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Primary record · Board meeting minutes, coded into a derived dataset

Pittsburgh Water board resolutions and votes, Oct 2023 to Sep 2025

Every resolution the Pittsburgh Water board voted on in 24 meetings, coded from its minutes: 228 votes, 223 unanimous, none opposed, $871.25M authorized.

Source files

  • meetings.csv
    Meeting-level coding, 24 meetings · CSV · 2.0 KB    DownloadSHA-256 b309ee0901a3aa1f65f9471c3f36c23b2ad3f012cb985101a3ba06cea28bfc6d
  • questions_by_resolution.csv
    Board questions by resolution and member, 72 resolutions · CSV · 2.8 KB    DownloadSHA-256 fa3a5b3087717cef4ef0436d8965e8255a3266200eb2800bc35c25110b2273f0
  • questions_by_member.csv
    Board questions by member · CSV · 379 B    DownloadSHA-256 0aa808aa16e7b57f7e18d249b180bae643395b1ddd8b06fc8c08062f6255d89e
  • headline_figures.csv
    Headline figures and the file each one is computed from · CSV · 668 B    DownloadSHA-256 9f86ea6dcebc713871bfe011554868e6caa014eaa7417ae4c698019619d3d762
  • Pittsburgh-Water-Deliberation-Record.xlsx
    All tables in one workbook · XLSX · 16.9 KB    DownloadSHA-256 1790f04a3dd35dc8266faab81a1fc32641a2d843ce2092d07169697fe51b9670
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Provenance

Agency
Pittsburgh Water (Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority)
Covers
October 27, 2023 to September 26, 2025
Obtained
How obtained
Derived from public records
License
Source minutes are public records. The derived data is licensed CC BY 4.0.

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What this record is

The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority's board held 24 regular meetings between October 27, 2023 and September 26, 2025, and its own minutes record 228 resolutions put to a vote. This dataset codes each meeting from those minutes: how many resolutions came up, how many passed unanimously, who abstained, how many questions board members asked and about which resolutions, how much money the board authorized, and how many residents spoke.

What it shows

  • 228 resolutions voted on across 24 regular board meetings, October 27, 2023 through September 26, 2025.
  • 223 passed unanimously. The other 5 carried an abstention, each one the chair recusing himself for a conflict of interest. No resolution drew a no vote.
  • $871.25 million authorized across the 24 meetings, summed from the dollar amounts in the minutes.
  • 72 of the 228 resolutions drew at least one recorded question from a board member; 156 passed with none.
  • 10 members of the public spoke in the two years, at 5 of the 24 meetings.

What it does not show

  • What was said in executive session, in committee, or between members and staff before a meeting. The minutes record only the public meeting.
  • Why any member voted the way they did.
  • Whether any expenditure was sound. The dollar column is what the board authorized, not an audit of how the money was spent.
  • Meetings after September 26, 2025, including the first meeting after the baseline story ran, at which the board asked 40 questions.
  • A verbatim transcript. Minutes are the authority's own summary of each meeting, and the question counts can only be as complete as that summary.

Preview: meetings.csv

Meeting-level coding, 24 meetings (24 rows)
meeting_nomeeting_datetotal_resolutionsunanimousvoice_votesabstentionssplit_votesquestions_askeddollars_millionspublic_speakersnotable_items
12023-10-271211010776.580Jamil Bey first meeting; AMWA Equity Award
22023-11-171616000517.5802024 budget approved; Strassburger recognized
32023-12-151616000334.2902024-2028 Capital Plan ($1.8B); LSLR contracts
42024-01-262200005.260Zero questions; shortest minutes
52024-02-231010000120.420Election of officers; VP Harris visited
62024-03-227700075.340$10k DEP fine for chlorine spill
72024-04-261111000831.5609th consecutive clean audit; catch basin contracts
82024-05-241010000460.080Major capital contracts; PENNVEST funding
92024-06-2866000710.800EPA terminated MS4 order; AWWA recognition
102024-07-262200065.182Jim Martin final meeting; $15.2M largest grant ever
112024-08-234400034.190Lowest engagement; DEP consent decree
122024-09-277601048.661Federal probation ended; Sciulli abstained Res 58
132024-10-25970201128.790Gold Award; rebrand; Sciulli abstained Res 65 & 66
142024-11-22880001013.640Sedimentation basin design; ABC Project bid
152024-12-20111100079.920Moody's upgrade A3 to A2; 2025 budget approved
162025-01-2477000546.940$150M line of credit (excluded); Kate Mechler promoted
172025-02-281616000933.221Election of officers
182025-03-2810100005113.180Water main replacement; ABC Project CM/CI
192025-04-2517170003245.381ABC Project construction ($193.22M); 10th audit
202025-05-235500017.045Controversy; 5 speakers on Four Mile Run
212025-06-271010000518.140CEO 5-year anniversary; ABC design change
222025-07-251212000546.540Assets transfer; $456M PENNVEST; $29M debt
232025-08-221312010813.540DEP closed orders; Sciulli abstained Res 80
242025-09-2677000714.980PENNVEST application; hydraulic valve program

Preview: questions_by_resolution.csv

Board questions by resolution and member, 72 resolutions (first 50 of 72 rows)
resolutionyearsciullidomachleberstrassburgermartinmccormick_barronmurrellbeytotal
No. 57 of 20232023000000101
No. 60 of 20232023100000001
No. 62 of 20232023000201003
No. 63 of 20232023000100001
No. 65 of 20232023100000001
No. 67 of 20232023000000101
No. 76 of 20232023000000101
No. 80 of 20232023020000002
No. 82 of 20232023000010001
No. 87 of 20232023000000101
No. 91 of 20232023000010001
No. 95 of 20232023000000101
No. 97 of 20232023000010001
No. 7 of 20242024000000101
No. 15 of 20242024100000001
No. 24 of 20242024010000001
No. 28 of 20242024100000001
No. 29 of 20242024001000001
No. 30 of 20242024100000001
No. 33 of 20242024100000001
No. 34 of 20242024111000003
No. 39 of 20242024100010002
No. 42 of 20242024100000001
No. 43 of 20242024000010001
No. 45 of 20242024100000001
No. 46 of 20242024001000001
No. 47 of 20242024010000001
No. 48 of 20242024000000011
No. 49 of 20242024100000001
No. 51 of 20242024010000001
No. 55 of 20242024100000001
No. 56 of 20242024100000001
No. 57 of 20242024100000001
No. 61 of 20242024120000003
No. 62 of 20242024200000002
No. 63 of 20242024000001001
No. 65 of 20242024000001001
No. 66 of 20242024100000001
No. 68 of 20242024001000001
No. 70 of 20242024100000001
No. 72 of 20242024010000001
No. 74 of 20242024420000006
No. 80 of 20242024100000001
No. 82 of 20242024120000003
No. 83 of 20242024000100001
No. 84 of 20242024010000001
No. 3 of 20252025100000001
No. 5 of 20252025010000001
No. 9 of 20252025100000001
No. 14 of 20252025010000001

How the coding works

The unit is the single resolution, and the source for every figure is the minutes Pittsburgh Water posts on its own website. Each meeting was coded on four variables: the vote outcome (unanimous, split, or carrying an abstention, with the abstaining member named), the questions each board member asked and which resolution each question concerned, whether recorded discussion changed any decision, and the number of residents who spoke.

Questions are counted two ways, and the two numbers are both correct. Counted per meeting, members asked 131 questions over the 24 meetings. Counted against a specific resolution, 96 questions attach to one. The difference is questions the minutes record without tying them to an item on the agenda.

The unanimity rate excludes the five abstentions from its denominator, because each was the chair stepping aside on a conflict of interest rather than a member breaking from the board. Counted that way, the rate is 223 of 223.

The full codebook, the reconciliation of three places where the source data disagrees with itself, and a script that re-derives every figure from the files above are in the evidence repository.

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Plain

Hesitation Media. "Pittsburgh Water board resolutions and votes, Oct 2023 to Sep 2025." Record obtained 2026-07-14. https://hesitation.media/records/pittsburgh-water-board-resolutions-2023-2025/. SHA-256: b309ee0901a3…

APA

Hesitation Media. (2026). Pittsburgh Water board resolutions and votes, Oct 2023 to Sep 2025 [Data set]. Pittsburgh Water (Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority). https://hesitation.media/records/pittsburgh-water-board-resolutions-2023-2025/

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