MAYOR ANNOUNCES SOLAR INSTALLATION PLANNED
FOR CITY FIREHOUSE

Solar America City Grant Paves the Way to Promote and Encourage
Use of Solar in the City

(PITTSBURGH) January 26, 2009 - Mayor Luke Ravenstahl announced this morning during the City's first Solar America Cities Training Workshop that the City is aggressively pursuing installing a solar hot water unit in one of the City's firehouses. The announcement came during opening remarks at the workshop, held at the IBEW on the Southside, which will educate and prepare City employees and representatives from universities, businesses and non-profits on the up-and-coming use of solar energy in City facilities and neighborhoods.

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MAYOR ANNOUNCES BOLD PLAN TO GENERATE PENSION FUNDS

Proposes leasing City parking garages; money generated to be
infused into under-funded pension system

(PITTSBURGH) January 15, 2009 - Mayor Luke Ravenstahl today called on the Pittsburgh Parking Authority (PPA) to conduct a feasibility study on the revenue that would be generated from leasing the authority's 11 parking garages. Such revenue, the Mayor explained, would be infused into the City's 36% funded pension system.

"We've done everything we can to right the pension ship, but right now bold ideas are needed to ensure that future pension liabilities don't take away from critical public safety and core services down the road." Ravenstahl said.

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Charts Displayed in the Press Conference