City Council
Regular MeetingMount Joy, PA · July 12, 2021
Agenda
Mount Joy Borough
Council Meeting Agenda
7:00 PM, Monday, July 12, 2021
1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call—Councilors, Castaldi, Deering, Eichler, Fahndrich, Ginder, Reese, Ruschke,
Youngerman, President Hall and Mayor Bradley
3. Invocation
4. Pledge of Allegiance
5. Announcement of Executive Sessions
6. Consider a motion to approve the July 12, 2021, Borough Council Meeting Agenda.
7. Public Input Period - Comments of Any Borough Resident or Property Owner. Time limit of three
minutes per individual.
8. Reports
a. Mayor
b. Police Chief
c. Fire Department Mount Joy
d. SVEMS
e. EMA
f. Main Street Mount Joy
g. Library
h. Code Officer
i. Stormwater Officer
j. Public Works Department
k. Borough Authority Manager
l. Borough Manager
9. Approval of Minutes of the Regular Borough Council Meeting held on June 7, 2021.
10. Administration and Finance Committee
a. Mount Joy Senior Housing, 240 W. Main Street, Mount Joy, PA.
i. Consider a motion to recommend Council waive §240-43.H.1 to improve streets in
which a subdivision or land development abuts and existing Borough and/or state
street.
ii. Consider a motion to recommend Council waive §240-43.I.(4) for street intersections
with a local street to be a minimum radius of 20’.
iii. Consider a motion to recommend Council waive §240-46.C.(1)requiring that curbing
shall be provided along the edge of any landscaped portion of a parking facility.
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iv. Consider a motion to recommend Council waive §240-57.D.(1) to dedicate recreation
land to the Borough.
v. Consider a motion to recommend Council waive §240.57.G requiring a fee in lieu of
dedication of recreation and accept the applicants proposed fee of $2,000 per unit for
a total fee of $72,000.
vi. Consider a motion to recommend Council waive §240-62.B requiring that applications
for all residential developments with 20 or more dwelling units and buildings
containing 1000sf of usable space provide a traffic study and report.
vii. Consider a motion to recommend Council waive §226-32.A.(2)(c) requiring for the
loading ratios in Karst areas to be a maximum of 3:1 impervious drainage area for
infiltration area and 5:1 total draining area to infiltration area.
viii. Consider a motion to recommend Council waive §226-37.A.(6)(b) requiring that the
use of the emergency spillway to convey flows greater than the 50-year storm is
permitted, conditioned upon the post development total peak flow for the 100 year
storm be less than the pre-development total peak flow for the 2 year storm of 3.10
cfs.
ix. Consider a motion to recommend Council approve a Preliminary/Final Plan for Mount
Joy Senior Housing, LP in accordance with Chapter 240, to re-develop an existing
building into 36 senior housing units consisting of 12 1-bedroom apartments, 24 2-
bedroom apartments, 4000-6000 square feet of commercial space on the bottom
floor elevation and 40 off-street parking spaces at the property located at 240 W.
Main Street, Mount Joy, PA, conditioned upon Borough Solicitor and Borough
Engineer comments being addressed, a Dedication Agreement and Ordinance being
drafted at applicant’s expense and Stormwater Management Agreement and Land
Development Agreement being recorded.
b. Consider a motion to open a public hearing to amend Chapter 270, Zoning to revise
general regulations governing special exception uses and to revise provisions governing
signs, including signs exempt from permit requirements and personal expression signs.
i. Public Comment
c. Consider a motion to close the public hearing.
d. Consider a motion to adopt Ordinance 8-21 to amend Chapter 270, Zoning to regulate
personal expression signs and clarify regulations concerning special exceptions.
e. Consider a motion to approve Resolution No. 7-21 ; Authorization of signatures for the
Amendment to the PennDOT Complete Streets Grant Reimbursement Agreement
f. Consider a motion to approve revised Job Descriptions for the Administrative Assistant
and the Receptionist/Secretary (Part-Time).
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g. Consider a motion that Council raises no objections to the conveyance of 820 Church
Street, Mount Joy, PA from Susquehanna Valley EMS to Penn State Health Life Lion
LLC.
h. Consider a motion to Bond the Borough Manager and the Finance and business
Administrator in the amount of $500,000.00.
i. Consider a motion to rescind Resolution 10-20, Borough of Mount Joy Declaration of
Disaster Emergency.
11. Public Safety Committee
a. Consider a motion to approve Policy #326-Part-Time Officers, Policy #1019-Payroll
Records, Policy #1020-Overtime Compensation, and Policy #1022-Work-Related Injury
and Occupational Disease Reporting.
b. Consider a motion to approve an increase in Part-Time Officer salaries from $23.00 per
hour to $26.00 per hour.
12. Public Works Committee
a. Consider a motion to authorize staff to move forward with a public bidding process for
stormwater pipe replacement on Manheim Street (SR772), prior to PennDOT repaving
Manheim Street.
13. Public Input Period - Comments of Any Borough Resident or Property Owner. Time limit of three
minutes per individual.
14. Any other matter proper to come before Council.
15. Authorization to pay bills.
16. Meetings and dates of importance, see the white calendar.
17. Executive Session – to discuss personnel matter.
18. Adjourn
The next regular Borough Council meeting is scheduled for 7:00 PM, on Monday, August 2, 2021
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