# Pittsburgh City Council Regular Meeting - 10/6/26


**Body:** City Channel Pittsburgh
**Date:** October 05, 2026
**Jurisdiction:** SLED

**Tags:** Construction & Infrastructure, Public Safety, Physical Infrastructure, Grants & Funding


Pittsburgh City Council regular meeting, October 6, 2026. Council introduced several procurement- and funding-related measures. These included a professional-services agreement for medical direction with the Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania (Bill 945; the transcript renders the five-year limit as “$50,” which may be incomplete); two Assistance to Firefighters Grant items for fire apparatus, vehicle training, and backfill salaries (Bills 946–947; the first grant amount is garbled, while the second is stated as up to $153,590.90, with a total project cost of $168,950); and a PennDOT winter-maintenance agreement (Bill 950). Council waived Rule 8 for Bill 950 so it could be placed on the next day’s standing committee agenda. Public-works contract amendments included an increase of $25,678.75 for one agreement and an amendment with SAI Consulting Engineers for construction management and inspection on the Charles Anderson Bridge project, including a stated increase of about $350,208 that is federally reimbursable at 100%; some resulting contract totals are garbled in the transcript.

Council finally approved Bill 891, a one-year, $47,800 professional-services agreement with E+ Technology Inc. for a firewall upgrade, and Bill 892, a sewage-facilities-plan revision at no cost to the city. Other sewage-plan revisions and grant measures were presented, but no final votes on them are recorded in the transcript. The meeting also included a proclamation recognizing the outgoing Housing Authority executive director, citing housing initiatives and grants, and public comments about the closure of the Roots drop-in center. No broader procurement-policy change was identified.

**Source:** City Channel Pittsburgh