Pittsburgh City Council members – many dissatisfied with the return on investment so far from a multimillion-dollar comprehensive plan – voted this week to cancel those contracts in an attempt to reclaim whatever remains of the initial $6 million deal.
But outgoing Mayor Ed Gainey has said council doesn’t have the authority to force him to terminate the contracts, and he won’t abide by the legislation.
“A majority of council – from very different parts of the city, from very different ideologies – all agree that this process is not working, has not been valuable, is not creating an output that we want to support,” Councilman Bob Charland said ahead of the Monday vote. “For something that’s supposed to be driving where the city goes until 2050, a majority of council members say the directions are bad.”…