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this is the uh
council meeting

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uh for February 21st 2023 mono Borough
Chief I'd like you to start to lead us

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with the Pledge of Allegiance

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I pledge allegiance to apply our United
States

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yeah
so for one second I'd like us all to

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have a moment of silence for our fallen
police officer from

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what time

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thank you

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so councilman ondo is with us he's on
speaker here with us so when when uh

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when he questions us we'll you'll know
where his voice is coming from

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okay so um we're gonna have the roll
call to order Seth president Brennan

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here
councilman Frye here councilman Hannah

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here
councilmanando there councilman Stein is

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absent
councilman votedian

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s here mayor Paul's here
according sir thank you thank you

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so um we're going to start off with uh
president's report

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um
a lot has been going on we've been

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talking about several things
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one of the things that we talked about
in executive session which I can speak

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about is the um yes the railroad
crossing that we we've had so much

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trouble with down at um the Waterfront
that we finally prepared

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um one of the things that has come up
with the railroad we did finally find

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out which railroad owned it and we've
come into an agreement where we're going

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to be able to finally pave the rest of
that drive off down Waterfront drive up

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to the bridge and we will eliminate
those railroad tracks and basically the

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agreement says if the railroad wants to
put another spur back in there we're not

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going to object to that so it's a pretty
basic agreement they will pass a lot of

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money to take them out uh we know we are
not going to get any money reimbursement

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for the repair work that we did
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it's not that um
we wouldn't want to and not that our

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solicitors didn't try to recoup that
money but they just felt that it was not

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it was a you know a cause that was not
worth fighting for and throw more money

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at it as well
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there's there's several other things
that I would like to speak about I'm

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going to let other people speak about
that tonight um

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because it comes in other Realms
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and that's really all I have to say for
my report tonight

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uh mayor uh
we did hire a one officer and I know

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there's one officer spot opening the
budget yet I still would like to see us

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uh hire another officer
but we I know we need to do a testing

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first the testing is good for one year
and it can be extended to a second year

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I mean we have some other ideas in the
box that some of people achieved and

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some people came up with but we can
maybe get more people to apply

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so and there's a risk of maybe losing a
couple through retirement in the next

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couple years so I would like to see us
approve a testing

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as soon as possible because as you know
it takes six months it'll take us six

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months we are going to vote on that
tonight

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I believe it's on the agenda we are
going to vote on that and that's one of

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the things I you know we've been working
on go ahead

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Bree uh who is our liaison the council
and the mayor has accepted uh we should

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be going to Clemson University next year
wow exciting so majoring in political

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science
in global economy

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global politics Oh I thought you said
local politics

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this is always welcome back
absolutely and there'll be other good

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luck the chief United congratulations

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thank you hi
thank you

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so mayor you have anything else to say
uh no that's awesome thank you

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uh solicitors report yes thank you
president Brennan

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you already touched on my primary item
tonight and that is uh I'm just going to

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elaborate a little bit the agreement we
reached with Union railroad uh in

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conjunction with the oversight by the
puc the Public Utility Commission

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overseas and regulates all railroad
tracks including the Crossing on East

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Waterfront Drive and for many months now
we've been working by having conferences

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and negotiations with the attorney for
the Union railroad also with the

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attorney for the Cog because that is
within the footprint of the Waterfront

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our maintenance fund streets and also uh
with the Union railroad attorneys so we

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have reached two agreements which I am
recommending and the borough manager is

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recommending that Council approve and
adopt also recommended by the Cog

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solicitor who is acting as our
representative also in this one is a

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settlement agreement whereby the Union
railroad will pay a full estimate to

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remove the tracks from East Waterfront
Drive and then restore the foundation to

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bring it up the street level so that
it's an appropriate condition so we can

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finally get in there and finish this
Paving and that total amount which was

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calculated by our Engineers so we feel
comfortable relying on the amount 20 675

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dollars so we're recommending Council
vote to approve that settlement

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agreement and also a Crossing agreement
as president Brennan had mentioned

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they're simply preserving their right an
option which they realistically have

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anyway in case they want to potentially
reopen The Crossing if there's a need

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for a business over there then they
would still have to go to the puc but we

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wouldn't try to object and stop it which
we probably couldn't anyway and so

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that's the second agreement so Council
wants to act on those tonight I would

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suggest they make a motion to amend the
agenda to add the approval

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oh sorry it's on there no that's all so
that summarizes those my apologies thank

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you Seth it's already on the agenda
motion number three yes that concludes

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my report thank you thank you

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um Engineers report
do we have a report we do not would we

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like to introduce our new engineer well
there is a there is a motion uh motion

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number four well let's let's wait for
them we'll just wait we'll pass on this

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report all right and do we have anything
from the store Authority for us to

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discuss about tonight no I think just
that the building's open

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our their new office is open their new
offices are open here exciting 430

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thousand dollars
okay we're already out of somewhere

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Dave what are the hours I'm not positive
because they haven't set it up yet

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because well they're just two part-time
employees so there's not full-time

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Staffing there I don't believe
what's going on yeah I'll uh I'll find

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out and get back to you Richard all
right

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okay
all right uh

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Department reports are on file for the
bar manager's office that's that's the

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uh

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building inspector or our ordinance
officer and our

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Public Works directors they no longer
are going to be attending these meetings

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so if there's any questions about that
portion

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I myself will be trying to answer them
if we can

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so um

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we're going to move to section five
approval of the meeting minutes from

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January 17 2023
I need a motion how many commotion I put

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in the minutes Rich Kevin Kevin Mondo
seconded

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all in favor
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okay
any speakers anyone like to speak

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tonight yes ma'am I had some stuff I
actually have some pictures too well you

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can please come up and address us give
us your name and address okay

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um can I write this up there is that
okay because I'm not real sturdy on

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Monday absolutely you certainly can come
up and sit right up front you're good

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right oh you have a chance you have a
chair I got this

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okay Marie Rustin
and I'm at 8 11 8 11 East 11th Avenue in

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my home of course and uh
I am thank you

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um I I want to say like this goes back
years ago Council passed the new

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ordinance this was years back that if a
person has a handicap sign

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and they have a garage that they can no
longer have the sign because they're to

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use their garage now it was taken and
it's done that was years back okay I

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can't use this garage for nothing that's
why I'm showing these pictures uh from

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the point of getting in the alley you're
lucky if you have like this much space

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to squeeze your car people Park morning
noon and night in this garage or in this

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alley it's a dead end alley that makes
it worse now in my my garage is a

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three-bay this lady has a yard across
from me she pulls this way in the alley

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there's a picture there and that's
blocking the garage I I mean we can't

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get in and out of this garage and
there's arguments and all this I just

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want to avoid all this stuff
now the way it sits now there's three

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signs in that alley it says no what is
it now no parking no parking alley no

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parking anytime anytime but it's all up
and down now it's different if you're

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like delivering groceries or if you're
working you know working on something

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and you're in your eye because people
are there like morning in your night and

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it's just you're saying they're blocking
your garage well the way she Parks right

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across from my garage you cannot swing
she has a 40 50 foot wide yard I have a

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10 foot Faith you have to angle
perfectly to get in it you know you

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always called Parkway and it's either
like um so my question to you is

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have you called the chief I I you know
what I the police have been called so

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many

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just block you for one second Chief are
you aware of what's going on uh yes sir

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could you give us a little bit of detail
on what's Happening and I've talked to

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Miss Rustin when I was mayor many times
it is the alley is tough with your with

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their garages but we Patrol down there
and every time

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she calls we go down and we cite the
vehicles and do what we have to do that

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yeah I didn't know that the one game
I know that Molly's out here type it

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back into
it making it a dead end alley is worse

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yet I mean either way you gotta back out
somewhere and that lady on that corner

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she'll Park like if her fence is here
she'll Park three foot from that fence

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and it's barely he has a little Kona so
Chief is the No Parking allowed on the

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opposite side of her garage or you're
allowed to park her back there I believe

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the whole thing's no parking no parking
lot and the only thing I can ask you to

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do is just to keep up with the chief and
the police department and call them I

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mean if there's a problem and you have a
problem there yeah that's really not a

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console person's well does not or call
to enforce the code I don't want to

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bother them guys no they're not they're
doing their job and that's their job

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okay and it's not it's not our job as a
council that's the police

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officers and the chief and the chain of
command through the police department

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now I was told to come up to a meeting
from one of the offices well you can

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come up you're welcome to come at any
time you're a resident of the borough

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and we we certainly welcome you but
certainly

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there cannot be like an awareness change
down there I'm sure that there's already

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an ordinance there's orders for no
parking in that outlet yes sir what I

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think the lady's trying to ask is this
because she has a garage she can't have

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a handicap parking spot right and in her
defense down there I grew up down there

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and where I live I don't have people
across the street I got the old 19th

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Avenue school and I try to back into one
of my parking spots and it's hard I

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understand that
um this I don't know why her sign was

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taken away maybe the chief could talk
about that I would have to look at it

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you're impressed again so here's what
I'm going to ask you to do just just for

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sake of the meeting please call and talk
to the chief okay he can come down and

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speak with you and you can visually see
everything he's more than happy to come

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down a little thing okay and that's
that's the best way assistant chief

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Camarino has been excellent about
everything you know that's who I was

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kind of talking to okay that's fine
she'll get out and I know it says no

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personals but I mean I've spent over a
thousand dollars last year in return

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fees this lady's really unbelievable
uh and I try to shut my mouth I mean you

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can only do that so much she's out there
I'm in my backyard she starts right away

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she could see me out her windows and if
I'm in the garage she's beeping her

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horns like crazy and stuff just yeah I
let it go that's what else can I do

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the only your only recourse is is to
talk to the to the Chief and the chief

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will come back to us and give us any
recommendations and we can move forward

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he's down to ribbling well he came one
time he gave me a ticket

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naming names we're not recording people
out

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yeah we want to help you if you have a
problem and let's just move on yeah and

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you can you can talk with the chief
you'll come down and look at her and

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he'll send the assistant chief down okay
and we'll handle this okay and then and

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then I'm going to ask the chief next
month for a report from us and we'll

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we'll get to the bottom I can tell about
anything that can be done okay I can

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tell you right now she won't Park back
here now because her yard's like a swamp

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so that's why she's kind of laying low
right now so that's happening thank you

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Brad I'm glad you come home but some of
us didn't know what was going on when we

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um no I didn't know that was going on
yeah

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it has been yeah and I don't like I said
I I know you're saying for others

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they got a better job to do than
referee me and her you know what I mean

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well it's just we thank you for coming
and talking with us thank you guys

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thanks anyone else have anything they'd
like to speak about yeah

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Shannon yeah
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there is I've been super sack there is
some spaces available in this building

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we really need to help out the community
currently right now we're asking our

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children to go to Steel Valley high
school and the middle school to get

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supplies that they need if we have
something for the community that's us

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helping and the borough helping so it's
a benefit for both of us if we can get

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into
space so we've spoken about your your

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your request
um

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and we're glad you're here to talk with
us yeah even if I can't get a space with

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the building
um if I can drop a shipping container

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and one of the back parking lots
um yeah I cannot get off my solar power

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I don't need any electricity to run into
it so

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um I think no no someone else is calling
me but I'm not going to answer them I'll

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call him later anyway
um what I suggest you do is come in and

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and we can talk informally a little bit
and get some plans because Council had

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mentioned a couple things items that
might be a possibility

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um I don't know how well a storage
facility would work a storage container

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in the cold weather I don't see how that
would be an option to be honest with you

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I think that would be very hard
Braddock has three storage containers

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that they use I just I don't know I'm
just going to be very hard and I don't

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think that back area back there is
appropriate right now we're not

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physically ready back there for that I
don't think I don't think the public

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would be very safe back there there's a
lot of wood and there's a lot of stuff

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back there I don't think it yeah
it's just not ready right there we've

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mentioned and talked about possibilities
of you moving into the old municipal

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building and taking spots there we can
look at some of those ideas so that we

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have we have talked about
your your specific wants and we just

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need to move move forward a little bit
further and see how things go okay

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okay and um Seth can speak with me and
others and councils when anyone wants to

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get involved and we can talk and
certainly

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um it's certainly an open book right now
okay okay I was the former president

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just because of so many things going on
in life I was too busy but I am learning

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liaison between the council
well thank you mayor well thank you but

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uh but it is a group that is trying to
do good things in this program we

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understand to work with you know help
people that are in need help the mayor

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was not at our last meeting you missed
the conversation we talked about this

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and we had a thorough conversation so
um I think we need to have another one

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and have you present at the conversation
we can talk about things and and we can

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move forward okay okay I think you need
to put what you know you know have a

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presentation of what you want we
understand the requirements okay I mean

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that we will know both parties will know
what we're talking about everything I've

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heard is just plain verbal at this point
sounds like a good idea okay but we

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would have questions like do you have
some sort of insurance

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if you have all those things right there

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currently starting out only one to two
days a month because we don't have

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enough supplies yet but you know the
schools are are helping out all of our

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all of our kids have to go to the
schools and say I need deodorant

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you know the parents can come in and get
the supplies themselves and their kids

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can just focus on school they don't have
to worry about any deodorant for the day

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so what we're going to do is we're going
to put a couple ideas together one you

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give us some some idea of the kind of
square footage you want to use and then

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we'll give us we'll give you some
feedback of what we might accept you and

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allow you to do with borrowed property
and we'll move forward okay all right

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okay great I mean one of the other Keys
is money wise there's not a lot of money

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in this organization we understand that
why is it we understand

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anyone else have anything they'd like to
say any comments from any other

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residents
yes

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and
um let me stand up

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um I'm going to be covering the meeting
for the Daily Mirror but I have a

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question are we going to discuss what's
happening with the water crop we are is

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that on the agenda well we were supposed
to okay we were supposed to and um I'm

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just curious
the chief uh we did speak about that in

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executive session
and um if the chief would like to take

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this question we can certainly let me
speak about it

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so the Waterfront is private property
but it has it allows access to everybody

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but there's rules that they have to
follow to be there

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um so the Waterfront has a code of
conduct policy and they are simply just

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adding another rule to their conduct
policy

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uh I have a copy here if you would like
to look at it

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they're adding a 6 PM curfew for anybody
under the age of 18. and if you're under

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the age of 18 you need to be accompanied
by someone who's 21.

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um

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a 16 year old that's working I don't
have their badge yes

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this gives us everything I need to know
yes

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I was going to ask the chief if you'd
like to speak on some of the actions

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that have been going on on Main Street
and um I know a lot of people commenting

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on this on Facebook and they're talking
about what's been going on what's not

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been going on and I and I and I just
want to let everyone know that the Mount

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Hall police are working diligently on
this and I'm going to let let the chief

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speak about that as well we've had two
businesses uh broken into uh they broke

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a window
uh took some items and we had one store

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that was uh robbed twice
um but we were able to identify the

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person and we have a warrant for him and
we're actively looking forward right now

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I'm limited on what I can say because
it's an ongoing investigation but we

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know who it is and we're looking for
Rick yes sir is there cameras on main

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street yes there are they're operating
yes there are

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yeah and they picture they've caught
several of the people on there yes

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they're not as they're we'd like to have
some more but but we do have cameras

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there they are in operation and they did
pick up this per se individual correct

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um
so we do

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and that's another here saying we don't
have cameras working there here and

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there but they are working
um and there are cameras that we're

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looking into that need some work done to
them

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um but in this particular area they are
working and they did pick up this person

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so yes there are cameras working and all
from that Main Street they are working

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so I'm not going to give out certain
areas because you know

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okay anyone else
I I think that this phone spoke a little

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bit before I think what we and we're
looking at

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how to do this you know with you know
some funding out of police funds I think

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we should you know Seth can look into
grants itself but I think what we need

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to do is just create a system itself not
just and then link up the areas that we

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have now that probably the biggest thing
right there with any surveillance system

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is to have somebody watching
okay so the reality is uh we have one

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dispatcher right there so it might be a
little challenge there but I think

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looking it into the future designing a
system for surveillance would you know

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run money we may be able to find funding
through forfeiture funds or potentially

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grants that do that but there would
potentially also be the need for

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somebody to monitor you could always
take it out to a third party to do that

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a lot of companies do that today the
security systems and uh being that

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they're you know in a straight you could
go with using cellular as the connection

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itself or you could use you know some
extensions of fiber optic cabling you

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know into a system and we can look at
other areas we could do it I mean I

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think once Tom and Jaime are just
beginning to look into it and I sit down

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and gladly assist with putting together
those type of requirements so I think

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it's a thing that we definitely need to
do repair your short term and I think

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there's a longer term thing that we need
to look at

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anyone else have any other questions I'm
just going to speak for a console that

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shouldn't have please achieve in the
mayor we are committed to key

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Main Street safe I know there's a lot of
stuff you see on Facebook

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that maybe you know but we are committed
to do that and one question did come up

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was maybe uh we need to look maybe under
the alert system too

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that's you know so we can alert people
on well we we've talked about that and

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we need to do that I think we have to
have some sort of a system that our

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Emergency Management coordinator is all
in favor of and that's that's stuff that

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we we can start doing now I think we
need to look into that they're not just

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for Crime for other problems whether
there's a water main break exactly

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whatever a gas leak that we need to get
maybe the alert system started agreed

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agreed I mean most alert systems that
work in the health care industry you

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know you there are you know alerts for
active shooter there are alerts for

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biohazard there are alerts when
patients get lost actually uh but

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residents get lost right
but they're typically you know you need

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people to opt into a system right that
they can get the alerts but they're

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pretty
and they're pretty narrow and focused

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they're not going to say you know
there's some action happening on Main

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Street well if you go on to Facebook
they're pretty they're pregnant they're

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pretty they're pretty uh pinpoint right
where things are going my dog ran up

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video Drive well I saw it the last week
of something about a dog or not on video

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drive I'm just telling you what systems
are designed to do about my dog but

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another dog right they are resigned to
do that our new website will have some

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capacity to do that but it is an opt-in
system so residents will try to give out

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right or opt-in receive give their phone
number and I'll let you receive but

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we're well aware of that and I think
once we have a system started in place I

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think we will get a lot of residents
involved now one thing I want to just

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say is I'm so glad to welcome Deb
Deborah you can call me Debbie Debbie we

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have not had a representative from our
local newspaper and probably two or

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three years
so we we thank you for coming and we

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welcome you and thank you again okay

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any other questions from anyone

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okay let's move on
uh any public comments for items or for

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consideration which I think we followed
that

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um so we're going to move on for the
items of consideration

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motion to pay bills for the period of
January 1 2023 through January 31 2023

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as summarized in the total amount of
586 820

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and 80 cents I need a motion
motion by Kevin I second second by

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Rainey

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any questions on the motion

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all in favor all right
did I do that correctly Craig see I'm

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really any opposed yeah
thank you motion to approve number two

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motion to approve payroll to the period
ending

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2020 through December 31st to
January 14 2023.

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and that total number is
325

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856 dollars and one cent and I need a
motion

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motion by cabin
I need a second

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second by Rich
any questions on the motion

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I question one question why is it but
going back to December because of the

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way the period ended the weekend got the
31st payroll didn't actually hit until

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January okay very good all in favor all
right any Nays all in favor

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okay number three motion to approve
agreement with Union railroad

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um and that was all spoken about by our
solicitor

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um in the executive session it's
actually two of them so just so for the

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record settlement agreement and Crossing
agreement and Crossing agreement we're

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going to vote on them uh both at the
same time yes okay so both are are two

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separate agreements and we're gonna have
one vote on it council's fully informed

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of what's going on the public here is
fully informed of what's going on so I'm

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going to ask for a motion motion motion
by Dave

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second by Rini any questions on the
motion

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all in favor
aye it's all unanimous there are no Nays

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okay
um motion number four motion to a point

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green and Peterson Inc GPI as our
Borough engineer

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I need a motion
motion by Rich

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second by Rini
I heard you in there Mr Rondo but I

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didn't give you the vote
hi you're welcome any uh

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any Nays or any questions on this
hey are you selected this one okay okay

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uh all in favor
all right all right

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so it worked I didn't ask for a roll
call vote guys but um it's a four to two

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vote

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um
so

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motion passes
um

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after I go through all the Motions I
want to introduce you okay

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acceptance of the the resignation of a
public works employee with an effective

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date of February 14 2023
um this is motion number five I need

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emotion motion motion by Dave
second by Rini

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all in favor
aye any Nays

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any questions

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moving on to number six ratify the
January 31st 2023 vote to re-approve the

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plate Mill subdivision originally
approved 422

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2022. I need a motion
motion by Kevin

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second by Dave

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uh any questions on this

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all in favor
all in favor no names

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motion passes
approve the Civil commission the Civil

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Service Commission to advertise for a
new Civil Service list for police

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officers this is item number seven
I need a motion motion did I interview

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you say motion mayor is that you uh I
would like to about that yeah

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when I was there I used to make a motion
all the time

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positive

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any emotion I'm sorry motion motion by
Dave

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I need a second
second bite yeah I gave you that Kevin

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all right so
um just a a just a little statement the

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mayor talked about this earlier this is
not meaning that we're going to hire new

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police officer this is a motion to take
a list we can look at the list we can

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see where we're at this is going to take
roughly how long to get a list together

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several months
yes most likely yeah so this is just

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this is a parliament this is preliminary
work on doing this so I need a vote all

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in favor

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no names
okay motion number eight

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approve a resolution to apply for USDA
funding not to exceed fifty thousand

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dollars for the purchase of a new police
vehicle and authorizing the borough

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manager to sign and execute any
contracts or agreements arising from

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said Grant application
I need emotion motion motion by Dave

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second by
anyone second by Rich

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any questions on this
I need a vote all in favor

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aye
no names just to add a little statement

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there we are applying for uh grants for
garbage trucks as well is that correct

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Seth I am actually meeting with the
truck with the truck vendor next week to

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start working on the specs so that we
have the pricing for the Grant

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application just saying that for the
public just letting the public now okay

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anything else I miss Council

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all right so um
I think at this time we should uh let

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our new uh engineer please stand up and
introduce yourself to everyone hello

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everybody my name is Ashley Reed I'm a
professional engineer licensed with the

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Commonwealth uh and we responded to the
borough council's request for proposals

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for Engineering Services and went
through the interview process with them

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and that's what brings me here tonight
and I'm thankful the council for the

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appointment I'm really looking forward
to working with you and uh I'll be

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meeting with Seth next week to get
started Ashley welcome aboard thank you

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for being here yes

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foreign

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at this time any any questions from the
public I always let the public speak if

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they need to any additional items if not
I need a motion for a journey absolutely

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very appropriate and the way from the
meeting you've got

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it was pretty rough there
it's a learning it's a learning we're

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very proud thank you very much most
improved

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I can get worse too
any any other statements from anyone

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yes ma'am I just think you're a super
guy I always did thank you Marie it's

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finally a pleasure for you to come and
be at the councilman thank you yep

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um I need a motion for German
motion second second

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by Kevin
who was the first most who motioned that

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Dave Dave and Kevin for the second all
in favor

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aye thank you all for coming