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to the flag of the United States of
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under God indivisible with liberty and
justice for all.

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» Almighty and everlasting God who
presides over all things in heaven and

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earth come and preside over these
deliberations so that those that make

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the decisions may be guided by your
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» Mayor, you're up.
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not on

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» Hi.
>> Officer, how are you?

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» Good evening, council.
Okay, we have a resolution and ordinance

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for your u approval tonight authorizing
the proper city officials to execute an

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agreement for financial advisor services
and any related documents with PFM

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related to performing a financial
analysis of the value of the city's

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sewer conveyance system and other
related services. This is basically uh

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employing PFM with your approval to go
out and actually value the sewer system.

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Okay, we don't have the ability to do
that in house and they are experts in

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the field to do that. So that's what
this is about. Uh their fee would be

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paid uh if we do sell the sewer system
and be paid out of that sale. Okay,

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any questions regarding that?
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value. It gives us a valuation.
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give us a value of what our system is is
worth. I'll give you an example. Um at

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Brookside Levy, we put roughly $1.2
million into that flood mitigation. That

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adds value to our system. Uh down in
Barney, off of Barney Street, there's a

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pumping station. Okay. these different
things that we've invested in, you know,

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helps to add values to the the sewer
system. That's they're going to go out

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there and they'll do that for us based
on your approval.

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Well, regardless what right regardless
of what the how much it's worth, it

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certainly is in our best interest to
explore for future infrastructure needs

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because obviously it's one of the most
important things we could do to make

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sure that all our infrastructure is up
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» Exactly.
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» If we um decide not to sell it at this
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We're paying that fee. there'll be an
evaluation of the the services

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and and if I can elaborate just a little
bit uh you you know what we've gone

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through with the Horton Street situation
um sewer system roughly over 125 years

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old but going through the city of Wsbury
over 600 streets I mean the systems are

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old they're aged they're in repair it
could cost 5060 million dollars to do

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required repairs over the next several
years. If we do decide that it's in the

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best interest with your approval to sell
the sewer system, all those repairs

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would be done by the entity that buys
the system. Okay, that's one of the

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reasons. But also we look at the best
thing that's best for the residents of

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the city of Wooksbury. You know, trying
to keep our rates as low as possible,

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but also trying to uh gain as much money
as we can if we do sell it. Okay, with

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that in mind.
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same way there, but we don't know what's
going to happen. Let's get the first the

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evaluation first, then we can proceed
further if necessary. So this is

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basically just getting your approval to
perform the analysis.

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Okay.
Can I go on? Okay. All right.

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Secondly, an ordinance adopting a cable
franchise agreement with Verizon

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Pennsylvania LLC to construct, operate,
and maintain a cable television system

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together with other services prescribing
uh terms and conditions and other legal

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requirements. Uh this is basically
another cable provider. It's good to

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have, you know, competition within the
city and uh it's just another one that

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people can choose if you do approve it
so that now our residents have approval

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for your approval to go ahead and look
at another uh way to provide the cable

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service.
>> Mayor, if I may, I don't know, I don't

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know if you know the answer to this, but
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I guess is the other one. Comcast
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I see a lot of trucks like Loop and some
other ones around. I don't know if we

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have agreements with all those other
ones. I see them hanging a lot of wires

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all over the place and
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others that I'm not. Maybe we can if you
if we can find out how many others that

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we currently have that have agreements
besides uh service electric

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» just Verizon and Comcast are the
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» and service electric.
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» Service Electric and Comcast. That's all
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» Yeah.
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and a lot of activity going on now with
other names on trucks. I I didn't know

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if we had agreements, but um I'll let
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that
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» Go ahead.
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on cable, but there's a difference
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provider, which is which is a group is a
provider of of distribution, but they're

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not a cable provider. So these cable
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provide streaming services.
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» that's what the difference is. So you
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wires up, but they're just basically
providing the wire system upon which the

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the uh streaming services are
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» Yeah. So our cable franchises were
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» Okay.
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you will see service companies, but
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different. They're not producing the
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» Okay. Thank you.
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Paul Train on speaker phone now. Uh Paul
is the attorney for Verizon. He's up in

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Boston, but uh he's with us tonight to
answer any questions council may have.

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Paul, can you hear me?
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» Okay. Uh and if you can't hear the
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repeat them.
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general idea, is this going to require
any digging? Is this going to be lines

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run? Are they already set and ready to
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» Yeah. So in this instance, Verizon
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and telephone service in the community
most of the built out already

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first three to four years of the
franchise didn't need no building at all

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except for maybe a drop from the street
to a house. So the benefit is that I

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think I thought I was 11,650 households
eligible for the service right away once

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the franchise is approved.

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» Anybody [snorts] else?
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» Pretty interesting.
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Paul. So I guess we're going to let you
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» All right. Appreciate it.
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how to get in touch?
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I I I do want to say one other thing. Uh
we did have a a bereavement ceremony for

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uh one of our paramedics, Eric John's,
and it was really heartwarming to see

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how the fire company paramedics and the
police department came out to pay homage

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to uh one of our brothers. So it was
great because um the police honor guard

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was there also police officers were
making sure that you know the the cars

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and the traffic was moving in an orderly
fashion. People were safe coming across

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the street and then also several of the
policemen and fire people were there uh

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to show their like I said their homage
to uh Mr. John. So it was nice to see

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everyone getting together between police
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being tell Tony you were there also and
it just great to see that u because this

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this young man u he fought it for
several years cancer and uh took his

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life but it was a great tribute
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presentations
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» well I'm waiting for you to start
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» sense me sitting down
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this come and we've been down this road
before literally exit 2 Boulevard. I

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don't know if there's any way of
revisiting that again with the state and

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ask them if they've done any other
surveys or

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» I came down yesterday around this time
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towards downtown and there was some poor
motors that pulled out

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across there and had nowhere to go
because of traffic coming north and he

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was unable to see it I guess at that
particular point literally stopped in

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front of me in the lane of travel. I
stopped, of course, and I didn't blow

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the horn or anything because I certainly
understand that he was had nowhere to

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go. And it's a lack of a traffic
nightmare that we've discussed numerous

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times there. And I just don't want to
see anyone else get hurt there. I just

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don't know the what's working.
What's there now is not working. The

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stop sign is not working. It's just too
big of an intersection. The traffic

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speeds are too great. The sight distance
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And I know we've revisited revisited
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know if there's any way that we can
reach out to them one more time, ask

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them to again maybe refresh their survey
and see if there's anything that can be

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done sort of what's their I don't know
who I would see about that as far as

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having making that request, but I think
I think to do nothing right now that

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could situation has not gotten any
better.

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I don't would that be through your
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» It would be. Yeah.
>> If we could I know in all your free

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time. Uh I know how busy you are, but I
think it's something that we should

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revisit at some point and ask them to
take another look at it.

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» Charlie and I would discuss that
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» Okay. Thank you. Mayor
>> Bill, did you want to mention anything

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about your park the park at Parson's
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» No, I just want to thank you for all
that you're doing with it. I I know and

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the meeting with the Parsons Lions and
your staff as we did about a week or so

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ago and meeting again at the park to
look at a layout and the plan is for

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that 200 by 200 piece of land in the
front of Parson's park which was the

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little league field which was taken down
and everyone agreed that the best use

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for that land would be a veterans
memorial type park at that location and

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I know your staff
Joyce and and uh Dave and everybody's

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been working putting something together
that would be a proper

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tribute to our veterans and I think I'm
really happy about it moving forward and

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so are the parson's lions. I think it's
going to be really nice. Everybody's

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throwing their ideas out there and I
think we can get something really

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really uh
>> and the nice thing is you're going to

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see a large 4x8 sign erected at that
site showing the the different branches

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of the military that will be honored and
there'll be a nice sign red, white, and

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blue with the flag behind it designating
that this is going to future home of the

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Veterans Park. Okay.
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» when we do the veterans parade every
year, we'll be able to stop there and uh

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Memorial Parade and stop there and pay
tribute on Memorial Day. So, uh if you

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get up there in the next give us a
couple of days, the sign's going to go

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up and then you'll see a beautiful sign
designating that as the next uh Veterans

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Park. The Parsons Lions appreciate it
because they well they are Parsons. uh

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they use the park in that area for their
Memorial Day parade, Easter egg hunts

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and some other events that they do have
and other residents would be able to use

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that area for other events as well. So,
it's going to be nice. Thank you,

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» Mr. Brooks.
I want to thank I want to thank the

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mayor [clears throat]
and Dave Lewis for um

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paying particularly good attention to
Virginia Thomas who came to our last

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meeting on Dana Street. Um
and also uh thank you for the suggestion

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about looking at different amendments to
perhaps the pave cut ordinance. So, I I

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I passed out the recent amendment that
Scranton did to their pave cut um just

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for people to review. Not saying this
would be something that we would would

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do, but I'd like to get your input on
back particular you Tim if we want to

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analyze the differences, the strengths
and weaknesses of the Scranton ordinance

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visa varss. But one thing that they do
do that I think is really helpful for

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the public and it's on the front page of
this ordinance is on this Scranton

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City's website they have this thing
called a pave cut dashboard and it shows

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in a location it's a map and you can
zoom in on the map and it's colorcoded

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between the water company the gas
company wastewater internet and

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electrical work and so for example today
right Now, Scranton has 673

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permits that are out there doing doing
work and it has it broken down exactly

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who's the water company, where they are
and all that and a time frame, the

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status, is it an emergency, is it not an
emergency. Um, so it has all that

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information. So, um, take it for your
review, Charlie, and and Tim and, um,

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and rest of council to see if there's
something in there that might, um, help

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us, help the public. Um, I I do want to
thank the Citizens Voice over there. Um,

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the utility companies have called me
and, uh, Pennsylvania American Water

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wants to do a neighborhood meeting. um
they saw that in the newspaper that I

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was talking about their exorbitant
salaries and going doortodoor. So the PR

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executive called and said I saw your
quote in the paper. So we are now

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arranging a public meeting for the the
neighbors um for at least on

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Pennsylvania American water. So that's
also good news as well.

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» Thank you Madam Chair. Great
>> Mr. Mayor.

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» Yeah it's got a quiet week here. Um I
just had a call about uh see if we can

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get more police presence down at the bus
station. I guess the gentleman said that

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there's a lot of kids riding bikes,
bothering people, hitting cars and

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stuff. So, I mean, I personally didn't
witness it, but I'm just relaying it to

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the, you know, proper officials. And,
um, thank DPW for removing a bunch of

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graffiti on Wayne Street. It looks so
much better. And, um, that's all I have

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for today.
>> Perfect. I actually have nothing for you

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today.
>> You Tim, so [laughter]

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» yes, again. Say that.
>> Getting away that easy.

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» Oh, no.
>> Say that again.

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» You give you were off.
>> Thursday's another day.

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» Thursdays.
>> It's two days away. He bites. So, I was

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looking at rules that are in place. So,
New Jersey just passed a statewide. So,

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I really do think I have to go to the
state on a lot of what I would like to

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implement. So, can we look at putting
something in place where they are

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limited in the business district?
>> I mean, at least as a start for now. Are

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we able to do that?
>> I would think so. Uh I don't want to

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give you 100% sure we can, but I would
think so. Yes.

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» Okay.
>> So, just just do something that would

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eliminate the operation of ebikes in the
business district, right?

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» Which would be defined as a certain area
downtown.

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» On sidewalks.
>> Yeah.

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» Well, right now they're technically not
supposed to be on sidewalks anyway.

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» Just to follow the same rules as
like we had talked without doing a

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registration or you know a type of
insurance but that really does have to

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be done statewide because we couldn't
regulate just our small area. So I think

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for a start maybe we can look at that
and that's all I got.

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» Anybody else got anything? Okay.
>> All right. Motion journ and we wish you

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good luck.
>> Thank you.

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» Thanks.
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safe travel
>> feel. You know

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» here we get