budgets determine who gets what services how much they get new a and i think sometimes what's lost on residents is it's this process by which the township takes  in what it perceives to be the needs and desires of the community it actually turns them into an operational play and for the upcoming year the townships budget is projecting revenues of twenty two million five hundred ninety two thousand dollars and expenditures in excess of twenty seven nine hundred thousand though part of that has to do with the fact that  are have a number of projects that we're going to be undertaking that will either spend down monies that have been set aside for that purpose or the other thing that the budget contains is a commitment  borrow funds to undertake capital projects particularly those associated the development of the rolling hills and the services that the ability of any just the government to achieve the real estate tax levy this year is one point six to two bills there is the projected increase in that tax for the upcoming year earned income tax receipts are actually up this year and in speaking with  significant source of funds for the township is money associated with a d transfer tax and you know part of the idea of that is to be able to have people who do or moving into the community to  grants the help offset some capital expenditures but it is you that we receive transfers from the state of pennsylvania and in the form of liquid fuels tax form fire insurance  be but that is a reflection principally of the fact that we have these large runway construction projects next year in the park but beyond that what you see when you look at terms of the operating expenses this route this relationship of this size of public works to public safety to culture creation percent is public save the if you add in the planing department that brings that number actually do thirty percent and then when you look at the the items under  in the the budget next year thirty percent seventy percent of the budget is made out of capital capital expenditures of those i've listed what i believe to be significant one time expenditures that we would not normally see within our budget there is a critical need for improvements to the emergency communications systems for four  expense for rolling hills drive the construction really drive we have a number of improvements that are scheduled for peters would park including playground improvements and in the shuffler a shelter construction there projects we have been able to acquire funding from other sources that be able to offset some of those costs so you know if you're guarding the traffic signal three hundred eighty three thousand dollars is agree in the state of pennsylvania terms of rolling hills drive there's a contribution from from the school district but in addition to that we are earmarking tact traffic improvement b s that we have collected over percent by a grant which has been a part of the state of pennsylvania and the terms of the leaf vacuum it will see that the vast majority of that money is actually coming out of the state grain and as opposed to the townships funds this will come back to council because will have to be a job description created for that job the principal function of the that position will be as another program being officer with the inside the park and right department but in addition to that we need to have someone in that department as we have done with other departments that can either one become the next park right director that opportunity presented itself or in the they have someone there who can hold the department to gether what we search for a new partner in the interim and like i said i think it was one of the lessons we learned from a couple years ago when we went through that transition with all these the apartment heads and we means that there are other jobs that are getting done and so what we're talking about doing next year is increasing the staffing by by one labor and finally we have a position in the library that is a library assistance see improvements exactly how much does the township's been on a value weighting its effectiveness in different departments and implementing the best and technology one of the one of the exercises that we go through in the direction of council is that when department heads were charged with developing their budgets this year is to take a look at those types of   dollars spent to do that you know one of the approaches that i've always appreciated is the expectation of counsel has been since i've been here is that the biggest bang for the buck or well we're well problem for everyday commuters and i'm just hoping that somewhere in the formula we can find something or relieve some of that traffic congestion i think it will only continue to rise unless we take some  you any money they get is very well spent so thank you is an economic development officer who's doing a presentation in the peter's thousand applied herd and they're here today and to give you an idea of that relationship they're here today to do university of pittsburgh tomorrow and we do presentations and on the agenda for adoption in the first or second meeting in december the reason why they were destroyed tonight is to give you an opportunity to review them if you have questions or concerns with regard to them i would suggest that you you  send contact cheap crimes to speak to those there are two additional policies that we hold to be able to have a final form so that they can be included as a mechanic inside the public works department he's not only skilled it is job but he's devoted to that job he is always there when when the public works department so he's he is going to be missed man also serves as the union steward for for the public works department didn't he he represented the workers there will but at the same time he was somebody that they had the respect of both  plenty commission probably but he harry his most known for in terms of the township is the service he did with regard in support of the library and he was a force with regard to the face of the township program for many years and and that program was successful in raising significant sums of money for support of the library so he is he's truly going to be missed and tenth i attended a council meeting along with a number of other people on our street or we discussed the community option and that we were getting another group benchley challenged people  murrell approached us when we sat down and told us that there's been a solicitor's reported generated about this and we all have been wondering about it but when when we came here i had also told this same landlord and one hundred nine greenbrier drive and it was rumored that the tenant was moving that tenant has moved and the house has been undergoing repairs and it is now for rent we were told the other day that there's a possibility that it is going to be rented as a halfway house a halfway house and it was like a sister people that have alcohol addiction problems drug problems they're getting out of jail that's what i was told i am beside myself i don't know what to do we think we discussed or i understand that but there has to be something there has to be unfortunately ma'am our hands are tied by what the appellate courts say for whatever reason our power courts have given these types of  one of these entities so i i understand that i am aware but the truth of the matter is you know when you look at the case for the case law is clear that any effort we would make to regulate these group homes would  constitutional rights and that's just because no one is ever brought in litigation where you would challenge this and i'm i am certain that our courts never envisioned a situation like this where you have two or three of them on one street or two or three of them in the same neighborhood i mean they take the position that you know you can't keep one key you can't keep one out of a neighborhood you know the fact that the right one moves in and you know you can't keep them out i don't i can't imagine our courts have ever ever contemplated this type of scenario where you have four of them in one neighborhood now put a corporal differently on that you know i don't know but obviously until someone brings it to there when we'll never know and until that decision is made we're stuck with what the law is t option time i mean i just i never could of invasion that this would be what we would be looking at after living here for forty three years it's just disgusting the people who move in to those operatives how to have the responsibility that is different than anyone else when someone moves in just as we would have an expectation to get a notice to you know somebody is moving into a home are no business for them for the purposes of the one who are looking at they are not a business this is not somebody running a business at a location there are maybe a commercial aspect to this which are the caregivers and here we would get the local services tax i don't i can tell you that i can't tell you whether or not you are getting them so they don't come to you for any special permits or anything when there's more than two or three people because they're considered a family even though it's a business and then the other thing is between thought and she is really ridiculous i know when i go to sell my home and i sell it calories to school what happens if there's four and it's a dead end street there's only ten twelve homes and four will be now the real estate disclosure only requires if you disclose any material defects with the property you're selling not the neighborhood there's plenty case law there that says that if someone was murdered in the house next door to you you don't have any all those factors case law that says someone was murdered in the house you're selling you don't have an obligation to disclose acas it's not a defect with the condition of structure so you would have to  mr smith opinion goes to you and implemented regulations that generally apply across all classes of the teens so if you want to something where you were regist exactly what you'd be relying on the landlords actually telling you the truth is to use living and preserving the landlords know i mean i've represented landlords in the past were josiah's the lease and then landlord unexpectedly shows up inspect the property and the people living there scatter crime control it's just not who lives where and what but it also involves and our highway system  i called chief grimes this morning because i was concerned my favorite subject deadfalls this past summer there was an effort made to trim trees and to get to get rid of a lot of dead wood if i can use that term appropriately along our roads and streets and that was very much appreciated i like to see that but i see now that we've got a few more dead falls and unless you take in an eight year old child off a respirator so that they can piece of  succumb because they were crushed by a tree you know what that means to me i don't want to see that kind of an event repeated under any circumstances but i was informed that under the circumstances the utility companies govern when the tree that are engaged with wire ring are taken care of eliminate it down i also pointed out that there was a large regularly accumulated amount of water at the bottom of the hill on thomas road at the border between north and peters township with the cold weather coming that's going to ice up and present a real problem if you're coming down that hill and have to apply the brakes you may well go into a skit and is given to a road system what my feeling is that's a threat to public safety we've got school buses travelling that road as well as any number of commuters i use it more frequently because it saves me from having to go through the cross roads where the traffic is increasing but i'm hoping that something can be done if we could establish a more direct communication line with the utility companies i mean frankly i know mr burke a problem if on december the thirty first there's a big snowstorm and they the cable line to his catastrophe but but i would think that certainly something could be done with the road structure portion of be brought out as it ascends the hill past the public works department also had i think it's been filled in a right adjacent to the road surface that could have easily consumed the tires on an automobile but i'm hoping again that something can be done in the form of public safety in cooperation with the utilities and or state government state maintained roads quotes own quotes to get something done about if not the practical solution may be eminent so is there a means by which township residents can report these events i found out that our police chief is no longer the chief public safety officer that that now belongs in the realm of the fire department talking about roadways you know our street is run off a broken wood and there's a stone creek that goes underneath it one side of it has a guy a guard rail on it and the other one doesn't and i question that with mr sylvester probably five years ago but you know that roadways very deceptive like it you know it's flat and at night and if it snows it's on it's like you can't see a tentative agreement that provides for a five year contract with two damn percent increases in the first three years a two point seven one percent increase in the fourth year of the three percent increase in the fifth year in addition to that employees will be contributing more to their pension in from my perspective the good thing about this is that at that point the funding for this defined contribution plan will mirror the funding that is in the defined benefit plan  the police department which i think will the gate are going forward in any discussion about creating a defined benefit plan for for the firefighters we one of the things in the current contract is that we lack the ability to assign people to jobs based upon skills and abilities we now will have that ability to do that so the people that we train for a function will continue do that function that the firefighters will join the public works and the ministry of employees would have a desire to duck the ball and the next time we're negotiating with the police department will have the bring them in line under the drug you know all see that you just our coverage of the disability program we've never had a a process for scheduling vacations inside of the fire department that's created problems we now have a very prepared by james e lash dated october fourth twenty eighteen hearing on the slimmest need for the most part these are adjustments that are made evenly to adjust for own particularly differences and where salaries have been allocated within a department  the service which allows them to continue to deliver that service and where that is easy they're going some of money if in fact we were right in the in the service we would be on the hope for the entire operation  accountants and ask them to prepare this statement so this statement is coming from their accounts this is not a statement that's been generated by the b m w so for freedom from their perspective i think you can rely upon the numbers that you see here regard i think that's the only thing we should be required to do is to help them achieve those kind things because the alternative is for this become a beautiful service and you really want to avoid it if you can  according to the washing county assessment records we own the property con which the  but again for all the mind we're investing in this if someone decides to break the law and turn left everything grounds to all i've ever see several phone calls from people sitting in traffic so i and that's one thing i wanted to