[0:26] what
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[0:28] resume
recorded uh also at the end of this
[0:33] meeting tonight I will convene an
executive session to discuss Personnel
[0:38] matters and we'll leave the
[0:45] room come back to the room at the
conclusion of the night so at this
[0:52] time please stand forication by Julie
[0:57] M will you back of all who are today
thank you for your many and Abundant
[1:03] Blessings thank you for the ability to
be involved in useful work on behalf of
[1:08] the citizens of
serton I pray for our mayor for the
[1:13] various levels of bur officials and in
particular for this assembled Council
[1:17] I'm asking that you would graciously
grant us to have the wisdom to govern
[1:22] amid the conflicting interests and
issues of our times the sense of the
[1:26] true needs of the citizens of satton and
the abil ility that we may work work
[1:32] together in
harmony disagreement I pray for the
[1:36] agenda set before us today please give
an assurance of what would please you
[1:41] and what would benefit those who live
and work in and around our beloved
[1:45] burrow of saton in Jesus Christ we pray
amen than you jul standing for the
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pledge
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and you may be
[2:09] seated pleas not the
attendance
[2:16] coun
[2:20] jounel thank you Stacy and at this
moment uh a lot of you for the same
[2:27] reason but I'll turn over to the mayor
for the first presentation thank you
[2:31] Tracy uh we are a lot of us are in the
room tonight to honor uh Mike
[2:39] Cole in true Mike fashion he did not
want any of you here no Fan Fair
[2:45] whatsoever uh if we wanted to we could
pack 10 rooms this size with my co so
[2:52] thanks to you're here that uh you really
have worked closely with my EV so so my
[3:00] I didn't invite any I
promise Mike Cole is sain B oh and I
[3:07] have to say I'm definitely G to get
choked up halfway through
[3:11] this sa B he's been employed by saon
since
[3:17] 1982 and astonishing 40 years on the job
you might think a town with the same
[3:23] leadership for 40 years could be
stagnant but think about saan in 1982
[3:28] and look at us now
one thing that I appreciate Mike most
[3:32] for is being a bridge goer the
Montgomery Theater the Boys and Girls
[3:38] Club Main Street improvements saon
Community Park Northbound the weight
[3:43] building the freight building the list
goes on these are just some of examples
[3:49] of the dynamic burrow that project that
required creative thinking by this
[3:54] municipality there were many people
involved in the current Resurgence of
[3:58] saon but the thread that ties them all
together working behind the scenes in
[4:03] his own quiet way was Mike
Cole and Mike's been here for so
[4:09] long that he was also involved in many
capital assets that we now take for
[4:14] granted the sewer treatment Clan the
sain pool and this very building as you
[4:20] might remember Mike started his career
here on Main
[4:24] Street Mike knows where every tree is
planted in saon where every sewer line
[4:30] runs and where every Grant dollar has
been spent he knows cuz he's been here
[4:35] to see it all happen because Mike Cole
is ston
[4:40] burrow and on the flip side Mike's also
not been afraid T dir he started his
[4:45] career on a road through and was never
free afraid to leave his office to pick
[4:50] up a shovel clean up a mess or even go
on a
[4:53] fire this Readiness to do whatever
day often these
[5:01] days being the bur man manager is not an
easy
[5:08] job not only do you have to make hard
decisions in the town that Mike
[5:13] lives but he also has worked for many
dozen elected officials over the
[5:19] decades there have been some big
Personalities in these seats Charlie
[5:24] alok Abe clemmer Ed
huncker Brian gosh out just to name a
[5:33] few I'm sure Mike has some good War
Stories and probably some from this very
[5:39] Council that he prefer to not
share but his willingness to work with
[5:43] everyone engage with Community groups
and do whatever is best for the
[5:48] residents of this burough is what made
Mike a favorite for everyone in
[5:53] s the job also requires many long nights
at problem solving whenever Duty called
[6:01] so we owe a deep de of gratitude to his
wife Kathleen and his whole family for
[6:07] their support and for Lending Mike to us
for so
[6:11] long and I have to thank Mike on a
person when I was 16 years old I that
[6:20] right there as the junior burough
counselor and I went to college to study
[6:27] public administration so I
I could be my
[6:33] cult we have very different
leadership and I'm sure I've caused my
[6:40] many
headaches I'll never be able to thank
[6:43] you personally and know for everything
that you've done for sain and everything
[6:48] that you've done for
me my call
[6:58] is
[7:05] lives and breathes
s
[7:09] Mike there are no words that can sum up
the thanks and gratitude that are owed
[7:14] to you by this
community the best we can do is tonight
[7:19] say thank you and wish you a
relaxing after 40 dedicated years of
[7:27] service to this community so my from the
bottom of our hearts we say thank you
[7:33] for
[7:54] everything you don't have to introduce
yourself I don't know if I was ever
[8:03] here
I Dan thank you Tracy thank you and
[8:10] Council thank
you um I don't want to do a long speech
[8:18] but out in the
lobby hangs on the
[8:24] wall at black was when this building was
renovated the names on that plaque are
[8:32] forever important to me because those
individuals provided a 22y old kid a
[8:42] chance to become at on March 22nd of
1982 became an assistant bur manager to
[8:52] uh to saton
bur and it was because of those
[8:57] people who really
trust in me coming out of came from
[9:03] Quaker Town I had a bachelor's degree
but I was
[9:08] green um but um those people meant an
awful lot to me most of them have
[9:15] passed but John
[9:21] Young and Greg a remain
um and they are always in my
[9:30] heart
also I just want
[9:35] to go back in time a little bit and
recognize a Woman by the name of elain
[9:44] Fred I don't know if anybody knows who
Lan
[9:48] Frederick in the municipal building at
117 Main Street where creative or hok
[9:55] creativist she was the burough secretary
for sat burrow probably for as long if
[10:01] not longer than me and back in that time
frame the burough secretary performed
[10:09] all the tasks that the modern manager
does
[10:13] today and if you go back in the vault
you will find volumes of minute books
[10:19] signed by Elaine
Frederick that documented the history of
[10:24] the
bur another fabulous woman who I worked
[10:29] with is Esther
Stout and some people in this room know
[10:35] Esther but uh Ester and Elaine were in
the uh office when when I walked in
[10:41] March 22nd in 1982 they welcomed me with
open arms they mentored me
[10:49] they taught me they showed um all the
things that I needed to know to advance
[10:57] my
career another important person
[11:02] is Delton plank was the manager at the
time he served as manager for about 13
[11:10] years he was only the second manager in
the history of the burrow I was in
[11:17] third but
D was probably the best Mentor you could
[11:24] ever ask for um he took the time to show
me variety of things in the burrow
[11:31] taught me different things showed me the
history of the burrow set me up for
[11:37] Success going
forward I thought I would work here for
[11:42] a few years and maybe move on B was
rather young at the time B served as
[11:49] manager not only in Saturn but frankonia
and Loris Alford he retired from lower
[11:57] sford but um Del plank was the one that
moved
[12:03] first um and that same group of
people on that
[12:09] plaque put faith in me again in July of
1984 and uh promoted me to the position
[12:18] as burrow
manager and uh there
[12:23] again that's where it all started with
with those
[12:28] individuals uh
um my career was not me my career
[12:37] was
[12:40] councils the many count over the years
number of them are in this room again
[12:47] tonight they volunteered their time I
often said I get paid they do not so I
[12:53] never wanted them to take the Brun of
complaints I wanted to make sure I had
[12:58] everything in order for them did
everything I could do to implement their
[13:04] policies their
procedures
[13:08] and I also need to really
thank many burrow employees we had a
[13:15] tremendous crew we still do some are in
this
[13:20] room without
them we would NE never have accomplished
[13:25] we
accomplished um
[13:29] Steve who is my cousin not my brother my
cousin and we we come from a
[13:37] generation um our fathers our
grandfather worked in cers so we knew
[13:43] what it was going to
take and we devoted that effort just
[13:49] like our parents did to this Burl and we
live we both live in this Burl but every
[13:59] project that you see every that we've
accomplished from the pool to the
[14:05] downtown all have our crew on
it um I thank the councils over the
[14:15] years who sometimes scratch their heads
when I would say I think we could make
[14:20] something
like this work could do it and and for
[14:27] the most part we did
and I will hold those
[14:34] successes forever dear to
me I thank my family as Dan brought my
[14:41] family is with me tonight again gave up
a lot of time for meetings and all that
[14:45] but um they understood what I needed to
[14:50] do the
uh the mayor um Charlie
[14:57] alock as
I had many mentors growing up but
[15:02] Charlie alach was
particularly an individual who I I
[15:07] really enjoyed he would visit me almost
every
[15:11] day um sometimes just to talk sometimes
to vent but um he visited me probably 30
[15:19] plus
years Charlie alach had
[15:25] one major philosophy that stuck with me
from the day I started and Charlie
[15:33] alach said and preached that a man has
got to give back more to the community
[15:40] than he
takes and he preached that and he
[15:45] preached
that and I hope i'
[15:48] lived to uh uphold that because I felt
strongly about
[15:56] that so with that I thank everybody in
this room I
[16:05] thank all the council member the
committee members that I've worked with
[16:11] and all of my employees I
will I will
[16:18] miss and I am very humbled to say I I
really appreciate it this this long
[16:26] ride um it was the only thing I ever
wanted to to
[16:30] do and I only hope that Charlie
alach those people out there in
[16:40] particular would give me a nod and also
say job well
[16:44] done I uh I thank you Dan I thank you
Tracy I thank the
[16:50] community for giving me this
opportunity and I hope and wish the best
[16:59] for everybody going forward thank
[17:22] you now I suspect that over half of you
did not come here us tonight so I would
[17:31] like to invite you for all that only can
you see Mike Mike if you don't mind G
[17:37] out in the foyer and anyone that wants
to spend some time with Mike and his
[17:41] family for a couple minutes you're free
to slip out quietly there or you can
[17:46] also stay here as long as you like and
as I always say you're probably
[17:53] missing you're missing some great
television M thank you so so
[18:15] much good
[18:27] child
[18:33] okay moving right
[18:36] along here a while Stacy has improved
the efficiency of the approval instead
[18:44] of three or four different
approvals uh those now proving one
[18:48] consent agenda so uh will one of the uh
Council make a motion please for
[18:53] approval of the consent agenda which
would includ all all minutes from March
[18:59] as appr the
bills Mr President make a motion to
[19:04] approve the minutes from March the March
4th 2024 regular council meeting March
[19:11] 18th 2024 work session unit and the
bills for the month March and the
[19:18] reoccurring bills for the month of April
202 B
[19:24] second okay have motions by council's
Littlefield and wac for approval of the
[19:32] March minutes both work session and
regular session as well as the bills
[19:37] which would include the recurring bills
for people
[19:40] and regular bills for the month of of
mar as well uh are there any
[19:49] necessary amendments to the minutes or
inent okay then here none uh all in
[19:57] favor of approval the consent agenda
please say I I you
[20:03] oppos okay that's
unanimous and state'll turn it back over
[20:08] to you and you have planned
presentation so I'm gonna actually let
[20:17] let Sarah kind of take over and
introduce herself but um really excited
[20:21] to
Sarah
[20:24] um here our new Finance director and and
she just started last she a great job so
[20:32] we're
[20:37] also hello
[20:44] everyone from a where I serve as manager
um my
[20:52] husband area about two years ago um he
works for work in landale um we
[20:59] originally mov from Shippensburg where
we both attended school and work so um
[21:05] we're both very happy to be
[21:24] in welcome
[21:27] aboard you're okay we'll make a motion
at a moment I have a motion for
[21:31] appointment of
Sarah Sarah Treasurer Mr President I'd
[21:36] like to make a motion to appoint Sarah
Jared Eaton in the position of Treasurer
[21:42] I'm
[21:46] second motion by
councilor Banana seconded by Council
[21:52] Rogers for the appointment of
sah as the B treasure on fa please say I
[22:00] any
post okay thank you
[22:03] sir
[22:08] and all right hi
everyone um okay let me pull up some
[22:13] notes here um we are really busy right
now getting everything situated next
[22:19] month is our first third Friday event um
I have a bunch more bands booked I think
[22:24] we're switching it up this year I'm
bringing in a lot of local groups
[22:31] um which I hope will BR and and what
have you so I think both stages are
[22:35] going to be well represented by people
of this area this year um again I've got
[22:41] a m run on food socks everyone wants to
be wonderful um I did want to and and if
[22:48] this needs to happen at another time but
I also just wanted to make sure that I
[22:52] didn't need to formally request use of
the parking lot again or is that
[22:57] something that has been
allowed now for this ongoing for third
[23:01] Fridays I just want to make sure because
I am getting more vendors and I am kind
[23:07] of using that space already in my head
so I didn't want to assume
[23:13] anything okay I just didn't want to
assume yeah y I'm filling it up and then
[23:17] I'm thinking uh oh so um well thank you
um so that'll be fun um so we're getting
[23:24] you know everything squared away for
that first event I've been talking
[23:27] actually even to some local reporters
one specifically is new assigned to our
[23:32] area from wh and I'd like to try and
bring her out to do a piece um for that
[23:38] first third Friday event so I've been in
constant contact with her um in terms of
[23:44] our committees right now the
beautification committee is in the
[23:48] process of accepting ideas and
applicants for the art Banner project
[23:54] throughout town and so I know that Harry
and his committee are working on that um
[23:59] facade Grant committee uh Economic
Development sorry is dealing with the
[24:04] facade grants which is actually getting
some really good applications and we've
[24:08] ined the first facade Grant
already Gallery which is on the corner
[24:16] and he's do a lot of functioning up um
he's painting the whole outside of the
[24:22] building fixing some windows and such so
we're still receiving applications just
[24:28] talked to someone today um our Economic
Development doing them with her
[24:33] committee so um as they come through
we're addressing those so that's really
[24:37] nice that people reaching out to us
about that um along the lines of
[24:42] Economic Development our next business
fites event we're going to have on
[24:47] Wednesday May 8th that's going to be
held at Brass collar Brewery hopefully
[24:52] it'll be a nice night we can be outside
on the The Patio there and this is going
[24:56] to be a
informal Q&A with members of the E
[25:02] economic development committee and other
members from saton connects but more
[25:08] specifically to ask some questions
highlight um and present the
[25:11] revitalization plan that we've all uh
were presented by Khloe and just kind of
[25:17] talk about the town answer any questions
we're hoping that that that kind of a
[25:22] outside atmosphere might draw some more
businesses um and a the hour five to
[25:27] seven type timing already got some RSVPs
so that's great and um
[25:34] last but not least I was busy over thank
you for the the B office of getting the
[25:40] assessment information over to me we
have processed it all crosschecked it
[25:46] made sure all addresses were fixed from
last year which we worked so hard to do
[25:51] last year and those are being sent out
now to everybody um for the assessments
[25:56] and this year we're also making
sure have a plan in place and we have
[26:01] these procedures already lined up and
voted on
[26:05] to to collect any delinquent payments
there have been some last year
[26:10] especially there were some that just
kind of we had to either write off or
[26:14] notice people had moved and we weren't
side of certain things so we have a
[26:18] procedure this year um and they will be
receiving the bill then they will
[26:22] receive if they don't pay it within 30
days um they'll be receiving uh
[26:27] certified ma reminding them of that
another 30 days certified mail again
[26:31] we're doing it as we've been told to
after 90 days we are have permission to
[26:38] send anyone to collection so we'll be
following that that procedure this year
[26:42] so hopefully that'll be that'll be good
but we did fix a lot of um incorrect
[26:47] information that were in the the fors
last year so I think that's going to go
[26:53] you know great um and that's really it
right now so we're just next month
[26:59] excited thank you any questions oh yeah
any questions question just the
[27:03] collections yes procedure what where is
that coming
[27:18] from and um last year when he was still
asking if the buau was going to need to
[27:26] process these or follow up and per our
bylaws actually it is satton connects
[27:34] responsibility to collect any
uncollected funds from the assessment
[27:38] payments it's not the buros so we did
some research our new um bookkeeper did
[27:43] a lot of research on professional
collection agency so we will be going
[27:49] through an agency on that and he has all
the details for that so if you'd like to
[27:53] know that I can certainly get you the
company and everything short uh answer
[27:57] after you've gone through collections if
there's anything still not collected is
[28:01] there a lean issue to the there will be
no lean and that's why it wasn't going
[28:05] to go through the burrow because it's
not a lean type of a charge for that
[28:10] reason thank you you're welcome anything
else just one the facade gr yes is that
[28:16] uh is that something sat connect or it
part of the Pennsylvania faade so that s
[28:23] has done and put together um and that we
have funding that we we have assigned
[28:29] from the economic development budget
right now which we obviously hope to
[28:33] increase over time with the success of
this program um but there is some that
[28:39] we already have in the budget this year
U we took a lot of the funds that last
[28:42] year maybe were used for some other
things or weren't used to um and Kylie
[28:48] did a lot of research on this and worked
with you know you did a lot of research
[28:53] uh to come up with this so it is coming
from the satton ks budget for economic
[28:59] development yeah for the future look
look into it because I know there was
[29:02] one
now I did meet with Steve malagari yes
[29:06] represent and um he gave me a thick book
of grants for Pennsylvania so we've
[29:11] started to actually go through and look
at it because we did just notice that
[29:15] Hatfield was just awarded a $300 and
something thousand Grant yeah so we were
[29:20] talking about that the other day so um
we've kind of highlighted a few in there
[29:25] that I think we can go after yep that
I've seen KY is it's it's not well known
[29:32] and it's a only small money like they
would pay for p May materials and then
[29:37] the owner would have to you know meet
the improvements but it's out there yeah
[29:43] absolutely every little dollar and yeah
and it's and there is money to be had in
[29:47] the state that people just don't take
the time to fill out and go through the
[29:52] Grant application process but I think
that we are aware of these programs and
[29:58] have the manpower to do it we're gonna
some of that so thank
[30:03] you
[30:07] thanks all right then we'll move forward
to the administrative reports
[30:14] and the administrative reports will be
in your April 15 packet because April T
[30:21] today get all that together packet so if
there's you can go stuff um in case
[30:28] there's anything they want to report
tonight she a update but'll
[30:32] get okay perfect then for you know for
the reports feel free to just give a
[30:37] high level and you know follow the
detail in your administrative reports so
[30:43] uh mayor anything
else you to see yeah two quick events
[30:47] happening in
April now technically this is by tord
[30:56] happening so you think you can cook is
happening at uh
[31:05] fireh tickets at the door John okay and
then the fire company is having cash ail
[31:13] 20 at
[31:17] 5m that's all I have thank you sir uh
Chief uh good evening I actually got my
[31:23] report done about three hours
ago
[31:26] but did 132 traffic stops uh we issued
um 52 original warnings I'm sorry 52
[31:34] citations and 22 rig warnings for people
with equipment violations or other sorts
[31:39] of things
that unfortunately had 14 crashes last
[31:42] month with two minor injuries uh we had
four arrests 291 public service calls 48
[31:48] assists to other agencies um for
clarification that only not includes our
[31:53] neighbors but that's same time we're
assisting any federal agencies so we
[31:56] assist uh the military background
strikes and that kind of thing so we had
[31:59] 790 calls for the month uh which is a 7%
decrease over last year's time uh which
[32:04] is great our arrest numbers are down at
the moment um but we have several
[32:09] investigations we're conducting which
will probably lead to arrests our Major
[32:14] Crimes are way down which is great un
fortunately our minor crimes are up
[32:19] almost 50% uh that being said um we tend
to catch them after they do it um but
[32:25] it's a little too late after that part
uh but we when we do get them we take
[32:28] them to court and we do try to either
get money back from them or have them
[32:31] the community service to make good for
what they've done um on the 27th is the
[32:37] national direct takeback we're going to
be participating in that again uh our
[32:40] new police candidate passed all of our
entrance tests for the Academy so now
[32:47] she's momy County conord testing for
police officers again also on
[32:53] 27
um management I've just about finished
[32:57] all the paperwork for the grant
representative malagari I don't want to
[33:01] be competing with you for
[33:05] Grants thought we should be expecting
that money shortly um because we already
[33:09] had to purchase some of the items on
there out of necessity uh we sent an
[33:12] email today requesting permission to use
those funds on other pieces of equipment
[33:16] and we been preliminary yes at this
point so that's a really good thing uh
[33:21] the two vehicles that we had listed on
munici were both
[33:24] sold $400 for that um so they'll be gone
by the end of the week uh our new police
[33:31] vehicle is here it's going to go get
equipped on April 15th it'll be two we
[33:34] Bill uh and most importantly because
I've been talking about this for almost
[33:38] three years now as of tomorrow a two and
a half year trip has ended where we were
[33:42] trying to use the mcy county prison is
our Central Booking which means that's
[33:46] where we would take people to get
fingerprinted and photographed right now
[33:49] if we arrest somebody we have to drive
them to Lansdale drive them back to the
[33:52] county sometimes drive them back to lale
they go back to the county till they see
[33:56] each other uh we are now in with Mony
County Correction Facility so all the
[34:02] unnecessary trips are out so we have one
place to go uh and I know that the board
[34:06] supported us on that so it was a two and
a half year battle but we got it done so
[34:10] I appreciate your support on that I do
like request and well one more thing um
[34:16] we are now at 122 policies done out of
164 so we're making the progress uh with
[34:22] our dra towards accreditation which I'm
very happy
[34:26] about and at the work
session last month purchased the new one
[34:31] and a used vehicle from
T the price that I had given the board
[34:35] was $5,000 for vehle it's 10 years old
but only has 36,000 miles on it and has
[34:41] a Kell value of a little over
$155,000 um the price was a suggestion
[34:46] based on other vehicles that the police
department has sold there was no
[34:50] contract there was no signature when
tomon looked at the vehicle they decided
[34:53] it was worth a little bit more uh so
they're requesting 8500 vehicle which is
[34:58] 3500 more than I had gotten board
approval for uh I am requesting approval
[35:03] to spend up to 8,500 on that vehicle to
replace uh the two that we've gotten rid
[35:07] of um if you subtract the money we
brought in unid we're paying $1,100 for
[35:12] the car I realistically so I'm
requesting board approval to be able to
[35:16] purchase that vehicle or to increase the
amount that was approved by $3,500
[35:21] when's your timeline for for the
purchase of that V uh they're putting
[35:25] out there on April 10th April okay uh I
don't I don't want to think emotion it's
[35:31] necessary are there any objections for
CH pursuing that vehicle
[35:36] no all right without objection Chief I
appreciate that thank you um and just a
[35:42] question uh the last um third Friday is
that going to be the only right now for
[35:48] And to clarify the Lots the municipal
lot next to the red building no okay
[35:51] corre we will take care of that for you
thank you thank
[35:56] you
[35:59] public works like said I'll working on
La T this we the big thing that we did
[36:05] finish up in
uh May was the uh the SE main project in
[36:12] Wild Avenue and all the lals have been
completed so they have three four cross
[36:18] stretches to base and we'll be ready to
uh work with our equipment R person d m
[36:25] on the paving of that room and then plan
on for early
[36:31] May uh things we were doing this this
month started going on uh Russ and Lea
[36:37] collection should start this week
sometime off
[36:40] weoperate with or we will doing a Le
collection for the whole month of
[36:49] April start at the
pool we completed our part of the uh
[36:56] pool people were St start to do the CL
for this week not looking good for that
[37:01] happening this week so hope don't be
here next and one other thing we got
[37:05] going is uh our subcontractor trout
Brothers Concrete will be in he was
[37:13] supposed to start tomorrow just not
looking
[37:16] good left down at West West BR and
Washington
[37:23] Avenue build theater over to the cany
the the other one in last year and then
[37:30] got
[37:33] last get done this one what are we doing
that hole that sort of like right way
[37:43] it's a lot of ups and downs CU we
actually well got delayed on the permit
[37:47] and we ased the handicap ramp down the
side in front of steps which sometimes
[37:53] isn't the best but we got approval for
that so that go across so I think it's
[37:59] backed up to pigment right along there
and then it got down
[38:03] across little spur
Washington it's going to take out like
[38:09] 30t sidewalk build
this it's pushed down the line up of the
[38:16] one cent
[38:20] place and one other last thing we did we
did uh talk to our seal Master G know
[38:29] he's uh getting us on the schedule for
the
[38:33] uh coding the Bas so there was a picture
that fluttered around everybody seemed
[38:39] to be know good with the color scheme he
had so that's what they're going with
[38:42] now but uh it is time I mean you don't
need to know the color they have all the
[38:46] color you
bring so we're hoping to get on the
[38:50] schedule for that I think the park
committee the S Park committee would
[38:56] probably like to weigh in on that
I have it there I can the S par
[39:02] committee not necessarily the parks and
R committee yeah the bur yeah yeah yeah
[39:08] yeah I can like jet basically we'll
probably pick R
[39:12] color's the
time uh we didn't get a date yet
[39:17] when's plug system so it's probably a
month
[39:23] hour
[39:26] yeah
I didn't have a
[39:29] good only
[39:32] picture but it's clear
[39:38] it CHS I have one with me here I
[39:56] I from a
[40:00] vertical yeah he worked also he wored
for
[40:11] sat
[40:14] question the ramp is that on Broad
Street or on are you talking the last
[40:21] side both the ones we're doing
are the uh
[40:28] north side of street the the bank
parking lot
[40:34] yes Circle one right and then that t on
corner there so we'll be there at that
[40:42] and the first one we're doing and will
remain the
[40:47] same correct won be up at the
intersection some of way but it's be
[40:54] straight across got you actually f
something in front of
[40:59] the yeah it's going right in front the
handicap Crossing from theer over will
[41:05] be right in front of his steps and
that's what we put request in to get
[41:10] permission to do that and we finally got
it end of last year
[41:13] Prett I just saw the sidewalk is so
narrow there I wasn't sure you'd be able
[41:17] to get something that actually
it's is it okay doesn't seem like it
[41:24] looks more with the traffic P stuff
there yeah where the ramps are going
[41:29] open up but if not really access to
Richard's point if you're walking
[41:42] from 41 West Broad
Street and trying to cross over pass the
[41:49] way into that parch lot at the
back is there a pole like right in the
[41:55] couldn't fit a wheelchair between the
wins and the small retaining
[42:01] wall I mean it is you're not mov all no
Works engineering
[42:18] so than
St yes thank you um Tracy I just too
[42:25] matter for this evening uh the first
matter is actually a litigation matter I
[42:29] L to talk to P about in executive
session um and the second matter is it's
[42:36] actually item 8B that's on your agenda
this evening it's to authorization
[42:42] advertise ordinance uh it's a couple
changes to the nonuniform patching plan
[42:49] um it
is I guess some key changes there was a
[42:54] provision in there about employees hired
after
[42:58] um I think it was May 31st 2016 and they
wouldn't vest until they were year 25
[43:03] years which was different than all the
other employees at the furnace and now
[43:07] everyone's invested after 10 years in
the pension uh another key change is the
[43:14] coal
increases um there's some changes in
[43:18] that uh that they won't be mandatory for
uh people that uh retire um you know
[43:27] going through okay um so that that's the
[43:34] background and I think the third was oh
I'm sorry drop there was a drop there
[43:39] was a drop I yes thank you the changing
drop
[43:45] interion you'll be eligible for job any
retire you know
[43:50] that's Contin need to you know partak in
that program but any new hires
[43:58] end of May of this
year current employees who are not
[44:04] vested you know will not be for
[44:11] the thank you
[44:15] sir any questions for
[44:23] Don thank you um the manager I'm just
going wait
[44:28] okay very good are there any committee
reports for this
[44:35] evening all right hearing none will open
up for public comments if you're a bural
[44:41] resident property of business owner we'd
love to hear from you please come up to
[44:46] the mic state your name and address and
we'd love to hear from you
[44:56] this
[45:02] Calvin mondon 220 Montgomery Avenue PE
resident I am not here as a resident
[45:08] tonight however
I here for the students of the marching
[45:15] band at the high
school so I'm the president of the band
[45:20] booster maybe some of you guys
know um we just had a very success from
[45:28] bag Bingo on the 15th of March and got
some support from the the ladies here
[45:36] from the saon connects very helpful but
anyway um and and Tracy you HT me when
[45:43] you let everybody
go because I I had an audience that I
[45:48] wanted to
catch so I need people so um April 20th
[45:55] it's a Saturday we're having a indoor
home show at the high
[46:01] school and it it feels like to me that
since the new high school has been
[46:07] built on Lower
Road Community interaction with it
[46:13] because it's kind of like there but not
there sight unseen right so anyway um I
[46:20] just wanted to uh
invite members of the council and the
[46:26] public
to come out and support a home
[46:31] show um groups there and I don't know if
anyone has ever been to a indoor
[46:37] percussion show or not it is a little
loud but it's it's really exciting and
[46:45] it's and
[46:49] the performance it's really really
exciting and it's a lot different from a
[46:54] outdoor marching band at half time show
and most of the time when you have a a
[47:02] uh indoor band competition the people in
the audience are there because of the
[47:06] band they're not there because of a
football game or anything like that so
[47:10] it's very engaging so uh the other part
that um we do need volunteers um and um
[47:19] so if you are free to volun people to
come in the parking lot and to um man a
[47:29] couple other stations and so on and so
forth so uh we do have a sign up jness
[47:35] for that um you can go to the soldon big
red.org
[47:41] website and maybe find some um
information regarding the Sign Up Genius
[47:47] and and and it's also something that you
could do um you know for a few hours it
[47:53] doesn't have to be an all day
thing um
[47:57] and the other thing and normally I'm not
Mondays because normally we have our our
[48:03] our meetings on Mondays and every time I
come here after the meeting you guys are
[48:07] gone but we're not having our our normal
meeting so that's why I'm here tonight
[48:13] so moving
forward we're having another big event
[48:18] fundraiser on Memorial Day weekend at
the JC's at the parking um we're manning
[48:26] the parking lot there too so um it's all
volunteer and it's a nonprofit We have a
[48:33] huge budget and this is how we fund our
our our budget
[48:41] so April event it's April
20th it starts at 12 in the afternoon
[48:48] first performance and it goes all day
after that so it's probably from 12
[48:54] until 8 o'
[48:58] that is at the high
school it's indoor yes it's indoor
[49:04] percussion yeah
yeah sorry and I I couldn't tell you
[49:10] right now what the cost of the emission
is but there is a there you you'll find
[49:15] out yeah so come on out thank
[49:25] you
thanks Calvin anyone
[49:34] else all right public comments are
closed for
[49:49] the we had item for bid improved items
for bid and we
[49:57] the
chief we
[50:00] sold Crown VI sold for
$4,100
[50:07] for and the 2003 Trail are sold for
$3,300 purchased it for
[50:14] 4,000 uh the skate park equipment sold
for
[50:19] $1,350 and the portable ice skating rank
sold for
[50:23] 750 um the uh antique rollers not sell
we had a lot of uh calls about it and we
[50:30] relisted it for a lower price so I have
we have it on another two weeks and then
[50:34] we'll on back to you with that so this
evening we just need to approve the
[50:40] resolution in order to
officially it that were sold
[50:48] on okay that's that's like a everyone so
have a motion Mr President I make a
[50:55] motion to approve the sale items that
were recently B on misid of outline in
[51:00] resolution
2024
[51:08] second now I have to pretend I
here call
[51:14] that okay I have motions by councilors
Mund and H to approve the sale of items
[51:21] that were recently B on municip is
outlined in resolution
[51:24] 2024 8
are there any comments questions or
[51:30] concerns okay straight forward all in
favor please say I
[51:37] I all
right and also just to add um the reason
[51:41] you use is we don't
[51:49] have the next item is as talked about
the authorization adverti
[51:58] 242 amending the new uh the nonuniform
employee pension plan um as over
[52:07] investment period
which to 10 years from 25 the col
[52:12] provision and the drop
[52:25] program
[52:29] are there any concerns with thinking a
motion on on this advertisement this
[52:34] evening
[52:37] iation about it because I disagree that
the pension should be lowered the that
[52:43] te years should be lower but we didn't
actually hear
[52:48] from Gerard about the implications of
[52:54] that so I mean
because what that will
[52:59] do is make some employees who are
currently not
[53:03] eligible eligible right
now
[53:09] so some
actuar that I that think is
[53:16] relevant but that's just my
[53:21] opinion are you proposing that we put
this this off until we have uh
[53:29] come back
in it'll definitely
[53:33] change the pension
[53:38] plan we have at
least I can think of one employee right
[53:44] now that on your team that would not
[53:55] be we haven't got a report from Gerard
about what that would du to the pension
[54:02] plan and we did just have a conversation
about the issues with the Pion
[54:10] plan you know what I
[54:14] mean not on Council
so yeah if anyone um if if anyone so
[54:22] move then please make the motion we can
deliberate it further necessary mind
[54:26] this an
advertisement and we would not
[54:30] necessarily do the approval until the
May the May R session so is there a
[54:35] motion to for the
advertisement uh Mr President I make a
[54:42] motion to authorize the advertisement of
the ordinance
[54:46] 24762 amending the non nonuniform
employee pension plan I'll
[54:54] second okay I'm
motions by
[54:59] counselors uh Rogers and to authorize
the advertisement of ordinance 24- 7602
[55:06] amending of the non-uniformed employee
pension plan all right now let's I open
[55:12] up for further question
comment question um
[55:17] John just because you're vested doesn't
mean you can Co right you sp with then
[55:22] you have to hit a certain age you have
to hit you would be 10 years and I think
[55:26] 60 or2 62 so you could become besty but
not be able to
[55:31] use that's correct okay so I don't know
how would be I think even though you're
[55:40] it doesn't change your your ability to
retire if you're not right
[55:50] retire the mayor's I think I'm just
saying Stacey I think before the actual
[55:55] hearing on this ordinance adoption I
think the banuary could she would have t
[56:01] weigh in or have them weigh in on that
issue
[56:05] that that's great so we could get that
we can get that information and then we
[56:11] be ready we could discuss it hopefully
at work session and then we can we'll
[56:17] have a 30-day advertisement and then we
can improve the M
[56:21] session um there may
be if drop was part of that so the other
[56:28] concern that we had at work session I
believe
[56:31] was uh just making sure that I I think I
think you covered all basis John and the
[56:39] and and what you covered about we wanted
to make sure
[56:42] that especially I mean to go 10 years is
very favorable as opposed to what was in
[56:48] the ordinance before but if there are
any negative connotations then that
[56:53] would also be good to know prior
to us so what what we were concerned
[56:59] about and I think the concerns are
alleviated but that we didn't want
[57:04] anyone that were thinking they were
getting some type of retirement benefit
[57:08] and would not be and we could just
confirm that at work session to that
[57:14] would that would be two great things to
be up you know off of our
[57:18] back whether it was in writing or or
just be good to to have that make sure
[57:24] we're not negatively impacting someone B
getting something more favorable than
[57:30] than the resolution if adopted would
negatively impact the employees have all
[57:36] received this
[57:41] um
and about that and did you receive
[57:47] any just some clarifications but um
almost all the people most of the people
[57:52] here are vested um currently and would
be El the drop um they
[57:58] did time really affects mostly the new
hires for the most part so there's and
[58:05] then like two other employees and so we
did notify them we
[58:17] out we'll have plenty of time to to
clarify later uh John just one more
[58:22] thing the
cola the maining Cola is that for the
[58:28] retirees would be that's an that would
be an a council option if you wanted to
[58:33] allow acoss the living best right now if
you are invested in your pension and you
[58:40] could retire tomorrow then the new
provision won't affect the cola raises
[58:47] okay we going forward for new hirings
the way the ordinance is drafted uh the
[58:52] revisions to the the ordinance um it's
up to the discretion of counts to give
[58:59] those call increases to employees who
are not bested at this
[59:05] point or May 31st or by May by May 31st
if they're not bested okay and that
[59:12] would be one thing I don't know if what
there are any employees that would be
[59:18] like a may I would just hate to have
like a one you know five day cut off and
[59:24] that would that would be we might be
able to accommodate that okay then um
[59:28] and then they're vested when you say
that they are vested that's at the
[59:36] amended the May
31st it would be right now if they're
[59:41] vested in in their in their pension
right you're not going to be changing
[59:45] anything right but if if we change it
from five to 10 we'll have two employees
[59:51] that will all overnight be correct yes
then they could also participated
[59:58] drop
no because they're changing
[1:00:03] simultaneously the drop program would
be they
[1:00:08] didn't they they weren't eligible for
drop before the
[1:00:13] changes
that's we
[1:00:17] eligible because they weren't M the
vesting period and the drop change are
[1:00:21] happening at the same time so they
couldn't have invested before
[1:00:30] yes did you hear from those two
[1:00:34] employees I didn't I didn't hear from
them at all but they've been notified of
[1:00:39] it I told them if they have questions
have talked to me about it I not heard
[1:00:44] anything I've received negative feedback
so it's
[1:00:50] probably yeah yeah I
mean
[1:00:59] okay so we need that clarifying feedback
from those from those any any effected
[1:01:04] employee on on the policy that's that's
what we need by the work session okay
[1:01:10] then uh let's take that the book so all
in favor of of the advertisement of TCI
[1:01:17] I any
[1:01:23] oppos all right and the last is the
the emergency action
[1:01:31] plan emergency acinator for the past
several
[1:01:36] years he will be stepping down um and um
[1:01:49] our so this evening it's really just
changing me and everything else but we
[1:01:55] have
[1:02:16] before we take the motion so the big
changes the appointment but were there
[1:02:23] any changes to the Emergency Operations
plan other than contacts and the
[1:02:27] Emergency Management coordinating uh
every two years total 35 requires the
[1:02:31] plan be updated the the plan in a
confidential form includes all of your
[1:02:37] information all department heads
information so that has all been updated
[1:02:41] uh and the only other thing that got
updated was some of the contacts in our
[1:02:45] emergency U
resources and in some of our group owns
[1:02:50] and what not the contacts for those but
the the meato are the same nothing has
[1:02:55] changed accept
those okay and Julie I looked at it yeah
[1:03:02] was just in the absence of yeah isn't
here um I don't know if you did you take
[1:03:08] a look at it but chur I did read through
it we got it um what was that we were
[1:03:13] gonna have a meeting last month and we
decided to have it when I read it and
[1:03:18] not Chang
exact okay and I would encourage Council
[1:03:25] to read it it's a linky document Steve
had updated it last a couple of years
[1:03:29] ago it's a really good document and we
do have some roles and responsibilities
[1:03:34] in that document so means if you haven't
already to read it and this is a
[1:03:42] corrective action per se but it would be
really good in the future for us to get
[1:03:46] a red line of work
doc what basically changed from the from
[1:03:52] the previous conditions okay let's take
uh a
[1:03:57] motion Mr President I um want to make a
motion to approve adopt and place into
[1:04:03] immediate effect the Emergency
Operations plan of F jur and appointing
[1:04:07] Chief Brian a Neal Emergency Management
coordinator has outlined in resolution
[1:04:12] 202
409 I'll
[1:04:17] second too slow Richard okay I have by
councilors Mund and
[1:04:24] Littlefield uh for the approval adoption
and placing immediately with the
[1:04:30] Emergency Operations of sou Bing Chief
Bri New Hall as the Emergency Management
[1:04:36] coordinator has outlined in resolution
20
[1:04:42] 24-9 are there any comments questions or
concerns I have one comment to mention
[1:04:48] mention about there is a page in shows
every page every updated there is an
[1:04:54] index for
okay thank you and thank you for all
[1:04:59] your years of service doing that it is a
big deal thank you st one of them
[1:05:07] I'm uh you're an unsung hero for
something that gets no accolades but
[1:05:12] it's something that if we need to
implement that plan it's really really
[1:05:16] important for the commun any other
comment all right
[1:05:24] then
[1:05:45] Mr President I
make I second okay so thank you everyone
[1:05:51] for
[1:05:54] coming
[1:05:59] govern