[0:13] good evening welcome the burning towns
of Supervisors meeting for September 5th
[0:18] 2015 20 19 and would like to start with
the prayer and salute to the flag bless
[0:29] us as we gathered today for this meeting
guide our minds and hearts so that we
[0:34] will work for the good of our community
and help all your people teach us to be
[0:39] generous in our outlook courageous and
face of difficulty and wise and our
[0:43] decisions I pledge allegiance to the
flag and to the Republic for which it
[0:52] stands one nation under God indivisible
with liberty to that's well
[1:06] we'll call Rob Wagner here fire present
Mohammad here
[1:12] Schneider Eric Smith okay this time
we'll open the Florida citizens comment
[1:18] if we have any one would like to citizen
comment No
[1:22] all right move it right up to the Google
the minutes for the July of these August
[1:30] regular meeting and make that motion
everybody second home favor anyone
[1:38] opposed thank you finances motion to
detect the treasure do is your checks
[1:44] for the approve Alger's due for payment
have a motion so moved second motion in
[1:49] a second all in favor aye anyone opposed
motion to ratify payroll for the
[1:57] employees for August last two weeks in
August and the supervisors pay show
[2:07] motion second first in a second thank
you
[2:10] all in favor yeah throw me yeah
any correspondence no no correspondence
[2:23] okay thank you
start good right up you have the police
[2:28] report uses yeah please report the
Chiefs a little busy with work right now
[2:33] so I'm gonna give the police report for
month August for him they responded to
[2:38] 277 calls for the month they had five
criminal arrests nineteen related
[2:45] traffic incidences nine citizens locked
out of cars 31 stops for violations
[2:51] which resulted in five traffic citations
and 26 warnings to citizens assisted non
[2:58] traffic to ordinance violations seven
court hearings all of which were
[3:03] criminal and the chief just wanted
everybody to know schools back in
[3:07] session watch out for the kids the bus
is obviously the guys are out in the
[3:12] mornings and in the after school
patrol and making sure everybody's
[3:16] stopped and especially on 322 if now the
bus is coming to East and you're going
[3:20] west and it's not divided you have to
stop so you just want to make sure
[3:24] everybody knew about that he also want
to mention with the roundabout just give
[3:28] yourself a little extra time the
traveling through there be cautious of
[3:31] the workers fines aren't doubled along
with the license suspension in the
[3:35] construction zone and finally please
obtain your burning permit before you
[3:39] burn and that's what the chief wanted us
to mention one of the benches for the
[3:44] night
all right very good thank you any
[3:48] questions on the police report Thanks no
this we'd like to have a motion to
[3:55] approve the new police contract for the
years 2020 2021 and 2022 so moved ones
[4:02] action in a second have a roll call vote
please Rob Wagner yes by era yes blow on
[4:12] it yes
Snyder yes Smith yes yes okay thank you
[4:19] and when I have a motion to approve the
full-time position for Officer Amanda
[4:25] kosterman effective September 1st 2019
[4:30] second roll call correct Wagner yes bear
yes want it yes
[4:38] Snyder yes Smith yes all right
[4:47] that's very good for the police
department move right on to the road
[4:52] report London convinced me
Thank You chairman Maloney good evening
[4:57] supervisors August finally wrapped up a
lot of big projects we worked on manual
[5:03] risers prior to the paving projects
patch potholes on both the blacktop and
[5:08] gravel roads stalled gravel along North
Watson Run Road around the mailboxes and
[5:13] driveways until the shorter backup was
installed installed the shoulder ditch
[5:18] Bank rehab on some steep ditches on
North Watson around and on Reynolds
[5:23] roads we cut and cleaned the berms under
the guide rails at the header bridge on
[5:28] sportsmen road continued mounting berms
and boom link brush second third passes
[5:35] back check roads after wind rain storms
a locked on the 16th of 19th to 21st
[5:41] 22nd cleaned up load it down trees
somewhere west burnin keeper Hill Van
[5:48] Horn Turner alley Lincoln Avenue and the
trail by the on the trail by the ball
[5:54] field number two cleaned clogged pipes
on Glenn Street Reynolds cotton and beer
[6:01] edema of West Brannon Road cross pipe
Moe's depend on driver exam center and
[6:06] the cutter Road Township luck ditch
cleaning on middle road cutter Stevens
[6:11] and Van Horn installed a new driveway
pipe on Siemens drive for Anderson's
[6:17] install a new industrial drive sign
doubt the aptX facility and IRA for the
[6:22] EPA
pups Asbury Township with spray patching
[6:26] for a day on equipment maintenance the
John Deere Tiger blue motor installed
[6:31] new blades and motor skid truck five
repaired to wiring to the hydraulic pump
[6:36] and I don't have it on my report but
though we did get the bill for a truck 3
[6:40] I believe it's done had a lot of major
work done on it to keep it in business
[6:45] for another year on the 2019 paving
projects Sharon paving paved middle road
[6:51] north watson run rogers ferry roads the
project is not completed
[6:55] and everybody seems to be very pleased
the job another nice job by Sharon
[6:59] paving it's glad we had them this year
Lindy paving paid the community block
[7:04] grant project those words were half a
Reynolds Hank Street Vernon Vernon hikes
[7:10] Glen and Dunham Hill rivets that project
has also been completed we had to repair
[7:16] a couple spots and they took care of
that or they took care of the couple
[7:20] spots and everybody's very pleased up
there on the hill great any questions
[7:28] very little light do you love thank you
our viewing audience wasn't here for the
[7:34] work session last time when a gentleman
came in and said I've got a great job
[7:38] that baby did on one particular remedy
said it was like just beautiful just
[7:41] like last and that's a good road
department and good supervision like job
[7:47] well done
thank you sir which pipe was that oh my
[7:51] friend uh between pipelines and Tyler's
trailer upper that big one yet they want
[7:57] word goes into that that's about the
only one I could think of that would end
[8:00] yeah yeah we we had Charles about a week
with that dog we had to go back two or
[8:04] three times and now quit so hopefully
it's they got discouraged and moved on
[8:09] did the inlet or the outlet sighing yeah
[8:14] yeah that's always fun cool all right
we've been into administration zoning
[8:20] Rob good evening supervisors August was
a tremendous month for the zoning office
[8:25] I issued ten zoning permits and to sign
permits resolving in nine thousand nine
[8:30] hundred and seventy two seventy two
dollars and fees from the township this
[8:34] brings our yearly total and fees
collected to forty one thousand one
[8:37] hundred and seven dollars it's been a
great year for construction in the
[8:40] township
on his lot mentioned in his report all
[8:43] our major road projects for the year
have been completed I'd really like to
[8:46] take a second thank god Scott Bobby and
Larry for all the work they did this
[8:50] year these are some major projects that
involved a lot of Road prep to get them
[8:54] ready for the contractors to come in the
day lighting to low notes on these
[8:58] projects started a year ago and
continued throughout the winter and
[9:00] spring and I mean these roads are look
great now
[9:04] and so I really have to commend them for
the job they did in regards to the cdbg
[9:08] paving project I've been working with
the county to wrap up the paperwork for
[9:12] that grant project on August 14th I
attended meeting with officials from the
[9:15] city of Meadville and must meet Township
to receive a briefing on the Meadville
[9:18] Area Recreation Authority's proposed
baseball facility project as these three
[9:25] minutes families that support tomorrow
they want to make sure that all the
[9:27] municipalities knew this project was
feasible with private donations and
[9:31] grants would not require any additional
financial support from the
[9:33] municipalities as we're moving into the
fall now it's time to start talking
[9:38] about the 2020 budget for the first step
in this is our minimal minimal minimum
[9:42] municipal obligations for all Township
pension plans as required by state law
[9:47] for 2020 this past month I've worked
with our action area forum Dunbar bender
[9:53] and Zapp to determine these numbers for
the police pension fund our FML oh it's
[9:57] zero for the non-uniform completely
defined benefit plan or MMO as one
[10:02] hundred and seventy one thousand six
hundred twenty eight dollars for the
[10:05] non-uniformed employee defined
contribution plan or MMO is $7,500 these
[10:11] numbers will be used in the 2020 budget
which we will be getting to work on
[10:15] later this month finally I'd like to
mention the French Creek Council of
[10:18] Governments which we belong to is
holding an entire collection event on
[10:22] Saturday September 14th this will be
held at the Crawford County Fairgrounds
[10:26] and gate 1 from 8 a.m. to noon or until
the collection capacity is reached
[10:30] they'll be taking only clean car and
small truck tires without rims the fee
[10:36] is $2.00 per tire a limit of 12 tires
per vehicle this is open to Crawford
[10:41] County residents only an additional
detail details can be found at French
[10:45] Creek kaga work and that's my report for
tonight thank you any questions for us
[10:55] yeah I've wanted to bring up one thing
and I know Rob's
[11:00] heard about it too and it's about Rocha
Park and it's something that's kind of
[11:06] been in the back of my mind for a year
or more we really don't have like a
[11:11] five-year 3 5 year plan or target for
the most thing that we're doing there's
[11:17] pretty much keeping it open to cutting
the grass we really don't have a
[11:20] long-range plan on doing some
improvements one thing it comes to mind
[11:25] is the big-league field that we do not
use and hasn't been used in possibility
[11:31] of a partial dog park or something but
I've had several people call me
[11:36] concerned about you know the grass is
cut but the trimmings not done people
[11:42] over the years of donated flowers put
them in but they're not being weeded and
[11:46] all and I think with the budget coming
up that we ought to address that and see
[11:52] if we shouldn't be maybe trying to here
mark a little more money towards that
[11:56] direction
I mean that's that's our baby here I
[11:59] mean we were so proud of that I mean you
just go down there on the weekend and
[12:03] the shelter's there they're rented you
know every weekend and I just think that
[12:10] we should be giving that a little more
attention
[12:11] maybe form a committee I know I would
help out on it maybe rob and get a
[12:16] couple people or something from the
outside and try to come up with a plan
[12:19] how we can move forward with that we you
know we we do give money to the mark and
[12:27] I'm not saying take anything away from
there but we have our own
[12:31] responsibilities here we have Lincoln
Avenue
[12:34] besides the Curt town Park and then of
course Roche Park where I think that we
[12:40] we need to you know put some effort into
putting a forward plan on that because I
[12:46] mean would you have known or would you
agree with me we really I'll be next
[12:51] year what do we have plans with right
the past couple of years has kind of
[12:55] been a year at a time a lot of us has
just yeah maintenance we haven't really
[12:58] put any work into approve of I agree I
think we should put together somewhat of
[13:02] a three or five hundred plan goers
because you can get away from us we lost
[13:05] a couple of that when you are the
carvings I think the Indian and stuff
[13:10] like that net that's fine that happens I
mean that stuff dies out ever and falls
[13:17] down but you know we don't have any kind
of
[13:19] iseman and aligned in blacktopping or
anything like that
[13:23] additional I know with the Brom property
we what is the status now on the gazebo
[13:28] it's ordered and the road department
shall be put in the base in this month
[13:32] and will be another I don't I mean do
you guys have any other comment on that
[13:38] that we don't use a Vulcan at all not
the big league field no it had there's
[13:42] no big league teams plenty play now I
mean you might see some kids running
[13:46] around on it but currently the only I
think they use it for some practices
[13:51] they use it as a practice field and then
right now for instance the past I think
[13:56] three years the YMCA has been doing
soccer there in the fall on the big
[13:59] league field they kind of divided into
two or three fields as you saw girlie
[14:03] would it be better to make two soccer
fields out of it or to configure it for
[14:07] swaha yeah Little League field er I
think I think there's got something we
[14:13] should look into a committee idea is a
great idea they'd like to be on okay
[14:16] purpose of needs and it just yeah you
can't do it overnight but you know
[14:23] that's a big spot down there and there's
so many people with walk dogs and dog
[14:27] parks are so popular right now
everywhere you go they're being put in
[14:30] and you know not that whole thing but
you partition something to offer
[14:34] whatever and I just think there's a lot
of property there it's just being mowed
[14:39] right at the moment you know dampen care
something always ready yeah alright so
[14:48] yeah I just think we shouldn't yeah move
forward with Roach Park I mean that's
[14:54] just a great place like Google foot
something to work this month maybe you
[14:57] have something for the works I should
kind of put something a little bit of a
[15:00] committee together to work session like
you said it's a perfect time to do it
[15:03] because we can work on it throughout
winter and then get started you know
[15:08] running I think some people out there
watching us I agree I agree minutes I
[15:13] think you know
something on the defense or offense I
[15:17] should say not the defense okay that's
good to be proactive correct that's
[15:26] great fritz thank you
anything else your rob thank you rob
[15:33] engineered record a skateboard over here
thank you right along the lines of the
[15:38] recreational planning I could what Rob
may already know but there there is DC
[15:43] on our funding for masters planning
they'll partially fund the master plan
[15:50] and then that sets up the projects that
you decide to do for later funding
[15:55] through to DCNR as well so if we can we
can visit that as well the number of
[16:00] miss powers that we work with on a plans
certain it's great or set up the
[16:04] long-term planning and it involves the
township State Quarter meeting existing
[16:08] homeowners calling of all other than
that report that there's as everybody's
[16:14] aware there's ongoing construction in a
Township not only in the roundabout but
[16:18] the adjacent buildings and buildings up
and down the corridor this month has
[16:23] been somewhat a struggle for some of
those phases because in Arrangements
[16:27] we've had and had follow up with
contractors they've been very good at at
[16:32] policing their sites and keeping things
cleaned up we anticipate that will
[16:37] continue well into the fall and winter
and then we'll get ready for it all
[16:42] again next next summer so looks like we
we continue this construction for as
[16:48] long as I can see right now that's good
good it's all I have any questions for
[16:55] Ashley and
Thank You Ashley Solicitors report mr.
[17:02] Thomas mr. Chairman I have no unfinished
business
[17:06] but I tell you I will accept the
position as super kid in a roach Park at
[17:11] an annual salary only of $91,000 watch
what you ask for
[17:26] yeah yeah okay any any questions mr.
Thomas thank you new business we've
[17:38] readied to have a motion to approve
trick-or-treat be scheduled for October
[17:42] 24 2019 from 6 to 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
motion have a motion just a second it's
[17:51] our own favor all right anyone opposed
we we picked that date it coincides with
[17:58] other Anisa palate ease the surrounding
municipalities in I understand the
[18:03] children do not have school the next day
so that'll work well then they can have
[18:08] a whole week to get ready for the parade
and everything any old business
[18:14] no all right
[18:19] this point we'll have our upcoming
meeting the October 2nd supervisors work
[18:24] session at 7:30 p.m. and October 3rd
would be the supervisors regular meeting
[18:31] at 7:30 p.m. and would like to have
supervisor comments and start with Gary
[18:39] tonight hello I have a lot of comments
but I did talk to a couple of people
[18:43] that didn't come to the meeting and
didn't come the work session on the
[18:49] public comments they said I didn't want
to be singled out they were embarrassed
[18:53] to be on TV well you don't have to have
that problem you can come to work
[18:58] session just not televised and it's very
very informal coming your blue jeans and
[19:02] your baseball caps and your t-shirts cuz
Johnny have masoor anyway but die if you
[19:06] do have a problem with a unit Township
with a row Department police department
[19:10] building whatever feel free to call me
or call the Township building and if you
[19:15] asked it will be held in confidence and
so just to keep you informed but you do
[19:21] have a voice we want to make this place
even better so you call me at five seven
[19:26] three two five two three if you've got a
problem
[19:28] I'll keep it confident but we have a
really good apartment really good
[19:32] supervisor staff and Road department and
I'd like to keep it that way so thank
[19:37] you very much thank you Gary gentlemen I
think the only thing I'd like to say you
[19:44] know oftentimes the public sees us on
the camera and I think I'd like to
[19:49] recognize the people who aren't often on
the camera and behind the scenes because
[19:53] without them without the Road department
without the solicit or without the
[19:56] engineer and to any others dimension
what we do wouldn't be possible and
[20:02] wouldn't be as efficient as it is I just
want to thank everybody else involved
[20:06] and see that they get recognized a
little bit for all that they do very
[20:10] good yes thank you
Fritz just a couple things as Rob
[20:18] mentioned the French Creek Council of
government the clog is they call it is
[20:24] having that tire collection and
recycling event at the Crawford County
[20:27] Fairgrounds Saturday September 14 and
it's a it's a great way to get rid of
[20:32] those
old tires and things like that so that
[20:36] we don't have to pick them up off the
back roads or anything like that
[20:39] to get them up there but that's that's a
very good thing and then the roundabout
[20:43] without the chief here tonight
Greg and I didn't get to ask him how the
[20:47] accident situation is up there and I
understand there was an accident up
[20:54] there today and I know there's been
numerous so please be careful getting
[21:00] through that take your time and it's a
it should be behind us here and what
[21:07] November first I guess the end of
October but that's really all I have
[21:12] shaping up for sure yeah great well for
it's pretty much in it I was they said
[21:20] it was going to avoid that at all cost
but I've purposely been traveling
[21:23] through the roundabout and it's things
seem to be going pretty smoothly yes
[21:26] it's nice that it's open is a single
lane for more of the learning curve
[21:30] before you know the two lanes everything
goes through but I was curious as well
[21:36] as frets we usually are but what's going
on up there accident wise but you know I
[21:41] really have them in here know what I
expected to figure up to five yeah it's
[21:49] gonna happen I guess so yeah that my
main concern really is you know just be
[21:55] careful going through there is we're
gonna all figure this one out together
[22:00] that's it
good way to put it mm-hm I'd just like
[22:06] to thank specifically Fritzing Gary for
working on the police contract I
[22:12] understand that went really smoothly and
it was pretty just smooth with our
[22:20] police and the supervisors there they
got a what they wanted and we're able to
[22:27] work with it so I just like to say Gary
had kind of delete I thought it was
[22:32] being led by my hand there on this first
time through Gary really uh he knows
[22:39] what it's doing it we had several
very good police department right and
[22:43] they were very amicable that we never
even raised our voice in the entire
[22:47] negotiations perfect no to you know to
do that without any hostilities very
[22:56] commendable and I'd like to welcome
Amanda contraband into a full-time
[23:00] position I understand she's been doing a
terrific job and really looking forward
[23:06] to having her full-time and thank
Armstrong utilities for being here this
[23:12] evening and at that would make the
coffin motion to adjourn so moved
[23:19] motion and second all in favor all right
anyone opposed meeting adjourned