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PRIORITIES

Delivering safety for everyone

No matter what we look like or where we live, we all want our families to be whole and our neighborhoods to be vibrant. We want a city where we can all move through our communities without fearing for our lives or loved ones. 

The duty of our police officers is to protect and serve, and most Pittsburgh Bureau of Police (PBP) officers want to live up to that mission. But we are sending them to respond to calls they weren’t trained for, equipping them like soldiers instead of public servants, and training them in tactics that escalate situations and breed distrust. There are also officers who dishonor the badge, abuse their power, and put themselves, their fellow officers, and all of us at risk.

As mayor, Ed Gainey’s goal will be to make Pittsburgh a city where no one lives in fear of crime or of the police. That means:

Demilitarizing police equipment and training

Ed will break the “us vs. them” mentality between police and communities by ending the use of military gear by PBP officers and overhauling police training to focus on de-escalation.

Redirecting resources

Ed will shift the Police Bureau’s resources from militarized gear and tactics into investments in community policing strategies that build trust and give officers the tools and training they need to be supportive community partners

Getting help to those who need it from properly trained professionals

Ed will establish alternative response procedures for non-violent and mental health emergency calls that will reduce police interactions for those struggling with substance abuse disorders, homelessness, mental health crises, and trauma, getting them the resources they need, rather than sending them to jail.

Changing the rules of engagement

Ed will fight for reforms that improve police-community relations, expand police accountability, and give City government the tools it needs provide effective oversight, including: 

  • Use of force reform that requires officers use deadly force only as a last resort, not a tactic to detain a fleeing suspect who has not demonstrated intent to inflict imminent harm.  
  • Ending mandatory arbitration of police disciplinary cases so that the City can discipline and, where necessary, fire officers without being compelled to participate in an unaccountable arbitration process that too often sides with the FOP.
Reinforcing the Citizen Police Review Board

Ed will work with Council to strengthen the Citizen Police Review Board’s (CPRB) ability to compel testimony from officers and conduct thorough, independent investigations of allegations of police misconduct

Passing Breonna’s Law and Banning Solitary Confinement

 Ed supports the Alliance for Police Accountability’s ballot initiatives to ban no-knock warrants (“Breonna’s Law”) through an amendment to the City of Pittsburgh Home Rule Charter and to ban solitary confinement in the Allegheny County Jail via a County Ordinance.

BUILDING AN ECONOMY FOR ALL OF Us

Our city is divided, but when we all lay our heads down at night, we all share the same vision for our families, our children, and our neighborhoods. We all want a city where everyone can earn a living, afford a good home, and feel safe in our neighborhoods. We all have to contribute to building that future together. We need to stop giving more and more to the wealthy and well-connected already at the top.

But some of the biggest players in our city are sitting on the bench.

City investments and strong unions gave previous generations of Pittsburghers an opportunity to succeed, but today we’re failing to use the tools of city government to lift up working people and hold our largest institutions accountable for doing their fair share. Vital public services like our water system are under threat of being sold to for-profit corporations, our major employers are paying us poverty wages, our largest landowners are dodging their taxes, and developers are kicking us out of our homes.

When we stand united, we can address these challenges and build a fair economy that works for all of us. It’s time to be intentional about spreading wealth and growing our city, and we have the tools to do it.

As Mayor, Ed Gainey will rewrite the rules so that we all benefit from Pittsburgh’s growth, and will unite our city around a vision for a fair economy. That means:

Demanding UPMC pay their fair share

Ed will resume the legal and legislative fight against UPMC’s non-profit status to ensure that they pay their fair share, on our terms. Years of negotiations to establish a voluntary payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) have gotten nowhere and would allow UPMC to dictate how and where its contributions are allocated. The region’s most profitable corporation should pay taxes like anyone else, and decisions about how those funds – our dollars – are spent should be made in the City Council Chamber, not the UPMC boardroom.

Standing up for workers

Ed will support workers at UPMC and other major employers in exercising their right to unionize and fight for living wages, safe working conditions, and decent benefits.

Ending corporate handouts

Ed will overhaul our economic development infrastructure to stop pursuing corporate giants with sweetheart deals and tax giveaways and instead focus our resources on supporting small, community-serving businesses, cooperative businesses, and minority- women- and disadvantaged-owned businesses (MWDBEs).

Requiring developers and employers to invest in workforce development

Rather than an ad-hoc approach to workforce development that’s different on every major project, Ed will work with our regional workforce development agencies to create a centralized fund that all developers and businesses seeking public subsidy will be required to contribute to. These resources can be used to supplement existing state and federal funding streams, creating enhanced, permanent job training programs that connect city residents to valuable skills, good jobs, and career opportunities, including pre-apprenticeship programs for Pittsburgh students.

Growing and diversifying the city workforce

Ed will rebuild the City’s workforce to prepare for growth rather than managing decline. A Gainey Administration will create new public-sector opportunities for good jobs in public service, work with public employee unions to create great services, and establish pathways to City employment for Pittsburghers of all neighborhoods and backgrounds.

Directing more of the city’s resources to disadvantaged businesses

Ed will create new business opportunities for MWDBEs by:

  • Extending Equal Opportunity Review Commission (EORC) oversight beyond reviewing MWDBE plans to actually tracking performance over the life of the project,
  • Requiring private developers seeking public subsidy to submit their plans for EORC review,
  • Establishing the City’s own MWDBE certification program to lower barriers for small MWDBEs to become certified, and
  • Partnering with the business community and philanthropy to establish a Minority Business Accelerator to help minority-owned businesses grow and thrive.

CREATING A CITY WHERE EVERYONE CAN BELONG

Everyone wants to have a place to call home. One of the greatest things about Pittsburgh is our unique neighborhoods and – until recently – affordable housing. We’re a city built by working people, for working people.

But as explosive growth has driven housing prices beyond what most working Pittsburghers can afford, things have changed. Luxury development is transforming mixed-income communities into playgrounds for the wealthy, forcing many Pittsburghers out of neighborhoods where they’ve lived for generations, while in other neighborhoods a complete lack of investment and support leaves residents feeling forgotten and abandoned. No one wants to be pushed out or forgotten; at the end of the day, we all want to belong.

As Mayor, Ed Gainey will make good on the promise to unify our city, put resources into all of our neighborhoods, and invest in housing every Pittsburgher can afford. That means:

Fighting for Community Benefits

Ed will use the leverage of the City’s planning process to demand community benefit agreements, labor peace agreements, and inclusionary contracting practices from private developers rather than rubber stamping their plans.

Taking an active role in the housing market

Ed will deploy tools like Community Land Trusts, the Land Bank, and Inclusionary Zoning to build neighborhoods that are accessible for everyone. We can’t afford to debate and test these solutions any longer, we need aggressive action to address our city’s housing crisis.

Implementing a people-first development strategy

Ed will focus the resources of the Housing Authority and URA on expanding affordable housing options, preventing displacement, and protecting neighborhoods from predatory development.

Protecting renters

Ed will continue the fight to implement the Rental Registry to take on slumlords and protect renters from unsafe conditions.

PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT AND OUR HEALTH

Everyone deserves clean air, safe water, and a healthy home to live in. As a region, we’re proud of our industrial heritage, but also of how we came together to clean up our air, rivers, and land from the pollution that the steel industry brought with it. 

But while previous generations made major strides, the job of addressing industrial pollution from our past is unfinished, and new threats to our environment and our health need to be confronted. Lead in our water, soil, and homes is putting our children at risk, our air quality remains some of the worst in the country, and we remain dependent on fossil fuels for our region’s energy. Climate change is bringing greater rainfall to our region, resulting in flood events that put lives, homes, and businesses at risk, and overwhelms our sewer system, polluting our rivers.

Ed Gainey is committed to climate justice because he knows that we can confront these challenges and come away from them a stronger, healthier, more sustainable city. That means:

Reducing our carbon footprint

Ed will continue and accelerate ongoing efforts to electrify the City’s vehicle fleet, utilize the city’s purchasing power as a large energy consumer to spur the development of renewable energy sources in our region, push developers to adhere to high standards for energy efficiency in new construction, and grow the renewable energy sector as a job engine of our local economy.

Delivering a Just Transition

Ed is committed to making Pittsburgh a model for bridging the false divide between the environmental and labor movements and demonstrating how the renewable energy and sustainable construction sectors can help us combat climate change while creating good union jobs, building healthy and affordable housing, and growing our regional economy. As Mayor, he’ll retool our workforce development infrastructure to prepare our workforce for jobs in sustainable sectors, and invest in infrastructure projects that put Pittsburghers to work while addressing the climate crisis head-on.

Confronting environmental racism

Ed knows that Communities of Color are disproportionately affected by negative health outcomes associated with exposure to pollution, particularly air pollution generated from manufacturing and fossil fuel extraction and deteriorating homes constructed with toxic materials. He will:

  • continue efforts underway to eliminate all lead water service lines in the PWSA system by 2026, 
  • work with Council to pass a comprehensive lead safety law to address the causes of lead exposure in the built environment, and 
  • work to disrupt real estate development patterns that push low-income and at-risk populations to live in areas affected by historic and ongoing environmental hazards.
Investing in green infrastructure

Ed will work with ALCOSAN, PWSA, and state and federal partners to accelerate investment in effective, sustainable infrastructure solutions to  properly and safely manage stormwater events that are increasingly affecting our region, particularly South Pittsburgh and the West End.

Keeping fracking out of our city

Ed will preserve and defend Pittsburgh’s fracking ban.

INVESTING IN PITTSBURGH’S FUTURE

Every student deserves a high quality education delivered in a nurturing environment, and every family deserves access to quality schools regardless of what neighborhood they live in. You can’t have a strong city without good schools, and you can’t have good schools without a strong city. 

But with PPS facing budget shortfalls and considering school closures, the time has come to stop picking turf battles with the school board and start building common ground and taking on the real culprits: major institutions dodging taxes and a lack of leadership in Harrisburg on school district funding.

Ed Gainey understands that the relationship between the City, the School District, parents and teachers isn’t zero-sum; we’re stronger when we work together as partners. As Mayor, he’ll collaborate with school stakeholders to ensure that the district and our kids have the resources and support they need to succeed. That means:

Demanding UPMC pay their fair share

Ed will take on UPMC’s non-profit status to make sure that they pay their fair share of City and School District taxes, ensuring that the district can make decisions based on what’s best for students free from false choices about resources.

Partnering with the School District

Ed will partner with the PPS administration to ensure that PPS students have access to out-of-school-time support and services through the Dept. of Parks and Recreation so that every child has the same opportunity to learn and succeed and every child is safe and nurtured in the classroom and in their neighborhood.

Securing fair funding

Ed will work with allies in Harrisburg to secure fairer funding for urban school districts.

Equitable broadband access

to succeed in the 21st Century, all students need access to high quality internet connections in and out of the classroom, even more so in the context of remote learning. Ed will work to make sure that all neighborhoods have access to high-speed internet service so that all students have the tools they need to learn.

EXPANDING MOBILITY FOR ALL PITTSBURGHERS

Pittsburgh is a city of close-knit neighborhoods, each with their own histories, identities, and character. Our city is also built on complex terrain, spanning across rivers, extending up and over hillsides, and encompassing valleys, plateaus, and greenspace. 

These features provide our neighborhoods with unique cityscapes, stunning views, and ample recreation opportunities, but they can also make our City difficult to move through, and decades of development and infrastructure investment have prioritized driving over other forms of transportation and mobility. This leaves many low-income families without safe or efficient connections to work, school, or recreational opportunities.

Ed Gainey understands that we need to press ahead with the progress made in recent years on developing a multimodal transportation system in Pittsburgh. If elected, he will ensure that everyone, especially children, seniors, and people with disabilities, can move through our city safely, regardless of whether they are walking, biking, driving, or taking public transit. That means:

Maintaining our commitment to Vision Zero

Ed will reinforce the City’s commitment to a Vision Zero transportation strategy that focuses mobility improvements on the goal of eliminating transportation fatalities and serious injuries and provides safe, healthy, and accessible transportation options to all Pittsburghers.

Continuing to center equity in transportation investments

Ed will keep equity at the heart of transportation planning and budgeting decisions so that all Pittsburghers have safe and efficient access to work, education, shopping, and recreation.

Creating safe corridors for kids

Ed will prioritize investments in creating safe pedestrian corridors to connect schools and childcare facilities to parks and school bus/transit stops to protect our children on their way to and from school and ensure that they have access to outdoor recreation.

Listening to neighborhood needs

Ed will continue the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure’s focus on neighborhood-scale transportation improvements based on community-based plans developed with residents’ input and feedback.

Tackling utility coordination

Ed will improve coordination between development projects, utilities, city authorities, and the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure to ensure that investments in below-ground infrastructure are efficient, equitable, and meet neighborhood needs.

Opposing privatized transportation systems

Ed will stop the buildout of Mon-Oakland connector and prevent the construction of other privatized or quasi-privatized mass transit systems designed to support luxury development at the expense of existing residential communities.

Fighting for fair funding

Ed believes that everyone deserves access to public transit no matter what neighborhood they live in. He’ll work with allies in Harrisburg to secure fairer funding for urban mass transit systems.

SUPPORTING YOUNG LEADERS

The youth of our city understand more acutely than anyone else what Dr. King called “the fierce urgency of now.” Young leaders are at the forefront of urgent movements for racial, environmental, economic, housing, and education justice. 

But too often, young voices aren’t part of the conversation when major decisions are made, even though they will live with the consequences of those decisions the longest.

Ed Gainey is committed to lifting up and following the leadership of young Pittsburghers as they struggle toward a more equitable city for us all. That means:

Creating an Office of Youth Engagement and Youth Commission

Ed will establish an Office of Youth Engagement to oversee the Mayor’s involvement with youth stakeholders in the region and manage a team of youth liaisons to represent the perspectives of young Pitsburghers in departmental decision making. Ed will also establish a Youth Commission that will collaborate with the City agencies, community organizations, nonprofits, and private entities to improve the lives of Pittsburgh’s youth.

Ensuring that young Pittsburghers have a seat – and a voice – at the table

Currently, 126 people on Pittsburgh’s and Allegheny County’s boards and authorities are over 60. Only 17 people are under 30. Ed will ensure that young people are equitably represented on City Commissions, Boards, and Authorities

Working in partnership with PPS

Ed will rebuild a positive working relationship between the City and the school district to ensure that student needs are met both in school and in our neighborhoods.

Public Safety

Delivering safety for everyone

As mayor, Ed Gainey’s goal will be to make Pittsburgh a city where no one lives in fear of crime or of the police. That means: 

  • Demilitarizing police equipment and training: Ed will break the “us vs. them” mentality between police and communities by ending the use of military gear by PBP officers and overhauling police training to focus on de-escalation.
  • Redirecting resources: Ed will shift the Police Bureau’s resources from militarized gear and tactics into investments in community policing strategies that build trust and give officers the tools and training they need to be supportive community partners. 
  • Getting help to those who need it from properly trained professionals: Ed will establish alternative response procedures for non-violent and mental health emergency calls that will reduce police interactions for those struggling with substance abuse disorders, homelessness, mental health crises, and trauma, getting them the resources they need, rather than sending them to jail. 
  • Changing the rules of engagement: Ed will fight for reforms that improve police-community relations, expand police accountability, and give City government the tools it needs provide effective oversight, including: 
    • Use of force reform that requires officers use deadly force only as a last resort, not a tactic to detain a fleeing suspect who has not demonstrated intent to inflict imminent harm.  
    • Ending mandatory arbitration of police disciplinary cases so that the City can discipline and, where necessary, fire officers without being compelled to participate in an unaccountable arbitration process that too often sides with the FOP.
  • Reinforcing the Citizen Police Review Board: Ed will work with Council to strengthen the Citizen Police Review Board’s (CPRB) ability to compel testimony from officers and conduct thorough, independent investigations of allegations of police misconduct
  • Passing Breonna’s Law and Banning Solitary Confinement: Ed supports the Alliance for Police Accountability’s ballot initiatives to ban no-knock warrants (“Breonna’s Law”) through an amendment to the City of Pittsburgh Home Rule Charter and to ban solitary confinement in the Allegheny County Jail via a County Ordinance.
Economy

Building an Economy for us all

When we stand united, we can address these challenges and build a fair economy that works for all of us. It’s time to be intentional about spreading wealth and growing our city, and we have the tools to do it. 

As Mayor, Ed Gainey will rewrite the rules so that we all benefit from Pittsburgh’s growth, and will unite our city around a vision for a fair economy. That means: 

  • Demanding UPMC pay their fair share: The region’s most profitable corporation should pay taxes like anyone else, and decisions about how those funds – our dollars – are spent should be made in the City Council Chamber, not the UPMC boardroom.
  • Standing up for workers: Ed will support workers at UPMC and other major employers in exercising their right to unionize and fight for living wages, safe working conditions, and decent benefits.
  • Ending corporate handouts: Ed will overhaul our economic development infrastructure to stop pursuing corporate giants with sweetheart deals and tax giveaways and instead focus our resources on supporting small, community-serving businesses, cooperative businesses, and minority-  women- and disadvantaged-owned businesses (MWDBEs).
  • Requiring developers and employers to invest in workforce development: Ed will work with our regional workforce development agencies to create a centralized fund that all developers and businesses seeking public subsidy will be required to contribute to. These resources can be used to supplement existing state and federal funding streams, creating enhanced, permanent job training programs that connect city residents to valuable skills, good jobs, and career opportunities, including pre-apprenticeship programs for Pittsburgh students.
  • Growing and diversifying the City workforce: Ed will rebuild the City’s workforce to prepare for growth rather than managing decline. A Gainey Administration will create new public-sector opportunities for good jobs in public service, work with public employee unions to create great services, and establish pathways to City employment for Pittsburghers of all neighborhoods and backgrounds.
  • Directing more of the city’s resources to disadvantaged businesses: Ed will create new business opportunities for MWDBEs by: 
    • Extending Equal Opportunity Review Commission (EORC) oversight beyond reviewing MWDBE plans to actually tracking performance over the life of the project,
    • Requiring private developers seeking public subsidy to submit their plans for EORC review,
    • Establishing the City’s own MWDBE certification program to lower barriers for small MWDBEs to become certified, and
    • Partnering with the business community and philanthropy to establish a Minority Business Accelerator to help minority-owned businesses grow and thrive. 
Housing

CREATING A CITY WHERE EVERYONE CAN BELONG

Everyone wants to have a place to call home. One of the greatest things about Pittsburgh is our unique neighborhoods and – until recently – affordable housing. We’re a city built by working people, for working people.

As Mayor, Ed Gainey will make good on the promise to unify our city, put resources into all of our neighborhoods, and invest in housing every Pittsburgher can afford. That means:

  • Fighting for community benefits: Ed will use the leverage of the City’s planning process to demand community benefit agreements, labor peace agreements, and inclusionary contracting practices from private developers rather than rubber stamping their plans. 
  • Taking an active role in the housing market: Ed will deploy tools like Community Land Trusts, the Land Bank, and Inclusionary Zoning to build neighborhoods that are accessible for everyone. We can’t afford to debate and test these solutions any longer, we need aggressive action to address our city’s housing crisis.
  • Implementing a people-first development strategy: Ed will focus the resources of the Housing Authority and URA on expanding affordable housing options, preventing displacement, and protecting neighborhoods from predatory development.
  • Protecting renters: Ed will continue the fight to implement the Rental Registry to take on slumlords and protect renters from unsafe conditions.
Environment

PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT AND OUR HEALTH

Ed Gainey is committed to climate justice because he knows that we can confront these challenges and come away from them a stronger, healthier, more sustainable city. That means:

  • Reducing our carbon footprint: Ed will continue and accelerate ongoing efforts to electrify the City’s vehicle fleet, utilize the city’s purchasing power as a large energy consumer to spur the development of renewable energy sources in our region, push developers to adhere to high standards for energy efficiency in new construction, and grow the renewable energy sector as a job engine of our local economy. 
  • Delivering a Just Transition: Ed is committed to making Pittsburgh a model for bridging the false divide between the environmental and labor movements and demonstrating how the renewable energy and sustainable construction sectors can help us combat climate change while creating good union jobs, building healthy and affordable housing, and growing our regional economy. As Mayor, he’ll retool our workforce development infrastructure to prepare our workforce for jobs in sustainable sectors, and invest in infrastructure projects that put Pittsburghers to work while addressing the climate crisis head-on.
  • Confronting Environmental Racism: Ed knows that Communities of Color are disproportionately affected by negative health outcomes associated with exposure to pollution, particularly air pollution generated from manufacturing and fossil fuel extraction and deteriorating homes constructed with toxic materials. He will: 
    • continue efforts underway to eliminate all lead water service lines in the PWSA system by 2026, 
    • work with Council to pass a comprehensive lead safety law to address the causes of lead exposure in the built environment, and 
    • work to disrupt real estate development patterns that push low-income and at-risk populations to live in areas affected by historic and ongoing environmental hazards.
  • Investing in green infrastructure: Ed will work with ALCOSAN, PWSA, and state and federal partners to accelerate investment in effective, sustainable infrastructure solutions to  properly and safely manage stormwater events that are increasingly affecting our region, particularly South Pittsburgh and the West End. 
  • Keeping fracking out of our city: Ed will preserve and defend Pittsburgh’s fracking ban.
Education

INVESTING IN PITTSBURGH’S FUTURE

Ed Gainey understands that the relationship between the City, the School District, parents and teachers isn’t zero-sum; we’re stronger when we work together as partners. As Mayor, he’ll collaborate with school stakeholders to ensure that the district and our kids have the resources and support they need to succeed. That means: 

  • Demanding UPMC pay their fair share: Ed will take on UPMC’s non-profit status to make sure that they pay their fair share of City and School District taxes, ensuring that the district can make decisions based on what’s best for students free from false choices about resources.
  • Partnering with the School District: Ed will partner with the PPS administration to ensure that PPS students have access to out-of-school-time support and services through the Dept. of Parks and Recreation so that every child has the same opportunity to learn and succeed and every child is safe and nurtured in the classroom and in their neighborhood.
  • Securing fair funding: Ed will work with allies in Harrisburg to secure fairer funding for urban school districts. 
  • Equitable broadband access: to succeed in the 21st Century, all students need access to high quality internet connections in and out of the classroom, even more so in the context of remote learning. Ed will work to make sure that all neighborhoods have access to high-speed internet service so that all students have the tools they need to learn.
Mobility

EXPANDING MOBILITY FOR ALL PITTSBURGHERS

Ed Gainey understands that we need to press ahead with the progress made in recent years on developing a multimodal transportation system in Pittsburgh. If elected, he will ensure that everyone, especially children, seniors, and people with disabilities, can move through our city safely, regardless of whether they are walking, biking, driving, or taking public transit. That means:

  • Maintaining our commitment to Vision Zero: Ed will reinforce the City’s commitment to a Vision Zero transportation strategy that focuses mobility improvements on the goal of eliminating transportation fatalities and serious injuries and provides safe, healthy, and accessible transportation options to all Pittsburghers.
  • Continuing to center equity in transportation investments: Ed will keep equity at the heart of transportation planning and budgeting decisions so that all Pittsburghers have safe and efficient access to work, education, shopping, and recreation. 
  • Creating safe corridors for kids: Ed will prioritize investments in creating safe pedestrian corridors to connect schools and childcare facilities to parks and school bus/transit stops to protect our children on their way to and from school and ensure that they have access to outdoor recreation. 
  • Listening to neighborhood needs: Ed will continue the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure’s focus on neighborhood-scale transportation improvements based on community-based plans developed with residents’ input and feedback.
  • Tackling utility coordination: Ed will improve coordination between development projects, utilities, city authorities, and the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure to ensure that investments in below-ground infrastructure are efficient, equitable, and meet neighborhood needs. 
  • Opposing privatized transportation systems: Ed will stop the buildout of Mon-Oakland connector and prevent the construction of other privatized or quasi-privatized mass transit systems designed to support luxury development at the expense of existing residential communities.  
  • Fighting for fair funding: Ed believes that everyone deserves access to public transit no matter what neighborhood they live in. He’ll work with allies in Harrisburg to secure fairer funding for urban mass transit systems.
Youth

SUPPORTING YOUNG LEADERS

Ed Gainey is committed to lifting up and following the leadership of young Pittsburghers as they struggle toward a more equitable city for us all. That means:

  • Creating an Office of Youth Engagement and Youth Commission: Ed will establish an Office of Youth Engagement to oversee the Mayor’s involvement with youth stakeholders in the region and manage a team of youth liaisons to represent the perspectives of young Pitsburghers in departmental decision making. Ed will also establish a Youth Commission that will collaborate with the City agencies, community organizations, nonprofits, and private entities to improve the lives of Pittsburgh’s youth.
  • Ensuring that young Pittsburghers have a seat – and a voice – at the table: Currently, 126 people on Pittsburgh’s and Allegheny County’s boards and authorities are over 60. Only 17 people are under 30. Ed will ensure that young people are equitably represented on City Commissions, Boards, and Authorities
  • Working in partnership with PPS: Ed will rebuild a positive working relationship between the City and the school district to ensure that student needs are met both in school and in our neighborhoods.