Town Council - Regular Meeting

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I'd like to call to order the town of Mckant's meeting of town council April 13, 2026. Will everyone please rise and move your hands to the field of allegiance? 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.

As always, we'd like to begin the meeting this evening with a few announcements. First one, join us for our annual Town of Mandless Cleanup Day on the morning of April 25th, 2026, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the public works garage. Sign up on our website and help us keep beautiful. On the that same evening, April 25th, 2026, the Northland Public Library will host their 2026 Garden Gala, Phantom of the Library. Tickets are still available on the library website. Library week is April 19th through 25th, 2026. We encourage all residents to visit Northland Public Library, explore its resources, and celebrate all the ways that the library helps our community find joy. The town of McCandless is seeking applicants to fill a board vacancy for the environmental advisory committee. Please visit our website for more information. Applications are due no later than April 20th, 2026. The town of Vanas Police Department is seeking applicants for the position of police officer. Applications must be submitted and received by the police department no later than April 24th, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. Please see our website for more information. The town council of the town of McCandless and town staff will be participating in a strategic planning meeting on Friday, April 17th, 2026. Is there any additional uh announcements from council?

Yes, there are. Um the business alliance, our next meeting will be Monday, April 20th. For those of you that don't know, the McCandless Business Alliance is an arm of the Pittsburgh North Chamber of Commerce that we've developed with our businesses here in Macanas. Uh that meeting will be Monday morning, 9:00 a.m., April 20th at the St. Alexis Cafeteria uh on Old Perry Highway. The second announcement would be we are starting summer recreation again. Um July 6th through the 10th, summer recreation will be offered to children grades uh K through six at Ingamar Elementary. Um please stay tuned for the information that will be on our website shortly. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Law. Any further announcements from council? Okay, hearing none, we will move on to agenda item number four, uh, public hearing. Um, Mr. Corville, if you'd like to start.

Thank you. Um, I'd like to call to order the public hearing regarding tenatively identified ordinance number 1566 ordinance of the town council of the town hall, Pennsylvania, authorizing the establishment of a council manic district commission and appointment of its members for purpose of developing a report and recommendation for the revisions of the town's council manic districts in compliance with article one section 103. three of the town charter. Um this has been uh adequately advertised etc. And this is um the town picking up the redistricting efforts that were uh started that ran into a roadblock from the county and the state in order to try to push this over the finish line. And in order to do so um we have to reestablish the commission. Um and in the ordinance you'll see that the commission members will be Mr. Jason Singer, Mr. Paul Hecman and President Uptown Council Splunkoon. Um with that are there any um public comments on the ordinance to create the redistricting committee? Hearing none. Any comments or questions from council? This was almost done already. Right. Right.

And then we sent it to the county. The county sent it to the state and something got screwed up between those two. Right. Okay. We need to we just need to reestablish it. Okay. Get to come forward and take your name. Chris, my name's Chris. I'm in the microphone. And what's the purpose of the redistricting? Ma'am, your last name, please. You know, when I say the last time, a guy didn't give his last name or where he lived. So, I think I deserve the same privilege. Okay. I live up the hill over there. That's what he said, but he lived up that hill. So, and you guys didn't call him on it. What's the purpose of the redistricting? Where?

My name's Chris. We are only permitted to allow Last name Zotter. Zotter. Thank you. What's the purpose of the redistricting? to look at the council districts, the wards to draw different lines. It's already been completed, but there are only a couple um issues that were flagged by the state that need to be addressed. Okay. Thank you.

Anybody else? With that, unless there's an objection, I will close the public here on tenatively identified warnings missing. Okay, we have another uh I also here call to order the second public hearing of the evening uh regarding tenatively identified ordinance 1567. This is an ordinance of the town council of the town of Mana regarding uh amending article 1305 signs as amended as amended of the town code of ordinances to revise the regulations for on premises signs off premises signs temporary signs and digital display signed message. Um Mr. Inis, did you have uh something you wanted to set the table with?

Yeah, sure. See, thank you, councel. Um, at the February planning commission and noted um in a memo to Mr. Schwend, the planning commission did make a recommendation for now proposed ordinance number 1567. Um, to make an amendment to the signed ordinance. Um, I'm happy to discuss any questions that we'd have or go over the ordinance. Um, but I can kind of if you like I could talk through what some of the

Why don't you talk through the changes? So, a few of the changes from the ordinance are they actually align with the upcoming zoning ordinance review that will be conducted in 2026. So, there are a few um cleanup notes from the 2023 update. Um and then as you go through, there's edits to the temporary sign regulations for um the maximum sign area for temporary signs in residential districts being a maximum of 20 square feet. also a code line that um establishes temporary real estate construction and development signs and has a clause which requires removal of those signs as the construction or completion of the sales occurs. Um additionally there are um a few different ordinance updates to the digital display signs. There is a an adjustment to the message duration from 20 seconds to 8 seconds. There is a removal of a clause um for the addition of digital display to a non-conforming sign as that is a redundant clause. And there are um there's a on premise sign advertising places of business termination clause that requires businesses that close to remove their sign within 60 days. And there are a few updates to 305.150 of offer sign regulations which has a cause for nonresidential zoning districts. Off-remise digital display signs are only permitted on partials that directly abut Mcnite Road and are subject to the following requirements. And of the following requirements, the um adjustments are the removal of the maximum length uh within the offromise assign regulation as um this was actually discussed at the planning commission meeting. There's a few comments of what maximum length was um and it was recommended by the planning commission to remove that clause as in

the definitions of the town code maximum length is not defined. Um and upon doing research into neighboring uh municipalities and sign code, it doesn't seem that maximum length is a typical um typically put into a clause. And the sign um typically sign area and sign height are the two requirements that would uh control, you know, how big a sign could be um per the zoning. And then additionally um for digital display signs, they are um permitted provided that the sign is not located within 400 ft of a residential zoning district. And that's all listed within 135.150 um under non-residential zoning districts. So that's kind of everything that's within the ordinance. I'm happy to answer any questions or go over anything. Matt, in the in the code as it was before before this review, um signage that was back to back counted as one sign. Is that still the situation?

Like you're talking about like a like a wall, like a face sign, like a monument sign that had two faces. That's still one sign. Okay. Yeah. The structure. But correct me if I'm wrong. If they are off a little bit, that's considered to be two signs, right? Um they'll be directly back to back. There's a couple different types of signs. Um none none of this ordinance adjusts anything with the um the the sign types um specifically, but there are like a trio board sign um that has limitations within the the code. Thank you.

With that, we will go to the public and see if there are comments questions. Anybody in the public have any comments or questions perhaps done Harrison Drive. Um, one of the things I did not hear you mention and I think we need to look into is um, if you were to ban political signs, that would be awesome. I know you're not that ain't going to that's not going to happen, but the number of political signs after election day that still reside within the the municipality is ridiculous. So, is there a way of you either finding or penalizing the person who puts the signs up? So, just for picking on Joe, if Joe left his his signs out from election day and there's 10 of them, there's a f there should be a fine that goes against him. He's he should be responsible as a candidate to pick up those signs. And that goes across the board, whether it be local or the state. And then um also how early they can also go out. There are some places where you're only allowed to put them out a week before election day and they got to be down a week after election day. The town would look a lot nicer, a lot cleaner if we actually had something like that in place. Since you have it open now, you have a chance to do that and I think the general public would appreciate that. Thank you.

And I I'll just say generally that there are um first amendment implications with um directing a particular regulation towards a type of sign. So, um, if you're talking about temporary signs, which would include baseball signups, spaghetti dinner, boy scouts, what, anything like that, you'd have to treat them all the same. You can't they have to be uh content neutral, the regulations. Just just to make sure everybody understood that. question. Would the 60day close of business apply or if your business is getting elected or your business is having a spaghetti dinner? Would would that apply here?

The temporary sign. Yes. Yeah. But you do have a problem because we have residents here. They keep political signs up and you're out. That's on the private property. Yeah. And that's their right to do so. I I'm just trying to understand because I bet you're part of this. Oh, Debbie Cook. Um my question is like a year ago about this time. I don't remember exactly. We we were trying to not have a sign put up at Mcnite Road in Cumberland. So I'm not sure what what we're talking about.

It's a little bit different, Debbie. when they're talking about smaller signs, bigger signs, when when we're talking about the the revisiting of the code, it's a little bit different than the billboard signs that that you were involved in. Okay. So, this isn't about billboard signs. Well, the the ordinance does address this, but we were specifically just talking about temporary signs, small signs that are in folks yards or other locations for political candidates for other minor events. The billboards are being addressed in this ordinance as well. Yeah.

And we and this was re so when what you were referencing was the discussion that we had in December regarding the sign ordinance. Okay. Sure.

So that so that's that was dis this this item was discussed um in multiple public hearings uh or sorry public meetings um excuse me and th this ordinance when you're talking about the billboards it was re-reviewed by the planning commission the original ordinance that was discussed last year and so this is just going through the public approval process. So, some of the items that we discussed that were about the digital display signs and where they're able to be located are still included in this ordinance. It's just the planning commission reviewed that previous ordinance and had recommendations for adjustment and now we're going through the process of having a public hearing to, you know, propose and review that this ordinance.

Okay. So, I'm just a little more sensitive to it than probably most because my backyard is Mcnite Road. So, the thought of a big billboard over there is not not doesn't appeal to me at all. Like, it would be shining right into my addition of my house. Yeah. And that that's I asked Matt at the beginning of this to talk about the differences and it's outside of 400 ft from a residential area. I have no idea how far I am from that. Yeah. But I would think well the house that's on a mirror is is within 400 ft. So we're covered. We're covered. All right. Got it. Thank you. Thank you.

Atman Saratoga Drive. The sign ordinance. I would like just a clarification on what we do in McCandless with the signs on all the land everywhere. not not on private property. I just want to know how much we enforce this ordinance. Can anybody answer that? Because there's enforcement officer. He works on a daily basis to enforce the side.

There's a lot of signs that never get taken down, John. They're on the road, they get knocked over. Pendot land signs. What do you do about that? Do you let Penn dot know? cuz this is our this is our town. And if you call Pendot, Penn doesn't do anything about the signs. The signs are a nuisance. They're ugly. They are a mowing issue for people to try to mow around. They become litter on the roads. They fall. They they go in the storm source. Already have a drainage problem in this town. What do you do about those signs in our towns? Because the same signs stay there and one breeds another breeds another. When one sign shows up, five more come.

It's a never- ending battle each. So I know. Do you find anybody? Do you call anybody? Cuz I don't think anybody gets told about you're not allowed to put signs up on these public road. I can I can answer that. My code officer spends a good portion of his week contacting people about signs, pulling signs. I can even say from today he had 25 signs and hit the back of his trunk. Do you find them? Do you tell them? Because the same signs keep showing up. Car uh power washing. Um right. If they have a sign that they put in there that's a temporary sign that is longer than 90 days, but it's not allowed on those roads. It's not allowed on private on public land. It's a it's against the law.

Right. And then we pull the if it's on public land then the sign would get pulled and then they would be they get pulled a lot sir. They're there and there are there's a lot of signs that get placed out but one you I think you have to be a little more strict about it and tell them this is not the way we want our town to look. You have a sign enforcing. Thank you. Thank you. comments.

Marsha Kellyo, um, Abby Lane, Ditto, what she just said. I was coming up to say the same thing. If we have an an ordinance, let's enforce it. And, um, we can't do anything on private property. Uh, I don't think anybody uh would want that uh to happen. But, you know, last time there was a signed ordinance, we were saying, "Oh, well, you know, it's on Mcnite Road. That's a state road. We're not able to touch anything on the state road. I think that's bull. I think it's beanless and if we have an ordinance, we should be able to take it up. Um but um I I just hope let's make sure that it's enforceable and that people are penalized who are non-compliant. Thanks.

Thank you. Good. Yeah. Seeing none, unless there is an objection, I'll close the public hearing on closed ordinance 157.

And now we move on to public comment on agenda items only. And I'd like to remind everyone to please state your name and and make sure you are a resident or taxpayer of Macanas. A reminder that there's a five minute limit and this is for comments only, not questions. Um, so we appreciate what you have to say and love to hear from the public. So if you'd like to make a comment on agenda items only, please step forward to the podium. Don Harrison, mechanisedwig. Um, under new business, letter A, we say we're replacing garage doors or you'd like to replace garage doors, but $146,000 is a lot for garage doors. So, could we put a number to that as far as number of garage doors? Um, and the other question is, was that I I know it was put out for bid. Did more than one person bid on it? And if they didn't, can we put it out again? Because that seems like a heck of a lot of money for garage doors. That's all I got. Any further public comment on agenda items at this time? Okay. Hearing none, we'll move on to the approval of minutes. And we have a motion.

So moved. Will you uh state the full date of Mr. Wall? Yes. I uh that we approve the meeting minutes of town council March 23rd, 2026. Second constructor. We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please respond by saying I. I. Any nay? Hearing? None. Motion passes. Now we will move to reports of committees. We will start with the public safety committee um staff reports. We start with Mr. Tox, please.

Thank you. Good evening, council. Uh just a few uh things I'll touch on from my monthly report. Um I usually load it up with training. Uh suffice it to say this month officers continue their annual mandatory and service updates. Uh myself, one of my lieutenants and the manager also attended a uh training that I thought was very valuable in the month of March. Um and Pelaz is what the name of it. It's an employee labor relation training and I thought it was very valuable. Um, Officer Davis and his partner continued their monthly training. Uh, the K9 team also had five deployments last month either in McCandless or uh an adjacent community that requested him. Uh, social worker Jenny Fry in the month of March had 24 contacts with individuals who either received or accepted referrals for service, support, or information. Uh, she also attended an outreach meeting uh for adults and adolescence. uh in the Wexford area. Um she also attended a training uh relating to understanding addiction, trauma, the impact of stigma prevention and intervention to addiction and connection treatment. That was a mouthful, but uh Jenny continues to do good things in that role as our social worker. Um also in March, our North Hills DUI task force um officers participated in a DUI detail. Uh we do so anytime that's offered. 156 vehicles were stopped, various traffic violations. Um three individuals were administered field sobriety tests. Of those, one was arrested for DUI. 31 citations and 151 warnings were issued for various vehicle code violations. Also part of that North Hills DUI task force on March 30th, um our officers conducted an aggressive driving detail exclusively in Macanas. officers wrote 23 citations for various vehicle code

violations and we did arrest one for DUI during that detail. Um, as President Cloon mentioned earlier, the police department is currently advertising for full-time police officers. So, if you know anyone in the line of work, um, you know, looking to, uh, um, maybe move up to, uh, you know, a full-time department or something to that effect or, you know, a young individual that might be in the police academy, please encourage them to look at the town of Mckanison, our Facebook page. Um, deadline is April 24th. We need good people to, uh, protect this community. Um, finally, uh, in the month of March, the police department received 26 calls relating to whitetail deer. Big Daddy Wildlife removal picked up six carcasses. Does anybody have any questions on council?

I really like the event you had with the uh, NA baseball team. How was that received by the the young men on the team?

Very well, ma'am. I believe that it's um, you know, gives them an opportunity to connect with their local first responders. Obviously, maybe we can even use it as a recruiting tool, you know, um for down the road. Um and it's just a good opportunity to engage them. We last year, I believe, we gave them a taser demonstration the other day. It was um Leroy was the dog of the hour. you know, they had one of uh they they had a uh someone wearing a suit out here in the baseball field and you know, the dog latched on to him and um did some other things where he um they had some narcotics in a box and they had multiple boxes in this very room and of course the dog, you know, nailed the correct box every time. And the the baseball team's great. You know, this

I thought that was a great outreach to the community. Thank you for that. Yes, ma'am. We've done I think it's nine years maybe now. Good times. And I' I'd like to um compliment Miss Fry on the report and really appreciate it seeing the type of calls that she's responding to as well as who's referring her to those calls. Very helpful. That continues. Okay. Thank you, ma'am. And now we will move on to our fire marshals report.

You got the magic touch. Well, good evening everybody. So, I'll touch on some of the highlights. In March, uh there were 12 fire code inspections, 23 fire marshal calls. Two fire investigations. Uh one ended up uh being the uh our first EV car fire. That was a McCain crossing. So, you guys may have seen that on the news. Um and as impressive as that fire was, it was a big fireball. Uh the fire departments did a really good job on knocking that fire down. So, you know, hats off to them. There were I had six hours of training. There was one fire prevention program taught here to 49 kids and adults. Um couple of things that working on is the medical evaluation program for our firefighters. Uh it actually wrapped up uh this past Saturday. Um so we're done for the year, which is good. And I believe um I think everybody has passed, so we're good to go. still working with the fire companies on the joint bylaws. Um, going to fire calls for the month. Just real quick, fire companies were dispatched to 151 calls for the month. 113 of them being in town, 38 being uh re responses for out of town. And again, our top three type of calls are the commercial fire alarms, uh, motor vehicle accidents, and service calls. Um, there is one thing that I do want to add in case you guys are driving down the street and you start seeing on our hydrants, uh, it looks like a new cap on the front of it. Uh, that is planned. That's because of our sports adapter grant that we had received. Westu Water is starting to take delivery of those and they're starting to install them. The last count they gave me was they've installed 13 to date and uh they're

hoping to do that on a weekly basis. So if you see them, that's it's meant to be there. That's all I got. Any questions from council or comments? Um the training session you did, was that the homeschool group for the library? Yes, ma'am. Yeah, that that's a an undertapped I think group that might not get the education. So that's fantastic that you reached out to them and was were able to do that. Appreciate it. I enjoyed your McNail article and I'm sad you didn't reach out for some modeling shots foundations but

okay. Um next we will move on to the building permit report for the month of March. Is there anything to add or anything of note Mr. Schwen? Nothing out of the ordinary. It's permit season. A lot of decks and venties. I got it. Any questions from council? Okay. Uh now we'll move on to liaison reports. We'll start with personnel board. Mr. Geretti, there's meeting minutes in your packet. You have any questions?

Yeah. Any questions from council? Okay. Uh volunteer firefighter steering committee uh did finally meet after our delay from the storms in January. Uh good session. Um the minutes are in your packet and you know I just want council and everyone to be aware the cost of equipment is not going down anytime soon. So we as a community really need to be thinking about how we're going to support our fire uh fighters in this town. Um and this time I'd like to welcome anyone who would like to make public comment on public safety to please approach the Mr. Harris. Um the one thing it was

John Herson, Hedwick Danless. Um, as far as for the fire department and the fire that went that happened in McCandless Crossing, my understanding is that the apparatus that needed to be used, mechanis fire departments don't have on hand and they used it from another local municipality to distinguish that fire. And if that is the case, what does McCandless need to do to get what's the cost of those? and what do we need to do to get those in the hands of our firemen so that we don't we can actually be there on site faster.

Sure, I can comment if you want. Um there is a special nozzle or there's special we'll say um tools that assist us with trying to extinguish an EV car fire, right? The the battery packs are underneath. They're very hard to get to. The cars are typically low riding. Um so that's a big challenge. one of the uh neighboring fire companies had a special type nozzle that is vertical so that it can spray upwards to help cool those battery packs. Um we are actually working on right now on securing at least one of those nozzles. Um so yeah, we're we're fully aware of it now. Okay, thanks. Yep.

Any further public comment on public safety? Hearing none, we'll move on to reports of facilities management. Um I think we Yeah, we have Mr. Anzi here on Zoom if you'd like to share anything.

Yeah, just a couple highlights for uh public works for the month of March. We assisted with uh the conduit for the new generator. We also finished up down at Wall Park the coverts and gabian baskets down there. Uh we finished asphalting the um the area down there. We also continued on our basin program for the paving project and also did some painting and um uh work in the police department. Any questions? Any questions from council? No.

Thank you very much. It looks like uh your crew is very busy right now. I've seen them out on the roads and things like that. It's good to see the weather ranging get worked on. Appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, we will now move on to liaison reports. Um Mr. Hickerson, environmental advisory committee. Thank you. Um we had our meeting last last Wednesday and it nothing out of the ordinary. Um big big thing is we're very excited for the April 25th cleanup. That will be at 8:30 a.m. at the EBW building. And how late can people still sign up for that? I believe the signin window is still open right now, but I'm not sure. I can get back to you on that.

I know they signed through um try if you are interested in part participating in this. Um it's a really nice event to see everybody and see your community out there. Um picking up the trash on a sometimes chilly April morning. Any questions for Mr. Hickerson about the EIC. Um, Mr. Babage, the ad hoc stormwater management committee. We will be meeting at the end of this month and so I will have an update at the early May town council meeting. Very good. Thank you. And now uh time for public comment on facilities management if anybody would like to approach the meeting.

Seeing none, we will move on to the reports of the services committee and liazison reports. Mr. Arlo McCandless Sanitary Authority.

Yep. Uh the um I attended the March 5th meeting. We just got those minutes uh sent over to us via email this morning. Um I will say that uh back last month we had those wind storms. Uh they had several power outages at eight different lift stations and didn't miss a beat. Um so kudos to them. uh we kept the uh sludge moving unlike uh Alcasan had a discharge into the Ohio River. So uh we we certainly want to applaud their efforts. Uh those generators were running from anywhere from a day to three and a half days. So

thank you we're fortunate to have a can handle that kind of situation. uh MCAS Franklin and business sorry Mr. those meeting minutes minister packet and I'll quickly add that last month we had the annual year in review uh reception uh chief Dell just went over how the past year went and they're doing a terrific job and we spout Northland Public Li uh I was under the weather and so Councilman Hickerson attended mystead anything to share uh not really they were very appreciative for the for the um donations by the Congressional Development Authority with the chairs and couches.

Great. And um I know uh the new director there, Miss Denite, has well, she's just been enjoying her job. She's just she's about a month in now, not even twice. Yeah, she has. Um I I didn't get a chance to meet her like oneonone, but she seemed to be enjoying it and she seemed to she said she was enjoying it. Looking forward to the gayla coming up here. Um, any com public comment on the services committee?

Peter Martin Grubs and Mr. Georgetti, is it true what I read in your paper about our first responders uh taking care of seniors who may be leaving the hospital uh with some and need the extra help at home when they go home with them, take them home and in that is amazing. Please thank all of them because it's much needed. People who are caregivers really appreciate that. Thank you.

Thank you for your comment. Is there any further comment on the services committee? Hearing none. Uh agenda item number nine, old business. There is no old business. Moving on to number 10, new business. Um we have a motion and then we can discuss. I'll make the motion to approve the base bid to overhead garage door in a total amount of $146,040 for the full replacement of the public works and police department garage doors in a proposal dated April 7, 2026 under co-stars contract uh number 008-23-1109.

We have a motion. We have a second but second. Okay. Uh, would you like to share any? Sure. Uh, the garage doors uh in these buildings need replaced. They're significantly deteriorating from rust. Uh, this is for 17 garage doors. Most of them ranging in size of 12'4 in x 14 ft. So very large garage door down to a typical uh 10 x 10. Four different vendors bid on this ranging in price from $146,040 to $28,250. Overhead garage door was the low bidder. Co-stars approved vendor and we recommend approving that.

Thank you. Any further questions for Mr. Swim from council. Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor, please swan by saying I. I. Any nay? Okay. Motion carries 70. Uh, next one. Action concerning resolution 2036-07. Would someone like to make a motion? I can make it. Motion to approve tenatively identified resolution 20267, a resolution of the town of McCandless, Alageney County, Pennsylvania for act 537, sewage facilities plan special study reference in the town engineers letter dated on April 7th, 2026. And we have a second. Second.

Okay. Um, anything you can share for this Mr. SW?

Sure. Uh, briefly the purpose for this act 537 sewage facilities plan special study is to convert Long View number two wastewater treatment plant into a pump station. Um, changes have happened over time through NPDS permit regulations about the amount of copper that can be discharged into a waterway. Uh, Long View number two was not able to keep up with that as a treatment plan. I don't believe but it will be much more effective as a pump pump station to go to the large renovation site in order to be able to do that. Uh they have to have this 537 plan approved and we have to have a resolution to uh support it. We do have Sam on the line I believe who's the engineer from KLH if he needs to answer any questions and also Tim but that's the gist of it. Uh this is mostly falls on them but it it does require me to spill through

and and this is mainly mitigation really for the copper and zinc limits uh discharge limits NPD. Yes, this is an improved and uh because this plant is in the can list. Are we the only municipality that needs to approve or I believe it's Ross. It's Ross. So the other municipalities who are serviced by FTSA will also approve this. That's correct. Yep. Thank you. Mr. Gibson is on. Any other questions for Mr. Gibson from the council? This was reviewed by the town engineer also with a letter dated April 7th with no additional comments. Thank you.

We have a motion and a second. Uh if there's no further questions, um all in favor of approving resolution 2026-07, please respond by saying I. I. Any opposed? Okay. 870. Uh, next on the agenda, action concerning resolution 2026-08. Who would like to make a motion, please?

I'll make this one. Motion to approve tenatively identified resolution 202608 for the acquisition and subsequent disposition of a vacant property known as lot and block number 714- C-150 in accordance with the requirements of the Alageney County vacant property recovery program. A motion second. Okay. Um we discussed this um at our last council meeting. Any further information that needs to be shared? Okay. All in favor? Wait a minute. This is part of Pontiac. This is Jason

and and we'll soon be, you know, help that park provide. Um, all in favor of approving resolution 2026-08, please sign by saying I. I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. It doesn't hear. Now, at this time, we will open up the floor to public comment on a non-aggenda. With the reminder, your name, please, uh, your citizen or taxpayer, McCandless. Um, and reminder that it's five minutes in the comments only. Thank you. Anybody would like to start Hi, my name is Kathy Nighhart and I live on Guavir Drive. Not even two months ago, we had a packed house here as council voted 5 to2 in favor of the ordinance which prohibits MCMA's police from working with ICE in the arrest and or detention of illegal or undocumented immigrants. Recently, an undocumented immigrant was arrested for raping at least one woman at the Ridgerest Senior Living Facility over in Mckama's Crossing. From what I understand, he was arrested by a MCMA's police officer. However, since there is no cooperation between ICE and our police force, he was removed and deported by ICE before criminal charges could be filed against him. You may think, well, he's gone, so what's the difference? The difference is that no charges were ever filed and he has no criminal record here as far as these sexual assaults are concerned. Was justice served to the victims here? Hardly. Nathan, Nick, Jack, how would you feel if that was your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your grandma, the females, any of us, how would we feel? So, to answer my own question, justice was not served. Yes, the perpetrator was deported and he has no record of this incident, but the victims are scarred for life. And kudos to the Mexican the Macless police officer who made the arrest in the first place. From what I

understand, he was a Mexican American whose family came to our country the right way. So, yes, it can be done. I find it a bit ironic that our neighboring communities of Franklin Park and Hampton Township want no parts of this ordinance. Looking back, why did McCandless initially attempt to push this through so quietly and then so quickly? Feel-good legislation is what it was. I hope everyone who voted back in January still feels good about what they did because a lot of us don't and never will. Please use better judgment in the future. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Lyn Atman, Saratoga Drive. I'm a resident here. Was the perpetrator of the alleged sexual assault at the senior care in McCandless Crossing an illegal alien? Yes. If McCandless officers were permitted to communicate with ICE, would the perpetrator had been officially charged with a crime? The followup. Was the man awaiting deportation officially arranged by a local judge? Was the illegal charged? Seems like the resolution was a really bad idea. We were told that illegals were being ripped out of cars for no reason. Yet, the man committed a felony by trying to buy a gun. And the man in Oakmont actually had a felony warrant for being deported once and illegally coming back. You passed the resolution and the only ones that you served were the illegals. You prioritize illegals over the Macan residents. You have put up brick walls and you are seeing the ramifications from doing it. Transparency is the word you always use, but it's no point at adnauseium the way you carry this out. You don't live it. You nullify it. You have not let me police charge this monster at Ridgerest cuz Ice King. You, your council, you have closed your eyes. Your heads are down and you don't look us in the face. When I was here, some of you had your eyes closed. You were looking down. You didn't look us. You talk transparency, Nick, Trish, Nathan, Jack, and Lorine. But you do not live it because you wouldn't have not considered your town. and you if you would have listened to a lot of us that were here when they contacted you or came in person to the meetings.

What motivated you to make a dangerous ruling that has now scarred a girl for life and a victim at the care facility? He got away uncharged at your bad decisionmaking. Thank you. Lori Barkaskky, Southfield Road President Cloon, Council, I'm here this evening to speak on behalf of the numerous residents that attended the meetings in February in opposition of resolution 20263. McCandless has always been known as a safe community where people found it a good and safe place to live and relocate. As a result of the unfortunate situation at Ridcrest Senior Living and Memory Care involving the illegal alien, some are already talking about their their moving to McCandless and if it was a good decision. It sure seems there have con there have been consequences to your decision to pass resolution 20263. You've placed more rights on the illegals over the safety of the taxpaying constituents, especially the most vulnerable. Shame on you. So, what happens now that this perpetrator has been deported with no record of a rightful assault charges or the next illegal if it happens again, God forbid. When teams work together, everyone on the team wins. For the safety of all of Macandless residents, I would suggest you resend your vote to implement resolution 202603 before more innocent people are harmed. Let our law enforcement work with all the other agencies, county, state, and federal. Thank you,

Marcia Ciendo. Is it the town's responsibility to ensure that every employee or every person who works in the town of McCandless is documented? I don't think it is. It Where's the outrage to crest? This man was here illegally. I don't know if he was because we don't know what happened. We know that he was arrested and then ICE came and took him away to Mo Shannon before he was arraigned. So if ICE would have waited, he would have been arraigned and then he would have been charged and then there would have been a trial. But we don't know what would happen. And and the man with the gun sale, those charges have been dropped. So before we fain outcry about the ordinance that you passed, which I still wholeheartedly support and thank council for passing that ordinance, let's get facts straight. You don't know the facts, so please Let's let's find out what happened before you say he should have been arraigned but they took him. That doesn't mean he was here illegally because we has taken people here illegally. Thank you. Rita Martin gloves wrote I want to say that I think your ordinance was the right thing to do. Alageney County has the that ordinance passed Mc from Oakmont to Sickley. There are otheries who feel strongly that what ICE does is not done correctly and I want to say thank you for that.

Thank you. Would you like to step up and make a comment sir? I'll step up. I just think you got Please not a resident. Not a res. Are you a resident, sir? I am. Okay. I just I just think it's My name is Matt Marelli and I think you guys are absurd. I I It's shocking to me once I heard about this decision you all made.

I have no idea what planet you're all living on. I really don't. It's I'm a former Marine Corps officer. I've been all over the world. a son who's currently serving in the Marine Corps to try to keep this place safe. It's shocking to me that you guys require information here that you don't want to let the local constabular support ICE. It's just it's ridiculous to me. Anyway, that's it. Thanks, Caliando. First, please let me say that illegal is not a noun. Your status can be illegal. Your actions can be illegal. Human beings cannot be illegal. Secondly, I did not interrupt you. Secondly, there is no direct or even indirect line between the passage of this ordinance and what happened. There is no relationship. The human was going to do the human being was going to do if ICE wanted to deport this person because they had proven that this individual has an illegal status then that should have been done. But has already been stated he was removed before arraignment was possible. There is absolutely I say again no connection between this actually brave and righteous ordinance. I did not interrupt you. I did not comment when you were up here. Quiet. So

please let's give all speakers the respective. And I will also say that this council, regardless of how you voted, handled talk about transparency, the two very council meetings with such graciousness and attentiveness. I thank you all. You have done a stellar job in handling the discussion portion of this of this um episode of this resolution and also it was online. It was published as required by the Sunshine Act. So there was transparency from beginning to end. Thank you. I think some folks over here would like to speak in public. Welcome in.

Hello Trish. Hello council. My name is Robin J. Casey and I live in Mandless. Talk about transparency. When five council members go together and decide to have a petition to add an ordinance and they don't tell the other two council members what they're doing, then they come in with this document that has 44 typed signatures. There's no written signature on any of your ordinance, any of your uh petition that you took. And then the other side brings in an ordinance with three times as many signatures with addresses that you can verify that they live in the candas. And you guys say, "Oh yeah, we got this. I'll I'll outcry all this information." But you don't shed it out. You don't shed the light on it and let the rest of council see and let the rest the community see. That's probably a violation of of your code. Um, excuse me, Mrs. Taliendo u um it it it's a sunshine violation and I don't know how you can look at it any other way. Do you have anything you'd like to say about that, Miss Cloon? Okay. Thank you.

Thank you.

Any further public comments? comfort.

Okay. No. Okay. Rita Martin goes, I just wanted to say that that petition was something that came from citizens outside you. It had nothing to do with you because I know I was approached to sign it by somebody that wasn't connected to you guys at all. I I didn't sign it because I wasn't ready to do that yet, but it was not a petition that you started. Thank you.

Any further public comment?

Good evening, board members. Bob Crankovic, 101 Broad Hill Drive. Um, like to thank you for letting me uh speak here this evening. Um, pardon me here as I read these names yet again here. Elizabeth Medina, Ariana Verome, Nikolai Woken, Dall Thompson, Nathan Baker, Lake Riley, Fletcher Harris, Skyler Provenza, Ivory Smith, Alex Weise Jr., Katie Abraham, Joselyn Nungary, Jennifer Anne Morton. The common element between all of these victims is that they were victims of illegal immigrants. This is preventable and you have the power to stop this. And you have a duty to the citizens of Macanas and taxpayers and every uh and every um taxpayer here of McCandless Township. I ask you to cons reconsider and get rid of this ordinance. Thank you.

No further public comments on non-aggenda items. Um, hold on. Hold on. Sorry. Thanks, Mr. John. You don't need to be called on. I can follow protocol. very formal.

This is the fifth one. John Harrison, Edwick Drive, mechanis. You know, it's really sad to see that it only took 24 days from the time you pass something to there to be a violation. Those that are heckling in the background, thank you because you just proved the point. The fact is there wasn't only one victim. There was multiple victims that this can't even call him a gentleman. Slime ball hurt. Put it into perspective. If it was your wife, if it was your mother, if it was your sister, if it was your mother, if it was your daughter, put it into perspective. If that would have happened to one of your loved ones, how would you feel? Can you sleep at night knowing that? There's many people on council. You ran for a reason. You're falling short. You can make a difference and I think you need to. So if you can't handle the job, stepped on from your position and walk away. But if you can't handle the job, then make a difference. Make the change. Thank you. Okay. Um there's nothing further. I don't want to make sure I don't miss anyone in the back row. Um we have a motion which just so you know we are going to go to executive sessions over

legal matters. Prior to that have an adjourn motion to adjurnn. Any second. All in favor of the please respond by saying I thank you very