County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

I'd like to call to order the Dauphin County Board of Commissioners meeting for March 11th, 2026. We'll begin with a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.

Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God and indivisible, liberty and justice for all.

We'll begin with the chief clerk's report, Mr. Haggerty. Good morning, commissioners. An executive session was held on Tuesday, March 10th, to obtain the advice of legal counsel regarding infrastructure funding and bid processes, economic development grants, and personnel matters. Today we have two guest presentations, first from Sheila Bourne, member of the Red Cross of Central PA Board of Directors, and second by Timothy Edwards, the executive director of the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority. In addition to the salary board packet, personnel packet, and purchase order packet, there are 46 agenda items for board consideration today. We have two adoption assistance agreements, three board appointments, one parks and recreation engineering work order, partial release of a mortgage at the Susquehanna Union Green Development Project, two it agreements one district attorney's office agreement one registration and elections agreement 26 human services agreements two legal services agreements five parks and recreation presenter agreements one tax assessment agreement and the training packet I would like to correct one informational error I included on the agenda today for item number six, the Parks and Recreation Engineering Work Order. The cost will be paid for by Friends of Wildwood, not the County General Fund. So apologies for that mistake. That concludes my report. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

Any questions for Mr. Hagee? Hearing none, we'll move to solicitor's report, Mr. Owens.

Good morning. All matters requiring review by the solicitor's office and for board action have been reviewed and approved.

Any questions for Mr. Owens? Hearing none, we'll move to public participation on agenda items only. So for our agenda items today, if there is a public comment on agenda items, it's a three-minute cap, and you'll need to state your name prior to speaking. seeing no one we'll move forward uh review review and approval of minutes we have no minutes before us today we'll move to directors and guests we want to welcome sheila bourne from the red cross of central pennsylvania thank you for being here today and providing us with an update good morning good morning thank you

Chairman Douglas, Commissioners Preece, Hartwick, thank you very much for inviting me back. On behalf of the Red Cross of Central Pennsylvania, I'm thrilled to be able to work with the county and the commissioners in my capacity with Penn State Health, but happy to represent the Red Cross of Central Pennsylvania here today. March is Red Cross Month, and we are very, very pleased with the partnership that we've enjoyed with Dauphin County and hope to continue to enjoy that partnership and perhaps even expand it going forward. Just very quickly, I know that you have the presentation in front of you, but for our guests, I'll share some of the numbers that we're very proud of. The Red Cross has partnered in Dauphin County on 39 disaster event responses, supporting 169 individuals since July of last year. 168 volunteers here in Dauphin County support the Red Cross mission, and 63 disaster health and mental health services have been provided. And this is, again, within the last year, starting on July 1st. There's been 357 smoke alarm installed through our home fire campaign. And I know last year when I was here, we talked about it. I know Commissioner Hartwick, you had expressed an interest in participating and hopefully you've had a chance to. If not, going forward, we'd love for you to be able to do that, as well as the other commissioners. There's been 14,000, I'm sorry, 1,483 units of blood collected at 59 blood drives. The collection of blood, as you may be aware, is very, very critical during this time. Over the past year, nationally, we've experienced a shortage of blood donations, so very pleased that Dauphin County has stepped up in that regard. 107 people reached through free preparedness programs. Again, that's another opportunity for partnership that I'll discuss a little bit later, and I'll do that right now. The ways that we can partner with Dauphin County and other counties in the region are by expanding our free preparedness education and other community preparedness educational opportunities. We talked about the smoke alarm installation that we do in our communities. We love to partner with volunteers, local elected officials and others to do those installations. Building and developing volunteers here in the county is always something that we're anxious to do by broadening community partnerships. We do have shelter facility partners that we work with when either instances of disaster, home fires, other things like that arise. And finally, the blood drive partnership growth. I know that we've worked with Dauphin County on some of those blood drives and they remain critically important to us. That concludes my presentation, with the exception of providing some social media contact information for the commissioners, staff, and others in attendance. We would love to hear from you, and we would love to continue to expand our volunteer and partnership opportunities. Thank you very much for the opportunity today.

I'll begin with Commissioner Oak. Any responses?

Good morning, and it's always good to see you, Sheila. Thank you. I'm always amazed by how many public service hats that you wear. Sheila's the mayor of Paxton Borough. She serves in an incredible capacity for Penn State Health. That's sort of the GR rep, and obviously as the mother of two incredible kids, which is probably your most important role. At two.

Same with you.

Thank you. But you find time still to continue to contribute in ways that amaze me. And I think it's really smart, the approach that the Red Cross is taking. I've seen that you now have hit multiple counties in the region trying to provide public information. I think a big mistake oftentimes is not educating the public and the board related to where those partnerships exist and how we can continue to grow on the many expanded opportunities you have. The Red Cross is a an incredible source of comfort and relief in the times of significant crisis, and they've been a great partner since I've been here as a commissioner. If you could provide, the only question I have is a listing of, you know, sort of the upcoming events and blood drives as a part of ways that we can help get information out. Maybe it's As a part of what we do here today in education would be to post those on our website, have the public access those opportunities. And I know the smoke alarm piece has saved lives to the extent that we can participate in the communities that have a larger rate of not having those smoke alarms available. I know that is a wonderful opportunity to truly save lives and not have to show up after a disaster because you've taken some preventative measures. So thank you for the work that you continue to do. Thank you for your organization. And I think I just want to give you kudos for the smart public outreach that you continue to do to try to educate and help our community.

Thank you, Commissioner. And I'll make sure to get a list of the upcoming events and blood drives that we have so you can share them. Thank you.

I believe the last time I attended a blood drive was at one of our libraries, our Dauphin County Library right here downtown. Just know that we're always open to hosting those and bringing those into spaces in which the county operates in ways that we can hopefully increase visibility and increase attendance. And if someone does want to volunteer with your organization, if they're listening right now, they want to help, they want to get involved, What should they do?

Well, we have our social media information here, but the best thing to do, and I can provide this, is to provide the email address for Laura Burke, who you may be familiar with, and a direct outreach.

Is that the next slide? I've got that slide in here. I don't know if it's the next slide.

There we go. Thank you.

All right, laura.burke at redcross.org if you're listening online and you want to get involved and you want to volunteer. I'm going to hand it over to Commissioner Preece. I believe he has a proclamation.

Yes. Thank you, Commissioner Douglas, and thank you, Commissioner Hartwick, for your comments. I echo some of my colleagues' comments. Sheila, the great work that you do throughout the community, not just in your full-time employment at Penn State Health, but the work you've done at the Chamber and The work you do is the mayor of Paxton. I know George and I had an opportunity two months ago to attend an AED event at one of your parks. Thank you for being here. It was a remarkable event, and I actually had a conversation with Ms. Walker last night that I'll bring up a little later on in the commissioner's comments. But when Mother Nature's at her worst, our Red Cross volunteers are at their best. helping our residents in their time of greatest need when someone's left with just about nothing you provide something food shelter and hope and what many times are hopeless situations uh and we can't thank you the volunteers enough for what you do you are there 24 7 365 when that when that dispatch goes out requiring your assistance and again thank you for the great work that you do i have to tell a little story about sheila george mentioned uh your parent of two children uh didn't really know your oldest but uh very successful but her son outstanding football player is going to play division one football it's coming here remember the bishop mcdevitt basketball team that's on a mini run of their own right now good luck but i ran into liam at an event and i said liam sheila was a division one basketball player at her time pretty good player Temple? That's right. That's right. Temple. That happens to be where our sons go.

That's where my son will be playing football.

Well, they know a good thing when they've had a legacy. I said to him, I said, Liam, who's the better basketball player? He looked at me. The kid's a strapping six foot five. Six, six, six. Six foot six. Who's counting? Everybody looks tall to me. Very athletic. And he looked at me right away and he goes, my mom.

There we go.

Yes. I would love to watch one of your driveway basketball games. Sheila, it is my privilege on behalf of the Board of Commissioners to present this proclamation into the record. And then afterwards, we'd like to get a photo.

Thank you.

We, the Dauphin County Board of Commissioners, join the community in supporting the life-changing work of the American Red Cross and spreading awareness throughout the county in this month of March. Whereas we celebrate American Red Cross Awareness Month by honoring our neighbors who make this humanitarian mission possible here in Dauphin County. Their acts of kindness change lives, bringing relief, comfort, and hope. Whereas, be it as volunteers, blood and platelet donors, or supporters who give back through the American Red Cross Central Pennsylvania Chapter, generation after generation has stepped up to deliver relief and care across our country and around the world, bringing out the best of humanity in times of crisis. Whereas those who serve with the American Red Cross of Central Pennsylvania continue to light the way during emergencies, whether it's delivering shelter, food, and comfort after disasters, assisting military members, veterans, and their families with 24-7 global support, providing a safe, life-saving blood supply for patients facing conditions like cancer treatments, childbirth complications, and traumatic injuries, or empowering individuals with skills like first aid and CPR that also save lives. Whereas these collective efforts are a powerful reminder, the strength of our community lies in our shared commitment to one another. As we mark Red Cross Month, let's celebrate our local heroes and resolve to continue lifting each other up so no one faces an emergency alone. Therefore, we join the 293,000 residents of Dauphin County in recognizing and honoring the remarkable service the American Red Cross, we do hereby gladly proclaim March 2026 as Red Cross Awareness Month in Dauphin County.

It's the last day of nice weather. Thank you, guys.

Thanks, Jim.

Next up, we have Timothy Edwards, Executive Director of Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority. Thank you for being here. Good morning.

Good morning. Good morning.

Morning. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Commissioner Hartwick, and Commissioner Priest. With me today is Ryan Collins. Ryan is the new deputy executive director. I say new. He's been with us two years now for the airport authority. So he started in, what was it, March of 2024. Correct.

Good morning, Commissioner. Good morning, Ryan. How are you doing? Very well. Yourself? Good. Thank you.

Here it is.

So thank you for taking some time to meet with us today. And we're here to just take a few minutes to update the county on some operational statistics and planning initiatives as it relates to the activity with the airport authority, specifically Harrisburg International. But of course, we are a four airport system. So I want to start. by saying that just as a way of overview, the airport authority, Susquehanna Area Airport Authority is a municipal authority that manages and oversees the operation of Harrisburg International Airport and three general aviation airports in central Pennsylvania. We do have a 15-member board. Three of those members are from Dauphin County. You may recognize Louis Paoletti, uh who has been a recently appointed a board member uh dr bennett chotner who has been uh with the airport authority for several years and brian seltzer also a fairly recently appointed board member from the airport authority we do have a strategic plan that was um forwarded or adopted by the airport authority board in 2025. And just some of the core focus areas associated with that strategic plan is number one, to expand aviation services. We work on that every day, develop SARA staff, ensure financial stability, invest in airport infrastructure and community engagement. Our vision is very simple, more flights, more places, more often. Just a little bit about our operations and economic impact. I do want to, I'm very proud to announce that 2025 was a record year for passenger employments at Harrisburg International Airport. We had a total of 814,718 employments, which again is a record year for us. Previous record was in 2019 prior to the COVID issue. We handled 55,000, almost 55,700 tons of cargo. Which I'll talk about in a minute, and we had 46 capital projects that were underway at all 4 airports or in various stages of completion for a little bit more than 118,000 dollars. The 1 point that I want to make as it relates to our economic impact and financial ability. is that SARA's airport system pays for itself. So if you do not use the airport, you don't pay for the airport. We receive several million dollars each year from the FAA for capital improvements and infrastructure investment. However, that comes from an aviation trust fund which is funded through a passenger ticket tax. So if you purchase a ticket, flight to Florida, flight to California, wherever, you pay a small portion of that is taxed, and that goes to the Aviation Trust Fund. If you purchase fuel, a small portion of that is taxed, and that goes to the Aviation Trust Fund. And that's how the Airport Infrastructure Capital Program is funded. And we receive about $4 million a year through the That subset of the Aviation Trust Fund is the Airport Improvement Program, which we see Airport Harrisburg International receives about, as I said, $4 million. So again, the key point there is if you don't use the airport, you don't pay for the airport. So we're one of the very few transportation facilities in the state or in central Pennsylvania that do not require a taxpayer support or any kind of subsidy. Our annual economic output generated by Harrisburg International Airport was estimated to be about $1 billion, a little short of $1 billion. That was from a 2022 PennDOT economic impact analysis. And you can see on this slide here that with regard to our workforce and employees by county, about almost 43% are from Dauphin County. So clearly, we're supporting Dauphin County as it relates to employment opportunity in this area. Next slide is a little bit of airline activity. Again, I said 2025 was a record year for Harrisburg International Airport as it relates to passenger activity. We have five airlines currently serving Harrisburg International. They include Delta, American, United, Allegiant, and Frontier. providing services to 18 destinations nonstop right out of Harrisburg. The important part there is that seven of those destinations are international gateways, which means that you can fly from Harrisburg and your next stop could be in South America or it could be in Asia or it could be in Europe. As you're connecting through Chicago, you're connecting through Atlanta, you're connecting through Dallas, you're connecting through Philadelphia, maybe Boston. All those are international gateways which have immense access to destinations around the world. So again, I just want to emphasize that of our 18 destinations, seven of them are international gateway hubs. As of early this year, January 10th through April 4th, we were also served by American Airlines to Miami. This is an added service that they added last year and they added it back this year. That'll end on April 4th. However, the hope is that that will become a permanent destination at some point down the road if this experiment is successful. In 2025, we reported a total of 1,478,000 passengers, an increase of 12% versus 2024. And we anticipate record traffic for 2026 at 1.6 million passengers. You can see on the chart on the right, where it highlights Dauphin County, Lancaster County, and York County. Of those three counties, almost 53% of our total passengers are generated from those three counties. Next slide. Cargo activity. Cargo is a very important part of our overall operation, Harrisburg International. We are part of the FedEx and UPS global air cargo network, processing nearly 120 million pounds of cargo each year. By 2032, SARA's air cargo complex is projected to process 138 million pounds of cargo. We just finished a, a air cargo reconfiguration and expansion project, a multimillion dollar, actually a 64Million dollar project that was phased over over several years. Construction was phased over 3 years included both land side and air side components. It will increase our cargo apron capacity by 30%, which will allow 3 more heavy type cargo aircraft to park on the ramp and to operate successfully out of Harrisburg international. so that's been that's been a big deal for us we've we've had several inquiries over the years regarding additional cargo capacity and this this allows us that opportunity you can see also in the chart on the bottom 2021 was our biggest year for cargo activity which makes sense that's when the coveted years and and many people were sitting at home shopping uh e-commerce as opposed to to going out and shopping in person. That was our biggest year. 2026 is projected to be almost 56,000 tons. And 2025 was a little more than 55,000 tons of cargo. So significant cargo activity. Wanted to mention a little bit about economic development and capital initiatives. Our next expansion project will be in the Crawford Station site. If you're familiar with Crawford Station, that's a former power plant, coal-fired power plant that operated for many years. We went through a very extensive, significant environmental compliance and remediation project. So that property, that area is now, the building's been taken down and that area is ready for redevelopment. Uh, so it is a 65 acre brownfield located on the eastern edge of the airport campus as the last remaining piece of property significant piece of property that is available for the airport authority for redevelopment and a little bit of gratitude to Dauphin county. You've helped as it relates to. access to the Dauphin County Redevelopment Authority. We have been offered or accepted an industrial site reuse program grant in the amount of $89,000. That was reassigned to the Dauphin County Redevelopment Authority last year, and also an industrial site reuse program, I'm sorry, an EPA brownfield assessment program for $113,000, which is also administered by the Dauphin County Redevelopment Authority. And again, that area is our next significant property, area of property for redevelopment. We hope that down the road it will be something that we can develop into general aviation services or uses or maybe additional cargo or commercial activity. All right. The next slide is several Dauphin County local share grants. And this is really just to say thank you for the commissioner's support as it relates to the Dauphin County local share program or the gaming grant program. I think the airport authority has received the grant almost every year since that program has been available. We did list a few of them here starting in 2018 with the fire department mini pumper. We were able to receive a 100,000 dollar grant from the local share program in 2022. you may remember it was a threat assessment unit, which is a big heavy metal box where if there was a. a suspicious package, the package would be placed in that heavy metal box and then could be detonated without causing damage to the building or hurting, obviously hurting any people. And through 2023 through 2024, you've helped us finance our 3,000 gallon aircraft rescue firefighting vehicle upgrade at $106,000. And as I said, there have been many other opportunities over the years since that grant has been available where we have received the support from the commissioners. So thank you very much. I mentioned the general aviation airports. We have three, starting with Capital City Airport. That was an airport original to the airport authority. Of course, you may remember Harrisburg International was once Olmstead Air Force Base. It became Harrisburg Airport after the Air Force Base closed in 1968. And the airport authority in 1998 acquired both Harrisburg International and Capital City Airport as part of the upgrade to the airport authority. Capital City Airport is FAA-designated reliever airport for Harrisburg International, and it's also the airport of choice for several state agencies, including the governor's office, the Pennsylvania State Police, and the Office of the Attorney General. We have two other small utility-type general aviation airports. The first one was acquired in 2004. That's Franklin County Regional Airport. And the city of Chambersburg, the borough of Chambersburg was not interested in maintaining the airport. The FAA asked if we would act as sponsor if they provided the funding to acquire the property. They did. And we've been sponsoring that airport since 2004. Almost the same thing with Gettysburg Regional Airport since 2006. And Adams County was or actually that was privately owned. The FAA did not want to lose the aviation assets. So they asked if we would again act as sponsor for that property. And we did. We agreed. Upcoming events. You may have heard of our air show last year. Again, we have an air show coming up this year, 2026 air show. This will be Memorial Day weekend again. It will be a three-day event starting on Saturday, Sunday, and going into Monday this year. And this is through the air.show tour event program. This will be the only air show in Pennsylvania with a military demonstration team commemorating the America 250, 250-year celebration. So it's going to be a big event in that regard for central Pennsylvania and for the state of Pennsylvania, actually. Of course, the headline act, again, is going to be the U.S. Navy Blue Angels. And also, this is a Navy week because of the 250-year anniversary. The Navy week is a week-long series. of outreach events with corporate civic government educational and media veterans and community groups which the the navy will will will visit we'll visit schools we'll visit hospitals representatives from the navy we have a rear admiral who is actually um from mechanicsburg who is going to be part of that event there will be sailors from the uss harrisburg if you aware there was a there is a uss harrisburg i was not aware until a few weeks ago The U.S. Navy Band will be supporting the air show and air show displays, so static displays during the event. And that's it. Subject to your questions, that's just a quick overview of activities and priorities, strategic initiatives for Harrisburg International Airport and the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority, and I thank you for your time.

Did I miss the article that talked about from the newspaper about the record year at HIA? It's just a statement. Yeah, I don't know.

All of the good news.

Right.

I don't know if it was ever a part of. So we we certainly provided it as a press release. I didn't see it here anyway. Yeah. And wherever it went from there is. Yeah. It's not the headlines that get the clicks. Yeah, they get recognized.

But one that should be recognized, quite frankly. I mean, these kind of partnerships that have existed over the years, Tim and I know we've worked together on everything from lowering new... companies to be able to provide new flights and figuring out creative ways to sort of ensure that we mitigate their potential losses in order to see if we could test and put more flights into play, including making sure that the safety of the airport, critical infrastructure, the emergency response are all ones that we are a partner in. And I think that's a testament to both our departments and what happens when we work together. in order to try to take an asset in infrastructure in a region that has a great deal of potential. You talk about a greater metropolitan area and the ability to see this airport as a major asset. And that's been reflective so far in both the patterns of use and the continued record-setting years that you've been able to accomplish. Not to mention the impact it has on the employment locally, which I think was a very salient point. And from my perspective, those are good news and ways that we should be focusing on how we partner with gaming money and other relationships to be able to see significant economic impact come as a result of those kind of – Government can't do it alone. And this is an example of how that partnership over the years has really paid dividends and becoming a stronger asset. I remember during the time where we had Congressman Tim Holden that was heavily engaged and involved with the complete upgrade and the sort of redo of the entire airport with the new terminal building. And it is, and as I travel around, you know, in the role that I have with CCAP, there's not too many people that don't enjoy Harrisburg International Airport when they come there and see the facility. So kudos to you. And the air show is just sort of a... Last year I was able to attend, and, man, what an amazing event. I mean, I remember Camden, my son's eyes, being about this big, watching the Blue Angels and seeing sort of the incredible display that's been placed on by so many individuals who have so much talent. It's a little scary to watch sometimes, you know, these guys going up high and cutting out their engine and rolling down towards the earth, but it's certainly a huge entertaining experience. And I know one in talking to other elected officials and community members that was extraordinarily well received. And hopefully, am I seeing because it's back another year that this may be an annual event? Is that what we're hoping for?

It's heading that way. I mean, we have the Thunderbirds have announced for 2027. So we have no plans or we have no information regarding anything beyond that. But so this year will be the Blue Angels, of course, and the Thunderbirds for 2027. It won't be during Memorial Day weekend. I believe it's in mid-July for 2027. But the intent is that it will be an annual event if we can continue to invite or to celebrate. offer a military demonstration team that really brings out the crowds.

And I know you've created a really good relationship with Visit Hershey Harrisburg around this. Yes. And their support of making sure that the folks that are coming here for this multiple day event, we get the full ability to see their level of investment, both in hotels, local facilities. And, you know, again, hotels have went up in the region since then, which is another indication of the level of support. So I just I want to say I appreciate the partnership, the leadership, obviously, the new leadership and the ability to continue to figure out ways not where we focus on the negatives, but how these kinds of partnerships really benefit infrastructure for the region. You can't do it alone and you can't do it just by criticizing all of the other pieces. I think we should be recognizing that. You know, all the valuable levels of partnership that has allowed for these assets to be significant for both the residents and the economic impact of our community.

I appreciate that. And as I said during my presentation, Dauphin County has been a wonderful partner, a great partner with the airport authority since I've been here. I've been here 23 years. So that has not changed. So thank you.

Tim, thank you for your leadership over the years and just touching on the air show from last year. Our collective phones between the three of us were ringing off the hook the two days up to in the morning of the air show, asking if we could get people tickets. By then it was too late. Yeah. But thank you for for.

And they're selling quickly for this year as well.

And you and your team collectively are doing a great job as well. So thanks. HIA is known throughout the Atlantic states as one of the cleanest, safest, and most efficient airports. And that, again, is under your leadership of you and your team. folks come from all around different states and fly in and out of there. The 230 corridor has been the big winner. Commissioner Harwick mentioned the hotel on site, the hotel that the Nardo family built several years ago. Now there's another one coming right next to it. There's a new one. The Wawa, the sheets competing with the gas wars. I mean, that's, The new McDonald's that's there. The train station. The train station. Yeah, you're right. All that's happening. And thank you for the work that you're doing with the community. The community engagement with the borough of Middletown, with Lower Swatera Township, and with Penn State Harrisburg is just taking it to another level. So you're doing really, really good work there. And George mentioned former Congressman Tim Holden. He was only a congressman for a very brief time, but he delivered. He did. He brought back millions and millions of dollars in projects and I think less than two terms that he served us. And I still have one of those big giant checks.

It's from nine million plus and signed by Tim Holden in my office.

So I'm glad you brought that name up as well. And looking forward to continued support and working with you and your team. So we're very appreciative of the work that you do. Appreciate that. Thank you.

Well, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Collins, thank you for being here. And I just want to echo everything my colleagues have said. And obviously, it's amazing to see growth. This kind of growth brings more people to our region, gives them a vision for maybe laying down roots here if they're thinking about moving. And it also gives people in this region an opportunity to travel and to see this country and see other countries, as you noted. And so thank you for all the work you're doing, all the investment that you're making in our community here in Dauphin County. And if there's obviously we're continued, we're continued being a partner like we want to continue that. But if there's ways you see openings for partnerships beyond what we've in ways we've already partnered, please don't hesitate to come ask. We want to ensure that we support the growth and support the economic impact in our region. So thank you both.

Thank you, Chairman Douglas.

All right, we'll move to salary board We have a salary board packet before us for approval Do I have a motion so move move by controller Bateman seconded by Commissioner Hartwick any discussion? Hearing none all those in favor aye opposed motion carries I We'll move to Human Services for our personnel packet.

Good morning, Commissioners. The personnel packet has been distributed. Are there any questions? And it is my understanding that all of the transactions included in the personnel packet are budgeted for.

Good morning, Faye. Good morning. Any questions? Hearing none, do we have a motion for the purchase order?

So moved.

Second. Moved by Commissioner Priest, seconded by Commissioner Hartwick. Any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

Thank you.

Thank you. Budget and Finance. Good morning, Mr. Davis.

I have no changes to the investment report sent out yesterday. There's also no changes to the purchase order packet. That's ready for your approval. Just ask you to continue to ignore the budget remaining column as we work with our vendor to get those figures corrected.

Do I have a motion for the purchase order pack? I'd like to ask a question. Yeah, sure. I can make the motion first.

No, you can ask a question.

Go ahead. Any sort of update? I know the treasurer's not here. Is there an update related to sort of tax revenue coming in? You know, oftentimes as those bills go out, it would be great to be able to track. Early revenues are grace period and make a determination of inflows of revenue related to expectations and timing based upon previous years. Have we done any of that kind of analysis with the treasurer's office?

I haven't done any of that analysis. Generally, the treasurer has done that, but I'm happy to pull some figures for the board.

If you could, as a matter of formal request, from my perspective, I'd like to see sort of where we're at with revenue inflows and sort of track it based upon previous years, just so we have, as we begin another round again, this board has talked about not waiting for budget time, having an early look at both revenues and expenditures and ensuring that if we're not meeting projections, we make the adjustment to ensure that we are planning throughout this year and not just react. Thank you.

I echo that request. Do I have a motion for the purchase order packet? So moved. Second. Moved by Commissioner Hartwick. Seconded by Commissioner Preece. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much, Mr. Davis. We have 46 items before us today. Matters requiring board action. Does anything need to be pulled for a separate vote? Do I have a motion for all 46 items? Move by Commissioner Hartwick. Second. Seconded by Commissioner Preece. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. No former business. Any new business? Hearing none, we'll move to Commissioner's remarks. Commissioner Hartwick.

Just a reminder that CCAP spring conference starts this upcoming weekend. I know that there's a couple of critical topics on and I know begins on Saturday. So Wednesday, hopefully be able to provide a report back to the board from a number of those Meetings that we'll be having over the next week and the only other thing I want to mention is tomorrow. I'm going to be addressing addressing our community partners group that has existed for a significant amount of time here in dolphin county. I think our informal systems have stepped up in the case. you know, in many ways when we've had families and communities in need to be able to serve in a way to try to help provide furniture to people that are dislocated to, um, you know, ways that we can provide Christmas gifts to people over the course of, um, you know, over, uh, the holidays to, um, job interviews and connections to you know just a myriad of ways that we've got people in this community and again government is one thing it's another thing when community members and like-minded non-profit organizations step up to be able to take responsibility for our future it's only then where these we can be successful in trying to move forward and those community partners have been plugging away without a whole lot of recognition for a long time uh and I just wanted to note that we will be addressing I'll be addressing them tomorrow at a 10 a.m. morning meeting. So that's all I've got. Thanks.

Thank you, Commissioner Harwick. Commissioner Priest.

Commissioner Harwick, I believe at the CCAP convention, you will be in the running for another term as the Pennsylvania State Representative, one of two, representing the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania at the national level. Thank you. I wish you the very best there. Secondly, I'd mentioned earlier that I had a conversation yesterday with Julie Walker from the Peyton Walker Foundation. She had reached out due to some initiatives recently with the AEDs here that different organizations are putting forth. Again, all AEDs save lives, and the more we can put out there, the merrier. She advised me to, if I would say a community service announcement, which I will do today, uh they have 240 aeds are currently within our communities utilized by residents and elected officials and they have 75 more so anybody that's out there that wants to join the four minute community initiative i'm going to actually ask our county controller mary bateman who is one of those individuals here in Dauphin County, who has signed up to be a member of the Four Minute Community Initiative. And as Ms. Walker wants to get those last 75 out there, if an individual is interested in doing that, Mary, what would they do?

Sure. They just have to go to PeytonWalker.org. And then in the menu, there's a place to apply for an AED. And I know that application was pretty simple. And then after you receive an email notification that you're approved, there is some training that you have to do, but it's all online. So it's very simple. And, you know, you get notifications, you take your AED with you when you go places, and it does tell you when there's an emergency nearby. So I...

encourage everyone who is willing to to participate and we have hundreds of members in our community that want to serve on our local boards this is one way to serve your local community throughout dolphin county so please take advantage of this opportunity to save lives thank you

And just piggybacking off that, I believe our clerk of courts, Tina Nixon, is also part of that program, correct? Thank you for your service in that capacity. And certainly want as many people to get involved in that, the idea of ensuring that someone can rapidly respond to someone in crisis. uh and and looping in our community to that response while emergency services are on their way i just think it's such a creative idea so often in government we see kind of just a revolving door of the same ideas this is obviously something that's very creative and it's getting the community involved and helping solve the problem so thanks for drawing attention to that commissioner priest I do want to draw attention to just acknowledge two items we voted on today that I'm very proud of. Item number 24 for International Services Center, translation service help. I've seen the impact of the International Services Center and ultimately the good they're doing in the community. Specifically, I've met refugee families who are being resettled here in Dauphin County and the work that they do to support those families, ensuring that they get access to employment and other opportunities and ultimately have a community that comes around them and supports them. And so I'm incredibly thankful to see us continuing to support their work. Also, item number 29, the Bhutanese community here in Harrisburg and seeing our commitment to continuing to support our neighbors in the Bhutanese community, specifically around mental health needs and ensuring that You know, they get culturally competent support in that way. So as a board, I think I speak for all of us in our pride to support our neighbors in this way. Moving forward, we'll head to general public participation. Just a reminder, it's a three-minute time limit, and you'll need to state your name prior to commenting. Anyone for public comment? Does not look like it. Do I have a motion for adjournment?

Second.

Moved by Commissioner Hartwick, seconded by Commissioner Preece. All in favor? Aye. We're adjourned.