[0:08] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
[0:13] republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[0:19] justice for all.
[0:31] All right,
>> everybody in council had a chance to
[0:34] look at the minutes from last month. Any
questions, corrections?
[0:39] Not I will take a motion for the
secretary to file them.
[0:43] » I'll make that motion.
>> Motion by Greg.
[0:45] » Second.
>> Second by Gary. All in favor?
[0:49] » Opposed?
All right.
[0:53] I did not write down the order. Um
public any public comment.
[1:02] Okay.
All right. Engineers report. No report.
[1:07] » Okay. Solicitor's report.
>> Okay. Nothing specific. I did want to
[1:10] mention one thing. I saw in the uh near
the back of the latest Bur News
[1:15] magazine, there's a program available
for new zoning board members. I think
[1:19] it's an hour and a half in the evening
of the 7th of May on by Zoom. I would
[1:25] just suggest council I think it's 35
hours. I would suggest that council
[1:29] authorize our zoning hearing board
members to take the class if they want
[1:33] to and reimburse them upon successful
completion. I've seen that happen in a
[1:38] number of my other municipalities.
>> Do you have the list?
[1:45] » Yeah, it would be uh Jessica
Judy McDonald.
[1:51] The third one
[1:56] » can't remember off hand. No.
>> Is it?
[2:01] » No, she's on planners.
>> Was I think she?
[2:05] » No, it's not.
>> All right. Um, but
[2:09] » anyway, questions from council
>> for Todd to get a hold of
[2:14] » the zoning board members and anybody who
wants to take the training that the
[2:17] burough pay for. I'll make a motion for
Todd to move forward getting in touch
[2:22] with the zoning hearing board.
>> Motion by Bill. Questions? Second. Mark.
[2:31] All in favor?
>> I opposed.
[2:34] » All right. Anything else for the
solicitor right now?
[2:39] Okay. Zoning codes.
>> Oh, you have a copy of the report before
[2:44] you. I don't have anything additional to
add if anyone has any questions.
[2:49] » I I don't have a question on the report
that you've got, but looking over the um
[2:56] sewer report under new business as 107
Church Street had second kitchen
[3:02] reported during the building sewer
inspection. I was wondering if you got
[3:07] any communication about that.
>> I did. um they provided me with photos
[3:11] and that I remember that it's not really
a kitchen so to speak. It's a stove and
[3:16] a sink and a refrigerator and that's
been there
[3:21] » as long as I can reading water meters
many years ago. So yeah, it's not a
[3:26] finished out basement or anything. No
partitions all over.
[3:30] » I think that was that was
looked at the house that was a long
[3:38] time. Anything else for zoning your
code?
[3:40] » Nothing further.
>> All right, Albert,
[3:45] Scott.
>> Okay, Scott.
[3:48] » Uh, only thing is I'm still waiting to
hear back from uh county about the
[3:53] replacement for uh the portable radio.
Have not heard nothing back. I reached
[3:57] out to Mike Melor
a couple weeks ago and u he said he will
[4:03] try and rattle some cages over about
that. So that's been couple couple weeks
[4:09] ago. So I'm going to give it to the rest
of the month here and then I'll reach
[4:14] back out to Mike to see, you know, how
they are.
[4:18] » Okay. Thank you.
[4:23] Anything else? Fire. Doug, you're good.
>> What about all recreation?
[4:29] » The the branch board of the YMCA and
Rose met on March 5th. uh YMCA project
[4:36] is uh they received temporary oxy from
Jackson Township to allow uh for
[4:42] delivery of shipped items and furniture
setup within the building. Uh the
[4:45] remaining of the site work is pending
coordination with first capital
[4:48] engineering uh which they have
coordinated some CAD drawings and I
[4:53] think they're going to start within the
next 10 days, two weeks uh to get that
[4:58] May 1st uh date is not realistic
anymore. It's going to be later on in
[5:02] May, beginning of June to for the for
the opening. Um they had an echo grant
[5:07] res recognition on March 11th. Press
conference was held. Um that stands for
[5:13] every child has opportunities. All three
county commissioners were there
[5:17] including uh and also Senator Kate
Clunk. Upcoming events uh food truck
[5:23] event April 24th at Little Creek Park
and give local York is going to get
[5:28] kicked off May 1st. Um the Springrove
Rex and Parks dissolution um is in the
[5:34] final stages and is currently is uh is
being handled by legal counsel. That
[5:40] next meeting is scheduled for May 19th
for the board of the YMCA Roses.
[5:46] Playground committee met on uh the 23rd
of March down here at 11:00. Um it was
[5:55] reported that a a swing was removed from
the layout based on space um that we had
[6:03] to work with in inside the uh the
playground area. Um we're we're close to
[6:09] determining what the budget is so we can
move forward with grant writing. Um
[6:14] working with uh York County. We're
hoping to have a maintenance agreement
[6:19] in front of council um next next meeting
in May.
[6:24] Um, we're also working with some
fundraiser fundraising goals and working
[6:31] with social media under the direction of
Kate Clunk and with the help of Jessica
[6:36] with this on putting on social media and
our next playground meeting is the 20th
[6:41] of this month month at 11 o'clock which
I hope that we have more to report on um
[6:47] on direction of way the grants are going
next month.
[6:51] All right.
>> Thank you.
[6:54] We're good with that. Old business.
Anything on the vacancies?
[6:58] » No.
>> Okay.
[7:02] And
new business.
[7:05] Anything miss.
[7:10] Okay. Go to the treasures report.
[7:19] Everybody should have got an email on
that. Any questions? corrections. If
[7:23] not, I will take a motion for the sec
for the treasurer to approve, accept,
[7:28] and file statement for audit and for the
treasur to pay any regular bills over
[7:32] the next month.
[7:36] I'll make that motion. Motion by Mark,
>> second by Deb. All in favor? I
[7:44] » opposed.
Okay. Secretary's report. Um, I actually
[7:50] don't have anything.
[7:54] » Okay. Mayor's report.
>> Um,
[7:58] I guess well, two things. Um, I guess
that would have been two weeks ago now,
[8:03] two Thursdays ago, me and Cheryl
attended the York County Birth
[8:06] Association quarterly meeting. um
representatives from the SPCA were there
[8:11] and gave gave a pretty lengthy
presentation about animal services in
[8:16] Pennsylvania and the Commonwealth. How
you know some how of course it is so
[8:23] it's different than 49 other states. Um
animal control in Pennsylvania is not a
[8:29] government regulated
um service. All the rest of the 49
[8:33] states, the government kind of handles
it. So York County um is,
[8:41] you know, actually lucky on what we
have. A lot of places around the country
[8:48] come to York County to see what is
working. They consider themselves a no
[8:52] kill shelter. Um what they base that on
is a percentage of basically live
[8:59] animals in, live animals out. And to be
considered a no kill shelter, they have
[9:04] to be 90% above and above. Um they
typically run from I guess about 2017
[9:14] they were only at 50%.
So in the last within the last 8 to 10
[9:19] years they've got that number up to over
n I believe the last percentage was 2024
[9:25] it's believe was 92.8% % animals in
animals are live going out. Now, a lot
[9:31] of that has to do with um you know the
tag tag neuter released. Um you know
[9:38] with the cat population um you know
again I thought a lot more was going to
[9:44] be brought up about
burrows funding the SPCA but that is
[9:50] still kind of a lot of that is rumored.
you know, I think if the county decides
[9:56] to start giving them money, yes, you'll
see, you know, burrows having to pay
[10:00] that. Um, but overall, I thought it was
very, I mean, well presented. Um,
[10:09] you know, um, they also, I mean, I think
another big thing with their lowcost
[10:17] neuter and spay program,
I believe their lead veterinarian that
[10:22] takes care of that. um was recognized I
guess that was last year
[10:27] » I think so
>> of doing um she did over 13,000 spay or
[10:33] neuters in a year and the most in most I
guess um she won what they call a uh
[10:42] what was this
>> was it a snip or
[10:44] » snippy award a snippy award it's um
basically
[10:48] animal rescues and um SPCA
awards that they have for different
[10:55] things all across the country. So, she
was recognized as being, you know, um
[11:01] the one that did the most in one year.
And I mean, if you think about that, you
[11:05] know, five days out of five days, that's
a lot of animals in on on and off our
[11:13] table, you know. Um, you know, I think
another thing is they've hired a a now a
[11:20] animal control um police officer that
hopefully they'll start in the next six
[11:25] weeks that you know we'll be able to
enforce animal you know cruelty law um
[11:32] for the county. Now it's only one person
but you know those kind of things are a
[11:36] big help. The the county was going has
gone almost about a year without one.
[11:43] Um, so they're really happy to get that
back and hopefully, you know, as
[11:47] problems come about, you know, that
person will investigate th those type
[11:52] things. Um, the other thing, um, I did
talk to, uh, York County Commissioner
[12:00] Buford and invited him to our either it
was either this meeting or the main
[12:05] meeting. Um, and he accepted the
invitation. Him and the county engineer
[12:10] will be here at the main meeting to
kind of any questions with the um the
[12:17] truck overhead thing? You know, there
you know, I I mentioned how a lot of
[12:22] burough council was kind of I won't say
upset, but they were you know, the
[12:27] transparency was not there. Um you know,
we kind of have not there's a lot of
[12:33] questions that weren't answered. So
again, um please spread that around. You
[12:39] know, you know, it's our time to answer
ask those questions. If any burough
[12:44] residents have questions, please let us
know so we can bring them to our their
[12:50] attention if not answered. Um, other
than that, I have nothing else.
[12:56] » Just to piggy back on what Doug said, I
found it interesting that uh the
[13:01] gentleman said that the burrows and
townships through what we pay to the
[13:07] SPCA
is a small amount. And then he's And and
[13:11] I'm thinking, well, how do they do all
this? He said, because they have a $5
[13:15] million budget, but they only get like
6% from from us. And he said, well,
[13:22] through our fundraising. So, every time
somebody makes a donation to the SPCA,
[13:28] it's going towards that $5 million,
which is how they actually keep in
[13:33] business. And I said, "Well, what about
all this information that I've been
[13:37] hearing that the county commissioners
might fund this? You know, I thought
[13:42] maybe you would be talking about that."
And he said they laid the groundwork
[13:46] that they did go to the commissioners
meeting and they talked about having the
[13:51] county fund uh their program and that
they they were very
[13:59] acceptable of the whole thing and
thought it was a good idea, but they
[14:02] didn't give any money. But he thought
they'd at least laid the groundwork that
[14:07] when they come back this year and maybe
in the next year that they might get a
[14:12] little further ahead than they did. So
hopefully it's coming in the future that
[14:18] the county will be paying for this, but
otherwise until then it's us doing our
[14:24] 6% and the $5 million coming from donors
in your county. Thought that was
[14:31] interesting.
Thank you. All right. Leans are still
[14:36] three.
Eating views are the same.
[14:51] You have anything else, Tom? Uh,
anything I want to mention? I did put it
[14:56] out there on Facebook that on Wednesday
morning, uh, Maple Street will be closed
[15:01] between South Street and 6:16. Uh, the
county and that's only between 7 and 12.
[15:08] Uh, the county is going to be coming in,
they have a contractor coming in to
[15:11] replace the the the guard rails on the
white bridge back there.
[15:19] » Mike
[15:26] Gary,
>> I just wanted to um
[15:31] mention that I'm sure everybody saw over
the weekend that the that the rods and
[15:35] the kids are out and everybody's fishing
and just to
[15:40] let people know where where the state
does this creek. We're fortunate this
[15:46] creek's been stocked for almost 40
years. And on the 14th or on the 13th of
[15:53] April, they will be doing Centerville to
Laroo.
[15:57] Everybody probably knows where that area
is at. Um that section is open to
[16:03] fishing year round. And May 5th, the
Tuesday next month, they'll do Maple
[16:10] Street to the fire hall again. That'll
be the last stocking for the the state.
[16:16] Between that, the Isaac Walton League
and Hopewell Fishing Game also puts fish
[16:22] in there. So, um, if you know anybody
that owns land along this creek and
[16:29] where they fish,
be on their good side because it's it's
[16:34] really getting delicate with people
posting their property and the state has
[16:38] to have a certain amount of land and
creek open for them to stock. And the
[16:45] upper section especially is getting all
broken up with land owners.
[16:50] That's really in jeopardy of losing
fish. So down here we're okay yet, but
[16:55] um just putting it out there. No one is
talking.
[17:00] » Thank you, Mark.
>> Greg,
[17:04] Deb,
>> nothing for me.
[17:08] » All right. Um
before we open back up for public
[17:12] comment, um we after adjournment, we are
going to go into an executive session um
[17:18] regarding personnel with the burrow. We
are not going to come back in and
[17:22] adjurnn. We're going to adjourn after
public comment. Any other public
[17:26] comment?
>> Zach, one note, there will be no
[17:29] official action tonight for discussion.
>> Correct. It's all discussion tonight.
[17:35] » Any other public comment?
[17:40] » Thank everybody for coming. Have a good
evening. Enjoy the weather.