PITTSBURGH -- The One Hill Coalition was at Monday's Sports and Exhibition Authority meeting, calling for support of the new community benefits agreement as part of the Penguins arena plan in the Hill District.

One Hill, once bouncing with encouragement, believing it was establishing a partnership to make the Hill District part of the master plan for the new hockey arena, was anything but on Monday. The group said it feels like the city and county are sending token representation to meetings and therefore keeping the process stuck in neutral.

"We're being toyed with," said Carl Redwood of the OHC. "People come to meetings but not in a serious manner, and nothing is connected to the citizens in the Hill District community."

"When I send representatives, my chief of staff, that's like me talking," said Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato. "I'm not sending some interns. I'm sending chiefs of staffs."

"To say we're not getting things done is not fair," said Mayor Luke Ravenstahl. "We've been meeting, and we will continue to meet, and hopefully we'll see more progress."

One Hill said the one entity that will have a loud voice in the master plan is the one group consistently absent from meetings.

"We made some progress, but we need to have the Penguins at the table if we're going to make this work," said Redwood.

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