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Council unanimously approves slate of contracts, grants and appointments; roll calls recorded for several items
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Summary
Pittsburgh City Council recorded unanimous votes on multiple resolutions and appointments March 17, 2026, approving contracts for software maintenance, training, violence‑intervention services, energy consulting, and infrastructure grants, and confirming appointments to boards and commissions.
Pittsburgh City Council on March 17 recorded roll‑call votes approving a series of routine but substantive items across committee reports. Several measures passed unanimously (recorded as nine ayes) after committee chairs presented affirmative recommendations.
Key recorded approvals included:
- Bill 2‑42: Amendments to the vending fee schedule (passed by roll call; 9 ayes). - Operation Better Block professional services agreement (presented as Bill 1‑93 in committee): group violence intervention technology services not to exceed $300,000 over three years (passed by roll call; 9 ayes). - License agreements with the Buncher Company to provide temporary warehouse and Gateway View Plaza space for police training activities and events (no cost to the city; passed by roll call; 9 ayes). - Automated Red Light Enforcement grant: acceptance of up to $805,533 from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to replace signals at Fifth Avenue and Dithridge Street (passed by roll call; 9 ayes). - Supplemental agreements and increases for mobility projects (CDR Maguire: total not to exceed $3,900,463.19 after an increase; Trans Associates: services during construction for Penn Ave Phase 2, $1,743,105.56 with 80% reimbursable) (passed by roll call; 9 ayes). - Eminent domain/easement acquisition for Andover Terrace public transportation work, authorizing just compensation not to exceed $35,000 (passed by roll call; 9 ayes). - Warrant in favor of Melee Landscape Contractors Inc. for emergency snow removal, $109,847.58 (passed by roll call; 9 ayes). - Appointments: Reappointment of Steve Maza to the Board of License and Inspection Review (term to 03/01/2029) and appointment of Will Allison to the Clean Pittsburgh Commission (term to 03/01/2030) (motions to approve were adopted by voice/roll call as recorded).
The clerk read numerous additional plan revisions, appointments and small appropriations for committee consideration; several of those items were also adopted or set for final action without extended discussion. Where roll calls were recorded in the transcript, results show unanimous support for the measures presented.
