1  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  COUNCIL FOR THE BOROUGH OF DUNMORE  HELD:  Monday, July 11th, 2022  TIME: 6:00 P.M.  LOCATION:  DUNMORE COMMUNITY CENTER 1414 Monroe Avenue Dunmore, Pennsylvania  COUNCIL  MEMBERS:  VINCE AMICO - President JANET BRIER - Vice President  MICHAEL DEMPSEY THOMAS HALLINAN ELIZABETH ZANGARDI WILLIAM O'MALLEY, III KATHERINE OVEN  MICHAEL P. PERRY, Esquire, Solicitor  MARIA McCOOL, RPR OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER    2  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  (Pledge of Allegiance.)  ATTY. PERRY: Roll call. Mrs.  McDonald Zangardi.  MS. ZANGARDI: Here. ATTY. PERRY: Mr. O'Malley. MR. O'MALLEY: Here. ATTY. PERRY: Mr. Dempsey. MR. DEMPSEY: Here. ATTY. PERRY: Mr. Amico. MR. AMICO: Here. ATTY. PERRY: Mrs. Brier. MS. BRIER: Here. ATTY. PERRY: Mrs. Oven. MS. OVEN: Here.  ATTY. PERRY: Mr. Hallinan. MR. HALLINAN: Here.  ATTY. PERRY: Public comment on  agenda items.  MR. AMICO: Would anyone from the  public like to speak on agenda items only,  please?  (No response.)  MR. AMICO: Seeing none.  ATTY. PERRY: Motion to approve the    3  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  minutes.  MS. BRIER: I'11 make it. MR. DEMPSEY: I'17 second it. MR. AMICO: I have a motion and a  second. Anyone on the question?  (No response.)  MR. AMICO: Seeing none, all those  in favor.  ALL MEMBERS: Aye. MR. AMICO: Opposed? (No response.)  MR. AMICO: Ayes have it.  ATTY. PERRY: Number five, motion to  approve and pay the open bills.  MR. AMICO: I'11 look for a motion  to approve and pay the open bills.  MR. DEMPSEY: I'11 make that motion. MR. O'MALLEY: I'17 second. MR. AMICO: I have a motion and a  second. Anyone on the question?  (No response.)  MR. AMICO: Seeing none. A11 those  in favor.  ALL MEMBERS: Aye. MR. AMICO: Opposed?    4  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  (No response.)  MR. AMICO: Ayes have it.  ATTY. PERRY: Number six, motion to  adopt Resolution 2022-5; Local Share Account (LSA) Grant. The purpose of this resolution is to approve the submission of an application to the Commonwealth to apply for funding under Act 2004-71; the PA Race Horse Development and Gaming Act. This application funding will be used to replace the parking meters throughout  the Dunmore Corners.  MR. AMICO: I'11 look for a motion  to adopt Resolution 2022-5.  MR. O'MALLEY: I'17 make that  motion.  MS. ZANGARDI: I'11 second. MR. AMICO: I have a motion and a  second. Anyone on the question?  MS. BRIER: Do you want me to talk  about it a little bit? Just for the folks here tonight, we're trying to replace the parking meters up in Dunmore Corners. We have a huge issue with folks parking there. Denny Ross told me sometimes they park there for days in  front of his business.    5  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  So we really need to get that off  the ground. A year and a half ago we put out an RFP. And we didn't have the money to put it in at that point. But we're going out for this grant. I wrote the grant. I'm just waiting for an updated budget from the company that it's called ABM. It's the same company that  has Scranton's parking meters.  So that's where we are on that  grant. We're going to go out for that grant.  It's like 200 grand.  MR. AMICO: A17. those in favor.  ALL MEMBERS: Aye. MR. AMICO: Opposed? (No response.)  MR. AMICO: Ayes have it.  ATTY. PERRY: Number seven, motion  to - adopt Resolution 2022-6 Multimodal Transportation Fund Program. The purpose of this resolution is to approve the submission of an application to the Commonwealth to apply for funding under Act 89 of 2013, which established a € dedicated multimodal transportation fund for projects to mprove/ennance the streetscrape, safety and connectivity of existing    6  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  transportation assets. This application will target the Keystone Industrial Park area within  the Borough limits.  MR. AMICO: I'17 look for a motion  to adopt Resolution 2022-6, Multimodal Transportation Fund Program.  MR. DEMPSEY: I'17 make that motion. MR. AMICO: I have a motion. Do I  have a second?  MR. HALLINAN: I'17 second it. MR. AMICO: I have a motion and a  second. And I'11 just speak to this on the question a little bit. Mrs. Brier is applying for a grant, a multimodal grant for us to receiving funding basically to take care of the road : the Keystone Industrial Park Road from PennDOT on the O'Neill Highway to the Throop border, which is just before Gertrude Hawks.  We're looking to repave that road  and improve the streetscape there. So ideally we'11 : at least part of that taken care of. Anybody else on the question? A1l those in  favor.  ALL MEMBERS: Aye. MR. AMICO: Opposed?    7  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  (No response.)  MR. AMICO: Ayes have it. ATTY. PERRY: Number eight,  personnel matters. Motion to hire the following applicants for the 2022 Summer Recreation Program pending background child abuse Clearance and Council review and  approval.  There's a list of 22 applicants  which we can attach to the transcript unless  Council wants all the names read.  MR. AMICO: No.  ATTY. PERRY: Okay. Maria, I'17  give you this as Exhibit 1 for the transcript.  MR. AMICO: I'11 look for a motion  to hire the applicants on the list that  Mr. Perry referenced.  MS. - BRIER: I'11 do that. MR. DEMPSEY: I'17 second. MR. AMICO: I have a motion and a  second. Anyone on the question?  MR. DEMPSEY: Yeah, on the question,  we do the summer program every year. We do it at all three parks, the DCC here McHale Park, Sherwood Park, and St. Anthony's. This year we    8  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  had applications from eight or nine teachers, kids as well from the Dunmore High School. We'11 probably put three : depending on how many teachers we have I think there's nine here, probably three at each part. So there wi7l be three here, three at Sherwood and three  at St. Anthony's.  And we'11 also split up the kids in  order to help those teachers run programs. That's run by Mr. Kearney. And also Mark Finan, the athletic director at the school district will-also be helping run that program. So it's going to be a lot more organized this year. And it's a great program every year.  It's going to start July 18th and  run three weeks and maybe a fourth week right, Chris? We talked about it if the kids are still showing up. So that's all it is is the  summer program.  MR. AMICO: Thank you, Mike. A11  those in favor.  ALL MEMBERS: Aye. MR. AMICO: Opposed? (No response.)  MR. AMICO: Ayes have it.    9  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  ATTY. PERRY: Treasury report,  Mr. Burton.  MR. BURTON: Good evening, Council.  I'71 be brief because once again as anticipated and budgeted it was a pretty quiet month as usual with the summer months in the Borough. We actually had the net loss for the month of $650,000, which brings our year-to-date net  income 1.7 million.  As I said, it was pretty quiet as  far as revenue wise. Real estate tax revenues have definitely levelled off. Through the month of June we're at 89 percent collection rate. We did get a nice hit at Schautz Stadium with the perfect game field rental. That was $20,000. That's about it as far as income.  The expense side, highway  construction rebuild, we paid a $38,000 down payment to Damiano Paving. Retirement and pension, 60,000 monthly payment was made. And our insurance premium property and liability, a third of five installments $56,000. And as I said, as anticipated it's a quiet financial  month in the borough.  MR. HALLINAN: Thank you.    10  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  MR. AMICO: Thank you, Mark. Mr.  Perry, can we make an amendment to the agenda to add the part-time police officers?  ATTY. PERRY: We could.  MR. AMICO: Just sO we have it on  record.  ATTY. PERRY: Okay.  MR. DEMPSEY: Under personnel. ATTY. PERRY: Okay. I'11 add as 8A.  MR. AMICO: Please.  ATTY. PERRY: A motion to hire two  part-time police officers Matthew Brunetti and  Angela Matuszelanski.  MR. AMICO: I'm looking for a motion  to add two additional part-time officers.  MS. ZANGARDI: I'11 make that  motion.  MR. AMICO: I have a motion. Do I  have a second?  MR. DEMPSEY: Second.  MR. AMICO: I have a motion and a  second. Just on the question, I'11 speak to this real quickly. Obviously it's very - the climate in today's word is very challenging to get part-time officers. We had two applicants    11  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  last month that put in. Chief Marchese did their background checks and had them vetted. And he would speak more to that tonight but he's not here tonight. So we just wanted to get them added and hired sO we can have them help us out in the summer.  The summer is especially challenging  with vacations and time off. So this will definitely help our police officers. With that said, we have a motion and second. A17 those  in favor.  ALL MEMBERS: Aye. MR. AMICO: Opposed? (No response.)  MR. AMICO: Ayes have it. ATTY. PERRY: Number ten,  municipality administration, Mr. Kearney.  MR. KEARNEY: So the last several  weeks we've had a few parties here. And we expanded our daily hours during the week now that school is out. So we are opening at 11:00 sO kids are coming down here earlier.  This week we have a party Wednesday  evening and also one on Sunday afternoon here. We have a meeting with the counsellors for the    12  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  summer program Wednesday afternoon. It's kind of an orientation and Councilmen Dempsey will speak with them along with Mr. Finan and myself. Mike told you all about it. We will start the program next Monday, July 18th from  10 a.m. to 3 p.m.  We will continue Monday through  Friday at those times finishing up Friday, August 5th. Mr. Finan and myself will design the daily schedule for the camps involving various activities and arts and crafts.  Campers will be registered at the  beginning of the camp and will be required to sign in every day. Each parent or guardian will receive a copy of our expectations when they register. That's what I handed out to you guys. Iw will change the dates on them  obviously.  But I just wanted to give you an  idea of we : basically what we stress is that we're not a daycare. That's the biggest problem we have here. People are leaving four and five years old here. You know, we're like, you know, what are we going to do with these kids. So I've made it pretty clear that, you    13  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  know, it's six years old is the absolute limit  at the bottom and up to 13.  MS. BRIER: Chris, do you provide  lunch?  MR. KEARNEY: In the past we had  CEO. We used to do a lunch; but, no, we don't  have that this year.  MS. - BRIER: Kids bring it?  MR. KEARNEY: Yeah, kids bring their  own stuff. Oh, and Fridays Councilman Hallinan usually organizes a pizza day. The local restaurants will donate, you known, maybe a dozen trays or we get a break or we have some generous donors that will fund the operation  there. Okay, that's all I have.  MS. BRIER: Okay.  MR. AMICO: Thanks, Chris. MR. DEMPSEY: Thanks, Chris. ATTY. PERRY: Mr. Lorince.  MR. LORINCE: In the Code Department  we were sending letters out to Harper Street, Drinker Street, grass complaints and old cars, campers, cleaning up their properties. We cleaned up the grass at the deaf school on the outside of the fence and the same thing on    14  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  Swartz. We did work on there. Planning Commission meeting we had two lot line adjustments, nothing big on that.  Zoning board will be 7/14. It will  be Thursday night. That's Kelco. That's the assisted living on the corner of Chestnut and Calvin. So they'17 be coming in trying to do that. Sent the letters out on the health license : the late payment letters.  The permits are attached, a copy of  all the permits. Multifamily, we have four people down at the magistrate right now for hearing dates. And we did inspect a couple properties. One was condemned. It was 1320 Adams and 962. And 962 came in for permits.  He's working on it.  But I'm going to keep it on the  condemned list until the : he completes it. If he doesn't complete it, we'11 keep it on the condemned list and go from there. I got a call from the water company. They'11 be doing Green Street in a couple weeks. So Green Street will be a total pave over. They are putting new water service in and repaving the streets.  That's probably going to start in    15  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  August. It might not make the pavement this year. But next year it will be paved. We're still working on other streets to get paved.  MS. BRIER: Joe, the Kelco property,  so that's been through the Planning Commission.  MR. LORINCE: That is only in the  zoning. He has to get the variance for the height requirements. He's actually coming in because he wants to go five stories.  MS. BRIER: Okay. This is the old  junior high on Apple Street?  MR. LORINCE: No, this is the one  right next to the VFW. He bought that lot. And then he bought the house behind it and knocked that down. So he's looking to put five stories, assisted living. Once he gets done with the zoning, then he'11 go in front of the Planning Commission. And it will come to you  for your final :  MS. BRIER: This is Mike Kelly. MR. LORINCE: Mike Kelly. He goes  under Kelco.  MS. BRIER: Okay. Thanks, Joe. MR. LORINCE: The one on the junior  high school, they are coming back. That was    16  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  approved. It was approved for senior living  and that probably :  MS. BRIER: Who approved that, the  zoning or planning?  MR. LORINCE: Planning and zoning  and the Council approved it. But that is B and MF Realty. They're coming probably for their permits at the end of the year. They were just hanging out because of prices on material.  MS. BRIER: Sure, yeah. Yeah, that  will be a nice property.  MR. LORINCE: Both of them will be a  nice project. Taxable.  MR. O'MALLEY: Thank you. ATTY. PERRY: Mr. Judge.  MR. JUDGE: Hi. We're out patching  every day. We're doing curbs now sO if anybody has any potholes, call the office and we'11 take care of it. We had a rough two weeks with storms, a lot of tree damage and water damage. And we're out getting the garbage every day.  That's about it.  MS. - BRIER: What about the dumping  on the Boulevard? Did it stop?  MR. JUDGE: Yeah, the last two weeks    17  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  C didn't get a call. So somebody :- it stopped. That was another mess too up there.  But it seemed to stop.  MS. OVEN: Did we start with the  brush cutting too?  MR. JUDGE: They dropped it off the  one day and the first morning they used it, they blew two bearings. It's not our machine. It's the county's. So they said probably within a week we'17 get it back and then we'17 have it for two weeks. First day they brought it here it broke. Anything you want cut, just,  you know, get a list together.  MR. AMICO: Thank you. MR. O'MALLEY: Thank you.  ATTY. PERRY: Chief Marchese, not  here. Chief DeNaples.  MR. AMICO: He's on vacation. ATTY. PERRY: Okay. Number 11,  public comment.  MR. AMICO: Would anyone from the  public like to address Council this evening? State your name for the record, please.  MS. VALVANO: Angela Valvano. I  live at 4388 Elmhurst Boulevard. I'm here    18  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  about the road on corner of Lake Scranton and Elmhurst Boulevard that I have called numerous times. And back in the fall winter they said they really couldn't do anything because if you cold patch it wouldn't stay, which is  understandable.  And then there was a lot of ice and  then they went through the winter. So then the spring came and then I had called and then there is a constant runoff. I think we all know that. I - don't know what the engineer is  looking at or where that's going.  MR. AMICO: I could address this if  you would like me to now or if you want to :  MS. VALVANO: Okay. What I'm just  trying to say is this. I had called a few different times. My husband's car right now is taken to Allentown and there's probably $5,000 worth of damage on it. It broke the steering gear when he hit the pole. So I  didn't hear from them yet.  But what I couldn't understand is  why -- well, first of all, they said they got three bids, I believe, to fix that road from Dominano : well, this is what I was told when    19  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  C called the borough -- Washo and I don't know who the other one is. But they said they took the lowest bidder, which was Dominano. I live in Dunmore. I - don't know how the bids went  out.  MR. - AMICO: That's -- I don't know  where you got this information, ma'am, but  that's not :  MS. VALVANO: I got it from the  borough. And I called, and the lady told me. I'm just telling you what was told to me.  MR. AMICO: Okay. Sure I  understand.  MS. VALVANO: So I said, well, how  would you get on -- I mean, we do this for a living. My son does it. We all do it. But for now until they figure it out a plan, why  can't they just dig that out.  MR. AMICO: That's what I'm going to  address.  MS. VALVANO: Put some stone and put  ID 2-3. That's what you're going to do but they keep saying that and nothing is done. You keep going like this but we have to drive over  that every day.    20  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  MR. AMICO: Ma'am, I'm going to  address that.  MS. VALVANO: Okay, but I can't even  have my grandchildren come to my house, okay? So you go from there. But that's the condition  of that road. Treacherous.  MR. AMICO: Can I just address this  before you start?  MR. EVANGELISTA: Not to beat a dead  horse, but I want to talk about these rocks at the bottom of my driveway. I appreciate you guys filling it. But somebody is going to get  hit :  MS. ZANGARDI: Sir, you have to come  up.  MR. EVANGELISTA: John Evangelista.  Yeah, I'm not going to beat a dead horse, Elmhurst Boulevard. There is now two monster craters that have opened up. Literally you have to drive around. I've seen cars go into and literally half their wheel is gone. Now, I know we're filling it with this. I have a nice  pile next to my driveway everyday.  You walk the road, somebody is going  to get hit with one of these. People walk with    21  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  their kids, their dogs. I mean, like, that is my concern. I realize you're working on something. I appreciate what Didge is doing and everybody else. I just want to bring it to your attention. If somebody gets hit with one of these, you're going to be looking at big bill. I just want to bring that to your  attention. So thank you.  MR. O'MALLEY: Thank you. MS. BRIER: Thanks.  MR. AMICO: Anyone else on that  issue or can I just kind of give you: some : and this might answer your : so yesterday we called PA One Call to find out what utilities are in that area of Lake Scranton Road and the  Boulevard.  And then this week we're going to  start putting in a basin : a catch basin on the corner of Boulevard and Lake Scranton Road to take the water, to take the water underneath the Boulevard and send it down to the junkyard area. And then we're going to mill the road  and pave it.  So, Mrs. Valvano, the road in front  of your house will be milled and paved. That    22  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  will be taken care. You'11 see work happening  by the end of this week.  MS. VALVANO: Thank you. MR. AMICO: That's : and again  before anybody else comes up, I'm going to say that's a temporary fix. We are still looking : we have a plan to fix the water farther up. I don't know the exact : by where Mr. Giannetta lives : where the water is coming down the mountain. Our engineer is working on legit solution to get rid of the  water there.  So again, the solution will take  care of your problem in the summer. It's not going to take care of the problem when ice comes. But we do have a plan in place to rectify the problem hopefully by winter. We just need to be very honest, we need easements to get the water from the Boulevard down hill.  We're not just going to channel into  people's yards. It's going to be done correctly. In order for it to be done correctly, we need, you know, some property  owners' easements.  MS. VALVANO: Thank you.    23  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  MR. AMICO: Thank you. Yes. MR. JAMES: My name is John James.  I'm a property owner on Elmhurst Boulevard. And recently with the spring storms and everything, we had some problems on Elmhurst Boulevard that you're all aware of and everything. So I went and called my plumber who does every property : he works on every  property up there.  And he came to my house and took a  look at my pumps in the basement to replace them. So I said, "Just out of curiosity, what's that overflow pipe in my background?" And he said, "Oh, that, he goes, that is for the overflow for the sanitary sewer." I said, "Why do I have an overflow for the sanitary  sewer?"  He said, "Well, that's so the  sanitary sewer doesn't back up into your house." I said, "Why would it back up into my house?" He goes, "Yeah, he goes, don't you know that everybody has tied their storm sewers into the sanitary sewers upstream from you and it can't handle the volume and the capacity in  the line?"    24  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  How are you going to address that?  And another thing is when the next time I get feces water in my basement, which one of you guys gets the bill for that? Thank you.  MS. BRIER: So there's households on  the mountain that are diverting water from  their :  MR. JAMES: I'11 show you the pipe.  It's like a firehose.  MS. BRIER: And the water is coming  from people's houses who  MR. JAMES: No.  MS.  BRIER: Where is it coming from  again?  MR. JAMES: The sanity sewer. MS. BRIER: Because the sanity sewer  is : doesn't have the capacity?  MR. JAMES: There is F1 in the  sanity line. And it's : because everybody dumps their stormwater which they are not supposed to do. It's illegal : into the sanitary sewer. How is that going to get  fixed?  MS. BRIER: This stormwater, like  from :    25  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  MR. JAMES: I C can't explain it. I  explained like a :  MR. AMICO: This is the first time  we've heard about this issue.  MS. BRIER: Yeah, we have never  heard this before.  MR. AMICO: It will be looked into. MR. JAMES: Well, I'm in contact  with the DEP. If I don't : if I don't get results from the DEP, I'm going to Harrisburg. And I'm going to sue the city. I'm going to have them sue the city on my behalf. I don't  know what to do, okay?  MR. AMICO: Anyone else? Yes,  ma'am.  MS. SIRI: I'm still Shirley Siri.  The rock : last month when I was up here, I made a comment that rocks had come down from the last storm in the driveway at Tall Trees were like boulders. Compared to the rocks that normally make it very difficult to get out of my driveway after a storm, that last storm, the  rocks were sO big.  Maybe they weren't boulders. But  if - I was car with a teacher  a driver's    26  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  teacher telling us : teaching us how to drive, he probably would have said don't go over those rocks. I had to drive over them to get out of  it.  You're saying that the street is  going to be to paved. I've seen that street paved before. But if that water problem, which I just really looked at yesterday -- I actually went for a walk yesterday. I had no idea -- I had no idea where all of this water is coming from. So if you are going to pave it before you fix the water problem, the pavement is not.  going to last that long.  MR. AMICO: Well, you're right.  That's where we're trying to do two things :  MS. - SIRI: Also, I wanted to know if  there was another way I : you know, there was one time when I drove up 307 five miles and came down : went over Blue Shutters Road and came down East Mountain Boulevard, it was only a two mile difference, but because I couldn't  go through that again.  Ij just couldn't drive through that  again. I just wanted to feel better. But I can't keep doing 10 miles out of my way. I    27  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  think there might be another way. Maybe somebody could tell me because it's really difficult. But that is what I wanted to say that the water problem, you know, having it paved; that would be good. I hope it's soon. But it's bad up there in the winter and with all of that water, how long is that going to last? We don't want to keep spending all of the money for one thing. You know, we have to  fix it.  MR. AMICO: Correct.  MS. BRIER: That's what the catch  basin will be that we're talking about that we  need the easements for.  MS. SIRI: That will help. MS. BRIER: Yeah.  MS. MEILA: Hi. I'm Debbie Meila.  I live on 4384 Emhurst Boulevard. So I got in touch with Kyle Mullins. And he said that he was looking for information from the engineer to try to get money from the state to help with this project. So I don't know if they reached  out to you.  MR. AMICO: They did. MS. MEILA: They did?    28  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  MR. AMICO: Yep.  MS. MEILA: That's all. I - just  wanted to know if they did.  MR. AMICO: Yes, ma'am. Thank you.  Would anyone else like to address Council this  evening?  (No response.)  MR. AMICO: Seeing none. ATTY. PERRY: Number 12, public  officials.  MR. AMICO: Mr. Perry? ATTY. PERRY: I have nothing. MR. AMICO: Mayor Conway? MAYOR CONWAY: Just to Councilman  Hallinan for running a great Bucktown Music Fest on Saturday. It was really nice to see people out on the streets listening to music. A bunch of people brought their kids. It was really cute to see all the little babies in the street dancing and stuff. So it was nice to see that. And to the Elmhurst Boulevard people, I know Vince has been working hard on resolving it. That's all I have tonight.  MR. AMICO: Thank you. Mr. Judge.  MR. JUDGE: Nothing.    29  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  MR. AMICO: Chris? MR. KEARNEY: Nothing.  MR. AMICO: Beth, would you like to  start, please?  MS. ZANGARDI: Sure. I want to  direct people to the Mosaic Project. Tom DePietro from DePietro's Pharmacy just helped to put a new mural up on his building. And it's a nice tribute to the town. But there's a quite few of them. It's nonprofit just started by Liz Naro. It's a couple years old.  Elmhurst, sorry, but we're working  on it. And, you know, we're working on it. We're not : you know, we're working on it. And really Vince is doing a lot of work on it. congratulations to Tom Hallinan with the Dunmore Music Festival. I heard a lot of great  things about it.  Joe Lorince, thanks for your help on  the Ward Street property cleanup. However, I would like to do a followup reminder on 502 Jessup Street property, the burned down garage and the inaccessible front porch. But I'17 send you an e-mail about that. And that's all  I have. Thank you everybody.    30  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  MR. AMICO: Thank you, Miss  Zangardi. Mr. O'Malley?  MR. O'MALLEY: Good evening. I want  to thank everyone for coming this evening. I want to thank our department heads for their detailed reports. To the residents up on the Boulevard, I sympathize with all of you. And you have been dealing with this problem for a long time. And hopefully you'11 start to see  results as early as this week.  So hopefully that will get fixed for  you really soon. I also want to extend my thanks to Councilman Hallinan and all of his hard work with the Bucktown Music Fest. It was great. I was there with my family. So it's going to be going on again this Sunday. So I highly recommend it. It's a great time for our  community.  And I also would like to extend my  condolences to the family of Sally Wilmarth who worked for Dunmore School District. She passed  away recently. That's all I have.  MR. AMICO: Thank you, Mr. O'Malley.  Mr. Dempsey?  MR. DEMPSEY: I don't have anything    31  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  tonight. Thank you.  MR. AMICO: Mr. Hallinan?  MR. HALLINAN: Thanks for all the  accolades. Of course, I didn't do it alone, Brian McGurl, you guys with all your support. Ia appreciate that very much, Mayor is always  there. It was a nice time.  To the people at Boulevard, I've  been up there. Mrs. Brunetti :  bronozzi/phonetio). I'm sorry. We were up there. Vince is really working on it. He's taking the lead on this. We hope -- I'm-sure you'17 see results shortly. But, you know,  just be patient.  It's hard to understand that. But  things take time. They just don't happen overnight. And you guys have been dealing with this problem for a long time. We're trying to do something. And Vince is really taking the lead on this. Thank you for your patience on that. That's all I have. Thank  you.  MR. AMICO: Thank you, Mr. Hallinan.  Mrs. Oven?  MS. OVEN: Just to jump on and say    32  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  thank you to Tom for the Music Fest. It's a nice thing to do for the residents of the borough. I also want to thank Michael Dempsey for his hard work on getting the camp running and Chris for all you guys do. It's great for the kids of the borough. Thank you to the department heads for all of your assistance, Mr. Lorince, for putting up with me harassing you about the blight and taking care of some of  those properties.  Residents of the Boulevard, I said  this the last time when you were here and we're working really hard to try to get a resolution for this. Vince has a good plan in place. You know, paving the road is something to give you temporary relief. We all understand it's not going to hold up and the major problem isn't  resolved with the runoff.  But the engineer has a solid plan.  We're just trying to finalize the detail of that. I would like to get some more information from the gentleman that was speaking about the sanitary line -- Mr. James and the overflow because that's the first time  we heard about that.    33  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  MR. JAMES: Come on up. I'11 show  it to you. I want this stuff tested.  MR. AMICO: Sir, we're :- MS. OVEN: We definitely want to  look into that.  MR. JAMES: It's disgusting.  Really? You didn't know about it?  MS. OVEN: We did not know about it. MR. JAMES: Why did the plumber  know about it for 30 years? It's unbelievable.  MS. OVEN: Well, that is something  we'11 look into further. This is the first we're being made aware of it. So we can't fix something we're not aware of. So we're going to try to work with you guys as much as we can.  That's all I have.  MR. AMICO: Thank you. Mrs. Brier? MS. BRIER: The only thing I have in  the Dunmorean this week, I just want to express my condolences for Didge for his friend that passed away Vinnie who ran the restaurant at Dunmore Corners. He was a great guy.  And again, thanks sO much to Mike  for getting the : and Chris for getting the camp off the ground this year. We haven't done    34  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  it because of COVID, etc. So it's really important for the kids. That's about all I  have. Thank you.  MR. AMICO: I'11 go real quick. I  know these guys have one more thing. First off, again, we didn't mention sO I'11 mention it right now. Brian Loughney is Man of the Year for Leukemia Society - Leukemia and  Lymphoma Society.  Mr. James, I would like to talk to  you after the meeting, get some more details about the issue you're having. After work some day this week, next week, whenever you're around, I'd like to come up and check it out.  Again, not balking at your issue,  this is the first time we've heard at least  this.  MR. JAMES: First time, huh. MS. ZANGARDI: Sir :-  MR. AMICO: For what you're talking  about, yes. Again, first time that we've heard the issue that you are referring to. The ongoing issue at the Boulevard, obviously we've all been made aware of it. We've been to the  Boulevard numerous times.    35  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  And again, this week you're going to  start to see some -- finally see some results. It is a temporary -- I'm going to say it's a band aid because without fixing the major problem of water farther up where Mr. Gianetta lives, paving the road isn't going to do anything. But it's at least getting you through the summer and being able to drive on your road without, you know, going through a rubble field. So that is at least a start.  One more thing I want to add, Mr.  Dempsey's son is on the 9 and 10 Dunmore Little League all star team. They're playing tomorrow night at 5:30 at Ackerly Field. The boys have had a tremendous season. Tomorrow they play a pretty solid Abington team. They have to beat  them twice to advance.  So hopefully, you know, our team  will go to the next round. That is all I have this evening. I'11 look for a motion to  adjourn.  MR. DEMPSEY: I'11 make that motion. MR. AMICO: I'11 look for a second. MS. - ZANGARDI: I'17 second.  MR. AMICO: Motion and second. A1l    36  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  those in favor.  ALL MEMBERS: Aye. MR. AMICO: Ayes have it.    BOROUGH OF DUNMORE  400 South Blakely Street Dunmore, PA18512 570-343-7611/FAX570-343-8107  2022 Summer Program Appointments  Teachers a. Finan, Mark b. Gentile, Caroline C. Hinton, Christy d. Kordish, Kaitlin McNeff, Elizabeth McNeff, Jennifer Mendola, Allison h. Sluko, Marissa Stefanski, Elizabeth Sunseri Murray, Ashley  Counselors a. Blasko, Hope b. 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