Weighing Neighborhood Meeting Reforms, Reviewing Storm Damage and a Contentious Snow Removal Debate.

A plan to have Munhall assist with plowing the streets gets kicked to the curb.

A plan to ask Munhall to plow three neighborhoods was met with hostility by council members who accused the proponent of giving up on Pittsburgh workers.

Community groups may be out of the business of organizing neighborhood development meetings.

Council Member Theresa Kail-Smith of Westwood proposed suspending the city’s use of registered community organizations (RCOs) to manage community meetings with developers.

Warwick looks to use unspent fuel money on new snow plows.

A separate bill from Council Member Warwick would transfer $750,000 from an overlooked liquid fuels trust fund to the Equipment Leasing Authority. The money, Warwick said, should cover four new…

Duquesne Light’s infrastructure took a hard hit during April’s storm.

Five months after a storm left some city residents without power for nine days, city council members sat down with representatives of Duquesne Light and the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission…

West End sidewalk, bus stop repair program gets $100,000 boost from the county.

Allegheny County’s Redevelopment Authority has provided an additional $100,000 toward developing a West Pittsburgh mobility plan. This doubles its contribution to the project to $200,000.

Petition Calls for Pittsburgh to declare itself a Sanctuary City.

Petition calls for Pittsburgh to declare itself a Sanctuary City.

Nearly 1,500 city residents signed a petition to declare Pittsburgh a sanctuary city. Doing so would prohibit all city agencies from cooperating with federal Immigration, Customs and Enforcement…

Private vendor’s contract may be extended for city police promotions.

City council is planning to take up a measure to extend a contract with a private company to provide police lieutenant and sergeant selection services for next year.

City looks to monitor social media for 311.

Pittsburgh is planning to start monitoring social media and tie individual users to their comments.

City could bar landlords from rejecting applicants over housing gaps.

The Commission on Human Relations is looking to add “past or present housing status” to the city’s code as a protected status.

Council Considers Homeless Protections From Housing Discrimination and May Monitor Social Media.

Land Bank looks to take abandoned homes after three years of delinquent tax payments.

After informally working together to try to move tax-delinquent properties back onto the tax rolls, the city has put together an agreement with the land bank, the county and school district.

Master plan for new emergency services training center proceeding.

Following weeks of public comment, City Council is poised to spend $1.8 million on a master plan to potentially build an $86 million public safety training facility in the Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar…

Emergency Services Training Center Master Plan To Proceed, Land Bank Partners To Expedite Property Acquisition.

Nonprofit to support teams of police, social workers.

Driver’s ed pilot program, supporting police/social worker teams and rooftop surveillance cameras—City Council Week of September 8.

City is renting rooftops for surveillance cameras.

Driver’s ed pilot program could help city residents get jobs.

Council prioritizes community needs over funding criteria for $1.7M grant distributions.

Sweeping public safety investments: automated red light enforcement, violence prevention grants, and fire station construction funding—City Council Week of September 1.