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[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.
[5:18] 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.