Before
THE TOBYHANNA TOWNSHIP BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
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In Re: Special meeting to discuss the 2010 Budget.
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Tobyhanna Township Government Center Building
State Avenue
Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania 18350
Wednesday, November 25, 2009, beginning at 7 a.m.
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PRESENT: JOHN E. KERRICK, Chairperson
HEIDI PICKARD, Vice-Chairperson
DONALD J. MOYER, Board Member
JAMIE B. KEENER, Board Member
ANNE LAMBERTON, Board Member
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Panko Reporting
537 Sarah Street, 2nd Floor
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania 18360
(570) 421-3620
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1 (Executive session held from
2 7:15 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.)
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4 MR. KERRICK: First off, does
5 anyone have any questions on the budget?
6 MRS. LAMBERTON: I do not.
7 MR. KEENER: Just the $10,000
8 adjustment.
9 MS. PICKARD: I fixed that.
10 That makes $10,000 less in the contingency, so we
11 have $80,385.52 going to the capital reserve and
12 then $39,540.66 into contingency. And then those
13 numbers match. The total amount, the general fund
14 appropriations is $4,350,190.21.
15 MR. KEENER: You need a motion
16 to approve for advertising?
17 MS. PICKARD: Put in the
18 proposed Local Services Tax.
19 And on the 05, I was adding
20 $50,000 for pool improvements. We had $200,000
21 for -- I have it under road drainage and culverts.
22 That will work for Stony Hollow.
23 MR. KERRICK: Or wherever else
24 we need it.
25 MS. PICKARD: We really don't
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1 have a carry-over balance for liquid fuels. We
2 have about five thousand projected in capital
3 reserves, about 550 in contingency reserve. I
4 needed to add that carry-over that we were adding
5 the 39,000.
6 MR. KERRICK: We have a motion.
7 Do we have a second?
8 MR. KEENER: I asked if we
9 needed a motion. Are we ready?
10 MR. KERRICK: I'm sorry.
11 MR. KEENER: I'll make a motion
12 we advertise the budget as currently amended for
13 2010, including all funds. Do you want to
14 reference that Local Services Tax, Heidi?
15 MS. PICKARD: We have a proposed
16 $90,000 for the Local Services Tax. We have a
17 hearing on that Monday morning at 7:30.
18 MR. KERRICK: We have a motion
19 on the floor. Do we have a second?
20 MRS. LAMBERTON: I second it.
21 MR. KERRICK: Motion and second.
22 Questions or comments? Questions or comments from
23 the public? Call the vote. Jamie.
24 MR. KEENER: I vote in favor.
25 MR. KERRICK: Anne.
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1 MRS. LAMBERTON: I vote in
2 favor.
3 MR. KERRICK: Donny.
4 MR. MOYER: I vote in favor.
5 MR. KERRICK: Heidi.
6 MS. PICKARD: Vote in favor.
7 MR. KERRICK: I vote in favor.
8 Motion carries.
9 MS. PICKARD: Just another
10 aside, the 21st we have this advertised for
11 adoption. I'm not sure what time.
12 MR. KERRICK: Was this meeting
13 advertised for anything?
14 MS. PICKARD: Yes, it was, and I
15 had two other items.
16 MR. KERRICK: I have one quick
17 thing. We normally put out our list for equipment
18 bids. If we do, I don't know how much money we'll
19 have for that, but we should do it in case we have
20 an emergency, but I'd like to add snow removal
21 equipment to subsidize in the back, advertise for a
22 truck, if it's okay with the rest of the board?
23 I'll put it together. Do you want to do it
24 together or do you want to do it separate for the
25 truck?
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1 MS. PICKARD: I think we should
2 do it together.
3 MR. KEENER: Together.
4 MR. KERRICK: Do one
5 advertising. Okay.
6 MS. PICKARD: I had a request to
7 waive the roof permit fee on the police building.
8 MR. KEENER: Motion to approve.
9 MR. MOYER: Second.
10 MR. KERRICK: Motion and second.
11 Questions or comments? Questions or comments?
12 Call the vote. Jamie.
13 MR. KEENER: I vote in favor.
14 MR. KERRICK: Anne.
15 MRS. LAMBERTON: I vote in
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17 MR. KERRICK: Donny.
18 MR. MOYER: I vote in favor.
19 MR. KERRICK: Heidi.
20 MS. PICKARD: I vote in favor.
21 MR. KERRICK: I vote in favor.
22 Motion carried.
23 MS. PICKARD: The other comment
24 on that, when this goes forward for land
25 development, that's another discussion that we need
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1 to have, whether we just want a professional
2 service agreement or right now we just wait --
3 MR. KEENER: For what?
4 MS. PICKARD: For the police
5 department.
6 MR. KEENER: There is no land
7 development. It's just building repairs. We are a
8 year away from that.
9 MS. PICKARD: I'm thinking
10 ahead.
11 And I had one or two other
12 things that I can't remember, but I wrote them
13 down.
14 (At this time Mr. Keener left
15 the hearing.)
16 MS. PICKARD: Margie asked, for
17 the reorganization meeting January 4th, last year
18 we combined it with our work session at 4 o'clock.
19 Do you want to do that again?
20 MR. KERRICK: What is the 4th, a
21 Monday?
22 MS. PICKARD: It's the first
23 Monday reorganization. We had it at 4 p.m. and
24 combined it with our work session.
25 MR. KERRICK: The building is
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1 open that day?
2 MS. PICKARD: Yes.
3 MR. KERRICK: So why wouldn't we
4 do it at 3:30?
5 MS. PICKARD: I'm saying we did
6 it at 4.
7 MR. KERRICK: The whole year
8 work sessions are at 3:30. Let's keep them the
9 same, so people are accustomed to it.
10 MS. PICKARD: January 4th. So
11 we'll combine our reorganization meeting at 3:30
12 with our work session.
13 Also the other -- last time we
14 said we maybe should have had a regular meeting
15 combined with that too because we didn't have a lot
16 going on. That would be something we could do as
17 well, if you wanted to.
18 MR. KERRICK: There is not much
19 going on around here.
20 MS. PICKARD: That's what I'm
21 saying. We have our one meeting in a month, but
22 last year we had the meeting the next Monday night
23 and we really didn't have anything going on and we
24 said we should probably combine this meeting.
25 MR. KERRICK: So that's your --
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1 is everybody okay with that?
2 MRS. LAMBERTON: Sure.
3 MR. KERRICK: Okay.
4 MS. PICKARD: Okay. And I just
5 had an email that I didn't get to read thoroughly
6 from Lake Naomi and Wendi and McCormick Taylor that
7 they are ready to advertise for bids. I don't know
8 whether we can make a motion to approve the
9 advertising for that pedestrian easement contingent
10 upon Pat and Bob.
11 MR. KERRICK: We should do that.
12 MS. PICKARD: Because they are
13 talking December 9th. There is emails flying back
14 and forth. I didn't talk to anybody. I just know
15 we didn't advertise Monday for other items.
16 MR. KERRICK: Entertain a motion
17 to advertise contingent upon our solicitor's review
18 and our engineer's review, the Lake Naomi bike
19 path.
20 MS. PICKARD: Pedestrian path.
21 MR. KERRICK: Anybody want to
22 make that motion?
23 MS. PICKARD: I'll make that
24 motion.
25 MRS. LAMBERTON: I'll second it.
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1 MR. KERRICK: We have a motion
2 and second. Questions or comments? Call the vote.
3 Anne.
4 MRS. LAMBERTON: I vote in
5 favor.
6 MR. KERRICK: Donny.
7 MR. MOYER: I vote in favor.
8 MR. KERRICK: Heidi.
9 MS. PICKARD: I vote in favor.
10 MR. KERRICK: I vote in favor.
11 Motion carried.
12 Anything else?
13 MR. MOYER: I'm good.
14 MR. KERRICK: Okay. We are
15 adjourned at 20 of.
16 (Hearing concluded at 7:40 a.m.)
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8 I hereby certify that the
9 proceedings and evidence are contained fully and
10 accurately in the notes taken by me at the hearing
11 in the above matter; and that the foregoing is a
12 true and correct transcript of the same.
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