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Good morning. I call this meeting of Lancaster County Commissioners to order for

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Wednesday, September 9th, 2026.

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First item's the Pledge of Allegiance. Zach, will you please lead us?

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

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And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with

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liberty and justice for all.

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Thank you.

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Next, we have minutes. We have approval of the September 2nd, 2026, commissioner

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meeting minutes.

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We have a re-announcement. We have an evening commissioners meeting that's

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scheduled for Wednesday, September 16th, at 7:00 at the Christiana Borough Office,

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which means there will be no meeting in the morning that day.

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So we'll be at an evening meeting in Christiana. I have another announcement.

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This is an executive session announcement.

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We held an executive session yesterday at 11:00 AM

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to discuss a matter of litigation, the Francisco case in the

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Eastern District Court, docket number

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5:25-CV-5775, a matter of potential

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litigation, and also a labor matter.

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We've done old business, so we'll go right to new business.

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The first item is a proclamation for Emergency Preparedness Month.

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Commissioner Parsons to read the proclamation.

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Thank you. This is a proclamation for Emergency Preparedness Month.

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Whereas Emergency Preparedness Month occurring annually in September creates an

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ideal opportunity for every citizen in Lancaster County to join citizens across the

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United States in preparing their homes, businesses, and communities for any type of

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emergency, including natural, technological, and human cause.

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And whereas Lancaster County has been impacted by various emergency events, and

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through the work of Lancaster County Department of Public Safety Emergency

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Management Division, county preparation, and community cooperation, Lancaster

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County has successfully tackled adversity when it arises.

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And whereas Lancaster County's top priority is the safety of its citizens,

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including ensuring citizens are educated on and preparedness for emergencies.

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And whereas Lancaster County Department of Public Safety's Emergency Management

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Division partners with municipal officials and their local emergency management

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coordinators, emergency medical service agencies, firefighters, law enforcement,

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search and rescue organizations, private, nonprofit, and community agencies and

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organizations to educate communities on local hazards and natural disasters.

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And whereas when residents working together with local and county government take

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responsibility for preparing their families and their communities, the chance of

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survival and return to normality following a disaster is greatly increased.

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And whereas the Board of Commissioners is grateful for collaboration within the

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community during an emergency, including a cooperative relationship with

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municipalities, first responders, local faith-based organizations, school

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districts, and other community organizations who commit to planning for and

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responding to all disasters to ameliorate the post-disaster conditions and quickly

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transition to recovery. And whereas all citizens of Lancaster County, PA are urged

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to plan for disasters and encourage their family and friends to do so by supporting

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and contacting their local emergency management coordinators for essential

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preparedness tips and information.

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And whereas citizens of Lancaster County, PA are encouraged to educate themselves,

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their family, and friends by visiting the Lancaster County Department of Public

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Safety website for essential preparedness tips and information.

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Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of Commissioners of Lancaster County,

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Pennsylvania, that the month of September 2026 be proclaimed Emergency Preparedness

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Month. The community is encouraged to observe this month by preparing for

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emergencies before they occur in Lancaster County.

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Signed, Rady Agostinho, Josh Parsons, and Al Yoder, the Board of Commissioners of

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Lancaster County.

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Thank you for reading the proclamation.

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I'll offer an opportunity for my colleagues to make some comments.

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Go ahead.

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Yeah, I think we all know that we can't always prevent emergencies, and we try to

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predict them, but not always can predict them as well.

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But we can certainly be ready for them.

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So I think this is a good time to pause and first and foremost thank the team that

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we have here at the county in terms of the preparation you do in conjunction with

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many of our community partners. And then also how you get the word out about every

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individual citizen can also be prepared for an emergency, and how they can do that

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by going to the website and finding that information out.

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But thank you for all you do, because the planning's so important when emergencies

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happen. We've had several of them lately, and your teams really rose to the

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occasion. So thank you for all you do.

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Thank you. Well, this proclamation is to highlight and help get the word out about

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emergency preparedness, and also to thank our team and those who across the county

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who work in this area, and I think it's appropriate to do so.

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We've had great work on many different issues, but most recently the

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tornado that hit Columbia. I think it highlights the great partnership that we have

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between the Department of Public Safety Emergency Management team and the local

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emergency management coordinators, and there was certainly high praise given to

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everyone involved in that, how quickly and effectively the team worked alongside

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the state. So just want to express my appreciation for that continued work and

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continued preparedness. I think we have a great team here in Lancaster County, and

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we're prepared in the eventuality.

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Hopefully, you don't have a big disaster, but

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all kinds of things can and do happen, and we want to make sure we're prepared for

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it. So thank you.

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I add my thanks to the team, the entire emergency management team here at the

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county, but also all those throughout the county, the emergency preparedness

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coordinators. Because

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what people don't realize is a lot of the work that goes on behind the scenes.

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By the time an emergency comes and you see the team, first responders, emergency

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managers, and their teams know that there was a lot of training,

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a lot of preparation that goes into that to be ready for that moment.

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And so we want to thank you for what you do on behalf of the 560,000

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residents here in Lancaster County, because when the time comes, we can

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be assured that our team and the folks in the field will be able

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to jump to the occasion and do what's necessary to mitigate

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and help people who are in a tough situation, whether it's life or property.

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We appreciate it so much. Thank you.

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With that, I'll open up for comments from the team.

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I know we have with us the public safety director, Brian Pasquale.

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You have the team behind you, so I'll let you introduce them as well.

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Yes, sir. Thank you, commissioners, for your very kind words.

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This year was a particularly busy season.

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So we had a lot of very small but very intense storms.

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So the emergency management team, they were really, really busy, and these are our

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key folks. I'm going to transition to them very, very quickly.

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Zach is our emergency management hazardous materials operations manager.

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And this gentleman, if I liken our emergency management team to a pickup truck,

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this is the guy who's got his foot on the gas pedal. We're always at an idle.

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And then when that day arises, then he's foot, that gas pedal's to the ground, and

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he's moving things forward. And behind him, we have Sarah.

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Sarah Glatfelter is our business manager. She's our EMA admin.

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So when you're talking about fuel that sustains that division, she's making sure

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that our grants are processed and all the inner workings of keeping that division

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stable and in operation. She's the brains behind that.

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Although she tends to like to fade off into the background.

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And again, here we have Grace. And again, the work that they do spreads

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across our county. So Grace is really who brings the local emergency managers.

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She works on their training. She schedules the exercises.

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She puts together the glue of the framework we call emergency management across the

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county. So I'm going to transition to them and let them have an opportunity to

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introduce themselves and anything they want to talk about.

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While you're doing that, it's a good opportunity with this proclamation to let

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people know very succinctly what they can do to be prepared so that they can help

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us, people who are coming out to help them. Go ahead, Zach.

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Yeah, definitely. Good morning, commissioners.

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Thank you for the kind words and highlighting the Proclamation of Preparedness

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Month.

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Definitely as citizens, it's really important to know your local emergency

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managers, know who that person is in your community, and get involved with that

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person so that preparedness can be a whole community approach, and the communities

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themselves can build off of each other to sustain themselves longer

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and give the responders time to do the work that they need to do, and then recovery

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will happen quickly after that. So that's the best thing.

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Going to ready.gov, learning how to get a disaster preparedness kit together,

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having those essential items with you so you can be sustained for 72 hours are all

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very important things. We've been very fortunate to have those local teams and

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local emergency managers be very involved this summer with the activity that we've

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had

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And them having all of their community organizations prepared and

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basically ready to go when the disaster happened.

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So, that's been a very big blessing for our community, just being able to have

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that right there ready to go, and it's made our job much easier.

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So it's definitely been at the local level for sure this year.

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Pass it off to Grace here. She has some information about the

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Prepare Lancaster event.

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Good morning, commissioners. So recent-- Last Thursday, September 3rd, we held our

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third annual Prepare Lancaster event, and it was actually very much a success.

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We had a lot of different partners come this year, a lot more vehicles to show off.

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We even had a smoke trailer to identify those

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issues that can come up with fire. So students and parents were prepared to see

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what will actually happen. It was very much a success, and I'm looking forward to

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next year's event, hopefully making it bigger and more Lancaster-centered.

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Sarah's a professional of few words. She just keeps us in business.

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So again, thank you, commissioners. And final applause for residents.

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Get to know your local emergency managers and your first responders.

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Be familiar with them. Get involved. Participate in exercises.

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Most of our exercises are open events.

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We encourage participation from the citizens.

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This way, there's expectation management is met.

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They can know what they can expect, and they also become well-practiced and more

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comfortable in their ability to be resilient as families, communities, and the

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county as a whole.

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Okay. Thank you. Anyone else like to offer some comments?

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All right. Then we'll, as we usually do, get a picture with everybody.

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Come on.

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Two,

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three.

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Thank

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you.

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Thank you.

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Appreciate

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it.

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Okay. That takes us to item 6B, which is Resolution 59, the issuance of tax-exempt

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revenue bonds.

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Mr. Chairman, I'll move to adopt resolution number 59 of 2026, and that is

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approving in accordance with Section 147F of the Internal Revenue Code of

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1986, as amended, an issuance of a bond by the Cumberland County

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Municipal Authority and declaring that it is desirable for the health, safety, and

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welfare of the people of Lancaster County for the Cumberland County Municipal

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Authority to undertake an issuance for the benefit of Penn State Health,

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as noted and stated in the written motion.

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Okay. We're joined by Tim Horseman, who's an attorney with Eckert Seamans, who will

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just give us a brief overview like he did yesterday.

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Yes, I do.

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Morning, Tim. Good morning.

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Good morning, commissioners. So as we noted yesterday, Penn State Health is looking

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to issue through the Cumberland County Municipal Authority up to $230 million of

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tax-exempt bonds. The reason we're here, of course, in Lancaster County today is up

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to $21 million of those bond proceeds are proposed to be used in Lancaster County

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to undertake an electronic health record improvement project.

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So they're going to do a complete modernization of all their electronic health

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record systems throughout their entire footprint in the county, so including the

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hospital and the city, as well as all their outpatient and other offices here.

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As we indicated yesterday, this is just simply a revenue bond issuance by the

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Municipal Authority for the benefit of Penn State Health.

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It does not involve the county pledging any type of a security.

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It's purely an approval that's required by the tax code and by the Municipal

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Authorities Act. If you have any questions, I'm happy to take them at this time.

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Once again, thank you for that overview. Any comments or questions from the board?

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From the public? All right, we'll take a vote then.

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All those in favor, signify by saying aye.

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Aye.

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Any opposed? The motion carries.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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All right. Next up is item 6C. This is Resolution 60 for the purchase of

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agricultural conservation easements.

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Mr. Chairman, I move the adoption of resolution number 60 of 2026.

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This would be agreed for the County of Lancaster to enter into an agreement of sale

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for an ag conservation easement with the following property owner, Aaron S.

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Stoltzfus and Naomi S. Stoltzfus.

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The amount and term is $208,520.

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And this is for a farm consisting of 56.33 acres, 52.13

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of which is proposed for preservation, and this is in Colerain Township, Lancaster

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County.

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Second.

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We're joined by Matt Nepper, the director of the Agricultural Preserve Board.

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Good morning.

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Good morning, Matt.

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Yeah. So as noted, this is for the preservation of the Stoltzfus farm, which is 52

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acres in Colerain Township. This is going to be a 100% state-funded easement

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purchase. We anticipate approval by the state board in October.

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So there's an outside chance we could still preserve it this year.

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I wanted to note a couple of things that I mentioned yesterday.

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The first is that this is a 2017 application from the Stoltzfuses.

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So Commissioner Yoder, you asked about farms that we didn't preserve that were

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maybe ahead of the-- ranked higher than this farm.

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One of the upsides of having some higher ranked farms say, "No, thank you this

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year, maybe next year," is that we can move further down our ranking list and get

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to folks who've been waiting for a long time.

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In this case, pretty much 10 years they've been waiting to preserve this farm.

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And I'm so happy to be able to do that.

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Secondly, I want to note that, touched on the bargain sale yesterday, this is a

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significant savings to the county.

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We're preserving the farm for less than half of the value of preservation.

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Part of the reason for the high value in this case is that the farm is currently

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comprised of two tax parcels, two separate tax parcels, roughly 42 or 40 and 12

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acres that could be sold completely separate from each other right now.

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And after the farm is preserved, it will be one 52-acre farm that can't be

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subdivided in that way and can't be sold that way.

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So that's a significant value that's given up by the farmer to preserve the farm

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all in one chunk like that. So I want to recognize him for that as well as

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accepting the bargain sale.

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As noted yesterday, I think my eyes are working a little better, I can read my

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page. But our stats don't include this farm in our total number of preserved farms

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because that will come later this year.

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But as of now, there are 1,687 farms preserved in Lancaster County on

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126,123 acres, and that's between the Ag Preserve Board and Lancaster Farmland

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Trust.

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Thank you for that. Any comments, questions from the board?

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No. Just thanks for the background information.

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It's good to have that context, especially you have a farm who's been waiting, the

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owner's been waiting almost 10 years to preserve it.

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So that speaks highly of the willingness in Lancaster County of family

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farmers to

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preserve no matter how long it takes.

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So we appreciate that we have people who are willing to do that and also willing to

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offer a significant bargain sale, which saves money and allows us to preserve more

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farmland.

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That's right.

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Anything from anyone else?

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Okay, then we'll take a vote. All those in favor, signify by saying aye.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you.

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Thank you. Thanks, Matt.

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All right, item 6D is a collective bargaining agreement with AFSCME.

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Do we have a motion?

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Yes, Mr. Chairman. I move to approve the collective bargaining agreement between

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Lancaster County and AFSCME District Council 89, Local

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1738 for a three-year period from January 1st,

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2026 through December 31st, 2028, in accordance with the terms and conditions of

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the agreement.

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Second.

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Okay. We're joined this morning by Christina Pedigvee, our HR director, and our

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solicitor, Jacki Ferson.

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Yes. Good morning, commissioners. Thank you very much.

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I'm just seeking for your support in finalizing the submitted collective bargaining

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agreement that was negotiated by designated county and AFSCME

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staff. So thank you very much.

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Thank you. Any comments, questions from the board?

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Anything from the public?

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All right, then we'll take a vote. All those in favor, signify by saying aye.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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And item 6D is a renewal agreement with CDWG through the IT department.

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Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion that it be agreed upon for the County of Lancaster

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acting on behalf of Information Technology to approve the following of renewal

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agreement with CDWG. The purpose is to approve the annual renewal for the

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hardware licensing and support of the county's Rubrik backup service used to create

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backups of county servers. The amount and term is

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$166,936.95 for a one-year period from September

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21, 2026 through September 20, 2027.

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The funding is through the information technology budget.

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Second.

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Okay. We're joined by Ian Ralph, the technical services manager for IT department.

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Good morning.

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Good morning. Good morning, commissioners.

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Yeah, so as you said, this is a renewal for licensing and maintenance support for

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our Rubrik backup service. That is what we use to back up all of our county data on

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all of our servers.

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Thank you. Any comments, questions from the board?

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Anything from the public on this?

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All right. We'll take a vote then. All those in favor, signify by saying aye.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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It takes us to a business from guests who would like to address the board.

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Please come on up.

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Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

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So moved.

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Second.

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All those in favor, signify by saying aye.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Any opposed? The motion carries. We're adjourned.

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Thanks, everyone.

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Thank you.