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Some ABC’s of the School Budget
On the heels of a Citywide referendum that approved a tax hike for libraries (1/4 of a mill) and the 1 mill increase by County Council Tuesday night, residents of the Pittsburgh Public School District...
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PAT Retiree and Employee Concessions Are Critical
Right on cue, the Port Authority has rolled out the latest doomsday scenario of service cuts and layoffs. No doubt the huge projected budget shortfall, if unaddressed, will require enormous cutbacks....
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Solving PAT’s Financial Woes: State Problem or Local Issue?
The ongoing saga of the financial morass at the Port Authority (PAT) has developed an interesting twist. Governor Corbett, through a spokesperson, has responded to PAT’s entreaties for a hefty boost...
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A Funding Proposal to Alleviate PAT’s Financial Woes
By now it should be common knowledge that the source of the Port Authority’s (PAT) financial problems stem from decades of labor contracts containing excessively generous pay and benefits-especially...
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County Exec Vows to Fix the Port Authority
Allegheny County’s Chief Executive told the Tribune Review that changes are coming for the Port Authority (PAT), either within the existing structure or in a new structure-no indication has been...
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Golden State Municipality Hopes Chapter 9 Brightens Future
Stockton, CA has a population of just over 291,000 people, making it slightly smaller than Pittsburgh. Located in the central part of the state, the city has just filed for Chapter 9 municipal...
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No Big Surprises in City Budget
An annual growth rate of about 3% per year in expenditures; no increases to existing taxes and no real proposals for new types; still wrestling with legacy costs such as debt, pensions,...
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Could Pittsburgh Shed Act 47 Status?
Close to five years ago the City of Pittsburgh asked the state to remove it from Act 47 distressed status. At that point the City had been in Act 47 for just under four years. If the request was...
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Act 47 Team: Pittsburgh “Completed” 64% of Initiatives
If an exam with 132 questions was administered at any of the schools in western Pennsylvania and the student correctly answered 85 of those questions, the resulting percentage would be a 64%. On most...
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Benchmarking Pittsburgh
City of Pittsburgh, know thyself. So goes the Socratic admonition. Here’s some information to help in the self-knowledge. In order to see how the City performs on various measures of local...
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