56  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  foundation for stability, consistency, opportunities for growth, positive social interactions and access to resources that collectively contribute to the development of an emotionally healthy and resilient individual. That's it. Thank you.  MR. RINALDI: Michelle, real quick,  not to take anything away from Marissa, Gina or Ray, because you all stated great points why we should have a community center, but that right there, that would be the reason why I would  vote for a community center.  MS. BILSKI: Thank you.  MR. RINALDI: Very good. That was  very informative. I appreciate that.  MS. BILSKI: Thank you. MR. RINALDI: You're welcome. MS. WILK: I talked to the police  chief, he said he did the survey on the 400 block about putting down parking on one side. It think what you need to do is put your signs up there there's a tow away, because people cannot read on that street. I've seen the no parking signs, they're parked there. And you  can't expect the police to be --    57  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. RINALDI: Are you talking about  on the sides put a tow away zone?  MS. WILK: Yeah. Okay. You can't  expect the police to be going up and down just babysitting these people who don't know how to  read.  MR. RINALDI: Joan, not to interrupt  you, but let me ask the solicitor a quick question. Bill, this resolution that we're looking for passage tonight, if it passes, can  we put those type of signage up?  ATTY. RINALDI: You're going to post  the no parking.  CHIEF DUBERNAS: The no parking. MR. RINALDI: Could we put on the  sign tow away zone? No parking, tow away zone?  ATTY. RINALDI: No. It would be a  ticket from the Chief.  CHIEF DUBERNAS: Because here's the  issue, when it's a tow away zone it becomes a liability of us if we damage a vehicle, and a lot of towers won't tow a vehicle because of  the liability.  Like, even private property like  CVS, they specifically contract with specific    58  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  towers because of the liability. If your car's parked somewhere they don't want it, then they tow it, and they damage the transmission, they're responsible for it. That's why a lot of places won't tow it, and we just ticket it  and notify the owner.  MS. WILK: Okay. And that's the  same way. The street I'm talking about is you come in, you go out, you can't do that anymore. - have a very small SUV and mine just barely makes it through the sides if there's cars  parked on both sides.  You get these carpetbaggers in, they  don't care about the people that live in here in this town, they have no respect, and it's  got to stop already.  MR. NOTARI: Well, Mrs. Wilk, I  think after a certain amount of tickets we will be - able to tow the car, right, if they're not  paying the tickets.  MS. WILK: Oh, they'11 give it to  the mayor, he'17 pay it for them.  MAYOR LEGG: Yeah, I'm wealthy. MS. WILK: Yeah, he'1l pay it. No  problem. He's done it before, he'1l do it    59  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  again. Sorry, Bob.  MAYOR LEGG: You ratted me out. MS. WILK: But it's bad because  that's where the pollet (phonetic) comes down across from George -- Grace Street and goes right down to the parking lot of Race. You can't do that now. And I doubt very much these people are gonna listen for a while. I - don't  know what you guys are gonna do.  MR. RINALDI: Well, we have it on  new business this evening.  MS. WILK: You have it on here,  right. And it's actually a danger. I mean,  that could be addressed any time.  MR. RINALDI: Well, that's why we  put it on the agenda tonight, because you came last meeting and asked us to. So, we sent the Chief over to do the study, he did. He came back, this is his recommendation. So, we're going to put it up for passage tonight.  MS. WILK: Yeah. Not trying to be a  hard ass or anything like that, but it's actually a dangerous area with the car. You could crash the car because you don't have that much wide of a space to go through. It's a    60  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  road, incoming, outgoing.  MR. RINALDI: But that's why we're  going to take the step tonight to try and help  prevent that.  MS. WILK: Right. So, we'77 see  what happens. And, Mr. Rinaldi, I wanted to congratulate you for a job well done. You walked into a situation several months back, it was very dark, and you handled the situation on Council with extreme professionalism.  MR. RINALDI: Thank you very much.  What situation was that?  MS. WILK: Well, I don't give  compliments too often.  MR. RINALDI: Thank you. I  appreciate that.  MS. WILK: Okay. And to get back to  the youth center, I'm 100 percent for the youth center but how you guys going to get ten million dollars to build this thing? If you're going to start building it, you need  you can't go through an old building and try to fix it up. You need to start from the ground up  with a new building.  MR. HOOVER: We're going to.    61  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. RINALDI: Well, like I addressed  Marissa in the beginning, our thoughts were the same, and that's why I said back in June we discussed potentially constructing a brand new building, like Councilman Hoover said, possibly a $ steel pole barn building over by the school; because we figured, number one, the church that we acquired from the diocese was, number one, too small for, whether it be a basketball court, drop down batting cages :  MS. WILK: They got a : you can't  get in there.  MR. RINALDI: Well, it was too  small. Plus, it was a little bit older, sO we figured start from the ground up, brand new, brand new building, brand new heating, brand  new :  MS. WILK: Well, you guys better  start working on trying to get some kind of  money in.  MR. RINALDI: We've been discussing  its since June.  MS. WILK: You and I both know it's  going to cost at least ten million dollars for a half decent building to maintain it.    62  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. RINALDI: I'm not sure what the  price would be. That's why we discussed it  with the engineer.  MR. HOOVER: Play the power ball and  donate it to us.  MS. WILK: I'd never donate anything  to 01d Forge. Know that. But really, if you're gonna do something, do it right.  MR. RINALDI: We agree. MS. WILK: Because these kids  deserve something better than what they have.  They have nothing here now.  MR. RINALDI: We agree with you,  Joanie.  MS. WILK: Do you hear? Are you  going to do it?  MR. RINALDI: I'm sorry?  MS. WILK: Are you hearing me and  you're gonna do it, right?  MR. RINALDI: Am I hearing you we're  going to do it?  MS. WILK: You're gonna do it,  right? You're hearing me?  MR. RINALDI: Are we going to build  it?    63  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  MS. WILK: Right.  MR. RINALDI: Oh, we're going to  start the process of looking into the cost-wise of it first. You can't just go ahead and build  it. We're going to need a plan.  MS. WILK: Well, we can get your  mother as chairperson, she'11 drag this money in somehow. And I hope they reelect you as  president.  MR. RINALDI: Thank you. I  appreciate that, as well.  MS. WILK: For Chair again. At  least for one more year. You have done an  excellent job.  MR. RINALDI: Thank you. I  appreciate that.  MS. WILK: And you have listened to  people and gotten back to them with their complaints. And you keep him in tow.  MR. RINALDI: He keeps me in tow a  little bit, too.  MS. WILK: He's polish, what do you  want. I've been married to one for 60 years, I  can pick on them.  MR. RINALDI: Thanks, Mrs. Wilk.    64  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  MS. WILK: A11 right, sweetie.  Thank you.  MR. RINALDI: You're welcome.  Robert Zukauskas. Hi, Robert. Good evening.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: In keeping with high  school sports teams theme, Mr. Rinaldi, this past Thanksgiving I visited the trophy case at the high school and I noticed there's a 70-year-old game ball there from a Thanksgiving Day game, it was really nice, but as you could see the ball needs some air there. If somebody maybe could just look at the trophy case and just put some air in that ball, I think it  would be really nice.  MR. RINALDI: I agree with you but  you have to take this to the school board.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: I have to go to the  school to do that for me?  MR. RINALDI: This is up to the  school board. This is not up to us.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Okay. This is a  sign near my house there, maybe we can do something about that sign, that road sign.  It's just overgrown there.  MR. RINALDI: You're talking about    65  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  the shrubs that are blocking it?  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Yeah. It's a tree,  actually, right at the end of the bridge where I live there. If you could just maybe have  that taken care of.  MR. RINALDI: Joe, quick question,  this sign at the end of the : over the bridge,  right, on the left?  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Yeah.  MR. RINALDI: Is that on private  property?  MR. LENCESKI: I could go look at it  tomorrow.  MR. RINALDI: Here's what we'11 do,  Mr. Lenceski will go down there tomorrow, take a look at it. If it's our property, we could get it taken care of instantly. If it's private property, we're going to have to  contact the owner.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: I talked to the  borough manager about that, because there's a park right near there, and I said, Who owns that? And he said it's the borough property.  He said the borough property :-  MR. RINALDI: The borough manager is    66  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  Mrs. Bartoletti.  MS. BARTOLETTI: I'm a girl.  MR. RINALDI: Do you mean you talked  to the zoning officer?  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Yeah, I talked to MR. RINALDI: Oh, okay. You said  the borough manager.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Oh, I'm sorry. I  talked to the zoning officer because there's sO many : the people live across made a nice park, they put a bench, it's beautiful. They  maintain it.  MR. NOTARI: Mr. Zukauskas, would  you return to the podium, please?  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Okay. I - will do  that.  MR. NOTARI: As everyone else did. MR. RINALDI: Mr. Zukauskas, we will  send Mr. Lenceski down tomorrow. Like I said, if it's our property, we could get it taken care of immediately. If it's a private property owner, he'17 contact them, or  Mr. Sokolowski will, and we'11 have them cut it  sO the sign is visible.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: I would be    67  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  interested to know who owns that piece of property. I would like to know if it is private property or if the Borough owns it or the county owns it. I would be interested in  that.  MR. RINALDI: We'11 find out  tomorrow.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Okay. The other  thing I want to talk about is well the bus stop Ib brought up last time, but when we were talking about the bus stop, the borough manager mentioned about how we're still developing the front of the building and she said something about a clock there. We don't need a clock on this building. There's a clock right across the street from here in a bay. It never works.  MR. LENCESKI: Twice a day. MR. NOTARI: So, then we need a  clock. If that one doesn't work, we need one  that works.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: When that one  doesn't work, who's going to change the time on  the clock?  MR. RINALDI: Mr. Zukauskas, excuse  me one second, we have no control over what M&T    68  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  Bank does with their business.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: I understand that,  but we have control if we're going to put a clock in the borough. Don't we have control  over that?  MR. RINALDI: We do. And if we had  a ( clock on our property, we would have our employees maintain it and make sure it was  working correct.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Who decides that  we're gonna put a clock there? Who is deciding  that?  MR. RINALDI: The members at this  table.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Excuse me? MR. RINALDI: The members at this  table.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Why can't we have  the residents to say do we want a clock there or do we want a bus stop? I think we need a  bus stop more than a clock.  MS. AVVISATO: We have a bus stop  there.  MR. RINALDI: If you're asking if  the residents are allowed to come to the    69  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  meeting and express their concerns whether they would want anything in the borough, by all means they could come to any public meeting and  sign in and address it.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: I understand.  That's why I'm here. That's the purpose. But once things are decided, like, I think we  should vote.  I don't think a clock should be put  there, and I don't think I'm the only one. I think maybe we should have a vote and say should we put a clock there or should we put a bus stop there. I mean, it's just :  MR. RINALDI: Mr. Zukauskas, don't  take this next statement the wrong way, if you feel you should have a vote, you could run for  office. No, no, this is the truth.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: No, no, I  understand.  MR. RINALDI: You could run for  office. You would have to win, and then you would sit up here and you have a chance to vote  however you feel.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: But isn't that the  purpose of a democracy, we want to put    70  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  something here, sO why :  MR. RINALDI: I just explained the  democracy part to you.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: But I don't want to  run for office, I just want my opinion  expressed.  MR. NOTARI: Well, you expressed it. MR. RINALDI: You. expressed it. I  just said --  (Inaudible crosstalk.)  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: So, what's gonna  happen, are we still gonna put a clock there?  MR. HOOVER: Yes.  MR. NOTARI: Yes, we are.  MR. RINALDI: I know I'm looking to  put a clock there. I would have to wait when we get the resolution typed up, advertised, and then it would go for passage or not. If you're asking me, I would love to see a clock there.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Okay. I would not.  What about the bus stop, I would like :-  MR. RINALDI: The bus stop is there. MS. AVVISATO: It's still there. MR. ZUKAUSKAS: There's just a pad  there. That's not a bus stop.    71  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. HOOVER: It's close enough. MR. NOTARI: There will be no  shelter put there, Mr. Zukauskas.  MR. RINALDI: Are you talking about  the shelter?  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Yes.  MR. NOTARI: There will be no  shelter placed there.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: I volunteer to pay  for materials, everything. You get the boy scouts, I will pay for it all, I mean, as a gift to you. I think it'd be sO nice right in front of this borough building brand new bus stop built by the boy scouts dedicated :  MR. NOTARI: Mr. Zukauskas, we  explained it to you last time :  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Okay. I guess it  didn't register.  MR. NOTARI: The shelter is nothing  but an eyesore.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Exactly.  MR. NOTARI: It also blocks the War  Mothers' Memorial.  MR. RINALDI: And it also blocks  exiting Railroad Street. Now, here's the    72  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  thing, the structure that was there, when it was constructed and it was brand new, the glass was clear. Over time, the glass got damaged,  scratched, vandalized, graffitied.  MS. AVVISATO: Gum all over it. It  was terrible:  MR. RINALDI: So, it actually became  more unvisible to see.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: I understand that,  Mr. Rinaldi.  MR. RINALDI: If we put a structure  there now, even if it was glass, but you were talking about put a nice brick structure in :  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Exactly.  MR. RINALDI: : there's no way to  see through it now. But also where that pad is, when you pull up onto Railroad, from Railroad to Main, if you want to make a right going north or a left going south, you have to pull out onto the road to see past that structure. Now you're already into the  intersection.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Yes.  MR. RINALDI: So, it's a liability.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Okay.    73  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. RINALDI: So, that's another  reason why. But I also agree with Councilman  Notari, it does not look good.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: If I may interrupt,  Mr. Rinaldi?  MR. RINALDI: Sure.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: The last meeting I  specifically said to you, I told the borough manager, I agree with you one thousand percent, those bus stops that Colts supplies are junk. You don't want those there. They're exactly like you said, plastic. It is a mess there. So I agree, I don't want that there.  The boy scouts could put something  really nice there. We could make something that'11 complement this building. There's no reason to put a Colts bus stop there. There's  something that we could use.  MR. RINALDI: I just explained to  you that any structure there is blocking  visibility.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Just move it back.  Does it have to be where that pad is? I mean, can't you move it around some place? Put something else there. Put a planter there    74  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  where the pad is. I've seen people  MR. RINALDI: Well, where would we  put the bus stop? You want us to put it back  into the yard?  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: No. I've seen  people wait for that bus, not here but at this end of the building. They're waiting down there. And I said, What are you ladies doing here? Oh, we're waiting for the bus. Oh, I thought it was up here. They said, No, we wait  here.  L - mean, sO it doesn't have to be  there. Just put it somewhere else where it's  out of the way.  MR. RINALDI: It has to be where  Colts places it.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Exactly.  MR. RINALDI: Well, that's where  they have it placed.  MR. NOTARI: That's where it's  placed.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Well, you think  Colts would object if you moved it 50 yards  down?  MR. RINALDI: It's not up to us to    75  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  move it. It's up to them. It's not up to us to move their bus stop. It's up to them to place their bus stops, not us. Bill, correct?  ATTY. RINALDI: I'm assuming. They  set the route.  MR. RINALDI: Right. We can't put  their bus stop where we want it. Sounds to me like if we could, it wouldn't be there.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Okay. So, if I  contact Colts and I say, Listen, we want : I'11 tell Colts exactly what you told me, their bus stop there is an obstruction for people  coming out of that street there.  MR. RINALDI: Their bus stop there  is not an obstruction. A building in it is.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Okay. I will tell  them that, the building, or their pad there, is  an obstruction.  MR. RINALDI: Well, the structure,  whatever name you want to use.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Right. Would you  object to moving it 50 yards south from there?  See what they say with that.  MR. RINALDI: Well, if we move it  down : down this way (Indicating)?    76  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. ZUKAUSKAS: Yes.  MR. RINALDI: We're gonna block the  Veterans wall.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: There has to be  something you can do about it.  MR. RINALDI: I mean, if you want to  shrug your shoulders at that, you could, but I would never vote to put it in front of the  Veterans wall.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: My dad's name is on  one of those bricks. No, I agree with you  there.  MR. RINALDI: But that's what I'm  saying, you said put it at the other end of the building, that's the other end of the building.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: But that's not the  only thing. I mean, there should be a place  around here. I mean, okay :  MR. RINALDI: A place on the borough  building property?  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: On the borough  building property. There should be some place.  We're getting nowhere here, I --  MR. RINALDI: I don't think there  is.    77  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. ZUKAUSKAS: Okay. Well, I  think :-  MR. RINALDI: If you'd like, I'11  walk out there with you after the meeting and you could point out a potential spot where it's not blocking the Veterans wall like Councilman Notari said, not blocking the War Mothers.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: This evening is not  winning. How about I get in touch with you maybe sometime during the week, this week or next week, we'11 do that, we'17 walk around  the :  MR. RINALDI: I'17 walk tonight  after the meeting if you like.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: I can't do it  tonight.  MR. RINALDI: Okay. You have my  cell phone, call me after the holidays, I'17  meet you whenever you want.  MR. ZUKAUSKAS: Okay. Okay. Thank  you for listening to me.  MR. RINALDI: You're very welcome.  Mrs. Monacelli.  MS. MONACELLI: I'm not here to  complain. Maybe. I don't know about you.    78  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. Two houses are gone. Thank you.  What about the last one?  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: I'm still working  on that. Give me time, please.  MS. MONACELLI: So, if you can't  find the owner that's : the courthouse has to know who owns that, or is he dead? Now, I always thought that Marie that used to live there, her husband bought that house.  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: I don't know. I'm  trying. I just, believe me, it's on my desk.  am working on it.  MS. MONACELLI: Okay. I met Mr., I  won't give you a last name, he said he'd like to buy the whole block. I thought, Well, you're not buying my house. Two of those houses, I don't know if they're for sale, right, the one that was torn down on my side.  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: Right. MS. MONACELLI: Those two. MR. SOKOLOWSKI: I don't know. MS. MONACELLI: They should go.  Maybe along with the next one, too, because there's a lot of trouble there. Ask the cops. Okay. But, anyway, that one. Okay.    79  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  DPW, yesterday I know there was a  lot of rain, I came from morning mass, I'm going down around the bend and there's a tree. Now, they're trees, whether they're small or : it was laying in the middle of the : it fell.  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: I took care of  that.  MS. MONACELLI: Sure, because I  called. Actually, I called :-  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: As soon as you  called, how long was I there, five minutes?  MS. MONACELLI: Yeah, but   MR. SOKOLOWSKI: I mean, we can't be  everywhere.  MS. MONACELLI: Yeah, but all those  trees are dead. If Mr. So and sO owns that, that's his responsibility, or it's their  espons1DIllty.  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: The gas company  owns part of that :  (Inaudible crosstalk.)  MS. MONACELLI: That's the gas  company?  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: Yeah.  MS. MONACELLI: So they're going to    80  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  clean it?  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: Well  MS. MONACELLI: Right. Okay.  Whatever. Did you pick up the tree?  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: Yes. Personally.  - pushed it off to the side.  MS. MONACELLI: I thought so. MR. SOKOLOWSKI: What was I going to  do with it? It was pouring rain.  MS. MONACELLI: Well, that's what  they're doing. Go look on Lonesome Road, all those trees that fall down, and I've seen this with my own eyes, I won't say who it was, but they took the tree and just shoved it up and  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: Well, we had  flooding, I was still getting sand bags, sO I  couldn't just take care   MS. MONACELLI: Women don't do that.  They pick it up and they throw it away. They don't just put it up - are you getting all of this? Okay. So, isn't that your job?  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: Yesterday everyone  was getting flooded out :  (Inaudible crosstalk.) MS. MONACELLI: Wait a minute.    81  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  First of all, you guys need a microphone. When you're back there, you can't hear anything.  Now, what did you say?  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: The place was a  mess. We had a flood on Austin and Pittston. People were getting flooded out. The water was  going in their house.  MS. MONACELLI: Yes, I understand  that.  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: We opened the road  for safety, and we're up there preventing people from getting flooded out.  MS. MONACELLI: I understand it was  raining.  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: You have no clue  what was going on up there.  MS. MONACELLI: There's 365 days in  a year, it doesn't rain every day. What do they do besides pick up the garbage and put my bin right in the street where I have to come down, get out of the car, pick the bin up, put it on the sidewalk, get back in the car and  park?  MR. LENCESKI: So, you want to know  what the DPW does?    82  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  MS. BARTOLETTI: A17 six of you,  Joe.  MR. LENCESKI: We're plowing in the  winter, we pothole patch, we put up signs for  people.  MS. MONACELLI: It's not winter. MR. RINALDI: Mrs. Monacelli, the  DPW  MS. MONACELLI: What? I have to  come right on top of you because I have $4,000  in my ears and I can't hear.  MR. RINALDI: We have six members of  the DPW department, we have the DPW manager. They start at 6 a.m., they go to 2:30 in the  afternoon.  MS. MONACELLI: Yeah, I :  MR. RINALDI: Just let me explain to  you real quick. During whatever time of year it is, they're always busy doing multiple things. There's a lot of properties that the borough owns, there's parks, there's  recreation, the borough building, there's their building. They maintain it, they clean it.  When there's weather like rain like  we had yesterday, I know you said it doesn't    83  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  rain every day or snow every day, but there's a lot of things they do. There's a lot of transporting stuff around. They help the police move trailers. There's a lot of things  they're doing.  MS. MONACELLI: Okay.  MR. RINALDI: And I could continue  going, but, I mean, I'm not saying they don't have time to do what you need them to do, but like Mr. Lenceski said yesterday, if they were caught up for a day or two with the weather, with the flooding, with the rain, he'17 get down and take a look at that piece of property, or we'11 have Mike get to the property.  MS. MONACELLI: Maybe I'17 start  getting the shovel and start pulling it out.  Okay.  MR. LENCESKI: We were shoveling  gravel off roads yesterday. That took forever.  Up in the Heights.  MS. MONACELLI: Okay. I'm finished.  Merry Christmas to everybody.  MR. RINALDI: Merry Christmas.  Thank you very much. Thank you, Mrs. Monacelli. Before we go into new    84  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  business, is there any members from the public who didn't sign in that want to address us?  MS. THOMAS: Vanessa Vergnetti  Thomas.  MR. RINALDI: Hi, Vanessa. Good  evening.  MS. - THOMAS: Good evening, 01d Forge  Council members. I am sorry about my informal attire, too. I just wanted to speak on what the ladies and gentlemen spoken on about the  community center.  Ij just want to add to that that I'm  sure the esteemed members of Council know about the dced.pa.gov website and all the grants and programs and funding that are available for park rehabilitation and developmental funding.  Granted, you know, they're kind of  earmarked anywhere between 20,000 and $120,000, but it'd be great to put a grant, you know, request out there for these monies that are available, as well as grant of watch :  Pennsylvaniagrantwatch.com,  I - have the pleasure of serving on  five different nonprofit boards in four different counties, and we're constantly on    85  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  here. Like, it's a site that, you know, if you're not privy to things, it tells you, okay, a grant could be possible to apply for, get, you know, get right on that, put in your  applications.  And I'm sure, like I said, Council  knows about these opportunities through our Commonwealth, through our state and our federal, on the federal end. There's lots of funding that could go towards the creation of a  community center.  We're not considered a rural  community, but I even went as far as to look on the website for pa.gov for that, and there's funding, as well, for rural communities that don't have a community center that want to put their time and effort into creating one.  And to speak to, I'm sorry, I don't  know your name, Michelle, to speak to her point, I am a proud mom of five children, two are adults, three are at home, and two of my children, as a lot of community members know, have autism spectrum disorder, sO they are very active in the community, but not, per se, as  neuro typical children are.    86  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, in particular, my Tristan, who  loves to go to all the parks in the warmer weather and less, you know, inclement weather, would thrive and love a community center to just be in touch with his neuro typical community members as well as his atypical  community members.  And I just think that if Throop and  Dickson City and the surrounding communities could make this happen, I think we're a diamond community, I think we could make this happen, whether it's getting monies from the state, federal level and coming up with a plan as a community to see if we could, you know, create the revenue to make it happen, but I think we could do it. I think it's essential. I just  wanted to say that.  MR. RINALDI: Thank you. Thanks,  Vanessa. We appreciate it. Any other members before we move into new business? Sure.  MS. SHOTWELL: Jenna Shotwell. I  want to thank, everybody that came tonight to speak about the need for a community center in 01d Forge. I really appreciate it. You guys all know it's something that is very important    87  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  to me.  And just one thing that I think, I  think everybody touched on everything except in my role at the school, the only part of my job that I don't like is I'm in charge of our state reporting, it's really awful, but I want to point something out that you guys might not be super aware of. I : actually got a warning, a flag from PDE on my last report, it's our October snapshot which reports on all the students in the school, and we had a year over year change on our economically disadvantaged population. It went up 28 percent in one year.  So, the state said, Well, this can't  be - right. There has to be something wrong with your report. So, we went, sat down with administration, with the registrar, went through all the paperwork, made sure everything was correct. Nope. Signed an accuracy  statement, this is correct.  So, while we would love to have a  community center for basketball and birthday parties and, you know, great fun things, I think another thing that we really need to think about is there is a population in this    88  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  town that's growing that's underserved, and they can't afford to play youth basketball, and they can't afford to do Junior Devils  cheerleading.  So, while some of us are here  because we're parents of kids that are involved in youth sports programs, there's a lot of kids who don't have any opportunities in this town that's not a park during the summer. So, I really think that that's something that I ask you to consider in addition to all the other things that everybody mentioned. Thank you.  MR. RINALDI: Thank you. Any other  members of the public before :  MR. LENCESKI: I would like just to  say one thing.  MR. RINALDI: Sure.  MR. LENCESKI: About three weeks  ago, the DPW went over, we dug a hole for Jenn Coriano Street (phonetic), pine tree that they set at Main Street Park, and after ten inches of dirt there's about five feet of red ash. The hole, I think before we go spending the money on everything, we should do a soil sample  over there.    89  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, if you look red ash up on your  phones, it's highly toxic, and that whole area : people know that those old red ash hills, that whole area was red ash.  MR. HOOVER: That's the basketball  courts, Joe?  MR. LENCESKI: I don't know. I C dug  ap pit, went through the top soil, four feet of red ash. So, I would just look into that.  Look it up.  MR. RINALDI: Joe, how far down did  you go? Where did you put the tree?  MR. LENCESKI: Five feet. Idug a  hole to plant a tree, I didn't know this diameter root ball, but I dug it large enough  to--  (Inaudible crosstalk.)  MR. LENCESKI: I dug it large enough  to back fill it with good top soil sO it would grow, and then they planted it in front of the hole and I filled the hole in. It's all red  ash.  MR. HOOVER: We'11 take soil samples  before we even do anything over there, Dave.  MR. NOTARI: I mean, that's part of    90  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  the process of doing something.  MR. HOOVER: It's part of the  process anyway.  MR. LOPATKA: What, for that?  MR. HOOVER: Yeah. MR. LOPATKA: Yeah. MR. HOOVER: Thanks, Joe. MR. RINALDI: Thanks, Joe. Any  other members before we go into new business?  (No response.)  MR. RINALDI: Okay. With that said,  we're going to move into our first item under new business. First item for consideration an ordinance adopting the 2024 budget as amended for the Borough of 01d Forge, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania adopting the comprehensive  budget for the calendar year of 2024 appropriating specific sums estimated to be required for the specific purposes of a municipal government here and after set forth  during the calendar year of 2024.  Section one, the annual budget was  published or otherwise made available for public inspection on and from December 6, 2023  until December 19, 2023.    91  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  Section two, the annual budget as  published includes revisions, if any, by Council is as presented here at this meeting.  Section three, that for the  expenditures and expenses for the calendar year of 2024, the following amounts are hereby appropriated for the funds, equities, revenues and other financing sources available for the calendar 2024 for the specific purpose as set forth in the attachment budget for 2024.  At this time, the Chair would  entertain a motion to pass as amended the 2024  budget.  MR. HOOVER: I'd like to make that  motion.  MR. RINALDI: Motion on the floor by  Councilman Hoover.  MR. BUTLER: I'11 second it. MR. RINALDI: Second by Councilman  Butler. On the question?  (No response.)  MR. RINALDI: Marylynn. MS. BARTOLETTI: Yes?  MR. RINALDI: This budget is passing  with zero tax increase?    92  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  MS. BARTOLETTI: Zero tax increase. MR. RINALDI: Before the budget goes  to the floor, I'd just like to state a few things. We mentioned a little in our work session, for the members of the public who don't know, Marylynn Bartoletti, borough manager, which I'm sure you all know her, but she's 99.9 percent responsible for our budget.  Isit on the finance committee  meeting with Councilman Hoover and Councilman Notari, we have meetings with Mrs. Bartoletti throughout the year, more towards the end of the year, then we have executive sessions with the Council, the solicitor and Marylynn and we go over the budge. Marylynn's been here since 2005. Since 2005 our taxes increased twice, one mill in 2008 and last year 1.25 mills when we made a deal conjoining with the high school to put resource officers in.  The time and effort that goes in by  Marylynn, I mean, us who sit at the table know, - mean, she's fantastic at her job, she's fantastic at the budget, she watches the numbers, she crunches the numbers, and she is the reason, although we make the final    93  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  decision, she's the reason that this budget year in and year out stays as tight as possible with as much good things that we provide the borough through police services, DPW services, recreation services, our fire department, which is they're volunteer but we donate to them, and all the other services to the community.  So, I'd just like to give Marylynn  just a commendation on that. She's done a  great job.  MR. RINALDI: Thank you.  MR. HOOVER: On another note, we  bought a leaf truck. The leaf truck was over $300,000, and I said to Marylynn and Joe, How are we gonna pay for this? And she said, It's already taken care of. She said, We got a grant for over $300,000 that she applied for and got for us. So, we got this huge leaf truck for nothing. So, she does apply for  grants every time she can.  MS. BARTOLETTI: We do Tots of  grants.  MR. HOOVER: We do lots of grants  here. One a week easy. Thanks, Mare.  MS. BARTOLETTI: You're welcome.    94  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.  MR. RINALDI: You're welcome. On  the question?  (No response.)  MR. RINALDI: Public input?  (No response.)  MR. RINALDI: Roll call, please. MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilwoman  Avvisato?  MS. AVVISATO: Yes. Thank you. MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Butler?  MR. BUTLER: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Hoover?  MR. HOOVER: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Notari?  MR. NOTARI: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Rinaldi? MR. RINALDI: Yes. Item number two  is for consideration an ordinance fixing and levying the tax for 2024, an ordinance of the 01d Forge Borough of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania fixing and levying a tax for the general borough purposes for the calendar year 2024 and for the purpose of creating and maintaining a special fund to be used by the    95  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  borough for making permanent street  improvements, to pay contract prices for paving and other permanent street improvements.  Section one, a tax is and the same  is hereby levied on the dollar of the valuation assessed for county purposes on all real property made taxable by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania within the borough said subject to taxation for borough purposes for the calendar year 2024 as follows: Tax rate for general borough purposes shall be the sum of 20 and three-fourths, that's 20.75 mills on the dollar and the valuation assessed for county purposes and tax rate for special road fund tax shall be the sum of 1.0 mills on the dollar and valuation assessed for county  purposes.  At the time, the Chair would  entertain the ordinance for fixing and levying  the tax for 2024.  MS. AVVISATO: I'11 make that  motion, Mr. Chairman.  MR. RINALDI: Motion on the floor by  Councilwoman Avvisato.  MR. BUTLER: I'11 second it.    96  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. RINALDI: Second by Councilman  Butler. On the question?  (No response.)  MR. RINALDI: Public input?  (No response.)  MR. RINALDI: Roll call, please. MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilwoman  Avvisato?  MS. AVVISATO: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Butler?  MR. BUTLER: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Hoover?  MR. HOOVER: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Notari?  MR. NOTARI: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Rinaldi? MR. RINALDI: Yes. Item number  three for consideration is an ordinance  establishing no parking on the west side of the 400 block of George Street. An ordinance to establish a no parking on the west side of the 400 block of George Street for a distance of 150 feet from the intersection of West Grace Street to the alley in the Borough of 01d  Forge.    97  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. HOOVER: I'17 make that motion. MR. RINALDI: Motion on the floor by  Councilman Hoover.  MS. AVVISATO: I'11 second that  motion.  MR. RINALDI: Second by Councilwoman  Avvisato. On the question?  (No response.)  MR. RINALDI: Public input?  (No response.)  MR. RINALDI: Rol7 call, please. MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilwoman  Avvisato?  MS. AVVISATO: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Butler?  MR. BUTLER: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Hoover?  MR. HOOVER: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Notari?  MR. NOTARI: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Rinaldi? MR. RINALDI: Yes. Item number  four, this is just going to be a motion to add. Item number four would be a motion to add to the agenda putting out to bid for the Josephine    98  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  Street project. This is just to add it.  MS. AVVISATO: I'17 make that  motion, Mr. Chairman.  MR. RINALDI: Motion on the floor by  Councilwoman Avvisato.  MR. NOTARI: I'17 second.  MR. RINALDI: Second by Councilman  Notari. On the question?  (No response.)  MR. RINALDI: Public input?  (No response.)  MR. RIMALDI: Roll call, please. MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilwoman  Avvisato?  MS. AVVISATO: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Butler?  MR. BUTLER: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Hoover?  MR. HOOVER: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Notari?  MR. NOTARI: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Rinaldi? MR. RINALDI: Yes. Item number five  will be a motion to approve Marylynn and the engineer to advertise to put the Josephine    99  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  Street sewer project out for bid.  MR. HOOVER: I'17 make that motion. MR. RINALDI: Motion on the floor by  Councilman Hoover.  MS. AVVISATO: I'11 second that  motion.  MR. RINALDI: Second by Councilwoman  Avvisato. On the question?  (No response.)  MR. RINALDI: Public input?  (No response.)  MR. RINALDI: Roll call, please. MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilwoman  Avvisato?  MS. AVVISATO: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Butler?  MR. BUTLER: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Hoover?  MR. HOOVER: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Notari?  MR. NOTARI: Yes.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Councilman Rinaldi? MR. RINALDI: Yes. If there's no  more items, the Chair would go down the table and see if any of the members have anything    100  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  before we adjourn. Mayor Legg.  MAYOR LEGG: Thank you,  Mr. Chairman.  MR. RINALDI: You're welcome. MAYOR LEGG: Ladies, you all did a  great job, okay? I'm very proud of you: But there was a phrase some of you people used and that was we would like you to consider. There's not a person up here who does not want a community center, okay? We just went through a big building process, a lot of money was  spent for that, okay?  And, Vanessa, you said there's  grants, state grants, federal grants, okay, there's a lot of competition out there for this money, okay, especially the way things are. Some of these applications are 18 pages and they want specifics down to what : it's hard.  It's hard.  And I know our borough manager has  been able to get some money, but it's not easy. It's not easy. It's not like you're going to wave a magic wand and there's $200,000. It  doesn't work that way.  mean, we want it. We want a    101  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  community center, ladies and gentlemen, we really do, okay, but like Mrs. Wilk said, money. Money. Money's tight. Everybody's hurting, okay? If I had a million dollars, I'd donate it, but I don't have a million dollars.  At this time, Lee, are you here?  Would you come up here to the podium, please? I'm going to just stand here because I don't  want to turn my back on Council.  MS. GRIMES: I embarrass easily, you  know that. Where do you want me to go?  MAYOR LEGG: Right there. For those  of you who don't know this young lady, Lee Grimes, better known as the cat whisperer, what Lee does during the day is she goes out and gets stray cats, rounds them up, takes them to the vet, gets them fixed sO that they don't have little baby kittens and gets their shots and any kind of injuries that are minor, she takes care of it, and she's been doing this for quite a while. And I know she spends quite  amount of her own money on this.  I  know I'm on the road from Duryea  to Carbondale and I see tons of these poor little critters out in the cold, out in the    102  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  rain, no food, no water, okay, no place to lay their head. So, Lee, I got a little something  for you. Come here, please.  MS. GRIMES: I can't. You told me  to stay here.  MAYOR LEGG: Okay. It's a little  something for you that says, This award is presented to Lee Grimes for her tireless effort in helping the stray cat population. Very deserving. You don't talk the talk, you walk  the walk. Keep up the good work.  MS. GRIMES: Thank you.  MAYOR LEGG: And, Mr. Chairman, the  last thing I'd like to do is wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and let's hope it's a sight better than the last  one was. Thank you.  MR. RINALDI: Thank you, Mayor. I  appreciate it. Same to you. Councilman  Notari.  MR. NOTARI: First I'd like to thank  Marylynn for all her hard work on the budget. It doesn't go unnoticed, as Chairman Rinaldi said, and Mr. Hoover. We're in the financial situation we're in because of your due    103  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  diligence :  MS. BARTOLETTI: Thank you. MR. NOTARI: : and how you take  care of the budget and how you don't let us spend wildly like I would like to.  I'd also like to thank our fire  department for braving the weather this past weekend. Sunday I think they were out with Santa and Mrs. Claus visiting the children of our borough throughout the town. If you heard the sirens, that's what was going on. And they do that every year and it's much appreciated. And I know the community and the children  appreciate it.  I'd also like to say, in terms of  the community center, the borough provides an area for junior football to practice, the borough provides for little league and missy league a field to play, we provide a soccer field to play, we now provide an indoor area for bocce to be played by the limited amount of residents from this borough. We allow men's softball to use a field here in 01d Forge. It is time to provide youth basketball an area that they can hold a league on their own    104  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  without any questions from scheduling, schools, out of town, wherever. They need a place of their own and we need to provide that for them.  And on that note, I believe our rec  committee, once we reorganize in two weeks, our rec committee should take the lead, whatever three Council members are on that rec  committee, I'm currently on it, I would like to stay on it and take the lead in this project and see how we could develop not only a plan but a funding stream to make this happen.  That said, Merry Christmas to  everyone, enjoy the holidays. Keep your loved ones close, you don't know when that's going to change. And thanks for coming everybody tonight. I wish more people came to meetings.  It's refreshing. Thank you.  MR. RINALDI: You're welcome. Thank  you. Councilman Butler.  MR. BUTLER: I have nothing. I just  want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas.  MR. RINALDI: Councilwoman Avvisato. MS. AVVISATO: I just want to thank  everyone for coming about the community center. I've been there, Marylynn helped me, we got a    105  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  grant for 500,000, we put the park over Marion Street, and it's hard, but we are trying. We will definitely keep trying. But thanks for  coming.  And, again, I want to thank Marylynn  again for that hard work. I was looking at the finances and I'm going, How did you do this?  Like, it's amazing.  MS. BARTOLETTI: Thank you.  MS. AVVISATO: It's hard work. And  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone.  MR. RINALDI: Thank you. Councilman  Hoover.  MR. HOOVER: A1l I have to do is say  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Everything was said already. Marylynn, as usual, you know. Council members, everybody  else, Merry Christmas.  MR. RINALDI: Thank you. I just  have a few items. I'17 start with, I wish they were here personally tonight but they're not, Councilman Febbo and Councilman Lettieri, they will not be coming back in January. We will be welcoming Mrs. Shotwell and Mr. Komensky, but I would like to thank Mr. Febbo and Mr. Lettieri    106  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  for their service that they served up here. I thank all the members, as well, who have served  up here with them and with me.  I'd like to thank Marylynn once  again for all your hard work throughout the year. Thank your staff, all the secretaries. I'd like to thank our emergency departments, our fire department, our police department, our chief, all the police officers and all the  volunteer fireman.  Joe, to you and the DPW department,  I mean, you know we tell you many times throughout the year, you and all them, great job. You guys are all over the place doing whatever we need whenever we ask. We  appreciate it.  Mike SOkOlowsk1, you came on halfway  through the year, and I'm going to tell you, you took that office and you got it pretty well  organized in about six months.  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: Thanks.  MR. RINALDI: You do a great job and  I'm glad we could depend on you.  MR. SOKOLOWSKI: Thank you.  MR. RINALDI: Dave, to you and your    107  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  firm, thank you for all the hard work, as well, throughout the years. You've been here with us now, I want to say, close to ten years. 2014?  MR. LOPATKA: Yep.  MR. RINALDI: Well, thank your boss  and thank all your employees, as well, for us.  MR. LOPATKA: Thank you. MR. RINALDI: Attorney Rinaldi,  thank you for the hard work, as well, all throughout the year. We appreciate it. I know we sit up here and we go through some things every now and then, but, you know, thanks for steering us in the right direction and keeping us on the right course legally. We appreciate  it.  To the members of the public,  especially to all the members who came tonight, first about the community center, you know I made a pile of comments on it already, just to touch on it, I thank you for coming for your concerns. I thank you for expressing them. Everyone who spoke had a lot of good ideas for a lot of different areas as far as the basketball, Marissa and Gina and Ray spoke. Michelle, you had a lot of good points from the    108  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  health and wellness. Vanessa, a lot of good  points. We appreciate it.  If, going forward, like Councilman  Notari said, we have a recreation committee who we could look to for some help to start us along with our engineer, start us along with our solicitor and borough manager, get some costs, stuff like that, if you have any  information, everyone, and you want to bring it  to us, bring it.  Again, like Councilman Notari said,  If for one, I love when members of the public come. I wish the room was bigger and I wish we had double the people. It's comforting to see people who come to the meetings and who care about the town as much as I do and all of us up here do and as much as you do. If you could get more people to come, give us your ideas, give us your concerns, we love to help you help  us, - and we love to help us help you.  With that said, I'd like to tell  everyone at the table, Mayor Legg, always a pleasure to serve with you. Councilman Notari, Councilman Butler, Councilwoman Avvisato, Councilman Hoover, not to toot our own horns up    109  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  here, because I'm not, this isn't an easy seat to sit in for any of us, I know you guys all have the best interest of the borough in mind, and I thank you for making the best decisions  possible for the community.  IV wish everybody a safe, healthy and  happy holiday. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everybody. If anybody has anything before we adjourn, speak now. If not, the Chair would entertain a motion to adjourn the  meeting.  17  MR. NOTARI: Mr. Chairman, I'11 make  a motion to adjourn the meeting.  MR. RINALDI: Motion on the floor by  Councilman Notari. A17 in favor?  ALL MEMBERS: Aye.  MR. RINALDI: Thank you everyone.  (Meeting adjourned.)    110  1 2 3 4  CERTIFICATE  h hereby certify that the proceedings and  evidence are contained fully and accurately in the 5 notes taken by me of the above-cause and that this copy 6 is a correct transcript of the same to the best of my  7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24  ability.  Mll  Michelle Smolskis Official Court Reporter  ORIGINAL  (The foregoing certificate of this transcript does not apply to any reproduction of the same by any means unless under the direct control and/or supervision of  25 the certifying reporter.)