[0:00] Welcome, everybody to the regular Zoom Council meeting of Washington City Council April 2nd at 3 o'clock, and we have the roll call. Councilman Stanislavsky? Councilman... Did you hear me? I did hear you. Welcome, Matt. Councilman Pintola? Here. Councilman Westcott? Here. Councilman Manning? Here. Mayor Patgems. Here.

[0:30] Also with us is our city solicitor, Jack Canvas,

[0:34] one of the essential employees and staff,

[0:39] along with the members of WJPA,

[0:42] and their every publishing company.

[0:45] I'd like to have a moment of silence for our nation

[0:47] and our first responders as we battle the COVID-19 pandemic.

[0:54] Please have a moment of silence for those individuals

[0:56] working to combat this disease.

[1:34] Well there's not a couple of things.

[1:37] last meeting. Roll call.

[1:41] Councilman Stanishevsky. Yes.

[1:44] Councilman Pintola. Yes.

[1:47] Councilman Westcott. Yes.

[1:49] Councilman Anting. Yes.

[1:51] Mayor Patnam. Yes.

[1:54] As we're doing a Zoom meeting, Michelle, was there any email public participation?

[2:00] None.

[2:06] I guess at this time participation is closed.

[2:10] service chairman Richard Beck is he up reading yet he did not come in all right I'd ask

[2:19] chief Wilson to prepare or provide the list that the civil service prepared yes he did

[2:28] you read the names and scores first candidate is Joshua Haynes 95.50

[2:37] second date is Adam Victor 85.37. Third is Cody Kushluck 83.21. The last

[2:50] candidate is fourth William Cone 82.7. Just for the record, I'd like to like to

[3:00] make it known that candidate number one does have military preference. So it's

[3:06] time that we do have an opening he will be the first candidate right okay so I'd like

[3:14] a motion to approve the 2020 police applicant eligibility with motion second any comment

[3:21] on that so call Councilman Stanschewski yes Councilman Pintola yes Councilman Westcott yes

[3:31] Councilor Manning. Yes. Mayor Putnam. Yes.

[3:35] Madam City, make a motion to approve following payments A through K.

[3:40] Motion. Second. Any comments?

[3:48] Roll call. Councilman Santosheski. Yes.

[3:51] Councilman Tintola. Yes. Councilman Westcott. Yes. Councilor Manning. Yes. Mayor Putnam. Yes.

[4:00] Yes.

[4:02] I'd like to make a motion to table item number four as we are waiting for a report from

[4:12] the, what do you call that, Joe?

[4:15] Actuarial.

[4:16] Actuarial report based on the pension conditions of the contract.

[4:22] Second.

[4:26] Roll call vote on the motion to table.

[4:30] Councilor Stanishevsky.

[4:36] I don't think we're in there anymore.

[4:38] Maybe drop out.

[4:40] Connection might have dropped out.

[4:42] Councilor Pintola?

[4:45] Yes.

[4:46] Councilor Westcott?

[4:47] Yes.

[4:48] Councilor Manning?

[4:49] Yes.

[4:50] Mayor Patnam?

[4:51] Yes.

[4:52] Item 5.

[4:53] Motion to promulgate and adopt the City of Washington's operation plan.

[4:58] So move.

[4:59] Second.

[5:00] Thank you.

[5:01] Any comment?

[5:04] I'd just like to thank Chief Coleman, Chief Wilson, and everybody that had a hand in putting this plan together.

[5:10] So we get to set up for any further emergencies that we may have.

[5:15] So thanks again, Chiefs.

[5:18] Thank you.

[5:22] Councilman Pintola.

[5:24] Yes.

[5:25] Councilman Westcott.

[5:26] Yes.

[5:26] Councilman Manning.

[5:28] Yes.

[5:28] Mayor Patnam.

[5:30] Yes.

[5:31] Item 6, the motion to approve payment to Washington is ruled in the amount of $27,000, $3,000, $1,000, and for their portion of 2009 violence received from housing never been developed.

[5:44] Motion. Second. Any comments? Roll call.

[5:51] Councilman Stanishevsky. Councilman Pintola.

[5:57] Councilman Westcott? Yes. Councilman Manning? Yes. Mayor Pattenham? Yes.

[6:05] Item 7. Make a motion to approve a retirement of City, Washington, Police and Senate Royals, the effect of March 13, 2020 to pay all money to in a salary ordinance according to motion.

[6:17] motion. Sit back in. In the comments. Congratulations, Roy,

[6:22] thank you for your years of service.

[6:28] I'd like to ask you out for the

[6:29] west side of the

[6:34] year and wish him a lot of best roll call.

[6:40] Councilman Pintola. Yes. Councilman Westcott. Yes. Councilman

[6:46] Manny. Yes. Mayor Patnam. Yes. Item number. Before we make this

[6:55] I'd like to amend it to say motion of agreement for the Clare Drive Emergency Act

[7:00] of the Australian Township Contents on the removal of July 7, which is the

[7:06] paint engineering legal fee.

[7:12] Did you get all that? I didn't hear all of that.

[7:16] Yes, it's amendment to, it's a motion to approve the agreement Clare Drive

[7:21] contingent upon balsabane township agreeing to eliminate seven from the

[7:26] agreement. Okay.

[7:30] I'll make a motion on that. I'll second. Any comment?

[7:39] All right

[7:39] roll call. Councillor Schuss, here I see you're back in there.

[7:47] Councillor Contola. Yes. Councillor Mlesscott. Yes. Councillor Manning. Yes.

[7:57] Mayor

[7:58] final reading of ordinance number one nine three six bill number four of

[8:02] two thousand and stated on the agenda. Motion. Second. Any comment. Roll call.

[8:13] Councilor St. Ashasky. Councilor Pintola. Yes. Councilor Manny. Yes.

[8:27] Mayor

[8:28] number 10 there will be no vote required but it's the first reading of ordinance number 1937

[8:32] bill number five of 2020 as listed any

[8:39] questions on that ordinance no all right resolutions item

[8:46] number 11 motion to approve resolution number five of 2020 to adopt the declaration of emergency

[8:51] for Steve Washington Washington County, Pennsylvania as it pertains to existing public health emergency

[8:57] the associate with the spread of the coronavirus,

[9:00] retroactive from March 24, 2020,

[9:03] until the end of July, 2020,

[9:05] or until the governor's worth list

[9:07] the emergencies after the revolution.

[9:09] Motion.

[9:11] Second.

[9:13] Any comment?

[9:16] Roll call.

[9:17] Council in Pintola?

[9:19] Yes.

[9:19] Council in Westcott?

[9:21] Yes.

[9:21] Council in Manning?

[9:22] Yes.

[9:23] Mayor Patnam?

[9:25] Yes.

[9:26] Okay, any elected official reports, maps, I guess, still out, Councilman Contola?

[9:36] I'm not the new report.

[9:38] All right.

[9:39] Councilman West got it.

[9:40] Just need a report.

[9:41] I'll let everybody know that they're going to start restoration on Maiden Street Monday,

[9:46] approval by Penn Dot.

[9:49] They're going to fix the patches for the time being and later on, they're going to come

[9:53] back and mail and pay Maiden Street.

[9:56] So just over here as it did talk to Chief Wilson and Chief Wilson made a recommendation

[10:00] we wouldn't be using the police officers because of the coronavirus.

[10:05] So the dispute everybody heads up there's going to start the work on Monday.

[10:09] Okay, great.

[10:10] Thank you.

[10:11] And now I think in one last thing, 68 prospects has been flooding pretty regularly again.

[10:17] We looked at that problem last year.

[10:18] I'm going to I like to get counsel or make counsel where I like to talk to Sarah about some

[10:23] Also, I know she gave us some plans or some thoughts as to what we could do there. I like to follow up with that and try to get a number to fix the problem on prospect.

[10:34] Okay.

[10:36] So I have a mirror.

[10:38] All right. Can I'd like to add Sarah's email that she sent out with the her update on monthly her monthly reports at that.

[10:49] Add that to the record meeting.

[10:52] Yes.

[10:55] Yes, mayor. Thank you. First I want to thank Chiefs Coleman and Chief Wilson for all the work that they've been doing to adapt the city with our emergency plans for the COVID-19 crisis that's gripping America.

[11:11] Second, because of that, we're very well aware of how this is affecting small businesses.

[11:16] City of Washington is made up primarily of small, mostly family-owned businesses.

[11:22] And so, Lynn Galusian, I had a conference call earlier this week with Michael Foreman

[11:27] from the Department of Community and Economic Development from the Commonwealth.

[11:32] He provided a lot of great information, Lynn's been very good about posting that information

[11:36] to our website.

[11:37] It's on the homepage under a large red banner.

[11:40] So there's a lot of information there for small businesses within the City of Washington

[11:44] to access for loans, extended business plans, things of that nature, to help them through

[11:52] this because we know, because of the stay-at-home orders and everything, this has been devastating to

[11:57] the economy, so we wanted to be as helpful as we could. So I want to thank Lynn for doing that,

[12:02] and please direct any businesses you know or anybody that's struggling through this time to the City

[12:08] of Washington website, the homepage, and look for that information there and contact me directly.

[12:14] happy to assist them that I can.

[12:17] Thank you, Mayor.

[12:18] All right.

[12:22] From my side, again, I'd like to echo

[12:24] previous statements of thanking the chief and the staff

[12:27] for doing everything they can for the city through this tough

[12:30] time.

[12:31] To let everybody know what Joe said, I

[12:34] was on a conference call this morning

[12:36] with Senator Constell, his staff.

[12:40] He provided some information, which I sent out to the group

[12:43] on the the cares package that was passed last week into law and also there's some

[12:49] some new guidance on additional CDBG funds that will be available. One of the

[12:56] questions that was asked was can that funding be used on city government?

[13:01] The system is going to look into that as we all know ripenages will be down this

[13:07] year. I know business privilege, mercantile, parking, probably property tax out of

[13:14] Matt with a lot of people being unemployed. There's just a lot of a lot of

[13:20] challenges that we're going to face as this year goes on, which would

[13:22] lost revenue. So we need to be mindful of all spending going for I don't have

[13:31] anything else back. Is there anything from your side that on the on the

[13:36] issues that we need to be aware of forward nothing that I can think of mayor okay mayor I

[13:43] wanted to let you know that um mr. Jay sick and probably Miss Anderson would want to ask council

[13:50] and mayor questions after everybody else logs out is that okay yeah they've got uh I've got

[13:58] everybody's phone number they can probably be easier to do those as a phone. Yeah, I agree.

[14:07] Okay, I don't know if you heard that John Katie, but you can call them here or counsel and ask

[14:13] them any questions that you have. Okay, thank you. All right, next regular meeting of City Council,

[14:20] We mean Thursday, May 7th at 1 p.m.

[14:24] Gender held on a 4th at 1 p.m.

[14:28] That is subject to change as this pandemic becomes more fluid.

[14:36] So I'd like to have lunch during the meeting.

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