Infrastructure Asset Reporting and Investment
On February 1st, 2022 Mayor Ed Gainey and Pittsburgh City Council announced the formation of the Commission on Infrastructure Asset Reporting and Investment. This new commission was established in the wake of the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge and their work is focused on advising the Mayor and City Council on investments, care, and management of City-maintained infrastructure assets.
Purpose
- To provide recommendations to the Mayor and City Council and advise the same on best practices for both short- and long-term investment in the upkeep and improvement of major City-maintained infrastructure assets, such as tunnels, major roadways, infrastructure affected by or at risk of being affected by landslides, etc., including, but not limited to, recommendations for City Code, procurement, future budgets, budgetary obligations and priorities, and departmental policies;
- To identify and report the full scope of investment needed to achieve and maintain a state of good repair of City assets;
- To provide recommendations and review to the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure as it meets the requirements of the Pittsburgh Code at Title One: Administrative, Article III: Organization, Chapter 118: Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, Section 118.03: Infrastructure Asset Reporting;
- To help to assemble existing asset conditions needed to enable the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure to fulfill reporting obligations under the Pittsburgh Code at Title One: Administrative, Article III: Organization, Chapter 118: Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, Section 118.03: Infrastructure Asset Reporting;
- To identify related matters which may impact the mission of the Commission, including, but not limited to, the Transportation Improvement Program, infrastructure funding, labor market conditions, and supply chain conditions; and
- To produce work and recommendations guided and informed by Pittsburgh's Ten Commitments of Racial Equity, as enumerated and codified in City Council Resolution No. 326 of 2020.
Establishing Legislation
Reports
Commission Members
Co-Chairs
- Darin Kelly, Organized Labor
- Patrick Cornell, Office of Management and Budget
Members
- Patrick Cornell, City OMB
- Lisa Frank, Mayor’s Rep
- Joshua Evans, City PLI
- Darryl Jones, City Public Safety
- Erika Strassburger, City Council
- Eric Setzler, City DOMI
- Zachary Workman, City DOMI
- Chris Hornstein, City DPW
- Andrew DeWitt, City Controller’s Office
- Darrin Kelly, Organized Labor
- Tom Melisko, Organized Labor
- Jesse DiRenna, Organized Labor
- April Brouwer, Southwestern Engineering Outreach
- Barata Bey, AA Chamber of Commerce of Western Pennsylvania
- DeWitt Walton, A. Philip Randolph Institute
- Greg Bernarding, Construction Industry
- Andy Waple, At Large
- Sam Miclot, At Large
- Tyler Watts, At-Large
- Michele Miller Beener, At-Large
- Lou Ruzzi; Ad Hoc Commissioner
- Unfilled, National Society of Black Engineers