City Council - Regular Meeting

We are live. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to tonight's Wayne Sports City Council meeting. Today is Thursday, August 13th. It is 7.01 p.m. Please rise for the invocation by Councilman Dr. Adam Yoder, followed by the flag salute.

Lord, we gather here today with purpose and hope. Guide our hearts and minds as we deliberate on matters that shape our community's future. grant us clarity of thought, empathy for all voices, and the courage to make decisions that foster health, growth, and vibrancy for every resident. May our choices today plant seeds of prosperity and well-being that will flourish for generations to come. Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, Item number three on tonight's agenda is approval of City Council meeting minutes from July 23rd, 2026. Could I have a motion, please? So moved. Second. Do we have any questions, concerns, comments about the minutes? Seeing and hearing nothing, Mrs. Frank.

Dr. Yoder?

Yes.

Mr. Milligan?

Yes.

Mr. Mackey?

Yes.

Mr. Dessinger?

Yes.

Mr. Polizzi?

Yes.

Mr. Beiter?

Yes. Motion passes 6-0. Item number four is limited courtesy of the floor. I believe we've had no requests this evening. So we'll move to item number five, please.

An ordinance transfer ordinance number three and first reading.

Can I have motion, please? So moved. Second. Mr. Livermore, how are you this evening?

good evening i'm good how are you very well thank you uh okay so this is number three sorry i have to um this is a transfer ordinance for the 2026 general funding capital projects budget so what this ordinance is doing is taking forty eight thousand five hundred dollars from the surplus sales um property account and moving it and we're going to ultimately move it into the police capital projects budget um there was a problem with one of the police cars earlier than they thought and they need to purchase a new car one of them is out of commission so what we're doing here is taking from the sale of four vehicles from the police department and moving it into their capital projects budget so that they can purchase a new police car to replace one that is now not usable. Okay.

Any questions regarding the transfer? Seeing and hearing nothing. Mrs. Frank?

Dr. Yoder?

Yes.

Mr. Milligan?

Yes.

Mr. Mackey?

Yes.

Mr. Dessinger?

Yes.

Ms. Mealy? Yes. Mr. Palizzi? Yes. Mr. Beiter?

Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Item number 6, please.

An ordinance transfer ordinance number 4 in first reading.

Can I have a motion, please? So moved. Second. Ms. Livermore again.

Good evening again. So this is an ordinance to adjust the budget for the Act 13 for 2026. This ordinance is for a change in the streets renovation budget of $71,838. So, what this is doing is the early grant, which I believe are the crosswalks that you are seeing. Being done around town, so this grant started in 2023 and had. like an 18 month lull where nothing happened. So we hadn't budget for the city's match because we weren't sure when construction was going to resume and it resumed this year. So this is for the city's portion of the match and a small increase in cost because of the 18 month lull in the construction. And we did receive a, about a couple hundred thousand more in our Act 13 allocation this year than we anticipated. So these funds will be coming from that surplus.

Wonderful. It's always great to hear when we receive a couple hundred thousand dollars more. Do we have any questions from members of council then on this transfer ordinance? Liz Mealy.

Actually, a question related to the last transfer ordinance. Is there a reason why we decided not to take the funding for that from Act 13 as well?

Um, I mean, yeah, I mean, just because there was so much sold in the surplus sales, which is thought using the sale of the police cars to replace a police car would be. Yeah, more in kind. Yeah.

Okay.

Seeing, hearing nothing else. I'll send a strike.

Dr. Yoder?

Yes.

Mr. Milligan?

Yes.

Mr. Mackey?

Yes.

Mr. Dessinger?

Yes.

Ms. Mealy? Yes. Mr. Palizzi?

Yes.

Mr. Beiter?

Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Item number seven, please.

Resolution authorizing purchase of all pursuit rated police vehicle and related equipment.

Can I have a motion, please? So moved. Second. Chief Ottaviano, how are you this morning?

I'm good. Yourself? Very well, thank you. So this resolution is to purchase a 2026 Dodge Durango from New Holland Auto Group and the upfits from 10-8 Emergency Services for a total cost of $71,944.30. The vehicle purchased from the Police Capital Projects and the upfits from the Police Vehicle Budget, both purchases are through the PA Co-Stars contract. This purchase replaces a 2020 Chevy Tahoe that is out of service due to engine failure. We have three canines, two canine cars. The math doesn't add up. It's just very inconvenient and not working. This does not increase the overall budget due to the ordinance that Jamie just presented. Questions?

Are there questions from members of council regarding the purchase of the new police vehicle?

Well... The engine failed?

Yeah. So we have three 2020 Tahoe's and they need to be replaced and they're costing a ton of money. And it's just our mechanic did as much as he could, but it sits at a dealership and it just.

Got it. But is, do we, I mean, I guess that is about our replacement schedule or we're not planning to replace all of them this year, obviously.

Well, so it wasn't, I mean, This is something that's planned, but we can only do so many at a time. Usually our canine cars last a long time, but we switched all of them to Durango's. These are Tahoe's that should have been replaced three years ago.

Even though they're 2020 models?

So a 2020 for police and a 2020 for you are two very different things. So it has 19,000 hours, which 90,000 miles, 90,000 hours. So that's 6,000 to 800,000 miles on your own car. That's just because of idle time.

Right.

So it's well past due. Got it.

My understanding, too, is none of the Tahoe's were pursuit rated, correct? That's correct.

Time frame until we receive the vehicle after it's been upfitted?

The vehicle's ready for sale. It's just, it'll take a, due to the fact that the ordinance has to be passed a second time, probably October. Okay.

One more question, Eric.

Yeah, absolutely. I looked that way first. I apologize.

I'm assuming that there's not yet a hybrid or electric vehicle that meets the needs of pursuit vehicles?

No.

Just when you talked about idle time, hybrids don't idle.

Right. They've had their own problems. State police had a bunch of Ford Explorers that they've gone away from now because of issues. Okay. But no, they do not.

Okay.

So you hear anything else, Mrs. Frank?

Dr. Yoder.

Yes.

Mr. Milligan.

Yes.

Mr. Mackey.

Yes.

Mr. Dussing.

Yes.

Ms. Mailey. Yes. Mr. Palizzi.

Yes.

Mr. Reiter.

Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Thank you. Thank you very much, Chief. Item number eight, please.

Resolution setting city council meeting minutes. I'm sorry. Setting city council meetings for the year 2027.

Can I have a motion, please? So moved. Second. All right, so what we have here before us is our schedule for next year. This is something we typically do around this time of year, late summer, early fall. We wanted to make sure we had it done a little bit earlier this year so that we had this particular room reserved. Mrs. Frank always is looking out for us and making sure that the schedule is done correctly. If we want to take a look at that, if there's any problems on there, I'm sure we all looked at it on our own, but there's nothing really that I see. We have a typical break in August between Little League, so that way we don't have to worry about trying to get down here. And then we have our budget meetings, our work sessions scheduled in November, typically the Monday and Wednesday, mid-November, followed by the votes in early December, mid-December.

Okay.

If there's no questions then, Mrs. Frank?

Dr. Yoder?

Yes.

Mr. Milligan?

Yes.

Mr. Mackey?

Yes.

Mr. Dessinger?

Yes.

Ms. Mealy? Yes. Mr. Palizzi?

Yes.

Mr. Beiter?

Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Item number nine, please.

Resolution authorizing execution of revised I-99 roadway lighting agreement.

Could I have a motion, please? So moved. Second. Mayor Slaughter.

Good evening, President Bider, Vice President Polizzi, members of the Council of the Administration. What you have before you is a resolution authorizing the revised I-99 roadway lighting agreement. As you may have seen, I-99 or Route 15 between the city here at the Spur and New York State was renamed I-99. And as part of that, PennDOT reached out and wanted to transfer ownership Back to them, this original agreement goes back to 1971 between the city and pin dot where it was basically a 50 50, the city had to oversee the maintenance, the lights, all that type of stuff. And so it says there, so we'll transfer ownership operation, maintenance and responsibility for the future electrical service costs of the roadway lighting system. From the city of Wayne sport to the Pennsylvania department of transportation. Uh, so this will be obviously saving us not just time labor, but also money, the 50% that we do not have to pay for any longer. Uh, so that's what this resolution is, uh, regarding.

Are there any questions from members of council?

Thank you. Um, I have 1 question. Do we have any idea on the anticipated. Fiscal savings from this.

um i i don't have the numbers right now but i can get them uh beginning of next week and getting to you i do know that the lightning is quite expensive so okay great for us thank you mayor slaughter if you can um can you give us some benefits that us as the city of williamsburg are going to have with inter now interstate 99 coming through the city

Well, I think there's a lot between obviously just more people being able to come here and also with the connector that's down south with down in the Lewisburg area. And then obviously now this is going to be the Western Corridor out to I think it goes all the way to Bedford, I believe. So from Bedford now through Williamsport up to I-99 up 999 to New York State. So you should hopefully we see more people coming here, reaching our businesses and restaurants and all of that. So I know the state's been promoting it pretty hard, and I think we'll see a lot of benefits, not just Williamsport, but the surrounding region.

I know it's exciting because those future 99 quarter signs had been up for about 25 years.

Well, I think there's still, I think that's out on I-80 when you go out towards State College. I think that's going to be part of 99 as well, I believe.

They're redoing all the on and off ramps. Over there. When you get off of interstate 80 to go to state college where 99 used to start, they're redoing that whole interchange there. So you can easily get on and off of 80 to 99 and vice versa. So the state's really investing heavily into that and federal government as well. Yeah.

And I think the down around Seals Grove, I don't know, maybe you guys know the construction down there. I think that's going to tie in somewhere as well. They're, As you get on between Seelands Grove and Harrisburg, as you go around that loop right there, there's construction happening there. I don't know.

Yeah, that's like connects what they have done to the north side of Shemokin Dam. I think that's going to connect that to the south side of where you would come out from the strip in Seelands Grove. And it's just all one straight shot. Yeah. There's going to be a lot more convenient traveling from South Central Pennsylvania, Southwestern Pennsylvania, New York into this thruway. It's been a long time coming.

Are we making any corollary complementary investigations into better transit into Williamsport as a result of that. I was just fielding a complaint from a local business owner about the fact that if he wanted to have a meeting of component parts of his business in Williamsport, it took everybody a full day to get here. And now might be a good time to... Yeah.

I mean, I don't know. I'm not aware of anything on that front, but we can definitely talk about it. And I did see it just read on my way here that right before I came here, actually, that... Air service might be coming back with a larger carrier with larger airplanes. So within the next few days. So I don't know if that's true or not, but. I saw that alert pop up. So I don't know. Anyway, to your point, yeah, if travel's easier, we should.

I mean, yeah, it seems like we should be working maybe more on some sort of high-speed transit from the major cities or something like that is a good way to reach here. But I think it is an issue, especially if you do business in Williamsport, just trying to get people here, whether you're trying to draw them here as employees or whether you're trying to bring them here for meetings and things. So something to bear in mind with the designation that might carry some weight.

Seeing and hearing nothing else then, Mrs. Frank?

Dr. Yoder?

Yes.

Mr. Milligan?

Yes.

Mr. Mackey?

Yes.

Mr. Dessinger? Yes. Ms. Mealy? Yes. Mr. Palizzi? Yes. Mr. Beiter?

Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Item number 10, please.

Resolution authorizing the city planner to serve as administrative office of the city subdivision and land development regulations.

motion please so moved second miss fessler how are you i'm great how are you very well thank you good good evening members of council i just want to give you a little bit of background on this item before i present it so in this stamp plan that council approved earlier this year in january there was a section devoted to recommendations about how to grow the tax base in the city of williamsport It notes that the previous administration of the Department of Community and Economic Development was focused primarily on administering federal grants received by HUD. I always go back to the thing that Councilwoman Mealy said to me when you hired me for this job. She said, I really hope you understand this job is just not managing the dwindling HUD entitlement that we received. So I want you to know that I did take that to heart. And I hope that you can see that over the last two years, we have made great strides to expand our department and to do more than that. So under the current administration, the Community and Economic Development Department has adopted a much more creative and proactive approach to the work that we're doing. Our input mining plans, policies, and programs that foster citywide economic growth, expand housing opportunities, and support neighborhood revitalization. We are becoming a true planning department, and this is how we will contribute to the growing tax base in the city of Williamsport in a deliberate and strategic way. So as part of this more creative and proactive approach to economic development, the Stamp Plan notes that we should try as a city to move from using our ordinance as obstructive tools to prevent growth to proactive tools to promote growth. So essentially, rather than when developers come in, we say, no, you can't build that here because it's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, we want to be saying, yes, you can build that here if you follow the following guidelines. historical, functional, and safety attributes outlined in our ordinances. So that's one of the things that we're really working hard on. So as we have all of these strategic plans underway that we've been speaking to you about, the housing plan, the safe streets plan, the comprehensive plan that we're working with DCD on. We want to think about how we're executing those plans and make sure that we have our zoning and land development ordinances ready to go in a way where we can promote the type of development that we want to see in the city in the places that we want to see it in the city. So we want to make sure that we are working with developers and the planning commission is working hand in hand with the planning department so that we can make sure that we're getting the development that we want in this city. And our department will be measuring our success on whether or not we're attracting and retaining residents and businesses in the city. It's pretty much that simple. So. To that end, after discussions with the team at Barry Icett, Mayor Slaughter, the fire chief who is the administrator of the codes department, we're bringing you this recommendation tonight to designate the city planner as the administrative officer for the city's subdivision and land development ordinance. So this will place the coordination of the planning commission's activities, including the eventual completion of a citywide comprehensive plan and any future zoning ordinance amendments, as well as the first contact with developers seeking to implement economic development with the same department that's developing the plans and the strategies that will guide our future strategic direction for the city. The current administration feels that this approach will allow us to most effectively facilitate economic growth and community development. So with that background in front of you, this ordinance is to designate Scott Williams, who is currently serving as our city planner, as the administrator of the planning commission. Any questions?

Liz Mealy?

Nothing. I think this is an exciting step and a good step. And yeah, I think I would just ask that there's a lot going on in the planning department right now, which is fantastic. And I'm very pleased about that. But as much as possible, and I know that we can all probably be a little bit difficult to get in touch with, try and keep us abreast of that. We are getting a lot of questions right now about... specifically development zoning codes in the city of Williamsport and understanding what proactive steps community development is taking in that regard would probably be helpful. Thank you.

Yeah. And also we'll be probably the, maybe the first meeting September, but probably the second bringing some Phil Prout from Barry Iset and some fee updates and subdivision land development things as well. So we can discuss it then as well. So, yeah.

Anything else from other members of council? Thank you very much for your work on this and all the work that you've been doing.

Thank you.

Mrs. Frank.

Dr. Yoder.

Yes.

Mr. Milligan.

Yes.

Mr. Mackey.

Yes.

Mr. Dessinger.

Yes.

Ms. Mealy. Yes. Mr. Polizzi.

Yes.

Mr. Biden.

Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Number 11, please.

Resolution approving phase one budget of the Williamsport Government Study Commission.

Can I have a motion? So moved. Second. Ms. Fessler again.

Thank you. And Councilwoman Mealy, feel free to jump in anywhere here. This is a group effort. I'm just kind of the representative tonight of the Government Study Commission.

Punch punching bag.

Yeah, yeah. So in front of you have the phase one budget of the Williamsburg Government Study Commission with a few notes that I want to mention. The city has, well, I should say city council has prioritized this government study commission as our current project with our stamp grant. So we will be receiving reimbursement of 90% of the cost of the government study commission. consultant. So you see on this budget there's an $83,000 expenditure, which will actually be reimbursed $74,397.37. But for the sake of this budget, we wanted to have the accurate full expenditure listed here. I also wanted to note that some of these expenses will be incurred in the 2026 budget year. So we've already moved forward with things like the website. We already have a consultant who is doing the live streaming of the meetings. We've already incurred some fees with our solicitor. So not all of these expenses will be budgeted in the 2027 budget. So when we get closer to budget time, we'll be able to give you a exact number of what you will be approving in the 2027 budget for this project.

And I think the other thing to note is that when Home Rule succeeds in November of 27, well, either way, this budget carries us through to November of 27. And it's also, at least in my estimation, a high side budget based on the idea that we obviously don't want to wind up spending more money than we budgeted for this activity. But if Home Rule passes in November, we will need to construct an administrative code, and the state has pledged a similar matching component for the writing of the administrative code, which should not have anywhere near as many corollary expenses as the Home Rule effort does. That is to say that writing the administrative code, which is matched by the state, should be the only component, really, of that budget. there won't be public meetings that the state requires to be streamed or things like that.

Yeah, that that's definitely accurate. And we've done our best in this even in this budget to try to be very mindful. You know, only inviting solicitors to meetings when it's absolutely necessary. We don't have our solicitor every meeting, you know, just really trying to keep the cost down in any way that we can. Any questions?

Who is your solicitor? Who is the government study commission solicitor? McCormick. Are there plans, with all due respect to McCormick, are there plans to look at a different solicitor? I ask because when we did an approval earlier in the year, I made the comment, I think it's a good idea. You have your own, not attached to the city. I still have that belief. And so that's why I'm asking that question. Yeah.

I can Liz do you want to I was just going to say we've had that conversation with the solicitor to ask them you know in their opinion sorry I don't want to speak for you we've had that conversation with the solicitor to ask if there was any type of perceived conflict and the understanding I had was that there is not and that there is a deep understanding of the city of Williamsport government you know within that that group that is largely to our benefit, but there is no conflict or reason.

So there's probably A handful of entities in the world that have said see their counsel and a request option trouble is seeking a couple other ones and our firm has been working in the city for so long. between myself, Nick, and Dave Smith.

I mean, but yeah, I mean, if the commission wanted to look at someone else, I mean, it certainly could. We were invited.

No, I understand that. I was just asking the question as a follow-up to a previous question and comment that I had made earlier, and I thought, with all due respect, and I appreciate where you're coming from, I would consider the commission to still think through the thought of having an independent solicitor outside of the city scope. That's just a personal thought. I mean, I don't think there's... It's all good. It's up to the commission. That's just an individual perspective. The other question, or not really question, comment, on the administrative support side, public meeting, I see some stuff in here for online public engagement. That's great. I don't know how much thought has gone in on the commission side to... Public engagement. What I see in here, I think you're going to need more of that probably than what's in there. So I would just encourage the commission to think about if you're shifting monies around in an approved budget, consider that. I think that will be a critical element of success for the commission's work when you get to that point. Only comments.

I think that's more the print and mail communication component there, maybe, Adam, too, in terms of public engagement moving forward. On the solicitor component, Adam, the one thing I would say, I do not remember that comment of yours. First off, I apologize. I would have addressed it with you. But our goal is to keep, given that we have a former solicitor on the commission, and given that I think by establishing a working agreement with a firm that already contracts with the city, that gives us the flexibility to use them when we want to and not use them when we don't. And consequently, the ability to realize significant savings over having to have a solicitor at every single meeting. That said, I would not object, and I don't think McCormick would be offended if we asked for a second opinion on something that, if anything, came up that was of great importance. At this point, I think, you know, effectively, the solicitors are to the extent that they've had a role really in the commission, it would mostly be questions about conducting meetings and what we can legally do within the format of meetings and when we need to invoke the Sunshine Law. There may at some point come to be questions, especially during the administrative code drafting, if and when we get that far, that are more complex. And then I would perhaps welcome the idea of engaging a solicitor if we thought that it needed to be done. But I would agree with Austin that given that Pennsylvania's governmental structure is unique amongst or relatively unique amongst American states. And then that the third class city code renders us even maybe a little bit more, you know, there are lots of similarities, obviously, among cities everywhere. But the ways in which our city is not similar, McCormick is as familiar with as basically anybody else in the in the world. So for right now, I think they're probably different. our cheapest option no offense Austin um and also a very good one no other questions I do a question when is the next uh meeting for the Home Rule Commission August 20th that one will not be streamed due to rather intense involvement on the part of our contractor for streaming in Little League World Series. But we will continue to have minutes and I think audio recording. Yeah, sorry, Chris, didn't mean to doubt you.

What time is that on the 20th? It's at 6 p.m. 6 p.m. And lastly, where?

Right in this room. And all of the meetings that we've had so far that have been streamed are available on our website. Williamsporthomerule.com.

Seeing and hearing nothing else then, Mrs. Frank?

Dr. Yoder?

Yes.

Mr. Milligan?

Yes.

Mr. Mackey?

Yes.

Mr. Dessen?

Yes.

Ms. Mealy? Yes. Mr. Palazzi?

Yes.

Mr. Ryder.

Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Thank you. Thank you. We'll move to item number 12, please.

Resolution authorizing execution of agreement between Citi and ESI Employment Assistance Group.

Can I have a motion, please?

2026 and 2027.

Can I have a motion, please? So moved. Second. Ms. Fuller.

Hi. It's very nice to see all of you. Great to see you as well. I'm back here a year later asking for permission to sign an agreement with ESI again for our employee assistance program. We've had about 41 active hits from people using it for everything from counseling to trainings online. I believe I've been sending you all the updates that I get and the pamphlets that come across as well. Price is a little less this year because our headcount went down a little. So is there any questions? Anything from members of council?

It's great to hear that this has been taken advantage of by the employees. I remember when we talked about this last year. So hopefully they continue to do so.

Yes, it really has become a benefit for them and also for the management team. It supports them. with learning and treating people better. So things are working well.

Seeing, hearing, nothing else. And Mrs. Frank.

Dr. Yoder.

Yes.

Mr. Milligan.

Yes.

Mr. Mackey. Yes. Mr. Dessinger. Yes. Ms. Mealy. Yes. Mr. Valese. Yes. Mr. Reiter.

Yes. Motion passes 7-0.

Thank you.

Thank you as well. We'll move to item number 13, please.

Resolution awarding construction services for the Liquid Fuel Street Paving Project to Hal Baker.

Can I have motion, please? So moved. Second. Welcome to the Mr. Scott show for the next couple of items. Great evening.

Doing well. I'll let you know in five items. That's right. No, good evening. Council President Bader, members of council. First resolution I have up is to award our Annual Liquid Fuel Streets Paving Project to Glen O. Hallbaker. Hallbaker has done this the last at least three years, I think, in the city. They always do good work for us. The amount is $811,438.70. We received two bids. The other one was $70,000 more, so that's pretty good to get two consistent bids. Just quickly, the streets we're doing, we're looking at Walnut, 3rd to 4th, Locust between 3rd and 4th, 1st Street from Campbell down to Park, a small section on Park, Park Street from Hogan Way to 1st, and then Maynard Street is the big one we're doing from the railroad crossing. If you remember, we did up to the railroad crossing last year on the bridge. This year, we're picking up the railroad crossing and going up to 1st Street, That's much needed there on Maynard. And then we're going to jump up to actually up to Selkirk and do a run up on Selkirk from I think it's Bentwood up to where Reservoir Road starts. And I think that's pretty much all of them.

I'll start off with the questions because the biggest one that I think most of us are going to have is regarding Maynard Street. Are there any plans or are we even able to realign that in any kind of different ways? Are we talking about putting in pedestrian crosswalks for safety as Penn College has students walking across to Wawa and Chick-fil-A and so forth? So just really tame that road down so it's not a drag strip, essentially.

Yeah, this is just a resurfacing project. We're not looking into realigning the lanes at this point. Okay. It's just not a part of this scope.

Yeah, but that is part of the safety action plan now. So they're reviewing all of that, all the roadways and intersections. And we did apply also for a planning grant, federal planning grant for that whole, from Maynard to Third to Rose, that whole corridor to look exactly at what you're saying. But that will be, because I agree, you have a four-lane highway basically right now. Yep. Kids cross, and then you got the baseball traffic, softball traffic. Sheets while while Burger King chick fil a, so. It's definitely on the radar and will likely hopefully get some improvements soon.

Wonderful. Are there any other questions from members of council about the roads to be paid?

Not about the roads that are in this, but just... I messaged Scott Livermore a couple weeks ago about... You know what I'm going to talk... It's not quite... Just do me a favor. Just keep on top of whatever's going on on 3rd Street with the Water Authority. It still looks like complete crap. I mean, it's patched over for now with the work they're doing there, but it's looked like that for a few weeks. And the longer it goes, I just get more nervous about it not getting fixed the correct way. And that's not... It's not city work that's happening, but just a friendly reminder. I know both of you will do that in the little time you have. So thank you. That's all.

We call the water authority about every day, every other day with complaints we get. They think it's our project, and we remind them it's their contractor to keep the street clean.

Out of curiosity, who was the contractor that did that cut and patch? I don't remember. Pre-board drilling or something?

I never heard of them.

They're the one that patched the macadam? Yeah, I can find out. We can find out later. Yeah. Okay.

Thank you. I forget who they are. I see them every day and I can't remember. Those ring a bell.

Seeing, hearing nothing else then. Mrs. Frank?

Dr. Yoder?

Yes.

Mr. Milligan?

Yes.

Mr. Mackey?

Yes.

Mr. Palizzi? Yes. Ms. Milley? Yes. Mr. Palizzi? Mr. Dessinger? Yes. Mr. Palizzi.

Yes, again.

Mr. Biden.

Yes, motion passes 7-0. Move to item number 14, please.

Resolution awarding construction services for CDBG bike lanes project.

I have a motion, please.

So moved.

Thank you. Mr. Scott.

Good evening again. This resolution is for construction of bike lanes up around the east end of the city. I'll go over the streets. It's to Minichi. They're from over Scranton Wolfsburg. I've heard of them. I've used them years ago. They're a good firm. This is for the Blue Route, $94,480.00. This project is funded by community development block grants. I think you had the map. I'll just go over the route. It starts up by behind divine divine providence hospital connecting to the. Bike route, it comes down Sherman goes across Ellinger then a long run out Lincoln. It comes down Packard into Brandon park across the section of Parkwood. down Elizabeth and then back over Hughes and Wilson to Sherman Street. That's the loop we like because it connects some parks and places like that.

Are there any questions from members of council? I knew it, come on Liz.

Yeah, and the idea is of course with future community development block grant funding to fund additional routes through this. I said the idea is as we move forward to fund additional routes year over year, are we going to give this a couple of years to sink in and make sure that, you know what I mean, like that it's working? Or are we thinking we're just going to move forward with another one next year?

Yeah, it's part of the SS4A, you know, citywide study where we're doing pedestrian bicycles. I bring it up every meeting. I mean, I go to other cities, Harrisburg, Philly, et cetera. You see bike lanes and that. We just don't have that. We see electric bikes, bikes, scooters going every direction up and down every street. And yeah.

So hopefully soon. I mean, we want to keep going. Okay.

And that's my second question. I guess Scott's not here, but Val or Derek, are we working on an ordinance basically telling electric bikes where and how they can ride and

We've been talking about that. We're talking about it statewide as well, trying to see what other cities are doing. Hopefully, if we can start to get some of this infrastructure in place, that will help.

Right. But I mean, at this point, this is just a loop around the upper part of the city. And I mean, I'm seeing electric bikes riding on sidewalks downtown, like, you know. I mean, some stuff that is clearly not okay and actually against the law currently, but then a lot of other stuff that's a little dicier, like you don't know where it falls, or people riding electric bikes against traffic. With a regular bike, it's dangerous enough, but when somebody's riding an e-bike against traffic, you're talking about a combined 50-mile-an-hour collision if they run into a car. So it would seem to me that we should be trying to pair any kind of bike lane thing with something, and then... If it gives us problems, then we address it. But some sort of law on the books is better than nothing in terms of dealing with it. Because, yeah, I would agree, Bill, that we have chaos, pandemonium. What's that Bill Murray quote from Ghostbusters? And, yeah, I mean, a couple of weeks ago, I was in Copenhagen for a couple of days, and they have actual entire – bridges, withdraw bridges and everything designated for just pedestrians and bicycles. Pretty remarkable. But and we're not getting there anytime soon. But it was, yeah, stark contrast, I guess. And I would agree, Bill, that I think the more we can work on this and the more we can actively designate bike lanes instead of sharrows, the better off we'll be. We've got a lot of space on our streets compared to a lot of places. And I think we can actually carve out real bike lanes on most of our roads. So. That'd be great. Thank you for the 1st step.

So, I don't, I don't have a map handy or any kind of specs of what these look like. These are going through some residential parts of the city. What's the 1 tree parking impact going to look like?

So this is, as Liz mentioned, it's a shared symbol. It's out in the lane. It's not in the parking where people park along the curb. It's not a designated stripe lane. It's not that. It's the shared every couple hundred feet. Just to let people know, you're sharing this with bikes. It's out in the lane, not against the curb.

Sounds good.

And we should give Rob Cooley credit as well. This is going to connect with Lowell Sock. Also, they're clearly paying for their part, but Rob was very instrumental in getting this whole project going as well. So it is going to be just beyond the city too. So folks want to ride their bikes, Lowell Sock into the city, loop back around. So hopefully it goes well. And then, of course, with the pump track and things that will be starting hopefully in the fall also out in East Ends.

Seeing and hearing nothing else, then, Mrs. Frank?

Dr. Yoder?

Yes.

Mr. Milligan?

Yes.

Mr. Mackey? Yes. Mr. Dessinger? Yes. Ms. Mealy? Yes. Mr. Polizzi?

Yes.

Mr. Beiter?

Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Item number 15, please.

Resolution awarding engineering services for the 4th Street Wollard Improvement Project to Hunt Engineering.

Can I have a motion, please? So moved. Second. Mr. Scott?

Yes, this resolution is to award engineering design to Hunt Engineers. They have an office on Pine Street. Chris Kaiser is with Hunt. He's here tonight. We've done a lot of projects with Chris. So just go over what the scope is. It's for 12 bollards on 12 locations on 4th Street downtown. I'll mention them in a moment. Task 1 is design, coordination, and bidding for $14,765.00. Task 2, construction, administration, management, and inspection for $7,140.00 for a total lump sum not to exceed figure of $21,095.00. This project is funded by Commonwealth Financing Authority, CFA, DCED, Multimodal Grants. The Bollard locations downtown, they're all on 4th Street. They're at Market Street, Court Street, Pine Street, Laurel Street, Williams Street, Government Place, Hepburn Street, and Edwin Street.

that any questions from members of council mr mackie how many um how many bollards are are we going to be seeing like say at the intersection of market and forth how many how many bollards will there actually be there will those span the street and the sidewalk or just the street chris i'll let you answer that one he's done some preliminary design work It would be good to actually see the map with the actual bollards in place.

That'll be part of the design. I mean, I know we're going to, you know, need to keep a minimum of four and a half to five feet to limit, you know, a car will be what we'll start with. But we'll also need to look at the amount of budget to to maximize all the locations.

OK, I mean, I do.

Yeah, go ahead. No, we haven't. I still need to put some design together.

Okay. I mean, I, I would be. I'm interested to be part of that conversation if I could be, I have some thoughts. Things that I would prefer not to say in public, but, uh, for, you know, for safety reasons, but at any rate, I would be. Interested to be part of that conversation if I could.

Are there any other questions members of council? Seeing and hearing nothing. Mrs. Frank?

Dr. Yoder?

Yes.

Mr. Milligan?

Yes.

Mr. Mackey?

Yes.

Mr. Jessinger?

Yes.

Ms. Maley? Yes. Mr. Palizzi?

Yes.

Mr. Ryder?

Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Item number 16, please.

Resolution awarding construction services for Levee Earmark Pump Station Electrical Upgrade Project.

Can I have a motion, please? So moved. Second. Mr. Scott?

Yes, this resolution is to award Levee Pump Station electrical upgrades to Lecce Electric. Of course, Lecce is from here in Williamsport. They do a lot of work for us. Our traffic signals, they're just finishing up the Hepburn Street, Little Lee Boulevard traffic signal. Today, we were out there. The slow bid is for $1,688,000. It's funded by the $8 million earmark, which is the 2023 LPDM grant. Give you a little background. So this project includes the construction of electric equipment replacements and power backup facilities at the Spring Run, Mill Race, and Arch Street levee pump stations. Each facility's work will include emergency generators, fuel storage system, automatic transfer switch, distribution equipment, SCADA controls, switchboards, wiring, and panel boards. The pumping stations are not presently equipped with standby power systems. The lack of standby power systems has been previously noted in the Army Corps of Engineers annual inspection reports. These electrical systems need updated to be compliant with present-day electrical code requirements as well. Just also mentioned, you might remember, you passed the roofs to replace the roofs at all the pump stations. That's going to be starting real soon as well. So this will tie right in with that.

Other questions from members of council? Liz Mealy?

Was this within the budget that we expected? How are we seeing it? Yep. All right. Awesome. I think there's just a level of nervousness that we've been working on this levy for so long. Well, yeah. We've been conceptually working on the levy for so long. We're beginning to work on it more than just conceptually. And I think everybody's, I know that I've been terrified that everything's going to come in dramatically over the budget that we predicted for it. So we think that we're still making the kind of progress we thought we'd make with the money we got. Good.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you. No, I will ask. Mr. Scott, I'm looking over this. Maybe I'm missing something, but I see an awful lot of NA not applicables on this. I see some of them for LLCs, partnership bidder.

I don't have the whole bid in front of me. I'm not sure what you're referencing. Okay. Okay.

We can go over it afterward. Yeah. Just want a little clarity on this. You're looking at the bid form.

Yeah, he's looking at the bid form. There's individual bidder, name of bidder, signature, tracking due, business address, tax ID, all not applicable.

Even an EIN.

My guess would be because of Fletchy, we already have all of that on file. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like, they've already filled out the paperwork.

If that's the case, I don't get it. I'll double check on that. Yeah. Okay.

That a company that's done work for us in the past might have all of that information.

They've done a lot of work for us.

Yeah, and Lecce, I mean, Lecce's done, like, significant work in the region. I mean, they know what they're doing. I'm not super concerned about them missing something, but regardless of it.

We're very happy that it's a local firm doing this. We're very comfortable with the relationship with them.

Yeah, they do great work.

Thank you.

They're the best electrical contractor in the area, probably.

If there's no other questions then, this is Frank.

Dr. Yoder.

Yes.

Mr. Milliken.

Yes.

Mr. Mackey.

Yes.

Mr. Dessinger.

Yes.

Ms. Mealy. Yes. Mr. Palizzi.

Yes.

Mr. Beiter.

Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Item number 17, please.

Resolution awarding construction services for West 3rd Street's streetscape project to Big Rock.

Can I have a motion, please? So moved. Second. Last episode, Mr. Scott. All right.

I'm batting 1,004. Um, this resolution is for the streetscape, uh, West third street. That's in front of Jackass, um, brewery there. This, uh, we'll go to big rock paving. Their low bid was $236,535 and 13 cents. We received two bids. The other bid was almost double that. So we're happy with that bid. Um, big rock has done work for us. They did the streetscape, um, On East 4th Street last year, that turned out well. This is a streetscape, so it's all new curb, new sidewalk. It's all concrete work. And there's going to be a brick band behind the curb, and there's new street lighting. It goes from Hepburn out in front of Jackass Brewery and stops right past their entranceway. We got a grant for it. It's funded by a CFA DCD multimodal grant. That's the funding source.

This only takes care of the jackass side?

No, we're going to do both sides. In front of Puff, too.

I was going to say, that one could use some attention. It's going down just basically to cover... We're not doing the whole block or that stretch of business is there by jackass. It's about 50, 75 yards, something like that? Yeah, a couple hundred feet. Okay.

It's a small grant they gave us, so at least get that done. And we're going for more. You know, we submitted this year for a lot more to try to get down to, what, Center Street or Elmira.

Good.

Yeah. So we're going to keep going down West 3rd Street there as a goal.

Good. Yeah. That neighborhood could use some encouragement, I think, in terms of streetscape. Right. Because otherwise there's a lot of good stuff going on there.

Any other questions from members of council? Seeing and hearing none, Mrs. Frank?

Dr. Yoder?

Yes.

Mr. Milligan?

Yes.

Mr. Mackey? Yes. Mr. Dessinger?

Yes.

Ms. Mealy? Yes. Mr. Palizzi?

Yes.

Mr. Beiter?

Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Mr. Scott, thank you very much. Thank you. We'll move to item number 18, please.

Resolution authorizing, oh, I'm sorry. Resolution authorizing the finding of multi-mobile transportation fund grant designating mayor and controller as signees.

Can I have motion, please? So moved. Second. Mellie, how are you this evening?

Good, how are you?

Very well, thank you.

The resolution before you was previously approved by council at the last meeting, but the original project cost inadvertently admitted approximately $42,000 in project costs. So the grant request has been revised. This resolution before you tonight reflects the corrected amount and designate the mayor and myself as the authorized signers for the application and the grant agreement.

Any questions from members of council? Seeing and hearing none, Mrs. Sprite?

Dr. Yoder?

Yes.

Mr. Milligan?

Yes.

Mr. Mackey? Yes. Mr. Dessinger? Yes. Ms. Mealy? Yes. Mr. Palizzi?

Yes.

Mr. Beiter?

Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Item number 19, please.

Resolution authorizing the Mayor and City Grants Administrator as Designator sign these for the Transportation Alternative Set-Aside Program Reimbursement Agreement between the City and PennDOT for Willow Street.

Can I have motion, please? So moved. Second. That is quite a lengthy title, so good to hear.

This resolution is for the Willow Street project, which is an older project that we are now moving forward with. The city was awarded $1 million for the PennDOT's Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside Program, or TASA, for the improvements to Willow Street from Market Street to Basin Street. The project has been rescoped from the original concept and will now include resurfacing Willow Street, new lighting, and improvements to better accommodate pedestrians, bicycles, and vehicles. Tonight's resolution is primarily an administrative requirement of the grant, and it designates the mayor and myself as the city's authorized signers for the reimbursement agreement and related documents.

Are there questions from members of council? Seeing and hearing none, Mrs. Frank.

Dr. Yoder?

Yes.

Mr. Milligan?

Yes.

Mr. Mackey? Yes. Mr. Dessinger?

Yes.

Ms. Mealy? Yes. Mr. Polizzi? Yes. Mr. Biden?

Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Thank you very much. Item number 20, except for filing, the controller's report for May 2026, redevelopment authority minutes from June 2026, and the Williamsport Municipal Water Authority, Williamsport Municipal Sanitary Authority from June 2026. Could I have a motion, please?

So moved.

Second. Do we have any questions, concerns, or comments about the accepting for filing for minutes? Seeing and hearing none, Mrs. Frank.

Dr. Yoder.

Yes.

Mr. Milligan.

Yes.

Mr. Mackey?

Yes.

Mr. Dessinger? Yes. Ms. Mealy? Yes. Mr. Polizzi?

Yes.

Mr. Beiter?

Yes. Motion passes 7-0. Item number 21, announcements. The next regularly scheduled City Council meeting will be held on Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 at 7 p.m. here at Trade and Transit 2, third floor. Upcoming meetings, Tuesday, August 18th at 5 p.m. It's not really a meeting. It's a Grand Slam parade. So we hope to see you all downtown. Obviously, that does fill up quick. So if you're going to be there watching, make sure you get there early. Have your lawn chair set up two, three days before, like we like to see them down there. Please don't do that. It does hinder streets and parks for their ability to get barriers and things put out. But I always look forward to that and love to see everybody in the community come out and support that. Wednesday, August 19th at 10 a.m. is blighted property. Thursday, August 20th at 10.30 a.m. is zoning and hearing board. Tuesday, August 25th at 11.30 a.m. is the redevelopment authority. At 6.30 p.m. is HARB. On Tuesday, September 1st at 1 p.m. is the committee of the whole meeting. And then on Thursday, September 3rd at 7 p.m. is our next regularly scheduled city council meeting. Something else just to add, we will have a brief executive session to discuss personnel matters after tonight's meeting. So comments tonight. Do we have any comments from members of the public? Come on up. Name and address, please, for the record.

Okay. Good evening, President and members of Council. My name is Alex Hemminger. I'm at 331 Rural Avenue. I am speaking tonight regarding a critical safety hazard and unenforceable legal gap under Ordinance 5723, Article 521.03. Under Pennsylvania state law, it is illegal to park directly in front of a driveway. However, state law does not set a specific clearance distance buffer, leaving local municipalities to establish those distances under local code. Right now, Williamsport Article 521.03 only mentions garages. It omits driveways entirely and sets no clearance distance at all. To address blind exits at my home, I went through the official city process and paid $200 out of my pocket for the public works for official private driveway signs on both sides of my curb cut. Yet drivers routinely park within inches of my driveway because state law lacks a defined buffer distance in Article 521.03 amidst driveways altogether. Responding officers state their hands are tied, leaving homeowners forced to nose their vehicles blind into active travel lanes. Earlier today, Mayor Slaughter emailed me stating that the city is currently developing a long-term safety action plan with a consulting firm and offered to get me a community survey. While long-term planning is positive, a survey will not protect residents pulling out of driveways in the near future. We do not need a multi-month consulting study to fix an ordinance gap that fails to even mention driveways. Since public comment is at the end of tonight's meeting, I am asking a member of council to sponsor and place an amendment to article 521.03 on the agenda for the first reading at the next meeting to explicitly include driveways and establish a enforceable five foot clearance buffer. Lastly, I want to urge the council to take action to retain city clerk Janice Frank She has provided years of dedicated service and deep institutional knowledge to our city and community, and council should do everything in its power to keep her in her position. Thank you for your time.

Thank you very much.

She totally didn't pay you to say that, right?

Do we have any other comments from members of the public tonight? Come on up and name an address for the record, please.

Hello, members of council. My name is Nick Saramandich. My address is 911 Summit Road. Today, I'd like to re-propose, respectfully requesting consideration of a re-proposal of a nine-hole disc golf course at Brandon Park. Earlier this month, I met with the Brandon Park committee chairperson. While the proposal is not currently supported, I appreciate the opportunity to present it and address concerns regarding safety, liability, park character, and maintenance. I believe each of these concerns can be responsibly resolved through thoughtful professional design. Safety would be the top priority. The course would be designed to fully separate play from roads, walking paths, playgrounds, seating areas, and other high use spaces. Clear layouts, natural buffers, and proper setbacks would ensure disc golf activity does not interfere with other park users. Disc golf is a quiet, low-impact recreation that requires no lighting, buildings, or significant land alteration. The design would work with Brandon Park's existing natural features, not against them. I am also re-proposing a reduced nine-hole course instead of 18, minimizing land use while still providing meaningful recreational value. Maintenance would be very minimal. No specialized mowing equipment would be required. The course could also be temporarily adjusted or partially closed during large park events to ensure full compatibility with other uses. Liability concerns are well understood and manageable. Disc Golf is successfully operated in municipalities across Pennsylvania with roughly around 400 courses fully commissioned and successfully integrated. The Pennsylvania Recreation Use of Land and Water Act also provides important liability protections for public recreational land. Most importantly, the entire project would be fully funded at no cost to the City of Williamsport or its taxpayers. I am preparing to personally cover all installation costs, including baskets, pads, and signage, if it's approved. I fully respect that there are differing views on how Brandon Park should be used. My intent is not to change its character, but to enhance it by adding a quiet, family-friendly recreational opportunity that increases positive community use of the park. A nine-hole disc golf course would provide an inclusive, affordable activity for residents of all ages, while encouraging healthy outdoor recreation in one of Williamsport's most valuable public spaces. In closing, I would respectfully request that the proposal be brought forward for a formal vote so a clear decision can be made. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Thank you very much as well. If there's no other comments from members of the public, then we'll move to comments from members of council. Do we have any this evening? Mr. Mackey.

Nick, I'm just going to apologize. I owe you a return text. Life got in the way, and I definitely forgot to get back to you, so I apologize for that. I am curious. I wasn't here the first time you presented this idea. Do you think there's enough room for even nine holes of disc golf? Because I'm just in my mind thinking about Brandon Park. you've got the band show, you've got that little nature area, you've got the playground, you've got the baseball field, you've got the tennis courts, you've got the little league fields. I feel like that whole side of the park is probably not in play, for lack of a better term. Or am I wrong about that?

We've got some preliminary design notes that are designed in a way that haven't been properly recommended so far. And you have mapped this out. Do you have those to share? And have you shared those? And if you did, I missed it. Okay. Okay. their layout, but I wanted to actually, I walked the course with some of the park reps, and it seemed like we looked at some different locations that were appropriate, and I can share some of those with you, and then we can actually walk the park and see if we need something.

Okay, yeah, if you could, that would be great. If you're going to hang out for a minute, I'll give you my email you have my city email i'm assuming or okay or or i can just text it to you when i return that text okay um and it's alex forgive me if i asked this question the last time you were here now you have signs that you've paid for yes i've had them since the last time i was here as well right um And again, I apologize if I ask you this the last time, but the people who continue to park there, these are your neighbors, I'm assuming?

Neighbors, people across the street who own eight plus cars, lots and lots of parking on rural Ave. Is it safe to assume you've approached them and so they just are ignoring you? To the point where I had to get police involvement and basically get told that there's nothing that can be done.

Okay. Okay. That's my only question about that. Chief, for you to kind of piggyback off of Councilwoman Mealy's comment on e-bikes, for my own knowledge and maybe for the seven people, how close did I get? Seven people watching at home? Not even close?

And I thought I was the pessimist.

Nine. Okay. I was right. I was there.

Everybody say hello to your significant other.

That's right.

What is the actual – is there an actual e-bike law? I've seen so many different things on the news. I've seen so many different things during my own research. Is there an actual e-bike law on the books? Could you –

So the state's trying to catch up because e-bikes have just exploded. But as of now, e-bikes have to follow the same laws of bikes. So they shouldn't be on the sidewalks. They should be stopping for stop signs. You can't just blow through intersections.

But there is nothing on – there's no laws on speed or – I mean, because some of these things go 50, 60 miles an hour. There's no laws on the books about a 14-year-old or a 13-year-old kid riding an electric bike that goes 50 miles an hour that you know of?

No, not there. There's laws that classify different like e-bikes and the size of what would be classified as an e-bike. But yeah, it's like I said, the state's trying to catch up and those specific details. I don't know off the top of my head.

Okay. And somewhat very unrelated, but just kind of popped into my head because I've been wondering about this as I've been driving around recently. This new law that the state passed about not having your cell phone in your hand while you're driving. That you can be stopped for that now. You can be stopped for having it in your hand at a red light. Is that correct? That's correct. Have our police been taking advantage of this new law? Have we stopped anyone in the city, to your knowledge, and given them a citation or a warning for that?

I'd have to look into it. I don't know.

I'm just curious. Yeah. Because it's a good law, and I still see... Yeah, you still hundreds of people on our cell phones every day. So I'm just curious because it's I mean, it's not. Yeah. OK. I'm just curious if our police department is taking advantage of that.

Yeah. We'd have to pull stats to see. OK. I'd just be interested.

Yeah. OK. Thank you. That's it.

Any other comments from members of council? Liz Mealy.

Just a quick question for Alex. Did you send us the text of the amendment that you'd like?

Yes, it's actually, it's in there. I put one on each of your desks.

Okay, but it's in my email somewhere too.

It's in your email, yeah. He emailed me at least.

I'm assuming you emailed him.

So you should have the one from last year when I emailed Mass for the entire council.

I was just going to suggest that the next step, logical step, would be to run it past the solicitor and see if it really is that simple. Okay.

So if, if we have, I figured my best bet was trying to get a sponsor today.

Well, but yeah, before we can put anything on the agenda, we have to write, you know, deal all that. He's got to get involved. Um, otherwise we'll do illegal stuff and that would be wrench.

But thank you.

Mm-hmm.

Last comment that I'll make is obviously we do have the Grand Slam parade that I already mentioned on Tuesday, meaning over this coming weekend and the following two weeks, two and a half weeks, we're going to have a lot of visitors in our community. It's a great time of year to be in Williamsport, but it's also a very busy time of year. So please. Be extra cautious when you're out walking, driving, moving through traffic, things like that. We do have, as I said, tons and tons of additional people here. But let's also make sure we do our best effort to put our best foot forward starting at the parade and represent our community so that way we continue to welcome the world. So any comments from the administration tonight?

Mm-hmm.

Keep it short and sweet. So Saturday night, we plan on painting the downtown 4th Street. We made an attempt the other day. Traffic got too busy. And we're pushing them to get in here before the parade because we know their stickers goes on the road. So we push them in for Saturday night. We will be posting the road tomorrow night for Saturday night at 9 o'clock not to park. Still going to be open, but probably the parking is going to be limited tomorrow night. We pushed them, let the downtown businesses try to do their evening meals. But nine o'clock, the parking is going to be limited. So we're going to try to make our way down through to Hepburn Street. And then we got to hit a little spot over on Arch. Yeah. So that's it.

All right.

Thank you very much. I do have one comment, actually. I guess we can go back. Well, just Mr. Livermore reminded me. Obviously, we want everyone to enjoy the parade. I would just encourage any of the people that are there enjoying the parade that if you accept gifts from some of the people, people in the parade please take them with you when you go i think we had how many cases of soda that were sitting on the side of the street last year that streets and parks has to clean up so i would just ask that if you take it take it with you yes sir um

After talking to the chamber, I think as well, they are going to be posting signs from Maynard to Greer that nobody goes down in there. That's where the parade, the division sit. Last year, everybody started setting up down there. The parade's not down there. There will be signs up on the side of the road, and I believe it's going to be police and forest talking to the chamber. So I'll chat with you about that. But nothing past Maynard Street. Okay.

look what you did we started here there's like this revolving door okay um i wanted to make mention um specifically for alex but also to members of council um i believe alex you had said previously that you had been in touch with mayor slaughter and he had mentioned some community feedback as part of our planning process um i know that you mentioned that you felt like that was not immediate enough and i i understand that i would ask you to um in addition to what City Council may be able to accomplish for you. Please also do that. So the way this process works is we're putting together the safety action plan for the city and when we apply for grants for all these things we want to implement, we have to point back to the plan saying that this is necessary. So all the things that were mentioned here tonight that everyone has feelings about you know making sure we're focusing on maynard street making sure we're focusing on e-bike ordinances and those types of things um councilman dustinger has been part of that planning process so if there's anything specific that you would like us to make sure is part of that plan and highlight it as a priority if you want to communicate that to him that would be fantastic so we can make sure we get that into the plan wonderful thank you

I believe we don't have anybody here from the news media, so I don't think they would have any comments. We'll move to item number 22 then. I'll make a motion for adjournment. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye.