The state Department of Community and Economic Development will hold an April 8 public hearing on the City of Pittsburgh's financially distressed status, a spokesman announced yesterday.

No time has been set for the hearing, at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 5 building on the South Side. The department did not know who will attend.

The hearing was necessitated by a Pittsburgh City Council resolution, approved by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, asking for a review on whether the city is ready to emerge from the distressed status it entered under Act 47 in 2003.