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Clean Pittsburgh Commission approves 2025 leadership slate; hears finance update and mayoral meeting debrief
Summary
At its January meeting the Clean Pittsburgh Commission approved minutes and the meeting agenda, elected a leadership slate for 2025, heard a finance update confirming a $30,000 line item for commission work, and discussed follow-up from a meeting with the mayor, including coordination with PennDOT and neighborhood-focused spending.
The Clean Pittsburgh Commission approved the November minutes (with a date correction), approved the meeting agenda, and elected a 2025 leadership slate during its January meeting.
The body voted to approve the minutes after Helena moved to accept them and Anna seconded. The chair then called for approval and the motion passed by voice vote with no roll call recorded; the chair noted a small edit correcting the referenced month from October to November.
The agenda for the meeting was approved by voice vote after a motion from Anna and a second from Kelsey Ripper.
Kelsey Ripper moved to nominate the 2025 leadership slate, which Kelsey presented as: Omo (chair continuing), Lisa Eberhardt (co-chair, Allegheny Cleanways), Debbie Steinberg (secretary, Carnegie Mellon University), Affton Giles (co‑treasurer, City of Pittsburgh), and Helena (outreach coordinator). Paul Scott seconded the motion and the slate was approved by voice vote. Ripper noted the value of leadership support for the commission, saying the commission “doesn't work without leadership” and that the nomination would give Omo some support after she had been solo chairing recent meetings.
Commission members also received a finance update: the commission retains a $30,000 line item for 2025, the chair said, the same amount as the prior year. The chair said the commission spent most of last year’s allocation; detailed expenditures are maintained in the commission’s shared Google Drive and will be provided at the finance committee meeting. The chair encouraged members to start thinking about allocation of funds to support the commission’s neighborhood focus for 2025–2026, which she listed as Sheridan, Patton Heights, Elliott, Marshall and Shadelin.
Members reported recent activities: Pennsylvania Resources Council announced the city’s first household chemical-collection event of the year (registration open; scheduled for March) and weekly electronics collections; Allegheny Cleanways noted ongoing neighborhood cleanups; City of Pittsburgh staff reminded residents that the Christmas-tree recycling program continues through Jan. 26 with drop-off sites around the city.
The chair said members had met with the mayor in an annual briefing and that notes from that meeting will be reworked and shared before February’s meeting. In that debrief the commission and staff identified better coordination with PennDOT as one priority, particularly where trails and community greening projects adjoin state-owned roadways.
The meeting concluded with a motion to adjourn that passed by voice vote.
