my name is jack missed guess to go to spring go around i would like to thank the seventeen point four percent of people the one thousand one hundred twenty seven people who would not allow themselves to be intimidated and came to the polls and voted yes for the referendum i'd also like to congratulate state college for for passing to for the only community in the state of pennsylvania that passed their referendum to ban gas drilling with a seventy two point four three percent vote yes otherwise i have nothing further else run book say fifty five be bout run a couple of comments the election was last week i think it's time to get beyond this as an issue and resentment won't work and won't prove beneficial to anybody in my estimation what i would like to do is acknowledge the fact that the marsh solid shell awareness group did a fine job in a  democratic approach to dealing with this issue the fact that they were able to organize put on various functions come up with  a a referendum get a deal on the ballot i thought was a supporter of action involving what i call democratic values some of you may wonder why i don't stand for the pledge of allegiance well it's simply there's a lot of a lot of the of the pledge of allegiance that seems to be out of phase with the way washington d c works today but i would like to say that i'm very proud of the people of peter's township in the way that they turned out for the election a lot of people demonstrated to me the courage that it takes to be good americans so thank you one other thing last week at the budget meeting i brought up the idea of using the ball fields to park vehicles over the winter months that was really a a softball because i realized that you can't park them on the field however i was hoping that somebody was going to come up with suggestion that we use the parking lots they sat there for six months of the year the only thing they collect is snow perhaps we ought to give the idea of making them profitable thus being able to offset some of our taxes are reasonable chuck thank you and anyone else came out of that meeting on the twenty sixth i thought was it were a number of questions and in this report attempts to answer those terms of the scope of the project what we have heard of staff was that  soccer association interest in this project is on the turf in the field and what we also heard from council was that if the field was to be turf we wanted to maximize the amount of abuse each byte light in the given that soccer doesn't see that as beneficial to their operation and at the same time it doesn't make sense for us from what we're hearing from council to turf the field to them l i have a typographical error in the report it says that the cost of inflation of lights is three hundred fifty yet should be two hundred fifteen thousand dollars so that that number is still there we've asked the  estimates that the construction of the field will be somewhere between one million one and one million two so the combined cost of this project is is about one million four  act as a last meeting did not have an indication yet from the soccer association to what extent that they were willing to participate you will find in your in your information and a letter from the soccer association indicating that if in fact part of the project was turfing the field that they are prepared to contribute between two hundred twenty thousand and two hundred fifty thousand and they weren't in the that offer is made with two conditions one that in fact that the total project doesn't alter from and secondly that the use that the soccer association currently realizes with that field would continue into the future and that's not to say that the field will not be available for other uses but that it will primarily remain for soccer season and a soccer field you know towards that and one of the things that we did that we asked the soccer association to come up with some ideas about how you would wind field and to look at the field in terms of multiple uses and one of the things that sitting at your seat is a drawing hard to see this dimension around this direction is large enough to allow a football field or all four sides or cross field to be laid out on that field as well so there would be t area in here outside of the dark black line is to be written left in grass now if in fact it was if you attempted to line it right now you could actually get on our natural grass full size football fields in both directions but with the installation of the lights there's going to have to be a grass border left around the turf area so that we can in fact service the the the  lighting system in the future so that's why did the mansions are actually changed so that it's three sixty in one direction in three fifty in another that's services that in sarasota these dimensions that  about the lane lately award of the lighting that we actually went back to the lighting contractor because the the shape of this is changed a little to be able to accommodate if the lighting contractor has agreed to go back in and the other thing that we thought we heard was that at least for somebody council there's a concern that in fact the most recent project capital projects that have been done in the room for  that we have been under this bond issue for the most part of coming under budget and so there is a pool of funds particularly if you take into account the money that's would be configured by the soccer association that would be available to the township to do other projects that may not be athletic in nature the other thing that i do have to tell you though is that that money would be available for any purpose and because of the way the bond issue was done it's it could they could be used that money could be used for just about any public works project as well so second direction we're looking for is an authorization from the art to the architect to continue to develop the design or the the turf field with the idea of getting it in the winter time and to have a  onstruction of fields occur at the close of the soccer season over summer so that it would be available for  had questions before with regard to my assessment of the need let certainly in my mind would compromise the needs i'd have to think the school work would get consideration to some of the club type school sports utilizing this new facility they're building and i think we're foolish to taking steps today prior to what we would typically have is or you want school so now they don't know where i live i don't know anything about you they probably already do know they are very accommodating with allowing us to use the current high school stadium on sundays for our for our travel games however which sometimes happens and usually happens every year is fortunately our boys and girls make soccer playoffs and they need to practice and if they can't get their practice and due to rain like what happened with us two weeks ago they call me up on a saturday night and say jeff we need the fields tomorrow to rearrange your games and we have to we have to really respect that request i mean there that's a priority one so that's what we run into and we've been into discussions with them with regard to the the new facility up at p v and it's you know will fit you in after we've put in all the high school programs that we currently have to and if there's any time left we can fit you in great but you have to understand that we need to switch a schedule due to weather or playoff games or whatever and you guys want to get bumped so all i'm saying we're three months away or two months away from the doing the school board i think we do have a better understanding of what opportunities are going to be on that field you're out in this community center all over a million and a half dollars on the field and i think that is appropriate at this point the other thing i'd like to clear up is soccer did not request this the way that turfing came up was the lighting project came up and soccer was approached to participate in the light project and we no we really don't want lights but if someone wants a new turf we'll get involved in that so we socketed not come to this council or to parks and rec and say we want to drive a turpin project up at field five so you know if it's there and it's going to happen will participate if it doesn't happen will we'll play in the mud and will cancel games just like we do now and we're ok we're ok with that it's not ideal but we're ok with that what seems like  anything else when you talked about the schedule for how this would play out and the access our kitchen techs are working with the developers of the turf field what is the actual time frame for something like that to be planned you talked about doing it after their summer session well my understanding from talking to the architect is that over the summer months all the grading could be completed in the field would be ready for play for the fall so that we could do this project that were the summer the eye in an ideal world we want to be out the bid as soon as possible you don't want to be the first turf project that was bid next two years with in fact you got the best prices and you could lock in the timetable for when it would be done and i mean that would be an ideal scenario understand it there that that we've been focusing on youth sports and that there are other aspects of township life that may need to be addressed i think that by by completing this project we will have  new soccer field from lighting we have a football field was lighting we have new fish softball fields with lighting we're going to have an all purpose field i think when you couple that with what the school district is doing i think our needs as far as sports and recreation is probably going to be pretty much solidified for the next ten fifteen twenty years and i think the doubt we've been of open up funds and avenues for co pursue some of these other projects but i think that you know just given the timing and the economy that that we're going to get a lot of we're going to save a lot of money by doing this now and work on these other hi my name is dorothy sure i'm on the board and this is the third quarter dolly review from july august and september i think you probably have a copy of this and just didn't highlight some of these things peters w expansion project plans this is for july punch list for the plaza areas being worked on a walk through with members of a softball association was scheduled for july twenty fifth on baseball deck of the national park the deck itself is completed there was a water and regarding the lights and the field five bids for the life we send out next month a meeting with the soccer association is scheduled to discuss their contribution financially to this project which was discussed tonight there was discussion about the five year capital improvement budget proposals items were discussed and prioritized and i think that's where your question things that have yet to been done in the township were considered  the baseball social question improve all to install a fenced area for batters outside the backstop areas and been ition filled to the board waited to vote until the baseball association was up to date on their documentation and the deck project as  complete the record tears requested to have a fundraiser at the tennis center the board approved the request melissa sickman who is our president gave an update to the community service program she is still interested in scheduling a meeting with the school representatives to discuss the program concept they've all been asked about the proceeds of the five k race event the proceeds after expenses were given to the high school cross country booster club it was being questioned why in a mob for staffing was calculated as an expense it was explained by the park and rec director that staff is an expense that is figured into our programs and special event expenses and mournin says being worked on in order to discussed the fields are planned to open in the spring of two thousand and twelve the baseball back and finish a par baseball is waiting on a cost estimate for the remaining work on the project and regarding build five again coun authorized the township to hard design firm to design the turf project the light project is out to bid soccer's working on a proposal for their contribution to this project a discussion was held regarding the background check policy and what involvement and help the park and rec provides the park and rec would like to consider a one step background check process instead of a two step process to make it easier for the volunteers the park and rec director is researching  possible alternatives a local church group requested to rent rooms in the community recreation center on a regular basis sunday mornings the park and reg board decided that due to the sunday morning use policy and because we would have to have staff here every sunday prior to noon that it would be best to not approve the request they indicated that if it was a one time or short term request they made what is considered a different hillcrest academy requests the use of the ampitheater for an event and wanted to change to charge people to attendance before the meeting held crest academy indicated they were no longer planning to charge people to attend but i to request just a donation  jeff krom a spoke about a program called random acts of sportsmanship anyone can nominate someone for a random act of horsemanship for something they did during a sports association a band it could be anyone involved a player a coach volunteer a parent so forth the stories would be posted on the township website and the person recognized for their good sportsmanship continued discussion about the s association board dinner and email be sent to the sports associations to get an idea of the number of people attending and that was held last week last monday and there were thirty five people attending that melissa sick man is still working on communicating with school reps now moving on to september under audience comments baseball requested to paint the press boxes that filled wanted to prove previously when they spoke with the park and rec director they indicated that volunteers would do the paintings now they would like to hire someone to do the project park and rent director will talk to the public works director regarding this project and if it will be affected by the union contract lansley discussion with hat was held regarding the baseball association's documentation and how it's being submitted the president of the baseball association was asked to schedule a meeting with a park and rec director at his earliest convenience to follow fifty and i told you there were thirty five in attendance the park and rec director presented to the board an issue that was brought to her attention the basketball association had requested i feel and creased in their written proposals for that and the encrease which showed uniforms as part of the budget and justification for the increase the base basketball association is now planning to charge the increase be for their program and then charge separately for the uniforms after discussion the park and rec board decided this was not what they had approved and that the basketball association would need to be contacted they can charge the fee they propose to the board to include uniforms and if they wish to address the board again regarding any changes to that they would need to attend another meeting in the park and rec director will contact the school district buildings and grounds committee representatives to schedule a meeting to discuss the school facility fees discussion was also had about the sports association's main focus to be recreated recreational programming and not travel teams and email a fan to all the sports association product presidents  household hazardous waste program point of temper twenty fourth and that the traffic pattern that morning would be controlled through peter's would spark the high school cross country boosters sent a letter for our part in the involvement in the restructuring on the cost this is just an update of the athletic field friend of the athletic field sign program shows from two thousand and nine the first year that we had the program  effect through this year two thousand and eleven how many signs we've sold each year in in the program we offer two different contract levels a one year to year and this breaks it down by association what they  sold and the amount to the side is what the township portion of that amount was and i broke it down by year so you can see the total the total amount for all three years was three thousand four hundred thirty dollars as a contribution all supposedly when i talk to i mean i haven't been there but supposedly when i talk to the president of the association they were going to purchase uniforms out of the amount that was proposed for the fee they accommodate those types of signs we would approve for that type be used based on the information that i've given you you can see that there's one association that utilizes this program more than any and that's the baseball association but we would we would extend that to them if they were interested in something for sure thousand dollars which was you know a nice improvement for the township that will connect it make merry to highway nineteen additional we paid traffic impact fear of you know near nearly thirty five thousand dollars we also anticipate roughly three to four hundred thousand dollars annual property taxes that will be paid by paramount annually originally the twenty thousand dollars when it was derived  we have about ten thousand cubic yards of dirt on the southwest corner of our property and the twenty eight thousand took that into account as additional hauling since then we've come up with a plan to leave that ten thousand  half whenever it was that we first approached you about this project there was a lengthy discussion about you know traffic patterns with this project and at that time it was decided to go across when to route because the road was less road that was being impacted by our our processes we think that the twenty thousand or so there's more than fair in light of all the circumstances and it would be a good positive step occurred in that area so you know we've added to some alligator cracking things at areas where there are the existing i don't know if there's a storm line or something that was cut across the road that was patched and a a result some of the cracking have gotten larger but as a result of the road already being damaged to begin with because they don't know who to recollections who would think it's all part and not to leave period and that was it  requests related to funding and also we denied them the right to work on sundays and do some other things and they've been accepting everything we've done we did tell them they had to use cross friends now in the state that it was in  i think we've made when i first read this i was like too bad pay it but i'm thinking back over the other things that we've done we've made accommodations for other people we gave a huge accommodation to the guy at the traffic light there at with the new plan mr hope right right lakeside and i think in that relationship speaking there's a potential for health care rate paramount to actually possibly employ more township presidents and service more residents in the long term so i'm a little bit more amenable to negotiating a little bit on  you know there are no response could be two weeks it could be six weeks as far as getting our entailed inspection so we're we can do some operations i think the rules allow that you can have for independent living you know residence prior to your license but to be licensed first of living you know we need to go through that process and we bring button to that but we're really at their mercy as to when they when they come out what you have to i'm a out was can handle how many times rather how many others ninety six units and ninety emergencies and that's why you're proposing that in the absence of in your absence the public works director gets to does claire the emergency knife a public safety director right which is normally why what happened this is not an emergency from the standpoint an emergency as it were later is a coffee mark peeler situation this is just from the standpoint of this emergency relative to i'm saying that verbiage is not consistent throughout the resolution that is why it says up here when an emergency exists in accordance with a federal relief from regulations provision but it doesn't talk about that in this provision so that's why i was asking the question because i pulled it up and i read it and didn't jibe so you're saying that this is strictly for weather related emergencies when you know anything that requires  yes we have received letters resignations from from both individuals and bacterias been on the board since two thousand and mr jacobs has been on the board since resignations with regret here there was a subdivision that included some ground here that was commercial that was supposed to be at least at that time they were considering putting in a funeral home behind in the don area but that never occurred there is a portion of property there that is commercial but it was never developed that's not this prophetess immediately south of  i just will reflect the fact that i've been extremely payable or there were a few items so no phone upgrades of thirty four hundred access architecture at six thousand approximately for failed five work and a repayment to the local sheriff kowen of eighty three hundred dollars  including these i find the l r that all the others to be in order and if we approve them and pay them it is a non residential item and i want to point out and secondly to just as a point of interest there is a variance being requested for a building  we've now made those streets public in the right a way to spend it in a setback there's one going they want to put it like a covered and three way so now they have to get a variance which we told them would be a potential problem  together beginning in a week last week and so we just haven't had time to contact everybody because i think that we may be getting a cable for the application i sent emails out to some of the neighbors the people in my area and neighborhood and have encouraged people i think sometimes people are down to see the observer reporter i know i don't see that lane in that driveway that often so but i did i did send a few e mails out and perhaps if other  can you update everyone on what the next process will be with that because i know the subway shop has been you know their business is been affected extremely detrimental to their business for mass coffee shop their business is down almost fifty percent since this happened i think going forward we have to be cognizant of the of impact that some of these construction projects have on local businesses and try to help in some manner as far as signage letting people know that those businesses are still open your work whatever we can do with it has been extremely detrimental to both of those businesses well the next start looking at doing our piece for consultants