City Council - Regular Meeting

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Hi, Susan. How you doing? Good. No, I was in Washington. I missed it. He doesn't run them. He doesn't pay any bills. Jimmy Mack is the um director of the uh Southeastern Pennsylvania printers. They've all done work for Trump. Never got paid. Yeah.

He doesn't pay people. How are you? A lot of high school students here. Allergies. No, just cold. I'm catching a cold.

No, I was uh I He called me. I said, "Oh, what do you want?" He says, "You're supposed to be here for appointment." I said, "Oh, I didn't know that." Well, he called me. I'm waiting for you. I'm in the waiting room. He didn't know I was in the waiting room. I am freezing. I don't know why. You probably got a fever. I'm not going to get you sick.

No, that's not true. That's not true. I was sick on Saturday and didn't go to that group two.

I didn't see you there. That's why. That's good. Hey, John.

559. We're going to call the state of session of city council to order because we have a rather long agenda. Please rise for the invocation followed by a pledge of flag. Heavenly Father, we ask that you watch over this meeting so that people can disagree without being disagreeable. We ask that you watch over the 67 people displaced by the Hotel Hampton fire and the six that are still in temporary shelters. light up our meeting with in light of our meeting with Med, we ask that you help us have better communication with them so that it doesn't take two hours to have the electricity turned off, placing our firefighters in harm's way, especially since electricity and water do not mix. And finally, we ask you to help us help others in need. And we as we begin to distribute community development block grant funds. Amen. 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. Roll call. Madam clerk, my hands are shaking.

Mr. Brown here. Missando Dennis here. Mr. Pinnabone here. Mrs. Rose here. Mr. Mr. Graciano here. Uh, Mrs. Hartraf Biddinger here. Mayor Panto here. Approval of the agenda moved. Moved and second. Any additions, leashes, or corrections? Hearing none. Roll call. Madam clerk. Miss Zondo Dennis. I. Mr. Pinter. I. Mrs. Rose. I. Mr. Graciano. I. Mrs. Hartref Pittinger. I. Mayor Panto. I. M. Uh, Mr. Brown. I. Presentation to city council. There are none tonight. We cross that off the agenda. So we go right into action of our minutes on March 11th meeting. So moved. Second.

Moved in and second. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Pinnabon. I. Mrs. Rose. Hi. Mr. Graciano. Hi. Mrs. Hartra Pittinger. I. Mayor Panto. I. Mr. Brown. Hi. Miss Zondo Dennis. I. At this time we have public comment on agenda items only. If anybody would like to come up and speak on the agenda items, they have five minutes. Just give your name and address, please. Seeing none, we'll move along to uh consent agenda. Madam clerk, sure. We have three uh resolutions for certificates of appropriateness uh for 118 Northampton Street, 339 to 41 Northampton Street and 41 North 3rd Street. So moved.

Second. Moved and second in discussion. Roll call. Mrs. Rose. I. Mr. Graziano. Hi, Mrs. Hartwraf Binger. Hi, Mayor Panto. Hi, Mr. Brown. Hi, Mrs. Al Dennis. Hi, Mr. Pinnabone. I There are no reports to be received by council, so we'll move right into committee reports. Finance Committee, Councilman Brown. Thank you, Mayor. I have one this evening that'll be introducing a national ordinance amending the chapter 285, and that's for uh mechanical amusement devices uh putting them into the 21st century as far as highly charged. Okay. um economic development committee council member uh Pinnabone.

Thank you, Mayor. Uh since the last meeting, our um team held CDBG orientation with prospective applicants for city funding, held regularly scheduled RDA meeting, attended the Westward business meeting, participated in numerous meetings, calls regarding the individuals impacted by the Hotel Hampton fire to provide assistance in a very variety of ways. And mayor, as you mentioned, we're down to only six that do not have housing, down from 67, and uh they're still at the church uh shelter until April 8th. Um as of now, uh the department coordinated with Safe Harbor and the Methodist Church to submit hope hotel Hampton fire grant, and we're hoping to get that uh word on that soon. attended council committee meeting and finalized outdoor dining guidelines per council's feedback which is on the agenda tonight and met with panelists for the upcoming small business development center grant. We were awarded a DNL trail town amenities grant swings for Delaware Canal Park for $5,000 and we applied to Representative McKenzie's community finding projects for police technology replacement upgrades for 115,000. Representative McKenzie's community finding projects for the fire department chief's truck for 115,000. Senator McCormick's appropriations for police technology and replacement and upgrades for 436,000. Senator Federman's appropriations for police technology replacement and upgrades 436,000. Lehigh Valley Greenway mini grant for the East Cemetery Trail Repaving $20,000. Senator Fedman's appropriations for the Eastn Fire Department's Cascade Unit, $87,000. Senator McCormick's appropriations for the Eastn Fire Department's Cascade

Unit, 87,817. So, we applied twice. Senator McCormick appropriations, Eastn Fire Department chief struck 115,000 and local government emergency housing support program on behalf of State Farber for $116,550. Um, uh, one update, mayor, in April, I apologize for the delay. I rushed up here and I left my my my new glasses in the car. Are you getting older? I am. Not not your age older, but older.

April 13th, I'm going to be hosting an event uh in partnership with the Boys and Girls Club um for our senior citizens. I don't know if if a lot of people in here have experienced it, but there's a lot more scams going on. I got a call last week that I had a warrant from Kentucky and if I just wired them $1,000, it would go away. Uh some seniors are getting um the toll. You didn't pay your toll. we're going to suspend your so myself, uh, the Eastern Police Department, uh, some some agencies from the county, we're going to host that at 1 p.m. on April 13th for our seniors and more information out as soon as possible. Mayor, that's all I have. Thank you. Um, planning and coach committee, Council Member Rose.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, just wanted to let everyone know that the special council meeting regarding the Wood Avenue warehouse that was was scheduled for next Monday, the 30th, has been cancelled. I'll let any additional details be communicated by our solicitor uh sheer. I'll also be introducing a resolution related to the parking garages at the next meeting when the city administrator returns. So stay tuned for details on that. We'll have discussion at the next meeting. Um I'm also have been working on a data center ordinance um which I sent to uh our solicitor and assistant solicitor. So I'll be working with assistant solicitor Vargo on that. I just confirmed that with the solicitor before this meeting. And I also wanted to invite I know I invited council mayor um and some of the department heads to the Eastn Business Association ribbon cutting on Friday at 6:30 p.m. It's for Creations by Laura DeMarco. The salon located at 252 Spring Garden Street. Hope to see everyone there. Thanks. That's all I have.

Okay, we'll move on to public safety. Mr. M Councilman Graciano.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, over the past few weeks, I've completed uh all tours of all three fire stations, excuse me. Um, including Central, I I believe that was early February, and College Hill and Southside earlier this month. Uh, one of the things I took away from it that I noticed at all three facilities was that there's a number of maintenance and infrastructure issues, some routine, and some that are more significant that need to be addressed. Um, I'm not going to go over the full list tonight, but it's clear that we need to take a closer look at the current conditions of our facilities and begin a broader discussion on that. Also, East and Blackw Watch will meet tomorrow night at the community center on Washington Street at 7 p.m. Uh, last month's reorganization meeting was well attended and hope to see that continue. Lieutenant Dan Bonham will be there to discuss how Blockwatch operates and how to become a block captain. So, anyone interested, see you tomorrow night. That's it.

6 o'clock. Seven seventh. Oh yeah. Seven o'clock at um Community Center on Washington Street. Ninth in Washington. Yeah. Um public works, Mrs. Miss Julie Zondo Dennis. Thank you, Mayor. The public works department has nine uh resolutions and one ordinance before council today. That's all I have. Okay. Thank you, Administration Committee. Miss Hartraff Binder. Uh, no report tonight. Okay. Thank you. Reporter Solicitor, Mr. Shear.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, just to uh follow up on uh what council person Rose indicated, the uh special meeting that was scheduled for Monday uh is is permanently cancelled. Uh and just for the background of uh council and the public uh when the uh uh decision was issued in December 17, the applicant had two different actually routes that they could challenge this. One was to go to under our own ordinance. One was to go to city council essentially looking for a review and the other was to appeal directly to the court of common please. basically then on the record set up below um the count the the applicant filed in both places just to protect the um uh the records so they wouldn't get caught. um where we made an argument that they had to go to city council. Um and uh we we stipulated that no, you don't have to. You can withdraw it and go straight to um common police court so that we could save everybody the long time and aggravation. I mean I won't say aggravation, the long time when inevitably this case would be up in common please anyway. It is in common please on the separate action that they file called the mandamus action in which the applicant is essentially indicating that once they presented their evidence there was absolutely zero basis for the planning commission or the staff to do anything but hand them their permits um that uh is being challenged initially by preliminary objections that have been filed and uh judge Rosioli has been appointed to hear the case and uh there's a briefing schedule provided and then its oral argument will is scheduled for uh Tuesday, May 5. Um so it'll be, you know, that that's the first step in and that as as that moves forward, but it won't be moving forward in front of

council. Um and uh that's all I have to report. Thank you, Mr. Shear. Um Lewis isn't here, so we'll go right into my report. Well, I have I have a report from Lewis. Okay. Yeah. Are you ready? Oh, go ahead.

Okay. All right. So, uh Lewis uh is in uh her sheet today uh actually next couple days uh Mr. Campos wanted me to tell you that he's attending a a labor law conference. This is an annual training that reviews updates in labor laws collective bargaining training. Lewis is joined by two solicitors and an HR manager and the training is also part of his continuing education that is required about job postings. We do have a codes officer currently open for applications posted internally per the O contract. The city plan planner and zoning officer the posting is uh rolling through administration and is keeping open until the position is filled. There are currently a handful of candidates that are being considered. Police posting closed on on will be closed on well did close sorry uh Friday March 20th. We receive 64 applications. We may uh get one or two applications from applicants that are come through the mail. That usually happens later in the week. We increase the number of applicants from 2023 and 2025. Physical and written exams for the police department will be completed on Saturday, March 20th. I'm sorry, Saturday, March 28th, 2026.

So, in 23, we had 44 applicants, no training, and no testing in 24. In 25, we had 45 applicants. And now, in 2026, we have 64. And uh we're really happy about that. That's the end of Louiswis's report. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Mrs. Bineer,

we'll move on to uh my report. Um this past last week we had Marvin Ber day in Easton. Um, Marvin was a a local civil rights uh activist who came to us through Southside, grew up in Southside, was a city resident for many, many years, was active in the NAACP, Toast Masters, and um, excuse me, Project of Een. So, um, and the NAACP, um, we had about 50 people in the room and, uh, we want to wish the family well in, uh, their loss. Marvin went to school with me. I graduated with his sister. We were both grew up in the projects of Delaware Terrace and and uh, he was a good guy. The next thing I'd like to probably sometime in April, I will have a pub crawl ordinance. The pub crawl ordinance will basically charge people for extra police protection. It'll also uh the permit because we have people right now running these pub crawls that are making money on them.

They're making a lot of money. They're getting like 700 people to participate in them and it creates a lot of havoc downtown. and I'll have a pub crawl ordinance. Um, now we won't charge as much as Hoboken, New Jersey charges. They charge $3,000. We won't charge that much, but we're going to charge something for the administrative uh bureaucracy that has to deal with all the paperwork. Um, speaking of that, this weekend, Saturday, we have the No Kings March, which is a protest in Center Square. And um everyone, the public is invited. Uh Mrs. Bineer also reported on the police applications. I'd like to thank the finance the human relations commission uh department for doing a good job of getting the word out so that we had applicants. Uh police work right now is very tenuous. It's hard to get people to apply because it's not as an easy job anymore. It's a tough job. And uh we thank all the people in in East who are police officers because it really it's really needed to keep our city safe and it's hard to get applicants and we doubled the applicants we had from last time. So that's good. And with 64, it's not as much as we used to have. We used to get several hundred.

Uh when the chief applied, there were 400 applicants. Wow. So 64 sounds like a small amount, but it's enough for the civil service board to give us uh a good test. The test is actually I think it's this Saturday. Yes. Yeah, it's this Saturday. 28th. Yeah.

And um we'll have the written test and then the civil service board will callull through the the various people and do an interview process and come up with a list. The police officers are hired to civil service. Speaking of police officers, the five that we swore in a couple weeks ago, they are now off of field training. Uh the FTO days, they're now out on the street by themselves. So, we're really happy to get five more police officers on the street. And we have the list, the 64. We'll probably be hiring three or four out of that list because we have three or four retirements next year. So, we have a lot of retirements coming up in the police department. Um, also this Tuesday, I want to invite city council to um Joe Gills retirement party. Joe Gill is our health officer who's retiring. We've already hired his replacement who can learn from Joe. Joe's done a great job of keeping our festivals safe uh both from a cooking point of view and from a uh temperature point of view. But Joe's retiring the end of the month and so on Tuesday we'll have a a going away lunchon for Joe. Also, um I was glad to see the uh zoning hearing board approved there development on the south side. It's apartments and they're very nice apartments and they'll look really good. And on Center Street on a piece of property has been vacant. Well, when I was a kid, it was vacant. So, it was a long time.

Long time ago.

Yeah. And um they did turn down the proposal for 519 um Northampton Street, which I'm not sure why they did. So, I'll I was on vacation at that time, but um that is just a junkyard. It's a vacant property on Fifth Street, 500 block of Northampton Street, up from the Hooper House that we're going to put a lot of money into and uh it should be developed. There were buildings on there when I was a kid. I'm glad to see Miss Mrs. Rose is going to do a data center because I was going to do one too. Um data centers are are utility hogs. And speaking of utilities, we had a meeting last week with Med. We had the director the vice president of operations there and I'm not sure we resolved anything but I will tell you the communication either gets better med or we go to the PUC and get in a car and go out there because I'm not going to put the lives of firefighters in jeopardy again in harm's way because that's what we had 11 firefighters in harm's way because it took them two hours to turn off the electricity and when they turned it off they turned off the whole city. So, that's not good either. Um, and it was a Friday night, which downtown is busy on a Friday night. So, no electricity, no traffic lights, no um street lights, nothing. Um, we we we we want to make sure we get a better communication with them. They give lip service. I'm sorry to be hard on Med, but I will not put the lives of firefighters. We actually had ground ladders energized and a fire truck energized. So that means if you touch a firetruck, you're going to get electrocuted or electric electric shock. If you happen to be standing in water, you're going to get electrocuted and

killed. So I'm not going to go to a funeral for a firefighter that lost his life because of the negligence on med. And I'm and I'm and I and I told her that. Mayor, yes. If I may, just to add to that, at the conclusion of the meeting, you'll recall that I asked for the itemized breakdown of what they're charging Nurture Nature. They said they would get it to us. It's been months. Still didn't. And I emailed them again yet. They still haven't responded. So, it doesn't surprisingly. Tia's a nice young lady who's their community relations coordinator, but

they don't follow up. And they're going to work with our fire department to talk about training. They want to do training. phone call from the fire chief. I We need to the electric at 418 North Hammer Street turned off. How hard is that? Doesn't need training. Push a button. Um also, until somebody gets hurt and get sued, nothing's going to happen.

We also have a planner position that we're advertising for and that planner position needs to be a certified planner. And um I believe that's it. Oh, this Saturday is the egg hunts. We have one on College Hill, one on Southside, and one on Westward. One on College Hill is at 10 o'clock at Nevin Park and then at Southside at Hy Park at 10 12:00 and at Cunningham Stadium at 2 o'clock. So, we want to thank the school district for their generous support and also uh the the recreation neighborhood development project uh department who's doing a great job hosting that and that's part of the public services division. And that's the end of my report. So, we'll move on to um correspondence. There's no correspondence. We'll go into unfinished business. Madame clerk, bill number five. Build number five, an ordin an ordinance approving the newly defined storm and water easement with Sirfos Lyn and Development for property located at 101 South Third Street.

So moved. Second. Moved and second. Any discussion? Just for the public to understand, um, we have a sewage pipe. We we already the city already has an or excuse me, an easement of 30 feet to allow for the sewer pipe to go uh between the buildings and uh and this simply just narrows it to 20 feet, but it's not in any way going to prevent the maintenance um of that pipe. So, okay. Anyone else? Roll call. Mr. Graciano. I. Mrs. Hartra Biddinger. Hi. Mayor Panto. Hi, Mr. Brown. Hi, Mrs. Zando Dennis. Hi, Mr. Pinone. Hi,

Mrs. Rose. Hi, Going right into new business. Madam clerk, a resolution authorizing installation of a commemorative bench and plaque at North Third Street. Moved. Second. Second. Moved and second. Any discussion? Roll call. Mrs. Hartraf Pittinger. I. Mayor Panto. I. Mr. Brown. Hi. Missando Dennis. Hi. Mr. Pinnabone. Hi. Mrs. Rose. Hi. Mr. Graziano. I. A resolution authorizing authorizing Easton DCED to apply for a T-Mobile hometown grant award. So moved. Second. Moved in second. Discussion. Roll call. Mayor Panto. I Mr. Brown. Hi. Miss Dennis. Hi.

Mr. Pinnabone. Hi. Mrs. Rose. Hi. Mr. Graziano. Hi. Mrs. Hartra. Bidding. Hi. I would like to just uh John Kingsley is here, the director of um DCD, Department of Community Economic Development, who has our grant writer, and you heard council member Pinnabone talk about all the grants that we just received. And we couldn't do half the things we do in the city of Isa without other people's money. And this one, we have a good relationship with Senator Barcolola and Representative Freriedman. And this most of these money is coming from the state. We we get very little money from the federal government anymore, but we do get we still get grants from the state. So, okay, madam clerk,

resolution authorizing East and DCED to apply for a municipal assistance program grant. So moved. Moved in second. Is there a second? Second. Second. Roll call. Mr. Brown. I. Mrs. Dennis. Hi. Mr. Pinter. Hi. Mrs. Rose. Hi. Mr. Graziano. Hi. Mrs. Hartraf Biddinger. I, Mayor Panso. I a resolution authorizing Eastn DCED to apply for a green light go grant award. Moved. Second. Moved and second in the discussion. Roll call. Missando Dennis. Hi. Mr. Pinnabon. I. Mrs. Rose. Hi. Mr. Graciano. Hi. Mrs. Hart. Pinger. I. Mayor Panto. I.

Mr. Brown. I. A resolution approving a developer agreement with Divine Drywall for the project located at 1002 West Bourbick Street. So moved. Second. Moved and second in discussion. Roll call. Uh Mr. Pinnabon. I. Mrs. Rose. Hi. Mr. Graciano. I. Mrs. Hartra Pittinger. I. Mayor Panto. I. Mr. Brown. I. Missando Dennis. Hi. A resolution authorizing the approval of an agreement with traffic planning and design for bridge inspection services for various structures within Humore Park. So moved. Second. Moved and second in discussion. Roll call.

Mrs. Rose. I. Mr. Graziano. I. Mrs. Hart. Biddinger. I. Mayor Panto. I. Mr. Brown. I. Missando Dennis. Hi. Mr. Pinnabone. I. A resolution authorizing approval of an agreement with Rivercrossing YMCA Eastston and Philipsburg branch for pool operations at Eddy Side facility for the 2026 season. So moved. Second. And we notice that doesn't say Hy because Hile is closed for two years. Mayor, yes. Under did you acknowledge the first the motion and second? Yes. All right. under discussion and this might not be the time, but are we going do we have a plan to keep Eddie Side open five days a week?

Yes, seven days a week. I'm sorry. Seven. And I know we we bounced it around last year, you and I, but I don't know if we went anywhere with it about possibly providing transportation for uh Southside and Westward resident since they can't walk. We're working on that. Okay. Thank you. If we can get drivers then no problem. The problem is getting the drivers. We raise the rate hourly rate. Okay. Roll call. Um Mr. Graciano. I. Mrs. Hartraf Pittinger. Hi. Mayor Panto. Hi. Mr. Brown. Hi. Miss Sando Dennis. Hi. Mr. Pinnabone. I. Mrs. Rose.

Hi. A resolution authorizing David Hopkins, director of public works, to electronically approve a reimbursement agreement and associated documents in Penn Dot's RA program for the Northampton Street pedestrian improvement project. Second. Moved and seconded discussion. Dave, you want to give us an update on where that project stands? We expect it to be let this year, but what it is, what it includes. So, yeah. So, this was part of that uh three-year congested mitigation grant that we got last year.

It's about a million dollars and includes intersection upgrades in the West Ward, which I believe we're going to stick to all the intersections along the 13th Street corridor. And then we worked with Atlanta on their priorities and Sixth and Northampton seems to be one of their busiest bus stops. So, right now the um I I think the the modern way of of getting on and off the bus is to have the bus stay in the lane, pick up, drop off at the bumpout, and just keep going so you avoid weaving in and out of traffic. So, those those six intersections are going to be the focus. Okay. Thank you. Thanks, Dave. Mrs. Hart Biddinger. Hi, Mayor Panto. Hi, Mr. Brown.

Hi, Missando Dennis. Hi, Mr. Mr. Pinnabone. I, Mrs. Rose. I, Mr. Graciano. I, a resolution authorizing a two-year agreement with Johnson Controls for maintenance of fire detection and sprinkler systems at city hall. So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Discussion. Uh, I I have a question. Mayor Dave, this probably for you. Do we typically do like two years at a time agreements for this type of service? Is that standard? Typically, we'll go as long as they'll hold their price study.

So, in this case, they said, "Well, we'll give you the same price for two years," which, you know, it's it's proprietary. So, for us to find another vendor, which we've looked at and we've tried to price out, they still have to buy those particular parts even if so, which then come at a major markup, which makes the almost non-competitive. So, I figured, you know, they would have gone longer, but we go to at an even rate and then we can renegotiate or at least repric it in two years. Thank you, Mr. Hopkins. Madam clerk, Mr. Brown, I miss Dennis. Hi, Mr. Pidabone. Hi, Mrs. Rose. Hi, Mr. Graziano. I miss Mrs. Hartra Biddinger. Hi, Mayor Pant.

Hi. A resolution authorizing approval of an agreement with Breitfields for environmental hotspot remediation at the Eastn Iron and Metal site. So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Just want to say that we hope to get this these lots cleaned up so that we can sell the land to VM Development uh this year yet. John shaking his head. I hear it. Finally. Yeah, we've had him a long time. And I'll just pardon you, Mayor.

I'll just add that the project is being funded through the United States EPA brownfields program cost uh $293,000 and um Miss Zand Dennis. Hi, Mr. Pinnabon. Hi, Mrs. Rose. Hi, Mr. Graciano. Hi, Mrs. Hartwraf Pittinger. Hi, Mayor Panto. Hi, Mr. Brown. Hi, A resolution approving an agreement with Michael Baker International to amend the city's safe streets for all plan. So moved. Second. Moved and second. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Pinnabone.

I miss I'm sorry, M. Madam Clerk, at some point during a committee meeting, I want David to come back and really go over the safe streets for all program again, including the Rotary at Third and Larry Holmes Drive. Mrs. Rose. Hi, Mr. Graciano. Hi, Mrs. Harraff. Bidding. Hi, Mayor Panto. Hi, Mr. Brown. Hi, Miss Zando Dennis. Hi. A resolution approving professional services agreement with Delta Development Group for grant writing services related to the safe streets for all. So moved. Second. Moved and second. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Pinnabon. Hi,

Mrs. Rose. Hi, Mr. Graciano. Hi, Mrs. Hartwrath. Binger, I mayor Panto. Hi, Mr. Brown. I Mrs. Zondo Dennis, I resolution authorizing execution of an agreement with Incitu Form Technologies for storm and sanitary sewer pipe rehabilitation in the west ward. So, moved.

Second. I know that people will be upset, but these are temporary inconveniences for permanent improvement when we line all of our sanitary when water lines uh you'll you'll like it. It'll it'll you won't have the tearing up the streets. This is a better process because it doesn't tear up the streets. We don't have to trench the streets. We they push it through. So, we're we're we're we're excited about that. We do a lot of insitu form in the last 20 years. Madam clerk, uh, Mrs. Rose, I, Mr. Graciano, I, Mrs. Hartra Biddinger, hi. Mayor Panto, hi. Mr. Brown, I, Mrs. Zondo, Dennis, I, Mr. Pinone, I,

a resolution approving the outdoor dining program guidelines for the 2026 season. So, move.

Second. Moved and second. Any discussion? Um, I just wanted to thank John Kingsley and his team for um going back and forth with me on some of the edits and everyone being open to the discussion at the last committee meeting. Um, I still I have concerns about enforcement, but I'm hoping we'll have a smooth program this year. Um, you know, I I think if it doesn't go this well this year, I I I don't know how I can support it next year, but I'm feeling hopeful and positive about it. So, I hope we have a good season. Thank you. And Mr. Kingsley, I want to thank you guys for working on it as well. Um, and and and listening to Crystal's feedback, Councilwoman Rose's feedback. I like the outdoor dining program. I think it brings something to Easton that I enjoy participating in or just driving by and seeing. So, I'm hoping that that we have a good year. Thank you,

Mr. Graciano. Hi, Mrs. Hartwuff. Bidding. Hi, Mayor Panto. Hi, Mr. Brown. I Miss Zondo Dennis. Hi, Mr. Pinnabone. I Mrs. Rose. Hi. Resolution amending salary and wage authorizing personnel changes and compensation adjustments. So move. Second. Moved and second. Any discussion? Roll call. Uh, Mrs. Hart Biddinger. I Mayor Panto. Hi. Mr. Brown. Hi. Missando Dennis. Hi. Mr. Pinter. Hi. Mrs. Rose. Hi. Mr. Graziano. Hi. And we have a bill for introduction. New business under bills for introduction. Yep. Yeah. New business.

Bill number six, an ordinance amending section 285 taxation by revising the tax schedule for mechanical and amusement devices under chapter 535-96. Introduced by Mr. Brown. Introduced. Mayor uh and council. I I worked on this ordinance with um the video game shop in the circle and I and I went over our changes with the administration and um they were very grateful that we we we made the updates. That's it. Roll call. Now it's introduced. Okay.

Public comment. Yes. R Thank you, mayor. Uh, I know there aren't many people in here who are old enough to remember the civil rights movement of the 60s and what progress we made since then can be seen on the streets of East as well as many other streets in the south. So, I just want to point that out because the no kings march and demonstration on Saturday is very important just like the civil rights demonstrations were in the 60s and showed how we achieved the tremendous success we have all over America. Thank you, mayor.

Thank you, Arty. Thank you. Anyone else? How about one of the high school students? just come and tell us why you're here. And I'll make sure your your your teacher knows it so you get extra credit. Extra credit. Who's your teacher? Uh Mrs. Schumer. Your name, please. Austin Whismer. Actually do have a question. Um there's a traffic light going in by the high school. Is there any timeline on when that is going to go? That's um on Greenwood Avenue. Yeah, that's Palmer Township. Okay.

Also, what's your last name? Whismer. Whismer. Who's your parents? Kim and Austin. Whismer. Mr. and Mrs. Whismer. Austin. Who? Your teacher's Mrs. Schumer. Yes. Who's here from Mr. Falcone's class? Oh, look at them. uh all in a corner. I'm telling Austin, I just want to say when I was on school board, I worked very hard to have that happen there on Greenwood and I'm very happy it's going to happen and it'll be very soon. It will be. Yeah, my former boss is usually doing it. Training companies, so they work pretty good. They're pretty fast. Mayor,

if there's no other public comment, I'll make a motion to adjurnn. I'll second. moved and there's any other comments from the public. Okay. All right. Thank you everyone. Roll call. We got a roll call. We do. Mr. Panabone. Hi. Mrs. Rose. Hi. Mr. Graciano. Hi. Mrs. Harf Biddinger. Hi. Mayor Panto. Mayor Panto. Mayor Panto. Hi. Mr. Brown. Hi. I'm ready. Miss Zando Dennis. Hi. Thank God. My husband's out. I know that ain't that the truth.