i believe that the minutes in in part talk about the tax appeal but it mentions the taxpayer by name and i don't believe that we've ever done that before and normally on unearned income tax it wouldn't but significant can be into a community it doesn't go unnoticed and so there are a number of people here tonight this journalist who would like to recognize michael's contribution and i know council also has a presentation or credit for being their first or last night nothing to do with the choices i don't know that there's any significance with regard to the order of a coffee and let me ask this i see a number of people here that are not on the list or for some reason my going think you been a painful couple weeks for michael because if you know anything about michael michael hates when people in public commend him for his service he doesn't he doesn't take compliments well because he's a fairly humble guy but the thing that i wanted to say that i is that you know i think that we all know each other based in the context of the roles we play in each other lives in everybody in this room knows michael as the peters township manager and for some of us in this room he's our boss and for the really lucky people in this room he's our friend and if you knew in terms of michael being the manager if you knew just one thing that michael is service community as we enter for thirty five years that would tell you a lot it is not the rule in city management the tenure of a city manager nationwide is much shorter than that but for m it isn't only the length of time michael is served this community it's what has been accomplished in those forty years since michael first came here is in the in turn and mike will be the first person to tell you  deflected any credit for that to others he would point to counsel and all the counsel in the that he has had the pleasure to work with over the years he would point to the boards and keep it in the community and all those volunteers he would point to that and i know you well michael but i will tell you this is that when you look at that period of time michael is the one constant of or that forty years you know in one thousand seven six this community became a home rule community and one of the things that michael has taken upon himself is this plaque which always hangs in the back of the council reading and i don't even sure all the councilman know it your dave's been captured on  this as well as all the other councilman who since thousand nine hundred seventy six have served his community and if you total that up you'll see there's about forty five council and over that period of time well in that same period of time there of only been eighty michael became the manager in one thousand nine hundred ninety and served in two thousand and sixteen and before you do the map mr lewis i will not be here when i'm ninety five years old so my personal gift to you and i don't necessarily the boss for everybody in this room knows i'm it was great judgment because michael hired a song and but michael's the guy who's always sitting at the end of the table with any midi and although we all recognize michael as the person being in charge you're always left with the feeling that you're not working for michael when you're working with michael and it michael's leadership style because if you've been around michael for a while you know he's a fairly quiet kind of guy but what michael leads in a way that that i respect and understand and that is that michael lead by example nobody works harder than michael who nobody cares about this place more than michael nobody spends four hours here than michael and we all know that it has a result of that it's a motivation to do our best for the service of peter's township but also in recognition of the fact that that michael's commitment to the community and how much that means to him and to us the other thing about michael is that he truly he you know we're a small family here  michael truly has a concern for each and every one of us and not only in in the sense as a boss to employee but also as a friend for a lot of us the other thing that people don't know about  recognizes the service of those who work here and he goes out of his way to help people what he can each year we have a christmas party that one of the highlights of the christmas party is the is the door prizes are given away and there's always lots of door prizes but what nobody knows or few people know is that michael dips into his own pocket and spends about one thousand dollars each year of his own money to make those those presents available for the benefit  his employees he never shares that in preparation with that but he takes satisfaction the pleasure that drawing gives to all of us who attend that party michael is a friend this is what i'm going to miss the most is michael my friend being here every day you know the fact of batteries michael and i aren't terribly different in age and as a result of that we have spent a considerable amount of time together in fact michael and i always laugh that the fact of the matter is michael and i probably over the last thirty five years have spent we're waking hours with each other then we have our wives and as a result of that michael  i have become very close friends my daughter who is who is an adult she's thirty years old reminds me he may be my friend but susan and michael are her godparents and that takes precedence over my friendship think about the fact that we're so close in age that michael and i have gone through this sharing all the wonderful things that happen in families and all the sad things that happen to families  it's somebody who i've always had the had the good fortune of being able to talk to and have somebody who empathizes with what's happening in our lives the other thing that i think we're going to we're going to lose both of us is that when you've got somebody who you spent so much time with and who's been married just a little bit longer than what i have he's my perfect person to share all those stories about your wife that you can't share with anybody else and the so michael is going to be sorely missed and i will tell you this i will tell you this you know over the last couple months people it's a little community of people in this community vall figured out that michael's retiring and everyone walks up to be and  tells me how much they've appreciated michael service they also congratulate me on the possibility of being managed or and then they all say the same thing boy that's a tough act to follow and i can only hope that in service to the community if in fact i'm appointed later on the agenda that i can impact emulate what michael has done for this community my colleagues have already said a few remarks though and michel for a lot of years as a state trooper i worked in his community years ago he's always been a vibrant part of the community i know at the county level we think very highly of him i know he's on a few boards he's represented the county an s p say although i'm not sure he had a copperhead brought toing here lately for any other thing that you read in the paper he serves on a border we don't want to talk about county so we wish you the best of luck and we expect to see a lot of that future issue with the river i would think the community was about fifty fifty thinking that was a good idea we had lots of opposition to the concept of a trail running through somebody's backyard i believe peters is the premier community it's been a great place for my family to enjoy very often from the recreation to the library to schools so i'm grateful for the opportunity to have been able to live and work in the community  i'm a little tired but also apprehensive about what the future is going to bring i do hope to continue to be active in local government especially in mentoring newer professionals into the system of i'm a reality or spend more time with my family over there you have too often been second place to my job here so i will be home more often that would achieve bringing the acreage back to what it was right now so nine point nine to nine acres so if it goes up points oh seventy one acres they would reach return to their cleaning green the property is i don't really know at this time i didn't bring the form with a high i say half my cation that has to be filled out one sack or culture which means you sow mines forestry and the other and apparently the township in and ted decided they needed extra space and we were approved would we seed i think it was two feet of frontage along woods line and we readily acquiesced we didn't get any real remain aeration i never gave it another thought this was in one nine hundred ninety one about ten years later we get notification from the county that we're now  cleaning green where it nine point nine two seven so in the last several months i've been communicating with the county and with mr sless tree here in the township on how can we reconcile  this because it does distract take away from property value it does add a little bit of taxes i think two hundred forty dollars on the property that's not that much but i was trying to get back what we originally had ceded we talked about maybe the township seeding some public land which is either adjacent to us or nearby that was a problem we appealed to the county in may of this year my wife and i to seek an center of that right of way which is perfectly acceptable to me so what we're asking for is really a return of what we had originally the township has a better road to develop the property or sold it we're no better no worse perhaps a wors the one who probably benefited if they went to council and possibly council advocated on his behalf but you know the whole idea of cleaning green to me is difficult because technically what you're designation means is that it's open for public use clean and green and that's the definition so by appreciate what your concern is and i feel bad for the situation i probably will support it but in general cleaning greens a questionable category to me i have a number of issues with ordinance for federal and state but as long as it exists i appreciate your willingness to let us take advantage of the good merger thank you thank you levels he responded the email to me about the fact that the whole scale needs to be looked at i understand what the intent of the position was i was wondering as to the narrative in the  description it didn't seem dramatically different from the prior job description so that was a question i had which he answered as i said the aim of the other question i had related this and they other one was whether or not we ever actually in the body of a document an ordinance delete a job description or eliminate one basically state that one replaces the other mr lauer also explain that to me if you would like to just sure  public organizations is that it is not tied to an allotment of positions so i give you were to go to the city of pittsburgh right now you would find out that the city of pittsburgh has x number of policemen who are actually working but the allotment for positions is much higher in the act of the sit at his discretion or her discretion the mayor can hire people that's not the way it works here it with the way it works here is that unless there is a provision with inside the budget to actually hire a position you know you can't just go out and do that so it is never been the practice of the township when positions are vacant to repeal those job descriptions because it doesn't give any authority to the manager that he didn't have otherwise now i have no problem going back you've counsel with lying because there are a number of job positions that are vague idea that position vacant deputy chief that position no longer exists if we want to like those op and repeal them we can do that i'm just telling you as a practical matter will have no impact whatsoever on what we do  now one of the things that we we did now do as a matter of practice is that every time we are out hiring we pull up that job interview to make sure that jobs frigid matches what it is we're asking that new hire to do it when it doesn't those are coming to council and with paper roses revision and council taking action so really i was asking about a matter of housekeeping the same way as we go through record retention and we do other things in three weeks this room will be completely renovated and county council meeting will occur here there will be a public hearing on the zoning changes that will be if you look outside you'll see they've got that ready to punch and correspondents busy and you know there's a letter from the league of cities about their lancaster conference and then i also and heads a little bit later than we would normally do which pushes it into october is actually council's favorite time of year as we celebrate every monday together going through the think there's anything of note there are some large homes on there there is an open space in hidden broke which miner standing is there's an agreement going on where the former heartland homes people are go can continue michel's the only person who has experience with heard income tax appeals in washington county and we'd like to be able to continue to take advantage of that we have him we don't have a very what is do you willing to  this very road didn't i mishear or didn't understand when they came in it's head that they were going to repay in the morning and be there like an hour and a half and at the out of there