YOE
BOROUGH PG. 1
The
regular monthly meeting of Yoe Borough Council was held on May 7, 2013 at
the Yoe Borough
Municipal Building 150 N. Maple Street , Yoe , PA.
at 7:02PM by Council President
Sam Snyder followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.
Council Members in attendance:
Sam Snyder
Seth Noll
Tom Allar
Barry Myers
George Howett
Wendy Coble Tyson
Regan Strausbaugh(arriving at
7:55PM)
Others in attendance:
Sandy Sterner,
Secretary-Treasurer Mark
Adkins, Resident
Dana Shearer, Maintenance
Supervisor
John Sanford, Mayor
Steve Malesker, Engineer
Seth Springer, sitting in for
Borough Solicitor Rausch
James Tyson, Resident
Rodney Smith and his wife,
Emergency Management Coordinator
Minutes
Councilman Snyder asked if
everyone had an opportunity to look over the minutes of the prior meeting,
any additions or corrections?
Councilman Allar said on Page 6, the second line from the bottom. I pointed
it out to Chris that the sub
contractor, Kinsley hired when this was built, did not have a crew on how to
deal with the wetland
inspections. Its not crew, its clue. Councilman Snyder asked for any other
additions
or corrections? A motion was
made to accept the minutes of April 2, 2013 with the noted correction by
Councilman Allar. The motion was seconded
by Councilwoman Coble Tyson. All in
favor. Councilman
Snyder said minutes approved.
Annoucements
Councilman Snyder said his cell
phone is not operating, that was sent back. Probably won’t have
one for another week, please
contact my home phone and I’ll get back to you.
Councilman Snyder said York
County Planning Commission has notified us that Yoe Borough
has been chosen to receive the County Planning
award is to be presented at the
planning commission’s annual dinner on May 23rd at the Holiday
Inn Conference. They asked that
the mayor and his wife attend that, to represent the municipality
to pick up the award. I can’t
speak for them, but I think it was us, Red Lion and Dallastown,
going to be honored jointly for
the Tri Borough Comp Plan. I can’t say. The letter didn’t say.
Visitors
Mark Adkins, 246 S. Main Street
a council person. This is about 230 S. Main Street
be discussing that, under
Solicitor’s Report, its next on the agenda.
James Tyson said he was also
wondering to vacant properties and if the borough is going to
be picking up the tab.
Councilman Snyder said we are going to be discussing that tonight.
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A lot of that is going to be a
snowball. We do have this option, we have to discuss tonight, because
we are into the growing season.
There were three property that the borough had already gone in
and cleaned up, some of the junk
and accumulation. We can go in and lien the properties to recoup
that money, we will recoup that
money only when the property sells. The discussion tonight under
our zoning, is should we direct
the zoning officer to go ahead and cite for grass. Because we know
its probably not going to be
taken care of. And then does council want to start mowing on a monthly
basis, at least those three
properties. If so, we will probably want to hold off filing any type of lien
until the end of the season. And
do one lien per property for all the costs incurred. Mr. Tyson said
then you go into shoveling snow.
Councilman Snyder said well, if you’re making that suggestion,
we can take into account for
next year. Mr. Tyson said you cite people, they tie it up in litigation,
try to get any type of award out
of it. Then you back at shoveling snow. You spend all these thousands
of dollars on all these new
ordinances, they’re good for nothing and the man hours to do it. Councilman
Snyder said well we either
ignore the ordinances and let the town look like crap, or we try to fix
it up. And fixing up properties
that are abandon, dilapidated, it becomes quite an expense. And the borough
is undertaking it, to try to
better the. Mr. Tyson said it’s a liability to the borough to start with.
Councilman Snyder said believe
me, I’ve been doing this for 22 years, I don’t like the way the laws
are set up. Our hands are tied
on what we can do. We send a notice, we try to enforce it, I tell people
all the time, its like drunk
drivers, they can catch them, that is why we have people out there for
five, six ten DUI’s and they’re
still out there driving. We can only do so much. We will be discussing
that further under the zoning
officer’s report, on which direction the council wants to go.
Solicitor’s Report
Attorney Springer said we
wrapped up the conservation easement. That has been finalized, recorded
and sent to Mr. Danko at the
Army Corps of Engineers. That being said, I’d advise you to get a
maintenance agreement in place
so. We have already discussed that. Speaking with Mr. Danko, he advised me
that there will be a compliance
inspection forthcoming. So, FYI. Its not going to be given a date, its
more or less a drop in thing, to
make sure we did what we said we were going to do, continue to do
what we were to do, maintain the
wetlands. And you know what happens if we don’t, the same thing
as before, so we don’t want that
to happen.
Attorney Springer said we had
closing on the Reidel property, that has been finalized. Mr. Malesker
said he sent a plan for whole
plan. Councilman Noll said York
Township
Springer said then we need to
get a deed and we are going to apply for tax exempt status. Its been
recorded. That is done. You have
to authorize Sam to execute the quick claim deed of the quiet
title for the easement which you
already have taken off the map but the Reidel’s have to record that
in their payment title to show
the easement is gone. And its not encumbered going down the road.
It’s a housecleaning measure.
The compensation for that is $1.00, this is just a formality A motion was made
by
Councilman Howett to sign the
quiet title over from the borough to the Reidels for the easement on their
property. The motion was
seconded by Councilwoman Coble Tyson. All in favor. Councilman Snyder
said motion carried. The
secretary said a check for $1.00 to Norbert Reidel was never cashed, for the
record.
Attorney Springer said if the
dollar is needed in this case, it will be provided.
Attorney Springer said we are
going to the blighted properties, mainly 230 S. Main Street
been an issue for the last four
months plus. I do not know if the zoning officer is writing citations.
The secretary said we just got
payment on the District Justice report that the borough received. Not
sure when the citations for this
were issued. The secretary read the payment listing. Attorney
Springer said we still have the
property going up for tax sale, depending what he does there, if
he loses it at the tax sale
someone buys it. He has redemption, he can come in and buy from them in
a certain amount of time. If he
doesn’t do that, then they take the property and they are responsible
for cleaning up the property. If
no one buys it at the tax sale, then the property remains in his ownership
title.
Then we can look into the
condemnation or a conservatorship. That would be my advice, wait to see if
at the tax sale if a private
investor comes in. The investor is going to buy it, flip it and sell as quickly
as
possible. That’s where his money
lies, anything that takes more time, he is isn’t going to want to do that.
Based on what Don Hoyt,
solicitor of the Redevelopment Authority of York told me, the condemnation
isn’t that expensive, and
doesn’t seem to be as time consuming as the conservatorship. We have
gone over the conservatorship
several times, and the thing that really sticks us, is the plan. We have
to have a plan to petition the
court. The plan has to be eminent, it can’t be we are thinking of doing
something,
or we are going to try to get
somebody, maybe Habitat of Humanity people to come to take the property.
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They want to hear definites.
Discussion continued. Councilman Allar mentioned that we would
not go forward with the plan
unless we have a MOU with Habitat of Humanity, showing what
their responsibilities are going
to be, etc. That would be the core of the plan. As part of the
petition would be the MOU with
the Habitat. We would not go forward with the petition.
Attorney Springer said I don’t
know if they are going to want the property. Councilman
Allar said they are working on a
MOU with the Red Lion School District
with Wrightsville. Attorney
Springer said be prepared to write off the legal bills, ordinances,
as well as the condemnation
because Habitat may not pay us if anything. Discussion
continued. Councilman Allar said
there is only one, that gives the opportunity to recoup some or
all the costs, and that is
conservatorship. The other ones, maybe we will get the money back
if we sell, maybe we won’t. Attorney
Springer said maybe it will come out in the MOU that
Habitat will allow some of the
funds from purchasing the property from the final owner, to
repay the costs. I was under the
impression that money goes into some kind of trust that
is operated at the Habitat of
Humanity to keep it going. Councilman Noll said it is my understanding
that Habitat only gets involved
with properties that have clear title. This owner still has
title to the property until the
final transaction. Attorney Springer said yeah, I don’t know if
Habitat is even. First things
first, keep your ear to ground, see what happens at the tax sale.
Discussion continue. Councilman
Allar asked if Attorney Springer asked if he spoke to the contacts
Brennan and the Butler County
the situation with them, about
Habitat, they know what kind of orders that judges have to have.
They did not indicate that this
would be a problem. I really think you should talk to them. Any
problems that you have raised
could be asked. Attorney Springer said I can do that if I get
authorization from the council.
I did the research on my own time. Councilman Allar said
during decision making, one is
cost. If its going to be cost to the borough when giving your
advice, in the long run, in the
end. The other two, is some kind of a gamble. This law was
made specifically for blighted
properties. Within that law, for the conservator, they put it together,
whoever the conservator can get
some of the money back. Discussion continued. A motion
was made by Councilman Noll to
let the tax sale happen and in the interim continue to write
citations against the property,
to have on file and on record, see what happens at the tax sale,
then pursue as was suggested
with the condemnation, and find out what the assessed value
of the house is at that point,
since it didn’t sell for the $13,000.00 roughly that was indicated
as the minimum amount for the
tax sale. The motion was seconded by Councilwoman Coble
Tyson. All in favor. Councilman
Snyder said motion carried. Councilman Myers asked can
we authorize the solicitor to
call these lawyers, in Butler
County
to see how they do it.
Discussion continued. A motion was made by Councilman Noll
to have the solicitor expend
three hours of time to talk to the lawyers who have done conservatorship,
and to do research into grants
that would help in this process and the Habitat attorney. The motion
was seconded by Councilman
Myers. All in favor. Councilman Snyder said motion carried.
Councilman Noll said Mr. Blandia
Nace with Economic Alliance for the next municipal managers meeting.
I have forwarded one of you the
information. Attorney Springer said I will call him, Butler County
Schuykill county attorneys. Councilman
Allar said you have an actual submission to the court. That is
why I think it would be good to
talk to them. Attorney Springer said the law is locality oriented, I have
to talk to Judge Linebaugh.
Discussion continued. Attorney Springer said it wouldn’t hurt to have a Plan B. I can talk to Attorney
Baranski to
get an idea how the whole mortgage thing. When they sell the
property
they want to have title. They
hold title, they sell to a screened participant, that participant takes title,
and pays habitat. I don’t think
they this just for us any changes to the way they do things. Councilman Allar
said we can find that out early on.
Discussion continued. Councilman Myers
asked, have we thought
about mailing the guy a
certified letter, saying we would buy it for $10,000.00 Councilman Allar said I
know Regan has talked to him, I don’t know the details.
I think he talked to
him in the standpoint of, why not
give it to the borough for a
$1.00, then you have a tax loss. Whatever the assessed value is, you can
claim with the IRS and have a
massive deduction. Attorney Springer said assuming he has enough
income to offset. Councilman
Allar said right, apparently he doesn’t have the income. Councilman Snyder said
I got wind of that, from Regan.
I think, to protect the borough’s standpoint,
there was no authorization
for Regan to talk to Mr.
Richardson, any mentions or any conversations that he had with him as himself,
not on behalf of the borough. If
he made some sort of representation to Mr. Richardson of buying it for
a dollar, and we decide to
condemn it, that could set the municipality up for litigation. So consider an
official sanction of the efforts
that Mr. Regan did, and absolve the municipality of any actions that
Mr. Regan Strausbaugh may have
done on his own behalf with Mr. Richardson. Attorney Springer
said in any case if you pay him
$10,000.00 or $13,000.00 at the tax sale you are still paying him for
property. If you pay him
directly, you are still encumbered by the liens, even if they are yours, you
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have to take them off. If you
get it at the tax sales, that takes care of the liens but you are paying
$13,000.00 for a property, you
are going to incur more debt to fix it up. Trying to condemnation and
the board of view, they are
going to take in to account when they are valuing the property, the
assessment. They are going to
tell them to the board of view. By condemnation route, you factor
in the demolition costs or the
rehab cost. If you pay him, you just pay him. Councilman Snyder
said they are going to take into
the fact that we are going to demolition it. The board of view may
say to only pay $2,000.00, we may
over pay him, if we offering him thirteen or fourteen. You
still have to get rid of the
liens. Councilman Noll asked if we should form a subcommittee of council,
we have been spending a lot of
time talking about the same thing and not getting anywhere. Attorney
Springer said you may want until
the next meeting, so I can talk to the other attorneys, find out
the availability of grant funds
and the other discussions I already had with Attorney Hoyt, how they
factor everything. I can provide
you a report next time, then you guys can weigh the condemnation.
Councilman Snyder said we
already made recommendation that we wait until after the tax sale anyways.
Councilman Allar said if we own
the property, we are responsible for the property and the taxes of
$3,000.00. That’s a cost we need
to think about. Councilman Snyder said we apply for tax exempt.
Councilman Allar said its on the
tax roles, and we are going to be the owner. Councilman Myers said
I know where we rent places out
where I work, we have to pay the taxes. If we don’t rent it out,
we don’t. Discussion continued. Councilman
Strausbaugh said Mr. Adkins has a very good proposition
when it comes to the property.
Mr. Adkins said I am very interested in the property, I have been doing
research into clearing lot. I am
assuming there is asbestos and lead paint in the property. Cost
of $9.00 a square foot or about
$40,000.00 to demolish the property. This is because of asbestos in the
shingles, and lead paint. Councilman Noll
said you can remove and have a manifest
with the landfill. Mr. Adkins said
there are wild animals and risk
of fire there. The trees are dead. I am very interested in taking over the
property. I am doing research to
see what my options are. Councilman Snyder said we would work
with you. We will wait until
after the upset sale, see if someone buys it. Attorney Springer can get
the information and after
September, have a committee and decide if we should go into condemnation
or enter into a MOU with
Habitat. Discussion continued.
Councilman Snyder said everyone
should have received a proposed ordinance, 02, in their packet. This
came about due to auditor’s
report, asking for better internal controls and recommendations. So
we tried to start with, one of
the things they wanted to see are deposits done on a daily basis, I pointed
out Sandy
about the tax collector and what
happens if Connie decides not to run again. In Section 1, re evaluates
the compensation rate to 3%,
that is actually fair, if you take into consideration the recent tax increases
the municipality has had. Every
time the municipality puts on a tax increase, there is an automatic
increase for the tax collector
because she is based on a percent. The idea was, the law states you
can’t change the rate of the tax
collection in the year of election or through out the term of which
point we are going to make it
effective for the next election which would be January 2018. In the meantime,
we can cover ourselves, if
something would happen to the tax collector, if the municipality has to
appoint or if she decides to
resign, and there is an interim tax collector appointed, we can change
the rate effective immediately.
And start seeing those savings there. Otherwise she will keep
the same rate of pay through
2018. The second section of course, is to help with the auditors, the
tax collection law states,
monthly statements, monthly remittances. While we are requiring that, the
law specifies late fees, if they
are not done in a timely matter. Section C does allow the borough to
waive those late fees, if we so
choose. That takes care of any issue there. We will have monthly
reports showing the auditors
what came in, if it’s a zero, it’s a zero. There’s no questions then
on our part, why didn’t you have
any remittances, where are the remittances, all this. So this is
for your peruse, Seth Springer
just got his digital copy today. Look over this for next month, any
suggestions, changes in verbage
that is the idea, bring it back next month. We can make the
changes. Discussion continued.
Councilman Snyder said we did
receive the registered letters back on the Getting and Ali properties.
should we turn these over to him
to file now or we going to. The properties, we know that
aren’t being taken care of/been
abandoned and the banks aren’t taking care of them. So are we
going to set up for a monthly/
once a month mow schedule through August and then direct him
to file one lien on the
properties in September. I am assuming that would be appropriate to hold
off four months to file the
liens? Attorney Springer said I would want all liens filed before
sheriff sales. Councilman Snyder
said at the Boltz property, the bank waits until the Sheriff’s
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sale and then they pull it off.
They are skirting. Attorney Springer said if you don’t liens filed
before the sheriff’sale. I can
get a list of the sheriff’s sale. Notice requirements I can look into
that. As far as making banks to
pay, I’ll look into that on my own time. I think it would behoove
you to do all the liens at one
time. Councilman Snyder said based on that information, is council willing
to do a monthly mow on these,
hand liens over in September time frame. We would be directing
Patti to send notice of
violation, soon as the ten days are up, she could be working on a list for
persons to mow. And contact them
to mow on a monthly basis. We could just add these to the file.
Councilman Noll said there are
multiple properties. Councilman Snyder said we cleaned up
properties for $2,000.00, if we
incur more costs. Councilman Noll said we aren’t in the lawn mowing business,
we are going incur costs over the summer.
Councilman Snyder said we can charge
10% over the cost.
Its going to be expense. There
will be an expense to file the liens. Discussion continued. Councilman Noll
made a motion to hold off filing
liens on these properties, have Patti cite the properties for tall grass,
if they don’t comply we are
going to make the decision mow on the properties that are abandoned to
start and in a month re evaluate
the other properties that fall into it. Identifying the properties:
gray house by the Morton property
roughly 264 S. Main Street
ask for certificate insurance,
and on a monthly basis send out another notice. The motion was
seconded by Councilman Myers.
All in favor. Councilman Snyder said motion carried.
Attorney Springer is going to
check into a lis pending that are filed when properties are pulled off
the sheriff sale listings.
Engineer’s Report
Mr.Malesker said in regards to
the wetland mitigation project, I did talk to Jake that project is about
75% done. Councilman Allar said
the York Township
until the end of the month.
Planting and so forth, will be at the end of the month.
Mr. Malesker said I talked to
Jake about those grants that he submitted. Tom you had said that the borough
should have copies. He said will
bring copies of the grants tomorrow.
Mr. Malesker said Tom wanted to
set up a meeting at the Riedel property to look at that. The meeting
will be Tuesday May 14, 2013
at 4PM. We will discuss the issues if we want to
get a DEP permit
and what needs to be repaired.
Councilman Noll said is there anything compelling to bring it up.
I bring it up because of the
cost of the mowing, make sure we are putting our money in the right place.
Councilman Allar said we have
some issues of erosion, need to see what is going on. Councilman
Snyder said to have a plan and a
cost estimates. We are not sure what they are looking for. Mr. Malesker
said we need to protect the
berm, if we lose the berm then we will have sediment deposition in the basin.
Councilman Noll said I just
wanted to make sure we are going down there for a purpose.
Mr. Malesker said we did get
comments back on the EAP. The mayor is working on getting the
signatures, and get it to DEP.
Then we will have an official Emergency Action Plan.
Mr. Malesker said attached to
the engineer’s report is summary of bids for the equipment and materials
bids. The bid tabs are attached,
and there is summary page. Then you will need a motion to award,
this award will be contingent on
Dallastown accepting and awarding the same since this is a joint contract.
Aggregate, the low bid for
delivered on site is Kinsley Construction is $18837.50. That is a 3% increase
from last year. Bituminous
materials 9 ½ millimeter, low bid was Highway Materials, both finish on board
at $58.00 as square yard and at
site was $63.50. Low bid for bituminous materials 25 millimeter, Highway
Materials $50.50 a square yard
furnish on board and delivered on site $56.00 a square yard. That is a
10% increase from last year. The
only bidder for equipment rental is Fitz and Smith, they bid on all
items except C 14, which is
milling, their quote for the hourly rate is $31920.00. No bids on snow removal.
We have a separate bid for
milling, Kinsley Construction is the low bid for milling at $10.950.00.
Based on those low bids, I
recommend that an award be made to the low bidders that I identified for
the materials and equipment bid,
with the contingent that Dallastown Borough do the same. The motion
was made by Councilman Howett.
The motion was seconded by Councilman Allar. In favor of motion:
Councilman Snyder, Councilman
Myers, Councilman Strausbaugh, Councilwoman Coble Tyson.
Councilman Noll abstained. Mr. Malesker said the current contract goes
through June 13 or 14th and
Dana is working with Fitz and
Smith to get work done under the current contract. Fitz and Smith’s
rates went up 19% from last
year.
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Mr. Malesker said the next thing
is the draft MS 4 report. Page eighteen is the signature page. Take a
look at that, that is a draft
copy. It needs to be submitted by June 7th.
Mr. Malesker said you are invited
to the skybox for the York Revolution on June 18th with Dallastown
Borough and Dallastown Yoe Water
Authority. Welcome to bring spouse, grandkids. Robin’s number and email, let us
know if you can make it, and
how many tickets you need.
Councilman Allar said I don’t
know if you got a copy of the letter from Danko. This has to do with
Mill Creek. It refers to the NWP
31 permit. He sent us an email, he is saying he never got the as built.
Mr. Malesker said he has it.
Councilman Snyder said that was taken care of. According to the solicitor,
everything is in place with the
Army Corps. A spot inspection will be done. Seth Springer said
for that inspection, is to have
that maintenance agreement in place.
Councilman Noll said the
property next to Councilman Snyder, created a parking lot. Don’t know if
they had a permit or not. Mr.
Malesker said that falls under your existing storm water ordinance.
They should be controlling the
run off. Exemption for small areas, you may be able to do that.
Councilman Snyder said to
contact Dan Shaw if everyone is okay with that. Everyone was in agreement. Mr.
Malesker said Dan would contact our office
if needed.
Councilman Allar said the Mill
Creek Preserve, received a complaint via York Conservation District.
Eric Jordan is handling it. No
other details.
Maintenance Report
Councilman Snyder asked if
everyone looked over the maintenance report.
Councilman Snyder said I was
driving up through Main Street
what appears to be a hole there. I didn’t see any water
running out. Look at it, it just
may be metal there. It would be sidewalk level. Not sure whose property it
would be at this point. I want to make sure its none of
system collapsing
there. Storm sewer there, spring lines there, water line there. Make sure its none of our systems.
Zoning Officer’s Report
Councilman Noll said Patti has a
report here I can pass around. The most important is update on
what is happening in town. The
clean up update, all trash has been removed from 187, 196, 197
and 230. Houses that we are
looking at: trash has been removed by the side at 28 E. George Street
the homeowner has indicated that
he will be fixing the garage. Windows boarded and spouting
reattached at 74 S. Main. Garage
has been torn down and clean up is progress at 159 S. Main.Spoke
to homeowners at 130 W. Broad Street
No apparent work on the other
properties. Over half of the properties identified have done something.
Pass on to Patti our thanks.
Councilman Allar asked is Patti putting the letters in the file now. Councilman
Noll said yes. Councilman Allar
said Gary Smith has painted the front of his property. Discussion continued.
Emergency Management Report
Mr. Smith said the borough needs
to sign off on the Hazardous Mitigation Plan, here is a disc to put on file.
Mayor Sanford
and if it needs to be done by resolution we will
follow up
with a resolution. The motion
was seconded by Councilwoman Coble Tyson. All in favor. Councilman
Snyder said motion carried.
Mr. Smith suggested until Springwood Road Broad
Street
parking. The traffic is line up
past the alley from 4 to 5 o’clock in the evening. Councilman Noll
said the only problem is that
would require a traffic study, by the time we would do that, the road
would be reopen. Councilman
Snyder said I think we can only do temporary no parking for
48 hours.
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Mayor Sanford said I have
circulated things that I’ve done for the month.
Police report for March is on
the backside of my report.
Mayor Sanford said I had
conversation with Lt. Zech and Chief Gross, about our sign situation
on Springwood Road
Mayor Sanford said I am still
working with Ken on the website. We can continue use New Freedom
as our host company.
Mayor Sanford said I am still
getting varied complaints about truck traffic on Broad and Elm. I have
been referring that when I can
to Regional Police. I saw a truck this afternoon, followed it, and
Officer McGhee cited the vehicle
for the over weight violation. Discussion continued. I just
encourage everyone, if they have
a complaint to contact 911.
Mayor Sanford said I had a
request from Felton Borough for fire police. I talked with Rodney, since
he oversees the fire police for
the fire company.
Councilman Myers asked what is
the scoop on the radar bill? Mayor Sanford said I saw that it
was going to be introduced, not
seen if it has been passed. I had a conversation with the State
Mayors Association.
Secretary’s Report
The secretary said I need okay
that you want the borough to update the code of ordinance book,
at a cost not to exceed
$405.00. A motion was made by Councilman
Noll to update the
ordinance book at a cost not to
exceed $405.00. The motion was seconded by Councilman Myers.
All in favor. Councilman Snyder
said motion carried.
The secretary spoke with Connie
Stokes, Dallastown Borough manager. She wanted me to
relay a thank you to all of you
for the card and gift card that we sent her.
The secretary said the quarterly
bank statements for the first quarter of 2013 were in your packets, giving you
a view of the bank accounts
for the beginning of the year.
The office will be closed
beginning May 20th and reopen on May 29, 2013.
The secretary said we are
working on insurance for the borough. I have a company that is interested in
quoting workers comp and other
insurance. Doug Truax said that EMC will cover us for workers comp
but later was told by another
firm that they won’t be, so I have been getting loss runs and information.
We are in process in getting
insurance quotes. Someone will have to make a decision and our insurance
expires in May 31, 2013. A
motion was made by Councilman Allar to secure getting insurance rates
at the cheapest rates and to
have the Council President sign appropriate documents. The motion was seconded
by Councilman Howett. All in favor.
Councilman Snyder said motion carried.
Unfinished Business
A motion was made by Councilman
Noll to sign the contract amendatory 2 with York County Planning to
extend the timeline for our
zoning ordinance grant until December 31, 2013. The motion was seconded
by Councilman Myers. All in
favor. Councilman Snyder said motion carried.
Councilman Strausbaugh said I
talked to Kathleen Daly with the PA Housing Alliance, we can join
that for $100.00 a year.
Webinars will be free. Patti would be able to address the website. A motion
was made by Councilman Noll to
join the alliance. The motion was seconded by Councilman Allar.
All in favor. Councilman Snyder
said motion carried. The secretary said I will need an invoice
from them to pay the fees, so
have them send me an invoice.
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Councilman Snyder asked did
everyone have a chance to look over the times that Urban Research
had available to hold meetings
for the zoning ordinance update? I contacted Charlie today.
He said usually you meet in the
evenings, because the public could want to comment. I said
well the public usually doesn’t
have much to add. He said then you can
meet anytime during
the day. I did check with him,
he is available evenings or days. He suggested to pick a preliminary
day and a secondary day, in the
event you have to cancel for something. He suspects this
zoning process to last ten to
twelve months. It needs to be advertised, its open to public.
That requires a majority of
council to be here. He would like to begin in June. A motion was
made by Councilman Myers to
advertise the workshops for the second Thursday and as back up
the third Tuesday from 3 to 4PM
at the borough municipal building. The motion was seconded
by Councilman Noll. All in
favor. Councilman Snyder said to leave the zoning officer, Dan Shaw
know when the workshops are. Councilman
Snyder said motion carried.
New Business
Councilman Snyder said we did
received the outstanding bills for the Yoe Borough Sewer Authority.
Payment of Bills
A motion was made by Councilman
Howett to pay the bills as listed. The motion was seconded
by Councilman Allar. All in
favor. Councilman Snyder said bills are paid.
Adjournment
Councilman Strausbaugh made a
motion to adjourn the meeting at 9:28PM. The motion was
seconded by Councilman Snyder.
All in favor.
