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- Paul, please. - Mr. Bernier.
- Present. - Mr. Brachbill? Here. Ms. Clayton? Here. Ms.
Stan? Here. Mr. Johnson Present. Ms. McKean is excused.
Ms. Purnell? Here. Ms. Sedgwick? Here. Ms. TostiVasey?
That's here. Mr. Larson here. And Mayor. Johnson is excused.
- Thank you Mr. Stewart.
Next is additions to the council meeting agenda.
Do we have any members that would like
to add something to the agenda?
If not, we'll move on to Public Comment. This is the time.
If there's anyone here at the meeting that would like
to make a Public Comment, we ask that you come to the podium
and state your name
and limit your comments to three minutes.
Any Public Comment? No.
No. Okay. They're,
- They're here for this, right?
Should we do that next? They're confused,
- Right?
That's okay. We'll get, we'll do that.
So, any Public Comment from Borough Council members?
Any comments at all? Okay. Okay.
Next is the Beon Area Rotary Club presentation
for the Governor's Park Restroom renovations.
Kathleen and Janet, Kathleen
and Janet, there's here.
First of all, we'd like to thank you folks for everything
that you do for the Bellon Borough Council
and Community. So thank you very much.
- Thank you. We're here to give $30,000
to the Governor's Park BA restroom renovation.
This money is raised from the Bellon Children's Fair,
so this is numerous years of children's fair
Revenue that we've fundraised for.
So we're happy to hand that over to you guys.
- Alright. Awesome. Okay. - Doug,
- Doug and Barbara want to come up with me
and accept this check so we can get a photo
Vice president And
- Kathleen
- Kent Bernier the Borough Council President.
Nice to meet you. Thanks for coming.
Sorry to, I didn't mean to make that confusing.
No, that's okay. This is Doug Johnson
and Barbara Dan, she's the Vice president. Janet,
- Nice to meet you. Nice to meet
- You.
Yes. Thank you guys. More of a photo
- Logo behind.
Okay. Sure.
Great. Thank you.
The original children here, so yeah,
another exciting thing is we used to be
- That actually.
- Alright, - So we used
to be the Beante Sunrise Rotary Club.
As of today, we are now the Beante Area Rotary Club
because we have merged with the Pleasant Gap Rotary Club.
So we'll be serving continue Serve to serve, be font,
but we'll also be serving the Pleasant Gap area as well.
So our club is growing
and we're always welcome
to new members, so thank you.
- Alright. Thank you ladies. Thank you.
Next is Communication written.
First item is the Center County Recycling
and Refuse Authority Summer 2024 newsletter
that y'all had in your packet.
Is there anything additional route?
- There is one about the Hometown Hero
Banner application deadline.
It's approaching, it's the end of July.
You can get an application on our website
or at the train station or at Historic Bellante.
Incorporate his website
or you can Bellante Hometown Hero Facebook page.
Again, that's the Hometown Hero banner application.
It's due by the end
of July if you're interested. Thank you very much.
- Thank you Mr. Stewart. Any other communications?
Alright, the next item is the Consent Agenda.
All items listed on the Consent Agenda are considered
routine and will be acted upon by one single motion.
Do I have a motion
and a second to approve the Consent Agenda?
I'll make So brack Bill, I'll second it. Thank you. I,
- I'd like to move, remove the budget versus
actual for question
- The - Act make the summary
or the The May action
- Detail.
- So that's the first one. Okay.
Do we have to remove it or can
we just have the question asked?
If it's just a question and we're not
changing anything, what's your question?
- Well, okay, the question is, in the future, could we have,
- Sorry.
In the future, could we have an additional report created
that shows how much re revenue from previous budgets was
used to pay for expenses that occurred
during this budget year?
This report would include the amount net
after payout of this excess revenue from previous year.
I think it would make it easier to understand
what is going on with the, the budget.
For example, in this report, there's one line that states,
there's an overage that occurred in the mayor's part.
And Lori said that it was paid with donations made
to the Borough from previous years.
And I think that if we knew what, what kind
of monies we're talking about, it would make it much easier
to understand the budget.
So, for example, you could have something like donations
available from the pre prior budget years
is X amount of dollars.
The funds that were used for the donations was this amount,
and this is the remaining donation funds
we have for future use.
I think it would just make it much easier for us to
understand what's going on when something looks funny to us
or weird or whatever.
Thank you.
- Okay. Thank you. - Well, on the same lines, does anybody,
or can anybody explain what that was?
That mayor's expense?
- I cannot, Joanne asked a question by email
and Lori was out last week.
So by the next meeting
or within a couple days,
I know she'll probably return the email,
but we'll have an answer in the packet for the next meeting.
Okay.
- Okay. So I had a motion and a second to approve it.
We had a question that we'll consider.
How can we vote to approve the Consent Agenda?
- 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.
Next is Reports. Mayor is not here.
So we move to our junior council member. Mr. Larson,
- I just wanna use my time to let council know
that I've been working with Julie
to discuss some opportunities of some tours of like some
of the facilities Beaumont has to offer
and even some like projects that I can complete.
So I just wanna let you guys know.
- Thank you. Awesome. Good job Ms.
Thompson's not here.
Officer Whitmer is here.
Was there anything that you would like to, to say?
You don't have to, I'm just asking. You don't have anything?
Okay. Any other reports?
There's nobody else here, so that's good.
Everything else was submitted.
Next is our current and old business.
First item is the seed of COG.
Put out an announcement for an engineering firm to design
the suspension bridge renovation.
After being reviewed by the staff, a motion is recommended.
A motion and a second to select Barton
and log dice load ju load ju dice to perform the service
as they scored a 99.5 out of a hundred
on the selecting criteria. That's pretty good.
- So moved. - I'll second it. Thank
- You.Thank you Ann.
All right. Mr. Bernier? Yes. Mr. B 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. Next is the water service line.
Inventory information has been added
to the beante.net website.
The waters service line inventory is due to pa
DP no later than October 16th.
It would be helpful if customers sent in a picture
of their water service line, where it comes
through the wall into their structure.
More information can be found on the Borough's website.
Is that homes that were built before a certain time?
- Yes. The,
the council president is asking about the timelines.
In, in 1991,
led use in plumbing was banned across the state,
maybe across the nation.
I believe it was across the nation.
So any houses built
after 1991 are presumed to be led free in their plumbing,
including the service lines.
If the service lines were put in after 1991.
So that's part of the review. We, we are doing.
So those folks out there,
those customers on the Bell front system in particular,
but really any water system
after 1991,
it's presumed you have no lead in your plumbing.
So you would be okay.
You don't have to worry about sending in a picture.
We have to verify on our end based on documentation.
Even though that the house was built
after 1991, the structure was built, the water line went in.
That's what we have to do. But thanks,
that's a very good question. Okay.
- So that helps. Yes. Joan,
- I'm wondering about how we're going to try to make sure
that all of the customers
for the water authority are getting this.
Are I, last time we mentioned about putting it
out on the utility bills.
Yes. So my bill came this time.
The next one's not going to be
until September, October.
And it's going to be right after that date.
So is there something for the people
who got their bills this month to have some kind
of notice sent to them?
- We, we, we just finished,
I mentioned this at the last meeting.
We just finished a notice that was required.
There's only like a room for one
or two lines on the bill up until the June billing,
we were booked with this notice about our
consumer confidence report.
So that's done the next, the July bill
I understand is gonna go out about the middle of July.
We've already told our billing administrator
that please add this note about the service line inventory.
So we bill, we bill e and three groups.
So it'll be July, August, September.
We'll, on those three bills, you'll, you'll have a note.
Now, we, in the meantime,
we're still trying to get the word out.
Just as I'm doing here this evening,
we're gonna try to get the word out.
We, we added more information to our website.
We're gonna continue to try to get the word out through
the social media outlets, the authority outlets,
the council outlets, our website, you know, so we're,
we're gonna try to keep doing that.
We might do a press release, a couple other ways
to get the information out,
but that's what we're working on.
- Maybe a couple of radio spots or something might help.
I don't know if that would cost anything
or that would, could be considered a community report
and maybe she could, might be able to be free.
You could check with the radio stations.
- I, I'll pass that on to the authority.
A lot of times if we do a press release,
it's at least picked up at least by the news channels,
if not the radio as well.
- Can we use CNET for that as
- Well?
Well, we're here on cnet.
I mean, we're driving, I'm just saying that that's
- Something that they could just put on their programming.
- We, we don't, we cut the bulletin board years
ago 'cause of the expense.
So we just have CNET cover our meetings.
So again, this is as best we can do,
but we'll, we'll try to keep something on the agenda
to keep it in front of people.
- All right. Thank you. Before we move on to new business,
I failed to mention that Ms.
Purnell, Ms.
Sedgwick and myself attended the groundbreaking
for the new elementary school a week
or so ago, which was actually very neat.
Very interesting. The school board president
and the Superintendent spoke,
and I'm not gonna remember the facts that he spoke of
about how old that school was and how long it's been there,
but it was pretty interesting.
But it was very successful.
There were lots of people there, lots
of community members came out.
They had school buses, busing people back.
So it was pretty neat. Anyway, it was nice
to see everybody there, so it was a huge success.
Next is new business.
There's one item here that is in front of counsel
for a vote tonight is consider canceling the second council
meeting in August, August 19th.
Previous counsels have approved this
as a summer break from meeting schedule.
I'll need a motion and a second
to consider canceling the August 19th, 2024 meeting.
- I'll make that motion. I'll second it.
- Thank you. Discussion.
I think I forgot to say that the last
- Time.
How would we handle liaison reports since those are
typically the second meeting of every month, just bump them
to, to the first meeting in September.
- Probably we would do that and then we
would try to get the word out.
That's one reason why it's on tonight's agenda.
Like for harb applicants.
If, if we know that there's some in the wings that we try
to get the word out that there would not be in August.
The second meeting in August.
- Okay. Thank you. Sure. - Alright.
- 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? Yep.
- Thank you. That's it
unless anyone has anything else they'd like
to say. For council members.
- Motion to Adjourn.
- Motion to Adjourn. Second. Thank you.
Meeting is adjourned.
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