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[1:11] - Good evening. I'd like
[1:12] to call the Belfont Borough Council Business
[1:14] Meeting to order.
[1:16] It's Monday, July 6th,
[1:18] and first thing would be to have our Pledge of Allegiance.
[1:28] - I pledge. Allegiance is alive,
[1:30] the United States of America,
[1:32] and two, the Republic for which stands, one
[1:34] by nation under God in Indivisible with liberty
[1:38] and justice wrong.
[1:44] - Deb, could I have a Roll Call please?
[1:46] - Mr. Brack? Bill Here. Ms. Clayton? Here. Ms.
[1:50] Down here. Mr. Eaton?
[1:52] - Here. - Mr. Johnson? Present. Ms. McKean? Here.
[1:57] Mr. Kelly? Here. Ms. TostiVasey is excused. Ms.
[2:01] Wilson Present. And Mayor Johnson here. Thank you.
[2:04] - Thank you. Deb. Additions to the council.
[2:08] You know Dave, I wonder if I should make
[2:10] that announcement about cnet unable to connect.
[2:13] Would do you mind? Sure.
[2:17] - Yes. Thank you, Mr. President.
[2:18] So we were notified
[2:19] before the meeting that CNET is having some technical
[2:22] difficulties that may prevent the broadcast from being
[2:26] done live on the YouTube channel this evening.
[2:29] It will of course be able to be watched
[2:32] after the meeting's concluded on the CNET website
[2:36] and CNET staff is currently working diligently
[2:39] to restore the live stream
[2:41] - And Alyssa did post something
[2:44] - And there is a notice on the website
[2:46] and on our social media.
[2:48] - Thank you David. Additions
[2:51] to the council meeting agenda in accordance
[2:53] with ACT 65 20 21.
[2:56] If a matter is not on the agenda,
[2:58] council cannot take official action on it.
[3:01] With some exceptions,
[3:02] the council can act on matters relating to potential
[3:06] or real emergencies.
[3:08] Council may add a matter of agency business to its agenda
[3:12] through a majority vote.
[3:13] The council should state the reason why
[3:15] action item is being added to the agenda.
[3:18] Is there any items, action items
[3:20] that counsel would like to add tonight?
[3:23] Hearing none will move on. Public Comment.
[3:26] Borough counsel intends to take Public Comment related
[3:28] to the motion that's on the floor
[3:30] after it has been duly made and seconded.
[3:33] The order of comments will be Public Comment then council
[3:36] comment, including proposed amendments by council members.
[3:41] If amendments are proposed the original
[3:43] to the original motion, the public will then only comment on
[3:46] the amendment before final votes are taken.
[3:50] You must be a Beon residence, a non-profit representative,
[3:53] a business owner,
[3:55] or an office official representative
[3:57] of another governmental agencies.
[4:00] Speakers shall identify themselves by name
[4:03] and street municipality if outside of the Borough Bellante.
[4:08] And those comments are limited to three minutes.
[4:12] Is there anybody in the public
[4:13] that would like to make a comment?
[4:17] I don't see anybody. So we'll move on to
[4:22] communications and I'm gonna ask Mr. Paul Polka
[4:25] if he would go through those for us.
[4:27] - Thank you, Mr. President Belfont,
[4:29] emergency Medical Services annual joint meeting.
[4:33] The Beon EMS eighth Annual Joint Meeting invitation
[4:37] for 7:00 PM on Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 sixth.
[4:41] This meeting will be held at Beon EMS located at 360 9
[4:45] Phoenix Avenue in Beon.
[4:47] R RSPs are requested to go
[4:51] to Mr. Scott wrote his email address is listed in the packet
[4:55] and RSVPs are due by Monday, July 27th.
[5:00] A reminder about the council vacancy for the South Ward,
[5:03] that Borough Council is accepting letters of interest
[5:05] and resumes from individuals interested in filling the
[5:08] vacant South Ward Council seat
[5:11] or the soon to be vacant South Ward Council seat.
[5:14] Letters of interest
[5:15] and resumes may be submitted to Alyssa Dockerty.
[5:18] Her email address is also in the packet,
[5:21] or they may be delivered
[5:22] to the Beon Borough Administrative office here at
[5:24] 3 0 1 North Spring Street.
[5:26] Submissions for the vacancy will be accepted
[5:30] through July 30th at 4:30 PM This
[5:34] is informational only.
[5:36] The Centre County Rec Recycling
[5:38] and Refuse Authorities 2026 Community Events schedule.
[5:43] Upcoming events include the Arts
[5:46] Festival Kids Day on July 8th,
[5:48] paper shredding events on August 29th and October 3rd.
[5:52] Lion Bash on September 3rd
[5:54] and the tire collection event on September 12th.
[5:57] Registration is currently open
[5:59] for the September 12th tire collection event.
[6:02] Again, this is informational only.
[6:05] And lastly, PENDOT will begin overnight resurfacing work on
[6:09] Route five 50 or Bishop Street in Beon.
[6:13] Actually, this suggests that it will be on July 6th,
[6:17] but I believe it's tomorrow because of the weather.
[6:20] So they're going to be one day delayed
[6:22] with their milling operations on Route five 50.
[6:26] They're going to, so everything
[6:28] that's in the packet will essentially be delayed by one day
[6:31] Milling to begin on July 9th, on five 50
[6:36] at High Street and on Bishop Street on July 7th.
[6:40] Work is going to be in the evening, beginning at 6:00 PM
[6:45] and 6:00 AM and it will include full width milling repaving
[6:49] and line PA painting.
[6:51] So we ask that vehicles
[6:54] be cautious when traveling through there.
[6:57] We will have flaggers, but also additional lane restrictions
[7:01] and minor delays.
[7:02] Thank you.
[7:04] - Thank you, David. Any questions on those
[7:07] announcements from counsel?
[7:12] - I have a question about the street paving on Bishop.
[7:14] Where on Bishop is it starting?
[7:16] Is it the entire length of Bishop Street? Do we know that?
[7:20] - I don't know the limits exactly.
[7:23] I can get an answer for you and follow
[7:25] - That might help the public who are, you know,
[7:28] wondering about parking and,
[7:30] and how much disruption there's gonna be.
[7:32] 'cause that Bishop Street's a pretty long stretch.
[7:37] - Absolutely. We'll get something too up on the website and,
[7:39] and get an announcement out when we Okay.
[7:40] Thank you. Can identify the area.
[7:43] - Great. Thanks Dave. Sure.
[7:45] Okay, we're gonna move on to the Consent Agenda.
[7:48] All items listed on the Consent Agenda are considered
[7:51] routine and will be acted upon by a single motion.
[7:56] There will be no separate discussion of these items
[7:58] unless members of the council request specific items
[8:02] to be removed for separate action.
[8:05] Is there any items that a council member
[8:08] would like to have removed?
[8:10] Yeah, I'll make the motion. Motion.
[8:13] - I'll second. - Thank you.
[8:20] No other question or nobody wants to remove anything? Fine.
[8:25] All those in favor of accepting the Consent Agenda
[8:28] as listed, say Aye.
[8:30] Aye. Opposed? Same sign. Motion carried.
[8:34] Next is reports,
[8:37] and this is our first meeting of the month, but we, Mr.
[8:41] Mayor, you have something for us tonight?
[8:45] - Yeah. Thank you. I would just like to applaud everybody
[8:49] who had a hand in the America two 50
[8:52] and Hometown Heroes celebration held on the 3rd of July.
[8:57] I know Deb Berger had a, a lot to do with that.
[9:01] And the, the event was a huge success
[9:04] even in the heat we had.
[9:06] The community came out
[9:07] and they supported the event, the parade, the program,
[9:11] the hometown banners that will hang.
[9:14] Just a, just a great event
[9:16] and another reason that our, our community is so great.
[9:18] Everybody came together to ensure the success of that.
[9:21] So thank you to everybody who had a hand in that.
[9:27] - Thank you Mayor. Great job. I, I at the presentation.
[9:32] Well done. Okay.
[9:35] We'll move on to current and old business.
[9:40] So I'm looking for a motion
[9:41] and a second to approve the Potter Street
[9:44] Water main replacement
[9:46] for the 2026 CDBG project. I make the motion.
[9:51] - Okay. - Well, Mr. Heaton, I'll second it. Ms.
[9:54] Wilson, thank you. Any discussion on this?
[10:00] No discussion. All those in favor say aye. Aye.
[10:05] Opposed? Same sign. Motion carried.
[10:10] Carried motion.
[10:12] Second to approve Centre County on behalf of Beon Borough
[10:16] to submit an application to Pennsylvania Department
[10:18] of Community Development Community
[10:21] and Economic Development for fiscal FFY 2026
[10:25] Community development block grant entitlement funding
[10:29] for the Potter Street Water main replacement.
[10:33] Do I have a motion and a second for that?
[10:36] - I'll make that motion. - Thank you, John.
[10:38] I'll second Hakeem. Thank you.
[10:40] Shawna, do you have a,
[10:43] a little display we could tell the public of, of
[10:46] what this is and what's what it's about, please?
[10:49] - Yes. Thank you. So up here behind me, we have the aerial
[10:54] of the project that we are proposing
[10:57] for the 2026 Community Development block grant funding.
[11:00] It's along South Potter Street, approximately beginning,
[11:06] I would say right about in this area between well close
[11:10] to the intersection of South Thomas Street
[11:12] and then continuing all the way until,
[11:16] or I'm sorry, I'm a little bit too far down.
[11:18] It's gonna begin right about where Missoula Park, you see
[11:23] where the cursor is in my laser pointer.
[11:26] And then continuing for a little bit less than a mile
[11:31] to Oh, thank you.
[11:34] To where there's a, a multifamily development.
[11:39] I think you wanna keep going a little bit more?
[11:41] Yeah, right, right about the intersection with Hillary
[11:44] and where it turns into Burg Road.
[11:46] So it's a segment of water main that is,
[11:50] is leaking pretty significantly.
[11:51] We've done some patchwork on it,
[11:54] but this will, if successful, enable the replacement of
[11:58] that water main and provide for, you know, higher,
[12:01] higher quality service to those residents.
[12:04] And also we'll reduce some of the inflow
[12:06] and infiltration that we experience in that area.
[12:09] So some of the leakages from the system.
[12:11] So all in all staff believes this
[12:13] is a good candidate project.
[12:15] We appreciate council support of moving forward
[12:18] with this CDBG application.
[12:20] We do have a, a couple of years to program for it
[12:24] and we don't have a preliminary cost estimate.
[12:27] I believe our CDBG award is around $116,000.
[12:33] So it may not be enough to do the entirety of it,
[12:35] but we will be able to get a little bit more details
[12:39] as we begin the design work.
[12:41] Qualifying this project was a little bit of,
[12:45] a little bit difficult, but we were able to validate
[12:49] that it met CDBG guidelines
[12:51] and I just want to thank our staff for
[12:54] their work in doing their due diligence to make sure
[12:57] that this project was a good fit.
[12:59] We believe that it will be a, a good opportunity for us to
[13:04] improve that dilapidated Water Maine.
[13:07] If there's any questions, I can answer them.
[13:13] - It looks like that runs out just about to our Borough line
[13:18] at the Yeah, that's about where the Borough line is.
[13:22] Beon Borough line. Yeah, that's, it's a good project.
[13:27] - Just a question. Will that close that street for the,
[13:31] for the entirety of that project
[13:33] - Pro?
[13:34] Probably a little bit hard to tell.
[13:35] We, we would want to, we would ensure
[13:37] that we have traffic controls in place.
[13:38] If we had to do temporary closures, our goal would be
[13:41] to keep at least one lane open.
[13:43] It's a pretty narrow right of way.
[13:45] So we would have a limited space to work with,
[13:48] but we would have to trench it and, and replace the main.
[13:52] So there would have to, I'm sure there
[13:54] will be some disruption.
[13:55] It's just too early.
[13:56] We haven't done any real design work to be able
[13:58] to say specifically what that might look like,
[14:00] but we'll have to talk about traffic controls
[14:02] as we get a little closer to,
[14:04] - Is it directly under the road or is it
[14:07] - That, that's my understanding is Yeah, it's,
[14:09] it's directly under the, typically where our,
[14:11] I mean it might be a little bit in toward the shoulder,
[14:13] so we might be able to get away with keeping the,
[14:16] the road open to one way traffic
[14:18] or having some traffic controls.
[14:21] But we'll have to do a little more preliminary engineering
[14:25] and analysis before I think we can, we can firmly say what,
[14:29] what we'll be able to accommodate.
[14:31] - Okay. - Other questions?
[14:37] Okay. We have a motion and a second.
[14:40] All those in favor of the motion please say aye. Aye.
[14:45] Those opposed? Same sign. Motion carries unanimously.
[14:51] Okay. The next item, new business alternate appointment
[14:55] to the Spring Creek Watershed Commission.
[14:59] I'm looking for a motion
[15:00] and a second to appoint Zach Kelly as the alternate
[15:04] to the Spring Creek Watershed Commission.
[15:07] - I'll make that motion. - Thank you John.
[15:09] - I'll second it. Dan.
[15:10] - Thank you Barb. Any discussion?
[15:15] Zach? Thanks for stepping up to, for volunteering for that.
[15:20] All those in favor of the motion say aye. Aye. A Aye. Mr.
[15:25] President, I think we missed motion to under current and
[15:29] - Old business.
[15:31] - Did we did both of - Them? Yes. Yeah, we did.
[15:34] - You. Okay. Thanks Randy. So we just had a vote.
[15:41] Those opposed? Same sign. Motion carried unanimously.
[15:47] Thanks Zach. Next appointment
[15:50] to the COG Public Safety Committee.
[15:52] Recommended Deb Clayton to the COG Public Safety Committee.
[15:58] I'm looking for a motion to appoint Deb.
[16:00] - I'll make that motion. Dan. Thank you,
[16:01] - Barb.
[16:02] - I'll second it. Wilson.
[16:03] - Thank you Claudia. Any comments?
[16:07] Thank you Deb, for volunteering for that.
[16:10] All those in favor of the motion say aye. Aye. Aye.
[16:14] Those any opposed? Same sign.
[16:18] Motion carried unanimously
[16:20] - I - Public Comment
[16:24] regarding issues not on the agenda.
[16:26] The Public Comment period is for oral comments
[16:29] regarding items not listed on this meeting agenda,
[16:33] speakers shall have to identify themselves by name
[16:35] and street municipality if outside of the Borough of Beon
[16:39] comments are limited to three minutes maximum.
[16:43] We have no public in attendance right now.
[16:45] Is there anybody from council who wishes
[16:48] to make a Public Comment?
[16:50] We'll move on. Council member
[16:54] comments for the good of the order?
[16:58] Zach, we're gonna start over there.
[17:00] - No, I just thinking about my, okay.
[17:04] - Okay. Randy.
[17:10] - Okay, - Mr. Mayor,
[17:14] - I'm good, thank you. Okay,
[17:15] - Deborah, - Nothing this evening.
[17:17] Thank you
[17:19] - David.
[17:21] - No, sir. Barbara,
[17:23] - I do have something great.
[17:26] I live in the South Ward on South Monroe Street.
[17:29] We are now having a problem with a couple of feral cats.
[17:35] They look like they're someone's pets.
[17:37] They're very well cared for.
[17:40] I have a couple concerns about this.
[17:42] First of all, it's for the cat's wellbeing and safety.
[17:45] They should be kept indoors
[17:47] or kept on a leash when they are outside
[17:49] for their own safety.
[17:51] I'm also concerned about them using the lawns
[17:55] and other people's gardens as a litter box.
[17:58] It's quite unhealthy and annoying to a lot of us.
[18:02] We do have in our Ordinance some very specific
[18:09] legislation with cats at large and Noise by cats.
[18:13] It's 1 93 dash five.
[18:15] I would certainly recommend that if you have a cat
[18:17] and you are choosing to let it outside, please read
[18:20] that there are fines involved at some point with that.
[18:24] Most important is please take care of your cats. Thank you.
[18:30] - Thank you, Barb. Good points. Claudia?
[18:32] - Yes, I have two things. First, I'd like to thank Buddy
[18:36] for being the, the face of our Borough
[18:39] in a very hot situation.
[18:40] He did an excellent job and that that was a good parade
[18:43] and a good commitment by all the people
[18:46] that came out and that were in the parade.
[18:48] So thank you very much. Thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah.
[18:51] And then I wanted to to, to just kind of highlight that
[18:55] the Happy Valley Adventure Bureau gave out tourism grants
[18:59] and beon weighed in very heavily in those grants
[19:04] to the art museum, the craft fair, the Civil War,
[19:08] BHCA Civil War, the Library Museum, downtown
[19:13] Beon, historic Cruise, the Arts and Craft, and Victoria
[19:17] and Christmas and America two 50 and, and,
[19:22] and even the Kepler pool
[19:25] for $164,500 in grant money
[19:29] that we will receive that will benefit the Borough.
[19:36] - Great. Thank you Claudia,
[19:38] Shawna, John,
[19:42] - I'm just gonna comment,
[19:45] but I It's a good summary.
[19:54] - Anything, nothing. Alright.
[19:56] I too, thank you Mayor for your participation in the July
[20:01] parade and I, I mean it was so hot.
[20:05] You outstanding job. Thank you. I appreciate, appreciate it.
[20:10] That's all I have, so I'm looking for a motion
[20:14] to Adjourn. I'll
[20:15] - Make that motion.
[20:16] - Second. Thank you. We're adjourned.
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