COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES URBAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE HEARING STATE CAPITOL HARRISBURG, PA 418 MAIN CAPITOL BUILDING MINORITY CAUCUS ROOM TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2018 10:01 A.M. PRESENTATION ON HOUSE BILL 2122 BEFORE: HONORABLE MARK K. KELLER, MAJORITY CHAIRMAN HONORABLE ALEXANDER TESLA CHARLTON HONORABLE MICHAEL N. CORR HONORABLE MATT DOWLING HONORABLE HARRY LEWIS, JR. HONORABLE TOM MURT HONORABLE JASON ORTITAY HONORABLE CHRISTOPHER B. QUINN HONORABLE GREG ROTHMAN HONORABLE CAROLYN COMITTA HONORABLE EMILIO VAZQUEZ 2 1 COMMITTEE STAFF PRESENT: 2 CHRISTINE GOLDBECK, MAJORITY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ASHLEY SHEAFFER, MAJORITY RESEARCH ANALYST 3 KORI WEIKLE, MAJORITY LEGISLATIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT 4 JON CASTELLI, MINORITY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 5 JOHN McDERMOTT, MINORITY LEGLISLATIVE ASSISTANT 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 * * * * * Pennsylvania House of Representatives 25 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 3 1 I N D E X 2 TESTIFIERS 3 * * * 4 NAME PAGE 5 MARK NORDENBERG FORMER CHANCELLOR OF UNIVERSITY OF 6 PITTSBURGH....................................9 7 DAN ONORATO FORMER ALLEGHENY COUNTY EXECUTIVE............12 8 JIM RODDEY 9 FORMER ALLEGHENY COUNTY EXECUTIVE............15 10 RICH FITZGERALD ALLEGHENY COUNTY EXECUTIVE...................17 11 WILLIAM McKAIN 12 ALLEGHENY COUNTY MANAGER.....................22 13 KRIS GAZSI ASSOCIATE COUNSEL OF LGC.....................23 14 RICK VILELLO 15 DEPUTY SECRETARY OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS........29 16 AMY STURGES DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, PENNSYLVANIA 17 MUNICIPAL LEAGUE.............................37 18 MELISSA MORGAN LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY ANALYST, PENNSYLVANIA 19 STATE ASSOCIATION OF TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS....44 20 21 SUBMITTED WRITTEN TESTIMONY * * * 22 (See submitted written testimony and handouts online.) 23 24 * * * * * * Summer A. Miller, Court Reporter 25
[email protected] 4 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 * * * 3 MAJORITY CHAIRMAN KELLER: It's 10:01 and I'm 4 kind of a stickler for starting on time, so at ten o'clock 5 we're to get started.