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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
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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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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 $
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[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
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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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[32:26] working
[32:35] thank
[32:43] you mon September there
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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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