1  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14  COUNCIL FOR THE BOROUGH OF DUNMORE  HELD:  Monday, September 9, 2024  TIME: 6:00 P.M.  LOCATION:  DUNMORE COMMUNITY CENTER 1414 Monroe Avenue Dunmore, Pennsylvania  COUNCIL  MEMBERS:  15 JANET BRIER - President  16 17  KATHERINE OVEN - Vice President  MICHAEL DEMPSEY 18 THOMAS HALLINAN  19 20 21 22 23 24 25  ELIZABETH ZANGARDI  WILLIAM O'MALLEY, III - absent  PATRICK LOUGHNEY  GREG WOLFF, Borough Manager  MICHAEL P. PERRY, Esquire, Solicitor  MICHELLE SMOLSKIS 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.)  MS. BRIER: And before we start, of  course Wednesday is 9/11, sO just a moment of  silence.  (Moment of silence.)  MS. BRIER: Okay. Thanks everybody.  A1l right.  MR. WOLFF: Roll call. Mayor  Conway.  MAYOR CONWAY: Here. MR. WOLFF: Mr. Loughney. MR. LOUGHNEY: Here. MR. WOLFF: Mr. Dempsey. MR. DEMPSEY: Here.  MR. WOLFF: Mr. O'Malley is absent.  Mrs. Brier.  MS. BRIER: Here.  MR. WOLFF: Ms. Mackrell Oven.  MS. OVEN: Here.  MR. WOLFF: Mrs. Zangardi. MS. ZANGARDI: Here. MR. WOLFF: Mr. Hallinan.    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  MR. HALLINAN: Here.  MR. WOLFF: Number three, public  comment on agenda items.  MS. BRIER: Does anyone have a  public comment on the agenda items only at this  time?  (No response.)  MS. BRIER: I think we're good,  Greg.  MR. WOLFF: Okay. Number four,  motion to approve the August 12, 2024 meeting  minutes.  MS. BRIER: A11 right. I'd like to  get a motion to approve the August 12, 2024  meeting minutes.  MS. OVEN: I'11 make a motion. MR. DEMPSEY: Second.  MS. BRIER: I have a motion and a  second. Anyone on the question?  MR. LOUGHNEY: I'11 abstain. I  missed that meeting.  MS. BRIER: Okay. A17 those in  favor?  ALL MEMBERS: Aye. MS. BRIER: 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. WOLFF: Number five, motion to  approve and pay open bills.  MS. BRIER: Okay. I need a motion  to approve and pay the open bills.  MR. HALLINAN: I'17 make that  motion.  MS. BRIER: Can I have a second? MS. OVEN: I'11 second.  MS. - BRIER: I have a motion and a  second. Anyone on the question?  (No response.)  MS. BRIER: Seeing none. A11 those  in favor?  ALL MEMBERS: Aye. MS. BRIER: Opposed? (No response.)  MR. WOLFF: Number six, motion to  approve license of Electric Street to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to complete the Meadowbrook Flood Protection Project.  MS. BRIER: May I have a motion to  approve license of Electric Street to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of    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  Environmental Protection to complete the Meadowbrook Flood Protection Project?  MS. ZANGARDI: I'11 make that  motion.  MR. DEMPSEY: Second.  MS. BRIER: I have a motion and a  second. On the question, Greg, can you just  explain that a little bit?  ATTY. PERRY: I'17 do it. MS. BRIER: Okay. Thanks.  ATTY. PERRY: This is a cooperative  agreement that the Borough signed with the city to work together with DEP on the Meadowbrook  Flood Protection Program.  So, this licensing agreement allows  DEP to do what they need to do on Electric Street and under Electric Street to go forward  with the flood project.  MS. BRIER: Okay. Thanks, Mickey.  Do we have any other comments?  (No response.)  MS. BRIER: A1l those in favor?  ALL MEMBERS: Aye. MS. BRIER: Opposed? (No response.)    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  MR. WOLFF: Number seven, motion to  approve Sara Grande as a part-time employee to cook for the concession stand at Schautz  Stadium.  MS. BRIER: Okay. Could I have a  motion to approve Sara Grande as a part-time  employee?  MR. DEMPSEY: So moved. MR. LOUGHNEY: Second.  MS. BRIER: Okay. So, we have a  motion and a second. Mike, do you want to just  talk about this?  MR. DEMPSEY: Oh, yeah. Sure. On  the question. Sara is going to be cooking at Schautz. We have DGR there every Sunday. She's going to be there around 11 a.m. and work  until about 5, 5:30 p.m.  There's a million kids up there, I  don't know if anybody drove by this week, but we did pretty well this week at the stand.  She's an executive chef, she has all  of her licenses. She's fantastic. She's been involved in the community for years. She used to cook down at the little league and make her famous wing bites, which she's going to have, I    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  believe, next week.  So, it's something that's been  sorely missed at Schautz because we have a state of the art kitchen up there that nobody uses, and we've all been trying to get somebody to do it for years, sO finally we have Sara.  So, she's going to be there every  Sunday from 11 a.m. until about 5, 6:00 p.m. We're lucky to have her and can't wait to see.  MS. BRIER: Yes, it's great. We're  thrilled that she agreed to do this for us.  So, all those in favor?  ALL MEMBERS: Aye. MS. BRIER: Opposed? (No response.)  MR. WOLFF: Number eight, motion to  appoint Sarah Brodowsky as a part-time  mirerignter.  MS. BRIER: Okay. I'd like to have  a - motion to appoint Sara Brodowsky as a  part-time firefighter.  MS. OVEN: I'17 make the motion. MR. HALLINAN: I'17 second it. MS. BRIER: I have a motion and a  second. On the question?    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  MR. WOLFF: Yeah. Sarah Brodowsky  was approved by the Chief, they did the background check, sO she will be the part-time  as-needed status.  MS. BRIER: That's great. We need  that. A1l those in favor?  ALL MEMBERS: Aye.  MS. BRIER: Okay. Opposed?  (No response.)  MR. WOLFF: Number nine, motion to  promote Justin Taffera to the classification of  truck driver with the DPW.  MS. BRIER: Can I have a motion to  promote Justin Taffera to the classification of  truck driver with the DPW?  MR. HALLINAN: I'11 make that  motion.  MS. ZANGARDI: I'17 second. MS. BRIER: I have a motion and a  second. On the question?  MR. WOLFF: We had a driver leave, a  CDL driver, leave in the springtime. Mr. Taffera was good enough to step up. He kind of got us out of a bind and got a CDL. So we had the opening and Justin applied and meets    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  all the requirements.  MS. BRIER: Great. A11 those in  favor?  ALL MEMBERS: Aye. MS. BRIER: Opposed? (No response.)  MR. WOLFF: Number ten, motion to  approve the 2024 paving project with Pennsy Supply in the amount of $538,910.95.  MS. BRIER: Okay. Can I have a  motion to approve the 2024 paving project to Pennsy Supply in the amount of 5538,910.957  MR. DEMPSEY: I'17 make that motion  but it's pending any sort of reduction that we see fit once we figure out what the liquid fuels situation is, and I think we budgeted  $100,000 to this project.  MR. WOLFF: Correct.  MR. DEMPSEY: So, I'11 make that  motion but I want it subject to any  subtractions that we would need to make to fit  our financial budget.  MS. BRIER: Thanks, Mike. So we  have a motion. Can I have a second?  MR. LOUGHNEY: Second.    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  MS. BRIER: Yes. You know, we have  a list, a paving list, paving is incredibly expensive, and we can use some of our liquid fuels funds but not all, sO we really have to  look at this a little bit closer.  We did not anticipate that it would  come in this high, and this was the lowest bidder. We had how many bids, Greg, three?  MR. WOLFF: A total of three. MS. BRIER: Three. Yeah.  MR. WOLFF: This was roughly $80,000  less than the next highest.  MS. BRIER: Than the next highest,  yeah. So, it's a tough situation. But, anyway, I have a motion and a second. A1l  those in favor?  ALL MEMBERS: Aye. MS. BRIER: Opposed? (No response.)  MR. WOLFF: Number eleven, treasurer  financial report. Mark.  MR. BURTON: Good evening, Council.  Brief analysis for the month of August. As anticipated and budgeted, we had a large monthly loss for the month of August, a net    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  loss of 1.7 million dollars, again, to the details shortly, which brings our year-to-date  net income $575,000.  On the income side, real estate  remains slow in the summer as usual. Business license and permits, we received a $50,000 second quarter Comcast franchise fees and miscellaneous revenues of $13,000 from Express Scripts for our second quarter of '24 rebate.  On the expense side, it was a three  pay period month of August. The police did $25,000 installment for the body cams and $19,000 for the arbitrator's fee, and the big expense was the 1.3 million dollar debt  principal, 1.2 million dollars towards the debt and $104,000 towards the interest. That's the one time annual fee that we pay for our bond issue, sO that's completed for the year, the  biggest expense we had.  MS. BRIER: Mark, we paid 27,400 to  Braddock Excavating?  MR. BURTON: That was for the three  blighted properties.  MS. BRIER: Oh. Oh, okay. That's  good. And sO they're done?    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  MR. WOLFF: They're done. MS. OVEN: They're gone, yeah.  MS. BRIER: Okay.  MR. HALLINAN: And, Mark, this 1.7  that, you know, we took in this as loss, that happens every year and then we'17 balance out towards the end of the year, correct?  MR. BURTON: Correct.  MR. HALLINAN: Yeah. It's not like  we're :  MR. BURTON: In March we might have  had a two million dollar surplus, sO it'1l :-  MS. OVEN: Even out.  MR. HALLINAN: We'11 straighten  ourselves out.  MR. BURTON: Yeah. MR. HALLINAN: Thank you. MS. - BRIER: Thanks, Mark. MR. WOLFF: Chris.  MR. KEARNEY: These past several  weeks we've just seen a continuation of the party rentals in this room and a resumption of the basketball practices in the gym for the elementary school teams. Biddy basketball has scheduled their player evaluations and coaches    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  meetings beginning the first week of October, sO that's going to be starting up again soon.  The Indo-American community has  scheduled their annual fall events here the first and second weekends of October. They've been doing that for the past several years. They rent the whole place and they pay for it. So, that's kind of a big deal, and it's really  busy here.  And then the seniors are also having  their purse bingo Sunday, October 6th, the day after this thing. So that's going to be a  little hectic.  So, because of all these events,  I've scheduled the annual floor finishing in mid October, but last year we had to schedule it earlier and then they were coming in and kind of, didn't wreck it, but this way we'11 let them wreck the floor and then we can  refinish it so :  MS. BRIER: Is the purse bingo in  here or over there?  MR. KEARNEY: It's both. MS. BRIER: Both? Okay. MR. KEARNEY: Yeah. A1l these    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  things are all over the place.  MS. BRIER: Okay. MR. KEARNEY: Okay?  MS. OVEN: Wow, that's great. MR. KEARNEY: Yeah. And that's all  have.  ALL MEMBERS: Thanks, Chris. MR. WOLFF: Mr. Judge.  MR. JUDGE: How's it going? Going  as usual, patching and paving and picking garbage, you know? So what else could I say? If you have a pothole or anything on your street, call the DPW, we'17 get them  straightened out. Okay?  ALL MEMBERS: Thanks, Didgy. MR. WOLFF: Chief Marchese is  absent. Chief DeNaples.  CHIEF DENAPLES: Good evening,  Council. I'11 start out with the fire department report, move into the code  enforcement.  So we don't have any projected high  expenditures this month for September. About the highest one at this point is $275 to replace a 50-foot section of fire hose that    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  needs to be replaced.  As far as overtime, when this report  was completed on the 6th, we had 240 hours of overtime scheduled for the month of September. So - that goes from the first right to the end of the month as of this time. Fifty-three part-time shifts were put out.  As far as events that the fire  department is going to participate in is the last junior bucks football game, EMS standby on September 29th, from 11:45 until about 4, approximately, we're down there.  As far as the new part-time hires,  the one part timer completed his orientation about a week or sO ago and has been placed on the schedule. He picked up quite a bit of time  from when he got signed off to work.  He went through the orientation  fairly quick, he put a lot of time in, sO it  wasn't sporadic.  The other part-time firefighter who  come back, he was a part timer at one time, he requested to come back, sO June 11th he started. He's only putting about one shift a month in, sO it's probably going to take    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  forever unless that picks up, as far as his availability for the overtime -- or the  orientation time.  So, I'm excited to get Sarah  started. The training officer is back to work on the 15th, sO I'11 notify her tomorrow and we'1l start the orientation as soon as he comes back based on her avallability. So, that's pretty much it as far as that goes.  As far as the calls from September  1st to today at the close of business, 5:00, we had 15 total responses. Eight emergency medical services and rescue-type calls, hazardous materials was two, good intent calls was two, false alarms and fire alarms was two, special-type incidents was one. That's where  the 15 came.  Ij just wanted to acknowledge Chris  Rinaldi. He did a great job. He was up in the area of that bus accident and he pulled that bus driver off. And the police department, I believe Sergeant Igoe and some of his second shift staff were up there quick, and by the time the fire department got up there, they had already had the AED on him and they assisted    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  with some emergency care.  But if that all didn't happen that  quick, that man probably wouldn't have had the  outcome he had, and the doctor from  Pennsylvania Ambulance was on scene there and he even acknowledged then when he came back to the firehouse to get his : we brought his vehicle back, he went in the ambulance, and he  acknowledged that.  So, I just wanted to congratulate  the folks. And I belive Chris's wife was on there and helped that, helped stopping the bus and that, sO great job on that. I just wanted  to mention that.  MS. BRIER: Thank you.  CHIEF DENAPLES: As far as the code  enforcement, there was 12 scheduled inspections from the first until today when Gene ran the numbers. A couple of them, a handful of them  are reinspections.  So that's pretty much all I have if  there's no questions. Thank you.  ALL MEMBERS: Thank you, Chief. MR. WOLFF: Number thirteen, public  comment.    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  MS. BRIER: Does anyone in the  public have a comment tonight? Sure. Just state your name and address. Just come up sO  she can hear you.  JIM O'MALLEY: My name is Jim  O'Malley. I'm a resident of Dunmore. I'm here tonight representing Dunmore little league on a  land issue with the Borough.  MS. BRIER: Where do you live, Jim? JIM O'MALLEY: 802 Cooney Street.  MS. BRIER: Thank you.  JIM O'MALLEY: So, just to kind of  give everyone a back story that I'm sure doesn't know, Dunmore little league was moved from the complex where the high school is now to - where it currently sits some 20-odd years  ago.  The little league, recently we paid  off a loan that they had taken out originally to build the complex and come to find out once we paid it off that we're not really sure who owns the property. Right now it is still  borough property.  MS. BRIER: Right. So, you're  pretty sure that     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  JIM O'MALLEY: Yeah. Yeah. MR. DEMPSEY: It is.  JIM O'MALLEY: I'm sure the Borough  is, - yes.  MR. DEMPSEY: It is. MS. BRIER: Yeah.  JIM O'MALLEY: We don't have  anything in place as far as a lease  agreement   MS. BRIER: Okay.  JIM O'MALLEY: : with the Borough,  or if back when the decision to move there was made, was there the property to be switched over to Dunmore little league or anything like  that.  So I reached out to Greg Wolff about  two months ago to kind of start researching some old borough council minutes to find out exactly what took place or if something was supposed to and never got done or whatnot, so we're kind of looking for Council's help on  that.  MS. BRIER: What are you looking  for?  MR. DEMPSEY: So, Jimmy, what it    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  was -- at least, you know, this is obviously before my -- even before my time --  JIM O'MALLEY: Yeah. Well before  all of our time.  MR. DEMPSEY: It's a lifetime lease  and it does exist.  JIM O'MALLEY: Okay. MR. DEMPSEY: Of a dollar. JIM O'MALLEY: Okay.  MR. DEMPSEY: So, there is a lease,  it exists. Where the physical copy of it is, I'm sure it's at the Borough building, I just,  C don't know. I'm sure :  MR. WOLFF: So roughly 2002? JIM O'MALLEY: Yeah.  MR. WOLFF: We've had discussions :  JIM O'MALLEY: Yeah. MR. WOLFF:  but I didn't just  roughly 2002?  MR. DEMPSEY: Yeah. I would say in  and around there. But it was, you know, the Borough's going to own the land and then we would lease it to the little league for a  dollar for life.  JIM O'MALLEY: Got you.    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  MR. DEMPSEY: Yeah. And that  document does exist. I know I've seen it  actually.  MS. BRIER: Oh, really?  MR. DEMPSEY: Because I had the  same inquiry years ago.  JIM O'MALLEY: Yeah.  MR. DEMPSEY: So I'm almost certain  that :  MS. BRIER: And are you okay with  that?  MR. DEMPSEY: Yeah.  JIM O'MALLEY: Yeah. I mean, if  that's something that obviously that was put in place back then, it's just -- and I know Greg and I have talked -- like, recordkeeping with the Borough with the little league has been nonexistent for a long time and there's things we're trying to get straigntened, you know, turned over when we leave here.  We have a new board of directors and  everybody on there is new, and a lot of us have young kids, we're gonna be there for years.  We've kind of bounced around. We  might have somebody, their kids are there for    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  two years and then we got a new president that comes in, everybody's trying to find stuff out,  sO   MS. BRIER: Okay.  JIM O'MALLEY: Yeah, if we could get  that document sO we have a copy of that, too?  One of the things we're worried  about is obviously if we know this is in place, not saying it would ever happen, you know, the Borough could come tomorrow and say, Hey, we want the property back and the little league  wouldn't be there.  MS. BRIER: Right.  JIM O'MALLEY: So we're all just  trying to protect ourselves and find out what  the right thing to do is.  MS. BRIER: No, it'd be good for all  of us to know exactly what's going on.  MR. HALLINAN: If we can't find that  document, could we write a new one up?  ATTY. PERRY: Yeah. Sure.  MR. LOUGHNEY: Jim, just let me say,  wearing that top tonight, you took a chance  here.  JIM O'MALLEY: A1l weekend I've been    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  taking a chance, trust me.  A11 right. Thank you. ALL MEMBERS: Thank you. MS. BRIER: Anyone else like to  address Council tonight?  (No response.)  MS. - BRIER: Okay. Seeing none. MR. WOLFF: Number 14, public  officials. The only thing I have is starting this month we're back on our regular schedule. So second and fourth Mondays of the month.  MS. BRIER: Great.  MR. WOLFF: We're off summer  schedule. Back to work.  MS. BRIER: Yep. Mickey? ATTY. PERRY: Nothing. MS. - BRIER: Mayor?  MAYOR CONWAY: Just congratulations  to Councilman Hallinan, awesome job with the Music Fest this year. I know everybody had a blast and I know a lot of work goes into that, sO everybody involved, just great job.  MR. HALLINAN: Thank you. MS. BRIER: Mr. Loughney?  MR. LOUGHNEY: I would just like to    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  congratulate the mayor and the police department on that drug bust. That's  fantastic.  And it's good to get the publicity  it's gotten, because people have to be aware of what's taking place and the action that they're doing. And, also, Chris, good job. Thank you.  I'd also like to ask, Greg, one  thing, I don't know if we could get in touch with PennDOT, but when you come off of Drinker Street, 81, and you get off the top of Drinker Street, that side over there is a mess. And I  believe it's PennDOT's.  MS. BRIER: Like, litter?  MR. LOUGHNEY: The grass is just you  can't even see the sides, the weeds are sO  high. It just looks terrible.  MS. BRIER: Whose is that? Is  that :  MR. HALLINAN: That's PennDOT. MS. BRIER: Is that PennDOT? MR. HALLINAN: Yeah.  MR. LOUGHNEY: I don't know if we  could  MR. WOLFF: The top of Drinker    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  Street?  MR. LOUGHNEY: Top of Drinker  Street. When you get off the Drinker Street exit, at the light, it's just all overgrown. If you would. That's all. Thank you.  MS. BRIER: Mr. Dempsey?  MR. DEMPSEY: Yeah. Again, I'd love  to congratulate the Dunmore Police Department. They continue to do a fantastic job. I don't know if Igoe and Sargent Burgette are here.  Another job well done.  MS. BRIER: Oh, yeah.  MR. DEMPSEY: Oh, there they are.  Being modest. Earning those promotions.  And, also, thank you to Justin and  Chris, you know, again, going above and beyond what you guys have to do. So, we appreciate  it. Thank you. That's it.  MS. BRIER: Tommy?  MR. HALLINAN: I'd like to thank the  DPW and the police for Music Fest. I mean, at some venues we had close to 450 people and the next day you didn't know anybody was there. So, kudos to the DPW for cleaning up, the  police for maintaining order.    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  I'd also like to thank :- Chief  wasn't here :- Anthony Cali, I want to say Thursday, I was sitting on my porch and he kept driving around, and he finally pulled over and  asked me if I smelled gas.  And I said, Yeah, I smell it. But,  you know, I didn't know what it was. I thought  it was more down by the corners.  So, he got out of his car and he  smelled, you know, gas coming up out of one of the, it seemed like a pothole or something. So, the fire department came down, they did their gauges on it, you know, found it was  natural gas.  The gas company came out all that  night. I C didn't sleep well because they were digging, but it was fantastic because it was a potential problem or it could have been  something even worse.  But kudos to Anthony Cali for doing  what he did and protecting our neighborhood.  So, - another thing by the police.  I'd like to thank, you know, thank  you, Chris, for doing a great job there with that accident up at the bus. That was    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  fantastic.  So, thank you very much. That's all  - have.  MS. BRIER: Okay. Beth?  MS. ZANGARDI: Yeah. Just a couple  of things. Frank Street drug bust was in my neignbornood and I'd like to thank the Dunmore  Police Department and everybody who  participated in it.  However, I'm gonna stay on it until  it gets fixed. There's a problem back there, they're out-of-state landlords, Scaritelli (phonetic) owns an eight-unit apartment with zero parking. Parking all over the place, in and out, and the ordinances say and the zoning says, Greg and Mike and Max, if it's more than two units, you have to provide parking.  Scaritelli has done nothing, and  this is the fourth month I've asked. Rinaldi has - I'm sorry, Ferguson, done nothing. There's four units, one parking spot.  There is a three unit down at 108  and a half Frank Street, three units, zero  parking.  Landlords are getting better spots    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  than the homeowners are, and when I talk to anybody about it, they say, Well, if we go after the parking on the sidewalks, we have to go after the landowner, the homeowner. Okay. But then do something about the parking.  That being said, I do want to say  thank you to the police department for that  drug bust.  And if we could also do something  about still getting complaints about the Amendalaro house on Drinker Street in Dunmore? Id don't care what he does with it. If he cleans it up, that's awesome, but, again, blighted properties in Dunmore.  So, that's all I have. And thank  you to the DPW for all the work you did on the  Music Festival.  h have a neighbor who asked for a  curb, they did awesome on that. Thank you again for the entire DPW department. And summer fest was awesome. We enjoyed it. I don't think we missed one. But thank you to everybody. Thank you, Tom, Brian McGurl, Hosey (phonetic) Lavelle. So, thank you. That's all  - have. Thank you.    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  MS. BRIER: Katherine?  MS. OVEN: I would just like to  reiterate, congratulations, Hal, on the Music  Fest.  MR. HALLINAN: Thanks.  MS. OVEN: It's a wonderful thing  for the Borough. And thank you to DPW, police and the fire that protect us and clean up and keep the Borough safe. And we appreciate it.  MS. BRIER: And Katherine was able  to go out and get a grant for the cats, you know, to trap the cats. It was a : is it  Spitz?  MS. OVEN: Yeah.  MS. BRIER: Spitz from the Scranton  Area Foundation for $4,000, which is huge. It really will help because she does such a great job with that. How many cats have we trapped  sO far?  MS. OVEN: Like, 105.  MS. - BRIER: 105 cats. Yeah. And  it's all volunteer except the veterinarian, sO she has to manage that, all the volunteers and then get them to, you know, trap the cats and then get them to the veterinarian. The    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  veterinarian's been really reasonable, too,  right?  MS. OVEN: Yeah. Griffin Pond and  Indraloka have supported our program and the  volunteers.  MS. BRIER: Yep. And the  volunteers. It's a great program. I mean, I think we're just scratching the surface.  MS. OVEN: No pun intended. MS. BRIER: Sorry. That was a bad  one. And, yeah, and again I know that the fire department's always on standby for the Music Fest, too, and I just didn't want to overlook you guys because you're always there for us, you know, your whole department, as well as the police and DPW. So, thanks everyone.  Appreciate it.  MR. WOLFF: I just need a motion to  adjourn.  MS. BRIER: Okay. Can I have a  motion to adjourn?  MR. LOUGHNEY: So moved. MR. DEMPSEY: Second.  MS. BRIER: Okay. I have a motion  and a second. A1l those in favor?    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  ALL MEMBERS: Aye.  MR. MARQUIS: My name is Ant  Marquis. I'm a local usician/community activist. I just travel the State of  Pennsylvania and stuff like that and I just try to help multiple boroughs and multiple counties  and things of that nature.  I'm all over Youtube doing this  stuff, so I'm kind of, like, known. Like, I'm well known in Northeast PA. I'm all in the newspapers, all on the news stations, but I didn't come here to make it about that.  I - really just came here to speak  about the homeless pandemic that's starting to, the word that I can use is migrate out here  into Dunmore, PA.  We have a huge issue with this in  the State of ennsylvania, but it's bigger than the State of rennsylvania. This is all across  America, you know what I'm saying?  So, like, I don't know where to  start, you know what I'm saying? I'm starting within my state, I'm starting within Northeast PA, but the higher I go up, then eventually I'11 sit and I'11 talk to, like, the president    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  and stuff like that and hopefully we can do  something about this.  But right now I want to bring it to  you guys' attention just sO you guys can prepare, you know, ahead of time and do  something about this.  Maybe we have a shelter or  something. I don't know if we have a shelter out here. I'm new to Dunmore. A17 I do is just travel, you know what I'm saying, sO I'm new to Dunmore. I don't know what's out here.  Id don't know what's out here, you  know, but I do want to bring attention to that because we do have to prepare for this because it's gonna get out of hand if we don't do  something about it.  MS. ZANGARDI: Sir, what was your  name again, please?  MR. MARQUIS: Ant, A-N-T, space,  -A-R-Q-U-I-S.  MS. ZANGARDI: Okay.  MR. LOUGHNEY: Well, welcome. MS. ZANGARDI: Yeah. Welcome to  Dunmore.  MS. BRIER: Yeah. Thank you.    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  ALL MEMBERS: Thank you. MS. BRIER: We appreciate you  coming.  MS. ZANGARDI: Yeah. There are a  couple of homeless shelters in Scranton.  MR. MARQUIS: Yeah, but here's the  thing, I've stayed in those shelters, they're not big enough for all of the homeless people  that are coming to Scranton.  MS. ZANGARDI: Right.  MR. MARQUIS: Like, I was just  homeless out there in Scranton, sO I know how it is. Like, it's getting to the point to where it's that whole city is starting to become filled with just homeless people and  drug addicts.  So, we don't have enough space  within that shelter. I've stayed in that shelter. We got men sleeping on top of each other, they're fighting all the time.  They only got, like, five or six  beds in there, you know what I'm saying? So we need to do something about that, too.  I'm trying to raise awareness to  where as though we can get, like, a bigger    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  shelter. We need a bigger shelter. You know  what I'm saying?  MS. BRIER: Well, thanks again. MS. ZANGARDI: Yeah. That's very  important. You're right.  MS. BRIER: Thanks again for coming.  MR. MARQUIS: Thank you. MS. BRIER: So we're adjourned.  (Meeting adjourned.)    35  1 2 3 4 5  CERTIFICATE  - hereby certify that the proceedings and  evidence are contained fully and accurately in the 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.  Michelle Smolskis Official Court Reporter  (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.)