I would like to call to order the
council meeting for Tuesday September
3rd of 2019 if we could all please stand
for a moment of silence in the Pledge of
Allegiance
Madam Secretary may I please have roll
call Olivia Brady Mallory Scott Cooper
Akeem Jones Derrick Perry Rebecca Smith
Heather Lewis Sonya Sanders here but a
member of council like to make a motion
to approve the council work session
minutes from August 20th of 2019
all in favor the ice havoc council
workshop minute meetings are approved
earlier this evening we did not have an
executive session our next order of
business we have is the presentations
beginning with the National League of Cities with mr. Tim
Evans to present good afternoon everyone
good afternoon thank you all very much
for allowing me to be here again my name
is Timothy Evans
I represent the Northeast mid-atlantic
region
I do membership for the National League
of Cities you all have been an engaged
and longtime partner this is an
effective partner within the National
League of Cities and have played a key
role but what I want to do first is to
kind of share with you all some of the
things that members such as yourself are
talking about the National League of
Cities and the impact that it can have
within a municipality so without further
ado I'm going to play a video up here
NLC brings together local elected
officials from across the country we
come together United to protect our
local residents make sure that we're
learning from our council colleagues
that's how we respond to national issues
locally one of the things I share with
my citizens in Union City if I'm gonna
make a promise to you it's gonna be a
promise cap if I can't do that I won't
promise it to you so we got to make sure
that the federal government realizes
that because not only did we but our
citizens they also sent them to
Washington to be able to do a job when
we argue for better policies at a
federal level that's only going to
enhance what happens for mayors and City
Council's at every level it doesn't
matter if you're a small city a towel a
hamlet when we get together it just
sends a strong message the National
League of Cities provides cities with
resources and tools to educate the
elected officials best practices and how
you communicate policies that affect
your communities with federal leaders so
it's a wonderful way of doing that they
provide the tools and the Nexus to the
White House which essential for elected
leaders in municipalities throughout
United
States city government affect
everybody's lives and when local leaders
are stronger those cities are better by
coming to NLC by being engaged with the
various committees that provide the
resources whether it's on how do you go
about engaging your citizen toward the
substance of what you can do to help
people NLC is there with the solutions
that local leaders can really use in
2014 I was selected for a scholarship to
attend a city summit with a lot of other
leaders from around the country and it's
made me a stronger but also a much more
thoughtful leader in my community and
I'll see makes it easier for us at the
local level to advocate for our
constituents by helping us understand
what's happening in other cities I can
learn from folks in LA what they're
doing to address the homelessness crisis
I can learn from people in DC about how
they made sure that tenants have the
first opportunity to purchase their
apartments if they go to sales and
without NLC I'm not sure I would have
learned about the activities happening
in DC and Los Angeles it's bringing
together folks it's bringing together
minds and it's really helping our
constituents I'm proud to be an NL se
member because it provides a great value
and helps us advocate for change there's
so much that our country needs to do
better to support our cities when we
advocate for that change it makes our
work so much stronger in the cities
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okay okay so as you can see you know the
National League of Cities the National
League of Cities is definitely a
platform for not just your large
municipalities but also your
medium-sized and small municipalities
across the country and one of the key
things that they talked about in that
video and what we share with communities
across the country
is that it's really important to
understand that one there's a strong
network of individuals that you as a
municipality can be able to tap into -
you can think about also what are some
of the things that not only that you all
can benefit from as municipal leaders
and you as a municipality but also what
your residents can benefit from and so
one of the things that I'll do within
this presentation quickly is kind of
just share with you some of the things
that we can definitely see that we want
to make sure that you all are taking the
most I'll give you the most out of in
your membership with the National League
of Cities so who we are again we are a
organization that represents cities
towns villages boroughs Hamlet's
whatever that whatever the term is but
we represent municipalities across the
country representing more than 2 million
people in various communities nationally
and within the US territories such as
Puerto Rico we really focus on three
areas one we want to be able to
strengthen your local leadership
thinking about how look at what best
practices can you all take from other
municipalities from across the country
what are some of the trainings and
expertise that you can kind of think
about that you can bring back to your
local community we think about our
federal advocacy as well thinking about
local like what are the issues here
within the state that are so important
that maybe your that actually are even
just just as important at the federal
level that can bring resources and
information back to your communities and
then the final one is thinking about
innovation what are some of those things
whether it be thinking about the future
of work whether it
where they'll be looking at housing what
does housing look like in our ears
communities and what are some of the
challenges but also solutions that are
coming out so within the federal
advocacy space you know as you can see
some of the things that we have done so
are we have one of our convenience which
is our congressional City conference
that happens in DC during March of each
year and the point of that conference is
to bring you all together with your
other people with your peers from across
the state and the nation to look at what
are those federal things what are those
things that we can be advocating for
that actually help to support your own
individual communities and so one of the
things I will point out as well within
the space is that we are always trying
to push for more representation as it
relates to the Northeast minute lanta
cree j'en within our organization we
represent first of all over 2000
municipalities of those municipalities
more than 80% of them are under 50
thousands are in the populations or have
populations of under 50,000 which means
that the key point there is that it
hopefully can dissuade or help to show
that the National Agency is not just a
large city group or a large city space
but also a small medium community space
that everybody has a role to play in
this in this organization but then on
top of that as a relation our federal
agnus advocacy we have several different
policy committees of which we really
struggle as an organization to have the
representation from the Northeast and
what that really means is that when
policy gets developed and when policy
gets written about what the nationalist
National League of Cities advocates for
then where the represent where's that
representation from the Northeast and
thinking about whether that deals with
housing whether that deals with
infrastructure and some of the key
things that are important to the various
communities in the Northeast those are
some of the things we want to make sure
we continue to do so one of the things I
will ask as you all have been members
and continue to be members one of the
things I'll ask is that there there's a
greater focus on the federal advocacy
and maybe think about we can talk later
about what that means um
the solutions for sea
our key four key areas here there are
other ones as well but I want to just
make sure thinking about I said not only
do we represent and not only do we
provide resources for you all as council
members but we also provide resources
for you all as a municipality so
starting today or starting even tomorrow
morning if you give me a call one of the
things that we do as part of your
membership is provided prescription drug
discount program for your residents they
will receive a card that um that will be
shipped to you while a carts will be
shipped to you as a municipality and
they can be distributed throughout the
community in order to make sure that
when your residents are going to get
those prescription drugs on average they
can get around 24 to 25 percent off of
their prescription drugs which is
definitely something that we've learned
and found that a lot of communities can
use um you all actually have the service
line warranty program and I can talk
about that a little bit more the other
one that's another easy one that's
already a part of your membership grant
access so what we do is we have a
platform that we actually provide to you
all through your membership that will
provide you all access to federal state
local Foundation grants that you all can
be able to source to make sure that
ultimately you may not have to go to
several different web sites in order to
get those those grants and opportunities
and then technical assistance finally
I'm thinking about like what are some of
the best practices that you all can lead
on moving forward and I think those are
some of the key areas that I was want to
quickly mention now on top of that I
mentioned some of the solutions for
municipalities so I'll keep here some of
the different reports that we've written
whether it went whether it be within
city solutions and/or thinking about our
Institute for youth education and
Families but I want to bring your
attention to the local tools for
addressing housing affordability that
was one of our most recent ones that we
really focused on like by state by state
what are some of the areas that are
really important to you all is local
elected officials that you all can take
back to your communities and kind of
think what are what are the best
practice that we can move forward on and
on top that we just released our housing
task force report which is called
homeward bound and what that does is we
actually spit
a better part of six months really
working with a cohort of local elected
officials across the country small
medium and large to think about what are
some of the challenges that are
impacting communities across the country
and what are some of the solutions as
well that can be very important to
helping support them and so I definitely
will send out a link that can that you
all can be able to take intellectually
look at those resources to help make
some better to think about what other
decisions that you all can make within
your communities around housing
affordability and then the last one I'll
say is the 2020 census which is
something that we find consistently is a
big factor in a lot of our communities
and making sure the count is right when
we talk about leadership development and
training one of the key things as well
is that our conferences and even some of
our other smaller convenience we do a
lot of training and development for
local elected officials because we
understand that educate that local
elected officials that have the tools
resources and also the insights and
networks to bake the bit to be able to
make better decisions are a key thing to
making sure a community is thriving and
in supportive by their own not only the
residents but also by their colleagues
as well networking as we talked about
before
not only just at our convenience ID of
our convenient thinking about some of
the best practices that you can actually
bring to bear within your communities
just by having a conversation with you
know another municipality from across
the country or even just a municipality
somewhere maybe not it may be that in
Pennsylvania but in Delaware those are
some of the key things that you know
what we understand that sharing those
best practices across the country our
great resource for you all looking into
the future
lastly I'll just mention that our city
summit is going to be happening in San
Antonio Texas and what you can expect
from our city summit again one is
networking that's one of the critical
things that we have found to be
successful and being in bringing back
solutions and I know that council member
Scott Cooper and then also I know
councilmember haire there at Perry and
then also the council president has been
and I think they're couple people have
yep
councilmember Smith have you gone this
well okay you have not gone but the key
thing is that I want to just make sure
that there is a there's
Tootie's to help make sure that you all
are bringing not just what you all have
learned locally from your peers within
the state of within the state of
Pennsylvania but also you can bring to
bear what's going on across the nation
into your own municipality to help make
better decisions and to ultimately think
about what can help to make your
communities better the final note that I
will mention is that the final note that
I'll mention is that we also have one of
our peers in the room one of our
advocates in the room and definitely
what I mentioned council member Derek
green from Philadelphia came to be some
represent and also just to be a part of
this conversation so I want to thank you
all very much for your time and open it
up for questions about the National
League of Cities
so once again thank you for the
presentation
it's not the first time that we probably
said this a million times so our
colleagues about going to the National
Lisa cities and understanding the
dynamics of other communities and what
they go through but also what we can do
to bring back policies back to NARS town
which we have been doing but the thing
I'm gonna say once again is that we
there's like twenty thirty classes and
we can't make them all so I mean when
we're looking at the book and we're like
oh my gosh
I would love to go to this one but this
one is better than the next one all of
us can't make it so and the networking
is great obviously
councilman green has been a great
advocate to me as we you know we're
talking get together but also the
diversity of the National League's the
city also very big diverse and
everybody's trying to do something great
for the communities we should be next
we're behind you know we can't keep
saying the same old thing and doing the
same old thing we do got to make changes
and people are not gonna like it but
let's keep moving forward councilman
Scott Cooper
Thank You Timothy for coming out and
sharing your knowledge of what the NLC
can do for us and this is more of a
testimony than anything else you know as
a board member of the NL C I can contest
to the fact that what councilman Perry
just said number one which is a real
major issue when you get one or two
council members attending these events
and there's maybe 10 different classes
going on at the same time you have to
try and pick and choose which one you
feel may be more beneficial to bring
back home I would like to encourage all
of our council members to attend at
least once a year to give not only me a
break but also to see the value in
attending networking you know you hear
of networking happening more and more
today than ever before when I was young
what was networking who knows it may
have been just talking to a friend but
today in this in this world we need to
hear from the minds of other people who
have experienced things that we have it
who have been into situations that we
haven't who can help us and give us
ideas on what we can do to improve this
municipality so again thank you for
coming here
I truly appreciate it I'm sure all of us
do and we look forward to seeing more of
North Town Council at some of these
conventions thank you councilman Scott
Cooper councilman Jones hey good evening
thanks for your presentation one of the
highlights of my experience in with the
NLC just so happened to be going down to
Birmingham Alabama
small town of Bessemer Alabama one of
the lowest household median incomes in
the country but just seeing the things
that they were able to accomplish for
their community was was inspirational
and things like that you can bring back
to your community so I agree with my
colleagues the networking was definitely you know a great thing but
taking some of the positive highlights
that we're seeing around the country it
really opened opened my eyes you know we
think of the history of the south and
that the discrimination and the
challenges if if they can move and get
things done with the limited resources
that they have there's no reason why we
shouldn't be able to do the same things
up here so that was definitely a
highlight of my experience um thank you
very much I really appreciate you for
mentioning that I think the other thing
can I'm just gonna add to what you were
saying you know there's this sense
sometimes that when we are doing well we
don't need to communicate with other
people you know we have it on our own
but then what happens is that when
something hits us or when something
follows up you know so when our
community falls prey to some issue some
challenge some economic challenge then
we're scrambling to try to figure out
what should we be doing who should we
talk to the National League of Cities
provides you that platform before
anything happens and that's what's the
key thing about thinking about well
thinking more toward the future what are
some of the things that we can be
thinking about ahead of time to make
sure that the networks to make sure that
the best practices are already in place
so that when it does occur we know who
to contact we know what resources to go
after in order to make sure that when it comes you're already
prepared and I can tell you this from
just my own personal experience as a
taxpayer of Baltimore City they are a
part of the National League of Cities
but I always challenge not only them but
also I will challenge you all as members
as current members
really make sure that you are leveraging
these various things that you all are
part of because ultimately as a resident
as a taxpayer of Baltimore City I am
going to ask my councilmember how are
you taking advantage of that and how are
you bringing those resources back to the
communities that you serve and so I
think that's one of the things that's
really important as well and so to that
point I definitely agree that ultimately
those are some of the great things and I
continue to actually to continue to
think about ways you can engage whether
that be through federal advocacy
committees whether that be through I had
a couple things here first here suburbs
so thinking about you on the outskirts
of Philadelphia maybe some of those
things that could be great I mean I
think one of the key things that the
first year suburbs did this year was
actually host a competition focused on
housing right so they had someone who
actually had a company that was willing
to provide economic development taa for
free for municipalities for a group with
municipalities who applied ultimately
they actually wound up in Kansas but
ultimately I think the key thing was
that those are some of the resources
that are just happening in some of our
various councils whether that be large
cities small cities first tier suburbs
these are some of the spaces that really
are going to benefit hopefully your
municipality moving forward mr. Jones
Madam President thank you I just wanted
to for the sake of citizens who might I
know that councils involvement in the
National League of Cities has nationally
the cities has already paid dividends in
terms of actual grant rewards to the
municipality that we would not have
received because they were NOC targeted
programs and from councilmembers who
brought that back so we've received over
at three hundred thousand dollars in
grants in in our year so involvement
with it we did the sustainability grant
as a result of council members attending
a conference we also had to enter in
financial stability grant
over 250,000 dollars as a result of our
involvement with the NRC and we also got
national recognition for our diversity
program particularly out of the police
department was nationally recognized at
an NLC conference as well so council
members who have attended have been very
engaged in making sure that information
gets back to the staff and challenging
us to get those applications in and and do the work to get involved and
we're really appreciative of the support
from an administration that we've gotten
both from Council than the NOC in
getting our applications and projects on
the table Thank You mr. Jones
council any other questions mr. Evans do
you have anything else to add to your
great presentation
no but thank you all very much for
taking the time to hear and then more
importantly I look forward to
continuously working with you all in the
future thank you thank you and thanks
again for the presence of councilman
Derrick green it's good to have you good
to see you in ours town we normally do
see councilman green as mentioned at the
various conferences and again it is also
a great opportunity to to network and to
find out what other municipalities are
struggling with because as you begin to
network you realize that you may have
something in common and someone has
already experienced that and you could
take that experience back home and share
that experience and then turn that
experience into a resolution or
ordinance in the north down so we thank
you each
okay so our next order of business we
have are the announcements thank you
madam president
so we would like to wish all Norristown
area school students a successful school
year this being the first day of school
arts in the park will be held this
Saturday September 7th from 2 p.m. to 6
p.m. at Elmwood Park vendors live music
art and beer garden it's a free event
Norristown Recreation is offering a free
soccer clinic on Saturday September 28th
for ages 3 to 9 for more information
please email recreation at Norristown
org Gospelfest will be held on September
15th from 7 to 9 p.m. at Elmwood Park an
array of performances special guests
vendors and much more that's also a free
event the citizens Leadership Academy is
now open for registration applications
are available online or by email at Pio
at Norristown org and the rock the block
which is an annual event for the Habitat
for Humanity will be held on Saturday
October 5th registration at 8 p.m. the
events going to be running from 8 p.m. 8
a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cherry Street Park in
Norristown a number of blocks have been
targeted for various different projects
throughout the day such as George Feeny
and light carpentry work yard cleanups
and even some small repairs here and
there the letters have been going out
for residents to notify them of this and
the following blocks are currently
accepting applications the five hundred
ten hundred fifty eight block of Cherry
Street 111 to 136 Wayne 19 to 29 West
chestnut 14 to 157 West Elm one thousand
to ten eighty nine Powell ten hundred to
ten eighty to Willow ten hundred to ten
ninety six sweet twenty five to twenty
nine East Spurs to two to ninety eight
West
spruce to 238 east basin and 1/2 to 99
West basin if you want to have a project
on in your block please the the deadline
for submitting the required forms is by
from Friday September 13th 2019 and you
need to email shreddy that's SCH ett or
i at habitat del habitat mod Codelco org
or you can call them at six one zero two
seven eight seven seven one zero
extension one zero seven as they're all
the announcements I have council members
do we have any other announcements
councilman Jones as we all know it's
football season so I just wanted to
share some information for North town
high school they will be traveling to PW
this weekend a Friday night 7:00 p.m. at
PW the following weekend September 13th
Norrish town will have its first Friday
night game ever at the high school
complex it will also be the first night
game since 2010 when Roosevelt closed
down so just anybody that's looking that
support the local football program they
have two games in the over the next two
weeks
thanks Thank You councilman Jones seeing
that there are no other announcements
Madam Secretary I'm sorry Council on the
Scott Cooper
for them
okay this coming Thursday September the
fifth there will be a gun violence Town
Hall at the George Washington Carver
Community Center from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and
that's at 249 Jacobi Street Norristown
congresswoman Madeline Dean invites you
to attend as you will be able to not
only have a dialogue on gun violence and
what Congress is trying to do about it
but they're also trying to get some more
ideas she's open to more ideas from the
community so she's asking that everyone
attend bring a neighbor bring a friend
and let's see how we can keep North town
safe as our chief is doing now Thank You
councilman Scott Cooper are there any
other announcements seeing none Madam
Secretary do we have any public comments
this evening yes we do Dalbert Harrison
even console good evening could you
please state your address I'm here to
see the to ask Council your dress too
long you can't hear me Oh Norristown PA
I'm here this evening to ask council to
look into this problem because according
to the commissioners I spoke to them
this weekend it's a municipal problem
two years ago you guys awarded a
contract to a kenny excavation for
grading of the soccer field at simmons
park the park was not graded the dirt
dumped on it was on it for a year and a
half and the grass wouldn't grow when I
contact Crandall and Cathy last August
they told me it was the dirt where they
told it they told the DEP because I
asked a DEP to look at it me and couple
of residents say well that dirt is
contaminated because the grass is not
growing on it Crandall told the DEP the
dirt was from there the dirt was not
from the I stand there and watched him I
have a 2 3 bar employees who would
testify in court that the dirt was not
from there I will testify in court
because I stood there and watch them
dump that dirt on there Larry Powell
from local 135 or testified that that
dirt was brought from over here and
dumped on it all they did was covered a
stone with the dirt but it was not
grated for you guys around here it's
been 2 years and there has not been a
fully match on there if you play on
there the Mexicans would be all over it
you can't play on there because the
field is like this it's worse than when
they did it it's not level the
commissioners can't do nothing about it
because the municipal problem you guys
ran on town people for Norrish down
first here's your chance to fix
something you can't let kragle come here
and just dump dirt on our kids like that is not that is not the dirt
is from if it's from over here back
that's all like that that Greece and and
gasoline running from from over Angeles
to a run down a bit that's why the grass
wouldn't growth we have to do something
about it
there's to you wasn't you walked on the
fuel I saw you walking on the field
Sunday how you tell them how we look I
saw you walking on the field and
checking it out me eval me mister I went
over there and looked at it also it is
not graded it has not been graded all he
did was dump the dirt on it to cover the
stones at the truck drive if you go down
a foot and a half from from where the
front that old goalpost is it's not what
stones on and eat it and the dirt that's
on there is stones we never had stones
around it's football season like you
said mine I have two nephews one with a
computer science degree from temple the
other one is in Harlem teaching seven
eighth grade science they all came out
Oak Street Park you have a cousin
Brianna I talked to her mom last night
Oak Street Park played a major partner
skill development
she got a college to college to
scholarships to Scott there's a numerous
amount of kids that that that that that
part has benefited we like you guys to
do something about it the old gold posts
they brought two old gold soccer goal
reject go we don't need them down there
permission to move them because the
Puerto Rican League has their own goal
that you're makings have their own goal
and the Mexicans have their own goal
those gold if you if you if you play
with those go to score be a hundred one
hundred and fifty because you can't stop
it the goal is wide from there to there
anybody could kick a ball to that those
all reject goal from wherever you guys
brought them for a little token make it
look like you're doing something for ya
we don't need them for me if you give me
permission I'll cut it up and jump and
myself or to borrow or you guys can move
them the public works we don't need them
we need to feel right now to put a guy
that's practicing football to run up and
down it even if it's not even it's not
right but they can still practice
football on it the courts itself
the basketball course itself there was a
10 year contract
Jane will tell you I was the one that
let her know there was a grant for that
contract her and then borrow municipal
that straight miss named David oh I
forgot his name but anyway I notify her
I let him know because they didn't know
there was a grant for that part it
wouldn't be no courts there if I didn't
tell them about it mr. Harris excuse me
but your three minutes are up and okay
well it's my understanding though that
you are here at the last council meeting
I'm not sure public works at the time to
address your issues or concerns or not
but we will continue to look at it mr.
Jones do you have anything okay thank
you I will at madam president
as far as any comments that mr. Harris
made attributed to me I wasn't aware
that I made those comments I will also
iterate reiterate as I shared with
Council that because of mr. Harris's
inquiry with the ep we did respond our
municipal engineer did have Penn State
University analysis oil analysis test
done they provided us with the results
of that test we shared that those
results I have copies of this those
results that out be happy to place here
for anybody's in about his purview the
soil that was installed out there was
not toxic it was alone soil and it was
rated as optimum to above optimum long
soil which which makes it fine for those
who might not know loam soil is a
mixture of soil that is ideal for plant
growth for plant as a plant growing
mediums and actually a combination of
soil normally equal parts clay silt and
sand which gives a benefit of each with
a few with few other disadvantages
by combining all these three types of
soil loan gives you the best
characteristics of all three this
enables you to grow almost any type of
plant without having to add much too
much to the soil the challenges that we
had and we did go back at least once and deal with the challenges that we had
with with that field had to do with when
the field was initially graded and grass
was initially planet people started
walking and even parking on that field
almost immediately after it was made
available so but as far as toxicity is
concerned it does not exist it was a
third party that did two tests not the
municipality not municipal engineer we
just had them commissioned two tests
from Penn State University thank you
that was done was done on the other part
of the original part of the dirt not the
dirt that was there discussion further
because this is actually not here you
got a Western in answer at this time so
thank you we heard you and we will
address it Madam Secretary do we have
any other comments thank you madam
secretary do we have any communication
this evening thank you
so our next order of business we have
will be the appointments for PML mr.
Jones if you could just give us a brief
summary of PML certainly thank you madam
president
council as you know the municipality has
been a member of the Pennsylvania
Municipal League for a few years now
when Sylvania Municipal League is
actually the official official affiliate
with the National League of Cities and
council has since its membership
annually appointed a voting delegate and
an alternate voting delegate to their
annual meeting policy meeting where
a lot of the decisions are made and the
platform's have put together for policy
related to advocacy at at the state
assembly in Harrisburg currently
councilmember Perry is is the voting
delegate of the Pennsylvania Municipal
League and annually they send a ballot
and and request that council make a
decision regarding who that the voting
and altitude Ellicott would be and this
is that time we need to have councils
select those two positions and so that
we can submit the forms to the PML and
the forms are due this Friday
thank you ma'am Thank You mr. Jones
Council do we have any questions or
comments in terms of the appointments
that we're going to councilman Scott
Cooper yeah I just have a comment and I
think it's important that we keep in
mind when we make our choice of
delegates to attend that they need to be
available to attend so that if one
cannot make it the other one will so we
have to make sure that those who want to
be a delegate are able to attend
Thank You Councilwoman Scott Cooper
counsel do we have any appointments for
the voting delegate for PML for 2019
I vote that Derrick Perry be our
representative just so that I can
clarify the voting delegates Madam
Secretary may I please have roll call
Olivia Brady Mary Scott Cooper Akeem
Jones Gerry Perry Rebecca Smith
Sonja Sanders aye Derrick Perry is a
2019 PML voting delegates at this time
what a member of council like to
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nominate the alternate voting delegates
you're going to get it I vote that Sonia
Sanders be the alternate Madam Secretary
may I please have roll call Olivia Brady
Henry Scott Cooper Akeem Jones Derrick
Perry Rebecca Smith
Sonja Sanders I will be the alternate
for PML 2019 voting delegates Thank You
council members next order of business
we have is planning a municipal
development miss Musante came before
council at the last meeting seeking
preliminary and final land development
approval we have representatives from
their waste of money here tonight and we
also have fire from Penn Oni who will be
able to elaborate any issues pertaining
to do waivers just for a recap the
improvements to the Waste Authority
include internal circulation driveways
creating additional tests from
Washington Street demolition of two
buildings and a building overhang as
well as a coalition of a one-story
building construction for 567 square
foot structure for chlorine and a 1200
square foot lower building striping of
22 parking spaces at the eastern end of
the parcel and side preparation
of an existent wooded area for the
construction of a 4,000 square-foot
maintenance building and rain gardens
and related improvements as council will
recall I had informed you that the
applicant had been granted a special
exception from the zoning hearing board
on August 8 2019 because of the section
of Zoning they were required actually to
go to the design review for therefore
you are unable to ask them this
application at the last meeting and
since then the applicant has gone to the
design review board and I believe they
appeared in front of the 2n review on
August 28th and I placed on the desk
this evening the recommendation that
came from the design review board which
is the recommendation for approval with
the condition that the waivers that are
going to be granted taken to account the
sidewalk improvements I have placed that
information in front of you near deaths
there's an existing rendering of the
facility as the first image and the
second image is the proposed image of
the screening that we're asking council
put as a condition on the approval for
this land development
it's a solicitor there there we go
that is correct mr. moose Anya there are
12 waiver requests I understand at the
workshop meeting there might have been a
mishap that one of the waiver requests
was missing but that has been corrected
for tonight so from the last meeting
waiver requests per the resolution in
front of you tonight are the same one
through 11 the addition is number 12
which is a waiver from the requiring of
preparing a separate existing resource
in site analysis map also known as an e
rsam when that same information is
included on the existing features plans
set that has already been submitted
I believe miss I believe that Pannonia
has already reviewed that request
they have no objection to that request
and I believe that an existing features
map has already been prepared showing
all that information so there are
technically already in compliance
assuming that the waiver is granted if
counsel once we could certainly go
through all the other 11 requests
however again I believe this was done at
the last meeting so I'm not sure it's
necessary the only thing I would note
with counsel is if there are if there is
going to be a vote tonight which
hopefully there will be on this
resolution I would please ask that the
motion reflect whether or not you are
recommending approval or not approval of
the 12 waiver requests we can certainly
go through each waiver request
individually if Council would prefer but
you could certainly vote to approve the
resolution I would just ask that you
make a notation whether that includes
approval of all 12 waiver requests not
sure the applicant is here tonight
represented by counsel as well as our
engineer I'm not sure if there's
anything further they would like to add
beyond what I've stated or misma Sonia
stated
and again I did have a chance to speak
with counsel before tonight just to
confirm again you'll see a number of the
waiver requests relate to plantings
while that is true I would also note
that as one of the conditions of
approval is let me find it here number
for preparation and submission of a
landscaping screening buffering plan
post construction to be approved by the
municipality that will provide the
maximum amount of additional buffering
and beautification that can be
implemented at the property for
screening purposes so essentially what
the applicant here is proposing is
requesting waivers as per the saldo
however they're agreeing that post
construction they want to put in green
greenery they just not sure how it's
going to look and how they can best
maximize it at this time and therefore
they're agreeing that at a future date
after construction is completed they're
going to prepare a plan and the
municipality has to approve that plan
with regard to the greenery so in some
ways they're really not getting out of
the greenery requirement we just not
sure what it's going to look like at
this time we'll know after construction
did I accurately reflect that at least
for your understanding
so mr. solicitor I have a question then
so the design that we have in front of
us then on the second page are we
looking to go for that look so yeah and
maybe the engineer could speak to this
having prepared it as I understand this
was basically a a rendering that was
provided for purposes of the design
review board perhaps ideally this is
what what they may want to envision at
some point following post construction
but this is not the plan that has been
approved the plan has not yet been
submitted yet and we will certainly
review it and vet it along with Pannonia
and we will make sure that it provides
as it stated in there the maximum the
maximum amount of additional buffering
and beautification that can be
implemented Thank You mr. solicitor
that's a woman although be a breeding
here
thank you for the explanation
Councilwoman Brady councils do we have
any other questions or comments
and again Thank You mr. solicitor what a
member of Council like to make a motion
to consider resolution nineteen dash one
four zero which would grant preliminary
and final plan approval for NARS town
municipal waste authority recommending
12 over 12 waiver requests as listed
Madame secretary Bagley several called
olivia Brady Mary Scott Cooper Akeem
Jones Derry Carrie Rebecca Smith
Sonia Sanders I the ice habit resolution
19-1 four zero is approved and passed
thank you you're welcome miss miss
onyang next order of business we have is
from the administration in terms of
resolution 19-1 four or five for the
reinstatement of the fourth thank you
madam president
council this resolution is actually a
housekeeping matter for some time the
municipality has maintained a 457 plan B
plan on behalf of a handful of now a
handful of employees and that plan used
to be under a master plan by the
Pennsylvania Association of barrels
Pennsylvania Association of boroughs
notified us as well as other
municipalities who were operating under
that master plan that they would no
longer continue to hold the master plan
and ask that each member who still had
employees within that plan of members
within that plan would actually enact a
resolution where they would reinstate
the miss municipalities plan and take
Pennsylvania Association of boroughs out
of the master plan status the
solicitor's office specifically mr.
Hitchens has been working diligently
on this issue for almost a year so it's
been a kind of a bear to go through just
solid the iterations of dealing with
psab and state law etcetera but we've
got it done and this will just provide
the continuity of a plan for those those
personnel who are still covered by that
plan and we have all of the necessary
administrative support to continue that
plan it is administered through our HR
department by HR manager and this is a
request Council to reinstate the plan
Thank You mr. Jones Council do we have
any questions or comments seeing none
but a member of Council like to make a
motion to consider a resolution 19 - 1 4
5 which will reinstate the
municipalities 457b plan for the
employees madam secretary can apply
several call Livia Brady Mary Scott
Cooper Akeem Jones Derrick Perry Rebecca
Smith Sonja Sanders I the ice habit
resolution 19 - 1 4 or 5 is a program
pass thank you
next order of business we have is Public
Safety
mr. Tobin or should I say chief
you say whatever you want thank you
madam president
ordinance number 19 - 10 is in regards
to council considering parking
restrictions and making changes to
eliminate parking time limit
restrictions in the 100 block of East
for Nance the 100 block of East Frehley
Street and the 100 block of Summit
Street these requests came at the
request of people in the area we studied
it and found that there were no add any
adverse consequences that came from
making these changes and we suggest that
this makes sense
Thank You chief - how the council's do
we have any questions or comments seeing
none what a member of council like to
make a motion
approving ordinance that I'm sue I'm
sorry approving ordinance 19 - 10 to
eliminate parking time limited
restrictions for the 100 block of East
14th Street and the 100 block of these
freely Street and the 100 block of
Summit Street
then I'm secretary my police have roll
call Olivia Brady Mallory Scott Cooper
Akeem Jones Derrick Perry Rebecca Smith
Tony Sanders I the ice habit resolution
19 - 10 is approved and passed
resolution 19 - 144 is reserved disabled
parking residents at 3:27 west
Fernan street and 1425 Powell Street
both have medical conditions that impact
their mobility and need this
accommodation
counsel do we have any questions or
comments singing on what a member of
Council like to make a motion
approving resolution 19 - 144 which
would authorize the approval of sign
installation of 327 what's west Fernan
street and 1425 Powell Street Madam
Secretary my police have roll call
Olivia Brady Valerie Scott Couper Akeem
Jones
Derrick Perry Becca Smith Sonja Sanders
I the ice habit resolution 19 - 1 4 4 is
approved and passed
Thank You cheese talvik next order
business we have is Public Works mr.
Denny bow
Thank You mr. odden Evo counsel do you
have any questions or comments mr. Perry
yes that's it councilman Perry see no
other questions for a member of Council
like to make a motion
approving ordinance 19 - 0-5 which
amends these the existing surety bond
amount requirement Madam Secretary may
please have roll call
Divya Brady Barry Scott Cooper Akeem
Jones Derrick Perry Rebecca Smith
Sonja Sanders I the ice habit ordinance
1905 is approved and passed Thank You
mr. Bertoni as any go what a maverick
council like to make a motion to adjourn
the meeting
all in favor meeting is adjourned thank
you