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[0:13] no one sign up for a public comment we're gon go ahead

[0:18] and okay thank

[0:21] you to discuss tonight actually just pass out to you I have uh for each

[0:27] council member a a copy of the draft preliminary

[0:32] budget for 24 we'll be having for scheduling workshops here to go

[0:41] over draft general fund budget as well as the capital approvement

[0:46] plan4 so we just wanted to get that in front of you Bob's not here

[0:53] tonight couple weeks developing the the 2024 budget so we'll uh we'll be up with

[1:00] you to schedule those workshops we've also been spending a lot

[1:05] of time working on for negotiations negotiation going we have our third

[1:12] meeting scheduled uh for next week and the that we will have an agreement prior

[1:17] to the end of the year here have answer any

[1:28] questions here today

[1:39] have the

[1:43] [Music] city very

[1:58] much withdraw previous Council taking over filling in where I can trying to

[2:04] help out the city best I can the next couple of months um don't really have a

[2:08] report again just appreciate the opportunity to be before

[2:13] you do things behind the scenes

[2:19] special I do want to announce there was AEF session previous this meeting talk

[2:25] about potentiation as found on the agenda and

[2:29] because I you I'm not quite sure when you

[2:35] announc not sure that's do it's okay to do it now but I do want to let everybody

[2:41] know that we will be having a brief executive session afterwards we will not

[2:58] taking

[3:01] I would like to congratulate the organizers of the culture call Downtown

[3:05] that was an excellent success last

[3:14] weekend next week time toal donation to a localit as

[3:21] as get and see what folks are

[3:28] do

[3:31] yes um BL

[3:58] libr

[4:08] liary also um I was part

[4:28] ofor

[4:36] nebor neighborhood also contrib to those neighborhood

[4:48] neighborhood October

[4:52] 18 church and of course some working on

[4:57] upcoming Christmas events

[5:03] um

[5:06] nothing to the community and tending to the other things just to ech

[5:16] what group we're getting a lot of participants going in and a lot of the

[5:21] things happening with the new year for uh including more people into the

[5:27] celebration this time event on

[5:34] that's about

[5:41] it as the past few months I provided you an update on the specific information

[5:46] Rel to the population of public communities located within the city of

[5:50] as of August 313 the total

[5:56] 2265 section V holders in the city down to

[6:01] 1,144 this am to T comination of 3,49 they're currently assisting 45% of

[6:07] the people living in poverty in the city of the prospect has affected these

[6:14] statistics housing authorities partnering with the community health

[6:17] center to host their prevention program in

[6:28] John

[6:51] PR food education

[6:58] and

[7:08] sh 49 to pass

[7:23] back

[7:26] small services appliations received and 37 inactive accounts were reactivated

[7:33] also during we had 12 Services renewed for completion and 8 in M was replaced

[7:39] in ch water quality res was good both

[7:43] Riverside Sal had a great testing results in the last

[7:49] months the CSA will s off the main for 68 weeks

[7:57] for suggest the authority consider portion the bill some type of credit

[8:02] towards years Bill what it is is that they uh water 40

[8:16] [Music]

[8:22] [Music]

[8:28] degrees

[8:32] titled business privilege tax collection date

[8:35] change ordinance amending the city's business number

[8:41] 4312 1983 as amended by ordinance numbers

[8:46] 4610 4670

[8:50] 486 and 5327 and as cified act title for Section

[8:55] 8 8720 5 of the chapter 8 city of John cified ordinances to amend the annual

[9:02] collection date of the business privilege tax from March to May of

[9:17] any yesin is for first read go number 9 of

[9:23] 2023 which is tabled uh titled updates public standards rece

[9:29] [Music]

[9:50] Mrs yes yes Mr yes Mo withdra bill

[9:58] number

[10:08] we we second

[10:13] yes yes Mrs yes M yes Mr

[10:21] yes on resolutions um to a resolution City

[10:27] Council of the city of John Sou County Pennsylvania authorizing the city

[10:31] manager to authorize the purchase of ASC anti-id from Li Stone and line DDA da

[10:38] Stone and line for the 2023 2024

[10:55] talot next one is a resolution of the city council City

[11:00] Pennsylvania authorizing city manager to execute the purchase of road salt from

[11:05] American rock salt with Department of General Services Co program for the 2023

[11:22] 2024 uh next is the resolution of the city council City John C County CIA

[11:28] authorizing Direct the city manager to sign contract with FG Monument lettering

[11:33] in the amount of [Music]

[11:36] 9,978 or contract number 22307 for the Firefighters Memorial Park

[11:43] Grant work I

[11:54] motion so just to clarify the amount of that is

[12:00] $9,975

[12:10] 28 second um we have kind of explain what's going on and where

[12:22] we City firefighter thanks guys for we're

[12:26] finally here we finally get this um this project started

[12:32] 19 when it was the 30th anniversary of bridie Roberts is passing away get

[12:40] on we had I about Robert passing away what

[12:47] about nameing a bridge after him and that started to ball rolling real and we

[12:52] got the bridge named after all the firefighters that passed away and uh we

[12:56] got that down with representative these help got that done got the land kind of

[13:02] given to us there was a garden there

[13:05] before got so we've been maintaining it since then um then we got with upstreet

[13:11] ar detects and they've been more than helpful with designing it you guys can

[13:16] see the final design I pass it out to you guys there um couple things with

[13:20] that just to to show you guys where it says letter C like on a

[13:26] curve there each one of those is going to be um a picture and a write

[13:33] up Des we have so you're going to see a name in the face and then you're going

[13:37] to have to write up what happened in the city the

[13:42] lad is a design from Center for metal Wars we paid through paid for that F

[13:49] some fundraising through the union and it's actually sit it down there it's

[13:53] ready to go and then the bail in the middle uh is kind of the piece and

[13:59] that's the bail that's down at Central Park now it was from the original fire

[14:03] assistance fire company and it's being going to be moved up there with the

[14:07] graciousness of Highway junte anything we

[14:15] need these guys great on Highway more great but uh just real quick just to

[14:20] tell you what we have done already is we fence put up tree removal done

[14:26] Sur done the lad like I said is done we got grading to be done and the site prep

[14:34] is going to be done for free through Walker Oh

[14:40] Walker that highway is going to do a lot of work with us up Street

[14:44] architect so the only thing that we kind of have next year to do is some signage

[14:50] landscaping and a fence around the front so the three things that you guys are

[14:54] doing tonight is the the majority of everything and we're still

[15:02] budg if you look where the sidewalk comes

[15:06] out like right in this corner here sidew the street right side would be the

[15:12] church oh this is the church this is Street no the church is right where my

[15:20] finger okay so it's G to come out sidewalk is going to come out right by

[15:24] the church okay and then weave down around

[15:29] and like I said we have a couple different things to still finalize and

[15:32] stuff but we we're under budget uh even the falling next year we're looking for

[15:39] spring to have everything done because the Grant's going to take a while to get

[15:42] ordered and in and everything may get cont time this year hopefully we'll

[15:48] see goes you know after tonight the contract any other

[15:55] questions one thing is these are quite the best I've ever

[16:05] thanks

[16:13] appreciate resolution city council City John countl authoring direct City manag

[16:20] sign contract

[16:27] conrete

[16:37] resolution of the city council County Pennsylvan authoring and

[16:42] directing the city manager to sign the contract with moer concete in the amount

[16:47] of $6,500 contract number

[16:51] 20238 fire Memorial Park con a motion motion

[16:57] second

[17:20] City [Music]

[17:25] cont in the amount of 35,1 $ for contract number

[17:31] 23310 fir Memorial

[17:45] Park

[17:48] yes resolution of the city council City John Count Pennsylvania approving a

[17:54] minor subdivision lot merge of properties located AT3

[18:16] AR so uh next up is um home rescue funding plan resolution table resolution

[18:25] of the city council of the city John psylvia authoriz the city manager and

[18:30] take any and all actions necessary to effectuate an agreement with Vic

[18:33] Services Incorporated in the amount of $ [Music]

[18:37] 74962 through the city's home America rescue plan program for the development

[18:44] of a nonre shelter the city

[18:57] of

[19:23] so making motion thing okay we have a second

[19:43] everything

[19:48] yes

[19:57] no

[20:04] um moving on to new

[20:08] bus at

[20:14] 1511 this settlement ISS to

[20:22] ATL is theer paying taxes 2018 and 2019

[20:29] to account for the loss of the building due to the fire this settlement will

[20:33] adjust the tax be paid by the property owner to account for the lower assess

[20:37] value due to the L of build settlement includes an adjustment for the

[20:45] 2018 due to the incorrect assessment being used there is no objection from

[20:57] staff

[21:14] an open seat on service Bo newk sorry newk is the Lo volunteer

[21:20] for position and has previously served on the board the appointment is for a

[21:24] threeyear term that runs through August 11th of 2026

[21:43] grp provided noce to the city last month

[21:50] no23 the noce for this action was rather short the city needs and

[21:54] immediate Council City staff secur the services of the panel kter and grah to

[22:01] run through the end of 2023 a motion

[22:14] to business Planning Commission vacancies there remain two vacancies on

[22:19] the planning commissions after member resignations earlier in 2023 through

[22:24] applications on file for the Planning Commission vacancies are included with

[22:27] the the pack the applications are for Mike retti and Linda YY both terms would

[22:34] expire on January 31st 31st sorry 2027 I need a motion

[22:39] [Music]

[22:49] [Music] to

[22:52] yes

[22:56] yes

[23:12] Sor a motion for the second appointment for

[23:26] Miss um moving on to dep

[23:37] reports you get started thank you all

[23:46] [Music]

[23:51] beautiful this point we do still have two streets left those will be commenced

[23:56] tomorrow W Street L street over grove then we'll be completed with our

[24:13] 2023 where there's that started in and you said you wanted to wait until the

[24:20] work was done there and what and then they started digging gas lines and they

[24:24] started digging gas lines which is below that the only reason I'm bring up is it

[24:28] has gotten pretty significant they actually they go over that pull into

[24:32] their [Music]

[24:35] driveway to really that's something that we can look at at least temporarily

[24:44] abely that was really it that I had to talk about was our Paving thing and then

[24:48] in addition we are Public Work St PRN Halloween prade is scheduled on 24th of

[24:54] this month have any other questions for

[25:14] oh

[25:20] yeah

[25:26] was

[25:42] just couple [Music]

[25:44] things

[25:51] systemer aable us to um report using National incident based reporting system

[25:57] and Happ

[26:05] FAL after that the new radio with the ground go by tomorrow radios start

[26:13] install radios of cars on Monday and also we'll

[26:24] be very buy Poli

[26:30] uh testing resulted in four qualified applicants we had

[26:37] 11 background

[26:41] investigations two of those are currently in the academy so they've

[26:45] already been at least barely Ved so we will be

[26:51] bringing five on Street starting November

[26:56] 20th you take

[27:02] consideration said about it open time as what we'll do is um we are going to

[27:11] start another so um because of civil service we like to compile the list and

[27:19] then exhaust the list and start another

[27:24] list um with civil service next

[27:29] month we can

[27:56] also

[28:00] standing yeah sorry Miss

[28:06] that I have [Music]

[28:24] else still on the train unfortunately the state portion of that up because of

[28:30] the state budget so we don't have anyer we're also 7 o' in the morning

[28:37] doing the radio change over check alling out to

[28:56] stuff good evening everyone uh to answer M

[29:01] cl's question uh we're still having those discussions with the potential

[29:04] fund on that project there is communication there is

[29:10] some meetings and things on the other side but we are going to be contining

[29:15] that

[29:23] conversation I can do applications very um some some on some dates uh had a

[29:32] conversation meeting with last week

[29:38] uh

[29:42] stationing of rails that North f is going to have to do to compete project

[29:47] you're talking a start date of now spring

[29:51] 2025 for their work Street project uh we have a SL push schedu get design plans

[30:02] down projectes to move

[30:06] along a grant award for our height economic rehab program uh with sorcery

[30:12] uh an IT company here in C they'll be relocating into downtown by the end of

[30:17] the year and bringing with them the city looking to grow that here

[30:24] within within the it's good you bring some addition business here back in

[30:28] downtown and in a previous coun session I had mentioned about anthropology large

[30:34] Retail Group train

[30:41] station releas that was shot friendship you'll

[30:46] see a nice little video out there people dance around in his train

[30:56] station

[30:59] they're going be located on the second floor of the park building above

[31:04] [Music]

[31:13] Roots thats together on

[31:24] the we are still completing work with trans Administration on things uh but

[31:29] we're in regular communication with them uh in hopes that we could see some

[31:32] moving forward next year but we're still working through that

[31:36] with anyone else any other business uh we're talking to a lot of

[31:41] different folks uh small and slightly bigger uh we had a great meeting last

[31:45] week uh with the group looking at the G still site we'll be morec on that

[31:53] project theirin their property

[32:03] so we don't have all the details on

[32:12] that project um we are [Music]

[32:26] working

[32:35] thank

[32:43] you mon September there [Music]

[32:50] was2 22 voting permits beyond that there was two day

[32:58] I 15 15 to

[33:03] 16 t f the

[33:07] magistrate there's still nine up and coming we're adding to

[33:25] that that was sent to the wrong address that's scheduled for early

[33:32] November but

[33:35] yes it is

[33:43] yes

[33:49] right yeah that's one of the major one we've been working on but it's it

[33:54] switched owners recently as well so I I ask this question to you

[33:59] but that GL Street property put

[34:04] on it's on yeah it's on the it's on the upcoming fall demo RP demo correct and

[34:10] I've been speaking with

[34:16] [Music]

[34:25] neighbor

[34:33] they could be wooden they could be

[34:54] metal yeah they absolutely

[35:00] I they can be wooden but what what they got to realize here is there are people

[35:10] obviously it's wood it has to meet code by and stuff with the

[35:15] steps accessible can't have straight ladders and stuff like that you see

[35:20] something with a straight lateral we don't know about it's onage so we go

[35:26] back and track so it has

[35:29] to they can't just throw anything

[35:34] up and I talk Rec about that property at H

[35:43] in yes the last time I was in that building the third floor was actually

[35:48] padlock so there's no access to the third floor the ladder was actually

[35:51] there they tried to get around so we make them remove the ladder so that we

[35:56] can Ure doesn't reused or is that not necessary

[36:01] because they have to get per process it would have to be

[36:06] through some permanent process if they want if they tried to go around the

[36:11] permanent process we can issue letter for them to tear it down if that doesn't

[36:15] happen then ultimately and I have one

[36:22] question um I'm noticing and I'm sure it's all over town but Mo and Roxberry

[36:28] as of late I don't know if it's your mattress and box spring

[36:33] mon alarming the number of mattress and boxes are just laying along alleys and

[36:39] on streets and I understand the the whole they want it bagged if they're

[36:45] going to take it through the garbage process but to me it would seem to make

[36:50] more sense for us to buy some dog on bags and bag them I just said that

[37:01] they won't touch them if they're not even if you call like say I said hey I'm

[37:05] going to put a mat box ring out they tell you it must be bagged in order for

[37:09] them to take I was just brought aware of that within the last month maybe two

[37:14] months and I I had thought about pitching that idea let's buy bags if

[37:19] somebody needs

[37:23] it you just so you just go around again you want to be you got to be wearing BLS

[37:29] like they probably out there they have dogs so I mean that's why the garbage

[37:34] want that way then again the responsible part property are the ones taking bag

[37:40] and not they're literally laying houses and

[37:44] next to my you know my neighbor's garage and his garage and so you know I just

[37:49] want to try it's it looks terrible it would save us money by providing the

[37:53] bags I would drink as opposed to time my time going

[37:57] out if we bag them then they will take that's all

[38:14] [Music]

[38:25] I

[38:29] mind

[38:41] me ramp that up here come November December our seasonal guys are still

[38:47] working we have them working for the next week whe pending we may keep on a

[38:53] little bit longer to try to get to some of the locks that maybe we gotten to or

[38:58] some of the wor Lots but um right after

[39:06] that we haven't we've done them whenever

[39:13] they're if there's a problem with the property

[39:18] um if the tenant has an issue and it's brought to our attention and it's reg

[39:23] thir we will go

[39:34] how are weing that it's being

[39:40] registered how do you know that the secretary right now she's going through

[39:45] residency reports she's going through properties that have been purchased for

[39:51] verification those lines she has sent out a

[39:55] mass to Property Owners if they are reg if

[40:00] they're rentals then they need to be then we get the

[40:05] own just I know this is long you got here not so much before got here but I

[40:11] mean we did pass an ordinance more than once about wanting to get you know we

[40:17] were using this as a way of helping fire department helping codes and helping

[40:22] everybody have a little more control and a little more oversight as to making

[40:27] sure we had properties that weren't falling in disrepair and we were

[40:30] landlords accountable for who they were running to and things like that I mean

[40:34] and it really hasn't taken years I've been here and hasn't really grown any

[40:39] really would be nice to see a plan in place going forward here as we move into

[40:44] 2024 trying to get some sort of a you know a plan to start going out and and

[40:52] and not waiting for somebody to reach out to us but instead reaching out to

[40:57] these these rentals yeah so what I've seen over the trend over the last couple

[41:02] months between my officer we have dropped off on the

[41:07] service requests so we can either ramp up on magistrate we can ramp up on

[41:15] definitely the reent

[41:20] inspection that helps helps the chief and the fireman because a lot of these

[41:25] properties that were duple I can't tell you how many times in my went into a

[41:29] building that looks like a duplex in the front and it's been turned into a single

[41:32] family dwelling you know so it really doesn't make a big difference

[41:37] firefighter making an assessment outside of what you think you're going

[41:42] intoed or walls put

[41:48] ups yeah

[41:55] abely

[41:59] actually real quick on the new software we haven't had training on it yet I have

[42:05] a conference call with them on Thursday to set up the train so hopefully that

[42:11] will watch it after you guys once we get used to it every You' like to

[42:18] come um you guys get you or you or

[42:24] coity to take care

[42:28] yeah so we actually took care of two one is being pulled out tomorrow and what

[42:34] I've been doing is get the authorization from the St I haven't gotten the I'm

[42:40] just on the really problematic ones I'm just going a 48 hour notice documenting

[42:47] it taking

[42:51] pictures on the problem there's an issue

[42:57] I need to run or something I'll that there's that on

[43:04] Corner been there for seriously it's been there for that

[43:09] long it's been reported a million times there was somewhere over in Rox that we

[43:14] posted the off and documenting it time that sort of thing you guys are carrying

[43:22] tablets right now not yet no been new if the new software comes in then and we

[43:30] can doet or Microsoft pictures when you have Cod

[43:34] issues already right you take a picture of thing in

[43:38] place that

[43:42] should because once once you guys get the software up we got to get a handle

[43:46] on these vehicles and I hope you get that whatever the authorization is from

[43:50] the state Vehicles C dogs trees shrubs but the vehicles are the ones

[43:57] that I guess somebody sees one and then the next

[44:05] person know right that's police

[44:11] radar

[44:19] [Music]

[44:24] onbody else than I'm gonna Circle back to Jared real

[44:29] quick um I'm

[44:33] sorry um since J's not here can you give us any kind of update on what why rats

[44:42] are I mean have you guys had any communication with theats since the

[44:46] league

[44:50] has I'll defer that yes so there's uh you know there

[44:57] has been I guess some the current ownership group uh it's

[45:02] comprised of seven several different individuals so there's been some I guess

[45:09] negotiations over the takes and who owns you know what

[45:14] percentage of the team um there was a lead the prospect lead which the lead

[45:21] they had a board meeting Sunday um and it's my understanding that the ownership

[45:26] the the proposed new ownership group did make a proposal to the league and they

[45:30] are working to uh to ensure that the noat are going to be in the lead for so

[45:37] um you know I'm hearing good things but I I I don't think the you know

[45:41] signatures haven't been put on on any agreements yet but you know we'll

[45:45] certainly let you let you guys know in if you or something

[45:50] do it could potentially if there our current uh our current agreement is with

[45:57] NSS uh which is an LLC uh out of Kansas City um and so if a new ownership takes

[46:04] control of the team gets that agreement will have to be

[46:11] renegotiated they have they moved up from Office well they're they're only

[46:17] you know they're heard the terms of contract they only you know they only

[46:21] have the stadium for May through August now the office space they have not moved

[46:24] out of

[46:38] so find up if anybody is present in the audience

[46:47] that that's okay you want to update the playround the meeting myself the one I

[46:53] wasn't at oh the one you were at that's right

[46:57] W there did anybody you on yeah they did we had a myself and Y and Tony met today

[47:04] and we're we're coming up with a game plan to try to align

[47:09] that in an attempt to try to align that original meeting you guys had within the

[47:13] scope of the budget that we have so once we finalize that we'll gladly meet with

[47:18] you guys and bring now

[47:24] um that from the Ora whatever's in the

[47:30] recreation yeah yeah there's about 400,000 you'll see that in the draft bud

[47:34] I put out tonight and that's the fun that's what we discussed earlier today

[47:38] and then the

[47:43] [Music] RFS yeah they're already wed yeah those

[47:49] are already wed we're waiting tomorrow we're going to meet with Kathy yes yeah

[47:55] once do that move forward and the design for the h and Avenue the minv one should

[48:01] be completed they have

[48:04] the conceptual designs have already been uploaded to dcnr DCR has to approve uh

[48:09] the overall design of the project so that's currently under review once

[48:13] that's completed e will complete the final design on the project we're

[48:16] looking at a spring construction time period for the H Avenue you conveyed

[48:20] that to the resident not the entire group we have

[48:23] conveyed it to one of the individuals yeah

[48:32] knows one other thing I neglected to mention in my report is that the

[48:37] Planning Commission included a letter as part of the packets I know the packets a

[48:40] little lengthy but um they requested the tour of this building um and is invited

[48:45] City coun tour of this building to look at its structure Integrity

[48:51] like highight that as

[48:57] uh first Monday 5

[49:00] first November

[49:06] 1 anyone public comment didn't get an opportunity to

[49:15] sign okay

[49:20] return

Johnstown, PA, Council Meeting 10.11.23

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