County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Looks like you got your buddies back there. You got your buddies back there, yep.

I don't know why they're not back there.

I'd like to call to order the Board of Commissioners meeting for June 17th, 2026. We'll begin with a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.

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.

We begin with our chief clerk's report, Mr. Hagerty.

Good morning, Commissioners. An executive session was held on Friday, June 12th to discuss tourism funding, and an executive session was held on Tuesday, June 16th to obtain the advice of legal counsel regarding contract negotiations, insurance requirements, and personnel matters. Today we are joined by Matthew Worley from the Conservation District, who will provide an update on the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System Permit Compliance Program. Wow. Say that three times fast. Save me from that one, do you?

Did you practice that?

In addition, not quite yet. Not quite yet, sir. I can say it again if folks would like. In addition to the salary board packet, personnel packet, and purchase order packet, there are 100 items for board consideration today. We have four adoption assistance agreements, two public safety agreements, two risk management agreements, two parks and recreation agreements, two information technology agreements, one controller's office agreement, one agreement for natural gas utilization at county facilities, three grant award agreements extending the deadline of previously issued human services grant awards, 74 human service agreements, four legal services agreements, two repository bids, two tax forgiveness requests, and the training packet. That concludes my report. Happy to answer any questions you may have.

Any questions for Mr. Haggerty? Yes, just if you could, in the next couple weeks, provide us with an update on the sale of the Dauphin Highlands Golf Course to the General Authority for $46.5 million. I believe we can get some information back on where those of proceeds will be planned to go.

Sure. Just to be clear for the public, the commissioners themselves are not the ones who are responsible for the sale of the golf course. That would be the general authority, but we can certainly obtain additional information to provide to the public. Thank you.

Any other questions for Mr. Haggard? Hearing none, we'll move the solicitor's report. Mr. Owens?

Good morning. All matters requiring review by my office for board approval today have been reviewed and approved for action.

Any questions for Mr Owens? Hearing none, we'll move to public participation related to agenda items. There will be a three-minute time limit. You'll need to state your name prior to speaking. We do have a time for general public comment at the end of the meeting. This is for those items on the agenda before us today. You'll need to state the item that you're addressing. Anyone for public comment related to an agenda item?

Well, that's the 1st, good morning commissioners. I literally wasn't going to say good morning to you 2 on the end because you never have a common currency to say it back only commissioner Douglas, but I appreciate it. Please state your name for the record. I will when I get to what I'm saying, I'm going to. Good morning, commissioners. My name is Robert Williams, a resident of Harrisburg, PA. I'm here today to address items 11 and 12 on your agenda, the contracts with Eplus Technology Inc., totaling over a million dollars for server storage equipment and a five-year server storage modernization plan. When a board prepares to authorize over a million dollars of taxpayer funds for a massive data infrastructure overhaul, the public has a right and an absolute necessity to know exactly how the integrity of the data currently sitting on your legacy servers is being protected. The server migration of this magnitude represents the exact operational window where critical information routinely disappears under the guise of technical error. routine technical error routine optimization or legacy incompatibility we are talking about critical public records internal emails and law enforcement and administrative surveillance logs i am specifically i am speaking to this because i am currently managing active legal dockets involving county accountability And I know firsthand how vital uncorrupted, unpublished data is to the administration of justice. In any act of legal matter, evidence preservation is non-negotiable. Therefore, before a single dollar is approved for E plus technology today, I'm asking that this board answer these three critical questions. What explicit protocols are written into the modernization contract to guarantee that legacy servers, data, specifically records, logs, and communications tied to active dockets or open legal cases is being comprehensively mitigated, I mean migrated, sorry, rather than systematically purged or left behind on decommissioned hardware? Secondly, does the new million dollar infrastructure utilize strict data immutability protocols? Can you assure the public that this system prevents manual deletion, overwriting, or destruction of evidence by county personnel or administrators? Thirdly, is it who is independently auditing the specific data migration process to ensure the evidence subject to legal holds is not being swept under the pretext of routine storage optimization? Modernize infrastructure is fine with using hardware transition to create accountability. Loopholes is not if the county has the financial resources to spend $1 million in server upgrades, it must demonstrate the ethical responsibility to ensure that those servers protect the truth, preserve the evidence and remain accountable to the public. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else for public comment related to agenda items? seeing none we'll move to directors and guests matthew worley is here i'm not going to try to rattle off what our chief clerk rattled off a moment ago uh but thank you for being with us today and uh look forward to hearing from conservation district

Yep, so I'm here to give a little bit of a summary about the NPDES MS4 permit. You did a great job pronouncing that, it's a mouthful. The county has been subject to this particular permit regarding stormwater runoff mitigation since 2003, and it requires the implementation and development of six minimum control measures. Those include public education, participation, illicit discharge elimination, construction sites, stormwater management, post-construction stormwater management, and then pollution prevention and good housekeeping. I'm just gonna touch on some of the Real quick accomplishments of those 6 and so public participation and outreach the highlight. We conducted 5 stormwater management workshops at the conservation district. In conduct in cooperation with dairy, dairy, Susquehanna, lower Paxton and Paxton and Burroughs. to distribute about 196 participants and 220 rain barrels to interested participants so we're very pleased about that outreach opportunity there public involvement the staff at wildwood park generously conducts volunteer work days at the park and there were 63 volunteers at four events in this permit year illicit discharge detection and elimination um elicit discharges this is one of the main focuses of the ms4 program they're defined as a direct or indirect non-stormwater discharge to the county storm sewer system except as exempted in section six of the county ordinance We screen all five outfalls at Wildwood Park and Fort Hunter and detected no illicit discharges at those facilities that were up for inspection in this permit year. Construction site stormwater management. This is one of the main responsibilities of the Conservation District, ensuring appropriate erosion and sedimentation controls on active construction sites. operation of this particular minimum control measure meets all the requirements for the county as well as all ms4 regulated municipalities in dauphin county and those mostly comprise on the lower end of the county post construction stormwater management we also that's one of the main responsibilities of the conservation district and like before you know this this fulfills all of the requirements for MCM 5 as well as many municipalities in Dauphin County Looking forward ahead to the next program year. There's nothing that we anticipate that's going to change with the responsibilities of our permit for the next year. But we do want to note a couple things. One, we're looking to continue the rain barrel workshops. We're very happy with the participation and support that we get from our municipal partners with this. The statewide general permit expired in March of 2023, but it's been extended again. And like I said before, we don't anticipate anything that is going to drastically affect our responsibilities or change. If anyone would like any more information or would like to provide comments to the MS4 program, please call the Conservation District at 717-921-8100. I'd be happy to elaborate on anything or answer any questions that you've got.

Thank you very much, Mr. Worley. Any questions? Just thanking you.

Obviously, I know how passionate you are about the role that you take on, even though there may be challenges in stating what the program actually technically is called. I know that we have some of the most involved, passionate individuals related to involving community partners. The individual efforts with the rain barrels are indicative of how that program continues to grow. And despite having limited guidance in a lot of the MS4 pieces, I think we have done an incredible job of providing both leadership and compliance. So that's certainly a direct reflection of your efforts.

So thank you for all you do. I just want to thank you for that very detailed and professional report. Well done.

Thank you very much. We appreciate you. We appreciate it. All right. Next up, we have salary board. We have a salary board packet before us. Do we have a motion?

So moved.

second move by controller bateman seconded by commissioner hartwick i just want to make sure this is budgeted for in these particular spaces from the chief clerk yes there is no financial impact uh based on these transactions today thank you any other questions comments concerns all those in favor aye opposed motion carries we'll move to human resources bay fisher morning faye morning morning

are there any questions regarding the personnel packet I have none all of the transactions listed in the personnel packet are also budgeted for I'll make a motion that we accept the personnel packet as presented second motion made by Commissioner Hartwick seconded by Commissioner Preece any discussion

Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Budget and Finance? Christopher Davis? Commissioners?

Good morning.

I have no changes to the investment report sent out earlier in the week. There's also no changes to the purchase order packet. It's ready.

we have a motion for the purchase order packet so second second motion made by commissioner priest seconded by commissioner hartwick any discussion hearing none all those in favor aye opposed motion carries thank you we have 100 items uh requiring board action for us today um i'm going to ask that we pull 52 for a separate vote beyond that is there anything else that needs pulled for a separate vote I'll entertain a motion for items 1 through 51 and 53 through 100 I'll make that motion second motion made by commissioner priests for items 1 through 51 and 53 through 100 seconded by commissioner Hartwick. Any discussion.

Yes, I, I do have a couple of questions. We had a resident come up. Beginning the meeting and ask some detailed questions and I don't have the answer to any of those 3. I know our IT directors here. Is there anybody that can answer those three prior to us voting on them?

Just for clarity, the server storage modernization actually represents a reduction in expenditures per year. We already pay over $200,000 a year for our data storage. This upgrade not only takes advantage of cloud services, but also greatly expands our capacity to store additional data. As technology improves every year, the size of data grows and grows. And so this will actually represent a decrease in costs over five years while allowing us to store additional data. And in terms of

any data protection policies in place you know the board adopted a revised policy in the last year so we're certainly following that but let me rephrase that i'm completely supportive of cuts and costs for technology which is what this is but there are some specific questions related to auditing and potential deleting by staff? Is that contained within what you just talked about?

I would certainly expect that there are no, this is not an excuse to delete data by any means. You know, we have, one of the advantages actually in some of these cloud storage solutions are that they build in data redundancy to actually make it less likely that there are accidental deletions or that there are data integrity errors.

I appreciate that IT is on board with that response.

Okay. Thank you. And just for clarity, I know that's a large number, $973,000. That is over five years. That's not per year, five years. I just want to make sure the public understands that.

Correct. That's why I was referencing the over $200,000 a year we already spent on these types of services.

And I think we've been asking for a plan. for now a while. I won't give you the exact timeframe, but this offers a level of redundancy that will allow for searches and insurance that there is not integrity breaches beyond just a server that could go out with the limited redundancy and high levels of costs.

So. Great. Well, we have a motion on the table. We have a second. Any more conversation? Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. I'll entertain a motion for item 52. So moved. Moved by Commissioner Priest. Seconded by Commissioner Hartwick. I will be abstaining from this item due to a pre-existing relationship. Any conversation? All in favor? Aye. And please note my abstention. FORMER BUSINESS, NO FORMER BUSINESS, ANY NEW BUSINESS? MOVE TO COMMISSIONER'S REMARKS. COMMISSIONER HARTWICK.

Yeah, I first just want to acknowledge and give thanks to all that were involved in yesterday's groundbreaking up on 16th and Market at the Chris Franklin event. He announced the creation of several potential affordable homes for homeownership in a vacant lot that has been vacant for over 20 years. The idea of bringing both community together, resources together, and also keeping the business, the contracting within the community is a concept that is often discussed, but very rarely executed effectively. And what I saw yesterday was an example of real community development that is going to benefit folks in that neighborhood. 1 of the biggest transfers of generational wealth is the ability to own your own home and the ability to pass that on in ownership. I think yesterday it was reported that over 60% of those who live in the city rent. uh their properties and the ability for folks to have an affordable opportunity to have a vested interest in the community the ability to own their own property and then also the construction of that property being done jonathan bowser being the construction manager and tariq castile being the individual construction individual doing construction that project Uh, is again an example of how those dollars can be kept within the community. I see Reverend O'Hara who's been an advocate long before the concept concept of reinvesting and keeping those dollars within the community. I don't know if too many people could bring it together in the way Chris Franklin did a whole host of folks involved, including Brian Hudson, who is done more to impact this region related to housing than any single individual and continues to. leave a mark in this community in so many ways. I just want to give a big thank you to the next phase of the Handels Foundation and their groundbreaking yesterday and what I believe is going to be an incredible project. I see there's a lot of human service contracts i want to thank the solicitors natalie specifically but the solicitor's office and i know we are having ongoing discussions about insurance requirements and to ensure that we are going to do all we can in order to protect taxpayers but also make sure we have services to be able to be provided for our community and those conversations continue to be ongoing and ones that we need to And I know I look forward to those completed, but I want to thank the solicitor's office and Brandi and her team for the time of year in which we are in and the deadlines in which we have to meet and the resulting contracts that will occur and also remind everybody. We had a series of presentations here, but Juneteenth is coming up this week. I know that June 19th, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced the freedom of enslaved African Americans more than two years after the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, this board recognized several years ago in a two-to-one vote, I know, the ability for us to observe Juneteenth as a county holiday. And knowing that that is a part of our heritage and history, I want to encourage people to be a part of those Juneteenth celebrations. Events that are happening. I believe there was an event last night with a representative congressman from Tennessee. There's a series of incredible events that are going on this week. And I know it's going to culminate in a parade that's going on Saturday from 12 to 2 in downtown Harrisburg. The ability for the community to come together rally and show a level of unity around this issue is critically important. I look forward to participating in those events as they are ongoing. That's all I have, Mr. Chairman. Commissioner Priest.

Commissioner Harwick, I think these individuals are due another round of recognition, so I'm going to say their names again. Folks who talk the talk but walk the walk here in Dauphin County. Chris Handles-Franklin. Jonathan bowser tree to steal Brian Hudson and Earl Harris of these individuals are constantly in fact the community in ways that most people have no idea and they're doing it most the time on their own time. So it's it's very it's an honor to know each of those individuals and I'm glad that you call them out for recognition today. We have our Parks and Rec director here, and I want to give her a shout-out for several things. First of all, this past weekend was the annual Proudly PA event in partnership with Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame in the River 97.3, another successful event by Parks and Rec. And last year, we were advised that over 900,000 people attended our parks in Dauphin County throughout the year. So they are being utilized on a very big basis. And we also received recognition yesterday from Director Anthea Stebbins, the Dauphin County Parks and Recreation Department, who, by the way, two years ago was named Parks and Rec Department of the Year in the entire state of Pennsylvania. So that is a big deal. They were notified that we, along with Visit Hershey Harrisburg, we can serve va are receiving a 2026 tom petrie recreational trails program annual achievement award engaging public sector partners for our 2025 pennsylvania greenways and trails summit was held in september right across the street at harrisburg hill so i want to thank anthea stevens and her staff for again doing a wonderful job and i know commissioner douglas uh you were there and attended proudly pa so i'd like to hear from you on what you thought of the Of the day's event, because it is a great time known by our. Incredible staff at parts and rec. Thank you.

Thank you. Commissioner. Our staff did an amazing job. My wife and I attended. We had a great time. Good music weren't able to be there for a very long time, but the time we were there heard some great live music. I think I heard 2 different bands and. A side stage kind of acoustic act that was really, really good. I think a young lady from Dauphin County. So it was cool to be there. I think our staff does a phenomenal job putting on display our parks, obviously Fort Hunter. Great location for an event like that. Obviously, we have Jazz and Wine Festival coming up later this summer. I mean, those kinds of events are really great opportunities for people to get exposed to our park. and we see under construction the uh upcoming uh you know accessible uh playground that we have there which i think is really exciting to see that that's you know continuing to make progress and um yeah excited to be one of our parks this weekend doing that the day before on friday our dauphin county pride mixer took place at fort hunter as well and uh that was really great to be a part of we have the parade coming up next month in a booth at pride that our lgbtqia committee will be participating in and leading this morning i was a panelist at ypoc juneteenth across the street. Um, there's a number of Juneteenth events going on between now and through the end of the weekend. So please make sure to look up the event, find the event that works best for you or attend them all, whatever you prefer. But, uh, there's all kinds of things from concerts to, um, educational opportunities to, uh, you know, parade to expo. So make sure you, food, lots of food. Yes, exactly. So make sure you get an opportunity to go out and celebrate Juneteenth, whether it's on Juneteenth itself or whether it's on one of the other days and one of the other amazing events that they have. going on as Commissioner Hartwick alluded to we've been having tourism grant hearings all day Monday all day Tuesday the commissioners have been in this hearing room we will have more later this afternoon as well and I just want to thank all the applicants for tourism grants to for taking the time to come here before the commissioners due to that I wasn't able to go to Uh, congratulate Chris Franklin in person for, uh, for his affordable housing project. That's, uh, you know, putting shovels in the dirt, but it's excited. To see more affordable housing and congratulate him on his efforts. With that, we will move to correspondence. I'm just going to note that the correspondence listed will be managed by the chief clerk's office because there's no action needed. We will move to general public participation. So I will have a list that comes before me. I will read from that list. And then following that, I'll open it to the floor. Just a reminder, you'll need to state your name prior to starting. You'll have, I believe, a three-minute clock, and we are being live-streamed. So we'll begin with Antonio Foster. Good morning.

Good morning.

Antonio Foster. As you see, I am walking better. I'm feeling better. But anyway, let me get into some other things. First, I would like to start out with the tape that me and the director is on, you know, because it shows my proof and my truth of all that I have been through. I even understand and know, you know, who's backing my situation. That is something that I would like to get into after I see the tape. Now, my issue is, you know, I guess his name is Jeffrey. At first, it was just a right to know officer. I don't understand why it took so long for me to, you know, to even have to get the tape. But. For me to be told that I have to come down and watch the tape with somebody, I'm not a child. This is my life that's on the line. My life has been played, but in so many ways. So I really would like the games to quit. I don't understand why you can't just send me the tape if everybody is so comfortable. And, you know, it's been an issue a long time. You know, I've watched the system drag me through the mud. You know what I mean? Lie after lie after lie. And I have to come down here and crush them. And by the grace of God, I've been able to do that because I understand that I'm only one person up against a very huge system. I'm up against a tyrant. But I would have to say, and there are so many that fall into the same thing. Of course, when family members are involved, but you know, when I speak the truth, it expels all lies. So my issue with the tape is I'm going to speak to Jeffrey Adders and see if I can get the tape. I'm hoping that the tape wasn't played with in any way, shape, form, or fashion. And of all people down here, I wanted to say to you, I appreciate you, bro. Because everybody else came with the nonsense. And I appreciate everything. I appreciate you. You know what I mean? Understanding and speaking the truth, regardless of how it may fall, because I understand how it goes. And it can go bad for all because it's been very bad for me under the circumstances. So hopefully we can come to some type of agreement. Now, I don't know what your plans was with me, but it seemed like they were for me not to be here. All systems, crisis intervention, the Treasury Department. Attorney General's office, Harrisburg Police Station, Swat Air Police Station, all these places and people were involved. And, you know, and creating the situation for me, I guess the plan is to break me. But I'm still together by the grace of God. And, you know, I don't got no problem with staying in the building today till I speak to Jeffrey Adams and get the tape. And I will be recording the tape or either leaving with the tape. As far as telling me like I'm a child, I just can't do it. That doesn't sit well with me. I will have an issue with that. I think that's illegal and against the law for somebody to prove such the things that I'm proving, the things that I've spoken about and to tell me I have to watch a tape of somebody like I'm a child. Now, give me my proof. That's all I really got. Thank you.

Thank you. Next up, we have Libby Profit.

Good morning.

Good day. Good day. Good day commissioners. It's just an honor to sit here in front of you. I just spent the morning with...

Excuse me, could you please state your name for the record? Sorry.

My name is Libby Proffitt. Good morning. Proffitt from the Experience Incorporated. I'm also part of the 1321 North Cameron Street Veterans Hub, where we are redeveloping that area to make it Veterans Housing. So I'm glad that Commissioner Hartwig and the rest of you guys had an opportunity to mention some development that's going on in the community. I was grateful to learn that Commissioner Douglas is willing to give his support. So we're looking forward to that letter to add to our grant submission. And we hope that the other commissioners will join soon. Part of the revitalization of our community, what I have noticed as a leader in the community, we want to see our elected officials out. We want to see you guys engage so that the businesses can get more money. People will come out more, not only when you're campaigning, but on a regular day. Commissioner Douglas mentioned something earlier in the the Juneteenth summit that we need to hold our elected officials accountable. We love to see you guys when you're campaigning. We also want to see you guys when you're not campaigning out in the community, get the money flowing, get the business popping. So I wanted to bring that out to you and thank you. Accessibility was one of the things that during the morning, during the Juneteenth summit representative davison made a key point on accessibility we want to we want you to be accessible to us in the community um so i just wanted to mention these key thing being accessible to us some of you are We are very much grateful for Commissioner Douglas. He is within the youth community and they know him. fully respect him. We want to see the same for both the other two commissioners. So accessibility is important and to be out there so that our community will see you more. We will come out and spend money. Believe it or not, I spend money on things I don't need just because it's an engagement. It's just things, it's just, it's a festival always, every day when we are together in a gathering environment. I wanted to thank you guys and hope that you do jump aboard on the 1321 North Cameron Street Veterans Hub, where we are developing 12 units for veterans. Thank you.

Just one quick clarifying question, because we spoke briefly after the panel, but I had to rush over here to chair this meeting. You're asking for a letter of support for state grants that you're going after and some other corporate grants that you're going after, correct? Right.

I have communicated over the last probably month, two months, with several individuals in your administration. Ms. Smallwood has had some of my requests. I will do a follow-up. I understand you guys are really busy. Absolutely. I know it's getting to me, so on the way, it's probably on your desk, right? I know you're extremely busy, but we are running on deadline. June 25th is application opening for the Federal Home Loan Bank, so we are running on deadline, so thank you.

If I could just make a couple follow-ups. One, I would be more than happy to sign a letter of support. I'm not familiar with what you're referring to right now, but Commissioner Douglas apparently is fully supportive. I'm not really sure what this letter is, but I will check with my executive assistant and others to see what this letter is about. This sounds like it's about the community and housing. Why wouldn't we be for it? And secondly, I just want to correct you. I've been a commissioner for 15 years now. I've never seen a commissioner more out in the community are involved and engaged with community and George Hartwick. There's no one's even close to his engagement with the community. In the 15 years I've served as commissioner, so I just wanted to state that with you.

I know Mr Hartwick now for at least 15 years back in the days when I was rallying for cannabis legalization. Ava Berg was my mentor at the time. So I've known Mr. Hart, excuse me, Commissioner Hart has been out there. Also see you guys at the veterans breakfast. I was there. I'm a veteran myself. So I myself have seen you around. However, individuals in the community is what I'm referring to. Not everyone is quite familiar with how good of a people you are. That's all.

And I believe we have received your information. I believe the letter has been circulated.

Thank you.

Thank you very much. That is the end of our public participation sign-up list. Is there anyone for public participation?

Good morning again, Commissioner. Good morning. I'm here to address the same thing I'm always addressing, the incident that happened. Could you please state your name for the record? Okay, I'm sorry. Robert Williams, Harrisburg, PA. I'm here to address the same issue I've always come here to address, which is the incident that happened in the Dauphin County Courthouse in the DA's lobby. Now, I have evidence that there's a pattern of corruption amongst many individuals working for this county. And Mr. Douglas told me he was going to investigate this so-called overwritten footage, which I have evidence that the footage wasn't overwritten. The surveillance footage wasn't overwritten due to the capabilities of the server. And Mr. Prius, I asked you about Dwayne Bender and Jeff Benders, their duties to this footage, and you said you like the job they're doing. How could you like the job that they're doing when the job they're doing is contradictory to the County Records Act? It's illegal. Those videos should have been preserved and only discarded according to the County Records Manual. So the cover-up that you guys tried to make with the ad hoc retention policy December 3rd, which I have the policy, and they brought it up. It's one page. It doesn't say in detail how you can do anything. It's like two paragraphs. So I have in writing the... system I have in writing, Dwayne Bender and Gene Banghart's conversation. Gene told him that the system dynamically expands and he doesn't need to preserve it. All he has to do is extend the memory, which Dwayne Bender didn't do. He said, I'll get to it when I feel like it. And this was well before 30 days, which you guys, not you guys, but the county told me that this video was overwritten in 30 days. And the system doesn't overwrite in 30 days. That's not true. Also, I have evidence of Sergeant Lloyd lying in writing. I have. many people falsifying records, destroying records, and no one has called me in to investigate, to interview me. You haven't put anything on the agenda, and I have many people committing crimes, felony crimes, and that's no big deal. I was attacked by three or four sheriff deputies, and I have it in writing. I also have the deputy sheriff putting himself as the victim and me as mentioned. It's all in writing. Lie after lie after lie after lie. Sergeant Lloyd says he watched the video which your OOR Vince told me when I requested this video that no records were available, that it didn't exist. But we have Corey Dickerson, we have Sergeant Lloyd, we have all these people saying they watched the video and claimed there was nothing to be seen. That's not their position. They don't get to say what gets preserved and not preserved when we have the County Records Act. He knows this. He had a duty to make sure that that video was preserved when the foreseeability of litigation arrived. He's in dereliction of his duties, and he committed so many unethical acts, and I will prove it all.

Thank you, Mr. Williams. Anyone else for public comment?

morning commissioners morning pamela parson morning allison hill harrisburg um this morning earlier commissioner hartwick you mentioned uh people having a vested interest in the community by owning a home and i'd like to push back on that a little bit that idea that you have to own a home it to be have a vested interest in the community you are correct in the city of harrisburg we do have about 60 percent of the folks are renters we also have a median income in this town of about 30 to 35 000 to 30 3300 um $30,000 to $33,000 is our average income in the city. And we don't develop housing for that. Not rental and not most homes are not developed for that. I live two blocks from 16th and Market. And what I know about the development there is because of what I read in the paper and the research that I have done myself. So I would argue I don't know what community is involved in this. But living in Ellison Hill, we are a community that is generally acted on and people do things for us rather than doing things with us. And it's easy if you drive through my neighborhood to see it and to think that no one cares because of how it looks. there is a lack of infrastructure update there that is ongoing for decades we have ruts in my street that have gone unaddressed for decades now i understand this is not the county's issue this is an issue with the city but as commissioner priest knows we have an issue with dumping there and over the years um he and i have communicated about the ongoing dumping that goes on there. And for a while, we had toxic waste sitting on the sidewalk in my neighborhood that eventually I had to get DEP to step in to do something. And that is now gone. But we have illegal businesses. The businesses that operate there are not owned by people who live there. Most of the houses that for rent are not owned by the people who live there. And so an understanding of what a definition of community is, the people who are there in my neighborhood are not responsible. The residents are not responsible for the trash that is there. They are not responsible. We are not responsible for how the neighborhood looks. We're just a throwaway neighborhood and someone can sweep in and create a housing development But it's not us. It's acting upon us. And of all the people who were mentioned, only Mr. Hudson lives in the city. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else for public participation?

Good morning.

Good morning. Good morning.

My name is Chloe. My name is Chloe Oystrich. I'm from Harrisburg, Asselin Hill, as well as Pam. So I'm speaking here today not only for me, but also on behalf of family, friends, and loved ones living here in Dauphin County. I want to speak specifically about the threat of ICE. ICE has demonstrated that they're a serious problem in our community and our nation even. They kidnap people arbitrarily, cage them in concentration camps where they're held in deplorable living conditions, and then traffic them to foreign countries that are often unsafe. This kind of fascist agency is not wanted in our community, they do not make us safer, and they are not welcome on our streets. So you, our commissioners, now I believe have the responsibility to protect us from this threat to the best of your ability. so small passive measures are not going to seem to be enough to ensure that residents are safe several counties even allegheny bux montgomery and soon lehigh have passed welcoming county resolutions that take bold action in this situation and proven to be effective commissioner hartwick I've been made aware that you've been personally contacted to sit down with community leaders to discuss a welcoming county resolution, but there hasn't been a response given to this request yet. So we'd really like to hear from you. Our community is reaching out to you because we believe that you can rise to the occasion and do what's necessary to keep Dauphin County safe. So we implore you to be given us reason to continue to believe in you and want to work with you. So this specific welcoming county resolution will plan to be shared at the end of the month. This resolution is a culmination of collaborative effort between numerous local organizations and local organizers' plans to include measures that have been successful in other counties and how that have been passed too. um it'll show what this county needs from its commissioners to feel safe from ice i hope that each one of you take this call to action seriously um residents are relying on you and we're urging you to make this resolution priority thank you do you have a sample resolution with because i've not seen any I've not seen any it has not been finalized yet, but it was just like, um, the, those who are putting together the resolution wanted to meet with you 1st to discuss some of the details until the finalized version is released.

And I normally don't respond, but I think anybody made a request to try to be related to these issues. We've tried to accommodate and I will in the future. Okay. I'm not seeing any language to be able to discuss. And if anybody could advance me those things, if. i'm unaware of any thing that has been proposed or presented to me in dolphin county and there appears to be a timetable you're discussing which i'm not aware of okay we can follow up again via email um would you be open to scheduling a meeting to start discussing i'm always open to meeting okay thank you so much appreciate that anyone else for public participation

Morning my name is I'm from Stilton and I just wanted to kind of echo what Chloe had to say about the welcoming county resolution because we have neglected to implement a welcome counting resolution with the urgency. It deserves has been able to roam our streets and kidnap community members with impunity. Our neighbors are afraid to leave their homes and live with dignity for fear the ice will tear them apart when their families are worse. As Chloe said, ice is putting people into concentration camps. They're deporting them to countries that are not safe for them. And quite honestly, I don't know how it's still taking us this long to take some actionable steps. um commissioner hartwick i really appreciate your openness to this resolution especially considering i saw that in your public bio you state that you prioritize cultural diversity and keeping families together but that of course cannot be accomplished without a firm stance against ice that includes actionable steps a welcoming county resolution that prohibits the voluntary use of county data space and employee time to collaborate with immigration enforcement officials is the bare minimum Counties like Allegheny, Montgomery, Erie, and Philadelphia have successfully implemented their own welcoming counting resolutions in response to the recent spikes in ICE activity, and they have seen measurable results. It is imperative that we do the same because every moment we deliberate and defer is an opportunity for immigration enforcement to strike. Commissioners, as stewards of our community, it is your responsibility to cooperate with the local organizations that are conducting the groundwork to take a stand against ICE. If you feel any upcoming draft lacks clear or actionable steps, please do not dismiss it, but rather work with us towards a resolution that truly keeps everyone safe. Thank you.

Anyone else for public comment? Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion for adjournment. Moved by Commissioner Hartwick. Do we have a second?

Second. Second.

Yes. All in favor of adjourning? Aye.