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City Selling Water Treatment Facility, majority of water pipes, among other critical infrastructure to Water Authority for $1 as part of 30 year old agreement.

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November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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City Unable to pay ~$5 million water bill and the proposed 2026 budget does not include enough money to cover the city's projected spending, let alone the overdue bills.

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November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This week in city council
- Debate continues on allowing street vendors
- Home pickup to be available for Electronics recycling
- City exploring the expansion of composting programs

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The sidewalk vendor debate continues, a new electronics, chemical recycling contract and studying city-wide composting
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November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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This week in City Council

- City to spend $1.4m on designs for stair repairs for multiple sites,

PGH unable to properly maintain the city's public stairways. Which approach would you most support to address funding gaps?

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November 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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This week in Council:

Pgh considers replacing paper traffic tickets with digital system in the year 2025.

Should Pgh publicly report anonymized traffic stop data once the new electronic system is in place?

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November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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This week in City Council:

- Despite broad efforts, litter remains a problem for the city.

What do you think should be the city's highest priority for the city in order to get a handle on trash?

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November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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This Week in City Council:

Opening up more of the city to street vendors

$4 million in emergency grants for social services

Ownership of 28 acres in the Lower Hill District reverts back to the City

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Opening up to more sidewalk vendors, emergency grants for social service orgs, and revising the Lower Hill’s community benefits agreement
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October 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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This week in City Council

Council reworks discrimination protections and now covers against unequal impact

City unaware of over $200k in unpaid electric bills

New restrictions on waste storage sites

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Protected classes, forgotten light bills and keeping raw garbage at bay
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October 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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This week in City Council

Inclusive zoning plan amended by council, set back to Planning Commission

State of City Vehicles reaching crisis point

Councilor Coghill asks for $$$ for new garbage truck, playground upgrades

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Inclusionary Zoning Takes New Turn While Pittsburgh Addresses Failing Fleet and Preserves Landmarks
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October 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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This week

City Council may reclaim powers from Registered Community Organizations

Duquesne Light replaced 500 poles & >100 miles of wire after April storm

Proposal to partner w/ Munhall to help Snow Plowing rejected

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Weighing Neighborhood Meeting Reforms, Reviewing Storm Damage and a Contentious Snow Removal Debate
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October 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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This week in City Council
• Petition calls for Pittsburgh to declare itself a sanctuary city and prohibit cooperation w/ federal immigration enforcement
• $100k more for Bus stop and Curb repair

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Petition Calls for Pittsburgh to declare itself a Sanctuary City
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October 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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This week in City Council

Council may add protections against housing discrimination based on present or past homelessness

311 could expand to monitor residents' social media complaints

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Council Considers Homeless Protections From Housing Discrimination and May Monitor Social Media
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September 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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City Council:

Police/Fire/EMS Facility will move forward to planning phase, with additional safeguards

Land Bank can buy properties after 3 years of tax delinquency, participate in Sheriff's auctions

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Emergency Services Training Center Master Plan To Proceed, Land Bank Partners To Expedite Property Acquisition
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September 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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City Council — week of Sept 8

• Driver’s ed pilot to boost job access
• Funds to expand police/social-worker Co-Response downtown
• 5-year rooftop surveillance lease on Mt. Washington

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Driver’s ed pilot program, supporting police/social worker teams and rooftop surveillance cameras—City Council Week of September 8
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September 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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This week in City Council

$14m red-light camera program starts Q1 '26-first 6 locations chosen

$1.75m in Stop the Violence grants approved for 39 orgs

$4.5M more to move fire station out of floodplain

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Sweeping public safety investments: automated red light enforcement, violence prevention grants, and fire station construction funding—City Council Week of September 1
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September 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Pgh Council approves tiny homes for unhoused, creates new youth commission for residents 19-30 years old & Councilman Coghill to spend $9k on 9 smart trashcans

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"Just in case" tiny house approval, a new Commission to serve young adults, and additional smart trash cans—City Council Week of August 25
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August 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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One Thousand 911 calls in 1 minute: This week City Council debriefed on Emergency preparedness after the April 29th storm

Council is also taking steps to improve health of Emergency vehicle fleet

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One Thousand 911 calls in 1 minute, emergency communications breakdowns and an aging emergency vehicle fleet—City Council Week of July 28
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August 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Tell Pittsburgh City Council what you think about this week's issues:

- City to partner with PGH Public schools for after school programs in underserved neighborhoods
- PGH to get new search and rescue squad

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New urban search and rescue team and filling gaps in afterschool programming—City Council Week of July 21
Update * Public discussion and next steps for short-term rental regulations will be held for 7 weeks so that Council can solicit feedback and create a more comprehensive plan for addressing the issu...
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July 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Should Pittsburgh regulate short-term rentals (AirBnB, VRBO)? City Council is considering it.

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Council Distributes $1.5m to fund food justice programs
Expresses frustrations with losing unspent grant funds

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New regulations for short-term rentals, frustrations with unused funds and $1.5 million for food justice—City Council Week of July 14
Updates * Council rejects the nomination to designate Donny’s Place a historic landmark in keeping with the Planning Commission’s negative recommendation as well as the current owner’s lack of suppo...
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July 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Pittsburgh City Council to extend LGBTQIA+ protections, Deer population controls, and funding for police recruitment.

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Council to expand LGBTQIA+ protections, deer population controls, and funding for police recruitment,—City Council Week of July 7
Update * Councilperson Charland’s bill that would have allowed inclusionary zoning to be a neighborhood’s discretion did not pass final vote. * Against adopting the bill: Councilpersons Gross, Ka...
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July 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Pittsburgh City Council reduces penalty for Sex Work to a fine +Community service

Council to provide continued funding + additional guard rails to violence prevention program the Post-Gazette called a "slush fund"

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An 8-hour Council meeting covers protecting sex workers, a new public safety training campus and funding violence prevention—City Council Week of June 30
Update * Council unanimously recommended the bill aimed at protecting trans people from medical discrimination. * 73% of InformUp readers also supported the bill. * Council will hold a final v...
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July 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Council asks Gov Shapiro to protect access to gender affirming care

Councilor Warwick introduces legislation that would prohibit denying medical care based on a person’s gender identity or expression

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Protecting gender-affirming care, respecting community input and park use—City Council Week of June 23
Council Update We shared your feedback directly with Councilmembers during this week's Standing Committees meeting and shared a full report on your preferences with every Councilmember. You can watch...
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June 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Council votes to allow sale of first 5 of 450 city-owned homes directly to residents

Council seeks to speed up permitting process

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Reducing permit waits, buying City-owned houses and City Employee wellness—City Council Week of June 16
This Week’s Top Agenda Items * New rule proposed to help speed up building permit process * Pilot program for buying houses directly from the City * City to end underused benefits program for empl...
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June 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Council Considers restarting the City's Department of Public Health to be led by Building Inspections Bureau Chief

Council also approves funds for a new City park in the Hill and park improvements in Garfield

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City may get its own Department of Public Health and Park Improvement Funding—City Council Week of June 9
This Week’s Top Agenda Items * Council member seeks to reestablish city's aDepartment of Public Health * $40,484 reallocated for Bedford Park planning * $150,500 match for Fort Pitt Playground Pro...
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June 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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City mandates more paid sick leave for people working in City limits

State grant to fund job training program for SNAP recipients

Sale of City owned building in Strip sparks tense debate on council.

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Additional paid sick days for Pittsburgh employees and job training for SNAP and TANF recipients—City Council Week of June 2
This Week’s Top Agenda Items This Week’s Top Agenda Items * Additional paid sick days for City-based employees * DHS to receive $3.8 million to support job training * Lot sale sparks tense discu...
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June 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM