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From YouTube: An Interview With Mayor Peduto
Description
For the seventh year in a row, City of Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto visits the City Channel for his annual interview. He talks about the challenges of the past year, what we should be looking forward to in 2021, and why he doesn't have a Yinzer accent.
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A
B
A
A
B
You
I
don't,
but
fortunately
I
have
really
good
staff
that
helps
me
to
remember.
It
seems
like
two
years
ago
honestly,
when
I
think
about
last
february.
It
seems
so
long
ago,
when
we
had
a
full
staff
in
our
offices
and
people
running
around
back.
Then
you
know
we
were
fighting
cuts
to
the
community.
Revitalization
act
that
were
coming
out
of
washington.
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B
But
it's
it's
very
rare
yeah,
it's
a
very,
very
different
feeling,
not
just
the
the
physical
part
of
it,
but
it
goes
much
deeper
and
I
think
it
goes
all
the
way
into
the
very
psyche
of
people.
I
think
we're
very
acclimated
to
being
social
and
when
you
take
all
of
that
away,
it
becomes
difficult
and
it
has
a
negative
effect
upon
individuals.
That's
true.
A
B
We
had
a
plan
in
place
through
a
couple
of
other
epidemics
where
our
ems
had
developed
emergency
preparation,
and
so
we
started
expanding
upon
that
plan
and
actually
wrote
a
new
plan
based
around
covid
by
the
month
of
march,
and
at
that
same
time
we
also
were
working
with
our
chief
operating
officer
and
with
the
center
for
disease
control.
In
order
to
establish
what
we
were
calling
contingency
plans,
how
do
you
operate
public
safety?
If
40
percent
of
the
police
bureau
is
not
able
to
report
to
work?
B
How
do
you
create
operations
if
operations
need
to
be
done
from
home
and
we
started
early
and
fortunately,
because
of
that
we
never
lost
a
step.
Three
one.
One
operations
left
this
building,
but
they
were
being
done
in
people's
living
rooms
by
the
employees
themselves,
and
that
system
was
able
to
be
utilized
with
computers
that
went
back
to
our
central
computers
in
order
to
be
able
to
notify
divisions
and
the
office
of
innovation
and
performance
really
stepped
up.
In
order
to
be
able
to
create
a
city
government
that
could
operate
anywhere.
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B
A
A
B
The
office
of
equity
is
to
look
at
our
services
being
delivered
on
a
fair
basis
in
a
just
basis.
So,
although
we
think
of
it
mainly
around
public
safety
in
our
office,
we
look
at
everything,
including
street
lights,
our
neighborhoods
getting
the
same
amount
of
light,
is
it
being
equitably
distributed?
B
We
created
several
new
programs
programs
that
really
look
at
how
we
can
invest
in
communities
that
have
not
seen
investment.
So
we
started
with
avenues
of
hope
which
is
targeted
to
seven
historically
black
neighborhoods
business
districts,
business
districts
that
haven't
seen
a
new
business
in
50
years
and
realizing
that
we
own
much
of
that
property.
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A
B
B
B
Yeah
we
have
decided
to
look
at
police
reform
as
how
can
we
better
create
community
relations
between
our
bureau
and
the
public,
so
we
have
created
community
resource
officers.
We
piloted
a
community
station
in
northview
heights,
we've
created
a
civilian
affairs
division
that
sort
of
is
the
swat
team,
but
you're
working
with
people.
In
order
to
be
able
to
provide
direct
communication
in
any
type
of
a
critical
situation.
B
Addiction
needs
medical
help,
people
that
suffer
with
mental
illness,
don't
need
to
be
put
at
the
allegheny
county
jail
and
so
ochs
works
on
the
streets
in
order
to
be
able
to
assist
the
officer
to
make
sure
the
situation's
safe.
That
person
is
safe
and
then
they're
getting
the
help
that
they
need.
So
we've
expanded.
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What
is
speaking
of
that?
I
thought
a
really
interesting
event.
I
mean
we're
going
back
to
2019
national
night
out
my
wife,
my
son,
and
I
we
went
to.
I
think
it
was
hazelwood
and
it
was
just
a
great
chance
for
the
community
to
see
public
safety
up
close
and
personal
and
in
a
different
way
than
an
adversarial
relationship.
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B
B
B
Think
of
ways
to
create
a
society
that
would
not
need
a
police
and
maybe
someday.
We
can
get
there,
but
as
we
see
our
9-1-1
calls
are
not
going
down
they're
increasing
because
of
shot
spotter.
We
now
have
technology
and
we
realize
there
are
more
gun
activity
in
our
neighborhoods
than
what
we
ever
could
have
imagined.
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So
moving
on
to
climate,
we
all
remember
the
tweet
heard
around
the
world
when
the
now
former
president
pulled
out
of
the
paris
climate
agreement,
because
he
decided
to
use
the
word
pittsburgh
in
referencing
all
the
citizens
of
the
united
states.
You
had
what
some
would
call
a
very
quick
response,
because
we
have
a
commitment
to
climate
justice,
sustainability
and
resilience.
How
did
we
get
closer
to
our
2030
climate
goals
during
the
year
of
2020.
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B
B
Pittsburgh,
along
with
london,
new
york
and
nine
other
cities
are
showing
the
world
how
we
can
utilize
financial
means
in
order
to
bring
about
a
different
type
of
world,
but
on
the
local
level.
We've
also
been
very,
very
successful.
We,
our
2030
goals,
are
based
on
running
our
operations
of
our
government
with
100
percent
renewable
energy,
cutting
the
amount
of
energy
and
water
that
we
use
by
50
percent
and
being
able
to
have
zero
waste
so
150
zero
by
2030.
Our
goal
was
to
be
able
to
fully
run
city
government
with
renewable.
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A
Because
I
remember
when
I
first
started
with
the
city
channel
in
2013,
we
one
of
the
first
projects
I
worked
on
was
the
2030
sustainable
goals
of
a
short
video.
We
did-
and
I
thought
wow
that's
17
years
away
that
doesn't
that
seems
like
so
far
away,
but
for
you
to
now
say
a
little
more
than
seven
years
later,
we're
already
done.
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A
B
I
think
people
have
actually
started
to
pay
attention
to
this
I
mean-
and
this
is
maybe
it's
coveted-
maybe
it's
you
know
people
are
now
out
and
about,
but
you
know
I
always
forget
the
numbers.
Last
year
we
upgraded
21
courts
around
the
city
and
we
didn't
just
upgraded
them,
but
we
we
sort
of
made
them
unique
for
the
neighborhood
and
used
the
colors
of
their
football
teams
or
different
types
of
ways
of
incorporating
art
so
that
the
courts
became
more
unique.
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B
B
They
should
be
a
10-minute
walk
to
everybody
in
this
city,
no
matter
what
neighborhood
you
live
in
and
no
matter
who
you
are
they're
open
to
you,
they're
the
one
place
where
everybody
can
come
together,
no
matter
your
age,
your
religion,
your
race,
your
income,
it
doesn't
matter
it's
it's!
It's
that
one
place
that
we
can
all
share,
so
we
should
be
investing
in
them.
Several
years
ago,
we
decided
to
pursue
the
purchase
of
the
largest
park
in
pittsburgh's
history,
hayes
woods,
780
acres
where
bald
eagles
live.
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B
A
B
B
Well,
the
big
one
is
something
that
is
absolutely
essential,
which
is
working
to
get
a
coveted
relief
package
for
cities
across
this
country.
Pittsburgh
has
been
one
of
the
leaders
very
early
on
in
explaining
how
the
pandemic
has
affected
our
bottom
line.
With
revenue,
we
lost
a
significant
amount
of
revenue
in
2020,
we're
going
to
lose
a
significant
amount
in
2021
and
then
in
2022..
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Fortunately,
our
financial
discipline
over
the
past
seven
years
prepared
us
for
the
rainy
day
fund,
but
we
got
a
tsunami,
so
like
cities
all
over
the
country,
we're
working
in
2021
to
assure
that
those
finances
come
back
to
cities
and
that
we're
able
to
be
able
to
be
stable
through
this
year
and
next
year.
A
second
issue
that
pittsburgh
is
one
of
20
some
cities.
Now
more
cities
are
joining
every
month
working
on
a
pilot
program,
it's
called
guaranteed
basic
income.
You
may
have
heard
of
this
concept.
B
B
So
what
we're
going
to
be
doing
is
working
with,
like
I
said,
20
some
cities
around
the
country
provide
500
a
month
to
200
families
in
the
city
of
pittsburgh
for
two
years,
and
all
of
that
information
is
going
to
be
taken
and
worked
around
the
country
with
every
other
city.
That's
doing
the
pilot
program
and
by
the
way
this
isn't
taxpayer
money.
This
is
money
that
we're
raising
independently.
I
can't
use
government
money
and
give
one
person
it
or
not
give
it
to
somebody
else.
B
B
Is
that
we'll
be
able
to
show
to
the
country
that
a
program
like
this
has
a
much
better
impact
than
the
programs
that
we
currently
have,
which
are
very
limited
and
are
not
that
are
very
specific
and
are
not
catered
to
the
individual
needs
of
people?
So
it's
going
to
be
very
interesting.
We
we
have
made
an
offer
to
a
individual
to
head.
It.
B
As
we've
seen
over
the
past
seven
years,
climate
change
is
real.
We
see
it
in
the
frequency
in
the
amount
of
storms
that
are
happening,
the
amount
of
flooding
that's
occurring,
the
flooded
basements,
the
landslides
all
of
these
different
things
that
we
hadn't
seen
in
the
past,
we're
sitting
here
right
now
in
2020
and
we're
on
track
to
have
one
of
the
highest
levels
of
snow
in
pittsburgh's
history.
B
And
we
have
to
understand
that
the
system
that
we
have
the
pipes
and
the
sewer
lines
is
not
adequate
to
be
able
to
handle
what
the
future
will
bring.
So,
instead
of
building
more
pipes,
we
have
to
think
smart
about
how
we
can
utilize
land
and
and
create
more
of
a
sponge
so
that
that
water
never
goes
into
the
system
to
begin
with,
but
is
held
where
it
falls,
and
that
is
something
that
will
be
will
begin
that
process
in
2021.
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B
Should
have
brought,
I
was
gonna,
bring
it
I,
it
was
a
birthday
gift
for
me,
one
of
my
buddies
caveman.
He
has
this
mexican
wrestling
mask,
but
it's
only
the
bottom
part,
but
it
comes
all
the
way
down,
and
so
I
always
told
him
you
know
I
was
jealous
that
he
had
it.
So
he
got
me
one
in
black
and
gold
and
the
staff's
over
there
laughing
because
they
they've
seen
me
wear
it
in
the
office.
B
I
actually
did
one
interview
with
it
paul
martino
from
channel
two
on
election
night
when
everybody
was
celebrating
in
forbes
and
murray.
I
put
it
on,
went
up
there
by
myself.
Nobody
knew
who
I
was
and
when
he
figured
out,
who
I
was
he
said
hey
can
I
do
the
interview-
and
I
said
only
if
I
get
to
wear
this
mask.
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B
B
A
A
B
B
Surf
and
turf
they're
eating
insects.
You
know
so
in
instead
of
saying
everything's
wonderful.
They
tell
you
that
some
things
are
horrible.
Yeah.
So
don't
do
this
when
you
go
there.
So
try
to
explain
that
and
then
about
a
decade
ago
there
was
a
show
that
came
on
called
an
idiot
abroad
which
is
sort
of
like
lonely
planet
but
with
I
can't
remember,
ricky
gervais
and
I
can't
remember
his
buddy's
name,
but
they
send
hitler's
buddy
all
over
the
world
and
torture
him
so
travel.
B
A
B
A
My
wife
says
my
boston
accent
doesn't
come
out
unless
I'm
there
in
driving,
because
I
start
yelling
at
everybody,
that's
driving
around
me
there
you
go.
So
that's
why
I
don't
have
a
boston
accent,
all
right.
Well,
that's
all
the
questions.
That's
all
the
questions
we
have.
Do
you
have
anything
else.
You
want
to
add.