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- Good evening everyone.
Welcome to the Beon Borough Council Business meeting.
Would you join me please? With the Pledge of Allegiance?
- I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which stands?
One Nation under God, individual with liberty
and justice for all.
- Ms. Clayton, could we have a Roll Call? Vote please.
- Mr. Bernier? Here. Mr. Brachbill? Here.
- Okay. - Ms. Clayton? Here. Ms. Dann. Here.
Mr. Johnson? Present. Ms. McKean? Here. Okay. Ms.
Purnell? Here. Ms. Sedgwick? Here. Ms. TostiVasey? I'm here.
Ms. Meley Here. And Mayor Johnson. Here. Thank you.
- Thank you. Additions
to the council meeting agenda under Act 65 of 2021.
If a matter is not on the agenda,
counsel may not take official action on it.
With the following exceptions,
counsel can act on matters relating to potential
or real emergencies.
Counsel may add a matter of agency business to its agenda
through a majority vote.
The council must state why the action item is being
added to the agenda.
Council may vote to add an action item to the agenda.
Are there any additions?
Public Comment. Borough Council intends
to take Public Comment related to the motion
that is on the floor
after it has been duly made and seconded.
The order of comments will be Public Comment
and then council comment, including proposed amendments
by council members.
If amendments are proposed to the original motion,
the public will then only comment on the amendments
before the final votes are taken.
You must be a Beante resident, a nonprofit representative,
a business owner, or an official representative
of another governmental agency.
Speakers shall identify themselves by name
and street municipality if outside the Borough of Beante
comments are limited to three minutes.
Counsel was in executive session tonight from six 30
to seven 30, and we were discussing personnel issues
under communications.
Beon EMS is holding their seventh annual joint meeting
invitation for at 7:00 PM on Wednesday,
July 30th, 2025.
The meeting will be held at Bellon
EMS 360 9 Phoenix Avenue in Bellmont, please.
RSVP to Scott Wrote by Monday, July 28th,
no counsel action is needed.
The legal de descrip, excuse me, the legal de descrip
description of the Lot Edition portions of Dunlap Street,
owned by the Borough of Beon to be transferred
to Beon Water Associates, waterfront Associates, number one,
and number two, LLC, Beante Waterfront.
Could I have a motion and a second
to approve the legal description as stated?
- So moved. Second Brachbill. Bill.
- Thank you. Is there any discussion?
Could we have a Roll Call? Vote please.
- Mr. Bernier? Yes. Mr. Brachbill? Yes. Ms. Clayton? Yes.
Ms. Dann? Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. McKean? Yes. Ms.
Purnell? Yes. Ms. Sedgwick? Yes. Ms. TostiVasey? Yes.
Thank you.
- Consent Agenda. All items listed on the Consent Agenda are
considered routine and will be acted
upon by a single motion.
There will be no separate discussion of these items
unless members of the council request specific items
to be removed for separate action.
Could I have a motion and a second
to approve the Consent Agenda, please?
- I'll make the motion Brachbill
- Bill.
Thank you, Andy.
- One second. - Thank you. Shawna.
Under reports. Mr. Mayor, you wanna vote on that? Oh, yes.
We do wanna vote on that. I'm sorry.
- Can we have a Roll Call - Note please?
- Mr. Bernier? Yes. Mr. Brachbill? Yes. Ms. Clayton? Yes.
Ms. Dann? Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. McKean? Yes. Ms.
Purnell? Yes. Ms. Sedgwick? Yes. Ms.
TostiVasey? Yes. Thank you.
- Thank you. Mr. Mayor, would you like
to have your report now?
- Yeah. I, I just simply want to thank Pat McCool
and everybody who had a hand in the Bellon cruise.
I know the weather did not cooperate this year
as they would've liked,
but despite of the weather, it was still a,
a first class event.
And we are all very thankful for all the time
and effort that they put in to make it such a great event.
So thank you to anybody
who had a hand in making the crew successful.
- Thank you. The police report is in your packet.
Chief Whitmer, did you have anything to add to that tonight?
- No, I didn't have anything new to add. As you could see.
Hopefully everyone had a chance to review it again.
We're quite busy. We had a lot of special events
that went on as well.
We attended. So, anyone have any questions
for me? Thank you.
- I have one quick question. Sure.
I'm gonna put you on the spot here. Okay.
If there's a non-emergency call that needs to be directed
to the police, what, do you know what that number is?
- Yes.
1-800-479-ZERO 0 5 0.
- Thank you. - Thanks, chief.
Your par the parking report was in your packet, the Office
of Community Affairs with Gina.
Can we have a motion and a second
to conditionally approve the preliminary final Belfont
Waterfront Land development plans
that are contingent on the list of four things below that.
- So - Thank you. Can we have a second please?
- I'll second rec - Bill discussion.
Dana, do you wanna add anything to that, please?
- I don't really have anything to add to the motion itself,
but just wanted to let Borough counsel know that Mr.
Sep and Mr. Song are,
are here if you have any questions about the plans
themselves or myself.
Of course. And I also wanted to say thank you to
John Sep and Tom Songer for their hard work
and also to the Planning commission for their hard work
and the Historic Architectural Review Board
for their hard work on reviewing these plans, modifying 'em,
discussing, going back and forth.
It's been a long process, as you know,
it is a conditional approval.
There are a couple of things that are still outstanding,
but those are pretty straightforward
for land development plans.
So there's no overarching issues there.
And I don't know if Mr. Songer or Mr.
Sep have wanna speak or have anything to add, so,
- No, - I I did share
the vision statement with them in the
packet so they have that. Oh,
- Okay.
- Well, I hope you had an oppor. My name's Tom Songer.
Mark Mark Morath
and I have been working on this project, as you know,
for many years, and we think we're very close
to getting this thing launched this year.
It's been challenging project in many ways,
but we think that the project we have
before you tonight is really a very good project
for Beon Barrow.
And we've done a lot of improvements to the project
through the COVID period
and subsequent to COVID to improve the project.
So the vision statement that I hope you've had a chance
to read, we haven't changed the real vision
of the project in that we're gonna build a 93 room
boutique hotel, be national brand.
It'll have a farm to table restaurant in the hotel,
and also have a rooftop experience, which
that is something major that we've added
since you last saw the land development plan.
And that rooftop experience will seat approximately 75
people indoors, 75 people outdoors.
And we think that's gonna be the will,
the real wow factor for the project.
When you're sitting up on the sixth floor of the hotel,
you'll be able to see, have a panoramic view
of all be front.
You might recall initially we had three buildings on the
site, the hotel, a parking garage
with commercial on the first floor.
And we also had a third building
that was gonna be commercial on the first floor.
And then condominiums, we value engineered the project
because parking garages are so expensive to build
that we decided to combine
the two buildings into one building.
So we're gonna have, I don't know if Gina,
can you bring up the, the digital printer,
the illustration of the whole site?
Yes. Just so we're gonna have
the hotel, really, the footprint
of the hotel hasn't changed.
We're still gonna have a promenade between the,
between Spring Creek and the hotel and the parking garage.
It's gonna be a brick paved gathering space for citizens,
people just to walk,
or there'll be outdoor seating on the first floor too,
for the, for the hotel.
It's not planned at this time
to have any large meeting rooms on the second level,
which we had planned before, because there's many places in
and around Beon, there we go,
that can provide
and are providing space for meetings and so forth.
So we took the second level
and we converted that all to hotel rooms
because there we go.
So the building on the right there,
that's the hotel you'll see the, the promenade,
the brick promenade I just spoke about next to Spring Creek.
We also have a brick sidewalk in front
of the parking garage in,
in hotel going down towards the gamble mill.
This plan also shows about 90 surface parking spaces,
260 parking spaces
in the parking garage, 265.
And that'll be on really three levels of parking,
but mostly on levels two and three.
There'll be parking on the ramp going up
into the parking garage.
We're gonna have the latest technology in terms
of paying for parking.
That will include scanning your license plate.
So you scan your license plate going in, scan it going out,
computer computes what you owe,
and you can pay it, you know, via a credit card.
We'll probably still have a ticket
opportunity also if you wanna take a ticket
and pay it a kiosk.
But back to the, the, the hotel, as they said,
we'll have a farm to table restaurant on the first floor
that will seat about a hundred people.
There'll also be outdoor seating on the promenade right
outside the hotel with a, with a roof over
that area.
Then continuing on to the parking garage.
The parking garage will be built at the same
time as the hotel.
You gotta build the two together.
They'll open at the same time.
And once we start the project
and start building the project,
we will be marketing the condominium units.
We're, we're already sort of marketing that.
And I have a lot of interest in the condominium units,
but we won't be selling any condo units
until we actually start the project.
But once we start the project, we'll be meeting
with pro prospects
who are interested in buying a condominium unit.
There'll be 48 condominium units, two and three bedrooms
and 16 on each floor, floors four, five, and six.
And there'll become an open space on four six of the con
of the condominiums.
The
- 30 more seconds.
- The unique thing about this project is
- 30 seconds.
- What's that? 30 more - Seconds to wrap it up.
- Oh, okay. Sorry.
So the unique thing about this is anyone's interested in
building condominium.
It'll be a custom design
for your interior, interior finishes.
You get to pick your cabinetry, your flooring,
your lighting, and so forth.
So anyway, we're very excited about the project
and we're looking forward, as I said,
to getting it started this, this fall.
All right. Anybody have any questions for me?
- Thank you, sir, very much. - Okay. Thank you.
- Thank - You. Does anybody else have questions
or discussion before we vote?
Can we have a Roll Call vote please. Deb?
- Mr. Bernier? Yes. Mr. Brachbill? Yes. Ms. Clayton? Yes.
Ms. Dann? Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. McKean? Yes. Ms.
Purnell? Yes. Ms. Sedgwick? Yes. Ms. TostiVasey? Yes.
Thank you.
- We also have a report from our interim Borough manager,
Don Holderman, do you have anything you wanna add?
- Not not add, but just for the public Madam President.
I just wanted to mention that we did sign the documents
today for the bid documents for the traffic light
that will go up at Zion Road and Parkview Boulevard.
It will be advertised for four weeks in the next week or so,
and then bid opening will be August 4th.
- Thank you. Committee reports
Environmental and Parks Committee, Ms.
TostiVasey,
- The, the, we met
with the Tran Park Committee on Wednesday, May 28th
to do a walkthrough of Tran Park.
That walkthrough, we made a, a list of issues that need
to be addressed over the summer that are public works, will
be doing most of the work.
This includes some tree trimming
and clearing of brush under some trees.
In addition, we noticed issues with the de deterioration
of the bottoms of the columns at the pergola,
and we all agreed that fencing behind the pergola needs
to be repaired.
The committee, both committees thought the idea
of a wrought iron replacement for the wooden fence
behind the Perla would be nicer in terms
of durability and looks.
And in addition, we discussed the possibility
of adding an a DA lookout over Spring Creek
from that viewpoint.
That might be very nice, but that's somewhere down the road.
Then on Thursday, June 12th,
the parks committee met at Governor's Park
to do a similar walkthrough.
We found over seven to eight dead trees that are over 70
to 80 feet tall that need
to be removed along with their stumps.
Our public works crew, thank you, has already done a lot
of cleanup within the park from the la
that large storm we had in May.
They're still working on this.
And Julie said that when they get some time,
they will also be removing many of the stumps that were left
behind when the, they took care of the trees
that had fallen down during the storm.
In addition, we looked at the revised batting cage proposal
that is on our agenda this evening under old business.
The, the design we approved at the last meeting
was a completely surrounded the batting cage with a fence
that stood about five feet outside of the cage area.
The base golf group afterwards came back to us
and decided they thought it would look better
and be more protected.
If instead they placed hardy board on the outside
of the batting cage, leaving the netting open at the top.
We did ask if this would work
with in the evenings when the sun goes down,
and we were told that the state that the cage has plenty
of interior lighting that will work with this new design.
The committee is recommending approval
of this change when we get to old business
And that yes.
And that what you see on the screen is the new design
that on the bottom left was sort
of like a barn door crossing.
That's where the lock gate will be
to get into the batting cage.
- Thank you. We'll look at all those in detail when,
when we come up to vote on that too.
Finance administration committees. Ms. Clayton.
- Yes. We met earlier this evening
to begin preliminary discussions about the search
that we're doing for a new Borough manager.
The committee will meet again tomorrow evening,
the 17th at five 30 in the Oak Room.
- Thank you Mr. Brachbill.
Infrastructure and Public Works Committee.
- Okay, I I've revised this.
6, 7, 20 25 Dr. Lee out in March, April, may, June.
Myself was the chairperson.
Doug Johnson Sedgwick Committee,
the Borough Building 3 0 1
Spring Street in East Lamb Street.
The committee made a request to Matt Almond in March 20.5
to have brighter light in the front steps
of the North Spring Street
and every entry door of East Lamb Street.
Additionally, in April, the committee
requested two additional handicap parking
stall back to back on East Lamp Street location.
Do this issue at the time.
In April, the committee will remove the additional request
for a crosswalk from the police department parking area to
the street parking on the sidewalk Deep land
of North Spring Street.
Additional prudence needed
the fire doors in the council chambers
on the left and right side.
Be and ingress will require additional improvements
to the operations.
Performance was only maybe one both stick.
Hit your mic. Brandy, would you
- Do that?
I'm not gonna start over. Doors also
require exit signs on both doors for the en entry
and the from the hallway to the to enter Council chambers.
Meeting signage.
Meeting signage is required daily
to provide directions to the meeting rooms.
Additional signage for wheelchair and accessibility,
and follow up on getting a fire plan.
Exit plan, emergency exits need to be examined monthly.
Reconfigured the council re reconfiguration
of the council's meeting table set up with power
to all computers and improvements with new sound system and,
and acoustics will hopefully improve what we have tonight.
Wheelchair accessibility entrances to
and follow up on getting fire exit signs
posted in each room.
Check status on replacing police department signage
and move municipal building to the old Armory,
which is this building.
My summaries are discussed.
Discussed assessment and trans transition.
Plan the need for an assessment
and transition plan for a DA under the public entity.
Guidelines. The need
to discuss whether the assessment should be handled
by one person or one or a group.
Inventory of assets and maintenance schedules.
Improving accessibilities in buildings.
AC assess the transition plans for a DA in the building.
Prioritize certain areas of for improvements such
as parking spaces and public access points.
That's gonna be a difficult one.
And committee's role in a DA compliance,
managing accessibility issues and compliances.
But a DA committees should is focus on
specific problems, recommendations from residents
before they become complaints.
Review sections of the plan as they are completed
and feedback will be provided.
Accessibility and safety on Building exits.
Committee to discuss accessibility
and safety on the Building Exits Signage Committee.
A agreement on the need for, for clear plastic signage
and operational doors to ensure safe access.
Andres and review current signage
to be placed on the meeting room doors.
Possibilities of installing on the o,
the O Oak Room signage, you know, on the door,
including blocking certain areas from staff
for staff protection.
And that's my report.
The other thing I'm going to do is cancel the meeting for
this month and we'll pick it up in July.
Still be the last Thursday of July. We'll do that.
- Okay. Thank you.
Let's see.
Ms. TostiVasey ordinances, Ordinance ad hoc committee.
- The Ordinance ad hoc committee also met on
Thursday, June 12th.
After we finished the parks meeting out at Governor's Park,
we revised the loading
and unloading zone issue for all of the areas in town
before bringing it to council.
We need to have a map added to the Ordinance
so people can see where these loading
and unloading zones are located.
In addition to actually adding the loading
and unloading zone in front of the Dollar General store,
we found out there wasn't one there in the Ordinance.
We are also recommending a change to the delivery times to
from 5:00 AM to 8:00 AM to change that to 6:00 AM
to 9:00 AM I believe
that this revised Ordinance will be at the next meeting's
agenda for approval.
- Great. Thank you. Streets committee. Mr. Johnson.
- Thank you Madam President.
Y'all, y'all have a copy of my report in the packet.
The only change I see is item $3
General unloading parking.
I recall us saying 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM Doug,
or do we agree on six?
Rita, do you remember?
- I actually don't. I'm sorry. Oh,
- That's okay.
Deb did, did we change that to six
or just keep it at 5:00 AM for the unloading?
And I thought we changed it to six. I
- Thought we changed it to six.
Yes. I I think we did change it at six. Doug.
- So, so my report is inaccurate.
It should be 6:00 AM instead of
the 5:00 AM. Yes, Joanne?
- I was just going to say that
that was the consensus in the Ordinance committee as well.
- Okay, thank you. So I'll run through it real quick.
McAllister Street, we've done a lot
of mitigation there for speeding.
Matt is still, Matt has either purchased
or ordered some pedestrian signs that were not going
to put in place until school starts
and during the school year, keep those in place as long
as somebody doesn't run 'em over.
The chief is, and the staff have, have agreed to
monitor McAllister frequently
and it seems to be working so far, so good.
So, and we've added signage.
North Allegheny Street storm drain issue.
Matt has received bids for that repair, but
because of the weather, it's put it behind several weeks.
Dollar General unloading, we've already talked about
the paving on South Spring Street is complete.
Stamped crosswalks are to be added to High Street,
south Spring, south Spring
and Bishop Cherry Lane and South Spring.
It was brought up about the hand railing on the east side of
what I would call Allegheny Hill or South Allegheny Street.
I think our staff is going to take a look at that
for needed repairs.
There was a question from EMS regarding loading
and unloading on Phoenix Avenue.
Mr. Ahman and Ms. Brooks will be taking
a close look at that and it's been recommended.
We put some signage
based on the assessment from Matt Alman
and Julie Brooks sometime soon.
We're going to add a no parking sign
on East High Street at the intersection of close
to the intersection of East High and School Street.
And as Dawn pointed out, the bid documents
for the traffic light at Bishop
and Parkview, we're expecting those
not for approval, but for the bid opening on August 4th.
Our next meeting is Tuesday, July 8th
at 4:00 PM in the Oak Room.
And I will ask our committee members who were there if,
if I've missed something and you would like
to add something to that report.
Any questions from counsel? That's it.
- Thank you. Public Trans
Transport Task Task Force Committee.
We have a June, 2025 report and A-P-S-A-B Conference
and Transit Report.
Ms. Cleeton and Ms. TostiVasey,
- The, we've been,
after we passed our decision to go
with Centre County Transportation for our transit system,
we've been working with Dave Lomas
and his staff at the Centre County Transportation Office.
We met with them last week
and came up with the plans that you see later on
in the agenda for passage this evening.
Basically, everybody who
is 60 and over will ride for free.
Those who have a disability
or on Medicaid for medical.
Anyone who has a disability rides at a discounted rate.
People who have Medicaid can get the same rides
to medical appointments for $4
and 25 cents one way.
Everybody else will be under the boroughs
sit service where they will pay $5 one way
and the Borough will subsidize.
The rest of the travel is based on mileage.
And we, we met, we, we met once and then we brought Dave
and his staff in and we asked several questions
and I think we've come up with a very good
plan to move forward.
It will start on July 1st.
Once we pass this, this evening, then we will start
advertising this to the public.
And so give them a chance to register
with Centre County Transportation.
We have asked, and Dave Loon has requested
that when questions come into the Borough
to make sure we're giving this correct information,
we're going to direct the people to go directly
to Centre County Transportation
to have their questions answered.
That way we we're not going confusing
people 'cause it's not our system.
We wanted to make sure that everybody knows what's
going on from there end.
Secondly, at the PSAB conference, the, the,
the secretary for Department
of Transportation was spoke during the executive session
and basically said that talk, his initial statement was
that transportation was needed in Pittsburgh
and the Philadelphia area.
I got up and when, during the question and answer period
and, and said, well, there are
55 65 of
counties other than Philadelphia and Allegheny County,
and every single one of us has some form of public,
trans, trans transit.
Sometimes that's paratransit,
sometimes it's regular public transit.
He pulled back and he said, we, I was correct
and that, that he would go back
and try to see what we could do about all
of the different transit programs
for funding from the state.
Then on Wednesday, after PSAB ended, Deb
and I went to Harris, the capital in Harrisburg,
and we had a meeting with the staff for Senator D
and Carrie Benninghoff
in your packet is a summary of what we, what happened and,
and a response three days later from Senator DI
understand that he will be sending us another letter
that's more directed towards transit here in Centre County,
but we haven't received it yet.
That's the report. Do you have anything to add?
- I just wanted to mention about the,
the rally in Harrisburg on June 4th.
There were about 300 people there from
across, across the state.
Not just the major metropolitan areas,
but from a lot
of the rural small municipalities throughout the state
that don't have any transportation what whatsoever
or very limited transportation.
And as Joanne mentioned, we were able to meet directly
with the staff of Senator D and Mr.
Benninghoff to discuss what the needs are
for our municipalities.
And during the course of this whole gathering,
we broke up in small groups of three and four
and every single legislator's office in the Capitol building
was visited and given information about the needs
for transportation in rural Pennsylvania
because all of the focus is on the two large metropolitan
systems in the state,
and the rest of us are getting left behind.
So it was a very interesting experience,
but we're trying to make some progress in that direction.
Thank you.
- Thank you both. I know you've been working on this a long
time and it's much appreciated.
We will move on to liaison reports. They are in your packet.
I'll just briefly go
through these Bellmont Inner Valley Chamber of Commerce.
Ms. Brooks, do you have anything else to add to your report
or anything you wanna say?
- I, I really don't if anyone has any additional
questions for me.
- Thank you. Anyone have questions? No. Thank you. Okay.
Be font Borough authority. June 3rd, 2025. Drafted minutes.
Mr. Johnson, do you have anything you'd like
to add from the authority?
- I, I do not at this time.
- Okay. The Centre County Library, Ms. Clayton.
- Oh, nothing to add, but the summer reading programs have
started, so sign up and get on board.
- Thank you. Workplace Safety Committee. Mr. B Brachbill.
- We had the meeting the second Wednesday
of month, half hour.
- So yeah, we, we finished it up at, at,
we had some training.
Actually, I'll, I'll take that back.
We had about a 45 minute meeting Okay.
With that one on Wednesday.
But that all, that all goes pretty well.
Alyssa does a, a good job with that.
- Great. Thank you. Moving on to current
and old business 2025 CDBG
project selection.
Could I have a motion and a second
to approve Centre County on behalf of Beon Borough
to submit an application to the Pennsylvania Department
of Community and Economic Development
for FFY 2025 Community Development Block grant
entitlement funding for the stamp crosswalk project.
Point of order. There's another motion before that.
There's two motions in that I missed.
I'm so sorry I missed that. Let's, let's do the first one.
First one. CDBG project selection, a motion
and a second to approve the stamped crosswalks at the
intersection of High Street
and Water Street for the 2025 CBBG project.
So moved. Thank you. Could I have a second please?
- Second Brachbill. Bill.
- First we'll ask for any Public Comment from that.
Seeing none. Any discussion for counsel?
Can we have a Roll Call vote please.
- Mr. Brune? Yes. Mr. Brachbill? Yes. Ms. Clayton? Yes. Ms.
Dann? Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. McKean? Yes. Ms. Purnell?
Yes. Ms. Sedgwick? Yes. And Ms. TostiVasey?
Yes. Thank you. Great.
- Thank you. Could I have a motion
and a second to approve Centre County on behalf
of the Beon Borough to submit an application
to the Pennsylvania Department of Community
and Economic Development for FFY 2025
Community Development Block grant entitlement funding
for the stamped crosswalk project.
- Motion made Brachbill. - Thank you. Randy. Second please.
- Second - McKean. Thank you, Shawna.
Is there any Public Comment? Council discussion?
Seeing none, could we have a Roll Call vote please.
- Mr. Bernier? Yes. Mr. Brachbill? Yes. Ms. Clayton? Yes.
Ms. Dann? Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. McKean? Yes. Ms.
Purnell? Yes. Ms. Sedgwick? Yes. And Ms. TostiVasey?
Yes. Thank you.
- The Centre County Airport Authority volunteer application.
Could we have a motion
and a second to approve Carrie ER's volunteer application
for the Centre County Airport Authority.
Authority. I
- Will make that motion.
Johnson. Thank
- You.
Doug. Second please.
- I'll second. - Thank you, Kent. Is there any discussion?
- More of a curiosity question.
The next item is talks about these airport authority
vetting volunteers.
Is that starting after this evening
or was this supposed to be part of that after
- Yes.
This, that, that will start after this appointment.
And we had a conversation about that.
This is the only applicant
and we want to get that position filled as soon as possible.
So that's what we hope, hope to do. Thank you.
- Thank you Mr. Johnson. Any other questions?
Could we have a Roll Call? Vote please.
- Mr. Bernier? Yes. Mr. Brachbill? Yes. Ms. Clayton? Yes.
Ms. Dann? Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. McKean? Yes. Ms.
Purnell? Yes. Ms. Sedgwick? Yes. Ms. TostiVasey? Yes.
Thank you. Thank you.
- Centre County Airport Authority memo
to appointing entities.
Could I have a motion and a second
to allow Centre County Airport authority
to review all applications
and submit a recommendation to cancel
for future appointments?
- I'll make make that motion. - Thank you. Kent. Second.
- Second Johnson. Thank
- You.
Any discussion? Can we have a Roll Call? Vote please.
- Mr. Bernier? Yes. Yes. Mr. Brachbill? Yes. Ms. Clayton?
Yes. Ms. Dann? Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. McKean? Yes. Ms.
Brunell? Yes. Ms. Sedgwick? Yes. Ms. TostiVasey? Yes.
Thank you.
- We have an update on the Suspension Bridge project. No.
Council action is needed.
Did anyone have questions for Ms. Brooks with that?
Did you wanna add anything, Julie, to that?
- I didn't really have anything to add.
I just wanted to see if there were any additional questions.
Overall, it was just an update on the, the way
that the estimates came in.
So just so that you're aware, I'm still working
with the engineering firm to adjust as much
as possible to fit in our budget.
- Great. Thank you. The Governor's
Park Bating Cage.
Could I have a motion
and a second to approve the, the batting cage as proposed?
- So moved. - I'll second it. Thank you.
Is there any discussion? I know Mr. Caporale is here.
If anybody has questions.
Seeing none, could we have a Roll Call vote please.
- Mr. Bernier? Yes. Mr. Brachbill? Yes. Ms. Clayton? Yes.
Ms. Dann? Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. McKean? Yes. Ms.
Purnell? Yes. Ms. Sedgwick? Yes. Ms. TostiVasey? Yes.
Thank you.
- The friends of Tally Rand lease agreement the
was was in your packet.
If you have any feedback, please email.
Do you want that email to you, Mr. Holderman? Sure. Yeah.
To Mr. Holderman by Wes this Wednesday, June 18th,
under new business, Pennsylvania State Association
of Boroughs Conference recap in 2025, resolutions adopted
by PSAB voting delegates.
Did you wanna, Deb, did you wanna talk about any
of the resolutions?
They were in your, in the packet?
- Yes. In your packet, I included a copy of all
of the resolutions adopted by the PSAB voting delegates.
And right at top, number one is the one that we
were supporting
and that is the, the legislation
that provides state annual financial assistance
to municipalities for tax exempt properties.
And this legislation would direct the distribution of
around $500 million back to Pennsylvania's municipalities
to help recoup the lost revenue from tax exempt properties.
So this is a step forward.
We did approve 13 of the 14
resolutions that came before the voting delegates
and all of the resolutions that have been reauthorized
for an addition additional three years are also
included in the packets.
If you have any questions, I'd be glad
to answer as best I can.
- Okay. Thank you. Tim, you
- Add one more?
Yes. And I would like to recognize Julie Brooks
who received her certified burs Oh yeah.
Official award at the lunch and on Tuesday.
- Okay. Congratulations. - Thank
- The ninth annual Dillon Konick Memorial
Charity Baseball Tournament.
Request for fee waiver.
Could I have a motion and a second to approve the fee waiver
for use of Governor's Park Baseball Field
for the ninth annual Dillon Chronic
Memorial Charity Baseball Tournament scheduled
for August 9th and 10th. I'll make that motion.
- I'll second Brachbill. - Thank you. Discussion please.
- Yes, this is a nonprofit
that is located outside the boundaries of befor.
The web website that's referred to in the request was for
it is for the DC eight fund,
which is located in Canada, Dua, New York.
It is not a bell font base nonprofit,
although the nonprofit, the people
who started it were from here at one point,
we should not be granting a fee waiver
for this fundraising event
because this would violate by the,
the borough's nonprofit pro properties.
In addition, it is not listed as a charity
or a nonprofit in guide store
and is not listed as a nonprofit
or charitable organization in the IRS tax
organization search engine.
- I will once again strongly urge that the fee is waived.
The current continue to be an integral part
of our community.
Dylan was a strong member of our community
before losing his battle with cancer.
A hundred percent of the proceeds of this tournament go
for childhood cancer research.
And it is an event that brings in hundreds,
if not thousands of people from all over to our community
to support their effort to honor the memory of their son
and raise money for childhood cancer.
- Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Is there anyone else? Mr. Johnson?
- I think we've approved this in years past
without any problem.
And out of respect for the family,
I fully support the waiver of this fee.
- It's four years in a row since I've been on council.
It comes up every year and we approve it unanimously.
So, no. Okay.
- Did you have a comment Joanne? No. Okay. Okay. I do.
I think this is a great thing
and I can't imagine what this family went through.
I do support everything they're doing,
but when we refer to the Ordinance not
for profits based in Bellmont,
Borough may request an exemption from the rental fee.
The administrative fee
and damage deposit shall still be required.
I agree with Joanne. They don't meet that criteria.
And we do have a fee schedule
and we do have a baseball field to take care of.
- Well, in this letter that they sent it, they,
they would ask for the, if it's possible to waive those so
that all funds raised could go directly to the charity.
I'm not sure what charity it
is, but that's what they're listing,
- Right?
It it is, it's it's for childhood cancer.
Anybody else have a comment on this?
- I think I could see questioning this if it was money
raised for themselves,
but since it's going to charity, I think we should consider
that in, in our decision.
- Thank you, Rita. Anybody else?
Okay. So the motion on the table is
to approve the fee waiver for use
of Governor's Park Baseball Field for the ninth annual
Dillon Chronic Memorial Charity Baseball Tournament
scheduled for August 9th and 10th.
Could we have a Roll Call vote please. Mr.
- Bernier? Yes. Mr. Brachbill? Yes. Ms. Clayton? Yes. Ms.
- Dann? No. - Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. McKean?
Yes. Ms. Purnell? Yes. Ms. Sedgwick? Yes. Ms.
TostiVasey? No. Thank you.
Seven to two. Thank you.
- The loading of compost memo for August, September
and October, 2025.
It was in your packet. I will, I will read this.
It is brief. It's good for the community to know
Borough personnel using Borough equipment
to load compost on the trailers
or pickups at the Muser Lane Compost facility
between the hours of 8:00 AM
and 12 noon on three Saturdays in 2025.
There will be one Saturday in August,
one in September, and one in October.
When these dates are confirmed,
dates will be posted on the Borough website
and on social media.
There would be a fee to cover equipment
and personnel for this fee is $20 per cubic yard,
which is approximately one skid steer loader.
Bucket fees will be paid at the Borough
administrative offices.
An assigned waiver is needed at
that time stating the Borough is not responsible for damage
to the vehicles during loading or compost hauling.
Could I have a motion and a second to approve this, please?
I'll make that motion, Clayton. Thank you. Deb.
- Second. Oh, go ahead.
- Thank you, Shawna. Any dis any discussion?
- I have some comments. Okay. I, I suggested this.
I I didn't know that we agreed on a $20. Maybe we did.
I don't remember, but I, I think, I think it
that $20 a scoop is probably more than, than,
than we should charge.
I would say a pickup truck load is $20.
If it's a scoop and a half, it's still $20.
So I used to buy UAJA
compost and it was $15 a yard, I believe,
which seemed really reasonable to me.
So I would suggest lowering that to $15 a scoop
or $15 a truckload instead of 20.
I know we're trying to cover our costs,
but let's see how it goes first
and then maybe next year raise it to $20.
Just my, my thought on that.
- Sorry. You ma are you making that motion, Mr. Johnson
- To change?
I will, I will make the motion to amend the fee from $20
to $15 per scoop.
I'm not so sure that it's a cubic yard in the skid steer.
I think it might be a little more than that.
But anyhow, $15 a truckload,
meaning a half ton pickup truckload.
Not a ttag five ton truck.
We're talking about a normal size pickup truck
with a five foot eight foot bed.
- That, that's quite a motion.
- You get the idea. It's Yes.
Thank you Madam President.
- I'll second it. Purnell. Thank you. Rita.
Is there any discussion on that?
We can do a friendly if you, if
who agrees agree that we go with a friendly motion
and change that That's the motion.
That's the motion. Change it to $15 for a
normal truckload.
Is that what you're
- Yeah.
Yes. A pickup truckload or a scoop from the skid steer.
Okay. Most, most pickup trucks nowadays may only
handle one scoop from a skid steer.
So I, I think the operator at the
Musser Lane compost facility will be a pretty good judge of,
of the $15 fee.
Let's, let's see how it goes at $15 a scoop.
- Okay. So we have to agree on the friendly
amendment correct.
And we do, we do a Roll Call for that Just
- Is become the friendly minute.
Makes this the main minute.
So you only have one vote instead
- Of two.
Okay. So now we can vote on the mo original
motion with that change.
Yes. Okay. That's what we are voting on then.
Can we have a Roll Call vote please.
- Mr. Bernier? Yes. Mr. Brachbill? Yes. Ms. Clayton? Yes.
Ms. Dann? Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. McKean? Yes. Ms.
Purnell? Yes. Ms. Sedgwick? Yes. Ms. TostiVasey? Yes.
Thank you.
- The Public Transit Services task force
proposed calculated rates for above upper residence use
of Centre County Transport Transportation Services.
Can I have a motion and a second
to approve the proposed calculated rates
for belfont Borough residents use
of Centre County Transportation Services? I'll make that
- Motion.
- Thank you. Kent Second please. I'll
- Second it. Clayton. Thank
- You.
Is there any Public Comment on that
council discussion?
- I have questions on the full fair. How's that set up?
How all we see is, is this right now, what's a budget?
- I I can, I can answer that.
What we're proposing is that the,
that Bellmont Borough underwrite the cost
of using the county transportation service
for any bellmont resident.
Anybody over the age of 60 rides for free, anybody
with a disability pays four and a quarter out of pocket.
What we're proposing is that anybody else
who falls under the mileage based fee fair schedule
that you see in front of you would pay a maximum of $5 out
of pocket and the Borough would pick up the difference. And
- Where's that money coming from? Out
- Of the, we still have at, I'm guessing,
$16,000 left in the budget for transportation
because we have now gone through the first half of the year
with Right.
With cada based on the information we have from Dave Lamon
and from cada
and the number of passengers who are currently using B Line,
who would be transitioning hopefully to this new service.
There are very few who actually fall into the out
of pocket category.
We need to take this initially a month at a
time, see how it goes.
We're not going to hit $16,000 next week.
- No, I know that, but what's the, what's the
sustain sustainability on this?
So on now? Yeah. Yeah. The sustainability on this.
How long, how long are we gonna last with that?
- Well, we need to see how fast, how soon we start running
through the funds between now and the end of the year
and what it looks like towards the end of the year.
And we get the budget season, we do not anticipate using up
that entire $16,000.
- And why wasn't there when, like some,
if it's based on the mileage, why wasn't when some
of the $5 fees go up a little bit?
- We're starting, we're starting at a reasonable out
of pocket cost for the passengers to see how it goes.
I understand what you're saying in terms of the, the
gradient fee schedule for mileage.
The anticipated average mileage base is going to be in the
under 20 miles each way.
So it falls in that
- There's some 32 miles to 49 miles.
- I don't have the thing in front of me.
We, we fall within the, the $20 range so
that the borough's gonna be paying an average
of $20 per ride.
- When we talk to Dave m
and he indicated that the people
who ride from here in the Bellon area
would generally fall in one
of the first two tiers from their
experience from everything else.
Those longer distances are usually,
well the longest one is when they take people to Danville.
But, and that very, and he says
that happens maybe once every two or three months.
But the rest of them, he said the people
that have been using our rides
that come from our area are those first two,
which at the mo most, I think the second is $25
for the Borough cost.
- And who, who, what's the budget look like as far
as it being completed?
You have to, everybody has a budget that you work from.
This isn't, this is workable,
but it's, there could be some issues.
Just what you're saying. If, if it's 2150 for a full chair
and 1750 for Beon Borough, that should be the same number
that you have coming down that list.
If you're not, I'm not sure
how it looks If you know when you're going through it,
if you know if Lori's working
with it, how that's gonna look.
That that's how my question is. Yeah.
- What what will happen on July 1st is
that Centre County Transportation will keep track of every
Beante resident that uses this service
and how far they've gone and what it costs.
And then on a monthly basis, they will be giving a report
to Lori of how much it is being cost.
Our problem all along is that Kata never could tell us
how many people from Beon were actually riding
and how far they were going.
So we have no real data at this point to say
how much is, would be cost on a person.
So this next six months is basically a trial period
to find out what kind of service needs there actually are,
which is why we don't have a,
an actual number to put with it.
- I think that Kata did share some numbers with
the county transportation office
and the director of Transportation looked
through those riders.
And I, I'm gonna ask Mr.
Esson to come up and help me out with this. Sure.
That it looked as though,
based on the data that was supplied by CADA
to the Centre County Transportation Director,
and there's a lot of other criteria, Randy,
that would qualify.
First of all, people 60 years of age
and older, the county
comes forward with the money to cover those that cost.
It's just the generosity of the Commissioners.
They're not required to do that.
So the, the 60
and under of the data that's been supplied
to our transportation director at the county,
there's a large percentage of those people
who have been using the cat a service
that qualify for an
a free ride on the county transportation vans.
So based on the data that we see,
there's a very small number of folks
who need a supplement from Beon Borough.
This is only for Beon Borough residents,
not countywide.
It's not Spring, it's not Benner, it's Beon residence only.
And when those folks call in
to the transportation office of the county,
they will be interviewed.
And it could be that they already qualify for assistance
in, in paying the fee that's unknown to them at this time.
So it's, it's worth it.
Or the county employees are taking time out of their day
to make sure that these folks get the ride
for almost, for almost nothing.
What am I missing, Dave? That
- Not really anything, Doug.
Pretty much you covered it just real quickly.
If you're 60 or older, it's 100% free.
It doesn't cost you anything.
60 to 64 is funded 100% by Centre County Government.
65 and older is 85% paid by the lottery.
And the other 15% is paid by Centre County Government.
If you're disabled, 18 to 60
with a qualifying disability.
It's called Persons with Disabilities.
It's an a DA service we provide,
and you pay a fee anywhere from four to $7,
depending upon how far
Medic medical assistance transportation is
for medical appointments only.
And that's for anybody that has that.
And and we can tell when we register someone,
what they qualify for, if they're PWD,
we have an application that's not real complicated.
It's pretty simple. We can usually approve it
within a day or so.
Of course, medical assistance, if we,
if you give us your documentation we need, we can tell you
that instantaneously if you qualify.
So it's pretty, pretty easy to determine that
what the Borough and,
and the task force has asked for is a service
for those individuals that fall between up to the age of 60
that have no funding.
And how do we help those people?
And we've, we've,
and the data we've been given, there's
106 clients have been using the Beeline since last July.
That's the numbers that I was given.
So of that number, 46
of those individuals are registered with us already.
So the chances are they already have a funding
source in my system.
And actually 74 out
of 106 took 10 trips or less than almost a year.
So there's a very small number of people that used it.
A lot less than a dozen people
that have 16 people actually have used it, 50 or more trips.
But most of those are, you know, right around 50,
60 trips in a year.
So we're just willing to continue to do the services
that we already do throughout Centre County,
including Bellmont,
and offer the opportunity for the Bellmont Borough to
give their residents some support that, that are losing
that come the end of the month, at least
as a stopgap measure to see if we can't help them
and, and see where it goes.
As I've said repeatedly, we don't know what we don't know.
We'll see once, if it's approved, what happens.
And if we get bombarded, then we all have to come back here
and sit down and talk about it and figure out what to do.
But the state's aware of what we're offering to do.
They're supportive, obviously,
for those individuals that are funded.
And, you know, I I, I think I,
I truly don't see us using up all the funds
that you've set aside for transit in, in that short
of time based on all the data we've been given
and all the research we've done with that data.
You know, I, I think we're gonna be okay for the time being,
but that remains to be seen, of course.
No guarantee.
- Okay. Thank you. - Yeah, I, I would like to, Mr.
LaMason to thank you
and your staff at the transportation office for
organizing that data
and presenting it to the transportation task force.
I know it's taken time out of their day
and your day to make, try to make this possible
for the BEON residents.
So I appreciate that, appreciate that very much.
- We do serve 655 residents
of Bellmont currently in our system.
So, you know, it's nice to know
that there is a large contingent of Bellmont people
that use our service and
that's in our service that are funded.
So, you know, hopefully the people that
use the service and need the service are funded.
And if not, we'll, we'll look for funding for them
and potentially have it.
Yeah.
- So thank, thank you Mr.
- Lums. You're very welcome. Very much. Yes. Is it your
- Group that are watching is watching?
What's going on with this?
- Pardon? - Is this the, the group your,
your people you work with?
Are you guys working with that?
Or who's, who's watching
where the money's going and all that stuff?
- Well, we'll determine that. Oh, okay.
Oh yeah, no, we, we we'll know daily how much use sir is.
I mean, I can give a, a monthly report.
We, we'll send a bill every month is what we'll do.
We'll send a Borough bill
and, you know, if we see it climbing up there,
then we figure out what's going on.
But we do have some limitations.
It's primarily for work
and medical that we're taking on
non-funded residents for,
and maybe once a week to go shopping for groceries
and needs it like that.
But it's not that you can just decide
to go every day just to go.
There has to be a purpose.
And I think that's what the borough's determination was,
that we stick to that purpose for the needs of the people.
It's not just, you know, and,
and I'm sure some of these trips are just trips, but,
but the nice thing about our service
is we're not gonna take them where they have
to catch three other rides to get to where they're going.
We're gonna pick them up, take them to where they're going,
drop them off and bring them back.
So it's more of a door to door type service for them.
So, And most of the places
that we frequent are within the first three
categories of our funding.
You know, that, that they're gonna
use here in Centre County.
If somebody has to go a long distance, obviously they have,
they have to prove why.
And it's like anything else.
When I take people to the doctor under medical assistance
and they want to go outta county, they have
to provide documentation.
Why? Because they're supposed
to be seen at the closest facility.
So if they have to go to a specialist, they have
to give us a letter for that.
That's a requirement that medical assistance has.
So, and we'll hold true to that with the same here.
You know, we won't just take someone just to take them.
- I, I look at this as the most affordable option
we have at this time.
And, and until we try it
and see how it works, I, I think this is
a good program to start with.
- Yep. We, we feel confident we can meet their needs and,
and keep it within hopefully a reasonable amount
of money for you folks.
Yeah.
Anything else? All right. No, thank
- You very - Much.
Thank you.
- Is there any other discussion on this?
Could we have a Roll Call? Vote please.
- Mr. Bernier? Yes. Mr. Brachbill?
- Yes. - Ms. Clayton? Yes. Ms. Dann? Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes.
Ms. McKean? Yes. Ms. Purnell? Yes. Ms. Sedgwick? Yes. Ms.
TostiVasey? Yes. And thank you. Yes.
And for me personally, thank you very much.
- Thank you for all your hard work on this.
Could I have approval of resolution number
0 6 1 6 2 0 2 5 0 1 adopting
the police department's updated policies?
These were in your packet.
Can I have a motion and a second to approve the resolution?
0 6 1 6 2 0 2 5 dash zero
one. So moved.
- Second. - Thank you. Any discussion?
Could we have a Roll Call? Vote please.
- Mr. Bernier? Yes. Mr. Brachbill? Yes. Ms. Clayton? Yes.
Ms. Dann? Yes. Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. McKean? Yes. Ms.
Purnell? Yes. Ms. Sedgwick? Yes. Ms. TostiVasey basic? Yes.
Thank you.
- The Civil Service Commission promotions for Sergeant
and Corporal Police.
Chief Whitmer is recommending the selection of Officer
Macy Ick for Sergeant and Officer Robert Holt.
For Corporal. Chief Whitmer is recommending the selection
of Officer Lisa Larkin for detective.
Could I have a motion and a second? So
- Move Brachbill. Second.
- Randy. Thank you. Is there any discussion?
- Can we have a Roll Call? Vote please. Mr. Bernier? Yes.
Mr. Brachbill? Yes. Ms. Clayton? Yes. Ms. Dann? Yes.
Mr. Johnson? Yes. Ms. McKean? Yes. Ms. Purnell? Yes. Ms.
Sedgwick? Yes. Ms. TostiVasey? Yes. Thank you.
Thank you. Chief Whitmer.
- Thank you
Mr.
Mayor, you wanna join me?
- Officer Ick. Officer Bolt.
Officer Larkin, can you sit up here for me
- Please?
- Just have a seat in the front row.
- I'll call in, sir.
- Okay. Good evening, council members, I'm pleased to be
before you tonight to present to you three of our officers
who are being promoted to the position of Sergeant, corporal
and Detective As Chief, I'm pleased with the commitment
that these officers made, not only
to further their careers in law enforcement,
but to also take on the responsibilities
of being a supervisor and making the Bellmont Police
Department the best law enforcement agency we can be.
The Sergeant Corporal positions required three steps
to complete the process to be promoted.
The first step was taking a three hour long written test.
The second step was to go through an oral interview,
and the third step was to complete a 10
to 15 minute presentation.
This was the officer's time, effort,
and commitment to pass each phase of the process, all
for the betterment, betterment of our police department.
The third position being promoted tonight is the,
is the detective position.
The detective position is an important position
that is necessary in every police department
to ensure crimes are being investigated to the fullest.
The Be Front police Department has not
always had a detective.
The position was started in the late nineties
with Detective Thal.
The position was quickly, quickly recognized as being a
necessary position within the Police de Police Department.
Tonight we will recognize
and promote the fifth detective in the Bellmont
Police Department history.
I'd like to ask Officer Knight to come up.
Stand right beside Mayor Johnson.
The Sergeant Position Officer Macy Ick was hired
at the Bellmont Police Department in 2018
as a part-time officer.
2020, she became a full-time officer.
When Officer Knight was hired,
She became the first female police officer
Beon Police Department has ever had.
Prior to her law enforcement career,
officer Naik earned her bachelor's degree in criminal
justice from Lock Caven University.
Her law enforcement career started at the Centre County
Sheriff's Department a few months
later on the job.
After a few months on the job,
it was apparent Officer Natick was hardworking, determined,
focused, and always wanted to put her best foot forward.
Officer NY was ambitious
and wanted to further her career in law enforcement
and her last few years, officer Nyak
has attended several important trainings
to mention A few desert, snow field training officer,
traffic patrol, drug interdiction, and aide.
That's just a few.
In 2023, officer Knight became recipient
of the Centre County Law Enforcement Officer of the year.
She won this award because of her attention to detail,
her hard work and dedication to good police work.
Officer Knight was also the personnel member
of the Belmont Police Department to date
to win law Law enforcement Officer of the year.
In 2024, officer Knight became a field training officer
and has revamped our FTO program to what it's today.
She has also become a member of the Centre County Badge
to Badge peer support group.
Since Officer Natick has been with the department,
she has demonstrated time
after time, good work ethic, the ability to adjust
and deal with any situation, her strong bond
with the community, her dedication to police work,
and her ability to make good decisions.
These are all qualities our department
and our community need in a leadership role.
Officer Ick Corporal position
Robert Holt,
Officer Robert Holt has been
with the police department since 2001.
Officer Holt's career has spanned over 30 years.
He graduated from the police academy in 1994
and begun his career in Clearfield County prior
to being hired by the Bellmont Police Department.
Over the span of his career,
he has attended several notable trainings, just
to mention a few leadership in the 21st century weights
and measures missing
and abducted children, training, intelligence,
assisted policing, assessing
and planning for active assaults.
That's just a few to mention.
Over the past two decades,
officer Holt has received several accommodations
for his notable acts
or his service to the community Officer has been,
has seen several changes in law enforcement over his career
and has adapted to each one of those.
He has been able to adjust and deal
with any situation that comes his way.
I, for her, refer to him as my field general,
as his knowledge and experience is second
to none in critical incidents,
officer O has also displayed a strong bond
with the community, and over the past two decades,
he has become the officer
of choice the public knows and wants to speak with.
Because of his dedication, his fairness, his compassion,
and his voice of reason, officer Holt
holds all the leadership qualities.
This department needs to be the best law enforcement
agency we can be.
The third position. Detective.
Officer Larkin, can you come up, join us please.
Officer Larkin began her career in the state
of Oregon at the University of Oregon Police Department.
While there, she rose to the rank of Sergeant.
She then briefly stepped out law enforcement
and was employed by Child Protective Services, a child abuse
and neglect investigator.
She then entered back into the law enforcement career
where she was then employed
by Corvallis Police Department in Oregon.
In 2022, officer Larkin
and her family traveled across the country
to relocate in Centre County.
She began her law enforcement career in Pennsylvania at the
Penn State University of Police Police Department,
where she gained vast knowledge of Pennsylvania law
and criminal procedures.
Prior to her law enforcement career,
officer Larkin received a Bachelor's
of Arts degree in history.
She furthered her education, received a master's
of Science in Clinical mental health counseling.
In 2024, officer Larkin was hired full-time
with the Bellmont Police Department.
It was apparent when Officer Larkin began her
career with the department.
She brought knowledge, experience,
and dedication with her officer Larkin's hard work,
attention to detail
and her ability to handle difficult situ didn't go
unnoticed by her colleagues.
Last month, officer Larkin was notified
that she's a finalist for the Law Enforcement Officer
of the year, which will be selected next month.
Not only was Officer Lar Larkin's hard work
and dedication noticed by me, but by others as well.
The detective position is near and dear to me.
As I've been the previous detective
for the last eight years, I'm confident
and Officer Larkin's ability to maintain a high quality
of professionalism, a high quality of work output,
and the dedication to the position
of detect the detective position demands
and demands to provide
to the best service the the Bellmont community deserves.
I'm gonna ask Mayor Johnson
and Judge Walker come up and give them their oath.
- Thank you, sir.
- Would you each please raise your right hand
and respond with I will.
I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution
of the United States, the Constitution
and laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the laws
and ordinances of the Borough of Beante,
and obey all the laws and regulations pertaining to
and governing the Borough of Beante.
And that I will well and faithfully discharge
and perform all the duties of my office accordingly
and to the best of my knowledge and ability.
- Detective Larkin, would you raise your right hand? Please?
Do you solemnly swear or affirm that you will support, obey,
and defend the Constitution, the United States,
and the Constitution of this commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
and that you will perform the duties of detective
for Belmont Borough Police with fidelity?
I do. Congratulations. Thank you, your honor.
Corporal Holt, would you raise your right hand?
Do you solemnly swear or affirm that you will support, obey,
and defend the Constitution of the United States
and the Constitution of this commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
and that you will perform the duties of Corporal
for Belmont Borough Police with fidelity?
I do. Congratulations, corporal. Thank you.
Sergeant Knight, if you object, please do you solemnly swear
or affirm that you will support, obey,
and defend the Constitution of the United States
and the Constitution of this commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
and that you will perform the duties of Sergeant of
for Belmont Borough Police with fidelity.
Thank congratulations, Sergeant, the
- Judge.
- Now I'd like to call - Up
- The officer's choice of a loved one who wants to
pin their new badge on your shirt.
You can come pull it.
Go ahead and just remove the old body and put
We can do colors after.
Yeah, we'll do colors. They take a little longer,
- Further.
I can't see right now. I can't see. Okay.
- Alright. Everybody have their knee balance? Thank you.
- Thank you. All right. - Council
members, I present to you.
Sergeant Ick, corporal Holt. Detective Larkin.
We'll get we'll get pictures afterwards. Yeah. Thank you.
- Do we have Public Comment regarding issues
that are not on the agenda tonight?
Seeing none, we will ask council members for comments
or for the good of the order.
Mr. Beney, or would you like to start tonight please.
I have nothing to add. Thank you. Thank you.
- I have nothing but to say congratulations
to the three officers promotions tonight.
Oh, nothing to add tonight. Thank you. Thank
- You, Mr. Johnson.
- Nothing tonight. - Same.
- What happened to Happy to be here.
- I am very happy to be here.
- Thank you. Congratulations.
This is very exciting for our police department.
- I, - I'd like actually like to thank counsel
for approving the proposal to work with the county
for transportation, and I just want the public
let the public know that I've been using their service
for over a year now,
and I would be more than happy
to share my personal experience with using that system
and how well it works.
You will get to your destination on time.
My email's on the website. It's dClayton@bellmontpa.gov.
If you have questions about the service itself, you need
to call the, the county Transportation office at
8 1 4 3 5 5 6 8 0 7
and their staff will walk you
through the registration process.
It's very easy. It's all it takes is a phone call.
Thank you.
- I have nothing. Thank you.
- I I
gave the same thanks to council
and to the public for taking a chance
on this new transit system.
I think it will work well.
It is a, an experiment.
We will be going forward to attempt to do a long-term
transfer trans transit development plan,
but that's gonna take a while.
Meanwhile, we have what we believe
to be an excellent service.
And finally, congratulations to our three new
leadership officers. I have no comment.
- I, - I had something come across my school email
and we may have talked about this when it actually happened,
but I just, and if we did, it's worth mentioning again,
Christian Larson, who was our former council member.
Student council member.
Well, whatever, whatever the title is,
junior council member, I'll get it right, was selected
as the Elks Tina of the month for April,
and I don't remember if that was mentioned here before
or not, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
Thank you. And also,
I haven't done this in a really long time,
but I'm giving a shout out
to my brother-in-law and sister-in-law.
Rodney and Carrie. I know they're probably watching.
- Thanks, Rita.
Could I have a motion and a second for adjournment please?
- So moved. Brachbill - Second.
- Thank you. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed?
Thank you.
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