• DHS and ACHD collaborated to launch the county’s Community Violence Reduction Initiative. This program provides a range of services with names such as Cure Violence, Becoming A Man, and Rapid Employment and Development Initiative, and operates in highly impacted communities, including the City of Pittsburgh, Sto-Rox, Penn Hills, Wilkinsburg, Woodland Hills and the Mon Valley. • DHS also worked to keep unhoused persons safe throughout the winter months, employing targeted street outreach, increased shelter capacity, expanded operating hours for the Unity Recovery Drop-In Center and activation of Code Blue during severe weather events, all while continuing to develop longer-term strategies to assist persons in need of housing solutions. • Allegheny County Emergency Services contracted for a new countywide public safety radio system that will enhance radio communications with state-of-the-art technology. Once completed, this project will represent the first time the county will have a true countywide, fully interoperable radio coverage, to make our residents safer, and the public safety agencies that rely on our technology more efficient. • Three of our departments – Police, Medical Examiner and Information Technology – collaborated during 2023 to produce an online portal for victims of sex assault. This portal enables victims to easily obtain information about the status of their case information. • In support of the City of Pittsburgh’s need to enhance police presence in the downtown area, the Allegheny County Police provided uniformed patrol officers for a one-month period in 2023. Meant to be a stop-gap measure while the city recruited and reassigned city police officers, ACP officers patrolled downtown in coordination with Pittsburgh Bureau of Police and the Port Authority Police. • The Office of the Public Defender, during only four months since launching Project Rehabilitate, assisted 591 clients with nearly 2000 outstanding cases. Through this program, OPD attorneys address clients’ legal matters while they receive treatment for substance use disorders. Absent this program, these county residents’ legal issues would have compounded during their attempts to get their lives back on track. • Our Parks Department continued to see excellent growth in the use of our parks system in 2023. The North and South Park golf courses instituted a tee-time reservation system and saw a combined 20% increase in admissions compared to 2022. Parks also offered more programs and saw more program participation in 2023, now having rebounded to beyond pre-pandemic levels. • Several exciting Parks capital projects are also featured in this report, including renovations to the Boyce Park tennis and pickleball complex. This facility now features six pickleball courts, two tennis courts and two hybrid pickleball-tennis courts. • Public Works completed the rehabilitation of the Roberto Clemente Bridge, the third and final installment of the Sister Bridges project. As part of the final touch on this project, an enhanced lighting system was added to all three bridges in 2023, which premiered on Light Up Night with an artist-commissioned light show.
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