City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2020-0200

• File #: 2020-0200
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 3/9/2020
• In control: Committee on Finance and Law
• On agenda: 3/10/2020
• Final action: 7/14/2020
• Enactment date: 7/14/2020
• Enactment #: 19
• Effective date: 7/20/2020
• Title: Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title One, Administrative, Article Nine, Boards, Commissions and Authorities, to add Chapter 177D: Pittsburgh Commission on Racial Equity, pursuant to the Pittsburgh Home Rule Charter, ?? 102 and 208. (Cablecast Public Hearing held 7/1/20)
• Sponsors: Reverend Ricky V. Burgess, R. Daniel Lavelle

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/20/2020	2	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
7/14/2020	2	City Council	Passed Finally	Pass
7/8/2020	2	Standing Committee	Affirmatively Recommended	Pass
7/1/2020	2	Committee on Hearings	Public Hearing Held
6/10/2020	2	Standing Committee	Held for Cablecast Public Hearing	Pass
6/10/2020	2	Standing Committee	AMENDED BY SUBSTITUTE	Pass
6/10/2020	1		Held for Cablecast Public Hearing
4/6/2020	1	Mayor	Recorded
3/10/2020	1	City Council	Referred for Report and Recommendation

Title
Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title One, Administrative, Article Nine, Boards, Commissions and Authorities, to add Chapter 177D: Pittsburgh Commission on Racial Equity, pursuant to the Pittsburgh Home Rule Charter, ?? 102 and 208.
(Cablecast Public Hearing held 7/1/20)

Body
WHEREAS, Article I, ? 26 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provides that, "Neither the Commonwealth nor any political subdivision thereof shall deny to any person the enjoyment of any civil right, nor discriminate against any person in the exercise of any civil right."; and,

WHEREAS, on December 23, 2019, the Honorable William M. Peduto, Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh, signed into law Resolution Number 843 of 2019, declaring racism a "public health crisis" in the City of Pittsburgh, a Home Rule municipality and political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and,

WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh recognizes the history of racism in our country and how it has led to many current-day disparities in education, health and safety, job attainment, income and wealth, housing and healthcare, disproportionate incarceration rates for people of color and other pernicious systems of injustice. The City further recognizes the existence of white privilege, meaning the systemic advantages that white people have relative to non-white people; and,

WHEREAS, City of Pittsburgh recognizes the need to examine seemingly neutral policies and practices to determine whether they are contributing to racial inequity and, where needed, change or eliminate the policy or practice as the city has a long history of decision and policy making that has resulted in classist and racist outcomes; and,

WHEREAS, the United States Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), through its Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion's ("ODPHP") Healthy People 2020 initiative and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ("CDC") research on the S...