Standing Committees

Agenda

1. STANDING COMMITTEES AGENDA
2. ROLL CALL
3. MOTION TO AMEND THE AGENDA
4. PUBLIC COMMENT
5. FINANCE AND LAW COMMITTEE, MRS. STRASSBURGER, CHAIR
6. NEW PAPERS
7. 2026-0420 Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of Mary Ellen DeMarco-Ruby, for a single payment in 2026 in an amount not to exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), in full and final settlement of litigation filed in the Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County, at No. GD 25-004124. (Executive Session held 4/28/26)
   Resolution
8. 2026-0426 Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh City Code, Title Two: Fiscal, Article IX: Property Taxes, by creating a new Chapter 269: Real Estate Tax Exemptions for Construction or Adaptive Reuse of Buildings on Pittsburgh’s Northside.
   Ordinance
9. INVOICES INVOICES FOR COUNCIL APPROVAL The following departmental invoices not covered under a contract with the City shall be paid by the City Controller after the invoices have been approved by City Council at the May 6th, 2026 Standing Committees meeting. A completed standard form detailing the expenditures is attached to all of the below listed invoices. No payments will be made to any of the below listed vendors prior the approval of City Council. CITY COUNCIL/ CITY CLERK 412 Clean Teams LLC – donation to The Everyone and Their Mother Fest (Dist. 1) 200.00 Warhola Entertainment LLC – bounce house for Westwood/Oakwood Athletic Association Opening Day (Dist. 3) 390.00 COMMISSION ON HUMAN RELATIONS Lamar – 2 billboards for Fair Housing Month 1,991.00 DEPT OF FINANCE One Call Handles It All – landcare for 3TB property 1,150.00 BUREAU OF POLICE B&R Starters Inc – Auto Squad vehicle inspections 148.95 National Target Company Inc – Academy range targets 583.01 Stopstick LTD – stop sticks for Fleet and Academy 4,999.00 RPC Video – Real Time Crime Center monitor HD splitter 1,339.00 Allegheny Equine Association – medical exam and meds for Mounted Unit horse 359.97 Thick Bikes LLC – parts and installation for Bicycle Unit 101.98 Wood, Caytlin – reimbursement for training registration 4,500.00 Kolat, Nicholas – reimbursement for training registration 1,295.00 DEPT OF PUBLIC WORKS East West Manufacturing & Supply Co – off-contract HVAC and boiler services at Oliver Bath House 1,080.00 Brubach Plumbing – relocation of horizontal rain conductor at Marshall Mansion 4,045.00 DEPT OF PARKS & RECREATION Paint Monkey Inc – 2026 ARTWorks painting artist 450.00 Ornato, Vince – 2026 ARTWorks caricature artist 475.00 Edwin Carl Nelson Wiancko – Riverview Park’s Arbor Day event music 500.00 Service Equipment Company Inc – vibration analysis at Schenley Ice Rink 2,489.50 South Side Ctr Advisory Council – Senior Lunch reimbursement for Draft day #1 88.84 Pro Knitwear – basketball league tees 536.00 DEPT OF MOBILITY & INFRASTRUCTURE Eco-Counter – subscription renewal for pedestrian counter 360.00
10. INTRA DEPARTMENTAL TRANSFERS
11. P-CARD APPROVALS
12. Item 0016-2026 P-Cards
    Invoices
13. PUBLIC SAFETY AND WELLNESS COMMITTEE, MR. COGHILL, CHAIR
14. DEFERRED PAPERS
15. 2026-0288 Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Six: Conduct, Article I: Regulated Rights and Actions, by adding Chapter 630B - Prohibiting Immigration Enforcement in City-Owned or Operated Spaces; and amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Five: Traffic, Article I: Administration, Chapter 503 - Enforcement and Control, by adding Section 503.21 - Prohibiting Immigration Enforcement in City-Owned or Operated Spaces.
    Ordinance
16. 2026-0289 Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Six: Conduct, Article I: Regulated Rights and Actions, by adding Chapter 630C - Protecting Community Spaces.
    Ordinance
17. PUBLIC WORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE, MRS. SALINETRO, CHAIR
18. DEFERRED PAPERS
19. 2026-0300 Resolution providing for the issuance of a warrant in favor of A. Folino Construction, Inc., in the amount of Four Hundred Eighty-One Thousand, Three Hundred Twenty Dollars ($481,320.00), for the purpose of Emergency Snow Removal at various locations; and providing for the payment of the costs thereof, over one year.
    Resolution
20. NEW PAPERS
21. 2026-0414 Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of Finance, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into an agreement or agreements or amendments thereto with various parties for the purpose of accessing City property while certain railroad crossing at Lock Way East and Lock Way West (Council District 7) are being upgraded or removed, at no cost to the City.
    Resolution
22. 2026-0415 Resolution amending Resolution 866 of 2025, which authorized the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works to enter into a Professional Service Agreement between the City of Pittsburgh and Studio Zewde for costs associated with the Homewood Park - Construction Project for the Construction Administration schedule extension and transfer of fee from reimbursable expenses; by increasing the total spend by Forty-Eight Thousand Dollars ($48,000.00) for a new not to exceed amount of Two Million, One Hundred and Thirty-Seven Thousand, Eighty-Two Dollars and Thirty Cents ($2,137,082.30).
    Resolution
23. 2026-0416 Resolution amending Resolution No. 201, effective May 14, 2022, entitled “authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works, to enter into an Agreement or Agreements, or the use of existing Agreements, between the City of Pittsburgh and Klavon Design Associates, Inc. for the professional landscape architectural services for Sheraden Park I Design. The total cost not to exceed Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00),” by increasing the total allocation by the amount of Ten Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-Five Dollars ($10,945.00) for a new total of Three Hundred Ten Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-Five Dollars ($310,945.00).
    Resolution
24. 2026-0417 Resolution providing for an Agreement or Agreements with A. Merante Contracting Inc. for costs associated with the Construction phase of the Smithfield Street Reconstruction project; providing for the payment of the costs thereof, not to exceed Six Million Six Hundred Seventy-Two Thousand Two Hundred Two Dollars and Fifty-Six Cents ($6,672,202.56).
    Resolution
25. 2026-0418 Resolution authorizing acceptance by the City of Pittsburgh for dedication of certain right-of-way in and around North Avenue and Brighton Road in conjunction with the bridge reconstruction thereto at no cost to the City, located in the 22nd Ward of the City of Pittsburgh.
    Resolution
26. LAND USE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, MR. WILSON, CHAIR
27. DEFERRED PAPERS
28. 2026-0008 Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code, Title Seven: Business Licensing, Article VII Service Businesses, adding a new Chapter 768: Short-Term Rental Housing.
    Ordinance
29. RECREATION, YOUTH, AND SENIOR SERVICES COMMITTEE, MRS. BARBARA WARWICK, CHAIR
30. NEW PAPERS
31. 2026-0419 Resolution authorizing the issuance of a warrant in favor of the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, located at 317 East Carson Street, West Tower, Suite 230, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 for the reimbursement for horticultural and forestry work completed in Allegheny Commons, August Wilson, Emerald View, Highland and Riverview Parks in the amount of TWO HUNDRED, FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS and NO CENTS ($250,000.00).
    Resolution
32. INNOVATION, PERFORMANCE, ASSET MANAGEMENT, AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE, MS. GROSS, CHAIR
33. NEW PAPERS
34. 2026-0408 Resolution amending Resolution 119 of 2025, which authorized the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works to enter into a Professional Services Agreement or Agreements with RouteSmart Technologies, Inc., which provides trash and recycling routing optimization, for the purchase and implementation of navigation software that will provide turn-by-turn directions to Environmental Service Drivers through November 30, 2027, by increasing the total amount by One Hundred Thirteen Thousand Two Hundred Eighty Dollars ($113,280.00) for a new total not to exceed Three Hundred Sixty Thousand Four Hundred Seven Dollars ($360,407.00).
    Resolution
35. 2026-0427 Ordinance amending “Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title I, Administrative, Article VII, Procedures, by adding a new Chapter, ‘Chapter 173A: Housing Data Dashboard’.” by amending the Chapter number to conform to the numbering in Article Seven of the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances. The new Chapter shall be numbered “162A.”
    Ordinance
36. INTERGOVERNMENTAL AND EDUCATIONAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, MR. MOSLEY, CHAIR
37. DEFERRED PAPERS
38. 2026-0385 Resolution adopting Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh’s Official Sewage Facilities Plan for 3634 Penn Ave, at no cost to the City.
    Resolution
39. NEW PAPERS
40. 2026-0409 Resolution adopting Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh’s Official Sewage Facilities Plan for 217 - 239 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, at no cost to the City.
    Resolution
41. 2026-0410 Resolution amending Resolution 571 of 2021 in order to authorize the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to amend a cooperation agreement or agreements with the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy for maintenance of plantings and other planting related infrastructure in the public rights of way throughout the City of Pittsburgh at no cost to the City.
    Resolution
42. 2026-0411 Resolution amending Resolution 297 of 2025, providing for a Reimbursement Agreement or Agreements with Pittsburgh Water for costs associated with the Smithfield Street Phase 1 project where Pittsburgh Water would be responsible for paying 100% of the actual expenses involved in certain work to be described in the Agreement(s), at an amount not to exceed One Hundred Twenty-Three Thousand Dollars ($123,000.00) and further amending Resolution No. 924 of 2024, effective December 18, 2024, entitled “Resolution adopting and approving the 2025 Capital Budget, the proposed 2025 Community Development Program, and the 2025 through 2030 Capital Improvement Program” by increasing Smithfield Street Phase 1 (TIP) by One Hundred Twenty-Three Dollars ($123,000.00).
    Resolution
43. 2026-0412 Resolution authorizing The Pittsburgh Land Bank to acquire all the City's Right, Title and Interest, if any, in and to the Publicly-Owned properties in the 12th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh designated in the Deed Registry Office of Allegheny County as Block 125-A, Lot 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118,133 (0 Lincoln Avenue & 0 Mayflower Street - Council District No. 9), at no cost to the City.
    Resolution
44. 2026-0413 Resolution authorizing The Pittsburgh Land Bank to acquire all the City's Right, Title and Interest, if any, in and to the Publicly-Owned properties in the 15th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh designated in the Deed Registry Office of Allegheny County as Block 55-P, Lots 15 (0 Chatsworth Avenue - Council District No. 5), Lot 16 (0 Chatsworth Avenue - Council District No. 5), Lot 45 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 57 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 58 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 60 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 62 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 64 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 67 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 68 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 69 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 70 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), Lot 71 (0 Monongahela Street - Council District No. 5), and Block 56-B, Lot 37 (0 Berwick Street - Council District No. 5), at no cost to the City.
    Resolution
45. MOTIONS