A large proportion of the grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency will go to training a new team of Pittsburgh police officers dedicated to recruitment.
A Pittsburgh City Council member has canceled a closed-doors meeting scheduled for next week following a TribLive report that such private gatherings might violate the spirit of the Sunshine Act, Pennsylvania’s open-meetings law. The session called by Councilman Bob Charland, D-South Side, had been on council’s calendar since March 15.
For years, Pittsburgh City Council members have gathered behind closed doors to talk in private about public policy. No one keeps a log of who attends. No minutes are maintained of what is said. And council members, desperate to ensure they don’t have too many people present, sometimes duck out
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Months after Pittsburgh City Council, operating on limited information, approved a $31.6 million bond issue for affordable housing, members finally got some details Wednesday about how the money will be spent by the Urban Redevelopment Authority. The head of the URA, which issued the bonds, sent council information showing that