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Thursday, May 14, 2026 7:00 PM Williamsport, PA Council President Eric Beiter brought the Williamsport City Council meeting to order on Thursday, May 14, 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 Austin White Jon Mackey, Councilman, Janice Frank, City Clerk David Dussinger Jamie Livermore Scott Livermore, S&P Absent: Kris Black Adam Welt3rroth, Treasurer Bill Scott Members of the public Approval of the Williamsport City Council minutes of 4/30/26 approved upon a motion by Mr. Pulizzi and second from Dr. Yoder. All were in favor with a vote of 7 to 0.. Mr. Joseph Pawlak Limited Courtesy of the Floor . Mr. Beiter said . We had several requests tonight. If you have a Mr. limited courtesy of the floor, please go ahead and Joe Pawlak Mr. Gary Knarr you can go to the microphone. Mr. Tom Cillo C. Dean Kevin Mackey, until October 25 I was the city's treasure, I'll be Dave keeping Young, this Police as Chiefinformative as I can in 3 minutes. Chief He Sol. J. David Smith As someone in the city your curfew Ordinance is giving the law enforcement to help the crimes before you next Janice Frank, City Clerk, absent all of this information was on the police scanner or the FacebookTodd page. Again Heckman, I'm, trying to keep this short here so Fire Chief forgive me if I'm not detailed. March 29, 9:00 p.m. a group of kids cause News Media a house fire a block of where I live. And while treasurer I told the City of the authority for this house to be taken over. They said they didn't have the resources and worked with the administration to get those resources and get tax for you on those properties April 12, 11:00, several shots fired. May 1, 10:00 p.m. a group of kids wrecked first Friday. Two days late air drive by shooting occurs a block from my house. A juvenile throws rocks near Kohl's. 10 Members of News Media minutes later another group of juveniles setting off fireworks. May Members of my third, neighbor's the news media dog was killed when an individual snapped its neck I heard the video and it sounded like a young person. Kids causing damages to the Flannigan park. May 9, aggravated assault by a large group of kids. And May 11, multiple kids firing at vehicles and causing property damage. Council, whether you believe there are kids coming back from work or hanging out in the city you Ned to believe that your cops are able to make the judgment and let them determine when citations be issued. Let them make the stops and ensure the safety of city growth and give them the Ordinance they are asking for. I would have a youth be stopped and cited and give them commit community service than have them commit a larger crime and watch that youth go on a destructive path. I made a lot of list for this, don't this be another one. With a watch in the city using this curfew I hope this organization can preempt crimes and laws and help law enforcement by giving them a set of the eyes in the area. I reached out for neighbors and property owners if their from and they agreed to would be a welcome interest to protect the life and property. After the Bureau raid it is my intention to prevent the crime before they occur and have resources to make sure the crimes are prevented and vote yes on the curfew Ordinance as written. Thank you. Mr. Beiter: Thank you, Mr. Mackey, I believe we had three other requests this evening. If I could have your name and address Inaudible name I’m and executive director of juvenile uplifting mentor program our address is 734 West Fourth Street in Williamsport. this is Latricia. So good evening, my name is Latricia Martin [sounds like] I was told to turn a 3 minute comment into a TED Talk so make sure people get home before the breakfast menu starts I will stick to the my notes I support intervention for youth creates crime in our policy but I'm asking council not to rely on the policy with earlier shops and higher fines without building a structured pathway. According to 2025 juvenile justice system fact brief most studies find juvenile curfew laws are ineffective at reducing crimes and victimization. It also notes that many youths cited for curfew violations were not committed or about to commit another delinquent act beyond the curfews I That matters because increasing youth stops may create more than curfew citations. The national research says curfews do not reduce youth crime. The office of juvenile justice delinquency and prevention reports a 2016 meta-analysis found that curfews did not have a statistically significant effect on youth criminal behavior during curfew hours. The 56 to 5800 juveniles in Williamsport need intervention before a roar. This research is clear that formal juvenile justice processing does not reduce delinquency and may increase it but the diversion does work Pennsylvania data shows strong outcomes Philadelphia reduced arrests by 90% through diversion programs. Your county has had a 95% youth completion rate of diversion programs and Cumberland county reported more than 90% of the youth that completed diversion programs did not re-offend within two years. >> Our recommendation is a balanced compromise. Move curfew to 10:00 p.m. instead of 9:00 p.m. Do not increase fine for parents. Create a standard alternative accountability option through jumps diversion program. Instead of forcing struggling families to pay fines they cannot afford, allow youth to complete a Saturday accountability program there any jump, this includes a parent sign-in. verified contact information. Anger management. Coping skills. Life skills. Restorative accountability. And certificates of completion that can be submitted to the courts in lieu of fines. For youth who contact goes beyond curfew such as possession, alcohol, disorderly conduct or repeated behaviors, jump can provide paid diversion programming, mentoring, family conference workforce readiness, entrepreneurship, CPR training and case management I would also encourage the city to consider what trainings are offered to police officers along with tools they are given when approaching teenagers and families that they encounter. Many youth included in these situations may already be dealing with trauma, instability, adverse childhood experiences, and difficult home environments. Trauma inform aid approaches can help officer safely de-escalate situation, improve communication with youth and their families. Build stronger community trust. Organizations such as dwell orphan care can offer a TBRI training this is trust, based relational intervention. Training that helps adults better understand trauma responsive behaviors and effective management strategies for youth. If you would like more information on this, we also have Jennifer Lake here today who is the director of dwell orphan care. >> Finally, this is not about us trying to be soft on crime. This is about being smart on prevention. It is the goal of public safety and we need accountability plus prevention. And plus intervention. By collaborating with jump, the city has an opportunity to reduce harm, collect better data, support families and prevent youth from moving deeper into the justice system. Lauren Montgomery, Good thanks I'm nervous and I heavily edited myself so hopefully it won't take too long Lauren Montgomery, 1024 Cherry Street. I lived at 104 Cherry Street for 16 years by Cochran, I have 3 teenagers, 14, 16, and 18 and they attend our public schools. Along with the young kids I watch middle schoolers and high schoolers walk by my home every morning and every afternoon. Since I have three of my own teens I can also -- you can find extra teen seen teens stopping by at my house on a weekend. I watched the council committee on the whole meeting on Tuesday and I shared council member's, our police Chief and our mayor's concern for the safety of our children and our community. I further agree there's been too many incidents in past year that are highly concerning. For example, on Halloween night 2025 my 16-year-old and her friends choose not to attend the party where Josiah was shot but minutes later my phone blew up with teens calling me to get them from the party. And I got to the house and teens were crying and calling their parents and checking socials and checking on friends who attended that other house party. As I drove them back I called the other parents who told them their kids were safe. It was a sobering experience for hundreds of kids that night and we were grateful if for local police for their service. The problem is real and needs smart solutions. That being said I oppose the 9:00 p.m. curfew and the quadrupling of the fines and I appreciated the stats so I won't go through them again but I have multiple academic reviews of statistics where they show stricter curfews only increase the decrease victimization by 0.06%. Crime rates increase or shift in ways that do not reduce victimization. Curfews are inefficient and increase public spending. Got a whole pile of them here. Um, so with that, I agree with what Jonah Milliken said on Tuesday this is a not a solution to a real problem and I appreciate that Jon Mackey said breaking into cars are crimes in and of themselves and can be handled regardless of the curfew time. Tack bow bell, McDonald's and Chick-fil-A, dozens of teens work these shifts late at night because they are in school during the day. And where walk or bike home. They are lucky if they get home before 11:00 p.m. and they walk or bike in groups because it's safer and more fun than going home alone. And they may not walk directly home, they may go to Sheets first or walk someone else home first and circle back for safety reasons. The solution is not to profile teens based on vibes as Liz said on Tuesday so I feel that 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. is too early. And even if the kids are not working we know most out past 9:00 are not doing anything wrong. Finally, I was worried about the assumption that kids who let their kids out at 9:00 p.m. are parents that don't want to parent. Finding children and forcing them to appear in court because they are not at home is not a reasonable solution. Many parents work multiple jobs and some parents don't have money. And a 9:00 p.m. curfew would penalize parents just for being poor. Additionally what if a kid is scared about being stopped by the police and run? Even though they have done nothing wrong, these consequences could be tragic. There was an argument made on Tuesday that times have changed since certain council members roomed the streets at 9:00 p.m. and I disagree. There's always been opportunities for teens to make bad choices and we already have laws in place to deal with that. Don't add a new law that's counter productive to good kids who are existing away from home after 9:00 p.m. I believe we should continue to look for ways for kids to experience community with their friends in safe environments we don't have a mall. They can't even go to see a movie after 6:00 without a adult present. There's nowhere for our kids to go. My kid are always out, year round after 9:00 whether walking a dog or meeting with a friends in the front yard and biking to Sheets and getting a smoothie, that's $4 and that's they can afford. But most of these kids are not doing anything wrong I was excited to read today about the county commissioner meeting on the 27th. I think there's a lot of options but I don't think penalizing kids this early is the solution. Crimes are still crimes regardless of the time and kids are still kids regardless of the crime. Thanks. Mr. Beiter: Thank you very much. We had one final request of the evening, then. How are you? My name is Bruce Hoffman, 1,000 Cherry Street, Williamsport. I'm going to speak to item 8 related to the bricks street although I plainly want to give you a history lesson, I often speak about things landmarks in the city that if they are going to go away, I give a little history. I have just a couple short articles from the 1890s or early 1900s. Let me just read a cup of these. Well-known contractors Mr. DP Guiss and some work he accomplished in the ranks of Williamsport contractors and builders stands DP Guiss and his name cause David porter who for years has been one of the most active businessmen of the city, more than 20 years ago, he commenced the manufacture of brick in this city and he continued the venture up to the present time, which fact alone indicates success. As time has progressed, he branched out in other lines. Including stone work and general building at the present time, he's operating several extensive quarries in addition to the manufacturer of brick on a large scale. Here's another article about Mr. Guiss. This has to do with laying of brick on Third Street. Contractor Guiss said the work of laying brick on Third Street would start today. And he would have started yesterday morning had he been able to make a deal with President Rhodes from the paving company of the paving of the rails. And because there's no passing at pine street has been put in there's speculation how we will proceed. He says he will go ahead, crossing or no crossing. And under the circumstances, busy scenes may be expected along the street today. Those are both from 1890. This is another just short article actually in a like a trade journal. From 1905. Mr. Guiss invents new brick burner of the stone company, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, has been notified a patent has been allowed on a combination brick kiln of his invention. This idea of his is expected to revolutional ize the brick burning industry. The invention is not only a great saver of fuel but only about 1/2 the time is required to burn the brick as compared with the old method. The invention has been tested thoroughly at the yards of the Guiss company north of Williamsport. Just so you know, one of his quarries probably the one referred there, if you remember where the Woolrich construction is on freedom road, recently went out of business. That was one of the Guiss [sounds like] quarries and you can look at a aerial view and see the mountain is carved away from all the shale or rock he used. Lastly just I brought this up because this is stamped Guiss [sounds like] block. This is probably one of the many bricks that are in the streets of Williamsport. Whether they are you see them or not. And they were always laid down so that you didn't ever see the name name of the manufacturer but it's substantial, I'll have it later if you want to lift it. Thanks. Mr. Beiter : Thank you, very much, Bruce, I hope you didn't pry that out of the street before you came in, if you did, please put it back. I believe that's all we had for limited courtesy of the floor. We do have to jump around a bit this evening because we have guests online that are other commitments to we would like to be appreciative of their time so we'll go down to item 14. Resolution 10072 Resolution of the City Council of the City of Williamsport Approving a Minor Amendment to the Home ARP Allocation Plan 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. Ms. Fessler Good evening, Jamie Shrawde error from SEDA-COG is online. So the city received 988 -- $989117 in home American res crew plan funding that's funding to be used similar to our annual home allocation. Recently they added $983 to that allocation. So we have to do a minor amendment in front of council today to let you know we received that additional $983. That extra $983 will be used by STEP. They'll be the agency executing the project that we received this funding for and it will be added to their supportive services line item. That's a project that we discussed in a council meeting last year. Mr. Beiter: Any questions from members of council regarding the minor amendment? Seeing and hearing none, The resolution was carried with seven yes roll call votes. The vote was 7 to 0. All were in favor. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. .Resolution 10073 Resolution Authorizing Professional & Administrative Services Agreement between the City & SEDA- COG. 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 Ms. Fessler You may remember just a few meetings ago I was up here asking you to approve a 2025 professional services agreement with SEDA-COG. Because of the 2025 funding took a little bit longer to get than usual. So we just went through this conversation in this process with SEDA-COG. And council. And at that time, I shared how thrilled we are with Jamie Shrawder and her team that help us through this compliance on this very important but comply it can ad funding source that we rely on heavily in this city. So this contract is identical to the one we looked at a few meetings ago. It's more not to exceed $136500. And again, Jamie is here if you have any questions. Mr. Beiter : Any questions from members of council? Seeing and hearing none. Mrs. Frank. The resolution was carried with seven yes roll call votes. The vote was 7 to 0. All were in favor. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. Resolution #10066 Resolution to Approve Fiscal Year 2026 Annual Action Plan for CDBG & HOME Investment Partnership Program. 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 Ms. Fessler One of the things you see in the professional services agreement in the contract with SEDA-COG is the preparation of our annual action plan and it's close to a 200 page document we are required to provide and submit to HUD every year to let them know the intent of how we will plan spend our funding and Jamie prepares that for us and I'll let her touch on that she since spent so many hours creating that. Jamie Thank you very much, every year you are required to submit annual action plan to HUD. We go through public hearings to do that to get public participation in the process. You may last year we had to do the 5-year plan so that was even bigger. This year we are back to the standard one-year annual action plan. So the city has selected street reconstruction as they normally do. Pedestrian safety improvements which will be like crosswalk markings and those things. And additional funding for Sojourner error truth ministries that we founded with last year's fund and for the home funding it's the single family acquisition and rehab that you participate in with STEP. Those are the projects. This is ready to go. No public comments have been received. The 30-day comment period is over. So if council is good with is it, we can take action to apply the resolution and there's 14 other pages that the Mayor needs to sign. (Laughter). Mr. Beiter: Any questions from council at this time? All good project, thank you Jamie for your work The resolution was carried with seven yes roll call votes. The vote was 7 to 0. All were in favor. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. Appointment Veterans Memorial Park Commission Shawn Realms is appointed to the Veterans Memorial Park Commission to a 5-year term commencing 05/14/26 & ending 1/1/27. Mrs. Frank. Mr. Pulizzi made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Mackey. Mr. Beiter: I believe Shawn is here this evening. He had to leave? I do apologize about that. And an impressive resume and a member of the armed services specifically the navy for 35 years and he's been active in the community as well with several boards and also a Korean War memorial Veterans honor guard so the exact dined kind of individual that we want up there being involved so we do appreciate that. Any questions that members of council have or want to add? Mr. Yoder: I'm sorry Shawn isn't here, I would just say thank you for his service and thank you for stepping up to serve on this commission. This park is amazing. This is one of the I think greatest things that the city has is this commission this park to honor our Veteran service members if you have never been there, please go. Put a plug in for their service and the Memorial Day service on Saturday. I think at 11:00. Right? Please go. It is awesome. It's beautiful. The appointment was carried with seven yes roll call votes. The vote was 7 to 0. All were in favor. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. Bil Ordinance Amending, Article 521 & Article 522 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Williamsport (final reading) The City Clerk read the ordinance in final reading. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second . Mr. Mackey made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Milliken. Mr. |Beiter: This is final reading so this was something we already discussed before prior council meeting. Anything that anybody would like to add? Seeing and hearing none, Mrs. Frank. The ordinance in final reading was carried with seven yes roll call votes. The vote was 7 to 0. All were in favor. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. Ordinance of the City of Williamsport Amending Article 753 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Williamsport, known as the City of Williamsport Curfew Ordinance, to Modify the Curfew Hours Applicable to Minors & to Modify Curtain Penalties The City Clerk read the ordinance in first reading. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Pulizzi made the motion and it was Chief So as you are aware, this Ordinance is to lower the time from 11:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. And (clearing throat) raise the fines from 25 to 100. I'm sorry. (clearing throat) From 50 to 300 and from 500 would be the max. ( We had a lot of discussion on this and some good points were brought up. Obviously diversion is the goal. Because assessing fines that's not the goal. And I think there's a mis misconception the police department is going to go out and look for children walking the streets and that's what we will put our whole focus on. This is for a niche group of kids out causing problems. This isn't for kids who are going from and to work or coming from a community event and there's actually exceptions in the Ordinance that goes over that. Community service, we can't just set a community service there has to be some sort of monetary fine, if a kid didn't pay if it's set at community a community service fine and there's no monetary value what's that worth? How does the judge say okay you didn't complete this or show up, now what? If you didn't do community service, you would have to do the fine. As I said, with parents, I could not find a citation where we issued parents a separate citation because of children. And obviously if you cite a 14-year-old for curfew they are not going to have money they don't have a job. And now, a 17-year-old out causing problems yeah, they have money and if necessary, they have to pay a fine but community service is always what we would like to do. In a diversion program, absolutely. It's just that needs to be in place. This is just something we can do and it gives a more teeth to the Ordinance. We proposed in the community of the whole. Some people said 10:00. Some people said 9:00 during school. That's great too. It's just something is better than nothing. There's many we talked to jurisdictions around and everybody bases it off us. If we go to lower ours the other municipalities said they will intend to try to lower theirs as well. So questions? Mr. Beiter Thank you very much for that. So this was discussed at length at the committee of the whole meeting. Is there anything that member s of council would like to add to the Chief's comments or bring up here at the general meeting? Dr. Yoder. Mr. Yoder: I'll start. I appreciate the ow you carrying the weight on Tuesday, I wasn't able to make it. And a few thoughts. I think first and foremost, so Chief you mentioned about some other things in here to be clear. You referenced about carve outs for people that are working, et cetera: In the Ordinance that is in place. This is not changing that. secondarily, most importantly, there is a item in this Ordinance that regardless of where this goes, I think the administration really needs to hit article 10. There's annual review of this and whether this gets modified, voted down, what have you, regardless, that annual review process really needs to start happening. That's one of the maybe tools that we have at our disposal to sift through on annual basis what is happening, the are the knawel types we are doing working? If the change is made tonight s that working? Do we need to scale it back? Change it, et cetera? Per my notes I don't know that review happened in probably 10 to 15 years. That's probably something we should definitely start doing. So something to get out there on the record. i'll thank the individuals that came to speak on this. You know, brought up lot of really good points. Most of which I agree with. Individually for me, I remain he has hesitant on how this is written today. I'm worried about penalizing a majority of the kids out there that are law abiding and not causing b trouble. And maybe this helps them creep into being trouble, right? I'm worried about kids that I think are there are more of that are not causing trouble compared to those that are causing trouble that are probably out because they don't have anywhere else to go. And I worry about the negative ramification this could have on them as well. I'm open to the group, forgive me I don't remember your name of a compromise of 10:00 p.m., for example, Councilman Mackey your concept of 9:00 p.m. in the school year and leave at 11:00. I'm open to that as well. And 9:00 p.m. is too much for me individually. And Frankly with the fine piece, it's too much for me too. And aisle willing to scale it back or keep as is. Notably in? The goal is community service for the people that are that are violating this that get into the system, Frankly, some monetary fine is fine to do that, right? I'll throw that out there to get the conversation started. That's where I'm at. I'm willing to compromise but keep it as is and see where we go from here. I appreciate the offer for partnership. I think we need to be doing more of that. I wouldn't stop with them. I think we really need to be trying to partner with other organizations in the city to try to ensure that our youth have other places to go. And I'm not sitting here advocating that we bring on more recreation programs or that thing but we can help other organizations do that in a way. Maybe partnering on opportunities and those types of things that don't expand our operations. And kind of hurt us and a lot of the financial things we are continuing to work through but position other community stakeholders to help other pockets of our community. So I think a number of organizations probably have a lot more better handle on individual places in our community than what some of us do. And I think that's a valuable asset we should take advantage of. To kick us off, that's where I am at. Mr. Beiter: Thank you very much. Liz Miele. Ms. Miele Thank you. Actually, first, Ms. Martin. The diversion approach that Jon Ped [sounds like] recommended as a potential resource for the in curfew violation instances is that something that you feel is ready to go? Okay, in that case, I think my -- I mean, if I didn't make it obvious on Tuesday's meeting and perhaps I didn't both as a parent of young children and as a child myself in Williamsport, 30-some years ago who has always been a night owl and likes to be out and about in the evenings I have a problem with curtailing our children to activity outside during day light hours, especially now when I feel as though forcing kids inside is basically force forcing them onto their phones or into watching TV or doing things that probably aren't as good for them as being out and seeing their friends. That said, I understand the public safety issue that we are experiencing in Williamsport. And I think while I'm not and won't ever be comfortable with a 9:00 p.m. curfew I still struggle with the idea of a 10:00 p.m. curfew I'm obviously comfortable with the 11:00 p.m. that we have in place and I think that we should perhaps take a few weeks work with Jon, maybe work with other community organizations and try to insert something into this Ordinance that allows for diversion to community partners and then revisit the Ordinance in a couple weeks. Frankly, if while working with community partners we come to an agreement that 10:00 p.m. is the proper time for a curfew, then I feel more comfortable with that if we had spoken to members of the community and especially to, um, people like Ms. Montgomery and Martin who interact with the community of children in our care here in in the city. And they think that's a reasonable option, I feel more confident, my kids are little yet. I don't have a lot of interaction with teenagers and I'm assuming primarily that's what we are discussing when talking about minors being out late and creating -- my 8-year-old is usually not out without me after 9:00 (Laughter). So I respect the input of people in the community who routinely spend a lot of time with teenagers and know what would be good for them. As far as the fines go, I would hate to see us ruining somebody's life over a couple fines and I think that's a very real possibility with a Ordinance like this so I would be much happier with this Ordinance if it had built into it a concept that requires accountability, that requires sacrifices isn't quite the right term but input and effort from the minor in question. And doesn't require them to make a financial contribution. Also because I think Frankly, Chief, and it's a minor point but to the extent that we can -- that we can ask other community organizations to partner with this on that, I think it actually takes less staff time on the part of the city to oversee that. And I think chasing down fines is going to cost us more money than we will ever make on it, obviously. So an accountability program that lies outside of us is likely to serve us both fiscally and in terms of getting the effect that we are looking for. But I don't think that it should take all that long, correct me if I'm wrong, Austin, to draft an Ordinance that incorporating those elements and bring it back to council for approval. Mr. White It's just a matter of telling the solicitors office what you want in the Ordinance and we will put it in there Ms. Miele: There's nothing in terms of possibly referencing outside community organizations or anything like that? I'm assuming there's m some vetting that needs to happen. The best thing you could do is logistically, get an outline of what you want to do and then communicate with me or Nick and then we can write -- we can write something up to implement it. I don't know exactly how it would look, it would depend on what you want to do. An Ordinance it's applied as its written. So we would write it as clearly as we could to achieve the goals you want to achieve Ms. Miele: Okay, my request would be once we pass a revised curfew Ordinance, assuming that takes place in a couple weeks as Adam stated we come back and review that at the end of the summer. I think what we are looking at primarily is we are hoping to give the police greater control over public safety in the summer time hours. And I would be interested to see how many calls we had, how many citations we had. How many children were passed through to another program for diversion and what success we felt like we had there. And I would Frankly like to find out about it sooner than later because if we wait a year, we will be like what Ordinance? I think if we review it and the impact and see ways that we could improve things after the summer time is over then we could have it in place so we are not rushing to make changes to it before next summer. So that we are not catching the community kind of on the fly there either. Okay. That's it, Eric, I think I'm done Mr. Beiter sounds like you are ready to make a motion. Ms. Miele made the motion to table, Mr. Yoder seconded it. . The ordinance was tabled with seven yes roll call votes. The vote was 7 to 0. All were in favor. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted Mr. Beiter: And thanks to the community that came out and speak and the opportunities that you are going to give us to have more conversation about this. We greatly appreciate it. We will move to item 9, please. Ms. Miele: Eric, a couple more things. To the members of the Jump who are here as well as Ms. Montgomery, if you have additional input to provide to the police, I would highly recommend you provide contact information to the police. Mr. Yoder: And drop those studies off to the city clerk, please. Ms. Miele: And oh, -- okay. On the floor there? Thank you very much for coming and we apologize for not having taken your input but please also share that information. Bill# Ordinance Amending Article 902 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Williamsport Relating to Brick Paved Streets & Removing Certain Streets from those to be preserved under the Ordinance (first reading The City Clerk read the ordinance in final reading. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Mackey made the motion and it was seconded by Mr. Pulizzi. Mr. Beiter: So what this is an Ordinance to remove several streets and sections of streets from the codified Ordinances Mrs. Frank said from the Brick streets protection, if you will. the streets are beaver street and Oliver street and West Fourth Street intersection by Bowman Field and memorial park at the there there's three streets that come together in a bit of a y-or a k-intersection. The other is first street between Campbell and walnut street and then Wayne avenue between West Fourth Street and hillside avenue. And that's runs on the east side of Jackson primary school. We talked about this at the committee meeting on Tuesday. Very understandable reasons for two of those brick streets, number 1 being the one by Jackson primary school with buss and plows in the wintertime and making sure it's salted and snow run off in the daytime and it freezes at night and we don't want anybody to slip and fall when trying to cross the street there and obviously the bricks create a trip hazards for kids trying to go back and forth and also people picking them up from school. Then first street between Campbell and walnut street, that has a lot of industrial traffic that goes down back and forth down behind where Wawa and Chick-fil-A is at presently. There's a couple things down there and Stamen's has an entry way to the West side of their facility as well. Am I missing anything there? Mr. Scott No, you pretty much covered it and I'll add the cost estimate to reconstruct that section of Fourth Street is almost 1/2 million dollar if you want to set them in kind and remove them and it's expensive. Versus the concept to overcover with us a fault is 100,000 so it's like a 400,000 difference to rebuild the brick streets to rebuild that. And you saw the conditions of that one it's sunk in and rough to ride. Mr. Beiter: A curiosity question from a rebuild standpoint specifically there on first street. How does that get done? They pick those bricks up and have to regrade that and put everything down before they put the asphalt down? You have to remove it all and it's about the sub base and there's a the issue. And it's hand labor to lay each brick by break it's the on a mortar and labor insensitive Mr. Beiter: What's the plan for the bricks once they get pulled? I say this in seriousness because the Rural avenue and top of 5th avenue they need attention and those bricks could potentially be reused when the reconstruction of that street is eventually done. Mr. Scott> Yes, that's right. When there's utility cuts on some of these streets instead of putting asphalt in a brick street we need a brick to put back in so we could use them there as well. But we store them. Mr. Beiter : I hear Councilman Mackey would like a few. Ms. Miele: He always gets the floor before me. Mr. Beiter : He does. (Laughter). The last thing I will say regarding this Ordinance is the section at beaver street and Oliver street and West Fourth Street. Personally I see no particular reason why we would talk take that off if you would have a reason to share with me, I would appreciate it because I would be in favor of removing that from this change in Ordinance right now. That was my initial hunch, it looks great there, right in the brick at the entrance to the park looks nice but there's a trenching section done there at some point and sunk and maybe a trench we could do instead of the whole thing it's rough in there as well but that's why because of the construction costs. Why we were considering it. Mr. Beiter: Okay. Liz Miele. Ms. Miele: I thought we were giving Jon the floor. Mr. Beiter: No, he just wanted the bricks. Ms. Miele: No, I was going to say so we will take those bricks up? We won't just overlay with asphalt on first street and Wayne Avenue? We would overlay. And we do a base repair in the sunken areas that's batted you you repair those but the other you overlay Ms. Miele: I have seen the road get paved a couple times and there's brick under there. That's why it's less costly Ms. Miele: And the folks I knew concerned about the brick street they asked if they were going to take them up. No, they'll be under there. And they were like oh, well, we could take the asphalt off. And the push back I got because brick is not well suited a as industrial street and not ideal by a elementary school, most of the push back I heard was the beaver intersection. So I would too would sport pulling that off the list. And otherwise aside from a certain nostalgic attachment by the Ordinance passed by Randy, no one sees to preserve the street fit which utility is heavily effected by the fact they are brick. I would ask you a question. If we were to spent 1/2 million dollars to rebuild first street, how long do you think it would be before we had to do work on it again? Way after we are gone. It will last a long time. It's taken 100 years to get it to where it is now. Those streets last but it's costly to do it Ms. Miele: So if we laid down asphalt for $70,000 how long until we have to redo that? About the 20 years Ms. Miele: So we got 20 years versus 100. So I guess the only point I'm making is you are basically cost neutral there at best. 1/2 million bucks for one and probably 1/2 million by the time you repave it over the next 100 years but that doesn't mean we have the 1/2 million. And I'm sure the businesses down there would be more pleased with an asphalt street than brick at this point in their vicinity. I can -- I think I can -- if we could agree to amend the amendment by pulling that intersection at memorial park off. Mr. Beiter: Once everybody does what they need to, I was going to make that. Ms. Miele: That's what I got. Mr. Yoder: I'm on board with that. The only thing I was going to add, and I know we are not really debating this right now. But section by Jackson. We got an email, and there was some email issues this week, so we may not have gotten an email. I just got it. But I'm somebody in I appreciate our brick streets. But professionally, I work with kids with disabilities. We got an email from Williamsport school district citing ADA concerns with that the brick streets posed by Jackson elementary. That helped give context for me that it is it can be an accessibility issue for pedestrians and young kids. And otherwise abled people. So that's the only thing I wanted to add. Mr. Beiter: Thank you very much for that. Well, could the same argument not be made for the beaver street intersection as one of the main thorough fairs that people cross to get to the park? could that not be an accessibility issue as well? As somebody who takes their kid to Williamsport middle school every day for the last three years I hit that street going and coming back and that's exactly what Mr. Scott Livermore said. They are a pain to take care of. It's very expensive. I get it looks nice. Sure. Until you drive on it every single day for an entire school year. Or try to get your wheelchair across it. Sure. So, you know, look, I don't hate history, despite what most people might think but I do hate history for the sake of history. Honestly, I would like to know and it's in the original Ordinance why rural avenue? Why that little section of 5th avenue? Why first? Why were these the streets that someone decided were if the whole city was brick streets why those? That would be -- Ms. Miele: If I had to take a running guess because those were the runs that were left because this Ordinance was passed within I think it was pass within my lifetime so most of the streets were paved. Or possibly the people who lived on those streets thought for some reason their property value may be impacted if they were paved. So they talked to some people and we got an Ordinance passed and now we got these brick streets we have to take care of. Mr. Beiter: If we may, I think if we truly want to know, Jon at the end of tonight's meeting I'm guessing Mr. Hoffman could tell us why. Maybe Bruce can tell us why those particular sections of Williamsport were picked as places to still have bricked streets? I would be curious seeing who the people pushing the Ordinance in 1990 were where they lived Ms. Miele: (off microphone) was the primary author of it. And I think he was just a man -- he was also the man who created and drafted and the historic district. And one of the people involved in creating the historic district. And he was definitely the guy who drafted the historical architecture review board Ordinance. He was very passionate about preserving Williamsport history. And I think he's to be saluted for that. But by the same token -- when you drive across that section of brick street every day, Jon, do you slow down? Mr. Mackey: Do I slow down? I don't drive that fast to begin with. Ms. Miele: The one way I think from the brick streets from a modern perspective is by and large we drive a little too fast. And not necessarily you, I don't speak about you. Mr. Mackey: So we got five intersections that are safe in Williamsport because of the brick streets? Ms. Miele: it’s then one is by the entrance to the park. Mr. Mackey: I'm saying an argument could be made on both sides. As someone who sports our parks and wants as many people to get there as humanly as possible, maybe we keep this one in and say, all right, rural avenue, fifth avenue, we will leave you alone, for now. but -- something to think about. Ms. Miele: He's got them in his sights, Bruce. The ordinance was passed and amended with five yes roll call votes. The vote was 5 to 2. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted no,, Mr. Mackey voted no, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. Resolution #10067 Resolution Real Estate Reduction – Mirabito Properties 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 Before you tonight is a real estate resolution to reduce for Mirabito at 932 West Third Street. The reason for reduction is because the house was raised Mr. Beiter Straightforward. Questions from members of the council on the real estate reduction? Seeing and hearing none, Mrs. Frank. The resolution was carried with seven yes roll call votes. The vote was 7 to 0. All were in favor. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. Resolution #10068 Resolution Awarding Construction Services for the Shaw Park Pump Track – Phase I Project to Artisan Concrete Services, Inc. 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. Scott. I have a resolution to award the construction services for the Shaw Park pump track, phase 1 to Artisan Concrete Service, artisan does business under the name of artisan Skate parks they do work throughout the country, they are based out of Kitty hawk, North Carolina, and they did many projects with our design consultant a pillar design group and I have Brad from the pillar design group online tonight. This is awarded through a turnkey proposal through a cooperative purchasing program similar to costars and KPN called source well. The contract amount was $650,000. Just a little about the project it's going to be an asphalt high speed pump track they are called and some hills and high bank turns and this will also include the earth work and all the form water management improvements as well. Funding, this is funded through a DCNR grant, county a a funds and our match is through an act 13 funds. Mr. Beiter: Thank you very much, any questions from members of council regarding the pump track? Liz Miele. Ms. Miele: Making sure the amount of act 13 funds we already allocated is going to fit the bill here, and I apologize for not recollecting how much we allocated initially. It's within the scope, good. This is exciting to see this moving forward. Thank you. Mr. Beiter: Mr. Scott, where is this going to be located in the park? Mr. Scott So if you are familiar with Shaw Park it's where the softball field is down in that corner. Out front by the parking lot. Mr. Beiter: Would that creep into that multi-use football slash soccer field in the back? Mr. Scott No, this is out front. And I'll just mention this is phase 1. We want to eventually find more funds grant funds to do a phase 2, could be would be a off roads skills course they are called. Mr. Beiter: Nice. All right. Seeing and hearing nothing else, Mrs. Frank. The resolution was carried with seven yes roll call votes. The vote was 7 to 0. All were in favor. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. Resolution #10069 Resolution Approving an Installation & Maintenance Agreement for Small Flow Treatment Facility 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. White . You have in front of you a resolution to authorize a the installation and maintenance agreement for a knawel flow facility at 3372 Darby run road this is a property unable to tie into the sewer system for the city. So this agreement allows them on the to have a small flow treatment facility on their lot and this is the first step in that process, it requires them to pay a escrow amount for the city for annual inspection, maintenance, this process that was recommended by the city sewer enforcement officer and. The property owner has an engineer who would then be in charge of inspecting it and submitting a design and all that. You are not approving that tonight, all you are doing a approving them to move forward with the agreement. Which then has to go through DEP and the whole regulatory process. Happy to answer any questions you may have. Mr. Beiter: Are there any questions from members of council at this time? Seeing and hearing none, Mrs. Frank. The resolution was carried with seven yes roll call votes. The vote was 7 to 0. All were in favor. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. . Resolution # 10071 Resolution Authorizing a Professional Services Agreement Between the City of Williamsport & Kittelson 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 Ms. Fessler I'm presenting this in the absence of Scott Williams who is spending some time with his family tonight at a concert. So as you all remember the city was awarded a federal grant award for the safe streets for all program of $356,450. Scott peer headed a qualifications based selection process with Bill Scott and Mayor Slaughter. They have five great proposals if rep tubal engineering firms and interviewed the top two and are pleased to ask you to award this to Kittelson associates. They are a transportation and engineering planning consulting firm and they are teaming up with Michael Baker on this project. They will have both of their varying expertise. They have significant experience with this type of project but they also have significant experience with this type of project that's being paid for by this type of funding. Which is equally important to us because they'll appreciate the compliance and the ins and outs of the things we were required to do. Very fight excited to get this planning process started and if you have any questions, I'll do my best. Mr. Beiter: Any questions from members of council? Liz Miele. Ms. Miele: No, just that I've been desperately hoping we would do something like this for a long time and I'm extremely excited to see it under way. Ms. Miele: Thank you to you and to Scott and to Austin for making this a reality. What's the length of time that we are estimating for the planning process? Ms. Fessler That's a really great question. I don't know the answer. Bill Scott, you were on the interviews. I assume, 6 to 8 months? Ms. Fessler 6 to 8 months. It is a lengthy study because it's a really big award so they are able to do a comprehensive study and Bill you can add to this if you want but I know in the interview process they said there's three specific intersections and projects in the city they wanted to create some concepts for specifically. And they were really excited to do that. So I think we are going to get a lot out of this project. Ms. Fessler Yeah, that confusion corner obviously a couple other issues, Mainer street is getting busy with the new businesses and Ballfields and just around the Penn College getting busy around there and the whole city. Even bicycle pedestrian aspects not just vehicles. Ms. Miele: I would assume this planning process will make us -- will give us increased eligibility for grant funding to ameliorate some of these situations? Ms. Fessler Yes, it absolutely will. it will give us a wonderful plan to pursue additional grant funding the other thing that Scott did mention that I think is important to mention is we hear a lot that there's not enough parking downtown. But we think the reality is if someone drives by and they see there's not a spot on the block they want to go to that business they are sometimes not willing to go too much further. One of the things that Kittelson offered was to make the downtown feel more walkable and approachable as part of their study so peel people felt like they didn't have to park immediately in front of the business they want to go to in order to get there. So I think that's a good component of this project Ms. Miele: As passer of that evaluation could we ask them to try to make something that didn't cost millions in the first place and didn't have to be maintained on a 10-year basis? Ms. Fessler > That's the number 1 thing of our department is focused on we brought a lot of planning projects in front of you we don't want to spend money planning something not implementable. So we won't accept a plan. And I think Scott did a good job with the comprehensive parking and rec plan pushing become on implementing things we new knew we would never do. So I think that's critical piece that our department is focusing on with these planning projects is we are not going to let them give us a product that you are not going to approve. Ms. Miele: It's not so much approving, we can approve anything but if we can't afford it, it doesn't matter. Thank you. And as Dave pointed out the part of the plan I failed to look at notes it's a year-long planning process, in fact. Ms. Miele Dave is reading the fine print, thanks, Dave: You can tell he's a newbie. No, he's an engineer. Thanks. The resolution was carried with seven yes roll call votes. The vote was 7 to 0. All were in favor. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. Ms. Fessler> I would just like to say to Councilman Mackey told me once, as someone once told me this week, we can't go from 0 to 100 so I think we start off slow and see where we go from there. > Per the previous resolution we looked at I think that Kittelson will look at this intersection closely when you travel it it's very difficult to look out onto Fourth Street and see what car cans are coming and it's dangerous. So my guess is they are going to recommend or something. Definitely an narrowing and maybe a restructuring of the way that intersection exists. So I think that's in alignment with the decision you just made and perhaps they will make a great recommendation that can help us make that intersection safe for people with ADA needs. Resolution 10073 Resolution Authorizing Professional & Administrative Services Agreement between the City & SEDA-COG The City Clerk read the resolution.. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Mackey made the motion and it was seconded by Dr. Yoder Ms. Fessler You may remember just a few meetings ago I was up here asking you to approve a 2025 professional services agreement with SEDA-COG. Because of the 2025 funding took a little bit longer to get than usual. So we just went through this conversation in this process with SEDA-COG. And council. And at that time, I shared how thrilled we are with Jamie Shrawder and her team that help us through this compliance on this very important but comply it can ad funding source that we rely on heavily in this city. So this contract is identical to the one we looked at a few meetings ago. It's more not to exceed $136500. And again, Jamie is here if you have any questions. >> ERIC BEITER: Any questions from members of council? Seeing and hearing none. Mrs. Frank. The resolution was carried with seven yes roll call votes. The vote was 7 to 0. All were in favor. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. Resolution #10066 Resolution to Approve Fiscal Year 2026 Annual Action Plan for CDBG & HOME Investment Partnership Prog. 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. Ms. Fessler One of the things you see in the professional services agreement in the contract with SEDA-COG is the preparation of our annual action plan and it's close to a 200 page document we are required to provide and submit to HUD every year to let them know the intent of how we will plan spend our funding and Jamie prepares that for us and I'll let her touch on that she since spent so many hours creating that. Jamie > Thank you very much, every year you are required to submit annual action plan to HUD. We go through public hearings to do that to get public participation in the process. You may last year we had to do the 5-year plan so that was even bigger. This year we are back to the standard one-year annual action plan. So the city has selected street reconstruction as they normally do. Pedestrian safety improvements which will be like crosswalk markings and those things. And additional funding for Sorjourner truth ministries that we founded with last year's fund and for the home funding it's the single family acquisition and rehab that you participate in with STEP. Those are the projects. This is ready to go. No public comments have been received. The 30-day comment period is over. So if council is good with is it, we can take action to apply the resolution and there's 14 other pages that the Mayor needs to sign. (Laughter). The resolution was carried with seven yes roll call votes. The vote was 7 to 0. All were in favor. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. Resolution # 10065 Resolution Authorizing a Contribution Agreement Between the City of Williamsport & Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce The City Clerk read the resolution.. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Mr. Pulizzi made the motion and it seconded by Dr. Yoder. Mr. Beiter So what this is a as was said a resolution authorizing a contribution agreement between the City of Williamsport and the Williamsport Chamber of Commerce. One major concern we had from a city perspective is the cost of the Major League Baseball game put on here during the Little League. The Major League Baseball classic is a wonderful as tote the City of Williamsport. We have gotten a lot of publicity out of that game. National publicity that we couldn't begin to imagine how much that cost for us. It is a great commercial for us and also for Little League baseball and for Major League Baseball as well. And it led to great contributions from the state into our asset, which is Bowman Field. As we talked about as our last council meeting, when we were discussing the lights that were going to be put up at Bowman Field there's a Major League Baseball facility in little Williamsport with minor league prices so it's great to have that After having discussion with the chamber and other players involved with the game, the chamber -- the chamber stepped up of which we are grateful for and is willing to give us a contribution to help us cover public safety costs for this particular game. Did I hit everything, Mr. Fink? Thank you. Any questions from council regarding the contribution of the chamber. Mr. Pulizzi Mr. Pulizzi: No question, I want to echo your sentiment for thank you thanking the chamber to step up to contribute to the financial burden. And it's it adds great value and appreciate the exposure, thank you very much. Mr. Mackey : I will third that sentiment. And (Laughter) and Jason, in a -- this is 2 months ago? We had this big sit down over at Little League international in a room full of a lot of money and Chamber of Commerce was the only one to raise your hand to say you were willing to help out the city. So I do appreciate it. Thank you. >> ERIC BEITER: Seeing and hearing nothing else, then, Mrs. Frank. The resolution was carried with seven yes roll call votes. The vote was 7 to 0. All were in favor. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. Resolution #10064 Resolution Authorizing a Lease Agreement between the City of Williamsport & Major League Baseball 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. Beiter : This is an agreement we talked about at length among ourselves, some of us with the administration. Some of us in the room with representatives from Major League Baseball. And other community players such as Little League and chamber. Not much has changed in that agreement. Obviously the chamber is step step stepping up to help with that contribution as we talked about and the biggest change we are going to see from the last year's contract to this year's contract, we requested that major league baseball make this a two year agreement so we didn't have to worry so much about getting it done just before the game if we had any issues, we could address it in a timely manner because it's difficult at times to get the necessary player in the room in a timely manner and Major League Baseball obviously has to make decisions at a larger level with very different -- with baseball teams and in very different areas of the country. So it also helps where for their playing as well. Any questions regarding the contract? Dr. Yoder. Mr. Yoder: Just a quick comment. Piggybacking what Vincent said earlier from going from 0 to 100, this is a good age analogy. We are going from maybe from 0 to 10 here. And that's good progress but I don't want this progress to stop when council is in the position again to vote on another contract I hope we see it go from 10 to 20 to 30 and we see this contract and partnership with the MLB deepen and a lot of great progress happened and I condemned you, Vince, Eric, Jon, we have seen investments from our state partners and our county partners and chamber here. We need to see that happen to keep this game going and ensure it's shared. That the partnership deepens. And that includes MLB too. So I'm hopeful to see that partnership continue to grow. And I'm excited to see MLB coming to the table and deepening their partnership with us. The resolution was carried with seven yes roll call votes. The vote was 7 to 0. All were in favor. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. Resolution #10070 Resolution Meritorious Unit Citation The City Clerk read the resolution.. Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second Dr. Yoder made the motion. Mr. Milliken seconded it. >> ERIC BEITER: We figured we would give you entertainment and have you go last tonight so we know what the fire department does but they probably question what we do. >> We have all the families here as well so they get to see the whole bit this evening, Mrs. Frank do you want to read the resolution or do you want to? Mrs. Frank: I don't have it, Mr. Beiter has it. Mr. Beiter I can read it. So where awarded the Meritorious unit citation for their actions at a structure fire located at the 932 Ray street on September 15, 2025. Where the performance and professionalism of the entire platoon was extraordinary and commendable that rescued a trapped victim and extinguished the fire and maintained their composure during a stressful, fast paced operation. Faced with uncertainty and minimum man power they accomplished the mission with no hesitation. I'll allow you to talk to the members. We'll get to those if you want to finish that, Mr. Beiter: Where platoon D provided coordinated efforts in a grave situation with a successful outcome to preserve life, health, and safety of all individuals and members of the community. Where their teamwork reflects the highest tradition of the Williamsport Bureau of Fire with dignity and pride. Therefore as our meeting assemble this day 14th of May, 2026, Williamsport City Council expresses on the behalf of the citizens of the Williamsport our deepest appreciation and gratitude for their substantial contribution to our community both as citizens and as city firefighters and thank them for their bravery and dedication to protecting citizens of this city. >> Good evening, council President Beiter and vice president Pulizzi and members of council I stand before you to present a unit citation of the D platoon for their actions on September 15, 2025. The professionalism and commitment of D platoon exemplifies of the degree of the Williamsport Bureau Bureau of poof fire and our pride in the platoon that demonstrates the aggressiveness and the commitment to the public that expect the best the best. I will now give you a brief overview of the incident. Station 1 were dispatched at 932 Ray street for smoking of a structure where a person trapped on a second division as 036 hours. The first engine arrived on scene at 0340 confirming dispatch and noticed a flashlight on the second floor north ide side of the structure. After advising incoming units of the presentation presented to them they went to a res crew operation because the victim was in a grave danger and the victim was located as the rest of the incoming units for arriving on scene P the rest of the on duty city complement arrive on the scene at 0342 and a second alarm was called for bringing extra man power from the natural aid department and off duty personnel. Within minutes the person was rescued and the fire was extinguished and units were slowing down. The key take from situation. The engine company continued to situation and without the guidance of an officer and initialized res crew efforts and clear message was to incoming units and accountability was expected to command and everyone knew where they were. And there was no confusion. They were position on the side A of the strung had to split due to man power and this assist with the rescue in getting the attack line in place. Once they had the attack line in place they initialized primary search to search for other victims the second engine company maintained a water supply got the firsthand line in operation and edge ting wished the fire and began performing searches on the second division. Lastly, I would like to say the actions took place within the first 10 minutes of the fire perhaps even less time but we have limited abilities to record time with everything happening on scene. This team performed flawlessly without need direction and only 7 personnel on duty. Residential structure fire like this should have a minimum of 15 personnel on the initial alarm. This is a testament to their training and dedication, commitment to the City of Williamsport. It is my privilege and honor to introduce the crew from D platoon that evening. Guys if you wouldn't mind standing up. Our first award is going to firefighter Bower [sounds like]. Engineer Matt Schwartz, who couldn't be with us this evening, we'll make sure he get his citation and pin. Engineer Brock Rupert [sounds like]. I was just informed they saved cat as well. My apologies. Engineer Cam Arthur. [sounds like]. Engineer now fire cheer, Tracy Harer. Lieutenant Jon Huntinger [sounds like]. Platoon Chief Greg Delaney. They were just awarded the Meritorious unit citation and pin. The Meritorious unit citation is recognition of a group of individuals who have accomplished something exceptional on scene or for the organization. Any team receiving this citation must have performed an act or made practice of going above accepted occupational forma normality. Thank you. Mr. Beiter lot of this country, not just Pennsylvania is in with the age of firefighters becoming more and more specifically and volunteer units is becoming harder and harder to find gentleman with your bravery to step up and serve their communities day in and day out for the their lives and the lives of others. We greatly appreciate it as everybody every body this in this city does. Thank you for that. Anything that anyone from council would like to add? Mr. Pulizzi Thank you so much. Not just for sitting through this whole meeting but everything that you do every day. I got to spend the day with the fire department a couple weeks ago and I was blown away by the pride you have. You all have for what you do. And it's something that will really stick with me. I'm sure there are many stories like what Kenny read today. So I deeply appreciate it. Also, to your families. We don't take this for granted this is a sacrifice and we see it. So thank you. Ma. Miele: I personally was blown away by the speed of the response in Kenny's read statement. It's -- I consider myself fortunate every day and certainly every time I wake up in my house and think, does something smell funny? I live in a city that's protected by a professional fire department and want I know that the people who would show up and show up obviously quickly if anything were to go wrong are men and maybe some day, women, who know what they are doing and who have everything under control. Thank you very much. For your efforts that night and for protecting the city. Dr. Yoder: Just to echo their comments. I truly believe there's there's no greater calling than public service. I think what you and our police the do are at the top of that. You are literally risking your lives and in this case, a prime example of the risk you take every day just coming to work. I'm extremely grateful for every one of you. Those that are recognized today but those that aren't. And your families thank you for the shared risk that you take with your firefighter. I'm equally as grateful that we got a paid fire department a professional fire department in the city. And I'll stick my neck out and say the best one in the state. Thank you, guys. We appreciate it. . The resolution was carried with seven yes roll call votes. The vote was 7 to 0. All were in favor. Dr. Yoder voted yes, Mr. Milliken voted yes, Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. Certificates of Appropriateness - HARB Item 2. Tate Real Estate 829 West Fourth St TABLED See minutes Remove all slate, re-sheet roof. Install Certainteed Carriage House shingles. Colonial slate color Retain existing gutter system Item 3. Jeff Dincher Recommended for approval 508 West Fourth Street A. At second floor front porch replace rotted roof beams and any rotted ceiling joists. Install exterior grade LVL layered between 2x8’s to add strength to the span. Same appearance as original. B. There are damaged porch posts, which are milled on the corners. Repair with new exterior grade wood, to same appearance and size as original. C. Finish deck with tongue & groove. Back priming recommended. Install a rubber membrane over the deck, with proper wall flashing. Rubber will not be visible from the ground. Part of this deck has no roof and is exposed to weather. D. Porch facia is rotted. Remove and replace with one by eights primed. Finish to same appearance as original. E. Prime and paint as needed with same colors as existing. Item 4. Terri & Richard Mutchler Recommended for approval 918 West Fourth Street A. Replace any rotted front porch deck sections with same size as existing pine tongue and grove. Priming the under side of decking and tongues is recommended. Inspection and any needed repair of the porch subfloor is recommended. B. Replace any rotted wood on porch apron areas (lower) with matching wood and trim to same as original appearance. C. Repair damaged lattice to match existing, which is a framed, tight-weave lattice. D. Because of the detailed appearance of the posts, any rotted or damaged post and railing areas are to be repaired. Cutting out rotted sections and piecing with a Ship lap method is recommended. Repairs shall match the original features and appearance. Posts have chamfered edges, railings have turned, thick double level balusters. E. Repaint with same as existing colors Item 5. Saving Grace Recommended for approval 324 Campbell Street A. Replace and replicate two rotted arched wooden entry doors located on Campbell St with new doors, constructed of mahogany wood. Match original doors appearance. B. Paint same color as existing. Item 6. Terri & Richard Mutchler Recommended for approval 956-958 West Third A. Renew painting COA- body- Accessible Beige HGSW2487, trim/Railings- urban bronze HGSW3481, Porch, floors, doors-Evergerrn Fog HGSW9130. B. Tear off existing asphalt roof. Replace sheeting as necessary. Install drip edge, weather shield, flashing, ridge vent and accessories. Install Certinteed Landmark 50 year Architectural shingles. Color: charcoal grays or blacks Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second. certificate of appropriateness from HARB. We got two items on there. We got Tate Real Estate, 829 West Fourth Street. And -- excuse me. There's no two items there's a lot of items. We got 50 West Fourth Street. 918 West Fourth Street. We have 324 Campbell street. And then 956-958 West Third Street, all with the recommendation from HARB to be approved. Do we have any questions -- can I have a motion, please? Dr. Yoder made the motion. Mr. Pulizzi seconded it. Ms. Miele: I'm seeing one item on here that's tabled. Mr. Beiter: I thought it said remove from table. It does say tabled. Ms. Frank: It was tabled at the HARB meeting. Ms. Miele: We voting to accept HARB's recommendation on these items so a vote yes will be that we say that we are moving forward as HARB recommended but I wanted to clarify we are not approving every one of these. Mr. Beiter: Thank you for clarifying that for me. Any other questions from members of council? Seeing and hearing none. Mrs. Frank. The certificate – HARB was carried with six yes roll call votes. The vote was 6 to 0. . Dr. Yoder voted yes, , Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mr. Milliken had left the room. Accept for filing WMWA & WSA Meeting Minutes 02/26 & 03/26 HARB Minutes April 2026 Committee of the Whole Minutes 3/17/26 Mr. Beiter asked for a motion and second to accept these for filing.\ Dr. Yoder made the motion. Mr. Pulizzi seconded it. The minutes were accepted for filing with six yes roll call votes. The vote was 6 to 0. . Dr. Yoder voted yes, , Mr. Mackey voted yes, Mr. Dussinger voted yes, Ms. Miele voted yes, Mr. Pulizzi voted yes, and Mr. Beiter voted yes. Mr. Milliken had left the room. Announcements The next regularly scheduled City Council meeting will be held on Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 7:00 PM, Trade & Transit II 144 West Third St, 3rd floor, Williamsport, PA. Upcoming Meetings: Tuesday, May 19 6:30 PM HARB Wednesday, May 20 10:00 AM Blighted Property Thursday, May 27 10:30 AM Zoning Hearing Board Monday May 25 CITY HALL CLOSED - MEMORIAL DAY Tuesday, May 26 11:30 AM Redevelopment Authority 1:00 PM Committee of the Whole  Thursday, May 28 7:00 PM City Council Meeting Comments: a. Members of the Public b. Council Comments c. Administration d. News Media Adjournment Meeting adjourned upon motion by Mr. Pulizzi and a seconded by Mr. Mackey Meeting adjourned 8:30 PM with unanimous ayes. Submitted by: Janice M. Frank City Clerk