job
is
that
it's
different
every
day
so
I
this
morning,
for
example,
I
was
doing
some
costing
analysis
for
the
Bureau
of
emergency
medical
services,
working
litchi
from
an
O
to
kind
of
look
at
what
cost
would
be
for
heart
monitors
and
defibrillators.
I
haven't
done
that
before.
So
it's
the
first
time,
I've
done
that
I've
had
to
learn
about
heart,
monitors
and
defibrillators,
but
it's
interesting
to
look
at
what
sort
of
request
would
come
in
and
how
it
might
impact
the
plan
moving
forward.
D
D
A
D
D
Just
moved
a
beach
view,
I
just
moved
to
beach,
you
I
will
be
taking
the
tea
in
and
out
and
everywhere.
I
need
to
go
yeah.
My
few
years
ago,
when
I
was
living
in
Mount
Washington,
my
car
died
and
my
dad
made
a
bet
with
me
that
I
couldn't
live
without
a
car
and
then
it's
been
three
years
so
I
think
I
won
that
bed
so.
E
Since
1982
city
channel
pittsburgh
has
been
your
home
for
your
government
over
the
last
half
decade,
we've
edited
over
a
thousand
press
conferences,
budget
forums,
awards
ceremonies,
PSAs
and
interview
programs.
Our
staff
has
over
six
decades
of
combined
experience
and
they
televise
of
the
150
city
council
meetings
annually
from
right
here
in
our
control
room
and
when
seemingly
nothing
else
is
going
right,
we
can
always
fall
back
on
our
training
from
college.
A
Welcome
back
to
city
talk,
say
hello
to
a
guest
I
first
met
20
years
ago
in
a
different
talk
show
when
she
began
to
specialize
in
taking
care
of
animals
and
animal
abuse
crimes
for
the
Pittsburgh
Police
Department,
christine
luffy
is
with
us
Christine
thanks.
So
much
should
I
call
you
officer
Luffy,
you.
A
C
C
I
was
put
into
a
program,
it
was
the
community
oriented
policing
and
back
then
we
had
the
opportunity
to
be
really
creative
and
I
was
assigned
to
the
bank's
vil
community
back
then,
which
I
really
enjoyed,
but
in
the
creativity,
I
started
off
having
a
concert
in
the
street,
we
called
it
paws
gym
to
raise
money
for
animals
in
the
shelter
and
I'm
really
really
proud
of
that,
and
it
grew
from
there.
It
grew
from
there
what
we
didn't
access
because
of
the
weather.
C
We
never
know
what
Mother
Nature
was
going
to
dump
upon
us,
so
we
decided
to
go
with
a
bingo
and
I
started
having
a
bingo
and
in
fact
we
just
celebrated
our
21st
bingo
last
March
and
we're
gearing
up
for
another
bingo
in
2020
in
March
as
well.
So
I
was
basically
given
a
case
by
the
commander
that
I
worked
with
many
years
ago.
C
C
A
C
Oh
yes,
commander
Walker
had
give
me
the
case
and
I
thought
well,
I'm
gonna
do
everything
I
can
to
possibly
solve
it.
I
wasn't
a
detective
or
anything
like
that
and
I'm
still
not,
but
my
heart's
in
the
right
place
and
I
wanted
to
see.
If
something
could
be
done
about
this
I
know,
the
people
in
Pittsburgh
were
really
really
upset
about
this
case.
I
mean
the
animal.
His
name
was
rowdy
the
cat
and
he
was,
he
was
severely
abused.
C
So
I
did
I
worked
on
a
Saturday
I
made
up
fliers
I
knocked
on
every
door
in
the
s-plane
community
and
we
ended
up
getting
a
lead
that
day
of
a
juvenile
who
was
down
at
I,
believe
it's
called
short
Tears
Creek
and
a
woman
ran
up
to
me
when
I
start
talking
to
her
about
the
cat,
and
she
says
you
know.
I
just
saw
this
this
kid.
He
had
a
BB
gun
and
he
shot
a
mallard.
C
A
C
A
C
D
C
He
was
breeding
buying
and
selling
reptiles,
so
one
elliegator
got
loose
in
the
beach
view
community
and
we
ended
up
finding
out
that
that
elliegator
belonged
to
him
so
from
there
we
went
up
and
we
decided
that
we're
gonna
try
to
talk
to
him
first,
so
we
knock
on
the
door
and
we
speak
with
him
and
I
said
to
him.
You
know
I,
believe
that
this
is
your
alligator
and
he
said
yes,
it's
it's
my
elliegator
and
he
lets
us
come
into
the
house.
C
C
The
day
that
we
obtained
the
search
warrant,
we
reached
out
to
a
very
nice
gentleman
over
at
the
Pittsburgh
Zoo
who
specializes
in
the
care
of
reptiles.
He
joined
us
and
we
went
in
and
what
we
did
is
when
you're
dealing
with
so
many
animals
I
learned
through
my
career,
that
it's
best
just
to
start
everybody
together.
Let's
start
with
one
and
let's
just
go
through
it
on
the
list,
so
everything
is
clear.
We
have
the
best
notes,
we
make
the
best
case
and
we
can
actually
individualize
each
animal.
So
we
did
that.
A
C
A
C
Know
it's
funny
that
you
asked
that,
because
last
week
I
ended
up
making
an
arrest.
The
person
had
turned
herself
in
for
abusing
a
dog
and
I'm
juggling.
At
this
time,
I'm
judge
I'm
juggling
four
other
cases
and
they're
serious
I
mean
there
are
stubble
cases
where
the
law
says
that
you
can't
do
this
yeah.
A
A
A
C
A
C
C
Lot
of
a
lot
of
police
departments
across
the
country
have
special
specialized
units
that
concentrate
on
this
crime
because
you
know
I'm
looking
over
all
the
cases,
all
these
over
20
years
of
experience
and
I'm
thinking,
you
know
that's
a
really
terrible
thing
to
do.
When
you
hurt
or
kill
or
maim
a
defenseless
animal
or
a
child
I
mean
it
says
something
about
you
as
a
person
there's
something
that's
just
not
right.
C
No
I
do
I
do
see.
Hope
I
really
do
you
know
I
think
it's
something
I
appreciate
you
having
me
here
today
because
there's
the
messages
that
I
say
at
every
community
meeting
that
I
speak
to
every
meeting.
I
say:
if
you
see
something,
please
please
say
something
and
when
you're
dealing
with
animals,
people
need
to
know
that
many
animals
suffer
in
silence.
They
can't
make
a
911
call.
They
can't
open
a
cage
to
let
themselves
out.
They
can't
tell
anyone
that
somebody
is
hurting
them
officer.