COUNCIL
Regular MeetingScranton, PA · March 24, 2025
Minutes
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1 COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF SCRANTON
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GERALD SMURL - PRESIDENT
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MARK MCANDREW, VICE PRESIDENT
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JESSICA ROTHCHILD
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THOMAS SCHUSTER
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WILLIAM KING
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FRANK VOLDENBERG, CITY CLERK
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KATHY CARRERA, ASSISTANT CITY CLERK
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THOMAS GILBRIDE, ESQ., COUNCIL SOLICITOR
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1 (Pledge of Allegiance.)
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3 MR. SMURL: Please remain standing
4 for a moment of silent reflection for our
5 service men and women throughout the world and
6 for those who have passed in our community,
7 especially Elizabeth Cardamone and Martin
8 Russo. Thank you. Roll call, please.
9 MS. CARRERA: Mr. King.
10 MR. KING: Present.
11 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Schuster.
12 MR. SCHUSTER: Present.
13 MS. CARRERA: Dr. Rothchild.
14 DR. ROTHCHILD: Here.
15 MS. CARRERA: Mr. McAndrew.
16 MR. MCANDREW: Present.
17 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Smurl.
18 MR. SMURL: Here. Dispense with the
19 reading of the minutes.
20 MR. VOLDENBERG: THIRD ORDER.
21 3-A. OVERTIME REPORT FOR ALL
22 DEPARTMENTS, AS PROVIDED BY CITY CONTROLLER
23 RECEIVED MARCH 3, 2025.
24 3-B. CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED FROM
25 CITY BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ON MARCH 5, 2025,
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1 REGARDING UPDATED PAYROLL PREPARATION TAX
2 COLLECTIONS AS OF FEBRUARY 25, 2025.
3 3-C. MINUTES OF THE SCRANTON
4 HOUSING AUTHORITY MEETING HELD FEBRUARY 2,
5 2025.
6 MR. SMURL: Are there any comments
7 on any of the Third Order items?
8 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes, I have two
9 comments. So 3-A, looking at overtime, I just
10 want to point out that Parks and Rec is 43
11 percent of their budget within the first two
12 months of the year.
13 And then with 3-B, you know, the
14 Payroll Prep Tax began in 2022. It's trended
15 above projections every year since it came into
16 effect. That's all.
17 MR. SMURL: Anyone else? If not,
18 received and filed. Do any Council members
19 have any announcements at this time?
20 DR. ROTHCHILD: I just want to give
21 a quick mention I know Councilman Smurl had
22 mentioned him during the time of silence, but
23 Martin Russo who had passed away two days ago,
24 he lives on Delaware Street in Scranton. And
25 he was an LGBTQ advocate that I had known. So
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1 I just wanted to mention him as well and my
2 thoughts are with his family.
3 MR. KING: I'd just like to
4 congratulate Attorney Gilbride and his
5 committee for putting on an outstanding parade
6 over the weekend, extremely well-attended. And
7 it sounds like it was a great weekend and
8 appreciate all the effort and time that went
9 into making a great event. It brought a lot of
10 people into the city. So thank you for your
11 efforts.
12 DR. ROTHCHILD: I would agree.
13 Thank you for bringing up the parade. I also
14 wanted to make a quick mention of it because I
15 wanted to thank the SPD for all their hard work
16 that day. It seemed like there were a lot of
17 calls and a lot of issues that came up
18 throughout that day. And I know they meet
19 those challenges every year.
20 But I don't know, it seems like a
21 lot this year. I don't know if it was any more
22 than usual. But I appreciate their work in
23 keeping the city safe. And then thank you to
24 DPW for helping with the cleanup after parade
25 day because I think Monday morning I drove down
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1 through downtown and the place looked great.
2 So thank you very much.
3 MR. SCHUSTER: I guess at this point
4 in time it's time to talk about the parade.
5 Congratulations, Mr. Gilbride. The day was a
6 success. Thank you for SPD for helping with
7 the parade route. A lot of officers were out
8 this year. And marking off the parade route
9 was done a little bit different this year,
10 especially along the courts.
11 But it seemed to be a success. It
12 kept cars and vehicles off the parade route and
13 also off the race route. And just happy to
14 report, we had more racers this year than last
15 year even with the high winds and the
16 temperature.
17 MR. MCANDREW: Okay. So I would
18 also like thank the Scranton Police Department,
19 the fire department, DPW, and, of course,
20 Attorney Gilbride for their as usual stellar
21 efforts providing safety and service for last
22 week's St. Patrick's Day Parade. That's all I
23 have. Thank you.
24 MR. SMURL: Thank you.
25 MR. VOLDENBERG: FOURTH ORDER.
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1 CITIZENS PARTICIPATION.
2 MR. SMURL: First is Joan
3 Hodowanitz.
4 MS. HODOWANITZ: Joan Hodowanitz,
5 Scranton. You know, when I first moved to
6 downtown Scranton in 1999, the St. Patrick's
7 Day Parade was something we residents downtown
8 did not look forward to, a lot of drinking, a
9 lot of fights in the streets, a lot of public
10 urination. And although I'm not complaining, a
11 lot of groping. But it certainly improved over
12 the years.
13 And I -- and it's the city
14 employees, the police, the firefighters, DPW,
15 doing a very good job. There was considerably
16 more evidence of dump trucks and other things,
17 garbage trucks, you know, guarding the streets.
18 So there seemed to be an elevated sense of
19 security.
20 But last several years, you know,
21 you haven't heard of any major incidents. And
22 so it's been I think a good thing. Now, if
23 anybody could just get control of the weather,
24 you know, we'd be really fine. Okay, talking
25 about weather, last Friday there was a brief in
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1 the Scranton paper Thomas J. Drozdick, 67 of
2 Scranton died from severe cardiovascular
3 disease. His body was found down an embankment
4 in a wooden area near the corner of West Gibson
5 Street and North Main Avenue. Drozdick was
6 likely homeless.
7 I remember several weeks ago talking
8 about the brutal winter the homeless people
9 were enduring and that we're going to start
10 finding people dead. And he died of
11 cardiovascular disease. But I can't imagine
12 that the weather helped his condition.
13 This is particularly poignant for me
14 because Mr. Drozdick used to attend mass at the
15 Cathedral at 6:30 in the morning before Covid
16 hit. And he was a very nice man, never caused
17 any problems. We knew he was homeless. We
18 would see him walking around the streets
19 pushing his little grocery cart.
20 And this is a sad commentary on how
21 we're taking care of some of the most
22 (inaudible) people in our community. The
23 special counsel for parking matters Dilworth
24 Paxson for the debt restructure of the parking
25 system which they discussed earlier, I just
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1 don't understand with all the attorneys we have
2 running around serving the city why we have to
3 hire a law firm for debt restructuring and
4 amendment to the lease concession agreement.
5 You know, I mean, we are a gold mine
6 for the legal profession. And I couldn't see
7 anywhere in the backup where it was such a
8 specialized area of law that we had to do that.
9 But what do I know.
10 MR. SMURL: Joan, it is very
11 specialized, but Attorney Gilbride will in
12 Fifth Order, he'll explain that whole thing.
13 MS. HODOWANITZ: I'm sorry?
14 MR. SMURL: Attorney Gilbride will
15 explain that whole process because it is a
16 specialized --
17 MS. HODOWANITZ: Okay, good, when we
18 come up to that item. But we do seem to hire a
19 lot of legal firms for various reasons. And I
20 read the minutes of the housing authority. And
21 if you saw it from February 3rd, they had an
22 offer from for somebody to buy Park Gardens for
23 10.5 million dollars. Did you notice the real
24 estate agent's name that was in there? His
25 name was Pat Rogan. Anybody remember Pat
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1 Rogan? He used to be a Councilman. So that
2 was that there.
3 I had a friend, by the way, who told
4 me that he was trying to get a sticker to
5 update his handicap parking. You have to get a
6 sticker every year. He called City Hall three
7 times. No one will return his phone call.
8 Now, this is a systemic problem that
9 I've heard ever since the Mayor restricted
10 access to City Hall. She had said if you need
11 to get into City Hall make an appointment,
12 call, someone will call you back. And again
13 and again and again this does not happen.
14 If you are going to restrict access
15 to City Hall, people need to call back. And
16 there should be an explanation when an employee
17 fails to do that. It's not right for the
18 citizens that are paying taxes, just not right.
19 And my compliments too to Attorney
20 Gilbride. It was a really good parade. Thank
21 you.
22 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Joan. John
23 Thomas.
24 MR. THOMAS: John Thomas, Scranton.
25 I have to say about Mayor Cognetti -- I'm a
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1 terrible speaker here, bear with me -- Mayor
2 Cognetti. I voted for her in the last
3 election. And I'm very disappointed in her
4 overall performance. And I'm hoping we can get
5 a strong candidate to oppose her in the
6 upcoming election.
7 I don't know where to start now, but
8 I'm going to go off on federal. We had three
9 generations of Trumpisms, grandfather was a
10 grifter, father was a liar and a cheat. And
11 the buffoon in office now is undescribable.
12 You have no idea what he's going to do from the
13 next day to the next.
14 He doesn't understand legislation.
15 He don't know how to talk. He can't even talk
16 to his own people. If you don't agree with
17 him, well, you're fired. I hope I could
18 survive the next four years. I'm almost 78
19 years old. And I've never seen anyone in my
20 lifetime -- president level that talked like
21 this man and especially in public.
22 I mean, I got done listening to him
23 after 2019 to be honest with you because every
24 other word that comes out of this man's mouth
25 is a lie. He blames everybody else. The other
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1 day he was talking about Obama did something.
2 They asked him a question that had
3 nothing to do with Obama. Obama did this.
4 We're going to do it right, this and that and
5 this and that. And anybody that comes to speak
6 in public, don't call yourself a republican if
7 you support D. T. You're a Maga extremist,
8 okay? Let's get that straight.
9 And Putin is a dictator. Uh-oh, do
10 I have to have security coming out of here
11 after saying that? Republicans, Liz Cheney,
12 Congresswoman from Wyoming, a republican. You
13 have former Vice President Mike Pence, a
14 republican. Adam Kinzinger, retired
15 Congressman, a republican.
16 And there's a few other ones that
17 I'd like to say, Mitt Romney, former Senator of
18 Utah, a republican, and the seven republicans
19 who voted to impeach this man the second time
20 republicans with backbones.
21 I have to say there's a columnist
22 and a conservative republican speaker for the
23 past 20-odd years or so, she hated Bill
24 Clinton. She didn't like President Obama and
25 she didn't like President Biden.
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1 But, you know, what she said about
2 that man sitting in the oval office? Donald
3 Trump should make America happy and die in his
4 sleep. Thank you, Council.
5 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Lee Morgan.
6 MR. MORGAN: Good evening, Council,
7 always thankful for free speech. You know, the
8 first thing I have here is today everybody
9 filed their petitions for public office here.
10 We definitely need a big change in Scranton.
11 As I've already acknowledged, I didn't vote for
12 anyone on this Council because I really didn't
13 think that you knew what you were are doing.
14 Nothing personal. The city is just a complete
15 mess.
16 We've got to do something in this
17 city because we've got to start talking about
18 reality, okay, like, Pennsylvania American
19 Water buying a billion dollars worth of assets
20 and having among the most expensive water in
21 the United States of America.
22 And our Council did that to us, all
23 of these rate increases and the Governor and
24 the PUC and just blind politics with no respect
25 for the voter or the people that have to live
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1 in these communities and can't afford this rate
2 for water.
3 But, you know, the other tragic
4 thing is, we keep electing candidates that are
5 incapable like the presentation we had by the
6 parking -- the people who run the park garages.
7 Most of their meters don't take money. You
8 can't put change in them.
9 Everything is broken, okay,
10 everything. We had a Mayor Doherty who built
11 parking garages that the Council itself
12 admitted that we couldn't pay for. And this is
13 the beating we're taking. You know, you read
14 the Pennsylvania Constitution. Get your mind
15 around that some day. It might be
16 enlightening.
17 The other thing is, look at the
18 pension fund. It's a travesty. It pays out
19 over a million dollars every month but it's not
20 funded right. It's not even managed right.
21 It's not -- the data isn't even up-to-date. I
22 don't know what the plan is to keep it going
23 forward so that it could meet its obligations.
24 And you can't look at the firemen
25 and the policemen or the DPW workers or the
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1 clerical union because they backed all the
2 failed candidates that looted it. And then it
3 falls on the ordinary taxpayers that are
4 getting taxed out of their homes. And for this
5 one election, I'd like the city unions to stay
6 out of politics for once because you're killing
7 us.
8 We need independent candidates for
9 office. I'm not thrilled with the candidates
10 that are on the ballot. I'm not sure if any of
11 them can really do the job. And I'm not trying
12 to offend anybody. The two party political
13 system has absolutely failed. And we've got to
14 realize, you know, you light Donald Trump on
15 fire, but the majority of Americans want a
16 change in their government.
17 And the new wave republicans, they
18 aren't republicans at all. They're Americans
19 that have had their fill of the system. They
20 threw the old guard republicans out of the
21 Congress and out of the Senate. The vast
22 majority of them are veterans that fought in
23 foreign wars, okay, that have just had it.
24 I don't think there's a real
25 republican in the whole republican party. I
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1 think most of them are democrats and
2 independents that have had it with the system.
3 You represent a system here that doesn't work.
4 You're talking about spending a million dollars
5 at Connell Park and we got homeless people
6 everywhere.
7 It just doesn't make any sense.
8 None of it makes any sense. You got a
9 licensing and inspections department.
10 Mr. Smurl, you had an investigation. There was
11 an investigation done. I don't hear you
12 talking about it.
13 I think the people have a right to
14 know that the licensing and inspections
15 department is used as a weapon by the political
16 base here. Okay, it's time to face the reality
17 that you're part of the corruption here, all
18 five of you, not just one of you and the Mayor.
19 And having a City Hall that the
20 residents are locked out of is a joke, okay.
21 And using the Court as a weapon against
22 residents just like the parking thing here,
23 none of their equipment works. You're writing
24 people tickets. Now you're going to put
25 something across their windshield.
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1 But the one thing you don't realize,
2 the residents of this city own the street.
3 They were forced into buying parking garages
4 that the Doherty administration wanted that
5 they knew they couldn't afford. And all you
6 keep doing is whipping the residents and
7 kicking them and talking utter silliness up
8 there.
9 We need independent candidates that
10 are going to run for public office that are
11 going to do the job and change this city before
12 it's completely dead. Look at the downtown.
13 It's a parking lot. And millions of dollars
14 for Doherty park?
15 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Cecelia
16 Gonzales.
17 MS. GONZALES: Good evening. I'm
18 here to shed some light and possibly get some
19 help on a situation that's been occurring to
20 me. Since changing from apartments at a
21 housing complex in January -- sorry -- I have
22 at least four times witness someone completely
23 naked and expose their bodies from the inside
24 of their apartment but in the housing complex
25 between the hours of 9:30 and 10:30 p.m.
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1 At least one of those times my eight
2 year old daughter encountered this person and
3 brought it to my attention that quote, unquote
4 from her he was being a creep and just staring
5 at our place. I can't exactly say that he's
6 staring at my place. But he's definitely
7 staring at our row of apartments and like side
8 to side.
9 The very next time that I did see
10 him and this encounter happened I called the
11 cops which this was now February 17th. I moved
12 into this apartment January, like the second
13 weekend. February 17th I've at least seen him
14 four times completely to the nude in this
15 window.
16 February 17th I call -- I had -- the
17 encounter happened February 16th, I'm sorry.
18 February 17th in the afternoon once I had
19 someone come watch my kids, I had called
20 Scranton PD and made a report, called housing
21 the next day because they were closed for
22 Presidents Day that 17th.
23 And I get people can be nude in
24 their house. I'm not saying he can't. But
25 attached in that file is a picture of his
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1 window. The very next day the blinds are down.
2 Every single time I catch this man naked, the
3 blinds are up. The very next morning the
4 blinds are down.
5 I have reported it to the SPD. I
6 made a report, reported it to the office.
7 Attached is a text from an office staff
8 claiming that they can't do anything because
9 law isn't involved or whatever they're trying
10 to say, which I think it's insane because I
11 have received eviction notice 10 -- 10-day
12 eviction notice over a dog -- my family members
13 visiting with their dog on the property.
14 So I don't understand how a dog is
15 that big of a deal that I'm in the street in
16 ten days, but a man my eight year old can see a
17 man's genitals and he lives in front of a park.
18 Between our two windows there is a park five
19 doors from the bus stop in Townhouse Village
20 Park Apartments.
21 And authorities can't come and
22 remove them from the property and this office
23 can't remove them from the property.
24 MR. MCANDREW: This is bizarre.
25 These pictures are horrific. Mr. Voldenberg,
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2 MS. GONZALES: That's what --
3 MR. MCANDREW: I'm sorry, I don't
4 want to take up your time. I'll speak to this
5 later.
6 MS. GONZALES: No, that's all I have
7 to say. And just I don't understand why this
8 has to happen why this private matter has now
9 turned into a televised public matter for me to
10 have, like, peace with me and my kids. I go to
11 school. I work, like, I'm a mom to three.
12 I don't -- the last of my worries
13 should be there's someone like this living
14 across the window.
15 MR. KING: There has to be something
16 we can do about this. I want to reach out to
17 the Chief and see if we could set up a meeting
18 because this is ridiculous, absolutely
19 unacceptable.
20 MR. MCANDREW: It's disgusting. I
21 mean, there's evidence right here.
22 MS. GONZALES: There is -- there is
23 some discrepancy on that police report, like,
24 my address is the one on their address and then
25 the address that's under my name is like my old
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2 I assume because that's what's on my
3 ID. But I did file the report and nothing was
4 done. So I did post it on social media and a
5 friend kindly suggested that I came here
6 tonight and I spoke about the situation.
7 DR. ROTHCHILD: Thank you for coming
8 and informing us about the situation. We'll
9 certainly make sure to get in touch with the
10 chief and find out what could be done about it
11 to keep that from occurring. I'm sorry that
12 you and your children had to -- had to witness
13 that.
14 MS. GONZALES: Okay. Thank you.
15 MR. SCHUSTER: And 1304 is the
16 residence where this person was.
17 MS. GONZALES: Yes. Yes, it's
18 like -- I don't even know what street that is.
19 But Mount Vernon I think it is. It should be
20 on the police report though.
21 MR. SMURL: It is.
22 MS. GONZALES: Thank you.
23 MR. SMURL: Thank you.
24 MR. MCANDREW: Thanks.
25 MR. SMURL: Frank, do you have a
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1 copy of this?
2 MR. VOLDENBERG: I do. I'll reach
3 out first thing in the morning.
4 MR. SMURL: Does Attorney Gilbride
5 also have a copy?
6 MR. VOLDENBERG: He does.
7 MR. SMURL: Okay. Very good. Thank
8 you. Les Spindler.
9 MR. SPINDLER: Good evening,
10 Council, Les Spindler. Well, walking my dog in
11 the neighborhood yesterday I came across the
12 two pave cuts I've been talking about the last
13 few weeks.
14 I'm glad to say I think there's some
15 progress being made. There was white outlines
16 painted around both pave cuts. So it looks
17 like hopefully they're going to get ready to
18 take care of and dig them up and fill them in
19 the right way. I hope it's done fairly
20 quickly.
21 Next thing, I drive up and down
22 Green Ridge Street every day. And what they're
23 doing on the Lackawanna River that temporary
24 bridge they're putting up, I mean, the steel
25 monstrosity they're making, it's unbelievable.
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1 We're not talking about the Mississippi here.
2 It's the Lackawanna river.
3 I mean, I think -- I'm no engineer,
4 I think there's a much easier way to make a
5 temporary bridge than blocking off Nay Aug
6 Avenue. All they had to do is put supports on
7 either side of the bridge. They have these
8 premade concrete slabs as decks.
9 I've seen it done before driving
10 down 81 about two years ago the Suscon Road
11 bridge, they replaced it. They didn't pour
12 concrete. They just put these huge slabs on
13 supports and that's all they did. I mean, I'm
14 sure there was other stuff that was done.
15 But there's no reason why they had
16 to block off Nay Aug Avenue. All they had to
17 do was put the big slab on supports. And I
18 know they had to do more stuff to make it safe.
19 But that's all they had to do instead of
20 blocking off Nay Aug.
21 And the detour, it's ridiculous the
22 detour they made. They're telling people to go
23 over Main Avenue to Market Street, down Market
24 and back on Nay Aug Avenue the other way.
25 All you have to do is turn off Green
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1 Ridge on Ross Street which goes into the Giant
2 Market. There's a beer outlet there, make a
3 left at the beer outlet. It takes you right
4 out to Nay Aug Avenue.
5 I go to the garden place there every
6 spring to get my plants. So they're telling me
7 I have to go all the way around to come back
8 the other way. No, go in the Giant parking lot
9 and just go out and the Garden Path is right
10 there. Whoever made that detour, I think they
11 should be fired. It's ridiculous.
12 Next thing, I went by Scranton High
13 School today at 2:30. They get out at 3:00.
14 There was a line of cars there already parked
15 illegally where there's no parking signs a half
16 hour before school gets out. And where's our
17 parking enforcement people? You know where
18 they are, in the neighborhood harassing people
19 if they're parked in the wrong direction.
20 And it happened to me once. But
21 they let these people park illegally halfway
22 out in the street and nothing is done. It's
23 unbelievable. Lastly, 7-A, this Rubicon
24 contract, there's a gentleman here he works
25 with software. He put on a great exhibit. How
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1 you people -- I know who the three of you are
2 that voted to pass it through, how you could
3 vote to pass that through and this gentleman
4 said it wasn't working and he had proof and the
5 three you still voted to put it through.
6 Councilman Smurl, I heard from a
7 city worker you were at DPW last week. And
8 they -- the DPW workers told you it doesn't
9 work. How could you people pass this? It's
10 not working. Did somebody get money in their
11 pockets to pass this through or what?
12 I mean, all you people do is rubber
13 stamp everything the Mayor wants to do. You
14 don't care what the people who come here and
15 say. I mean, there's proof that it isn't
16 working and the three of you still pass it. So
17 how you could live with yourself just siding
18 with this woman is unbelievable. You don't
19 care about the taxpayers. That's all I have.
20 Thank you.
21 MR. SMURL: Thanks, Les. And your
22 comment, that was really uncalled for. Nobody
23 puts money in my pocket. Jennifer Reed.
24 MS. REED: Jennifer Reed, Scranton
25 citizen, homeless advocate and founder of Feed
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1 the Need, Scranton. I had other people that
2 were going to come tonight. So, hi, Michael
3 and Tamma watching from home.
4 Over the past few months that I have
5 not been able to attend meetings I still have
6 been watching and nothing much has changed
7 except for the number of homeless people have
8 gone up.
9 We've had numerous times during the
10 course of the winter where the shelters were
11 not open due to staffing issues. It looks like
12 when the part where just a few cents above
13 minimum wage wasn't even brought up as one of
14 those issues.
15 The pay is certainly not worth the
16 job needing to be done. And I'm almost 100
17 percent certain that not one person in this
18 room would do that job overnight with such
19 little pay. And that's embarrassing. I'm
20 grateful for the wonderful woman that runs the
21 code blue shelter on the nights that it has
22 been open which is only nights where the
23 temperature reaches 20 degrees or less.
24 I'm also thankful for Butch and
25 Keystone Mission because the communication is
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1 finally refreshing. Dr. Rothchild and
2 Mr. Smurl have gone out with us several times
3 to see what we do and talk to those people that
4 we serve. However, whenever myself or anyone
5 else in my group has asked who else would come
6 out and see the problem in person and
7 understand better, everyone else looks down at
8 their papers or pretends to take notes.
9 I have given up on waiting for a
10 call from the Mayor or having her show up
11 either. We're not even remotely acknowledged.
12 Is there a reason for this? Is it too
13 inconvenient? Maybe the weather is just --
14 maybe that the weather that these people have
15 to sleep in is just a little too uncomfortable
16 to be out in. And if the people are out there
17 sleeping, we're out there helping.
18 People keep asking about ways to
19 throw out trash without being considered
20 illegal dumping. As shown in the picture that
21 I handed in, I told people to keep their camps
22 clean. And they brought their trash to the
23 pavilion on Olive Street. However, there was
24 still trash in there from last week when I went
25 today.
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1 And that picture was taken today.
2 It is time-stamped. I didn't even get my trash
3 picked up this week. I started my group years
4 ago and set out not only to help people get a
5 hot meal and basic necessities that we all take
6 for granted, but also to help them get back on
7 their feet and to figure out where the
8 roadblocks are. And by the way, there are
9 many.
10 I've had nasty comments in my
11 e-mails as well as my inboxes on both Facebook
12 and Instagram, death threats, people making
13 jokes about burning down tents with people
14 inside and that would rid of the problem. And
15 I also know from watching these meetings live
16 on TV that there are some keyboard warriors
17 right now talking behind the scenes but not
18 showing up.
19 I'm not stopping what I do any time
20 soon. I've had people supposedly wanting to
21 help me only to use my hard work and call it
22 their own. I've had -- I've been sent in a
23 million directions looking for help for people.
24 I'm not even getting a single answer. And I've
25 even been told by the rude lady at Career Link,
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1 people should come down and ask their own
2 questions when all I asked was can you get a
3 job if you don't have an address.
4 If I'm asking -- if I'm having this
5 much trouble and getting the runaround with all
6 of the resources that I have available to me,
7 how do we expect anything to change for those
8 who do not have those same resources? I
9 witnessed on March 6th, 2025, where people were
10 being removed from their camps.
11 I had a meeting at 10 a.m. that
12 morning and left my house at 9 a.m. after
13 receiving calls as a reminder and made sure
14 that they had breakfast and hot coffee and that
15 they were taken care of and ready to face what
16 was ahead of them for the day.
17 Do you remember what you were doing
18 at 9:00 on Thursday morning and did you have to
19 worry about whether or not you would have to
20 come home and figure out if you had a place to
21 sleep?
22 Do you know what the 8th Amendment
23 is? In 1791 it was added to the bill of rights
24 and protects against excess bail, fines, and
25 cruel and unusual punishment.
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1 According to the Ninth Circuit of
2 the Court of Appeals in 2018, case of Martin
3 versus the City of Boise, punishing people for
4 sleeping outside if there is no available
5 shelter is considered cruel and unusual
6 punishment according to the amendments that we
7 are supposed to uphold.
8 While this was overturned, how is
9 the city getting away with taking people's
10 rights away? Twenty-six beds is the current
11 number of beds available year round overnight
12 shelter, an additional 30 beds for overnight
13 when the temperature is below freezing -- far
14 below freezing.
15 So during the rest of the year when
16 30 emergency beds are not available, where are
17 people supposed to legally go? There's no
18 answer. We need to give them an answer.
19 Shoving them from one place to another is
20 stressful for them and a waste of time and
21 resources for this city.
22 I am and have been completely
23 exhausted from bringing up the same common
24 sense things over and over. Is there anyone
25 else that is stressed out and exhausted by
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1 this? We want plans, answers, and a way to
2 move forward with solutions in place so that
3 those of us doing the work behind the scenes
4 can take a break and not have to worry about
5 the people who no one else gives a damn about.
6 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Ron Ellman.
7 MR. ELLMAN: Hello, Council. Every
8 time I pass this old bank building on Market
9 and Main, I wonder when they are going to --
10 the present owners are going to come to the
11 city wanting some grants for repairs and
12 remodeling and so on. Why can't that building
13 be used like the community building on Capouse?
14 It just sits empty.
15 I pass it every single day. It's
16 sure a nice piece of property. It should have
17 been given to the city anyway if you ask me to
18 be for the community. Okay, next, right now
19 under our noses, the worst of the worst. I
20 refer to them as -- last month as the good ol'
21 boys and Kelly calls them the democratic party
22 of Lackawanna County, whatever, I don't know.
23 But these people, they're using a
24 back door. They are intent on taking over our
25 government. You know, I hear on the radio and
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1 the TV everybody complaining money didn't vote
2 Musk. No one voted for these three over the
3 hill has beens they want to stick in office.
4 This is just -- this is why this place got such
5 a name forever. You can't get rid of them.
6 Graft and corruption just lives right here in
7 Scranton.
8 You know, people of this city need
9 to take more interest in their government.
10 This building, this very building, this is an
11 office. This isn't a nursery, a day care
12 center. This is a business. Scranton is a
13 business. This should be our business office.
14 I was one of the people that wanted
15 this remodeling done. You know, we talked
16 about buying an 11 million dollar property. We
17 still would have had this building.
18 I don't -- I think it was a very
19 good investment. This building should be here
20 forever. And here we come with another
21 election, all of these people coming out of the
22 woodwork everywhere I never heard of. To me --
23 and I know this applies to Council, but if you
24 don't have any interest in attending a Council
25 meeting, a zoning board, school, whatever, you
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1 don't belong in this administration.
2 And lastly here, wishing someone
3 dead is a sick demented disgusting statement
4 that only a damn fool would make publicly.
5 Thank you.
6 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Bob Bolus.
7 MR. BOLUS: Good evening, Council,
8 Bob Bolus, Scranton. On E, what part of Tenth
9 Street are you purchasing -- is the city buying
10 on Tenth Street?
11 MR. SMURL: Right next to Novembrino
12 Park, the little parking lot there next to the
13 dentist.
14 MR. BOLUS: By Novembrino Park.
15 MR. SMURL: Yeah.
16 MR. BOLUS: Okay, because our former
17 trucking company, the Bolus Motor Lines
18 actually was part of that whole area years ago.
19 I was born and raised on Tenth Street.
20 MR. SMURL: Yeah.
21 MR. BOLUS: So I was just curious
22 what was being -- so you're going to be
23 expanding Novembrino Park.
24 MR. SMURL: Yes, for parking at
25 Novembrino to relieve the street for the
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1 neighbors.
2 MR. BOLUS: Okay. And F, I don't
3 understand why our law department, we have to
4 be paying the high price to law firms to
5 support them and keep them going. Why aren't
6 we doing it inhouse?
7 We have the ability to hire our own
8 internal lawyers, paralegals. Treat it -- the
9 city law department in the future as a law firm
10 and cut out all of this bleed to the legal
11 departments around the state and the city and
12 everything else we're doing. It's an absurdity
13 to see the money just squandered.
14 The other one I looked at here is
15 this thing with the recycling with the public
16 works, I think a five year contract is an
17 absurdity. One year should be more than
18 sufficient and renewed at the end of one year.
19 If we had the competent people in
20 DPW, the management, the logistics, you don't
21 need these people. We don't need to spend this
22 money. I operated 600 trucks all over the
23 United States. I had a load of solid waste out
24 of New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. And
25 I didn't need these people and our trucks
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1 moved.
2 We're the house carrier for
3 Anheuser-Busch, Charles Chips. My trucks moved
4 all over the United States. We didn't need
5 these type of people. What you need is
6 management people that are qualified to operate
7 the DPW, no more game playing, no more
8 politics. That's what you need here. And I
9 think this should be thrown down.
10 It shouldn't be no five years. Give
11 them a year. It's a waste of money. You're
12 better off investing in people in the DPW than
13 you are wasting our money like this.
14 We don't need to be managed by
15 people. That's why we have a Council, a Mayor
16 and a city. And people that run the city, they
17 are the only ones that should be involved. And
18 I think the next thing the city needs to do is
19 hire its own engineers.
20 We're spending millions of dollars
21 on engineering, engineering and we're going
22 nowhere. We don't need them. Get our own
23 engineers. They are trained the same way as
24 the one you are hiring and spending millions of
25 dollars on.
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1 Connell Park is an absolute joke.
2 You're going to spend millions of dollars to
3 have people tell you what you can and cannot do
4 when you should be able to do it inhouse.
5 That's the taxpayer's losses. That's how
6 things should be done around here. It should
7 be done as a business and it's not.
8 One thing for Lee Morgan, I want to
9 tell him I am a real Republican so he gets
10 that through and I'll have Les along with it.
11 And Donald Trump is my president, period. But
12 putting all that to the side, today I filed my
13 petitions to run for Mayor on the Republican
14 ticket for the City of Scranton.
15 People are going to challenge and
16 say, oh, I can't take it. Well, they're in for
17 a hell of a surprise. I'm doing it because I
18 know I could be there at the end. I'm not a
19 bought and paid for politician. I've always
20 been about the people in my city and my
21 background as well documented on what I've done
22 for the city over the last 30-some years.
23 And I'll take everyone's challenge
24 that I can't take the seat. Well, that's going
25 to change in the next few weeks. What's coming
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1 down the pike is not -- my business. It's none
2 of theirs at this point. They'll get to read
3 it in the paper or see it on TV.
4 I believe that the city is
5 mismanaged, the potholes. Beyond that, Nay Aug
6 turned into a mud pond. If I wind up in the
7 city, Nay Aug will be Nay Aug again, what it
8 should have been and should stay, not filling
9 it in with dirt.
10 I have enough volunteer people that
11 I deal with that will clean the mud out of
12 there again and make it the lake it used to be.
13 And that was Lake Lincoln, bring back the
14 amusement rides, bring back the culture that we
15 had here when we all grew up each and every one
16 of us and make Scranton Scranton again.
17 But the first thing I'll do the
18 first day I ever get in office, I could assure
19 you Biden signs will be gone. It will be
20 Spruce Street and Scranton Expressway again.
21 MR. SMURL: Thank you.
22 MR. BOLUS: And we'll change how we
23 live here, not under the political atmosphere
24 that we had whether we liked it or we didn't.
25 Thank you.
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1 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Lynn
2 Labrosky.
3 MS. LABROSKY: Good evening,
4 Council, Lynn Labrosky, resident, homeowner,
5 business owner. So I also wanted to comment on
6 the parade and congratulate Mr. Gilbride for
7 doing such a great job and also thank our fire,
8 police, and DPW workers. They did really an
9 amazing job down there this weekend.
10 I know I felt safe anyway because
11 they were on every corner. So that was good.
12 So I did see a big improvement with the traffic
13 pattern with the Elm Street bridge project.
14 That's good. Their arrows are working. And
15 everything seems to be flowing pretty smoothly
16 now.
17 You know, I wish it could have been
18 done before the project started. Maybe in the
19 future we could try to make sure that's in
20 place prior to bridges being closed down and
21 stuff like that because it seemed a little
22 silly to do it after the fact.
23 So another thing is, I did see that
24 the Mayor is having a spring sprucing up
25 Scranton spring cleanup I believe this Saturday
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1 at the Jackson Street skate park. And that's
2 terrific. But we need a lot of cleanups. I
3 know my husband and I participated in quite a
4 few cleanups last year and a lot of it seems to
5 be back to the way it was.
6 So if we're not going to keep up on
7 trying to eliminate the garbage or keep on top
8 of cleaning up the garbage, then it's just
9 going to keep -- it's not going to look any
10 better.
11 I know I asked last week about
12 containers having lids and things like that.
13 And I'm not going to read the codes because it
14 will probably take too long. But, you know, in
15 the E code, the 305 one through sixteen, there
16 are quite a few rules regarding the garbage.
17 I don't know if that's enforced or
18 are there fines given out if people don't abide
19 by that, like, having lids on cans and stuff
20 because we do live in NEPA. And, you know,
21 it's pretty windy.
22 Also, I guess we have an anti litter
23 account. Anybody know about that? It's in the
24 code. It says that there is an anti litter
25 account. So I guess money from giving out
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1 fines for people littering whether from their
2 vehicle or on their property would go into that
3 account to enforce people not trashing our city
4 with garbage? No, nobody knows about it?
5 MR. SMURL: I don't think that's
6 what it's for. But I'll check --
7 MS. LABROSKY: All right. Yeah, if
8 we could check on that or if I have to do a
9 right to know. But, yeah, so coming into City
10 Hall is like Fort Knox. I mean, I had to come
11 down here yesterday to file some paperwork.
12 And it really feels like you are not welcome.
13 You ring the bell and you are not allowed
14 through the doors.
15 So that just feels, I don't know,
16 like -- like, it's not our taxpayer -- our tax
17 dollars aren't really being spent on what
18 they're supposed to be being spent on. This is
19 our building. We should have a right to come
20 in here anytime we want.
21 And then when I finally did come
22 into the building, it's just a really eerie
23 feeling, like, it's quiet and there's no
24 activity. And it's just kind of weird. But I
25 did request some information that is supposed
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1 to be public knowledge. But I was told once
2 again I have to do a right to know.
3 And I don't understand why if
4 something's public information why they can't
5 just hand me those records instead of having to
6 do a right to know because there's other
7 agencies in the city that you can request that
8 information and just verbally and they'll
9 e-mail it to you without a problem.
10 But it seems like in City Hall
11 everything is a right to know and then you
12 don't often times get information back on that.
13 Code enforcement, it's a joke. They don't --
14 they don't enforce the code. So I don't know
15 if, you know, if anybody can look into that.
16 But I know it just seems like certain people
17 have codes enforced on them and other people
18 don't.
19 And as far as like I said with the
20 garbage, I just if -- I don't know if you have
21 any answers later on about what I asked about
22 last week. And then I don't know if I have to
23 do a right to know. I know the Mayor is
24 running for reelection. Are we allowed to find
25 out if she's running for Congress next year?
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1 Is that something we can ask?
2 MR. SMURL: I believe you have to
3 ask her. We wouldn't know.
4 MS. LABROSKY: Yeah, you can't
5 really get in touch with her. It's kind of
6 difficult.
7 MR. SMURL: Yeah, I couldn't tell
8 you.
9 MS. LABROSKY: But if we're going to
10 elect someone for a four-year term, I want to
11 make sure they are going to fulfill that
12 four-year term. And so I know personally as a
13 business owner and a homeowner, I pay a lot of
14 money in taxes in the city. I just don't feel
15 like personally I'm getting enough bang for my
16 buck. And I think a lot people in the city
17 would agree with that. So all right, that's
18 it. Thank you.
19 MR. SMURL: Lynn, if you're -- if
20 you ask for documentation, anything printed
21 out, that would be a right to know. If you are
22 asking, like, questions to us, anything that we
23 can answer, we would try to answer for you.
24 But if you're looking for an actual document
25 like you are asking for, that is a right to
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1 know. And that's just --
2 MS. LABROSKY: Well, if something is
3 supposed to be on file here in City Hall, then
4 I don't know why I wouldn't have the right to
5 look at that file. Why would I have to do a
6 right to know so then that file could be
7 updated by the time I know if I even know at
8 all if that make senses.
9 MR. SMURL: All I know is you ask
10 for documentation, right, and to receive --
11 MS. LABROSKY: But I asked to see
12 documentation, like, right then and there, not
13 five days or thirty days or --
14 MR. SMURL: Yeah, I don't know what
15 you're looking for if it was available at that
16 point. I don't know any of that. I wasn't
17 there so --
18 MS. LABROSKY: It's documentation
19 that's supposed to be public information. So,
20 okay, but thank you.
21 MR. SMURL: Thank you.
22 MS. LABROSKY: Have a good night.
23 MR. SMURL: That's all for our
24 sign-in list. Anybody else wish to speak with
25 or address Council?
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1 MR. COYNE: Good evening, Council,
2 Tom Coyne, Minooka. Since we're getting close
3 at this point since it's six months left until
4 that September opening of Nay Aug Park for all
5 the pools being open as of September, do we
6 have any idea what the funding is at this point
7 on it because we're well aware that it fell
8 through and that they put through a request for
9 1 million dollars through the horse racing
10 gambling fund to get 1 million dollars towards
11 the project and we had 3 million I think from
12 ARPA funds and the other 3 million were up in
13 the air and we were looking for magical
14 ferries from nonprofits and businesses to
15 donate to the city to actually take care of the
16 funding that was supposed to be there in the
17 first place for the two and a half years that
18 this project went -- didn't go forward until it
19 was finally called that it should go forward.
20 Do we have any idea how much we've
21 secured towards the total of Nay Aug Park at
22 this point? And if not, can we get the actual
23 numbers of how much of that deficit we're
24 secured and how much we're actually short?
25 Can we also get a copy of the
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1 contract for the lights being put up in Nay Aug
2 Park? It would be nice to have the public
3 information of the amount of money that was
4 spent for the putting up the Christmas lights
5 that never came through here.
6 I'd like to see who signed that,
7 who authorized it, where it went through
8 because obviously we saw when it was bid out.
9 The bids went out. The bids were open. The
10 bids were read by the city. And then the bids
11 were ignored and it was just handed out like
12 candy without coming through this body.
13 So it would be nice to actually see
14 that contract and what's included in it which
15 should have been here as part of documentation
16 for it to be approved in the first place.
17 Moving onto trash, I know the Mayor said they
18 were looking at different recycling companies.
19 And I'm not sure there's actually
20 been a bid out there for different recycling
21 companies. But with that 80, 85 percent of the
22 trash -- of the recycling going from the
23 recycling facility directly over to the
24 landfill at $120 a ton, the current amount that
25 we have spent and thrown away into that dump by
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1 not addressing that is $44,644.50.
2 We're 18 months out on that since it
3 first came across. We can't find a solution in
4 18 months -- sorry, 18 weeks, 18 weeks. We
5 can't find a solution, yet we still continue to
6 throw money at it at $1,900 a week. When do we
7 stop this, when it hits 100,000? When it hits
8 $200,000?
9 When do we finally address it and
10 look for why don't we have -- we're looking for
11 people to do recycling, why don't we have bids
12 before us? Who's dealing with it? When is
13 this going to happen? And if there's a
14 negotiation that is going to happen with the
15 Recycling Center, why is no one talking about
16 it? Are we just going to continue to dump
17 money and ignore it?
18 And last Rubicon, they've had three
19 years. They promised a million dollars. They
20 promised us a great new fantastic system. Last
21 week Mr. King asked whether or not the original
22 contract had in it an extension of a year to
23 year.
24 Actually in the bill before you that
25 sits in Seventh Order it says right in the
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1 description of that bill if you read it
2 properly and thoroughly that it was a three
3 year contract. They were moving to a six -- a
4 five year extension because the original was a
5 year to year.
6 It was right in the documentation
7 that at the end of it in December we could
8 renew year to year. Now, if I hire you for a
9 project say working on my house and you draw
10 plans and I give you the money and three years
11 later you've done nothing on it and you come
12 back and say I'm going to continue working on
13 it and I'll get it fixed the way you want it
14 to, just give me another five years and a lot
15 more money and I'll deliver what I originally
16 said I was.
17 Would you hire that person for
18 another five years to fix your house? The
19 answer is no. You'd say you didn't do it in
20 three years, you don't deserve any more because
21 you haven't performed. Yet today, we're
22 looking at that and that's insanity. Good
23 night.
24 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Anyone else?
25 MR. ARGENTA: Virgil Argenta,
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1 Scranton. 5-B, is Mr. Hanley also on the
2 Scranton Housing Authority Board? How many
3 boards can one serve on effectively? What are
4 the required qualifications and is there a
5 public resume available for this position?
6 5-C, another civil service member.
7 Are you aware of how many civil service members
8 we had in the last four years? What experience
9 does Mr. Miller have regarding emergency
10 services, promotion, and testing?
11 Again, is there a public resume
12 available detailing his qualifications for
13 viewing? The hourly rate for the attorneys for
14 the Parking Authority issues, $440 an hour
15 capped at 20,000. Why do we have solicitors?
16 Is Attorney Harvey a former local resident that
17 represents Dilworth and Paxson?
18 For the record, will the city pause
19 funding from neighborhood works until after the
20 election due to a potential conflict with the
21 candidate who is the director of community
22 development running for City Council?
23 The grant money goes to his
24 department for block beautification and
25 administrative costs. In 2024, $353,000 in
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1 grant funding had been distributed and made it
2 possible with support from the City of Scranton
3 funds.
4 As the Council President who is also
5 running for reelection, do you perceive any
6 potential conflict of interest? Because word
7 on the street is that this individual may be
8 one of your running mates. How do you plan to
9 address this issue? And do you believe it
10 could influence voters similarly to the
11 supermarket gift cards that have been mentioned
12 over and over with no accountability.
13 Please note that these gift cards
14 are all numbered and they could be traced to
15 see when and if they were redeemed.
16 NeighborWorks is accepting applications until
17 March 28th, 2025. Awards will be announced in
18 May, 2025, coincidently right before the
19 election.
20 NeighborWorks is a highly regarded
21 program that upholds ethical standards. Please
22 don't play a part in tarnishing this great
23 program, Council.
24 For the record, the parade day per
25 police reports was labeled one of the worst, if
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1 not the worst. And it wasn't with the parade
2 itself. It was with the University of Scranton
3 students and their guests. Their blatant
4 disregard of the law, disrespect of the city,
5 disrespect of our law enforcement men and women
6 and most importantly the disrespect of the
7 University of Scranton.
8 The tax exempt University of
9 Scranton provides an annual contribution of
10 pittance to the City of Scranton in lieu of
11 taxes. This pilot payment in lieu of taxes was
12 fully utilized to address issues in 400 block
13 of Clay Avenue.
14 The university's yearly donation of
15 pittance was exhausted on Saturday to say the
16 least. It was insufficient to cover the
17 manpower and a strain on our emergency
18 services. Moreover, several police units
19 incurred flat tires due to the broken glass.
20 You could check with Kost Tire.
21 Over 24 arrests, this isn't how good
22 Catholic Jesuits should conduct themself. Is
23 anyone planning to request a meeting with
24 President Father Marina and/or University
25 Police Chief Donald Bergman about Saturday's
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1 issues?
2 If you are hesitant on those
3 meetings, let me know. This is an ideal matter
4 for a Council candidate to address. Quote
5 from the University's website: "Our university
6 community takes great pride in knowing that
7 Scranton students are prepared and challenged
8 to go forth and set the world on fire."
9 Is this before or after the events
10 of Saturday that took place in the city them
11 temporarily reside in. Have a nice night,
12 Council.
13 MR. SMURL: Thank you.
14 MR. MANCINI: Good evening, Council,
15 Mike Mancini, Scranton. Prayers to the police
16 officer that was involved in an accident today
17 on Keyser Avenue. The airbags were deployed.
18 I spoke with Officer Troutman just now. One of
19 our finest will be okay.
20 Also heartfelt thank you to
21 Scranton Police, DPW, first responders for
22 parade day and every other single day. The
23 University of Scranton needs to step up and
24 take better control of their students.
25 It's one thing to celebrate
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1 responsibly like I did with my Irish and Welsh
2 heritage. It's another to involve our local
3 law enforcement to the point that several were
4 on scene throughout the day and night. Later
5 in the evening there was a gunshot.
6 Thankfully no one was injured.
7 Last thing I know, he remains at large. I
8 respectfully appeared before Council quite a
9 few times. And I've asked very important
10 questions just for them to go unanswered. This
11 independent is starting to think that the same,
12 bird of a feather flock together. Hence,
13 crickets.
14 Regardless of the importance of our
15 roads if it's the points of our roads with
16 swerve patterns burned into our memories, extra
17 set of doors downstairs, the increased nature
18 and frequency of our 911 calls, shallow pool
19 coming next -- coming real soon with pickle
20 ball being more important at Nay Aug, sale of
21 the Sewer Authority, progress in election year,
22 no balance and accountable link for the ARPA
23 funds on the city website, flipping the bird to
24 all of our amazing unionized employees, net
25 savings on bond refinancing just to cover the
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1 lawsuits by this expansion team.
2 Changing the police examination, it
3 was never broken; disbanding the Drug Task
4 Force, the current homeless condition, etc.,
5 etc. A pill press was found in our city. How
6 many local people did that impact? How many
7 lost their lives?
8 My son passed away because he ended
9 up trusting someone to have taken his life a
10 day after his 26th birthday. The person who
11 did this is accountable. He will be sentenced
12 June 18th. I'll get my closure. Locally no
13 one gets closure. This is morally wrong on so
14 many levels.
15 To disband the Drug Task Force,
16 expect the county detectives to pick up 40
17 percent more cases is reckless. We have a
18 railway coming soon. We're nowhere near ready,
19 nor will we be ready with a slate of
20 individuals who have announced.
21 On one side we have puddle pool
22 Paige who thinks it's okay to feature pickle
23 ball courts over a deep pool at Nay Aug with
24 diving boards. Seven years families have
25 missed memories because of someone who doesn't
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1 care.
2 You know who else doesn't care?
3 Unclean Gene Barrett. He was the Director of
4 the Scranton Sewer Authority when it was sold.
5 Where was he? Where is he? He knows where
6 this is at. He knows Council. The only reason
7 why he has appeared is because I keep
8 mentioning the Sewer Authority sale.
9 I was told by someone that people
10 don't care about that. I think so. Millions
11 of questionable dollars were spent on 51
12 attorneys. I hope they start practicing
13 Karaoke. Somebody is going to be singing the
14 beginning of 2026, the good people of Scranton
15 have their way.
16 To my son's passing, so many amazing
17 people have reached out to me. I'm so humbled
18 by it. The city is very special to me. My son
19 never would have wanted to come home to our
20 current climate.
21 Tomorrow, I will pick up the
22 necessary documents to start the process to run
23 for Mayor of our beautiful City of Scranton. I
24 feel as if no one else is more inclined to make
25 better decisions for the good people of
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1 Scranton.
2 And when you set the narrative, you
3 know, or can get the answers. I'm not going
4 anywhere. I will knock on one door at a time
5 and be humbled by those I meet because I am one
6 of them.
7 Day one I will be John Taffer from
8 Bar Rescue, I'll rip off the extra set of
9 doors. I will bust open the books. And I will
10 have the City of Scranton and the Electric City
11 shine bright once again because change is
12 coming. It's inevitable.
13 No one can do this better than
14 someone who cares, someone without the strings.
15 And on day one, all of those problems that
16 we've had in the past with the corruption, all
17 the people looking for handouts and the
18 careless contracts that we put out like
19 Rubicon, they're all gone. And for two of you,
20 it will be an honor to serve with you. Good
21 evening, Council.
22 MR. SMURL: Anyone else?
23 MR. LITTLE: Hello, Council, Rik
24 Little from Scranton. I'd like to talk about
25 basic civics of democracy locally. The way I
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1 see it, we saved our republic with the last
2 presidential election. But everybody is
3 freaking out because it's been the same for so
4 long.
5 In the city government and the
6 Lackawanna government, it's everybody waiting
7 for their federal thing. It's especially --
8 that's especially in like the school board, the
9 housing board, and the other nine boards.
10 They talk -- everybody talks about
11 transparency.
12 But last Friday on the website for
13 Lackawanna County, they still had Matt
14 Cartright as the 8th District Congressman. And
15 that's just wrong. I don't know if they
16 changed it. I told them about it.
17 I think the main problem is the
18 constitution for the city and the county.
19 We're supposed to follow the US Constitution in
20 civics and the state constitution which mirrors
21 that. But when you get down to the county and
22 the city, it's Home Rule Charter.
23 That is the constitution that people
24 have been going under. And it's just so wrong.
25 I think it really started to go wrong around
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1 1977. And it's just gotten worse and worse. I
2 mean, HUD -- SHA was talking about, oh, they're
3 going to get a consultant.
4 And I went to the meeting and they
5 had to amend their minutes on the consultant.
6 Everything is with a consultant or a study
7 committee. And this is all just keeping people
8 away from the information that needs to be
9 known.
10 I mean, the Lackawanna County
11 budget, 48 percent of it has to do with law
12 enforcement. And that's the police and the
13 courts and everything. And if you look into
14 the family court, you know, they budget the
15 courts. But two-thirds of it is for the family
16 courts.
17 I see it as like a, you know, the
18 Marxist thing that's been coming in, the
19 democrat thing. People are freaking out. And
20 I read in the paper today, you know, about the
21 change in power. And it's really being --
22 there's no -- there's no -- they are just
23 talking about things most people don't even
24 understand and that is, you know, democrats
25 resubmit same three potential candidates.
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1 This is taxation without
2 representation. We voted on stuff. We got
3 three people that constitute the legislature
4 and the executive for all of Lackawanna County.
5 But then it goes to the Court of Common Pleas
6 judges.
7 And it's just crazy when you look at
8 how much these judges are paid. They are paid,
9 you know, a couple thousand more than judges in
10 Philly are paid. And a US Senator is paid like
11 174,000. These judges are paid $237,000. But,
12 you know, they made up a rule in October of
13 2019.
14 You read it in the paper. They're
15 going under PA Code 1908. And you read it and,
16 you know, that's taking democracy away from
17 people. It's all being put into the judges.
18 And everybody is reading the papers and getting
19 out of shape because they're reading the AP,
20 the same AP that USAID funded for propaganda.
21 That's all people know.
22 And it has to get better. There has
23 to be -- some sort of real democracy, respect
24 for the civics of government rules. And we
25 have to know the government rules. Thank you.
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1 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Anyone else?
2 MS. SCHUMACHER: Good evening,
3 Council, Marie Schumacher. Did the -- do you
4 know whether or not the DPW did the cleanup
5 after the parade or was that contracted out to
6 somebody?
7 MR. SMURL: I don't know of any
8 contracts. I know DPW was out there. I don't
9 know of any other contract.
10 MS. SCHUMACHER: Okay, because it
11 was really quite -- I was impressed with how
12 fast they got it back to normal. So now a
13 while back, you all voted to put a light
14 behind -- I don't know what you call them --
15 the end of the lookout on 307. And it never
16 happened.
17 And I'm, I mean, we all knew that it
18 wasn't going to stop anything, but I'm pretty
19 sure it would have cut back the damage done to
20 the place because people do go up and down and
21 like call the police for Pete's sake. But so
22 may I have these --
23 MR. MCANDREW: Is this current?
24 MS. SCHUMACHER: Yes, it is.
25 MR. MCANDREW: I mean, you know,
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1 before the winter I brought it to our school.
2 The masonry class was going take it on as a
3 project. And I was told by the city, whoa,
4 slow down. Wait a second. We'll take a look
5 at it and we'll probably take care of it. I
6 didn't realize nothing --
7 MS. SCHUMACHER: Yeah, it's -- you
8 got to agree it's beautiful, right?
9 MR. MCANDREW: I thought it was
10 taken care of, sorry. Can we check it out,
11 please, see why nothing's been done?
12 MS. SCHUMACHER: I mean, it's
13 pathetic.
14 MR. MCANDREW: The students were
15 prepared to do it before the winter. So it's
16 probably worse now because of the winter and
17 the elements.
18 MS. SCHUMACHER: So what happens,
19 something or do we have just leave it like
20 that? Okay. You're talking about doing --
21 making the city look better. And I went to the
22 Council or the Commissioners of the County and
23 asked them to do something about that wall that
24 goes from the Radison down to the next building
25 on Lackawanna Avenue because that is not very
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1 inviting.
2 As a matter of fact, probably would
3 want to go across the street for fear if you go
4 down that, it might fall down on you. It needs
5 to be taken down and redone. And they said,
6 yeah, that they were meeting with the Mayor.
7 Now, do you know has the Mayor communicated
8 with you at all? Did --
9 MR. SMURL: Marie, the only thing I
10 know about that wall is that was included in a
11 project and they were awaiting for approval
12 from PennDOT. But they tried to separate that
13 wall so they could do that wall before the
14 entire project. That's the last I know of.
15 MS. SCHUMACHER: Well, can you find
16 out because that is not -- that does not invite
17 you to the city, I could tell you that. Okay.
18 Well, thank you. And how many pilots do we
19 have? Do you have --
20 MR. SCHUSTER: There's a little bit
21 over a thousand.
22 MS. SCHUMACHER: Over a thousand?
23 And how much in dollars and cents?
24 MR. SCHUSTER: I couldn't tell you.
25 I don't have the information in front of me.
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1 MS. SCHUMACHER: Okay, just
2 wondering. Curious. Okay, thank you.
3 MR. SCHUSTER: Mr. Voldenberg, can
4 we look at -- can we ask the administration
5 where we're at on the Lackawanna project. I
6 know there was two projects grant funding was
7 available, one for the wall, one for the road
8 if we could just get an update where we're at
9 with that.
10 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, sir.
11 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much.
12 MR. DOBRZYN: Good evening, Council,
13 Council, Dave Dobrzyn, resident of Scranton.
14 Next time on the PUC I mentioned this last
15 week, I hope to stay on it. We need to tag
16 team between Council and the Mayor.
17 And I think it's about time we
18 tighten up on this because my gas bill was, oh,
19 about $120 more up to $430 with modern windows
20 and the works. It's immoral. And the state
21 constitution requires us to have tax exempts.
22 And they do great things.
23 I mean, nobody wants to see anybody
24 die because they were driven to a hospital down
25 in Hoboken, New Jersey or something. However,
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1 we need a citizens Council to study this and
2 possibly raise money to get into court and have
3 the state required to replace some of the money
4 at least of the taxes that are lost.
5 It's too much, too much. Now, a few
6 basic facts. You know, in Moscow, Russia,
7 there are road signs laying claim to Alaska.
8 And this is true. It's true. They actually
9 have road signs claiming that they should
10 re-annex Alaska. How many time zones does
11 Mr. Poopski need over there that he does
12 nothing with.
13 And another fact of life, we hear a
14 lot about Medicaid and Medicare and welfare and
15 all types of assistance. 80 percent of all
16 people on assistance have jobs. They just
17 don't pay a living wage. I wish they had never
18 come up -- or I never heard of that inequality.
19 Some people go to school for 10 years or 12
20 years to just to become a surgeon.
21 Do they really deserve somebody to
22 stumble into a garage one day and hopefully
23 became the top dog like I did. You know, there
24 was nobody left. They moved on or got too old
25 or whatever. And here 's a couple things that
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1 happened this week.
2 A C17 was flown to India with eight
3 undocumented immigrants. There was an ad to
4 sell the CIA building, National Oceanic
5 building and Atmospheric, ya, ya, ya;
6 Department of Justice and the Social Security
7 building in Plains was also listed.
8 And by the way, there are 2.7
9 trillion dollars in the trust fund for Social
10 Security as we speak. So somebody wants to
11 pause on it. And that's all there is to it or
12 they don't want to repay on the government
13 bonds that they issued for the money.
14 Ukraine was suspended both on aid
15 and intelligence. And a little story about
16 General Dynamics, they quadrupled their
17 productive capacity because a 155 millimeter
18 artillery shell was 2,100 bucks and it went up
19 to 8,400 bucks, 400 percent, 400 percent.
20 And on Steamtown, those were not
21 protesters down there. Employees are forbidden
22 to participate in politics. They could have
23 been fired for going down to the courthouse.
24 That was Mr. Casey, Bob Casey, not the Senator.
25 He's a school director.
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1 And, okay, we have 20 trillion
2 taxable income and 3 trillion in imports. So
3 how is 3 trillion in imports going to make up
4 for the taxes of 20 trillion, hardly being paid
5 on. And the -- one of the Steamtown people
6 were fired were a mechanic. And they were
7 working on museum pieces that are 10 times more
8 difficult to work on.
9 So think about it and have a good
10 night. By the way, I'm sick and tired of
11 people being accused of corrupt without
12 evidence here. It stinks.
13 MR. SMURL: Anyone else?
14 MR. SIMRELL: Good evening, Council.
15 My name is Bailey Simrell. You probably
16 remember me from last week. I am a Scranton
17 resident. I am also a technology consultant,
18 software developer. I wanted to share some
19 additional observations that I think are
20 crucial on the Rubicon Routeware situation.
21 You could, of course, choose to
22 accept my perspective or not; but I just want
23 to get my thoughts out there. So first of all,
24 regarding pricing and financials, on February
25 25th at the caucus, the IT Director emphasized
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1 a supposed discount noting that the first year
2 software fee of about $33,805 was lower than
3 our previous costs.
4 However, the contract contains as
5 you all know built in initial 10 percent
6 increase after the first year and 15 percent
7 year increase year over year after. So the
8 breakdown after five years costs a total of
9 $227,927.
10 And that is $58,000 more than if the
11 fee just stayed at the flat rate. So given
12 we've already invested millions into this with
13 no proven savings, I don't know how we could
14 justify these escalating costs without a robust
15 analysis.
16 In regards to contractual terms,
17 renewals, extensions and due process, the
18 initial contract from years ago ended on
19 December 31st, 2024. But Rubicon continues to
20 operate in our city. Under what basis? Under
21 what budget?
22 So operating under an expired
23 contract is more than just a little thing. It
24 raises concerns about unauthorized spending,
25 compliance with procurement rules and the
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1 city's overall accountability.
2 If Council never formally authorized
3 a bridge or a holdover extension on this, then
4 we need an immediate explanation as to who
5 approved these ongoing payments and under what
6 legal authority.
7 And if there aren't ongoing
8 payments, then what are the terms for this
9 interim period? Additionally, the new document
10 is stamped draft in all caps and marked as
11 offer good through January 1st, 2025.
12 Well, as of today, March 11th, 2025,
13 that date is obviously invalid which from a
14 legal perspective I think would call the entire
15 contract's enforceability into question. So if
16 the good until date has passed, the contract is
17 arguably void or unenforceable as it is
18 written.
19 Even if the city attempts to sign it
20 now, any future legal dispute can leave us
21 exposed because the vendor or a court might
22 argue that this was never a valid contract in
23 the first place. We also need to consider how
24 the purported exit clauses or other provisions
25 would hold up if the entire agreement of the
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1 framework is anchored to a date that is already
2 expired.
3 I want to also address some comments
4 last week to different Council members. So
5 first in response to Councilman King, last week
6 you noted that although there is an exit clause
7 if Rubicon fails to perform, we haven't seen
8 enough proof of its performance. You also said
9 you wanted answers before we move forward, yet
10 the process continues.
11 If we don't have concrete metrics
12 like whether the software reliably detects when
13 a truck is full, how can we ever prove failure
14 to perform in court if we needed to? In
15 regards to Councilwoman Rothchild, you
16 acknowledged barriers to switching software
17 vendors, but I respectfully disagree with you
18 that continuing with Rubicon is our only option
19 because a switch might be more costly.
20 Switching or developing inhouse can
21 definitely be expensive. But continuing to
22 fund software with no demonstrated ROI is also
23 expensive. And we've already poured a lot of
24 money into this. And the projected $395,000
25 per year in savings is still nowhere to be
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1 found.
2 We have no robust before and after
3 data about reduced overtime, fewer fines or
4 lower maintenance cost. And I honestly think
5 that that is unacceptable if we're signing on
6 for a five-year contract. We haven't seen a
7 thorough cost benefit analysis of other
8 solutions.
9 And you've mentioned a need for more
10 data on performance metrics and exit clauses.
11 Yet, here we are prepared to vote. I think we
12 really should try and get these details ironed
13 out. I don't think there should be one thing
14 up in the air if we're going to be voting on
15 something like this.
16 In regards to what you said last
17 week, Councilman Smurl, you said we've already
18 poured money into Rubicon and that it's
19 starting to work. With respect, that is like
20 the sunken cost fallacy. Previous investments
21 don't justify pressing forward without tangible
22 proof of savings.
23 You talked about repeated issues
24 with turn by return where drivers deviate to
25 collect missed pickups and handle -- and the
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1 system constantly resets causing delays and
2 overtime. And if the software can't handle
3 routine deviations, we have to ask is it truly
4 optimizing anything.
5 I'm out of time here, but I have a
6 little more on this if anybody wants to talk
7 about it, of course, I'm happy to chat. But,
8 yeah, I just think three years, no hard data,
9 price escalations and contractual concerns with
10 the details -- a lot of red flags.
11 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Anyone else?
12 MR. SCHUSTER: Mr. Voldenberg, can
13 we ask the administration, so we were presented
14 that we were going to -- initially we were
15 present with we were going to have a possible
16 software update that we were going purchase.
17 But can we ask if, in fact, Rubicon is still
18 operating in the city because I was under the
19 impression that we were operating software that
20 we already purchased with the possibility of an
21 update.
22 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll ask that
23 question.
24 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you.
25 MR. VOLDENBERG: FIFTH ORDER. 5-A.
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1 MOTIONS.
2 MR. SMURL: Mr. King, do you have
3 any motions or comments?
4 MR. KING: Mr. Voldenberg, can we
5 get an update on the funding for phase two for
6 the pool at Nay Aug? I believe there was an
7 expectation that the eight lane pool would be
8 done this year. That was going to be the
9 second phase. But I know that they're moving
10 forward with the zero entry pool and the splash
11 pad, which was the first phase.
12 But I'm wondering about the funding.
13 I know that they've been -- they've applied for
14 some additional funding for the eight lane
15 pool.
16 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, Mr. King.
17 MR. KING: And also, code
18 enforcement records, I was wondering if we
19 could get an update on like just maybe back a
20 couple months of how many, you know, citations
21 have been ordered or issued, paid, fines, just
22 an update for Council over the last few months.
23 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, sir.
24 MR. KING: I think that's all I
25 have. Thank you.
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1 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. King.
2 Mr. Schuster, do you have any motions or
3 comments?
4 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes, I have a few.
5 Thank you, Mr. King for asking for that update
6 on phase two. I know with phase one, some of
7 the infrastructure for phase two is going to go
8 in. But I'm curious to see what that update
9 would be.
10 Mr. Voldenberg, can we also get an
11 update on the recycling bids? Within the last
12 three weeks I received an answer that we would
13 be looking to put a recycle bid together. So
14 if we could just get an update.
15 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll make note of
16 that.
17 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much.
18 In regard to Marie with the tax exempt
19 properties, there is over a thousand. There's
20 about 1600 on the list. But that's not 1600
21 individual tax exempt entities. A lot of
22 those, you know, there may be 500 properties
23 for the University of Scranton.
24 Some of those are disabled veterans,
25 you know, a lot of them are churches, schools,
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1 etc. So it's not 1600 individual. After I
2 stated that I didn't want to get -- I didn't
3 want everybody to be under the impression that
4 there was 1600 individual properties or over a
5 thousand individual properties.
6 I had some questions last week. We
7 discussed the amount of refuse trucks that had
8 scales on them. So we do have 15 refuse trucks
9 at this point in time. Nine of them have
10 scales. I believe half of that nine was
11 probably installed on those trucks in the last
12 two years.
13 And we have two new trucks coming
14 April. And they will also have scales. So 15
15 trucks in total, nine currently have the scales
16 to determine where they are at in regard to
17 weight.
18 I asked about an update with the
19 pave cut. As of January we've -- the
20 administration has decided to go in a new
21 direction with our pave cuts. They have
22 negotiated with the union that those pave cut
23 inspections -- inspectors are now out of the
24 contract and they're going to be using a
25 company for pave cuts.
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1 So I got an answer on this. For
2 routine prescheduled work, the utility company
3 is going to submit a permit and notify the
4 inspection firm before the work begins. An
5 inspector is going to be present onsite for
6 most of the work documenting the progress
7 through the field reports and through photos.
8 The information is uploaded to the
9 permit on Open Gov. If any compliance issues
10 of restoration arise, the inspector directly
11 contacts the designated city point of contact.
12 For emergency work, the utility company must
13 submit a permit within 24 hours for the next
14 business day.
15 DPW is open and notified of the
16 inspection firm and the excavation. These
17 inspections may not always be conducted in
18 real time the administration stated. But field
19 reports, photos and documentation of issues
20 follow the same process of routine inspection.
21 And it's on Open Gov.
22 So this was the process that was
23 given to us by the administration. It's only
24 two months into their new process. So we shall
25 see how it goes. So I'll remain on top of
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1 this. I asked some questions about the fire
2 department and when we're called out of the
3 city.
4 And the answer that I got was that
5 Chief John Judge can discuss these matters at a
6 caucus on April 15th. So Chief Judge will be
7 in on April 15th. I have several more. So
8 last week Keystone Mission was in. And I
9 discussed there's a balance between taking care
10 of people in need and also being good
11 neighbors.
12 We can take care of people in need
13 as well as being good neighbors. We were told
14 that on the 28th of February, SPD, DPW, the Law
15 Department and Lackawanna Valley Heritage
16 Authority were meeting to discuss the river and
17 the railroad corridor.
18 And I'd like to ask, Mr. Voldenberg,
19 can we please find out if the Keystone Mission
20 has been invited, will they be part of those
21 discussions and will they be part of a cleanup
22 if there is, indeed, a cleanup?
23 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, sir.
24 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. In regard
25 to Meadow Brook, we were informed that a
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1 meeting was to occur on the 27th between DGS
2 and DEP, the city and Reilly Associates to make
3 adjustments to the plan that were discussed and
4 agreed upon by the affected residents as well
5 as the city administration.
6 Can we ask if there has been an
7 update from that 27th -- that February 27th
8 meeting and can we get those updated plans to
9 those residents?
10 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will.
11 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much.
12 I know we got some questions. I know Mr. King
13 had some questions on Rubicon last week. And
14 Mrs. Rothchild also had some questions on that.
15 Did you guys have your questions answered? Did
16 you receive answers for the go backs?
17 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes, I was able to
18 have a conversation with Jack Reager and report
19 on that.
20 MR. SCHUSTER: Okay. So a
21 conversations was had with the IT Department.
22 All right. I just wanted to make sure -- I
23 know Mr. Gilbride forwarded some of the answers
24 that --
25 MR. KING: I met with Jack Reager as
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1 well and got a lot of things answered.
2 MR. SCHUSTER: Okay. Thank you.
3 That is all for now, Mr. Smurl.
4 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Schuster.
5 Dr. Rothchild, do you have any motions or
6 comments?
7 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes, thank you.
8 First off, I just wanted to report an address,
9 636 Harrison Avenue. A neighbor was
10 complaining that there was some furniture and
11 debris out front of the property. People may
12 have been moving recently and there was a piece
13 of furniture that ended up in front of their
14 property and they moved it back to the other
15 one and tried to get in touch with the people
16 living there but was unable to.
17 So I'd like to see if we could get
18 code enforcement over to that property to see
19 what's going on there.
20 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, Dr.
21 Rothchild.
22 DR. ROTHCHILD: Thank you. And
23 there's a few things that I want to touch on
24 that I have in the past and I'm getting tired
25 of repeating myself. So please make sure that
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1 these get sent to the Mayor and the
2 administration.
3 I would like to get responses back
4 to my questions. So the first concern that was
5 brought to me by a resident along the 1900
6 block of Prospect Avenue with several noise
7 complaints well documented and a lot of
8 information that we have forwarded along, I
9 want to find out what has been done about it
10 along the lines with SPD if there is any
11 conversations with the neighbors or residents
12 who are causing the noise complaint issues and
13 how we might address that.
14 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will.
15 DR. ROTHCHILD: The next one is for
16 code enforcement. And that's once again the
17 Vine Street Station or former Vine Street
18 Station at the corner of Vine and Prescott,
19 which I drive past pretty regularly myself and
20 the trash and debris problem is getting out of
21 hand there.
22 And I'm not sure if people are
23 dumping there at this point. There have been
24 tires but now there's a number of other things
25 there. And a lot of people parking there who
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1 are not using the community center next door
2 which I think is fine if the owner is okay with
3 that. But it's more of the trash and dumping
4 that I'm concerned with.
5 MR. VOLDENBERG: They are in
6 discussions with the owner. I'll get a
7 timeframe.
8 DR. ROTHCHILD: I know they're in
9 discussions but they've been in discussions and
10 nothing's happened. So I want to know if the
11 next step -- like, why they aren't being taken
12 to the magistrate like we have been doing with
13 the other properties.
14 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll firm it up.
15 DR. ROTHCHILD: Thank you. And
16 another thing as well that I was reminded of,
17 prior to the winter there were markings made by
18 DPW there. But the curb cut that we've been
19 asked for probably like a dozen times on Colfax
20 and Olive, wanted to get an update on what's
21 happening with that and if work will begin on
22 that soon.
23 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will.
24 DR. ROTHCHILD: Thank you. And one
25 more thing, Lackawanna Avenue I know we've had
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1 people bring this up in the past and I just
2 want to get an update on it and I didn't hear
3 from any others.
4 So I know that it's partly state
5 owned and I think it's kind of embarrassing too
6 when the parade is going down Lackawanna Avenue
7 and you are hitting every pothole and the poor
8 markings there has well. So I want to, you
9 know, see what PennDOT is planning on doing
10 about that.
11 I know that there was -- was work
12 being done by utilities along there prior to
13 the winter but want to know if that work's
14 completed and when repaving will happen as well
15 as line working and signage.
16 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will.
17 DR. ROTHCHILD: And I did want to
18 thank them for being responsive to the concerns
19 that we had on South Washington Avenue. I did
20 hear that -- that there were lines painted on
21 there. So that's all that I have.
22 And then with regards to Rubicon or
23 Routeware, that contract I plan on speaking to
24 that when it comes up in legislation. Thank
25 you.
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1 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Dr.
2 Rothchild. Mr. McAndrew, do you have any
3 motions or comments?
4 MR. MCANDREW: I have a couple. So
5 since public comment I'm sitting here and I'm
6 sick to my stomach for what Miss Gonzales and
7 your daughter had to go through. This is
8 unacceptable. And for your daughter to
9 actually witness this, this gentleman -- not
10 gentleman, this scumbag probably knew it.
11 There is no excuse for this. It
12 occurred more than once -- at least four times.
13 I know we said this earlier, but we need
14 answers. This piece of garbage should not be
15 living in any complex and should have been
16 arrested already. The pictures here say it
17 all. They're evidence in my opinion.
18 So please, you know, make sure we
19 reach out to the police department. This
20 complex and who is responsible there and why
21 really nothing has been done. We need answers.
22 I do. I'm sure my colleagues here and the
23 public needs answers, okay. Thank you.
24 So next, there's a lot next to
25 Willard School. Every year it's an issue.
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1 It's not kept. Now that it got a little
2 warmer, there's a ton of garbage there. The
3 same resident is complaining. I feel sorry for
4 the poor guy because he has to look it all the
5 time.
6 You know, it's cleaned up once in a
7 while. But can we please follow up on that?
8 It's a yearly issue that needs to be taken care
9 of once and for all. So the bidding for
10 recycling, this all stems from commingling and
11 the ability that they want -- you know, the
12 landfill doesn't want to deal with it or want
13 to charge more because China doesn't do it
14 anymore for us like they used to.
15 So, you know, 18 weeks is a couple
16 months that we're waiting to hear what the plan
17 is. Initially I brought it up. I think most
18 of us brought it up. And we were told there
19 will be discussion. Well, I think a discussion
20 should have been had by now.
21 And then now the decision was, hey,
22 we'll put recycling out to bid. I mean, I made
23 a suggestion right from the start that, you
24 know, okay, if the commingling of plastic and
25 bottles is the issue, which is producing more
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1 costs for us and all of you, why not not have
2 an extra pickup, just another rotation.
3 You know you got paper one week.
4 You got plastic the next week and then glass
5 the next week at least until they figure this
6 out. I recommended it, on deaf ears. So now
7 we're paying to $44,000. Maybe we didn't have
8 to do that.
9 Now, we're going to wait for -- you
10 know, keep waiting to hear about we're going to
11 put out bids or the administration is for
12 recycling. But this is another example of
13 just, you know, the slow process and the lack
14 of transparency when we asked a question and we
15 think it's being done like this wall here.
16 It will be taken care of. So when
17 we hear that, we actually believe it. I don't
18 believe it anymore. I don't believe it as
19 much. So that's an issue that we need some
20 more answers for. And let's see here.
21 So I asked multiple questions,
22 multiple weeks with regards to the fire
23 department with reciprocal services that exist.
24 I asked if they were in writing somewhere with
25 all the -- with the surrounding boroughs when
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1 the fire department goes on a call.
2 We're told it's in writing. It's an
3 agreement forever. But, like I said, I still
4 have issue with it because when our brave
5 firefighters are outside of the city, we want
6 to help them but what happens here. What about
7 our own? Are we staffed enough? We never got
8 all of these answers. All the questions I
9 asked and then we finally get an answer weeks
10 later that, well, we'll have to have a
11 discussion.
12 So now what I've got from last week
13 is, Councilman McAndrew asked, of course, all
14 of these questions and now please be advised
15 that there will be a caucus with Chief Judge
16 scheduled for April 15th to address all of our
17 questions. So I look very much forward to
18 that.
19 And Rubicon, I'll deal with that in
20 Fifth Order. That's beating a dead dog there.
21 But that was addressed. And I think that's all
22 I have. Thank you.
23 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. McAndrew.
24 Before we proceed onto Fifth Order, Attorney
25 Gilbride, will you inform everyone about the
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1 reason we need legal counsel and what it's all
2 about on Item 5-F?
3 ATTY. GILBRIDE: Yes. So the
4 current legislation that you're considering
5 tonight, the resolution in regard to the
6 appointment of Dilworth Paxson on behalf of the
7 city, special counsel for parking matters, as
8 you heard from our caucus earlier when the
9 Borough America and the car park were here,
10 they are going to be going out for bond issues
11 basically.
12 They need refinancing. Public
13 financing is an extremely specialized portion
14 of the law. And not all attorneys are allowed
15 to actually practice in that field. I myself
16 am not. I'm pretty sure there is nobody here
17 in the city that has their certification to do
18 that work.
19 And that's because it's just so
20 highly specialized and Dilworth Paxson is a
21 firm that's been around for almost a hundred
22 years at least. I know they do a ton of this
23 type of work because we are going -- this is
24 really Council and the city setting yourselves
25 up to be protected in case when they go out for
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1 the bond deal, the city is protected.
2 I do need you to keep in mind that
3 the appointment of this Council costs the city
4 zero. Even though the numbers are in the
5 resolution, that's just to show what their fees
6 are. But those fees will come from the
7 proceeds of the bonds once the bonds go out to
8 the public.
9 As you heard from Grow America, I
10 believe Mr. Trevisani told us that because of
11 the issues that they dealt with during the
12 pandemic -- and we all know what those were.
13 The whole world was shout down. So nobody was
14 putting money in the parking meters and no
15 money was coming in.
16 And they still had to make payments
17 to their bondholders, their investors. And
18 they basically from what they said today, it
19 sounds to me like they used up all their
20 reserves they had. They tried to wait out
21 the -- from what they said, it sounds like they
22 tried to wait out the markets hoping that the
23 interest rates would drop. They have not.
24 And so now they have to go out to do
25 this at a great loss from what he said for the
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1 actual bondholders. So I don't know what that
2 amount would be. But obviously the bondholders
3 themselves have made the decision that they're
4 better off losing whatever money they're going
5 to lose now to make sure that the system itself
6 stays strong and doesn't fail completely and
7 then turn into a bankruptcy which would at that
8 point impact the City of Scranton and the
9 taxpayers.
10 So you're really just doing this
11 prophylactically so you have counsel -- the
12 city has counsel to make sure that whatever
13 changes are getting made to that concession
14 agreement when it goes out to bid, the city
15 itself is protected.
16 MR. SMURL: Okay. Thank you,
17 Attorney Gilbride.
18 MR. SCHUSTER: Just so it's repeated
19 again, the legal fees and this legal contract
20 are going to be covered by the proceeds of the
21 bond.
22 ATTY. GILBRIDE: That's correct. In
23 these type of public financing deals, those
24 come from the bond proceeds.
25 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you.
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1 MR. SMURL: Okay. Frank, 5-B.
2 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-B. FOR
3 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - REAPPOINTMENT OF
4 MICHAEL HANLEY AS A MEMBER OF THE SCRANTON
5 REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD FOR A TERM TO
6 EXPIRE ON FEBRUARY 4, 2030.
7 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll
8 entertain a motion that Item 5-B be introduced
9 into its proper committee.
10 MR. MCANDREW: So moved.
11 DR. ROTHCHILD: So moved.
12 MR. KING: Second.
13 MR. SMURL: On the question? All
14 those in favor of introduction signify by
15 saying aye.
16 MR. KING: Aye.
17 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.
18 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.
19 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.
20 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes
21 have it and so moved.
22 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-C. FOR
23 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - APPOINTMENT OF
24 THOMAS MILLER AS AN ALTERNATE MEMBER OF THE
25 CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION FOR A TERM TO EXPIRE
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1 WITH THE TERM OF THE MAYOR.
2 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll
3 entertain a motion that Item 5-C be introduced
4 into its proper committee.
5 MR. KING: So moved.
6 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.
7 MR. SMURL: On the question?
8 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question,
9 looking at the background information and the
10 resume, it may appear that this individual has
11 moved to the city in 2022. But it does say
12 he's working remotely. Can we just ensure that
13 this individual does have residence in the City
14 of Scranton?
15 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, Mr.
16 Schuster.
17 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you.
18 MR. SMURL: All right. All those in
19 favor of introduction signify by saying aye.
20 MR. KING: Aye.
21 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.
22 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.
23 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.
24 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes
25 have it and so moved.
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1 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-D. FOR
2 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - AUTHORIZING THE
3 CITY OF SCRANTON'S FIRE CHIEF, AS EMERGENCY
4 MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR, TO SIGN AN AGREEMENT
5 WITH PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
6 (PENNDOT) TO ACCESS THE PENNDOT CAMERA SYSTEM
7 IN THE SCRANTON AREA FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
8 AND EMERGENCY INCIDENTS.
9 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll
10 entertain a motion that Item 5-D be introduced
11 into its proper committee.
12 MR. MCANDREW: So moved.
13 MR. KING: Second.
14 MR. SMURL: On the question? All
15 those in favor of introduction signify by
16 saying aye.
17 MR. KING: Aye.
18 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.
19 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.
20 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.
21 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes
22 have it and so moved.
23 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-E. FOR
24 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - AUTHORIZING THE
25 MAYOR AND OTHER APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS TO
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1 EXECUTE AND ENTER INTO ANY ALL DOCUMENTS
2 NECESSARY TO PURCHASE CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THE
3 PROPERTY SITUATED AT THE 200 BLOCK OF SOUTH
4 10TH AVENUE IN SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA (PARCEL
5 15606-030-00102).
6 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll
7 entertain a motion that Item 5-E be introduced
8 into its proper committee.
9 MR. KING: So moved.
10 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.
11 MR. SMURL: On the question? All
12 those in favor of introduction signify by
13 saying aye.
14 MR. KING: Aye.
15 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.
16 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.
17 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.
18 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes
19 have it and so moved.
20 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-F. FOR
21 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - AUTHORIZING AND
22 APPROVING THE FEE AGREEMENT FOR LEGAL SERVICES
23 FROM THE LAW FIRM OF DILWORTH PAXSON, LLP ON
24 BEHALF OF THE CITY OF SCRANTON AS SPECIAL
25 COUNSEL FOR PARKING MATTERS.
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1 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll
2 entertain a motion that Item 5-F be introduced
3 into its proper committee.
4 MR. MCANDREW: So moved.
5 MR. KING: Second.
6 MR. SMURL: On the question?
7 MR. MCANDREW: On the question, so
8 like you, Miss Hodowanitz, when I saw this
9 legislation I thought, oh, God, we need more
10 lawyers? Because that happens a lot here. And
11 but I just want to thank Mr. Gilbride for
12 bringing up the value -- the valid points and
13 the necessity of this specialty.
14 I'm disappointed that that should
15 have been included in the legislation so none
16 of us would have had the questions that you had
17 or I had. It's just another example because
18 this happens a lot where we get something late,
19 last minute, you know, it raises my eyebrow
20 and, you know, like you because we've been, you
21 know, brought out before in front of us, like,
22 we're getting more lawyers, more consultants,
23 more -- so I'm glad that Solicitor Gilbride
24 clarified that for all of us; and I appreciate
25 it. Thank you.
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1 MR. SMURL: Thank you.
2 MR. SCHUSTER: Also on the question,
3 that is what I had written down for tonight as
4 well why can't our law department handle this?
5 We have more lawyers than we've had in the past
6 and the salaries over the last few years have
7 gone up. Maybe it's something we think about
8 moving forward having someone on hand that does
9 have some of these skills. But thank you,
10 Mr. Gilbride, for speaking with the
11 administration and getting our answer.
12 MR. SMURL: All those in favor of
13 introduction signify by saying aye.
14 MR. KING: Aye.
15 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.
16 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.
17 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.
18 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes
19 have it and so moved.
20 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-G. FOR
21 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - AMENDING BOARD
22 APPOINTMENT RESOLUTIONS TO BRING HISTORICALLY
23 INCORRECT TERMS INTO COMPLIANCE WITH STATE AND
24 CITY LAW, FOR THE SCRANTON REDEVELOPMENT
25 AUTHORITY, BOARD OF ETHICS, PLANNING
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1 COMMISSION, AND SCRANTON PARKING AUTHORITY.
2 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll
3 entertain a motion that Item 5-G be introduced
4 into its proper committee.
5 MR. MCANDREW: So moved.
6 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.
7 MR. SMURL: On the question? All
8 those in favor of introduction signify by
9 saying aye.
10 MR. KING: Aye.
11 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.
12 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.
13 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.
14 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes
15 have it and so moved.
16 MR. VOLDENBERG: SIXTH ORDER.
17 6-A. READING BY TITLE - FILE OF THE
18 COUNCIL NO. 60, 2025 - AN ORDINANCE -
19 AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND OTHER APPROPRIATE
20 CITY OFFICIALS TO EXECUTE AND ENTER INTO A
21 CABLE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF
22 SCRANTON AND RCN TELECOM SERVICES (LEHIGH), LLC
23 D/B/A ASTOUND BROADBAND.
24 MR. SMURL: You've heard reading by
25 title of Item 6-A. What is your pleasure?
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1 MR. MCANDREW: Mr. Chairman, I move
2 that Item 6-A pass reading by title.
3 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.
4 MR. SMURL: On the question? All
5 those in favor signify by saying aye.
6 MR. KING: Aye.
7 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.
8 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.
9 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.
10 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes
11 have it and so moved.
12 MR. VOLDENBERG: 6-B. READING BY
13 TITLE - FILE OF THE COUNCIL NO. 61, 2025 - AN
14 ORDINANCE - RATIFYING THE EXECUTION OF
15 TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION EASEMENT AGREEMENTS FOR
16 PARCELS LOCATED AT 1771 MCDONOUGH AVENUE AND
17 1804 BLOOM AVENUE, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.
18 MR. SMURL: You've heard reading by
19 title of Item 6-B. What is your pleasure?
20 MR. MCANDREW: Mr. Chairman, I move
21 that Item 6-B pass reading by title.
22 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.
23 MR. SMURL: On the question? All
24 those in favor signify by saying aye.
25 MR. KING: Aye.
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1 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.
2 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.
3 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.
4 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes
5 have it and so moved.
6 MR. VOLDENBERG: SEVENTH ORDER.
7 7.A. FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE
8 COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS - FOR ADOPTION - FILE
9 OF THE COUNCIL NO. 59, 2025 - AMENDING FILE OF
10 THE COUNCIL NO. 92 OF 2021 "AUTHORIZING THE
11 MAYOR AND OTHER APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS TO
12 EXECUTE AND ENTER INTO A CONTRACT BETWEEN THE
13 CITY OF SCRANTON AND RUBICON GLOBAL, LLC, TO
14 PROVIDE SMART WASTE RECYCLING DATA COLLECTION
15 AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE
16 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS' SOLID WASTE AND
17 RECYCLING FLEET" TO AMEND THE NAME TO READ
18 ROUTEWARE, INC., EXTEND THE TERM AN ADDITIONAL
19 60 MONTHS AND UPDATE THE PRICE SCHEDULE.
20 MR. SMURL: What is the
21 recommendation of the Chairperson for the
22 Committee on Public Works?
23 MR. SCHUSTER: As Chairperson for
24 the Committee on Public Works, I recommend
25 final vote on Item 7-A.
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1 MR. KING: Second.
2 MR. SMURL: On the question?
3 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question, as
4 Mr. McAndrew said earlier, this is like beating
5 a dead horse. We've spoken for three and a
6 half years or I could say myself, I've spoken
7 for three and a half years against this system.
8 They've had three years to optimize
9 routes. They've had three years to show
10 savings. The administration has had three
11 years to prove that this company works. We've
12 seen no return on investment. We've seen no
13 savings. We've seen no savings that were
14 reported.
15 We've seen no maintenance of our
16 vehicles. The last caucus that we had, we
17 heard of some issues that the system may even
18 be, in fact, causing to our vehicles. And our
19 routes are not completed and optimized.
20 So I don't know why after three
21 years with this company we would continue to go
22 down this path and extend this contract for
23 another five years. I will be voting no as I
24 have since the start.
25 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Schuster.
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1 MR. MCANDREW: On the question, so I
2 voted no for the first contract. And I'm glad
3 I did because their performance was below
4 subpar. They made promises they never kept.
5 Million dollars first year savings, come on.
6 And then they rolled it out three times in the
7 three years. And every time they did, garbage
8 laid for weeks.
9 They'd come back and say, well, you
10 know, we're collecting data that we could get
11 easily from the landfill which we already did.
12 And then, you know, then they changed hands and
13 they came in and, you know, initially the
14 contract was going to be a one year renewal.
15 So again, I mean, I can't reward a
16 five-year contract for performance that was
17 horrible and we are beating a dead horse here.
18 They've proven nothing to me. And, you know,
19 we get a couple people that think it's okay
20 because, you know, they're okay with change.
21 And it wasn't about change when it came to the
22 DPW workers.
23 Initially they wanted to sit down
24 for free and map this out. And then after, you
25 know, this three-year contract of subpar
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1 performance, they want us to just give them a
2 five-year contract.
3 And then also what enlightened me
4 was this young man Mr. Simrell who brought
5 great expertise and perspective the past two
6 weeks. I thank you again. So, you know, like
7 I said, I don't want to beat a dead horse.
8 And then of all things, I take a
9 little deeper look into the legislation and
10 Rubicon changed owners and out of the 49 other
11 states in the United States, guess where this
12 company is? Portland, Oregon. I know. I
13 mean, I don't know, you know, it's just -- it
14 just keeps getting too much for me. So I'll be
15 voting no actually.
16 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. McAndrew.
17 MR. KING: On the question, I had
18 the opportunity to meet with Jack Reager the
19 other day and asked a number of questions. He
20 gave me a demonstration of exactly how the new
21 Routeware program is working. They gave a
22 presentation here before us.
23 As is any program, it's important to
24 note that no program will work unless the
25 people are committed to it. We have new
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1 leadership down at DPW over the last two to
2 three -- three, four months. And it appears as
3 though the vast majority of our DPW workers
4 have embraced this program. It seems to be
5 working.
6 As of right now, we haven't paid
7 anything. It's -- the bill is 70 days over --
8 overdue. So the -- really to start over --
9 it's also, it's a software only renewal. And
10 as of right now, we don't even have paper maps
11 of any of the routes. It's all, you know,
12 built within the software.
13 So they do have ways of identifying
14 the weights and the tonnage. And based on
15 everything that was presented to me, I'm going
16 to support this.
17 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. King.
18 MR. SCHUSTER: Also on the question,
19 something I would like state is when this came
20 in front of us about three and a half years
21 ago, I did say I wasn't against the
22 digitization of routes. In fact, we may need
23 our routes digitized to, you know, come into
24 the modern age here.
25 But at this point in time they are
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1 not fulfilling their part of the contract. And
2 I see it as that's, I mean, that's the end,
3 period. They haven't filled their part of the
4 contract. So again, I'll be voting no.
5 MR. SMURL: Thank you.
6 DR. ROTHCHILD: On the question, I
7 have a number of things to say about this. But
8 first, I just want to -- some of my
9 conversations with -- that I had with Jack
10 Reager and some of the questions that I had
11 including, like, the data points. So one of
12 them that I was looking for was on the go
13 backs.
14 And what I had received last week,
15 that was more on the not outs, so they record
16 the not outs when someone's trash is not out
17 and they take a picture and say, here, it's,
18 you know, it's not out. And then so if someone
19 was to call in and say you forgot to pick up my
20 trash, they could say, well, we have a -- we
21 have a picture.
22 It was not out at that time. And so
23 they still make a, you know, return for it.
24 But if someone is a repeat offender and this
25 continues and they're, you know, seemingly
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1 taking advantage, then that's when that's --
2 that's an issue. And so that's where the
3 tracking becomes helpful.
4 When I want -- I wanted to see what
5 the go backs if that was lessening in the
6 amount that we were returning to these
7 properties for trash. And basically I was told
8 that there's like a lack of previous reporting.
9 So from what I remember a few years ago with
10 Rubicon, they did have some numbers and I'm not
11 really clear on where those numbers came from
12 at the time for the go backs.
13 I was told that, you know, perhaps
14 it was an estimate from the DPW Director at the
15 time. So, you know, I wish there was some of
16 that to be able to look towards to see since
17 this has been implemented if that's changed.
18 However, I did receive some additional data
19 points that I did want to share that I think
20 are helpful in seeing some of the changes.
21 So one of them is on the
22 overweights. So when a truck is overweight,
23 there is the potential for them to be fined.
24 And that could be $150 per 500 pounds
25 overweight. And there could be worsening
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1 penalties if this continues if they've received
2 multiple violations.
3 So and January of last year there
4 were 29 overweight violations compared to
5 January of this year after the optimization of
6 Rubicon there were 13. So it was 29 and now
7 it's 13. So there are less overweight
8 violations. And within the year of 2024, there
9 were 306 total violations.
10 So some of this is going to be
11 difficult to tell because it hasn't been
12 optimized for all that long to be able to get
13 some of that longer data. And then in addition
14 to that, there was some other things in terms
15 of driver compliance and the amount of routes
16 that have been logged, issues logged, and then
17 the tonnage that is being logged.
18 And so all of those have, like, have
19 drastically improved from the numbers that were
20 shared with me. So I do appreciate receiving
21 that and seeing that information. I do feel
22 like that's helpful. As I previously expressed
23 I have been frustrated in the length of time
24 that it's been to implement this program and
25 for the optimization that we were promised
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1 earlier.
2 So I have no problem with admitting
3 that I also have not been happy with this
4 company and the services that, you know, we had
5 received from them and the amount of time. And
6 I do understand that there were various
7 barriers and challenges even within our city
8 for implementing as we've been told in the past
9 when we've had caucuses on this.
10 But there's -- there are some
11 reasons why I will be in favor of this even
12 despite those -- despite those challenges that
13 we've had and what I've expressed. So -- one
14 of the biggest points is that if tomorrow if we
15 did not have this if we voted no and this did
16 not pass tonight, then what is our next step?
17 So, yes, we could put, you know,
18 then put out a bid for other software, but what
19 are their drivers going to do tomorrow; is
20 trash going to be picked up; do they have these
21 routes memorized in their mind; what will they
22 follow to get there, what happens when there is
23 numerous callouts for drivers that are familiar
24 with the routes and then you have other drivers
25 stepping in and doing that job.
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1 I'm not confident that we would be
2 able to get back on track that quickly or, you
3 know, to revert to the previous routes. I
4 really think that this would be a big step back
5 and it would wreak havoc. And, you know, even
6 like we are in this, unfortunately, and I think
7 it would be too difficult to get out of the
8 software and then get into another one.
9 Also the contract, I did want to ask
10 Solicitor Gilbride just to speak briefly on the
11 contract. So and as it was mentioned from one
12 of our other Council members that we are past
13 due in paying on the contract. So my question
14 is, you know, does that put us at legal risk
15 with this contract that's here before us
16 tonight if we were to vote on it?
17 ATTY. GILBRIDE: Councilwoman, with
18 regard to being at risk, I mean, once we agreed
19 to the contract and signed off by both parties
20 it's a binding contract. So your only risk is
21 that going forward over the life of the
22 contract, the city would be on the hook to pay
23 that for the next five years. I mean, that's
24 your risk.
25 DR. ROTHCHILD: And then the
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1 contract from what I'm being told too the five
2 years because it's starting off at a lower
3 price, it's to lock in that price and then that
4 does progressively increase.
5 ATTY. GILBRIDE: That's correct. I
6 have been informed by the parties that actually
7 negotiated with Rubicon that the pricing that
8 they were able to get down -- this originally
9 started I believe at $62,000 a month or a year.
10 And they were able to get it down to
11 33 based upon the five year length of time.
12 That's not unusual in contract situations. You
13 will pay less. Companies will take less if
14 they know they have it for a longer period of
15 time.
16 If you are looking for a short
17 period of time, you could expect that the cost
18 will go up. What it would go up, I can't tell
19 you. I could only tell you that it started at
20 60-some thousand and then ended up at the
21 current price of 33 based on the five-year
22 contract.
23 DR. ROTHCHILD: Okay. Thank you.
24 MR. SCHUSTER: In regards to
25 legality, last week it was discussed if we were
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1 to try to attempt to exit this contract prior
2 to five years, it would result in litigation in
3 the courts, correct, Mr. Gilbride?
4 ATTY. GILBRIDE: Well, you could
5 almost guarantee it would result in litigation.
6 But there is -- there is a way. There's a
7 mechanism within the contract that allows that
8 to happen. If we use our right -- if the city
9 deemed that it was no -- that they were
10 violation based upon what's in the contract
11 unless it was obvious which I'm not sure
12 anybody would admit to, you could bet that they
13 would probably threaten legal action or take
14 legal action.
15 But it can be -- we're not dealing
16 in facts here. We're dealing in what could
17 have happened.
18 MR. SCHUSTER: Correct, both parties
19 would have to agree that there was a breech in
20 contract, correct?
21 ATTY. GILBRIDE: Yeah, both sides
22 would actually have to agree. So we'd have to
23 say that they were in breech. And then if they
24 weren't going to sue us, I would imagine that's
25 because they either found that it wasn't worth
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1 while monetarily or they agree that they were
2 in breech.
3 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you.
4 MR. SMURL: Okay. So we are only
5 looking to keep this the software, nothing else
6 from Rubicon, not their direction, not any help
7 from them just, nothing, just the software.
8 And Rubicon software, their main purpose was to
9 balance out routes so that any driver can run
10 any route.
11 And in the beginning, some of the
12 routes were an hour to an hour and a half,
13 while others took over four hours. So that
14 is -- that is -- it's just wrong to have a
15 department running like. You'll have one truck
16 finished in an hour and a half and then the
17 other truck is finished four hours from then.
18 Every route should take
19 approximately the same amount of time. And
20 that's what the software was designed to do was
21 to balance every route out. So that gives all
22 the employees an equal amount of work instead
23 of dumping it all on one or whoever the newest
24 guys are in this case.
25 It also gives us the ability to
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1 cover routes when somebody calls in sick and we
2 can't -- we can't just put somebody in a truck
3 without any direction. So anybody else with a
4 CDL license can also get in this truck and
5 follow that route without having a problem.
6 So if this doesn't go through and
7 happen, tomorrow we shut it off, we don't have
8 maps. We have no way to know where every --
9 except for the memory of the drivers. Asking a
10 driver to run the route, it's totally unfair.
11 That's unfair to him and it's unfair to the
12 taxpayers to have one person know a route that
13 they're on.
14 I don't see how that is beneficial
15 at all. We have no other way of moving forward
16 with this. So just to turn it off and start
17 over just doesn't make sense. And the
18 beginning of this whole thing was because
19 everybody was afraid that they were being just
20 tracked and watched everywhere they were going.
21 Believe me, if that was the case,
22 we'd have a different looking DPW today. So
23 that really isn't the case. None of that has
24 ever happened. This was designed to make
25 everyone's job easier. So I also spoke with
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1 our IT Department and I've also spoken with a
2 lot of drivers down at the DPW when I went down
3 to meet with them.
4 So I trust our IT Department's
5 judgment. And if I didn't, then I would not
6 vote no, but I will be voting yes. Roll call,
7 please.
8 MS. CARRERA: Mr. King.
9 MR. KING: Yes.
10 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Schuster.
11 MR. SCHUSTER: No.
12 MS. CARRERA: Dr. Rothchild.
13 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes.
14 MS. CARRERA: Mr. McAndrew.
15 MR. MCANDREW: No.
16 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Smurl.
17 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare
18 Item 7-A legally and lawfully adopted.
19 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-B. FOR
20 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC
21 WORKS - FOR ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO. 184,
22 2025 - AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR, THE BUSINESS
23 ADMINISTRATOR AND OTHER APPROPRIATE CITY
24 OFFICIALS FOR THE CITY OF SCRANTON TO EXECUTE
25 AND ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH
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1 GREENMAN-PEDERSEN, INC., TO PROVIDE ENGINEERING
2 AND DESIGN SERVICES FOR THE CONNELL PARK
3 REHABILITATION PROJECT.
4 MR. SMURL: What is the
5 recommendation of the Chairperson for the
6 Committee on Public Works?
7 MR. SCHUSTER: As Chairperson for
8 the Committee on Public Works, I recommend
9 final passage of Item 7-B.
10 MR. KING: Second.
11 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll
12 call, please.
13 MS. CARRERA: Mr. King.
14 MR. KING: Yes.
15 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Schuster.
16 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes.
17 MS. CARRERA: Dr. Rothchild.
18 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes.
19 MS. CARRERA: Mr. McAndrew.
20 MR. MCANDREW: Yes.
21 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Smurl.
22 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare
23 Item 7-B legally and lawfully adopted.
24 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-C. FOR
25 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY
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1 DEVELOPMENT - FOR ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO.
2 185, 2025 - RESOLUTION FOR PLAN REVISION FOR
3 NEW LAND DEVELOPMENT LOCATED IN THE 400 BLOCK
4 OF DAVIS ST.
5 MR. SMURL: What is the
6 recommendation of the Chairperson for the
7 Committee on Community Development?
8 DR. ROTHCHILD: As Chairperson for
9 the Committee on Community Development, I
10 recommend final passage of Item 7-C.
11 MS. CARRERA: Mr. King.
12 MR. KING: Yes.
13 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Schuster.
14 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes.
15 MS. CARRERA: Dr. Rothchild.
16 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes.
17 MS. CARRERA: Mr. McAndrew.
18 MR. MCANDREW: Yes.
19 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Smurl.
20 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare
21 Item 7-C legally and lawfully adopted.
22 MR. VOLDENBERG: EIGHTH ORDER.
23 8-A. Resolution No. 183 of 2025.
24 MR. SMURL: This resolution is a
25 liquor license transfer. And it will be tabled
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1 until the public hearing which was held this
2 evening -- it will be brought back from the
3 table next Tuesday and placed in Seventh Order
4 for a final vote.
5 If there's no further business, I'll
6 entertain a motion to adjourn.
7 MR. MCANDREW: Motion to adjourn.
8 MR. SMURL: Thank you. This
9 meeting is adjourned.
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$150 [1] - 102:24 A administration [12] -
$200,000 [1] - 46:8 2 [1] - 4:4 5 [1] - 3:25 17:4, 33:1, 62:4,
$227,927 [1] - 66:9 2,100 [1] - 64:18 5-A [1] - 70:25 a.m [2] - 29:11, 29:12 70:13, 73:20, 74:18,
$237,000 [1] - 58:11 2.7 [1] - 64:8 5-B [4] - 48:1, 88:1, abide [1] - 39:18 74:23, 76:5, 78:2,
$33,805 [1] - 66:2 20 [3] - 26:23, 65:1, 88:2, 88:8 ability [4] - 34:7, 83:11, 93:11, 97:10
$353,000 [1] - 48:25 65:4 5-C [3] - 48:6, 88:22, 82:11, 108:25, 114:7 ADMINISTRATION [1]
$395,000 [1] - 68:24 20,000 [1] - 48:15 89:3 able [8] - 26:5, 36:4, - 3:25
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$44,000 [1] - 83:7 200 [1] - 91:3 5-E [2] - 90:23, 91:7 103:12, 105:2, 48:25
$44,644.50 [1] - 46:1 2018 [1] - 30:2 5-F [3] - 85:2, 91:20, 106:8, 106:10 ADMINISTRATOR [1]
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66:19, 103:8 59 [1] - 96:9 20:18 adopted [3] - 110:18,
1 absurdity [2] - 34:12,
2025 [16] - 1:7, 3:23, 111:23, 112:21
1 [2] - 44:9, 44:10 3:25, 4:2, 4:5, 29:9, 6 34:17 ADOPTION [3] - 96:8,
10 [5] - 19:11, 29:11, 49:17, 49:18, 67:11, accept [1] - 65:22 110:21, 112:1
63:19, 65:7, 66:5 67:12, 94:18, 95:13, 6-A [3] - 94:17, 94:25, accepting [1] - 49:16 advantage [1] - 102:1
10-day [1] - 19:11 96:9, 110:22, 112:2, 95:2 ACCESS [1] - 90:6 advised [1] - 84:14
10.5 [1] - 9:23 112:23 6-B [3] - 95:12, 95:19, access [2] - 10:10, advocate [2] - 4:25,
100 [1] - 26:16 2026 [1] - 54:14 95:21 10:14 25:25
100,000 [1] - 46:7 2030 [1] - 88:6 60 [2] - 94:18, 96:19 accident [1] - 51:16 affected [1] - 76:4
10:30 [1] - 17:25 24 [2] - 50:21, 74:13 60-some [1] - 106:20 according [2] - 30:1, afford [2] - 14:1, 17:5
10TH [1] - 91:4 25 [1] - 4:2 600 [1] - 34:22 30:6 afraid [1] - 109:19
11 [1] - 32:16 25th [1] - 65:25 61 [1] - 95:13 account [3] - 39:23, afternoon [1] - 18:18
11th [2] - 1:7, 67:12 26th [1] - 53:10 636 [1] - 77:9 39:25, 40:3 age [1] - 100:24
12 [1] - 63:19 27th [3] - 76:1, 76:7 67 [1] - 8:1 accountability [2] - agencies [1] - 41:7
13 [2] - 103:6, 103:7 28th [2] - 49:17, 75:14 6:30 [1] - 8:15 49:12, 67:1 agent's [1] - 9:24
1304 [1] - 21:15 29 [2] - 103:4, 103:6 6th [1] - 29:9 accountable [2] - ago [8] - 4:23, 8:7,
15 [3] - 66:6, 73:8, 2:30 [1] - 24:13 52:22, 53:11 23:10, 28:4, 33:18,
73:14 7 accurately [1] - 114:4 66:18, 100:21, 102:9
155 [1] - 64:17 3 accused [1] - 65:11 agree [7] - 5:12,
7-A [3] - 24:23, 96:25, acknowledged [3] - 11:16, 42:17, 60:8,
15606-030-00102) [1] -
3 [5] - 3:23, 44:11, 110:18 13:11, 27:11, 68:16 107:19, 107:22,
91:5
44:12, 65:2, 65:3 7-B [3] - 110:19, action [2] - 107:13, 108:1
15th [3] - 75:6, 75:7,
3-A [2] - 3:21, 4:9 111:9, 111:23 107:14 agreed [2] - 76:4,
84:16
3-B [2] - 3:24, 4:13 7-C [3] - 111:24, activity [1] - 40:24 105:18
1600 [4] - 72:20, 73:1,
3-C [1] - 4:3 112:10, 112:21 actual [3] - 42:24, agreement [4] - 9:4,
73:4
30 [2] - 30:12, 30:16 7.A [1] - 96:7 44:22, 87:1 67:25, 84:3, 87:14
16th [1] - 18:17
30-some [1] - 36:22 70 [1] - 100:7 ad [1] - 64:3 AGREEMENT [4] -
174,000 [1] - 58:11
305 [1] - 39:15 78 [1] - 11:18 Adam [1] - 12:14 90:4, 91:22, 94:21,
1771 [1] - 95:16
1791 [1] - 29:23 306 [1] - 103:9 added [1] - 29:23 110:25
17th [5] - 18:11, 18:13, 307 [1] - 59:15 8 addition [1] - 103:13 AGREEMENTS [1] -
18:16, 18:18, 18:22 31st [1] - 66:19 additional [4] - 30:12, 95:15
33 [2] - 106:11, 106:21 8,400 [1] - 64:19 65:19, 71:14, 102:18 ahead [1] - 29:16
18 [5] - 46:2, 46:4,
3:00 [1] - 24:13 8-A [1] - 112:23 ADDITIONAL [1] - aid [1] - 64:14
82:15
3rd [1] - 9:21 80 [2] - 45:21, 63:15 96:18 air [2] - 44:13, 69:14
1804 [1] - 95:17
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183 [1] - 112:23
85 [1] - 45:21
184 [1] - 110:21 4 8th [2] - 29:22, 56:14
address [14] - 20:24, Alaska [2] - 63:7,
185 [1] - 112:2 20:25, 21:1, 29:3, 63:10
4 [1] - 88:6 43:25, 46:9, 49:9, ALL [2] - 3:21, 91:1
18th [1] - 53:12
1900 [1] - 78:5
40 [1] - 53:16 9 50:12, 51:4, 68:3, Allegiance [1] - 3:1
400 [4] - 50:12, 64:19, 77:8, 78:13, 84:16 allowed [3] - 40:13,
1908 [1] - 58:15 9 [1] - 29:12
112:3 addressed [1] - 84:21 41:24, 85:14
1977 [1] - 57:1 911 [1] - 52:18
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2
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26:16, 85:21, 107:5 anti [2] - 39:22, 39:24 assure [1] - 37:18 Aye [40] - 88:16, beds [4] - 30:10,
ALTERNATE [1] - ANY [1] - 91:1 ASTOUND [1] - 94:23 88:17, 88:18, 88:19, 30:11, 30:12, 30:16
88:24 anytime [1] - 40:20 AT [2] - 91:3, 95:16 88:20, 89:20, 89:21, beens [1] - 32:3
amazing [3] - 38:9, anyway [2] - 31:17, atmosphere [1] - 89:22, 89:23, 89:24, beer [2] - 24:2, 24:3
52:24, 54:16 38:10 37:23 90:17, 90:18, 90:19, began [1] - 4:14
amend [1] - 57:5 AP [2] - 58:19, 58:20 Atmospheric [1] - 90:20, 90:21, 91:14, begin [1] - 79:21
AMEND [1] - 96:17 apartment [2] - 17:24, 64:5 91:15, 91:16, 91:17, beginning [3] - 54:14,
AMENDING [2] - 18:12 attached [2] - 18:25, 91:18, 93:14, 93:15, 108:11, 109:18
93:21, 96:9 Apartments [1] - 19:7 93:16, 93:17, 93:18, begins [1] - 74:4
Amendment [1] - 19:20 attempt [1] - 107:1 94:10, 94:11, 94:12, behalf [1] - 85:6
29:22 apartments [2] - attempts [1] - 67:19 94:13, 94:14, 95:6, BEHALF [1] - 91:24
amendment [1] - 9:4 17:20, 18:7 attend [2] - 8:14, 26:5 95:7, 95:8, 95:9, behind [3] - 28:17,
amendments [1] - Appeals [1] - 30:2 attended [1] - 5:6 95:10, 95:25, 96:1, 31:3, 59:14
30:6 appear [1] - 89:10 attending [1] - 32:24 96:2, 96:3, 96:4 bell [1] - 40:13
America [4] - 13:3, appeared [2] - 52:8, attention [1] - 18:3 ayes [8] - 88:20, belong [1] - 33:1
13:21, 85:9, 86:9 54:7 Attorney [9] - 5:4, 89:24, 90:21, 91:18, below [3] - 30:13,
American [1] - 13:18 applications [1] - 6:20, 9:11, 9:14, 93:18, 94:14, 95:10, 30:14, 98:3
Americans [2] - 15:15, 49:16 10:19, 22:4, 48:16, 96:4 beneficial [1] - 109:14
15:18 applied [1] - 71:13 84:24, 87:17 benefit [1] - 69:7
amount [9] - 45:3, applies [1] - 32:23 attorneys [4] - 9:1, B Bergman [1] - 50:25
45:24, 73:7, 87:2, apply [1] - 114:23 48:13, 54:12, 85:14 best [1] - 114:6
backbones [1] - 12:20
102:6, 103:15, appointment [3] - ATTY [6] - 85:3, 87:22, bet [1] - 107:12
104:5, 108:19, backed [1] - 15:1
10:11, 85:6, 86:3 105:17, 106:5, better [9] - 27:7,
108:22 background [2] -
APPOINTMENT [2] - 107:4, 107:21 35:12, 39:10, 51:24,
amusement [1] - 36:21, 89:9
88:23, 93:22 Aug [14] - 23:5, 23:16, 54:25, 55:13, 58:22,
37:14 backs [4] - 76:16,
appreciate [4] - 5:8, 23:20, 23:24, 24:4, 60:21, 87:4
AN [6] - 88:24, 90:4, 101:13, 102:5,
5:22, 92:24, 103:20 37:5, 37:7, 44:4, BETWEEN [2] - 94:21,
94:18, 95:13, 96:18, 102:12
APPROPRIATE [4] - 44:21, 45:1, 52:20, 96:12
110:25 backup [1] - 9:7
90:25, 94:19, 96:11, 53:23, 71:6 between [5] - 17:25,
analysis [2] - 66:15, bail [1] - 29:24
110:23 authorities [1] - 19:21 19:18, 62:16, 75:9,
69:7 Bailey [1] - 65:15
approval [1] - 61:11 AUTHORITY [4] - 4:4, 76:1
anchored [1] - 68:1 88:5, 93:25, 94:1 balance [4] - 52:22,
approved [2] - 45:16, beyond [1] - 37:5
AND [19] - 90:8, 90:25, authority [2] - 9:20, 75:9, 108:9, 108:21
67:5 bid [6] - 45:8, 45:20,
91:1, 91:21, 93:23, 67:6 ball [2] - 52:20, 53:23
APPROVING [1] - 72:13, 82:22, 87:14,
94:1, 94:19, 94:20, Authority [6] - 48:2, ballot [1] - 15:10
91:22 104:18
94:22, 95:16, 96:11, 48:14, 52:21, 54:4, bang [1] - 42:15
April [4] - 73:14, 75:6, bidding [1] - 82:9
96:12, 96:13, 96:15, 75:7, 84:16 54:8, 75:16 bank [1] - 31:8
Biden [2] - 12:25,
96:16, 96:19, AREA [1] - 90:7 authorized [2] - 45:7, bankruptcy [1] - 87:7
37:19
110:23, 110:25, area [3] - 8:4, 9:8, 67:2 Bar [1] - 55:8
bids [7] - 45:9, 45:10,
111:2 33:18 AUTHORIZING [6] - Barrett [1] - 54:3
46:11, 72:11, 83:11
Anheuser [1] - 35:3 ARGENTA [1] - 47:25 90:2, 90:24, 91:21, barriers [2] - 68:16, big [5] - 13:10, 19:15,
Anheuser-Busch [1] - Argenta [1] - 47:25 94:19, 96:10, 110:22 104:7 23:17, 38:12, 105:4
35:3 arguably [1] - 67:17 available [8] - 29:6, base [1] - 16:16 biggest [1] - 104:14
annex [1] - 63:10 argue [1] - 67:22 30:4, 30:11, 30:16, based [4] - 100:14, bill [5] - 29:23, 46:24,
announced [2] - arise [1] - 74:10 43:15, 48:5, 48:12, 106:11, 106:21, 47:1, 62:18, 100:7
49:17, 53:20 62:7 107:10
ARPA [2] - 44:12, Bill [1] - 12:23
announcements [1] - Avenue [14] - 8:5, basic [3] - 28:5, 55:25,
52:22 billion [1] - 13:19
4:19 23:6, 23:16, 23:23, 63:6
arrested [1] - 81:16 binding [1] - 105:20
annual [1] - 50:9 23:24, 24:4, 50:13, basis [1] - 66:20
arrests [1] - 50:21 bird [2] - 52:12, 52:23
answer [11] - 28:24, 51:17, 60:25, 77:9, bear [1] - 11:1
arrows [1] - 38:14 birthday [1] - 53:10
30:18, 42:23, 47:19, 78:6, 79:25, 80:6, beat [1] - 99:7
artillery [1] - 64:18 bit [2] - 6:9, 61:20
72:12, 74:1, 75:4, 80:19 beating [4] - 14:13,
AS [6] - 3:22, 4:2, bizarre [1] - 19:24
84:9, 93:11 AVENUE [3] - 91:4, 84:20, 97:4, 98:17
88:4, 88:24, 90:3, blames [1] - 11:25
answered [2] - 76:15, 95:16, 95:17 beautification [1] -
91:24 blatant [1] - 50:3
77:1 awaiting [1] - 61:11 48:24
assets [1] - 13:19 bleed [1] - 34:10
answers [11] - 31:1, awards [1] - 49:17 beautiful [2] - 54:23,
assistance [2] - 63:15, blind [1] - 13:24
41:21, 55:3, 68:9, aware [2] - 44:7, 48:7 60:8
63:16 blinds [3] - 19:1, 19:3,
76:16, 76:23, 81:14, aye [8] - 88:15, 89:19, became [1] - 63:23
ASSISTANT [1] - 2:9 19:4
81:21, 81:23, 83:20, 90:16, 91:13, 93:13, become [1] - 63:20
Associates [1] - 76:2
3
BLOCK [2] - 91:3, 50:19, 53:3 capped [1] - 48:15 certification [1] - 7:13, 9:2, 13:14,
112:3 Brook [1] - 75:25 caps [1] - 67:10 85:17 13:17, 15:5, 17:2,
block [4] - 23:16, brought [11] - 5:9, car [1] - 85:9 certify [1] - 114:3 17:11, 25:7, 30:9,
48:24, 50:12, 78:6 18:3, 26:13, 27:22, Cardamone [1] - 3:7 certifying [1] - 114:25 30:21, 31:11, 31:17,
blocking [2] - 23:5, 60:1, 78:5, 82:17, cardiovascular [2] - Chairman [2] - 95:1, 32:8, 33:9, 34:9,
23:20 82:18, 92:21, 99:4, 8:2, 8:11 95:20 34:11, 35:16, 35:18,
BLOOM [1] - 95:17 113:2 cards [2] - 49:11, Chairperson [6] - 36:20, 36:22, 37:4,
blue [1] - 26:21 brutal [1] - 8:8 49:13 96:21, 96:23, 111:5, 37:7, 40:3, 41:7,
board [3] - 32:25, buck [1] - 42:16 care [16] - 8:21, 22:18, 111:7, 112:6, 112:8 42:14, 42:16, 44:15,
56:8, 56:9 bucks [2] - 64:18, 25:14, 25:19, 29:15, challenge [2] - 36:15, 45:10, 48:18, 50:4,
Board [1] - 48:2 64:19 32:11, 44:15, 54:1, 36:23 51:10, 52:23, 53:5,
BOARD [3] - 88:5, budget [4] - 4:11, 54:2, 54:10, 60:5, challenged [1] - 51:7 54:18, 56:5, 56:18,
93:21, 93:25 57:11, 57:14, 66:21 60:10, 75:9, 75:12, challenges [3] - 5:19, 56:22, 60:3, 60:21,
boards [3] - 48:3, buffoon [1] - 11:11 82:8, 83:16 104:7, 104:12 61:17, 66:20, 67:19,
53:24, 56:9 building [13] - 31:8, Career [1] - 28:25 CHAMBERS [1] - 1:12 70:18, 74:11, 75:3,
Bob [3] - 33:6, 33:8, 31:12, 31:13, 32:10, careless [1] - 55:18 change [11] - 13:10, 76:2, 76:5, 84:5,
64:24 32:17, 32:19, 40:19, cares [1] - 55:14 14:8, 15:16, 17:11, 85:7, 85:17, 85:24,
bodies [1] - 17:23 40:22, 60:24, 64:4, CARRERA [21] - 2:9, 29:7, 36:25, 37:22, 86:1, 86:3, 87:12,
body [2] - 8:3, 45:12 64:5, 64:7 3:9, 3:11, 3:13, 3:15, 55:11, 57:21, 98:20, 87:14, 89:11, 104:7,
Boise [1] - 30:3 built [3] - 14:10, 66:5, 3:17, 110:8, 110:10, 98:21 105:22, 107:8
Bolus [3] - 33:6, 33:8, 100:12 110:12, 110:14, changed [5] - 26:6, City [18] - 10:6, 10:10,
33:17 burned [1] - 52:16 110:16, 111:13, 56:16, 98:12, 99:10, 10:11, 10:15, 16:19,
burning [1] - 28:13 111:15, 111:17, 102:17 30:3, 36:14, 40:9,
BOLUS [6] - 33:7,
bus [1] - 19:19 111:19, 111:21, changes [2] - 87:13, 41:10, 43:3, 48:22,
33:14, 33:16, 33:21,
Busch [1] - 35:3 112:11, 112:13, 102:20 49:2, 50:10, 54:23,
34:2, 37:22
business [9] - 32:12, 112:15, 112:17, changing [2] - 17:20, 55:10, 87:8, 89:13
bond [5] - 52:25,
32:13, 36:7, 37:1, 112:19 53:2 city's [1] - 67:1
85:10, 86:1, 87:21,
38:5, 42:13, 74:14, carrier [1] - 35:2 charge [1] - 82:13 civics [3] - 55:25,
87:24
113:5 cars [2] - 6:12, 24:14 Charles [1] - 35:3 56:20, 58:24
bondholders [3] -
BUSINESS [2] - 3:25, cart [1] - 8:19 Charter [1] - 56:22 civil [2] - 48:6, 48:7
86:17, 87:1, 87:2
bonds [3] - 64:13, 110:22 Cartright [1] - 56:14 chat [1] - 70:7 CIVIL [1] - 88:25
86:7 businesses [1] - case [5] - 30:2, 85:25, cheat [1] - 11:10 claim [1] - 63:7
books [1] - 55:9 44:14 108:24, 109:21, check [4] - 40:6, 40:8, claiming [2] - 19:8,
born [1] - 33:19 bust [1] - 55:9 109:23 50:20, 60:10 63:9
Borough [1] - 85:9 Butch [1] - 26:24 cases [1] - 53:17 Cheney [1] - 12:11 clarified [1] - 92:24
boroughs [1] - 83:25 buy [1] - 9:22 Casey [2] - 64:24 CHIEF [1] - 90:3 class [1] - 60:2
bottles [1] - 82:25 buying [4] - 13:19, catch [1] - 19:2 Chief [5] - 20:17, clause [1] - 68:6
bought [1] - 36:19 17:3, 32:16, 33:9 Cathedral [1] - 8:15 50:25, 75:5, 75:6, clauses [2] - 67:24,
BY [6] - 3:22, 94:17, Catholic [1] - 50:22 84:15 69:10
boys [1] - 31:21
95:12, 96:7, 110:20, caucus [5] - 65:25, chief [1] - 21:10 Clay [1] - 50:13
brave [1] - 84:4
111:25 75:6, 84:15, 85:8, children [1] - 21:12 clean [2] - 27:22,
break [1] - 31:4
97:16 China [1] - 82:13 37:11
breakdown [1] - 66:8
cleaned [1] - 82:6
breakfast [1] - 29:14 C caucuses [1] - 104:9 Chips [1] - 35:3
caused [1] - 8:16 choose [1] - 65:21 cleaning [1] - 39:8
breech [3] - 107:19,
C17 [1] - 64:2 causing [3] - 70:1, Christmas [1] - 45:4 cleanup [5] - 5:24,
107:23, 108:2
CABLE [1] - 94:21 78:12, 97:18 churches [1] - 72:25 38:25, 59:4, 75:21,
bridge [6] - 22:24,
callouts [1] - 104:23 CDL [1] - 109:4 75:22
23:5, 23:7, 23:11, CIA [1] - 64:4
CAMERA [1] - 90:6 Cecelia [1] - 17:15 cleanups [2] - 39:2,
38:13, 67:3 Circuit [1] - 30:1
camps [2] - 27:21, celebrate [1] - 51:25 39:4
bridges [1] - 38:20 citations [1] - 71:20
29:10 Center [1] - 46:15 clear [1] - 102:11
brief [1] - 7:25 citizen [1] - 25:25
candidate [3] - 11:5, center [2] - 32:12, clerical [1] - 15:1
briefly [1] - 105:10 CITIZENS [1] - 7:1
48:21, 51:4 79:1 CLERK [2] - 2:8, 2:9
bright [1] - 55:11 citizens [2] - 10:18,
candidates [6] - 14:4, cents [2] - 26:12, climate [1] - 54:20
BRING [1] - 93:22 63:1
15:2, 15:8, 15:9, 61:23 Clinton [1] - 12:24
bring [3] - 37:13, CITY [15] - 1:1, 2:8,
17:9, 57:25 CERTAIN [1] - 91:2 close [1] - 44:2
37:14, 80:1 2:9, 3:22, 3:25, 90:3,
candy [1] - 45:12 certain [2] - 26:17, 90:25, 91:24, 93:24, closed [2] - 18:21,
bringing [3] - 5:13,
cannot [1] - 36:3 41:16 94:20, 94:21, 96:11, 38:20
30:23, 92:12
cans [1] - 39:19 certainly [3] - 7:11, 96:13, 110:23, closure [2] - 53:12,
BROADBAND [1] -
capacity [1] - 64:17 21:9, 26:15 110:24 53:13
94:23
Capouse [1] - 31:13 certificate [1] - 114:22 city [62] - 5:10, 5:23, Code [1] - 58:15
broken [3] - 14:9,
4
code [8] - 26:21, 111:25 consider [1] - 67:23 CONTROLLER [1] - couple [6] - 58:9,
39:15, 39:24, 41:13, Community [2] - considerably [1] - 3:22 63:25, 71:20, 81:4,
41:14, 71:17, 77:18, 112:7, 112:9 7:15 conversation [1] - 82:15, 98:19
78:16 companies [3] - CONSIDERATION [3] 76:18 course [5] - 6:19,
codes [2] - 39:13, 45:18, 45:21, 106:13 - 96:7, 110:20, conversations [3] - 26:10, 65:21, 70:7,
41:17 company [8] - 33:17, 111:25 76:21, 78:11, 101:9 84:13
coffee [1] - 29:14 73:25, 74:2, 74:12, considered [2] - COORDINATOR [1] - court [4] - 57:14, 63:2,
Cognetti [2] - 10:25, 97:11, 97:21, 99:12, 27:19, 30:5 90:4 67:21, 68:14
11:2 104:4 considering [1] - 85:4 cops [1] - 18:11 Court [5] - 1:24,
coincidently [1] - compared [1] - 103:4 constantly [1] - 70:1 copy [4] - 22:1, 22:5, 16:21, 30:2, 58:5,
49:18 competent [1] - 34:19 constitute [1] - 58:3 44:25, 114:5 114:11
Colfax [1] - 79:19 complaining [4] - constitution [4] - corner [3] - 8:4, 38:11, courthouse [1] -
colleagues [1] - 81:22 7:10, 32:1, 77:10, 56:18, 56:20, 56:23, 78:18 64:23
collect [1] - 69:25 82:3 62:21 correct [6] - 87:22, courts [6] - 6:10,
collecting [1] - 98:10 complaint [1] - 78:12 Constitution [2] - 106:5, 107:3, 53:23, 57:13, 57:15,
COLLECTION [1] - complaints [1] - 78:7 14:14, 56:19 107:18, 107:20, 57:16, 107:3
96:14 complete [1] - 13:14 CONSTRUCTION [1] - 114:6 cover [3] - 50:16,
COLLECTIONS [1] - completed [2] - 80:14, 95:15 CORRESPONDENC 52:25, 109:1
4:2 97:19 consultant [4] - 57:3, E [1] - 3:24 covered [1] - 87:20
columnist [1] - 12:21 completely [5] - 57:5, 57:6, 65:17 corridor [1] - 75:17 Covid [1] - 8:15
coming [13] - 12:10, 17:12, 17:22, 18:14, consultants [1] - corrupt [1] - 65:11 COYNE [1] - 44:1
21:7, 32:21, 36:25, 30:22, 87:6 92:22 corruption [3] - 16:17, Coyne [1] - 44:2
40:9, 45:12, 52:19, complex [4] - 17:21, contact [1] - 74:11 32:6, 55:16 crazy [1] - 58:7
53:18, 55:12, 57:18, 17:24, 81:15, 81:20 contacts [1] - 74:11 cost [4] - 69:4, 69:7, creep [1] - 18:4
73:13, 86:15 COMPLIANCE [1] - contained [1] - 114:4 69:20, 106:17 crickets [1] - 52:13
comment [3] - 25:22, 93:23 containers [1] - 39:12 costly [1] - 68:19 crucial [1] - 65:20
38:5, 81:5 compliance [3] - contains [1] - 66:4 costs [6] - 48:25, 66:3, cruel [2] - 29:25, 30:5
commentary [1] - 8:20 66:25, 74:9, 103:15 continue [4] - 46:5, 66:8, 66:14, 83:1, culture [1] - 37:14
comments [8] - 4:6, compliments [1] - 46:16, 47:12, 97:21 86:3 curb [1] - 79:18
4:9, 28:10, 68:3, 10:19 continues [4] - 66:19, Council [38] - 4:18, curious [3] - 33:21,
71:3, 72:3, 77:6, concern [1] - 78:4 68:10, 101:25, 103:1 13:4, 13:6, 13:12, 62:2, 72:8
81:3 concerned [1] - 79:4 continuing [2] - 68:18, 13:22, 14:11, 22:10, current [7] - 30:10,
commingling [2] - concerns [3] - 66:24, 68:21 31:7, 32:23, 32:24, 45:24, 53:4, 54:20,
82:10, 82:24 70:9, 80:18 CONTRACT [1] - 33:7, 35:15, 38:4, 59:23, 85:4, 106:21
COMMISSION [2] - concession [2] - 9:4, 96:12 43:25, 44:1, 48:22, cut [5] - 34:10, 59:19,
88:25, 94:1 87:13 contract [38] - 24:24, 49:4, 49:23, 51:4, 73:19, 73:22, 79:18
Commissioners [1] - concrete [3] - 23:8, 34:16, 45:1, 45:14, 51:12, 51:14, 52:8, cuts [4] - 22:12, 22:16,
60:22 23:12, 68:11 46:22, 47:3, 59:9, 54:6, 55:21, 55:23, 73:21, 73:25
committed [1] - 99:25 condition [2] - 8:12, 66:4, 66:18, 66:23, 59:3, 60:22, 62:12,
committee [8] - 5:5, 53:4 67:16, 67:22, 69:6, 62:13, 62:16, 63:1, D
57:7, 88:9, 89:4, conduct [1] - 50:22 73:24, 80:23, 87:19, 65:14, 67:2, 68:4,
90:11, 91:8, 92:3, conducted [1] - 74:17 97:22, 98:2, 98:14, 71:22, 85:24, 86:3, D/B/A [1] - 94:23
94:4 confident [1] - 105:1 98:16, 98:25, 99:2, 105:12 damage [1] - 59:19
COMMITTEE [3] - conflict [2] - 48:20, 101:1, 101:4, 105:9, COUNCIL [7] - 1:1, damn [2] - 31:5, 33:4
96:8, 110:20, 111:25 49:6 105:11, 105:13, 1:12, 2:10, 94:18, data [8] - 14:21, 69:3,
Committee [6] - congratulate [2] - 5:4, 105:15, 105:19, 95:13, 96:9, 96:10 69:10, 70:8, 98:10,
96:22, 96:24, 111:6, 38:6 105:20, 105:22, Councilman [6] - 101:11, 102:18,
111:8, 112:7, 112:9 congratulations [1] - 106:1, 106:12, 4:21, 10:1, 25:6, 103:13
common [1] - 30:23 6:5 106:22, 107:1, 68:5, 69:17, 84:13 DATA [1] - 96:14
Common [1] - 58:5 Congress [2] - 15:21, 107:7, 107:10, Councilwoman [2] - date [4] - 14:21, 67:13,
communicated [1] - 41:25 107:20 68:15, 105:17 67:16, 68:1
61:7 Congressman [2] - contract's [1] - 67:15 counsel [5] - 8:23, daughter [3] - 18:2,
communication [1] - 12:15, 56:14 contracted [1] - 59:5 85:1, 85:7, 87:11, 81:7, 81:8
26:25 Congresswoman [1] - contracts [2] - 55:18, 87:12 Dave [1] - 62:13
communities [1] - 12:12 59:8 COUNSEL [1] - 91:25 DAVIS [1] - 112:4
14:1 CONNELL [1] - 111:2 contractual [2] - County [5] - 31:22, days [5] - 4:23, 19:16,
community [7] - 3:6, Connell [2] - 16:5, 66:16, 70:9 56:13, 57:10, 58:4, 43:13, 100:7
8:22, 31:13, 31:18, 36:1 contribution [1] - 50:9 60:22 dead [7] - 8:10, 17:12,
48:21, 51:6, 79:1 conservative [1] - control [3] - 7:23, county [3] - 53:16, 33:3, 84:20, 97:5,
COMMUNITY [1] - 12:22 51:24, 114:24 56:18, 56:21 98:17, 99:7
5
deaf [1] - 83:6 description [1] - 47:1 discount [1] - 66:1 60:11, 71:8, 78:9, driving [1] - 23:9
deal [5] - 19:15, 37:11, deserve [2] - 47:20, discrepancy [1] - 80:12, 81:21, 83:15 drop [1] - 86:23
82:12, 84:19, 86:1 63:21 20:23 door [3] - 31:24, 55:4, drove [1] - 5:25
dealing [3] - 46:12, DESIGN [1] - 111:2 discuss [2] - 75:5, 79:1 Drozdick [3] - 8:1, 8:5,
107:15, 107:16 designated [1] - 74:11 75:16 doors [4] - 19:19, 8:14
deals [1] - 87:23 designed [2] - 108:20, discussed [5] - 8:25, 40:14, 52:17, 55:9 Drug [2] - 53:3, 53:15
dealt [1] - 86:11 109:24 73:7, 75:9, 76:3, down [35] - 5:25, 8:3, due [5] - 26:11, 48:20,
death [1] - 28:12 despite [2] - 104:12 106:25 19:1, 19:4, 22:21, 50:19, 66:17, 105:13
debris [2] - 77:11, detailing [1] - 48:12 discussion [3] - 23:10, 23:23, 27:7, dump [3] - 7:16,
78:20 details [2] - 69:12, 82:19, 84:11 28:13, 29:1, 35:9, 45:25, 46:16
debt [2] - 8:24, 9:3 70:10 discussions [4] - 37:1, 38:9, 38:20, dumping [4] - 27:20,
December [2] - 47:7, detectives [1] - 53:16 75:21, 79:6, 79:9 40:11, 56:21, 59:20, 78:23, 79:3, 108:23
66:19 detects [1] - 68:12 disease [2] - 8:3, 8:11 60:4, 60:24, 61:4, during [4] - 4:22, 26:9,
decided [1] - 73:20 determine [1] - 73:16 disgusting [2] - 20:20, 61:5, 62:24, 64:21, 30:15, 86:11
decision [2] - 82:21, detour [3] - 23:21, 33:3 64:23, 80:6, 86:13, Dynamics [1] - 64:16
87:3 23:22, 24:10 Dispense [1] - 3:18 93:3, 97:22, 98:23,
100:1, 106:8,
decisions [1] - 54:25 developer [1] - 65:18 dispute [1] - 67:20 E
decks [1] - 23:8 developing [1] - 68:20 disregard [1] - 50:4 106:10, 110:2
declare [3] - 110:17, development [1] - disrespect [3] - 50:4, downstairs [1] - 52:17 e-mail [1] - 41:9
111:22, 112:20 48:22 50:5, 50:6 downtown [4] - 6:1, e-mails [1] - 28:11
deemed [1] - 107:9 DEVELOPMENT [2] - distributed [1] - 49:1 7:6, 7:7, 17:12 ears [1] - 83:6
deep [1] - 53:23 112:1, 112:3 District [1] - 56:14 dozen [1] - 79:19 EASEMENT [1] -
deeper [1] - 99:9 Development [2] - diving [1] - 53:24 DPW [22] - 5:24, 6:19, 95:15
deficit [1] - 44:23 112:7, 112:9 DOBRZYN [1] - 62:12 7:14, 14:25, 25:7, easier [2] - 23:4,
definitely [3] - 13:10, deviate [1] - 69:24 Dobrzyn [1] - 62:13 25:8, 34:20, 35:7, 109:25
18:6, 68:21 deviations [1] - 70:3 document [2] - 42:24, 35:12, 38:8, 51:21, easily [1] - 98:11
degrees [1] - 26:23 DGS [1] - 76:1 67:9 59:4, 59:8, 74:15, eerie [1] - 40:22
documentation [7] - 75:14, 79:18, 98:22, effect [1] - 4:16
Delaware [1] - 4:24 dictator [1] - 12:9
42:20, 43:10, 43:12, 100:1, 100:3, effectively [1] - 48:3
delays [1] - 70:1 die [2] - 13:3, 62:24
43:18, 45:15, 47:6, 102:14, 109:22, effort [1] - 5:8
deliver [1] - 47:15 died [2] - 8:2, 8:10
74:19 110:2 efforts [2] - 5:11, 6:21
demented [1] - 33:3 different [5] - 6:9,
documented [2] - Dr [8] - 3:13, 27:1, eight [5] - 18:1, 19:16,
democracy [3] - 45:18, 45:20, 68:4,
36:21, 78:7 77:5, 77:20, 81:1, 64:2, 71:7, 71:14
55:25, 58:16, 58:23 109:22
documenting [1] - 110:12, 111:17, EIGHTH [1] - 112:22
democrat [1] - 57:19 difficult [4] - 42:6,
74:6 112:15 either [3] - 23:7,
democratic [1] - 31:21 65:8, 103:11, 105:7
documents [1] - 54:22 DR [33] - 3:14, 4:20, 27:11, 107:25
democrats [2] - 16:1, dig [1] - 22:18
5:12, 21:7, 76:17, elect [1] - 42:10
57:24 digitization [1] - DOCUMENTS [1] -
77:7, 77:22, 78:15,
demonstrated [1] - 100:22 91:1 electing [1] - 14:4
79:8, 79:15, 79:24,
68:22 digitized [1] - 100:23 dog [6] - 19:12, 19:13, election [8] - 11:3,
80:17, 88:11, 88:18,
demonstration [1] - Dilworth [4] - 8:23, 19:14, 22:10, 63:23, 11:6, 15:5, 32:21,
89:6, 89:22, 90:19,
99:20 48:17, 85:6, 85:20 84:20 48:20, 49:19, 52:21,
91:10, 91:16, 93:16,
dentist [1] - 33:13 DILWORTH [1] - 91:23 Doherty [3] - 14:10, 56:2
94:6, 94:12, 95:3,
DEP [1] - 76:2 direct [1] - 114:24 17:4, 17:14 Electric [1] - 55:10
95:8, 95:22, 96:2,
Department [5] - 6:18, direction [4] - 24:19, dollar [1] - 32:16 elements [1] - 60:17
101:6, 105:25,
64:6, 75:15, 76:21, 73:21, 108:6, 109:3 dollars [16] - 9:23, elevated [1] - 7:18
106:23, 110:13,
110:1 directions [1] - 28:23 13:19, 14:19, 16:4, eliminate [1] - 39:7
111:18, 112:8,
DEPARTMENT [2] - directly [2] - 45:23, 17:13, 35:20, 35:25, Elizabeth [1] - 3:7
112:16
90:5, 96:16 74:10 36:2, 40:17, 44:9, Ellman [1] - 31:6
draft [1] - 67:10
department [12] - Director [3] - 54:3, 44:10, 46:19, 54:11, ELLMAN [1] - 31:7
drastically [1] -
6:19, 16:9, 16:15, 65:25, 102:14 61:23, 64:9, 98:5 Elm [1] - 38:13
103:19
34:3, 34:9, 48:24, director [2] - 48:21, Donald [4] - 13:2, embankment [1] - 8:3
draw [1] - 47:9
75:2, 81:19, 83:23, 64:25 15:14, 36:11, 50:25 embarrassing [2] -
drinking [1] - 7:8
84:1, 93:4, 108:15 dirt [1] - 37:9 donate [1] - 44:15 26:19, 80:5
drive [2] - 22:21, 78:19
Department's [1] - disabled [1] - 72:24 donation [1] - 50:14 embraced [1] - 100:4
driven [1] - 62:24
110:4 disagree [1] - 68:17 done [23] - 6:9, 11:22, EMERGENCY [3] -
driver [3] - 103:15,
departments [1] - disappointed [2] - 16:11, 21:4, 21:10, 90:3, 90:7, 90:8
108:9, 109:10
34:11 11:3, 92:14 22:19, 23:9, 23:14, emergency [4] -
drivers [6] - 69:24,
DEPARTMENTS [1] - disband [1] - 53:15 24:22, 26:16, 32:15, 30:16, 48:9, 50:17,
104:19, 104:23,
3:22 disbanding [1] - 53:3 36:6, 36:7, 36:21, 74:12
104:24, 109:9, 110:2
deployed [1] - 51:17 38:18, 47:11, 59:19, emphasized [1] -
6
65:25 38:3, 44:1, 51:14, extension [3] - 46:22, 26:4, 26:12, 36:25, 98:5, 101:8
employee [1] - 10:16 52:5, 55:21, 59:2, 47:4, 67:3 39:4, 39:16, 52:9, five [18] - 16:18,
employees [4] - 7:14, 62:12, 65:14, 113:2 extensions [1] - 66:17 63:5, 71:22, 72:4, 19:18, 34:16, 35:10,
52:24, 64:21, 108:22 event [1] - 5:9 extra [3] - 52:16, 55:8, 77:23, 93:6, 102:9 43:13, 47:4, 47:14,
empty [1] - 31:14 events [1] - 51:9 83:2 fewer [1] - 69:3 47:18, 66:8, 69:6,
encounter [2] - 18:10, everywhere [3] - 16:6, extremely [2] - 5:6, field [3] - 74:7, 74:18, 97:23, 98:16, 99:2,
18:17 32:22, 109:20 85:13 85:15 105:23, 106:1,
encountered [1] - eviction [2] - 19:11, extremist [1] - 12:7 Fifth [3] - 9:12, 84:20, 106:11, 106:21,
18:2 19:12 eyebrow [1] - 92:19 84:24 107:2
end [5] - 34:18, 36:18, evidence [5] - 7:16, FIFTH [1] - 70:25 five-year [4] - 69:6,
47:7, 59:15, 101:2 20:21, 65:12, 81:17, F fights [1] - 7:9 98:16, 99:2, 106:21
ended [4] - 53:8, 114:4 figure [3] - 28:7, fix [1] - 47:18
66:18, 77:13, 106:20 exactly [2] - 18:5, face [2] - 16:16, 29:15 29:20, 83:5 fixed [1] - 47:13
enduring [1] - 8:9 99:20 Facebook [1] - 28:11 FILE [4] - 94:17, flags [1] - 70:10
enforce [2] - 40:3, examination [1] - 53:2 facility [1] - 45:23 95:13, 96:8, 96:9 flat [2] - 50:19, 66:11
41:14 example [2] - 83:12, fact [6] - 38:22, 61:2, file [6] - 18:25, 21:3, FLEET [1] - 96:17
enforceability [1] - 92:17 63:13, 70:17, 97:18, 40:11, 43:3, 43:5, flipping [1] - 52:23
67:15 excavation [1] - 74:16 100:22 43:6 flock [1] - 52:12
enforced [2] - 39:17, except [2] - 26:7, facts [2] - 63:6, 107:16 filed [3] - 4:18, 13:9, flowing [1] - 38:15
41:17 109:9 fail [1] - 87:6 36:12 flown [1] - 64:2
enforcement [8] - excess [1] - 29:24 failed [2] - 15:2, 15:13 fill [2] - 15:19, 22:18 follow [5] - 56:19,
24:17, 41:13, 50:5, excuse [1] - 81:11 fails [2] - 10:17, 68:7 filled [1] - 101:3 74:20, 82:7, 104:22,
52:3, 57:12, 71:18, EXECUTE [4] - 91:1, failure [1] - 68:13 filling [1] - 37:8 109:5
77:18, 78:16 94:20, 96:12, 110:24 fairly [1] - 22:19 final [4] - 96:25, 111:9, fool [1] - 33:4
engineer [1] - 23:3 EXECUTION [1] - fall [1] - 61:4 112:10, 113:4 FOR [26] - 1:1, 3:21,
engineering [2] - 95:14 fallacy [1] - 69:20 finally [5] - 27:1, 88:2, 88:5, 88:22,
35:21 executive [1] - 58:4 falls [1] - 15:3 40:21, 44:19, 46:9, 88:25, 90:1, 90:7,
ENGINEERING [1] - exempt [3] - 50:8, familiar [1] - 104:23 84:9 90:23, 91:20, 91:22,
111:1 72:18, 72:21 families [1] - 53:24 financials [1] - 65:24 91:25, 93:20, 93:24,
engineers [2] - 35:19, exempts [1] - 62:21 family [4] - 5:2, 19:12, financing [2] - 85:13, 95:15, 96:7, 96:8,
35:23 exhausted [3] - 30:23, 57:14, 57:15 87:23 96:15, 110:19,
enlightened [1] - 99:3 30:25, 50:15 fantastic [1] - 46:20 fine [2] - 7:24, 79:2 110:21, 110:24,
enlightening [1] - exhibit [1] - 24:25 far [2] - 30:13, 41:19 fined [1] - 102:23 111:2, 111:24,
14:16 exist [1] - 83:23 fast [1] - 59:12 fines [5] - 29:24, 112:1, 112:2
ensure [1] - 89:12 exit [4] - 67:24, 68:6, father [1] - 11:10 39:18, 40:1, 69:3, forbidden [1] - 64:21
ENTER [4] - 91:1, 69:10, 107:1 Father [1] - 50:24 71:21 Force [2] - 53:4, 53:15
94:20, 96:12, 110:25 expanding [1] - 33:23 favor [9] - 88:14, finest [1] - 51:19 forced [1] - 17:3
entertain [7] - 88:8, expansion [1] - 53:1 89:19, 90:15, 91:12, finished [2] - 108:16, foregoing [1] - 114:22
89:3, 90:10, 91:7, expect [3] - 29:7, 93:12, 94:8, 95:5, 108:17 foreign [1] - 15:23
92:2, 94:3, 113:6 53:16, 106:17 95:24, 104:11 FIRE [1] - 90:3 forever [3] - 32:5,
entire [3] - 61:14, expectation [1] - 71:7 fear [1] - 61:3 fire [7] - 6:19, 15:15, 32:20, 84:3
67:14, 67:25 expensive [3] - 13:20, feather [1] - 52:12 38:7, 51:8, 75:1, forgot [1] - 101:19
entities [1] - 72:21 68:21, 68:23 feature [1] - 53:22 83:22, 84:1 formally [1] - 67:2
entry [1] - 71:10 experience [1] - 48:8 FEBRUARY [3] - 4:2, fired [4] - 11:17, former [5] - 12:13,
equal [1] - 108:22 expertise [1] - 99:5 4:4, 88:6 24:11, 64:23, 65:6 12:17, 33:16, 48:16,
equipment [1] - 16:23 EXPIRE [2] - 88:6, February [9] - 9:21, firefighters [2] - 7:14, 78:17
escalating [1] - 66:14 88:25 18:11, 18:13, 18:16, 84:5 Fort [1] - 40:10
escalations [1] - 70:9 expired [2] - 66:22, 18:17, 18:18, 65:24, firemen [1] - 14:24 forth [1] - 51:8
especially [5] - 3:7, 68:2 75:14, 76:7 firm [6] - 9:3, 34:9, forward [12] - 7:8,
6:10, 11:21, 56:7, explain [2] - 9:12, 9:15 federal [2] - 11:8, 56:7 74:4, 74:16, 79:14, 14:23, 31:2, 44:18,
56:8 explanation [2] - fee [2] - 66:2, 66:11 85:21 44:19, 68:9, 69:21,
ESQ [1] - 2:10 10:16, 67:4 FEE [1] - 91:22 FIRM [1] - 91:23 71:10, 84:17, 93:8,
estate [1] - 9:24 expose [1] - 17:23 Feed [1] - 25:25 firms [2] - 9:19, 34:4 105:21, 109:15
estimate [1] - 102:14 exposed [1] - 67:21 fees [3] - 86:5, 86:6, first [22] - 4:11, 7:2, forwarded [2] - 76:23,
etc [3] - 53:4, 53:5, expressed [2] - 87:19 7:5, 13:8, 22:3, 78:8
73:1 103:22, 104:13 feet [1] - 28:7 37:17, 37:18, 44:17, fought [1] - 15:22
ethical [1] - 49:21 Expressway [1] - fell [1] - 44:7 45:16, 46:3, 51:21, founder [1] - 25:25
ETHICS [1] - 93:25 37:20 felt [1] - 38:10 65:23, 66:1, 66:6, four [10] - 11:18,
evening [13] - 13:6, EXTEND [1] - 96:18 ferries [1] - 44:14 67:23, 68:5, 71:11, 17:22, 18:14, 42:10,
17:17, 22:9, 33:7, extend [1] - 97:22 few [14] - 12:16, 22:13, 77:8, 78:4, 98:2, 42:12, 48:8, 81:12,
7
100:2, 108:13, General [1] - 64:16 group [2] - 27:5, 28:3 84:6, 108:6 hot [2] - 28:5, 29:14
108:17 generations [1] - 11:9 Grow [1] - 86:9 helped [1] - 8:12 hour [5] - 24:16,
four-year [2] - 42:10, genitals [1] - 19:17 guarantee [1] - 107:5 helpful [3] - 102:3, 48:14, 108:12,
42:12 gentleman [4] - 24:24, guard [1] - 15:20 102:20, 103:22 108:16
FOURTH [1] - 6:25 25:3, 81:9, 81:10 guarding [1] - 7:17 helping [3] - 5:24, 6:6, hourly [1] - 48:13
framework [1] - 68:1 GERALD [1] - 2:2 guess [4] - 6:3, 39:22, 27:17 hours [4] - 17:25,
FRANCHISE [1] - Giant [2] - 24:1, 24:8 39:25, 99:11 hence [1] - 52:12 74:13, 108:13,
94:21 Gibson [1] - 8:4 guests [1] - 50:3 hereby [4] - 110:17, 108:17
Frank [2] - 21:25, 88:1 gift [2] - 49:11, 49:13 gunshot [1] - 52:5 111:22, 112:20, house [5] - 18:24,
FRANK [1] - 2:8 GILBRIDE [7] - 2:10, guy [1] - 82:4 114:3 29:12, 35:2, 47:9,
freaking [2] - 56:3, 85:3, 87:22, 105:17, guys [2] - 76:15, Heritage [1] - 75:15 47:18
57:19 106:5, 107:4, 107:21 108:24 heritage [1] - 52:2 housing [5] - 9:20,
free [2] - 13:7, 98:24 Gilbride [16] - 5:4, 6:5, hesitant [1] - 51:2 17:21, 17:24, 18:20,
freezing [2] - 30:13, 6:20, 9:11, 9:14, H hi [1] - 26:2 56:9
30:14 10:20, 22:4, 38:6, high [2] - 6:15, 34:4 Housing [1] - 48:2
frequency [1] - 52:18 76:23, 84:25, 87:17, half [8] - 24:15, 44:17, High [1] - 24:12 HOUSING [1] - 4:4
Friday [2] - 7:25, 92:11, 92:23, 93:10, 73:10, 97:6, 97:7, highly [2] - 49:20, HUD [1] - 57:2
56:12 105:10, 107:3 100:20, 108:12, 85:20 huge [1] - 23:12
friend [2] - 10:3, 21:5 given [5] - 27:9, 31:17, 108:16 hill [1] - 32:3 humbled [2] - 54:17,
FROM [2] - 3:24, 39:18, 66:11, 74:23 halfway [1] - 24:21 hire [6] - 9:3, 9:18, 55:5
91:23 glad [3] - 22:14, 92:23, Hall [8] - 10:6, 10:10, 34:7, 35:19, 47:8, hundred [1] - 85:21
front [6] - 19:17, 98:2 10:11, 10:15, 16:19, 47:17 husband [1] - 39:3
61:25, 77:11, 77:13, glass [2] - 50:19, 83:4 40:10, 41:10, 43:3 hiring [1] - 35:24
92:21, 100:20 GLOBAL [1] - 96:13 hand [3] - 41:5, 78:21, HISTORICALLY [1] - I
frustrated [1] - 103:23 God [1] - 92:9 93:8 93:22
fulfill [1] - 42:11 gold [1] - 9:5 handed [2] - 27:21, hit [1] - 8:16 ID [1] - 21:3
fulfilling [1] - 101:1 Gonzales [2] - 17:16, 45:11 hits [2] - 46:7 idea [3] - 11:12, 44:6,
full [1] - 68:13 81:6 handicap [1] - 10:5 hitting [1] - 80:7 44:20
fully [2] - 50:12, 114:4 GONZALES [7] - handle [3] - 69:25, Hoboken [1] - 62:25 ideal [1] - 51:3
fund [4] - 14:18, 17:17, 20:2, 20:6, 70:2, 93:4 Hodowanitz [3] - 7:3, identifying [1] -
44:10, 64:9, 68:22 20:22, 21:14, 21:17, handouts [1] - 55:17 7:4, 92:8 100:13
funded [2] - 14:20, 21:22 hands [1] - 98:12 HODOWANITZ [3] - ignore [1] - 46:17
58:20 Gov [2] - 74:9, 74:21 HANLEY [1] - 88:4 7:4, 9:13, 9:17 ignored [1] - 45:11
funding [8] - 44:6, government [8] - hanley [1] - 48:1 hold [1] - 67:25 illegal [1] - 27:20
44:16, 48:19, 49:1, 15:16, 31:25, 32:9, happy [4] - 6:13, 13:3, holdover [1] - 67:3 illegally [2] - 24:15,
62:6, 71:5, 71:12, 56:5, 56:6, 58:24, 70:7, 104:3 Home [1] - 56:22 24:21
71:14 58:25, 64:12 harassing [1] - 24:18 home [3] - 26:3, imagine [2] - 8:11,
funds [3] - 44:12, Governor [1] - 13:23 hard [3] - 5:15, 28:21, 29:20, 54:19 107:24
49:3, 52:23 graft [1] - 32:6 70:8 homeless [7] - 8:6, immediate [1] - 67:4
furniture [2] - 77:10, grandfather [1] - 11:9 hardly [1] - 65:4 8:8, 8:17, 16:5, immigrants [1] - 64:3
77:13 grant [3] - 48:23, 49:1, Harrison [1] - 77:9 25:25, 26:7, 53:4 immoral [1] - 62:20
future [3] - 34:9, 62:6 Harvey [1] - 48:16 homeowner [2] - 38:4, impact [2] - 53:6, 87:8
38:19, 67:20 granted [1] - 28:6 hated [1] - 12:23 42:13 impeach [1] - 12:19
grants [1] - 31:11 havoc [1] - 105:5 homes [1] - 15:4 implement [1] -
G grateful [1] - 26:20 hear [8] - 16:11, honest [1] - 11:23 103:24
great [11] - 5:7, 5:9, 31:25, 63:13, 80:2, honestly [1] - 69:4 implemented [1] -
gambling [1] - 44:10 6:1, 24:25, 38:7, 80:20, 82:16, 83:10, honor [1] - 55:20 102:17
game [1] - 35:7 46:20, 49:22, 51:6, 83:17 hook [1] - 105:22 implementing [1] -
garage [1] - 63:22 62:22, 86:25, 99:5 heard [10] - 7:21, 10:9, hope [4] - 11:17, 104:8
garages [3] - 14:6, Green [2] - 22:22, 25:6, 32:22, 63:18, 22:19, 54:12, 62:15 importance [1] - 52:14
14:11, 17:3 23:25 85:8, 86:9, 94:24, hopefully [2] - 22:17, important [3] - 52:9,
garbage [9] - 7:17, GREENMAN [1] - 95:18, 97:17 63:22 52:20, 99:23
39:7, 39:8, 39:16, 111:1 hearing [1] - 113:1 hoping [2] - 11:4, importantly [1] - 50:6
40:4, 41:20, 81:14, GREENMAN- heartfelt [1] - 51:20 86:22 imports [2] - 65:2,
82:2, 98:7 PEDERSEN [1] - held [1] - 113:1 horrible [1] - 98:17 65:3
garden [1] - 24:5 111:1 HELD [2] - 1:4, 4:4 horrific [1] - 19:25 impressed [1] - 59:11
Garden [1] - 24:9 grew [1] - 37:15 hell [1] - 36:17 horse [4] - 44:9, 97:5, impression [2] -
Gardens [1] - 9:22 grifter [1] - 11:10 hello [2] - 31:7, 55:23 98:17, 99:7 70:19, 73:3
gas [1] - 62:18 grocery [1] - 8:19 help [7] - 17:19, 28:4, hospital [1] - 62:24 improved [2] - 7:11,
Gene [1] - 54:3 groping [1] - 7:11 28:6, 28:21, 28:23, 103:19
8
improvement [1] - inspector [2] - 74:5, 95:2, 95:19, 95:21, kept [3] - 6:12, 82:1, lane [2] - 71:7, 71:14
38:12 74:10 96:25, 110:18, 98:4 large [1] - 52:7
IN [3] - 90:7, 91:4, inspectors [1] - 73:23 111:9, 111:23, keyboard [1] - 28:16 last [40] - 6:14, 6:21,
112:3 Instagram [1] - 28:12 112:10, 112:21 Keyser [1] - 51:17 7:20, 7:25, 11:2,
inaudible [1] - 8:22 installed [1] - 73:11 item [1] - 9:18 Keystone [3] - 26:25, 20:12, 22:12, 25:7,
inboxes [1] - 28:11 instead [3] - 23:19, items [1] - 4:7 75:8, 75:19 27:24, 31:20, 36:22,
INC [2] - 96:18, 111:1 41:5, 108:22 itself [4] - 14:11, 50:2, kicking [1] - 17:7 39:4, 39:11, 41:22,
incapable [1] - 14:5 insufficient [1] - 50:16 87:5, 87:15 kids [2] - 18:19, 20:10 46:18, 46:20, 48:8,
incidents [1] - 7:21 intelligence [1] - killing [1] - 15:6 52:7, 56:1, 56:12,
INCIDENTS [1] - 90:8 64:15 J kind [3] - 40:24, 42:5, 61:14, 62:14, 65:16,
inclined [1] - 54:24 intent [1] - 31:24 80:5 68:4, 68:5, 69:16,
included [3] - 45:14, interest [4] - 32:9, Jack [4] - 76:18, kindly [1] - 21:5 71:22, 72:11, 73:6,
61:10, 92:15 32:24, 49:6, 86:23 76:25, 99:18, 101:9 KING [27] - 2:6, 3:10, 73:11, 75:8, 76:13,
including [1] - 101:11 interim [1] - 67:9 Jackson [1] - 39:1 5:3, 20:15, 71:4, 84:12, 92:19, 93:6,
income [1] - 65:2 internal [1] - 34:8 January [6] - 17:21, 71:17, 71:24, 76:25, 97:16, 100:1,
inconvenient [1] - INTO [5] - 91:1, 93:23, 18:12, 67:11, 73:19, 88:12, 88:16, 89:5, 101:14, 103:3,
27:13 94:20, 96:12, 110:25 103:3, 103:5 89:20, 90:13, 90:17, 106:25
INCORRECT [1] - introduced [6] - 88:8, Jennifer [2] - 25:23, 91:9, 91:14, 92:5, lastly [2] - 24:23, 33:2
93:23 89:3, 90:10, 91:7, 25:24 93:14, 94:10, 95:6, late [1] - 92:18
increase [3] - 66:6, 92:2, 94:3 Jersey [2] - 34:24, 95:25, 97:1, 99:17, Law [1] - 75:14
66:7, 106:4 INTRODUCTION [6] - 62:25 110:9, 111:10, law [13] - 9:3, 9:8,
increased [1] - 52:17 88:3, 88:23, 90:2, JESSICA [1] - 2:4 111:14, 112:12 19:9, 34:3, 34:4,
increases [1] - 13:23 90:24, 91:21, 93:21 Jesuits [1] - 50:22 King [6] - 68:5, 71:2, 34:9, 50:4, 50:5,
incurred [1] - 50:19 introduction [6] - Joan [4] - 7:2, 7:4, 72:5, 100:17, 52:3, 57:11, 85:14,
indeed [1] - 75:22 88:14, 89:19, 90:15, 9:10, 10:22 111:13, 112:11 93:4
independent [3] - 91:12, 93:13, 94:8 job [10] - 7:15, 15:11, king [6] - 3:9, 46:21, LAW [2] - 91:23, 93:24
15:8, 17:9, 52:11 invalid [1] - 67:13 17:11, 26:16, 26:18, 71:16, 72:1, 76:12, lawfully [3] - 110:18,
independents [1] - invested [1] - 66:12 29:3, 38:7, 38:9, 110:8 111:23, 112:21
16:2 investigation [2] - 104:25, 109:25 Kinzinger [1] - 12:14 lawsuits [1] - 53:1
India [1] - 64:2 16:10, 16:11 jobs [1] - 63:16 knock [1] - 55:4 lawyers [4] - 34:8,
individual [7] - 49:7, investing [1] - 35:12 John [4] - 10:22, knowing [1] - 51:6 92:10, 92:22, 93:5
72:21, 73:1, 73:4, investment [2] - 10:24, 55:7, 75:5 knowledge [1] - 41:1 laying [1] - 63:7
73:5, 89:10, 89:13 32:19, 97:12 joke [3] - 16:20, 36:1, known [2] - 4:25, 57:9 leadership [1] - 100:1
individuals [1] - 53:20 investments [1] - 41:13 knows [3] - 40:4, 54:5, lease [1] - 9:4
inequality [1] - 63:18 69:20 jokes [1] - 28:13 54:6 least [8] - 17:22, 18:1,
inevitable [1] - 55:12 investors [1] - 86:17 Judge [3] - 75:5, 75:6, Knox [1] - 40:10 18:13, 50:16, 63:4,
influence [1] - 49:10 invite [1] - 61:16 84:15 Kost [1] - 50:20 81:12, 83:5, 85:22
invited [1] - 75:20 judges [5] - 58:6, leave [2] - 60:19,
inform [1] - 84:25
inviting [1] - 61:1 58:8, 58:9, 58:11, L 67:20
information [12] -
involve [1] - 52:2 58:17 Lee [2] - 13:5, 36:8
40:25, 41:4, 41:8,
involved [3] - 19:9, judgment [1] - 110:5 labeled [1] - 49:25 left [4] - 24:3, 29:12,
41:12, 43:19, 45:3,
57:8, 61:25, 74:8, 35:17, 51:16 June [1] - 53:12 Labrosky [2] - 38:2, 44:3, 63:24
78:8, 89:9, 103:21 Irish [1] - 52:1 Justice [1] - 64:6 38:4 LEGAL [1] - 91:22
informed [2] - 75:25, ironed [1] - 69:12 justify [2] - 66:14, LABROSKY [8] - 38:3, legal [12] - 9:6, 9:19,
106:6 issue [7] - 49:9, 81:25, 69:21 40:7, 42:4, 42:9, 34:10, 67:6, 67:14,
informing [1] - 21:8 82:8, 82:25, 83:19, 43:2, 43:11, 43:18, 67:20, 85:1, 87:19,
infrastructure [1] - 84:4, 102:2 K 43:22 105:14, 107:13,
72:7 issued [2] - 64:13, lack [2] - 83:13, 102:8 107:14
Karaoke [1] - 54:13 Lackawanna [12] - legality [1] - 106:25
inhouse [3] - 34:6, 71:21
KATHY [1] - 2:9 22:23, 23:2, 31:22, legally [4] - 30:17,
36:4, 68:20 issues [14] - 5:17,
keep [14] - 14:4, 56:6, 56:13, 57:10, 110:18, 111:23,
initial [2] - 66:5, 66:18 26:11, 26:14, 48:14,
14:22, 17:6, 21:11, 58:4, 60:25, 62:5, 112:21
injured [1] - 52:6 50:12, 51:1, 69:23,
27:18, 27:21, 34:5, 75:15, 79:25, 80:6 legislation [6] - 11:14,
insane [1] - 19:10 74:9, 74:19, 78:12,
39:6, 39:7, 39:9, lady [1] - 28:25 80:24, 85:4, 92:9,
insanity [1] - 47:22 85:10, 86:11, 97:17,
54:7, 83:10, 86:2, laid [1] - 98:8 92:15, 99:9
inside [2] - 17:23, 103:16
108:5 lake [1] - 37:12 legislature [1] - 58:3
28:14 IT [4] - 65:25, 76:21,
keeping [2] - 5:23, Lake [1] - 37:13 LEHIGH [1] - 94:22
inspection [3] - 74:4, 110:1, 110:4
57:7 LAND [1] - 112:3 length [2] - 103:23,
74:16, 74:20 Item [17] - 85:2, 88:8,
keeps [1] - 99:14 landfill [3] - 45:24, 106:11
inspections [4] - 16:9, 89:3, 90:10, 91:7,
92:2, 94:3, 94:25, Kelly [1] - 31:21 82:12, 98:11 Les [4] - 22:8, 22:10,
16:14, 73:23, 74:17
9
25:21, 36:10 look [17] - 7:8, 14:17, MARCH [2] - 3:23, 95:16 million [11] - 9:23,
less [4] - 26:23, 103:7, 14:24, 17:12, 39:9, 3:25 Meadow [1] - 75:25 14:19, 16:4, 28:23,
106:13 41:15, 43:5, 46:10, March [4] - 1:7, 29:9, meal [1] - 28:5 32:16, 44:9, 44:10,
lessening [1] - 102:5 57:13, 58:7, 60:4, 49:17, 67:12 mean [21] - 9:5, 11:22, 44:11, 44:12, 46:19,
level [1] - 11:20 60:21, 62:4, 82:4, Maria [2] - 1:24, 20:21, 22:24, 23:3, 98:5
levels [1] - 53:14 84:17, 99:9, 102:16 114:10 23:13, 25:12, 25:15, millions [6] - 17:13,
LGBTQ [1] - 4:25 looked [2] - 6:1, 34:14 Marie [3] - 59:3, 61:9, 40:10, 57:2, 57:10, 35:20, 35:24, 36:2,
liar [1] - 11:10 looking [15] - 4:9, 72:18 59:17, 59:25, 60:12, 54:10, 66:12
license [2] - 109:4, 28:23, 42:24, 43:15, Marina [1] - 50:24 62:23, 82:22, 98:15, mind [3] - 14:14, 86:2,
112:25 44:13, 45:18, 46:10, MARK [1] - 2:3 99:13, 101:2, 104:21
licensing [2] - 16:9, 47:22, 55:17, 72:13, marked [1] - 67:10 105:18, 105:23 mine [1] - 9:5
16:14 89:9, 101:12, Market [3] - 23:23, means [1] - 114:23 minimum [1] - 26:13
lids [2] - 39:12, 39:19 106:16, 108:5, 24:2 mechanic [1] - 65:6 Minooka [1] - 44:2
lie [1] - 11:25 109:22 market [1] - 31:8 mechanism [1] - minute [1] - 92:19
lieu [2] - 50:10, 50:11 lookout [1] - 59:15 markets [1] - 86:22 107:7 minutes [3] - 3:19,
life [3] - 53:9, 63:13, looks [3] - 22:16, marking [1] - 6:8 media [1] - 21:4 9:20, 57:5
105:21 26:11, 27:7 markings [2] - 79:17, Medicaid [1] - 63:14 MINUTES [1] - 4:3
lifetime [1] - 11:20 looted [1] - 15:2 80:8 Medicare [1] - 63:14 mirrors [1] - 56:20
light [3] - 15:14, lose [1] - 87:5 Martin [3] - 3:7, 4:23, meet [5] - 5:18, 14:23, mismanaged [1] -
17:18, 59:13 losing [1] - 87:4 30:2 55:5, 99:18, 110:3 37:5
lights [2] - 45:1, 45:4 loss [1] - 86:25 Marxist [1] - 57:18 meeting [10] - 20:17, Miss [2] - 81:6, 92:8
likely [1] - 8:6 losses [1] - 36:5 masonry [1] - 60:2 29:11, 32:25, 50:23, missed [2] - 53:25,
Lincoln [1] - 37:13 lost [2] - 53:7, 63:4 mass [1] - 8:14 57:4, 61:6, 75:16, 69:25
line [2] - 24:14, 80:15 lower [3] - 66:2, 69:4, mates [1] - 49:8 76:1, 76:8, 113:9 Mission [3] - 26:25,
Lines [1] - 33:17 106:2 Matt [1] - 56:13 MEETING [1] - 4:4 75:8, 75:19
lines [2] - 78:10, 80:20 lynn [2] - 38:1, 42:19 matter [4] - 20:8, 20:9, meetings [3] - 26:5, Mississippi [1] - 23:1
link [1] - 52:22 Lynn [1] - 38:4 51:3, 61:2 28:15, 51:3 Mitt [1] - 12:17
Link [1] - 28:25 MATTERS [1] - 91:25 MEMBER [2] - 88:4, modern [2] - 62:19,
liquor [1] - 112:25 M matters [3] - 8:23, 88:24 100:24
list [2] - 43:24, 72:20 75:5, 85:7 member [1] - 48:6 mom [1] - 20:11
Maga [1] - 12:7 Mayor [17] - 10:9, members [5] - 4:18, moment [1] - 3:4
listed [1] - 64:7
magical [1] - 44:13 10:25, 11:1, 14:10, 19:12, 48:7, 68:4, Monday [1] - 5:25
listening [1] - 11:22
magistrate [1] - 79:12 16:18, 25:13, 27:10, 105:12 monetarily [1] - 108:1
litigation [2] - 107:2,
107:5 mail [1] - 41:9 35:15, 36:13, 38:24, memories [2] - 52:16, money [24] - 14:7,
litter [2] - 39:22, 39:24 mails [1] - 28:11 41:23, 45:17, 54:23, 53:25 25:10, 25:23, 32:1,
littering [1] - 40:1 Main [2] - 8:5, 23:23 61:6, 61:7, 62:16, memorized [1] - 34:13, 34:22, 35:11,
LITTLE [1] - 55:23 main [3] - 31:9, 56:17, 78:1 104:21 35:13, 39:25, 42:14,
live [5] - 13:25, 25:17, 108:8 MAYOR [5] - 89:1, memory [1] - 109:9 45:3, 46:6, 46:17,
28:15, 37:23, 39:20 maintenance [2] - 90:25, 94:19, 96:11, men [2] - 3:5, 50:5 47:10, 47:15, 48:23,
lives [4] - 4:24, 19:17, 69:4, 97:15 110:22 mention [3] - 4:21, 63:2, 63:3, 64:13,
32:6, 53:7 major [1] - 7:21 MCANDREW [32] - 5:1, 5:14 68:24, 69:18, 86:14,
living [4] - 20:13, majority [3] - 15:15, 2:3, 3:16, 6:17, mentioned [5] - 4:22, 86:15, 87:4
63:17, 77:16, 81:15 15:22, 100:3 19:24, 20:3, 20:20, 49:11, 62:14, 69:9, monstrosity [1] -
Liz [1] - 12:11 man [7] - 8:16, 11:21, 21:24, 59:23, 59:25, 105:11 22:25
LLC [2] - 94:22, 96:13 12:19, 13:2, 19:2, 60:9, 60:14, 81:4, mentioning [1] - 54:8 month [3] - 14:19,
19:16, 99:4 88:10, 88:19, 89:23, mess [1] - 13:15 31:20, 106:9
LLP [1] - 91:23
man's [2] - 11:24, 90:12, 90:20, 91:17, met [1] - 76:25 months [10] - 4:12,
load [1] - 34:23
19:17 92:4, 92:7, 93:17, meters [2] - 14:7, 26:4, 44:3, 46:2,
local [3] - 48:16, 52:2,
managed [2] - 14:20, 94:5, 94:13, 95:1, 86:14 46:4, 71:20, 71:22,
53:6
35:14 95:9, 95:20, 96:3, metrics [2] - 68:11, 74:24, 82:16, 100:2
locally [2] - 53:12,
management [2] - 98:1, 110:15, 69:10 MONTHS [1] - 96:19
55:25
34:20, 35:6 111:20, 112:18, MICHAEL [1] - 88:4 morally [1] - 53:13
LOCATED [2] - 95:16,
MANAGEMENT [3] - 113:7 Michael [1] - 26:2 moreover [1] - 50:18
112:3
90:4, 90:7, 96:15 McAndrew [9] - 3:15, might [5] - 14:15, Morgan [2] - 13:5,
LOCATION [1] - 1:10
MANCINI [1] - 51:14 81:2, 84:13, 84:23, 61:4, 67:21, 68:19, 36:8
lock [1] - 106:3
Mancini [1] - 51:15 97:4, 99:16, 110:14, 78:13 MORGAN [1] - 13:6
locked [1] - 16:20
manpower [1] - 50:17 111:19, 112:17 Mike [2] - 12:13, 51:15 morning [6] - 5:25,
logged [3] - 103:16,
map [1] - 98:24 McCool [2] - 1:24, Miller [1] - 48:9 8:15, 19:3, 22:3,
103:17
maps [2] - 100:10, 114:10 MILLER [1] - 88:24 29:12, 29:18
logistics [1] - 34:20
109:8 MCDONOUGH [1] - millimeter [1] - 64:17 Moscow [1] - 63:6
10
most [8] - 8:21, 13:20, 77:4, 77:20, 78:14, 111:15, 111:17, neighborWorks [1] - 19:11, 19:12
14:7, 16:1, 50:6, 79:5, 79:14, 79:23, 111:19, 111:21, 49:20 notified [1] - 74:15
57:23, 74:6, 82:17 80:16, 81:1, 81:4, 112:11, 112:13, NEPA [1] - 39:20 notify [1] - 74:3
motion [8] - 88:8, 84:23, 87:16, 87:18, 112:15, 112:17, net [1] - 52:24 noting [1] - 66:1
89:3, 90:10, 91:7, 87:25, 88:1, 88:2, 112:19 never [13] - 8:16, Novembrino [4] -
92:2, 94:3, 113:6, 88:7, 88:10, 88:12, mud [2] - 37:6, 37:11 11:19, 32:22, 45:5, 33:11, 33:14, 33:23,
113:7 88:13, 88:16, 88:17, multiple [3] - 83:21, 53:3, 54:19, 59:15, 33:25
MOTIONS [1] - 71:1 88:19, 88:20, 88:22, 83:22, 103:2 63:17, 63:18, 67:2, nowhere [3] - 35:22,
motions [4] - 71:3, 89:2, 89:5, 89:7, museum [1] - 65:7 67:22, 84:7, 98:4 53:18, 68:25
72:2, 77:5, 81:3 89:8, 89:15, 89:17, Musk [1] - 32:2 new [8] - 15:17, 46:20, nude [2] - 18:14,
Motor [1] - 33:17 89:18, 89:20, 89:21, must [1] - 74:12 67:9, 73:13, 73:20, 18:23
Mount [1] - 21:19 89:23, 89:24, 90:1, 74:24, 99:20, 99:25 number [5] - 26:7,
mouth [1] - 11:24 90:9, 90:12, 90:13, N New [3] - 34:24, 62:25 30:11, 78:24, 99:19,
move [4] - 31:2, 68:9, 90:14, 90:17, 90:18, NEW [1] - 112:3 101:7
95:1, 95:20 90:20, 90:21, 90:23, naked [2] - 17:23, 19:2 newest [1] - 108:23 numbered [1] - 49:14
moved [22] - 7:5, 91:6, 91:9, 91:11, NAME [1] - 96:17 next [29] - 11:13, numbers [5] - 44:23,
18:11, 35:1, 35:3, 91:14, 91:15, 91:17, name [5] - 9:24, 9:25, 11:18, 18:9, 18:21, 86:4, 102:10,
63:24, 77:14, 88:10, 91:18, 91:20, 92:1, 20:25, 32:5, 65:15 19:1, 19:3, 22:21, 102:11, 103:19
88:11, 88:21, 89:5, 92:4, 92:5, 92:6, narrative [1] - 55:2 24:12, 31:18, 33:11, numerous [2] - 26:9,
89:11, 89:25, 90:12, 92:7, 93:1, 93:2, nasty [1] - 28:10 33:12, 35:18, 36:25, 104:23
90:22, 91:9, 91:19, 93:12, 93:14, 93:15, National [1] - 64:4 41:25, 52:19, 60:24, nursery [1] - 32:11
92:4, 93:19, 94:5, 93:17, 93:18, 93:20, nature [1] - 52:17 62:14, 74:13, 78:15,
94:15, 95:11, 96:5 94:2, 94:5, 94:7, 79:1, 79:11, 81:24,
94:10, 94:11, 94:13,
Nay [14] - 23:5, 23:16, O
moving [6] - 45:17, 23:20, 23:24, 24:4, 83:4, 83:5, 104:16,
47:3, 71:9, 77:12, 94:14, 94:16, 94:24, 37:5, 37:7, 44:4, 105:23, 113:3 Obama [4] - 12:1,
93:8, 109:15 95:1, 95:4, 95:6, 44:21, 45:1, 52:20, nice [5] - 8:16, 31:16, 12:3, 12:24
MR [232] - 3:3, 3:10, 95:7, 95:9, 95:10, 53:23, 71:6 45:2, 45:13, 51:11 obligations [1] - 14:23
3:12, 3:16, 3:18, 95:12, 95:18, 95:20, near [2] - 8:4, 53:18 night [5] - 43:22, observations [1] -
3:20, 4:6, 4:8, 4:17, 95:23, 95:25, 96:1, NECESSARY [1] - 47:23, 51:11, 52:4, 65:19
5:3, 6:3, 6:17, 6:24, 96:3, 96:4, 96:6, 91:2 65:10 obvious [1] - 107:11
6:25, 7:2, 9:10, 9:14, 96:20, 96:23, 97:1, necessary [1] - 54:22 nights [2] - 26:21, obviously [3] - 45:8,
10:22, 10:24, 13:5, 97:2, 97:3, 97:25, 26:22 67:13, 87:2
necessities [1] - 28:5
13:6, 17:15, 19:24, 98:1, 99:16, 99:17, nine [4] - 56:9, 73:9,
necessity [1] - 92:13 occur [1] - 76:1
20:3, 20:15, 20:20, 100:17, 100:18, 73:10, 73:15
Need [1] - 26:1 occurred [1] - 81:12
21:15, 21:21, 21:23, 101:5, 106:24,
need [32] - 10:10, Ninth [1] - 30:1 occurring [2] - 17:19,
21:24, 21:25, 22:2, 107:18, 108:3,
10:15, 13:10, 15:8, NO [6] - 94:18, 95:13, 21:11
22:4, 22:6, 22:7, 110:9, 110:11,
17:9, 30:18, 32:8, 96:9, 96:10, 110:21, Oceanic [1] - 64:4
22:9, 25:21, 31:6, 110:15, 110:17,
34:21, 34:25, 35:4, 112:1 October [1] - 58:12
31:7, 33:6, 33:7, 110:19, 111:4,
35:5, 35:8, 35:14, nobody [6] - 25:22, OF [27] - 1:1, 4:2, 4:3,
33:11, 33:14, 33:15, 111:7, 111:10,
35:22, 39:2, 62:15, 40:4, 62:23, 63:24, 88:3, 88:4, 88:23,
33:16, 33:20, 33:21, 111:11, 111:14,
63:1, 63:11, 67:4, 85:16, 86:13 88:24, 89:1, 90:3,
33:24, 34:2, 37:21, 111:16, 111:20,
67:23, 69:9, 75:10, noise [2] - 78:6, 78:12 90:5, 91:2, 91:3,
37:22, 38:1, 40:5, 111:22, 111:24,
75:12, 81:13, 81:21, none [5] - 16:8, 16:23, 91:23, 91:24, 93:25,
42:2, 42:7, 42:19, 112:5, 112:12,
83:19, 85:1, 85:12, 37:1, 92:15, 109:23 94:17, 94:21, 95:13,
43:9, 43:14, 43:21, 112:14, 112:18,
86:2, 92:9, 100:22 nonprofits [1] - 44:14 95:14, 96:9, 96:10,
43:23, 44:1, 47:24, 112:20, 112:22,
needed [1] - 68:14 normal [1] - 59:12 96:13, 96:16,
47:25, 51:13, 51:14, 112:24, 113:7, 113:8
needing [1] - 26:16 North [1] - 8:5 110:24, 112:4
55:22, 55:23, 59:1, MS [48] - 3:9, 3:11,
needs [6] - 35:18, noses [1] - 31:19 offend [1] - 15:12
59:7, 59:23, 59:25, 3:13, 3:15, 3:17, 7:4,
51:23, 57:8, 61:4, note [3] - 49:13, offender [1] - 101:24
60:9, 60:14, 61:9, 9:13, 9:17, 17:17,
81:23, 82:8 72:15, 99:24 offer [2] - 9:22, 67:11
61:20, 61:24, 62:3, 20:2, 20:6, 20:22,
negotiated [2] - 73:22, noted [1] - 68:6 office [12] - 11:11,
62:10, 62:11, 62:12, 21:14, 21:17, 21:22,
106:7 notes [2] - 27:8, 114:5 13:2, 13:9, 15:9,
65:13, 65:14, 70:11, 25:24, 38:3, 40:7,
negotiation [1] - 46:14 nothing [12] - 12:3, 17:10, 19:6, 19:7,
70:12, 70:22, 70:24, 42:4, 42:9, 43:2,
neighbor [1] - 77:9 13:14, 21:3, 24:22, 19:22, 32:3, 32:11,
70:25, 71:2, 71:4, 43:11, 43:18, 43:22,
neighborhood [3] - 26:6, 47:11, 60:6, 32:13, 37:18
71:16, 71:17, 71:23, 59:2, 59:10, 59:24,
60:7, 60:12, 60:18, 22:11, 24:18, 48:19 63:12, 81:21, 98:18, officer [1] - 51:16
71:24, 72:1, 72:4,
61:15, 61:22, 62:1, neighbors [4] - 34:1, 108:5, 108:7 Officer [1] - 51:18
72:15, 72:17, 75:23,
110:8, 110:10, 75:11, 75:13, 78:11 nothing's [2] - 60:11, officers [1] - 6:7
75:24, 76:10, 76:11,
110:12, 110:14, NeighborWorks [1] - 79:10 Official [2] - 1:24,
76:20, 76:25, 77:2,
110:16, 111:13, 49:16 notice [3] - 9:23, 114:11
11
OFFICIALS [4] - 96:4 paid [9] - 36:19, 58:8, passage [2] - 111:9, 27:21, 28:4, 28:12,
90:25, 94:20, 96:11, optimization [2] - 58:10, 58:11, 65:4, 112:10 28:13, 28:20, 28:23,
110:24 103:5, 103:25 71:21, 100:6 passed [4] - 3:6, 4:23, 29:1, 29:9, 30:3,
often [1] - 41:12 optimize [1] - 97:8 Paige [1] - 53:22 53:8, 67:16 30:17, 31:5, 31:23,
ol' [1] - 31:20 optimized [2] - 97:19, painted [2] - 22:16, passing [1] - 54:16 32:8, 32:14, 32:21,
old [7] - 11:19, 15:20, 103:12 80:20 past [10] - 12:23, 26:4, 34:19, 34:21, 34:25,
18:2, 19:16, 20:25, optimizing [1] - 70:4 pandemic [1] - 86:12 55:16, 77:24, 78:19, 35:5, 35:6, 35:12,
31:8, 63:24 option [1] - 68:18 paper [6] - 8:1, 37:3, 80:1, 93:5, 99:5, 35:15, 35:16, 36:3,
Olive [2] - 27:23, ORDER [6] - 3:20, 57:20, 58:14, 83:3, 104:8, 105:12 36:15, 36:20, 37:10,
79:20 6:25, 70:25, 94:16, 100:10 Pat [2] - 9:25 39:18, 40:1, 40:3,
ON [6] - 3:25, 88:6, 96:6, 112:22 papers [2] - 27:8, Path [1] - 24:9 41:16, 41:17, 42:16,
91:23, 96:8, 110:20, Order [6] - 4:7, 9:12, 58:18 path [1] - 97:22 46:11, 53:6, 54:9,
111:25 46:25, 84:20, 84:24, paperwork [1] - 40:11 pathetic [1] - 60:13 54:14, 54:17, 54:25,
once [11] - 15:6, 113:3 parade [15] - 5:5, 5:13, Patrick's [2] - 6:22, 55:17, 56:23, 57:7,
18:18, 24:20, 41:1, ordered [1] - 71:21 5:24, 6:4, 6:7, 6:8, 7:6 57:19, 57:23, 58:3,
55:11, 78:16, 81:12, ORDINANCE [2] - 6:12, 7:7, 10:20, pattern [1] - 38:13 58:17, 58:21, 59:20,
82:6, 82:9, 86:7, 94:18, 95:14 38:6, 49:24, 50:1, patterns [1] - 52:16 63:16, 63:19, 65:5,
105:18 ordinary [1] - 15:3 51:22, 59:5, 80:6 pause [2] - 48:18, 65:11, 75:10, 75:12,
one [53] - 10:7, 15:5, Oregon [1] - 99:12 Parade [1] - 6:22 64:11 77:11, 77:15, 78:22,
16:18, 17:1, 18:1, original [2] - 46:21, paralegals [1] - 34:8 pave [6] - 22:12, 78:25, 80:1, 98:19,
20:24, 26:13, 26:17, 47:4 PARCEL [1] - 91:4 22:16, 73:19, 73:21, 99:25
30:19, 31:5, 32:2, originally [2] - 47:15, PARCELS [1] - 95:16 73:22, 73:25 people's [1] - 30:9
32:14, 34:14, 34:17, 106:8 Park [10] - 9:22, 16:5, pavilion [1] - 27:23 per [3] - 49:24, 68:25,
34:18, 35:24, 36:8, OTHER [4] - 90:25, 19:20, 33:12, 33:14, Paxson [4] - 8:24, 102:24
37:15, 39:15, 46:15, 94:19, 96:11, 110:23 33:23, 36:1, 44:4, 48:17, 85:6, 85:20 perceive [1] - 49:5
48:3, 49:8, 49:25, outlet [2] - 24:2, 24:3 44:21, 45:2 PAXSON [1] - 91:23 percent [10] - 4:11,
51:18, 51:25, 52:6, outlines [1] - 22:15 park [7] - 14:6, 17:14, pay [7] - 14:12, 26:15, 26:17, 45:21, 53:17,
53:13, 53:21, 54:24, outs [2] - 101:15, 19:17, 19:18, 24:21, 26:19, 42:13, 63:17, 57:11, 63:15, 64:19,
55:4, 55:5, 55:7, 101:16 39:1, 85:9 105:22, 106:13 66:5, 66:6
55:13, 55:15, 62:7, outside [2] - 30:4, PARK [1] - 111:2 paying [4] - 10:18, perform [2] - 68:7,
63:22, 65:5, 69:13, 84:5 parked [2] - 24:14, 34:4, 83:7, 105:13 68:14
72:6, 77:15, 78:15, outstanding [1] - 5:5 24:19 payment [1] - 50:11 performance [6] -
79:24, 83:3, 98:14, PARKING [2] - 91:25, 11:4, 68:8, 69:10,
oval [1] - 13:2 payments [3] - 67:5,
101:11, 102:21, 94:1 98:3, 98:16, 99:1
overall [2] - 11:4, 67:1 67:8, 86:16
104:13, 105:8, Parking [1] - 48:14 performed [1] - 47:21
overdue [1] - 100:8 PAYROLL [1] - 4:1
105:11, 108:15, parking [16] - 8:23, perhaps [1] - 102:13
overnight [3] - 26:18, Payroll [1] - 4:14
108:23, 109:12 8:24, 10:5, 14:6, period [5] - 36:11,
30:11, 30:12 pays [1] - 14:18
ones [2] - 12:16, 35:17 14:11, 16:22, 17:3, 67:9, 101:3, 106:14,
OVERTIME [1] - 3:21 PD [1] - 18:20
ongoing [2] - 67:5, 17:13, 24:8, 24:15, 106:17
overtime [3] - 4:9, peace [1] - 20:10
67:7 24:17, 33:12, 33:24, permit [3] - 74:3, 74:9,
69:3, 70:2 PEDERSEN [1] -
onsite [1] - 74:5 78:25, 85:7, 86:14 74:13
overturned [1] - 30:8 111:1
open [6] - 26:11, Parks [1] - 4:10 person [7] - 18:2,
overweight [4] - penalties [1] - 103:1
26:22, 44:5, 45:9, part [10] - 16:17, 21:16, 26:17, 27:6,
102:22, 102:25, Pence [1] - 12:13
55:9, 74:15 26:12, 33:8, 33:18, 47:17, 53:10, 109:12
103:4, 103:7 PennDOT [2] - 61:12,
Open [2] - 74:9, 74:21 45:15, 49:22, 75:20, personal [1] - 13:14
overweights [1] - 80:9
opening [1] - 44:4 75:21, 101:1, 101:3 personally [2] - 42:12,
102:22 PENNDOT [2] - 90:6
operate [2] - 35:6, participate [1] - 64:22 42:15
own [8] - 11:16, 17:2, Pennsylvania [2] -
66:20 participated [1] - 39:3 perspective [3] -
28:22, 29:1, 34:7, 13:18, 14:14
operated [1] - 34:22 PARTICIPATION [1] - 65:22, 67:14, 99:5
35:19, 35:22, 84:7 PENNSYLVANIA [3] -
operating [3] - 66:22, 7:1 Pete's [1] - 59:21
owned [1] - 80:5 90:5, 91:4, 95:17
70:18, 70:19 particularly [1] - 8:13 petitions [2] - 13:9,
owner [4] - 38:5, pension [1] - 14:18
OPERATIONS [1] - parties [3] - 105:19, 36:13
42:13, 79:2, 79:6 people [87] - 5:10, 8:8,
96:15 106:6, 107:18 phase [6] - 71:5, 71:9,
owners [2] - 31:10, 8:10, 8:22, 10:15,
opinion [1] - 81:17 partly [1] - 80:4 71:11, 72:6, 72:7
99:10 11:16, 13:25, 14:6,
opportunity [1] - party [3] - 15:12, Philadelphia [1] -
16:5, 16:13, 16:24,
99:18 15:25, 31:21 34:24
oppose [1] - 11:5
P 18:23, 23:22, 24:17,
Philly [1] - 58:10
pass [10] - 25:2, 25:3, 24:18, 24:21, 25:1,
Opposed [8] - 88:20, p.m [1] - 17:25 25:9, 25:11, 25:16, phone [1] - 10:7
25:9, 25:12, 25:14,
89:24, 90:21, 91:18, PA [1] - 58:15 31:8, 31:15, 95:2, photos [2] - 74:7,
26:1, 26:7, 27:3,
93:18, 94:14, 95:10, pad [1] - 71:11 95:21, 104:16 27:14, 27:16, 27:18, 74:19
12
pick [3] - 53:16, 54:21, 20:23, 21:20, 38:8, President [4] - 12:13, promotion [1] - 48:10 24:25, 25:5, 44:8,
101:19 49:25, 50:18, 51:15, 12:25, 49:4, 50:24 proof [4] - 25:4, 25:15, 45:1, 55:18, 58:17,
picked [2] - 28:3, 53:2, 57:12, 59:21, presidential [1] - 56:2 68:8, 69:22 59:13, 72:13, 82:22,
104:20 81:19 Presidents [1] - 18:22 propaganda [1] - 83:11, 104:17,
pickle [2] - 52:19, policemen [1] - 14:25 press [1] - 53:5 58:20 104:18, 105:14,
53:22 political [3] - 15:12, pressing [1] - 69:21 proper [6] - 88:9, 89:4, 109:2
pickup [1] - 83:2 16:15, 37:23 pretends [1] - 27:8 90:11, 91:8, 92:3, Putin [1] - 12:9
pickups [1] - 69:25 politician [1] - 36:19 pretty [5] - 38:15, 94:4 puts [1] - 25:23
picture [5] - 18:25, politics [4] - 13:24, 39:21, 59:18, 78:19, properly [1] - 47:2 putting [5] - 5:5,
27:20, 28:1, 101:17, 15:6, 35:8, 64:22 85:16 properties [6] - 72:19, 22:24, 36:12, 45:4,
101:21 pond [1] - 37:6 previous [4] - 66:3, 72:22, 73:4, 73:5, 86:14
pictures [2] - 19:25, pool [7] - 52:18, 69:20, 102:8, 105:3 79:13, 102:7
81:16 53:21, 53:23, 71:6, previously [1] - property [9] - 19:13, Q
piece [3] - 31:16, 71:7, 71:10, 71:15 103:22 19:22, 19:23, 31:16,
77:12, 81:14 pools [1] - 44:5 price [5] - 34:4, 70:9, 32:16, 40:2, 77:11, quadrupled [1] -
pieces [1] - 65:7 Poopski [1] - 63:11 106:3, 106:21 77:14, 77:18 64:16
pike [1] - 37:1 poor [2] - 80:7, 82:4 PRICE [1] - 96:19 PROPERTY [1] - 91:3 qualifications [2] -
pill [1] - 53:5 portion [1] - 85:13 pricing [2] - 65:24, prophylactically [1] - 48:4, 48:12
pilot [1] - 50:11 PORTIONS [1] - 91:2 106:7 87:11 qualified [1] - 35:6
pilots [1] - 61:18 Portland [1] - 99:12 pride [1] - 51:6 Prospect [1] - 78:6 questionable [1] -
pittance [2] - 50:10, position [1] - 48:5 printed [1] - 42:20 protected [3] - 85:25, 54:11
50:15 possibility [1] - 70:20 private [1] - 20:8 86:1, 87:15 questions [17] - 29:2,
place [14] - 6:1, 18:5, possible [2] - 49:2, problem [8] - 10:8, protects [1] - 29:24 42:22, 52:10, 73:6,
18:6, 24:5, 29:20, 70:15 27:6, 28:14, 41:9, protesters [1] - 64:21 75:1, 76:12, 76:13,
30:19, 31:2, 32:4, possibly [2] - 17:18, 56:17, 78:20, 104:2, prove [2] - 68:13, 76:14, 76:15, 78:4,
38:20, 44:17, 45:16, 63:2 109:5 97:11 83:21, 84:8, 84:14,
51:10, 59:20, 67:23 post [1] - 21:4 problems [2] - 8:17, proven [2] - 66:13, 84:17, 92:16, 99:19,
placed [1] - 113:3 potential [4] - 48:20, 55:15 98:18 101:10
Plains [1] - 64:7 49:6, 57:25, 102:23 proceed [1] - 84:24 PROVIDE [2] - 96:14, quick [2] - 4:21, 5:14
plan [5] - 14:22, 49:8, pothole [1] - 80:7 proceedings [1] - 111:1 quickly [2] - 22:20,
76:3, 80:23, 82:16 potholes [1] - 37:5 114:3 PROVIDED [1] - 3:22 105:2
PLAN [1] - 112:2 proceeds [3] - 86:7, provides [1] - 50:9 quiet [1] - 40:23
pounds [1] - 102:24
planning [2] - 50:23, 87:20, 87:24 providing [1] - 6:21 quite [4] - 39:3, 39:16,
pour [1] - 23:11
80:9 process [8] - 9:15, provisions [1] - 67:24 52:8, 59:11
poured [2] - 68:23,
PLANNING [1] - 93:25 54:22, 66:17, 68:10, PUBLIC [3] - 96:8, quote [2] - 18:3, 51:4
69:18
plans [3] - 31:1, 47:10, power [1] - 57:21 74:20, 74:22, 74:24, 96:16, 110:20
76:8 practice [1] - 85:15 83:13 public [19] - 7:9, R
plants [1] - 24:6 practicing [1] - 54:12 procurement [1] - 11:21, 12:6, 13:9,
race [1] - 6:13
plastic [2] - 82:24, prayers [1] - 51:15 66:25 17:10, 20:9, 34:15,
racers [1] - 6:14
83:4 premade [1] - 23:8 producing [1] - 82:25 41:1, 41:4, 43:19,
45:2, 48:5, 48:11, racing [1] - 44:9
play [1] - 49:22 Prep [1] - 4:14 productive [1] - 64:17
81:5, 81:23, 85:12, radio [1] - 31:25
playing [1] - 35:7 PREPARATION [1] - profession [1] - 9:6
86:8, 87:23, 113:1 Radison [1] - 60:24
Pleas [1] - 58:5 4:1 program [7] - 49:21,
Public [4] - 96:22, railroad [1] - 75:17
pleasure [2] - 94:25, prepared [3] - 51:7, 49:23, 99:21, 99:23,
99:24, 100:4, 103:24 96:24, 111:6, 111:8 railway [1] - 53:18
95:19 60:15, 69:11
progress [3] - 22:15, publicly [1] - 33:4 raise [1] - 63:2
Pledge [1] - 3:1 prescheduled [1] -
52:21, 74:6 PUC [2] - 13:24, 62:14 raised [1] - 33:19
pocket [1] - 25:23 74:2
progressively [1] - puddle [1] - 53:21 raises [2] - 66:24,
pockets [1] - 25:11 Prescott [1] - 78:18
106:4 punishing [1] - 30:3 92:19
poignant [1] - 8:13 Present [1] - 3:16
project [9] - 38:13, punishment [2] - rate [4] - 13:23, 14:1,
point [13] - 4:10, 6:3, present [5] - 3:10,
38:18, 44:11, 44:18, 29:25, 30:6 48:13, 66:11
37:2, 43:16, 44:3, 3:12, 31:10, 70:15,
47:9, 60:3, 61:11, purchase [1] - 70:16 rates [1] - 86:23
44:6, 44:22, 52:3, 74:5
61:14, 62:5 PURCHASE [1] - 91:2 RATIFYING [1] - 95:14
73:9, 74:11, 78:23, presentation [2] -
87:8, 100:25 PROJECT [1] - 111:3 purchased [1] - 70:20 RCN [1] - 94:22
14:5, 99:22
points [5] - 52:15, projected [1] - 68:24 purchasing [1] - 33:9 re [1] - 63:10
presented [2] - 70:13,
92:12, 101:11, projections [1] - 4:15 purported [1] - 67:24 re-annex [1] - 63:10
100:15
102:19, 104:14 projects [1] - 62:6 purpose [1] - 108:8 reach [3] - 20:16,
PRESIDENT [2] - 2:2,
Police [3] - 6:18, promised [3] - 46:19, pushing [1] - 8:19 22:2, 81:19
2:3
50:25, 51:21 46:20, 103:25 put [19] - 14:8, 16:24, reached [1] - 54:17
president [3] - 11:20,
police [11] - 7:14, promises [1] - 98:4 23:6, 23:12, 23:17, reaches [1] - 26:23
12:24, 36:11
13
read [9] - 9:20, 14:13, RECYCLING [2] - repairs [1] - 31:11 88:3, 88:23, 90:2, ROI [1] - 68:22
37:2, 39:13, 45:10, 96:14, 96:17 repaving [1] - 80:14 90:24, 91:21, 93:21, roll [3] - 3:8, 110:6,
47:1, 57:20, 58:14, Recycling [1] - 46:15 repay [1] - 64:12 110:21, 112:1, 112:2 111:11
58:15 recycling [10] - 34:15, repeat [1] - 101:24 RESOLUTIONS [1] - rolled [1] - 98:6
READ [1] - 96:17 45:18, 45:20, 45:22, repeated [2] - 69:23, 93:22 Romney [1] - 12:17
READING [2] - 94:17, 45:23, 46:11, 72:11, 87:18 resources [3] - 29:6, ron [1] - 31:6
95:12 82:10, 82:22, 83:12 repeating [1] - 77:25 29:8, 30:21 room [1] - 26:18
reading [7] - 3:19, red [1] - 70:10 replace [1] - 63:3 respect [3] - 13:24, Ross [1] - 24:1
58:18, 58:19, 94:24, redeemed [1] - 49:15 replaced [1] - 23:11 58:23, 69:19 rotation [1] - 83:2
95:2, 95:18, 95:21 REDEVELOPMENT report [8] - 6:14, respectfully [2] - 52:8, Rothchild [10] - 3:13,
ready [4] - 22:17, [2] - 88:5, 93:24 18:20, 19:6, 20:23, 68:17 27:1, 68:15, 76:14,
29:15, 53:18, 53:19 redone [1] - 61:5 21:3, 21:20, 76:18, responders [1] - 51:21 77:5, 77:21, 81:2,
Reager [4] - 76:18, reduced [1] - 69:3 77:8 response [1] - 68:5 110:12, 111:17,
76:25, 99:18, 101:10 Reed [2] - 25:23, REPORT [1] - 3:21 responses [1] - 78:3 112:15
real [6] - 9:23, 15:24, 25:24 reported [3] - 19:5, responsible [1] - ROTHCHILD [34] -
36:9, 52:19, 58:23, REED [1] - 25:24 19:6, 97:14 81:20 2:4, 3:14, 4:20, 5:12,
74:18 reelection [2] - 41:24, reporter [1] - 114:25 responsibly [1] - 52:1 21:7, 76:17, 77:7,
reality [2] - 13:18, 49:5 Reporter [2] - 1:24, responsive [1] - 80:18 77:22, 78:15, 79:8,
16:16 refer [1] - 31:20 114:11 rest [1] - 30:15 79:15, 79:24, 80:17,
realize [3] - 15:14, refinancing [2] - reporting [1] - 102:8 restoration [1] - 74:10 88:11, 88:18, 89:6,
17:1, 60:6 52:25, 85:12 reports [3] - 49:25, restrict [1] - 10:14 89:22, 90:19, 91:10,
really [22] - 7:24, reflection [1] - 3:4 74:7, 74:19 restricted [1] - 10:9 91:16, 93:16, 94:6,
10:20, 13:12, 15:11, refreshing [1] - 27:1 represent [1] - 16:3 restructure [1] - 8:24 94:12, 95:3, 95:8,
25:22, 38:8, 40:12, refuse [2] - 73:7, 73:8 representation [1] - restructuring [1] - 9:3 95:22, 96:2, 101:6,
40:17, 40:22, 42:5, regard [5] - 72:18, 58:2 resubmit [1] - 57:25 105:25, 106:23,
56:25, 57:21, 59:11, 73:16, 75:24, 85:5, represents [1] - 48:17 result [2] - 107:2, 110:13, 111:18,
63:21, 69:12, 81:21, 105:18 reproduction [1] - 107:5 112:8, 112:16
85:24, 87:10, 100:8, regarded [1] - 49:20 114:23 resume [3] - 48:5, round [1] - 30:11
102:11, 105:4, REGARDING [1] - 4:1 republic [1] - 56:1 48:11, 89:10 route [10] - 6:7, 6:8,
109:23 regarding [3] - 39:16, Republican [2] - 36:9, retired [1] - 12:14 6:12, 6:13, 108:10,
REAPPOINTMENT [1] 48:9, 65:24 36:13 return [4] - 10:7, 108:18, 108:21,
- 88:3 regardless [1] - 52:14 republican [8] - 12:6, 69:24, 97:12, 101:23 109:5, 109:10,
reason [4] - 23:15, regards [6] - 66:16, 12:12, 12:14, 12:15, returning [1] - 102:6 109:12
27:12, 54:6, 85:1 68:15, 69:16, 80:22, 12:18, 12:22, 15:25 revert [1] - 105:3 routes [12] - 97:9,
reasons [2] - 9:19, 83:22, 106:24 republicans [6] - REVISION [1] - 112:2 97:19, 100:11,
104:11 regularly [1] - 78:19 12:11, 12:18, 12:20, reward [1] - 98:15 100:22, 100:23,
Rec [1] - 4:10 REHABILITATION [1] 15:17, 15:18, 15:20 rid [2] - 28:14, 32:5 103:15, 104:21,
receive [3] - 43:10, - 111:3 request [4] - 40:25, 104:24, 105:3,
rides [1] - 37:14
76:16, 102:18 Reilly [1] - 76:2 41:7, 44:8, 50:23 108:9, 108:12, 109:1
Ridge [2] - 22:22, 24:1
received [6] - 4:18, reliably [1] - 68:12 required [2] - 48:4, Routeware [3] - 65:20,
ridiculous [3] - 20:18,
19:11, 72:12, relieve [1] - 33:25 63:3 80:23, 99:21
23:21, 24:11
101:14, 103:1, 104:5 remain [2] - 3:3, 74:25 requires [1] - 62:21 ROUTEWARE [1] -
rights [2] - 29:23,
RECEIVED [2] - 3:23, Rescue [1] - 55:8 96:18
remains [1] - 52:7 30:10
3:24 reserves [1] - 86:20 routine [3] - 70:3,
remember [5] - 8:7, Rik [1] - 55:23
receiving [2] - 29:13, resets [1] - 70:1 74:2, 74:20
9:25, 29:17, 65:16, ring [1] - 40:13
103:20 reside [1] - 51:11 row [1] - 18:7
102:9 rip [1] - 55:8
recently [1] - 77:12 reminded [1] - 79:16 residence [2] - 21:16, RPR [2] - 1:24, 114:10
risk [4] - 105:14,
reciprocal [1] - 83:23 reminder [1] - 29:13 89:13 rubber [1] - 25:12
105:18, 105:20,
reckless [1] - 53:17 remodeling [2] - resident [6] - 38:4, RUBICON [1] - 96:13
105:24
recommend [3] - 31:12, 32:15 48:16, 62:13, 65:17, Rubicon [18] - 24:23,
River [1] - 22:23
96:24, 111:8, 112:10 remotely [2] - 27:11, 78:5, 82:3 46:18, 55:19, 65:20,
river [2] - 23:2, 75:16
recommendation [3] - 89:12 residents [8] - 7:7, 66:19, 68:7, 68:18,
road [3] - 62:7, 63:7,
96:21, 111:5, 112:6 16:20, 16:22, 17:2, 69:18, 70:17, 76:13,
remove [2] - 19:22, 63:9
recommended [1] - 17:6, 76:4, 76:9, 80:22, 84:19, 99:10,
19:23 Road [1] - 23:10
83:6 78:11 102:10, 103:6,
removed [1] - 29:10 roadblocks [1] - 28:8
record [3] - 48:18, Resolution [1] - 106:7, 108:6, 108:8
renew [1] - 47:8 roads [2] - 52:15
49:24, 101:15 112:23 rude [1] - 28:25
renewal [2] - 98:14, robust [2] - 66:14,
records [2] - 41:5, resolution [3] - 85:5, Rule [1] - 56:22
100:9 69:2
71:18 86:5, 112:24 rule [1] - 58:12
renewals [1] - 66:17 Rogan [2] - 9:25, 10:1
recycle [1] - 72:13 RESOLUTION [9] - rules [4] - 39:16,
renewed [1] - 34:18
14
58:24, 58:25, 66:25 100:18, 106:24, sell [1] - 64:4 sick [4] - 33:3, 65:10, 3:18, 4:6, 4:17, 6:24,
run [7] - 14:6, 17:10, 107:18, 108:3, Senate [1] - 15:21 81:6, 109:1 7:2, 9:10, 9:14,
35:16, 36:13, 54:22, 110:11, 111:7, Senator [3] - 12:17, side [5] - 18:7, 18:8, 10:22, 13:5, 17:15,
108:9, 109:10 111:16, 112:14 58:10, 64:24 23:7, 36:12, 53:21 21:21, 21:23, 21:25,
runaround [1] - 29:5 schuster [1] - 3:11 sense [5] - 7:18, 16:7, sides [1] - 107:21 22:4, 22:7, 25:21,
running [7] - 9:2, Schuster [7] - 72:2, 16:8, 30:24, 109:17 siding [1] - 25:17 31:6, 33:6, 33:11,
41:24, 41:25, 48:22, 77:4, 89:16, 97:25, senses [1] - 43:8 SIGN [1] - 90:4 33:15, 33:20, 33:24,
49:5, 49:8, 108:15 110:10, 111:15, sent [2] - 28:22, 78:1 sign [2] - 43:24, 67:19 37:21, 38:1, 40:5,
runs [1] - 26:20 112:13 sentenced [1] - 53:11 sign-in [1] - 43:24 42:2, 42:7, 42:19,
Russia [1] - 63:6 SCRANTON [12] - 1:1, separate [1] - 61:12 signage [1] - 80:15 43:9, 43:14, 43:21,
Russo [2] - 3:8, 4:23 4:3, 88:4, 90:7, 91:4, September [2] - 44:4, signed [2] - 45:6, 43:23, 47:24, 51:13,
91:24, 93:24, 94:1, 44:5 105:19 55:22, 59:1, 59:7,
94:22, 95:17, 96:13, 61:9, 65:13, 70:11,
S serve [3] - 27:4, 48:3, signify [8] - 88:14,
110:24 55:20 89:19, 90:15, 91:12, 71:2, 72:1, 77:4,
sad [1] - 8:20 Scranton [42] - 4:24, service [4] - 3:5, 6:21, 93:13, 94:8, 95:5, 81:1, 84:23, 87:16,
safe [3] - 5:23, 23:18, 6:18, 7:5, 7:6, 8:1, 48:6, 48:7 95:24 88:1, 88:7, 88:13,
38:10 8:2, 10:24, 13:10, SERVICE [1] - 88:25 signing [1] - 69:5 88:20, 89:2, 89:7,
safety [1] - 6:21 18:20, 24:12, 25:24, services [4] - 48:10, signs [4] - 24:15, 89:18, 89:24, 90:9,
sake [1] - 59:21 26:1, 32:7, 32:12, 50:18, 83:23, 104:4 37:19, 63:7, 63:9 90:14, 90:21, 91:6,
salaries [1] - 93:6 33:8, 36:14, 37:16, silence [1] - 4:22 91:11, 91:18, 92:1,
SERVICES [3] - 91:22,
sale [2] - 52:20, 54:8 37:20, 38:25, 48:1, 92:6, 93:1, 93:12,
94:22, 111:2 silent [1] - 3:4
Saturday [3] - 38:25, 48:2, 49:2, 50:2, 93:18, 94:2, 94:7,
serving [1] - 9:2 silliness [1] - 17:7
50:15, 51:10 50:7, 50:9, 50:10, 94:14, 94:24, 95:4,
set [6] - 20:17, 28:4, silly [1] - 38:22
Saturday's [1] - 50:25 51:7, 51:15, 51:21, 95:10, 95:18, 95:23,
51:8, 52:17, 55:2, similarly [1] - 49:10
saved [1] - 56:1 51:23, 54:4, 54:14, 96:4, 96:20, 97:2,
55:8 SIMRELL [1] - 65:14
savings [8] - 52:25, 54:23, 55:1, 55:10, 97:25, 99:16,
setting [1] - 85:24 Simrell [2] - 65:15,
66:13, 68:25, 69:22, 55:24, 62:13, 65:16, 100:17, 101:5,
seven [2] - 12:18, 99:4
97:10, 97:13, 98:5 72:23, 87:8, 89:14 108:4, 110:17,
53:24 singing [1] - 54:13
SCRANTON'S [1] - 111:4, 111:11,
saw [3] - 9:21, 45:8, SEVENTH [1] - 96:6 single [4] - 19:2,
90:3 111:22, 112:5,
92:8 Seventh [2] - 46:25, 28:24, 31:15, 51:22
scumbag [1] - 81:10 112:20, 112:24,
scales [4] - 73:8, 113:3 sit [1] - 98:23
seat [1] - 36:24 113:8
73:10, 73:14, 73:15 several [7] - 7:20, 8:7, sits [2] - 31:14, 46:25
second [11] - 12:19, social [1] - 21:4
scene [1] - 52:4 27:2, 50:18, 52:3, sitting [2] - 13:2, 81:5
18:12, 60:4, 71:9, Social [2] - 64:6, 64:9
scenes [2] - 28:17, 75:7, 78:6 SITUATED [1] - 91:3
88:12, 92:5, 94:6, software [17] - 24:25,
31:3 severe [1] - 8:2 situation [4] - 17:19,
95:3, 95:22, 97:1, 65:18, 66:2, 68:12,
SCHEDULE [1] - Sewer [3] - 52:21, 21:6, 21:8, 65:20
111:10 68:16, 68:22, 70:2,
96:19 54:4, 54:8 situations [1] - 106:12
Second [3] - 89:6, 70:16, 70:19, 100:9,
scheduled [1] - 84:16 SHA [1] - 57:2 six [3] - 30:10, 44:3,
90:13, 91:10 100:12, 104:18,
School [2] - 24:13, shall [1] - 74:24 47:3
secured [2] - 44:21, 105:8, 108:5, 108:7,
81:25 shallow [1] - 52:18 sixteen [1] - 39:15
44:24 108:8, 108:20
school [7] - 20:11, shape [1] - 58:19 SIXTH [1] - 94:16
security [2] - 7:19, sold [1] - 54:4
24:16, 32:25, 56:8, share [2] - 65:18, skate [1] - 39:1
12:10 SOLICITOR [1] - 2:10
60:1, 63:19, 64:25 102:19 skills [1] - 93:9
Security [2] - 64:6, Solicitor [2] - 92:23,
schools [1] - 72:25 shared [1] - 103:20 slab [1] - 23:17
64:10 105:10
SCHUMACHER [9] - shed [1] - 17:18 slabs [2] - 23:8, 23:12
see [29] - 8:18, 9:6, solicitors [1] - 48:15
59:2, 59:10, 59:24, shell [1] - 64:18 slate [1] - 53:19
18:9, 19:16, 20:17, solid [1] - 34:23
60:7, 60:12, 60:18, shelter [3] - 26:21, sleep [3] - 13:4, 27:15,
27:3, 27:6, 34:13, SOLID [1] - 96:16
61:15, 61:22, 62:1 30:5, 30:12
37:3, 38:12, 38:23, 29:21 solution [2] - 46:3,
Schumacher [1] - 59:3 shelters [1] - 26:10
43:11, 45:6, 45:13, sleeping [2] - 27:17, 46:5
SCHUSTER [40] - 2:5, shine [1] - 55:11 30:4
49:15, 56:1, 57:17, solutions [2] - 31:2,
3:12, 4:8, 6:3, 21:15, short [2] - 44:24, slow [2] - 60:4, 83:13
60:11, 62:23, 72:8, 69:8
61:20, 61:24, 62:3, 106:16
74:25, 77:17, 77:18, SMART [1] - 96:14 someone [14] - 10:12,
62:11, 70:12, 70:24, shout [1] - 86:13
80:9, 83:20, 101:2, smoothly [1] - 38:15 17:22, 18:19, 20:13,
72:4, 72:17, 75:24, shoving [1] - 30:19
102:4, 102:16, Smurl [10] - 3:17, 33:2, 42:10, 53:9,
76:11, 76:20, 77:2, show [3] - 27:10, 86:5,
109:14 4:21, 16:10, 25:6, 53:25, 54:9, 55:14,
87:18, 87:25, 88:17,
seeing [2] - 102:20, 97:9 27:2, 69:17, 77:3, 93:8, 101:18, 101:24
89:8, 89:17, 89:21,
103:21 showing [1] - 28:18 110:16, 111:21, something's [1] - 41:4
90:18, 91:15, 93:2,
seem [1] - 9:18 shown [1] - 27:20 112:19 somewhere [1] -
93:15, 94:11, 95:7,
seemingly [1] - 101:25 shut [1] - 109:7 SMURL [91] - 2:2, 3:3, 83:24
96:1, 96:23, 97:3,
15
son [2] - 53:8, 54:18 109:16 stuff [5] - 23:14, TAX [1] - 4:1 THIRD [1] - 3:20
son's [1] - 54:16 started [5] - 28:3, 23:18, 38:21, 39:19, Tax [1] - 4:14 Third [1] - 4:7
soon [4] - 28:20, 38:18, 56:25, 106:9, 58:2 taxable [1] - 65:2 thirds [1] - 57:15
52:19, 53:18, 79:22 106:19 stumble [1] - 63:22 taxation [1] - 58:1 thirty [1] - 43:13
sorry [8] - 9:13, 17:21, starting [3] - 52:11, submit [2] - 74:3, taxed [1] - 15:4 THOMAS [4] - 2:5,
18:17, 20:3, 21:11, 69:19, 106:2 74:13 taxes [6] - 10:18, 2:10, 10:24, 88:24
46:4, 60:10, 82:3 state [6] - 34:11, subpar [2] - 98:4, 42:14, 50:11, 63:4, Thomas [3] - 8:1,
sort [1] - 58:23 56:20, 62:20, 63:3, 98:25 65:4 10:23, 10:24
sounds [3] - 5:7, 80:4, 100:19 success [2] - 6:6, 6:11 taxpayer [1] - 40:16 thorough [1] - 69:7
86:19, 86:21 STATE [1] - 93:23 sue [1] - 107:24 taxpayer's [1] - 36:5 thoroughly [1] - 47:2
SOUTH [1] - 91:3 statement [1] - 33:3 sufficient [1] - 34:18 taxpayers [4] - 15:3, thoughts [2] - 5:2,
South [1] - 80:19 States [4] - 13:21, suggested [1] - 21:5 25:19, 87:9, 109:12 65:23
SPD [5] - 5:15, 6:6, 34:23, 35:4, 99:11 suggestion [1] - 82:23 team [2] - 53:1, 62:16 thousand [6] - 58:9,
19:5, 75:14, 78:10 states [1] - 99:11 sunken [1] - 69:20 technology [1] - 65:17 61:21, 61:22, 72:19,
speaker [2] - 11:1, Station [2] - 78:17, supermarket [1] - TELECOM [1] - 94:22 73:5, 106:20
12:22 78:18 49:11 televised [1] - 20:9 threaten [1] - 107:13
speaking [2] - 80:23, stay [3] - 15:5, 37:8, supervision [1] - temperature [3] - threats [1] - 28:12
93:10 62:15 114:24 6:16, 26:23, 30:13 three [27] - 10:6, 11:8,
special [3] - 8:23, stayed [1] - 66:11 support [4] - 12:7, temporarily [1] - 51:11 20:11, 25:1, 25:5,
54:18, 85:7 stays [1] - 87:6 34:5, 49:2, 100:16 TEMPORARY [1] - 25:16, 32:2, 46:18,
SPECIAL [1] - 91:24 Steamtown [2] - supports [3] - 23:6, 95:15 47:2, 47:10, 47:20,
specialized [5] - 9:8, 64:20, 65:5 23:13, 23:17 temporary [2] - 22:23, 57:25, 58:3, 70:8,
9:11, 9:16, 85:13, steel [1] - 22:24 supposed [9] - 30:7, 23:5 72:12, 97:5, 97:7,
85:20 stellar [1] - 6:20 30:17, 40:18, 40:25, ten [1] - 19:16 97:8, 97:9, 97:10,
specialty [1] - 92:13 stems [1] - 82:10 43:3, 43:19, 44:16, Tenth [3] - 33:8, 97:20, 98:6, 98:7,
speech [1] - 13:7 step [4] - 51:23, 79:11, 56:19, 66:1 33:10, 33:19 98:25, 100:2, 100:20
spend [2] - 34:21, 104:16, 105:4 supposedly [1] - tents [1] - 28:13 three-year [1] - 98:25
36:2 stepping [1] - 104:25 28:20 TERM [4] - 88:5, threw [1] - 15:20
spending [4] - 16:4, stick [1] - 32:3 surgeon [1] - 63:20 88:25, 89:1, 96:18 thrilled [1] - 15:9
35:20, 35:24, 66:24 sticker [2] - 10:4, 10:6 surprise [1] - 36:17 term [2] - 42:10, 42:12 throughout [3] - 3:5,
spent [5] - 40:17, still [12] - 25:5, 25:16, surrounding [1] - TERMS [1] - 93:23 5:18, 52:4
40:18, 45:4, 45:25, 26:5, 27:24, 32:17, 83:25 terms [3] - 66:16, throw [2] - 27:19, 46:6
54:11 46:5, 56:13, 68:25, survive [1] - 11:18 67:8, 103:14 thrown [2] - 35:9,
Spindler [2] - 22:8, 70:17, 84:3, 86:16, Suscon [1] - 23:10 terrible [1] - 11:1 45:25
22:10 101:23 suspended [1] - 64:14 terrific [1] - 39:2 Thursday [1] - 29:18
SPINDLER [1] - 22:9 stinks [1] - 65:12 swerve [1] - 52:16 testing [1] - 48:10 ticket [1] - 36:14
splash [1] - 71:10 stomach [1] - 81:6 switch [1] - 68:19 text [1] - 19:7 tickets [1] - 16:24
spoken [3] - 97:5, stop [3] - 19:19, 46:7, switching [2] - 68:16, thankful [2] - 13:7, tighten [1] - 62:18
97:6, 110:1 59:18 68:20 26:24 time-stamped [1] -
spring [3] - 24:6, stopping [1] - 28:19 SYSTEM [2] - 90:6, thankfully [1] - 52:6 28:2
38:24, 38:25 story [1] - 64:15 96:15 THE [37] - 1:1, 4:3, timeframe [1] - 79:7
Spruce [1] - 37:20 straight [1] - 12:8 system [10] - 8:25, 88:4, 88:24, 89:1, Tire [1] - 50:20
sprucing [1] - 38:24 strain [1] - 50:17 15:13, 15:19, 16:2, 90:2, 90:6, 90:7, tired [2] - 65:10, 77:24
squandered [1] - Street [14] - 4:24, 8:5, 16:3, 46:20, 70:1, 90:24, 91:2, 91:3, tires [2] - 50:19, 78:24
34:13 22:22, 23:23, 24:1, 87:5, 97:7, 97:17 91:22, 91:23, 91:24, TITLE [2] - 94:17,
St [2] - 6:22, 7:6 27:23, 33:9, 33:10, systemic [1] - 10:8 93:24, 94:17, 94:19, 95:13
ST [1] - 112:4 33:19, 37:20, 38:13, 94:21, 95:13, 95:14, title [4] - 94:25, 95:2,
staff [1] - 19:7 39:1, 78:17 T 96:7, 96:9, 96:10, 95:19, 95:21
staffed [1] - 84:7 street [7] - 17:2, 96:12, 96:15, 96:17, TO [14] - 88:5, 88:25,
staffing [1] - 26:11 19:15, 21:18, 24:22, table [1] - 113:3 96:18, 96:19, 90:4, 90:6, 90:25,
stamp [1] - 25:13 33:25, 49:7, 61:3 tabled [1] - 112:25 110:20, 110:22, 91:2, 93:22, 94:20,
stamped [2] - 28:2, streets [3] - 7:9, 7:17, Taffer [1] - 55:7 110:24, 111:2, 96:11, 96:13, 96:17,
67:10 8:18 tag [1] - 62:15 111:25, 112:3 110:24, 111:1
standards [1] - 49:21 stressed [1] - 30:25 talks [1] - 56:10 theirs [1] - 37:2 today [11] - 13:8,
standing [1] - 3:3 stressful [1] - 30:20 Tamma [1] - 26:3 themself [1] - 50:22 24:13, 27:25, 28:1,
staring [3] - 18:4, strings [1] - 55:14 tangible [1] - 69:21 themselves [1] - 87:3 36:12, 47:21, 51:16,
18:6, 18:7 strong [2] - 11:5, 87:6 tarnishing [1] - 49:22 they've [8] - 46:18, 57:20, 67:12, 86:18,
start [9] - 8:9, 11:7, students [4] - 50:3, Task [2] - 53:3, 53:15 71:13, 79:9, 97:8, 109:22
13:17, 54:12, 54:22, 51:7, 51:24, 60:14 tax [5] - 40:16, 50:8, 97:9, 98:18, 103:1 together [2] - 52:12,
82:23, 97:24, 100:8, study [2] - 57:6, 63:1 62:21, 72:18, 72:21 thinks [1] - 53:22 72:13
16
Tom [1] - 44:2 7:17, 34:22, 34:25, 64:3 urination [1] - 7:10 32:2, 58:2, 59:13,
tomorrow [4] - 54:21, 35:3, 73:7, 73:8, unenforceable [1] - US [2] - 56:19, 58:10 98:2, 104:15
104:14, 104:19, 73:11, 73:13, 73:15 67:17 USAID [1] - 58:20 voter [1] - 13:25
109:7 true [2] - 63:8 unfair [3] - 109:10, usual [2] - 5:22, 6:20 voters [1] - 49:10
ton [3] - 45:24, 82:2, truly [1] - 70:3 109:11 Utah [1] - 12:18 voting [5] - 69:14,
85:22 Trump [3] - 13:3, unfortunately [1] - utilities [1] - 80:12 97:23, 99:15, 101:4,
tonight [6] - 21:6, 15:14, 36:11 105:6 utility [2] - 74:2, 74:12 110:6
26:2, 85:5, 93:3, Trumpisms [1] - 11:9 union [2] - 15:1, 73:22 utilized [1] - 50:12
104:16, 105:16 trust [2] - 64:9, 110:4 unionized [1] - 52:24 utter [1] - 17:7 W
tonnage [2] - 100:14, trusting [1] - 53:9 unions [1] - 15:5
103:17 try [4] - 38:19, 42:23, United [4] - 13:21, wage [2] - 26:13,
V 63:17
took [2] - 51:10, 69:12, 107:1 34:23, 35:4, 99:11
108:13 trying [4] - 10:4, units [1] - 50:18 valid [2] - 67:22, 92:12 wait [4] - 60:4, 83:9,
top [3] - 39:7, 63:23, 15:11, 19:9, 39:7 university [1] - 51:5 Valley [1] - 75:15 86:20, 86:22
74:25 Tuesday [2] - 1:7, University [6] - 50:2, value [1] - 92:12 waiting [4] - 27:9,
total [4] - 44:21, 66:8, 113:3 50:7, 50:8, 50:24, various [2] - 9:19, 56:6, 82:16, 83:10
73:15, 103:9 turn [4] - 23:25, 69:24, 51:23, 72:23 104:6 walking [2] - 8:18,
totally [1] - 109:10 87:7, 109:16 University's [1] - 51:5 vast [2] - 15:21, 100:3 22:10
touch [4] - 21:9, 42:5, turned [2] - 20:9, 37:6 university's [1] - vehicle [1] - 40:2 wall [6] - 60:23, 61:10,
77:15, 77:23 TV [3] - 28:16, 32:1, 50:14 vehicles [3] - 6:12, 61:13, 62:7, 83:15
towards [3] - 44:10, 37:3 unless [3] - 99:24, 97:16, 97:18 wants [4] - 25:13,
44:21, 102:16 twenty [1] - 30:10 107:11, 114:24 vendor [1] - 67:21 62:23, 64:10, 70:6
Townhouse [1] - twenty-six [1] - 30:10 unquote [1] - 18:3 vendors [1] - 68:17 warmer [1] - 82:2
19:19 two [19] - 4:8, 4:11, unusual [3] - 29:25, verbally [1] - 41:8 warriors [1] - 28:16
traced [1] - 49:14 4:23, 15:12, 19:18, 30:5, 106:12 Vernon [1] - 21:19 wars [1] - 15:23
track [1] - 105:2 22:12, 23:10, 44:17, up [56] - 5:13, 5:17, versus [1] - 30:3 Washington [1] -
tracked [1] - 109:20 55:19, 57:15, 62:6, 9:18, 14:21, 17:7, veterans [2] - 15:22, 80:19
tracking [1] - 102:3 71:5, 72:6, 72:7, 19:3, 20:4, 20:17, 72:24 WASTE [2] - 96:14,
traffic [1] - 38:12 73:12, 73:13, 74:24, 22:18, 22:21, 22:24, Vice [1] - 12:13 96:16
tragic [1] - 14:3 99:5, 100:1 26:8, 26:13, 27:9, VICE [1] - 2:3 waste [3] - 30:20,
trained [1] - 35:23 two-thirds [1] - 57:15 27:10, 28:3, 28:18, viewing [1] - 48:13 34:23, 35:11
transcript [2] - 114:6, type [3] - 35:5, 85:23, 30:23, 37:6, 37:15, Village [1] - 19:19 wasting [1] - 35:13
114:22 87:23 38:24, 39:6, 39:8, Vine [3] - 78:17, 78:18 watch [1] - 18:19
transfer [1] - 112:25 types [1] - 63:15 44:12, 45:1, 45:4, violation [1] - 107:10 watched [1] - 109:20
transparency [2] - 51:23, 53:9, 53:16, violations [4] - 103:2, watching [3] - 26:3,
56:11, 83:14 U 54:21, 58:12, 59:20, 103:4, 103:8, 103:9 26:6, 28:15
TRANSPORTATION 62:18, 62:19, 63:18, Virgil [1] - 47:25 Water [1] - 13:19
[1] - 90:5 uh-oh [1] - 12:9 64:18, 65:3, 67:25, visiting [1] - 19:13 water [2] - 13:20, 14:2
trash [12] - 27:19, Ukraine [1] - 64:14 69:14, 77:13, 79:14, void [1] - 67:17 wave [1] - 15:17
27:22, 27:24, 28:2, unable [1] - 77:16 80:1, 80:24, 82:6, ways [2] - 27:18,
VOLDENBERG [32] -
45:17, 45:22, 78:20, unacceptable [3] - 82:7, 82:17, 82:18, 100:13
2:8, 3:20, 6:25, 22:2,
79:3, 101:16, 20:19, 69:5, 81:8 85:25, 86:19, 92:12, weapon [2] - 16:15,
22:6, 62:10, 70:22,
101:20, 102:7, unanswered [1] - 93:7, 101:19, 16:21
70:25, 71:16, 71:23,
104:20 52:10 104:20, 106:18, weather [5] - 7:23,
72:15, 75:23, 76:10,
trashing [1] - 40:3 unauthorized [1] - 106:20 7:25, 8:12, 27:13,
77:20, 78:14, 79:5,
travesty [1] - 14:18 66:24 up-to-date [1] - 14:21 79:14, 79:23, 80:16, 27:14
treat [1] - 34:8 unbelievable [3] - upcoming [1] - 11:6 88:2, 88:22, 89:15, website [3] - 51:5,
trended [1] - 4:14 22:25, 24:23, 25:18 UPDATE [1] - 96:19 90:1, 90:23, 91:20, 52:23, 56:12
Trevisani [1] - 86:10 uncalled [1] - 25:22 update [15] - 10:5, 93:20, 94:16, 95:12, week [22] - 25:7,
tried [4] - 61:12, unclean [1] - 54:3 62:8, 70:16, 70:21, 96:6, 110:19, 27:24, 28:3, 39:11,
77:15, 86:20, 86:22 uncomfortable [1] - 71:5, 71:19, 71:22, 111:24, 112:22 41:22, 46:6, 46:21,
trillion [5] - 64:9, 65:1, 27:15 72:5, 72:8, 72:11, Voldenberg [6] - 62:15, 64:1, 65:16,
65:2, 65:3, 65:4 under [12] - 20:25, 72:14, 73:18, 76:7, 19:25, 62:3, 70:12, 68:4, 68:5, 69:17,
trouble [1] - 29:5 31:19, 37:23, 56:24, 79:20, 80:2 71:4, 72:10, 75:18 73:6, 75:8, 76:13,
Troutman [1] - 51:18 58:15, 66:20, 66:22, UPDATED [1] - 4:1 volunteer [1] - 37:10 83:3, 83:4, 83:5,
truck [6] - 68:13, 67:5, 70:18, 73:3, updated [2] - 43:7, vote [8] - 13:11, 25:3, 84:12, 101:14,
102:22, 108:15, 114:24 76:8 32:1, 69:11, 96:25, 106:25
108:17, 109:2, 109:4 undescribable [1] - uphold [1] - 30:7 105:16, 110:6, 113:4 week's [1] - 6:22
trucking [1] - 33:17 11:11 upholds [1] - 49:21 voted [9] - 11:2, weekend [4] - 5:6, 5:7,
trucks [10] - 7:16, undocumented [1] - uploaded [1] - 74:8 12:19, 25:2, 25:5, 18:13, 38:9
17
weeks [11] - 8:7, Works [4] - 96:22, yourselves [1] - 85:24
22:13, 36:25, 46:4, 96:24, 111:6, 111:8
72:12, 82:15, 83:22, WORKS' [1] - 96:16 Z
84:9, 98:8, 99:6 world [3] - 3:5, 51:8,
weight [1] - 73:17 86:13 zero [2] - 71:10, 86:4
weights [1] - 100:14 worries [1] - 20:12 zones [1] - 63:10
weird [1] - 40:24 worry [2] - 29:19, 31:4 zoning [1] - 32:25
welcome [1] - 40:12 worse [3] - 57:1, 60:16
welfare [1] - 63:14 worsening [1] -
well-attended [1] - 5:6 102:25
Welsh [1] - 52:1 worst [4] - 31:19,
West [1] - 8:4 49:25, 50:1
whipping [1] - 17:6 worth [3] - 13:19,
white [1] - 22:15 26:15, 107:25
whoa [1] - 60:3 wreak [1] - 105:5
whole [6] - 9:12, 9:15, writing [3] - 16:23,
15:25, 33:18, 86:13, 83:24, 84:2
109:18 written [2] - 67:18,
Willard [1] - 81:25 93:3
WILLIAM [1] - 2:6 Wyoming [1] - 12:12
wind [1] - 37:6
window [3] - 18:15, Y
19:1, 20:14
windows [2] - 19:18, year [50] - 4:12, 4:15,
62:19 5:19, 5:21, 6:8, 6:9,
winds [1] - 6:15 6:14, 6:15, 10:6,
windshield [1] - 16:25 18:2, 19:16, 30:11,
windy [1] - 39:21 30:15, 34:16, 34:17,
winter [7] - 8:8, 26:10, 34:18, 35:11, 39:4,
60:1, 60:15, 60:16, 41:25, 42:10, 42:12,
79:17, 80:13 46:22, 46:23, 47:3,
wish [4] - 38:17, 47:4, 47:5, 47:8,
43:24, 63:17, 102:15 52:21, 66:1, 66:6,
wishing [1] - 33:2 66:7, 68:25, 69:6,
71:8, 81:25, 98:5,
WITH [4] - 89:1, 90:5,
98:14, 98:16, 98:25,
93:23, 110:25
99:2, 103:3, 103:5,
witness [3] - 17:22,
103:8, 106:9,
21:12, 81:9
106:11, 106:21
witnessed [1] - 29:9
yearly [2] - 50:14, 82:8
woman [2] - 25:18,
years [39] - 7:12, 7:20,
26:20
11:18, 11:19, 12:23,
women [2] - 3:5, 50:5
23:10, 28:3, 33:18,
wonder [1] - 31:9
35:10, 36:22, 44:17,
wonderful [1] - 26:20
46:19, 47:10, 47:14,
wondering [3] - 62:2,
47:18, 47:20, 48:8,
71:12, 71:18
53:24, 63:19, 63:20,
wooden [1] - 8:4
66:8, 66:18, 70:8,
woodwork [1] - 32:22
73:12, 85:22, 93:6,
word [2] - 11:24, 49:6 97:6, 97:7, 97:8,
work's [1] - 80:13 97:9, 97:11, 97:21,
worker [1] - 25:7 97:23, 98:7, 100:20,
workers [5] - 14:25, 102:9, 105:23,
25:8, 38:8, 98:22, 106:2, 107:2
100:3 yesterday [2] - 22:11,
works [6] - 16:23, 40:11
24:24, 34:16, 48:19, York [1] - 34:24
62:20, 97:11 young [1] - 99:4
WORKS [2] - 96:8, yourself [2] - 12:6,
110:21 25:17