I am going to the City Council meeting tonight to observe and take notes, and would love some company if anyone is free--the more we attend--even if we just watch and listen and don't speak, the more we make our presence felt as a neighborhood and the more we learn. There are a couple of agenda items that could affect our neighborhood near the end of the agenda below. If you can spare an hour, please come down, say "hi" and be counted!
CITY COUNCIL
TENTATIVE AGENDA
Stated Session (14)
Wednesday
June 24, 2009
6:00 P.M.
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. INVOCATION
3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
4. ROLL CALL
5. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
6. ACTION ON MINUTES – June 10, 2009 Council meeting and Public Hearing minutes.
7. CITIZENS RIGHT TO BE HEARD – Agenda Items Only.
8. REPORTS RECEIVED BY COUNCIL
(a) Monthly Fire Report for May 2009.
9. ACCEPTING REPORTS ON BEHALF OF COUNCIL.
10. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
(a) Finance (Kenneth Brown)
(b) Economic Development (Sandra Vulcano)
(c) Planning (Pamela Panto)
(d) Public Safety (Jeffrey Warren)
(e) Public Works (Elinor Warner)
(f) Strategic Planning (Roger Ruggles)
(g) Report of City Solicitor (Attorney William Murphy)
(h) Report of Mayor (Salvatore J. Panto Jr.)
11. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
1. Bill No. 64, An Ordinance to amend the Code of Easton, Chapter 595, thereof, entitled Zoning.
12. CORRESPONDENCE
1. Terrance Hand, e-mail regarding the Administrations action in response to a bed bug incident at the South Side Fire House.
2. Chief John B. Bast, copy of letter to Terrance Hand, regarding City’s actions in response to a bed bug incident at the South Side Fire House.
13. NEW BUSINESS
-Over-
(a) Introduction of Legislative Bills
2. Bill No. 65, Amending Ordinance 5132, Providing Revenues and Appropriating Specific Sums to be required for the purposes of City Government hereinafter set forth during the Fiscal Year 2009.
3. Bill No. 66, An Ordinance to amend the Code of the City if Easton by adding a new Article VI, to be entitled Funeral Benefits, to Chapter 114 Personnel.
(a) Amending the 2009 Salary and Wage Resolution.(R)
(b) Approving an Agreement with the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Inc.(R)
(c) Approving an Agreement with the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Inc.(R)
(d) Approving waiving of requirements of Section 560-51 (Handicapped Parking) of the Code of the City of Easton.
(e) Approving a Certificate of Appropriateness for 32 North Second Street.(R)
(f) Approving a Certificate of Appropriateness for 63 North Sitgreaves Street.(R)
(g) Approving an Agreement for Professional Services with McTish, Kunkel and Associates.(R)
(h) Authorizing the selling of City Property by Auction.(R)
(i) Authorizing the selling of City-owned items by auction.(R)
(j) Approving an Agreement with Mark Bonstein.(R)
(k) Authorizing application for a Pa. Department of Transportation DUI Grant.(R)
(l) Approving a Submission of an amended substantial amendment to the 2008 CDBG Action Plan.(R)
(m) Approving a Property Disposition Services Agreement with PropertyRoom.com Inc.(R)
(n) Authorizing submittal of a letter for amending Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program #ME300-42.
14. CITIZENS RIGHT TO BE HEARD- On any matter.
15. ADJOURNMENT
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The meeting was very quick--done in under an hour. I asked about the interpretation of the definition of "street improvements" for the new CDBG funds approved recently, as to whether or not that could cover opposite-side-side-of-the-street-parking signs and the labor to install them, so that our current street sweeper can get to the curb instead of driving down the middle of the street. I kept getting answers that didn't address my question, but instead referred to the fact that we couldn't use it to buy an additional street sweeper. Gretchen Lippencott (sp?)did try to answer the question I was asking directly, and said that she would look into it and get back to me, so I will let you know when she does. Basically, the sense that I got from Dave Hopkins and the new City Administrator was that they are reluctant to make any changes to the street sweeping program unless they can make them all at once, including expanding to other streets and buying an additional sweeper, which we can't afford right now. I did my best to get it across that we would appreciate this bit of progress in the short term, even if we have to wait a while to afford the new sweeper.
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