COUNCIL

1 1 COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF SCRANTON 2 3 4 HELD: 5 6 7 Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 8 9 10 LOCATION: 11 12 COUNCIL CHAMBERS 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Maria McCool, RPR Official Court Reporter 25  2 1 C O U N C I L M E M B E R S: 2 GERALD SMURL - PRESIDENT 3 MARK MCANDREW, VICE PRESIDENT 4 JESSICA ROTHCHILD 5 THOMAS SCHUSTER 6 WILLIAM KING - absent 7 8 FRANK VOLDENBERG, CITY CLERK 9 KATHY CARRERA, ASSISTANT CITY CLERK 10 THOMAS GILBRIDE, ESQ., COUNCIL SOLICITOR 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  3 1 (Pledge of Allegiance.) 2 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 away in our 7 community, especially William Donovan who was a 8 retired Scranton Police Officer, Kim Kandel and 9 Tim Lynady. Thank you. Roll call, please. 10 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King. Mr. 11 Schuster. 12 MR. SCHUSTER: Present. 13 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild. 14 DR. ROTHCHILD: Here. 15 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew. 16 MR. MCANDREW: Present. 17 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl. 18 MR. SMURL: Here. Dispense with the 19 reading of the minutes. 20 MR. VOLDENBERG: THIRD ORDER. 21 3.A. SCRANTON MUNICIPAL RECREATION 22 AUTHORITY MARCH 2025 MEETING MINUTES RECEIVED 23 MAY 1, 2025. 24 3.B. CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED MAY 2, 25 2025, FROM BA/ARPA DIRECTOR, REGARDING ARPA  4 1 QUARTERLY REPORT DATED APRIL 25, 2025. 2 3.C. GROW AMERICA BOARD OF 3 DIRECTORS MEETING HELD MARCH 31, 2025. 4 MR. SMURL: Are there any comments 5 on any of the Third Order items? If not, 6 received and filed. Do any Council members 7 have any announcements at this time? 8 MR. MCANDREW: I have a couple. So 9 I'd like to recognize or acknowledge a couple 10 celebrations this week today being a Teacher 11 Appreciation Day and also Teacher Appreciation 12 Week. I'd like to thank my colleagues and all 13 the teachers out there. They do a great job. 14 And I'd like to recognize them. 15 Also, it's National Nurses Week. 16 Again, recognize them for the great work they 17 do. And again, this Friday is School Lunch 18 Hero Day. I mean, when I was growing up they 19 were called lunch ladies. I realize how 20 important they are at my school. 21 Sometimes it's the only meal a child 22 will get for the whole day. So I appreciate 23 all their hard work. And also coming up Sunday 24 is Mother's Day. 25 I would like to wish everybody a  5 1 happy Mother's Day and to all of those that 2 assume the role as a mother. And, you know, us 3 guys can hang in there because Father's Day is 4 around the corner. That's all I have. 5 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. McAndrew. 6 Anyone else? 7 DR. ROTHCHILD: I also wanted to 8 wish everyone a happy Mother's Day. I'll be 9 celebrating with my family. It's a special 10 day. Thank you. 11 MR. SMURL: Thank you. 12 MR. SCHUSTER: Happy Mother's Day to 13 all the mothers out there as well. Thank you. 14 MR. SMURL: Thanks. 15 MR. VOLDENBERG: FOURTH ORDER. 16 CITIZENS PARTICIPATION. 17 MR. SMURL: First, Joan Hodowanitz. 18 MS. HODOWANITZ: Joan Hodowanitz, 19 Scranton. I want to begin by sending kudos and 20 compliments to the men and women of DPW. We 21 seem to be entering a perpetual rainy season 22 which will probably last through the fall. 23 But, you know, we had some heavy 24 rains this morning at around 9, 9:30. As I was 25 walking from Samter's to the public library I  6 1 passed, of course, St. Peter's Cathedral. And 2 what did I behold, but a truck from DPW, a 3 street sweeper cleaning out lake St. Peter 4 which is the floodwater which tends to sit on 5 Wyoming Avenue right in front of the Cathedral. 6 And they had taken the initiative 7 and I -- because, you know, I have complained 8 publicly. And by gosh and by golly, they were 9 on top of it. I'm sure they went to other 10 places downtown because there were a few 11 intersections which had backed up stormwater 12 drains. 13 And I say that because, you know, it 14 was very appropriate that the caucus you had 15 was looking at flood water projects and going 16 to need to be very sensitive to rains. I don't 17 know how many of you remember about 15, 20 18 years ago when Meadow Brook overflowed in South 19 Scranton and we had this humongous car eating 20 hole in front of McCarthy's Flowers on Pittston 21 Avenue. Do you all remember that? 22 So, you know, I mean, obviously we 23 have a long history of issues with stormwater. 24 Fortunately we're starting to put time and 25 assets and resources and thinkers against this  7 1 problem so we can could get a handle on it in 2 the future. 3 Speaking of DPW, are they still 4 making progress on their Collective Bargaining 5 Agreement negotiations? 6 MR. SMURL: I had asked 7 administration and they said they provided four 8 open days. So they are waiting to hear from 9 that side. 10 MS. HODOWANITZ: This is for the 11 contract. 12 MR. SMURL: For the contract. 13 MS. HODOWANITZ: Okay, good. At 14 least we're making progress. As you remember, 15 we lost the grant application for the BRIC 16 Program. And I know that the Mayor sent 17 correspondence trying to get that reinstated. 18 Has there been any update on that? Have we had 19 any positive feedback from the government? 20 MR. SMURL: Nothing back on that, 21 Joan. But I believe we're like on Plan C now. 22 So we're still trying to find that -- 23 something. 24 MS. HODOWANITZ: I would like to see 25 the victims of the September 9th flood made  8 1 whole. And that was part of that plan and we 2 came so darn close. 3 MR. SMURL: No one is giving up. 4 We're still on it. 5 MS. HODOWANITZ: Yeah. Speaking of 6 the Meadow Brook Project, back in early April 7 we only had 3 of the 47 easements. Are we 8 making any progress on obtaining easements for 9 that project? 10 MR. SMURL: I spoke about that 11 Monday morning. And there were a few more 12 coming in. I spoke to Morgan Fetsock about it. 13 MS. HODOWANITZ: Good. 14 MR. SMURL: So it's moving. 15 MS. HODOWANITZ: Good. I think one 16 of the city's priorities going forward is going 17 to have to be stormwater issues. 18 Unfortunately, prior administrations kicked the 19 can down the road. 20 But I think now we have to bite the 21 bullet and address the problem as quickly and 22 as professionally as we can. Okay, that's all 23 I have for tonight. Thank you. 24 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Joan. Les 25 Spindler.  9 1 MR. SPINDLER: Good evening, 2 Council, Les Spindler, city resident and 3 homeowner. I don't know if everybody is aware 4 of it, but the temporary bridge on Green Ridge 5 Street going over Lackawanna River opened 6 yesterday. And I go by there every day. It's 7 been a pain. 8 But I don't know why they had to 9 make that big monstrosity like they did. I 10 said it before. I don't know why they had to 11 take it over Nay Aug Avenue. They should have 12 had it coming out onto Nay Aug. It would have 13 been a lot less money probably and would have 14 taken a lot less time. What do I know, I'm not 15 an engineer. 16 Next thing, I heard on the news last 17 night that PennDOT is closing the Parker Street 18 bridge to pave it for two weeks. It's going to 19 take two weeks to pave that bridge? 20 MR. SMURL: There's other work 21 they're doing. They have to do a lot of 22 other -- 23 MR. SPINDLER: The bridge isn't that 24 long. It's a short bridge. Two weeks, I think 25 that's ridiculous. Lastly, my favorite subject  10 1 because this guy keeps giving me more 2 ammunition every week. The idiot in the White 3 House, he was on Meet the Press on Sunday. He 4 was asked if he had to abide by the 5 Constitution as far as deportations are 6 concerned. 7 And he said -- he said, oh, I don't 8 know. I'm not a lawyer. Ask my lawyers. You 9 don't know about the Constitution? You're 10 President of the United States and you don't 11 know about the Constitution? That's -- he's 12 totally unqualified, unbelievable if he has to 13 have his lawyers ask about the Constitution. 14 And what it says is, people can't be 15 deported without due process. And all the 16 people he deported never had their due process. 17 At the -- he just wants to do away with the 18 Constitution and have a dictatorship like his 19 buddy Putin. 20 He wants to do everything his way. 21 It's his way or the highway. All of these 22 people that voted for him, they'll be sorry. 23 And here his own party is really getting upset 24 with him now too. And I saw someone on the 25 news last week that the GOP is upset with him  11 1 and he's losing a lot of members because -- and 2 he's blaming that on Joe Biden. 3 Joe Biden's been out of office for 4 months and he's still blaming him for stuff. 5 If Joe Biden was still in office now, we'd be 6 better off than we are right now because the 7 economy is tanking. Thank you for your time. 8 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Spindler. 9 Bob Bolus. 10 MR. BOLUS: Good evening, Council, 11 Bob Bolus, Scranton. First off, you know, we 12 keep seeing about our hospitals here. What is 13 wrong with all of us that we can't find a way 14 either to make it employee owned with state and 15 federal funding? 16 Why do we have to be looking for a 17 buyer? Are we that incompetent in this area in 18 the business field that we can't manage two 19 hospitals that we need somebody to come in and 20 tell us how to do it? You have the medical 21 college. You have state and federal people 22 that work out of this area, Congressional. 23 They could come up with the funding 24 to save these two hospitals, upgrade them where 25 they need to be. Instead of making us look  12 1 like fools, we need to find a buyer and that 2 really turns me off that this is what we're 3 turning into when we see other hospitals 4 growing like crazy, yet, we can't do the other 5 one that needs our help to keep us alive. 6 You know, I just filed two federal 7 lawsuits to prevent the Congressmen and 8 Senators flying to El Salvador to bring back 9 the scum back to our country to prevent them 10 from using our money to fly there and come 11 back. 12 If they want to go there, let them 13 do it out of their own pocket. But you don't 14 use our money to bring scum back into this 15 country that Joe Biden brought here with the 16 millions he let in here. I want to see the 17 signs down. Why are we honoring him for what 18 he didn't do, because he didn't do a damn thing 19 for us. 20 I'm asking Council tonight to put a 21 motion, somebody here make a motion to take 22 those signs down, put it back to Spruce Street 23 and the Scranton Central Expressway. He's not 24 a guy that needs to be honored by us in 25 Scranton. Everybody driving down that  13 1 interstate thinks us fools for backing Joe 2 Biden and we believed in him. And that's 3 ridiculous. 4 We need to turn around and thank 5 President Biden -- or, yeah, thank Biden for 6 bringing all the scum here, but President Trump 7 for getting rid of it. And God bless him for 8 what he's doing for the American people, that 9 one young lady or one kid isn't going to get 10 raped or murdered thanks to what he's doing 11 that we're taking the scum off the street. 12 I think we need to open up here at 13 the Scranton Police Department, give them the 14 assistance our police need and open an office 15 for ICE, send them an invitation that they are 16 welcome in Scranton. 17 The idiots in Forty Fort last week 18 where I went to the protest, protesting an 19 office for ICE down there. How stupid could 20 you be to protest who's going to clean up the 21 scum and make this America, make our area safe 22 again. 23 You know, I looked at the Mayor 24 playing cricket. There's seven pools to swim 25 in in Portland, Oregon. I spent a lot of time  14 1 out there. And what do we have here? We don't 2 even have a swimming pool. 3 Nay Aug, alls you had to do was take 4 it and grout it and fill the holes, do the 5 maintenance it needed. But we're too stupid to 6 do because our engineers don't know what the 7 hell they were talking about and people made 8 millions on the stupidity of the leadership. 9 So we got to make that change. You 10 know, I was running for Mayor here in Scranton 11 on a write-in because a rhino named Charlie 12 Spano filed to get me off the ballot but as 13 incompetent he could be, he filed under a 2021 14 lawsuit instead of 2025. 15 And the sitting judge said it was a 16 typographical error. Under the rule of law, it 17 should have been immediately thrown out, not 18 act as his attorney instead of being the judge. 19 We have the appeal. I'm going to get my 20 expungement. And I will be able to take the 21 seat by the time November comes around. 22 So I want people to know that. The 23 other thing I look at, I've done how much in 24 the area. The Outreach in Scranton I gave 25 150,000 in wipes, Clarks Summit, Weston Field,  15 1 all 150 each. 2 And I look at all the people that 3 are running for office and say, where the hell 4 were yous for the last year, last two years 5 before you decided to run for an office? What 6 have you contributed here? 7 For 31 years I've held Christmas Day 8 dinner on Christmas Day. Where was the Mayor? 9 Where was the other candidate? I'm talking 10 Republicans and Democrats. What have you done 11 for the people other than come out and say, oh, 12 we want this, we want that right now. 13 What did you get? The Scranton 14 Times won't put my picture in because I'm 15 writing as a write-in candidate. But they'll 16 wish when I do take the seat as Mayor in 17 Scranton, which I will, there's no game 18 playing. Scranton will be a new city and our 19 police force will be second to none. 20 You won't want to come to this city 21 and commit a crime or be an illegal because 22 you'll be taken the hell out of here. Thank 23 you. 24 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Bolus. 25 Lee Morgan.  16 1 MR. MORGAN: Good evening, Council, 2 Lee Morgan. The first thing I've here is that 3 the problems with the Scranton hospitals goes 4 back to Governor Casey when he closed the 5 Scranton State General and all the state 6 hospitals. 7 And as far as Moses Taylor and 8 Regional, to be honest with you, I think they 9 should close them both. I really think the 10 answer goes in a different direction. I just 11 think that they've been just so depleted of 12 staff and equipment. 13 And we've had a city that just 14 looked other the other way and continues to do 15 that as the city falls apart. And I think the 16 residents are responsible for where this city 17 is because they've elected all of these 18 governments. 19 Moving onto -- I think it's 20 important like I said last week to keep people 21 in the loop. I did a deposition with Attorney 22 Hinton. And I, you know, in the course of the 23 deposition he managed to come up with a request 24 I made of the Mayor to send legislation up to 25 Council to restore the public access channel  17 1 from an educational government channel back to 2 its original format of being a public access 3 channel, you know. 4 And he also has the request that 5 gave to ECTV to sit down with their board and 6 have a discussion with the board about what had 7 happened to ECTV as far as locking me out of 8 the studio and removing videos. So I think we 9 had a very productive meeting. 10 It's like I told Attorney Hinton, I 11 don't think he has a case. But he's been at 12 law for 34 years so, you know, take that with a 13 grain of salt. I'm only a truck driver. But 14 you know if -- a small part of my case might be 15 built on the 14th Amendment. 16 But, you know, the sad part that 17 these the people in the city have to realize is 18 this, that your government, your Council and 19 your Mayor changed the format of ECTV. So if 20 it was in its original format which the city 21 collects a 1.6 million dollar franchise every 22 year from Comcast and the city has just 23 squandered all of that money away as far as I'm 24 concerned, but we're going to figure out where 25 that money went pretty soon as soon as I do my  18 1 petition to the court. 2 But, you know, the very sad part is 3 that we're having discussions about the two 4 city hospitals. Mr. Bolus spoke about them. 5 Well, the dean of the medical college came and 6 sat down when I was a member of the tax group. 7 We had a wonderful conversation. 8 And, you know, we could have a lot 9 more vibrant conversations about a host of 10 issues inside the city. But there's only one 11 problem. The elected officials, they can't let 12 that channel function as a public access 13 channel which means your Council members, your 14 mayor, your elected officials in the county 15 they've got to muzzle speech. 16 And when you look at the onset of 17 the public access channels in the early 70s or 18 late 60s, the whole reason for those channels 19 to exist was to give the residents an 20 opportunity to highlight issues in their 21 communities that they needed addressed. 22 But we don't address them here. We 23 don't address the decaying infrastructure. We 24 keep talking about blighted houses. But -- and 25 the thing that's driving this blight is the  19 1 government. It's the Council and it's the 2 Mayor. And it's the waste of grant money. 3 And they don't want to hear from the 4 people. Everybody wants to get elected to 5 Council or the Mayor or the school board and 6 they want to run everything. There's only one 7 problem. They get elected to an office, have 8 no idea what the problems are and have no idea 9 what the solutions are. 10 So then Harrisburg says, well, we 11 have a grant for this. The federal government 12 says we have a grant for that. They muzzle the 13 neighborhood groups, the few that still exist; 14 and we end up with the mess we have in this 15 city. 16 And as you could see over the course 17 of time, the Council members never speak or 18 never answer a question. And it's very simple 19 why. They can't. They wanted to get elected. 20 They had their parties. They made a ton of 21 promises that they can't keep. And they're not 22 competent. And the only way they could stay 23 there is by throttling the pubic and city, the 24 citizens. Thank you. 25 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Morgan.  20 1 Dave Dobrzyn. 2 MR. DOBRZYN: Good evening, Council, 3 Dave Dobrzyn, resident, taxpayer. It came to 4 my attention within the last two days on 5 hospitals that many hospitals in many areas 6 have not been paid for Medicaid payments since 7 1st, 31st, 25 when it was their due date. 8 Now this is like Hawaii, there 9 wasn't one hospital that was paid anything for 10 Medicaid services. And it's going on around 11 the country. So you wonder why you have 12 problems. Sometimes the problem is the people 13 we vote for. Don't blame me. 14 Okay, I get a little tired of these 15 accusations up here. And, you know, I have to 16 object to people being called scum. You know, 17 there's always a couple criminals somewhere. 18 And I know this with poor people moving into 19 the area, a lot of them are actually not from 20 Central America. 21 They're, like, Puerto Rican. And 22 they are poor and, you know, you get into 23 spats, domestic spats and some of them get 24 carried away. That's what a lot of our police 25 calls -- I read them every day in the paper  21 1 when somebody gets hauled off for some kind of 2 violent behavior. 3 But anyhow, we're losing migrant 4 workers and everything else. And we're not 5 replacing them. You know, I don't need a job 6 throwing watermelons up on a truck 6 feet or 7 catching them or picking them or whatever. 8 It's not a job I could even do right now. I'm 9 71 years old. 10 But potholes once again, we need to 11 divert somebody possibly from code enforcement 12 even inspect immediately after they're repaired 13 and 6 to 12 months later and require these 14 people to return. Don't trust somebody from 15 Wilkes-Barre or the water company because it's 16 always a dandy job when they're done. 17 And on tax exempts once again and we 18 need the cooperation of the tax exempts to come 19 with us and get an organization nongovernmental 20 and get to the state and it's time. They 21 really can't just use the Constitution to pile 22 in tax exempts and constantly take property tax 23 losses. 24 And I'm concerned about the pension 25 and stocks and bonds, 5 trillion's lost. And  22 1 that's a conservative estimate over this tariff 2 nonsense. And by the way, a tariff is just a 3 sales tax that you as the consumer will pay. 4 And that's it. 5 You will -- it's not going to 6 replace massive tax cuts. So I think what 7 they're going to do is hold the social programs 8 hostage and, well, now you're going to have to 9 leave us deficit spend or you could do without 10 the social programs because the tariffs aren't 11 working. 12 And just a few days ago, 5 million, 13 5 million student loans were turned over to 14 collections, 5 million of them. And that will 15 ruin these college graduates' interest -- 16 interest ratings and it will ruin their credit 17 rating and mess up their lives. 18 There's 7 or 8 million people have 19 money deducted out of their Social Security 20 because they owed on a loan that they'll never 21 be able to pay. They got fined in the 57 or 59 22 years old going back to school and they built 23 up a big hoopla of a loan. 24 And it's really ridiculous. They'll 25 never be able repay it. And they just won't  23 1 fit in. The only good news I heard is Elon 2 Musk is headed back to China. And I hope he 3 stays there. Thank you. Have a good night. 4 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Dobrzyn. 5 Lynn Labrosky. 6 MS. LABROSKY: Good evening, 7 Council, Lynn Labrosky, Scranton resident, 8 homeowner, business owner. So I just wanted to 9 start off by saying that I was able to attend 10 the fishing derby over the weekend. It was 11 fantastic. It was a real hit. The weather 12 held off. It was pretty good. 13 Although they didn't get the Show 14 Mobile, they ended up having a roll back 15 donated, so it worked out. The kids had a 16 really good time. So that's a great event if 17 anybody ever gets to attend that. They do that 18 every year. It's been going on for about 18 19 years now. 20 And that all is due to the 21 volunteers with the Park Place River 22 Association. I also wanted to mention real 23 quick that there is this benefit on Saturday, 24 the 10th from 4 to 8 at the St. Mary's Center. 25 And a friend of mine I went to  24 1 school with, his name is Jimmy Locker. He's 2 battling colon cancer. So if anybody is 3 interested in attending that benefit that would 4 mean a lot. 5 And then somebody reached out to me 6 and said that the light on Lackawanna Avenue 7 and Wyoming is backwards. So when it says 8 walk, the light is green. So I don't if 9 anybody can check that. That was Lackawanna 10 and Wyoming. 11 And then I wanted to bring up some 12 of the potholes where the intersection is at 13 Luzerne and Main. But in driving over here 14 tonight -- and I don't know if that's PennDOT 15 or the city. If it's PennDOT, maybe somebody 16 could reach out to PennDOT. 17 But you kind of have to swerve over 18 into the other lane to -- you can't go straight 19 or you're going to break an axle. But then 20 coming over here tonight I didn't get to go 21 home. I had to come straight from work. So 22 Lackawanna Avenue, I mean, what is going on? 23 Can we get that paved or something? 24 It's like a main artery to Scranton and it 25 looks like crap. Is there something we could  25 1 do about that? Or I don't know, any word on 2 Lackawanna Avenue? All right. I'm just going 3 to move on from that one. So then the other 4 question -- 5 MR. MCANDREW: -- last week about 6 plans for Lackawanna -- 7 MR. SMURL: Dr. Rothchild will 8 report on that in 5th Order. She -- 9 MS. LABROSKY: I mean, it's bad. 10 It's like a war zone driving through there and 11 you can't swerve. There's no swerve pattern on 12 that road. So but I did have another question. 13 So the street sweepers, how many do we have? 14 MR. SMURL: One. 15 MS. LABROSKY: One. Do they only do 16 downtown or -- 17 MR. SMURL: No, they start every day 18 downtown and then they go to the section where 19 they're supposed to. 20 MS. LABROSKY: Okay, because I've 21 seen many, many streets that really need to be 22 swept. And a couple weeks back I seen a street 23 sweeper downtown. But aren't you supposed to 24 like remove all the vehicles when they do that 25 and put no parking signs?  26 1 Okay, because I literally -- I have 2 it on video. But the street sweeper was kind 3 of weaving in and out of vehicles. And it 4 didn't make much sense to me. It seemed like a 5 waste of resources. And then the other thing I 6 wanted to mention was I don't know if anybody 7 out there is aware. 8 But the local paper did an article 9 on Sunday regarding the four ballot candidates 10 for the upcoming mayoral election which is in 11 two weeks. May 20th is the primary election. 12 And for some reason, they decided to omit one 13 of the candidate's photos and that was myself. 14 So that was pretty disappointing. 15 It felt to me like election interference. 16 There were many people that reached out to the 17 editor and including myself. The editor has 18 yet to get back to me. So it seems like 19 between the ballot thing that happened with 20 county and now my photo being eliminated from 21 the local newspaper, something's going on 22 there. 23 I would have expected the paper to 24 reach out to me maybe with an apology. But 25 like I said, not even a return phone call. But  27 1 the way I'm approaching it is that no weapon 2 formed against me shall prosper. So I'm going 3 to keep calm and carry on. 4 They did take the liberty today of 5 printing a correction in the local paper. And 6 they decided to put my photo right below the 7 obituaries. So my husband was concerned I 8 might not be alive, but here I am. And, you 9 know, maybe that's a good thing because a lot 10 of people read the obituaries. 11 I'd still like to hear from the 12 Scranton Times so if they're watching this or 13 if anybody could talk to them, I'd still like 14 an apology and maybe even an updated article. 15 I don't think I got fair press like all the 16 other candidates. 17 But, you know, if anybody out there 18 is wondering, I'm not dead. My campaign is not 19 dead. It's very alive and well and thriving. 20 So again, Republican candidate on the upcoming 21 ballot for the mayoral election May 20th. And 22 that's about it. 23 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Lynn. The 24 Lackawanna and Wyoming traffic light, you said 25 it's green and then the cross --  28 1 MS. LABROSKY: Yeah, so the 2 gentleman that reached out to me said that when 3 you hit the button to cross -- 4 MR. SMURL: Yeah. 5 MS. LABROSKY: It says walk, but 6 it's when the light's green, not red. So it's 7 not matching up with the -- it's backwards in 8 other words. 9 MR. SMURL: Mr. Voldenberg, will you 10 have traffic, see if they can look at that? 11 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, sir. 12 MR. SMURL: Thank you. 13 MS. LABROSKY: Okay. Thank you. I 14 appreciate it. 15 MR. MANCINI: Good evening, Council, 16 Mike Mancini, Scranton. 17 MR. SCHUSTER: Mr. Mancini, can you 18 state your address? 19 MR. MANCINI: Sure, 506 North Hyde 20 Park Avenue, Scranton. Less than 324 hours 21 until the polls open for the 2025 primary 22 election. The election cycle is critical to 23 our future of our electric city. 24 This primary will determine who in 25 the eyes of the voters for both Scranton City  29 1 Council and mayor are best suited for the 2 future. Four years ago our city witnessed 3 during Covid one of the lowest voter turnouts 4 in the history of Scranton. 5 This time around I hope everyone 6 will pick up their heads, open their eyes and 7 look and see how much our city has changed over 8 the last four years. Appearance is so 9 important on every level. Great appearance 10 allows our city to draw good people to a city 11 who mean well. 12 Let's face it. Covid changed many 13 things, one of them being the ability to make 14 ends meet. We had received our share of 15 families and individuals from other cities and 16 states because of cost of living is lower here 17 than their former situations. 18 When you have new citizens 19 introduced to our city, appearance means 20 everything. We have the worst roads and 21 infrastructure in my lifetime. The Mayor is 22 pleased with bulldozers and cranes in an 23 election year. 24 To her, it shows progress. To the 25 rest of us it show laziness because these  30 1 projects should have been done in previous 2 years at a lesser expense. We now have four 3 less deep end pools. But to her, splash pads 4 will get her re-elected. When you continue to 5 take things a way like slides and diving 6 boards, children have less to do. 7 We now have gang activities in our 8 schools. Over 300 are gang active with the 9 youngest only being 9 years old. Our 10 neighborhoods are now increased with blight, 11 many condemned and unsafe homes waiting for 12 years to be demolished. 13 The Scranton Police Department has 14 received more pressing and challenging calls. 15 I was honored to speak in front of our 16 unionized employees, Scranton's bravest. I 17 asked them a question. How many of you have 18 been out to a call where someone passed away 19 from an unwanted opioid-related death? 20 Eighty percent of them raised their 21 hands. You could tell the look on their faces 22 that it sticks with them daily. City Hall is 23 closed for the most part to the visitors with a 24 phone call and double lock doors is the answer 25 to growth. She takes credit for ending Act 47,  31 1 our distressed status. 2 She had nothing to do with it other 3 than to sign some documents. The sale of the 4 Scranton Sewer Authority was the catalyst. 5 She's pushed legislation, allowed studies that 6 include a holistic approach to crime, another 7 that singled out veterans as a major factor in 8 crimes. 9 And soon to downtown if she gets her 10 way, that walkability study will replace 11 traffic lights with stop signs. She may want 12 to get out and do a drivability study to see 13 the things that she took away. Her laziness 14 has created other things that she flat out 15 broke, cricket, pickleball, cutting ribbons in 16 different cities other than our ours. 17 And splash pads are more important 18 to her than our roads, growth within our city, 19 good paying jobs. We have homeless children, 20 homeless women, veterans, elderly. We had a 21 homeless sexual predator -- homeless down at 22 Weston Field. 23 The nature of our police calls and 24 oversight appearance is lacking. To the Mayor, 25 I hope that Bob Sheridan beats you in two weeks  32 1 so we could talk about the problems that you 2 have created how to properly address them as 3 opposed to campaigning against you with you 4 being the problem. 5 In the meantime, quick breaking 6 things. To the one who is the incumbent 7 running for reelection on Council, this all 8 happened on your watch. You two are part of 9 the problem, not part of the solution for our 10 future. 11 For the Council President who may 12 get a little overzealous and run for Council as 13 an Independent, that would be a major insult to 14 the good people of Scranton who know exactly 15 what you are about. You cater to a party of 16 one, rubber stamp with nothing to offer. 17 Less than two weeks from now 18 decisions have to be made. We're sick of 19 swerve patterns, our current climate. Get out 20 and vote. Mayor doesn't know -- the Mayor 21 didn't know that one of her campaign fliers 22 full of lies had a picture of a park in South 23 Abington Township. She mass mailed it. 24 What's her fascination with 25 Abingtons? Arrogance will be her downfall.  33 1 Everyone loves an underdog. I only need one 2 opportunity to take down Paige and the machine. 3 For good people of people of Scranton, change 4 is coming. Good evening, Council. 5 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Mancini. 6 Anyone else? 7 MR. LITTLE: Hi. My name is Rik 8 Little, Scranton, Pennsylvania. I just handed 9 the Council and the attorney and everybody the 10 PHA plans. Every five years there's a chance 11 for people to have a say in what happens here. 12 I thought I put something in in 2019 13 and it's supposed to become part of the record. 14 But I guess I didn't. I included three letters 15 that I wrote to Karl Lynott. And he's the 16 Executive Director still of Scranton Housing 17 Authority. 18 Scranton Housing Authority really 19 doesn't have much to do with Scranton, except 20 the Mayor gets to appoint a board member. I've 21 included in -- what I got here -- it was a 22 notice on their window that I, you know, that 23 I'm supposed to be able to get this at the 24 library, and oh, they sent it to the Children's 25 Library, just all of this stuff.  34 1 And even looking at it, it's very 2 confusing, you know. It's their plan for 3 housing. They get millions and millions 4 dollars for housing. And this is the -- the 5 thing to keep it going. I also included in 6 this my question to AI about, you know, how to 7 answer this. 8 I hope somebody answers this, 9 somebody in the government because it's a 10 problem across the board with Home Rule Charter 11 with the judicial branch of government. And 12 it, you know, it's really coming to a head. 13 Mari Kelly isn't running again to be the Clerk 14 of the Court. 15 But I was evicted by this Court 16 system, you know. And a lot of people -- 17 probably thousands of people were evicted. And 18 looking at this paper they say, you know, they 19 talk about the tenancy. I mean, I was evicted 20 after 14 years at Scranton Housing Authority. 21 And I fought them for four years. 22 And there's no record of what Judge Farrell 23 evicts people from Adams High Rise. There's no 24 record. There's no clerk record, you know. I 25 go there and they say, well, she's not my own  35 1 clerk. 2 I go to Lackawanna County, you know, 3 after seeing Matt Cartright with a FOYA thing 4 to say, you know, we have to see what they're 5 doing judicially because what they are doing 6 judicially in the county and the city is crazy. 7 I mean, Mari Kelly is again, under 8 the auspices of, you know, I guess Judge 9 Nealon, you know. Our whole government is run 10 by the judiciary and the Home Rule Charter. 11 There's something wrong with that. 12 I'd like to announce that one of the 13 Commissioners, Chris Chermak is having a public 14 meeting at Lackawanna College auditorium at 5 15 p.m. on Monday, May 10th to talk about it 16 because there's really nobody talking about 17 anything, not talking the public housing. 18 You know, they talk about the 19 homeless and, you know, what the police are 20 going to do about the homeless. But it's just 21 a fact that Scranton Housing Authority has 22 hired many police officers. It's run by the 23 District Attorney's Offices and, you know, who 24 works there and who doesn't. 25 It's under contract. And, you know,  36 1 it's something no one understands. It's the 2 law. Somebody has to get on top of the law in 3 this -- in this area. The five-year-plan of 4 this -- the public housing authority five-year 5 plan, that's the only place, you know, it comes 6 in from the federal government to the county 7 every five years and this is confusing as hell 8 reading it, you know. 9 It sounds good. But when you put it 10 into the thing, you know, what's happening with 11 Park Gardens and they talk about, oh, it would 12 cost too much infrastructure to fix up, that's 13 what they're talking about. But this can't go 14 on like this. 15 People have to start realizing what 16 is really the constitutional thing running the 17 government. And in Lackawanna County and 18 Scranton, it's the Home Rule Charter. And it's 19 totally unconstitutional. Thank you. 20 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Little. 21 Anyone else? 22 MR. MARGAVITCH: Good evening, 23 Scranton, Mark Margavitch. First thing I just 24 wanted to point out was I see the windows are 25 still under construction. But behind  37 1 Mr. Voldenberg, it keeps getting worse and 2 worse. Is there any other secondary damage 3 happening inside City Hall just for everyone to 4 see that before we issue a final check. 5 MR. SMURL: No, that was before -- 6 that above? 7 MR. MARGAVITCH: It wasn't because I 8 could see a video from 2023. But anyway, you 9 could go back and see it yourself. But I want 10 to ask anyone, are you familiar with a grant 11 that was offered to the city for gunfire, like, 12 triangulation where it could triangulate where 13 gunfire was shot from? 14 Anyone familiar with a grant that 15 was offered to the city? I heard it on the 16 local podcast and I just found it interesting. 17 It sounded like it was an all paid for grant 18 and the city may have turned it down. I'm just 19 asking if anyone has any knowledge of that. 20 I know it didn't come in front of 21 you because you didn't vote on it, but no one? 22 MR. MCANDREW: I don't recall. 23 MR. MARGAVITCH: Okay. I also saw 24 something on the Scranton government page about 25 an electronics recycling on May 17th. Does  38 1 anyone know who is actually running that 2 program? Are you aware of it at all? It's 3 going to be held at the Scranton High School. 4 MR. MCANDREW: The electronic? 5 Normally it's a county program every year. 6 MR. MARGAVITCH: Yeah, I'm not sure. 7 It was on the City's website. I wasn't sure. 8 But anyway, I saw some of the prices. And I 9 was a little shocked because I just, you know, 10 partook in one up in Wayne County on April 11 26th. It was $25 for a carload. 12 And some of the TVs, I think a TV 13 might be $25 for a 27 inch and below and 28 and 14 above is 65 or 60, something like that. Air 15 conditioners are 20 and $30 where you could 16 actually take them to Stanton's and get 15 17 cents a pound. 18 I just found it interesting and was 19 just wondering if anybody knew anything about 20 that program. But, you know, okay, well, 21 anyway, the thing I want to talk about was the 22 City Hall being closed. I know when Dr. 23 Rothchild mentioned the three items in the 24 debate, the Mayor only mentioned two. 25 She did mention government  39 1 operational efficiency. But I don't think 2 anyone could agree that keeping the public out 3 is operational efficiency. I think it's 4 deficiency at that point. 5 So I don't really think that's a 6 really valid excuse to say we're more 7 efficient. Look how efficient you guys were 8 when we had a debate that night. You guys were 9 out of here pretty early, you know? You 10 probably wish you had something every Tuesday 11 night to keep people away. 12 But the second thing was the 13 confidential files. Everywhere we go there's 14 confidential files. We go to the bank. We 15 go -- so that's -- that's not accurate. Just 16 because you have confidential files, you can't 17 close it to the public. 18 But it's also ironic and Mr. Coyne's 19 not here, but they put files outside. And 20 they're going to claim about confidentiality? 21 It's mind blowing to me. And the last one is 22 obviously they are concerned about guns. 23 Now in the debate the Mayor did 24 speak about how -- how, you know, we can't 25 just -- we can't search anyone at the door.  40 1 You don't have the right to do that. You don't 2 have the right to take away their gun no matter 3 what. 4 But we do have the right to redress 5 our government. And we do have the right of 6 press. We're not allowed either. I do find 7 it -- inside the building behind doors. We 8 should be able to come back here. 9 So I do find it interesting that 10 there is four employees that don't have that 11 protection, but yet, the Mayor is still going 12 to contend that it is for everyone's safety. 13 So I just question what about those four 14 employees that are in the Licensing and 15 Inspection Department. 16 They don't have any safety. That's 17 only plexiglass. That's not bulletproof glass. 18 But I guess that's all I wanted to say. And 19 just one more question, you guys could answer 20 it in 5th Order and ladies. 21 Certainly the ordinances apply to 22 everyone fairly even if you're in a position of 23 government or just a citizen. Thank you. If 24 you could answer that I would appreciate it. 25 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Anyone else?  41 1 MR. VOLDENBERG: FIFTH ORDER. 5-A. 2 MOTIONS. 3 MR. SMURL: Mr. Schuster, do you 4 have any motions or comments? 5 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes, I have a few. 6 Last week I had some preemptive questions about 7 pave cuts. We do have a meeting coming up on 8 the 13th. I asked about the protocol for 9 smaller contractors doing pave cuts. 10 I asked about using the subcodes 11 when those smaller contractors are doing work 12 under -- under utility companies and then how 13 the permit information from the inspect -- is 14 given to the inspection company. 15 So I was told by the administration 16 that any work in pavement or right of way 17 requires a permit regardless of the contractor. 18 One call system assists in identifying smaller 19 work that may require a permit from those 20 independent contractors. 21 The utility company when it comes to 22 permits, they put out the permit and they list 23 any of those subcontractors. The 24 subcontractors are working on behalf of the 25 utility and, therefore, they're under the  42 1 jurisdiction of the PUC law. 2 When it comes to the inspection 3 company, the inspection company has an account 4 with Open Gov and they are explicitly tied to 5 the workflow and complete assignment work as it 6 gets assigned to them automatically. 7 So we'll have some questions for 8 that company when they come in on the 13th. In 9 regards to Meadow Brook in caucus tonight, we 10 heard from the engineer as well as our project 11 coordinator. There is some updates that are 12 going to go into that Meadow Brook Project and 13 the city has given them to the State Department 14 of General Services. 15 So at this point in time the 16 administration is waiting on the State 17 Department of General Services. And once they 18 get that approved through them, they will share 19 those updates. 20 In regards to DPW contracts, I know 21 there's some dates that were put out. There 22 isn't any meeting scheduled at this point in 23 time that I know of for negotiations. So 24 that's we're still waiting for that. 25 Mr. Voldenberg, I have a couple of  43 1 requests for updates. We talked about 2 Ferdinand Street quite sometime ago. On the 3 24th of March it was -- I had asked about an 4 update from Eileen Cipriani about where we're 5 at with the paving of Ferdinand Street and they 6 let us know that it was out for bid. 7 So can we please just request an 8 update from the Business Administrator? These 9 residents came to Council. They spoke to us 10 directly and the city responded to them. If we 11 could get them an update it would be great. 12 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll follow up, Mr. 13 Schuster. It is on the paving list. That 14 request was placed on the pave list. 15 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. 16 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll follow up 17 though. 18 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Another 19 update, last -- I've asked for several updates 20 about the HUP test. But if we can get an 21 update on where we're at with the HUP test, I 22 know last time they said the county had a 23 letter that was going to be sent out. But it 24 hadn't been sent out as of yet. So if we can 25 where we're at with getting --  44 1 MR. VOLDENBERG: There is some 2 movement on that. I'll get a status. 3 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much. 4 Tonight in caucus we heard about our Disaster 5 Code 4408 which was a FEMA and PEMA Disaster 6 Code that was caused after the storm in 2018. 7 So it was nice to hear tonight since 2018 8 that's finally going to be closed out. 9 Most of those projects are 10 completed. It's been something I've spoke 11 about consistently here since I started on 12 Council. 13 As we had many deadlines that were 14 approaching at the end of each year and the 15 city got extensions, they spoke tonight the 16 last project in that was Elm Street retention 17 wall behind South Side Bowling Lanes. 18 It's a flood wall that was replaced. 19 And that was the last project before that 20 Disaster Code 4408 is closed out. 21 I did give Mr. Voldenberg a copy of 22 the holiday schedule for trash and recycling 23 and yard waste collection. And if you could 24 just get clarification so for Memorial Day, 25 Monday will be off for Memorial Day. And there  45 1 will be no curbside trash, recycling and yard 2 waste collection that day. 3 It's going to pick up -- what was 4 originally scheduled for Monday is going to 5 pick up -- this document I have here says -- 6 states Wednesday. But if we could just get 7 clarification, we have enough time between now 8 and Memorial Day that we could get that out so 9 the residents know what pickup days are going 10 to be for the week of the Memorial Day holiday. 11 MR. VOLDENBERG: I made note of it. 12 I'll find out tomorrow. 13 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much. 14 And then the last thing I have is that I'd like 15 to thank Reilly Engineering and any members of 16 the project team. There was stormwater 17 projects. The city is doing a large stormwater 18 24 million dollars give or take in stormwater 19 updates. 20 And the city and the project team 21 was kind enough to come out to the Fawnwood 22 area in Keyser Valley to do a walkthrough with 23 the neighbors on Phase 1 of that. So a lot of 24 those neighbors came out to do a walkthrough of 25 their properties as to what is to be expected  46 1 and what work is to be done and many, if not, 2 most of the neighbors were very happy with 3 getting their questions answered. 4 And I will say that, you know, 5 taking -- the administration and our engineers 6 taking the time to explain to those residents 7 where they're at goes a long way to obtaining 8 those easements and working smoothly through 9 these projects. 10 So I would like to thank Reilly 11 Associates and the project team for coming out 12 to those residents in Keyser Valley to explain 13 those -- those stormwater projects. That's 14 all. 15 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Schuster. 16 Dr. Rothchild, do you have any motions or 17 comments? 18 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes, I do. First, I 19 want to bring up something Miss Hodowanitz was 20 discussing about the flooding that happens 21 downtown and certain intersections. There was 22 one that I had noticed that I believe has been 23 brought up in the past. But I don't recall the 24 answers about it. 25 And this is over at Penn Avenue and  47 1 Biden Street. And it's right where someone 2 would need to use the handicap accessible curb. 3 And so someone wouldn't be able to because they 4 would be trenching through a lot of water with 5 their device or wheelchair. 6 So I had brought it forward to Mr. 7 Voldenberg and he's going to bring it to DPW. 8 One of the problems is that there's no sewage 9 drain there. So perhaps if there was a drain, 10 then the issue wouldn't exist. So I'm hoping 11 one could be added there. 12 But if there are any other 13 intersections that perhaps don't need a drain 14 and that's the cause of the water collection 15 there, then please make us aware and maybe we 16 could get them all covered in one -- one 17 summer. That would be great. 18 And speaking of curb cuts, while 19 Reilly and Associates was in today, I did ask 20 them afterwards regarding the curb cut that 21 we've been asking about at Colfax and Olive. 22 And I was told that the design should be 23 completed within a week. 24 So they've been in the design 25 process. And then they'll get back to me in  48 1 terms of the timeline when they anticipate that 2 it will -- it will actually be completed. So 3 sounds like we're moving further along in the 4 steps. But it has been taking quite a while. 5 So I was glad I had the opportunity to ask them 6 about that and just wanted to provide that 7 update. 8 And there was a question tonight 9 about Lackawanna Avenue, which I've also 10 brought up last week and in previous weeks the 11 paving that needs to happen on that road and 12 also discussed that with Mr. Voldenberg who had 13 said last we were told it was going to be done 14 within two to three weeks or at least the 15 paving would be started. 16 And we're probably at 3 and a half 17 weeks now. So we're going to check in on that 18 and find out why that hasn't been started yet 19 and hopefully push them to get that done 20 quickly because I agree that it's a 21 thoroughfare through the city and it's been in 22 bad conditioner for some time now. 23 And that would hastened further by 24 some of the work that was done on that road. 25 And that's all that I have. Thank you.  49 1 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Dr. 2 Rothchild. Mr. McAndrew, do you have any 3 motions or comments? 4 MR. MCANDREW: I got a couple. So 5 it was brought to my attention by a resident 6 that for the past few months there's this large 7 driller truck or part of a driller truck that's 8 very large. 9 It's been parked off Moosic Street 10 on the left as you travel to the lookout. It's 11 just past the overhead bridge carrying Route 81 12 over it. So I'm not sure whose it is if it's 13 state's or what's going on up there if you 14 could please inquire and try to get an answer 15 for this resident. 16 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will. 17 MR. MCANDREW: Thank you. And also, 18 you know who we haven't heard from in a while 19 is the study regarding Engine 10. So can we 20 please reach out to the administration and 21 check the status of that? Thank you. 22 And then it was brought to my 23 attention and which is fantastic because I've 24 noticed in recent years that there's been a 25 couple of groups that have formed. They're  50 1 doing cleanups throughout the city which is 2 fantastic. And I'm very happy to see it. 3 I think we should encourage that and 4 assist them in any way. But this group that, 5 you know -- and they truly love the city; and I 6 think their -- their actual nickname that they 7 have for this group is Scranton Lovers -- are 8 hitting a little roadblock with regards to not 9 only cleaning which they do every year and they 10 want to -- I think they started the process. 11 But also, they want another aspect 12 to incorporate called beautification, which 13 means they have some resources that are going 14 to donate some flowers. And they'd like after 15 cleaning up planting some flowers in these 16 areas. 17 And some might be city owned, some 18 might not be. So, you know, they followed the 19 protocol which they thought was reaching out to 20 the city to get permission, you know, ask for, 21 you know, instead of forgiveness and -- 22 because, you know, they weren't sure what the 23 protocol is. 24 I'm not sure what the protocol is 25 because this is probably something new. But I  51 1 know they started reaching out to the city in 2 March. All right. So -- and the responses 3 they're getting is, well, we have to talk to a 4 different department. 5 And so now the last time they heard 6 was like three weeks ago that, you know, we'll 7 get back to you. And then I asked Mr. 8 Voldenberg to, you know, reach out to 9 administration. And their response was, well, 10 we have to wait for OECD to make a decision. 11 I don't know why we would need their 12 permission. But, okay, with that said, I mean, 13 you know, they want to start planting now, not 14 June and July. This is the time to plant. 15 And, you know, this should be a sense of 16 urgency. 17 Like I said earlier, we should 18 embrace and assist these groups that want to 19 help. They shouldn't hit roadblocks or speed 20 bumps with just getting a simple answer as to a 21 yes or no if they could do it taking almost a 22 month which is ridiculous. 23 So, you know, I think we -- there 24 should be a little, should be a little, you 25 know, sense of urgency because like I said  52 1 earlier, time is their enemy right now. 2 They're finding people that are 3 gracious enough to donate flowers. They want 4 to be able to coordinate this with their 5 efforts after the cleanup. So I know you 6 reached out and they said they're waiting upon 7 approval from OECD. But that's a couple days 8 now. So could you please let's get these 9 people an answer. 10 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will. I'll 11 follow up with the OECD Director tomorrow. 12 MR. MCANDREW: Thank you very much. 13 And that is all I have. And in response to 14 Mr. Margavitch's -- I wasn't sure what your 15 question was at the end of your five minutes. 16 I really didn't understand what you said or 17 what the question was. 18 So I know we can't engage right now 19 with question and answer. But, I mean, I've 20 always had hay problem with locking City Hall 21 or restriction. You know, there's a safer way. 22 There's a safer way to do it. There wasn't a 23 discussion what options would be because, you 24 know, worrying about files, worrying about 25 safety.  53 1 As we sit here right now anybody 2 could come up that elevate. You could go to 3 the first floor, the second floor. You could 4 roam around. It could be happening right now. 5 We wouldn't even know. 6 So it's, you know, it's a lot -- to 7 have the restriction during day and not at the 8 night doesn't make sense to me. So if that's 9 part of your question, I'm not sure. But 10 that's how I always felt. And that's how I 11 continue to feel. So that is all I have. 12 Thank you. 13 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. McAndrew. 14 So this week there will be two emergency bids 15 for demolition. They will be on site of the 16 actual buildings that are going to be 17 demolished. The one is on the 10th Avenue 18 building that we heard from last week. 19 And the other one is 801 South 20 Webster. So I assume they will be in the paper 21 and should be on city website. But I got this 22 information a short time ago. 23 Also, 332 Birch Street, the garage 24 that has all the chickens and roosters, it is 25 empty. I've seen it empty. And I have a  54 1 picture just in case. And it was said last 2 week or the week before that we had a cyber 3 attack. We did not have a cyber attack. 4 We did not pay anybody for anything. 5 No information was compromised. So that 6 supposed attack really never happened. But we 7 do carry insurance for something like that if 8 it does happen to the city. We do have 9 insurance for that. 10 The finance meeting from April 30th, 11 the information from that is every department 12 is on track and aligned with the overall 13 budget. Parks normally is high overtime. That 14 was because of the Code Blue nights. And all 15 of the authorities actually now have auditors. 16 So every one of them have auditors 17 so we should be on time this year to get our 18 audit in on time. And the last thing from that 19 was the year-to-date interest on taxpayer 20 dollars is $147,453. And, yes, we do make 21 interest on taxpayer dollars no matter what 22 anybody tells you. 23 The sinkholes, Mr. Schuster, I think 24 you were asking about a price of that. I've 25 asked and they did tell me. The two of them,  55 1 one at 2709 Jackson and 8 Fawnwood Drive, the 2 price to repair both of those is $27,000 the 3 bids came in at. They were happy at that. I 4 don't know what the repair is. But I couldn't 5 tell you anymore. 6 But I know they were -- I got the 7 price. So the other thing they say for paving 8 streets and all of the work that's being done 9 on our streets, City Council has approved the 10 past three years paving projects. 11 So when people come here and say we 12 don't pave it, you know, the Mayor doesn't 13 pave. You only pave for this. We do all of 14 that too. We approve all of that. So and do 15 we know how much it's going -- yes, in '22 and 16 '23 we put 2.68 million dollars in paving in 17 the city. 18 In '23 to '24, 2.53 million dollars 19 was invested. In '24 to '25 this year there's 20 2.2 million dollars. And again, this all went 21 through Council. This was all public 22 information. So we are paving every single 23 year. 24 Now, our infrastructure, the 25 streets -- and I understand that they're in  56 1 deplorable conditions. I hate the road 2 conditions just like everyone else does. But 3 the year to date -- well, in the past 29 months 4 I went back that far to find out how many 5 streets, how many roads were actually torn up. 6 There is actually 47 roads that were 7 torn up by Pennsylvania American Water Company 8 alone. The list for all of those streets is 9 online. So every street that you see, you 10 drive on and they're in horrible condition, 11 they are there. 12 But we are replacing the gas -- the 13 water mains. And believe it or not our kids 14 are still drinking water contaminated with 15 lead. They are still pulling the lead out. 16 Two years ago they did 30,000 lineal feet. I 17 think last year they did 30,000 lineal feet. 18 And this year they have another 30,000 they're 19 doing. They're already on track doing that 20 this year. 21 That's miles of pipe. And that's 22 miles of road destruction. But not only that, 23 then UGI could come in behind them and replace 24 their piping. So our infrastructure has to be 25 built from the inside.  57 1 So instead of allowing this to have 2 UGI come in and PAWC come in, this is all 3 happening at the same time. And then when this 4 stuff is done, then we're doing stormwater. So 5 we're in for another -- a year of two of this. 6 So if you're looking for smooth 7 streets, it's really not going to happen for a 8 bit because we're actually in the middle of 9 this entire project. 10 I'm glad we're doing it. I want the 11 lead out of the pipes going into our houses 12 that our children are drinking. So, yes, I do 13 agree our roads are terrible. But we do have 14 to take care of and replace that 15 infrastructure. But it is being done. 16 The other crosswalks I was told is 17 going out to bids. DPW was sent a list of 18 their own to do. The bids will only be for the 19 ones that are high traffic areas that are 20 dangerous and require traffic control either 21 pieces, police or people to control the 22 intersections. 23 So I know we don't have that much 24 manpower in our department. So that it, Mr. 25 Voldenberg.  58 1 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-B. FOR 2 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - RESOLUTION FOR 3 PLAN REVISION FOR NEW SINGLE FAMILY HOME LAND 4 DEVELOPMENT LOCATED AT 111 MONTEREY ROAD. 5 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll 6 entertain a motion that Item 5-B be introduced 7 into its proper committee. 8 MR. MCANDREW: So moved. 9 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second. 10 MR. SMURL: On the question? All 11 those in favor of introduction signify by 12 saying aye. 13 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. 14 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye. 15 MR. MCANDREW: Aye. 16 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes 17 have it and so moved. 18 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-C. FOR 19 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - APPOINTMENT OF 20 SAMANTHA BODE, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, AS A 21 MEMBER OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL TO 22 FILL THE UNEXPIRED TERM OF ROBERT SCHUMAKER, 23 WHO RESIGNED. SAMANTHA BODE'S TERM IS 24 EFFECTIVE UPON EXECUTION OF THIS RESOLUTION AND 25 WILL EXPIRE ON JULY 31, 2026.  59 1 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll 2 entertain a motion that Item 5-C be introduced 3 into its proper committee. 4 MR. MCANDREW: So moved. 5 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second. 6 MR. SMURL: On the question? All 7 those in favor of introduction signify by 8 saying aye. 9 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. 10 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye. 11 MR. MCANDREW: Aye. 12 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes 13 have it and so moved. 14 MR. VOLDENBERG: SIXTH ORDER. 15 6-A. READING BY TITLE - FILE OF THE 16 COUNCIL NO. 75, 2025 - AN ORDINANCE - 17 AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND OTHER APPROPRIATE 18 CITY OFFICIALS TO EXECUTE AND ENTER INTO AN 19 INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN 20 THE CITY OF SCRANTON AND COMMONWEALTH OF 21 PENNSYLVANIA FOR USE OF AMERICAN DIGITAL 22 CARTOGRAPHY, INC. (ADCI) PRODUCTS. 23 MR. SMURL: You've heard reading by 24 title of Item 6-A. What is your pleasure? 25 MR. MCANDREW: Mr. Chairman, I move  60 1 that Item 6-A pass reading by title. 2 MR. SCHUSTER: Second. 3 MR. SMURL: On the question? All 4 those in favor signify by saying aye. 5 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. 6 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye. 7 MR. MCANDREW: Aye. 8 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes 9 have it and so moved. 10 MR. VOLDENBERG: 6-B. READING BY 11 TITLE - FILE OF THE COUNCIL NO. 76, 2025 - AN 12 ORDINANCE - RATIFYING AND AUTHORIZING THE 13 EXECUTION OF TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION EASEMENT 14 AGREEMENTS FOR PARCELS LOCATED AT 2709 JACKSON 15 STREET AND 8 FAWNWOOD DRIVE SCRANTON, 16 PENNSYLVANIA FOR THE SINKHOLE REPAIR PROJECT. 17 MR. SMURL: You've heard reading by 18 title of Item 6-B. What is your pleasure? 19 MR. MCANDREW: Mr. Chairman, I move 20 that Item 6-B pass reading by title. 21 MR. SCHUSTER: Second. 22 MR. SMURL: On the question? All 23 those in favor signify by saying aye. 24 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. 25 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.  61 1 MR. MCANDREW: Aye. 2 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes 3 have it and so moved. 4 MR. VOLDENBERG: SEVENTH ORDER. 5 7-A. FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE 6 COMMITTEE ON FINANCE - FOR ADOPTION - FILE OF 7 THE COUNCIL NO. 72, 2025 - CLOSING AND 8 ABOLISHING INACTIVE SPECIAL CITY ACCOUNTS. 9 MR. SMURL: What is the 10 recommendation of the Chairperson for the 11 Committee on Finance? 12 MR. SCHUSTER: As the Vice Chairman 13 for the Committee on Finance, I recommend final 14 passage of Item 7-A. 15 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second. 16 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll 17 call, please. 18 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King. Mr. 19 Schuster. 20 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. 21 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild. 22 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes. 23 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew. 24 MR. MCANDREW: Yes. 25 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl.  62 1 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare 2 Item 7-A legally and lawfully adopted. 3 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-B. FOR 4 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES - FOR 5 ADOPTION - FILE OF THE COUNCIL NO. 73, 2025 - 6 THE "CLEAN UP THE CODE ORDINANCE OF 2025" - 7 REMOVING OUTDATED PROVISIONS OF SCRANTON CITY 8 CODE, INCLUDING THE REPEAL OR AMENDMENT OF 9 PROVISIONS REGARDING (1) THE PRINTING OF 10 ORDINANCES: (2) SEWER SERVICES RATES; (3) 11 BICYCLE LICENSES; (4) ANTI-LITTER ACCOUNT; (5) 12 ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE FUND; (6) PARKING 13 FINES; (7) BOARD OF EXAMINERS; (8) DEPARTMENTS; 14 AND (9) ABANDONED REFRIGERATORS. 15 MR. SMURL: As Chairperson for the 16 Committee on Rules, I recommend final passage 17 of Item 7-B. 18 MR. SCHUSTER: Second. 19 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll 20 call, please. 21 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King. Mr. 22 Schuster. 23 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. 24 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild. 25 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes.  63 1 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew. 2 MR. MCANDREW: Yes. 3 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl. 4 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare 5 Item 7-B legally and lawfully adopted. 6 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-C. FOR 7 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC 8 WORKS - FOR ADOPTION - FILE OF THE COUNCIL NO. 9 74, 2025 - APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE 10 ACQUISITION BY EASEMENT AGREEMENTS, DEED IN 11 LIEU OF CONDEMNATION, OR OTHERWISE OF THE 12 NECESSARY RIGHTS, FRANCHISES, LICENSES, 13 EASEMENTS OR TITLES OF LAND REQUIRED FOR 14 PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY EASEMENTS IN ORDER TO 15 COMPLETE THE NORTH SCRANTON STORMWATER AND 16 DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT ("THE PROJECT") 17 (GROUP 1) AND AUTHORIZING THE FILING OF A 18 DECLARATION OF TAKING PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 19 OF THE EMINENT DOMAIN CODE, IF REQUIRED. 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 passage of Item 7-C.  64 1 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second. 2 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll 3 call, please. 4 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King. Mr. 5 Schuster. 6 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. 7 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild. 8 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes. 9 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew. 10 MR. MCANDREW: Yes. 11 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl. 12 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare 13 Item 7-C legally and lawfully adopted. 14 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-D. FOR 15 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC 16 SAFETY - FOR ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO. 201, 17 2025 - AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND OTHER 18 APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS, INCLUDING BUT NOT 19 LIMITED TO THE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR AND FIRE 20 CHIEF, TO EXECUTE AND ENTER INTO ANY AND ALL 21 DOCUMENTS NECESSARY TO ENTER INTO, CONSUMMATE, 22 EXECUTE A LEASE-PURCHASE AGREEMENT FOR A FORD 23 TRANSIT VAN 350 WITH COMMUNITY FIRST NATIONAL 24 BANK. 25 MR. SMURL: What is the  65 1 recommendation of the Chairperson for the 2 Committee on Public Safety? 3 MR. MCANDREW: As Chairperson for 4 the Committee on Public Safety, I recommend 5 final passage of Item 7-D. 6 MR. SCHUSTER: Second. 7 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll 8 call, please. 9 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King. Mr. 10 Schuster. 11 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. 12 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild. 13 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes. 14 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew. 15 MR. MCANDREW: Yes. 16 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl. 17 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare 18 Item 7-D legally and lawfully adopted. 19 MR. VOLDENBERG: EIGHTH ORDER. No 20 business at this time. 21 MR. SMURL: If there's no further 22 business, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. 23 MR. MCANDREW: Motion to adjourn. 24 MR. SMURL: Thank you. This meeting 25 is adjourned.  66 1 C E R T I F I C A T E 2 3 I hereby certify that the proceedings and 4 evidence are contained fully and accurately in the 5 notes taken by me of the above-cause and that this copy 6 is a correct transcript of the same to the best of my 7 ability. 8 9 10 Maria McCool, RPR 11 Official Court Reporter 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 (The foregoing certificate of this transcript does not 23 apply to any reproduction of the same by any means 24 unless under the direct control and/or supervision of 25 the certifying reporter.)  1 $ 29 [1] - 56:3 7-B [3] - 62:3, 62:17, active [1] - 30:8 20:20 63:5 activities [1] - 30:7 AMERICAN [1] - 59:21 $147,453 [1] - 54:20 3 7-C [3] - 63:6, 63:25, actual [2] - 50:6, 53:16 American [2] - 13:8, $25 [2] - 38:11, 38:13 64:13 Adams [1] - 34:23 56:7 $27,000 [1] - 55:2 3 [3] - 8:7, 48:16, 7-D [3] - 64:14, 65:5, ADCI [1] - 59:22 ammunition [1] - 10:2 $30 [1] - 38:15 62:10 65:18 added [1] - 47:11 AN [3] - 59:16, 59:18, 3.A [1] - 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