The
Parks Township Board of Supervisors held their Regular Monthly Meeting on
December 17, 2018 at 7:00 pm in the Community Building, 26 Jackson Street,
North Vandergrift.
MEMBERS PRESENT: F.L. Shannon, Chairman Thomas M. Filo III,
Co-Chairman
Gregory
Artman, Member Mary E.
Ralston, Secretary-Treasurer
Shirley
J. Summerhill, Assistant Secretary
VISITORS
PRESENT: Jeff Retter, Jay Start,
Shawn Arduino, Mindy
Arduino, Joe Seren,
Ken
Reynolds
OTHERS PRESENT: Chief Doug
Ciuca, Parks Township Police Department
Mr.
Shannon called the meeting to order at 7:01 pm following the Pledge of
Allegiance to the Flag. Copies of the
Agenda, Minutes, Treasurers Report, and Bill Payment List were posted on the
bulletin board for review. Public
comments will be taken at the end of the meeting. Ms. Summerhill was taping the meeting.
Mr.
Artman made a motion to adopt the Regular Monthly Meeting Minutes from November
19, 2018; Mr. Shannon seconded. Mr. Filo was not in attendance at the November
meeting and therefore did not vote.
Ms.
Summerhill informed the board that there has not been many changes to the Treasurers Report
and asked if there were any questions on it.
Mr. Shannon asked Ms. Summerhill if any money had been invested into
CD's yet for the Police Pension fund.
Ms. Ralston informed Mr. Shannon that the rates for the CD's change
every Wednesday and she is trying to make sure the money is invested into the
best possible CD option. Mr. Filo made a
motion to accept the Treasurers Report
for the month of November 2018; Mr. Artman seconded the motion and Mr. Shannon made
it unanimous. Receipts were $56,001.33
and expenses were $31,511.63 leaving a total balance of $94,200.99. (General Fund - $53,655.99; Capital Fund -
$27,305.57; State Fund - $2,764.93; and Street Light Fund - 10,474.50).
Mr.
Filo made a motion to release the fire escrow check to the owner of 1190 Dime
Road due to the adequate job done in cleaning up the building after the fire
that occurred there. Mr. Artman seconded
the motion and Mr. Shannon made it unanimous.
Mr.
Filo moved to approve the Bill Payment List for November 15 thru December 13,
2018. Mr. Shannon seconded the motion
and Mr. Artman made it unanimous. Each
Supervisor stipulated that his vote did not include anything pertaining to
himself or any member of his family.
CORRESPONDENCE
KVWPCA
sent a packet containing a copy of their October 17, 2018 meeting minutes as
well as a copy of their October 2018 Plant Managers Report.
PTMA
sent a copy of their October 23, 2018 meeting minutes.
STAFF REPORTS
Police
Report - Ms. Summerhill read the police report for November 1 thru November 30,
2018.
Maintenance
Crew - Mr. Artman informed the board that the hole on Maple Road has been
patched and the crew has been out patching other roads and cleaning/fixing
ditches. Mr. Artman asked if Mr. John
Popovich could be contacted about going onto his land to cut into a hillside in
an attempt to fix the drainage problems on the road there. Mr. Shannon stated that it should be ok due
to the fact that Mr. Popovich has been cooperative in the past for projects
such as this but he will contact him to ask about it to be sure. Ms. Ralston stated there is a form in the
office that needs to be filled out that Mr. Popovich should sign giving written
permission to do this.
TOWNSHIP
COMMITTEES
Parks
Committee - Ms. Ralston reported to the Board that the Parks Committee worked
with the Slovak Club to help three families in the township over the holiday
season. The Slovak Club donated $1500.00
to take the three families shopping for food and gifts for their children; the
Parks Committee helped to organize, find, and contact the families that
received assistance. The Parks Committee
also used the donated food, toys, and other products in the Community Building
to help a few other families with food for the holidays. No Township funds were used to do any of
these donations to these families. They
only money used came from the Slovak Club.
Planning
Commission - There was no meeting.
OLD BUSINESS
Pump
Station Road - There was nothing new to report.
Truck
Purchase - The company is still working on building the new bed.
NEW BUSINESS
Mr.
Filo made a motion to adopt the 2019 budget, which had been advertised. Mr. Artman seconded the motion and Mr.
Shannon made it unanimous.
Mr.
Tom Filo made a motion to certify to the county that our millage will remain at
7 mills, that street lights will be put onto the tax duplicate, and that we do
want a copy of the tax statements from 2018.
Mr. Artman seconded the motion and Mr. Shannon made it unanimous. Ms. Ralston stated that the real estate assessment
for 2019 is $38,015,170.00 but it will be adjusted to accurately reflect 2018
on January 23, 2019.
Ms.
Summerhill read through the 2019 meeting dates.
Mr. Filo made a motion to accept and advertise the 2019 meeting
dates. Mr. Shannon seconded the motion
and Mr. Artman made it unanimous.
Mr.
Shannon informed the other members of the board that the police department is
in need of a new part-time hire. There
are some candidates for the position that can be interviewed. Mr. Shannon made a motion that after
interviewing the applicants they can be hired if desired without waiting for
another meeting. Mr. Filo seconded the
motion and Mr. Artman made the motion unanimous.
Ms.
Ralston reminded everyone that the Reorganization Meeting will be held on
January 7, 2019 at the Community Building beginning at 7:00 pm, including the regular
monthly Meeting; the Auditors Reorganization Meeting will be held on January 8,
2019 at the Community Building beginning at 7:00 pm.
PUBLIC COMMENT
Mr.
Ken Reynolds asked Mr. Artman what he was thinking of digging on Maple
Road. A lot of what falls causes issues
with the drainage. Mr. Artman informed
Mr. Reynolds that his intentions are to cut off the hillside and push back into
it further to allow a different path for the water to drain. Once we get the OK from Mr. Popovich we will
try to go in and get this done as quickly as possible. We have to check on the budget and the costs
before making any final decisions though.
There was also a discussion on the steel gas line running through the woods
and whether it was active or not; they also discussed the gas well locations
through that area as well. Mr. Artman
wants to make sure that this job is done correctly in order to effectively
solve the drainage problem while also creating something that will last for
awhile. Mr. Reynolds also asked about
Locust Road and Ms. Ralston informed him that we have not heard anything back
from the Senate Engineering.
Mr.
Jeff Retter conveyed that he is upset that there are still a lot of potholes on
his road and nothing has been done to fix them; the Maintenance Crew was
driving on that road all last week but did not stop to do anything to fix the
many potholes. He continued on to tell
the Board that the road is so bad a car bottomed out and there's a piece of the car's
bumper still on the road. The Board
acknowledged Mr. Retter's complaint, informing him that they are trying to get the Crew
out there to fix it but they do not listen to what they are told to do. Mr. Retter asked them if they were or could
do anything to reprimand the Crew for their insubordination. Mr. Artman told him that the Board is trying
to take steps to do exactly that but it takes a lot of time and they want to be
sure they are going about doling out discipline the right way to avoid any
further complications for the Township.
Mr.
Shawn Arduino asked the Board about getting permits to build a new small garage
on the plot of land where his old building had burned down, 1190 Dime
Road. Mr. Artman asked Mr. Arduino who
he had gotten to tear down the old building because they had done a nice and
quick job of getting it moved out of there.
Mr. Arduino answered that he had used Mr. Dan Bauers to demolish the old
building. Mr. Shannon asked how big the
building he was intending to build would be.
Mr. Arduino stated that the building would be about 18x30. Ms. Ralston told Mr. Arduino that she has
paperwork, permit applications, and a list of phone numbers to give to him
after the meeting that he will need to file in order to be build a new
garage. Mr. Artman asked Mr. Arduino if
he was going to put another apartment above the garage to which Mr. Arduino
replied no.
ADJOURNMENT
The
next regular monthly meeting will be held on January 7, 2019 at 7:00 pm in the
Community Building, North Vandergrift.
There
being no further questions or comments, Mr. Filo moved to adjourn at 7:21 pm
and Mr. Artman seconded the motion.
Respectfully
Submitted,
Shirley
J. Summerhill
Assistant
Secretary
Mary
E. Ralston
Secretary-Treasurer