# Pittsburgh City Council Standing Committees - 9/30.26

Pittsburgh City Council’s Standing Committees meeting on September 30, 2026, included several spending and procurement matters. Council held for three weeks an item involving services from Vibrant Pittsburgh, valued at up to $50,000, to allow for a briefing before a vote. The committees recommended approval of a one-year, not-to-exceed $47,800 agreement with E+ Technology Inc. for a firewall upgrade (Bill 891). They also advanced a Swindell Bridge project item authorizing easements and right-of-way acquisitions costing up to $90,000, reimbursable at 95% (Bill 893), and approved related public-works items including a license agreement with Buncher for resurfacing work at the Environmental Services Center (Bill 920). A Southside Park planting agreement would have no cost to the city and would proceed if the community group receives a USDA grant (Bill 921); a trail-maintenance master-plan grant agreement was also described as having no city cost (Bill 894). The transcript records approval of the firewall, bridge, resurfacing, and trail-plan items; the final vote on Bill 921 is not clear in the transcript.

Council also approved two claim settlements: up to $6,197.48 to Gerald S. Forsman (Bill 895) and up to $3,726.40 to Sage Melody Groden for damage to a parked vehicle from a fallen tree branch (Bill 896). Invoices and purchasing-card approvals were passed without itemized details in the transcript. A zoning ordinance (Bill 714) was held for a cablecast public hearing, and a proposed Home Rule Charter referendum was held for four weeks. Public comments addressed policing, the Oakland do-it-yourself skate park, homelessness, equity, and a proposed economic-development initiative; no council action on those public-comment proposals was recorded.

**Jurisdictions:** sled
**Industries:** Construction & Infrastructure, Information Technology
**Topics:** Physical Infrastructure, Cybersecurity
**Published:** September 30, 2026

### Sources
- [Pittsburgh City Council Standing Committees - 9/30.26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX6zWk4rLh4) - City Channel Pittsburgh