For the fifth year in a row, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald kicked off the African American Chamber of Commerce’s PowerBreakfast season as the year’s first speaker.
Chamber President and CEO Doris Carson Williams said that is because he has delivered.
“He’s doing a tremendous job on diversity with 30 percent of his appointees being African Americans,” she said. “But more importantly, you can call him. And when you do, he gets the message and he follows through.”
Fitzgerald told the command-performance crowd he is excited starting his second term by the optimism he sees, especially from young people—who are no longer leaving in droves to build lives and careers where there are greater opportunities.
Those opportunities are here, now, and young people are staying or moving in to take advantage of them, he said, as evidenced by the drop in the county’s median age to 41. Less than a decade ago it rivaled Dade County, Fla. as the oldest in the country.
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