Council - Regular Meeting

I'd like to call this September 14th regular council meeting and work session to order. Everybody please rise for a moment of silence. I'd like to remember all those who passed away during the month. Mr. Catrochi wants to recommend.

working with her back then, and then we got to know her. She was always very, very diligent in what she did. Phyllis Pabon, everybody knows Joe Pabon as the artist, but Phyllis, his wife, was also a very good artist and helped out a lot, worked with us on the Columbus 500 projects. But earlier, she and Joe started the Radcliffe Historic and Cultural Society.

9-11. It's been 25 years. It's amazing. It lets you remember all the people that lost their life and their families. Please salute the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

We have a few people here this evening. Call the call, please. Mr. Pezzin. Here.

Ms. Cullen.

Here.

Ms. Rodriguez. Mr. Cousins.

Mr. Johnson.

Here.

Mr. .

Here.

Mr. . Here. Okay, we have a few people to do some presentations. We have somebody from the women's shelter. State your name.

My name is Amanda DiStefano. I'm the Director of Supportive Service for Women's Place. This is my third consecutive year coming and presenting to all of you. As you know, we are the only domestic violence agency in the county. And just what I'm here to present today is we'd like to do Paint the Town Purple again. So this is down Mill Street, wrapped around Market, a little bit of Pond, and then down by the Warp. And I think it's Mr. James Dillon approved a table to be set up down at the Warp during this time. just so we can have pamphlets and just be present. Domestic Violence Awareness Month starts October, so we'd like to do it the weekend before, and we take it down the weekend after. And that's really all that it is.

I know every year you're here, and Councilwoman Rodriguez is usually involved in this, but whatever you need to do, you have council support. uh anybody else on this side of room want to speak on anything anybody speak on anything okay on this side of the room i know we have people that want to talk about different events that are coming up so craig why don't we start with with the duo or the oldies

Thank you, Ralph. We just want to invite everybody out, remind everybody, this Saturday is our Oldies on the River concert. Concert starts at 5 o'clock. And like you just informed me, the food trucks will be there at 2 o'clock. We have 13 food trucks this year. So we invite you to come on out early and get some good food before the concert. And dancing will start at 4 o'clock. Rockin' Roger, a DJ, a local DJ, he'll be there to get you dancing at 4. We have an act this year that's a little unusual, an act called Whites Out. They're a tribute band that are going to do two completely different shows. We're doing a Four Seasons tribute, followed with a Beach Boys tribute, and then in between, we have the Duprees. They'll be there in between. Should be a really good show. We're starting at 5 o'clock sharp. We want to get a good start. Please, get the word out. We ask you to tell your friends. Bring your friends. Don't forget your lawn chairs. It should be a beautiful night. As you've been here before, it's a huge crowd and a big event in Bristol. So it's this Saturday night. Oldies in the Park starts at 5 o'clock.

Okay, our next two presenters, Michael Crossan and my daughter, is going to come up to the next couple events. 26 years, I never had any. John, if you want to stand with him, it's up to you.

I just wanted to give everyone a quick update on what on Saturday, October 17th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For our 50th anniversary, we really wanted to make the celebration of everything Bristol has to offer, our history, our waterfront, our neighborhoods, our families, and our future. One of the highlights, of course, will be our traditional house tours, and this year we have a specially exciting group of homes. The tour will showcase the full range of living in Bristol. We have some historic homes and some new construction. its history and also a living growing community. We want people to see the beautiful historic properties that have been cared for and preserved while also seeing what's available for people who want to make Bristol their own. Together these properties really showcase the best of old and new Bristol. Tickets for the house tours are on sale now on bristolhistory.org. And for the 50th anniversary, we actually lowered the ticket price because we wanted as many people as possible to participate. Tickets are just $15 for one person or two tickets for 25 with our special 50th anniversary offer. So if you purchase tickets online, you don't have to report to one central location. You can start your tour at any house that makes sense. You can redeem it at any of those houses, or you can come to one of our tables at Mill Street. But this makes it, you can decide where it makes most sense to start and begin your tour there. There's also a copy of the program and the digital map online, so you can just start wherever. to start the tour if you're already in Harriman. If you decide to join us last minute too, tickets are available to purchase at the ticket table for Historic Bristol Day. But Historic Bristol Day is definitely not just about the house tours. We especially want families to come out and spend the day with us. This year we are putting a real emphasis on activities for children and families, including a petting zoo and kids zone, along with other children's activities happening throughout the town. There's plenty for our youngest visitors to see and do, so bring your kids and make a day of it. Our public history buildings will also be open, giving everyone an opportunity to get inside some of the buildings they have made pass every day but rarely get an opportunity to visit. Story Crystal Day is really one of the best days of the year to get out, walk around, and experience the history of Bristol firsthand. Throughout the town, there will also be live entertainment at the Gazebo. activities at the Grundy Library and our traditional tea on the South Laundry of Grundy Museum. Food court along the river and special wharf attractions at the waterfront. The Historic Girls Today car show is also returning to Snyder Girardi Elementary School at 450 Beaver Street and our free shuttle will help connect visitors with all the different activities throughout the town. with everything that we have planned uh this year however we really need the community's help having so many houses we have 12 houses open this year that's the most we've had in i think the history of opening up the houses um it's a wonderful thing but we need more volunteers to serve as people who are docents inside the houses you don't need to be a historic uh historian or an expert on the home we'll give you all that information uh we'll We simply need friendly people to greet people and willing to give us a few hours welcoming our visitors and helping us showcase our community. So even if you can only just give us part of the day, we need you. So to volunteer, just go on our website, bristolhistory.org, click on that contact us link and tell us that you're interested in volunteering and we'll do the rest. We'll contact you. So it's always been about the houses and the history of our town for our 50th anniversary. We hope everybody comes out and makes a day of it.

What's the date again?

October 17th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Thank you.

Any questions for Michael?

Kelly? The only thing I want to say is I want to personally thank you, because I know how hard you work on all these events. I know we joke a lot, but you do a lot. I mean, the do-op, the food vendors, Bristol Day, now you're involved with the parade, minutes for meetings. You do a lot, and I just want to personally say thank you.

Thank you.

Because sometimes it goes, you forget, but we don't forget what you're doing.

I don't. Thank you. I appreciate that.

So I'm here to talk about the 2026 Bristol Christmas Parade. When it became clear that we needed to step up and keep this wonderful Bristol tradition going, my dad Ralph began forming a committee. We have about 20 to 25 people and it's truly been all hands on deck. and we hit the ground running months ago. I can assure you that this year's parade is going to be one for the record books. We have a really big variety of entertainment planned, including multiple string bands, a variety of entertainers, musicians, characters for the kids, dancers, Schools, teams, bands, choirs, we have classic cars, local and surrounding businesses, and churches from Bristol and the surrounding communities, just to name a few attractions. Our biggest stipulation that we all agreed upon for every participant is simple. If you're in the Christmas parade, you need to be festive. We want decorations, we want to hear Christmas music, and plenty of holiday spirit from beginning to end. We ask that the children have their letters to Santa prepared as we will have elves who will be collecting them along the parade route. We would also like to add a very special part to our parade tradition this year. Along the parade route there will be trucks collecting new unwrapped toys for children. These toys will be donated to the Children's Hospital Philadelphia this Christmas. Please have your toy ready for one of our elves to collect as the parade passes by. The parade will begin on Green Lane and Farragut at 1 p.m. We will also have a quiet section of the parade. It will begin at Market Street until the corner of Mill at the Mill Street Crossing for anyone who would enjoy a quieter environment. The parade will end at the King George, and our rain date is Sunday, November 29th. With that being said, call your family, call your friends, invite everyone to Bristol for the parade on Saturday, November 28th. We are really looking forward to kicking off the Christmas season in Bristol Borough. Also, if anyone would like to donate and help support the parade, we are gratefully accepting donations. you can make your checks payable to Bristol Borough and drop them off here at the Borough Hall. Every donation, big and small, is greatly appreciated, and it helps make this special event for our community so special. We cannot wait to see everyone there, and as we all know, it will be here before we know it. So, see you there.

Any questions?

Oh, and there's also, on the Borough, on the TV and the website, But if you would like to be part of the parade, you can submit your entry and we will get back to you.

That's it. Thank you.

So again, I just want to thank everybody because I know how important the parade is and how quick everybody stepped up. And we have a lot of young people on this committee that stepped up and, again, Mike, you and my daughter and everybody else that's on this committee, I want to thank you because it's going to be a very special parade this year. It's going to be phenomenal, I can tell you that. So thanks for everything you guys did. All right. Anybody else in the public need to say anything? That ends public participation. Lorraine, what do you have?

First, I'd like to talk about the Bristol Lions Italian Day. We had it Friday night and Saturday this year, and we had a large crowd. As a matter of fact, we ran out of rolls the first night within an hour and a half. And we had to go to King George to get, they gave us rolls. And then we had to go to Selecto to buy more rolls. So next year we will be more well prepared for that. But it was a great event. There were thousands of people here. And I want to thank the borough for allowing us to use. And I'd like to thank the police department, fire department, everyone for allowing us to use that area. It really worked out nice. Also, I would like to congratulate Greg Pezza. He bought a new house. And it happens to be in our ward. That's true. So if anybody is questioning that, it's in our ward. And we should know better where our ward is when we're trying to run for an office.

Pine Grove and Bristol Street are definitely in East Ward.

So I just wanted to make that very clear.

i just wanted to um say something that i've said a number of times uh on this floor and you know you read the facebook posts it is what it is but this is more of an appeal just to parents um i you know officer moore's or excuse me sergeant chief moore's gets gets uh he went for all the right yes yes so um he is inundated with messages There's been so many recent tragedies, whether it be a motorcycle, an electric bike, or a bicycle, that I just don't know what else there needs to be for parents to get themselves involved and say to these kids that are really making a lot of people, making themselves unsafe, no doubt. But also, there's a lot of older people that drive around town. motion on the agenda for the retail dispenser of liquor license for Mr. Mazzocchi. I just think it's exciting for us to continue to see things that are happening in town, and I appreciate the work that Bernard does for town. He invests a lot of his time, his energy, and his ideas in Bristol Borough, and

I had a question for the chief. I had a resident in town asking me, were we able to get reports on who was pulled over and where?

Because they seemed to think that it was only being pulled over.

People were only being pulled over in the north ward. And I told them, it's everywhere.

You're asking me if that's true or not? Yes. So no, that's not true. Not everybody's just getting pulled over to North Ward. It's all over town that they're getting pulled over for speeding, for the stop signs, for the cell phone usage now while you're driving. So without belaboring the point, there was 255 traffic stops. In August, 229 citations were issued. To date, we've issued 1,459 traffic citations and did 1,572 stops. The problem is people just aren't getting the message. Compliance is so low. And we're out there doing everything that we can, Brian.

And I can attest to the fact

I mean, we heard constantly people complain about speeding. So now the cops are doing their jobs and people are saying, well, it's not fair or they're doing it for the money. It's not for the money. You know, it's immaterial right now.

We need a safer town.

We're definitely not making money off of tickets. Exactly. If you look at the court time in the contract, the officers get paid to go to court. And what I think people don't understand is we get complaints I get them all the time via email and then we deploy resources like we really hit Green Lane hard because we had a lot of trucks on Green Lane we were getting a lot of complaints and then with school getting ready to open we moved over to like Wilson Avenue and Rowan Farragut Buckley and Beaver so we do move around different locations all week long and some of the activity you see with the police cars out there is being paid for by a state traffic rate that I apply for four times a year, I guess.

Thank you. I just, I wanted to thank everyone, especially President Peaches-Eppie for the hard work for the Italian Festival of Saints, Italian Fair. It's a great event. It's not even like a church event, it's a community event Kids were involved and through the generosity of Ernie Bicaro and his family and the chief and the policemen, they had a great time on Tuesday night with all the Bristol Borough students. So it's a fun event and it's, again, it's another thing that puts our little borough on the map. So thank you.

Yeah. I'd just like to take the opportunity to respond to your calling me out the other night. I didn't get a chance to because the camera went off and the sound went off. But I have loved Bristol since even before I became a patrolman here back in 1973. Took my first oath of office in this room here. I left, of course, I went to a larger department, learned a lot of knowledge in law enforcement, and I was fortunate and very happy to come back as chief of police for a little over nine years. I love this town so much that I moved my family in. We've been living here over 30 years now. I had 56 years of service, public service, including military 35 plus years in the borough itself. So when I decided to run for mayor, it wasn't because I had any hidden agendas or anything like that. I listened to some people in the public, and they had some concerns. And I thought maybe my style of dealing with people might be able to kind of mitigate some of their complaints. So I decided to run. Now, there's a lot of people in this room that I've had long-standing mutually beneficial friendships over the years. We did favors for each other. When there was illnesses in the family, we cared about each other. When there was deaths in the family, we consoled each other. Okay, so come along. And I run for mayor. And it hasn't been a picnic up to now. To be honest, you folks haven't given me an opportunity to show what I can do from the very beginning. Now, you said we have to put our political differences aside. It's not the political differences. We all have the same idea of Bristol, a safe, fun environment for our residents. What it is, is You folks can't get over the fact that I won the election. And I'm here, OK? I had to listen to the stories that if I got elected, I was going to fire the chief. Anybody that reads the borough code knows that I do not have authority to hire or fire. So that was false. I had people come up to me and, oh, sorry to hear about your Parkinson's. They were telling stories to people during election. There was a police officer that was out there asking people to vote for my opponent. So I've been hamstrung from the very beginning. I don't like it. I was forced to file a lawsuit in order to try to recoup my place in the government. And that's not right, because the taxpayers are going to pay that in a long run. And it shouldn't be that way. We had a falling out. 24 in Caesars, where you approached me as a friend, and when you asked me if I was thinking about running for mayor, and I said, yeah, I was leaning that way. I was with Bob Liberatore, well-known Bristolian, long-time Bristolian. You got angry with me, raised your voice at me, berated me for four minutes. I sat down, but Bob Liberatore's there. What's

me into running for mayor so what's it going to take for us to get over the hump so are you done yeah i want to respond to your now that you brought this up sure first of all what did this council do to hinder you from doing running this borough you run the police department did we do anything to stop you from running it Tell me what we did, because none of us know.

Why wouldn't I file a lawsuit? Well, tell us what we did. I watched you on camera. You're not answering the question. I'm going to answer, but I'm going to tell you. I watched you on TV at least 10 times telling people. The mayor runs the police department. He doesn't answer to anybody. But yet, counsel took it upon themselves to countermand my orders that I gave to the chief and an officer. Now, had you allowed me to intercede in that case, I would have had a resolution. Maybe Richie might not have been back here as a police officer. More than likely, he'd have been out on a disability venture, because I truly believe he wasn't ready to come back. But you countermanded my orders.

Frank, you're playing games. I'm not playing games. You're playing games. Tell us what we did to stop you from running the police department.

You interfered with my duties. For what? You countermanded my orders.

You're talking about one thing with Richie Webb.

That's what you're talking about.

Did we tell you you can't go in the police station? Did we tell you not to meet with the chief? did we tell you can't run what did we do to prevent you from being the mayor of this town and overseeing the police department first we did absolutely nothing the first thing nothing the first thing was when i when i sent an email to the chief about something between him and i i didn't get a response from him i got a response from you what was the letter what was the letter

was the letter it was in regards to something that i asked him i personally asked him to make sure that he cleared stuff with me beforehand but he didn't and i asked i sent him an email and i said i'll overlook it because we're starting right but we well we talked counterman your letter utah officer webb not to show up for a medical examination what did you do i told him

in the internal investigation but i fully expected him to take part in an independent medical exam read the letter read the email all i can tell you is that this is all going to come out sooner than later i hope so oh it is but i'm tired of hearing you telling people all through town that this council has prevented you from doing your job you did well you're you're one of the first actually You told the chief to stand down on ordering an officer to go for an IME?

It's not up to you.

You don't get it.

You run the police department.

You don't determine if an officer should go for a medical evaluation. All that officer had to do was go for a medical evaluation and that doctor would have determined He could come back to work, or he would go out on disability. It was that simple. But you got involved, and you told him to stand down, and you told the chief to stand down. By you getting involved, you caused a big problem. And you did file the lawsuit. You know how much we got invested in this lawsuit? Take a guess what you're costing the taxpayers right now. Over $100,000. $100,000. And we're going to do what we can to try to get you to pay this money back to the taxpayers. So this is not over, far from over. And let's get back to the election. You forget, so you got a short memory. You want to act like everybody's against Frank. I don't care that you won the election. You came to me and you said, I want to be the chief of police. Give me the chief's job for two years. Didn't you? And you said, if not, I'm going to run against your son. My response to you was... Your son wasn't even mayor then. Yes, he was. He was not. Right. He was mayor. He was not. Well, who did you run against?

He was not mayor when we talked.

Who did you run against?

He was not the mayor when we talked. Well, who was the mayor? Joe Saxon.

No, he wasn't. I think you're losing it a little bit. And I don't mean any disrespect with that. But you said to me, blatantly, You either give me the chief's job, because I'm going to, for two years, I'm going to teach Joe everything I know, because he's green. And when I get done teaching him everything, then I'm going to step aside. I need two more years to be the chief. And I said, absolutely not. Joe waited his turn. He was overlooked when we hired Henry. And he interviewed, you interviewed for the job, didn't you? Yeah. Okay, so you acted like you didn't want it. You didn't want the job?

I didn't say I didn't want it.

You said to me, and that's why I came up to you as Caesars.

Your representation was wrong.

No, you're wrong. I came up to you as Caesars because I said to you, don't threaten me. Don't think you're going to tell me if I don't give you the job you're going to run against my son. Bobby Libitor was sitting there, so there was other people that heard the conversation. So we can bring them all in if we have to.

Do you remember where we had that conversation?

Yeah, in Caesars.

No, not that one, the one where I asked you whether I should put my name there. You called me. Where did we meet? You called me. Where did we meet? We didn't meet anywhere. We met, we certainly did. Where did we meet? We met behind the 400 block of Mill Street in that condo area in the parking lot. I don't, I don't, I don't want to. And I asked you, I didn't tell you And you said, yeah, go for it. I said, yeah. I'm not going to tell you not to. I said, look, I don't want a lifelong job. I said, give me two years. Whatever problems you have in the department, I'll straighten them out for you. There are no problems. We'll make Joe the second in command. And when I'm done, he'll be ready to go.

Yeah. That's it. And you said, if not, I'm going to run against your son for marriage.

Your son wasn't. It was Joe Saxton was. Joe Saxon.

I don't know. Maybe Joe Saxon was. I don't know. But I know what you told me. And stop playing games. But this is all going to come out. Believe me. I hope it does. Oh, it is. It is. Because this borough is tired of you going around town again, spreading lies, that we're handcuffed you so you can't do your job. You have one thing to hang your hat on. And I think our solicitor... You have an issue with some legal issues right now that you should be involved in what's going on. And you know that. So don't sit here and act like a choir boy right now. What else do you have?

No, that's it.

Okay.

Anybody else? I'm just going to say that the council was in executive session for about 30 minutes prior to this meeting to discuss pending litigation, personnel matters, and some real estate issues.

No action will be taken at the public meeting.

And I mean it. If we can recover this money that you cost this borrower, we're going to get it back. Personally, you're going to come up with it. Over $100,000 a year.

You threatened me once already. I'm not threatening you. What I'm saying is... I didn't like the fact that you counterfeited my orders. I could hire an attorney, okay, and fight it.

Frank, I don't even know where you're going with everything anymore. Believe me. Joe, what do you have?

Just want to remind everybody that school is back in. If the crossing guards are out there in the morning and in the afternoon for dismissal, please slow down. Pay attention to the school signs. Normally it's between 6.45 in the morning and 8.05 in the morning all around town, and then 1.45 in the afternoon and 3.10 in the afternoon. The kids will be moving about to and from school. If we can just use precautions and just realize that crossing guards are out there to keep our kids safe, please just slow down a little bit other than that. Anybody got anything for the chief?

Harvey?

Yeah, we're continuing to work with the insurance services organization, providing them data for the survey they're conducting. Chief Riggs had applied for a grant for a fire cadet program, and the borough was awarded $35,000 a year for the next three years, a total of $105,000 to put this fire cadet program to get young people, grades seven to nine, interested in the fire service, and they're gonna start that in October.

Any questions for our audience?

things. The Green Lane floodgates have been used twice since installation. We're still figuring out that the best way to coordinate, you have to do them both at the same time or people get locked in the middle. I finished up driver's training on the UTV with a couple people from the rescue squad, so now we have qualified drivers from all four fire companies and the rescue squad. The rescue squad used it for the Mill Street run and they were able to pick up some runners that tired out. So it came in handy then. And then for doo-wop this week, I'll be here from six to nine in the morning. Then I have to work for a couple hours. So my dad will be filling in for me from nine o'clock till about four o'clock and then I'll be back on site. So the one on the Amish market side, to get around the power lines and some other things, the only place they could put it is where they put it. So we have to bring it down and we pull and swivel it. there's also two road closed signs however they're eight feet in the air yeah right uh so i got one down the other day yeah it's probably still there i should probably check on that but yeah okay thank you i think it's something we need to discuss about i know it's where it's supposed to be it really should be put up further on the hill

Because people come down the hill, then they got to back up. It makes totally no sense. And I know that Kurt said that you can't be something with a driveway. You can't have people. But I think that should be moved no matter what happens. The one up on this side, Green Lane on the Wilson Avenue side is fine. The one on the other side, you got to come down the hill. Now we got to back up. So that should definitely, we need Amanda to look into moving it. It doesn't make any sense where it's put. But it's there because where it's supposed to be. But sometimes you need to use common sense. Okay. James, do you have anything? The only thing I have is... It's been a long time. One of our projects has finally started at the Otter Street Fields. The lighting has been going in now. Musco lighting is out there. On our agenda, there's a motion to approve G&G Electric to hook up the power. Also, Amanda advised us that we finally got our DEP permits after how long? So we finally got them so the parking lot should start immediately. We had a contractor that's working for Aqua take all their stuff out there hopefully by the end of the week so we could start paving. Yes sir?

When you're finished, Mario reminded me of something. Go ahead, I can come back. On your agenda is the applications for RDA funding, and we're supposed to talk about the issues that are raised in case the public has any comments. So I'll just read what's being proposed. Police body The annual payment is a five-year program. It's $70,000 for each year. Police Patrol vehicle, $80,000. Public Works, Bobcat, $105,000. Fire department upgrade emergency response capabilities, $108,000 for a total of $930,000 is what's being asked for.

to get back to the parking lot so the parking lot's going to start delaying g and g's on the agenda we want to try to get the lights up for the outer street fields we're still working on the playgrounds there's it's just a lot of red tape to get things done it's something that i'm not used to i like to just say okay let's get it done tomorrow but it doesn't happen like that anymore So you'll see some major improvements there. As far as the roads, I'm telling everybody in town is ready to kill each other. They're starting to do milling and overlaying down on the Otter Street side and working their way this way. Their paving machines are in town, so we're hoping maybe a month, Amanda, at the most. We should be, they should all be out of town. We should have all new roads and everything should be back to normal.

Hopefully, until next year, because they've already given us a list of additional streets that they want to

And they're a utility company, so we can't say no. One thing they do, they do pay for the paving, which the taxpayers are getting brand new roads out of, even though we have to sacrifice dealing with them. But we'll end up with new streets. Any other questions before we get to our agenda? Anybody in the public want to speak on anything? I can't get five. Okay, number two on the agenda.

Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion

I'd like to make a motion to approve resolution adopting the official Bucks County 2026 hazard mitigation plan.

Second by Mr. Petrucci. Questions or comments? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Number four.

Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to approve CoStar's vendor R&S General Contractors Incorporated, quote, dated July 10, 2026. for the replacing of a section of the sidewalk under the Amtrak bridge on Jefferson Avenue in the amount of $17,800. Second by Mr. President.

Questions or comments? The only comment I want to make is that this is crazy that we have to do this because But we need to go fix this. We've got kids walking to school, barricades are up, and all the sidewalk is settled over there. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Number five.

questions or comments I just want to say one thing back to the point earlier there

Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to approve advertising a public hearing for a retail dispenser liquor license for Bernard Mazzocchi.

Seconded by Mr. Petrucci. Questions or comments?

My comment is, this is the most exciting thing that has happened to Bristol in a long time. Because I have a lot of people that want to stay in Bristol. And now they will have a place to stay because all the surrounding hotels, whatever they are, motels, are horrible. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

She wants a free room.

All in favor?

I just want to make a comment. Many years ago, the guard was allowing a lot of liquor license to leave the town.

because they were neighborhood bars and, you know, they outgrown themselves or the neighborhood died off and they had strangers coming in. And somebody warned me, said, you know, if your town doesn't have, you know, if you let these liquor license get away, it's going to be tough when people want to start legitimate restaurants and things of that nature. So luckily the LCB did. but I think this is a great move for us.

All right, go to the podium.

Go to the podium.

So they can hear you.

I'd just like to welcome Mr. Gray to our town. Do you know what I mean?

I try to tell Pete that these liquor licenses, it's great, but we want to see it done. He don't know how long he's going to be here. At your record, maybe 20 years, maybe.

Jane's going to take over. I said her retirement date is that, so I'll be here a while.

Let's get it done. Thank you. Yes. We're on number eight. Louis, who made the motion? I did. Bernard and Lorraine made the motion. Lorraine made the motion. Louis seconded it. I made that motion.

All in favor? Aye.

Okay.

Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the resolution for the 2027 minimum municipal obligation for the uniform pension plan for $643,410.91.

Second by Mr. President, questions or comments? The only thing I want to say is if you look at these numbers, $643,000 is the minimum we could pay for this obligation. All in favor? Aye. Opposed?

the non-uniform pension plan for $489,570.84. Second by this call. Questions or comments? All those in favor?

Aye. Mr. President. That's 1.1 or 1.2 million right there.

approve the resolution for the 2027 minimum municipal obligation for the non-uniform defined contribution pension plan.

Second by Greg. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Number 11.

Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to accept the Janney investment proposal dated September 11, 2026 to manage the Bristol Borough Water Fund. Second by Mr. Gattrachi. Questions or comments?

per shift per crossing guard effective September 1st, 2026.

Second by Mr. Bez and questions or comments. The only thing I would like to say is we raised this and we really need some crossing guards. If anybody's out there, it's a good pay. It's $60 a day for a couple hours work. I think we need definitely some part-timers or people to fill in Joe.

Yeah, we can use some subs right now. If anybody wants to file an application, they can come up and see Sally.

Yeah, I mean, it's a great job. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed?