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Sargent's Court Reporting Service, Inc. (814) 536-8908 BEFORE THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF PENN HILLS * * * * * * * * * IN RE: MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEETING * * * * * * * * * BEFORE: SARA KUNN, Mayor CATHERINE R. SAPP, Deputy Mayor GARY UNDERWOOD, Member JOHN PETRUCCI, Member MARK A. BRODNICKI, Member SCOTT ANDREJCHAK, Municipal Manager NICHOLAS FUTULES, Controller RICK MINSTERMAN, Engineer CHRIS BLACKWELL, Planning Director SHEREE STRAYER, Finance Director Reporter: Diana L. Inquartano Any reproduction of this transcript is prohibited without authorization by the certifying agency.

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B E F O R E T H E

M A Y O R A N D C O U N C I L O F

P E N N H I L L S

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I N R E : M A Y O R A N D C O U N C I L M E E T I N G

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B E F O R E : S A R A K U N N , M a y o r

C A T H E R I N E R . S A P P ,

D e p u t y M a y o r

G A R Y U N D E R W O O D , M e m b e r

J O H N P E T R U C C I , M e m b e r

M A R K A . B R O D N I C K I , M e m b e r

S C O T T A N D R E J C H A K ,

M u n i c i p a l M a n a g e r

N I C H O L A S F U T U L E S ,

C o n t r o l l e r

R I C K M I N S T E R M A N , E n g i n e e r

C H R I S B L A C K W E L L ,

P l a n n i n g D i r e c t o r

S H E R E E S T R A Y E R ,

F i n a n c e D i r e c t o r

R e p o r t e r : D i a n a L . I n q u a r t a n o

A n y r e p r o d u c t i o n o f t h i s t r a n s c r i p t

i s p r o h i b i t e d w i t h o u t a u t h o r i z a t i o n

b y t h e c e r t i f y i n g a g e n c y .

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H E A R I N G : M o n d a y , J u n e 1 7 , 2 0 1 9

7 : 0 0 p . m .

L O C A T I O N : P e n n H i l l s M u n i c i p a l

B u i l d i n g

1 0 2 D u f f R o a d

P e n n H i l l s , P A 1 5 2 3 5

W I T N E S S E S : J o a n n e A l e x a n d e r , B i l l

M o u t z , E l d e r J i m B a l t h r o p , D i n a H u r t

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A P P E A R A N C E S 1

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C R A I G A L E X A N D E R , E S Q U I R E 3

B r u c e E . D i c e & A s s o c i a t e s , P . C . 4

7 8 7 P i n e V a l l e y D r i v e , S u i t e E 5

P i t t s b u r g h , P A 1 5 2 3 9 6

C o u n s e l f o r P e n n H i l l s 7

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I N D E X 1

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O P E N I N G R E M A R K S 3

B y D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p 7 - 8 4

P R E S E N T A T I O N 5

B y A t t o r n e y A n d r e j c h a k 8 - 9 6

D I S C U S S I O N A M O N G P A R T I E S 9 - 1 2 6 7

T E S T I M O N Y 8

M s . A l e x a n d e r 1 2 6 - 1 2 7 9

T E S T I M O N Y 10

M r . R o n i a k 1 2 7 - 1 2 8 11

D I S C U S S I O N A M O N G P A R T I E S 1 2 8 - 1 5 0 12

T E S T I M O N Y 13

M r . M o u t z 1 5 0 - 1 5 6 14

D I S C U S S I O N A M O N G P A R T I E S 1 5 6 - 1 6 1 15

T E S T I M O N Y 16

M r . B a l t r h o p 1 6 1 - 1 6 4 17

D I S C U S S I O N A M O N G A P R T I E S 1 6 4 - 1 6 7 18

T E S T I M O N Y 19

M r . C a r t e r 1 6 7 - 1 7 2 20

D I S C U S S I O N A M O N G P A R T I E S 1 7 2 - 1 8 2 21

T E S T I M O N Y 22

M s . B r a n s k y 1 8 2 - 1 8 7 23

D I S C U S S I O N A M O N G P A R T I E S 1 8 7 - 2 0 7 24

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I N D E X ( c o n t ' d ) 1

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T E S T I M O N Y 3

M s . H u r t 2 0 7 - 2 1 0 4

T E S T I M O N Y 5

M s . M a y 2 1 0 - 2 1 3 6

D I S C U S S I O N A M O N G P A R T I E S 2 1 3 - 2 2 6 7

C E R T I F I C A T E 2 2 7 8

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E X H I B I T S 1

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P a g e 3

N u m b e r D e s c r i p t i o n O f f e r e d 4

N O N E O F F E R E D 5

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P R O C E E D I N G S 1

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 3

G o o d e v e n i n g , P e n n 4

H i l l s . W e a r e g o i n g t o b e c a l l i n g t h e 5

m e e t i n g t o o r d e r i n j u s t a f e w 6

m o m e n t s . W e h a v e s o m e c h a n g e s t o t h e 7

a g e n d a . S o i f y o u w o u l d b e s o k i n d 8

j u s t t o g i v e u s a f e w m o m e n t s t o 9

p r o p e r l y p r e p a r e f o r t h e m e e t i n g ? I t 10

w o u l d b e a p p r e c i a t e d . T h a n k y o u . 11

- - - 12

( W H E R E U P O N , T H E R E W A S A B R I E F 13

I N T E R R U P T I O N I N T H E P R O C E E D I N G S . ) 14

- - - 15

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 16

O k a y . 17

G o o d e v e n i n g , P e n n 18

H i l l s . T h a n k y o u s o m u c h f o r y o u r 19

p a t i e n c e . I t b e i n g 7 : 0 5 w e a r e g o i n g 20

t o s t a r t o u r J u n e 1 7 t h , 2 0 1 9 m e e t i n g . 21

I a m g o i n g t o b e a m e n d i n g t h e a g e n d a 22

t h i s e v e n i n g . W e a r e g o i n g t o b e 23

r e m o v i n g n u m b e r t e n a n d a l s o r e m o v i n g 24

R e s o l u t i o n N u m b e r 2 0 1 9 - 0 3 0 a n d a d d i n g 25

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a n a g r e e m e n t b e t w e e n t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y 1

o f P e n n H i l l s a n d H o f f m a n K e n n e l . 2

I ' d a l s o l i k e t o l e t y o u 3

k n o w t h a t o u r M a y o r w i l l b e j o i n i n g 4

t h i s m e e t i n g b y w a y o f t e l e p h o n e . S o 5

s h e i s o n t h e t e l e p h o n e t h i s e v e n i n g . 6

S h e a s k e d m e t o c h a i r t h e m e e t i n g , 7

b e c a u s e s h e t h a t i t w o u l d b e - - - s i n c e 8

s h e c a n ' t s e e y o u r f a c e , i t w o u l d b e 9

b e t t e r i f I c h a i r e d t h e m e e t i n g . B u t 10

s h e c a n h e a r y o u . A n d i f w e n e e d h e r 11

t o r e s p o n d w e c a n d o t h a t a l s o . 12

O k a y . 13

A t t h i s t i m e , S c o t t , o u r 14

B u s i n e s s M a n a g e r h a s a n a n n o u n c e m e n t 15

h e ' d l i k e t o m a k e . 16

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 17

T h a n k y o u . T h a n k s f o r 18

b e i n g h e r e , a n d w e l c o m e . A f e w m o n t h s 19

a g o w e i n i t i a t e d a s e a r c h p r o c e s s t o 20

t r a n s i t i o n t o a n e w f i n a n c e 21

a d m i n i s t r a t i v e s t a f f . A s m a n y o f y o u 22

m a y o r m a y n o t k n o w , E d S t r e c h e n g a u s 23

h a s b e e n o u r l o n g t i m e P l a n n i n g 24

I n s t r u c t o r f o r p r o b a b l y m a n y y e a r s - - - 25

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m o r e y e a r s t h a n h e m a y w a n t t o a d m i t . 1

A n d S h e r e e S t r a y e r , t h e 2

a s s i s t a n t , a s s u m e d t h e f u n c t i o n o f 3

F i n a n c e D i r e c t o r . A n d t h a t ' s g o i n g t o 4

b e h a p p e n i n g i n A u g u s t . S o s h e ' s 5

t a k i n g t h e r e i n s . A n d i n t h e m e a n t i m e 6

w e i n i t i a t e d a s e a r c h p r o c e s s f o r h e r 7

r e p l a c e m e n t a s a n A s s i s t a n t D i r e c t o r . 8

A n d w e w e r e f o r t u n a t e t o i d e n t i f y a 9

s u p e r b c a n d i d a t e . H e r n a m e i s A p r i l 10

L o y a l . S h e i s i n t h e a u d i e n c e h e r e 11

t o n i g h t . 12

I ' d l i k e t o j u s t 13

r e c o g n i z e h e r . Y o u ' l l b e s e e i n g m o r e 14

o f h e r i n t h e f i n a n c e o f f i c e s t a r t i n g 15

o n M o n d a y . S h e c o m e s t o u s f o r t h e 16

C i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h w i t h a r e a l l y 17

o u t s t a n d i n g r e s u m e . S o w e ' r e r e a l l y 18

h a p p y t o h a v e h e r o n b o a r d . S o w e l c o m e 19

t o P e n n H i l l s . 20

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 21

W e l c o m e t o P e n n H i l l s . 22

W e l o o k f o r w a r d t o w o r k i n g w i t h y o u . 23

Y o u d o h a v e s o m e b i g s h o e s t o f i l l a s 24

y o u a l r e a d y k n o w . A r e y o u r e a d y ? 25

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M S . L O Y A L : 1

I ' m r e a d y . 2

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 3

O k a y . 4

N e x t o n t h e a g e n d a w e 5

h a v e a M a y o r ' s F Y I . T h e M a y o r i s n o t 6

g o i n g t o h a v e a n F Y I t h i s e v e n i n g . 7

B u t t h e D e p u t y M a y o r d o e s . O n e , M a y o r 8

S a r a K u h n i s s t i l l o u t s i c k , a s y o u 9

k n o w . P l e a s e c o n t i n u e t o p r a y f o r h e r 10

a n d h e r f a m i l y a s s h e i s r e c o v e r i n g . 11

K e e p h e r i n y o u r p r a y e r s . W e 12

c e r t a i n l y d o m i s s h e r . 13

A n d a g a i n , s h e i s j o i n i n g u s b y 14

w a y o f t e l e p h o n e t h i s e v e n i n g . S o i f 15

y o u ' d l i k e , s a y h e l l o M a y o r K u h n . 16

H e l l o M a y o r K u h n . 17

M S . S T R A Y E R : 18

C a n y o u h e a r u s , M a y o r ? 19

M A Y O R K U H N : 20

I c o u l d n ' t h e a r y o u v e r y 21

w e l l . I c o u l d h e a r y o u f i n e b e f o r e 22

y o u s a i d c a n y o u h e a r u s n o w . I c o u l d 23

h e a r y o u f i n e . 24

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 25

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O k a y . 1

W e l l , e v e r y o n e ' s j u s t 2

s a y i n g h e l l o t o y o u , g o o d e v e n i n g . 3

A n d t h e y w i l l b e r e m e m b e r i n g y o u a n d 4

y o u r f a m i l y i n t h e i r p r a y e r s . 5

A l l r i g h t . 6

A s s o m e o f y o u m a y k n o w 7

o r m a y n o t b e a w a r e o f . T h e r e w a s a n 8

i n c i d e n t t h a t t o o k p l a c e o n T h u r s d a y , 9

J u n e 6 t h , t h a t i n v o l v e d a d r u g 10

t a s k f o r c e t e a m , P e n n H i l l s p o l i c e a n d 11

a K 9 d o g . M a n y r e s i d e n t s a n d 12

c o n c e r n e d a g e n c i e s c o n t a c t e d m e w i t h 13

r e g a r d t o w h a t t h e y f e e l w a s b r u t a l , 14

e x c e s s i v e a n d i n a p p r o p r i a t e p o l i c i n g 15

d u r i n g a n a r r e s t . 16

T h e s i t u a t i o n w e n t u n d e r 17

r e v i e w . I h a v e m e t w i t h C h i e f B u r t o n , 18

S c o t t , o u r B u s i n e s s M a n a g e r . A n d i n 19

t u r n t h e c h i e f h a s m e t w i t h h i s 20

d e p a r t m e n t , A t t o r n e y J o s h S h a p i r o ' s 21

o f f i c e , r e s i d e n t s a n d a n o u t s i d e 22

a g e n c y w i t h r e g a r d t o t h i s m a t t e r . 23

I w a n t t o c l a r i f y a n d r e i t e r a t e 24

w h a t I s a i d , b e c a u s e s o m e p a r t s o f m y 25

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i n t e r v i e w w e r e c u t b y C h a n n e l F o u r 1

N e w s . 2

N u m b e r o n e , I d o c o m m e n d 3

a n d s u p p o r t t h e P e n n H i l l s P o l i c e 4

D e p a r t m e n t . W e h a v e a g r e a t p o l i c e 5

f o r c e h e r e i n P e n n H i l l s , r a n b y a n 6

o u t s t a n d i n g C h i e f . T h e C h i e f i s i n 7

t h e a u d i e n c e . C h i e f , s t a n d u p . 8

F o r t h e 2 7 y e a r s t h a t 9

I ' v e l i v e d i n P e n n H i l l s , I c a n s a y 10

o u r f o r c e w o r k s h a r d t o k e e p P e n n 11

H i l l s a s a f e p l a c e t o l i v e , w o r k a n d 12

p l a y . W i t h t h e d r u g t a s k f o r c e a n d a n y 13

o t h e r i n c i d e n t t h a t i n v o l v e s t h e s t a t e 14

p o l i c e , F B I , t h e y h a v e j u r i s d i c t i o n 15

a n d t h e y s u p e r s e d e o u r l o c a l p o l i c e 16

d e p a r t m e n t . 17

W e d e f i n i t e l y w a n t a n d 18

w e l c o m e t h e d r u g t a s k f o r c e h e r e i n 19

P e n n H i l l s . W e d o n o t w a n t d r u g s 20

p o l l u t i n g o u r s t r e e t s a n d 21

n e i g h b o r h o o d s . S o w e s u p p o r t t h e 22

e f f o r t s o f o u r l o c a l p o l i c e a n d t h e 23

d r u g t a s k f o r c e . 24

H o w e v e r , I d o n o t 25

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c o n d o n e p o l i c e b r u t a l i t y o r 1

i n a p p r o p r i a t e b e h a v i o r s . I t h a s n ’ t 2

b e e n a n d i t ' s n o t g o i n g t o b e i n P e n n 3

H i l l s . W e d e f i n i t e l y d o w e l c o m e t h e 4

d r u g t a s k f o r c e a n d w e d o t h a n k o u r 5

C h i e f f o r d o i n g a w o n d e r f u l j o b a l l o f 6

t h e y e a r s . C h i e f , I f e e l s a f e l i v i n g 7

h e r e . T h a n k y o u . 8

N e x t , I ' d l i k e t o 9

e x p r e s s c o n d o l e n c e t o t h e f a m i l y o f 10

t h e p e r s o n w h o l o s t t h e i r l i f e o n 11

S a l t s b u r g R o a d l a s t w e e k w h e n c r o s s i n g 12

t h e s t r e e t . R e m e m b e r t o p r a y f o r t h a t 13

f a m i l y a n d t h e m a n w h o a c c i d e n t a l l y 14

h i t h i m . O n c e a g a i n , I c o m m e n d P e n n 15

H i l l ' s f i r s t r e s p o n d e r s o n t h e i r 16

a b i l i t y t o p r o f e s s i o n a l l y h a n d l e t h e 17

e n t i r e s i t u a t i o n a n d c r o w d c o n t r o l . 18

S c o t t a n d I w a t c h e d a s 19

D i a n e F r i t z H e n r y a n d h e r t e a m w o r k e d 20

i n t h a t u n f o r t u n a t e , t r a g i c a c c i d e n t . 21

W i t h t h a t b e i n g s a i d , S c o t t a n d t h e 22

p u b l i c w o r k s a r e d o i n g a g r e a t j o b 23

w i t h t h e s t r e e t m a r k e r s b e i n g p u t i n 24

h i g h t r a f f i c i n t e r s e c t i o n s . A s I c a m e 25

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h e r e t o d a y I s a w t h r e e o f t h e m . G o o d 1

w o r k . 2

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 3

T h a n k s . 4

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 5

T h e y d o l o o k g o o d . A n d 6

I b e l i e v e t h a t t h e y w i l l m a k e a 7

d i f f e r e n c e . 8

O n a m u c h h a p p i e r n o t e , 9

I ' d l i k e t o s a y c o n g r a t u l a t i o n s t o t h e 10

P e n n H i l l s c l a s s o f 2 0 1 9 . W e s a l u t e 11

t h e m a n d w i s h t h e m a l l t h e b e s t o n 12

t h e i r f u t u r e e n d e a v o r s . L e t ' s j u s t 13

g i v e t h e c l a s s o f 2 0 1 9 a h a n d . 14

A t t h i s t i m e c o u l d w e 15

a l l s t a n d f o r t h e P l e d g e o f 16

A l l e g i a n c e ? 17

- - - 18

( W H E R E U P O N , T H E P L E D G E O F A L L E G I A N C E 19

W A S H E L D . ) 20

- - - 21

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 22

M a u r e e n . R o l l c a l l . 23

M S . S O R C E : 24

M r . B r o d n i c k i ? 25

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M R . B R O D N I C K I : 1

H e r e . 2

M S . S O R C E : 3

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p ? 4

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 5

P r e s e n t . 6

M S . S O R C E : 7

M r . U n d e r w o o d ? 8

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 9

H e r e . 10

M S . S O R C E : 11

M r . P e t r u c c i ? 12

M R . P E T R U C C I : 13

H e r e . 14

M S . S O R C E : 15

M a y o r K u h n ? 16

M A Y O R K U H N : 17

H e r e . C a n y o u h e a r m e ? 18

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 19

Y e s , I c a n , M a y o r K u h n . 20

M A Y O R K U H N : 21

A l l r i g h t . T h a n k y o u . 22

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 23

Y o u ' r e w e l c o m e . 24

N e x t , d o I h a v e a n 25

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a p p r o v a l t o a c c e p t t h e M a y 2 0 t h , 2 0 1 9 , 1

c o u n c i l m e e t i n g m i n u t e s ? 2

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 3

D e p u t y M a y o r . 4

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 5

C o u n c i l m a n U n d e r w o o d ? 6

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 7

I ' d l i k e t o m a k e a 8

m o t i o n t o a p p r o v e t h e m i n u t e s o f M a y 9

2 0 t h , 2 0 1 9 . T h a t i s t h e c o u n c i l 10

m e e t i n g m i n u t e s . 11

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 12

D o I h a v e a s e c o n d ? 13

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 14

S e c o n d . 15

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 16

I t ' s b e e n m o v e d a n d 17

S e c o n d . D o I h a v e a n y q u e s t i o n s f r o m 18

t h e a u d i e n c e ? A n y q u e s t i o n s f r o m 19

c o u n c i l ? 20

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 21

N o . 22

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 23

M a u r e e n ? 24

M S . S O R C E : 25

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D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p . 1

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 2

Y e s . 3

M S . S O R C E : 4

M r . U n d e r w o o d ? 5

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 6

Y e s . 7

M S . S O R C E : 8

M r . P e t r u c c i ? 9

M R . P E T R U C C I : 10

Y e s . 11

M S . S O R C E : 12

M a y o r K u h n ? 13

M A Y O R K U H N : 14

I a b s t a i n . I w a s n ' t a t 15

t h a t m e e t i n g . 16

M S . S O R C E : 17

O k a y . 18

M r . B r o d n i c k i ? 19

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 20

Y e s . 21

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 22

N e x t o n t h e a g e n d a . D o 23

I h a v e a m o t i o n t o a p p r o v e t h e 24

e x p e n d i t u r e s d a t e d J u n 1 7 t h , 2 0 1 9 ? 25

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M R . B R O D N I C K I : 1

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p . 2

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 3

C o u n c i l m a n B r o d n i c k i ? 4

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 5

I m o v e t o a c c e p t t h e 6

e x p e n d i t u r e s o f J u n e 1 7 t h , 2 0 1 9 . 7

T h r e e j o u r n a l v o u c h e r s f o r 8

$ 7 0 8 , 1 3 8 . 2 0 , n i n e C . D . r e q u i s i t i o n s 9

f o r $ 8 3 , 7 7 5 . 6 5 a n d a m a s t e r o f 4 3 6 9 8 10

t o 4 3 9 2 8 f o r $ 1 , 8 4 2 . 1 8 5 . 2 8 f o r a t o t a l 11

o f $ 2 , 6 3 4 , 0 9 9 . 1 3 . 12

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 13

A n d d o I h a v e a s e c o n d ? 14

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 15

S e c o n d . 16

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 17

A n y q u e s t i o n s f r o m t h e 18

a u d i e n c e ? 19

M S . M O L A Z Z O : 20

K a t e M o l a z z o . I a m j u s t 21

w o n d e r i n g a n d I ' m d i r e c t i n g t h i s m o r e 22

t o w a r d s S c o t t . P e o p l e h a v e b e e n 23

c o m p l a i n i n g a b o u t t h e p u b l i c s e r v i c e 24

t h a t t h e y ' v e b e e n g i v i n g . A n d I ' m 25

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j u s t w o n d e r i n g i f p e o p l e a r e i n t h e 1

m u n i c i p a l b u i l d i n g w h e n t h i s h a p p e n s , 2

w i t h r e g a r d s t o m u n i c i p a l w o r k e r s o r 3

i f t h e y a r e j u s t s a y i n g t h e y a r e . S o 4

m y q u e s t i o n i s , a r e p e o p l e a c t u a l l y 5

m a k i n g t h e s e p h o n e c a l l s ? A n d i f t h e y 6

a r e , a r e y o u s h a r i n g t h i s w i t h t h e 7

p u b l i c a n d c a n a n y t h i n g b e d o n e ? O r 8

b a s i c a l l y a r e o u r h a n d s j u s t t i e d ? 9

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 10

M s . M o l a z z o , e x c u s e m e , 11

S c o t t . W e a r e a c t u a l l y o n t h e p a r t 12

n o w w h e r e w e a r e j u s t a p p r o v i n g t h e 13

e x p e n d i t u r e s . D o y o u h a v e q u e s t i o n s 14

w i t h r e g a r d s t o e x p e n d i t u r e s ? 15

M S . S O R C E : 16

I m e a n i t ' s j u s t r e l a t e d 17

t o t h e $ 2 0 0 , 0 0 0 t h a t w e ' r e p a y i n g t h e m 18

e v e r y m o n t h a n d t h e $ 7 5 , 0 0 0 . I t ' s 19

j u s t w e p a y t h e m a l o t o f m o n e y . S o 20

i t ' s i n r e l a t i o n t o t h a t , t h a t w e ' r e 21

p a y i n g t h a t m o n e y a n d w e ' r e n o t 22

g e t t i n g r e s u l t s . 23

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 24

W e d o h a v e a c o n t r a c t 25

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w i t h t h e m , o b v i o u s l y . A n d i t ' s 1

b e c a u s e o f t h a t w e h a v e t o p e r f o r m . 2

S o t h e c o n t r a c t s p e l l s o u r v e r y 3

c l e a r l y w h a t t h e i r o b l i g a t i o n s a r e a n d 4

w h a t o u r s a r e . I w o u l d t e l l y o u t h a t 5

w e f r e q u e n t l y g e t c o m p l a i n t s a b o u t t h e 6

s e r v i c e . 7

I t h i n k t h a t ' s g o i n g t o 8

b e c o m m o n j u s t b e c a u s e o f t h e s i z e o f 9

P e n n H i l l s . A n d w e g e t t h o s e u s u a l l y 10

b y p h o n e o r e m a i l . A n d w e f o l l o w u p 11

o n i t o n a r e g u l a r b a s i s . S o a n y 12

c o m p l a i n t s t h a t w e g e t a b o u t t h e 13

s e r v i c e , w h e t h e r i t ' s a m i s s e d p i c k u p , 14

w h e t h e r i t ' s a r o a d k i l l t h a t t h e y 15

d i d n ' t g e t . 16

A n d w e g e t - - - w e g e t a 17

h a n d f u l o f t h o s e o n a w e e k l y b a s i s . 18

W e d o f o l l o w - u p w i t h t h e i r r o u t e 19

m a n a g e r t o c o r r e c t i t . S o o u r h a n d s 20

a r e n ' t t i e d . T h e y h a v e a c o n t r a c t 21

t h a t t h e y h a v e t o p e r f o r m w i t h P e n n 22

H i l l s . A n d w h e n t h e y d o n ' t , w e h o l d 23

t h e m t o i t . 24

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 25

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A n y o t h e r q u e s t i o n s w i t h 1

r e g a r d s t o t h e e x p e n d i t u r e s f r o m t h e 2

a u d i e n c e ? A n y q u e s t i o n s f r o m c o u n c i l ? 3

M a u r e e n ? 4

M S . S O R C E : 5

M r . P e t r u c c i . 6

M R . P E T R U C C I : 7

Y e s . 8

M S . S O R C E : 9

M a y o r K u h n ? M a y o r K u h n ? 10

M A Y O R K U H N : 11

Y e s . I ' m s o r r y . S o m e 12

o f i t r e a l l y i s f a i n t . A m I m o v i n g 13

n o w o n t h e e x p e n d i t u r e s ? 14

M S . S O R C E : 15

Y e s . 16

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 17

Y e s . 18

M A Y O R K U H N : 19

O k a y . 20

I v o t e y e s o n a l l 21

e x p e n d i t u r e s u n l e s s t h e r e i s s o m e t h i n g 22

f o r D e l a n c u A u t o b l a d e a n d I a b s t a i n o n 23

s u c h . 24

M S . S O R C E : 25

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O k a y . 1

M r . B r o d n i c k i ? 2

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 3

Y e s . 4

M S . S O R C E : 5

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p ? 6

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 7

Y e s . 8

M S . S O R C E : 9

A n d M r . U n d e r w o o d ? 10

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 11

Y e s . 12

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 13

N e x t o n t h e a g e n d a . D o 14

I h a v e a n a p p r o v a l f o r O r d i n a n c e 15

N u m b e r 2 6 4 8 o f 2 0 1 9 ? 16

M R . P E T R U C C I : 17

M a y o r S a p p - - - D e p u t y 18

M a y o r S a p p . 19

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 20

C o u n c i l m a n P e t r u c c i ? 21

M R . P E T R U C C I : 22

2 6 4 8 o f 2 0 1 9 , a m e n d i n g 23

c h a p t e r 8 8 o f t h e r e a l e s t a t e t a x o f 24

t h e c o d e o f t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y o f P e n n 25

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H i l l s t o e s t a b l i s h m e n t i n s t a l l m e n t 1

p r o c e d u r e s f o r c o l l e c t i o n o f t h e r e a l 2

e s t a t e t a x . 3

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 4

D o I h a v e a s e c o n d ? 5

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 6

S e c o n d . 7

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 8

D o I h a v e a n y q u e s t i o n s 9

f r o m t h e a u d i e n c e ? A n y q u e s t i o n s f r o m 10

c o u n c i l ? M a u r e e n ? 11

M S . S O R C E : 12

M r . U n d e r w o o d ? 13

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 14

Y e s . 15

M S . S O R C E : 16

M r . P e t r u c c i ? 17

M R . P E T R U C C I : 18

Y e s . 19

M S . S O R C E : 20

M a y o r K u h n ? 21

M A Y O R K U H N : 22

Y e s . 23

M S . S O R C E : 24

M r . B r o d n i c k i ? 25

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M R . B R O D N I C K I : 1

Y e s . 2

M S . S O R C E : 3

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p ? 4

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 5

Y e s . 6

N e x t o n t h e a g e n d a . D o 7

I h a v e a m o t i o n t o a p p r o v e t h e 8

O r d i n a n c e N u m b e r 2 6 4 9 o f 2 0 1 9 ? 9

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 10

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p . 11

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 12

C o u n c i l m a n B r o d n i c k i ? 13

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 14

I ' d l i k e t o m a k e a 15

m o t i o n t o a p p r o v e O r d i n a n c e N u m b e r 16

2 6 4 9 o f 2 0 1 9 , a u t h o r i z i n g t h e 17

i n c u r r i n g o f n o n - e l e c t o r a l d e b t a n d 18

t h e p u r p o s e o f p r o v i d i n g f u n d s f o r a 19

r e f u n d i n g p r o j e c t a n d f i n a n c i n g 20

c e r t a i n c a p i t a l i m p r o v e m e n t s b y t h e 21

i s s u a n c e o f g e n e r a l o b l i g a t i o n b o n d s , 22

o n o n e o r m o r e s e r i e s , i n t h e 23

a g g r e g a t e p r i n c i p a l a m o u n t n o t t o 24

e x c e e d $ 8 , 5 0 0 , 0 0 0 . 25

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D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 1

D o I h a v e a s e c o n d ? 2

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 3

I ' l l - - - D e p u t y M a y o r , 4

I ' l l m a k e a s e c o n d . 5

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 6

T h a n k y o u , C o u n c i l m a n . 7

A n y q u e s t i o n s f r o m t h e a u d i e n c e ? A n y 8

q u e s t i o n s f r o m c o u n c i l ? 9

M R . P E T R U C C I : 10

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p ? 11

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 12

Y e s ? 13

M R . P E T R U C C I : 14

C a n w e h a v e S c o t t g o 15

o v e r t h i s a l i t t l e b i t a n d t e l l u s a 16

l i t t l e m o r e a b o u t i t ? 17

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 18

A b s o l u t e l y . S c o t t ? 19

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 20

I ' d b e h a p p y t o . O u r 21

c o u n s e l i s a c t u a l l y h e r e i n t h e 22

a u d i e n c e . I f i t ' s a l l w i t h C o u n c i l , 23

I ' d l i k e t o d e f e r t o h i m o n t h e 24

q u e s t i o n s . H e c o u l d g i v e u s a l i t t l e 25

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s u m m a r y . 1

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 2

Y e s . T h a t ' s f i n e . 3

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 4

M r . H e a l y ? 5

A T T O R N E Y H E A L Y : 6

I s t h i s f i n e ? 7

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 8

Y o u j u s t h a v e t o s p e a k 9

c l o s e t o i t . 10

A T T O R N E Y H E A L Y : 11

O k a y . O k a y ? 12

T h e r e w e g o . G o o d 13

e v e n i n g . M y n a m e i s P a t r i c k H e a l y . I 14

a m y o u r B o n d c o u n s e l . T h i s i s a n 15

i s s u a n c e o f t w o d i f f e r e n t s e r i e s o f 16

b o n d s t h a t a r e r e f u n d i n g c e r t a i n o f 17

y o u r c u r r e n t l y o u t s t a n d i n g b o n d s . S o 18

y o u r 2 0 1 0 - - - y o u r 2 0 1 0 - A b o n d s a r e 19

b e i n g r e f u n d e d i n t h e i r e n t i r e t y . A n d 20

y o u r 2 0 1 1 s e r i e s B b o n d s t h a t a r e 21

o u t s t a n d i n g c u r r e n t l y a r e b e i n g 22

r e f u n d e d i n t h e i r e n t i r e t y . B a s i c a l l y 23

t h e n e w b o n d s w o u l d b e t h e s a m e t e r m s 24

a s t h e b o n d s t h e y ' r e t a k i n g o u t . 25

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B u t t h e y w i l l h a v e - - - 1

b u t t h e y ' r e g o i n g d i r e c t l y i n t o 2

s a v i n g s t h r o u g h l o w e r i n t e r e s t r a t e s 3

o f t h e n v e r s u s n o w a n d t h e c u r r e n t 4

b o n d s . T h e s a v i n g s w o u l d b e a t l e a s t 5

t w o p e r c e n t , w h i c h i s a g e n e r a l l y 6

s e p a r a t e t h r e s h o l d n a t i o n a l l y f r o m 7

o t h e r f u n d i n g s , t h e n e t o f a l l c o s t s . 8

W h i c h p u t s y o u i n t h e a r e a o f 9

p r o b a b l y a n y w h e r e o f $ 2 3 0 , 0 0 0 i n 10

s a v i n g s . I t w i l l p r o b a b l y c l o s e 11

s o m e w h e r e i n t h e b e g i n n i n g - - - t h e e n d 12

o f J u l y a n d t h e b e g i n n i n g o f A u g u s t . 13

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 14

A n d t h a t $ 2 0 0 , 0 0 0 , s o m e 15

o f t h a t i s f o r g e n e r a l f u n d s ? A n d 16

s o m e o f t h a t s e w e r f u n d , a s I 17

u n d e r s t a n d i t . 18

A T T O R N E Y H E A L Y : 19

I d o n ' t h a v e a s p e c i f i c 20

b r e a k d o w n o f i t . O n e i s a t a x a b l e 21

b o n d , w h i c h c a n b e s p e n t o r u s e d f o r 22

c i t y i n t e r e s t s . A n d t h e o t h e r i s n o n -23

t a x a b l e , w h i c h w o u l d b e u s e d f o r 24

c a p i t a l p r o j e c t s o n l y . 25

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D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 1

I h a v e a q u e s t i o n f o r 2

y o u . D o y o u k n o w w h a t t h e c u r r e n t 3

i n t e r e s t i s o n t h a t ? 4

A T T O R N E Y H E A L Y : 5

O n t h e - - - ? 6

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 7

O n t h e e x i s t i n g , 8

o u t s t a n d i n g , y e s . 9

A T T O R N E Y H E A L Y : 10

I d o n ' t h a v e t h o s e . I 11

d o n ' t h a v e t h o s e . 12

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 13

O k a y . 14

A n d s o t h e n I g u e s s y o u 15

w o u l d n ' t b e a b l e t o t e l l m e w h a t t h e 16

r a t e w i l l t h e n b e a f t e r r e f u n d i n g ? 17

A T T O R N E Y H E A L Y : 18

F o r t h e r e f u n d i n g - - - 19

t h e r e f u n d i n g r a t e s h a v e n ' t b e e n s e t 20

y e t . T h e y w i l l b e s e t b y y o u r 21

u n d e r w r i t e r s , F r a n k a n d J e f f r e y , w h e n 22

t h e y p r i c e t h e b o n d s . A n d y o u ' l l h a v e 23

t o m a r k e t a n d s e l l t h e b o n d s t o 24

i n v e s t o r s t o p u r c h a s e . T h e w a y w e s e t 25

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t h e p r i c e s , w e u s e t h e c u r r e n t m a r k e t 1

r a t e s t o d a y s a n e x a m p l e o f a n 2

i n d i c a t i o n o f w h a t t h o s e r a t e s w o u l d 3

b e w h e n t h e y p r i c e t h e b o n d s , w h i c h 4

I ' m t h i n k i n g t h a t t h e y ' l l d o w i t h i n 5

t h e n e x t w e e k o r s o . T h e y ' l l l o c k i n 6

t h o s e r a t e s . B u t a s o f t o d a y t h e 7

s a v i n g s a r e a b o u t $ 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 . 8

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 9

O k a y . 10

S o i s i t $ 2 3 0 , 0 0 0 o r 11

$ 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 o r s o m e w h e r e i n t h e m i d d l e ? 12

A T T O R N E Y H E A L Y : 13

I n t h e m i d d l e , y o u k n o w , 14

b e t w e e n $ 2 3 0 , 0 0 0 a n d $ 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 . B a s e d 15

o f f a v e r a g e s . 16

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 17

O k a y . 18

C o u n c i l m a n P e t r u c c i ? 19

M R . P E T R U C C I : 20

N o . I j u s t w a n t e d h i m 21

t o t a l k a b o u t i t . I ' v e g o n e t h r o u g h 22

i t b e f o r e i n a n o t h e r c o u n t y . 23

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 24

I t h i n k t h e y d o i t i n 25

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t h e C i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h t o o , d o n ' t 1

t h e y ? 2

M R . P E T R U C C I : 3

A s f a r a s o u r p e n s i o n s 4

a n d s t u f f . A n d t h e y ' r e d o i n g a 5

w o n d e r f u l j o b . S o I ' m s a t i s f i e d w i t h 6

t h a t . 7

A T T O R N E Y H E A L Y : 8

I w i l l p a s s t h a t o n . 9

T h a n k y o u . 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

A n y - - - y e s ? I f y o u c a n 12

c o m e u p t o t h e m i c a n d s t a t e y o u r n a m e 13

a n d a d d r e s s p l e a s e , f o r t h e r e c o r d ? 14

M S . H A L A B R E E Z E : 15

G o o d e v e n i n g a n d t h a n k 16

y o u . M y n a m e i s C o l l e e n H a l a b r e e z e , 17

1 4 2 C r e s c e n t H i l l R o a d . S o d o y o u 18

k n o w t h e c o s t o f t h e a t t o r n e y ' s f e e s 19

a n d t h e c o s t f o r t h e - - - f o r t h e b o n d 20

w o u l d b e ? 21

M S . H A L A B R E E Z E : 22

T h e c o s t s o f i s s u a n c e 23

a r e b e i n g s i z e d b y F r a n k a n d J e f f r e y . 24

T h e y h a v e n ' t b e e n s e t y e t . B u t t h e 25

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s a v i n g s a r e t h e n e t o f c o s t . 1

M S . H A L A B R E E Z E : 2

S o w h e n y o u s a y n e t o f 3

c o s t , y o u ' r e s a y i n g $ 2 3 0 , 0 0 0 o v e r a l l ? 4

B u t w e d o n ' t h a v e - - - ? 5

A T T O R N E Y H E A L Y : 6

N o , n o , n o . $ 2 3 0 , 0 0 0 o n 7

t o d a y ' s r a t e s a f t e r e v e r y t h i n g . T h a t 8

i s w h a t a c t u a l l y g o e s t o t h e 9

m u n i c i p a l i t y . 10

M S . H A L A B R E E Z E : 11

S o d o w e h a v e a n i d e a o f 12

w h a t t h e c o u n s e l i n g f e e s a r e t o h a v e , 13

f o r e x a m p l e I g u e s s , y o u r f i r m ' s w o r k ? 14

A T T O R N E Y H E A L Y : 15

M y f i r m ' s w o r k i s i n t h e 16

a r e a o f $ 1 6 , 0 0 0 f o r t h e b o n d t a s k i n g 17

f e e s . 18

M S . H A L A B R E E Z E : 19

A n d y o u s a i d t h e r e w e r e 20

t w o i s s u a n c e s ? O r i s t h a t t h e t o t a l ? 21

A T T O R N E Y H E A L Y : 22

T h a t ' s t h e t o t a l . 23

T h a t ' s t h e t o t a l . 24

M S . H A L A B R E E Z E : 25

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T h a n k y o u . 1

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 2

T h a n k y o u , M s . 3

H a l a b r e e z e . A n d j u s t f o r 4

c l a r i f i c a t i o n o n t h e v e r b i a g e . W h e n 5

y o u s a y r e f u n d i n g , y o u m e a n 6

r e f i n a n c i n g ? 7

A T T O R N E Y H E A L Y : 8

R i g h t . 9

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 10

T h a n k y o u . 11

A n y o t h e r q u e s t i o n s f r o m 12

c o u n c i l ? 13

O k a y . A l l c l e a r . 14

M a u r e e n ? 15

M S . S O R C E : 16

T h a n k y o u . M r . 17

P e t r u c c i . 18

M R . P E T R U C C I : 19

Y e s . 20

M S . S O R C E : 21

M a y o r K u h n ? M a y o r K u h n ? 22

M A Y O R K U H N : 23

Y e s . 24

I a m s o r r y . B u t i t i s 25

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v e r y d i f f i c u l t t o h e a r , e s p e c i a l l y 1

w h e n t h e a u d i e n c e s p e a k s . S o p l e a s e 2

f o r g i v e m e f o r g o i n g o u t o f o r d e r 3

h e r e . A n d i f I a m r e p e a t i n g w h a t w a s 4

a l r e a d y e x p l a i n e d , m y a p o l o g i e s . B u t 5

o n t h i s o r d i n a n c e t h e o n l y t h i n g t h a t 6

i s m y c o n c e r n i s t o m a k e s u r e t h e 7

a m o u n t o f m o n e y t h a t w e w e r e a r e 8

r e f u n d i n g w i l l n o t e x t e n d t h e t i m e o f 9

t h e l o a n a n d i t w i l l n o t c o s t u s a n y 10

e x t r a f u n d i n g t h e l o a n . 11

I t ' s m y u n d e r s t a n d i n g 12

f r o m t h e i n f o r m a t i o n t h a t I g o t t h a t 13

t h i s i s j u s t a d i f f e r e n t f i n a n c i n g 14

c o m p a n y t h a t i s c o m i n g i n a n d c a n g i v e 15

t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y a b e t t e r r a t e t h e r e 16

o r s a v i n g t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y m o n e y . N o t 17

e x t e n d i n g a n y o f t h e c o s t s o r t h e 18

t i m e . I f t h a t i s c o r r e c t , t h e n I a m 19

f i n e w i t h i t . 20

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 21

M a y o r K u h n , i t i s t h e 22

s a m e c o m p a n y . B u t I a m g o i n g t o l e t 23

S c o t t j u s t g i v e y o u t h a t 24

c l a r i f i c a t i o n . 25

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M A Y O R K U H N : 1

O k a y . 2

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 3

J u s t t o a n s w e r y o u , 4

M a y o r , a n d I d o n ' t k n o w w h e t h e r t h e 5

b o d i e s h e a r d t h e q u e s t i o n . B u t a s 6

B o n d c o u n s e l e x p l a i n e d . T h e r e f u n d i n g 7

d o e s n ’ t e x t e n d t h e t e r m s . S o 8

e s s e n t i a l l y w e ' r e j u s t t a k i n g 9

a d v a n t a g e o f t h e m a r k e t c o n d i t i o n t o 10

g e t a l i t t l e b i t o f a s a v i n g . S o i t 11

d o e s n ' t - - - i t d o e s n ' t e x t e n d t h e t e r m 12

a l o n g l o n g e r . 13

I t d o e s n ' t m e a n o u r p a y m e n t s g o 14

u p . I t d o e s n ' t m e a n t h a t w e ' r e g o i n g 15

t o b e p a y i n g l o n g e r . I t j u s t m e a n s 16

t h a t w e ' r e g o i n g t o g e t a l i t t l e b i t 17

o f a d i s c o u n t o n w h a t w e d o p a y 18

b e c a u s e o f t h e m a r k e t c o n d i t i o n s . 19

A f t e r t h e e x p e n s e s a r e p a i d . A f t e r 20

t h e b o n d u n d e r w r i t e r ' s f e e s a n d t h e 21

a t t o r n e y ' s f e e s . 22

M A Y O R K U H N : 23

T h a t ' s f i n e , S c o t t . I 24

j u s t w a n t e d t o m a k e s u r e t h a t t h e 25

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a u d i e n c e a n d t h e m e d i a u n d e r s t o o d . I 1

d o n ' t w a n t i t t o b e g o i n g o u t t h e r e 2

t h a t M a y o r a n d C o u n c i l i s b o r r o w i n g 3

t h i s a m o u n t o f m o n e y a n d i t ' s r e a l l y 4

w e ' r e j u s t t a k i n g a d v a n t a g e o f t h e 5

m a r k e t t o b e a b l e t o r e c e i v e s o m e 6

f u n d i n g . T h e r e ' s n o a d d i t i o n a l t i m e 7

a n d t h e r e ' s n o a d d i t i o n a l c o s t . 8

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 9

T h a t ' s c o r r e c t . I t ' s 10

n o t n e w m o n e y . 11

M A Y O R K U H N : 12

A l l r i g h t . T h a n k s s o 13

m u c h . A r e w e c a l l i n g f o r v o t e n o w ? 14

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 15

W e ' r e g e t t i n g r e a d y t o 16

d o t h a t n e x t . M a u r e e n ? 17

M A Y O R K U H N : 18

A l l r i g h t . T h a n k s . 19

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 20

M a y o r K u h n , i t ' s y o u r 21

v o t e . S a y i t a g a i n p l e a s e . 22

M S . S O R C E : 23

M a y o r K u h n ? 24

M A Y O R K U H N : 25

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A r e y o u a s k i n g m e f o r m y 1

v o t e o n t h e o r d i n a n c e ? 2

M S . S O R C E : 3

Y e s , I a m . 4

M A Y O R K U H N : 5

T h a t ' s a y e s . 6

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 7

Y e s . 8

M S . S O R C E : 9

M r . B r o d n i c k i ? 10

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 11

Y e s . 12

M S . S O R C E : 13

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p ? 14

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 15

Y e s . 16

M S . S O R C E : 17

M r . U n d e r w o o d ? 18

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 19

Y e s . 20

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 21

O k a y . 22

N e x t o n t h e a g e n d a . D o 23

I h a v e a m o t i o n t o a p p r o v e R e s o l u t i o n 24

N u m b e r 2 0 1 9 - 0 2 6 ? 25

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M R . U N D E R W O O D : 1

D e p u t y M a y o r . 2

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 3

Y e s , C o u n c i l m a n 4

U n d e r w o o d ? 5

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 6

I ' d l i k e t o m a k e a 7

m o t i o n t o a p p r o v e R e s o l u t i o n N u m b e r 8

2 0 1 9 - 0 2 6 . S e e k i n g g r a n t f u n d i n g u n d e r 9

t h e A l l e g h e n y C o u n t y S a n i t a t i o n - - - 10

S a n i t a r y A u t h o r i t y , A L C O S A N , G r e e n 11

R e v i t a l i z a t i o n o f o u r W a t e r w a y s , G R O W , 12

p r o g r a m t o f u n d t h e L i m e W a t e r - - - 13

L i m e H o l l o w S a n i t a t i o n S e w e r 14

R e p l a c e m e n t P h a s e O n e P r o j e c t . 15

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 16

A n d d o I h a v e a s e c o n d ? 17

M R . P E T R U C C I : 18

S e c o n d . 19

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 20

I ' m s o r r y . A n y 21

q u e s t i o n s f r o m t h e a u d i e n c e ? A n y 22

q u e s t i o n s f r o m c o u n c i l ? 23

M R . P E T R U C C I : 24

S c o t t , c o u l d y o u g o o v e r 25

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t h i s a n d l e t t h e m k n o w w h a t ' s g o i n g 1

o n ? 2

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 3

I ' d l i k e t o d e f e r t o 4

R i c k M i n s t e r m a n t o e x p l a i n a l i t t l e 5

b i t m o r e a b o u t t h e p r o j e c t . 6

M R . M I N S T E R M A N : 7

T h a n k y o u . H o l l o w R o a d 8

i s a l o c a t i o n w h e r e t h e s e w e r l i n e i s 9

u n d e r s i z e d a n d c a u s e s o v e r f l o w s . T h i s 10

w a s p r o b a b l y t h r e e , f o u r , m a y b e f i v e 11

y e a r s a g o . S o m e t i m e s t h e y w o u l d c l o s e 12

t h e r o a d i n o r d e r t o k e e p i t s a f e . 13

T h e m a n h o l e l i d s w o u l d c o m e o f f o f t h e 14

m a n h o l e s . A n d w h e n t h e f l o o d i n g 15

s t o p p e d , t h e w a t e r p o l l u t i o n c o n t r o l 16

d e p a r t m e n t w o u l d h a v e t o g o a n d f i n d 17

t h e l i d s a n d r e p l a c e m e n t t h e m b e f o r e 18

t h e y c o u l d o p e n t h e r o a d . 19

S o t h i s w a s a p r o j e c t 20

t h a t w a s b a c k i n 2 0 1 5 , c o n d u c t e d . A n d 21

t h e r e w a s a $ 1 1 5 , 0 0 0 g r a n t t h a t w e n t 22

w i t h i t . A n d P e n n H i l l s p a i d $ 5 0 , 0 0 0 23

a p p r o x i m a t e l y f o r t h e i r s h a r e o f t h e 24

w o r k . A n d w h a t t h a t d i d i s i t u p s i z e d 25

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t h e p i p e e n o u g h t h a t i t s t o p p e d t h e 1

o v e r f l o w s a n d s t o p p e d t h e m a n h o l e l i d s 2

f r o m d i s l o d g i n g f r o m t h e i r l o c a t i o n s 3

a n d k e e p i n g t h e r o a d o p e n . I t d i d n ' t 4

s o l v e a l l t h e p r o b l e m s . T h e m a n h o l e 5

l i d s s t i l l p o p . 6

B u t n o t i n d a n g e r o u s 7

l o c a t i o n s . S o t h i s r e s o l u t i o n i s 8

r e q u i r e d a s p a r t o f a g r a n t r e q u e s t 9

w i t h A L C O S A N . A n d i t ' s c a l l e d t h e 10

G R O W p r o g r a m . A n d w e ' r e a s k i n g f o r a 11

p o r t i o n o f t h e $ 5 0 , 0 0 0 t h a t P e n n H i l l s 12

p a i d o u t o f p o c k e t , b e c a u s e i t r e d u c e d 13

i n f i l t r a t i o n a n d i n - f l o w , w h i c h i s t h e 14

c r u x o f t h e g r a n t . 15

S o w i t h t h a t w e w e r e a b l e t o 16

p r e p a r e a n a p p l i c a t i o n . A n d t h i s i s 17

t h e R e s o l u t i o n t h a t c o u n c i l n e e d s t o 18

i n c l u d e i n t o t h e a p p l i c a t i o n , t o s e e 19

w h a t p e r c e n t a g e w e c a n g e t o f t h a t 20

$ 5 0 , 0 0 0 b a c k . 21

M R . P E T R U C C I : 22

T h a n k y o u . 23

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 24

T h a n k y o u s o m u c h . T h a t 25

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s o u n d s g o o d t o m e . D o w e h a v e a 1

m o t i o n ? D i d w e d o t h a t a l r e a d y ? D i d 2

w e s e c o n d i t ? 3

O k a y . 4

S o c o u n c i l h a d t h e i r 5

q u e s t i o n s . A n d s o M a u r e e n , r o l l c a l l , 6

p l e a s e . 7

M S . S O R C E : 8

M a y o r K u h n ? 9

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 10

M a y o r K u h n ? 11

M A Y O R K U H N : 12

Y e s . 13

M S . S O R C E : 14

M r . B r o d n i c k i ? 15

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 16

Y e s . 17

M S . S O R C E : 18

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p ? 19

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 20

Y e s . 21

M S . S O R C E : 22

M r . U n d e r w o o d ? 23

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 24

Y e s . 25

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M S . S O R C E : 1

M r . P e t r u c c i ? 2

M R . P E T R U C C I : 3

Y e s . 4

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 5

N e x t o n t h e a g e n d a . D o 6

I h a v e a m o t i o n t o r e c e i v e a n d a p p r o v e 7

R e s o l u t i o n N u m b e r 2 0 1 9 - 0 2 7 ? 8

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 9

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p ? 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

C o u n c i l m a n B r o d n i c k i ? 12

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 13

I ' d l i k e t o m a k e a 14

m o t i o n t h a t w e a p p r o v e R e s o l u t i o n 15

N u m b e r 2 0 1 9 - 0 2 7 . T h e r e s o l u t i o n o f 16

t h e M u n i c i p a l i t y o f P e n n H i l l s a n d 17

A l l e g h e n y C o u n t y o f C o m m o n w e a l t h o f 18

P e n n s y l v a n i a , s e e k i n g g r a n t f u n d i n g 19

u n d e r t h e A l l e g h e n y C o u n t y S a n i t a r y 20

A u t h o r i t y , A L C O S A N , G r e e n 21

R e v i t a l i z a t i o n o f o u r W a t e r s , G R O W 22

p r o g r a m , t o f u n d t h e O r i n S t r e e t S e w e r 23

L i n i n g P r o j e c t . 24

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 25

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D o I h a v e a s e c o n d ? 1

M R . P E T R U C C I : 2

S e c o n d . 3

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 4

S e c o n d . 5

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 6

A n y q u e s t i o n s f r o m t h e 7

a u d i e n c e ? A n y q u e s t i o n s f r o m c o u n c i l ? 8

M R . P E T R U C C I : 9

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p . 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

C o u n c i l m a n P e t r u c c i ? 12

M R . P E T R U C C I : 13

M r . R i c k , d o y o u h a v e a n 14

e x p l a n a t i o n t h a t y o u w a n t t o g i v e u s 15

o r p r e s e n t t o u s ? C a n y o u t e l l u s 16

m o r e t h a n w e h a v e h e r e ? Y o u ' r e p r e t t y 17

m u c h i n t u n e w i t h a l l t h i s s t u f f . 18

M R . M I N S T E R M A N : 19

Y e s . 20

T h i s i s a - - - t h i s i s 21

a l s o a g r a n t p r o g r a m , w h i c h i s 22

A L C O S A N , o n c e a g a i n . A n d t h e G R O W 23

p r o g r a m , w h i c h s e e k s t o r e m o v e i o d i d e 24

a n d i m p r o v e c a p a c i t y f o r b o t h 25

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t r a n s f e r r i n g t h e s e w a g e a n d a l s o 1

t r e a t i n g i t a t A L C O S A N ? S o t h a t ' s w h y 2

I h a v e a v e s t e d i n t e r e s t i n g i n h e l p i n g 3

f u n d p r o j e c t s t h a t d o t h i s . S o t h e r e 4

i s a p r o j e c t c a l l e d t h e O r i n S t r e e t 5

P r o j e c t . 6

A n d t h a t i s a p a r t i c u l a r 7

p r o j e c t t h a t i s e s t i m a t e d t o b e 8

a p p r o x i m a t e l y $ 3 3 5 , 0 0 0 . A n d w e ' r e 9

l o o k i n g t o - - - i n t h i s c a s e i t ' s n o t a 10

r e i m b u r s e m e n t . W e ' r e a c t u a l l y 11

r e q u e s t i n g a g r a n t . W e ' r e c o m m i t t i n g 12

t h e m i n i m u m a m o u n t t h a t w o u l d b e 13

a w a r d e d . S o w h a t t h a t m e a n s i s t h e 14

a m o u n t o f t h e g r a n t - - - t h e m a x i m u m 15

g r a n t a w a r d i n t h i s c a s e i s 8 5 16

p e r c e n t . 17

S o w e ' r e s u b m i t t i n g a 18

r e s o l u t i o n t h a t s a y s P e n n H i l l s w o u l d 19

b e w i l l i n g t o s p e n d 1 5 p e r c e n t o f t h e 20

p r o j e c t i f w e g e t t h e 8 5 p e r c e n t 21

g r a n t . N o w , t h a t d o e s n ' t p r e c l u d e y o u 22

f r o m a c c e p t i n g a l e s s e r p e r c e n t a g e 23

g r a n t . Y o u ' r e o n l y s a y i n g t h a t i f y o u 24

g o t t h e 8 5 p e r c e n t , w e ' d c o n t r i b u t e 25

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t h e g r a n t - - - t h e 1 5 p e r c e n t . S o i t ' s 1

c e r t a i n l y w o r t h t h e , y o u k n o w , 8 5 2

c e n t s o n t h e d o l l a r . 3

A n d t h e n a t t h e t i m e 4

t h a t t h e g r a n t i s a w a r d e d , i f y o u 5

d e c i d e t h a t i t ' s n o t 8 5 p e r c e n t , i t ' s 6

s o m e l e s s e r p e r c e n t a g e . Y o u c a n s t i l l 7

d e c i d e t o a c c e p t t h e g r a n t . Y o u c a n 8

p a y a d d i t i o n a l . O r j u s t n o t a c c e p t 9

t h e g r a n t a n d n o t d o t h e p r o j e c t . 10

M R . P E T R U C C I : 11

T h a n k y o u . 12

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 13

A n y f u r t h e r q u e s t i o n s 14

f r o m c o u n c i l ? 15

M A Y O R K U H N : 16

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p . 17

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 18

Y e s , M a y o r K u h n ? 19

M A Y O R K U H N : 20

A n d I a p o l o g i z e . I ' m 21

s u r e J o h n w a s a l r e a d y v e r y t h o r o u g h i n 22

g o i n g o v e r t h i s . B u t - - - . 23

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 24

J o h n d i d n ' t g o o v e r i t . 25

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R i c k d i d . 1

M A Y O R K U H N : 2

O k a y . 3

I j u s t w a n t t o m a k e 4

s u r e . I s t h i s a s t a t e g r a n t t h a t 5

w e ' v e a l r e a d y r e c e i v e d 2 0 g r a n d f o r 6

$ 2 8 5 , 0 0 0 f o r ? 7

M R . M I N S T E R M A N : 8

N o . 9

T h a t ' s f o r t h e L i m e 10

H o l l o w p r o j e c t . T h i s i s a d i f f e r e n t 11

p r o j e c t c a l l e d t h e O r i n S t r e e t 12

P r o j e c t . 13

M A Y O R K U H N : 14

T h a t ' s f o r t h e - - - 15

t h a t ' s o n t h e O r i n S t r e e t ? T h a t w a s 16

t h e l i n e - - - t h e r e w a s t h e o n e t h a t 17

t h e s e n a t o r g a v e u s f o r $ 4 1 8 , 0 0 0 . 18

I s t h a t c o r r e c t ? 19

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 20

I t w a s l a s t y e a r . 21

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 22

M a y o r K u h n , y e s , t h a t 23

w a s l a s t y e a r . N o w w e ' r e d i s c u s s i n g 24

t h e O r i n S t r e e t - - - . 25

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M A Y O R K U H N : 1

N o w w e ' r e d i s c u s s i n g t h e 2

o n e o n O r i n S t r e e t . 3

I s t h a t c o r r e c t ? 4

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 5

T h a t i s c o r r e c t . 6

M A Y O R K U H N : 7

O k a y . 8

D i d w e e v e r r e c e i v e a 9

g r a n t a l r e a d y f o r O r i n S t r e e t o r n o ? 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

N o , m a ' a m . W e a r e 12

r e q u e s t i n g t h a t . 13

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 14

I d o n ' t b e l i e v e s o . 15

M A Y O R K U H N : 16

O k a y . 17

S o t h i s r e s o l u t i o n i s 18

j u s t f o r a s k i n g f o r a g r a n t f o r t h e 19

w a t e r w a y p r o g r a m f o r O r i n S t r e e t . 20

I s t h a t c o r r e c t ? 21

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 22

T h a t ' s c o r r e c t . 23

M A Y O R K U H N : 24

O k a y . 25

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I v o t e y e s t h e n . 1

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 2

O k a y . 3

T h a n k y o u , M a y o r K u h n . 4

M a u r e e n ? 5

M S . S O R C E : 6

O k a y . 7

M r . B r o d n i c k i ? 8

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 9

Y e s . 10

M S . S O R C E : 11

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p ? 12

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 13

Y e s . 14

M S . S O R C E : 15

M r . U n d e r w o o d ? 16

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 17

Y e s . 18

M S . S O R C E : 19

M r . P e t r u c c i ? 20

M R . P E T R U C C I : 21

Y e s . 22

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 23

N e x t o n t h e a g e n d a . D o 24

I h a v e a m o t i o n t o a p p r o v e R e s o l u t i o n 25

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N u m b e r 2 0 1 9 - 0 2 8 ? 1

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 2

D e p u t y M a y o r . 3

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 4

C o u n c i l m a n U n d e r w o o d . 5

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 6

I ' d l i k e t o m a k e a 7

m o t i o n t o a p p r o v e R e s o l u t i o n N u m b e r 8

2 0 1 9 - 0 2 8 a p p r o v i n g t h e C o m m u n i t y 9

D e v e l o p m e n t B l o c k G r a n t P r o g r a m A c t i o n 10

P l a n , H o m e P r o g r a m a n d B u d g e t f o r 11

2 0 1 9 . 12

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 13

D o I h a v e a s e c o n d ? 14

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 15

S e c o n d . 16

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 17

A n y q u e s t i o n s f r o m t h e 18

a u d i e n c e ? A n y q u e s t i o n s f r o m c o u n c i l ? 19

M R . B L A C K W E L L : 20

D e p u t y S a p p , m a y I s p e a k 21

p l e a s e ? 22

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 23

Y e s , y o u m a y ? 24

M R . B L A C K W E L L : 25

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T h e p l a n n i n g d e p a r t m e n t 1

n e e d s t o s u b m i t t h e 2 0 1 9 a n n u a l a c t i o n 2

p l a n , w h i c h i n c l u d e s t h e c o m m u n i t y 3

b u d g e t a n d t h e h o m e p r o g r a m . A n d t h i s 4

y e a r t h e c o m m u n i t y b u d g e t i s $ 7 4 9 , 7 2 1 . 5

T h a t w i l l g o t o w a r d s s t r e e t 6

r e c o n s t r u c t i o n , u n i f o r m a c c e s s i b i l i t y 7

s t a n d a r d s i n t o t h e c o m m u n i t y c e n t e r s , 8

d e m o l i t i o n o f v a c a n t s t r u c t u r e s . W e 9

h a v e t h r e e f o o d p a n t r i e s . 10

A n d i n a d d i t i o n a l w e p u r c h a s e d 11

c a r s f o r t h e s e n i o r s e r v i c e c e n t e r f o r 12

t h e i r h o m e o r d e r e d m e a l s p r o g r a m . 13

W h i c h d e l i v e r s m e a l s d a i l y t o 2 4 0 14

s e n i o r c i t i z e n r e s i d e n t s i n t h e i r 15

h o m e s . T h e H o m e P r o g r a m , w e h a v e 16

$ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 t h i s y e a r a n d w e ' v e b e e n 17

r e c e i v i n g i t . 18

A n d I w a n t t o t e l l y o u a l i t t l e 19

b i t a b o u t t h a t . I t ' s b e e n a v e r y 20

s u c c e s s f u l a n d w e ' r e v e r y p r o u d o f i t . 21

S o f a r t o t h i s d a t e w e h a v e 1 9 22

a p p l i c a n t s , w e ' v e g o n e t o 1 7 c l o s i n g s . 23

S o w e ' v e a s s i s t e d l o w i n c o m e f a m i l i e s 24

i n p u r c h a s i n g a s i n g l e f a m i l y h o m e . 25

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T h e p r o g r a m g a v e d o w n p a y m e n t a n d 1

c l o s i n g c o s t s u p t o $ 1 4 , 5 0 0 f o r a 2

t o t a l o f $ 1 4 1 , 2 5 6 t o p u r c h a s e $ 3 5 5 , 0 0 0 3

i n s i n g l e f a m i l y h o m e s i n P e n n H i l l s . 4

T h a t ' s a g r e a t a c c o m p l i s h m e n t - - - 5

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 6

T h a t ' s a m a z i n g . 7

M R . B L A C K W E L L : 8

- - - f o r t w o y e a r s i n t h e 9

p r o g r a m . 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

Y e s . 12

M R . B L A C K W E L L : 13

A n d w e ' r e o n o u r w a y t o 14

i m p r o v i n g a n d w e ' r e g e t t i n g b e t t e r a t 15

t h a t . A n d t h e n t h e C o m m u n i t y 16

D e v e l o p m e n t B l o c k P r o g r a m t h i s y e a r , 17

i t e n d s J u n e 3 0 t h , a t t h e e n d o f t h e 18

m o n t h , J u n 3 1 s t . 19

A n d w e ' r e o n t r a c k . W e s p e n t 20

a p p r o x i m a t e l y 1 2 0 p e r c e n t o f t h e 21

a v a i l a b l e f u n d s t h i s y e a r . S o t h e 22

p l a n n i n g d e p a r t m e n t h a s r e a l l y 23

a c c o m p l i s h e d a l o t w i t h t h e s e 24

p r o g r a m s . A n d w e ' r e h a p p y a b o u t i t . 25

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A n d t h a t w o u l d n o t 1

h a p p e n w i t h o u t M e g B a l s a m i c o a n d D a n n y 2

M a c h i l l i i n t h e P l a n n i n g D e p a r t m e n t . 3

A n d a l s o t h e D i r e c t o r o f P u b l i c W o r k s , 4

S c o t t S h e p h e r d a n d J o h n C a t h y 5

( p h o n e t i c ) , c o - e n f o r c e m e n t . I t w a s a 6

g r o u p e f f o r t . T h e y a l l w o r k e d 7

t o g e t h e r o n a l l o f t h e s e p r o g r a m s . 8

A n d I w a n t t o g i v e t h e m s o m e 9

c r e d i t f o r h a v i n g r e a l l y g r e a t 10

a c c o m p l i s h m e n t s a n d I w a n t t o g i v e 11

t h e m s o m e c r e d i t f o r h a v i n g r e a l l y 12

a c c o m p l i s h m e n t s a n d a l o t o f g o o d w o r k 13

t h i s y e a r f o r t h e C o m m u n i t y 14

D e v e l o p m e n t B l o c k P r o g r a m . A n d w e 15

h o p e t o b e a b l e t o d o t h a t a g a i n . 16

T h a n k y o u . 17

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 18

T h a t ' s i n c r e d i b l e , 19

C h r i s . A n d I t h i n k y o u d e s e r v e , a n d 20

y o u r t e a m a s w e l l a t P u b l i c W o r k s 21

d e s e r v e a h a n d . I r e a l l y e n j o y 22

r e c e i v i n g r e p o r t s l i k e t h a t . S o t h a n k 23

y o u v e r y m u c h f o r w h a t y o u ' v e d o n e a n d 24

w h a t y o u a r e c o n t i n u i n g t o d o . 25

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M R . P E T R U C C I : 1

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p ? 2

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 3

C o u n c i l m a n P e t r u c c i ? 4

M R . P E T R U C C I : 5

C h r i s , d i d w e h a v e 6

p u b l i c m e e t i n g s y e t ? 7

M R . B L A C K W E L L : 8

E x c u s e m e ? 9

M R . P E T R U C C I : 10

D i d w e h a v e p u b l i c 11

m e e t i n g s ? 12

M R . B L A C K W E L L : 13

Y e s . 14

M R . P E T R U C C I : 15

T h e r e w e r e t w o o f t h e m ? 16

M R . B L A C K W E L L : 17

R i g h t . 18

T h e r e w e r e t w o p u b l i c 19

m e e t i n g s o n - - - t h e d a t e s m i g h t e s c a p e 20

m e , M a r c h 2 8 t h a n d t h e n i n J u n e . B u t 21

t h e p l a n n i n g c o m m i s s i o n - - - a n d 22

t h e r e ' s a l w a y s a n o p p o r t u n i t y a l s o , 23

M a y o r a n d C o u n c i l . Y o u k n o w w e ' r e i n 24

a t i m e c r u n c h t o a p p r o v e t h i s . B u t 25

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t h e y a r e b u d g e t i n g o n o u r p r o g r a m s 1

t h a t r e s i d e n t s w a n t e d , a n d M a y o r a n d 2

C o u n c i l d e c i d e d t o a m e n d t h e b u d g e t . 3

T h e r e ' s c e r t a i n l y a n o p p o r t u n i t y f o r 4

t h a t . B u t y e s , w e h a d p u b l i c 5

h e a r i n g s . 6

M R . P E T R U C C I : 7

O k a y . T h a n k y o u . 8

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 9

A n y f u r t h e r q u e s t i o n s 10

f r o m c o u n c i l ? M a u r e e n . 11

M S . S O R C E : 12

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p . 13

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 14

Y e s . 15

M S . S O R C E : 16

M r . U n d e r w o o d ? 17

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 18

Y e s . 19

M S . S O R C E : 20

M r . P e t r u c c i ? 21

M R . P E T R U C C I : 22

Y e s . 23

M S . S O R C E : 24

M a y o r K u h n ? 25

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M A Y O R K U H N : 1

Y e s . 2

M S . S O R C E : 3

M r . B r o d n i c k i ? 4

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 5

Y e s . 6

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 7

N e x t o n t h e a g e n d a , d o I 8

h a v e a m o t i o n t o a c c e p t R e s o l u t i o n 9

N u m b e r 2 0 1 9 - 0 2 9 ? 10

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 11

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p . 12

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 13

Y e s , C o u n c i l m a n 14

B r o d n i c k i ? 15

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 16

I ' d l i k e t o m a k e a 17

m o t i o n t o a c c e p t R e s o l u t i o n N u m b e r 18

2 0 1 9 - 0 2 9 , a r e s o l u t i o n o f t h e 19

M u n i c i p a l i t y o f P e n n H i l l s a n d 20

A l l e g h e n y C o u n t y o f C o m m o n w e a l t h o f 21

P e n n s y l v a n i a , a p p r o v i n g t h e 22

a c q u i s i t i o n a n d s u b s e q u e n t d i s p o s i t i o n 23

o f v a c a n t p r o p e r t y l o c a t e d a t 2 3 2 4 24

M a i n S t r e e t , n u m b e r 0 6 3 5 - G - 0 0 2 2 5 - 0 0 0 0 -25

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0 0 i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h t h e A l l e g h e n y 1

C o u n t y V a c a n t P r o p e r t y R e c o v e r y 2

P r o g r a m a n d p r o v i d i n g a s s u r a n c e t h a t 3

a c q u i s i t i o n i s c o n s i s t e n t w i t h t h e 4

P e n n H i l l s C o m p r e h e n s i v e p l a n . 5

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 6

D o I h a v e s e c o n d ? 7

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 8

S e c o n d . 9

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 10

A n y q u e s t i o n s f r o m t h e 11

a u d i e n c e ? A n y q u e s t i o n s f r o m c o u n c i l ? 12

M a u r e e n , r o l l c a l l . 13

M S . S O R C E : 14

M r . U n d e r w o o d ? 15

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 16

Y e s . 17

M S . S O R C E : 18

M r . P e t r u c c i ? 19

M R . P E T R U C C I : 20

Y e s . 21

M S . S O R C E : 22

M a y o r K u h n ? 23

M A Y O R K U H N : 24

Y e s . 25

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M S . S O R C E : 1

M r . B r o d n i c k i ? 2

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 3

Y e s . 4

M S . S O R C E : 5

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p ? 6

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 7

Y e s . O k a y . E x c u s e m e . 8

O k a y . 9

A t t h i s t i m e w e d i d a d d 10

t o t h e a g e n d a a n a g r e e m e n t b e t w e e n t h e 11

m u n i c i p a l i t y a n d H o f f m a n K e n n e l . S o I 12

a m g o i n g t o a s k o u r B u s i n e s s M a n a g e r , 13

S c o t t , i f h e w o u l d g i v e o t h e r 14

i n f o r m a t i o n a n d c l a r i t y t o t h e 15

a u d i e n c e , a s w e l l a s c o u n c i l . 16

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 17

S u r e . T h a n k y o u , D e p u t y 18

M a y o r . 19

J u s t f o r t h e p u r p o s e o f 20

t h e m i n u t e s . T h e m o t i o n t h a t I a m 21

s e e k i n g a p p r o v a l f o r w o u l d b e 22

a p p r o v i n g a n a g r e e m e n t w i t h o f H o f f m a n 23

A n i m a l C o n t r o l f o r a t e r m o f 2 9 24

m o n t h s , s t a r t i n g J u l y 1 , 2 0 1 9 . T h e 25

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m u n i c i p a l i t y e n g a g e d i n a p r e t t y 1

l e n g t h y s e a r c h p r o c e s s s t a r t i n g b a c k 2

i n A p r i l t o i d e n t i f y a n a n i m a l c o n t r o l 3

s e r v i c e t h a t m e e t s t h e n e e d s o f P e n n 4

H i l l s . 5

A n d a s p a r t o f t h a t w e 6

d e v e l o p e d a n d R F P w i t h s t a f f i n p u t . 7

A n d t h a t R F P w a s a v a i l a b l e p u b l i c a l l y 8

a n d o n l i n e . A n d i t i n c l u d e d m a n y o f 9

t h e s e r v i c e s a n d t h i n g s t h a t w e w a n t e d 10

i n a n a n i m a l c o n t r o l s e r v i c e . M a n y o f 11

t h e t h i n g s t h a t w e w o u l d w a n t t o s e e 12

i n a n a n i m a l c o n t r o l s e r v i c e i n P e n n 13

H i l l s . 14

A t t h e e n d o f t h a t 15

l e n g t h y p r o c e s s w e r e c e i v e d o n e 16

p r o p o s a l , w h i c h w e r e j e c t e d . I t d i d 17

n o t m e e t o u r n e e d s . S o t h e 18

m u n i c i p a l i t y m a d e s o m e c h a n g e s t o t h e 19

R F P a n d w e w e n t o u t a g a i n . A n d i n t h e 20

c o u r s e o f t h i s p r o c e s s , w e d i s c o v e r e d 21

t h a t t h e r e i s a l i m i t e d n u m b e r o f 22

s e r v i c e s . A n d t h e r e ' s a l i m i t e d 23

n u m b e r o f c o m p a n i e s w h o p r o v i d e t h e 24

s e r v i c e i n w e s t e r n P e n n s y l v a n i a . A n d 25

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H o f f m a n K e n n e l s i s p r o b a b l y o n e o f t h e 1

b i g g e s t . 2

A n d h e ' s b e e n i n P e n n 3

H i l l s f o r a l o n g t i m e . E a r l i e r t o d a y 4

w e g o t a p r o p o s a l f r o m H o f f m a n K e n n e l . 5

I t m i m i c s a l m o s t e n t i r e l y t h e 6

e x i s t i n g a g r e e m e n t t h a t t h e 7

m u n i c i p a l i t y h a s w i t h H o f f m a n K e n n e l s . 8

T h e p r i c e i s a l i t t l e l o w e r . S o 9

w e ' r e g o i n g t o r e a l i z e a l i t t l e 10

s a v i n g s t h r o u g h t h e c o n t r a c t i f i t ' s 11

a p p r o v e d . 12

S o I h a v e r e c o m m e n d e d 13

t h a t t h e c o u n c i l e n t e r t a i n a n d a p p r o v e 14

a c o n t r a c t w i t h H o f f m a n K e n n e l s , 15

s t a r t i n g J u l y 1 , f o r a 2 9 m o n t h t e r m . 16

A n d I a m r e c o m m e n d i n g t h i s i n l a r g e 17

p a r t b e c a u s e o f t h e f a c t t h a t t h r o u g h 18

t h i s p r o c e s s w e - - - C h i e f B u r t o n a n d I 19

i n t e r v i e w e d s o m e v e n d o r s t o p r o v i d e 20

t h e s e s e r v i c e s . A n d q u i t e f r a n k l y , 21

t h e r e ' s j u s t s o f e w o f t h e m o u t t h e r e . 22

A n d s o t o h a v e t h e s a m e s e r v i c e t h a t 23

w e h a v e n o w a t a s l i g h t d i s c o u n t , I 24

t h i n k i s t o t h e a d v a n t a g e o f t h e 25

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c o m m u n i t y . A n d I ' d b e h a p p y t o a n s w e r 1

a n y q u e s t i o n s a b o u t i t . 2

M R . P E T R U C C I : 3

I d o n ' t h a v e a p r o b l e m 4

w i t h - - - w i t h w h a t w e ' r e a b o u t t o d o . 5

I h a v e a p r o b l e m w i t h t h i s v e n d o r a n d 6

m a n y o t h e r v e n d o r s d o n o t p r o v i d e t h e 7

p r o p e r i n v o i c e s a n d t h e y d o n o t 8

p r o v i d e t h o s e m a n y , m a n y t i m e s . A n d 9

t h e i n v o i c e s f r o m H o f f m a n a r e 10

h o r r i b l e . T h e y ' r e h a n d w r i t t e n c h i c k e n 11

s c r a t c h . W e c a n ' t u n d e r s t a n d w h a t 12

t h e y ' r e d o i n g . 13

A n d I r e a l i z e w e ' r e 14

g e t t i n g s a v i n g s w i t h t h i s . A n d y e s , 15

i t ' s t h e o n l y a g e n c y o u t t h e r e t h a t w e 16

c o u l d p o s s i b l y g e t . A n d w e t r i e d 17

m a n y , m a n y , m a n y t i m e s t o g e t s o m e b o d y 18

e l s e a n d w e c a n ' t . I w e n t o u t o n a 19

l i m b a n d a s k e d d i f f e r e n t a n i m a l 20

a c t i v i s t s t o c o m e h e l p u s . I p u t o u t 21

o n s o c i a l m e d i a . W e g o t o n e c o m p a n y 22

t h a t c a m e o u t a n d i t f a i l e d u s . 23

S o w h a t w e ' r e a t n o w i s 24

w e ' r e a t a c r o s s r o a d w h e r e w e h a v e t o 25

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m a k e a d e c i s i o n . W e h a v e n o a n i m a l 1

c o n t r o l n o w . I u n d e r s t a n d t h a t . B u t 2

w i t h t h e i n v o i c e s t h a t w e ' r e g e t t i n g , 3

t h e y ' r e n o t a c c e p t a b l e . A n d I t h i n k 4

w e s h o u l d t a k e 2 4 h o u r s a t l e a s t u n t i l 5

y o u g e t a p h o n e c a l l t o H o f f m a n a n d 6

y o u f i n d o u t i f t h e y w i l l b e i n 7

a g r e e m e n t t o d o s o m e t h i n g w i t h t h o s e 8

i n v o i c e s s o t h a t w e c a n r e a d t h e m . 9

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 10

T h a t w o u l d b e t h e 11

p r o p e r t y o f t h e c o u n c i l , i f t h e y 12

c h o o s e . I d i d h a v e a d i s c u s s i o n w i t h 13

H o f f m a n s t a f f a t a n e a r l i e r m e e t i n g . 14

B e c a u s e b e f o r e w e w e n t o u t a n d d i d t h e 15

i n i t i a l R F P , w e m e t w i t h H o f f m a n t o 16

t a l k a b o u t s o m e t h i n g s t h a t w e w e r e 17

l o o k i n g f o r . A n d w e d i d e x p l a i n i n a 18

m e e t i n g t h a t s o m e o f w h a t w e g e t f r o m 19

h i m c o m e s o n h a n d w r i t t e n s l i p s . T h i s 20

i s s o r t o f a n a n t i q u a t e d s y s t e m . 21

T h e y t o l d u s a t t h e m e e t i n g a t 22

t h a t t i m e t h a t t h e y w o u l d n ' t h a v e a 23

p r o b l e m t a k i n g t h o s e s l i p s a n d 24

s u m m a r i z i n g t h e m i n s o m e k i n d o f a 25

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t y p e w r i t t e n f o r m s o t h a t w e w o u l d g e t 1

a d e t a i l e d i n v o i c e f r o m t h e m . T h a t ' s 2

w h a t t h e y t o l d u s . W e g o t t h e 3

p r o p o s a l t o d a y . I w a s n o t a b l e t o g e t 4

i n t o u c h w i t h H o f f m a n b y t h e e n d o f 5

t h e d a y t o d a y t o s e e i f t h a t ' s s t i l l 6

t h e c a s e . B u t i t w a s - - - i t w a s 7

i t e r a t e d t o u s a t l e a s t v e r b a l l y . 8

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 9

D e p u t y M a y o r ? I f I 10

c o u l d m a k e a s u g g e s t i o n ? I n s t e a d o f 11

t a b l i n g i t f o r 2 4 h o u r s , w h i c h w o u l d 12

r e q u i r e a s p e c i a l m e e t i n g . W h y n o t 13

a p p r o v e i t c o n t i n g e n t o n J o h n ' s 14

c o n c e r n s t h a t t h e i n v o i c i n g i s d o n e 15

p r o p e r l y ? 16

M R . P E T R U C C I : 17

I ' l l g o a l o n g w i t h t h a t . 18

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 19

O k a y . T h a t s o u n d s g o o d . 20

A n d t h e n - - - . 21

M R . P E T R U C C I : 22

T h a n k y o u , C o m m i s s i o n e r . 23

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 24

A n d I w o u l d a l s o l i k e t o 25

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a d d t h a t t h a t i s t h e - - - t h a t t h e 1

c o n t r a c t d o e s n ’ t s t a t e t h a t h e ' s 2

m a n d a t e d t o d o i t t h a t w a y . H o w e v e r , 3

t h e p r i c e t h a t w e p a y h i m o n a m o n t h l y 4

b a s i s , r e g a r d l e s s i f H o f f m a n p i c k s u p 5

0 o r 1 0 0 , t h e p r i c e i s s t i l l g o i n g t o 6

b e t h e s a m e r e g a r d l e s s . 7

M R . P E T R U C C I : 8

R i g h t . 9

A n d h e m a d e a l o t o f 10

p r o m i s e s i n t h e p a s t a n d d i d n ' t s t a n d 11

o n t h o s e p r o m i s e s . T h i s w a s a v e r b a l 12

c o n v e r s a t i o n b e t w e e n I b e l i e v e t h e 13

m a n a g e r a n d H o f f m a n a b o u t t h e s e 14

i n v o i c e s . A n d t h a t i s n ' t a c o n t r a c t . 15

T h a t i s a n R F P t h a t w e s e n t o u t . 16

O k a y . 17

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 18

T h a t i s c o r r e c t . B u t I 19

a m s a y i n g i n o u r c o n t r a c t t h a t i s 20

a b o u t t o e x p i r e . 21

M R . P E T R U C C I : 22

O h , I k n o w t h a t . T h a t 23

w a s f r o m 2 0 1 8 . B u t t h e n e w o n e 24

s t a r t i n g 2 0 1 9 d o e s n ' t h a v e t h e 25

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v e r b i a g e i n i t s t a t i n g t h a t t h i s i s 1

w h a t w e w a n t . 2

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 3

W e l l , t h e v e r b i a g e i s 4

e x a c t l y t h e s a m e a s i t w a s . W i t h t h e 5

a d d i t i o n t h a t h e w o n ' t b e d o i n g 6

r o a m i n g c o n t r o l - - - 7

M R . P E T R U C C I : 8

I u n d e r s t a n d t h a t . 9

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 10

- - - a s w e l l a s s a v i n g u s 11

$ 5 0 0 a m o n t h . A s w e l l a s w h e t h e r h e 12

p i c k s u p 0 o r 1 0 0 . T h e c o s t i s s t i l l 13

g o i n g t o b e t h e s a m e . 14

A m I c o r r e c t , S c o t t ? 15

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 16

Y e a h . T h a t ' s t r u e . A n d 17

j u s t s o t h e p u b l i c u n d e r s t a n d s , a n d 18

c o u n c i l t o o . I n a d d i t i o n t o p i c k i n g 19

u p t h e a n i m a l s , t h e r e ' s o t h e r s e r v i c e s 20

t h a t h e p r o v i d e s . G o i n g t o c o u r t i s 21

o n e o f t h e m . I k n o w t h e p o l i c e 22

d e p a r t m e n t p r o b a b l y h a d a l i t t l e m o r e 23

i n f o r m a t i o n t h a n t h a t . 24

H e i s g i v i n g u s s l i p s e v e r y 25

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m o n t h . I t h i n k t h a t t h e c h a l l e n g e h a s 1

b e e n s o r t o f d e c i p h e r i n g w h a t t h e y 2

m e a n a n d w h a t t h e y s a y , b e c a u s e t h e y 3

w e r e h a n d w r i t t e n . 4

M R . P E T R U C C I : 5

R i g h t . 6

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 7

A n d I d o n ' t k n o w i f 8

w e ' v e e v e r a s k e d h i m u p u n t i l t h i s 9

r e c e n t s e a r c h p r o c e s s f o r s o m e t h i n g 10

b e t t e r . H e s a t i n t h e r o o m , t h e s t a f f 11

s a t i n t h e r o o m . A n d t h e y c o m m i t t e d 12

t h a t t h e y w o u l d n ' t h a v e a p r o b l e m , a t 13

l e a s t t h a t ' s w h a t h e s a i d , w i t h t a k i n g 14

t h o s e s l i p s a n d s o r t o f j u s t 15

r e p r i n t i n g t h e m a n d r e t y p i n g t h e m i n a 16

w a y . B u t a s C r a i g s a i d , w e c o u l d 17

a p p r o v e i t c o n t i n g e n t o n h i m d o i n g 18

t h a t . I d o n ' t s e e w h y w e w o u l d n ' t d o 19

i t , q u i t e f r a n k l y . 20

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 21

E v e n i f h e w o u l d t a k e 22

t h o s e a s y o u c a l l e d i t c h i c k e n s c r a t c h 23

s l i p s a n d p u t t h e m - - - j u s t t y p e d u p 24

s o m e t h i n g o n a p i e c e o f p a p e r t h a t w e 25

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c o u l d c l e a r l y r e a d . W o u l d t h a t b e 1

a c c e p t a b l e f o r y o u ? 2

M R . P E T R U C C I : 3

Y e a h . 4

I m e a n I ' m n o t g o i n g t o 5

a s k t h e m t o d o a m o n t h l y r e p o r t . J u s t 6

s o m e t h i n g t h a t w e k n o w h o w m a n y d o g s 7

p e r m o n t h h e p i c k s u p , w h a t h a p p e n e d 8

t o t h e d o g s , y o u k n o w , t h a t t h e y 9

d i d n ’ t f i n d t h e o w n e r f o r . I t ' s j u s t 10

s o m e t h i n g o f a g e n e r a l n a t u r e . H o w 11

m a n y d o g s - - - w e d o n ' t k n o w w h a t h e ' s 12

d o i n g p e r m o n t h - - - . 13

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 14

B e c a u s e w e c a n ' t r e a d 15

t h e i n v o i c e s ? 16

M R . P E T R U C C I : 17

W e c a n ' t r e a d t h e 18

i n v o i c e s . 19

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 20

O k a y . 21

M R . P E T R U C C I : 22

H o w m a n y t i m e s h e w e n t 23

t o c o u r t - - - h o w m a n y t i m e s h a d h e 24

w e n t t o c o u r t ? H o w m a n y t i m e s d i d h e 25

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g o t o t h e p o l i c e s t a t i o n t o p i c k u p 1

d o g s ? W h a t t i m e s . 2

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 3

O k a y . 4

B u t I d o - - - I d o w a n t 5

t o c l a r i f y t h a t r e g a r d l e s s o f i f h e 6

d o e s n o t h i n g o r i f h e d o e s a w h o l e 7

m o n t h ' s w o r t h o f w o r k , t h e c o s t i s 8

s t i l l t h e s a m e . 9

M R . P E T R U C C I : 10

R i g h t . I d o a g r e e w i t h 11

t h a t . 12

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 13

O k a y . 14

M R . P E T R U C C I : 15

A n d l e t m e a s k C r a i g a 16

q u e s t i o n . I f h e d e f a u l t s i n 3 0 d a y s , 17

w e c a n t e r m i n a t e h i m ? 18

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 19

I f h e a g r e e s t o t h a t 20

c o n t i n g e n c y , t h a t w o u l d b e a c a u s e . 21

A b s o l u t e l y . W h a t e v e r t h e l a n g u a g e i n 22

t h e c o n t r a c t r e q u i r e s , y o u c a n 23

t e r m i n a t e t h e m . 24

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 25

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S o w h a t w e a r e a s k i n g , 1

S c o t t . I s i f y o u w o u l d k i n d l y c a l l 2

M r . H o f f m a n t o m o r r o w a n d g e t a w r i t t e n 3

a g r e e m e n t s t a t i n g t h a t h e a g r e e s t o 4

g i v e u s s o m e t h i n g t h a t w e c a n r e a d a n d 5

u n d e r s t a n d . N o t a h a n d w r i t t e n 6

i n v o i c e , b u t s o m e t h i n g j u s t t y p e d u p 7

o n t h e c o m p u t e r w i t h a s i g n a t u r e . 8

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 9

Y e a h . I c a n d o t h a t i n 10

t h e m o r n i n g . A n d a s I s a i d , I d i d t r y 11

t o r e a c h t h e i r o f f i c e . T h e y - - - t h e y 12

- - - I g o t t h e a n s w e r i n g s e r v i c e 13

b e c a u s e i t w a s a f t e r f i v e o ' c l o c k . 14

B u t I c a n c a l l i n t h e m o r n i n g . A n d i f 15

h e ' s a g r e e a b l e t o i t , I a m s u r e w e c a n 16

p r o b a b l y p u t t h a t a s a n a d d e n d u m w i t h 17

t h i s a g r e e m e n t i n s o m e f a s h i o n . 18

M R . P E T R U C C I : 19

T h a t ' s f i n e . 20

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 21

O k a y . 22

M a u r e e n ? 23

M S . S O R C E : 24

M a y o r K u h n ? 25

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M A Y O R K U H N : 1

I ' m s o r r y . I w a s 2

l i s t e n i n g t o t h e c o n v e r s a t i o n b a c k a n d 3

f o r t h . A n d I d i d w a n t t o m a k e a 4

c o m m e n t o n a s i t u a t i o n l i k e t h i s . 5

F i r s t o f a l l , t h i s s h o w s t r e m e n d o u s l y 6

h o w g o v e r n m e n t a n d o u r r e s i d e n t s , t h e 7

t a x p a y e r s w o r k t o g e t h e r . N o w , 8

B r i t t a n y N o r s e b r o u g h t t h i s u p m a y b e 9

t e n m o n t h s a g o . A n d t h e r e i s n o o n e 10

m o r e p a s s i o n a t e o r h a s m o r e c o n c e r n 11

f o r a n i m a l s t h a n B r i t t a n y . 12

B u t o u r m a n a g e r h a s g o n e 13

t h r o u g h j u m p i n g t h r o u g h h o o p s , h a v i n g 14

p e o p l e s c r e a m i n g a t h i m a n d y e l l i n g a t 15

h i m . O n e p e r s o n s a y i n g t h e y w i l l d o 16

t h i s o r w e ' l l g e t s e v e r a l o f t h e m a n d 17

t h e n t h e y ' l l s a y w e ' l l d o t h a t a n d 18

t h e n t h e y d o n ' t . T h i s i s w h y i t ' s s o 19

i m p o r t a n t t h a t w h e n w e a r e l o o k i n g f o r 20

c h a n g e - - - c h a n g e i s g o o d . B u t w h e n 21

y o u d o c h a n g e , y o u h a v e t o m a k e s u r e 22

t h a t t h e c h a n g e t h a t y o u ' r e b r i n g i n g 23

i n w i l l c o v e r w h a t y o u n e e d . 24

T h e r e w a s n o o n e , a n d 25

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b e l i e v e m e , M a y o r a n d C o u n c i l a n d 1

B r i t t a n y a n d t h e m a n a g e r s s e a r c h e d 2

h i g h a n d l o w . A n d t h e r e w a s n ' t a n y o n e 3

w h o w e c o u l d h a v e c o m e i n t o d o d o g 4

c o n t r o l . W e w e n t o u t e x t e n s i v e l y . S o 5

e v e r y o n e h a s t o u n d e r s t a n d t h a t 6

e v e r y t h i n g i s a g o o d i d e a . A n d i t 7

w o u l d b e w o n d e r f u l i f w e l i v e d i n a 8

p e r f e c t w o r l d w h e r e a l l t h e s e t h i n g s 9

c o u l d f a l l i n t o p l a c e . B u t w e a r e t h e 10

c o u n c i l p e o p l e . 11

W e h a v e t o m a k e t h e 12

d e c i s i o n s t h a t t h e t a x p a y e r s p a y f o r . 13

S o w e c a n n o t g o b y w h a t o u r 14

c o m p a s s i o n s a r e . W e h a v e t o g o w i t h 15

w h a t r e a l i t y i s . A n d t h e r e a l i t y i s 16

o u r m a n a g e r t r i e d n u m e r o u s 17

i n s t i t u t i o n s t o d o t h i s w o r k . A n d i f 18

w e w a n t t o h a v e X , Y , Z , t h a t w o u l d b e 19

w o n d e r f u l i f i t w a s o u t i n a f i e l d 20

w h e r e y o u h a v e t e n p e o p l e w h o a r e 21

b i d d i n g o n i t . B u t t h a t i s n o t t h e 22

c a s e h e r e . 23

S o w e h a v e t o b e c a r e f u l a n d 24

m a k e s u r e b e f o r e w e m a k e a c h a n g e w e 25

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k n o w t h a t t h e r e i s a p o s s i b i l i t y a n d 1

t h a t w e a r e a b l e t o m a k e t h a t c h a n g e . 2

N o w , e v e r y b o d y m i g h t n o t 3

b e h a p p y w i t h i t . B u t i f i t ' s t h e 4

o n l y c h o i c e t h a t y o u h a v e , t h e n 5

s o m e t i m e s y o u h a v e t o t a k e t h e b a d . 6

B u t I d o w a n t t o c o m m e n d o u r m a n a g e r , 7

b e c a u s e I h a v e g o n e t h r o u g h t h e 8

m e e t i n g s a n d g o n e t h r o u g h t h e p h o n e 9

c a l l s w i t h h i m . A n d t h i s h a s b e e n a 10

v e r y d i f f i c u l t s i t u a t i o n t o t r y t o 11

r e s o l v e . A n d t h e n i t w a s r e s o l v e d a n d 12

t h e n i t e n d e d u p w i t h t h e p e r s o n s a i d 13

t h e y w e r e g o i n g t o d o t h i s . 14

T w o d a y s l a t e r t h e y s a i d 15

o h n o , w e l l , w e d o n ' t d o t h a t . B u t w e 16

h a v e t o h a v e a p l a c e f o r o u r a n i m a l s . 17

A n d s o w e h a v e t o g o w i t h w h a t w e c a n 18

g e t . B u t I c o m m e n d B r i t t a n y a n d I 19

c o m m e n d t h e m a n a g e r . T h i s i s a v e r y , 20

v e r y d i f f i c u l t s i t u a t i o n . A n d i t ' s 21

v e r y h a r d t o m a k e a d e c i s i o n t o s a y 22

a n y t h i n g b u t t h e o n e s l e f t a r e 23

r u b b i s h , w h e n y o u d o n ' t h a v e a l o t t o 24

c h o o s e f r o m . T h a n k y o u . 25

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D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 1

T h a n k y o u , M a y o r K u h n . 2

O k a y . 3

S o w h a t w e a r e a s k i n g 4

n o w i s d o I h a v e a m o t i o n o n t h e t a b l e 5

t o a p p r o v e H o f f m a n A n i m a l C o n t r o l , t h e 6

a g r e e m e n t b e t w e e n P e n n H i l l s 7

M u n i c i p a l i t y a n d H o f f m a n A n i m a l 8

C o n t r o l f o r a t e r m o f 2 9 m o n t h s , 9

s t a r t i n g J u l y 1 , c o n t e n d i n g t h a t t h e y 10

w i l l p r o v i d e u s w i t h m o r e l e g i b l e 11

i n v o i c e s . D o I h a v e a m o t i o n ? 12

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 13

I ' d m a k e a m o t i o n t o 14

a p p r o v e H o f f m a n K e n n e l . 15

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 16

T h a n k y o u , C o u n c i l m a n 17

U n d e r w o o d . D o I h a v e a s e c o n d ? 18

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 19

S e c o n d . 20

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 21

T h a n k y o u , C o u n c i l m a n 22

B r o d n i c k i . A n y q u e s t i o n s f r o m t h e 23

a u d i e n c e ? Y e s , M r . G e t z i e . P l e a s e 24

c o m e u p t o t h e m i c r o p h o n e a n d g i v e 25

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y o u r n a m e a n d a d d r e s s . 1

M R . G E T Z I E : 2

J i m G e t z i e , 1 5 1 C r e s c e n t 3

H i l l R o a d . M y q u e s t i o n i s t h a t , c o u l d 4

w e d e v e l o p a f o r m t h a t w e g i v e t o 5

H o f f m a n t h a t h e w o u l d f i l l i n t h e 6

b l a n k s ? L i k e h o w m a n y d o g s h e p i c k e d 7

u p , h o w m a n y t i m e s h e w e n t t o c o u r t , 8

a n d a n y i n f o r m a t i o n r e g a r d i n g t h e 9

a n i m a l c o n t r o l t h a t h e ' s d o i n g ? A n d 10

h e c a n j u s t f i l l i n t h a t a t t h e e n d o f 11

- - - a t t h e e n d o f t h e m o n t h w h e n h e 12

s u b m i t s h i s i n v o i c e . A n d w e c o u l d a s k 13

t h e q u e s t i o n s a n d h e g i v e s u s t h e 14

a n s w e r . H e d o e s n ' t h a v e t o c h i c k e n 15

s c r a t c h . H e c a n j u s t c h e c k o f f t h e 16

b o x e s . 17

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 18

A c t u a l l y , M r . G e t z i e , I 19

w a s s i t t i n g h e r e t h i n k i n g t h e s a m e 20

e x a c t t h i n g . S o w e c a n d e f i n i t e l y 21

h a v e S c o t t d o t h a t . I ' l l t a l k t o h i m 22

t o m o r r o w . I t h i n k t h a t m a k e s h i s w o r k 23

a l o t e a s i e r . A n d h e d o e s n ’ t h a v e t o 24

d o a n y t h i n g . H e r u n s o u t a n d j u s t 25

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h a n d s c o p i e s o u t . I w a s s i t t i n g h e r e 1

t h i n k i n g t h e s a m e e x a c t t h i n g a s y o u . 2

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 3

T h a t m a k e s s e n s e . 4

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 5

Y e a h . I c a n h a v e a 6

d i s c u s s i o n w i t h h i m a b o u t i t . I k n o w 7

t h a t t h e r e ' s s o m e o n e t h e r e o b v i o u s l y 8

i n h i s o f f i c e t h a t ' s d o i n g t h o s e 9

s l i p s . A n d t h e p e r s o n t h a t ' s w r i t i n g 10

t h o s e s l i p s k n o w s t h o s e s l i p s b e t t e r 11

t h a n a n y o n e , b e c a u s e t h e y ' r e t h e o n e s 12

w r i t i n g t h e m . S o w h e t h e r i t ' s t h a t o r 13

s o m e h o w t h e y t a k e t h o s e s l i p s a n d m a k e 14

a r e p o r t , I d o n ' t t h i n k i s a s k i n g 15

m u c h . I c a n c e r t a i n l y t a l k t o t h e m 16

a b o u t i t . T h a t m i g h t b e a g o o d i d e a . 17

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 18

U h - h u h ( y e s ) . 19

W e l l , e i t h e r h e ' s g o i n g 20

t o w r i t e u p a n i n v o i c e , t y p e u p t h e 21

i n v o i c e o n a p i e c e o f p a p e r o n h i s 22

o w n . O r h e ' s g o i n g t o f i l l o u t s o m e 23

t y p e o f a f o r m a t . T h a n k y o u s o m u c h . 24

T h a t w a s a g r e a t i d e a . O k a y . 25

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M a u r e e n ? 1

O h . Y e s , y o u m a y . 2

M S . L O Z E N : 3

K a t e L o z e n , C a s t l e 4

D r i v e . I j u s t h a v e a n i t e m . D o y o u 5

k n o w h o w m u c h t h e c o n t r a c t w a s f o r ? I 6

d i d n ' t c a t c h t h e a m o u n t s a n d h o w m u c h 7

t h e s a v i n g s w e r e ? D i d y o u s a y t h a t ? 8

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 9

T h e e x i s t i n g - - - t h e 10

e x i s t i n g a g r e e m e n t w e h a v e w i t h 11

H o f f m a n A n i m a l C o n t r o l i s f o r $ 2 , 5 0 0 a 12

m o n t h . W h a t ' s - - - w h a t ' s b e i n g 13

p r o p o s e d s t a r t i n g J u l y 1 w i l l b e 14

$ 2 , 0 0 0 a m o n t h f o r e s s e n t i a l l y t h e 15

s a m e s e r v i c e . 16

M S . L O Z E N : 17

M i n u s t h a t a m o u n t f o r 18

- - - ? 19

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 20

W i t h a s a v i n g s o f $ 5 0 0 ? 21

M R . P E T R U C C I : 22

W e l l , I h a v e a q u e s t i o n . 23

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 24

O k a y . 25

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M R . P E T R U C C I : 1

W h a t a r e w e g o i n g t o d o 2

b e t w e e n n o w a n d J u l y ? T h a t c o n t r a c t 3

d o e s n ' t s t a r t u n t i l J u l y . S o a r e y o u 4

g o i n g t o p i c k u p t h e d o g s ? 5

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 6

W e l l , r i g h t n o w w e d o n ' t 7

h a v e a c o n t r a c t . 8

M R . P E T R U C C I : 9

I k n o w t h a t . S o a r e y o u 10

g o i n g t o c o m e o u t a n d p i c k t h e m u p ? 11

I f h e g e t s t h e c o n t r a c t w i l l h e p i c k 12

t h e m u p ? 13

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 14

H e d i d n o t s p e a k t o 15

t h a t . 16

M R . P E T R U C C I : 17

I u n d e r s t a n d t h a t . B u t 18

i s h e g o i n g t o c o m e o u t ? I f t h e 19

p o l i c e d e p a r t m e n t c a l l s a n d t h e y s a y 20

c o m e o n o u t . I s h e g o i n g t o c o m e o u t 21

o r i s h e g o i n g t o - - - ? 22

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 23

T h e r e ' s n o c o n t r a c t y e t . 24

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 25

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W e l l , h e d i d n o t c o m e 1

t h i s w e e k e n d w h e n h e w a s - - - w h e n h e 2

w a s c a l l e d . S o w e w e n t t o p l a n B , 3

w h i c h w a s a g e n t l e m a n o u t o f 4

W a s h i n g t o n C o u n t y . 5

M R . P E T R U C C I : 6

I u n d e r s t a n d t h a t . B u t 7

- - - . 8

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 9

I c a n ' t s p e a k t o w h a t 10

h e ' l l d o . I k n o w t h a t i f w e d o t h i s 11

h e ' l l s t a r t d o i n g i t o n J u l y 1 s t . 12

M R . P E T R U C C I : 13

S o d o w e h a v e s o m e b o d y 14

t o p i c k u p t h e d o g s i f t h e y g r a b t h e m ? 15

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 16

W h e n w e h a v e t h i s 17

d i s c u s s i o n a b o u t t h e i n v o i c e s , c a n w e 18

a s k i f h e w i l l e x t e n d - - - p e r f o r m t h e 19

s e r v i c e , p r o - r a t e i t f o r a m o n t h ? 20

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 21

I c e r t a i n l y c a n d o t h a t . 22

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 23

S o t h a t w i l l g i v e u s 24

s o m e p r o - r a t e d s e r v i c e f o r - - - w h a t , 25

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t h e r e ' s t w o w e e k s l e f t ? T o d a y i s t h e 1

1 7 t h ? W e h a v e l i k e t w o w e e k s ? 2

M R . P E T R U C C I : 3

C o r r e c t . T w o w e e k s . 4

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 5

O k a y . S o a b o u t t w o 6

w e e k s . O k a y . O k a y . 7

M a u r e e n ? 8

M S . S O R C E : 9

M a y o r K u h n ? 10

M A Y O R K U H N : 11

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p ? 12

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 13

Y e s , M a y o r K u h n ? 14

M A Y O R K U H N : 15

C a n y o u j u s t c o n f i r m 16

w h a t i s t a k i n g p l a c e i n t h i s 17

c o n v e r s a t i o n f o r m e ? A r e t h e y - - - a r e 18

w e c h a n g i n g s o m e t h i n g b e f o r e w e 19

v o t i n g ? 20

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 21

N o , w e ' r e n o t c h a n g i n g 22

a n y t h i n g . W h a t w e a r e d o i n g i s j u s t 23

g i v i n g H o f f m a n K e n n e l a c o n t i n g e n c y t o 24

g i v e u s a d i f f e r e n t f o r m a t i n t h e w a y 25

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t h a t h e ' s b e e n s e n d i n g i n v o i c e s . S o 1

w e a r e r e q u e s t i n g t h a t h e d o e s n ' t s e n d 2

u s , q u o t e u n q u o t e , c h i c k e n s c r a t c h 3

i n v o i c e s . T h a t h e w i l l g i v e u s 4

s o m e t h i n g m o r e l e g i b l e . 5

M A Y O R K U H N : 6

O k a y . 7

S o h e , H o f f m a n i s i n 8

a g r e e m e n t t h a t t h e y a r e - - - i f t h e y 9

s i g n t h i s c o n t i n g e n c y t h a t t h e y w i l l 10

b e t a k i n g c a r e o f t h e d o g s o r c a t s 11

u n t i l t h i s i s s t r a i g h t e n e d a w a y . 12

I s t h a t c o r r e c t ? 13

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 14

P a r t i a l l y . 15

H e d o e s n ' t - - - h e ' s n o t 16

a w a r e o f t h e c o n t i n g e n c y y e t . T h a t 17

j u s t c a m e t o t h e t a b l e t h i s e v e n i n g b y 18

C o u n c i l m a n P e t r u c c i . 19

M A Y O R K U H N : 20

O k a y . 21

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 22

A n d i t i s f o r a 2 0 m o n t h 23

t e r m - - - a 2 9 m o n t h t e r m , s t a r t i n g 24

J u l y 1 . 25

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M A Y O R K U H N : 1

O k a y . 2

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 3

T h e y a l s o a r e g o i n g t o 4

a s k i f h e w o u l d g i v e a p r o - r a t e d r a t e , 5

s o t h a t h e c a n p i c k u p f o r t h e n e x t 6

t w o w e e k s . 7

M A Y O R K U H N : 8

O k a y . 9

A n d t h e r e a s o n I a s k , 10

a n d I d o n ' t k n o w i f t h e m a n a g e r - - - a s 11

I s a i d , I c a n g o i n a n d o u t o f m y 12

c o n n e c t i o n . T h a t I d i d n ' t k n o w i f t h e 13

m a n a g e r h a d e x p l a i n e d t h e s i t u a t i o n w e 14

h a d w i t h a d o g t h a t w a s v i c i o u s a n d 15

t h e o n e c o m p a n y w h o w a s g o i n g t o 16

h a n d l e o n t h e c o n t r a c t c a l l e d . 17

H e w o u l d n o t c o m e o u t . A n d 18

H o f f m a n w a s n ' t c o m i n g o u t . S o 19

b a s i c a l l y I s a y , y o u k n o w , w e h a v e t o 20

b e r e s p o n s i b l e b e c a u s e o f t h e f a c t 21

t h a t i f w e h a v e t h i s d o g a n d i f i t 22

e n d s u p b i t i n g a p o l i c e o f f i c e r o r 23

s o m e t h i n g a n d i t c o m e s o u t t h a t w e 24

d i d n ’ t h a v e a n y d o g c o n t r o l . O n e 25

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t h i n g c o u l d l e a d t o a n o t h e r . 1

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 2

A b s o l u t e l y . 3

M A Y O R K U H N : 4

S o s o m e t i m e - - - y o u 5

k n o w , t h i s i s w h a t I ' d s a y . I t i s n o t 6

t h a t w e l e t t h i s g o d u r i n g t h i s t o t h e 7

1 1 t h h o u r . T h i s h a s b e e n d o i n g o n 8

s i n c e 2 0 1 8 . S o I j u s t w a n t t o m a k e 9

s u r e t h a t t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y i s c o v e r e d . 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

T h a n k y o u s o m u c h , M a y o r 12

K u h n . W e a r e g o i n g t o n o w a s k M a u r e e n 13

f o r r o l l c a l l . 14

M A Y O R K U H N : 15

T h a n k y o u . 16

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 17

Y o u ' r e w e l c o m e . 18

M S . S O R C E : 19

M a y o r K u h n ? 20

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 21

M a y o r K u h n ? 22

M A Y O R K U H N : 23

Y e s . 24

M S . S O R C E : 25

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M r . B r o d n i c k i . 1

M R . B R O D N I C K I : 2

Y e s . 3

M S . S O R C E : 4

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p . 5

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 6

Y e s . 7

M S . S O R C E : 8

M r . U n d e r w o o d ? 9

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 10

Y e s . 11

M S . S O R C E : 12

M r . P e t r u c c i ? 13

M R . P E T R U C C I : 14

Y e s . 15

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 16

A l l r i g h t . 17

N e x t o n t h e a g e n d a w e 18

h a v e i t e m s f o r c o n s i d e r a t i o n . A t t h i s 19

t i m e I a m g o i n g t o s p e a k f i r s t . A n d I 20

h a v e a n i t e m f o r c o n s i d e r a t i o n . A n d I 21

w o u l d l i k e t o - - - f o r S c o t t t o 22

p o s s i b l y a d d r e s s t h e P e n n H i l l s 23

p r o g r e s s a n d t o f i n d o u t w h y o n l y h a l f 24

o f P e n n H i l l s i s b e i n g s e r v e d w i t h t h e 25

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p a p e r w h e n a l l o f P e n n H i l l ' s 1

r e s i d e n t s s h o u l d r e c e i v e t h i s 2

n e w s p a p e r . S o S c o t t , w o u l d y o u p l e a s e 3

l o o k i n t o t h i s a n d h a v e a n a n s w e r f o r 4

m e a s s o o n a s p o s s i b l e ? 5

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 6

A b s o l u t e l y . 7

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 8

T h a n k y o u s o m u c h . 9

M R . P E T R U C C I : 10

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p ? 11

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 12

C o u n c i l m a n P e t r u c c i ? 13

M R . P E T R U C C I : 14

I ' l l s t a r t w i t h m y 15

l a u n d r y l i s t a t t h i s t i m e . 16

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 17

O k a y . Y o u ' r e o n . 18

M R . P E T R U C C I : 19

O n S e p t e m b e r 3 r d o f 2 0 1 8 20

w e p e r f o r m e d c r i m i n a l b a c k g r o u n d s o n 21

a n y o n e t a k i n g o r p r e s e n t l y s i t t i n g o n 22

b o a r d w i t h i n t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y t o 23

e n s u r e t h a t w e h a v e u p s t a n d i n g 24

c i t i z e n s i n o r l e a d e r s h i p r o l e s . T o 25

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t h i s d a y w e h a v e a p p r o x i m a t e l y 6 0 / 4 0 1

c o m p l i a n c e . A t t h i s t i m e w e m u s t 2

e x c i s e o r r e m o v e t h o s e w h o r e f u s e t o 3

c o o p e r a t e a n d f o l l o w t h e p o l i c y 4

e s t a b l i s h e d a n d a g r e e d u p o n b y M a y o r 5

a n d C o u n c i l . 6

P l e a s e r e f e r t o t h e 7

m e m o r a n d u m o n A p r i l t h e 1 s t , 2 0 1 9 f r o m 8

S o l i c i t o r C r a i g A l e x a n d e r ' s o p i n i o n o n 9

r e m o v a l o f b o a r d m e m b e r s f o r n o n -10

c o m p l i a n c e t o t h e c r i m i n a l 11

b a c k g r o u n d s . W e s i g n e d i t a n d t h e n 12

D e p u t y M a y o r S a p p s i g n e d i t o n 1 / 1 4 o f 13

' 1 9 . A n d i t i s r e s o l u t i o n 2 0 1 8 - 0 6 7 . 14

T h a t e v e r y o n e m u s t c o m p l y w i t h t h i s 15

c r i m i n a l b a c k g r o u n d . 16

A n d w e a l s o h a v e a 17

m e m o r a n d u m f r o m C r a i g A l e x a n d e r , 18

E s q u i r e . H e g a v e u s h i s o p i n i o n . I t 19

i s m y o p i n i o n t h a t t h e M a y o r a n d 20

C o u n c i l , s h o u l d t h e y c h o o s e t o d o s o , 21

m a y c o n s i d e r a n o r d e r o f r e f u s a l t o 22

s u b m i t t o a b a c k g r o u n d c h e c k a s j u s t 23

c a u s e f o r r e m o v a l . I b e l i e v e n o w w e 24

s h o u l d h a v e t h e M a y o r - - - o r h a v e t h e 25

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m a n a g e r s t a r t t h e p r o c e s s t o r e m o v e 1

t h e b o a r d m e m b e r s t h a t a r e n o t 2

c o m p l y i n g . W h y d i d w e p u t a p o l i c y 3

t o g e t h e r i f w e d o n ' t e n f o r c e i t ? 4

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 5

C o u n c i l m a n P e t r u c c i , i n 6

a g r e e a n c e w i t h t h a t . H o w e v e r , t h e r e 7

a r e m a n y c o n c e r n s w h o i s g o i n g t o b e 8

r e c e i v i n g t h i s i n f o r m a t i o n . I m e a n 9

t h i s i s n o t a l e g a l r e q u i r e m e n t . A n d 10

s o w h o i s g o i n g t o - - - w h o s e h a n d s i s 11

t h i s i n f o r m i n g g o i n g t o f a l l i n t o ? 12

A n d s o I d o n ' t t h i n k t h a t m a n y p e o p l e 13

h a v e a p r o b l e m w i t h a c t u a l l y f i l l i n g 14

i t o u t . 15

B u t t h e y w a n t t o k n o w 16

w h e r e i s t h i s i n f o r m a t i o n g o i n g t o b e 17

k e p t , w h o r e c e i v e s t h i s i n f o r m a t i o n . 18

A n d I t h i n k t h a t i s o n e o f t h e r e a s o n s 19

w h y w e w e r e n o t g i v e n t h e c o o p e r a t i o n 20

t h a t y o u w e r e e x p e c t i n g , b e c a u s e 21

p e o p l e a r e c e r t a i n l y c o n c e r n e d . A n d 22

i f t h e y d o n ' t f i l l i t o u t o r t u r n i t 23

i n , I d o n ' t k n o w , y o u k n o w . 24

T h e r e w o u l d b e s t e p s 25

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t h a t w e c o u l d t a k e . B u t I a m j u s t 1

g o i n g t o a s k i f C r a i g w o u l d s t e p i n 2

a n d a c t u a l l y g i v e a l i t t l e m o r e 3

i n f o r m a t i o n t o w h a t w o u l d h a p p e n i f 4

p e o p l e w h o d o n o t a c t u a l l y f i l l i t o u t 5

a r e t e r m i n a t e d . 6

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 7

O k a y . 8

A s I i n d i c a t e d i n m y 9

m e m o r a n d u m t h a t M r . P e t r u c c i j u s t 10

s p o k e t o , C o u n c i l , a s t o l d , w o u l d n e e d 11

t o m a k e a d e t e r m i n a t i o n t h a t f a i l u r e 12

t o r e s p o n d c o n s t i t u t e d i s r e g a r d t o t h e 13

d i r e c t i v e a n d t h e n t a k e s t e p s t o 14

r e m o v e w h a t e v e r p e r s o n d o e s n ' t 15

r e s p o n d . 16

I f t h e r e ' s o t h e r 17

c o n s i d e r a t i o n s t h a t y o u w a n t t o p u t i n 18

p l a c e , l i k e w h e r e t h a t i n f o r m a t i o n i s 19

g o i n g t o b e h e l d , I w a s n ' t p r e p a r e d 20

f o r t h a t . I w o u l d t h i n k t h e n b e c a u s e 21

t h i s i s o f f i c i a l a c t i o n t h a t t h a t 22

c o u l d b e c o n s i d e r e d a p u b l i c r e c o r d , 23

a n d t h e n s u b j e c t t o t h e R i g h t t o K n o w 24

A c t a n d t h e n h a v e t o l o o k a t t h a t . 25

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A n d i t d o e s - - - i t d o e s 1

- - - i t d o e s i n v o l v e c r i m i n a l 2

i n v e s t i g a t i o n s , w h i c h a r e e x e m p t f r o m 3

t h e R i g h t t o K n o w . S o I ' d n e e d t o 4

l o o k a t t h a t i s s u e , w h i c h I h a v e n ' t 5

l o o k e d a t p r i o r t o t o d a y . B u t s h o u l d 6

c o u n c i l a s a w h o l e d e t e r m i n e t h a t 7

t h a t ' s w o e f u l n e g l e c t f o r f a i l i n g t o 8

p e r f o r m a d i r e c t i v e o f c o u n c i l , t h e n 9

c o u n c i l c a n d e c i d e t h a t t h a t ' s 10

s o m e t h i n g t h a t w o u l d c o n s t i t u t e 11

r e m o v a l . B u t t h a t w o u l d r e q u i r e M a y o r 12

a n d C o u n c i l t o h a v e - - - h a v e a v o t e o n 13

t h a t a n d a m a j o r i t y v o t e o n t h a t . 14

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 15

O k a y . 16

A n d s o y o u w i l l l o o k 17

i n t o t h a t ? 18

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 19

I w i l l l o o k i n t o t h e 20

R i g h t t o K n o w i s s u e , y e s . 21

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 22

O k a y . 23

B e c a u s e t h e r e a r e - - - 24

t h e r e a r e s o m e t h i n g s t h a t i s j u s t n o t 25

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t h e R i g h t t o K n o w . 1

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 2

W h a t ' s t h e 3

c o n s i d e r a t i o n ? 4

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 5

W e l l , y o u r s o c i a l 6

s e c u r i t y n u m b e r , y o u r d a t e o f b i r t h . 7

I j u s t d o n ’ t a g r e e - - - I d o n ' t b e l i e v e 8

- - - 9

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 10

A l l o f t h a t - - - a l l o f 11

t h a t i n f o r m a t i o n - - - . 12

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 13

- - - t h a t , t h a t s h o u l d b e 14

i n t o t h e p u b l i c ' s h a n d s . 15

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 16

I t ' s n o t . A n d t h e r e 17

- - - . 18

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 19

E x c u s e m e . I f y o u ' d 20

l i k e t o s p e a k u p , I ' l l g i v e y o u a n 21

o p p o r t u n i t y . Y o u ' r e w e l c o m e . 22

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 23

I t i s n o t . I t i s n o t . 24

T h e c a s e l a w f r o m t h e R i g h t t o K n o w 25

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a n d t h e c o u r t i s v e r y c l e a r . I t i s 1

p e r s o n a l , i d e n t i f i a b l e i n f o r m a t i o n 2

w h i c h i s c o n f i d e n t i a l . 3

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 4

O k a y . 5

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 6

I t c a n n o t b e 7

d i s s e m i n a t e d t o t h e p u b l i c . 8

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 9

A n d s o w h o s e h a n d s w i l l 10

t h i s i n f o r m a t i o n g o i n t o ? I d o n ' t 11

t h i n k t h a t t h a t e v e r - - - . 12

M R . P E T R U C C I : 13

W e l l , M r . A l e x a n d e r 14

w o u l d h a v e t o m a k e a d e t e r m i n a t i o n o n 15

h o w w e ' r e g o i n g t o p r o c e e d f o r w a r d o n 16

t h i s a s a w h o l e . W e ' r e g o i n g t o h a v e 17

t o m a k e t h a t d e c i s i o n i n a n e x e c u t i v e 18

m e e t i n g . 19

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 20

O k a y . 21

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 22

O k a y . 23

M R . P E T R U C C I : 24

O k a y ? 25

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D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 1

T h a n k y o u . 2

M R . P E T R U C C I : 3

N e x t ? 4

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 5

Y e s . 6

M R . P E T R U C C I : 7

N e x t o n t h e l i s t ? 8

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 9

Y e s . 10

M R . P E T R U C C I : 11

F o r a l l p e r s o n n e l i n o u r 12

m u n i c i p a l i t y w h o a r e o n b o a r d s t h a t 13

r e p r e s e n t t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y a n d c l a i m 14

t o h a v e a m i l i t a r y s t a t u s , I w o u l d 15

r e q u e s t t h a t t h e c o u n c i l s e t a p o l i c y 16

t h a t a l l p e r s o n n e l h i r e d o n p a r t o r o n 17

a n y b o a r d s o f t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y a r e 18

i s s u e d a E D - 2 1 4 f o r v e r i f i c a t i o n o f 19

m i l i t a r y s e r v i c e . 20

T h a t f o r m i s b a s i c a l l y 21

t e l l i n g t h e d a y a n d p l a c e a n d i n j u r y 22

o r a c t i v e d u t y , w h e n t h e y s e r v e d i n 23

t h e a r m e d f o r c e s . A n d I a m s o r r y . I 24

w i l l f u r n i s h t h e s e - - - a c o p y o f t h e s e 25

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t o M a y o r a n d C o u n c i l . I d i d n ' t h a v e 1

t i m e t o g e t t h e m c o p i e d b e f o r e t h e 2

m e e t i n g . T h e t h i r d i t e m i s i n 3

r e f e r e n c e t o t h e f i r e m e m o r i a l . I 4

b e l i e v e t h a t t h e f i r e d e p a r t m e n t i n 5

P e n n H i l l s s h o u l d h a v e c o m p l e t e 6

c o n t r o l o f t h e s i t e o n t h e s e c o n d 7

c o r r i d o r . 8

A l s o , t h e b r a v e m e n a n d 9

w o m e n s h o u l d h a v e a r i g h t t o e r e c t a 10

m o n u m e n t t h a t t h e y c h o o s e a n d C M - 9 5 a t 11

P e n n H i l l s . A s w e l l a s t h e p o l i c e 12

o f f i c e r s o f P e n n H i l l s , i n e r e c t i o n o f 13

a m o n u m e n t . I t i s a t i m e t h a t w e l e t 14

t h e f i r e m e n d o a s w h a t t h e y s e e f i t t o 15

h o n o r t h e o n e s t h a t l o s t t h e i r l i f e i n 16

t h e l i n e o f d u t y . 17

W i t h t h a t s a i d , I 18

b e l i e v e t h a t w e m o v e f o r w a r d a n d l e t 19

t h e m g e t s t a r t e d o n t h e f i r e m a n 20

m e m o r i a l . T h e y h a v e s u b m i t t e d t h e i r 21

s u g g e s t i o n s a n d h o w t o p r o c e e d . I 22

s u g g e s t w e v o t e n o w t o a p p r o v e t h e 23

m o n u m e n t . A n d I v o t e y e s . 24

I n t h e p a s t t w o m o n t h s 25

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w e ' v e h a d t w o t r a f f i c p e d e s t r i a n 1

f a t a l i t i e s i n o u r c o m m u n i t y . B o t h 2

o c c u r r e d a b l o c k a w a y f r o m e a c h o t h e r . 3

W h i l e b o t h i n v e s t i g a t i o n r e m a i n 4

o n g o i n g , a n d i t ' s i m p o s s i b l e t o k n o w 5

i f a n y t h i n g s a f e t y i m p r o v e m e n t s c o u l d 6

p r e v e n t e i t h e r i n s t a n c e f r o m 7

h a p p e n i n g . I a m r e q u e s t i n g t h a t w e 8

c o n d u c t a t r a f f i c s a f e t y s t u d y t o s e e 9

i f a n y s a f e t y i m p r o v e m e n t s a r e 10

n e c e s s a r y . 11

P l e a s e - - - p l e a s e 12

c o n s i d e r t h e f o l l o w i n g . I w o u l d l i k e 13

o u r m u n i c i p a l e n g i n e e r t o c o n d u c t a 14

t r a f f i c s a f e t y s t u d y a n d p e d e s t r i a n 15

s a f e t y s t u d y o n t h e e n t i r e l e n g t h o f 16

H e r s h e y R o a d . I h a v e p r e v i o u s l y 17

c o n t a c t e d t h e A l l e g h e n y C o u n t y P u b l i c 18

W o r k s r e g a r d i n g t h e i n t e r s e c t i o n a t 19

U n i v e r s a l a n d H e r s h e y . 20

T h e y h a v e i n f o r m e d m e 21

t h a t t h e c o u n t y - - - t h e c o u n t y p o l i c e 22

s a i d - - - t h e y i n f o r m e d m e a n d t h e 23

c o u n t y p o l i c e s a i d t h a t t h e 24

m u n i c i p a l i t y m u s t c o n d u c t s u c h s u r v e y s 25

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o n c o u n t y r o a d s a n d t h e n f o r w a r d t h e m 1

o n t o t h e c o u n t y f o r r e v i e w . T h e r e f o r e 2

I a m r e q u e s t i n g o u r m u n i c i p a l e n g i n e e r 3

c o n d u c t a t r a f f i c a n d p e d e s t r i a n 4

s a f e t y s t u d y o n t h e U n i v e r s a l i n t h e 5

a r e a o f H e r s h e y . 6

A n d I a m r e q u e s t i n g t h a t 7

w e c o n t a c t t h e P e n n s y l v a n i a D e p a r t m e n t 8

o f T r a n s p o r t a t i o n w i t h r e g a r d s t o o u r 9

r o a d . A n d I ' d l i k e P e n n D O T t o c o n d u c t 10

a t r a f f i c a n d p e d e s t r i a n s a f e t y s t u d y 11

o n S a l t s b u r g f r o m P a l m e r R o a d t o 12

F r a n k s T o w n . T h i s w i l l a l l o w u s t o 13

c o n d u c t a n y s a f e t y i m p r o v e m e n t s t h a t 14

a r e n e e d e d i n t h e p l a z a a n d c o m m e r c i a l 15

d i s t r i c t . 16

T h i s i n t e r s e c t i o n w i t h 17

H e r s h e y , t h e a r e a a r o u n d t h e l i b r a r y 18

a n d t h e c o m m e r c i a l d i s t r i c t a l l h a v e a 19

h i g h a m o u n t o f p e d e s t r i a n t r a f f i c . 20

P e n n D O T p r o v i d e s t h i s s e r v i c e . I t i s 21

f r e e f o r m u n i c i p a l i t i e s , b u t a f o r m a l 22

r e q u e s t m u s t b e s u b m i t t e d b y t h e 23

m a n a g e r . A n d I ' l l g i v e i t t o y o u 24

r i g h t n o w . 25

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A n d m y f i f t h i t e m a n d m y 1

l a s t i t e m i s t h a t I r e q u e s t t h a t w e 2

l o o k i n t o a d o p t i n g s c h o o l z o n e s f o r 3

t h e h i g h s c h o o l a n d m i d d l e s c h o o l . 4

T h o s e s c h o o l s a r e l o c a t e d o n t h e m a i n 5

a r t e r y a n d b o t h l a c k s c h o o l z o n e s . 6

T h e a d o p t i o n o f a s c h o o l z o n e w i l l 7

a l l o w o u r p o l i c e d e p a r t m e n t t o b e t t e r 8

e n f o r c e s p e e d i n g i n t h e s e a r e a s , 9

p a r t i c u l a r l y d u r i n g s t u d e n t a r r i v a l 10

a n d d i s m i s s a l . 11

I w o u l d l i k e u s t o 12

M a n a g e r A n d r e j c h a k t o c o n t a c t P e n n D O T 13

r e g a r d i n g a d o p t i n g s c h o o l z o n e s o n 14

F r a n k s T o w n a n d S a l t s b u r g f o r t h e h i g h 15

s c h o o l . A n d s p e a k w i t h o u r e n g i n e e r s 16

a n d t h e p o l i c e d e p a r t m e n t a b o u t 17

d e s i g n a t i n g r o a d s n e a r t h e h i g h s c h o o l 18

a s s c h o o l z o n e s . C o n t a c t A l l e g h e n y 19

C o u n t y r e g a r d i n g a d o p t i n g a s c h o o l 20

z o n e f r o m U n i v e r s a l R o a d t o t h e h i g h 21

s c h o o l . 22

D u e t o t h e d i f f e r e n t 23

a m e n i t i e s - - - d i f f e r e n t a m e n i t i e s o n 24

t h e r o a d s , t h e r e m a y b e d i f f e r e n t 25

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r e q u i r e m e n t s . A n d I w o u l d l i k e a d o p t 1

a s e t o f p o l i c i e s b e f o r e t h e s t a r t o f 2

t h e s c h o o l y e a r . T h o u g h d e p e n d i n g o n 3

t h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s , w e m a y h a v e t o 4

p r o v i d e s i g n s a n d t h o s e t h a t a r e 5

n e c e s s a r y i n 2 0 - 2 1 . S o m e c h i l d r e n 6

w a l k i n t h e s e z o n e s d a i l y . A n d i t i s 7

o u r r e s p o n s i b i l i t y t o e n s u r e t h e i r 8

s a f e t y . A n d I ' m g o i n g t o h a n d t h a t u p 9

a l s o t o y o u . A n d t h a t i s i t f o r m e . 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

T h a n k y o u , C o u n c i l m a n 12

P e t r u c c i . A n y o t h e r i t e m s f o r 13

c o n s i d e r a t i o n ? 14

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 15

D e p u t y M a y o r . 16

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 17

C o u n c i l m a n ? 18

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 19

I d o h a v e a q u e s t i o n . I 20

t h i n k w e w e n t o u t o f t h e p r o c e d u r e 21

h e r e . W e h a v e a R e s o l u t i o n N u m b e r 22

2 0 1 9 - 0 3 0 . 23

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 24

T h o s e h a v e b e e n r e m o v e d 25

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f r o m t h e a g e n d a t h i s e v e n i n g , 1

C o u n c i l m a n . 2

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 3

T h a t h a s ? 4

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 5

Y e s , i t h a s . W e a m e n d e d 6

t h a t a t t h e b e g i n n i n g - - - w e a m e n d e d 7

t h a t i n t h e b e g i n n i n g o f t h e m e e t i n g . 8

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 9

O k a y . 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

T h e r e w e r e t w o i t e m s 12

t h a t w a s a m e n d e d , a n d o n e a d d e d . 13

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 14

N i n e a n d t e n w e r e b o t h 15

r e m o v e d f r o m t h e a g e n d a a t t h e 16

b e g i n n i n g o f t h e m e e t i n g . 17

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 18

O h , I d i d n ' t k n o w t h a t . 19

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 20

T h e g e n t l e m a n t h a t w a s 21

b e g i n n i n g t o s p e a k i n t h e p l a i d s h i r t , 22

I p r o m i s e d t o g i v e y o u a m o m e n t t o 23

s p e a k . Y o u h a v e t h a t o p p o r t u n i t y i f 24

y o u s t i l l w i s h t o d o s o . Y o u m a y c o m e 25

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t o t h e p o d i u m . G i v e y o u r n a m e a n d 1

a d d r e s s , p l e a s e , f o r t h e r e c o r d . 2

M R . A L A N : 3

M y n a m e i s M a r k A l a n , 4

1 9 2 9 S a n J u a n S t r e e t . 5

O k a y . 6

I w a n t t o a d d r e s s t h a t 7

s i t u a t i o n a l s o . C a n I d o t h a t ? 8

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 9

Y o u w a n t t o - - - h o w m a n y 10

s i t u a t i o n s d i d y o u w a n t t o a d d r e s s ? 11

M R . A L A N : 12

W e l l , t h e o n e t h a t w e 13

w e r e t a l k i n g a b o u t , t h e d i s c l o s u r e o f 14

t h e i n f o r m a t i o n . A n d a b o u t t h e p e t 15

t h i n g . 16

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 17

R i g h t . Y o u w a n t t o 18

a d d r e s s t h a t o n e f i r s t ? B e c a u s e 19

t h a t ' s w h a t I g a v e y o u - - - 20

M R . A L A N : 21

O k a y . T h a t ' s w h a t I 22

w a n t t o d o . 23

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 24

- - - t h e o p p o r t u n i t y , 25

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y e s . 1

M R . A L A N : 2

F o r t h e d i s c l o s u r e , 3

t h e r e s h o u l d b e a b a c k g r o u n d c h e c k . 4

O k a y ? 5

A n d t h e p e t s i t u a t i o n , I 6

w a n t t o k n o w w h e r e - - - w h e r e a r e t h e y 7

l e t t i n g t h e m l o o s e a t ? B e c a u s e i t 8

s e e m s l i k e t h e y ' r e l e t t i n g t h e m l o o s e 9

i n o u r n e i g h b o r h o o d . 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

O k a y . 12

I a m g o i n g t o a s k o u r 13

B u s i n e s s M a n a g e r t o a d d r e s s t h a t . 14

M R . A L A N : 15

T h a n k y o u . 16

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 17

I m a y n o t - - - I m i g h t 18

n o t h a v e t h i s t o t a l l y c o r r e c t . 19

B e c a u s e I ' m o b v i o u s l y n o t a n a n i m a l 20

c o n t r o l o f f i c e r . B u t I h a d s o m e 21

d i s c u s s i o n a b o u t t h i s i n t h e l a s t f e w 22

w e e k s a b o u t - - - a b o u t t h a t v e r y 23

q u e s t i o n . M y u n d e r s t a n d i n g , a n d I m a y 24

b e i n c o r r e c t , i s t h a t i t ' s u n l a w f u l 25

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f o r s o m e o n e t o c a p t u r e a n a n i m a l a n d 1

t h e n r e l e a s e i t s o m e w h e r e e l s e . 2

S o I t h i n k w h a t t h e y ' r e 3

- - - t h e r e a r e l a w s t h a t g o v e r n t h e 4

d i s p o s a l o f t h o s e a n i m a l s . 5

E s s e n t i a l l y , t h e y ' r e p u t d o w n . S o i f 6

t h e a n i m a l c o n t r o l t a k e s a r a c c o o n , i t 7

w o u l d b e u n l a w f u l f o r h e o r y o u , i t i s 8

m y u n d e r s t a n d i n g , t o t a k e t h a t a n i m a l 9

a n d j u s t r e l e a s e i t s o m e w h e r e i n t h e 10

w i l d . 11

T h a t ' s n o t a c t u a l l y - - - 12

y o u ' r e n o t r e a l l y a b l e t o d o t h a t . 13

A n d t h e n a g a i n , t h a t ' s j u s t m y 14

u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f i t . B u t I c a n g e t 15

y o u a m o r e n u a n c e d a n s w e r . I f t h e y ' r e 16

- - - w i t h r e g a r d - - - I h a v e n o 17

i n f o r m a t i o n t h a t a n i m a l s a r e b e i n g 18

c a p t u r e d i n o n e p a r t o f P e n n H i l l s a n d 19

r e l e a s e d i n t o a n o t h e r p a r t . C e r t a i n l y 20

n o t b y a n y b o d y w e ' r e e m p l o y i n g . 21

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 22

T h a n k y o u , S c o t t . I 23

h o p e n o t , b e c a u s e I h a v e t h r e e a t m y 24

h o u s e n o w . 25

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M R . A L A N : 1

W e h a v e l i k e 2 0 . 2

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 3

Y e a h . I t ' s r i d i c u l o u s . 4

A n d t h a t i s p a r t o f o u r c o n t r a c t . 5

A n d t h a t i s d e f i n i t e l y w h y w e w a n t t o 6

g e t t h a t c o n t r a c t i n e f f e c t A S A P . 7

T h a n k y o u . O k a y . 8

N e x t o n t h e a g e n d a , I 9

h a v e i n t r o d u c t i o n s o f o r d i n a n c e s , 10

r e s o l u t i o n s , e t c e t e r a . 11

M R . P E T R U C C I : 12

D e p u t y M a y o r ? 13

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 14

C o u n c i l m a n P e t r u c c i ? 15

M R . P E T R U C C I : 16

T h i s p a s t w e e k C o n o r 17

L a m b h e l d a t o w n h a l l e v e n t . A n d a t 18

t h i s e v e n t , t w o r e s i d e n t s a s k e d a 19

c o n g r e s s m a n f o r a s s i s t a n c e w i t h 20

f e d e r a l f u n d i n g a n d r e q u e s t i n g a 21

p r o p o s a l a s t o m a k e a d j u s t m e n t s t o t h e 22

1 5 1 4 7 z i p c o d e . I a m p r o p o s i n g t h a t 23

t h e c o u n c i l p a s s a r e s o l u t i o n f o r e a c h 24

o f t h e i t e m s b e l o w . 25

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A r e s o l u t i o n t o s u p p o r t 1

t h e U S P S o f f i c i a l l y a d o p t i n g a n d 2

r e c o g n i z i n g P e n n H i l l s a s a n 3

a c c e p t a b l e c i t y f o r t h e 1 5 1 4 7 z i p 4

c o d e . A n d t h i s i s n o t a r e q u e s t f o r a 5

n e w z i p c o d e o r f o r t h e c h a n g i n g o f 6

z i p c o d e d o c u m e n t s . B u t r a t h e r a 7

c h a n g e t h a t w i l l a l l o w b u s i n e s s e s a n d 8

r e s i d e n t s t o u s e P e n n H i l l s a s t h e i r 9

c i t y a s i f t h e y l i v e d i n 1 5 1 4 7 . 10

I a s k t h a t w e w r i t e u p a 11

r e s o l u t i o n a n d t h a t i t b e s e n t t o M r . 12

L a m b ' s o f f i c e , t h e p o s t m a s t e r i n 13

V e r o n a a n d t h e p o s t m a s t e r f o r t h e 14

P i t t s b u r g h U S P S d i s t r i c t . L e o n 15

Z i e b a c h i s t h e r e s i d e n t w h o s u g g e s t e d 16

t h i s t o M r . L a m b . 17

A n d a r e s o l u t i o n t o 18

s u p p o r t f o r t h e f e d e r a l r e m e d i a l f u n d 19

f o r t h e f o r m e r U . S . S t e e l , A t l a s 20

C e m e n t a n d G a s a n d O i l p r o p e r t i e s . 21

T h e s e s i t e s t o t a l l i k e 4 0 0 a c r e s a n d 22

t h e f e d e r a l g o v e r n m e n t p r o v i d e s g r a n t 23

m o n e y t o b e u s e d f o r c l e a n u p o f t h e s e 24

b u i l d i n g s , t o c l e a n u p g r o u n d s p i l l s . 25

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A n d t h e s e p r o p e r t i e s a r e i n t h e t o p 1

t e n l a r g e s t i n A l l e g h e n y C o u n t y . 2

I w o u l d r e q u e s t t h a t w e 3

p a s s a r e s o l u t i o n a n d s e n d i t i n t o M r . 4

L a m b ' s o f f i c e . A n d i f a n d w h e n w e 5

a p p l y f o r o u r g r a n t m o n e y , w e s e n d a 6

s e p a r a t e r e s o l u t i o n w i t h t h e 7

a p p l i c a t i o n . 8

R e s i d e n t a n d e c o n o m i c 9

d e v e l o p m e n t i n t e r m s o f M r . A m a c i n o 10

r e q u e s t e d t h i s f r o m M r . L a m b ' s o f f i c e 11

a n d h e ' s s e e k i n g t h e h e l p a n d t h i s 12

i n f o r m a t i o n i n g r a n t a s s i s t a n c e . A n d 13

I d i d t a l k t o t h e m a n a g e r a b o u t t h i s 14

b e f o r e a n d w e - - - w e n e e d t o s e e w h a t 15

t h e s t a t u s i s o n t h e s e p r o p e r t i e s a n d 16

f i n d o u t h o w m u c h c o n t a m i n a t i o n o f 17

t h e s e s i t e s a r e . S o t h a t w o u l d 18

p r o b a b l y b e t h e f i r s t s t e p . 19

A m I c o r r e c t i n a s s u m i n g 20

t h a t , M r . A n d r e j c h a k ? 21

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 22

Y e a h . I w o u l d t h i n k . I 23

w o u l d t h i n k s o i f t h e r e ' s a n y k i n d o f 24

a d e s i r e t o i d e n t i f y f u n d i n g f o r i t I 25

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t h i n k s t e p o n e w e c a n f i n d o u t , y o u 1

k n o w , w h a t t h e o w n e r s h i p s t a t u s i s , 2

h a s t h e r e b e e n a n y t e s t i n g d o n e , s e e 3

w h a t t h e s t a t u s i s . 4

M R . P E T R U C C I : 5

O k a y . 6

A n d t h a t i s a l l . 7

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 8

T h a n k y o u , C o u n c i l m a n 9

P e t r u c c i . 10

O k a y . 11

A t t h i s t i m e I a m g o i n g 12

t o c a l l f o r a r e p o r t . I a m g o i n g t o 13

g i v e m i n e f i r s t . 14

S o I w o u l d l i k e t o 15

r e p o r t t h a t t h e M e m o r i a l D a y P a r a d e i n 16

i t s n e w r o u t e w a s a s u c c e s s . T h e 17

s t r e e t s w e r e l i n e d w i t h p e o p l e 18

a n t i c i p a t i n g t h e p a r a d e . I t w a s 19

e x c i t i n g t o s e e t h a t t h e y w e r e 20

e x c i t e d . T h e n e w r o u t e o f f e r s m a n y 21

r e s i d e n t s a f r o n t r o w V I P s e a t i n g , d u e 22

t o t h e m l i v i n g r i g h t o n t h e r o u t e . 23

S o m a n y r e s i d e n t s w e r e 24

v e r y e x c i t e d a s t h e y s a t o n t h e i r 25

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p o r c h e s a n d a w a i t e d t h e p a r a d e . W e d o 1

l o o k f o r w a r d t o m a k i n g t h e p a r a d e 2

b e t t e r n e x t y e a r . O f c o u r s e t h i s i s 3

t h e f i r s t t i m e t h a t o n t h i s r o u t e w e 4

a c t u a l l y m a r c h e d o n t h i s r o u t e . S o 5

t h e r e a r e a f e w l i t t l e k i n k s t h a t w e 6

n e e d t o w o r k o u t . B u t n o t m a n y . 7

A s u s u a l , J o h n S c a g l i o n e 8

a n d h i s t e a m d i d a g r e a t j o b a n d 9

t h e y ' r e w o r k i n g t o m a k e i t e v e n b e t t e r 10

f o r n e x t y e a r . 11

C o m m u n i c a t i o n b e t w e e n 12

P e n n H i l l s a d m i n i s t r a t i o n a n d 13

r e s i d e n t s i s c o n s i s t e n t l y g e t t i n g 14

b e t t e r . H a s a n y o n e s e e n t h e b i l l b o a r d 15

o n F r a n k s T o w n R o a d ? T h e b i g 16

b i l l b o a r d t h a t h i g h l i g h t s t h e d a t e s 17

a n d s u m m e r e v e n t s f o r P e n n H i l l s . H a s 18

a n y b o d y s e e n i t ? A c r o s s f r o m t h e 19

c e m e t e r y , c o r r e c t . D o y o u g e t e x c i t e d 20

w h e n y o u s e e t h a t b i l l b o a r d ? N o ? 21

I t ' s v e r y i n f o r m a t i v e . 22

I t g i v e s i n f o r m a t i o n 23

a b o u t w h a t ' s h a p p e n i n g i n P e n n H i l l s . 24

I t h i n k i t ' s g r e a t f o r r e s i d e n t s a n d 25

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n o n - r e s i d e n t s a l i k e , s o t h a t y o u k n o w 1

w h a t w e a r e d o i n g a n d w h a t o u r 2

u p c o m i n g e v e n t s a r e . S o I t h i n k i t ' s 3

w o n d e r f u l a n d i t ' s a g r e a t w a y o f 4

c o m m u n i c a t i o n . N o t o n l y t o o u r 5

r e s i d e n t s , b u t a l s o t o o u r n o n -6

r e s i d e n t s . E v e n f o r t h e c h i l d r e n t o 7

s e e a s c h i l d r e n a r e i n m o m a n d d a d ' s 8

c a r a n d t h e y ' r e l o o k i n g o u t a t t h e 9

b i l l b o a r d s . 10

T h e y ' r e s a y i n g h e y 11

m o m m y , t h e r e ' s a c o n c e r t a t t h e p a r k . 12

Y o u k n o w , I w a n t t o g o . S o I t h i n k 13

i t ' s a g r e a t w a y o f c o m m u n i c a t i o n a n d 14

i t l o o k s g r e a t . S o k u d o s f o r t h a t . 15

A l s o o u r P e n n H i l l s i s 16

c o n s i s t e n t l y b e i n g u p d a t e d . A n d o f 17

c o u r s e s o c i a l m e d i a n e v e r f a i l s t o 18

i n f o r m u s . 19

I b e l i e v e C r e s c e n t 20

H i l l s , M r . G e t z i e c o r r e c t m e i f I ' m 21

w r o n g s i n c e I s e e y o u h e r e . A r e y o u 22

s t i l l g o i n g t o h a v e t h e s t o r y t i m e i n 23

t h e p a r k t h i s s u m m e r ? 24

M R . G E T Z I E : 25

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Y e s . 1

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 2

Y e s ? W h o s a i d t h a t ? 3

W h o s a i d y e s ? O k a y . Y e s . 4

S o s t o r y t i m e i n t h e 5

p a r k a t C r e s c e n t H i l l s i s a n a m a z i n g 6

h o u r o f s t o r y t i m e . S o i f y o u h a v e 7

c h i l d r e n , d a y c a r e c e n t e r s , I b e l i e v e 8

a l l i s w e l c o m e t o c o m e u p t o s t o r y 9

t i m e . I t ' s a g r e a t t i m e . A n d w e 10

t h a n k y o u , C r e s c e n t H i l l s , f o r 11

p r o v i d i n g t h a t o p p o r t u n i t y f o r t h e 12

c h i l d r e n t o c o m e a n d h a v e s t o r y t i m e 13

i n t h e p a r k . W h e n d o e s t h a t s t a r t ? 14

M R . G E T Z I E : 15

A r e y o u a s k i n g m e ? 16

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 17

Y e s . 18

M R . G E T Z I E : 19

I c a n n e v e r g u e s s t h a t . 20

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 21

D o y o u k n o w w h e n i t 22

s t a r t e d ? 23

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 24

I t h i n k t h a t ' s g o i n g t o 25

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s t a r t o n t h e 1 5 t h . 1

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 2

O n t h e 1 5 t h ? 3

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 4

I t h i n k i t ' s a l r e a d y 5

g o i n g , i s n ' t i t ? 6

M R . G E T Z I E : 7

Y e a h . 8

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 9

I t ' s s u p p o s e d t o b e . 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

I t ' s b e g a n ? T o d a y ' s t h e 12

1 7 t h . I k n o w u s u a l l y s o m e w h e r e a r o u n d 13

t h i s t i m e . 14

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 15

Y e a h . I ' m s o r r y . I 16

d o n ' t k n o w t h e d a t e . 17

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 18

O k a y . 19

W e l l , w e w i l l g e t t h a t 20

i n f o r m a t i o n . 21

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 22

I t ' s s o o n . 23

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 24

S o s p r e a d t h a t w o r d 25

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a l s o . 1

C o u n c i l s t a f f a n d 2

g a t e w a y e n g i n e e r s a r e w o r k i n g o n 3

h a v i n g a t o w n h a l l m e e t i n g w h e r e w e 4

c a n a l l c o m e t o g e t h e r a n d t a l k a b o u t 5

o u r s e w e r s i n P e n n H i l l s . S o I a m n o t 6

q u i t e s u r e w h a t w e ' r e g o i n g t o n a m e 7

i t . B u t i t ' s g o i n g t o t a l k - - - i t ' s 8

g o i n g t o b e a s e w e r w o r k s h o p . S o t h a t 9

y o u c a n h a v e a c l e a r u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f 10

w h a t o u r s e w e r s a r e a l l a b o u t a n d h o w 11

w e f l e s h - - - h o w w e g e t f r o m P e n n 12

H i l l s a l l t h e w a y t o t h e n o r t h s i d e . 13

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 14

I t ' s g o i n g t o b e o n J u l y 15

8 t h , I b e l i e v e . 16

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 17

O k a y . B a c k t o s t o r y 18

t i m e . J u l y 8 t h a t - - - . 19

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 20

T h e s e w e r m e e t i n g . 21

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 22

O h , I ' m s o r r y . F o r g i v e 23

m e . W e l l , w e ' r e g o i n g t o h a v e a s t o r y 24

t i m e a b o u t s e w e r s . H o w a b o u t t h a t ? 25

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S o y o u c a n a l l c o m e o u t a n d h e a r y o u r 1

s t o r y t i m e a b o u t s e w e r s . 2

S o J u l y 8 t h a n d - - - J u l y 3

8 t h a t 7 : 0 0 p . m . w i l l b e o u r t o w n h a l l 4

s e w e r w o r k s h o p . S o t h a t ' s g r e a t . 5

T h a t ' s n e w s t o m e . I w a s n ' t a w a r e 6

t h a t w e h a d a d a t e . S o I a m e x c i t e d 7

a b o u t t h a t . 8

S o p l e a s e m a r k y o u r 9

c a l e n d a r . T e l l e v e r y o n e y o u k n o w 10

a b o u t o u r s e w e r w o r k s h o p . I t ' s v e r y 11

- - - i t ' s g o i n g t o b e v e r y i n f o r m a t i v e . 12

Y o u k n o w , I a m s u r e n o t a l l o f y o u 13

k n o w h o w w h e n y o u f l u s h y o u r t o i l e t o r 14

y o u r w a t e r g o e s d o w n t h e d r a i n o r w h e n 15

y o u r l a u n d r y i s r i n s i n g h o w t h a t w a t e r 16

l i t e r a l l y g e t s f r o m P e n n H i l l s a l l t h e 17

w a y t o t h e n o r t h s i d e . 18

S o i t ' s g o i n g t o b e v e r y 19

i n f o r m a t i v e . C o m e s e e w h e r e y o u r 20

m o n e y i s g o i n g a n d h o w i t ' s g e t t i n g 21

t h e r e . P l e a s e , p l e a s e , i n f o r m o t h e r 22

r e s i d e n t s . W e a r e l o o k i n g f o r w a r d t o 23

a f u l l r o o m . T h a t w i l l b e J u l y 8 t h a t 24

7 : 0 0 p . m . T h a n k y o u S c o t t , I w a s n ' t 25

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a w a r e t h a t w e h a d a d a t e . A n d w i t h 1

t h a t b e i n g s a i d , t h e f l o o r i s n o w o p e n 2

t o o t h e r c o u n c i l m e m b e r s w i t h t h e i r 3

r e p o r t . 4

M R . P E T R U C C I : 5

D e p u t y M a y o r ? 6

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 7

Y e s ? C o u n c i l m e m b e r 8

P e t r u c c i . 9

M R . P E T R U C C I : 10

O n e o t h e r t h i n g a b o u t 11

t h e J u l y 8 t h t o w n h a l l m e e t i n g . 12

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 13

Y e s . 14

M R . P E T R U C C I : 15

R i c k i s g o i n g t o s t a r t 16

f r o m t h e b e g i n n i n g a n d g o a l l t h e w a y 17

t o w h e r e w e ' r e a t r i g h t n o w i n t h e 18

s e w e r s . S o h o w w e g o t t o b e i n t h i s 19

p r e d i c a m e n t t h a t w e ' r e i n . T h i s i s 20

t h e a n a l y s i s t h a t w e ' r e g o i n g t o s h o w . 21

S o h e ' s g o i n g t o b e e x p l a i n i n g 22

e v e r y t h i n g . F r o m w h a t h a p p e n s y o u 23

t u r n t h a t v a l v e t o t h e t i m e t h a t w e ' r e 24

p a y i n g f o r i t r i g h t n o w . S o t h a t ' s 25

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w h a t y o u ' r e g o i n g t o b e s e e i n g . 1

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 2

A n d i t w i l l b e r i g h t 3

h e r e i n c o u n c i l ' s c h a m b e r . 4

M R . P E T R U C C I : 5

Y e s , i t w i l l b e . 6

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 7

Y e a h . W e s h o u l d h a v e t o 8

a d d c h a i r s i n h e r e f o r t h a t w o r k s h o p . 9

M R . P E T R U C C I : 10

O n e t h i n g - - - a n o t h e r 11

t h i n g I w a n t t o m e n t i o n i s t h i s i s 12

u n d e r a 2 0 1 9 - 2 6 4 8 , w h i c h i s g o i n g t o 13

r u n . T h i s w a s b r o u g h t t o m e - - - 14

b r o u g h t t o m y a t t e n t i o n b y t h e 15

s e n i o r s . I s p o k e w i t h t h e s e n i o r s o n e 16

d a y a n d t h e y s a i d , C o u n c i l m a n , w e ' r e 17

i n k i n d o f a p r e d i c a m e n t t h a t w e ' r e 18

w o r r i e d a b o u t t h e s c h o o l t a x e s g o i n g 19

u p a n d t h a t w e c a n ' t a f f o r d o u r 20

m u n i c i p a l t a x e s . A n d i f w e h a d a 21

p a y m e n t p l a n , i t w o u l d m a k e i t a 22

l i t t l e b u t e a s i e r w i t h t h e c h e c k s . 23

S o I b r o u g h t i t t o 24

K e y s t o n e E l e c t i o n , t h e l a d y u p t h e r e 25

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a t S e t t l e r S p r i n g s . I t a l k e d t o R o s e 1

H a l l , w a s n ' t i t ? 2

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 3

U h - h u h ( y e s ) . 4

M R . P E T R U C C I : 5

R o s e H a l l . A n d I 6

p r o p o s e d t h i s t o h e r . A n d s h e s a i d 7

s u r e . T h a t ' s n o t a p r o b l e m . Y o u c a n 8

d i v i d e i t u p . A n d t h a t ' s e x a c t l y w h a t 9

w e d i d . W e m a d e a r e s o l u t i o n . A n d 10

n o w s e n i o r s w i l l g e t a t h r e e m o n t h 11

p a y m e n t p l a n o n t h e i r m u n i c i p a l t a x . 12

A n d h o p e f u l l y i t e a s e s u p f o r t h e m . 13

S o t h a t - - - t h a t ' s h o w t h a t c a m e 14

a b o u t . 15

T h e f i r s t o n e o n A p r i l 16

1 6 t h a t a p p r o x i m a t e l y 1 : 0 0 p . m . a t 17

t h a t m e e t i n g w a s S e n a t o r J a y C o s t a a n d 18

R e p r e s e n t a t i v e B r i a n f r o m C o n o r L a m b ' s 19

o f f i c e t o d i s c u s s t h e s e w a g e d e b t o f 20

$ 6 4 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 . M y i n t e n t i o n t o t h i s 21

m e e t i n g w a s t o f i n d i f t h e y c o u l d h e l p 22

u s i n r e d u c i n g t h i s d e b t , w h i c h w o u l d 23

e a s e t h e b u r d e n o n t h e t a x p a y e r s o f 24

P e n n H i l l s . 25

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T h e r e s p o n s e f r o m b o t h 1

o f t h e m w a s t h a t t h e y w o u l d n o t h e l p 2

i n r e d u c i n g d e b t . B u t t h e y c o u l d a i d 3

u s i n t h e g r a n t m o n e y t o f u n d t h e 4

c o n s t r u c t i o n p r o j e c t . I w a s r e m i n d e d 5

b y S e n a t o r C o s t a t h a t w e h a v e a 6

$ 3 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 g r a n t f o r p a v i n g a n d a 7

$ 4 1 8 , 0 0 0 f o r o u r L i m e H o l l o w S e w e r 8

P r o j e c t . 9

W e a r e c u r r e n t l y 10

a p p l y i n g v i g o r o u s l y f o r a l l g r a n t s 11

t h a t a r e p o s s i b l e t o u s a n d h a v e n o t 12

b o r r o w e d a n y m o n e y t o w a r d s t h e s e 13

p r o j e c t s o n o u r s e w a g e s y s t e m . S c o t t 14

i s g o i n g t o b e t t e r e x p l a i n w h a t w e ' r e 15

g e t t i n g t h o s e g r a n t s a b o u t . O n J u n e 16

5 t h a t a p p r o x i m a t e l y 7 : 3 0 p . m . I 17

p a r t i c i p a t e d i n a t o w n h a l l m e e t i n g 18

h e l d b y S e n a t o r J a y C o s t a . 19

A n d I a s k e d a q u e s t i o n 20

t h a t ' s b e e n o n e v e r y o n e ' s , b e i n g t h a t 21

R o a d e y e R o a d i s t h e g a t e w a y t o o u r 22

c o m m u n i t y . A r e t h e r e s t i l l p l a n s f o r 23

t h e r e v i t a l i z a t i o n o f t h a t s t a t e r o a d . 24

A n d t h e r e s p o n s e w a s y e s . T h a t r o a d 25

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i s p a r t o f a 2 0 y e a r p l a n . I n c l u d e d 1

i s a l o o k a t t h e e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t 2

a l o n g t h a t b o r d e r . 3

A l l ' s t o s a y h e w o u l d 4

s e n d m e a n e m a i l w i t h a l l t h e 5

i n f o r m a t i o n p e r t a i n i n g t o i t . A n d I 6

a m s t i l l w a i t i n g f o r t h e e m a i l . I a m 7

n o t s u r e i f y o u ' r e a w a r e o f t h i s . A n d 8

C a t h y , t h i s i s g o i n g t o b e y o u r 9

a n s w e r , b e c a u s e I d i d t a k e t h i s t h e 10

l a s t t i m e y o u a n d I t a l k e d a b o u t i t . 11

I a m n o t s u r e i f y o u ' r e 12

a w a r e t h i s . B u t t h e P r o g r e s s d o e s n o t 13

c o v e r a l l o f P e n n H i l l s a p p r o x i m a t e l y 14

1 4 , 0 0 0 g e t t h e P r o g r e s s a n d 6 , 6 0 0 d o 15

n o t . T h a t 6 , 6 0 0 i s f o r t h e r o a d s i n 16

o u r L i n c o l n P a r k s e c t i o n o f o u r 17

c o m m u n i t y . T h e s e c o m m u n i t y m e m b e r s 18

a r e b e i n g l e f t o u t w h e n t h e e v e n t s a r e 19

t a k i n g p l a c e . Y o u s e e , n o t e v e r y b o d y 20

c a n a f f o r d a c o m p u t e r o r i s c o m p u t e r 21

s a v v y t o w a t c h t h e m e e t i n g s o n t h e 22

m u n i c i p a l w e b s i t e . 23

S o t o d i s s e m i n a t e t h e 24

i n f o r m a t i o n t o t h e m , w e p r o p o s e t h a t 25

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w e d o a n e w s l e t t e r o n c e a m o n t h w i t h 1

t h e 6 , 6 0 0 . A n d w e ' l l b e i n c o n t a c t 2

w i t h t h e P r o g r e s s a t t h i s t i m e a n d 3

w e ' l l b e s u b m i t t i n g t h e r e s u l t s . A n d 4

t o a n s w e r y o u r q u e s t i o n , C a t h y , w e 5

w i l l n o t s e n d P r o g r e s s o v e r t h e r e 6

b e c a u s e o f t h e m a r k e t . T h e y b e l i e v e 7

t h a t t h e r e i s n o m a r k e t i n t h a t 8

p a r t i c u l a r a r e a . 9

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 10

W h a t d o y o u m e a n 11

m a r k e t i n g ? 12

M R . P E T R U C C I : 13

W e l l , t h e y - - - t h a t ' s 14

t h e a n s w e r t h e y g a v e . T h e r e ' s n o 15

m a r k e t i n g o v e r t h e r e . T h e y g e t m o r e 16

o u t o f m a r k e t i n g t o t h i s - - - t h e o t h e r 17

h a l f o f P e n n H i l l s t h a n t h e y d o t h e r e . 18

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 19

B e c a u s e w e h a v e a n e w 20

P u l l a n d P a y o v e r t h e r e , w e h a v e a B P , 21

t h e y h a v e a G i a n t E a g l e o v e r t h e r e . 22

M R . P E T R U C C I : 23

I u n d e r s t a n d t h a t . 24

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 25

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W e d o h a v e b u s i n e s s e s 1

t h e r e . H o w m a n y d i d y o u s a y ? 2

M R . P E T R U C C I : 3

6 , 6 0 0 . 4

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 5

A n d h o w m a n y d o r e c e i v e 6

i t ? 7

M R . P E T R U C C I : 8

1 4 , 0 0 0 . 9

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 10

O k a y . 11

Y o u k n o w , I ' m n o t 12

f e e l i n g t h a t . 13

M R . P E T R U C C I : 14

I ' m n o t e i t h e r . 15

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 16

E x c u s e m e . 17

P e n n H i l l s i s t h e i r 18

c o m m u n i t y a n d w e s h o u l d a l l r e c e i v e 19

t h e P r o g r e s s . S c o t t y o u a r e g o i n g t o 20

h a v e t o w o r k o n t h a t . 21

M R . P E T R U C C I : 22

T h e y h a v e a g e n t l e m a n 23

n a m e d M a r v i n , a l s o , T r a c y M a r v i n t h a t 24

t h e y ' r e g o i n g t o t r y t o g e t e x p a n d e d . 25

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S o I a m w o r k i n g o n i t . 1

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 2

O k a y . G r e a t . 3

M R . P E T R U C C I : 4

O k a y ? 5

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 6

C o n t i n u e t o w o r k o n i t . 7

A n d I m e a n - - - t h e s e a r e - - - . 8

M R . P E T R U C C I : 9

I h a d a c o n v e r s a t i o n 10

w i t h t h e m , w h i c h a r e s i t t i n g i n t h e 11

f r o n t r o w . A n d t h e y l i v e o v e r t h a t 12

w a y . A n d t h e y w e r e n ' t i n f o r m e d o f 13

a n y t h i n g t h a t w a s g o i n g o n i n P e n n 14

H i l l s . S o m e p e o p l e d o n ' t e v e n k n o w w e 15

h a v e a t o w n h a l l . T h e y d o n ' t k n o w w h o 16

t h e M a y o r i s . T h e y d o n ' t k n o w w h o t h e 17

t o w n s p e o p l e a r e . 18

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 19

T h e y d o n ' t e v e n k n o w t h e 20

m u n i c i p a l i t y . 21

M R . P E T R U C C I : 22

S o w e h a v e t o g e t 23

s o m e t h i n g o u t t o t h a t a r e a o f t i m e , s o 24

p e o p l e a r e i n f o r m e d , w h e t h e r i t b e t h e 25

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P r o g r e s s . I f t h e y r e f u s e t o d o i t , 1

t h e n w e n e e d t o g e t a n e w s l e t t e r a n d 2

w e n e e d t o p a y f o r i t . B e c a u s e t h o s e 3

6 , 6 0 0 p e o p l e p a y t a x e s j u s t l i k e 4

e v e r y b o d y e l s e . A n d t h e y n e e d t o b e 5

i n f o r m e d . 6

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 7

A b s o l u t e l y . 8

A n d y o u p a y f o r - - - a n d 9

w h e n I l o o k i n t h e P r o g r e s s t h e y h a v e 10

a h u g e a d v e r t i s e m e n t s e c t i o n . 11

M R . P E T R U C C I : 12

W e h a v e t o g e t i t t o 13

e v e r y b o d y . 14

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 15

T h a n k y o u . 16

M R . P E T R U C C I : 17

A n d a n o t h e r o n e , m y n e x t 18

i t e m . W e h i r e d t h r e e m o r e p o l i c e 19

o f f i c e r s i n t h i s t o w n f o r a f u l l 20

c o m p l e m e n t o f 5 3 o f f i c e r s i n o u r 21

d e p a r t m e n t . T h o s e a r e t h e a l l o t t e d 22

l i n e o f f i c e r s i n o u r m u n i c i p a l i t y t h e 23

f r o m t h e t a x r e v e n u e t h a t ' s b e i n g 24

g e n e r a t e d , $ 4 2 , 0 0 0 . B u t r e s t a s s u r e d 25

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a c c o r d i n g t o t h e s h i f t s u p e r v i s o r t h a t 1

i s a f a i r a m o u n t n e e d e d t o p r o t e c t a n d 2

s e r v e o u r c o m m u n i t y . 3

L a s t b u t n o t l e a s t , I 4

w o u l d l i k e t o t a l k a b o u t t h e M e m o r i a l 5

D a y p a r a d e . N o w , s o n o b o d y t a k e s t h i s 6

o u t o f c o n t e x t , I l o v e p a r a d e s . I 7

p a r t i c i p a t e d i n t h e m a s t h e d e p u t y 8

s h e r i f f a d I d i d i t w i t h t h e S h e r i f f . 9

T h a t ' s m y h e r i t a g e . A n d e v e n S a i n t 10

P a t r i c k ' s D a y . B u t n o t w h a t I ' m n o t 11

h a p p y w i t h i s t h e e n t i c i n g t o 12

p a r t i c i p a t e p e o p l e t o p a r t i c i p a t e i n a 13

c o m m u n i t y p a r a d e b y p a y i n g t h e m . 14

Y e s . I t w a s a s h o c k t o 15

m e w h e n I f o u n d o u t t h a t w e p a y g r o u p s 16

t o m a r c h i n p a r a d e s . O n t h i s 17

p a r t i c u l a r p a r a d e , w e h o n o r t h e m e n 18

a n d w o m e n w h o s e r v e i n t h e m i l i t a r y 19

w h o l o s t t h e i r l i v e s s e r v i n g . I t i s 20

n o t f o r t h e s u p p o r t o f t h e c o m m u n i t y . 21

I t s h o u l d b e f o r t h e s u p p o r t t h e m e n 22

a n d w o m e n i n t h e m i l i t a r y . T h e w a y w e 23

h a v e s t r u c t u r e d p a y i n g t o t h e s e 24

p a r t i c i p a n t s n e e d t o b e r e s t r u c t u r e d . 25

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S o n e x t y e a r I w i l l 1

p r o p o s e t h a t w e s t a r t e a r l y a n d 2

s o l i c i t g r o u p s t h a t w e w a n t t o s u p p o r t 3

o u r p a r a d e f r e e o f c h a r g e . A n d e n t i c e 4

p e o p l e i n t h e c o m m u n i t y t o b u i l d 5

f l o a t s a n d e n t e r - - - e n t e r t h e m f o r 6

p r i z e s . W e n e e d t o g o b i g . T h i s i s 7

a n a w e s o m e c o m m u n i t y . W e n e e d t o g o 8

b i g . B r i n g i n a c t i v i t i e s f o r k i d s . 9

C l o w n s , b o u n c y h o u s e s , p e t t i n g z o o . 10

B r i n g i n t h e m i l i t a r y 11

m a r c h e s , t h e s h i r e s , t h e s h e r i f f ' s 12

d e p a r t m e n t , c o u n t y h o r s e s a n d a n y o n e 13

y o u c a n t h i n k o f t o m a k e t h e b e s t 14

p a r a d e i n A l l e g h e n y C o u n t y . B u t w e 15

n e e d t o g e t s t a r t e d n o w . I f y o u w o u l d 16

l i k e t o v o l u n t e e r a t t h e p a r a d e , 17

c o n t a c t M a n a g e r A n d r e j c h a k . A n d I 18

w i l l b e t h e f i r s t o n e t o v o l u n t e e r . 19

A n d I b e l i e v e t h a t ' s i t 20

t o n i g h t . 21

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 22

W e l l , t h a t i s n o t i t , 23

C o u n c i l m a n P e t r u c c i . B u t t h a t ' s i t 24

f o r y o u r r e p o r t . T h a n k y o u s o v e r y 25

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m u c h f o r y o u r r e p o r t . 1

M R . P E T R U C C I : 2

Y o u ' r e w e l c o m e . 3

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 4

A n y o t h e r r e p o r t s . 5

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 6

D e p u t y M a y o r ? 7

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 8

Y e s , C o u n c i l m a n ? 9

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 10

I ' m s o r r y t o s c r a t c h i t 11

a g a i n . B u t n i n e a n d t e n a n d t h e 12

a g r e e m e n t , i s t h a t s t i l l o n t h e 13

s c h e d u l e ? 14

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 15

N i n e a n d t e n w e r e b o t h 16

r e m o v e d . 17

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 18

M a y o r K u n n ? D o y o u h a v e 19

a n y t h i n g t o r e p o r t , M a y o r K u n n ? 20

M A Y O R K U N N : 21

N o , b u t I h a v e s o m e 22

s t a t e m e n t s t h a t I ' d l i k e t o m a k e . 23

F i r s t o f a l l , I w a n t t o t h a n k e v e r y o n e 24

w h o w a s s o t h o u g h t f u l a n d k i n d t o m e 25

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d u r i n g m y i l l n e s s , a l l t h e i r p r a y e r s 1

a n d c a r d s , p e r s o n a l s t o p s . I t w a s 2

t r u l y , t r u l y m e m o r a b l e f o r m e . A n d 3

I ' l l n e v e r f o r g e t i t . A n d I w a n t t o 4

t h a n k m y m a n a g e r f o r h e w o u l d t e x t m e 5

o n a d a i l y b a s i s , i f n o t m o r e t h a n 6

o n c e a d a y , t o k e e p m e i n f o r m e d o f 7

w h a t ' s g o i n g o n . 8

A n d o f c o u r s e I w a n t t o 9

t h a n k D e p u t y M a y o r C a t h y S a p p f o r 10

s t e p p i n g i n f o r m e w h e n I w a s u n a b l e 11

t o p e r f o r m m y d u t i e s . A n d I a m 12

b e t t e r , t h a n k t h e L o r d . A n d I w i l l b e 13

b a c k i n J u l y . A n d I d i d w a n t t o 14

a c k n o w l e d g e t h a t e v e r y o n e w a s s o k i n d . 15

A n d I a m a p p r e c i a t i v e o f a l l o f i t . 16

N o w , I k n o w t h a t f o r t h e 17

- - - n e x t w e ' r e g o i n g t o l o o k i n t o s o m e 18

b e t t e r s y s t e m s f o r w h e n y o u ' r e o n t h e 19

t e l e p h o n e . B e c a u s e t h e o n e t e l e p h o n e 20

i s n o t p i c k i n g u p e v e r y o n e , 21

s p e c i f i c a l l y t h e p e o p l e w h o a r e 22

s p e a k i n g i n t h e a u d i e n c e . 23

B u t I d o w a n t t o m a k e a 24

c o m m e n t o n t h e p a r a d e . A n d i t w a s 25

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v e r y s p e c i a l t o m e . I t w a s v e r y 1

d i f f i c u l t f o r m e t o m i s s i t , b e c a u s e 2

i t w a s t h e l a s t o n e t h a t I w o u l d b e 3

o v e r s e e i n g . B u t I d e f e r r e d t o C a t h y 4

a n d s h e d i d a w o n d e r f u l j o b . 5

I h a d a s k e d m y d e p u t y 6

m a y o r a n d m y c o u n c i l p e o p l e t o w o r k 7

d i l i g e n t l y t o m a k e t h e p a r a d e m u c h 8

l a r g e r a n d m u c h m o r e o f a s u c c e s s , 9

b e c a u s e o f t h e f a c t t h a t i t h o n o r s o u r 10

v e t e r a n s . T h e r e ' s n o t a l o t o f 11

c o m m u n i t i e s t h a t d o t h a t . W e h a v e a 12

r o u t e n o w . 13

I h a v e s u g g e s t e d t h a t 14

c l o w n s r i d i n g a r o u n d a n d g i v i n g o u t 15

c a n d y a n d h a v i n g d i f f e r e n t t h i n g s w i t h 16

t h e f i r e t r u c k s a n d t h e o t h e r w o r k 17

v e h i c l e s . T h i n g s t h a t w e c o u l d d o t o 18

h a v e t h e s e p e o p l e i n t h e p a r a d e a n d 19

h a v e t h e c h i l d r e n w a n t t o c o m e a n d 20

m a k e M e m o r i a l D a y s o m e t h i n g s p e c i a l . 21

A n d I a l s o , I d i d n o t 22

h e a r o n t h e s p e a k e r . S o I a m j u s t 23

g o i n g t o m a k e s o m e c o m m e n t s o n t h e 24

c i t i z e n s t h a t w i l l b e d o n e l a t e r , 25

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b e c a u s e I w o n ' t b e a b l e t o h e a r w h a t 1

t h e i r c o m m e n t s a r e . I k n o w t h a t 2

J o a n n e A l e x a n d e r i s o n t h e l i s t . S o 3

I ' m a s s u m i n g s h e ' s i n t h e a u d i e n c e . 4

A n d I s p o k e w i t h h e r 5

s e v e r a l t i m e s . I a l s o s p o k e w i t h m y 6

C h i e f o f t h e f i r e d e p a r t m e n t . N o w , 7

t h i s m o n u m e n t f o r t h e v e t e r a n s i s a 8

v e r y , v e r y s p e c i a l w a y o f P e n n H i l l s 9

t h a n k i n g e v e r y o n e f o r t h e i r s e r v i c e s . 10

N o w i t ' s m y u n d e r s t a n d i n g t h a t p h a s e 11

o n e i s c o m p l e t e d . N o w a s f a r a s m y 12

f i r e m e n a r e c o n c e r n e d , a l l t h e y a s k e d 13

f o r w a s t h e s l a b b e t r a n s f e r r e d f r o m 14

t h e b u i l d i n g , t h e o l d b u i l d i n g , t o t h e 15

n e w b u i l d i n g . 16

S o I w o u l d a s k w i t h t h e 17

m a n a g e r t o p l e a s e s p e a k w i t h t h e f i r e 18

C h i e f . A n d s e e e x a c t l y w h a t i t i s 19

t h a t t h e y w o u l d w a n t d o n e , b e c a u s e a s 20

f a r a s I a m c o n c e r n e d , t h a t ' s t h e 21

f i r e m e n ' s p o s i t i o n t o c h o o s e w h a t a n d 22

h o w t h e y w a n t d o n e . 23

A n d a s f a r a s t h e 24

v e t e r a n s , I w a s i n f o r m e d t h a t t h e y 25

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g a v e M r s . A l e x a n d e r p e r m i s s i o n t o 1

s p e a k f o r t h e m . A n d t h a t i s f i n e . I 2

w a n t y o u t o r e a c h o u t t o t h e m a n d s e e 3

e x a c t l y w h a t i t i s t h a t t h e y w a n t 4

d o n e . 5

A s f a r a s t h e A l l e g h e n y 6

B o u l e v a r d W a l l , I h a v e i n f o r m a t i o n o n 7

t h a t f r o m y e a r s a g o w h e n t h e D u q u e s n e 8

L i g h t s t r i e d t o c o m e i n a n d t a k e d o w n 9

t h e b i g s y c a m o r e t r e e . S o I a m n o t 10

s u r e a n d I d o n ' t k n o w i f t h e g e n t l e m a n 11

s p e a k i n g o n t h a t i s r e f e r r i n g t o t h e 12

p r o p e r t y t h a t w a s d i s c u s s e d p r i o r , 13

w h i c h h a d t o d o w i t h t h a t . 14

A n d w i t h t h e i s s u e o f 15

t h e E a s t H i l l s D r i v e , t h a t i s b e i n g 16

w o r k e d o n b y t h e c h u r c h a n d b y o u r 17

p e o p l e t h a t w e r e c o m i n g i n . P e n n 18

H i l l s h a s t u r n e d t h e m d o w n o n a 19

r e g u l a r b a s i s a n d i t w a s o f n o u s e t o 20

P e n n H i l l s . A n d t h e y a r e a s f a r a s a 21

s a f e t y , t h e r e i s n u m e r o u s w a y s o f 22

g e t t i n g b a c k i n t o t h e c o n t r a c t s b a c k 23

t h e r e . S o t h a t w o u l d r e a l l y n e e d 24

l o o k i n g i n t o . 25

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I w a n t t o c o m m e n d 1

e v e r y o n e w h o w a s i n v o l v e d w i t h t h e 2

p r o g r a m f o r t h e c a m e r a s . T h e y n e e d e d 3

t o g e t s e t u p . A n d i t i s s o m e t h i n g 4

t h a t h a s b e e n n e e d e d a n d t a l k e d a b o u t 5

f o r y e a r s . S o i t ' s w o n d e r f u l t h a t 6

i t ' s f i n a l l y i m p l e m e n t e d . 7

A n d w i t h t h a t I a m g o i n g 8

t o s i g n o f f . T h a n k s e v e r y o n e f o r 9

c o m i n g t o n i g h t i n a l l t h e s e r e s p e c t s . 10

A n d I d o e n j o y h e a r i n g y o u r c o m m e n t s . 11

T h a t ' s w h a t g o v e r n m e n t ' s a b o u t . 12

T h a n k y o u v e r y m u c h . 13

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 14

T h a n k y o u , M a y o r K u n n . 15

H a v e a w o n d e r f u l e v e n i n g . W e l o o k 16

f o r w a r d t o s e e i n g y o u n e x t m o n t h . 17

O k a y . 18

N e x t o n t h e a g e n d a w e 19

h a v e c i t i z e n s t o a d d r e s s c o u n c i l . T h e 20

f i r s t p e r s o n t o c o m e w i l l b e J o a n n e 21

A l e x a n d e r . S h e i s g o i n g t o b e t a l k i n g 22

a b o u t t h e m o n u m e n t r e l o c a t i o n u p d a t e . 23

A n d a s s h e i s c o m i n g t o t h e p o d i u m t o 24

s t a t e h e r n a m e a n d a d d r e s s . I w o u l d 25

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l i k e t o s a y t h a t I d i d r e c e i v e y o u r 1

l e t t e r , M s . A l e x a n d e r , i n m y p a c k e t . 2

A n d w h e n y o u w r o t e t h e l e t t e r , w e h a d 3

n o t y e t t o u c h e d b a s e b e c a u s e I w a s o u t 4

o f t h e c o u n t r y . 5

S o w h e n I r e t u r n e d , a s I 6

t o l d y o u I w o u l d , I w o u l d g i v e y o u a 7

t e l e p h o n e c a l l . A n d y o u w e r e m y f i r s t 8

t h i n g o n t h e l i s t w h e n I c a m e b a c k 9

i n t o t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s . I d i d c o n t a c t 10

y o u . W e d i d m e e t . W e d i d w a l k t h e 11

s i t e t o g e t h e r . A n d I t h i n k w e f i n a l l y 12

c a m e u p w i t h s o m e t h i n g t h a t w e c a n 13

m o v e f o r w a r d w i t h . S o w i t h t h a t b e i n g 14

s a i d , M s . A l e x a n d e r . 15

M S . A L E X A N D E R : 16

J o a n n e A l e x a n d e r , 2 2 5 17

P i n e H i l l R o a d . I a m n o t h e r e t o 18

u p d a t e y o u , m o r e I w a s h e r e t o g e t a n 19

u p d a t e f r o m y o u a s t o a p p r o v a l s o f 20

m o v i n g f o r w a r d w i t h b o t h t h e f i r e a n d 21

v e t e r a n ' s . I a g r e e w i t h M r . P e t r u c c i 22

t h a t t h e f i r e m e n s h o u l d b e a l l o w e d t o 23

d o w h a t t h e y n e e d t o d o . B u t y o u n e e d 24

t o i n c l u d e t h e v e t e r a n s . A r e y o u a 25

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v e t e r a n , M r . P e t r u c c i ? 1

M R . P E T R U C C I : 2

N o , I w a s n ' t . 3

M S . A L E X A N D E R : 4

W e l l , m y f a t h e r w a s . M y 5

f a t h e r g a v e h i s l i f e t o t h i s 6

c o m m u n i t y . A n d h e a l s o w a s a v e t e r a n . 7

A n d I t h i n k t h e v e t e r a n s s h o u l d b e 8

h o n o r e d a t t h e s a m e t i m e a s t h e 9

f i r e m e n . I t ' s m o r e c o s t b e n e f i c i a l t o 10

b o t h o f u s a n d t h a t b o t h o f t h o s e 11

m o n u m e n t s b e c o m p l e t e d a n d i n s t a l l e d 12

a t t h e s a m e t i m e . I a m g o i n g t o d e f e r 13

h e r e t o L e n n y f o r a f e w m i n u t e s a t l e t 14

h i m s p e a k . 15

M R . R O N I A K : 16

L e n R o n i a k . O g a n t h r u 17

D r i v e . T h i s h a s b e e n w o r k e d o n l o n g 18

t o o m u c h . L o n g e r t h a n a n y p r o j e c t 19

s h o u l d b e d o n e . A s S c o t t g o t 20

i n v o l v e d , M o u t z w a s i n v o l v e d . W e k e p t 21

g e t t i n g n o . W e k e p t g e t t i n g n e g a t i v e 22

a n s w e r s , n e g a t i v e c o m m e n t s . W e 23

f i n a l l y g o t a n a p p r o v a l . W e g o t a 24

g r a n t f r o m t h e t o w n s h i p . W e m a t c h e d 25

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t h e g r a n t a s r e q u e s t e d . A n d n o w w e ' r e 1

s t i l l g e t t i n g p l a y e d i n t h e g a m e . 2

L e t ' s g e t i t a p p r o v e d . W h y d o y o u 3

t h i n k a l l t h e s e a r e h e r e t o d a y ? 4

T h e y ' r e n o t h e r e b e c a u s e t h e y w a n t t o 5

l i s t e n t o t h e c o u n c i l . T h e y w a n t t h a t 6

m o n u m e n t p u t u p , p u t t h e p l a q u e o n a n d 7

a l s o a c k n o w l e d g e t h e o t h e r f o u r 8

f i r e m e n t h a t d i e d a s a r e s u l t o f 9

f i r e s . N o t j u s t t h e o n e . T h e f i v e . 10

T h e f i v e . I t ' s t i m e . N o w i s t h e 11

t i m e . A l l y o u ' v e g o t t o d o i s s a y y e s 12

t o n i g h t . S e a n B r o w n f r o m B r o w n 13

M o n u m e n t s i s d o n e w i t h u s i f y o u d o n ’ t 14

g e t t h i s a p p r o v e d t o n i g h t . H e ' s 15

b a c k i n g o u t . W e ' r e l o s i n g t h o u s a n d s 16

a n d t h o u s a n d s o f d o l l a r s b e c a u s e 17

c o u n c i l c a n ' t s a y y e s t o w h e r e t h e 18

m o n u m e n t s h o u l d g o , h o w h i g h i t s h o u l d 19

b e . W h a t t h e h e l l i s t h e d i f f e r e n c e 20

w h a t h e i g h t i t i s o r w h e r e i t ' s 21

p l a c e d ? P u t i t u p . T h e y d e s e r v e t h i s 22

t o b e p u t u p . I ' v e s a i d e n o u g h . 23

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 24

O k a y . 25

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W e l l , M r . R o n i a k , d o n ' t 1

l e a v e t h e p o d i u m y e t . 2

M R . R O N I A K : 3

D o n ' t d e m a n d m e t o d o 4

a n y t h i n g . Y o u m i g h t a s k m e . 5

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 6

Y e s . 7

M R . R O N I A K : 8

B u t d o n ' t d e m a n d m e 9

a n y t h i n g . 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

W e l l , p l e a s e d o n ' t l e a v e 12

t h e p o d i u m . I a m j u s t a s k i n g y o u n o t 13

t o l e a v e t h e p o d i u m a t t h i s t i m e . S o 14

o b v i o u s l y y o u m i s s e d o u t o n t h e m e m o . 15

M R . R O N I A K : 16

T h e w h a t ? 17

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 18

Y o u m i s s e d t h e m e m o a n d 19

t h e d o c u m e n t a t i o n b e t w e e n M s . 20

A l e x a n d e r a n d m y s e l f . 21

M R . R O N I A K : 22

Y o u m e a n M r s . A l e x a n d e r ? 23

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 24

M r s . A l e x a n d e r , J o a n n e 25

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A l e x a n d e r , h o w e v e r y o u w a n t t o 1

a d d r e s s . 2

M R . R O N I A K : 3

W e l l , s h e ' s n o t a m i s s . 4

S h e ' s m a r r i e d . 5

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 6

W e l l , s h e c a n b e . 7

P r o p e r e t i q u e t t e , s h e c a n b e m i s s . 8

I ' m n o t g o i n g b a c k a n d f o r t h . 9

M R . R O N I A K : 10

I d o n ' t t h i n k i n t h e 11

l a s t 3 0 y e a r s - - - . 12

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 13

M r . R o n i a k . M r . R o n i a k . 14

M R . R O N I A K : 15

Y e s . G o a h e a d . 16

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 17

T h a n k y o u . 18

J o a n n e A l e x a n d e r a n d I 19

m e t l a s t w e e k a n d w e t a l k e d a b o u t t h e 20

v e t e r a n ' s m o n u m e n t . I t i s v e r y 21

i m p o r t a n t h o w h i g h t h a t m o n u m e n t c a n 22

b e a n d s h o u l d b e - - - a n d I ' m t a l k i n g . 23

M R . R O N I A K : 24

Y o u t a l k e d a b o u t t h e 25

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f i r e m a n ' s . T h a t h a s n o t h i n g t o d o 1

w i t h t h e - - - . 2

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 3

I h a v e t h e p a n e l a t t h i s 4

t i m e . 5

M R . R O N I A K : 6

Y o u - - - . 7

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 8

T h a n k y o u . 9

M R . R O N I A K : 10

D o y o u w a n t m e j u s t t o 11

l e a v e t h i s ? 12

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 13

I d o n ' t w a n t y o u t o 14

l e a v e . I w a n t y o u t o b e - - - . 15

M R . R O N I A K : 16

W e l l d o n ' t i n t e r r u p t m e . 17

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 18

N o . I a m t a l k i n g . S o 19

y o u ' r e i n t e r r u p t i n g m e . N o w p l e a s e b e 20

q u i e t a n d p l e a s e b e i n o r d e r , l i k e I 21

k n o w t h a t y o u c a n . T h a n k y o u . 22

I k n o w t h i s i s a 23

s e n s i t i v e m a t t e r a n d w e a r e t r y i n g t o 24

m o v e f o r w a r d w i t h i t . N o w I w i s h t h a t 25

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M s . A l e x a n d e r w o u l d h a v e w e l c o m e d y o u 1

t o o u r m e e t i n g t h a t w e h a d l a s t 2

w e e k e n d . M a y b e y o u w o u l d n ' t h a v e c a m e 3

i n w i t h a l l t h i s f i r e t h i s e v e n i n g . 4

S o i t i s i m p o r t a n t t h a t 5

w e n o t m a k e t h e m o n u m e n t t e n , 1 2 , 1 3 , 6

1 5 f e e t h i g h . W e d o h a v e c o d e s h e r e 7

i n P e n n H i l l s a s y o u a l l k n o w . S e c o n d 8

o f a l l , I b e l i e v e M s . A l e x a n d e r a n d I 9

c a m e t o s o m e a g r e e m e n t w i t h s k e t c h e s 10

t h a t s h e s h o w e d m e . A n d t h a t I i n 11

t u r n m e t w i t h S c o t t , o u r B u s i n e s s 12

M a n a g e r . W e c a m e t o s o m e a g r e e m e n t 13

t h a t t h e y a r e a c c e p t a b l e . 14

H o w e v e r , M s . A l e x a n d e r 15

n o w i s n o l o n g e r g o i n g t o b e w o r k i n g 16

w i t h t h e f i r e d e p a r t m e n t . I s p o k e 17

w i t h B e r n a d e t t e R o s e a n d t h e f i r e 18

d e p a r t m e n t i s g o i n g t o b e h a n d l i n g 19

t h e i r o w n m o n u m e n t . S o a r e w e 20

s p e a k i n g o n b e h a l f o f t h e f i r e 21

d e p a r t m e n t ? O r a r e w e s p e a k i n g o n 22

b e h a l f o f t h e v e t e r a n s o r a r e w e 23

s p e a k i n g o n b e h a l f t h e p o l i c e ? W h o 24

a r e y o u s p e a k i n g o n b e h a l f o f ? 25

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B e c a u s e y o u m i s s e d t h e m e m o . 1

M R . R O N I A K : 2

I w a s n ' t g i v e n o n e . 3

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 4

E x a c t l y . 5

M R . R O N I A K : 6

B e r n a d e t t e , d o y o u w a n t 7

t o s p e a k o n b e h a l f o f t h e f i r e 8

d e p a r t m e n t ? 9

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 10

B e r n a d e t t e , p l e a s e c o m e 11

t o t h e p o d i u m a n d g i v e y o u r n a m e a n d 12

a d d r e s s . 13

M R . R O S E : 14

1 1 5 S o u t h A v e n u e , 15

B e r n a d e t t e R o s e . W e w e r e a t t h e l a s t 16

m e e t i n g t o l d b y c o u n c i l t h a t o u r 17

o p t i o n s w e r e t o h a n d o v e r $ 1 2 , 5 0 0 t o 18

t h e m o n u m e n t c o m m i t t e e t o b e s p l i t u p 19

b e t w e e n t h e p o l i c e , t h e f i r e a n d t h e 20

v e t e r a n ' s . T h a t w a s g i v e n t o u s a s a 21

d o n a t i o n . 22

O r w e h a v e t h e $ 1 2 , 5 0 0 23

a n d w e r a i s e d t h e b a l a n c e o f t h e 24

$ 2 0 , 0 0 0 o n o u r o w n , w h i c h w e h a v e b e e n 25

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d o i n g . W e w e r e t o l d t h a t t h e $ 1 2 , 5 0 0 1

h a d t o b e b i n d e d u p l e g a l l y . A n d 2

t h a t ' s w h a t t h e m o n e y i n t h a t f u n d 3

s h o u l d h a v e b e e n d o n e w i t h . 4

S o f r o m t h e f i r s t 5

m e e t i n g t h a t w e w e r e i n v o l v e d t o s p e a k 6

o n b e h a l f o f t h e f i r e m e n , w e w e r e t o l d 7

w e h a d n o m o n e y . S o w e m a d e a 8

d e c i s i o n t o r a i s e t h e m o n e y o u r s e l v e s . 9

I w a s n o t a w a r e o f a n y m e e t i n g 10

d i s c u s s e d a b o u t t h e h e i g h t . I k n o w w e 11

h a d m e e t i n g s a t t h r e e o ' c l o c k t o w a l k 12

t h e s i t e f o r t h e f i r e m e n . 13

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 14

C o r r e c t . 15

T h a n k y o u s o m u c h , M s . 16

R o s e . 17

M S . A L E X A N D E R : 18

F i r s t o f a l l . 19

B e r n d a e t t e , C o u n c i l h a s n o r i g h t t o 20

t e l l y o u h o w t h e m o n e y i s d i s t r i b u t e d . 21

I f a d o n a t i o n c a m e i n t o t h e f u n d 22

s p e c i f i c t o t h e f i r e d e p a r t m e n t o r t h e 23

v e t e r a n ' s , i t w o u l d b e u s e d o n l y f o r 24

t h a t p o r t i o n o f t h e p r o j e c t . W e h a v e 25

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t o a b i d e b y p e o p l e ' s w i s h e s a n d n o b o d y 1

c a n c h a n g e i t b u t o u r c o m m i t t e e , a n d 2

t h a t ' s i t . Y o u r $ 1 2 , 5 0 0 i s a l w a y s 3

g o i n g t o g o t o y o u . W e s t i l l h a v e 4

y o u r c h e c k f o r y o u t o g i v e t o y o u f o r 5

t h e p a r t t h a t w e p r o m i s e d y o u a l r e a d y . 6

B u t w e c a n d o m o r e l a t e r o n . A n d a s 7

w e s a i d b e f o r e , w e w i l l d o t h a t a g a i n . 8

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 9

M s . R o s e , y o u d o h a v e 10

t h e $ 1 2 , 5 0 0 i n y o u r p o s s e s s i o n . 11

I s t h a t c o r r e c t ? 12

M R . R O S E : 13

C o r r e c t . 14

A l o n g w i t h o t h e r m o n e y 15

t h a t w e ' v e g o n e o u t a n d r a i s e d f o r t h e 16

$ 2 0 , 0 0 0 . 17

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 18

T h a n k y o u . 19

A n d t o m a k e i t c l e a r f o r 20

p u b l i c r e c o r d , t h e f i r e m e n a r e g o i n g 21

t o b e d o i n g t h e i r o w n t h i n g . A t t h i s 22

p o i n t i n t i m e M s . J o a n n e A l e x a n d e r 23

w i l l b e s p e a k i n g o r c h a i r i n g f o r t h e 24

v e t e r a n ' s o n l y . 25

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M S . A L E X A N D E R : 1

Y e s . 2

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 3

T h a n k y o u v e r y m u c h . 4

M S . A L E X A N D E R : 5

N o w w e - - - w h e n w e 6

t a l k e d , y o u a n d I t a l k e d , a n d y o u s a i d 7

y o u w e r e l i m i t i n g u s t o s e v e n f e e t a n d 8

w e a g r e e d t o t h a t a s l o n g a s i t w a s 9

c o n s i s t e n t t h r o u g h o u t t h e s i t e . 10

S h o u l d t h a t c h a n g e , a g a i n , I b e l i e v e 11

t h a t t h e f i r e m e n s h o u l d b e a b l e t o d o 12

w h a t t h e y w a n t . B u t i f t h e y g o 13

h i g h e r , i f w e n e e d t o g o h i g h e r , w e 14

n e e d t o g e t a p p r o v e d f o r t h a t a l s o . 15

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 16

A t t h i s t i m e w e h a v e n o t 17

- - - w e a r e g o i n g t o m e e t i n e x e c u t i v e 18

s e s s i o n . W e d i d t a l k a n d w e s a i d 19

s e v e n f e e t . A n d w h e n I w e n t t o t h e 20

m a n a g e r a n d s p o k e w i t h h i m , h e a g r e e d 21

s e v e n f e e t . I d o n ’ t t h i n k w e c a n g o 22

m u c h h i g h e r . Y o u r m e a s u r e m e n t s w e r e 23

d e a d o n , p u t t i n g t h o s e m o n u m e n t s o n 24

t h e s t a t u t e . 25

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G o i n g s e v e n f e e t h i g h 1

w o u l d g i v e y o u a m p l e r o o m a n d s p a c e . 2

W e d o n ' t w a n t t o h a v e a t e n f o o t o r 1 2 3

f o o t h i g h . I k n o w t h a t y o u w a n t t o 4

g e t t h i s m o v e d a n d w e s h o u l d , b e c a u s e 5

r i g h t n o w i t ' s a d i s g r a c e o u t t h e r e . 6

W e a r e a g r e e i n g o n s e v e n f o o t a t t h i s 7

t i m e . A n d a t t h i s t i m e I b e l i e v e 8

t h a t ' s w h e r e t h e l i m i t a t i o n s w i l l g o . 9

B u t h o w e v e r , w e a r e 10

g o i n g t o t a l k a b o u t t h i s i n t h e 11

e x e c u t i v e s e s s i o n . A n d a s I p r o m i s e d , 12

I w i l l g e t b a c k w i t h y o u t o m o r r o w . 13

S i n c e I ' v e b e e n m e e t i n g w i t h y o u a n d 14

y o u r c o m m i t t e e , a s y o u b e i n g t h e 15

c h a i r p e r s o n , I h a v e k e p t a l l o f m y 16

p r o m i s e s t o y o u . 17

M S . A L E X A N D E R : 18

Y e s , y o u h a v e . 19

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 20

T h a n k y o u . 21

A n d I w i l l c o n t i n u e t o 22

k e e p m y p r o m i s e s t o y o u . A f t e r o u r 23

e x e c u t i v e s e s s i o n t o n i g h t , I w i l l g e t 24

b a c k w i t h y o u t o m o r r o w w i t h r e g a r d s t o 25

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w h a t w e c a m e u p w i t h . 1

M S . A L E X A N D E R : 2

W e n e e d - - - w e n e e d t o 3

m o v e o n b o t h o f t h e s e p r o j e c t s . 4

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 5

A n d I d o n ' t k n o w - - - 6

w h e n y o u s a y b o t h o f t h e s e p r o j e c t s , 7

y o u ' r e t a l k i n g a b o u t t h e f i r e m e n a s 8

w e l l a s t h e - - - ? 9

M S . A L E X A N D E R : 10

A n d t h e p h a s e s . T h e r e ' s 11

n o p h a s e o n e , p h a s e t w o , p h a s e t h r e e . 12

T h a t w a s b r o u g h t u p m a n y , m a n y , m a n y 13

m o n t h s a g o . Y e a r s a g o w h e n w e f i r s t 14

s t a r t e d t a l k i n g a b o u t t h a t . D o i n g t h e 15

p h a s e o n e , p h a s e t w o , p h a s e t h r e e . 16

B e c a u s e w e d i d n ’ t t h i n k w e ' d r a i s e 17

e n o u g h m o n e y t o d o i t . A n d w e s t i l l 18

h a v e a w a y s t o g o t o r a i s e m o n e y . B u t 19

w e h a v e s i x m o n t h s t o g o t h a t b e f o r e 20

t h e m o n u m e n t s w i l l b e r e a d y . W e h o p e 21

t h a t t h e y ' r e r e a d y - - - b o t h r e a d y b y 22

N o v e m b e r s o t h e f i r e m e n c a n h a v e t h e i r 23

d e d i c a t i o n d u r i n g t h e i r f i r e r u n a n d 24

t h e v e t e r a n ' s w o u l d h a v e i t o n 25

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v e t e r a n ' s d a y . 1

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 2

O k a y . 3

I j u s t w a n t t o r e i t e r a t e 4

a n d m a k e t h i s c l e a r . A n d I d o n ' t m e a n 5

a n y d i s r e s p e c t . B u t f o r p u b l i c r e c o r d 6

y o u a r e n o l o n g e r s p o k e s p e r s o n - - - 7

M S . A L E X A N D E R : 8

I a m n o t . 9

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 10

- - - f o r t h e f i r e 11

d e p a r t m e n t . 12

M S . A L E X A N D E R : 13

B u t I s t i l l - - - . 14

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 15

B u t t h e y c a n d o w h a t 16

t h e y w a n t t o d o . S o w e ' r e j u s t g o i n g 17

t o s t o p t h a t p a r t r i g h t t h e r e a n d 18

w e ' r e g o i n g t o w o r k t o g e t h e r t o g e t 19

t h e v e t e r a n ' s d o n e . A n d I a m s o 20

e x c i t e d , b e c a u s e y o u h a v e a n a m a z i n g 21

i d e a a n d I l o o k f o r w a r d t o t h a t . 22

M S . A L E X A N D E R : 23

T h a n k y o u . 24

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 25

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Y o u ' r e w e l c o m e . 1

M R . P E T R U C C I : 2

D e p u t y M a y o r . 3

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 4

Y e s , C o u n c i l m a n 5

P e t r u c c i ? 6

M R . P E T R U C C I : 7

W h y c a n ' t w e p u t i t t o a 8

v o t e r i g h t n o w a n d i t g e t i t d o n e 9

r i g h t n o w ? C o m e o n . 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

W e l l , f i r s t o f a l l , I 12

w a n t t o m e e t w i t h t h e i r c h a i r p e r s o n 13

t o m o r r o w a n d a s k t h e m - - - . 14

M R . P E T R U C C I : 15

W h a t i s t h e d i f f e r e n c e 16

o n h o w t h e m o n u m e n t i s ? W h e r e a r e 17

t h e y p u t t i n g t h e m t h a t t h e y c a n ' t p u t 18

u p a m o n u m e n t t h a t ' s t e n f o o t h i g h o r 19

t h e y c a n ' t p u t o n e u p o f t h a t s i z e ? 20

I s t h e r e a n y b o d y i n t h e p o l i c e 21

d e p a r t m e n t t h a t - - - ? 22

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 23

F i r s t o f a l l , e x c u s e m e , 24

C o u n c i l m a n P e t r u c c i . B e f o r e y o u o p e n 25

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i t u p t o t h e - - - t o t h e a u d i e n c e , 1

w o u l d y o u l i k e t o a d d r e s s m e w i t h t h a t 2

q u e s t i o n ? 3

M R . P E T R U C C I : 4

W e l l , I j u s t d i d . 5

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 6

O k a y . 7

W o u l d y o u l i k e t o s a y i t 8

a g a i n a n d c o m p l e t e i t s o t h a t I c a n 9

h e a r i t ? 10

M R . P E T R U C C I : 11

W e l l w h a t i s t h e 12

d i f f e r e n c e h o w h i g h t h i s m o n u m e n t i s ? 13

W h e r e - - - I d i d n ' t a g r e e t o a s e v e n 14

f o o t h i g h m o n u m e n t . I f t h e y w a n t t o 15

b u i l d a t e n f o o t h i g h m o n u m e n t o r a 1 4 16

- - - h o w h i g h i s i t , B e r n a d e t t e ? 17

M S . R O S E : 18

T e n f o o t . 19

M R . P E T R U C C I : 20

T e n f o o t ? 21

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 22

F i r s t o f a l l , t h e f i r e 23

d e p a r t m e n t - - - a n d I a m s o r r y f o r 24

i n t e r r u p t i n g y o u . I a p o l o g i z e f o r 25

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t h a t . I h a v e n o t h i n g f r o m t h e f i r e 1

d e p a r t m e n t y e t . W e a r e o n l y s p e a k i n g 2

t o n i g h t o n t h e v e t e r a n ' s . 3

- - - 4

( W H E R E U P O N , T H E R E W A S A B R I E F 5

I N T E R R U P T I O N I N T H E P R O C E E D I N G S . ) 6

- - - 7

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 8

E x c u s e m e . I t o t a l l y 9

u n d e r s t a n d w h e r e y o u ' r e c o m i n g f r o m . 10

D o n ' t t e l l m e w h a t I d o a n d I d o n ' t 11

u n d e r s t a n d . A n d I ' m s p e a k i n g . T h a n k 12

y o u . I h a v e a m e e t i n g w i t h y o u r 13

c h a i r p e r s o n t o m o r r o w . H e r s c h e d u l e 14

o p e n e d f o r t o m o r r o w . I f w e c o u l d h a v e 15

m e t s o o n e r , w e c o u l d h a v e m e t s o o n e r . 16

B u t s h e h a s a s c h e d u l e , I h a v e a 17

s c h e d u l e . T o m o r r o w i s o u r f i r s t 18

o p p o r t u n i t y t o m e e t . I h a v e n ' t h e a r d 19

a n y o f y o u r p l a n s . I - - - e x c u s e m e . 20

T o m o r r o w a f t e r I m e e t w i t h y o u r 21

s e l e c t e d c h a i r p e r s o n , w e w i l l g o 22

f o r w a r d w i t h t h i s m e m o r i a l . W e w a n t 23

i t d o n e j u s t a s m u c h a s y o u d o . A s I 24

s t a t e d , i t ' s a d i s g r a c e o u t s i d e . I t 25

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n e e d s t o b e d o n e a n d c o m p l e t e d . I ' m 1

o n y o u r s i d e . H o w e v e r - - - . 2

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 3

I t ' s t e n f o o t h i g h . 4

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 5

E x c u s e m e ? 6

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 7

I t ' s t e n f o o t h i g h . 8

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 9

W e ' l l t a l k - - - I ' l l t a l k 10

a b o u t t h a t n e x t m o r n i n g . I p r o m i s e 11

y o u j u s t l i k e I p r o m i s e d M s . 12

A l e x a n d e r . W e w i l l - - - w e w i l l b e o n 13

i t . I t ' s a p r i o r i t y . A n d I w i l l g e t 14

b a c k w i t h y o u t o m o r r o w . O r s h e w i l l 15

g e t b a c k w i t h y o u t o m o r r o w a f t e r w e 16

l e a v e . G i v e a l l o f y o u r q u e s t i o n s , 17

y o u r c o n c e r n s , y o u r d r a w i n g s t o h e r . 18

A n d t o m o r r o w a t o u r t h r e e o ' c l o c k 19

m e e t i n g w e ' l l d i s c u s s i t . I w i l l t a k e 20

i t b a c k t o M a y o r a n d C o u n c i l a n d t h e n 21

w e w i l l g e t b a c k t o y o u a s s o o n a s 22

p o s s i b l e . I w a n t i t u p j u s t a s b a d a s 23

y o u w a n t i t u p . I t s h o u l d h a v e b e e n 24

d o n e . 25

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A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 1

I s i t t o m o r r o w ? 2

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 3

E x c u s e m e ? Y e s . I s a i d 4

t o m o r r o w a t t h r e e o ' c l o c k . I a m - - - I 5

a m n o t g o i n g t o o p e n t h i s u p f o r 6

d e b a t e . L i s t e n , y o u c a n t h r o w y o u r 7

h a n d s u p i n t h e a i r . I d o n ' t c a r e . 8

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 9

J u s t t h e p o l i c e 10

d e p a r t m e n t , h u h ? 11

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 12

E x c u s e m e ? 13

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 14

A n d o u r f i r e d e p a r t m e n t . 15

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 16

E x c u s e m e , s i r ? W h a t ? 17

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 18

A l o t o f b u l l s h i t . J u s t 19

l i k e t h e p o l i c e . Y o u b l a m e t h e m w h e n 20

t h e y s t o p c r i m i n a l s . A n d n o w y o u 21

w o n ' t e v e n w o r k w i t h t h e f i r e 22

d e p a r t m e n t . 23

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 24

I a m - - - . 25

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A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 1

A n d y o u - - - . 2

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 3

G o o d b y e . H a v e a n i c e 4

e v e n i n g . 5

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 6

Y o u t o o , l a d y . 7

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 8

T h a n k y o u , I s h a l l . 9

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 10

C a n I m a k e a s t a t e m e n t ? 11

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 12

Y e s . Y o u c a n m a k e - - - 13

y o u c a n m a k e a s t a t e m e n t . P l e a s e c o m e 14

t o t h e p o d i u m . A n d a g a i n , I a m n o t 15

d e b a t i n g w i t h y o u , b e c a u s e I a m o n 16

y o u r s i d e . I u n d e r s t a n d . B u t y o u 17

h a v e t o b e p a t i e n t . T h i s t h i n g h a s 18

g o n e r o u n d a n d r o u n d a n d r o u n d . A n d 19

n o w - - - y e s . I t ' s g o n e r o u n d a n d 20

r o u n d a n d r o u n d . I a m s o r r y f o r t h a t . 21

I w a s n ’ t h e r e f o r t h e 22

b e g i n n i n g w o r k i n g w i t h y o u . B u t n o w I 23

a m . A n d a g a i n , I h a v e k e p t e v e r y 24

p r o m i s e . E v e r y p r o m i s e t h a t I m a d e I 25

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k e p t . G i v e m e t h e c h a n c e . Y o u h a v e a 1

c h a i r p e r s o n . I a m g o i n g t o t a l k w i t h 2

y o u r c h a i r p e r s o n . W e a r e m e e t i n g 3

t o m o r r o w f o r t h e f i r s t t i m e . I 4

h a v e n ' t d i s r e s p e c t e d y o u a n d I d o n ' t 5

e x p e c t y o u t o d i s r e s p e c t m e . 6

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 7

I a g r e e , y o u k n o w , 8

n o b o d y s h o u l d d i s r e s p e c t a n y b o d y h e r e . 9

Y o u k n o w , f o r t h e m e n a n d w o m e n t h a t 10

h e r e f r o m t h e f i r e d e p a r t m e n t , w e w a n t 11

y o u t o u n d e r s t a n d M r . R o n i a k ' s . T h i s 12

i s n o t f o r u s . N o n e o f u s w a n t o u r 13

n a m e p u t o n i t . 14

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 15

A m e n . 16

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 17

T h a t ' s o u r g o a l . F o r 18

t h e h e i g h t , t e n f o o t . I a m n o t s u r e 19

w h e r e t h e d i s c u s s i o n c a m e f r o m , w h y a 20

c e r t a i n n u m b e r w a s c h o s e n a n d w h y w e 21

c h o s e t e n f o o t . I t h a d n o t h i n g t o d o 22

w i t h t h e s i z e , s h o w i n g u p s o m e b o d y 23

e l s e . T e n f o o t w a s b e c a u s e B r o w n 24

M o n u m e n t d o n a t e d a $ 2 0 , 0 0 0 p i e c e o f 25

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g r a n i t e t h a t w i l l c o s t u s m o r e m o n e y 1

t o m o d i f y . 2

S o t h a t ' s w h y w e h a v e a 3

t e n f o o t m o n u m e n t . T w o , t o t h e p o i n t 4

o f h a v i n g a u n i f o r m m o n u m e n t g a r d e n . 5

I a g r e e . W h a t w o u l d h a v e b e e n r e a l l y 6

n o t i c e i s i f w h e n w e b u i l d t h i s 7

p a l a c e , t h i s b e a u t i f u l b u i l d i n g , t h a t 8

t h a t w o u l d h a v e b e e n a l l o t t e d i n t h e 9

b u d g e t s o t h a t w e d i d n ’ t h a v e t o b e g 10

l o c a l b u s i n e s s e s - - - w h e n w e d o i t 11

a l r e a d y j u s t t o p r o v i d e o u r s e r v i c e . 12

S o w h a t w e ' r e a s k i n g i s 13

t h a t y o u d o n ' t l i m i t u s f o r a m e m o r i a l 14

a n d w e d o n ' t l i m i t o u r r e s p o n s e t i m e s . 15

W e c o m e o u t n i g h t s , w e e k e n d , r a i n , 16

s n o w , s h i n e , o u r b i r t h d a y s , C h r i s t m a s . 17

W e d o n ' t c a r e . W e ' r e t h e r e t o h e l p 18

y o u g u y s o u t a n d t h a t ' s a l l w e ' r e h e r e 19

t o d o . 20

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 21

Y e s . 22

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 23

A n d w e a s k t h a t w h e n y o u 24

h a v e t h i s m e e t i n g t o m o r r o w t h a t y o u 25

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c o n s i d e r t h a t . A t e n f o o t m o n u m e n t , 1

i t h a s n o t h i n g t o d o w i t h u s t r y i n g t o 2

s h o w u p a n y b o d y . T h a t w e w a n t 3

s o m e t h i n g n i c e r t h a n a n y b o d y e l s e . I t 4

s t r i c t l y h a s t o d o w i t h e c o n o m i c s . 5

D o y o u w a n t t o g i v e u s a 6

f e w e x t r a d o l l a r s t o d o t h i s - - - g e t 7

t h i s p i e c e o f g r a n t m o d i f i e d ? T h e n w e 8

c a n c o n s i d e r t h a t . B u t a t t h e e n d o f 9

t h e d a y t h i s i s b e c a u s e B r o w n 10

M o n u m e n t s b e n t o v e r b a c k w a r d s t o g i v e 11

u s a v e r y e x p e n s i v e p i e c e o f g r a n i t e . 12

A n d o n t o p o f t h a t , w r o t e u s a c h e c k 13

f o r - - - h o w m u c h w a s ? 14

M S . R O S E : 15

$ 1 2 , 5 0 0 . 16

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 17

$ 1 2 , 5 0 0 . T h i s m a n i s n ' t 18

a r e s i d e n t o f o u r c o m m u n i t y . A n d h e ' s 19

d o i n g t h i s f o r u s . S o w e ' d a s k t h e 20

C o u n c i l a n d M a y o r t o s u p p o r t t h i s 21

i n i t i a t i v e a n d a l l o w t h i s t o m o v e 22

f o r w a r d . T h a n k y o u . 23

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 24

T h a n k y o u . 25

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D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 1

A n d o n e t h i n g I w a n t t o 2

b e c l e a r o n . M a y o r a n d C o u n c i l 3

d e f i n i t e l y s u p p o r t y o u r i n i t i a t i v e a n d 4

y o u r m o n u m e n t . A n d I a m a l l - - - I a m 5

i n a w e o f w h a t B r o w n d i d i n h i s 6

c o n t r i b u t i o n . I a m t h a n k f u l a s w e l l . 7

I d o h a v e f i r e f i g h t e r s i n m y f a m i l y , 8

a s w e l l a s p o l i c e o f f i c e r s . A n d j u s t 9

t o m a k e a s t a t e m e n t t o w h a t y o u s a i d . 10

N o o n e i s s h o w i n g u p 11

a n y o n e . A s I t o l d M s . A l e x a n d e r . 12

N o t h i n g i s g o i n g t o s u p e r s e d e t h e 13

p o l i c e m o n u m e n t . I t ' s a l l g o i n g t o b e 14

o n e m e m o r i a l p a r k . I t w i l l b e 15

u n i f o r m , i t w i l l g o n i c e a n d i t w i l l 16

c o n t r i b u t e t o o u r f a l l e n o f f i c e r s . 17

A n d y e s , I h o p e n o n e o f y o u r n a m e s a r e 18

e v e r p u t o n t h a t m o n u m e n t . 19

I s t h a t c l e a r ? 20

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 21

T h a n k y o u . 22

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 23

T h a n k y o u . 24

I l o o k f o r w a r d t o 25

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m e e t i n g w i t h y o u t o m o r r o w a t t h r e e 1

o ' c l o c k . 2

O k a y . 3

N e x t t o a d d r e s s t h e 4

c o u n c i l w i l l b e B i l l M o u t z . A l l e g h e n y 5

B o u l e v a r d W a l l . 6

M R . M O U T Z : 7

M y n a m e i s B i l l M o u t z , 8

1 3 3 5 M a p l e A v e n u e i n V e r o n a . F i r s t 9

I ' d l i k e t o t h a n k M a y o r a n d C o u n c i l 10

a n d t h e D e p u t y M a y o r , e s p e c i a l l y J o h n 11

P e t r u c c i f o r t h e g e n e r o u s d o n a t i o n o f 12

$ 5 0 0 t o t h e b e a u t i f i c a t i o n c o m m i t t e e . 13

A n d I a l s o w a n t t o t h a n k t h e M a y o r , 14

D e p u t y M a y o r a n d C o u n c i l f o r i n c l u d i n g 15

t h e A R B t u r n o u t a r e a o f A l l e g h e n y 16

B o u l e v a r d i n t h e i r g r a s s g r o w i n g 17

p r o j e c t . Y o u c a n s e e t h e d i f f e r e n c e 18

r i g h t n o w , h o w n i c e i t l o o k s . 19

A l i t t l e h i s t o r y f r o m 20

t h e 1 9 3 0 s . T h e A l l e g h e n y B o u l e v a r d 21

i t s e l f r e p r e s e n t s t h e c i t y . I t ' s a 22

b e a u t i f u l r o a d f r o m t h e 1 9 2 0 s . 23

T h e r e ' s a v i e w i n g p l a n o n t h e p a r k w a y . 24

T h e A l l e g h e n y B o u l e v a r d o b s e r v a t i o n 25

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t u r n o u t s a r e s i g n i f i c a n t a s t h e s e n i n e 1

h i s t o r i c l a n d s c a p e s . 2

T h e o b s e r v a t i o n s w e r e 3

c a r e f u l l y p l a n n e d t o t a k e a d v a n t a g e o f 4

s c e n i c d i s t a n c e a n d t o a l l o w 5

o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o p a r k a n d v i e w t h e 6

r i v e r . W e h a v e s a n d s t o n e w a l l s , h a r d 7

s t o n e f o u n t a i n s , s t o n e h e d g e s a n d 8

s t o n e s t e p s . 9

A d d i t i o n a l t h e t u r n o u t s 10

a r e l i n e d o u t w i t h c u r v i n g a n d p a c k i n g 11

m a t e r i a l s e l e c t e d a n d p l a c e d f o r t h e 12

a e s t h e t i c v a l u e . W h a t r e m a i n s t o d a y 13

i s a h i s t o r i c s t r u c t u r e i n d e c l i n e . 14

O v e r t h e l a s t d e c a d e a n d b e f o r e a f e w 15

v o l u n t e e r s n a m e d A l l e g h e n y R o o k i e s 16

h a v e p l a n t e d f l o w e r s a n d t r i e d t o k e e p 17

t h e w a l l a n d i t s s u r r o u n d i n g s 18

p r e s e n t a b l e t o p a s s e r s - b y . 19

T h e C D C a n d t h e 20

b e a u t i f i c a t i o n c o m m i t t e e , w h i c h I a m 21

t h e c h a i r o f f , s t a r t e d o f f p r o b a b l y a t 22

l e a s t t h r e e y e a r s a g o . W e h a d t o 23

m a i n t a i n t h e a r e a b e t w e e n t h e 24

b o u l e v a r d a n d t h e i n s i d e c o n c r e t e 25

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r o a d w a y . 1

I a c t u a l l y r e m o v e d t h e 2

l e a v e s i n t h e a r e a o f t h e s t e p s a n d I 3

p l a n t e d m a r i g o l d s t h e r e t o w e l c o m e 4

t r a v e l e r s , w h i c h y o u c a n s e e i n p l a c e . 5

W e w e r e m o v i n g o u t d e b r i s f r o m t h e 6

c e n t r a l l a n d i n g w h e r e a c r e e k o n c e 7

a g a i n f l o w e d o u t o f a d e s i g n a t e d h o l e 8

i n t h e w a l l . T h e n c a m e D u q u e s n e L i g h t 9

w h o i n s t a l l e d n e w u t i l i t y p o l l s t h e r e 10

a n d r u i n i n g m u c h o f t h e t r e e s a n d t h e 11

v e g e t a t i o n o n t h e h i l l s i d e a b o v e t h e 12

w a l l . T h i s a l l o w e d a n i m m e n s e a m o u n t 13

o f e r o s i o n . 14

O k a y ? 15

I n o t i c e d a t t h e 16

b e g i n n i n g o f t h e s p r i n g o f 2 0 1 9 . T h e 17

a r e a t h a t w a s c l e a r e d o f d e b r i s , t h e r e 18

w a s a l o t w a t e r a n d s e v e r a l f e e t o f 19

s i l t . T h e w e e d s w e r e b e g i n n i n g t o 20

g r o w o n t h e e n t i r e s u r f a c e o f t h e 21

s e c o n d l e v e l . S o I p l a c e d f l o w e r s 22

t h e r e a n d d i d w e e d c o n t r o l . S i x t o 23

e i g h t f e e t o n t h e i n s i d e o f t h e w a l l 24

a n d t h e b a c k o f t h e l a n d i n g . 25

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I f y o u l o o k a t i t t o d a y , 1

y o u c a n ' t s e e a n y o f t h e c a r d b o a r d . 2

T h e c a r d b o a r d t h a t y o u s e e n o w t h a t 3

i t ' s r a i n i n g , i t ' s c o m p l e t e d c o v e r e d 4

w i t h f o u r t o s i x i n c h e s o f m u d , a l l 5

t h e w a y t o t h e w a l l . M y w i f e a n d I 6

h a p p e n e d t o b e a t t h a t l o c a t i o n 7

p l a n t i n g m a r i g o l d s t h i s s p r i n g . 8

A n d a s u d d e n r a i n s t o r m 9

c a m e . W e w a n t e d i n o u r c a r u n t i l i t 10

w a s o v e r . A s w e r e t u r n e d t o t h e 11

g a r d e n t o f i n i s h p l a n t i n g , w e h e a r d a 12

r o a r o f r u n n i n g w a t e r . T h e r e w e r e 13

s e v e r a l i n c h e s o f w a t e r r u n n i n g d o w n 14

b o t h s t a i r w a y s , s e v e r a l d e e p . A n d 15

a l s o s e e p i n g t h r o u g h t h e w a l l a t m a n y 16

l o c a t i o n s . H e r e i s a p i c t u r e o f t h e 17

w a t e r r u n n i n g d o w n t h e w a l l a n d d o w n 18

b o t h s t a i r w e l l s . 19

O k a y ? 20

T h e m u d a s w e l l w a s 21

c o m i n g t h r o u g h t h e w a l l a n d t u r n i n g 22

t h e b r o w n . S o m e t i m e s i t c a n c o v e r t h e 23

e n t i r e w a l l a n d t h e f o u n d a t i o n . T h e 24

w a l l t h a t y o u s e e t h e r e , t h e e n t i r e 25

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l e n g t h o f t h e w a l l , t h e m u d w o u l d b e 1

c o m i n g t h r o u g h t h e s t o n e . N o w w h a t 2

I ' m a f r a i d o f i s t h a t i f a s o l u t i o n i s 3

n o t r e m e d i a t i n g t h e e r o s i o n o n t h e 4

h i l l s i d e , t h a t t h e h y d r a u l i c p r e s s u r e 5

o f t h r e e c y c l e s w i l l c o m p l e t e l y 6

d e s t r o y t h i s h i s t o r i c l a n d m a r k . 7

Y o u c a n s e e s e v e r a l 8

a r e a s w h e r e t h e w a l l i s m o v i n g . I n 9

t h i s p a r t i c u l a r a r e a h e r e t h e c r a c k s 10

a r e s o l a r g e y o u c a n s t i c k y o u r f i s t 11

i n t h a t h o l e . S o I a m a s k i n g t h e 12

D e p u t y M a y o r , t h e M a y o r a n d t h e 13

C o u n c i l w i t h D u q u e s n e L i g h t , P e n n D O T 14

a n d a n y o n e e l s e t o d o s o m e t h i n g a b o u t 15

t h e e r o s i o n o n t h e h i l l s i d e a n d k e e p 16

t h e w a t e r f r o m r u n n i n g d o w n t h e h i l l 17

t o w a r d s t h e s t r u c t u r e . 18

I n a d d i t i o n , t h e c a v i n g 19

o f t h e w a l l , w h i c h i s l i k e a b i g b l o c k 20

t h a t ' s s c r e e n e d i n a n d y o u p u t r o c k s 21

i n s i d e o f i t . A n d h o l d t h e s c r e e n 22

b a c k , a n d i t ' s g o n e o n t h e r o a d a n d 23

o t h e r p l a c e s . 24

P l u s a r o u n d t h e b a c k a n d 25

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s t u f f , t h e w h o l e b a c k w a s c a k e d w i t h 1

s o i l . T h e n a l a y e r o f r o c k w e n t u p 2

t h e s l o p e , a n d I m e a n a s f a r u p t h e 3

s l o p e a s p o s s i b l e . T h e s t r u c t u r e 4

i t s e l f a s y o u c a n s e e i s a l s o s h o w i n g 5

s i g n s o f c o l l a p s e . T h e r e a r e m a n y 6

c r a c k s , s o m e l a r g e e n o u g h t o p u t y o u r 7

f i s t i n , w h i c h I j u s t e x p l a i n e d . 8

T h e c r a c k s n e e d t o b e 9

f i l l e d a n d r e l a y e d o n t h e r e a r w a l l 10

a n d t o t h e s t a i r l a n d i n g s . S o g o o n 11

t o p o f t h e r i v e r w a l l a n d h e r e i t ' s 12

b e g i n n i n g t o f a l l o v e r o f f t h e w a l l . 13

W e c a n h a v e i t e x c a v a t e d o u t o f t h e r e 14

a n d p u s h e d b a c k i n p l a c e . 15

T h i s w a l l h a s s t o o d 16

s i n c e t h e e a r l y 3 0 s . I t i s a 17

h i s t o r i c a l s t r u c t u r e . I t w o u l d b e a 18

s h a m e t o l o s e i t . 19

T h e C D C s e n t o u t a 20

l e t t e r t o D u q u e s n e L i g h t . I p u t a 21

l e t t e r o n y o u r d e s k t h e r e . D a t e d M a y 22

1 5 t h , a s k i n g f o r h e l p w i t h o u r 23

s i t u a t i o n . I i n c l u d e d t h e l e t t e r i n 24

h a n d o u t s t o M a y o r , C o u n c i l a n d D e p u t y 25

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M a y o r . O n J u n e 1 4 t h - - - a n d I g o t 1

s o m e g o o d n e w s . 2

O n e J u n e 1 4 t h I r e c e i v e d 3

a c a l l f r o m a m a n n a m e d B r i a n B e a v e r 4

o f D u q u e s n e L i g h t . A n d I ' m m e e t i n g 5

w i t h B r i a n t o m o r r o w a t 2 : 3 0 t o d i s c u s s 6

w h a t r e m e d y D u q u e s n e L i g h t m i g h t d o 7

w i t h t h i s w a l l . A n d I a m a s k i n g 8

D e p u t y M a y o r , M a y o r a n d C o u n c i l t o 9

k e e p t h e i r f e e t i n t h e f i r e a n d a s k 10

D u q u e s n e L i g h t w h a t e v e r t h e y c a n t o 11

r e m e d y t h e s i t u a t i o n . A n d t h a n k y o u 12

v e r y m u c h . 13

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 14

T h a n k y o u s o m u c h . T h a t 15

w a s v e r y i n f o r m a t i v e t o u s a n d I 16

a p p r e c i a t e t h a t . A n d I a m s u r e s o i s 17

t h e r e s t o f t h e C o u n c i l . A n d I a m 18

j u s t g o i n g t o t u r n t h i s o v e r t o o u r 19

B u s i n e s s M a n a g e r t o a d d r e s s t h i s 20

s i t u a t i o n . 21

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 22

T h a n k y o u . 23

I t h i n k o u r f i r s t s t e p 24

i s t o r e a l l y f i n d o u t w h o o w n s t h e 25

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w a l l . W e d o n ' t - - - w e d o n ' t h a v e a n y 1

c o n t r o l o v e r i t . W e d o n ' t o w n i t . W e 2

h a v e l i m i t e d a b i l i t y t o t a l k w i t h 3

D u q u e s n e L i g h t . W e - - - i n t h e l a s t 4

f e w m o n t h s w e ' v e b e e n g e t t i n g o f f o n a 5

b e t t e r f o o t w i t h D u q u e s n e L i g h t . W e 6

d o n ' t c o n t r o l t h e m , t h e P U C d o e s . 7

B u t w e s t a r t e d a 8

d i a l o g u e w i t h t h e m o n s o m e o t h e r 9

i s s u e s . S o I c a n c e r t a i n l y r e a c h o u t 10

t o t h e m . M y u n d e r s t a n d i n g i s t h i s i s 11

a s t a t e r i g h t - o f - w a y . S o I a m 12

t h i n k i n g t h a t P e n n D O T p r o b a b l y h a s 13

s o m e t h i n g t o d o w i t h i t . B e c a u s e i t ' s 14

a s a f e t y i s s u e I t h i n k i t m i g h t g e t 15

e l e v a t e d o n s o m e b o d y ' s r a d a r . I ' d b e 16

h a p p y t o l o o k i n t o i t o r r e a c h o u t t o 17

e v e r y o n e y o u c a n t o s e e w h a t c a n b e 18

d o n e a b o u t i t . 19

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 20

T h a n k y o u . 21

M R . P E T R U C C I : 22

D e p u t y M a y o r ? 23

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 24

Y e s , C o u n c i l m a n 25

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P e t r u c c i ? 1

M R . P E T R U C C I : 2

I f I m a y i n t e r j e c t 3

s o m e t h i n g ? 4

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 5

Y e s . 6

M R . P E T R U C C I : 7

W h e n y o u f i r s t s u b m i t t e d 8

t h e l e t t e r - - - . 9

M R . M O U T Z : 10

P a r d o n ? 11

M R . P E T R U C C I : 12

W h e n y o u f i r s t s u b m i t t e d 13

t h e l e t t e r a b o u t t h i s s i t u a t i o n . A n d 14

I d i d s o m e r e s e a r c h f o r y o u . 15

O k a y ? 16

A n d t h e g e n t l e m a n t h a t 17

t a k e s c a r e o f t h e t u r n o f f s a s f a r a s 18

- - - w e l l h e ' s a s u p e r v i s o r f o r t h e 19

s t a t e . A n d h e l i v e s d o w n i n P e n n 20

H i l l s . H i s n a m e i s T i m H o r n . I ' l l 21

g i v e y o u h i s t e l e p h o n e . 22

O k a y ? 23

Y o u m i g h t b e a b l e t o 24

w o r k w i t h h i m a l i t t l e b i t . T h e y 25

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w e r e n ' t a w a r e o f w h a t w a s g o i n g o n 1

d o w n t h e r e . T h e y w e r e n ' t a w a r e t h a t 2

t h e C D C h a d a n y d e a l i n g s o u t t h e r e . 3

S o y o u a n d I w i l l t a l k a f t e r a n d I ' l l 4

g i v e y o u t h i s i n f o r m a t i o n a n d t h e n y o u 5

c a n a s k h i m . 6

O k a y ? 7

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 8

O k a y . 9

I a m g o i n g t o a l s o a s k . 10

R i c k , i f y o u w o u l d i n t e r j e c t h e r e ? 11

I t ' d b e g r e a t l y a p p r e c i a t e d . 12

M R . M I N S T E R M A N : 13

Y e s . 14

T h e r e a r e p e r m i t 15

r e q u i r e m e n t s t h a t a r e r e q u i r e d t o 16

m i t i g a t e e r o s i o n a n d c o n t r o l a n d f i g h t 17

t h a t . S o w h e n t h e y - - - w h e n t h e y d i d 18

t h e c o n s t r u c t i o n p r o j e c t t h e r e w o u l d 19

h a v e b e e n a c l o s e o u t p r o c e s s o n 20

p e r m a n e n t e r o s i o n c o n t r o l , s o y o u 21

d o n ' t h a v e m u d d y w a t e r l i k e t h a t . S o 22

s o m e t h i n g s e e m s l i k e t h e r e ' s a p r o b l e m 23

w i t h t h e i r p e r m a n e n t e r o s i o n c o n t r o l 24

m e a s u r e s . 25

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S o t h e A l l e g h e n y C o u n t y 1

C o n s e r v a t i o n D i s t r i c t i s a n e n f o r c e r 2

o n t h a t . A n d t h a t ' s s o m e t h i n g t h a t 3

C r a i g a n d I a r e r e a d i n g t h o s e . A n d i t 4

s e e m s l i k e i f D u q u e s n e w a n t s t o c o m e 5

t o m e e t w i t h y o u , t h e y r e a l i z e d t h e y 6

h a v e a p r o b l e m a n d t h e y h a v e s o m e 7

l i a b i l i t y . S o I a m n o t s a y i n g t h a t i t 8

w i l l s t o p t h e w a t e r f r o m c o m i n g . B u t 9

i t s h o u l d n ' t b e t r a n s p o r t i n g s e d i m e n t 10

a n d m u d l i k e t h a t . 11

S o e v e n - - - e v e n t h e 12

d i v e r s i o n o f m a y b e c l e a n w a t e r t o t h e 13

s i t e i s c a u s i n g d a m a g e i s p a r t o f t h i s 14

v i o l a t i o n o f t h e i r p e r m i t a s w e l l . S o 15

t h e y d o h a v e s o m e r e s p o n s i b i l i t y f r o m 16

t h e f e d e r a l p e r m i t s t a n d p o i n t . I t ' s 17

e n f o r c e d b y t h e s t a t e a n d t h e l o c a l 18

c o n s e r v a t i o n d i s t r i c t . S o y o u k n o w , I 19

t h i n k a f t e r y o u h a v e y o u r m e e t i n g a n d 20

w h a t y o u h e a r f r o m t h e m , a n d h o p e f u l l y 21

t h e y ' r e g o i n g t o b e v e r y c o o p e r a t i v e . 22

N o t k n o w i n g t h a t y o u 23

k n o w t h a t t h e y h a v e t h e s e 24

r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s . B u t t h e y k n o w t h e y 25

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h a v e t h o s e r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s . S o I 1

t h i n k i f n o t h i n g c o m e s o f t h a t , t h e n I 2

t h i n k t h e m i n i m u m t h a t w e c a n d o i s 3

c o n t a c t t h e c o n s e r v a t i o n d i s t r i c t , 4

s h o w t h e m t h e p i c t u r e s , s h o w t h e m t h a t 5

t h e r e ' s s o m e t h i n g r i g h t a n d g e t t h e m 6

t o e n f o r c e . 7

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 8

O k a y . 9

M R . M O U T Z : 10

I ' l l l e t c o u n c i l a n d 11

m a y o r k n o w w h a t h a p p e n s t o m o r r o w . 12

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 13

T h a n k y o u . W e 14

a p p r e c i a t e y o u k e e p i n g u p w i t h t h a t 15

i s s u e . 16

N e x t o n t h e a g e n d a w i t h 17

h a v e a n E l d e r J i m B a l t h r o p , a d d r e s s i n g 18

t h e i s s u e o f E a s t H i l l s D r i v e . P l e a s e 19

s t a t e y o u r n a m e a n d a d d r e s s f o r t h e 20

r e c o r d . 21

M R . B A L T H R O P : 22

M y n a m e i s B a l t h r o p . I 23

a m t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i v e e l d e r f r o m 2 3 8 24

E a s t D r i v e . A n d I j u s t w a n t t o - - - I 25

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w a s l i s t e n i n g t o t h e M a y o r t a l k 1

e a r l i e r a b o u t i t . F i r s t o f a l l s h e 2

s a i d t h a t R o a d e y e R o a d w a s t h e g a t e w a y 3

t o P e n n H i l l s . A n d I a m j u s t s o r t o f 4

t a k i n g t h a t , w h e n s h e s a i d t h a t . I n 5

o u r a r e a , E a s t H i l l s D r i v e i s a 6

g a t e w a y t o o u r c o m m u n i t y . I t ' s 7

e q u a l l y i m p o r t a n t t o o u r u n d e r s e r v e d 8

c o m m u n i t y a s i s t h e m a i n r o a d t o P e n n 9

H i l l s . 10

A n d t h a t r o a d w a s g i v e n 11

t o i n t e r n a t i o n a l m i n i s t r y b y t h e c i t y . 12

A n d i n t e r n a t i o n a l m i n i s t r y h a s 13

s u p p o r t e d t h a t p r o j e c t 1 0 0 p e r c e n t a n d 14

e n h a n c e d t h e r e v e n u e o f P e n n H i l l s . 15

W e c o u l d h a v e c l o s e d t h a t . B u t w e 16

s u p p o r t e d i t 1 0 0 p e r c e n t . A n d w e 17

d o n a t e d t h a t h i g h w a y t o t h e c h u r c h . 18

A n d w e n o w c a n n o t a f f o r d t o m a i n t a i n 19

t h a t h i g h w a y . 20

W e a r e w o r k i n g w i t h 21

C o u n c i l m a n R i c k y F e r g u s o n a n d S e a n 22

B a i r d , w h o r e p r e s e n t y o u , s a y i n g t h a t 23

t h e c i t y w i l l t a k e r e s p o n s i b i l i t y f o r 24

m a i n t a i n i n g t h a t r o a d i f t h e y c a n f o r m 25

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a i n t e r - c o m p a n y a g r e e m e n t w i t h P e n n 1

H i l l s . W e ' r e n o t a s k i n g P e n n H i l l s 2

f o r o n e d i m e . 3

N o t o n e d i m e . W e ' r e 4

s i m p l y a s k i n g t h e m t o p e r f o r m - - - t o 5

t a l k w i t h u s l i k e w e t a l k w i t h 6

e v e r y b o d y e l s e a b o u t f o r m i n g a n 7

a g r e e m e n t s o t h a t t h e c i t y c a n t a k e 8

r e s p o n s i b i l i t y f o r t h a t h i g h w a y . E v e n 9

t h o u g h t h a t h i g h w a y i s u s e d b y P e n n 10

H i l l s , w e h a v e p e r s o n n e l f r o m P e n n 11

H i l l s v o l u n t e e r f i r e d e p a r t m e n t t o u s e 12

t h a t r o a d , t o u s e o u r p a r k i n g a r e a s t o 13

d o m a n e u v e r s . S o t h a t i s a m a j o r 14

t h r o u g h - f a i r a r e a . 15

I f t h a t h i g h w a y i s 16

c l o s e d t h e r e i s o n l y o n e w a y i n a n d 17

o n l y o n e w a y o u t , w h i c h i s v e r y 18

d a n g e r o u s f o r e v e r y b o d y . S o I a m 19

a s k i n g y o u t o k e e p a n o p e n m i n d . I 20

w o u l d l i k e t o w o r k w i t h y o u r s o l i c i t o r 21

o r M r . B l a c k w e l l t o p u t t o g e t h e r a 22

p r o p o s a l t o p r e s e n t t o t h e c o u n c i l s o 23

t h a t t h e r e w i l l b e n o r e s p o n s i b i l i t y 24

f i n a n c i a l l y f o r y o u . W e j u s t n e e d 25

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y o u r c o o p e r a t i o n t o h e l p u s p u t t h i s 1

a g r e e m e n t i n t o e f f e c t . A n d t o t h a t 2

e n d I a m a s k i n g M r . B l a c k w e l l a n d h i s 3

a s s i s t a n t . A n d I ' d l i k e M r . C a r t e r t o 4

c o m e u p t o r e i t e r a t e w h a t I j u s t s a i d 5

t o y o u . 6

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 7

A s M r . C a r t e r c o m e s u p , 8

f o r c l a r i f i c a t i o n c o u l d y o u p l e a s e 9

g i v e u s t h e a d d r e s s o r w h e r e t h e 10

p r o x i m i t y o f w h e r e t h e r o a d i s 11

l o c a t e d ? 12

M R . B A L T H R O P : 13

I t ' s j u s t r i g h t a r o u n d 14

F r a n k s T o w n A v e n u e a n d t h e 15

i n t e r s e c t i o n t o t h e F r a n k s T o w n A v e n u e 16

a n d E a s t H i l l s D r i v e . I t ' s r i g h t d o w n 17

n e a r t h e J e h o v a h ' s W i t n e s s c h u r c h 18

t h a t ' s i n t h a t a r e a . 19

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 20

O k a y . 21

I j u s t w a n t t o a s k f o r 22

c l a r i f i c a t i o n f o r e v e r y o n e - - - . 23

M R . B A L T H R O P : 24

A n d i t r u n s a l l t h e w a y 25

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t h r o u g h t h e c o m m u n i t y . 1

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 2

C o r r e c t . 3

M R . B A L T H R O P : 4

I t r u n s a l l t h e w a y 5

t h r o u g h u p i n t o t h e c o m m u n i t y . 6

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 7

O k a y . 8

A n d a l s o t h e r e i s o n e 9

o t h e r w a y t o e n t e r i n t o E a s t H i l l s , 10

w h i c h w o u l d b e e i t h e r t h r o u g h t h e P u l l 11

a n d P a y l o t t h a t i s g o i n g d o w n t h e 12

d r i v e t h a t ' s g o i n g i n - b e t w e e n , y o u 13

p u l l i n t h e r e a n d g o i n g a r o u n d t h a t 14

w a y . O r o n R o b i n s o n B o u l e v a r d . S o 15

t h e r e ' s a c t u a l l y t w o w a y s t o g e t i n 16

t h e r e . 17

M R . B A L T H R O P : 18

Y e s . M y p o i n t i s t h a t 19

o n c e w e c l o s e t h e s t r e e t t h e r e ' s n o 20

w a y t o g e t i n . S o I ' m t a l k i n g a b o u t 21

t h e o n l y w h o l e s t r e e t . 22

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 23

R i g h t . 24

B u t t h e r e ' s t h r e e n a r r o w 25

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s t r e e t w a y s n o w . O n e i s u n a c c e p t a b l e . 1

A n d t h e r e - - - t h a t s t i l l l e a v e s u s 2

t w o o t h e r w a y s . 3

C o r r e c t ? 4

M R . B A L T H R O P : 5

W e l l , y e a h . B u t I d o n ' t 6

t h i n k i t w i l l w o r k i n f a v o r o f 7

e v e r y b o d y c o n c e r n e d . B u t i t ' s t h e 8

o n l y t w o w a y r o a d f o r f i r e t r u c k s , f o r 9

e m e r g e n c y a m b u l a n c e s t h r o u g h t h e r e . 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

O k a y . 12

M R . B A L T H R O P : 13

F o r t h a t c o m m u n i t y , 14

g e t t i n g o u t a n d g e t t i n g i n . I j u s t 15

d o n ' t s e e i t g o i n g w e l l f o r a n y b o d y . 16

M a y b e y o u c a n g e t a c a r i n a n o t h e r 17

w a y . B u t j u s t t o l e t y o u k n o w , t h e r e 18

i s n o e x p o s i n g o n y o u r p a r t . W e ' r e 19

n o t a s k i n g a n y t h i n g b u t f o r y o u t o 20

t a l k w i t h u s t o s o w e c a n s e n d o u r 21

i n f o r m a t i o n t o c o u n c i l a n d g e t c o u n c i l 22

t o m o v e o n i t b a s e d o n t h e i n f o r m a t i o n 23

t h a t w e s u b m i t . 24

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 25

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O k a y . T h a n k y o u . 1

M r . C a r t e r ? 2

M R . C A R T E R : 3

G o o d e v e n i n g , D e p u t y 4

M a y o r S a p p . 5

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 6

G o o d e v e n i n g . 7

M R . C A R T E R : 8

G o o d m o r n i n g , m e m b e r 9

B r o d n i c k i , P e t r u c c i , U n d e r w o o d , 10

M a n a g e r A n d r e j c h a k , S o l i c i t o r 11

A l e x a n d e r a n d e v e r y b o d y e l s e h e r e . M y 12

n a m e i s S e a n C a r t e r a n d I a m a s p e c i a l 13

a s s i s t a n t c i t y c o u n c i l m a n . A n d I 14

t h a n k y o u f o r g r a n t i n g m e t h i s 15

o p p o r t u n i t y t o a d d r e s s y o u t h i s 16

e v e n i n g r e g a r d i n g E a s t H i l l s D r i v e . 17

A n d t o a n s w e r y o u r q u e s t i o n a b o u t t h e 18

a p p r o x i m a t e l o c a t i o n o f E a s t H i l l s 19

D r i v e . I t i s a t t h e i n t e r s e c t i o n o f 20

F r a n k s T o w n a n d E a s t w o o d R o a d s . 21

B u t a s c o u n c i l s t a t e d i n 22

i t s l e t t e r t o y o u t w o w e e k s a g o . E a s t 23

H i l l s D r i v e i s p r o b l e m a t i c f o r w e l l 24

o v e r 1 , 0 0 0 c o n s t i t u e n t s w h o a r e f o r c e d 25

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t o u s e t h e o t h e r t w o r o a d w a y s t o g e t 1

a r o u n d . F r o m 1 9 7 6 t o 1 9 8 3 m y m o t h e r , 2

s i s t e r a n d m y s e l f w e r e r e s i d e n t s a t 3

2 3 4 0 E a s t H i l l s D r i v e . S o I h a v e s o m e 4

m e m o r i e s o f l i v i n g t h e r e . 5

S p e c i f i c a l l y w h e n t h e 6

M a r t i n L u t h e r K i n g J u n i o r B u s w a y 7

o p e n e d t o t r a f f i c . T h e b o a r d u s e d t o 8

r u n a b u s r o u t e k n o w n a s 6 8 M c G u i r e . 9

T h e c o m m u t e r e x p r e s s r o u t e p a s s e d 10

t h r o u g h P e n n H i l l s a n d w e n t i n t o 11

M c L a u g h e r t y , w h o s e d e t o u r s i n t o E a s t 12

H i l l s S h o p p i n g C e n t e r a l l o w e d p e o p l e 13

w h o l i v e d i n E a s t H i l l s g o t o w o r k 14

d o w n t o w n , s a v e a b o u t t h e m a b o u t a h a l f 15

a n h o u r o f r o a d s i n c e t h e y l e f t E a s t 16

H i l l s . 17

O v e r h a l f a n h o u r . T h e 18

b u s r o u t e a l s o u s e d E a s t H i l l s D r i v e 19

t o s e r v i c e t h e E a s t H i l l s S h o p p i n g 20

C e n t e r a n d t o p i c k u p p a s s e n g e r s i n 21

t h e m o r n i n g f o r t h e 6 8 r o u t e . N o w I 22

r e a l i z e t h a t t h e l a n d i n v o l v e d i n t h e 23

f o r m e r E a s t H i l l s S h o p p i n g C e n t e r , 24

F i r s t T u r n , D a i r y B a r n , t h e n t h e E a s t 25

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H i l l s S h o p p i n g C e n t e r a n d t h e E a s t 1

H i l l s B u i l d i n g . I t ' s g o n e t h r o u g h 2

m a n y c h a n g e s i n 6 0 p l u s y e a r s . B u t 3

t h i s m u c h i s c l e a r . 4

T h e E a s t H i l l s D r i v e 5

b e g i n s a t t h e s o u t h e r l y i n t e r s e c t i o n 6

o f F r a n k s T o w n a n d E a s t w o o d R o a d s . O n 7

t h e c i t y b o a r d e r o f P e n n H i l l s , t r a v e l 8

s o u t h 4 5 0 t o a n o t h e r c i t y b o r d e r o f 9

P e n n H i l l s . T h e n i t s t i c k s o u t 10

w e s t e r l y u p t h e h i l l f o r a b o u t 7 5 0 11

f e e t . A n d t h e n i t t r a v e r s e s t h e 12

f l a t t o p f o r a b o u t a n o t h e r 8 5 0 f e e t 13

u n t i l i t h i t s a n o t h e r b e t w e e n t h e c i t y 14

a n d P e n n H i l l s , a t w h i c h p o i n t t h e 15

r e m a i n d e r o f t h e e n t i r e r o a d w a y i s a 16

c i t y p u b l i c r i g h t - o f - w a y . 17

T h a t f i r s t 1 5 0 f e e t a r e 18

a d e d i c a t e d c i t y r i g h t - o f - w a y . T h e 19

n e x t 7 5 0 f e e t , a f t e r a s e a r c h t h r o u g h 20

t h e p u b l i c r e c o r d s , s h o u l d b e a 21

p r i v a t e o w n e d r i g h t - o f - w a y f o r t h e 22

s h o p p i n g c e n t e r , f o r t h e a c c e s s t o t h e 23

c e n t e r a n d f o r u t i l i t i e s . A n d t h e 24

r e m a i n i n g 8 5 0 f e e t a p p e a r s t o b e 25

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s o m e t h i n g o f a g h o s t s t r e e t , u s e d a s a 1

r o a d w a y f o r a l l i n t e n t s a n d p u r p o s e s , 2

b u t n o t a u t h e n t i c a t e d n o r a c c e p t e d a s 3

a s t r e e t f o r p u b l i c p u r p o s e s . 4

T h e r e c e n t E a s t G a t e 5

S u b d i v i s i o n , w e ' v e s p o k e w i t h t h e c i t y 6

a n d t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y a b o u t 7

i m p r o v e m e n t s i n 2 0 1 6 . C l a r i f y i n g t h a t 8

t h e 7 5 0 f o o t l o n g a c c e s s r o u n d a n d t h e 9

8 5 0 f o o t l o n g g h o s t r o a d a r e , i n f a c t , 10

t h e p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y o f a n o n -11

g o v e r n m e n t a l e n t i t y a n d q u i t e p o s s i b l y 12

h a v e n e v e r b e e n p r o p e r t y o f t h e 13

m u n i c i p a l i t y . I a m a l s o o f w h e n t h e 14

c i t y o r t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y w e r e o r w e r e 15

n o t m a i n t a i n i n g t h e r i g h t - o f - w a y . 16

B u t I a m s u r e o f t h i s . 17

N e a r l y 1 , 5 0 0 r e s i d e n t s a r e a w a r e o f 18

t h i s i s s u e w o u l d v e r y m u c h l i k e t h e 19

c i t y a n d t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y o f P e n n 20

H i l l s t o c o m e t o a n a g r e e m e n t s o t h a t 21

t h i s r i g h t - o f - w a y c a n b e p r o p e r l y 22

d e d i c a t e d , p a i d a n d m a i n t a i n e d . A n d 23

t h e c o u n c i l m e n w o u l d l i k e t o w o r k y o u 24

a n d a c c o m p l i s h t h i s . B u t c l e a r l y 25

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u n d e r s t a n d t h e d e d i c a t i o n o f a n d 1

a c c e p t a n c e o f a s u b c a t e g o r y r i g h t - o f -2

w a y p r e s e n t s w h a t m a y b e u n a c c e p t a b l e 3

l i a b i l i t y t o y o u r m u n i c i p a l i t y . 4

A n d t h e r e f o r e t h e 5

c o u n c i l w o u l d l i k e t o p r o p o s e t h e 6

f o l l o w i n g . T h e c i t y a n d t h e 7

m u n i c i p a l i t y w i l l e n t e r i n t o a 8

g o v e r n m e n t a l c o o p e r a t i o n a g r e e m e n t t o 9

p r o v i d e t h e c i t y a c c e s s t o m a i n t a i n 10

t h e r o a d w a y a n d i d e n t i f y i n g t h e 11

m u n i c i p a l i t y o f l i a b i l i t y p r i o r t o a n y 12

o t h e r a c t i o n s r e g a r d i n g t h i s r i g h t - o f -13

w a y b y t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y . 14

A n d t h e n , a n d o n l y t h e n , 15

o n c e t h a t a g r e e m e n t i s d r a f t e d a n d 16

p r o v i d e d t o t h e s a t i s f a c t i o n o f y o u r 17

s o l i c i t o r , o f f e r t h a t t o t h e 18

m u n i c i p a l i t y a n d a p p r o v e d b y b o t h 19

c o u n c i l s a n d s i g n e d b y b o t h m a y o r s , 20

p r o c e e d t o a c c e p t i t a s a n o p e n a n d 21

p u b l i c r i g h t - o f - w a y f o r p u b l i c h i g h w a y 22

a n d u t i l i t y p u r p o s e s . A n d I h a v e 23

n e v e r b e e n b e f o r e t h e c o u n c i l b e f o r e . 24

S o I d o n ' t k n o w i f I a m s u p p o s e d t o 25

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a n s w e r q u e s t i o n s . B u t I a m h e r e t o 1

a n s w e r a n y q u e s t i o n s t h a t a n y o f y o u 2

m a y h a v e . 3

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 4

O k a y . 5

F i r s t o f f , w h a t I ' d l i k e 6

t o s a y i s t h a t w e h a v e n ' t s e e n a 7

p r o p o s a l . T h i s h a s b e e n b e f o r e u s 8

m a n y , m a n y t i m e s i n t h e p a s t a n d i t ' s 9

a l w a y s b e e n d e n i e d . H o w e v e r , w e a r e 10

o p e n t o a d i a l o g u e b e t w e e n y o u r s e l f , 11

C o u n c i l m a n B u r g e s s a n d P e t r a C h u r c h . 12

W e h a v e n ' t s e e n i t 13

p r o p o s e d - - - a p r o p o s a l o r a n y t y p e o f 14

a g r e e m e n t . I n m y o w n o p i n i o n I ' m 15

t h i n k i n g y o u ' r e s a y i n g t h a t P e n n H i l l s 16

w i l l n o t h a v e a n y r e s p o n s i b i l i t y w i t h 17

r e g a r d s t o m a i n t a i n i n g t h a t r o a d . B u t 18

w h a t h a p p e n s i f t h e c i t y j u s t d e c i d e s 19

t o p u l l o u t ? T h e n w h a t ? 20

M R . C A R T E R : 21

W e l l , I t h i n k t h a t ' s 22

i n c u m b e n t u p o n b o t h t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y 23

a n d t h e c i t y . O r i t s s o l i c i t o r s a n d 24

i t s e n g i n e e r s t o s i t d o w n a n d h a v e a 25

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c o n v e r s a t i o n . A n d t h a t ' s t h e d i a l o g u e 1

t h a t C o u n c i l m a n B u r g e s s w o u l d l i k e t o 2

s t a r t . B e f o r e t h e r e i s a p r o p o s a l 3

b r i n g i n g i t e i t h e r t o P e n n H i l l s 4

c o u n c i l o r b e f o r e c i t y c o u n c i l . 5

I t h i n k t h e r e a r e 6

n u m e r o u s d e t a i l s w h i c h h a v e t o b e 7

w o r k e d o u t t o s a t i s f a c t i o n o f b o t h t h e 8

e n g i n e e r s , t h e c h i e f e n g i n e e r s - - - 9

P e n n H i l l ' s c h i e f e n g i n e e r s a n d t h e 10

C i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h , t h e s o l i c i t o r f o r 11

t h e C i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h , P e n n H i l l ' s 12

s o l i c i t o r . T o a n s w e r t h o s e q u e s t i o n s , 13

w e ' r e n o t a s k i n g y o u t o g o i n t o 14

s o m e t h i n g b l i n d l y . W e u n d e r s t a n d t h a t 15

t h i s i s a u n i q u e s i t u a t i o n . 16

I m e a n w h e r e t h i s r o a d 17

i s , t h e d i v i d i n g l i n e s b e t w e e n o u r 18

m u n i c i p a l i t i e s . W e h a v e s e p a r a t i o n s . 19

W e s h o u l d j u s t d e a l w i t h t h e r o a d . 20

B u t a t t h i s r o a d i t r u n s t h r o u g h a 21

c o n t i g u o u s l a n d p a r c e l , w h o l e 22

c o n t a i n e d o n e i t h e r s i d e b y t h e 23

m u n i c i p a l i t y o f P e n n H i l l s . 24

W e d o n ' t h a v e t h e 25

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b o u n d a r y s t a t u t e s t o w o r k i n o u r 1

f a v o r . A n d b e c a u s e i t ' s w h o l l y 2

c o n t a i n e d , t h e 1 , 6 0 0 f e e t i s w h o l l y 3

c o n t a i n e d w i t h i n P e n n H i l l s . A n y t h i n g 4

w e w o u l d d o w i t h o u t t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y ' s 5

p e r m i s s i o n w o u l d b e e x t r a - t e r r i t o r i a l 6

a n d m o s t l i k e l y i l l e g a l . 7

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 8

T h i s i s a p r i v a t e r o a d . 9

R i g h t ? T h i s i s a 10

p r i v a t e l y o w n e d - - - w a i t . M y q u e s t i o n 11

i s , i t i s a p r i v a t e l y o w n e d r o a d ? 12

M R . B A L T H R O P : 13

O w n e d r o a d . A n d i f 14

t h e r e ' s a n y c o m m u n i c a t i o n b r e a k d o w n 15

b e t w e e n t h e C i t y a n d P e n n H i l l s , w e ' l l 16

t a k e r e s p o n s i b i l i t y . T h e c h u r c h w i l l 17

t a k e t h a t r e s p o n s i b i l i t y b a c k , i f 18

t h e r e i s a n y t y p e o f b r e a k d o w n i n 19

t e r m s o f t h e c i t y w o u l d n o t f u l f i l l 20

i t s c o m m i t m e n t . T h e n i t w o u l d t u r n 21

b a c k t o t h e c h u r c h . W e ' r e p r e p a r e d t o 22

d o t h a t . 23

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 24

I a m g o i n g t o t u r n i t 25

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o v e r t o o u r B u s i n e s s M a n a g e r s , w h o h a s 1

s o m e q u e s t i o n s a n d c o n c e r n s . B u t 2

b e f o r e I d o , I ' d l i k e t o s a y t h a t 3

t h a t ' s d e f i n i t e l y s o m e t h i n g t h a t o u r 4

e n g i n e e r s a n d o u r s o l i c i t o r s w o u l d 5

d e f i n i t e l y h a v e t o s i t d o w n a n d o p e n 6

t h i s d i a l o g u e . B e c a u s e y o u c o m i n g t o 7

s p e a k t o n i g h t a n d p r e s e n t i n g i t t o u s . 8

T h a t ' s g r e a t . 9

I t j u s t - - - i t g i v e s - - - 10

t h a t j u s t o p e n s t h e d i a l o g u e . A n d i t 11

j u s t k i n d o f t e l l s u s w h a t y o u ' r e 12

l o o k i n g f o r , w h a t y o u r e x p e c t a t i o n o n 13

y o u r q u e s t i o n m a y b e . B u t i t r e a l l y 14

- - - y o u k n o w . T h e r e i s a l o t i n v o l v e d 15

a s f a r a s l e g a l i t i e s a n d t h i n g s o f 16

t h a t n a t u r e . T h e r e i s a l o t o f 17

v e r b i a g e t h a t n e e d s t o b e c l a r i f i e d . 18

I w i s h y o u w o u l d h a v e 19

b r o u g h t s o m e t y p e o f m o c k p r o p o s a l 20

t o n i g h t j u s t t o k i n d o f g i v e u s - - - 21

l e a v e u s s o m e t h i n g w i t h w h a t y o u ' r e 22

r e a l l y e x p e c t i n g f r o m P e n n H i l l s s o 23

t h a t M a y o r a n d C o u n c i l a n d o u r 24

B u s i n e s s M a n a g e r a n d S o l i c i t o r a n d 25

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e n g i n e e r c o u l d h a v e s o m e t h i n g i n o u r 1

h a n d s t o r e a l l y l o o k a t . H o w e v e r , 2

i t ' s o k a y . W e ' r e o p e n f o r d i a l o g u e . 3

A n d I a m g o i n g t o t u r n i t o v e r t o 4

S c o t t . 5

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 6

O n e q u e s t i o n I h a d , a n d 7

a c t u a l l y h a s w i t h w h a t t h e D e p u t y 8

M a y o r s a i d a b o u t s o m e o f t h e d e v i l s i n 9

t h e d e t a i l s h e r e , s o t o s p e a k . B u t I 10

g u e s s a q u e s t i o n I h a v e i s . I f i t ' s a 11

p r i v a t e r o a d r i g h t n o w , w h a t i s 12

s t o p p i n g y o u r C i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h f r o m 13

- - - f r o m m a i n t a i n i n g i t a s i t i s , 14

r a t h e r t h a n h a v e t o h a v e u s i n v o l v e d ? 15

I t ' s a p r i v a t e r o a d a n d 16

t h e C i t y i f P i t t s b u r g h i s w i l l i n g t o 17

m a i n t a i n i t . W h y d o w e h a v e t o g o 18

t h r o u g h t h e r i g m a r o l e o f o p e n i n g a n e w 19

r o a d a n d d o i n g a n a g r e e m e n t i f y o u ' r e 20

i n t h e s a m e p l a c e a n y w a y ? I f t h e C i t y 21

o f P i t t s b u r g h w a n t s t o t a k e c a r e o f 22

i t , c o u l d t h e y t a k e c a r e o f i t r i g h t 23

n o w w i t h o u t u s i n v o l v e d a t a l l ? W o u l d 24

t h a t b e t h e e a s i e s t a n s w e r ? 25

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M R . B A L T H R O P : 1

N o , b e c a u s e i t ' s - - - n o , 2

b e c a u s e i t ' s p r i v a t e l y o w n e d a n d w e 3

h a v e p r o h i b i t i o n s o f t h e e x p e n d i t u r e 4

o f t a x d o l l a r s o n p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y . 5

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 6

I s i t a - - - a n d I g u e s s 7

i t ' s i n m y m i n d i t i s s o r t o f a 8

d i s t i n c t i o n - - - w e l l i t i s a 9

d i s t i n c t i o n . I ' l l g i v e y o u t h a t . B u t 10

- - - b u t t h a t ' s i t . T h a n k y o u v e r y 11

m u c h . 12

M R . P E T R U C C I : 13

D e p u t y M a y o r . 14

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 15

Y e s , C o u n c i l m a n 16

P e t r u c c i ? 17

M R . P E T R U C C I : 18

L e t m e p r o p o s e t h i s 19

q u e s t i o n . I n t h e 5 0 s t h r o u g h o u t P e n n 20

H i l l s t h e r e w a s t h e P i t t s b u r g h 21

R a i l r o a d s . T h e P i t t s b u r g h R a i l r o a d s 22

c a m e i n a n d t h e y t o o k p r i v a t e l a n d a n d 23

t h e y l e a s e d i t f o r 1 0 0 y e a r s . W o u l d 24

t h e y - - - w o u l d y o u o b j e c t t o l e a s i n g 25

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a n d t a k i n g t h a t p r o p e r t y o v e r f o r 1 0 0 1

y e a r s o f f t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y ? 2

M R . C A R T E R : 3

I d o n ' t b e l i e v e - - - 4

C o u n c i l m a n , I d o n ' t b e l i e v e w e c a m e 5

h e r e t o n i g h t w i t h a s o l u t i o n i n h a n d . 6

W e p r i m a r i l y - - - w e u n d e r s t a n d i t 7

w o u l d h a v e t o b e w o r k e d o u t b y t h e 8

e n g i n e e r s a n d t h e s o l i c i t o r s o f b o t h 9

m u n i c i p a l i t i e s . S o t h e r e ' s a c o m f o r t 10

l e v e l o n b e h a l f o f b o t h m u n i c i p a l i t i e s 11

b e f o r e t h e y w o u l d g o t h r o u g h w i t h 12

t h i s . 13

B u t w e d i d n ' t e v e r - - - 14

w e h a d n e v e r c o m e t o t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y 15

o f P e n n H i l l s b e f o r e a n d s a i d w e ' r e 16

i n t e r e s t i n g i n t a k i n g o n t h i s 17

r e s p o n s i b i l i t y f r o m y o u a n d w e w o r k 18

w i t h y o u . I t h i n k i n t h e p a s t i t ' s 19

b e e n w h y d o n ' t y o u g u y s d o s o m e t h i n g 20

a b o u t t h i s . A n d t h a t ' s n o t h o w w e ' r e 21

c o m e h e r e t o d a y . W e u n d e r s t a n d t h a t 22

t h e r o a d p r o b a b l y i s m o r e v a l u a b l e t o 23

u s t h a n i t i s t o y o u , a s y o u r M a y o r 24

s t a t e d . 25

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B u t b e t h a t - - - b e t h a t 1

a s i t m a y . W e c a n ' t d o i t w i t h o u t 2

y o u r p a r t i c i p a t i o n . I n o n e f o r m o r 3

a n o t h e r , w h a t e v e r t h a t l o o k s l i k e . 4

A n d s o w e ' r e h e r e t o s t a r t t h e 5

d i a l o g u e . A n d y o u k n o w , t h e r e a s o n 6

t h e r e ' s n o p r o p o s a l i s b e c a u s e i t ' s 7

g o i n g t o t a k e t h i s m u n i c i p a l i t y 8

s e t t i n g t h e o u t e r l i m i t s o f w h a t t h e y 9

a r e c o m f o r t a b l e w i t h , w h a t t h e y ' r e n o t 10

c o m f o r t a b l e w i t h , w h a t t h e y w i l l a n d 11

w o n ' t a c c e p t b e f o r e a n y l e g i t i m a t e 12

p r o p o s a l c a n b e c r a f t e d . 13

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 14

I ' m t h i n k i n g s o m e w a y , 15

a n d I m i g h t b e o u t o f l i n e i n s a y i n g 16

t h i s . B u t m a y b e w e c a n e v e n h a v e i t 17

d e e d e d o v e r t o t h e C i t y a n d P e n n H i l l s 18

i s n o t i n v o l v e d a t a l l . B u t y o u k n o w , 19

t h a t ' s a g a i n o p e n f o r d i a l o g u e . S o w e 20

d o t h a n k y o u f o r c o m i n g . W e w i l l b e 21

i n c o n t a c t . W e w i l l t a l k a b o u t i n o u r 22

e x e c u t i v e s e s s i o n a n d o u r m a n a g e r w i l l 23

g e t b a c k w i t h y o u a n d w e t h a n k y o u f o r 24

c o m i n g . 25

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M R . C A R T E R : 1

T h a n k y o u f o r g i v i n g m e 2

t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o b e h e r e . 3

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 4

Y o u ' r e s o w e l c o m e . H a v e 5

a g o o d e v e n i n g . 6

M R . B A L T H R O P : 7

D e p u t y M a y o r , i s t h e r e 8

s o m e b o d y w e c o u l d c a l l t o c o n t a c t y o u 9

a b o u t o u r p r o p o s a l ? 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

T h a t w o u l d b e o u r 12

M a n a g e r . I ' m g i v i n g h i m m y j o b 13

t o n i g h t . O u r B u s i n e s s M a n a g e r , S c o t t 14

A n d r e j c h a k . 15

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 16

I h a v e t h e e - m a i l i n t h e 17

l e t t e r . S o I ' l l - - - I ' l l g e t - - - I ' l l 18

r e a c h o u t t o y o u a n d t h e n w e ' l l g e t a 19

m e e t i n g s e t u p . 20

M R . B A L T H R O P : 21

O k a y . 22

M R . C A R T E R : 23

S o d o I g i v e t h e s e - - - 24

s h o u l d I g i v e t h e m ? 25

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O k a y . T h a n k y o u , D e p u t y 1

M a y o r . 2

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 3

T h a n k y o u s o m u c h f o r 4

c o m i n g . 5

M R . C A R T E R : 6

W h o o p s . W r o n g c a r d . 7

M R . B A L T H R O P : 8

A s I s a i d , w e h a v e b e e n 9

- - - w e h a v e b e e n o p e r a t i n g f o r 2 5 10

y e a r s a n d w e h a v e n e v e r b e e n h e r e 11

b e f o r e t h i s m u n i c i p a l i t y a b o u t a n y 12

t y p e o f p r o p o s a l t o d e a l w i t h t h i s . 13

T h i s i s o u r f i r s t t i m e e v e r m a k i n g a 14

p r o p o s a l . S o I d o n ' t k n o w , w e c a n s a y 15

t h i s h a s b e e n d e a l t w i t h o v e r t h e l a s t 16

2 5 y e a r s t h a t I ' v e b e e n i n c h a r g e , 17

w e ' v e n e v e r b e e n h e r e b e f o r e . T h i s i s 18

t h e f i r s t t i m e . I j u s t w a n t e d t o m a k e 19

t h a t c l e a r . 20

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 21

O k a y . T h a n k y o u s o 22

m u c h . O k a y . 23

N e x t o n o u r a g e n d a I 24

h a v e a D i n a H u r t , c o m i n g b e f o r e 25

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c o u n c i l t o t a l k a b o u t t h e C o m m u n i t y 1

D e v e l o p m e n t B l o c k G r a n t P r o g r a m o f 2

2 0 1 9 a n d t h e r e v i t a l i z a t i o n i n L i n c o l n 3

P a r k a n d d u m p i n g p r o b l e m s . P l e a s e 4

c o m e t o t h e p o d i u m , s t a t e y o u r n a m e 5

a n d a d d r e s s f o r t h e r e c o r d . 6

M S . B R A N S K Y : 7

F i r s t o f a l l , l e t m e 8

t e l l y o u . M y n a m e i s R o b e r t a B r a n s k y . 9

I a m h e r e o n b e h a l f o f M s . H u r t . S o 10

I a m g o i n g t o r e a d t h i s . 11

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 12

O k a y . 13

M S . B R A N S K Y : 14

T o b e g i n w i t h , t h e r e a r e 15

p r o b l e m s w i t h s e v e r a l l i n e s a n d o t h e r 16

i t e m s t h a t t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y h a s 17

a d o p t e d . T h r o u g h t h e c o m m i s s i o n , i t 18

h a s d e v e l o p e d i n t o a v i a b l e e a r n i n g 19

c o m m u n i t y a n d t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y i n t o a 20

s u i t a b l e l i v i n g e n v i r o n m e n t . A n d 21

r e c o g n i z e t h e w o r k a n d d i g n i t y o f a l l 22

i t s c i t i z e n s a n d g i v e t h e m p e a c e a n d 23

s e c u r i t y . F r o m t h e 2 0 1 5 c o m p r e h e n s i v e 24

p l a n n i n g c u r r e n t l y a v a i l a b l e o n t h e 25

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m u n i c i p a l w e b s i t e , t h e g o a l i n c l u d e s 1

b u t i s n o t l i m i t e d b u i l d i n g n e w s i n g l e 2

f a m i l y h o m e s i n t h e n e i g h b o r h o o d s , 3

r e g i s t e r s o f t h e m a n d c o n t r o l , 4

e n h a n c e d p u b l i c s a f e t y a n d s u p p o r t 5

p e r t i n e n t a c t i v i t y a s w e l l . 6

I n t h e s a m e 2 0 1 5 P e n n 7

H i l l s c o m p r e h e n s i v e p l a n , i t s t a t e s 8

t h a t t h e m u n i c i p a l p r o g r a m h a s k e p t u p 9

w i t h t h e l e v e l o n e , b u t a v a i l a b l e 10

h o u s i n g a n d r e h a b i l i t a t i o n p r o g r a m s 11

h a v e n o t b e e n s u f f i c i e n t l y u t i l i z e d . 12

T h e p o p u l a t i o n h a s a g e d a n d d e c l i n e d . 13

E v e n t h o u g h t h e p l a n i s a v a i l a b l e 14

o n l i n e , i t s t i l l h a s n o t b e e n a d o p t e d 15

b y t h e P e n n H i l l s P l a n n i n g C o m m i s s i o n , 16

t h e P e n n H i l l s M a y o r , n o r P e n n H i l l s 17

C o u n c i l . 18

T h e l a s t p l a n w a s 19

a d o p t e d i n 1 9 9 6 , o v e r 2 0 y e a r s a g o . 20

A n d i n 2 0 1 9 t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y c o n t i n u e s 21

t o t e a r d o w n h o u s e s o r h o m e s t h a t c a n 22

e a s i l y b e r e h a b i l i t a t e d , c o n t r a d i c t i n g 23

i t s o w n m i s s i o n s t a t e m e n t a n d g o a l s . 24

A n d w e a r e h e r e t o t r y t o c o r r e c t 25

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t h i s . 1

F o r e x a m p l e , t h e 2

h a p h a z a r d t o d e d i c a t e o n e r e s i d e n c e t o 3

a c o m m u n i t y c e n t e r , w h i l e a l s o 4

e l i m i n a t i n g h o u s i n g o p t i o n s f o r 5

r e s i d e n t s i s a s i n i n e a t b e s t . B y 6

r e f u s i n g t o b u i l d h o m e s i n t h e s a m e 7

c o m m u n i t y t h a t h a s e x p e r i e n c e d s o m u c h 8

d e m o l i t i o n . T h e m u n i c i p a l i t y h a s 9

p r e s e r v e d t h e d i s t r u s t f i r m l y e m b e d d e d 10

i n t h e P e n n H i l l s c o m m u n i t y , w h i c h 11

c o n t r i b u t e s t o t h e m u n i c i p a l d e c l i n e 12

i n p o p u l a t i o n o f d e s i r a b l e r e s i d e n t s . 13

A s t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y 14

c o n t i n u e s t o d o d g e r e b u i l d i n g h o m e s 15

w i t h i n t h e c o m m u n i t y , t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y 16

h a s a l s o f a i l e d t o p r o p e r l y i n f o r m 17

r e s i d e n t s o f t a x i n g t a r i f f s a n d 18

p r o g r a m s s p e c i f i c a l l y r e s i g n e d t o b i l l 19

o r e x p a n d o n P e n n H i l l s h o m e s , 20

e s p e c i a l l y i n t h e L i n c o l n P a r k a r e a . 21

F o r t h e t i t l e 2 4 , s e c t i o n 9 0 1 1 . T h e 22

d e c r e a s e - - - t h e m u n i c i p a l i t y 23

a c k n o w l e d g e t h e d u m p i n g i s s u e s n e a r 24

t h e s e h o m e s , w h i c h a l s o d e c r e a s e d 25

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p r o p e r t y v a l u e s o v e r a l l . 1

T h i s i s e a s i l y e v i d e n c e 2

f o r t h e d e c l i n i n g p o p u l a t i o n a n d t h e 3

a b a n d o n e d b o a r d e d u p h o m e s o n 4

B l a c k d o r e , t h e F o u r D o o r , t h e G r e e n s 5

a n d t h e S c o o t e r h o m e s , L a w t o n S t r e e t , 6

t h a t s h a r e s a t o t a l o f e i g h t h o m e s 7

t h a t c o u l d b e r e h a b b e d b u t a r e s i t t i n g 8

a b a n d o n e d . A n d w e ' v e g o t n u m e r o u s 9

l e t t e r s a n d e m a i l s s p a n n i n g o u t t h e 10

l a s t 2 0 0 8 t o 2 0 1 7 . 11

R e s i d e n t s h a v e a s k e d a n d 12

b a r t e r e d f o r p r o m i s e s t h a t t h e 13

m u n i c i p a l i t y h a s m a d e . T h e 14

m u n i c i p a l i t y c o n t i n u e s t o i g n o r e a n d 15

d i s r e g a r d t h e s e v a l i d c o n c e r n s w h i l e 16

t h e a m o u n t o f f o r e c l o s e d h o m e s m o r e 17

t h a n d o u b l e d i n l e s s t h a n t e n y e a r s . 18

W e a r e h e r e t o d a y t o s h o w w e c a r e a n d 19

h a v e n o t f o r g o t t e n a b o u t o u r 20

c o m m u n i t y , e v e n i f o u r l a w m a k e r s h a v e . 21

W e a r e s t i l l w i l l i n g t o w o r k w i t h t h e 22

m u n i c i p a l i t y t h a t c l a i m s t o r e c o g n i z e 23

t h e w o r s t i n d i g n i t y o f a l l i t s 24

c i t i z e n s , a n d i t s c i t i z e n ' s p e a c e a n d 25

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s e c u r i t y . 1

S o w e h a v e h e r e a w i s h 2

l i s t . T o a d o p t a n d a p p r o v e a 3

r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g p l a n s i g n e d b y 4

t h e m a y o r a n d c o u n c i l , t h e L i n c o l n 5

P a r k p l a n o f 2 0 1 2 a n d 2 0 0 9 . U p d a t e 6

t h e w e b s i t e w e e k l y a n d a d d r e s o u r c e s 7

a n d p r o g r a m s s u c h a s h o m e f u n d , 8

n e i g h b o r h o o d , s t a b i l i z a t i o n p l a n . 9

R e m o v e d e b r i s a n d t r a s h f r o m G o l d e n r o d 10

W a y a n d R o s s S t r e e t . P l a c e a r o u n d 11

a r e a s o f f e n c i n g a t e n t r a n c e s t o s a i d 12

a r e a s . T h e f e n c i n g w i l l p r o h i b i t 13

p e r s o n s d r i v i n g a n d d u m p i n g t r a s h . 14

W e h a v e o n e p e r s o n o n 15

G o l d e n r o d w h o c a n ' t e v e n g e t o u r m a i l 16

b e c a u s e o f a l l t h e t i r e s . S o s h e h a s 17

t o g o t o t h e p o s t o f f i c e a n d a c t u a l l y 18

g e t h e r m a i l . S i g n s p u t u p s a y i n g n o 19

d u m p i n g a n d s t a t i n g f i n e s . 20

D i s c o n t i n u e d e m o l i t i o n s i n t o o u r p o o l 21

a n d h a v e i n v e s t i g a t i o n s , c o n d u c t e d b y 22

a t h i r d p a r t y . R e h a b o r i m p r o v e 23

s t a b l e e m p t y h o m e s o n T r a v e l l a 24

B o u l e v a r d , L a w t o n S t r e e t a n d 25

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B l a c k a d o r e . C o n c e r n s d u e t o - - - 1

J e n d o c o , I t h i n k t h a t ' s h o w y o u 2

p r o n o u n c e i t . 3

A T T O R N E Y A L E X A N D E R : 4

J e n d o c o . 5

M S . B R A N S K Y : 6

J e n d o c o ? O k a y . 7

N o i c e , l a n d s l i d e s a n d 8

d u m p i n g . M o n t h l y s w e e p s o f s t r e e t s . 9

S i g n s f o r c l e a n i n g u p a f t e r y o u r c a t s , 10

s e w e r s p r o p e r l y c l e a n e d , g a r b a g e c a n s 11

a t t h e c o r n e r s , s o m e d u m p s t e r s a n d 12

r u n n i n g w a y s c l o s e d d u e t o t h e 13

d u m p i n g . 14

M R . P E T R U C C I : 15

T h a n k y o u . 16

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 17

T h a n k y o u s o m u c h f o r 18

b r i n g i n g t h a t t o o u r a t t e n t i o n . A n d I 19

a m g o i n g t o t u r n i t o v e r t o S c o t t a n d 20

a l s o t o C o u n c i l M e m b e r P e t r u c c i . 21

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 22

T h a n k y o u c o m i n g t o n i g h t 23

a n d s t a y i n g t h r o u g h t h e m e e t i n g t o 24

t e l l u s t h i s . I w i s h I c o u l d t e l l y o u 25

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t h a t a l l 1 3 o f t h e s e t h i n g s a r e g o i n g 1

t o h a p p e n r i g h t a w a y . T h e y ' r e n o t . 2

M S . B R A N S K Y : 3

T h e y ' v e b e e n s i n c e l a s t 4

y e a r . 5

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 6

Y e a h . 7

M S . B R A N S K Y : 8

A n d b e f o r e t h a t t o o . 9

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 10

A n d a g a i n I t h i n k 11

t h e r e ' s a l o t h e r e a n d w e ' r e t o u c h i n g 12

o n a l o t o f t h i n g s . S o m e o f i t s 13

c o m m u n i t y p l a n n i n g r e l a t e d w h e r e w e 14

s p e a k a b o u t f u n d i n g o p p o r t u n i t i e s a n d 15

t h i n g s t h a t a r e a v a i l a b l e . 16

W e p r o b a b l y d o n e e d t o 17

g e t a l i t t l e b i t o f a b e t t e r w a y t o 18

g e t t h a t i n f o r m a t i o n o u t t o t h e 19

r e s i d e n t s . I c a n t e l l y o u t h o u g h i f 20

y o u h a v e a s e n s e t h a t w h e r e y o u l i v e 21

i s f o r g o t t e n . Y o u s a i d t h a t y o u f e e l 22

l i k e i t i s . 23

M S . B R A N S K Y : 24

W e l l , i t ' s a l s o t r u e 25

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t o o . B e c a u s e i t ' s n o t g e t t i n g b e t t e r . 1

P e o p l e a r e n ' t g o i n g o u t t h e r e e i t h e r . 2

T h a t ' s - - - t h a t ' s o u t o f t h e r e , s o w e 3

h a v e - - - . 4

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 5

Y e a h . A n d I a c k n o w l e d g e 6

i t . 7

M S . B R A N S K Y : 8

Y e s . 9

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 10

A n d w h a t I ' m t e l l i n g y o u 11

i s t h a t I w a n t y o u t o u n d e r s t a n d t h a t 12

i t i s n ' t . I t i s n o t f o r g o t t e n a b o u t . 13

I w a n t t o t e l l y o u t h a t t h e p e o p l e 14

h e r e o n a d a i l y b a s i s a r e c o n c e r n e d 15

a b o u t i t . W h a t w e ' r e t r y i n g t o d o i s 16

g e t o u r a r m s a r o u n d a v e r y b i g 17

p r o b l e m . A n d t h i s p r o b l e m h a s m a n y 18

l a y e r s t o i t a n d a l o t o f i n t e r r e l a t e d 19

p r o b l e m s , s o m e o f w h i c h y o u t o u c h e d 20

o n , o n t h i s l e t t e r . 21

I t h i n k - - - I t h i n k i f 22

y o u l o o k a t t h e s e 1 3 t h i n g s , y o u c a n 23

p r o b a b l y p r i o r i t i z e s o m e o f t h e s e 24

t h i n g s a r e b i g g e r p r o b l e m s t h a n 25

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o t h e r s . 1

O k a y ? 2

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 3

A n d t h i s p r o b l e m h a s 4

m a n y l a y e r s t o i t a n d a l o t o f 5

i n t e r r e l a t e d p r o b l e m s . S o m e o f w h i c h 6

t o u c h e d o n - - - o n t h i s l e t t e r . I 7

t h i n k - - - I t h i n k i f y o u l o o k a t 8

t h e s e 1 3 t h i n g s , y o u c a n p r o b a b l y 9

p r i o r i t i z e s o m e o f t h e s e t h i n g s a r e 10

b i g g e r p r o b l e m s t h a n o t h e r s . 11

O k a y ? 12

A n d I t h i n k y o u w o u l d 13

a g r e e w i t h , I h o p e y o u w o u l d a t l e a s t , 14

t h a t w h e n w e t a l k e d a b o u t t h e d u m p i n g , 15

w e t a l k e d a b o u t t h e l i t t e r i n g a n d w h a t 16

r e a l l y l e a d s t o t h e l i g h t . I t h i n k 17

t h a t i n m y m i n d t h a t ' s o n e o f t h e 18

b i g g e r p r o b l e m s . B e c a u s e o t h e r 19

p r o b l e m s c o m e f r o m t h a t p r o b l e m . 20

S o o n e o f t h e t h i n g s 21

t h a t w e ' v e d o n e i n t h e l a s t f e w w e e k s 22

h e r e , t h e f e w m o n t h s , i s t r i e d t o p u t 23

b i g g e r p r i o r i t y o n g e t t i n g s o m e o f 24

t h i s s t r a i g h t e n e d o u t . I k n o w i f y o u 25

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g o t o R o c k S t r e e t t o d a y , i t l o o k s 1

d i f f e r e n t t h a n i t d i d t w o m o n t h s a g o . 2

W e d i d - - - w e d i d a c l e a n u p t h e r e . 3

W e ' r e t i r e d o f d o i n g c l e a n u p t h e r e . 4

A n d t h e r e a s o n w e ' r e t i r e d o f i t i s 5

b e c a u s e n o t h i n g e v e r c h a n g e s . 6

T h e r e i s a i d e n t i f i a b l e 7

a n s w e r t o s t o p p i n g i l l e g a l d u m p i n g , i t 8

h a p p e n s a l l o v e r t h e w o r l d . A n d t h e 9

a n s w e r i s w e g o t t o f i n d t h e p e o p l e 10

t h a t a r e d o i n g i t . A n d w e ' r e w o r k i n g 11

o n t h a t . I t ' s a p r i o r i t y o f o u r s . W e 12

d i d p u t s i g n a g e d o w n t h e r e t o t e l l 13

p e o p l e i f y o u d u m p i n t h e l o t , t h e r e ' s 14

a f i n e a s s o c i a t e d w i t h i t . W e ' r e 15

g o i n g t o m a k e y o u c l e a n i t u p . T h i s 16

M a y o r a n d C o u n c i l c h a n g e t h e o r d i n a n c e 17

s o t h a t w e c a n c o m e a f t e r a n d f i n e i f 18

w e c a t c h y o u d o i n g t h i s . 19

S o i n m y m i n d , I f e e l 20

t h a t i f w e c a n r e a l l y e r a d i c a t e , a n d 21

I ' l l u s e t h a t w o r d , w e c a n e r a d i c a t e 22

t h r o u g h t h i s s o t h e w o r s e d u m p i n g t h a t 23

w e h a v e i n s o m e o f t h o s e 24

n e i g h b o r h o o d s . I t h i n k i t l e a d s t o a 25

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l o t o f o t h e r t h i n g s . B u t I j u s t - - - I 1

w a n t y o u t o k n o w t h a t i t i s d r a w n 2

a b o u t . R i g h t n o w , i t ' s a p r i o r i t y 3

h e r e . O u r c o d e s t a f f i s v e r y m u c h 4

e n g a g e d w i t h i t . I h a d b e e n a s k e d t o 5

s t r a i g h t e n u p f o r t h e r e s i d e n t s t h e r e . 6

I t h i n k i f w e c a n f i n d 7

s o m e o f t h e p e o p l e t h a t a r e w i l l i n g t o 8

c o n f e r e n c e h e r e a n d g e t - - - g e t t h e 9

m e s s a g e o u t t h a t y o u w o u l d n ' t d o i t 10

t h e V o s s C h a p e l . 11

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 12

R i g h t . 13

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 14

Y o u w o u l d n ' t d o i t a t 15

M o u n t L e b a n o n . 16

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 17

R i g h t . 18

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 19

S o w h y a r e y o u d o i n g i t 20

h e r e ? A n d I t h i n k t h e r e ' s a l o t o f 21

a n s w e r s f o r t h a t . O n e o f w h i c h i s I 22

t h i n k p e o p l e b e l i e v e t h e y c a n g e t a w a y 23

w i t h i t h e r e . I t h i n k i t ' s g o n e o n 24

t o o l o n g . A n d u n f o r t u n a t e l y , i t 25

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d i d n ' t g e t t h a t w a y o v e r n i g h t . A n d 1

i t ' s g o i n g t o t a k e a l o t o f e f f o r t . 2

B u t I r e a l l y t h i n k t h a t i f w e c a n h a v e 3

a l o g i c a l p r o c e s s t o r e a l l y a t t a c k i t 4

a s a p r o b l e m . I t h i n k w e c a n m a k e 5

s o m e h e a d w a y w i t h t h a t . B u t w e a r e 6

e n g a g e d . I w a n t y o u t o k n o w t h a t . 7

A n d a g a i n , i t ' s n o t a 8

s e c r e t . Y o u g o t o R o c k S t r e e t t o d a y , 9

t h e r e ' s s i g n s u p t h a t w i l l t e l l y o u 10

t h a t w e h a v e c a m e r a s i n t h a t a r e a . 11

B e c a u s e t h a t ' s - - - t h a t ' s a w a y o f 12

s t o p p i n g i t . A n d w e - - - I ' m w i l l i n g 13

t o d o w h a t e v e r w e n e e d t o d o t o g e t i t 14

t o s t o p b e c a u s e i t - - - i t o f f e n d s m e , 15

s o . 16

M S . B R A N S K Y : 17

I s i t p o s s i b l e t o h a v e 18

- - - o f t h a t s t r e e t ? 19

M R . F U T U L E S : 20

W e h a v e - - - . 21

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 22

C o m e t a l k t o t h e 23

m i c r o p h o n e . 24

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 25

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A n d f o r c o m i n g , M s . 1

H u r t . T h a n k y o u s o m u c h . A n d I d o 2

w a n t y o u t o k n o w I a d d r e s s y o u b e f o r e 3

y o u l e a v e t h e p o d i u m t h a t - - - . 4

M S . B R A N S K Y : 5

I ' m n o t M s . H u r t . I ’ m 6

s p e a k i n g f o r h e r . 7

M S . S A P P : 8

I ' m s o r r y , I ' m s o r r y , 9

I ' m s o r r y , I ' m s o r r y . Y o u ' r e s p e a k i n g 10

f o r i t - - - y e s , y o u ' r e s p e a k i n g f o r 11

i t . T h a n k y o u . I d o w a n t t o a d d r e s s 12

y o u r c o n c e r n s b e c a u s e I d o n ' t w a n t y o u 13

t o f e e l l i k e t h a t s i d e o f P e n n H i l l s 14

a s p e o p l e c a l l i s - - - r i g h t . I t i s , 15

i s i t f o r t h a t s i d e o r t h a t s i d e . 16

B e c a u s e w e w i l l n o l o n g e r , u n d e r t h i s 17

a d m i n i s t r a t i o n , b e c a l l i n g i t t h a t 18

s i d e o r t h i s s i d e o f P e n n H i l l s . I t ' s 19

o n e m u n i c i p a l i t y , i t ' s o n e c o m m u n i t y , 20

a n d w e a r e g o i n g t o t r e a t i t a s s u c h . 21

N o w , w i t h t h a t b e i n g 22

s a i d , I ' d l i k e y o u t o k n o w t h a t t h i s 23

i s n o t f o r g o t t e n t h a t w e a r e - - - t h e 24

C o u n c i l i s w o r k i n g d i l i g e n t l y o n 25

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c l e a n i n g u p t h a t w h o l e a r e a d o w n 1

t h e r e . O u r B u s i n e s s M a n a g e r h a d a s a 2

p r i o r i t y , I s p e n t a b o u t t h r e e h o u r s 3

w i t h h i m l a s t w e e k . A n d o n e o f t h e 4

t h i n g s t h a t h e ' s v e r y p r o u d o f i s t h a t 5

h e h a d - - - h e h a s a p l a n . A n d h e ' s 6

a l r e a d y i m p l e m e n t e d t h a t p l a n . I 7

d o n ' t k n o w i f y o u g u y s h a v e s e e n t h e 8

s i g n s t h a t ' s b e e n p u t d o w n t h e r e . 9

T h e y a r e h u g e s i g n s , t h e r e i s a n 10

a s t r o n o m i c a l f i n e f o r p e o p l e w h o a r e 11

c a u g h t . A n d p e o p l e a r e b e i n g c a u g h t . 12

S o i f y o u c a n j u s t b e 13

t h a t m u c h m o r e p a t i e n t a s y o u c a n s e e . 14

I f y o u l o o k a r o u n d i n t h e n e i g h b o r h o o d 15

t o m o r r o w , y o u w i l l s i g n s t h a t a r e v e r y 16

d i f f i c u l t t o p e o p l e w h o a r e d u m p i n g . 17

A n d t h o s e p e o p l e w i l l b e d i s c i p l i n e d 18

a c c o r d i n g . S o w e a r e w o r k i n g h a r d i n 19

c l e a n i n g u p t h a t a r e a . 20

B u t w e ' r e a l s o g o i n g t o 21

h a v e t o a s k t h a t t h i s i s a t e a m , a 22

j o i n t e f f o r t b e c a u s e i t ' s g o i n g t o 23

t a k e t h e r e s i d e n t s i n t h a t c o m m u n i t y 24

t o w o r k w i t h u s t h a t w e c a n g e t t h a t 25

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w h o l e t h i n g c l e a n e d u p . 1

W e a l s o h a v e a a n t i -2

l i t t e r i n g g r o u p h e r e a t P e n n H i l l s . 3

T h a t p e r s o n i s n o t i n t h e a u d i e n c e 4

a n y m o r e , I d o n ' t s e e h e r . B u t w e ' r e 5

a l l a l s o g o i n g t o s e e i f w e c a n g e t 6

t h a t g r o u p d o w n h e r e t o c o m e i n t o a 7

j o i n t e f f o r t i n c l e a n i n g u p t h e l i t t e r 8

d o w n i n t h a t a r e a a s w e l l . 9

B u t p l e a s e , p l e a s e , 10

p l e a s e , t h e m e s s a g e I w a n t t o c o n v e y 11

i s t h e r e i s o n e P e n n H i l l s . A n d I 12

n e e d - - - i f w e c a n s t o p s a y i n g t h i s 13

s i d e o f P e n n H i l l s a n d t h a t s i d e o f 14

P e n n H i l l s t h e n w e w o n ' t d o t h a t . I t 15

w o u l d b e o n e P e n n H i l l s . B u t w e h a v e 16

t o s t o p s a y i n g t h a t s i d e o r t h i s s i d e 17

o f P e n n H i l l s . P e n n H i l l s i s o n e P e n n 18

H i l l s a n d t h a t ' s t h e m e s s a g e t h a t w e 19

w i l l a r t i c u l a t e t o d a y . 20

O k a y ? 21

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 22

I f I m a y h a v e o n e 23

s e c o n d ? 24

M S . S A P P : 25

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E x c u s e m e , C o u n c i l m a n 1

P e t r u c c i , g o a h e a d . . 2

M R . P E T R U C C I : 3

W e h a v e s t a r t e d t h i s 4

l a w . W e w e r e d o w n t h e r e , a c l e a n u p 5

c r e w d o w n i n B l a c k l i c k . I s a w i t t h e m 6

d o w n i n B l a c k l i c k . W i l l i a m s r e a c h e d 7

o u t t o m e . T h e y l i v e d o w n o n 8

P l a n k t o n . A n d M r . W i l l i a m s r e a c h e d 9

o u t t o m e a n d h e s t a r t e d h e l p i n g . 10

B u t b e f o r e t h a t w e h a d 11

4 3 s t u d e n t s w e n t o v e r t h e r e t o t r y t o 12

c l e a n i t u p i n t h e p a r t i c u l a r a r e a . 13

A n d w e k n o w h o w m u c h t r a s h i s d u m p e d 14

t h e r e . I h a d a f r i e n d t h a t w a s o n 15

B e e c h f o r d a n d h e ' s r e a c h e d o u t t o m e 16

n u m e r o u s t i m e s . A n d h e s a i d l i k e y o u 17

s a i d , p u t f e n c i n g a c r o s s t h e s t r e e t . 18

B u t b e c a u s e w e c a n ' t s t o p t h e d u m p i n g . 19

I t ' s c o s t i n g u s m o r e i n d u m p s t e r s a n d 20

m a n p o w e r c l e a n i n g i t u p o n a m o n t h l y 21

b a s i s . S o w e ' r e a l l a w a r e o f w h a t ' s 22

g o i n g o n . 23

S o I - - - a s f a r a s 24

E a s t o n a n d T r a v e l l a B o u l e v a r d a n d t h e 25

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h o u s e s t h a t a r e g e t t i n g t o r n d o w n . W e 1

a r e a b l e t o d o u b l e t e a m i t n o w . A n d 2

t h e l a s t t i m e w e s p o k e a b o u t - - - 3

r e g a r d i n g T r a v e l l a B o u l e v a r d a n d t h e 4

a r e a t h e r e . A n d I w a t c h e d - - - o k a y ? 5

Y o u h a v e B a k e r y S q u a r e . 6

Y o u h a v e a l o t o f p l a c e s d o w n w h e r e 7

p e o p l e a r e - - - a r e - - - a r e - - - a r e 8

g o i n g t o . N o w , t h a t p a r t i c u l a r 9

B o u l e v a r d a n d c o m i n g u p B r o a d 10

B o u l e v a r d i s r e a l c l o s e t o B a k e r y 11

S q u a r e . 12

O k a y ? 13

N o w , v i s i o n t h i s . W e 14

g e t a d e v e l o p e r a n d w e g i v e t h a t 15

p r o p e r t y . A n d w e h a v e t h e m b u i l d 16

h o m e s u p h e r e , d o n ' t y o u t h i n k t h a t 17

w h e n t h e r e ' s p e o p l e g e t t i n g b l u r r e d 18

o u t , t h a t t h e y ' r e g o i n g t o n e e d s o m e 19

p l a c e t o l i v e n e a r B a k e r y S q u a r e 20

b e c a u s e i t ' s j u s t l i k e O a k m o n t . 21

O k a y ? 22

O a k m o n t b l e w o u t a b e n c h 23

w a r r a n t , a l l t h o s e k i d s d o w n t h e r e 24

f i n e s f o r h a l f a m i l l i o n d o l l a r s a n d 25

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n o w t h e y ' r e a l l c o m i n g i n t o V e r o n a . 1

V e r o n a i s s t a r t i n g t o b e p o p u l a r . T h e 2

s a m e t h i n g s i s g o i n g t o h a p p e n 3

r e g a r d i n g t o t h a t T r a v e l l a B o u l e v a r d 4

a n d a l l t h a t s e c t i o n t h e r e . I f w e u s e 5

t h e r i g h t m e t h o d s . 6

G i v i n g t h e p r o p e r t y o v e r 7

t o d e v e l o p e r s a n d l e t t h e m b u i l d o n 8

i t . A n d t h e n g i v e t h e m - - - w e h a v e 9

t h e t a x e v a s i o n s e c t i o n d o w n t h e r e . 10

T h e r e ' s a p o r t i o n t h a t ' s t a x e d 11

e v a s i o n . I f y o u k n o w w h a t t a x e v a s i o n 12

i s w e - - - w h a t w e r e y o u g o i n g t o s a y , 13

C h r i s ? 14

M R . B L A C K W E L L : 15

A t l e a s t w i t h a n a l y s i s . 16

M R . P E T R U C C I : 17

W e g i v e y o u n o t a x e s 18

o n t o t h e p r o p e r t y f o r m a y b e f i v e 19

y e a r s . I d o n ' t k n o w h o w i t r e a d s . S o 20

w e g o t t h i n g s i n p l a c e b u t w e j u s t g o t 21

t o g e t s o m e w a y t o g o d o w n t h e r e a n d 22

t a k e a n i n t e r e s t i n t h a t p r o p e r t y a n d 23

w a n t t o b u i l d . A n d I t h i n k o u r r i g h t 24

n o w i s a g o o d t i m e t o d o i t . A n d 25

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e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t p h a s e - - - y o u ' r e 1

m o r e t h a n w e l c o m e t o c o m e a n d s e e t h a t 2

a n d t e l l t h e m t h a t y o u ' r e f r o m t h a t 3

a r e a a n d y o u w a n t t o s e e t h i s h a p p e n 4

a n d l i s t e n t o t h e i r t h o u g h t s t o o . 5

I t ' s g o i n g t o w o r k . I 6

k n o w i t w i l l . A n d w e h a v e t o - - - w e 7

h a v e t o d e v e l o p t h a t a r e a . 8

M S . B R A N S K Y : 9

I s t h e r e a n y w a y w e c a n 10

g e t t h a t w h o l e a r e a c l e a r e d o u t w i t h 11

t h e t i r e s s o - - - ? 12

M R . P E T R U C C I : 13

Y o u ' r e t a l k i n g a b o u t 14

S i n g e r A v e n u e ? 15

M S . B R A N S K Y : 16

S o m e o f i t w h a t t h e y 17

s e e . S o t h e p o l i c e - - - s o i f t h e p o s t 18

o f f i c e c a n g e t t h r o u g h . 19

M R . P E T R U C C I : 20

W e c a n - - - w e c a n g e t 21

t h e t i r e s o u t o f t h e r e . T h a t ' s n o 22

p r o b l e m . 23

M S . B R A N S K Y : 24

I d o n ' t h a v e n o p r o b l e m s 25

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a b o u t t h a t . 1

M R . P E T R U C C I : 2

W e l l , w e j u s t m e a n t t o 3

t h e t w o r i g h t p e o p l e h e r e . S c o t t a n d 4

I a r e s e t w i t h t h e - - - w e g e t i t o u t 5

f o r y o u . O k a y ? 6

M S . B R A N S K Y : 7

Y e s , s i r . 8

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 9

I c a n t e s t i f y t h a t t h e y 10

w i l l g i v e y o u r e s u l t s . T h e y w o r k s i d e 11

b y s i d e w i t h u s o n R o c k R o a d . 12

M R . P E T R U C C I : 13

I m e a n - - - . 14

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 15

W h e n t h e y s a y s o m e t h i n g , 16

t h e y p u t t h e i r b r a i n s t o i t . 17

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 18

W e a r e o n - - - w e a r e o n 19

o u r w a y . W e a r e a l s o p a y i n g a t t e n t i o n 20

t o t h e h e a r i n g t h a t w e k n o w t h i s a s 21

w e l l . W e k n o w t h i s a l o t f o r y o u t o 22

h e a r w e c a n w a t c h t h a t . B u t y o u h a v e 23

t o - - - w h a t ' s - - - w h a t ' s i n p l a c e f o r 24

u s ? F o r u s t o b e u p t h e r e , a n d f o r u s 25

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t o k n o w i t a n d f o r u s t o r e l a y t h a t w e 1

h a v e s e e n t h e p e o p l e , t h e r e ' s a l w a y s 2

r e t a l i a t i o n . 3

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 4

I k n o w . 5

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 6

W e d o n ' t w a n t t h a t f o r 7

o u r f a m i l i e s a n d i t ' s g e t t i n g w o r s e 8

a n d w o r s e e v e r y d a y . 9

M R . P E T R U C C I : 10

N o w , w h e n w e d o t h e s e 11

c l e a n u p s a n d I s e n t t h i s t o M s . 12

W i l l i a m s - - - M s . W i l l i a m s , w e n e e d t h e 13

c o m m u n i t y i n v o l v e d . T h e m o r e p e o p l e 14

w e c a n g e t o n a n d h e l p . A n d w e ' r e 15

o n l y o u t t h e r e f o r a c o u p l e h o u r s . 16

T h e l a s t t i m e w e w e r e o u t t h e r e h o w 17

m a n y h o u r s w e r e w e ? 18

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 19

T w o h o u r s . 20

M R . P E T R U C C I : 21

T w o h o u r s a n d w e g o t a 22

l o t d o n e . 23

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 24

T h a t - - - t h a t - - - I ' m 25

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b e e n t h e r e 1 6 y e a r s . 1

M R . P E T R U C C I : 2

I k n o w . 3

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 4

W e ' v e b e e n t h e r e s i n c e 5

2 0 0 3 . W e ' v e d e a l t w i t h t h i s p r o b l e m 6

i n L i n c o l n P a r k a n d M i l l e v i l l e . A n d 7

i t ' s e n o u g h . 8

M R . A L L E N : 9

O k a y . 10

W e l l , w e c a n o f f e r - - - . 11

M R . P E T R U C C I : 12

E x c u s e m e . I f y o u c o u l d 13

s a y y o u r n a m e s a n d a d d r e s s e s , t h a t 14

w o u l d b e h e l p f u l . 15

M R . A L L E N : 16

M a r k A l l e n . T h e r e w a s a 17

b u c k e t t r u c k t h a t d u m p e d t i r e s a n d 18

f i l l e d u p t h e s t r e e t . I g o t h i s 19

l i c e n s e p l a t e n u m b e r , I c a l l e d P e n n 20

H i l l s , n o c a l l b a c k . N o w , w h e n I 21

c a l l e d 9 1 1 , t h e y n e e d t o g o g e t m y 22

n a m e a n d a d d r e s s . S o n o w t h a n k s t o 23

t h a t r e p o r t , w o u l d n ' t t h a t b e p u b l i c 24

r e c o r d ? I h a v e k i n d s , y o u k n o w . I 25

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h a v e a r i d i n g m o t o r t h a t m y w i f e 1

b o u g h t m e f o r m y b i r t h d a y . I k n o w I 2

c u t h a l f o f t h a t t h a t d a y . W e c a n n o t 3

c l e a n u p t h e r u l e . Y o u s a y w e n e e d a 4

h o t l i n e . W e c a n ' t c a l l j u s t 9 1 1 , w e 5

a s k i n g f o r t o o m u c h . 6

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 7

O r t h e y d o n ' t c o m e . 8

M R . A L L E N : 9

O r t h e y d o n ' t c o m e . 10

T h i s h a p p e n e d - - - . 11

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 12

W e ' r e t i r e d o f t h i n g s 13

t h a t a r e n ' t b e i n g d o n e . 14

M R . A L L E N : 15

T h e y ' r e t i r e d o f b e i n g 16

b o t h e r e d . 17

M S . B R A N S K Y : 18

Y e s . 19

M R . A L L E N : 20

I t ' s a l l b l o w i n g u p l i k e 21

w e ' r e i n V i e t n a m . W e ' r e s c a r e d . Y o u 22

g u y s u n d e r s t a n d t h a t w e ' r e s c a r e d . W e 23

a r e b e i n g t e r r o r i z e d b y o t h e r 24

n e i g h b o r h o o d s c o m i n g u p d u m p i n g 25

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w h a t e v e r t h e y w a n t t o d u m p . A n d t h e r e 1

w a s a t i m e I w a s c o m i n g u p , I c a l l e d 2

7 9 3 w h a t e v e r i t w a s a n d I g o t s t a t e 3

p o l i c e s t a t i o n . 4

I d o n ' t g e t n o m o r e . I 5

g o t t o c a l l 9 1 1 a n d t h e y w o n d e r w h a t 6

c o l o r s h i r t I g o t o n , w h e r e I l i v e a t , 7

y o u t h i n k o f i t . T h e y w a n t t o k n o w 8

i t . 9

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 10

Y e p . T h a t ' s r i g h t . 11

M R . A L L E N : 12

A n d i f I g o a n d t e l l o n 13

t h e m , t h e b a d g u y s t h a t a r e d o i n g t h e 14

d u m p i n g - - - b e c a u s e s o m e b o d y ' s 15

h a n d l i n g t h e d u m p i n g . A n d t h e y ' r e t h e 16

o n e s t h a t ' s g o i n g t o c o m e a n d 17

r e t a l i a t e . W e ' r e s c a r e d . W e c a n ' t 18

s i t n o l o n g e r . W e c a n ' t c l e a n u p n o 19

m o r e . Y o u p u t a d u m p s t e r d o w n t h e r e , 20

b e f o r e w e f i l l i t u p , t h e y f i l l i t u p . 21

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 22

I t ' s n o t e n o u g h . 23

M R . A L L E N : 24

O k a y . 25

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S o w e u n d e r s t a n d t h a t 1

y o u u n d e r s t a n d , b u t w e n e e d h e l p . 2

O k a y ? 3

M y m o t h e r d i d n ' t w a n t 4

l e a v e . 5

O k a y ? 6

T h a t ' s w h y w e ' r e o u t 7

t h e r e . W e c a m e b a c k f r o m G e o r g i a 8

b e c a u s e m y d a d d i e d . A n d s h e w o n ' t 9

l e a v e . A n d I ' m s c a r e d i t d o w n t h e r e . 10

A n d I g r e w u p i n h e r e . I k n o w m y 11

n e i g h b o r s . T h e y ' r e m y n e i g h b o r s , l o o k 12

a t t h e m , t h e y ' r e a l l o l d . 13

O k a y ? 14

B u t y o u g o - - - w h a t y o u 15

s a i d d o w n p a s t t h e r e , t h a t ' s l i k e d r u g 16

c e n t r a l . Y o u s e e a n y o n e g o i n g d o w n 17

t h e r e ? S o w h o y o u t h i n k ' s i n t h a t 18

n e i g h b o r h o o d a t n i g h t . 19

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 20

T h a n k y o u . 21

M S . H U R T : 22

M y n a m e i s D i n a H u r t a n d 23

I l i v e a t 1 8 5 6 o n t h a t s t r e e t . A n d i n 24

o r d e r f o r m e t o g e t t o w h e r e I l i v e , I 25

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h a v e t o g o t h e w r o n g w a y . I l i v e 1

a l o n e a n d s o w h e n c a r s c o m e t h r o u g h , 2

t h e y ' r e c o m i n g t h r o u g h m y h o u s e . 3

I c a l l e d a b o u t t h o s e 4

t i r e s f r o m s o m e o n e o f t h e t a s k f o r c e 5

d e p a r t m e n t . I l e f t a m e s s a g e , I s p o k e 6

t o s o m e o n e . T h e y w e r e s u p p o s e d t o 7

c o m e u p a n d r e m o v e t h e t i r e s t h a t a r e 8

t h e r e n o w . I d o n ' t g e t g a r b a g e 9

b e c a u s e t h e y h a v e t o c o m e t h r o u g h t h a t 10

w a y . T o d a y I h a d t o g o t o t h e p o s t 11

o f f i c e t o p i c k u p m y m a i l . 12

I d o n ' t f e e l I s h o u l d 13

h a v e t o g o w h e n I w o r k 1 2 t o 1 4 h o u r s 14

a d a y , t h a t I h a v e t o l e a v e D o m i n g o 15

P a r k t o c o m e a l l t h e w a y e v e r h e r e t o 16

t h e p o s t o f f i c e t o p i c k u p m y m a i l . 17

W h e r e I h a v e n ' t r e c e i v e d m a i l i n o v e r 18

a w e e k b e c a u s e s o m e - - - a n d I 19

u n d e r s t a n d w h a t y o u ' r e s a y i n g . O n e 20

d a y - - - I s p o k e t o t h e m a i l m a n t o d a y 21

a n d h e s a i d t h a t t h e o n e d a y t h a t t h e 22

t i r e s w e r e m o v e d , t h e r e a r e t i r e s 23

t h e r e . H e m o v e d t h e m h i m s e l f s o t h a t 24

h e c o u l d b r i n g m e m y m a i l . I t ' s n o t 25

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h i s j o b t o g o t o m y h o u s e a n d r e m o v e 1

t h e t i r e s s o t h a t h e c o u l d g e t h i s 2

m a i l t r u c k t o g e t m e - - - t o g i v e m e m y 3

m a i l . 4

I ' m a f r a i d t h a t i f t h e r e 5

i s a n e m e r g e n c y a t m y h o u s e . T h e 6

p o l i c e d e p a r t m e n t , t h e f i r e 7

d e p a r t m e n t , t h e a m b u l a n c e , a n y t h i n g 8

t h a t I n e e d a r e g o i n g t o b e - - - I ' m 9

g o i n g t o b e t h e o n e t h a t ' s g o i n g t o 10

s u f f e r b e c a u s e w e l l , n o b o d y c a n g e t t o 11

m e . B e c a u s e i f t h e r e ' s o n l y o n e w a y 12

i n a n d t h e s t r e e t i s b l o c k e d , a n d t h e 13

a l l e y w a y i s b l o c k e d , t h e r e ' s n o w a y 14

o u t . I f I c a n ' t g e t o u t o f t h e r e , I ' m 15

t h e o n e t h a t ' s g o i n g - - - I ' m t h e o n e 16

t h a t ' s g o i n g t o b e h u r t . A n d t h a t ' s 17

t h e o n l y r e a s o n w h y I s a t t h r o u g h t h i s 18

w h o l e m e e t i n g b e c a u s e I f e e l t h a t I 19

s h o u l d n o t h a v e t o l i v e l i k e t h a t . 20

I ' v e l i v e d i n t h a t h o u s e 21

f o r o v e r 2 0 y e a r s a n d I n e v e r h a d a n y 22

p r o b l e m s . I f I n e e d e d s o m e t h i n g , t o 23

t a l k t o t h e p o l i c e , I ' m t a l k i n g t o 24

C h i e f B a r d i n a l o n a f e w o c c a s i o n s . A 25

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f e w y e a r s a g o w h e n m y h o u s e w a s b r o k e n 1

i n t o . I h a v e n ' t b e e n a b l e t o t a l k t o 2

a n y b o d y . B u t I c a n n o t g e t a n y b o d y i n 3

t o d a y . I c a l l e d t h e D e p a r t m e n t a n d I 4

g o t - - - I l e a v e a m e s s a g e a n d n o o n e 5

h a d c a l l e d m e y e t . 6

T h e t i r e s a r e s t i l l 7

t h e r e . T h e y ' v e b e e n t h e r e b e e n f o r a 8

m o n t h . A n d I f e e l t h a t - - - l i k e I 9

s a i d , I s h o u l d n ' t h a v e t o p u t u p w i t h 10

t h a t . I j u s t w a n t t o f e e l - - - a n d I 11

u n d e r s t a n d w h a t y o u ' r e s a y i n g b u t w h e n 12

I c a l l , I e x p e c t s o m e t h i n g h a p p e n e d . 13

I c a n ' t , y o u k n o w , a l w a y s t u r n m y c a r 14

a r o u n d t o g e t o u t o f w h e r e , y o u k n o w 15

- - - I s h o u l d n ' t h a v e t o b a c k o u t o f 16

t h e a l l e y t o g e t o u t o f t h e a l l e y . I 17

s h o u l d n ' t h a v e t o t r y t o t u r n m y J e e p 18

a r o u n d t o t u r n a r o u n d i n t h e a l l e y t o 19

g e t o u t o f t h e a l l e y . 20

S o I ' m j u s t s a y i n g t h a t , 21

y o u k n o w , t h a t e v e r y o n e t h a t ' s h e r e 22

f r o m o u r a r e a t h a t t h i s i s s o m e t h i n g 23

t h a t n e e d s t o b e d o n e . T h a n k y o u . 24

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 25

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T h a n k y o u . 1

M S . M A Y : 2

F r a n c e s M a y a t 1 9 5 6 3

S a n d l o t S t r e e t . A n d I c a n ' t r e a d y o u r 4

l a s t n a m e b u t J o h n P e t r u c c i , w h e n y o u 5

t a l k e d a b o u t c l e a n i n g u p . C l e a n u p 6

i s n ' t a b i g p r o b l e m b e c a u s e w e c l e a n 7

u p . A n d t h e r e a s o n o u r n e i g h b o r h o o d 8

l o o k s a s c l e a n a s i t d o e s i s b e c a u s e 9

w e d o c l e a n i t u p . A s M a r k s a i d , i f 10

y o u w o u l d c o m e u p t h e r e a n d y o u s e e 11

t h e c o r n e r o f S a n d l o t a n d t h o s e 12

s t r e e t , M a r k c u t s t h a t . I d o t h e 13

h e d g e s . 14

N o w , u p u n t i l a b o u t t w o 15

y e a r s a g o , I h a d p r o b l e m s f r o m m y h o m e 16

a t 1 9 5 6 c o m p l e t e l y u p t h e h i l l . A n d I 17

s t i l l m a i n t a i n e d m o s t o f t h a t a r e a t h e 18

b e s t I c a n a t a g e 7 4 . 19

A n d i t ' s h a r d w o r k . 20

T h a t ' s n o t m y p r o b l e m . M y p r o b l e m i s 21

w h e n I c a l l c o d e e n f o r c e m e n t 22

c o n s t a n t l y a n d t h e y d o n o t c o m e . 23

D u m p i n g w i l l b e g e t d u m p i n g . T h e 24

r e a s o n t h a t h i l l g o i n g d o w n t h e r e o n 25

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m y s i d e i s c l e a n b e c a u s e I d o t h a t 1

h i l l a l m o s t d a i l y . B u t i f y o u c o m e 2

d o w n t h e o t h e r s i d e , i f y o u c o m e d o w n 3

R o o s e v e l t S t r e e t , I u s e d t o d o i t a l l . 4

I c a n ' t d o i t a l l a n y m o r e . 5

T h e r e ' s a h o u s e t h e r e 6

t h a t h a s , t h e y ' r e d u m p i n g o n t h e 7

p o r c h , t h e y ' r e d u m p i n g a l l o v e r t h e 8

h i l l g o i n g a c r o s s t h e r o a d , t h e y ' r e 9

d u m p i n g , t h e y ' r e d u m p i n g . A n d a s l o n g 10

a s i t s t a y s t h e r e , w h a t i t s a y s i s 11

t h i s a d u m p . * 12

N o w , w h e n t h e y d u m p o n 13

m y s i d e - - - i n f a c t , s o m e b o d y t h r e w a 14

b a g r i g h t b y m y h o u s e t h i s m o r n i n g . 15

I f I p i c k i t u p r i g h t a w a y t h e n g o o d . 16

I c a n ' t p i c k u p e v e r y t h i n g . T h e r e 17

a r e a t l e a s t 1 5 b a g s o f c o a l u p t h e 18

t o p o f t h e h i l l t h a t ' s b e e n t h e r e a 19

y e a r . A n d I c a l l e d , t h e p o l i c e c a m e 20

u p , l o o k e d a t t h e m . C o d e E n f o r c e m e n t 21

s a i d s o m e t h i n g t h e y d u m p t h e i r c o a l 22

a n d t h e b a g i s s t i l l t h e r e . T h e y ' r e 23

s t i l l u p t h e r e . 24

T h e y ' r e s t i l l u p o n 25

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G o l d e n R o a d . A n d t h e l a s t t h i n g I 1

s a i d a b o u t G o l d e n R o a d , a n d t h i s i s 2

f o r M s . K i r k m a n a n d a l l t h e r e s t o f 3

y o u . 4

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 5

T h e y h a v e t h e s c h e d u l e 6

i t . 7

M S . M A Y : 8

W h e n t h e y d u m p t h o s e 9

t i r e s , e v e r y o n e c a l l e d a n d n o b o d y c a m e 10

t o r e m o v e t h e t i r e s . T h e n w h e n t h e y 11

c a m e u p t h e r e a n d s e t a c a r o n f i r e . 12

T h o s e t i r e s h a d m e l t e d i n t o t h e 13

g r o u n d , t h e s t e e l . S o a s f a r a s 14

m o v i n g t i r e s , i t ' s m o r e t h a n j u s t 15

m o v i n g t i r e s n o w . T h e r e a r e s t i l l 16

b e l t s t h a t a r e w e l d e d i n t o t h e g r o u n d . 17

T h e r e ' s m e t a l f r o m t h e c a r t h a t ' s 18

w e l d e d i n t o t h e g r o u n d . 19

S o t h i s h a s g o n e o n l o n g 20

e n o u g h . T h o s e t i r e s a n d a l l t h e 21

d u m p i n g s h o u l d n ' t h a v e s t a y e d u p t h e r e 22

a s l o n g a s i t d i d b e c a u s e d u m p i n g 23

b e g e t s d u m p i n g . A n d w h e n w e c a l l , 24

t h e r e a r e t h i n g s t h a t w e c a n ' t m o v e . 25

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A n d t h e l o n g e r y o u l e f t t h e m s t a y 1

t h e r e , t h e y c o n t i n u e d . W e d o p o l i c e 2

o u r n e i g h b o r h o o d , w e d o c l e a n u p . A n d 3

c e r t a i n l y w e n e v e r g o t t e n t o t h e 4

e x t e n t t h a t R o d S t r e e t g o t t o a n d i t ' s 5

b e c a u s e w e d o c a r e . A n d w e d o w o r k . 6

A n d l e t m e t e l l y o u , 7

d r i v e o v e r t h e r e a n d s e e . B u t y o u 8

g u y s d o y o u r p a r t . A n d C o d e 9

E n f o r c e m e n t , t h e y g o t t o d o t h e i r 10

p a r t . W e w o r k h a r d . 11

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 12

W h a t ' s y o u r a d d r e s s ? 13

M S . M A Y : 14

1 9 5 6 S a n d l o t S t r e e t . 15

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 16

I ' l l b e u p . 17

M S . S A P P : 18

W e w i l l b e u p t h e r e 19

t o m o r r o w . C o u n c i l m a n P e t r u c c i a n d 20

m y s e l f a n d I ’ m s u r e S c o t t w i l l t a k e 21

- - - w e ' l l t a k e a r i d e d o w n t h e r e . 22

W e ' r e j u s t g o i n g t o t a k e a r i d e d o w n 23

t h e r e . B u t w h a t w e a r e g o i n g t o d o i s 24

s o w e ' r e g o i n g d o a d r i v e b y . 25

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M S . M A Y : 1

I t h a n k y o u . 2

M S . S A P P : 3

Y e s , y o u ' r e s o v e r y 4

w e l c o m e . B e c a u s e n o o n e - - - n o o n e i n 5

P e n n H i l l s s h o u l d h a v e t o l i v e l i k e 6

t h a t . I t ' s u n a c c e p t a b l e . W e d o h a v e 7

a n a d m i n i s t r a t i o n h e r e . W e a r e 8

w o r k i n g d i l i g e n t l y o n c l e a n i n g u p P e n n 9

H i l l s a n d e s p e c i a l l y t h o s e a r e a s t h a t 10

a r e b e c o m i n g m o r e a n d m o r e p l i g h t e d 11

d u e t o n o n - r e s i d e n c e o r p e o p l e w h o 12

d o n ' t h a v e a v e s t e d i n t e r e s t i n o u r 13

n e i g h b o r h o o d . 14

I a m g o i n g t o w e l c o m e 15

y o u t o c a l l - - - i f y o u c a n ' t g e t i n 16

t o u c h w i t h C o d e o r a n y o t h e r 17

d e p a r t m e n t , y o u c a n f e e l f r e e t o c a l l 18

S c o t t A n d r e j c h a k . H e w i l l b e o n i t . 19

Y o u c a n f e e l f r e e t o c a l l m y s e l f o r 20

C o u n c i l m a n P e t r u c c i o r a n y o t h e r 21

c o u n c i l p e r s o n u p h e r e a n d w e w i l l b e 22

o n i t r i g h t a w a y . I k n o w t h a t 23

t o m o r r o w , S c o t t i s g o i n g t o m a k e a 24

p h o n e c a l l d o w n t o P u b l i c W o r k s a n d 25

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g e t t h a t - g e t t h o s e s t r e e t s o n t h e 1

s c h e d u l e A S A P . 2

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 3

C a n I s a y o n e t h i n g ? 4

P l e a s e d o n ' t c o m e i n a c a r b e c a u s e m y 5

c a r i n t h e b a c k a l l e y - - - . 6

M S . M A Y : 7

Y o u c a n ' t d r i v e u p t o 8

t h e r e . 9

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 10

J u s t o n e t h i n g I w a n t t o 11

- - - o n e t h i n g I w a n t t o p o i n t o u t a n d 12

I d o n ' t w a n t t o t a k e u p a n y o f y o u r 13

t i m e . 14

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 15

T h a t ' s o k a y . 16

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 17

W h a t w e ' v e b e e n d o i n g , 18

y o u k n o w , I t h i n k w e ' v e t a l k e d a b o u t a 19

l o n g t i m e , t h e r e ' s b e e n a l o t o f 20

i d e a s , y o u k n o w , t h r o w n a r o u n d . B u t 21

s t a f f h e r e i s b a s i c a l l y s a y s t h a t w e 22

w a n t - - - w e w a n t t o d o - - - w e w a n t t o 23

s h o w y o u a r e s u l t . I t h i n k i t ' s o u r 24

t i m e t h a t w e h a v e a s t r a t e g y f o r t h i s . 25

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S o o n e o f t h e t h i n g s 1

t h a t w e d i d w a s , i f y o u l o o k a t t h e 2

R o d S t r e e t p l a y g r o u n d a r e a . I t w a s 3

s o r t o f a p i l e u p p r o j e c t f o r h o w 4

w e ' r e t r y i n g t o g o a f t e r t h i s . I t ' s 5

n o t j u s t c l e a n i n g u p t h e d u m p . I t ' s -6

- - a n d t h e r e ' s a l o t o f d u m p i n g i n 7

t h a t . O k a y ? B u t I w a n t - - - I w a n t u s 8

t o m a k e s u r e a n d I h e a r d 4 3 . A n d I 9

d o n ’ t k n o w w h e r e t h a t n u m b e r c a m e 10

f r o m . I t h i n k i t c a m e f r o m s o m e 11

r e g i o n a l g r o u p . 12

S o w e d o n ' t h a v e t h e 13

a b i l i t y t o c l e a n e v e r y t h i n g u p a l l a t 14

o n e t i m e . B u t w h a t w e ' r e t r y i n g t o d o 15

i s a t t a c k i t i n a w a y t h a t m a k e s 16

s e n s e . A n d p a r t o f t h a t i s n o t o n l y 17

w h a t w e d o t o c l e a n u p l i k e w e d i d a t 18

R o d S t r e e t , b u t a l s o w e g o t t o c a t c h 19

t h e p e o p l e t h a t a r e d o i n g i t . A n d w e 20

a l r e a d y c a t c h s o m e p e o p l e t h a t a r e 21

d o i n g i t . Y o u c a n w r i t e d o w n o n a 22

n u m b e r l i n e . T h a t ' s t h e t h i n g t h a t ' s 23

g o i n g t o h a p p e n . I t ' s j u s t a m a t t e r 24

o f t i m e a n d I k n o w i t ' s g o i n g t o 25

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h a p p e n . 1

B u t i n a d d i t i o n t o t h a t , 2

o n c e w e c l e a n u p t h e d u m p , w e a r e 3

p u t t i n g n e w s i g n s t h e r e t o t e l l p e o p l e 4

t h a t t h e r e ' s a f i n e a n d t o t e l l p e o p l e 5

t h a t t h e r e ' s c a m e r a s . T h a t ' s t h e w a y 6

i n l o n g t e r m w e ' r e g o i n g t o s o l v e i t . 7

I f w e j u s t d o w h a t w e ' v e 8

b e e n d o i n g w h i c h i s p u t a d u m p s t e r 9

t h e r e , i t ' s g e t f i l l e d u p a n d h a u l e d 10

a w a y o n c e a s u m m e r , i t ' s r e a l l y n o t 11

s o l v i n g i t . A n d I k n o w y o u h e a r d i t 12

b e f o r e b u t w e ' r e p r o b a b l y a l l g o i n g t o 13

s a y t h e s a m e t h i n g y o u h e a r d f r o m u s 14

b e f o r e , p l e a s e j u s t b e p a t i e n t . 15

B e c a u s e w e a r e t a k i n g a n e w a p p r o a c h 16

a t i t . 17

W e i n v e s t e d a l o n g t i m e . 18

O u r - - - l i t e r a l l y e v e r y d e p a r t m e n t o f 19

t h i s m u n i c i p a l i t y i s i n s o m e w a y 20

p l a y i n g a r o l e i n t h i s p o l i c e 21

d e p a r t m e n t , t o o u r c o d e o f f i c e , t o o u r 22

I T d e p a r t m e n t e v e n . T o t r y t o p u t 23

c a m e r a s i n p l a c e s w h e r e w e c a n c a t c h 24

t h e l i c e n s e p l a t e s a n d g e t i d e n t i t i e s 25

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o f t h e p e o p l e t h a t a r e d o i n g i t 1

b e c a u s e t h a t ' s h o w i t ' s g o i n g t o s t o p . 2

T h a t ' s h o w w e ' r e g o i n g t o m a k e i t 3

s t o p . 4

S o I j u s t d o n ' t w a n t y o u 5

t o t h i n k t h a t t h i s f a l l s o n d e a f e a r s . 6

I m e a n R o d S t r e e t w a s t h e f i r s t p l a c e 7

w e s t a r t e d b e c a u s e t h e r e i s a 8

p l a y g r o u n d t h e r e . W e t h o u g h t h a t t h a t 9

w a s , r e a l l y o n e o f t h e m o s t e g r e g i o u s 10

p l a c e s . 11

R i g h t ? 12

I t ' s n e x t t o w h e r e 13

c h i l d r e n p l a y . I t ' s - - - i t ' s - - - i t ' s 14

- - - i t ' s r e p r e h e n s i b l e . A n d i t m a k e s 15

u s - - - I m e a n I ’ m f u r i o u s a b o u t i t t o 16

t e l l y o u t h e t r u t h . B u t j u s t g e t t i n g 17

m a d a b o u t i t i s n ' t e n o u g h . W e h a v e t o 18

f i n d a w a y t o s t o p i t f r o m h a p p e n i n g . 19

A n d i f i t w o r k e d o n R o d 20

S t r e e t , i t ' s g o i n g t o w o r k a t 21

B e e c h f o r d . A n d i f i t w o r k s o n 22

B e e c h f o r d , i t c a m e w o r k o n a l l 23

t h r o u g h o u t . 24

S o w h a t w e ' r e d o i n g i s 25

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t r y i n g t o d e p l o y a s t r a t e g y a n d m o d e l 1

t h a t a c t u a l l y w o r k s r a t h e r t h a n j u s t 2

c o n t i n u i n g t o t h r o w r e s o u r c e s a n d m a n 3

p o w e r a t i t b e c a u s e i t c o s t s u s m o n e y 4

t o d o t h a t , t o o . S o I j u s t w a n t y o u 5

t o u n d e r s t a n d t h a t a l l t h e s e p l a c e s 6

t h a t y o u ' r e m e n t i o n i n g , w e k n o w a b o u t 7

i t . T h e r e ' s p l a c e s a t P e n n H i l l s t h a t 8

y o u d o n ' t e v e n k n o w a b o u t t h a t h a s 9

d u m p i n g i s s u e s t h a t a r e b e y o n d c o m p e l . 10

B u t w e c a n ' t - - - w e 11

d o n ' t h a v e t h e r e s o u r c e s j u s t t o c l e a n 12

e v e r y t h i n g u p a l l a t o n e t i m e . I k n o w 13

w e g o t s o m e t i r e s c l e a n e d u p o n M o u n t 14

C a r m e l R o a d . I t ' s a n e w d u m p s i t e u p 15

p a s t t h e c e m e t e r y . W e g o t t h a t t h o s e 16

m o v e d . T h e l o n g t e r m s t r a t e g y i s 17

g o i n g t o b e t o c l e a n u p t h e d u m p , p u t 18

c a m e r a s i n p l a c e s t o i d e n t i f y t h e 19

p e o p l e t h a t a r e - - - t h a t a r e - - - t h a t 20

a r e c o m m i t t i n g t h e s e e n v i r o n m e n t a l 21

c r i m e s a n d t h a t ' s w h a t t h e y a r e . I 22

m e a n t h i s i s n ' t l i t t e r i n g . T h e s e a r e 23

c r i m e s a g a i n s t t h e e n v i r o n m e n t . I t ' s 24

a c t u a l l y a c r i m e a g a i n s t e v e r y b o d y w h o 25

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l i v e s i n t h i s c o m m u n i t y . W e s h o u l d 1

a l l b e t o t a l l y i n s e n s e . 2

A n d t h e n t o h a v e s i g n s 3

t o t e l l p e o p l e t h a t i f t h e y d u m p , 4

t h e y ' r e g o i n g t o g e t f i n e d a n d w e ' r e 5

g o i n g t o m a k e t h e m c l e a n i t u p . 6

T h a t ' s w h o s h o u l d c l e a n i t u p , i s t h e 7

p e o p l e w h o a r e c o m m i t t i n g t h i s . 8

S o t h a t ' s w h a t w e ' r e 9

t r y i n g t o d o . I t j u s t t a k e s a l i t t l e 10

t i m e . W e ' r e v e r y c l o s e , I p r o m i s e 11

y o u . I r e a l l y t h i n k t h a t i f - - - I 12

t h i n k w e ' r e g o i n g t o f i n d s o m e , I 13

t h i n k w e ' r e g o i n g t o h a v e s o m e r e a l 14

b i g d e v e l o p m e n t s o n t h i s i s s u e t h i s 15

s u m m e r . I r e a l l y b e l i e v e t h a t . 16

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 17

W e j u s t a s k y o u t o h a v e 18

f a i t h i n u s b e c a u s e w e a r e w o r k i n g o n 19

i t . W e ' r e n o t j u s t - - - . 20

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 21

W e l l , w i t h t h e t i r e s a n d 22

a l l t h a t - - - . 23

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 24

W e l l , w e c a n - - - . 25

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A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 1

I t ' s b e e n s i n c e M a r c h 2

4 t h . 3

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 4

S i n c e M a r c h f o u r t h . 5

M R . P E T R U C C I : 6

H o w m a n y t i r e s d o y o u 7

t h i n k a r e d o w n t h e r e ? 8

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 9

A t l e a s t t h i r t y o r s o . 10

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 11

I c a n ' t - - - I d o n ' t - - - 12

I d o n ' t - - - I d o n ' t - - - . 13

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 14

W e l l , t h a t ' s o k a y . 15

T o m o r r o w w e ' r e g o i n g t o m a k e t h e p h o n e 16

c a l l . W e ' r e g o i n g t o g e t y o u o n a 17

s c h e d u l e A S A P . 18

M R . P E T R U C C I : 19

T h e r e ' s a p r o b l e m w i t h 20

t h e t i r e s . T h e r e w a s a c a r o n t h e 21

s t r e e t t h a t c a u g h t o n t h e f i r e b a c k 22

t h e r e . 23

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 24

W h e n w a s t h e c a r c a u g h t 25

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o n f i r e ? 1

M R . P E T R U C C I : 2

T h i s c a r ' s n o t t h a t o l d . 3

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 4

N o , t h a t ' s j u s t - - - . 5

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 6

W h e n w a s t h e f i r e ? 7

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 8

L e t m e s e e , I ' m t r y i n g 9

t o f i n d i t . M a y 1 0 t h . 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

O f t h i s y e a r ? 12

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 13

Y e a h , M a y 1 0 t h . 14

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 15

S o t h e y d i d m o v e - - - 16

t h e y d i d - - - . 17

M R . A N D R E J C H A K : 18

D i d y o u c a l l t h e p o l i c e 19

w h e n t h e c a r c a u g h t o n f i r e ? 20

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 21

N o t h e p o l i c e w a s t h e r e . 22

T h e y - - - b e c a u s e i t w a s e x p l o d i n g . 23

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 24

W e l l , t w o p e o p l e c a l l e d 25

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t h e r e . 1

M R . P E T R U C C I : 2

A n d w h a t w a s t h e i r 3

r e s p o n s e ? 4

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 5

H u h ? T h e y m o v e d i t . 6

T h a t ' s w h a t t h e y ' r e t a l k i n g a b o u t . 7

E v e r y t h i n g b u r n t t h e r e , t h e y n e v e r 8

c a m e a n d c l e a n e d i t u p . T h e y j u s t 9

m o v e d i t . 10

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 11

O k a y . 12

W e ' l l b e - - - w e ' l l b e 13

d o w n t o m o r r o w . W e ' l l b e d o w n 14

t o m o r r o w . I ’ m s u r e y o u ' l l s e e 15

C o u n c i l m a n P e t r u c c i b e f o r e m y s e l f 16

b e c a u s e I h a v e a m e e t i n g w i t h t h e 17

f i r e f i g h t e r s a n d t w o o t h e r m e e t i n g s 18

b u t w e a r e o n i t . W e ' r e g o i n g t o 19

c o l l e c t i v e l y t o g e t t h a t d o n e . 20

S o p l e a s e , a g a i n , j u s t 21

b e t h a t m u c h m o r e p a t i e n t . C o n t i n u e 22

t o c a l l , d o n ' t s t o p c a l l i n g . A n d 23

a g a i n , i f y o u c a n ' t r e a c h o n e 24

d e p a r t m e n t , y o u c a n a l w a y s r e a c h 25

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S c o t t . 1

O k a y ? 2

A n d h e w i l l c o n v e y t h e 3

m e s s a g e t o t h e r e s t o f u s b u t n o o n e 4

s h o u l d h a v e t o l i v e l i k e t h a t . W e 5

d o n ' t a p p r e c i a t e t h a t a n d w e s u r e k n o w 6

t h a t y o u d o n ’ t a p p r e c i a t e i t . S o 7

t h a n k y o u s o m u c h f o r c o m i n g . 8

T h a n k y o u . O k a y . I ’ m 9

s o s o r r y , m a ' a m . 10

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 11

J u s t v e r y b r i e f , I ' m 12

T i n a H a r r i s . A n d I ' m r e a l l y f e e l i n g 13

- - - I j u s t w a n t e d t o l e t y o u k n o w t h a t 14

I w o u l d h a p p y t o d r i v e y o u a r o u n d s o 15

y o u c a n s e e . B e c a u s e y o u - - - m a y b e 16

y o u d o n ' t k n o w w h e r e e v e r y t h i n g i s , 17

I ' l l b e g l a d t o s h o w y o u . I ' v e l i v e d 18

t h e r e f o r 6 4 y e a r s a n d I ' m 6 4 y e a r s 19

o l d . S o I ' d b e h a p p y t o t a k e y o u 20

a r o u n d t h e r e a n d s h o w y o u a f e w 21

t h i n g s . 22

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 23

O k a y . 24

I ' v e g o t e v e r y a d d r e s s 25

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t h a t y o u g u y s s t a t e d w r i t t e n d o w n o n 1

m y p i e c e o f p a p e r . W e ' l l b e h e r e 2

t o m o r r o w . Y o u ' r e w e l c o m e . T h a n k y o u 3

s o m u c h f o r c o m i n g o u t t h i s e v e n i n g . 4

A n d r e m e m b e r , o n e P e n n H i l l s . Y o u 5

k e e p o n s a y i n g t h e o t h e r s i d e o f P e n n 6

H i l l s . 7

M S . M A Y : 8

W e w o u l d s a y o n e P e n n 9

H i l l s i f w e g o t t h e s a m e s e r v i c e a n d 10

r e s p e c t . . 11

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 12

S o n o w l e t ' s s t a r t 13

s a y i n g w h a t ? 14

A U D I E N C E M E M B E R : 15

O n e P e n n H i l l 16

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 17

T h a n k y o u v e r y m u c h . 18

M S . M A Y : 19

W e ' l l s a y t h a t w h e n w e 20

g e t t h e s a m e s e r v i c e a n d r e s p e c t . 21

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 22

T h a n k y o u s o m u c h f o r 23

c o m i n g o u t t h i s e v e n i n g . 24

O k a y . 25

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N e x t o n t h e a g e n d a , w e 1

h a v e n o t h i n g n e x t o n t h e a g e n d a . O n e 2

m o r e t h i n g , o u r s o l i c i t o r s a i d , n o t i s 3

a d j o u r n m e n t . D o I h a v e a m o t i o n ? 4

M R . P E T R U C C I : 5

M o t i o n t o a d j o u r n . 6

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 7

A l l r i g h t . D o I h a v e a 8

s e c o n d ? 9

M R . U N D E R W O O D : 10

S e c o n d , s e c o n d . 11

D E P U T Y M A Y O R S A P P : 12

P e n n H i l l s , h a v e a g r e a t 13

w e e k . G o d b l e s s y o u a n d t h a n k y o u f o r 14

c o m i n g . 15

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