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File #: 2026-1083    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: To Be Presented
File created: 10/30/2026 In control: Committee on Hearings and Policy
On agenda: 11/2/2026 Final action:
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Title: Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title Two, Fiscal, Article One, Administration, Chapter 219, Operating Budget, Section § 219.08, Legal Requirements in Preparation of Operating Budget, by requiring final passage and transmittal of the annual operating and capital budgets to the mayor for approval or disapproval by no later than December 20 of each year.
Sponsors: R. Daniel Lavelle
Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 01 - ADMINISTRATIVE
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Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title Two, Fiscal, Article One, Administration, Chapter 219, Operating Budget, Section § 219.08, Legal Requirements in Preparation of Operating Budget, by requiring final passage and transmittal of the annual operating and capital budgets to the mayor for approval or disapproval by no later than December 20 of each year.

 

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The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:

 

Section 1.                     The Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title Two, Fiscal, Article One, Administration, Chapter 219, Operating Budget, Section § 219.08, Legal Requirements in Preparation of Operating Budget, is hereby amended and supplemented as follows:

 

§ 219.08 LEGAL REQUIREMENTS IN PREPARATION OF OPERATING BUDGET.

 

(a)                     The operating budget, as prepared and submitted by the Mayor pursuant to Chapters 504 and 505 of the Home Rule Charter, shall not contain any revenue sources that are not legal.

(b)                     The operating budget, as prepared and submitted by the Mayor pursuant to Chapters 504 and 505 of the Home Rule Charter, shall comply with all applicable union collective bargaining agreements at the time of submission to City Council.

 

(c)                     The above requirements shall not preclude the City of Pittsburgh from attempting to implement new revenues, nor updates to collective bargaining agreements after the second Monday of the eleventh month of the fiscal year.

 

(d)                     The operating budget, as prepared and submitted by the Mayor pursuant to Chapters 504 and 505 of the Home Rule Charter, shall not contain any expenditure uses that are not legal.

 

(e)                     The operating budget, as prepared and submitted by the Mayor pursuant to Chapters 504 and 505 of the Home Rule Charter, shall comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, and the Home Rule Charter at the time of submission to City Council.

 

(f)                     Notwithstanding any contrary provision in this Code of Ordinances, or any promulgated City regulation, to ensure the timely adoption of the annual operating and capital budgets and the capital improvement plan, Council shall take all necessary actions to ensure it passes finally an annual operating budget, capital budget and capital improvement plan by no later than December 20 of each year and ensure that the same are immediately transmitted to the Mayor for approval or disapproval.