beginning of july council has met four times to have discussions on on the budget and we're now to a point where we have developed a proposed budgeted for consideration of the community taking action next year where we will known and i think sometimes this is lost on residences and i think it's one of the reasons why we don't see generally a lot of public  other activities such as pointing in management functions and one of the things that our budget does is that as we're developing we reach back to those planes whether they be the comprehensive plan one hundred twenty and the recreation play in the traffic primary source of funding taxes the principle taxes or the real estate tax and the earned income tax in addition to that eight percent of the total revenue comes from the transfer park and addition kind of unique peter's found chip we also have community organizations who are willing to step up and make donations that have projects done so one of the sources of funding for next year is that a dissipated  contribution from the soccer association in the order of three hundred thousand dollars to help with the cost of a concession stand a restaurant of all the topics that have been out there that are bit of most concern to residents of peter's found it has been that associated with the property tax reassessment just last week we got in the certified values for her peters township and what this number represents this three billion one hundred eight million is the county's determination as to what the value of a property collectively was found on july first two thousand and fifteen the aggregate assessment for all of washington county is seventeen billion three hundred forty six million and what's interesting about that is that peter's township accounts for seventeen point nine percent of the total assessed value of zero zero all of washington county and this actually is a decrease from the  prior assessment where the township contributed twenty point nine percent of the assessed value which means that collectively in peter's township the taxpayers  are will be paid less county taxes that doesn't mean that any individual won't be paying more but as an aggregate the township will be fine being a smaller share of county that what the bill it is and when you multiply those two numbers together you get the total tax levy for the community state law requires that when you have a reassessment that they're not a tax windfall seventy so what that means or we have taken that to me is that we want to set the rate at a number that will generate what we would have expected under the prior system so that includes the value of properties built in two thousand and sixteen and determining what those revenues will be first two thousand and seventy so what is being proposed right now is that the property tax millage be set at one point five to two mills and this would generate about four million four hundred ninety six thousand dollars and in two thousand and sevent n the the that they need to keep in mind in i'm going to talk about this a little bit later is that there will be assessment appeals and particularly commercial assessment appeals which will have any impact on on this aggregate number and what no one knows at this point is what the how combination fire department we have is not as common way to provide service as volunteer fire departments of the that money being spent there is is something where we do that is  in terms of capital projects as you might expect the large portion of the capital projects are spent by the public works department we have a very significant road paving program scheduled for next year in addition to that we have a very early aggressive  program that deals with storm sewers and storm water management beset with these the in the public safety department that million dollars that that is primarily represents the money will be spent next year on the aerial  money set aside to develop a master play in or for so you know as i said you know a big part of our budget has to do we have salaries and wages of individuals who work for the municipality one of the things that is true now is that the leadership transition that we've been going through for the last fourteen or fifteen months is now complete and and not only are those department head positions in place but also there were a number of going through this transition one of the things that became obvious was that there were a number of outstanding human resources questions that need to be addressed and one of the things that the budget contains is funding to be able to hire a consult minister that position is funded for a happy new year we will be coming back to council if in fact it is included in the budget with the job description that the strives and detail exactly the responsibility for that position we all know that number of the procedures and processes inside the park have not been looked at for some time i think this is an excellent opportunity to begin that process and take a a comprehensive walk at how that department  being administered the other thing that is in the budget request the bronzes additional funding for police training i think one of the things that we that came out of our tradition process and also in discussions with c on storm sewer improvements this is a higher number than what we had have normally done but we have some unique projects out there that are also expensive products and we hope to be able to accomplish at least one of those next year i on the operating expenses in the library will see a million dollars so looking forward and we in council is seeing this chart on a number of occasions and every will not get done and there we changes in the budget that will actually result in savings but but having said that we should all be concerned and we will be will be  budget with that concern in two thousand and fifty you actually had a situation where expenditures did exceed revenues at the end of the year what you see in two thousand and sixteen that  gap has to do with the money paid for and so for the most it's going to be very close when when we get done we have taken on in two thousand and seventeen certain  expenditures that we will we will in fact to pay and we have not increased the revenues to address those in principle that is the debt service pay but associated with the acquisition  of the former rolling hills can prevail so you know it my opinion in two thousand there will need to be a property tax increase the size of that increase is going to be depended upon a bunch of things one is all be the aggregate reduction in the assessed value of the township after the appeals and we'll know some of that next year i think we will have a really good handle on what our supposed year is but some of those for or raise funds associated with the debt service for the two thousand and sixteen bond issue and finally there is a cost associated with the the maintenance of  and we're going to have to look at that and address that once we make a determination of exactly how we intend to develop and maintain that property yes but the the the thing that you should understand about your library and we all take pride in that library you have a library that it's unique in its completeness and the literary observ pennsylvania as well as from the county but next year we will transfer seven hundred seventy five thousand dollars from the general on to the library fund to cover the expenses associated with that and the the state money and the county money or a small and when delaying source of revenue insurance company and whatever that is they will accept so if you haven't met your deductible yet this year and they bill or early they will cover the full cost if you have met your deductible they will b actually one we attempted to avoid that by informing people that we have back do that and in my understanding and i have to go check this the to be sure but at one point i we asked that question and my understanding is they don't except two thousand and seventeen receipts and that's was close to be a conservative number that number will is it is what we're asked estimating the receipts for this year years is that turning them tax receipts have actually declined in or in this case this year flattened out and we believe that to be a direct result of a downturn in the oil and gas industry collector for both the school district in the municipality as above and then so and that needs to be changed because that's no longer the case so that that information historically has shown the receipts for both the naches the receipts for things that are forwarded improperly so you know the word residence with residence you know loud screaming and yelling but this weekend took the cake so on saturday the one of the patients attacked patients you could hear damage to the house  numerous screams numerous yells there was no peace that day the police came the ambulance came police sent several hours there which i don't think was the best way for them to spend their saturdays not patrolling the neighborhood and then on sunday i was going to play the recording but i don't think it's right to do that so i'm not going to although i did copy to mr l and i sent a copy and then on sunday i was out in the yard setting up decorations of course same thing all over again  i mean i'm not talking about someone screaming in your house or something i'm talking about screaming in the neighborhood and how when you and after five hours of this i just had it had enough so i chose to call police again and they came and spent several hours there again and each time they take certain individual way they bring her back that evening or the next day and it's the same process all over again and although i can honestly say it's not every day but there's quite a few days it being winter with my windows closed and their windows closed and i live across the street next door i can hear and  few more to come tonight and i tore some not to because we have been handling this with our but you know if it were me making these noises and screaming and yelling and doing the things that this person is doing i'm sure i would receive a citation going to start the piece i do not know how many citations were handed out to the community options i doubt if any which you know that main concern is who is protecting us the neighbors we realize the police in the first responders being there or to interact with with the but the police aren't always there the you know the the one when the police did arrive the workers were laughing outside saying oh about again i thought it was funny is a repeat of that staying at this house has been screened properly we do we don't have any problems with the other patients there none whatsoever we welcome the community race religion disability extent we would prefer that the police be shut down for ninety days so that they can come back and present mr law with a plan to keep the peace and the that they have a scream scream them there are people who are merely babysitters they're not they're not there to help them they're just there to watch them and they don't do a great job of it control whether or not a license is issued or a license is revote one of the requirements under the regulations is that operators for any type of responders come to their facility one of the things that that will be forwarded to the operator because i don't know that the director necessarily gets those and also to the department of human services to the understand what's happening there the other thing that i think probably makes sense to do with this point in time is the the operator and the department of human services and the rich and the neighbors all in a room at the same time facilitate a beating so that everyone's hearing the same thing i don't think  happening now there is excessive home one of the things that i was talking to john about for the media in these is there a way for the township to take action against the property owner for these violations i don't know whether that's possible or not what makes it difficult if you're dealing with a person who has the capacity and it has told us of a number of occasions that makes it very difficult for his officers to take action against the it away and brought it back but that doesn't solve the problem and so you know at this point i will you know one of the things that i was suggesting today is that the reason why i want to meet with with me and others from the neighbor need to be actively engaged with the department of human services because that's where they can get really and i think the township could help facilitate that but i think it means more coming from the neighbors than it's going to be even coming from the operator community options that this is an individual they have a history with this is someone that they have experience with which tells me that this individual may well have been in one of their other facilities and has been moved to this location and i can only use uhm that that they've been moved because they think somehow they will fit in better here the media the more the we're having is actually about  the second home that will be open and when the director of community options spoke to me the reason why they want to meet is because we've insisted that that they be before the sale of these homes that are births responders know how to react to the person who's there with her when she describes that this person has a history of disruptive behavior i don't know that that providing here are you adequately trained to deal with the behavioral pattern of this particular person and so one way or the other the operator of the home it seems to protect the safety of the citizenry so we need to figure out how to get that done in this case but second as as mr ting reported if the police and the responders are there all the time that burden on a drawing resources from the township that's really excessive and is there any kind of resource or return that we get for something like that meaning as he said if they're over there they're not a traffic signal of the intersection of gallon water the incredible as you recall in the last meeting there was discussion is whether or not to allow for a merge to occupied the structure prior to the  but i requires primrose do post a bond in one hundred percent of the ten percent of the value of the traffic signal to be constructed that they be permitted to occupy the building if in fact  remains fifty dollars what it does do is increase the amount that will be due if you fail to pay within ten days to twenty five it all of it affects not danger to the public as a result of following on to communications or electric lines or falling into the right of way and as if you're more than a hundred feet away from home right now we have new jurisdiction that they have the street removed this will give us the think you would agree that at this point in time the township need not take action on these what is noteworthy go is that if you look at all of these are these decisions or no change on commercial the police reports in the observer that there is nothing in the observer anymore from peter's two hundred year old that is all the bend the ball that we have not done anything to change your policy with releasing that information normally that takes a hours and so so what the public works department has been doing because there is supposedly a limitation what will take is still take what it is you know we've agreed to do under the program and all that does is cause that homeowner cases are repeat homes that we're going to where there are huge quantities of this and you're having people tied up for hours doing that you're losing the equivalent of one public works person to just we have this subscription service for leave collection we need to do something where you're entitled to you know one hour of service cause but beyond that you pay a  have this done because it doesn't make sense to devote those kind of resources at that kind of range to a limited number of people trees that we have i think what's happened some people were trees in the townships being expected to come and remove that fell tree which we can do now since will be a nuisance and like they say their solution is we're really taking this much and what that causes the resident to do is the come back next time