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OK. Can you say hi, Joanna?

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Hey, everybody.

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All right. Then you can just mute and...

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Yeah, we'll do.

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I can't see my phone when you're here, so maybe text gen or something if you want to say something.

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OK, we'll do. Thanks.

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I'm just going to turn everybody on.

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That's you.

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I didn't ask you.

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You just do the electives first?

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I didn't have any, so just my regular whip.

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OK. We're going to get started.

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I'm going to call the meeting in order.

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Pledge of Allegiance.

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Pledge of Allegiance.

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I'm going to call roll.

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Councilwoman Misako.

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Councilwoman Bolden.

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Councilman Leaman.

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Councilman Fabis.

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Councilman Maggio.

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I am also here.

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We have the Mayor and the Fire Chief and the Burner Manager and our Junior Councilperson, Ian Spoboswood.

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Welcome, everybody.

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We have registered comments from the public tonight.

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Yes, we do.

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of Marcy and Caleb Sturgis, wish to speak about air quality.

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I'll tell you, I grabbed one of those sheets ahead of time stillers.

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Five minutes, I'll give you one minute notice if you need it.

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I assume so, just have to say it.

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We are Caleb and Marcy Sturgis, 3253 Wayne Bell Avenue,

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and our comments are related to air quality.

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First, I just wanted to say we addressed you guys a few months ago

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about the ventilation noise for the Jean-Louis restaurant,

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and Ben, I wanted to thank you publicly.

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They built a plywood structure around it,

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and the noise is a lot less than it used to be.

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so we'll see what happens this fall,

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but I just wanted to publicly thank you for taking our concern seriously.

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I appreciate it.

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My pleasure now.

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What we want to do is talk about air quality right now.

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I think everybody here knows that Allegheny County

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has some of the poorest air quality in the nation, actually.

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One of the things that I've noticed in and around Dormont in the past few years

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is how many fire pits are in people's backyards.

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It's fun, it's relaxing,

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it's not when you have houses that are as close together as we do here in Dormont.

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When you burn firewood,

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Allegheny County stipulates that you can only burn dry, seasoned firewood.

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There are people that are burning greenwood and wetwood and plywood.

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We actually had a neighbor through the alley

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that they were burning old paper files in their fire pit.

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There's a bunch of neighbors out.

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We thought some of these houses was on fire.

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This was just a few weeks ago.

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I mean, I see fire pits all over the place

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that are feet away from property lines,

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which is completely against code.

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I see people burning all sorts of things

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that they shouldn't be burning, Matt.

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You probably get a bunch of calls about this.

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I really don't see anybody regulating this.

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I don't see anybody enforcing this.

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We have these older houses that don't have central AC.

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You can't open your windows when you have people at the fire pit.

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It's not like the smoke stays in property lines.

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You know, with the elderly, with children,

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people with respiratory issues,

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everybody is affected by these fire pits.

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I am actually one of the people with respiratory issues myself.

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I'm an asthmatic, and it's not just the smoke.

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It's the particulates that you get from these things.

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The way the houses are built in this area,

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they're still meant to breathe.

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They were some of the definitely early age construction.

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It doesn't matter where you are.

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The materials definitely get inside your house.

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Some of the issues that we keep on coming back to

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is just air pollution in general,

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that we have failing grades across the board

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inside the county for our air pollution and air quality.

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The main thing that we keep on to deal with

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is the smoke coming across property lines.

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are on a tenth of an acre or less.

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The topography of the area does not permit for smoke

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just to rise directly above the property.

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Any sort of a prevailing...

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Two minutes more.

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This smoke does not rise straight up

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as any sort of prevailing breeze

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will cause it to definitely just drift

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in other people's properties or windows

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on a nice night like tonight.

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We're literally just waiting for somebody

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to start burning something and to fill a browse.

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Just so you know, the clearance that you have to have

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from the outside of a fire pit

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is 15 feet to any structure, any property line,

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or any public access way, including roads, streets,

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sidewalks, and alleys.

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Any lot that is under 35 feet wide

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does not meet this clearance.

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You are literally...

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In order to enforce this, which you have to do,

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you're going to have neighbors

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on fire pit and we can't.

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My suggestion would be to do

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what the City of Ambridge has done.

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They have houses very similar to ours

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without the topography, however,

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and they had a complete ban of fire pits

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within their city limits.

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Everybody's happy, their air quality's better,

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and it's a lot safer of an environment.

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Thanks for listening.

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Thank you.

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It's a health issue, it's a nuisance,

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but it's also a safety issue.

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The proximity to property lines,

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does permit sparks to go

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across other property lines

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and potentially create a fire word,

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which is going to be a lot more disastrous

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than just a normal nuisance.

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Good job.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Any other registered comments?

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No further registered comments.

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Test, test.

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Is it working?

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Can you hear this okay?

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Sorry about that.

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Let's go over the consent agenda.

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We have a change order for motion A.

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Do you want to talk about that a little bit, Ben?

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Yes, so the change order

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for our road and construction alley project,

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the number looks much higher

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than what our actual number is.

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So while it's 152,483,

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this includes the sidewalk work

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that we are doing

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in conjunction with residents.

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So we've tested this

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on a smaller scale last year

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and expanded quite a bit this year.

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And I've spoken to Mr Favis' committee

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about this.

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A lot of people saw

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the program that Brentwood started

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to fix sidewalks

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throughout the community.

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less controversial way

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or a little easier way

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where where we had a construction zone

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that was going to be

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happening for the year,

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code enforcement staff

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went through and assessed all the sidewalks

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in that area.

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to those residents

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with the contract price

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that we had through our contractor

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saying we can replace

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all of your bad sidewalk

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at this price.

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You're going to have to replace it one way or another.

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This is the best time to do it

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because we can get you a much better rate.

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And a lot of people jumped on board with that.

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But then we took it

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a step further and we sent letters

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to everyone else in that area

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whether even if their sidewalks were not

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bad enough to require

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code enforcement action.

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we know that it's not that bad.

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However, this is one of the best opportunities

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you will have to get nice new sidewalks

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put in at a decent price.

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And a lot of people took us up on that.

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around Glenmore I think replaced like

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everything in front of his house as well as

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the sidewalk going up to the front door.

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Dr. Schneider is a property

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property place.

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The place everything along

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Glenmore.

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and it's not just in this area.

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We also have this over on ordinance

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in a variety

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of places that we've been doing this

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kind of work.

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of this number is that and will be

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recouped from people paying

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their bills back to us.

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trying to keep people to one year

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payments to pay back these.

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going as far as two years out

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just to help

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with some of the payments that people need to make.

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Trying to keep it as fair as possible

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while improving the borough.

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that inflates our number for our change order

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because anything that is not in the

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actual contract, the original

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contract itself has to show up

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in that change order.

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The largest

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cycle piece to this is

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the

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expected work at the

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end of Dwight Avenue

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that I've been telling council about in my

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weekly reports.

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to the end of Dwight which is

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scheduled for total reconstruction

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there is nothing

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to hold the road up

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and water is running

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off of our roadway down the hill

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which was not a problem before

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under normal rains

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but with the

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changes to the types of weather

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and with the severe weather that we keep getting

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it has become an issue

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such that there is a lot more water

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which is starting to cause erosion

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at the end of the roadway and we have to be able to support the road

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and take care of that water.

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we've worked with

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the construction company to create a plan

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to put in

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And a catch basin at the end and then create a channel system that will take the water down

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to the creek that it ends up in. But that project alone will cost around $60,000, but it is really

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a necessity at this point. I said this was not an issue before, but this year has really

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shown us some extreme weather more frequently than what we have had in the past. Hence,

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the amount of the change order for that project. Any questions? Other questions on that item?

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The next item, which I just had received that morning, the morning that I put this together

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so I did not have an opportunity to retype the state's contract, but this is a five-year

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agreement that we put together with PennDOT. This is for the winter maintenance along West

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Liberty Avenue and McFarland. The borough does the winter maintenance and PennDOT compensates

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us for the work that we do. They do an annual calculation. Our roads, I believe, are what

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they consider Class B, which, I think, pays out $1938 per mile, something along those lines.

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So it's not a huge amount of money that this brings in for it, but PennDOT does compensate

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us for the work that we do plowing, insulting those areas. However, our agreement has

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expired, so this is to renew with another five-year agreement.

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Is this $1938 per episode or per season? No, no, no, per season.

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Okay. Is that this is not? It's not a lot of money, but it's this or we wait for

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PennDOT to show up to clear. Right, and it's our street anyway, so even if it

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wasn't a state road, we'd be clearing it. So this is... It's nice to get something.

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Yeah, great. Okay, fair enough. That makes a lot of sense.

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Hey, Ben. Well, can I interrupt? Joanna said the video is not working on the

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broadcast. Just FYI. I don't know if there's anything. Can you see if the camera's on?

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Is the light on? Oh, it's not on.

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You can go look at my computer. It should still be up, but...

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Just wanted to let you know in case you were concerned. Thank you.

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Okay, moving on to action items. That's public comment time.

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Does anybody have public comment on the consent agenda motions?

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Okay, action items. So under the action items, we have a motion to approve a memorandum of

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understanding with the Dormant Police Association for the promotion of Clark

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Wataki to Sergeant. We have discussed this item in the past or at the point that

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we need to approve this. So what we have talked about is that we have...

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Don't worry. Two sergeants who could go anytime they want at this point.

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And we have an existing promotional list. However, there's no guarantee that one of

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them will leave before that list expires. So rather than having to go through the entire

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testing process all over again, the union has worked with us and what we'd like to do

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is promote Clark Wataki to Sergeant now with the understanding that he will still be paid

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at his patrolman's rate while he continues to work in that role. However,

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as soon as one of those retirements happen, we will have somebody already

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to fill in to that position without the needs to wait to go through the entire retesting process,

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which is that we've experienced can take some time. Especially for these promotional exams,

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they have to be given several months just of study time before you can even test.

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Mr. Rushford has reviewed the agreement. The union is in favor of this

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Chief Physignani and I are both in favor of this as well.

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When are the dates for the two sergeants who are retiring?

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What are the like the very last dates that they can go to?

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Who are they?

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Officer Zewisha has 17 months left. So whatever 17 months today is.

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And Officer Kelly has 22 months, 21 months.

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Okay, but they could go at any time.

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Those are, well Kelly is a separate issue. Sergeant Briglia is the other one who is not

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in the drop plan, but he does not have to enter it. I believe he's eligible this year.

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Oh, to ask you what time he is, but he's eligible, yes.

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His plans are more up in the air still. He could go at any time, but

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the drop plan means they have to go by that certain date,

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but they can leave before then if they want to.

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So if the right position were to come up elsewhere,

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they could give us a couple of weeks notice and be gone.

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Okay, thank you.

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Okay, any other questions from Council?

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Okay, public comment?

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Okay, do we have any discussion items?

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Anybody?

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We'll use time to announce our

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budget meetings. Let me give you one second to get the right format here.

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So the first budget meeting will be held on September 24th at 6 p.m.

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here in Council Chambers. We will follow the same basic format for the meetings that we did last

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year, so that is essentially pitch night. The department heads will come in for the meeting

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to discuss any requests that they have for their departments.

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We can go over any of those issues. You should have all of the information before then on the

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SharePoint site, but that night they will be here to answer questions and to go over their requests.

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And then I believe we are then at Tuesday the 22nd.

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What about Tuesday, October 1st?

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I'm sorry.

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The 24th. What time is that again?

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6 p.m.

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6 p.m.

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Great.

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Yeah.

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Sorry, yes.

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And then

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yeah, Tuesday the 1st is the next session, so that's following last year's model will be when the

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primary decisions are made. And then we will meet again on the 22nd in order to just review

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after everyone has had time to think about the decisions that they have made to see if they

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have second thoughts on anything.

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What's the third date?

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The 22nd.

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All meetings at 6 p.m. I will have food for each of those.

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With that I was, what's that?

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Six o'clock of course.

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Yeah, correct.

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And I was going to make the recommendation that we consider canceling the next agenda meeting

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rather than trying to meet two nights in a row for lengthy periods of time because

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you'll have September the 30th for the agenda meeting, then we would be right back on October

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1st. It's another thing that we did last year. We canceled one of those agenda meetings

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because it was so close in with our budget schedule.

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So that would be the September 30th meeting.

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Yeah, that's just recommendation. We can still meet then if you want, but

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considering the extra load of the budget schedule, it's just an option.

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Hey Ben, I'm sorry if I missed something in one of your emails. I read the two proposals

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you sent for the zoning rewrite. Are we going to have a chance to talk about those

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before we would need to talk about them for the budget? It looks like we're going to skip

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an agenda meeting that would maybe be the time.

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Council is not the first review of the zoning proposals. That will go through the Planning

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Commission next, and the Planning Commission should be making a recommendation to the Council.

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However, I wanted to make sure that all of Council had that as early as possible.

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Sorry, I might have read it quickly and missed that. I'm sorry.

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No, I may not have had it in there because since I was off at the end of last week,

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I had to rush to get everything out on time. Dover Cole just got me their updated proposal

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that morning as well. Yeah, I saw that, yeah. Okay.

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Does anybody have an issue with canceling the September 30th agenda meeting?

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I say we go ahead and do it.

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I'm sorry, Danielle. I couldn't hear what you said.

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I was just asking if anybody has an issue with canceling the September 30th agenda meeting

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since we're having the October 1st budget meeting the next day.

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I'm cool.

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It's my anniversary, so I'll take that day.

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Okay, so we're going to cancel that meeting.

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That worked out well.

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Not because it's my anniversary, though.

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Yeah, I was unaware of the anniversary before the recommendation.

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I kept a lid on that just because I was waiting to see.

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Okay, so we have all the budget meetings. Any other discussion items at this point?

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Okay.

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Ian, do you have anything that you'd like to say today?

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Well, I'll go back to school.

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Oh, yeah, Danielle. I'm going to start at school again today.

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Start here.

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Hit your button.

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No, he was on.