Faced with a $30 million to $40 million shortfall, Mayor Corey O’Connor petitioned the Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday to reopen the budget and outlined millions of dollars of cuts.
Two weeks ago, the O’Connor administration said it took a look under the hood and didn’t like what it saw. Despite new tax revenue from a 20 percent tax increase, the city still faced a shortfall and was on the hook for things not budgeted.
“Health care costs are increasing at high rates, gasoline costs going up, water rates going up, things that we should have known were in the budget and weren’t in there,” said Dan Gilman, O’Connor’s chief of staff…