April Newsletter

Welcome to April’s newsletter, and May the 4th be with you! Hope you’re all enjoying the (slightly) warmer weather and have had the opportunity to get outside some more this past month. After our successful passage of our ICE non-cooperation legislation last month, County Council kept the momentum rolling by passing my term limits legislation this month. The next big battle that I’ll be tackling is fixing Allegheny County’s broken reassessment system. Feel free to send this newsletter to anyone else you think would benefit from it, and click "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the page if you were subscribed by mistake.

Allegheny County Term Limits (13808-26) - My effort to place a three-term limit for Allegheny County Council and the County row offices, matching that of the County Executive, passed by a vote of 10-4. Because this is an amendment to the county charter, now that the bill has passed, you will see three questions on the ballot in the November election. The first will be whether to close the loophole for the County Executive and allow three total terms, rather than three consecutive; the second will be whether to institute a three-term limit on County Council; and the third will be whether to institute a three-term limit on the County row offices.

Countywide Reassessment Public Hearings (13922-26) - This motion creates four public hearings for discussing countywide reassessments so that we can gather your input. Hearings will be 5/6 at CCAC South, 6/3 at CCAC Boyce, 6/16 at CCAC West Hills, and 7/1 at CCAC North (all at 5:30 pm). We also plan to have a fifth hearing in July in Council chambers. If you’d like to come to any of these meetings and provide public comment, you can sign up to do so HERE.

I had the privilege of attending Day 1 of the NFL earlier this month. I had some apprehension on how everything would go, but the event ran incredibly smoothly, despite setting a single-day attendance record of 320,000 for Day 1 and a total attendance record of 805,000. Fears about traffic were unrealized, and Pittsburgh Regional Transit did a fantastic job transporting that many people. It goes to show you what a fully-funded public transit agency can accomplish (I’m looking at you, State Senate). I hope all of you went down to experience the event had a wonderful time!

Mt. Lebanon’s Earth Day celebration was incredible, as always! The clothing swap was an especially big hit and such an excellent idea. It was great to see Representative Mazzocco there supporting the event as well!

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