Pittsburgh City Council officials last week announced that City Clerk Brenda Pree was departing from city council, Assistant Clerk Kim Clark-Baskin would serve as acting clerk and they had hired new leaders for the City Council Budget Office. Pree has accepted an offer to serve as the city clerk of
Pittsburgh City County Building Today, Pittsburgh City Council offered amendments to Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto’s 2021 budget proposal. They included allocating $9.4 million dollars away from two contentious sections of the budget: police funding and the Mon-Oakland Connector autonomous vehicle/infrastructure proposal. According to TribLive, about $5.3 million will be moved from the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police and the Public Safety department to fund a new Stop the Violence initiative spearheaded by city councilors Ricky Burgess (D-Point Breeze) and Daniel Lavelle (D-Hill District). The $5 million shift from the police budget is not as ambitious has some advocates were hoping, as it only represents about a 5% decrease of about $110 million overall that was proposed by the mayor. Advocates were calling for a 50% reduction in police funding, citing Pittsburgh s relatively high volume of police force compared to other m
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About $5.3 million in the 2021 Pittsburgh budget will be moved from police to public safety to fund a new Stop the Violence initiative spearheaded by city councilmen Ricky Burgess and R. Daniel Lavelle.
The initiative is among the police reforms adopted by council this year and is in part a response to public outcry for reform that began after the May 25 killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis. Floyd’s death galvanized the Black Lives Matter movement and sparked national protests, including dozens in Pittsburgh.