March 15, 2010

The regular monthly meeting of the Mahoning Township Supervisors was held this evening at the Township Municipal Building at 5:30 PM.

Members of the Board present:

            Christine DeLong, Chairperson

            Ron Miller, Vice-Chairman

            William Earlston, Supervisor

Also attending were:

            Dave Shope, Police Chief                     Lloyd Craig MTSD                 

            Rick Shoch, Solicitor                            Gina Morton, Daily Item                                               Dean VonBlohn, ZO/UCC                      John Eric, Press Enterprise

            Dave Barron                                         Leslie Young, MTFD

            Todd Gibson, MTFD                           Andy Stamey, MTFD

            Shirley Draugelis, Auditor                     Bob Casner, Auditor

            Althea Wertman, Auditor                     

Executive sessions were held prior to this evening’s meeting on March 9, 2010 and March 15, 2010 both for personnel matters.

FIRE TRUCK BIDS:  Set to be opened at 5:30 PM, however, no bids were received.

PUBLIC COMMENT

AUDITORS:  Robert Casner, Chairman of the elected auditor committee advised that a spot audit was conducted in February of the Tax Collector bookwork for 2009, and everything was found to be in order.  Next audit review is set for April 13, 2010 with the Zoning Officer.

MINUTES & TREASURER’S REPORT:  Minutes of the previous meeting of February 8, 2010 were approved with one alteration; the bid prices for paving material submitted by HRI should read as follows:

9.5 MM           54.45

19 MM            45.80

25 MM            42.80

With this correction motion was made by Mr. Miller, second Mr. Earlston to accept.  Treasurer’s Report for the month of February 2010 was accepted by motion of Mr. Miller, second Mr. Earlston.

DEPARTMENT REPORTS

SOLICITOR:  GMC SIGN AGREEMENT:  Letter agreement between the township and Geisinger, spells out maintenance and repair of the signage on PowderMill and Red Lane, motion in favor Mr. Earlston, second Mr. Miller.

ZONING/UCC:  Mr. VonBlohn presented his report. 

POLICE DEPARTMENT:  February monthly report submitted.

STREET DEPARTMENT:  Report was submitted at workshop this morning.  Items requiring action were:

REITERATE SALT PURCHASE:  The Board motion Mr. Miller second Mr. Earlston agreed to join the CoStars Cooperative purchase for salt.

SPRING PAVING BIDS:  The secretary was instructed to advise based on the quote supplied by Penn Dot Municipal Services Representative with bid opening at the next regular workshop, April 19, and to be considered for award that evening at meeting, all bids to be received by 4:00 PM Friday, April 16, 2010.  Mr. Miller motioned in favor, Mr. Earlston seconded.

STREET SWEEPING scheduled to begin the week of April 12^th.

TRAFFIC LIGHT AGREEMENTS: The Board, by motion of Mr. Earlston, second Mr. Miller , agreed to use Kuharchik as our primary traffic light contractor and TRA of Watsontown as the secondary vendor.

ENGINEER: March report presented, action was required by the Board on the following project:

MARIA JOSEPH MANOR:  Instruct solicitor to address letters to those businesses in the Industrial Development, which are potentially contributing to additional run off into the Meadows, motion in favor Mr. Earlston,  second Mr. Miller.

FIRE DEPARTMENT: Fire Chief Gibson read the February report and requested the following:

RE-BID TRUCK SALE:   the Board allowed the fire company to re-bid sale of the engine, by motion of Mr. Earlston, second Mr. Miller.

OPEN BURNING EXCEPTION:  Mr. Miller, motioned, Mr. Earlston seconded an exception to the open burning ordinance to allow the Fire Company training time, providing the Fire Company advise all prior to the training the date and time the training will be conducted.

The Chief further thanked those who did, and reminded all, to help keep hydrants cleared from snow and other debris and plantings.

OLD BUSINESS

DUMPSTER DAY:  Set for Saturday, April 17, 2010 7AM until noon, two load limit.

CHIEF& PATROLMAN APPLICATIONS:  With the recent announcement of the current Chief’s retirement, the Board by motion of Mr. Miller, second Mr. Earlston instructed the secretary to advertise for a patrolman’s position and opened the office of Chief to anyone in the department, who would be interested

NEW BUSINESS

EXONERATION: Request from Statewide for Matthew Tanner, who shows proof of being a student was approved, as was that of Erica Shoop with proof of non-residency, motion in favor Mr. Miller, second Mr. Earlston.

2009 AUDIT:  Conducted by the Independent auditing firm of Forgett & Kerstetter has been completed and sent to DCED, same is available upon request.

ADMIRE ESCROW FUNDS:  Funds deposited for this project are now being requested returned as the project is complete according to the developer.  However, Mr. VonBlohn advised that the project is not yet 100% complete, as he has outstanding inspections and repairs to be made to Villa Street, therefore, the Board did not act on closing the account.

CATV FRANCHISE AGREEMENT:  Renewed for five years under the same terms and conditions as past agreements to run until February of 2015, motion in favor Mr. Miller, second Mr. Earlston.

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US CENSUS:  The Board reminded everyone to fill out the 2010 Census forms, so that everyone can be counted.

Mr. Miller motioned in favor of authorizing and approving the payrolls and bills for March, 2009 and also to adjourn, Mr. Earlston seconded.