Welcome to the Monday Morning Post where you can get your City of Pittsburgh news from last week today!
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March 1, 2021 | Mayor's Office
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State Senator Wayne Fontana is partnering with Mayor William Peduto to introduce legislation to help the City of Pittsburgh land bank more efficiently acquire vacant and distressed properties and get them back onto the tax rolls.
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March 2, 2021 | Mayor's Office, OMB, Finance
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Mayor William Peduto announced the successful pricing of the City of Pittsburgh’s $46.6 million General Obligation Bonds, Series of 2021 transaction. The strong investor demand for the bonds showcases continued investor confidence in the City throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bonds generated $8,692,783 in bond premium, which when added to the $46.6 million generated $55,292,783 in total proceeds.
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March 2, 2021 | Mayor's Office, Shade Tree Commission, DPW, Planning
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Mayor William Peduto and the City of Pittsburgh Shade Tree Commission have announced a new Equitable Street Tree Investment Strategy to promote maintenance in low-income neighborhoods with low tree canopy cover as part of Mayor Peduto’s vision to plant 100,000 trees over the next decade.
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March 3, 2021 | Mayor's Office
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Pittsburgh Superintendent Anthony Hamlet joined Mayor William Peduto to thank Governor Tom Wolf for his decision to prioritize COVID-19 vaccinations for school teachers and staff to help expedite the safe return of students to in-person schooling. The announcement comes a week after the Superintendent shared the District’s plans to bring back students for in-person learning based on need beginning April 6.
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March 3, 2021 | Mayor's Office, Welcoming Pittsburgh
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The City of Pittsburgh’s Welcoming Pittsburgh has announced the release of their 2020 Annual Report today, highlighting their work and accomplishments from the past year. Welcoming Pittsburgh is an immigrant, refugee, new American, and asylee support and integration initiative launched by Mayor William Peduto in 2014.
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Department of Public Safety News
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March 2, 2021 | Police, Public Safety
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In 2020, the City of Pittsburgh began witnessing large numbers of unlawful, off-road vehicles such as ATV’s and dirt bikes riding recklessly on city streets, taking over roadways and intersections, driving on sidewalks and, in many cases, even driving the wrong direction. As a result, the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, in collaboration with its regional law enforcement partners, has devised a comprehensive operational plan to address this issue.
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March 4, 2021 | Public Safety, Fire, EMS
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The City of Pittsburgh’s Department of Public Safety held swearing-in and promotions ceremonies for the Pittsburgh Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire Thursday afternoon at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
Congratulations to:
Emergency Medical Technicians Matthew Guerriero and Daniel Kerns
Paramedics Samson Adams, Roxanne Elk and Michael Gualdoni
Fire Captains Christopher Aiello, James Harkins, Joseph Kuntz and Richard Shay were promoted to the rank of Captain.
Fire Lieutenants Ralph Browning, Kari Burnham, Frank Caputo, Mark Godlewski, Garrett Meade, Matthew Novotny, Keith Ott, Adam Robinson, Guy Scatena, Patrick Stack, Philip Thompson, D’lon Walker and Richard Willett
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March 5, 2021 | OCHS, Public Safety, Mayor's Office
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The Office of Mayor William Peduto, Pittsburgh Public Safety and the Office of Community Health and Safety announce the creation of the Opioid Overdose Dashboard, a public tool that will help form and guide policies and programs to more effectively address unsafe opioid use in the City of Pittsburgh.
The dashboard compiles Pittsburgh Bureau of EMS data to map monthly opioid overdose calls and Public Safety’s response. Data will include the number of people who overdose, neighborhood-level mapping, demographic information, and other statistics regarding care provided by on-scene First Responders.
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Department of Mobility & Infrastructure News
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March 6, 2021 | DOMI
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The Department of Mobility and Infrastructure has announced a full closure of the Duck Hollow Trail to repair a sinkhole along the trail. The repair work will require a full closure of the trail to accommodate equipment and vehicles. The closure will begin Tuesday, March 9, 2021 and last several weeks.
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The Office of Community Affairs works directly with our neighborhood organizations and attends their meetings on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh to let them know about news from the city, answer questions, and take feedback.
Here's where OCA was last week:
Brightwood Civic Group
Knoxville Community Council
Larimer Consensus Group
Morningside Area Community Council
Polish Hill Civic Association
Strip District Neighbors
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This Week's Community Events:
You can find the city's public events at on our public calendar. Have a city-sponsored event that you'd like to include? Email community-events@pittsburghpa.gov.
- 1:00 p.m. Planning Commission Meeting
- Allegheny West Civic Council (OCA Attends)
- Bellefield Area Citizens Association (OCA Attends)
- Community Alliance of Spring Garden/East Deutschtown (OCA Attends)
- East Allegheny Community Council (OCA Attends)
- Hazelwood Initiative (OCA Attends)
- South Side Planning Forum (OCA Attends)
- South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association (OCA Attends)
- West Oakland Neighborhood Council (OCA Attends)
Wednesday 3/10
- Oakcliffe Community Organization (OCA Attends)
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311 is the City of Pittsburgh non-emergency response line. Residents can call 311 to report things they're seeing throughout the city and their request is automatically routed to the department who is responsible for taking care of it.
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This Week's Top 3 311 Reports
1. Potholes
2. Weeds/Debris
3. Missed Refuse Pick Up
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The City of Pittsburgh has many resources designed to make city government more accessible, transparent, and helpful to our residents. We highlight a resource that your family, friends, and neighbors might find helpful.
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Pittsburgh Overdose Dashboard | Office of Community Health and Safety
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Last week, the new Office of Community Health and Safety, in partnership with the Mayor's Office and Public Safety, announced the new Pittsburgh Overdose Dashboard.
The Opioid Overdose Dashboard uses de-identified (HIPAA compliant) data from the Bureau of EMS to provide information regarding opioid overdose calls for service in the City of Pittsburgh on a monthly basis. The dashboard also includes neighborhood-level mapping, demographic information, and other statistics regarding care provided by Public Safety professionals. The Office of Community Health and Safety is committed to utilizing insights gained from this data to inform progressive opioid overdose prevention strategies that seek to reduce harm associated with drug use, employ a person-first approach, and address social determinants of health.
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First Responders, including Pittsburgh EMS, Fire and Police, respond to drug overdoses and have saved many lives through their training and the use of Narcan and CPR.
In addition to the public dashboard, the Office of Community Health and Safety will issue weekly reports to City staff and partner organizations, including healthcare, public health, and harm reduction organizations, with the goal of coordinating an equitable public health-informed response to the overdose crisis. This data will also provide the Office of Community Health and Safety and its partners with a more complete picture of the impacted neighborhoods, allowing for direct engagement with community leaders who best understand the needs of their neighbors.
Within the Office of Community Health and Safety, this work will be led by the Overdose Prevention Program Coordinator in partnership with Pittsburgh EMS and the Allegheny County Health Department’s CDC-funded Overdose Data to Action program, which aims to strengthen local capacity to address overdoses across the county. The City of Pittsburgh is among stakeholders partnering with ACHD through this county-wide program to monitor emerging trends to inform prevention activities that reduce harms associated with substance use.
Mayor Peduto created The Office of Community Health and Safety in June with the goal of redirecting city resources to better meet community needs by housing social services, public health and social work experts who can assist first responders in situations that require longer-term assistance, harm reduction support and other services. For more information on the office, click here.
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