Whatever holidays you celebrate, the conclusion of Hanukkah, Christmas (Dec 25 or Jan 7), Kwanzaa, New Years, or any others, may you and yours be happy and safe! Welcome 2015!
12/24 2014
Month: December 2014
12/22 2014
Do something this holiday season that will make all the difference! Sign up with Snow Angels. It will mean the world to your neighbors.
Snow Angels matches neighbors with neighbors to shovel the walks of those who are unable to do this on their own. Volunteers impact lives in our community by ensuring our more vulnerable neighbors continue to have access to essential services such as home-delivered meals and medications during the harsh winter months.
Allegheny County Snow Angels Program Website
Public Meeting: Joncaire Steps Project
January 15, 2015 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The City of Pittsburgh Department of Public Works (DPW) recently received $384,000 in federal funding through the Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) to demolish and rebuild the Joncaire Street Steps. The steps connect from Panther Hollow to Central Oakland near Schenley Plaza. For years, the steps have been unlit, enclosed by vegetation, and crumbling.Reconstruction will include doubling the current steps’ width, installing new lighting and two bike ramps or ‘runnels’, and making landscaping improvements to the surrounding area.
Oakland Planning and Development Corporation and OTMA will work with DPW to engage the Oakland community and gather input at three points during the design process. The first of these public meetings is Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 6:00 pm in the Oakland Career Center at 294 Semple Street. Join us to discuss the preliminary designs for reconstructing the Joncaire Street Steps.
The Oakcliffe Housing Club (OHC) has changed its name to Oakcliffe Community Organization (OCO) to better reflect the emphasis on community and involvement.
The email address will soon be changed as well.
Get your questions answered and learn about your options under the Affordable Care Act.
Hosted by JobLinks in association with University Of Pittsburgh Dept Of Family.
Tuesday, January 13, Noon.
Career Center, 294 Semple St.
12/18 2014
?Topics include:
- American Eagle Outfitters supports OPDC’s School 2 Career program through education tax credit
- Joncaire Street to benefit from federal grant, community beautification project
- Mellinger Beer Distributor joins Oakland “Good Neighbor” effort
- Oakland landlords organize
- Development updates: Skyvue Apartments, Schenley High School redevelopment, UPMC’s master plan, and former Oakland School
- New stop signs enhance safety in Central Oakland
- Oakland Green Team updates: A new orchard, hundreds of daffodils, and a rain garden
- Oakland property? s?potlight: 241 Meyran Avenue
- Oakland façade grant recipients complete home restoration projects
- West Oakland’s The Corner looks to renovate cafe and performance space through crowdfunding
- Board spotlight: Meet Abass Kamara
- Eye on elected officials: An update from Pennsylvania District 19
- We’re hiring a Financial Coach?
Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh — working in conjunction with the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University — will build joint technology infrastructure that will provide leaders and citizens with data-driven tools to improve the effectiveness of local government.
The Richard King Mellon Foundation has awarded $1.8 million to fund the first 18 months of the effort, supporting three major initiatives.
The city and county will create a Government Solutions Engineering team of data experts to seek ways to spur local government modernization and supply data-driven management tools to government leaders. The team will work on ways to make government more efficient and customer-friendly for residents; standardize data formats; better track public spending via performance-based budgeting; and synthesize data on tax delinquency and code enforcement to better track problem property owners.
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12/17 2014
A few hours late for the start, but…
Pittsburgh City Council introduced dynamic pricing for parking meters in the City to start next year. This measure will set rates according to the economics of supply and demand for areas that have high rates of traffic. Please note that these rates are adjustable and can fluctuate.
In order to address concerns about the negative impact on Downtown businesses, Councilman Lavelle has provided amendments to help alleviate this change. The original version of the ordinance saw nighttime enforcement of parking meters in Downtown extend to 10 pm; however, the District 6 Councilman Dan Lavelle raised questions to eliminate this change and keep enforcement until 6 pm . This measure succeeded in passing, subsequently keeping enforcement until 6 pm. To see a copy of the final language for the ordinance, please click here.
On Monday Pittsburgh and 10 other cities will formally join Cities for Citizenship, an initiative launched by Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago in partnership with Citi, the founding corporate partner, which aims to increase citizenship among eligible U.S. permanent residents to forge more inclusive and economically robust cities.
Leading officials from Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chattanooga, Denver, Milwaukee, Nashville, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. will announce their active participation in this growing initiative at a special event during the National Immigrant Integration Conference (NIIC 2014).
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