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Thursday, March 19, 2026 7:00 PM Williamsport, PA Council President Eric Beiter brought the Williamsport City Council meeting to order on Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM.at Trade & Transit Center II, 144 W. Third St, Williamsport, PA. This meeting was duly advertised in the Williamsport Sun-Gazette. Council members present: Also, Present: Eric Beiter, Council President Derek Slaughter, Mayor, absent Mr. Willia Vincent Pulizzi, Vice President Valerie Fessler Liz Miele, Councilwoman Tracey Harer, , Fire Chief, Adam W Jonah Milliken, Councilman, Justin Ottaviano, , Police Chief, Adam Yoder, Councilman Solicitor Nicholas Grimes Jon Mackey, Councilman, Janice Frank, City Clerk Bonnie Katz, Councilwoman Jamie Livermore Absent: Scott Livermore, S&P absent Adam Yoder Kris Black Bonnie Katz Adam Welt3rroth, Treasurer Bill Scott Members of the public Approval of the Williamsport City Council minutes of 03/05/26 approved upon a motion by Mr. Pulizzi and second from Mr. Milliken. All were in favor with a vote of 5 to 0. There was no public comment or courtesy of the floor Mr. Joseph Pawlak . Ordinance # 6524Mr. Joe Pawlak Mr. Garyreading) Ordinance Transfer #1 (final Knarr Mr. Tom Cillo C. Dean The City Clerk read the ordinance. Dave Young, Police Chief Chief He Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second. Sol. J. David Smith Mr. Milliken made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Mackey. Janice Frank, City Clerk, absent Ms. Livermore, this is the second reading of the transfer Ordinance Todd Heckman, number 1. Fire This Chief , was to move money into a line item for the levy. News Media Mr. Beiter: Any questions from this from last meeting? Seeing and hearing none. The ordinance passed in second reading with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent. Members of News Media Members of the news media Ordinance #6525 Ordinance Authorizing the Release & Satisfaction of Certain Mortgages Held by the City in Connection with HOME & CDBG Program Funded, Low-income Homeowner Rehabilitation Projects (final reading) The City Clerk read the ordinance. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Milliken made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Mackey. Ms. Fessler This is a second reading of this Ordinance that applies to hope the participant who is completed program requirements. As I mentioned in the last meeting this would release city mortgages and remove unnecessary income bans raises on home owners and reduce administrative purred on city statement and this went to committee and we did discuss it at the last meeting The ordinance passed in second reading with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent Resolution # 10027 Resolution Authorizing the Settlement of Litigation The City Clerk read the resolution. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second. Mr. Mackey made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Milliken. Mr. Beiter this is a resolution to authorize a settlement of litigation because the City Council of the City of Williamsport determined it is in the best interest of the city and its people that the litigation be settled and resolved The resolution was carried with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent Resolution #10028 Resolution to Accept Donation to Brandon Park from Victorian Christmas The City Clerk read the resolution. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and a second. Mr. Pulizzi made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Mackey. Mrs. Peachie O’Connor Hello council and members in attendance. I will read a letter sent to the Brandon Park commission signed by our treasurer Tom O Connor to the bran park commission. The Christmas committee experienced great success in the recent years of our tour of home that’s held historically each year the weekend before Thanksgiving in 25 we opened a lecture about Williamsport slack a craftsman that built the staircases in the homes in the historic district. William Slack home the Joe Joe Pots house was a feature of our tour of homes this year. Our event featured the popular artist in market. And the tour of historical homes and churches and businesses. Including the Raleigh house museum and musical performances on Saturday. We were blessed with wonderful weather this year and a successful event and a successful attendance. We pulled in at least 1700 visitors the City of Williamsport from various counties, multiple you could counties located in the central and eastern part of Pennsylvania. As a result, the continued success of this event and in line with our mission, Victorian Christmas committee would like to present Brandon Park commission with $1,000 designated gift to be used specifically to replace some of the trees that need replaced that are dying in Brandon Park. We wish you continued success in your efforts to showcase a serene, green space that features a variety of trees, beautiful gardens, walking paths, band shell and benches a perfect landmark that preserve rich history of our region for future generations. Any questions? Mr. Beiter: So the question that I have is how long has your personal involvement been with Victorian Christmas. Peachie I was asked in 2010 and I was an attendance here from two friends from our Christmas committee, some of the girls weren’t able to attend this evening because of previous commitment. But there’s about 14 to 16 of us on the committee. And Nan Young is still our matriarch we help her the best we can Mr. Beiter: When she was here a few months ago we heard what Victorian Christmas means to her. Peachie, We start our meetings in January we had three meetings already to prepare for this year Mr. Beiter: It’s always a delight to see what homes you pick. And I get curious to which ones may come up in the course of the year as we get closer to that time and the involvement I had with Victorian Christmas over the years and volunteering in certain capacities has been rewarding. I love to see it’s not just millionaires row that Victorian has a focus on it’s the entire City of Williamsport. Peachie, One of the most popular ones this year was Joe Joe and Sue Pots the and the house on railway street I don’t know if you have been down that way. I was involved in Williamsport cemetery and we tried to get continued to help clean that up because it’s not owned by anyone as you give. And Lycoming college has been helpful in trying to do the spring clean up by the Semino [sounds like] house and Ed Meckar’s how many and the Raleigh house. I think we have our homes picked already if everything goes well Mr. Beiter: Wonderful. Peachie: If you have a question call any of us and we can refer you to whoever. But we are happy we can come this evening and share our joy and donation to the Brandon Park commission. Okay? Mr. Beiter: Ladies thank you very much for your involvement and your entire organization. Anything from other members of council? Liz Miele. Ms. Miele: It’s one of my ongoing regrets because of Victorian Christmas my restaurant is to busy I usually don’t get to check out the homes on the tour and I heard the one only the railway street was spectacular. If you can get them to open up their house again, let me know. And thank you so much for everything that you do in the city and it’s an opportunity for if city to show the fine homes it has. I know it takes a long time to organize but I didn’t know it took all year. (Laughter). Well. Yeah. The resolution was carried with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent Resolution # 10029 . Resolution to Reject all Bids for the Pullman Train Car The City Clerk read the resolution. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second. Mr. Milliken made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Mackey. Mr. Beiter: What this is a resolution to reject all bids by the Williamsport City Council for the Pullman train car we received in December. Any questions from members of council regarding this item? Seeing and hearing none, Mrs. Frank. The resolution was carried with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent Resolution #10030 Resolution Real Estate Reduction The City Clerk read the resolution. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Mackey made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Milliken. Mr. Welteroth: Good, how are you? The first resolution is a real estate reduction resolution there's a multiconstituted of properties on here if we are asking for the real estate reduction as a result of LERTA agreements. Mr. Beiter: Any questions from members of council? You may not know the answer to this because of your new tenure in the position but how long is this real estate reduction because of fire damage going to be in place if a certain period of time will it be permanent? And have the owners of those parcels decided to either rebuild on those parcels or leave them empty? Mr. Welteroth: This resolution doesn't have any fire damage that we are on right now it's just for the LERTA. Mr. Beiter: This is the LERTA one, I'm sorry. Mr. Welteroth: Yes the LERTA is the improvement on the property and it is the LERTA agreement gives a reduction on the taxation of the value of the property for the improvement through a course of I believe it can be 5 or 10 years. Mr. Beiter: If you wouldn't mind clarifying the addresses for me. I want to make sure the number I had for 10 in our dropbox folder was actually number 13. So I have Jon Ryan. Jon Ryan, west pharmaceutical services. Fan vest A second fan best property. Drawman. Anchor May investments. Anwar. FNU. And Fisher. Mr. Beiter: Okay. Got it. Any questions in regards to the LERTA by members of council? Liz Miele. Ms. Miele: Maybe in future if we do have so many of these we could try to differentiate the titles a little bit more so that - - yeah. Because yeah, I did not -- they are out of order in the packet or mislabeled or who knows. (Laughter), but anyway. So all of these exonerations relate to LERTA but seems we have a handful in some other document thars LERTA related. Mr. Welteroth: We do. Ms. Miele: Okay, the good news is of course that that's a lot of tax income we'll be seeing at some point here. (Laughter). Um, thank you, Adam. So for the record, the real estate reduction involving the LERTA items is the one that we are voting on,. Mr. Beiter: That's correct. Mr. Beiter: That is correct. Other questions from members of council? Yeah, I'm sorry, Adam. One more time for me. What are the owners listed on the resolution that you are currently looking at? Mr. Welteroth: The fist one would be Jon RT Ryan enterprises. Second one would be West farm services. And we have fan best. XVI. And we have another just fan best. XVII. And we have Dromman [sounds like]. Next is a anchor May investments. Thanks, Adam. Just want to make sure I am looking at the right one. Mr. Welteroth: Understood. Mr. Beiter: Seeing and hearing no other questions, Mrs. Frank The resolution was carried with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent Resolution #10031 Resolution Real Estate Exoneration The City Clerk read the resolution.. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Mackey made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Pulizzi. Mr. Welteroth : Final resolution for real estate reduction exoneration before you tonight. This is going to be for a reduction once again for the Matthews property. As a result of fire damage in and for Buck Run real estates for fire damage also. Mr. Beiter: Are there any questions from the members of council regarding this item? I'll refer back to my previous question about the parcels and potential plans. Mr. Welteroth: I am not aware of any of the intent. Usually we'll hold the money in a fire escrow account. Once those improvements are made we will reimburse the money to those properties. Mr. Beiter: Okay. Seeing and hearing nothing else, Mrs. Frank. Mr. Beiter: If you wouldn't mind telling us the name and addresses so we have the correct file subpoena before you is a real estate exoneration request for two properties. It's a Bow a man Robert and a profit James. Both are going to be veterans that exemptions for the total amount. This is typical. This is something that the veterans would apply for if they are a fully disable veteran. Mr. Beiter: Any questions from members of council regarding this item? Seeing and The resolution was carried with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent Resolution #10032 Resolution Real Estate Interim Exoneration The City Clerk read the resolution.. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Milliken made the motion and Mr. Mackey seconded it. Mr. Welteroth : Council before you is a resolution for a real estate interim exoneration for two different parcels the Fickel [sounds like] parcel and more Matthew parcel for an interim period of 5 months the Fisher one will be because of LERTA and the Matthews parcel will be because of a house fire. Mr. Beiter: Any questions from members of council regarding this item? Liz Miele. Ms. Miele: Explain to me the the Fisher interim exoneration the fact they appear on the LERTA list, sorry, I'm not understanding the 5-month interim bill concept and we are reducing the value to 0 for is that last year? Subpoena the approval date of the exemption was June 21, 2025. Ms. Miele: Okay. So these are both presumably things that happened mid-2025. And consequently are in exemption for the rest of 2025. And then the exemption the LERTA exemption moving forward for the parcel would be for 26, right? Mr. Welteroth : That is my understanding. Yes. Ms. Miele: Okay, all right. And this probably is something you won't be able to answer for me right now but if you could get me the answer, I would appreciate it. Our LERTA -- our residential LERTA exemption, I don't think that exempted the entire value. I guess I'm wondering if that number is the value of the improvement? I thought we were only exempting the value of the improvement for the LERTA. So I don't know if that number is the value for the improvement or the whole parcel. Right, guys that was the residential? Mr. Welteroth That was a residential LERTA language. And look like from looking at this document, looks likes the $809 would be an increase because it seems far too low to be an entire rate. : The assessment prior to the improvements for that property was 32,000. And since the improvement, it is gone to $113930. Mr. Beiter: Councilwoman Miele, the 5 month interim is likely from August to December of last year. If the improvement was completed in July then the bill billing would have gone out for the property there unimproved. The 5-month interim is only on the improvement which is why you see the full exoneration because of the LERTA is based on the improvement. And this interim bill is only for that improvement. Since the underlying bill was already issued last year. If you look at the new LERTA for 2026, you can see the assessed value is $145,930. So that was the 3 thousand prior plus the 113,930 that was the improvement Ms. Miele: Got it. Thank you, thank you, Adam. The resolution was carried with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent Resolution #10034 Resolution Tax Collection Committee Delegate Appointment The City Clerk read the resolution.. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Mackey made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Pulizzi. Mr. Welteroth Yes, council, before you is a resolution to approve the following delegates for Lycoming County tax collection committee. This is a body that has representatives of all taxing jurisdictions. Whether that be a municipality and/or a school district. That is responsible for overseeing the collection and distribution of the earned income tax and the profit taxes. Currently the contracted body they have to do this process is keystone collections group. As a primary voting member myself is before you as a first alternate would be Jamie Livermore and a second alternative would be Adam Yoder The resolution was carried with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent TABLED Resolution Authorizing 12 Month Service Agreement Between City Treasurer’s Office & Three-One Co. The City Clerk read the resolution.. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Milliken made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Mackey Mr. Welteroth: This is a contract for Three Plus One services for their cash back product it will provide little bit process and process monitoring for us. In a prior meeting on Tuesday I likened this to a video game. Wrier able to play the video game were very well but we could play it even better if we had the game genie that we could attach to it. This allows me to 2 to use the services of this company that has further analytics and abilities beyond the scope of what I have in my office to go out there and make sure we are investing our money properly. And give us a time frame how we can maximize the profits for it. Ideally this is a zero-cost to the city. Because when we engage in in this contract, we would not continue the contract. Unless the processes that they are recommending that we would accomplish would make up the $18,000. And more. Mr. Beiter: Thank you very much for that. It was very informative. And you had a representative from the company there I believe Mr. Knell. Mr. Welteroth : Yes. Mr. Beiter: He was very informative as well. What I am going to do tonight is make a recommendation that we table this until next meeting. I would like to just to reference checks with other municipalities and counties that have used this program and I would like more feedback from the administration just to see if it would be something they would find some benefit in. not that your office wouldn't benefit immensely from it. But I think two weeks time would be sufficient for us to get that information. And you mentioned some other counties and municipalities in that meeting on Tuesday. So if you wouldn't mind getting us that information in an email form so we can start to do our due diligence, we could greatly appreciate it. Mr. Beiter made a motion to table and it was second by Mr. Pulizzi. The resolution was tabled with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent Resolution #10035 Resolution Awarding Landscape Architect Services for Young’s Woods Park Improvement Project The City Clerk read the resolution.. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Mackey made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Pulizzi. Mr. Scott stated this resolution for consideration. This resolution authorizing the award of professional services agreement to Hunt engineers architect land surveyors for landscape services to add improvement to Youngs Woods park. Hunt services will be as follows. Test 11 design specification and meeting for $37,900. And test 2 is supervision for $1,925 for a total lump sum of $39,020. There's a tax proposal dated March 4, 2026. We got 3 proposals we put out on RFP and got three proposals from three firms and Hunt was the lowest responsible bid. And we worked with risk kaiser on the past on the Elm Park and Newberry park project. And the project is a comprehensive realization of a 3- acre neighborhood booker on the east end with a special emphasis on the all inclusive amenities. The park if a facilities will be improved for accessibility and enjoyment for people all of abilities. And it will have a inclusive playground and ADA pavilion and pathways and pickle ball cores and landscapes and new parking lot with accessibility connections. A restroom. And bike racks ands trash receptacles and a park entry kiosk. The funded project is funded by the grants the State Department of conservation and natural resources and the State Department of community and economic development. And also a grant from the from the All One foundation. Mr. Beiter: Thank very much, Mr. Scott, questions from members of council? Liz Miele. Ms. Miele: So even the design is being funded by Grant funding in this case? >> There's a match. Different grant programs here involved I think there's a match for the C2P2? Yeah. Ms. Miele So the C2P2 grant is $403200 that grant requires a 50% match. So we applied for a DCED green ways trails and recreation program grant of which we got $80,000. So then we applied if to the All One foundation for the balance, which is $323,290 which leaves zero dollars investment from the City of Williamsport. Ms. Miele: All the matches are met by other contributors, excellent. I was going to say that's been my understanding. (Laughter). Okay. And that's it's certainly excites to see that park getting a bit of an overhaul, I think it needed it for a minute. Can I make one request? Chris when you are doing the design. As long as we are putting a bathroom in there could we also have water access? Okay. That's really all I care about the number of kids who don't have water at a park is, you know, -- > Water fountain part of building Ms. Miele: Exactly. I think a restroom is an excellent thing to see there. And would be wise to consider as we revitalize other parks. But water access is really key in the summer time. Sometimes, you know, there's kids who get kicked out of the house, including mine sometimes. And it would be good for them to get a place to drink. So thanks . The resolution was carried with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent Resolution # 10036 Resolution Authorizing Professional Services Agreement Between City & Dailey Consulting LLC The City Clerk read the resolution.. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Pulizzi made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Milliken . Ms. Livermore. This resolution is authorizing professional services agreement wean the City of Williamsport and daily operation consulting for financial consulting services. We did have a discussion about this at the committee meeting the other day. This is for as needed consulting services. just as on as-needed basis to make sure we ensure that we are staying compliant with our audits in upcoming ventures like the levy, debt management items. Some cash transitioning. Things like that that we have someone with some specialized background to be able to consult with for questions or any needs that the city has in that manner. Mr. Beiter: Any questions from members of council regarding this item? Liz Miele. Ms. Miele : For the record again, Jamie, where did you say we were taking the funding from this from? Ms. Livermore Depends on where we use it for. If for any reasons we had questions and needed any time of type of auditing we could take frit the auditing services or the financial contract services Ms. Miele: We have reason to believe we will have money in both of those items . The resolution was carried with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent Resolution #10037 Resolution Authorizing the Purchase of Internet Service from River Valley Internet The City Clerk read the resolution.. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Milliken made the motion and it was seconded Mr. Black. This is a to employed internet service to 200 Riker avenue the old fire station with the anticipation of the codes move up there. We used the internet valley for other services in the city and they are great and performance wise. This is a price of 250 a month with a install fee of $100 and this is coming out. General fund budget as this cultural all came together after budget last year. Mr. Beiter: Any questions from members of council regarding this item? Liz Miele. Ms. Miele: Jamie, when he says it's coming from the general fund budget what does that mean? This context? We didn't leave money in there. Mr. Black We have rent money for codes department that won't be used for rent so the remainder of that rent will be used if the little things that are needed at Riker avenue. . The resolution was carried with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent Resolution #10038 Resolution Rejecting all Quotes Received for Emergency Owner Occupied Housing Rehabilitation Housing Inspection Services Related to the CDBG-Funded Owner-Occupied Housing Rehabilitation The City Clerk read the resolution.. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Pulizzi made a motion and it was seconded by Mr. Mackey. Mr. Daily. As previously stated this resolution would allow us to reject the singular quote received in our RFQ to seek out emergency housing rehabilitation inspection services that we put out back in February. We did not believe we had the information necessary to accept this as we didn't have any other items to sort of judge it against. This resolution would also allow us to seek out additional ways for us to conduct these inspection services. As the homeowners that we have in this program have been waiting unfortunately far longer than I think any of us or the homeowners anticipated when the program is intended to be an emergency rehab program. Mr. Beiter: Any questions from members of council regarding this item? Liz Miele. Ms. Miele: And we do think that we can find an alternative? Mr. Daily Yeah, in anticipation of this item being on here. We wanted to proactively go out and try to see what other resources may be available. So the next item would be to enter into an agreement to do these services. Ms. Miele : Okay. And do we think that we can do that? Are we anticipating that at our next council meeting? The resolution was carried with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent Resolution #10039 Resolution Approving the Adoption of the CDBG Funded Emergency Owner-Occupied Single-Family Housing Rehabilitation Policy & Procedure The City Clerk read the resolution.. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Milliken made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Pulizzi. Mr. Daily that would approve the adoption of our policy and procedures for the CDBG emergency rehab program. The key addition in the policies and procedures would be that we would like to work with Step ink to perform the emergency rehab inspections for us. This is something they have we've been in communication with them to do. They have their own in-house crews that are able to handle this matter. And additionally they would be able to perform the work for us. So we would not -- we would be able to cut out the time period that we have to go out for bids on the construction and they would be able to go in and do the home walk through and then mobilize a crew immediately after that. So that is the step item is the next item on the agenda. I'm not sure how we want to handle the vote here. I think voting onto accept step or to deny step first. And then to -- because we don't want to adopt the policies and procedures with them in there and then -- you see what I am saying? Mr. Beiter: I have confidence they would pass. >> Sorry about that. Mr. Beiter: That's quite all right. Any questions regarding item 20 from members of council? Seeing and hearing none, Mrs. Frank. The resolution was carried with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent Resolution #10040 Resolution Authorizing Subrecipient Agreement with STEP, Inc. to Carry Out the CDBG Emergency Owner- Occupied Single-Family Rehabilitation Program The City Clerk read the resolution.. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Milliken made the motion & it was seconded by Mr. Pulizzi Mr. Daily This would allow us to utilize the 2024 and 2025 CDBG funds we had previously allocated towards the emergency rehab program. To sub recipient those funds to Steps to they could at minister the programs and services on our behalf Mr. Beiter: Questions from members of council regarding this item? Liz Miele. Ms. Miele: How long from this agreement until we can start helping those people with the needs they've been -- >> If voted on, we would reach out to Step tomorrow. Because it does have adopted date of tonight. So we would work with them. And they've been briefed on the homes involved in this. So they are confident their teams can get out and do those. Once we get these three cleared up and then the remaining funds we are able to process the next folks who have been qualified in that list. We didn't want to have 5 or 6 houses waiting without knowing how the bids will come in. But with having Step do the inspection and the bid we can et get more accurate pricing because they know what it will be beforehand. If a third one comes in and we have room for a fourth one we can move this up Ms. Miele: Got it. I assume this wasn't an option in February when we put it out for bid? >> No, I mean, we approached them. But it wasn't something -- I think we had wires crossed unfortunately. Ms. Miele : I wasn't sure whether we had to go through the annoying bidding process to get to a place where we could utilize Step but it was things we didn't know.. I understand you are now on the board. That's helpful. (Laughter). And but that's excellent. I'm glad they can perform these services for us. And I'm glad that we figured that out. And that we can get this taken care of. . The resolution was carried with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent Resolution # 10041. Resolution of the Lycoming County 2026 Hazard Mitigation Plan Update Jurisdiction Adoption The City Clerk read the resolution.. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Pulizzi made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Mackey. Mr. Williams. This resolution is routine. Every five years the county updates the county mitigation plan. This is a federally required document. So in a nutshell, the county develops mitigation plan. And then all the municipalities, all 52 municipalities are expected to adopt the plan as well. According to federal law, if there's a federally declared disaster here, we would be ineligible to receive disaster recovery funds if we don't adopt the plan. So that is why this is come to us for adoption from the county. Now, I will say it's an excellent plan. I was involved in the plan development process while I was still at the county and after I came to the city as well. And the consultant team and the planning team involved, excellent. The other great thing about it is, any specific projects that we have for hazard mitigation in the city if they are reflected in the plan and it increases our chance of getting grant funding. So levy is in there. Storm water management. Grafias run they are all in there specifically mentioned as needs for the city. So that does open us up for some FEMA grants to do those projects The resolution was carried with five yes roll call votes. The 5 to 0. All were in favor. Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, & Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mrs. Katz & Mr. Yoder were absent Accept for filing There was nothing for filing. Announcements The next regularly scheduled City Council meeting will be held on Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM, Trade & Transit II 144 West Third St, 3rd floor, Williamsport, PA. Upcoming Meetings: Tuesday, March 24 11:30 AM Redevelopment Authority Tuesday, March 31 1:00 PM Committee of the Whole Monday, April 6 12:00 PM Planning Commission Thursday, April 2 7:00 PM City Council Meeting Friday, April 3 CITY HALL CLOSED GOOD FRIDAY  Comments: a. Members of the Public b. Council Comments Mr. Milliken I'm happy to announce that we are going to have 2026 Williamsport Earth Day celebration, you are all invited on April 25th in Brandon Park. It's hosted by the responsible dicarbon nation alliance in the City of Williamsport. We are hoping for family oriented stuff and activities and art and music. We should have a at least one concert at the band shell. And it will be from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00p.m. On Saturday the 25th. Of April. Surprise. Mr. Beiter: Thank you very much for that. My announcement is nowhere near as exciting we will have a very brief executive session after this meeting to discuss litigation. c. Administration d. News Media Adjournment Meeting adjourned upon motion by Mr. Pulizzi and a seconded by Mr. Mackey. Meeting adjourned 7:45 PM with unanimous ayes. Submitted by: Janice M. Frank City Clerk