1 1 ASTON TOWNSHIP BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 2 March 17, 2021 3 4 5 6 Transcript of the ASTON TOWNSHIP BOARD OF 7 COMMISSIONERS MEETING, taken before Lorraine Evans, 8 Court Reporter-Notary Public, held at the Township 9 Building, 5021 Pennell Road, Aston, PA 19014, on 10 Wednesday, March 17, 2021, commencing approximately at 11 7:00 p.m. 12 13 BOARD MEMBERS 14 JAMES M. STIGALE, PRESIDENT MICHAEL J. HIGGINS, VICE-PRESIDENT 15 JOHN DOUGHERTY FREDERICK PRENDERGAST 16 LESTER F. BERRY, JR. NANCY E. BOWDEN 17 JOSEPH McGINN, JR. 18 19 JOSEPH DeVUONO, Township Manager ELIZABETH NAUGHTON-BECK, ESQUIRE, Solicitor 20 JOSEPH VISCUSO, Engineer 21 22 LORRAINE EVANS COURT REPORTER-NOTARY PUBLIC 23 530 Paxon Hollow Road Broomall, Pennsylvania 19008 24 (610)203-7715 lorraine7evans@gmail.com 2 1 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Good evening, 2 everybody. I would like to call this Aston 3 Township Board of Commissioners meeting for 4 Wednesday, March 17, 2021 to order. Rise for 5 the Pledge of Allegiance. 6 (Pledge of Allegiance) 7 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Happy St. Patty's Day 8 to everybody. I need a motion to approve the 9 minutes of the regular meeting of February 17, 10 2021. 11 COMMISSIONER PRENDERGAST: Make a motion. 12 COMMISSIONER BERRY: Second. 13 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Questions or comments? 14 All in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 15 (Whereupon, all Commissioners 16 present vote "aye.") 17 PRESIDENT STIGALE: At this point I would 18 like to turn the meeting over to Commissioner 19 Prendergast for a Proclamation. 20 COMMISSIONER PRENDERGAST: Whereas, the 21 Board of Commissioners, Township of Aston, 22 Delaware County, Pennsylvania would like to 23 recognize Joseph Siewarski for his 21 years of 24 dedicated service as a Public Works employee of LORRAINE EVANS 3 1 Aston Township and congratulate Joe on his 2 retirement. 3 Whereas, Joe grew up in Aston Township and 4 attended St. James High School. Joe was often 5 found helping out at the family business at the 6 Ski Bar on Concord Road. Joe grew up enjoying 7 the outdoors and it has continued all of his 8 life. He owns a cabin in up-state Pennsylvania 9 where he enjoys his boat, fishing, hunting and 10 hiking. 11 Whereas, Joe started working for Aston 12 Township Public Works Department on January 17, 13 2000. Joe was with the Sanitation Department 14 first and later moved to Highway Department 15 where he did snow plowing, road maintenance, 16 grass cutting and his specialty was cutting 17 trees, chipping and mulching. Joe is always 18 very concerned with safety and helps with the 19 younger employees making sure they are prepared 20 for their jobs. Everyone enjoys his wonderful 21 stories. Joe is a great story teller and will 22 be missed by all. 23 Now, therefore, be it proclaimed that the 24 Aston Township Board of Commissioners along LORRAINE EVANS 4 1 with the residents and employees of Aston 2 Township would like to congratulate and extend 3 good luck wishes on his retirement to Joseph 4 Siewarski. 5 Duly proclaimed this 17th day of March, 6 2021, Aston Township Board of Commissioners, by 7 James Stigale, President, Michael Higgins, 8 Vice-President, Third Ward Les Berry, Fourth 9 Ward me, Nancy Bowden, Fifth Ward, Joseph 10 McGinn, Second Ward, Joseph DeVuono, township 11 manager. Congratulate Joe. Come on up. 12 Congratulations, Joe. 13 (Applause) 14 PRESIDENT STIGALE: All right, move onto 15 Committee Reports. I will start with 16 Commissioner Berry, please. 17 COMMISSIONER BERRY: Thank you, President 18 Stigale. Police report. Incidents occurred 19 February 2021. Incidents handled, 426, 20 accident investigations 23, criminal 21 investigations 27. Clearance Rate Part One 22 Crime point one percent, Clearance Rate Part 23 Two Crimes point two nine percent. That's it 24 for the police report. LORRAINE EVANS 5 1 And I have another report I would like to 2 read. This is pertaining to spring cleaning. 3 Oftentimes the role of government is to take 4 care of things that folks don't think about 5 until something goes wrong or it become an 6 issue. We often take for granted our trash 7 disappears once a week simply by placing it on 8 the curb. 9 Storm water is another one of those 10 issues. We had back to back severe storms in 11 August that impacted a number of residents on 12 and around Weir Road in my ward. We have heard 13 complaints and are working to address them. 14 Tonight I am asking my fellow Board 15 members to approve over a quarter million 16 dollars to add thousands of gallons of storm 17 water retention storage to help mitigate the 18 issue. This work will start almost 19 immediately. 20 I have also asked our Public Works 21 Department to go step by step through our storm 22 water basins and remove any fallen tree limbs 23 or other potential blockages. These are 24 pro-active steps to take care of one of these LORRAINE EVANS 6 1 items that are not flashy. It's important to 2 better our township though. Thank you. 3 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Thank you. Move on, 4 Commissioner Prendergast, please. 5 COMMISSIONER PRENDERGAST: Thank you. 6 Aston Township Offices and Public Works 7 Departments will be closed on Good Friday, 8 April 2nd, 2021. All trash and recycling pick 9 up scheduled for Friday will be picked up on 10 Thursday, April 1st, 2021. 11 I also want to read the road foreman 12 activity report for February, 2021. Following 13 report highlights the main activity of Public 14 Works Department, consists of Director of 15 Public Works Russ Palmore, and the Highway 16 Department. 17 BJ Barlow and Ryan Horvat picked up metal 18 throughout the township. The metal was taken 19 to the International Scrap in Chester, PA. 20 This is always picked up the first full week of 21 the month on the resident's normal trash day. 22 Tom Bradley and Vincent Serluco maintain and 23 service all township vehicles and Aston Police 24 vehicles. This includes any Pennsylvania State LORRAINE EVANS 7 1 Inspections. Ninety five percent of 2 maintenance and repairs on vehicles are 3 completed in-house by our Highway mechanics. 4 Tim Wiest reported all street light issues 5 to Lenni Electric for replacement or repair. 6 All street lights throughout the township have 7 been converted to LED. Brian Palmore and Chris 8 Moyer replaced, repaired and installed street 9 signs throughout the Township. All township 10 parks had branches and trash picked up by the 11 Highway Department. Vincent Serluco repaired 12 and serviced all snow blowers prior to and 13 during the winter months and began servicing 14 all grass cutting equipment for the upcoming 15 season. All small engine repairs are completed 16 in-house, saving our Township money. 17 Our Highway Department emptied our new 18 Township owned 30 yard containers using our new 19 roll-off truck. These dumpsters are located 20 behind the Municipal Building and are used for 21 bulk residential trash. By completing this 22 task in-house, the Township saves approximately 23 $250 per container load. 24 Bill Sarosy and Tim Wiest reviewed and LORRAINE EVANS 8 1 recorded all 811 call sheets. Approximately 2 150 call sheets are sent to our Director of 3 Public Works each month. These call sheets 4 show where people and businesses plan to dig in 5 our Community to prevent machines and people 6 from damaging our electric, gas and storm water 7 systems. Each system is marked by that service 8 provider at least three days prior to date 9 allowed to dig. 10 The Township is responsible for all storm 11 water systems. These systems are marked with 12 green paint. Each service has its own color 13 representing the location and type of service 14 underground. Bill Sarosy, BJ Barlow and Tim 15 Wiest filled 55 potholes using 1 ton of cold 16 parch asphalt. 17 The Dutton Mills Road project, which is a 18 broken storm water pipe located near Turner 19 Industrial Way, Ice Works, this is a PennDOT 20 project. All State roads are repaired and 21 maintained by the State. A State road is 22 defined as a road that connects one township to 23 another. PennDOT is called monthly by Russ 24 Palmore, asking for updates on a start date. LORRAINE EVANS 9 1 The State stated they are waiting on DEP 2 permits. Hopefully the road repair is 3 completed in the near future with the weather 4 breaking. 5 The month of February brought a lot of 6 snow and ice. We had approximately eight 7 storms with a snow accumulation of 27 inches 8 for the winter. A few of these storms required 9 our roads to be maintained for long periods of 10 time, which required two crews. Our Sanitation 11 Department kept our roads open and safe while 12 the Highway Department got some rest. Jim 13 Persing maintained all Community Center 14 sidewalks and entryways. Our Sanitation 15 Department worked vigorously through these 16 storms and never missed a day of service. Our 17 Sanitation Department picked up 45.67 tons of 18 recycling in the month of February and 391.51 19 tons of residential waste. 20 Thanks to Russ and the Public Works Group. 21 You do a fantastic job, and we need to try to 22 get more recycling done by the residents of 23 Aston. Thank you. 24 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Thank you, LORRAINE EVANS 10 1 Commissioner Prendergast. Thank Mr. Palmore, 2 beautiful report. I really liked that one. 3 Keep it up. 4 MR. PALMORE: That's only the start. 5 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Call on Commissioner 6 Higgins, please. 7 COMMISSIONER HIGGINS: Thank you, 8 President Stigale. I have three reports 9 tonight. First one is the Permits and Licenses 10 Report and it's dated March 3rd, 2021, and it's 11 a report for Permits and Licenses issued for 12 the month of February. 13 Beginning balance, $519,835.00. Total 14 income from building permits and general 15 contractors licenses, $3,582.00. Total 16 electrical permits and licenses, $761.00. 17 Total plumbing and heating permits and 18 licenses, $310.00. Income from Board of Health 19 licenses, $250.00. There was no income from 20 peddlers and vendors permits, nor from 21 Commercial Maintenance Inspections. Income 22 from Certificates of Occupancy, $1,500.00, and 23 there was no income from rental licenses. So 24 the total revenue collected for the month was LORRAINE EVANS 11 1 $6,403.00. Total for 2021, $526,238.00, as 2 compared to February of 2020 of $43,210.00. 3 That's the first one. 4 Just have a brief report on land 5 development on one specific project, 6 Springbrooke Trade Center down on Springbrooke 7 Boulevard. That's the area of 36.5 acres 8 behind the Applebee's on Pennell Road behind 9 the tree line. If you're driving by going down 10 Pennell Road or coming up Pennell Road or 11 driving back in that cul-de-sac, you'll see a 12 lot of excavation being done. 13 A lot of folks are saying on social media 14 and other outlets and e-mail what's going on 15 back there, I don't know anything about this. 16 This is a project that was fully -- it went 17 through the total process a year and a half 18 ago, so now the excavation work has begun for 19 the Springbrooke Trade Center. Basically 20 putting in the foundations and the storm water 21 management systems down there and the sewage 22 systems. 23 There's a lot of excavation being done and 24 a lot of trees being removed. When it's done LORRAINE EVANS 12 1 it will be a two-flex space buildings being 2 built and will total between the two of them 3 approximately 488,000 square feet. 4 Well over a thousand trees and shrubs will 5 be replaced when the project is done. And 6 there will be a lot of buffering from the 7 adjoining residents by the trees. There will 8 be a fence, a retaining wall, and the two 9 buildings will be at lower grade than where the 10 residential properties are, so there will be a 11 pretty sound buffering there. 12 A lot of the trees that couldn't be placed 13 are going to be part of the Pennell Road 14 streetscaping project. You'll see them start 15 to appear soon. And these buildings, contrary 16 to what folks think they are, can be used for a 17 lot of functions, office space, labs, 18 warehousing and distribution, truck terminal, 19 could be a computer center or medical marijuana 20 cultivation center, can be a lot of things. 21 That's what they're being used for down there. 22 So far we haven't heard about anybody who is 23 going to come by and occupy them. Probably a 24 little too early. I wanted to bring that up. LORRAINE EVANS 13 1 There seems to be a lot of confusion as to 2 what's going on there. 3 Finally I have a report, bear with me for 4 just a little bit. It's about the Covid, 5 what's going on with Covid in the town. More 6 from what's happening on the way of being 7 relief for the businesses and it will affect 8 the residents because they can go to these 9 businesses and spend their money, which we want 10 to see happen. 11 So there was some recent mitigation 12 revisions by the Governor and they started on 13 the 1st of March. They involve increasing the 14 maximum occupancy of indoor events to 15 15 percent, regardless of the size of the venue. 16 Also it revised the maximum occupancy for 17 outdoor events, to allow for 20 percent of the 18 maximum occupancy regardless of the size. And 19 then eliminated the out-of-state travel 20 restrictions. 21 More importantly, there was release that 22 came out from the Governor's office on March 15 23 and so what happens is more options for 24 restaurants and other businesses and mass LORRAINE EVANS 14 1 gathering maximums have increased. So, as a 2 result of the decline in vaccination -- decline 3 in the cases, the increase of vaccination 4 rates, as a result of that, the Governor lifted 5 some targeted restrictions on restaurants, 6 taverns and other businesses. 7 So mark your calendars for April 4th. 8 Restaurants on April 4th may resume bar 9 service. In other words, you can stand at the 10 bar and shoot the breeze. Alcohol service will 11 be allowed without the purchase of food. Right 12 now you can't have one without the other. 13 The curfew for removing alcoholic drinks 14 from tables will be lifted, and indoor dining 15 capacity will be raised to 75 percent for those 16 restaurants that are currently self-certified 17 and those that want to undergo the 18 self-certification process. And there's a page 19 out there on the internet that will tell you 20 what those are. 21 And also those restaurants that do not 22 self certify may raise their capacity to 23 50 percent. That's a good thing. Outdoor 24 dining, curbside pick-up and takeout are still LORRAINE EVANS 15 1 encouraged. Requirements such as mask wearing 2 and social distancing including the six feet 3 between diners will still apply. 4 There's some other businesses impacted 5 too. The capacity of other businesses also 6 will be increased effective April 4th, 7 including moving of personal service 8 facilities, gyms and entertainment facilities; 9 in other words, casinos, theatres, malls to 75 10 percent occupancy. That's a good thing. More 11 people coming out. 12 Gathering places. The Governor also 13 announced revised maximum occupancy limits for 14 indoor events to allow for 25 percent of 15 maximum occupancy, regardless of the venue 16 size, and outdoor, 50 percent of the maximum 17 occupancy, regardless of the size of the venue. 18 Maximum occupancy is permitted only if the 19 attendees and workers are able to comply with 20 the six foot physical distancing requirement. 21 So the Governor is saying that as 22 residents, we have stepped up and followed the 23 regulations and case counts continue to go 24 down, hospitalizations are declining, the LORRAINE EVANS 16 1 percent of positivity rates gets lower every 2 week. All very positive signs. 3 While lifting of the restrictions is good 4 news, again Governor Wolf cautioned that mask 5 wearing and social distancing and business 6 adherence to all safety orders are still 7 important. 8 So the reason I am bringing this up, even 9 though no one here in this room is probably 10 responsible for any restaurant or a tavern, 11 those that are in the business will receive 12 updates, if they haven't already, through their 13 attorneys and so forth, and I will put out my 14 own updates probably starting tomorrow. But 15 for those that are residents that are here and 16 those that are listening to the meeting 17 tonight, I encourage you, with the change in 18 the venues, and the change in the allowed 19 number of percentage of people that are allowed 20 to go in there, it's a good thing. I encourage 21 you to go out and support our merchants, all of 22 our merchants. 23 As we get them back closer to seeing the 24 light at the end of the tunnel, they can LORRAINE EVANS 17 1 certainly use our support. People today don't 2 want to go out because they can't allow a lot 3 of people. But starting on the 4th of April 4 there's going to be a lot of relief. Go spend 5 your money. 6 One other thing I want to mention, it's 7 about Delco Strong CHIRP program. It's the 8 Hospitality Industry Recovery Program. It's a 9 great opportunity for Aston restaurants, 10 taverns and bars. This is a program that's 11 only available through business entitles that 12 operate in Delaware County whose primary 13 business is accommodations or food service and 14 drinking places, where accommodations are for 15 food and drink is served and provided to the 16 public, with or without charge. 17 The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has 18 allocated a hundred and forty-five million 19 dollars under Act 1 of 2021 to counties for a 20 grant program to provide financial relief to 21 businesses whose primary activity is in the 22 accommodations food service and drinking 23 places. 24 Delaware County is going to receive $6.4 LORRAINE EVANS 18 1 million dollars in funding to provide grants to 2 eligible Delaware County businesses through the 3 program, administered by the Delaware County 4 Economic Development Oversight Board. 5 Applications are being accepted as of 6 March 15 and will go on through April 12 at 7 3:00 p.m and will be reviewed. It is 8 anticipated that the funding for this program 9 will be depleted with applications received 10 through April 12. 11 The grants will range from $15,000 to 12 $50,000 depending on annual revenue of the 13 business. And it is anticipated this will be a 14 competitive funding round. Only fully 15 completed applications will be considered, and 16 not all applications are going to be funded. 17 It's based on the information provided by the 18 businesses. 19 Again, I will be putting that out to my 20 list of businesses people. I want you to know 21 mainly because there's some advantages to the 22 increase in capacity of these places, and I 23 hope you're going to go out and support them. 24 Thank you. LORRAINE EVANS 19 1 PRESIDENT STIGALE: It's a good point. 2 Thank you, Commissioner Higgins. Commissioner 3 Bowden, please. 4 COMMISSIONER BOWDEN: I have the fire 5 report for the month of February. Fire calls 6 42, year to date 92, EMS calls 113, year to 7 date 273, total calls 155, year to date 365, 8 monthly drills three, year to date six. 9 I also have a couple other committee 10 reports. The first one that I want to give to 11 you is the Library report. This is from the 12 Director of the Library. 13 You can still get any book from any of the 14 26 Delco libraries and beyond at the Aston 15 Public Library. To place material requests use 16 the catalogue at www dot Aston Library dot org, 17 or call the library at 610-494-5877. 18 The library staff are available for curb 19 side pick up for ready items during these 20 hours. They're closed on Sunday, Monday 11:00 21 a.m. to 4:00 p.m, Tuesday 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 22 p.m., Wednesday 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., 23 Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and one p.m. 24 to 5:00 p.m., Friday 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., LORRAINE EVANS 20 1 Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 2 When picking up available items please 3 call the library at 610-494-5877, then option 4 zero for the parking lot to arrange contact 5 free pick up. 6 Do you need something faxed or copied? 7 Nowhere else to go? The library can handle it 8 from your curbside. Just call. 9 Every Tuesday at 9:45 a.m. the library has 10 music with Miss Jill via Zoom. Music with Miss 11 Jill is a lively, interactive music program for 12 toddlers through kindergarten. E-mail Debbie 13 at Aston library dot org to sign up for this 14 and many other virtual programs and regular 15 e-mail updates. 16 If you or your family member needs mobile 17 internet access for a week or two, you may be 18 able to reserve one of the library system's hot 19 spots for free. Search the catalog for hot 20 spots to request one. From the Director of the 21 Library. 22 The next thing I have is from our Parks 23 and Recreation Committee. Just want to let all 24 you parents -- let your toddlers know and your LORRAINE EVANS 21 1 children know, on Saturday, March 27, sometime 2 during the day, I am not quite sure when, you 3 have to keep your eyes open, the Easter bunny 4 has made contact with the Aston Commissioners 5 and he's going to make an appearance in Aston 6 Township so keep your eyes and ears open for 7 the bunny looking through the town on Saturday, 8 March the 27th. 9 And finally, as you can see, here in our 10 room we had a Hometown Heroes Banner Committee. 11 Before I go into anything, I personally want to 12 thank the people that worked for a year 13 diligently on this project to make our town 14 really absolutely beautiful with these banners. 15 And the committee consisted of Les Berry, Mark 16 and Maggie Berry, Maryann Bullen, Mike Higgins, 17 Jeanna Rugieri, Lonnie Balasteri and Trisha 18 Balasteri, and most of all Joe McCaulkin. 19 The banner that you're seeing probably on 20 the screen at this point, the Aston Township 21 Hometown Heroes Banner Committee is excited to 22 announce the kick off of our Aston Township 23 Hometown Hero Banner Program. The program will 24 create a tribute to recognize and honor our LORRAINE EVANS 22 1 Veterans who are serving or have served our 2 country in the United States Armed Forces. 3 To qualify, a Veteran, living or deceased, 4 must have a connection to Aston Township, lives 5 or lived in the township at some point of their 6 life. The banner will be 30 by 48 and made of 7 heavy vinyl printed the same on both sides. 8 The banner will display the service person's 9 photograph, including their full name, branch 10 of military and service, as in World War I or 11 World War II, Korea or Vietnam, the banners 12 will be displayed on the date determined and 13 will be placed at the sole discretion of the 14 township. 15 Each banner requires the Hometown Hero 16 Banner form to be completed, a photograph of 17 the hero, preferably in uniform, and a payment 18 of $100.00 per banner. More news will follow. 19 Keep your eyes on our website and on our 20 township t.v. channel. 21 Any other questions you can contact me at 22 610-494-5490, and that's all I have. 23 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Thank you, 24 Commissioner Bowden. Commissioner McGinn, do LORRAINE EVANS 23 1 you have anything? 2 COMMISSIONER McGINN: No, nothing for 3 committee reports tonight. 4 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Commissioner 5 Dougherty, I did not forget about you. You're 6 the most important part of the Committee 7 Report, whether we have the money to do 8 anything. You're up. 9 COMMISSIONER DOUGHERTY: Thank you, 10 Commissioner Stigale. I have before me the 11 Aston Township Treasurer's report for February, 12 2021. Total cash in the general fund as of 13 February 28, $1,621,277.18. Other funds 14 include the TD Bank bond fund checking account 15 with a balance of $7,475,363.75, TD Bank escrow 16 checking account, balance of $267,550.90, TD 17 Bank Capital Checking account with a balance of 18 $723,813.94, and the TD Bank liquid fuels 19 checking account with a balance of $118,318.38. 20 Total cash balance for the Township as of 21 February 28, 2021 was $10,291,159.91. That 22 concludes my report. 23 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Thank you, 24 Commissioner Dougherty. Need a motion to LORRAINE EVANS 24 1 approve the treasurer's report. 2 COMMISSIONER BOWDEN: So move. 3 COMMISSIONER PRENDERGAST: Second. 4 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Questions or comments? 5 All in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 6 (Whereupon, all Commissioners 7 present vote "aye.") 8 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Motion to approve the 9 bills and payroll. 10 COMMISSIONER BOWDEN: So move. 11 COMMISSIONER PRENDERGAST: Second. 12 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Questions or comments? 13 All in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 14 (Whereupon, all Commissioners 15 present vote "aye.") 16 PRESIDENT STIGALE: At this time we'll 17 open up the floor to the public for agenda 18 items only. If anyone has a question about 19 what's on the agenda, come to the podium, state 20 your name and address. Seeing none, move onto 21 old business. 22 Line item A, consider an ordinance to 23 amend the provisions of Aston Township Codified 24 Ordinance Chapter 1460.04 Sections A3 and C3. LORRAINE EVANS 25 1 Commissioner Berry. 2 COMMISSIONER BERRY: Thank you, President 3 Stigale. Ordinance of the Township of Aston, 4 Delaware County, Pennsylvania to amend the 5 provisions of Aston Township Codified Ordinance 6 Chapter 1460.04 Sections A3 and C3 to revise 7 waiver procedures. 8 Whereas, the Aston Township Board of 9 Commissioners previously adopted regulations 10 governing waiver procedures for a homeowner 11 seeking relief from the building code 12 requirements to tie into public water and 13 sewer; and 14 Whereas, the Aston Township Board of 15 Commissioners believe decisions with respect to 16 waiver requirements should be made by the Board 17 of Commissioners. 18 Now, therefore, be it resolved this 17th 19 day of March, 2021, that Chapter 1460.04 20 Sections A3 and C3 of the Aston Township 21 Codified Ordinances are hereby amended to read 22 as follows: 23 1460.04 minimum standards for basic 24 equipment and facilities: Water service, LORRAINE EVANS 26 1 waiver requests of this requirement shall be 2 submitted to the New Construction Committee for 3 review and recommendation to the Board of 4 Commissioners. Final decision of such requests 5 shall rest within the sole discretion of the 6 Board of Commissioners. Any person aggrieved 7 by any decision of the Board of Commissioners 8 relevant to the provision of this chapter may, 9 within 30 days of the Board of Commissioners' 10 decision, appeal to the Delaware County Court 11 of Common Pleas. 12 C, Sewer Service, 3 waiver requests of 13 this requirement shall be submitted to the New 14 Construction Committee for review and 15 recommendation to the Board of Commissioners. 16 Final decision of such requests shall rest 17 within the sole discretion of the Board of 18 Commissioners. Any person aggrieved by any 19 decision of Board of Commissioners relevant to 20 the provision of this chapter may, within 30 21 days of the Board of Commissioners' decision, 22 appeal to the Delaware County Court of Common 23 Pleas. 24 Effective date, this ordinance shall be LORRAINE EVANS 27 1 effective 10 days from the date of adoption. 2 Repealer, any prior ordinance or parts 3 thereof inconsistent with this ordinance are 4 hereby repealed. 5 Severability, the provisions of this 6 ordinance and code sections adopted hereby are 7 severable, and if any clause, sentence or 8 section thereof shall be adjudged invalid or 9 unconstitutional, such decision or judgment 10 shall not affect the validity of the remaining 11 provisions. 12 That's attested to by Joseph E. DeVuono, 13 township manager, James M. Stigale, President, 14 Board of Commissioners, First Ward Commissioner 15 John Dougherty, Second Ward Commissioner Joseph 16 McGinn, myself, Third Ward, Fred Prendergast, 17 Fourth Ward, Nancy Bowden, Fifth Ward, Mike 18 Higgins, Seventh Ward, form of a motion. 19 COMMISSIONER PRENDERGAST: Second. 20 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Questions or comments? 21 All in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 22 (Whereupon, all Commissioners 23 present vote "aye.") 24 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Line item B, consider LORRAINE EVANS 28 1 an ordinance to amend the provisions of Aston 2 Township Codified Ordinance Chapter 1420.18 and 3 1445 to revise procedures for licensing 4 contractors. Commissioner Berry. 5 COMMISSIONER BERRY: Thank you, President 6 Stigale. An Ordinance of the Township of 7 Aston, Delaware County, Pennsylvania to amend 8 the provisions of Aston Township Codified 9 Ordinance, Chapters 1420.18 and 1445 to revise 10 procedures for the licensing of contractors. 11 Whereas, the Aston Township Board of 12 Commissioners previously adopted regulations 13 governing appeal procedures for a homeowner 14 seeking relief from a decision of the building 15 code official; and 16 Whereas, the Aston Township Board of 17 Commissioners previously adopted regulations 18 for the issuance of licenses to the contractors 19 by the building codes official; and 20 Whereas, the Aston Township Board of 21 Commissioners believe the regulations governing 22 the issuance of licenses and decisions of the 23 building code official should be revised to 24 comply with the Uniform Construction Code. LORRAINE EVANS 29 1 Now, therefore, be it resolved this 17th 2 day of March, 2021, that Chapters 1420.18 and 3 1445 of the Aston Township Codified Ordinances, 4 are hereby amended to read as follows: 5 1420.18, Whenever the owner or builder of 6 any building or structure about to be or in the 7 course of being erected or altered, or any 8 other person takes exception to a decision of 9 the building inspector in refusing to approve 10 the issuance of a permit or in refusing to 11 approve the manner of construction or the kinds 12 of materials to be used in the erection or 13 alteration of any building, or to his or her 14 decision as to the occupation or use of any 15 building, or as to its safety or its compliance 16 with any other provisions of this chapter, such 17 owner or builder or his or her duly authorized 18 attorney or agent may, within 10 days after 19 such decision, take an appeal therefrom to the 20 Delaware County Uniform Construction Code 21 Appeals Board pursuant to 35 P.S. 7210.501c. 22 1445, licensing of Commercial Contractors, 23 see attached sections containing amendments 24 adding specific reference to commercial LORRAINE EVANS 30 1 contractors and revising appeal procedures to 2 the UCC Board of Appeals. 3 Effective date, this ordinance shall be 4 effective 10 days from the date of adoption. 5 Repealer, any prior ordinance or parts 6 thereof inconsistent with this ordinance are 7 hereby repealed. 8 Severability, the provisions of this 9 ordinance and code sections adopted hereby are 10 severable, and if any clause, sentence or 11 section thereof shall be adjudged invalid or 12 unconstitutional, such decision or judgment 13 shall not affect the validity of the remaining 14 provisions. 15 Attested to by Joseph E. DeVuono, Township 16 manager, James M. Stigale, President of the 17 Board, John Dougherty, First Ward Commissioner, 18 Joe McGinn Second Ward Commissioner, myself 19 Third Ward Commissioner, Fred Prendergast 20 Fourth Ward Commissioner, Nancy Bowden Fifth 21 Ward Commissioner, Mike Higgins Seventh Ward 22 Commissioner, form of a motion. 23 COMMISSIONER BOWDEN: Second. 24 PRESIDENT STIGALE: I have a second. LORRAINE EVANS 31 1 Before we vote on this, Beth, this is a very 2 specific problem that we are having. Can you, 3 like in two sentences, or a couple sentences 4 summarize it? 5 MS. NAUGHTON-BECK: With respect to the 6 two of them, the first one relates to appeals 7 from permits issued by the BCO. The UCC gives 8 the residents the option of either appealing to 9 the UCC Appeals Board or the Court of Common 10 Pleas. We opted into the UCC Appeals Board. 11 We are basically just clarifying that since we 12 adopted into that board, any appeals go 13 directly there. 14 The second is the licensing of commercial 15 contractors. The Township is not able to 16 regulate or license residential contractors, so 17 the amendments are simply making it clear this 18 licensing requirement pertains only to 19 commercial contractors. 20 PRESIDENT STIGALE: I want to make sure. 21 A lot of people are going to start summer 22 projects. 23 MS. NAUGHTON-BECK: The residential 24 contractors that they are going to hire, they LORRAINE EVANS 32 1 know the procedures and they know what to do. 2 This doesn't apply to them. 3 PRESIDENT STIGALE: I have a motion. I 4 have a second. Any questions or comments? All 5 in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 6 (Whereupon, all Commissioners 7 present vote "aye.") 8 PRESIDENT STIGALE: New Business, line 9 item A, consider a resolution for the 10 submission of the County Aid MS-339 11 application. Commissioner Dougherty. 12 COMMISSIONER DOUGHERTY: Aston Township 13 Resolution 2021-06, application for County Aid. 14 Therefore, be it resolved that we, the 15 Officials of Aston Township, Delaware County, 16 Pennsylvania, in regular session, do hereby 17 make application to the County for an 18 allocation of County liquid fuels tax funds. 19 Project description: This project 20 involves milling of bituminous surface, 9.5 21 millimeter superpave wearing course, 25 22 millimeter base repair, hot thermoplastic 23 pavement markings, and appurtenant work for 24 various streets in the Township. LORRAINE EVANS 33 1 Total estimated cost $450,000.00. The 2 allocation request from the County is 3 $18,833.00. It is certified by the 4 Municipality and the officers who execute this 5 application that all materials used and work 6 done hereunder shall conform to the current 7 Pennsylvania Department of Transportation 8 Specifications that all work will be done 9 within the legal right-of-way or with 10 permission of the abutting property owners. 11 Duly adopted on this date, March 17, 2021, 12 form of a motion. 13 COMMISSIONER PRENDERGAST: Second. 14 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Questions or comments? 15 All in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 16 (Whereupon, all Commissioners 17 present vote "aye.") 18 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Line item B, consider 19 a resolution to submit a grant application to 20 the Department of Conservation and Natural 21 Resources to undertake the Aston Township 22 Ampitheater project. Commissioner Bowden. 23 COMMISSIONER BOWDEN: Aston Township 24 Resolution Number 2021-07. Applicant, Aston LORRAINE EVANS 34 1 Township Project, Aston Township Amphitheater. 2 Whereas, Aston township desires to 3 undertake the project Aston Township 4 Amphitheater; and 5 Whereas, the applicant desires to receive 6 from the Department of Conservation and Natural 7 Resources a grant for the purpose of carrying 8 out this project. 9 Whereas, the application package includes 10 a document entitled Terms and Conditions of 11 Grant; and 12 Whereas, the applicant understands that 13 the contents of the document entitled Terms and 14 Conditions of Grant, including appendices 15 referred to therein, will become the terms and 16 conditions of a Grant Agreement between the 17 applicant and the Department if the applicant 18 is awarded a grant; and 19 Now, therefore, be it resolved that the 20 grant applicant may be electronically signed on 21 behalf of the applicant by Joseph DeVuono who, 22 at the time of signing, has a title of Township 23 Manager and the e-mail address of jedevuono at 24 Aston Township dot net. LORRAINE EVANS 35 1 Number two, if this Official signed the 2 Grant Application Electronic Authorization 3 prior to the passage of this Resolution, this 4 grant of authority applies retroactively to the 5 date of signing. 6 Number three, if the applicant is awarded 7 a grant, the Grant Application Electronic 8 Authorization, signed by the above Official, 9 will become the applicant/grantee's executed 10 signature page for the Grant Agreement, and the 11 applicant/grantee will be bound by the Grant 12 Agreement. 13 Number four, any amendment to the Grant 14 Agreement may be signed on behalf of the 15 guarantee by the Official who, at the time of 16 signing of the amendment, has the Title 17 specified in paragraph one and the grantee will 18 be bound by the amendment, form of a motion. 19 COMMISSIONER PRENDERGAST: Second. 20 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Questions or comments? 21 All in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 22 (Whereupon, all Commissioners 23 present vote "aye.") 24 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Line item C, consider LORRAINE EVANS 36 1 a motion to award the bid for the Concord 2 Square Park Stormwater Management Improvements 3 Project. Call on Commissioner Berry, please. 4 COMMISSIONER BERRY: I make a motion to 5 award the bid for the Concord Square Park 6 Stormwater Management Improvements Project to 7 James R. Kenny Excavating and Paving, Inc. in 8 the amount of $258,950.00, form of a motion. 9 COMMISSIONER PRENDERGAST: Second. 10 PRESIDENT STIGALE: I would like to call 11 on our township engineer, Joe Viscuso, to give 12 us a little idea of what we're doing with this 13 project. 14 MR. VISCUSO: This motion and the next 15 motion kind of go together. We have the 16 watershed that feeds the intersection of Weir 17 and Blackthorn, has been problematic for many 18 years. And that intersection is about 200 19 acres, goes up to the top of Neumann University 20 and all the way down to that intersection. 21 There's two projects. The first award 22 tonight is to James R. Kenny Excavating, to 23 construct a retention pond at the bottom of the 24 Concord Square Park. The topography there is LORRAINE EVANS 37 1 pretty severe and steep. We're going to berm 2 up the bottom end of the park and for all 3 intents and purposes relocate some storm sewer 4 there and trap the water. 5 The two significant issues with this 6 watershed are the homes that are at the 7 intersection of Heatherton and Surrey, and the 8 other problem is with the intersection of Weir 9 and Blackthorn. This will slow down water, 10 trap it in that berm and alleviate some of the 11 conditions at the Surrey and Heatherton 12 location, while at the same time alleviating 13 some of the issues at Weir and Blackthorn Park. 14 And these also go hand in hand with the work we 15 did a year ago at the Newsome property. 16 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Thank you very much. 17 I have a second. Questions or comments? All 18 in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 19 (Whereupon, all Commissioners 20 present vote "aye.") 21 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Line item D, consider 22 a motion to authorize the engineer to prepare 23 bid specs to replace the storm water pipe under 24 Weir Road. Commissioner Prendergast. LORRAINE EVANS 38 1 COMMISSIONER PRENDERGAST: I make a motion 2 to authorize Aston Township engineer to prepare 3 bid specs to replace the storm water pipe under 4 Weir Road, form of a motion. 5 COMMISSIONER BERRY: Second. 6 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Questions or comments? 7 All in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 8 (Whereupon, all Commissioners 9 present vote "aye.") 10 PRESIDENT STIGALE: I would like to move 11 on to Escrow Releases. Commissioner Higgins, 12 please. 13 COMMISSIONER HIGGINS: Thank you. Aston 14 Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania 15 Resolution 2021-08. 16 Whereas, ordinance number 240 and 17 Ordinance 360 provide for escrow funds for 18 completion of improvements, and 19 Whereas, the township engineer and New 20 Construction Committee approved the request for 21 escrow funds released to Pro Custom Solar DBA 22 Momentum Solar, 200 Raymond Avenue, folio 23 1963-00, sub account 7765359293. 24 Now, therefore, be it resolved that Aston LORRAINE EVANS 39 1 Township execute such action as required by the 2 township secretary and the President of the 3 Board of Commissioners to release the sum of 4 $1,310.00 payable to Pro Custom Solar DBA 5 Momentum Solar, 200 Raymond Avenue. 6 Duly adopted this 17th day of March, 2021, 7 Township of Aston, by James M. Stigale, 8 President, Board of Commissioners, attested to 9 by Joseph E. DeVuono, township secretary, form 10 of a motion. 11 COMMISSIONER PRENDERGAST: Second. 12 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Questions or comments? 13 All in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 14 (Whereupon, all Commissioners 15 present vote "aye.") 16 COMMISSIONER HIGGINS: Next one, 17 Resolution 2021-09, request for escrow funds 18 released to Momentum Solar 2490 Weir Road, 19 folio 1362-60, sub account 7765359300. 20 And that is to release the sum of 21 $1,022.50, payable to Momentum Solar 2490 Weir 22 Road, form of a motion. 23 COMMISSIONER PRENDERGAST: Second. 24 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Questions or comments? LORRAINE EVANS 40 1 All in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 2 (Whereupon, all Commissioners 3 present vote "aye.") 4 COMMISSIONER HIGGINS: Next one, 5 Resolution 2021-10. Request for escrow funds 6 released to E/F The Neher Group Inc. 37 Venuti 7 Drive, folio 2617-63, sub account 7764239823. 8 That is to release the sum of $737.50, 9 payable to E/F The Neher Group Inc. 37 Venuti 10 Drive, form of a motion. 11 COMMISSIONER PRENDERGAST: Second. 12 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Questions or comments? 13 All in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 14 (Whereupon, all Commissioners 15 present vote "aye.") 16 COMMISSIONER HIGGINS: Resolution 2021-11, 17 request for escrow funds released to Vision 18 Solar LLC 112 Scheivert Avenue, folio 2255-00, 19 sub account 7765359160. 20 Release the sum of $562.50 payable to 21 Vision Solar LLC, 112 Scheivert Avenue, form of 22 a motion. 23 COMMISSIONER BERRY: Second. 24 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Questions or comments? LORRAINE EVANS 41 1 All in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 2 (Whereupon, all Commissioners 3 present vote "aye".) 4 COMMISSIONER HIGGINS: Next one, 5 Resolution 2021-12, release escrow funds to the 6 Neher Group, Inc. 1695 Hillcrest Lane, folio 7 1217-07, sub account 7765359152. 8 Release the sum of $436.25, payable to the 9 Neher Group, Inc. 1695 Hillcrest Lane, form of 10 a motion. 11 COMMISSIONER BERRY: Second. 12 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Questions or comments? 13 All in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 14 (Whereupon, all Commissioners 15 present vote "aye.") 16 COMMISSIONER HIGGINS: That's all for the 17 detailed ones. Following amount is for 18 engineering fees to be paid to Pennoni 19 Associates for the month of March, summary 20 total, $12,072.50, form of a motion. 21 COMMISSIONER BERRY: Second. 22 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Questions or comments? 23 All in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 24 (Whereupon, all Commissioners LORRAINE EVANS 42 1 present vote "aye.") 2 COMMISSIONER HIGGINS: Next one is 3 engineering fees to be paid to Cirilli 4 Associates for the month of March. Summary 5 total of $4,628.75, that in the form of a 6 motion. 7 COMMISSIONER BERRY: Second. 8 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Questions or comments? 9 All in favor? Opposed? The "ayes" have it. 10 (Whereupon, all Commissioners 11 present vote "aye.") 12 COMMISSIONER HIGGINS: That is the 13 escrows. 14 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Thank you. I would 15 like to open up the floor to the public, if 16 anyone has anything, come to the podium, state 17 your name, address. 18 A VOICE: My name is Adam Franklin, 638 19 Convent Road. I'm here today on behalf of the 20 Aston Parks and Rec Committee, to announce and 21 invite Aston residents age 12 and under to 22 participate in our Easter egg decorating 23 contest. To participate, please submit a photo 24 of your decorated egg, any kind of egg, chicken LORRAINE EVANS 43 1 egg or plastic or foam egg, via e-mail at Park 2 dash rec at Aston Township dot net, along with 3 the name and age of the artist, as well as the 4 parent's contact information by March 31st, the 5 Wednesday before Ester. Details for the 6 contest are also available on line on the 7 township website Aston Township dot net, as 8 well as on the Aston Township Facebook. 9 The prizes are going to be by age group. 10 We are awarding a first prize, $10.00 gift 11 card, and second prize, $5.00 gift card for 12 each age group. 13 And we also have an update, Pretzel Boys 14 has graciously offered everybody who 15 participates a free pretzel coupon which we'll 16 send back to the e-mail address that you send 17 to us. 18 Again, the e-mail address we would like 19 our Egg artist to e-mail is park dash rec at 20 Aston Township dot net by the Wednesday before 21 Easter. Decorate any kind of egg, however you 22 like, it can even be a drawing of an egg. And 23 thank you very much. We look forward to 24 judging a lot of eggs. LORRAINE EVANS 44 1 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Thank you very much, 2 appreciate that. Anyone else have anything? 3 Seeing none, Commissioner Dougherty, do you 4 have anything? 5 COMMISSIONER DOUGHERTY: Just a few 6 things. First, I want to wish Joe a happy 7 retirement, all the best. Second, I want to 8 wish everybody a happy St. Patty's Day. Be 9 careful driving out there. It's usually 10 amateur hour, so watch yourself. Happy Easter 11 to everybody, and finally, I'll embarrass my 12 daughter and wish her a happy 18th birthday. 13 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Commissioner 14 Prendergast. 15 COMMISSIONER PRENDERGAST: Again, I want 16 to congratulate you, Joe, good retirement, wish 17 everyone a happy Easter, St. Patty's Day. And 18 also, one other thing, I have gotten a few 19 calls from people about recycling. I wish they 20 would go to the Aston Township internet site, 21 Aston Township dot net, and they can hit 22 department and single stream. It will tell 23 them exactly what you can throw in the 24 recycling. That will alleviate a lot of what's LORRAINE EVANS 45 1 going on. That's all I got. 2 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Thank you. 3 Commissioner Berry. 4 COMMISSIONER BERRY: Thank you. I want to 5 congratulate Joe, happy retirement and 6 everybody, have a happy Easter. Thank you. 7 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Commissioner Higgins. 8 COMMISSIONER HIGGINS: Thank you. I also 9 want to congratulate Joe Siewarski on his 10 retirement. I just got done watching Mountain 11 Men series on the History Channel and they are 12 up there in cold Alaska, most of the actors. I 13 know you're not going up there, but I am 14 envious of you up there on your own, doing what 15 you want to do. Probably nobody up there on 16 either side of you for who knows how far. Good 17 luck up there. I hope you enjoy yourself. 18 You're still coming back here. We wish you a 19 lot of luck. Well deserved. Thank you for 20 your service. 21 Also happy St. Patrick's Day. I was 22 joking with a few people on Facebook and I put 23 up a picture of the Chicago River, which they 24 normally put green dye in there for St. LORRAINE EVANS 46 1 Patrick's Day and they run that for the whole 2 day. It's pretty neat and I put a comment out 3 there it would be nice if we could do that to 4 Chester Creek as it flows through Aston. 5 Couple people said let's do it, but I was just 6 kidding. So Happy St. Patrick's Day. 7 And I want to thank Nancy and the other 8 members of the Banner Committee for the time 9 and effort they put into coming up with the 10 Banner idea. It's all over the state and 11 country. It's a good thing for Aston to do, to 12 recognize our Veterans. They don't get enough 13 credit for what they do or what they have done. 14 Hats off to the committee for what they have 15 done. Thank you. 16 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Thank you, 17 Commissioner Higgins. Commissioner Bowden. 18 COMMISSIONER BOWDEN: Happy St. Patrick's 19 Day to all my Irish friends and those of my 20 friends that are Irish on St. Patrick's Day 21 only, to them as well. Wish everyone a happy 22 Easter, and I really again want to thank Adam 23 for your hard work on the Easter egg decorating 24 through for the Parks and Rec Committee, and LORRAINE EVANS 47 1 most sincerely thank you to all the members of 2 the people that worked along with me for this 3 Banner, Heroes Banner Committee. It was a lot 4 of work, a lot of meetings, a lot of brain 5 storming, and you guys did an absolutely 6 fabulous job for our community, and it's going 7 to look so great as we drive up and down our 8 main streets to see these beautiful banners of 9 the wonderful people that served in our 10 military to keep our land free. 11 Happy Easter to everybody, and that's all 12 I have. 13 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Thank you. 14 Commissioner McGinn. 15 COMMISSIONER McGINN: I have to say, with 16 my last name McGinn, I know a few others said 17 it, but happy St. Patrick's Day to everybody. 18 Mike, I know you put a lot of effort into our 19 business community in the Seventh Ward, so 20 thanks for going over kind of all of the 21 changes in terms of the regulations. Hopefully 22 this is the first of many that come along, and 23 allow many to go back to work and back to 24 business. LORRAINE EVANS 48 1 Nancy, great job in terms of spearheading 2 the banners. It's a great thing, and I have to 3 only imagine there's going to be a lot of 4 people reaching out to get those banners up for 5 their loved ones. 6 Joe, congratulations. I am the new guy at 7 the township. As they're reading the 8 Resolution I saw the Ski Bar in there and I'll 9 have to say, and there's a little bit of 10 anonymity because there's so many of them, but 11 former McGinns of Knowlton Road, which were 12 many boys back in the day, were frequenters of 13 the Ski Bar. And I won't say which one, but I 14 know one of them for family stories, got turned 15 away for being a little too young in there one 16 time. Never was there but I feel as though I 17 have been with all the stories. 18 Congratulations on your retirement. 19 One note to add in terms of Parks and Rec, 20 we didn't talk in the meeting, but we have a 21 sub committee which I am going to Chair, and 22 focus on the Parks. The physical parks, 23 looking at what we can do, improvements we can 24 make. There's been a lot that's been done over LORRAINE EVANS 49 1 the years. 2 You look at Vinsmith Park, that was done 3 only a few years ago, it's a tremendous asset. 4 Some of the improvements at the Community 5 Center, the new playground, things like that. 6 So we really want to do that. We have small 7 pocket parks around Aston, so folks that are 8 interested in getting involved, reach out to 9 Nancy or Fred or myself. We are all part of 10 the Parks and Rec Committee. I'll be out there 11 recruiting. 12 If you know anyone, even if you don't want 13 me to attribute it to you but say hey, you 14 should ask this person that might help if you 15 ask, you can tell me on the side. Something I 16 look forward to and hopefully move forward. 17 One last thing is, again, as the new guy, 18 learning of different issues, and things that 19 residents have in terms of the Community, and 20 one of the issues is road paving and 21 specifically, not a municipal road, but a state 22 road, in terms of Aston Mills Road and Birney 23 Highway. 24 And so, I think it's kind of appropriate LORRAINE EVANS 50 1 in terms of sharing on St. Patrick's Day as 2 well, they say that saying When Irish Eyes are 3 Smiling and everything. I can think of a 4 particular set of Irish eyes who used to sit up 5 here, and Carol Graham, I know this was 6 something she had pushed for years in terms of 7 may happen. I am sure most of us traveled the 8 road, know it definitely needs some work. It 9 was a country road back in the day. Now it's 10 heavily traversed. 11 Some things, I know Carol isn't here, but 12 I can't take any credit for this. I am happy 13 to report that we did get approval in terms of 14 the PennDOT list, according to our engineer, 15 Joe Viscuso, that that is going to be on the 16 paving list for this year. It's a great thing. 17 It needs it and it's a good improvement. 18 And there's that saying sometimes that 19 answers don't always come in our time, 20 unfortunately for Carol, but this is something, 21 those things that happen after our time, she is 22 the Irish Eyes are Smiling, she will be happy 23 that that happens. 24 So happy to announce it, can't take any LORRAINE EVANS 51 1 credit. Credit goes to Carol and Joe and 2 everyone else. Glad that it's happening. 3 That's it for me. 4 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Thank you, 5 Commissioner McGinn. Mr. Viscuso. 6 MR. VISCUSO: Only thing I have -- well, I 7 have a lot of Ski Bar stories too. We won't go 8 there. I do want to say Commissioner Higgins 9 talked about the street trees on Pennell Road. 10 Got word today that will probably start next 11 week, and they'll probably do three to four a 12 day and Russ will help will some of the traffic 13 control, and start to see them go in and 14 they'll be in bloom later this spring. 15 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Thank you. Ms. 16 Naughton-Beck. 17 MS. NAUGHTON-BECK: I have never been to 18 the Ski Bar. I don't have anything. Happy St. 19 Patrick's Day. 20 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Mr. DeVuono. 21 MR. DeVUONO: I would like to wish Joe the 22 best and enjoy it. Worked hard to get there. 23 That's it. 24 PRESIDENT STIGALE: Joe, sorry to see you LORRAINE EVANS 52 1 go. You deserve it. You're a hard worker, 2 always a fun guy, enjoy your retirement. 3 One topic Commissioner Prendergast 4 touched on was the recycling. We are going to 5 do a little better job with the Board with 6 communication. Comes down to clean recycling 7 and dirty recycling. And we'll try to educate 8 you on what's clean and what's dirty. Even 9 though it's plastic, if it's got grease in it 10 or something left in it as far as food, we 11 can't recycle it and we actually get charged 12 back for bringing that to the recycling plant. 13 So that's why we are seeing a lot of recycling 14 being dumped in the regular trash. We are 15 going to try and educate you. 16 Like Commissioner Prendergast said, go to 17 our website and see the single stream 18 recycling. I heard there's a little video in 19 the works from Public Works that will kind of 20 narrow that down for you. That's the basis of 21 it. And again, we'll try to educate you on 22 that. 23 Wish everyone a happy Easter. Need a 24 motion to adjourn. LORRAINE EVANS 53 1 COMMISSIONER BOWDEN: So move. 2 COMMISSIONER PRENDERGAST: Second. 3 (Whereupon, the meeting is 4 concluded at 8:00 p.m.) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 LORRAINE EVANS 54 1 REPORTER'S CERTIFICATION 2 I HEREBY CERTIFY that I was present upon the 3 hearing of the above-entitled matter and there 4 reported stenographically the proceedings had and the 5 testimony produced; and I further certify that the 6 foregoing is a true and correct transcript of my said 7 stenographic notes. 8 9 _______________________ Lorraine Evans 10 Reporter-Notary Public My Commission Expires 11 October 25, 2022 12 13 14 15 16 (The foregoing certification of this transcript does 17 not apply to any reproduction of the same by any 18 means, unless under the direct control and/or 19 supervision of the certifying reporter.) 20 21 22 23 24 LORRAINE EVANS