[0:00] everyone I call this meeting of L Del
burough Council for January 4th to order
[0:04] can we all rise for a pledge of
allegiance and a moment of silent
[0:11] meditation flag United States of America
to the
[0:19] stands
indivisible andice
[0:28] all
[0:36] roll call
please lean angelio present D Bernell
[0:41] present Carrie Hawkins Charlton present
Rich deorio Jr here Mary Fuller here
[0:48] Jack Hansen here Steven malary present
Jason vaname here Tom work here mayor G
[0:56] Andrew Eckley
here thank you good evening everyone
[1:01] happy New Year welcome back uh to
welcome to
[1:05] 2017 um before we get started I want to
remind everyone that we are uh we are uh
[1:10] at last live um with our video recording
equipment um this uh this meeting will
[1:18] be fully video record video and audio
recorded um everything you do everything
[1:23] you say uh Etc will be uh under scrutiny
um and uh we'll ultimately be posted on
[1:30] our website we aren't yet live with our
cable access channels uh those will be
[1:34] coming later um hopefully not in the
near too distant future um so I just
[1:39] want to say for folks in in the public
if you do come up um you you want to
[1:43] come up to this Podium over here to my
doesn't really matter okay either Podium
[1:48] is fine apparently um but we will want
you to definitely state your name uh and
[1:53] address for the record uh can't have
shouting from the from the audience at
[1:57] this point otherwise we'll we'll miss
that opportunity on the cameras um
[2:01] that's all I'll say about that uh we'll
get started uh taking us out admin and
[2:05] finance councilman vaname thank you Mr
President uh after approving the minutes
[2:10] from uh last month's meeting we
discussed our financial reports got an
[2:15] update uh don't quite have all the end
of year numbers in but it looks like we
[2:19] will have uh a considerable Surplus in
the uh
[2:24] revenues uh with with a real estate
transfer LST and E taxes all showing uh
[2:31] above budget uh coupled with uh
expenditure showing a pretty large
[2:38] number below budget there's a couple
transfers yet to make before we get that
[2:42] number finalized but uh all in all the
budget we are in good shape from last
[2:46] year's uh from
2016 uh we asked there was a question
[2:51] about the open gov uh portal on our
website and that is currently being
[2:56] updated and should should hopefully be
up to date within the next couple of
[3:01] weeks um moving on to business items uh
the the one recommendation we will be
[3:08] bringing to council is approval of the
Landscaping bids for maintenance and uh
[3:13] grass cutting and trimming for several
properties throughout the burrow uh the
[3:18] the bids were done for a three-year uh
term this time with the winning the the
[3:25] bid that we are recommending coming from
uh biasi Landscaping uh 3 years for a
[3:32] total of
$136,800
[3:35] uh we had a we had an item on there
about approving check signers but we
[3:40] didn't quite get all the necessary
information in in time so we uh pushed
[3:44] that off till to
February uh under old business we had an
[3:49] update on the uh trash removal
specifications that specification has
[3:54] been
completed uh with the uh recommendation
[3:59] to send that out to bid on the 19th of
this month and the council members will
[4:06] get a copy of that bid for their
perusal um we were reminded that uh we
[4:12] have already
approved uh advertisement and or or what
[4:17] is it development and advertisement of
that bid so
[4:22] um so so Council will see that bid uh
the public will get a um the scope of
[4:29] work put on the website so that they
would be able to Peru that as well uh
[4:34] and again it is to get a bid to see what
the numbers would be uh to if if we in
[4:39] in fact decide to go that
route
[4:43] um under new business we are looking at
uh some potential savings by uh shopping
[4:52] insurance carriers for liability and
property insurance um we could
[4:57] potentially realize a great saving on
insurance through the Delaware Valley uh
[5:03] Insurance trust which we are a member of
and use currently for uh our workers
[5:08] comp and health insurance they also
offer um property and liability
[5:15] insurances uh we use a different carrier
for that currently uh but we have asked
[5:20] staff to uh look into to our options to
see if we could realize the savings
[5:26] there so they will will pursue that over
the next
[5:30] uh it'll take several months to to
actually uh get through that
[5:35] process um
under uh some other things under I guess
[5:42] old business uh we do have a potential
the settlement date for the 311 building
[5:49] uh is is scheduled for tomorrow so uh
barring any unforeseen
[5:54] complications uh that settlement will
happen
[5:57] tomorrow uh we were
uh again we have asked for uh current
[6:04] updates on our professional reports from
our various professionals that the buau
[6:10] uses um and the HR position staff is
currently kind of in the final stages of
[6:17] interviewing uh hoping to get down to uh
a selection the vetting process and and
[6:25] looking that maybe by the end of January
we might uh be able to agree with
[6:29] someone on that position so that's
coming uh one other one last thing under
[6:34] new business uh a grand
opportunity uh through the growing
[6:39] Greener organization uh it's a grand
opportunity that would provide funds for
[6:44] a design on um one of the projects that
is part of the ms4 plan uh that we had
[6:53] to develop uh early in
2016 uh that that actual plan and now uh
[7:01] approval for that has been pushed off
till later 2017 but this grant
[7:07] opportunity is is kind of time sensitive
and it would provide funds for uh the
[7:12] design process of a project that is in
that plan um so we have asked staff to
[7:18] pursue that grand opportunity It's a
grand opport uh hoping to get about
[7:24] $100,000 uh with about a 15 to 20% match
on that the the planning phase of this
[7:30] project uh looks to be about $120,000 so
if we can get that plan taken care of
[7:35] and shovel ready that puts us in a
better position uh come September when
[7:39] those some of those other plans are
adopted and uh so we think it's a it's a
[7:45] good thing and it would the pl the
project that they're looking at is
[7:49] stream Bank stabilization in the Whites
Road Park
[7:52] area um that concludes my
report thank you councilman van Dame any
[7:58] questions for admin
Finance one quick question Mr President
[8:03] yes the HR Personnel um is the per once
we hire or if we hire an HR department
[8:09] head um what other what other multitask
is that that person going to be doing
[8:15] besides just HR job in other words job
description
[8:22] itself um I'm not going to do very well
answering that question other than to
[8:26] say I know there's a pretty full job
description for that position um and I'm
[8:30] going to look in Jake's direction for
anything he wants to add yes we we can
[8:35] furnish that job description okay as far
as you know what would be expected you
[8:39] know of uh the HR Personnel okay um you
know but you know what we expect uh that
[8:45] person to be okay is a full member of
the uh the management team okay uh help
[8:50] us you know develop uh um you know
develop the the HR you know evaluate our
[8:57] existing um uh um information you know
as it as it relates to HR and then
[9:04] develop uh uh a uh a plan for moving the
HR process uh you know forward and and
[9:13] and making that a a um a um ongoing part
of you know the bur the you know the
[9:21] Burrow's operations okay um you know as
to um you know uh what other duties okay
[9:29] they they would obviously the duties
would still largely re relate around um
[9:35] you know looking at at contracts
benefits okay uh you know looking uh to
[9:41] make sure that we stay current with uh
uh the various laws that are you know
[9:46] almost changing daily okay uh so that
you know we are um you know um I'll say
[9:55] right up with the you know with the
Curve as far as you know where we we
[10:00] where we need to be uh compliance wise
okay ultimately you know they would be
[10:05] assisting you know with uh you know uh
input into the budget they'd be
[10:10] assisting with input into contracts um
you know there's um you know um uh
[10:18] there's there's more than enough uh to
keep them busy you know like the rest of
[10:22] us uh you know um probably more than 40
hours per
[10:28] week than thank you Jake thanks Jake any
other questions admin for admin and
[10:34] finance One n here Mr President um Jason
did you mention that the biasi
[10:39] Landscaping contract uh was for three
years did okay all right I wasn't I
[10:44] wasn't sure all
right thank you anyone
[10:50] else all right thank you very much
moving on Code Enforcement and land
[10:53] planning councilman angelio thank you Mr
President um after approval of our
[10:59] December meeting minutes we moved into
our committee business items uh Mr Ernst
[11:04] Pro provided a uh discussion points on
electrical permits what you need to know
[11:11] what we go through here in the burough
of Landsdale um just some of the small
[11:15] discussion points a very large volume of
permits that are applied for are never
[11:20] picked up uh that becomes very very
costly for John's Department to track
[11:25] them down did the work get done has it
been completed has it been post inspect
[11:29] action so that he can close the permits
um informational for people is that
[11:37] while we provide permits for electrical
work we do not inspect the work for
[11:41] proper completion that requires an
independent Agency for the final
[11:46] inspection for uh that it all follows
guidelines building code that it's
[11:52] safely done post inspection by that
independent agency John's uh group will
[11:59] go go in inspect make sure it is
properly tagged and stickered so that
[12:02] they can close the
permit um it was a actually was
[12:06] fantastic discussion we had a lot of uh
public input and um was very well
[12:11] received John I think and thank you for
that uh that presentation we spoke about
[12:17] our budget activity um John's department
has um
[12:21] outperformed uh every year more permits
um but one of the areas that it doesn't
[12:26] outperform is less citations less
complaints so um through a comprehensive
[12:33] um effort of Outreach to the community
John's group has done a a fantastic job
[12:38] of educating people what needs a permit
what doesn't need a permit people are
[12:42] more educated John's department has less
issues to deal with where they can focus
[12:47] more on what they need to focus on as
opposed to chasing people down they can
[12:52] develop you know Progressive platforms
for people to be able to easily uh
[12:56] acquire permits Comm uh Planning
Commission report we um on January 16th
[13:05] there will be a presentation about the
Madison Street widening project this is
[13:09] not the Equis project for Madison
parking lot this is primarily on the
[13:14] street widening that street to allow for
additional parking it's um the street
[13:19] that abuts the back end of the Main
Street stores for those that don't know
[13:23] I'm not sure who wouldn't know where
Madison Street was um it'll also so you
[13:29] know work in conjunction with that
ongoing Equis project The Equis project
[13:34] itself um as an update is in land
planning uh currently they're going
[13:40] through the process of having their
project approved for um beginning which
[13:46] would will be nice this has been a a
long project it'll be nice to see this
[13:51] project come to fruition uh there will
be also be a presentation on the 16th um
[13:56] 32 East blae Street this has been a long
ongoing project too the U the the
[14:03] individuals that are developing this
project will continue moving
[14:07] forward um all business except the
parking garage just a scheduling update
[14:12] a prospective opening end of February
beginning of March there's been some
[14:16] minor delays primarily concerning
elevators um we spoke about potential
[14:21] new ordinances curb sidewalk and house
number inspections um usually or what
[14:27] we'd like to think done when a house is
being sold to protect the new owner make
[14:32] sure all the information is from the old
owner to the new owner so nobody gets
[14:36] any surprises when they when they buy a
new home we will be having a a
[14:41] presentation uh by an individual who
would like to present some some
[14:45] arguments um against and of course
before we go through with developing any
[14:50] kind of ordinance we want to we want to
research it we want to talk about it how
[14:53] it affects people dayt day uh we also
spoke um about the a potential medical
[15:00] marijuana ordinance uh we're being very
proactive on this because this is
[15:05] something that is coming um we have a
model ordinance that has been sent to
[15:09] our solicitor to look over it see if it
suits land the community who we are and
[15:16] and what we do here um we also talked
about an ordinance revision uh for
[15:21] accessory building definition currently
in
[15:25] Landsdale Lots um we're limited to two
accessory structures
[15:30] uh in most yards now it would seem kind
of silly but a patio a paved patio is
[15:37] considered an accessory structure so
what we want to do is we want to look
[15:40] and make sure our ordinances are not
overly binding
[15:45] or that they work for the people that
that live here so that they can do
[15:48] things with their homes and not have
undue hardship uh new business zoning
[15:53] hearing board 623 Columbia Avenue there
was uh the zoning hearing board herd uh
[15:59] about a non-conforming porch being built
into an enclosure that was habitable
[16:04] space um it basically it uh kind of
projected into a sidey yard which is not
[16:10] permitted at this point however they
were uh approved for that um structure
[16:16] Hill Hill Crest shopping center two
additional pad sites and parking has
[16:20] been approved um for future development
in that location the January 17th uh
[16:28] zoning hearing board meeting has been
cancelled we had a lot of public comment
[16:32] uh some interesting things concerning
some of the things we spoke about prior
[16:36] and some some new ideas it was a well
attended and uh exciting meeting I
[16:42] invite you all to join us in a few weeks
to come out so I know it doesn't compare
[16:47] to parks and RM but we don't have
fireworks there but we do have a lot of
[16:54] fun and that is the end of my
report thank you Council angelio any
[16:59] questions for code
enforcement anybody all right thank you
[17:05] very much moving right along uh
Communications Commission councilwoman
[17:09] Hawkins Charlton thank you Mr President
happy New Year everyone uh we actually
[17:14] had a really productive meeting last
night uh we started with a Civics 101
[17:18] schedule uh based on our feedback from
previous sessions we've changed the
[17:22] format to monthly Workshop instead of 3
weeks at a time uh the first Workshop
[17:27] will be held on Tuesday January 31st and
that'll be the legislative branch where
[17:32] we talk about how the council functions
what our our appointed officials do for
[17:36] us as well as how of our meetings are
structured there's only 10 spaces left
[17:41] so uh email Tracy uh to sign up um I
believe there's information on the
[17:47] website yes so if you want to sign up
you can go there uh the next workshops
[17:52] in the pipeline um will be the police on
February 28th and then in March they'll
[17:58] be we'll get to visit judge Ed LaVine
and his council chambers um which was a
[18:03] real big hit the last time we did it uh
We've also talked with various
[18:07] department heads um and hopefully we'll
get a behind thes scenes tour coming in
[18:12] uh the later spring months uh so those
dates will be coming up next uh we also
[18:17] talked about the website we took a look
at the metrics and statistics for the
[18:22] burough website for the past year and
there are a few items that we found
[18:25] interesting the most searched keywords
were job employment and poll the most
[18:31] frequently visited Pages were the
calendar Utility payments and the white
[18:36] Whites Road concert series uh the
majority of site traffic to our site
[18:41] came from Facebook search engines and
job employment sites um we also
[18:47] discussed the meeting of the meeting
recordings as D Denton mentioned we're
[18:51] now recording and we'll be posting work
session and business meetings on the
[18:55] burough website we'll also be posting
those recordings on com and Verizon
[18:59] channels uh we have the equipment ready
but we're just waiting for training to
[19:04] to get set up on those um also with the
meeting recordings we talked a little
[19:08] bit about programming um what else we
want to showcase besides just our
[19:13] meetings um so if anybody has any
comments on that please uh send Tracy
[19:18] and I an email um possible options are
um ongoing development projects um
[19:25] howtos for various departments um you
know some of our burrow events
[19:30] throughout the year uh we also started
talking about the editorial calendar how
[19:35] to ramp up our media coverage for the
burrow um and capitalize on all the
[19:39] events we have H happening in landale um
it's at the beginning of the year so
[19:44] it's a great time to uh start to reach
out to those new sources and let them
[19:48] know that what we're doing in lale and
hopefully they'll come out and give us
[19:52] some press maybe along the way uh also
we are looking into Poss possibly a
[19:59] video production
intern
[20:03] uh uh we talked about how the demands of
this new video uh channel uh is is
[20:10] putting some burdens on our current
staff um and maybe maybe having an
[20:16] internship or potentially multiple
internships will help us assist uh
[20:21] communic communication efforts for the
burrow we'll also look at various
[20:25] Colleges and Schools as well as
potential qualified candidates from
[20:29] other areas of the community and that
sums up my report does anybody have any
[20:35] questions any questions for
communication yes now just a comment uh
[20:39] you really want our ideas on how we can
Jazz up the station Tracy and uh Carrie
[20:45] I'll send you some ideas sure go ahead
we could do some kind of uh Council act
[20:51] or you know we can you never
know already on the
[20:57] list I I do like to hear that uh pool
and Whites Road you know that's that's
[21:04] it shows you that uh you know not that
I'm prejudiced or anything about the
[21:09] parks and recck system but uh it's
important to communities and it our
[21:15] website proves
that thank you any other questions for
[21:21] communications all right thank you very
much Carrie moving on economic
[21:26] development councilman vaname thank you
Mr President president uh so at our
[21:30] meeting we had a presentation from Pam
Kelly who is the CEO of the uh pens
[21:35] Suburban Chamber of Commerce of Greater
Montgomery County uh she came to us with
[21:40] a proposal to help uh facilitate and
organize a business group here in
[21:46] Lansdale uh they currently actually do
this in skip back and lower gnid uh to
[21:51] some degree a success we've been trying
to
[21:55] organize some some type of Lansdale
business Association for some time now
[22:00] and for different reasons it's it's uh
nobody's really picked it up and run
[22:04] with it so Pam has agreed to uh come in
and try to Foster that program we are
[22:10] waiting to hear from her on a couple
dates to get that started but we are
[22:14] hoping to start that uh by the end of
this month uh if not early next month uh
[22:20] she's agreed to run a 12-month program
uh it would be free to anybody that's a
[22:25] current member of the Chamber of
Commerce and uh a nominal annual fee for
[22:31] uh non chamber members uh they would
provide you know monthly agenda and
[22:35] support to these meetings and then
hopefully the business Community can
[22:39] grow uh that Association out of this
program uh the the group thought that
[22:45] that would be a a great thing here for
the businesses in Lansdale there's
[22:48] definitely a need and a desire so uh
we're going to see what we can do to get
[22:53] that going um other than that we welcome
one new business in November uh Visiting
[22:59] Angels over on Vine
Street and uh we reviewed the caners as
[23:05] the business of the month of December
and coming up this month Mr Ray Liberto
[23:09] will be presenting the business of the
month the only other thing I have the
[23:14] report on I don't know if Mary will get
this in her report but the uh folks that
[23:19] ran the Christmas tree display uh by the
cougle ball uh wanted to report they had
[23:24] over a thousand people sign in and it
was a very successful uh even though it
[23:29] they got shortened by a day it was still
a great great thing to do in a great
[23:33] location so help helped contribute to uh
the the season here in Lansdale and that
[23:39] concludes my
report thank you Mr vaname any questions
[23:43] for
EDC all right moving right along
[23:46] electric committee councilman D Gregorio
thank you Mr President um the approval
[23:51] amendments 30-0 our our committee
business items first was the uh purchase
[23:57] of the rear yard buggy from the machine
that we were talking about this past
[24:02] year the machine was earmarked for
$175,000 but it came through coars with
[24:09] 13185 from alte Industries this will be
coming to in the next uh business
[24:14] meeting for consideration for purchase
second would be the uh line switch gear
[24:19] update uh the the gear is actually 98%
completed and ready to energize
[24:25] tomorrow next is the um maintenance sub
station excuse me the main substation
[24:31] maintenance um there's been concern
about the um security with our
[24:35] substations and our facilities um our
our committee was talking about possibly
[24:40] looking into a security systems to
protect and keep an eye on on our U
[24:46] infrastructure with our electric so
that's that is uh in process with our
[24:51] committee and also uh Andy's talking to
uh other people about uh ideas and specs
[24:57] and stuff like that
next would be the uh
[25:01] 2016 um things that we uh did this year
with the electric first would be the
[25:06] main substation breaker the 145,000 volt
and the 345 volt Breakers next would be
[25:13] the phase one and the Aline green
project next would be the uh
[25:19] dvrpc LED um light project that that's
what we did last year next would be the
[25:27] fiber equip equipment and training for
Phase 2 um the guys are getting uh more
[25:33] guys are getting trained on the fireberg
equipment and we will be in a process
[25:36] about doing more fiber this coming year
uh 2017 like I said um our goals would
[25:43] be the repair and upgrade the main
substation equipment uh replace the
[25:48] substation in preparation for the
Madison parking
[25:51] development um next would be the
purchased to install 2,000 more um RX
[25:57] meters that we talked in the past and
finally another we're talking about the
[26:03] IR the heating system in the uh service
building of the electric Department
[26:07] about getting a new heater system so
we're in a process about investigating
[26:13] that
situation Department operations finally
[26:17] septic garage is work has completed in
the garage next would be the meter
[26:22] replacement the creu are like I said
we're um changing meters
[26:26] out and finally the CPR certifications
the entire crew was recently recertified
[26:32] in CPR training um it's great that we
have a safety coordinator and the guys
[26:37] are getting their certifications for
that situation too to keep everybody
[26:42] safe finally the new business the power
blip this morning at 7: a.m. was due to
[26:47] PP now fault line in hfield that
affected our main line power was
[26:51] restored in a matter of
seconds and that was end of my report
[26:56] any questions from Council yes
yes uh you mentioned that piece of
[27:02] equipment you called a backyard
truck something back backyard machine
[27:07] yes backyard machine and we estimated it
at
[27:13] 175,000 and we found it that we could
possibly get it on co-star for 131 yes
[27:19] yes Mr hansome I like that thank you
it's a a great machine um with a we have
[27:24] a lot of telephone poles in our
backyards in our uh burrow and having
[27:28] this machine is is going to help
tremendously with the labor with our
[27:33] electric department just because it's in
Ace it won't tear up a lot of people's
[27:37] Lawns it's it's smaller um it's smaller
used meaning that has a has a bu bucket
[27:43] attachment to it so alignment can
actually go up in the air um also we
[27:47] take the bucket out it also can set a
pole move a pole um it also has
[27:52] hydraulic lines for jackhammering so
it's a very multi-purpose piece of
[27:57] equipment that the bar would definitely
could use and help our uh Manpower and
[28:02] our electric Department keep up the good
work and keep saving us money thank you
[28:07] Mr thank you any other questions for
electric
[28:12] committee all right thank you very much
Rich much
[28:16] appreciated uh let's see Library
committee vice president Fuller here
[28:22] thank you Mr President your favorite
report of the night uh we had no
[28:26] committee meeting in January AR uh we
are due for a library Board of Trustees
[28:32] meeting next business meeting which is
January 18th uh and our next committee
[28:38] meeting will be Monday February
6th but um thank you very much and you
[28:44] can keep us going with parks and Rick
thank you Mr President uh suggestion for
[28:48] opening these meetings now with the
cameras I think you should start it with
[28:53] live from Lansdale it's Wednesday night
and just just thrown that I'll take it
[28:58] under consideration thank you uh as all
committees do uh we did like everybody
[29:04] else and approved our minutes so I'll
I'll note that as well so you don't
[29:08] think parks and wck is lack in doing
that uh we discussed a few requests that
[29:15] are um that we're researching to move to
council should they be necessary uh one
[29:21] is the potential use um by the
USA US Tennis Association
[29:28] um potential rental of three of our
courts on a couple hours uh in on
[29:35] Saturdays from late April early May for
8we courses for kids we'll move that
[29:41] forward as we do some more research and
decide if um the user is interested in
[29:47] renting and agrees to the price that
that we will set forth uh the other
[29:54] request that is um in the research phase
in the the park system is a request uh
[30:01] for soccer field usage um and this would
be for the Merc soccer program uh
[30:07] currently uh I think we're aware MC is
selling some of its property they would
[30:13] not have a soccer field they do have an
employee soccer program so they are
[30:18] researching local
municipalities uh for the potential use
[30:23] of uh soccer fields again if the fit is
right uh we'll come before Council uh
[30:29] with a suggested um use and price so
more more to come on that as
[30:36] necessary uh we had several successful
programs following our last meeting and
[30:42] uh in keeping with all the holiday um
hij Jinks here in the burrow uh we had a
[30:48] successful Charlie Brown Christmas
concert over at pendale Middle School uh
[30:53] decently attended can always use more
there I know it's a busy time of year
[30:58] but our thanks to obviously the school
district the Eric mtel quartet and
[31:05] everyone who attended and enjoyed that
program in December uh we also thank uh
[31:10] Alan gold and Ellen Price Malloy who
once again put together a very
[31:15] successful manure lighting program on
December 26th uh was one of the most
[31:22] highly attended events of that nature um
so having it two days after the start of
[31:29] Hanukkah didn't seem to affect actually
the weather cooperated there were 16
[31:34] horns of Hanukkah applying and uh
overall the night was very successful uh
[31:41] the Santa house was also successful uh
help uh with the the being so close to
[31:47] the trees I'm sure the tree display in
the Santa house uh that was always my
[31:52] particular dream and goal to have those
two uh holiday events close enough to
[31:57] each other that people could easily uh
go back and forth and appreciate the
[32:02] both of them so thanks to uh all of
Santa's helpers who were on hand and um
[32:10] and helped do Santa's bidding to all the
children uh who so chose to visit with
[32:16] him uh we are now gearing up for spring
and summer programs and I'll keep you of
[32:22] course apprised of them as we move
forward uh maintenance activities uh
[32:28] tradition you know typical ongoing
maintenance for this time of year in
[32:32] addition to that we are looking at some
valve issues at Whites Road pool and
[32:37] looking into taking care of uh make sure
everything's in proper working order uh
[32:43] our budget closed out in good shape for
2016 uh we're happy to report that uh
[32:48] the parks and wreck department did not
exceed its uh budget in expenses but it
[32:54] did exceed its budget in revenues so so
we're we're very happy with that uh on
[33:02] in Old business uh Liberty Bell Trail
update uh the bids um are due by uh
[33:11] January 12th and this is the section of
the trail that runs from Andale green to
[33:17] uh Hancock road to behind Andale green
that stretch um so potential biders have
[33:25] until
11:00 um Friday morning the 6th to
[33:30] submit any questions uh bids are due by
11:00 a.m. on the 12th so by next this
[33:37] time next month maybe we will have some
reports on on how that um how the
[33:43] bidding went uh we did touch uh briefly
on Skate Park update um Carl is uh
[33:52] researching the Tony Hawk foundation and
whether or not um the criteria has
[33:58] loosened up some on that so we're
looking into uh having seeing if we can
[34:03] get some money there which we could put
against the current grant that that we
[34:09] have um so we'll keep everybody posted
on that uh we did uh have some um some
[34:17] of the residents who spoke during public
comment regarding this issue uh our goal
[34:24] as the parks and recck committee is to
have a decision on location uh by this
[34:29] time next month we'd like to uh have a
recommendation our hope is to have a
[34:34] recommendation for Council uh coming out
of our next committee meeting which
[34:40] would be the first Wednesday in
February
[34:44] so
um we talked about the uh
[34:51] grandstand project uh the bid packages
are right now being reviewed vied by
[34:58] Chris fio and Chris conle uh we are on
target our goal was to have them out
[35:03] late December sometime in January we're
still on track with that um so that that
[35:10] should go out later this month our
long-term goal of course is to have the
[35:14] grand stand uh renovated by the
beginning of this year's baseball season
[35:20] so we're still on track to accomplish
that uh we reviewed we reviewed and
[35:26] discussed our park bench sponsorship and
donation program uh as we move forward
[35:33] with that uh Carl has given the
committee some uh recommendations and uh
[35:38] some specifications for what other
communities do uh Justin Smith has
[35:44] graciously he's our our resident
GIS Guru uh has mapped out all the
[35:50] existing benches in each of the burrow
parks and what kind of benches they are
[35:57] because as we move forward if people
want to um donate a memorial or honorari
[36:04] honorari not a word uh a bench to honor
someone they will um be consistent with
[36:12] what's already in the park we're also
looking at um a plaque program as well
[36:19] uh there is a a specific request already
in front of us to put a plaque on a
[36:25] specific park bench in system so we will
come up and make sure come up with a
[36:30] plan to make sure plaques are also
consistent and we will share all the
[36:35] details of the length of the program and
the charges surrounding that as we move
[36:43] forward
[36:48] um we discussed pool policies under new
business uh Carl will be meeting with uh
[36:58] pool managers and and those uh
stakeholders in in that area uh to
[37:04] discuss maybe reconfiguring a few of the
policies perhaps uh not the least of
[37:11] which could include
um uh revising pool hours uh admissions
[37:18] who we allow in and what type of ID they
would have to present uh relaxing the
[37:24] number of guests per member that you
would be allowed to bring to the the
[37:27] pool the age of uh a child that you can
drop off
[37:32] unaccompanied uh that kind of Works hand
inand with the insurance piece that
[37:37] Jason talked about if we move to a new
carrier we that may have to be changed
[37:42] for insurance purposes um and and that
um outside of the public comment uh most
[37:51] of which uh surrounded the skate park
that concludes our report thank you
[37:58] thank you very much any questions yes Mr
Hansen I just want to say I really like
[38:04] what I'm hearing here tonight you said
you did not exceed expenses and you did
[38:09] exceed revenues I applaud the forks and
Rec Department thank you very much I
[38:14] appreciate that thank you I'd say I work
hard at that but I gotta yeah give props
[38:20] to that guy over there it's not on
camera that's right
[38:23] right Mr President yes sir um I actually
witnessed
[38:28] how that happens and how Carl does it
and I don't know how he does this either
[38:32] through extensive study review of past
uh statistics Carl was able to set up to
[38:39] Santa house see every child over a
multitude of days whoever wanted to see
[38:44] and sit with Santa hand out a little
goodie bag and at the end of a multitude
[38:49] of weeks and couple of hundred kids
managed to have one Surplus bag one so
[38:57] I'm not sure what kind of Witchcraft you
use say cook your numbers Carl but
[39:01] definitely it was absolutely a Christmas
miracle very good well done
[39:06] sir
[39:10] Joan all right so really Joanne deserves
all the credit s a senior elf she was
[39:15] absolutely wonderful and uh she
certainly enjoys it my credit goes out
[39:20] or my my Thanks goes out to her
too so I I guess that goes that proves
[39:26] the point that behind every good
[39:31] man all right now that the video cameras
are on yeah okay all right well done
[39:37] well done uh any other questions for
parks and
[39:40] W all right thank you very much moving
right along Public Safety councilman
[39:45] work thank you Mr President uh three
items of note from the public safety
[39:50] meeting this evening uh first an update
on the commercial vehicle parking
[39:56] ordinance um we have now completed the
vetting process of that ordinance and
[40:02] are prepared to uh send our um our
proposed changes onto the burough
[40:09] solicitor uh for the uh crafting of a
draft uh and just as a quick highlight
[40:15] um of those changes um they include
restricting parking of the following
[40:20] Vehicles overnight uh it would include
commercial vehicles uh 1,200 lb and over
[40:26] 12,000 oh 12,000 lb over thank you it's
a little
[40:31] light 12,000 my Prius was in trouble
yeah yes my Honda's in trouble uh motor
[40:39] homes RVs and campers uh any unattached
trailers uh and then any commercial
[40:45] vehicle that's solely designated to
transport um cargo or goods and then of
[40:50] course there will be exemptions uh that
will be included in that to includeed
[40:54] construction equipment in an active Zone
Fire equipment uh Etc so uh stay tuned
[41:01] uh that will be forthcoming for uh our
review as a full counsel uh second item
[41:06] was uh we addressed an appeal of a
handicap parking request at 1032 popler
[41:12] Street uh uh last month we had denied
this request based on information we had
[41:17] there was adequate off street parking
however um residents did appeal uh Chief
[41:23] mcdy did a site visit spent a fair
amount of time with the resident
[41:28] uh and determined that there really is a
significant need there uh so he did
[41:33] recommend that we uh reverse that and
approve and we have so that will be
[41:38] forthcoming for final approval uh later
in the month and then finally we had a
[41:42] visit from the folks uh from the
Hometown Heroes walk um seeking approval
[41:48] for uh the walk on Saturday May
13th uh again uh initiating at Trinity
[41:54] Lutheran uh a 10: a.m. start
and we did as a committee uh approve to
[42:01] save that date as a side note they are
the first event of the year uh subject
[42:07] to the new events ordinance that uh we
recently passed so uh final approval is
[42:14] is subject or contingent upon um uh
approval of that application which we
[42:19] will expect will happen uh as well as
all the regular Insurance Etc so unless
[42:25] there are questions concerns is my
report yes sir only one thing Tom you
[42:32] didn't mention the fact that our
committee was the first committee to get
[42:37] these new lapel pens from our chief and
the whole commit is f on that Tracy can
[42:44] you can you zoom in on the new on
they've been loing these pins over me
[42:47] for the last 20 minutes I we we better
get these pins and we thank you Chief
[42:51] they're they're they're wonderful and
amazing thanks Jack
[42:57] all right any questions for Tom
fantastic lastly Public Works councilman
[43:03] malary thank you Mr President after
approving our minutes we jumped right
[43:07] into our business items uh 2016 roadway
and utility Rehabilitation project
[43:12] that's Crestview durstein and the Force
main sanitary sewer laterals were worked
[43:17] on along Crestview Road um and sanitary
line and manhole were installed on East
[43:22] Fifth Street at the vacant lot between
Crestview and Lansdale Avenue uh there
[43:27] will be a request for payment number one
and we actually did vote on that and in
[43:32] the affirmative for the amount of
[43:56] $144,300 Church Road and then some areas
on Cherry Street the intersection of
[44:00] Wicken Avenue and Highland Avenue and
then finished up on both sides of
[44:04] Highland as well the burough was
responsible for Paving or paying rather
[44:08] for the black top which came in at
[44:17] $4,618.00
total for this project is
[44:24] $96,900 budget for what we had budgeted
for at
[44:29] $100,000 so we got a lot of work done um
and it also came in under budget so this
[44:35] project has been closed out from our
agenda um we next spoke about the nap
[44:40] Road Bridge uh the wayfinding signs were
installed the week of December 19th so
[44:45] if you haven't seen them go take a look
go walk by see how they are uh see if
[44:50] there's any Resident feedback from that
and uh we can also close this project
[44:54] out from our
agenda uh next we spoke a little bit on
[45:00] the wastewater treatment plant and so
there weren't any uh Merc flow numbers
[45:07] for this month but Dan did give us a
good number and he says since we've
[45:11] actually started taking uh Wastewater
from Merc we've done uh about 500
[45:17] million gallons of waste waterer from
them and that's uh from
[45:21] 2013 is when we started that so that was
a an impressive number uh none L um we
[45:28] then spoke about the TMD alternative um
so that is for the Wicken tmdl
[45:33] alternative uh the next meeting for that
is th the second Thursday in February um
[45:38] subcommittees are being formed um and
there was a name change for the group
[45:43] actually it is now being called the
Wicken clean water
[45:47] partnership and the plan will be called
the Wicken water quality improvement
[45:54] plan and then spoke a little bit about
the ms4 um Jason really touched on that
[46:00] so I'm not going to go any further on it
um unless there's questions um as far as
[46:06] the budget is concerned we did start
talking about um looking into getting
[46:11] some prices for a six wheeel dump truck
and uh also a small bucket truck and uh
[46:17] we'll be getting some more information
on that next month and that is in our
[46:21] Capital um capital budget for
that um in Old business
[46:27] um the hometown hero banners have all
been removed from the polls uh they're
[46:32] packed up into the dock boxes provided
by Anon Ed shuring and picked up by lale
[46:38] Warehouse on December 29th and to be
stored over the winter months and also
[46:45] uh further old business we got some
correspondents from pendot that North
[46:50] Broad Street is scheduled and this is in
writing to be paved this year
[46:54] 2017 and uh as we get any more
information I'll keep you all
[46:58] posted uh furthermore in Old business um
survey work was completed uh by by the L
[47:05] Lansdale Abington hospital um and we
identified uh where our easement needs
[47:11] to be for the forc main work that's
there and basically that area that we're
[47:15] talking about is where the burrow line
is and where the hospital property is
[47:19] and there's residences along that area
we need to do the survey to see where we
[47:23] needed to run the work for the Force
main that needed to be there and where
[47:26] the easements needed to go so the next
step is actually getting those easements
[47:31] done
um let's see after that oh the last
[47:38] thing I wanted to mention in Old
business was our sludge truck that we uh
[47:42] want to sell on municibid actually uh
got a bid for
[47:48] $61,000 which was uh I think we
initially thought it was going to be
[47:51] around
35 so uh definitely much more than than
[47:56] we expected so hopefully we'll we'll
confirm that soon
[48:02] um on let's see on new business uh the
Christmas tree pickup will be Saturday
[48:08] this coming Saturday January 7th so
please have your Christmas trees out and
[48:13] any uh decorations that are left on them
will be coming onto the Public Works
[48:20] tree I think for next year's tree
display is that correct okay perfect so
[48:26] if if you're Miss in an ornament you
might find it on the holiday tree
[48:29] display um let's see in public comment
we did have a resident come from Shaw
[48:36] Avenue to discuss uh the snow removal
practices from our large storm that we
[48:40] had last year um and to see how possibly
we could um alter or or um change our
[48:49] snow removal practice on that street so
uh we did address some concerns and
[48:53] we'll be in contact with that Resident
as as the winter prog dresses and uh
[48:58] we've had some ideas of how to make sure
that residents are aware of what streets
[49:03] were plowed um and when they might be
plowed and also telephone numbers to
[49:07] call uh if they haven't been plowed um
other than that unless I'm missing
[49:13] something that ends my
report well done sir thank you all right
[49:18] any questions for Public Works yes Mr
Hansen I just have to say we've really
[49:23] thrown down the gauntlet tonight on
saving money money so let's all keep it
[49:29] up let's keep it up thank you 12 more
months and we're not going to have any
[49:32] budget problems at all next year thank
you all right
[49:37] excellent uh that concludes our reports
uh announcements we'll uh we'll do it in
[49:42] an orderly fashion to my left coming
this way
[49:45] anyone all right to my right going in
this direction yes go for it okay uh
[49:51] January 11th just to remind everyone is
the international Spring Festival
[49:56] kickoff dinner uh all of you should have
received an invitation if you can make
[50:01] it I highly recommend it great food and
a little Glimpse at what a great day uh
[50:07] the event will be when it is held
officially in in April um and since I
[50:13] didn't have a library report I'll plug
the library a little bit always a lot
[50:18] happening there uh there's a day off a
school coming up in January library is
[50:24] always a popular place on those days
plent of programs Day evening weekends
[50:29] movies Book Sales cribbage game nights
uh all kinds of clubs you can join so
[50:36] take advantage of your local
library thank and and I will add sorry
[50:41] uh John welcome aboard uh everybody's
making you look really good the admin of
[50:47] Finance meeting ended not only on time
but early people are saving money so uh
[50:54] you know keep it
up anyone else to my right yes Mr dorio
[50:59] thank you Mr President hey just a a word
of note about U with the weather and in
[51:03] climate weather with the snow look out
for your neighbors if neighbors need
[51:07] help shovel and snow or anything look
out for the Aly and like I said reach
[51:12] out and help people thank you thank you
very much anyone else all right uh
[51:18] public comment do we have anyone this
[51:23] evening Dan Dan you have public comment
go for it come on
[51:30] up this is unusual during a committee
meeting but I I want to give credit to
[51:35] Bob Miller who drove the truck almost
the entire time that uh we've had it he
[51:40] took really good care of it and I think
that's one reason we receive so much
[51:45] money for it thanks we were talking
about the sludge truck in case anyone
[51:49] was confused yeah we sounds like we got
30 around $30,000 more than we
[51:53] anticipated so G so excited yeah I yeah
I've never for for the record I've never
[51:59] seen him stand up and say anything in
public comment either
[52:03] so this is a this is a first a night of
Firsts wonderful do we have any uh other
[52:08] public comment Mr President I'm just
curious Dan do you think that um Dan are
[52:14] we getting extra money for that truck
because you're selling it loaded or
[52:20] unloaded just
curious be careful how you answer little
[52:24] extra in the bed you know
all right any serious public
[52:31] comment all right very good thank you
thank you very much everyone we are
[52:36] adjourned no
exactly