[0:07] Everybody's wants to speak tonight as a please sign the sheet there so we have the information for the minutes later.

[0:22] There's two papers up there. You say there's two different sheets. Yeah, there's just one. Okay.

[0:29] Okay, we're going to open the public hearing for ordinance number five, 93 of the President touch up by the gay kind of for the main authorizing regulation, keeping the chickens for personal use. However,

[0:41] we're going to the table this meeting.

[0:46] hearing because we just got some more information from Allegheny County. So they

[0:51] want some more information that we've got to get back to them and then they have

[0:53] 45 days after that after we get back to them to look at it. So there's probably

[0:58] a lot to come up again until August or something. August is the earliest anyways.

[1:05] So the hearing? Yeah, the hearing. Yeah. So but if anybody wants to speak on this

[1:12] topic at the end and a public comment. So they can get the

[1:16] input test because we're going to look at redoing the ordinance

[1:18] again because of what we got from elegant county. So if they

[1:21] maybe wants to speak on at the end at the end of the meeting

[1:24] under public comment, we'd like to hear what everybody has to

[1:27] say on that topic. Can they speak in the beginning?

[1:30] She's an agenda item.

[1:33] I guess. Yeah, that on a public comment in the beginning. Okay,

[1:38] wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, we can start beginning in if you

[1:40] one. I don't care. Can I get a motion to table this so later? Second? Second. All

[1:50] favour? See if I buy saying aye. Aye. All right. Sorry about that.

[1:57] Okay, now we're

[1:59] going to close that. We'll close it, do we? Okay. No one else would be hurt.

[2:09] We're

[2:10] hearing for ordinance number 594.

[2:13] Accrescent talent should amend in chapter 430

[2:15] of the codified ordinance,

[2:16] regulate a time manner in place

[2:18] as sexually oriented business operations.

[2:20] Once again, same thing applies.

[2:22] We've got some more information back in the county,

[2:24] so we've got the table of that one also.

[2:28] Anybody want to speak on that?

[2:30] Once again, you can speak on that one too,

[2:32] but kind of get a motion to table this one.

[2:36] I'll make that motion.

[2:37] Second.

[2:38] Second.

[2:39] All five. Oh, the favor? Sing five by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Hearing none.

[2:46] We'll move on from that one. We'll close that one. Okay, and we're also going to revise the agenda.

[2:53] Uh, we're going to add ordinance number 595, authorize the manager to advertise ordinance number 595,

[2:59] ratifying the actions of the press and touch of commissioners.

[3:02] You know, electing to amend the police pension plan and administering

[3:06] Minister by the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement Systems PMRS, pursuant to article 4 of the Pennsylvania

[3:13] Municipal Retirement Law, via resolution 29-2022 adopted December 14, 2022.

[3:20] Agreed to be found by all provisions of the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement Law is amended,

[3:25] and is applicable to member municipalities.

[3:29] Based on what all are saying is, we have to do it by ordinance instead of resolution.

[3:33] Right.

[3:33] What all it is is that the board took action via resolution because that's what the

[3:39] pension folks said was acceptable.

[3:42] The audit folks are saying no, it should have been done by an ordinance, so we're just

[3:47] ratifying what was done by a resolution by an ordinance, and the only difference between

[3:51] the two is that an ordinance is advertised.

[3:57] Okay.

[3:59] We need motion to add that to the agenda.

[4:03] I'll make that motion.

[4:04] Second.

[4:04] second. Second. First and second. All favorite say aye opposed it's added. Okay now

[4:12] also can add resolution number 12 2023 formally requesting at 152 funding for

[4:17] the demolition of lighter properties and crescent township. I get a motion

[4:23] that that one. First and second. All favorite say five by saying aye opposed

[4:30] hearing then we had that one. Resolution number 13-2023 declaring that structures

[4:37] individually collectively constitute a blighter properties in this

[4:39] appaulity. I get a motion to put that one on there. Second, first and second,

[4:49] all in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, hearing none.

[4:54] Add to the agenda, the promotion of

[4:58] Brian Teish from part-time officer to a full-time officer.

[5:04] Provisional promotion.

[5:06] Provisional promotion.

[5:08] Provisional promotion from part-time to full-time officer.

[5:11] That's it.

[5:12] What's the thing is, we'll get to it.

[5:13] I'll make the motion.

[5:16] Second.

[5:18] We have a first and second.

[5:19] All in favor, see this by by saying aye.

[5:21] Aye.

[5:22] Opposed?

[5:23] And then?

[5:24] Should we do on standard, some?

[5:26] Resonation?

[5:30] I guess you can formally accept it.

[5:33] Okay, I guess we'll add that one, too.

[5:36] Resignation letter of officer Tyler Chandler

[5:40] from the Crescent Township Police Department.

[5:42] He got a job somewhere else.

[5:45] We add that to it.

[5:47] Have we got motions?

[5:49] I think that motion.

[5:50] Second?

[5:50] Second.

[5:51] All favorites.

[5:52] See if I buy saying aye.

[5:53] Aye.

[5:54] Opposed?

[5:54] Very none. How about this one? That's just something we have to do when we move.

[5:59] Okay. All right. Well, that's enough.

[6:05] Well, that'd be known that we're also an executive session from six o'clock to six,

[6:13] or, yeah, six fifty for personnel issues and legal issues.

[6:20] Now, that's called as being record meeting to order and it stands through to fly police.

[6:41] I'm sorry, but a lot of stuff came in the last two days. That's why we want to get

[6:44] it on here. So, it, the agenda went on. We'll have to come in today. So, if we're going

[6:49] to get it, I'll take care of. Uh, roll call, please.

[6:54] Mr. Chapura, Mr. Bishop Rossi, Mr. Whithey, Mr. Whiteman, Mr. Miller, Far Chief

[7:03] as President,

[7:05] Interim Chief Acting Officer in Charge, so you're his President Manager

[7:14] as President and so is Engineer.

[7:17] And Public Works Director, sorry.

[7:19] There he is.

[7:20] Yep, you back here.

[7:22] Okay, while we table the public hearing, but they may want to speak on behalf of the chickens.

[7:29] I do, I'm David Mitchell, 14 tender, you wrote the question.

[7:35] I have given you a paper that I'll read for you.

[7:42] We believe that the role of clinical leaders who are charged with regulation of residential activities

[7:49] should aim for the minimum freedom and minimum barriers to the desires of

[7:58] presidents while protecting the rights of all. There is no need for a

[8:03] chicken-raising ordinance at this time. A large number of residents actively

[8:08] raising chickens now. No complaints have been received about chicken-raising.

[8:14] Residential chicken raising is enjoyable, but not profitable.

[8:20] Even minimal complaints costs, demands, and risks

[8:26] will cause residents to avoid or cease chicken raising.

[8:31] Advising residents now to properly raise chickens is needed.

[8:37] Chicken raising can be improved by providing information

[8:42] about how to properly enjoy and protect chickens

[8:45] while avoiding disturbance of others.

[8:48] I recognize experts in using the guidelines

[8:51] of this ordinance proposal

[8:53] and describe best chicken raising in practices.

[8:57] Such a handout available to residents should solve our needs.

[9:03] If nuisances do develop later,

[9:05] monetization of nuisance ordinance can be designed

[9:09] and to deal with them respectfully submitted by David Mitchell and maybe Courtney.

[9:17] Thank you.

[9:19] Question?

[9:23] No, not this time.

[9:24] I'll go ahead and speak now.

[9:25] Okay, sure.

[9:29] So when we, Anne-Madey, works in a way from a few of David Mitchell's, my father.

[9:38] And we, I know I've mentioned this before to the court, but we've been raising chickens

[9:44] on our property for, well, we've lived on the property for what, 12 or 13 years.

[9:51] And so, and when I was growing up as a kid, we raised chickens too.

[9:55] So, when we first heard that the township rule orders wanted a chicken ordinance, I was

[10:06] very interested.

[10:07] And I read over the first proposed ordinance, and I actually felt very threatened because I

[10:13] thought, so I'll take one of my chickens because in the first proposed ordinance, there was

[10:19] So maximum number of chickens of four, and I have eight and so then I started doing some

[10:29] research and I found some other chicken owners in that township.

[10:34] And to be perfectly honest, I never knew they were here.

[10:37] And nobody that I talked to really knew about any other chicken owners.

[10:41] and I think the reason why is because they all raise their chickens responsibly.

[10:52] And they're quiet and they're peaceful and they follow their rules.

[10:57] And they do it in respectful way of other residents and neighbors.

[11:04] I also found, when we were researching, I also found an expert in chickens at Penn State

[11:15] and he's a professor at Penn State.

[11:18] And he has written an excellent set of guidelines for backyard chicken raising.

[11:26] and his document is on the Penn State Extension website.

[11:33] It's extremely thorough and easy to understand and follow.

[11:39] Do you have the title or that?

[11:42] I guess I do.

[11:44] You can give it to me afterwards.

[11:49] So I do agree, you know, as I sign this page,

[11:53] I do agree that the proposed ordinance just seems very restrictive and expensive and

[12:06] to be honest threatening to anybody who might be interested in raising chickens,

[12:12] which is a very fun hobby, but it's not, you know, something you have a lot of money to do.

[12:20] so that's much. Thank you. Thank you.

[12:26] Be sure.

[12:28] All right. Well, thank you. And believe me, our goal is not to hurt anybody, but what it

[12:34] is is if we don't have something in place and we get somebody in there who brings in chickens,

[12:40] roosters and they're not respectful as you are and they have besides someone in New York,

[12:47] we can't control them because they don't grant their grandfather then.

[12:51] And that's the problem we have.

[12:54] So I mean, there's nothing to say, if someone's going to come in and be as good about

[12:57] as you are, they can come in and they think, well, I got free rating chickens, I'm going

[13:01] to let them go over in neighborhood.

[13:03] And I actually used to live besides someone who had a rooster, and I heard every morning.

[13:09] But we had, this is, I'm going back 20 years.

[13:13] And if we don't have something in place, these people can do that, and we can't control it.

[13:16] Can I respond to that?

[13:19] Yes.

[13:20] Okay.

[13:21] Good.

[13:24] Those exact things would all be included in this set of guidelines that would be, you know,

[13:30] approved, you know, by the board, by the township that, you know, somebody called and said,

[13:36] I'd really like to raise some chickens.

[13:38] Does the township allow it?

[13:40] Well, I guess we do.

[13:41] So, and you need to get a copy of the guidelines, the chicken raising guidelines, which, you know,

[13:48] the township has approved, and you need to follow all of these, and if we got to complain

[13:55] against you, then, you know, we were hoping that any complaints would fall under the public

[14:02] nuisance.

[14:03] But see, that's what the ordinance is, the ordinance is a guideline.

[14:07] That's the guidelines on how to do it.

[14:09] And that also gives us the arm to reach out arm to law if they don't follow it to do something to them.

[14:16] What does this report with the newsletz follow?

[14:19] That it became a newsletz.

[14:21] That it followed under your public newsletz.

[14:23] I don't know if our public newsletz actually has something in there about chickens.

[14:27] There is something in there about chickens, but the newsletz is a newsletz in there describing the newsletz in the town.

[14:34] And those can be simply addressed in the newsletz.

[14:50] But just like you said, if a person called us and said, can I rig, what that person doesn't

[14:54] call on your son, his has chickens in there.

[14:57] Now, son.

[15:00] I'm not playing devil's advocate with you, but okay, now the person living beside them, they're going to put up with for two weeks. Now, they're going to come into town and say, I got a problem. We're going to send the police down there. Police are going to send them, okay, you can't get rid of them. They don't get rid of them. We sent them with the citation. The citation goes down to court. The court is going to let it go. You don't get to get a hearing for a month or two. Meanwhile, this has been going on for at least four months.

[15:28] I can actually give an example of something what he's talking about.

[15:31] A few years ago, we had feuding neighbors over a campfire, right?

[15:39] And one neighbor was tired of the whole neighborhood getting filled with smoke, sent the officers

[15:44] up there, gave him a citation, went down the magistrate, magistrate says, your ordinances

[15:49] doesn't have anything to do with a fine or an arrest or anything like that, and kicked

[15:55] it back to us.

[15:56] and like there was nothing that we could do.

[15:58] And this guy, the resident was claiming

[16:03] that there was smoke filling the whole neighborhood

[16:05] and it was becoming a problem.

[16:08] There was words on Crescent Shatter about it.

[16:11] But it was something that we couldn't,

[16:13] there was physically nothing that we could do about it

[16:15] until we amended the fire ordinance,

[16:18] the camp fire ordinance to be able to,

[16:20] hey, if you're not following these rules,

[16:22] like this is what's going to happen.

[16:23] There's other ordinances that are being broken every day that nothing happens.

[16:28] I deal with it every day.

[16:31] You know what I'm saying?

[16:31] Your ordinances are just, it's, it's, it's worse.

[16:35] There's no enforcement of them.

[16:38] Our police officers aren't going around looking for, like, for trouble, like looking to cause resident problems.

[16:44] They're trying to, like, just keep the peace.

[16:47] I understand.

[16:47] But if somebody calls, if you call about an ordinance petition, I have, I have for three years, so I'm just saying it's just it's a personal experience.

[16:59] Where I'm from.

[17:01] Okay, so but we will take your concerns into consideration.

[17:05] We're going to, we're going to, we're going to review this all again.

[17:09] And we will have a public hearing in the future, so you'll be able to come back.

[17:13] and express any additional concerns or relief from concerns that we're hopefully able to do that.

[17:21] I have written comments that we've offered have been well thought out.

[17:26] They're not, they're not ahead items that haven't been looked at carefully.

[17:33] There's no need for an ordinance right now.

[17:36] There hasn't been any complaints.

[17:39] There are many people that would like to do raised chickens here, but they're not given

[17:44] us any problems.

[17:46] We shouldn't anticipate problems from them.

[17:48] If we need to tell people if they want to raise chickens how they should raise them, and

[17:54] that does not need to be an official act of the township.

[17:57] That can be a piece of paper that is made available, that is drifted by and put together

[18:03] to suit our conditions in this town.

[18:06] If an armed desire is in this town,

[18:08] but give good practice on how you raise and protect

[18:11] chickens and protect your neighbors

[18:15] to make sure you're not

[18:17] trampling on somebody else's.

[18:18] Oh, what if that person doesn't care

[18:19] what your neighbor with above his neighbors?

[18:21] Excuse me.

[18:21] What if that person doesn't care about your neighbors?

[18:23] He wants to raise chickens, he'll do whatever he wants to do.

[18:24] Oh, he's not gonna care about your neighbors

[18:25] because if he doesn't, the nuisance ordinance

[18:28] will take care of telling him he's not allowed

[18:31] How to do this because you're disturbing the bees.

[18:33] Mr. Measure, we completely understand your argument,

[18:35] we completely understand your points that you've made.

[18:37] We will take them in the series.

[18:38] Yeah, we'll look at problems.

[18:40] Thank you.

[18:40] I'm just to clarify, we have had a complaint about

[18:43] a resident and crescent that is harboring chickens

[18:46] without an accrued coop and letting them run at large

[18:49] and has multiple chickens that would not be permitted

[18:53] under this ordinance.

[18:54] We don't have right now a document that tells them

[18:59] how they should raise chickens.

[19:00] I think people in this town who want to follow the rules, they want to comply, but they

[19:07] do not want to have such elaborate rules that, first of all, they can't understand them,

[19:11] and secondly, they get too expensive for them to be able to enjoy the things that they

[19:16] want to pursue.

[19:17] So, I think that has to be carefully understood.

[19:20] And my recommendation here now is that this proposal for an ordinance for raising chickens we referred back to the planning commission where we can get a paper drafted that will be advisory for people who want to raise chickens so you can answer the question of what do I do if I want to raise chickens in the township?

[19:47] Thank you.

[19:48] We'll discuss it.

[19:50] Here in your comments, I appreciate what you're saying.

[19:55] I also believe in a small government situation

[19:58] and giving people freedom to act properly.

[20:02] It doesn't always happen.

[20:05] But I appreciate what you're saying.

[20:09] I am turning my opinion about the chicken ordinance

[20:14] also in that there's going to be, I'm going to have some corrections because there is still the ordinance still says he will be

[20:27] possibly imprisoned for chickens. I brought this up the last one. I don't know if I wasn't hurt or if I was misunderstood.

[20:35] But I specifically said, how can we have an ordinance about chicken that puts the possibility

[20:43] of someone for 15 days in jail when have a sexually oriented business operations with

[20:50] no jail time in it?

[20:52] Every summary offense, every summary offense, which either spell any offenses, there's misdemeanor

[20:58] offenses, and there's summary offenses, which are basically slaps on the hand, track

[21:04] traffic tickets, harassment, this small time disorderly conducts things of that nature.

[21:11] When a local municipality creates an ordinance like that that has a penalty, it's equal

[21:19] to analogous to a summary offense.

[21:23] And every summary offense is punishable by up to 90 days in jail, everyone.

[21:29] But you know, anybody that's ever been in prison for,

[21:33] sorry, it doesn't happen.

[21:34] It just simply doesn't happen.

[21:36] But it's in the law that you can be punished

[21:39] for a summary offense for up to 90 days.

[21:42] And I've been practicing law enough with 33 years.

[21:45] And I don't know anybody that's ever gone to jail

[21:47] for one day, one hour on a summary offense.

[21:50] It's a $300 fine, basically.

[21:52] But that's in the law.

[21:54] But our ordinance is insane that neither one of our

[21:58] They should sort of be equal in their penal provisions was defined to have a heavier penalty for any violations.

[22:07] Financially, but doesn't say anything about gel time, at least what I went through.

[22:15] But certainly language brought that up the last time.

[22:18] That language can come out.

[22:21] It's in there because it's all he's sitting there.

[22:25] And that's not a good reason sometimes.

[22:27] It does say subject to imprisonment for a period of time not to exceed 30 days, and then if they fail to correct it within that, then it's 90 days.

[22:38] I thought it was in there. Which ones have one for?

[22:41] Essentially.

[22:41] Yeah, we did put the gel time in there.

[22:44] We just didn't take it out of the chicken organs because it's part of the.

[22:49] I think if you look at our codified ordinances, they all say the same thing, but they're all summary offenses, but in the back it says.

[22:55] What's the summary?

[22:56] It says they can all opt to jail time up to 30 days.

[23:00] There's no magistrate that will ever, I don't know what you would have to do to offend

[23:08] a magistrate to get a jail sentence on a summary of fancy, even though it's available to the

[23:15] magistrate or just to do that, is it going to happen?

[23:22] But we'll look at that.

[23:22] We may take that out.

[23:26] Okay.

[23:26] Okay, because I'm looking at, I like to page five of the chicken and page 18 of the ordinance

[23:40] with the sexually business.

[23:44] And I, I, I've missed that.

[23:46] I don't see that anywhere.

[23:48] Janice had it.

[23:49] Janice.

[23:50] What was the page?

[23:51] Page was it on?

[23:52] It's on page.

[23:53] It's on page.

[23:58] It will be subject to a summary, criminal proceeding before the match of stereo district judge.

[24:06] If they are convicted of the violation, send us to pay a fine, not more than 500 per violation per day in the cost of a court, any person or other entity who feels to pay, court costs, attorney fees, etc.

[24:21] within 30 days of the imposition thereof may be subject to imprisonment for a period of time not to exceed 30 days.

[24:28] So the magistrate straight would have to enforce that.

[24:33] That was QC.

[24:35] Yes.

[24:39] Thank you.

[24:40] And then if it goes on to say if they failed to correct it within 90 days, their permit is revoked.

[24:47] For any subsequent events, for person corporation or entity, they will be charged with a misdemeanor of the third degree.

[24:54] and upon convention shall be fine not less than 1,000 or more than 3,000 plus

[24:59] plus. Thank you. All right, I'll move it. I'll take a second. We in the public

[25:07] hearing where it's 5.94. We also want to say about that. I think you messed with

[25:12] the table also. Okay. All right. Number six. Motion to approve the minutes.

[25:18] from May 10th, 2023. First and second. All in favor, excuse me if I'm not by saying aye.

[25:24] Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

[25:28] A motion for approval of the June

[25:30] 2023 Trasers report. I'll make that motion. Second. Second. Second by

[25:37] Mike. All in favor, excuse me if I'm not by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Hearing none?

[25:43] That passes. Motion to ratify action taken at paying the May 23, 23 bills as shown in the

[25:50] check detailed data, May 5, 23 to June 9, 23.

[25:54] I'll make that motion.

[25:56] Second.

[25:57] First and second. I'll favor signify by saying aye.

[26:02] Opposed? Hearing none. Motion for the approval of the June 23 bills is listed on the

[26:12] coming in the month of May 2023. Should I be June 2023? Yes. I'm sorry about that. That's all

[26:22] make a question.

[26:26] Second. First and a second. All in favor, excuse me if I'm by saying aye.

[26:30] Aye. Opposed? Hearing none. That's going to rule business. Motion of dog board in this

[26:37] number five. Oh, okay. We table that on. Do you have to vote to table that? Where we did

[26:42] the vote to table. We did. We did. Actually, then before you called the meeting the order. Yeah. You took

[26:48] a, there was a vote. Okay. And we did, we did for both of them. Did, did you have the recorder run

[26:52] when you did that? No. Okay. And we'll do it again. But I have notes. Okay. You want to eat? There

[26:57] wasn't motions made. Yes, there was. Oh, there was.

[27:02] There was motion. Oh, wait. Rich and Mike

[27:03] tabled 5.93. Rich and Mike tabled 5.94. And then there was the, there was the motions of

[27:09] check it's to add the various items to the agenda as well and that all 34 public

[27:15] comments so they were available for public comment.

[27:21] And I have that as well so.

[27:23] Okay, we're right along. New business. Most of the grand final plan approval to

[27:30] the River Ridge plan with additional development. Here we go.

[27:35] Thank you.

[27:36] My name is Robert.

[27:36] I'm a chef wearing a company.

[27:38] And I'm here to present, again,

[27:41] Green Bridge Development.

[27:43] I'm here to see it previously.

[27:46] I'll give you one of the approval.

[27:48] And I'm just going to say in time,

[27:50] I'll let you know that nothing has changed since the last time I've

[27:53] seen this program.

[27:54] So the same number of lots, units, nothing,

[27:58] did all this change.

[27:59] So of course, your section here is about units on the end.

[28:11] The last time you were here, there was some residents that were concerned, I believe they're

[28:17] concerned about the sensors for shift in the hillside.

[28:24] We're going to be put in, is that consideration you made?

[28:28] So essentially what we're doing is cutting the top of the hill off and building on that flat in the area where we're cutting off is currently actually hauling on that dirt on the site.

[28:40] So there's no good, it's going to be built on the field, all the field's being removed.

[28:46] So from a geotechnical standpoint, it's a very stable situation.

[28:53] Is that motion to approve the Riversbridge PRD contingent upon the execution of a developer's

[29:02] agreement?

[29:03] Yeah.

[29:03] Okay.

[29:04] We do the same time.

[29:06] Yeah.

[29:07] We're going to have to have a contingent on what the execution of the stormwater management

[29:13] agreement.

[29:14] So there's a few.

[29:22] So we have a few minor comments from the county that still need addressed, and then there's a few minor items from our last review letter that need addressed, which none of its, you know, detrimental plan or anything.

[29:35] It's just some minor notes on the plan, so there wouldn't be a problem in our eyes to approve it contingent upon those comments.

[29:44] And you understand as contingencies, right?

[29:46] Yes.

[29:47] And you accept those.

[29:49] In the plans now correctly indicate the responsibility of the detention funds, at the

[29:55] conditional use approval, one of the conditions where the plans need to correctly indicate.

[30:06] Okay. And then that will be in the stormwater maintenance and then the landslide monitoring that will be included in the developer's agreement. So that will be also in crescent as it isn't. Okay.

[30:21] Now, is LSS even have a final review once they get everything submitted? Yeah. Once they get everything submitted, what they get a clean plan to sign and execute.

[30:31] You can get recorded.

[30:33] Which I don't, did you send us,

[30:34] because we had to comment letter back in May.

[30:37] I don't know if I've ever saw a response to that.

[30:40] Yes, you did.

[30:41] To our, we had a review letter, May 19th.

[30:45] That'll be a minute since then.

[30:48] Okay, I don't remember seeing that.

[30:52] And you received the,

[30:54] you know, you received the review by the county.

[30:57] As far as the recorder updates,

[30:59] That will all need to be fixed on the plans to just want to verify that I just want to make sure you got it

[31:10] Well, I guess we're looking for a motion and

[31:13] Go ahead and approve as long as all those other things are taking care of so so we can tension on other other things being approved

[31:25] First and second all favors you're gonna have by saying aye aye opposed hearing none

[31:37] Okay. Let's look at the new business B. Resolution 11, number 11, 2023. Sending fees to

[31:47] pause as other amounts of certain application permits and license required by the

[31:50] car fire ordinances of the touch of a crescent. I want we're going to table that one

[31:54] too. So to get back into so we're asking for the B table because are you making

[32:02] the former motion. Yes.

[32:07] We're going to table it just so we can further review. She made a motion

[32:10] to the table. Okay, motion to the table. Second. Second. First a second. All

[32:16] favorites you want by saying aye. Aye. I do want to comment after investigating some misunderstandings.

[32:26] We will take into account and have to take it back to to our board. And Janice and I had discussed

[32:33] about the alcohol permits and such which she's going to be looking into to

[32:41] raise some things up for a separate order for the aff. This is for the park rental.

[32:48] The park, the park. Just some changing of some wording even

[32:54] of, instead of renting the entire park, is renting the

[32:59] because the land is not for rent, but the

[33:02] buildings are.

[33:05] Okay.

[33:08] That's all of our stuff.

[33:10] Probably can't have all the other new stuff.

[33:14] Oh, the other ones.

[33:15] Yeah, I guess they got it.

[33:16] Okay.

[33:16] Now we go back.

[33:18] Okay.

[33:18] Let's go order number 595.

[33:22] Which will be number 11c?

[33:25] Okay.

[33:26] Let me get one.

[33:26] Okay.

[33:26] Okay, so I'm just writing it down. 11th season will be ordinance number 595.

[33:33] Authorized manager to advertise ordinance number 595, gratifying the actions of the

[33:38] Crescent Tonshu commissioners and electing to amend its police pension plan administered

[33:44] by the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System pursuant to Article 4 of the Pennsylvania

[33:48] Municipal Retirement Law of the Resolution 29-22 adopted December 14, 2022, agreeing to

[33:55] be bombed by other provisions of the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement Law as amended and as

[34:01] applicable to memory municipalities. Once again, it's just we did it by ordinance. We had

[34:07] a, I mean, we did, do we? Okay. All right. Can I get the motion for that?

[34:17] I'll make that motion. And a second. A second. Well, first a second. All right.

[34:24] Okay, so I guess 11-D will be Resolution No. 12, 2023, formally requesting Act 152 funding for a demolition of blighter properties in Crescent Township.

[34:38] That's going to get some blighter properties toward home.

[34:42] I'll make a motion.

[34:45] Second.

[34:46] Second.

[34:46] Good.

[34:47] All in favor.

[34:48] Oh, yeah.

[34:49] First second.

[34:50] All in favor.

[34:50] Second.

[34:51] Second.

[34:51] I was saying hi.

[34:52] Hi.

[34:53] Opposed?

[34:54] Hearing none.

[34:55] The passes.

[34:56] Okay.

[34:57] So, be 11e.

[34:59] Declaring the structure.

[35:01] It will be resolution 13, 2023.

[35:05] Declaring the structures individually and collectively constitute lighter properties in the municipality.

[35:12] What does that mean?

[35:13] Is that all about that specifically

[35:19] says that all the properties that we are submitting to the grant are

[35:23] Blighted properties and the proper owners have been properly notified and all the proper paper work has been completed by the solicitor I believe.

[35:40] Okay.

[35:46] No, this is people that it's actually kind of paid your taxes and it's falling down at the lapidator.

[35:53] It's longer paying your taxes and stuff like that, they're fine.

[35:56] You don't qualify, you don't qualify for Act 152 funding if your taxes are made up.

[36:02] Okay.

[36:03] So this resolution declares these as blighted properties, that's what this means.

[36:08] Okay.

[36:08] Yes, the first resolution authorized us to submit for the grant to demolish them.

[36:14] Okay.

[36:15] Do I have a first?

[36:16] A second on it?

[36:17] Nope.

[36:18] Now a first.

[36:18] A motion?

[36:20] Second.

[36:22] Now we have a first and second.

[36:23] All the favors being filed by saying aye.

[36:25] Aye.

[36:26] Here.

[36:27] Opposed?

[36:27] Hearing none?

[36:29] Okay.

[36:32] How about a motion for the provisional promotion of Bryantice from part-time to full-time

[36:37] officer?

[36:49] We have got to leave in us, we've got to get a guy hired real quick so we're okay to go to hire him but still be conditional that he passes all the

[37:00] stuff he has to do for civil service.

[37:02] The first class township code permits a township to hire an individual provisionally if there is sufficient need to do that without going through the civil service process to create a list before you before you hire them, but that provisional point provisional appointment is only good for 90 days.

[37:27] During that time, the Civil Service Commission has to act and then certify and qualify the individuals to be, take the provisional part away and hire them properly as a full-time officer, unprovisional, I should say.

[37:46] Brian has been an officer here for 15, 20 years, whatever it is. He won't have a problem

[37:52] passing it. I'm going to make a motion. Second?

[37:56] Second.

[37:57] First and second. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed. Hearing none. Congratulations

[38:03] to Brian.

[38:06] Is that all of our stuff under there now? Yeah. Okay, now we can move on.

[38:09] We are, we wanted to formally accept the resignation of officer. Oh, I did write that

[38:13] Okay, we did to it. I'll be enough. That would be a G. He was F. Oh, that one was F there. Okay, G is

[38:22] resignation.

[38:26] Yeah, Officer Tyler Chandler is um, he's been being pursued by a lot of departments

[38:32] and now he's moving on to another department. We hate to lose him. He's been a good officer here.

[38:39] but you know kids don't stick around anymore they want to leave. We wish him well

[38:45] and nothing but the best form. Can I get a motion to accept his resignation?

[38:52] No, my motion, exactly. Second? Oh second.

[38:56] First second, all favor? Signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Hearing none? I guess we lost them.

[39:05] Okay, now we can move on. I'm just trying to move things along, all right. Can I ask you a question?

[39:10] Okay. His resignation is effective July 29th. Do we?

[39:17] June 29th.

[39:18] Thank you.

[39:20] June 29th, I'm having trouble with my dates today.

[39:23] Do we know when his last day scheduled is?

[39:26] I don't know that right now.

[39:28] Okay.

[39:31] Okay.

[39:32] If you could get that for me, I'd appreciate it.

[39:36] Okay.

[39:39] All right.

[39:39] Everybody's has been in today.

[39:40] Thank you.

[39:41] On the public comment.

[39:44] Dave Mitchell again.

[39:46] I wanted to ask you when you're having an ordinance, a new ordinance of being announced in

[39:53] plus four keys and for the penalties.

[40:00] Are there not amounts with the ordinance so that public can know whether to oppose that part of the ordinance or not?

[40:10] They are.

[40:11] That was not even authored in the ordinance for chickens for example.

[40:16] And that would have an enormous effect on many of the people who would just simply not

[40:23] care to participate if they have a high cost of the entry.

[40:27] I'm surprised to hear that I believe that it was, but if it wasn't, it should have been.

[40:32] It was just the fees to be announced.

[40:35] And there apparently are two different permits that are indicated there.

[40:40] as they would need to be an illustration of what the lengths of involvement of a permanent

[40:50] application is and the fees that would be required.

[40:53] So what I should say to you is when the ordinances in final form then is subject to advertisement

[41:00] prior to enactment, those fees are in the final version of the ordinance.

[41:04] I guess when it goes to the planning commission, they weren't set because they didn't know what they wanted the planning commission to make some sort of recommendation to the Township Commissioners because that's the planning commissioners function as to recommend to the Township commissioners.

[41:20] So they had a template of what was being looked at or looked for and then once that comes back to the commission and they put it together in the format that they want to get advertised.

[41:31] And all of that is together so that the public could come for the public hearing and oppose

[41:37] Whatever parts are all of the ordinance. You wish to do

[41:42] When when another

[41:44] When when the board would consider

[41:48] An action whether it be an an ordinance or another action that would involve the public

[41:55] and when getting to a discussion of the

[42:00] the commissioners concerning the action that's to be taken.

[42:06] And the public have an opportunity to respond when they find out what the positions are that the commission's retained.

[42:13] So the Sunshine Law requires that the township, any local agency, provide a period of public comment for the public to comment on any matter of public concern.

[42:29] that may come before the board and that's basically anything and here here in

[42:35] Crescent Township they provide two periods of public comment one at the

[42:38] beginning and one at the end so I guess the answer to your question is not

[42:44] necessarily but here in Crescent you can comment the second time and comment on the

[42:52] commissioners position if you want to they do provide that extra periods are not

[42:56] required to under the Sunshine Law, but they go that effort effort to do that.

[43:00] That would need to come between the commissioners exposing their positions and their reasoning

[43:08] for whatever changes they make to the point of making a decision or making a vote that

[43:15] have to come between that and the vote otherwise that's the case.

[43:19] So if they didn't be immaterial.

[43:21] If the township didn't provide that public comment period at the beginning, they would have to allow for public comment on each individual motion.

[43:30] And the Sunshine Law allows them to put that public comment at the beginning of the meeting so to avoid public comment on each individual line item on the agenda.

[43:42] I don't know about line items, I would not be interested in that, but I'm thinking

[43:46] that the final position that the commissioners may have taken becomes after the offering

[43:57] of the citizens so that they do not yet know what the final arguments are about making

[44:05] the final vote and so they have no opportunity unless they can do it before the vote is given.

[44:11] That's not required when it's sunshine lawn and most

[44:16] It seems like it's not a friendly way to make a law.

[44:22] Understood.

[44:25] Is it something within the purview of the board to make that possible?

[44:31] It is, but if you do it, there are a few.

[44:34] One of the things I represent is actually written into their home rule charter that they have to do it.

[44:38] Well, I would suggest that that be an option to be given, but I think it would be really

[44:44] useful.

[44:46] Understood.

[44:47] Thank you.

[44:49] I have a comment for you.

[44:51] Is there any way that you can post these ordinances online rather than having to pick them

[44:56] up between hours of night and three, which everybody works?

[45:00] I mean, I just like it. I don't have the ability to pick up anything from 9 to 3. And you know, something like that would be helpful. I think a lot of it's very good. If you would contact me, I can send it via email too. And if course comes to us, I can leave a copy of the police department because they're there 24.

[45:40] We are working with a private contractor right now that is looking to get rid of some stone.

[45:46] And I put them in touch with the property owner.

[45:49] So they're working those details out to possibly fill that road with stone at the moment.

[45:55] The grant has opened, but I have to have meetings with various people before we apply for the grant

[46:02] There's a certain stipulations that need to be met, but I am gonna go forward with it because if we can prevent any water from coming down there

[46:09] That would be helpful. But as far as the timeshift doing something for the road at this time, we can't

[46:14] But like I said the property owner is working on it. I just came up today, too

[46:29] I, you all know, I walk my dog every day three, four times a day.

[46:33] A lot of my crests and boulevard and prospect, the drain that has been covered for weeks.

[46:39] The same beer cans are laying there, and the water's running down, it's full of mud, the

[46:46] debris and garbage.

[46:49] The same thing like, oh shoot, if you walk bridge, come around the tight bend and come down,

[46:55] you've got two drainages there, they're clean.

[46:57] We get down right before 6.95, open.

[47:02] There's one that's been covered since before winter time,

[47:07] with garbage, now it's overgrown with weeds.

[47:11] And the only reason I seen it was I

[47:12] seen the marker on the ground.

[47:15] And then I kicked some of the stuff away.

[47:17] And the great is kind of I have pictures and need them.

[47:21] And then there's all the press and roll over and where.

[47:24] A lot of it, press and roll over and cross there.

[47:30] Thank you.

[47:31] I will get in touch with Ken Dought about the government, and I will get in touch with

[47:34] that.

[47:36] That's all cut down today.

[47:37] Present prospect.

[47:41] I will have our public works department take care of the department.

[47:45] One sidewalk again.

[47:47] The house.

[47:48] Asked the post office all the way up.

[47:50] busted glass garbage tree debris I mean it's really getting you got to go out

[47:57] in the street to get around do you know what the address is by it's this starts

[48:02] that that first house if you walk this way towards the post office the first

[48:07] house after that it's for that sidewalk all the way up then there's a rental

[48:12] property the hedges are out over the sidewalk it's the house the sidewalk is

[48:17] covered with the hedges over. Okay. You can't you have to walk on in the question

[48:22] bull or the government bull.

[48:28] And with Frank's saying that reminded me that our

[48:31] minutes and it was out of order. We've done it, but our minister didn't reflect Frank's

[48:38] book of last meeting about that also. So that needed to be added to our own minutes.

[48:45] We said at the May meeting, okay, is this true?

[48:57] There's our last meeting.

[48:59] May.

[49:01] Okay,

[49:03] because we have that sheet.

[49:07] I will double check that.

[49:08] Okay.

[49:08] So if it needs to be revised, then we can, I guess, re-approved

[49:12] these minutes at the next once meeting.

[49:14] They've already been approved, I guess we could put it in the minutes of this meeting.

[49:21] That he had to support the both meetings.

[49:29] If there's empty houses on property, the grass is growing up pretty good.

[49:39] The two ounces I'm thinking of having been approved on, one for about six months, the other one.

[49:45] I don't remember anybody I would have known, but if there's garbage on the porch, then there's the grass is probably going to be about that high.

[49:54] These are both on Walnut Street. I don't know, I don't remember the address.

[50:00] I don't remember the address.

[50:01] Well, how have I looked at?

[50:03] Is there somebody who rives through on the township?

[50:06] Yes.

[50:07] Our code enforcement rides through the township.

[50:09] He's not necessary looking for violations, but if he notices something, he'll alert me.

[50:14] But anytime a resident brings a concern to me, I go to him, and then we follow up from there.

[50:20] I mean, as you can see, you just don't want raccoons and all this stuff.

[50:25] When you don't have an in-house code enforcer, somebody's on your salary and can get in the car and drive around.

[50:35] You're sort of paying a premium for an outside agency to do your code enforcement

[50:40] And that's who does primarily code enforcement now for a lot of communities and especially smaller communities who can't budget for a full-time person.

[50:50] And when that happens, code enforcement often becomes complaint driven.

[50:56] Because they don't know that there's a violation until somebody says there's a violation and then they can go out and look for it.

[51:03] If

[51:06] you have you don't have the way to the need to to air this like

[51:24] Hey, Bales,

[51:27] okay, I guess we're gonna move on then. It's got a 13 departmental reports

[51:33] Go to force man. Don't report is in your packets

[51:36] It may make questions

[51:40] engineer report David anyone had nothing else to add we're still waiting

[51:46] about August for the roads they'll give us a schedule when we get closer but

[51:54] nothing else to add we're gonna talk about okay well thank you all right

[52:00] department yeah yeah what that was and you can take

[52:09] What do you guys think of the question?

[52:12] I don't know.

[52:14] I'll give it a go.

[52:16] All right.

[52:18] We talked about the post-purchasing.

[52:20] We did purchase 1,300 feet in the five inches.

[52:24] It's on our ranges.

[52:25] Now we're all back to service.

[52:26] Everything's up to date.

[52:28] We thank you again to Moons Voluntary Fire Company for letting us

[52:30] the 600 feet in the five inches to keep us safe,

[52:33] but we received dollars.

[52:36] I put on an FYI.

[52:37] our firefighting apparatus stands. It's two engines, one rescue, one tanker, one special services,

[52:43] one dive rescue unit, three rescue boats, and two squads. Anyway, whenever I'm on a tour,

[52:49] come on and go, I just come up to one of us to talk about the radio on all the stuff down there.

[52:54] The morning day, our normal services went very well. The veterans keep on supposed to go to the

[52:59] was appreciated. The excellent line provided by Joe, Lucas, Baldi Props, and so is a new

[53:09] guy, Chris Engler. So they did a good job and the people, again, they think it's

[53:14] kind of a mission barbecue. No, that's our people are going in there.

[53:20] And our services,

[53:22] you know, like I said, they went well, but please note that I had to grab a citizen on the ground

[53:27] They are very unblocked and he helped me with the flag raising.

[53:33] And Mr. President, I can't get him on the side with him.

[53:37] I'm not doing it next time.

[53:38] All right.

[53:41] I'm going to attend the court office.

[53:44] What was the elegant county parties that shaped me for the office.

[53:48] Chief Brown had, I missed the meeting prior, but I think it was 2022.

[53:53] The elegant county emergency service for the court.

[53:56] Before 2022, there were 1.473,000 and changed dispatches.

[54:03] 101,500 were fired late.

[54:06] I didn't realize even the VM burden was that much there.

[54:10] The increased traffic on the railroad for dashes dam

[54:13] and the rodeo out there is apparently subsided.

[54:16] I thought that was supposed to be a summer and it's back to normal.

[54:19] Just correct my original traffic.

[54:20] about now.

[54:22] And we're requested to be at the Hebrew County boom for state patrols, and we have

[54:29] a crew that we know that's for their fireworks, and we just help with the river's salvaging everything.

[54:35] I don't have, at the time I wrote this report, I didn't have our calls, but there were only two or three

[54:39] for the whole month of May. We went to a new dispatching messaging platform that the county

[54:45] and it was out and it was the one we have,

[54:48] it's supposed to be enough greater than it's one.

[54:51] The question about any counties that we go to,

[54:54] so we're on that, but when you went to the new one,

[54:56] I lost the old one and all, they were on,

[54:58] right there on the phone, sunny day.

[55:00] Was that in 2010 for New Year or so far?

[55:02] 2010 for New Year, but I have one for May to list them.

[55:06] Is there something more about that?

[55:08] We always appreciate our police,

[55:10] our apologies, the works.

[55:11] And then we appreciate you guys.

[55:12] I never said I'm on the report,

[55:18] I think it was nice. I saw you're so many Donnie that's stuff Donner. Yeah, I can't

[55:24] figure it out. I think. I think, well, where's all this stuff coming from, all of a sudden?

[55:32] I think this was Jack, I don't know the chain of evidence, but he put these in a case.

[55:42] The badger's jacket, these are our Instagram here, this is really what I was talking about,

[55:46] thanks.

[55:47] He's such a good guy.

[55:49] Oh, just see a great guy.

[55:50] Anybody have a plan for the old magazine?

[55:53] I'm looking.

[55:53] I'm going to leave this here.

[55:55] He's taking it for me.

[55:57] I'll take it with me.

[55:58] I'm going to leave this here.

[55:59] I'm going to use the look at it.

[56:00] Yeah, he gave us a several other element that was a well-used helmet and a big, the original

[56:06] Blueprint for that 1956 Mac down there, and he framed it too, so that's all it.

[56:11] That's all it.

[56:13] It's just awful, yeah.

[56:14] Thank you.

[56:15] Well, thank you, Dan.

[56:18] Uh, police.

[56:19] Oh, I see a bureauc. You want to give it?

[56:20] Do you want to, uh, okay.

[56:23] Uh, we're involved in 229 incidents, uh, in Montgomery, Maine.

[56:28] We had 20 criminal and, uh, investigated incidents.

[56:31] Our officers initiated a 30-week contact to the American public as well as various drop-and-posts,

[56:37] drop workmen for speeding trucks, and as well as our school bus in the morning and in the

[56:44] evening things for pickup and drop-off.

[56:47] In our vehicles and equipment, we have averaged 69 miles of patrol daily, totaling 2064 miles

[56:54] this month.

[56:55] And we have assisted in set of medical emergencies and for the community correspondence recently

[57:02] we've had several unlocked vehicles entered and burglarized a few cars that keep up left

[57:07] inside and we're stolen later and covered in your county.

[57:11] Don't make yourself a victim.

[57:12] Always keep your vehicle locked and sure there's no visible rivals, everything on the site.

[57:19] Eliminate your residents exterior, especially your driveway during the hour of the darkness

[57:22] call 911 report to report suspicious persons vehicles or sounds our communities are

[57:28] the eyes of the ears of CTPD additionally. We have a new Facebook page so the purpose

[57:33] of this page is to provide information to our community. All posts by CTPD will always

[57:38] be banned with respect. Through the uniform and badge worn by law enforcement, please do

[57:43] not report incidents, provide information or ask questions. Through the Facebook page

[57:47] as it is not regularly monitored.

[57:50] For information requests, questions or reports

[57:52] of any incident criminal or non-corrected nature,

[57:55] please come and I will one of the Allegheny County Immunity

[57:58] call taker will take the required information

[58:01] and appropriately disseminate the requests, questions,

[58:04] and incident reports through the dispatcher.

[58:07] That information is prioritized and reported

[58:09] to press the township police officers, of course.

[58:14] Thank you.

[58:20] I'll say Brian, so it looks like Brian had a busy month, this month, besides the 12 normal

[58:29] things he does, he added two other things on there, so he did 14 items this month.

[58:38] So he set up and cleaned up for election, installed decorative lights, and

[58:44] bunkting on the gazebo. He did the tiger mowing, inspected the playground

[58:50] equipment, repaired fence at Charles Park, repaired parking area and

[58:53] Charles Park for installation of ADA, parking and ramp, our wash to gazebo,

[59:02] raised

[59:04] sidewalks, placetops, soil planagrass, trimmed hedges,

[59:08] placet mulch, and cleaned up monument and gazebo area.

[59:12] And I have to admit that that looked quite nice.

[59:15] Thank you.

[59:17] Removed old exhaust and installed new exhaust on backhoe,

[59:20] patched potholes on roadways, cleaned inlets

[59:23] before and after rain events, responded to one calls,

[59:26] and completed 18 requests for service.

[59:30] And those 18 requests would be residents

[59:32] It's calling, requesting things be done.

[59:36] Also, manager, also the police department.

[59:39] I'll serve anybody else.

[59:41] Okay, I'll make up our questions.

[59:45] So that's 16 things.

[59:49] Well, thank you.

[59:51] Well, thank you.

[59:53] Anything else, Mike?

[59:54] No.

[59:55] Okay.

[59:56] I guess we're not blessed with any tonight.

[59:58] So we'll skip Valerie's report.

[1:00:02] Commission remarks, finance, commission, or worthy? I don't have anything really. Janice is going to summarize a meeting that we had with Valerie Gatos' chief of staff. I believe she is. I just want to thank the road department. The gazebo at the memorial. Absolutely fantastic. You guys did an excellent job. Thank you very much for that. That's all I had. That was on. What was that last month? We met after

[1:00:30] or we met with Valerie after the meeting.

[1:00:33] We met with Valerie after the meeting.

[1:00:34] I don't know, I don't know before the meeting.

[1:00:35] I'm pretty sure that was my last meeting.

[1:00:36] Yeah, I thought it was Devlin Robinson

[1:00:40] that was last month's.

[1:00:42] We did meet with Devlin and Valerie Gators.

[1:00:46] But if not, we did meet with Valerie Gators.

[1:00:49] We did and expressed our concerns.

[1:00:51] It might have been after, it might have been after.

[1:00:53] I'm pretty sure it was after.

[1:00:54] Oh, whatever, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[1:00:57] Um, I guess, oh yeah?

[1:00:59] That's all I got. Okay. Parks and Rick, Commissioner Waitman. We're excited. The ADA swings are

[1:01:06] continued to get together installed and is going along there which is really exciting. The dugouts,

[1:01:14] the child's park, we contacted a company to get a quote according to our bid from our blueprints from 2019

[1:01:26] and to try to get that in gear again, we've had a little setback. Getting some signage,

[1:01:34] taking care of, working with some different people, some things fell through with our signage.

[1:01:41] I like this solder drive, so we're finding someone new. That's going to help us out there.

[1:01:48] Still working with the ropes and the pylons trying to find, if anyone is aware of any,

[1:01:55] like we want to keep that nautical look up there, that's what we've had.

[1:02:00] So if anyone is aware of the thick rope, you know, let us know we're, again,

[1:02:07] came to some points we thought we had it and it fell through so we're continuing

[1:02:12] on our quest for that.

[1:02:13] I appreciate the bench that the gazebo look really nice.

[1:02:18] Thank you for getting those installed and that's appreciated.

[1:02:23] Our flowers stay all went well.

[1:02:26] I'm going to try to maybe modernize and get some different procedures

[1:02:31] and what we have done, less labor intense.

[1:02:38] We have Fourth of July, it's not going to be events but there will be a 50-50

[1:02:42] raffle that will be held there.

[1:02:49] Parks cleanup day, we're looking in September, we've

[1:02:52] already made arrangements with running the parks so that it will get painted and a

[1:02:58] new updated hang jobs. We're also now organizing our board into

[1:03:09] teams and going to all the parks with any safety concerns like eyes open to

[1:03:16] our things in order is anything going to be jeopardized and we're trying to be

[1:03:23] more aware of all the parks not just shouts also but so teams will be going

[1:03:28] out and working that that.

[1:03:34] We'll support the record of movie nights and things if they're

[1:03:40] meeting assistants or what parts we do we're happy to help them out. And that's about all that's

[1:03:46] going on right now. Is that all?

[1:03:51] Okay well thank you.

[1:03:55] Well, let's say if you want to say, first of all, I think it felt like we're coming out.

[1:03:59] We really appreciate seeing you guys and getting your feedback as always first responders

[1:04:07] appreciate what you guys do.

[1:04:09] And I think the board and everyone with the touch they came out today.

[1:04:14] Thank you.

[1:04:16] Mike.

[1:04:18] I'm a little confused.

[1:04:19] Did you want Parks and Rec?

[1:04:21] Yeah.

[1:04:21] Yeah, okay, because I didn't do rack.

[1:04:24] Okay, that's what I was wondering, okay.

[1:04:25] Yeah, you said something and I'm like, wait a minute,

[1:04:29] because the...

[1:04:30] Okay, good, they're the rack one, then.

[1:04:32] Okay, I got it here.

[1:04:34] I appreciate everyone in attendance

[1:04:36] and our coming as again as the president,

[1:04:40] I appreciate it and Janet being a big part of this also.

[1:04:45] They're really focusing on the community events.

[1:04:48] It's gonna be really big this year.

[1:04:49] It's exciting. It's going to be Saturday 9-16 and Sunday 9-17 Saturday 11-7 and Sunday

[1:05:00] noon to 8th. We have the Scouts involved in raising a flag. Premier Pan has donated

[1:05:06] $1,000 for our fireworks, so we will have a farthest display going on this year.

[1:05:12] on Sunday.

[1:05:16] We're doing the petting zoo having that again. A lot of what happened

[1:05:21] last year is it's been a piggyback this year. However, we're looking, and if

[1:05:26] anyone has insights, we'll have that up bands, you know, looking at acts

[1:05:33] throwing, just a face painting, we're even talking about a car cruise and such too.

[1:05:40] So there's a lot of good things and trying to then focus because this will be a big event and

[1:05:47] So they move some other ideas around to different days public safety days

[1:05:52] So I want to continue on October

[1:05:55] And they're still working on some events that we may grow in there in July and August such as a

[1:06:00] Band at the park or a movie or that sort of thing, but that's still in the mech makes and working

[1:06:07] Is there going to be a pie contest this year for a pie-throwing contest?

[1:06:13] The pie judging, I just want to know if I can do a judging.

[1:06:18] I think you would at least go and see yourself with a pie.

[1:06:25] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[1:06:26] I'm sure there would be lining up for a pie as a minute.

[1:06:30] And that comes with the dunk tank as well.

[1:06:34] So a lot of things going on there too, so it's an exciting time of things happening.

[1:06:44] Okay, now, are you done?

[1:06:47] Yes.

[1:06:49] All right, let's move on.

[1:06:50] Mike, anything else you want to say?

[1:06:52] I just want to thank the residents for being here.

[1:06:57] I know they're looking out there.

[1:06:59] I know there's some frustration thinking things move slowly.

[1:07:04] Rest assured that those frustrations are on our end also by all the trying to make

[1:07:09] sure ordinances are right and that they're fair for everyone.

[1:07:14] And sometimes as we had executive session today we found out that, you know, county gets

[1:07:20] involved.

[1:07:21] Other entities get involved that put a snag in things.

[1:07:24] And so please don't get discouraged.

[1:07:28] Keep on us about your questions, your problems, and what

[1:07:32] have you.

[1:07:33] And I promise you, we all take them seriously.

[1:07:36] I'd like to thank our police department, our fire

[1:07:39] department, and I thank the commissioners for allowing

[1:07:43] me to serve with them.

[1:07:45] So thank you.

[1:07:49] Good, Janice.

[1:07:50] Go for it.

[1:07:52] OK.

[1:07:53] I was on vacation for weeks, so this

[1:07:55] This is shorter than normal.

[1:07:58] Record organization continues, updates to Facebook and website, continuous needed.

[1:08:04] We're still trying to retrieve former files from the solicitor.

[1:08:08] We had one appeal with the office of open records that is pending right now.

[1:08:14] We have one that was decided in our favor, and we have one that's going to be mediated

[1:08:18] next week, and we've also received two new requests.

[1:08:22] There were 19 service requests this month, 18 for public works and one for

[1:08:27] administration. The minutes had properly signed, recorded, filed enough

[1:08:32] load to the websites. Information was posted on our website and Facebook page

[1:08:37] regarding the senior's farm market nutrition program. So I encourage everyone to

[1:08:42] check that out. You get a set of vouchers. Five vouchers in the total amount is

[1:08:50] 50 dollars and they can be used at any farmers market by November 30th. We are also utilizing

[1:08:57] the services of an intern through the OVR program. She started today. She will work a

[1:09:03] total of 280 hours. This is all being paid for through the OVR program. We just have to

[1:09:09] supply this supervision. The program ends on August 5th. She is currently a high school

[1:09:15] senior. She has not yet determined where she is headed, but it is possible she may be

[1:09:22] able to continue afterwards. So we're going to be looking into that. So she'll be assisting

[1:09:29] with administrative duties. We currently have one workers compensation claim. We're very

[1:09:35] hopeful that employee will be returning to work this week.

[1:09:41] I forwarded the letter of support

[1:09:43] report regarding House Bill 589 regarding landslides to representative Fattali and

[1:09:48] Couser and the iPads for the commissioners should be received, set up and ready to go

[1:09:54] for the July meeting.

[1:09:57] The EIT reimbursements are pending for the volunteer tax credit.

[1:10:01] All the property tax rebates have been sent out.

[1:10:06] The transition to the bank account should be completed this month.

[1:10:10] Lauren and I both met with our financial people from SGHOK and we received training on some

[1:10:18] new procedures that we recently put in place so that when you guys get the bill sheets

[1:10:23] or the reports from me it clearly identifies what the expenses were for.

[1:10:29] Right now it tells you who they were paid for in the amount but I feel that it should automatically

[1:10:34] include that information.

[1:10:37] we are still working on several grants. Our 2021 audit is underway. It got put on hold

[1:10:45] because we just got down with pension audit, which was mentioned previously. There were

[1:10:50] a number of findings that I am working closely with EMRS right now to correct. And once that's

[1:10:58] done, I will give a full report to the commissioners. Right now, I'm receiving conflicting information

[1:11:04] from the auditor and our pension plan people the rental registration is underway the civil service

[1:11:13] commission will be meeting next Tuesday to certify the eligibility list to hire to promote from

[1:11:20] part-time to full time and they're going to start the revisions to the rules and regulations

[1:11:29] and that just reminded me of something that we were going to include on the agenda that we did not

[1:11:36] In previous discussions with the public safety chair and the president, we were talking

[1:11:41] about possibly authorizing the Civil Service Commission to prepare a rating list for the

[1:11:49] hiring of part-time officers.

[1:11:51] We still do that?

[1:11:52] Okay.

[1:11:53] But what do you know?

[1:11:54] Okay.

[1:11:56] The thing I had then on my report on.

[1:11:58] Okay.

[1:11:59] No solicitation permits have been issued.

[1:12:02] Please, please.

[1:12:03] If you see anyone going door to door, I don't care who they are, how old they are, what color they are, what they are, what they are wearing if they are a car, if they have a keep up you with them or not.

[1:12:12] Call the police.

[1:12:14] The actors that stole the vehicles, now this can't be confirmed, but three nights prior to that, someone did call the police because they saw some gentlemen walking through Crescent checking cars.

[1:12:29] That night, they were also seen, but nobody bothered to call.

[1:12:33] The police talked to them and they said, you know what, we saw these guys never thought

[1:12:36] anything of it.

[1:12:37] So if you see anyone going door to door, please call.

[1:12:41] If we do have a solicitation permit out there, it will be posted on our website.

[1:12:46] The police will be notified because they have to clear them and I'll put it out on Facebook.

[1:12:51] And Facebook is a wonderful tool.

[1:12:52] And I learned something yesterday at the Allegheny County 9-1-1 center when we had our emergency

[1:12:59] management meeting.

[1:13:03] The coordinator for Beaver County was there and we were talking about the train to do

[1:13:06] the development.

[1:13:07] Not about the development but the goods and the not so good of what came out of it and how

[1:13:11] they handled it.

[1:13:13] And one thing he said was, when he was trying to get information onto the residents, they

[1:13:18] have their own Facebook page.

[1:13:19] The township that was affected in Allegheny County had their own Facebook page.

[1:13:25] The township in Ohio had their own Facebook page.

[1:13:29] More information was disseminated by the residents than anything else.

[1:13:34] So he said he suggested that we find the residents that have the most followers and contact

[1:13:39] them to get them information out.

[1:13:41] So I'll post something on Facebook and this is a prime example.

[1:13:45] Couple people like it.

[1:13:46] It is also shared by certain individuals to press and chatter.

[1:13:51] So more people see it that way than on our Facebook page.

[1:13:54] I don't know why everybody goes to chatter instead of our Facebook page, but we also get

[1:13:59] more traffic three times a week.

[1:14:01] So I just want to alert everybody just beware because I'm going to be contacting you if

[1:14:06] you have a lot of followers.

[1:14:07] If I need to get something out there, I'm going to ask you to share it.

[1:14:10] So, we've been notified that young blood will begin paving crescent boulevard extension

[1:14:18] because the water lines that were put in next week, whether permitting, all residents

[1:14:22] that are going to be affected will be notified.

[1:14:24] Hopefully, I will also be posting a notice on Facebook, which I hope you all will share.

[1:14:32] The slide on Purdy Road remains active.

[1:14:35] We are currently waiting on a report from the engineers.

[1:14:38] Block Time Road remains closed by Pendot, and I've been closely working with Representative

[1:14:43] Gato's office about that because it's been an ongoing problem for several several years.

[1:14:49] And when she looked into it, Pendot got back to her and said, this new slide will be evaluated

[1:14:54] as soon as possible, and will fall in the order as needed with the other slides currently

[1:14:59] under it.

[1:15:00] So I quickly corrected that statement because this is a new slide. This is a new condition, but the slide has been prevalent for a while. So I'm really pushing to get them to give us some relief over there.

[1:15:30] to talk to the drivers and get that straightened out.

[1:15:33] We have a compliance inspection scheduled for Monday June 20th

[1:15:36] at 3 p.m. with the Army Accord of Engineers at the Charles Park.

[1:15:42] The amendment to extend the storage for the salt was executed

[1:15:45] in return by Cargill, but Brian is pretty confident

[1:15:48] that we will be able to accept our minimum tonnage requirements

[1:15:50] by the end of June.

[1:15:52] The benches have been installed in the gazebo by Public Works.

[1:15:56] Thanks to partial funding from the Parks Board.

[1:15:59] and at the same time I was able to get in touch with the contractor about the dead trees and unfortunately the maintenance bond expired, prior to them being notified.

[1:16:09] They have no record of any notification prior to my phone call, so I'm currently working on that with KLH because they were the ones that were handling that.

[1:16:19] I attended the Recreation Board meeting which Ms. Whiteman covered.

[1:16:25] Safety day, as she has said, is postponed and if we're currently concentrating on community

[1:16:30] days because that's going to be a big event.

[1:16:33] If anyone would be interested in volunteering to help, we could certainly use help.

[1:16:38] We need help setting up, tearing down, staging, collecting money for tickets, judging pie

[1:16:44] contests.

[1:16:45] So if anybody wants to help out, let me know.

[1:16:51] We found some mold in the multipurpose room, and that will be remediated next week.

[1:16:59] I am still trying to get a cost for construction rehab with that.

[1:17:05] Everything will be covered by insurance.

[1:17:08] The next hazardous waste pickup is September 11, and the next electronic pickup is July 14.

[1:17:13] and again you have to call Republic to make arrangements in advance. The installation

[1:17:20] the ADA ramp and the parking spaces has been completed at Chas Park and Public Works

[1:17:24] is going to start on the swing set within the next two weeks. And that's all I have.

[1:17:31] All right. Well how do we do is we add the Tilly agenda? Yes. Okay so that's going to be

[1:17:40] 111 H.

[1:17:46] So I have another page.

[1:17:50] So do we need to have a motion to revise the agenda again?

[1:17:56] Motion to add to that.

[1:17:58] I don't put the agenda.

[1:17:59] I can't motion to item number 11H

[1:18:03] for this allowing the civil service board to start an eligibility list for part-time officers.

[1:18:07] I'll make it a motion.

[1:18:11] All right.

[1:18:13] All right.

[1:18:14] All right.

[1:18:15] All right.

[1:18:16] They can do it.

[1:18:17] The motion to approve that item would be in order.

[1:18:23] Motion to approve.

[1:18:25] Motion to authorize civil service to be a rating list for the hiring of part time officer.

[1:18:32] Okay.

[1:18:33] Whatever you just added.

[1:18:34] Just saying the same thing now.

[1:18:35] Okay.

[1:18:35] I'll make the motion. Second. Second. And because that was not on the agenda prior to prior to prior to public comment, the public has a right to comment on that.

[1:18:46] Let me want to talk about it.

[1:18:50] All right, let's go vote. All in favor, see you vote by saying aye.

[1:18:55] Aye. Aye. Opposed. Hearing none. Okay. Yes, done. All right. Craig, any one had?

[1:19:03] I did submit a written report. I don't have anything to add to my report.

[1:19:09] Okay, I guess me. I just want to thank everybody who went down Memorial Day.

[1:19:14] It was a very nice service. I'd like to see more people show up down there.

[1:19:20] It would be nice if we can get 50, 100 people down there.

[1:19:24] I mean, back in our back in the day, when I was a Boy Scout and Cup Scout and all that.

[1:19:28] There would be a ton of people down there. There would be lots of us down there.

[1:19:31] I know there's still probably 25, 30 people down there.

[1:19:35] The last thing we'll do is surprise you.

[1:19:38] Oh, really?

[1:19:39] Yeah.

[1:19:40] Yeah.

[1:19:41] I like it.

[1:19:42] It's not necessarily the last 10 minutes, but still.

[1:19:44] It's nice to see everybody down there.

[1:19:46] And it's very well put off on here, too.

[1:19:51] And just like Mike said, I love it when you guys come here and talk to us.

[1:19:56] I really do.

[1:19:56] We need to hear feedback.

[1:19:58] back. We go 29 days a month, we hear nothing, and then we hear it here. It's nice to hear it.

[1:20:06] Otherwise, if you don't hear anything, you think I'm going to find you're doing a great job.

[1:20:10] And don't be afraid to tell us bad things because we're all thick skinned and we can handle it.

[1:20:16] We do tell us, we do take it hard and we try to do the best for everybody.

[1:20:20] It was the best for everyone. I want to thank everybody for coming out. I want to thank our

[1:20:25] We're department police department commissioners our staff

[1:20:30] Pretty much listed on this I'll include him this time

[1:20:33] Learned that uh, that's all I have a camera man. I think our camera man, too. I never thank him

[1:20:40] How about pushing to a journey? I'll make that motion second. Oh, favorite scene by by saying aye

[1:20:46] We're done. Oh mean

Crescent Township Meeting 6--14-23

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