Pittsburgh City Council

==Background==
Pittsburgh City Council has been written off by some as increasingly irrelevant.
== ==
* Planks about City Council from Mark Rauterkus
==Hardest Working Legislature in Pennsylvania==
City Council must meet 50-times each year. Doug Shields, Councilmember, calls City Council the hardest working legislature in Pennsylvania.
Perhaps it is time for them to "Lay the Shovel Down."
===City Council Budget===
* The ICA board, in September and October 2005 letters, wrote that city council should make significant efforts to trim costs and stay within planned budgets.
* Council was late in generating a plan to reduce its own spending. And the plan to reduce the spending of $100,000 was done with phantom funds from 2001, 2002 and 2003. Council's acts were diametrically opposed to the spirit of the approved budget plan.
: * In January 2005, Bill 2004-0936 applys unspend funds from 2004.
: * Council's proposed plan finds imaginary funds that are not actually available from earlier years. Even if the funds were available, the plan contradicts everything the city must do to become financially stable.
* City Council changes its spending rules in June, 2006.
==Pittsburgh's City Council has nine districts==
As of 2006, there were nine districts. 
* Pgh City Council district 1
*
==Links==
* Allegheny County Council