before i turn it over to cheryl that i'd like to point out is that the nature of responses to these type of emergencies and peters township is somewhat unique in that  response is not only that which you would expect from the township a view of the service but it is augmented by responses both from the police department and of our department and in this particular successful outcome in the early early defect relations to taking a class getting certified you don't have to be certified to just take a demo awareness classes and be comfortable with how easy it is to do c p r annual report from your favorite the last see the council are two thousand sixteen accomplishments and two thousand and seventeen plan which i'm not going to go through in detail because it is to a large degree more of the same we have all of our tree all built some most of what we're doing now is just maintaining it keeping it in good shape etc i will point out that we as a group in pierce county put in about twenty three hundred volunteer hours and as i did when i presented to the parks and rec board i would like to invite you all to our recognition ceremony at the time i forget whether i told them it was june third or june second now it's june first now what's happening to our construction wise other places on the trail we're working on both ands we have a project going on to make a connection to korea that's progressing the next stage is this part is going to be done by  basically built a new plant which you guys probably know about and that require relocation of our trailhead which they've done and it's actually turned out to be a very nice job had or is now better than it was before we also have some projects going on south park township we have what we still call the console car or even though it's not by consol anymore it's now owned by a developer who's very in favor of the trail and wants to incorporate it into their development plans we have a project being done by volunteers along piney ford creek on some property that southport township donated to trail council that is going to start soon the other some other projects are waiting for some funding to be released by the scene r and others for the project officially began i want to bring up something  it would go along the railroad tracks that run by prosti valley golf course it would connect to the mont or trail just at the western side of tom robinson's property before the last  way township is where we would be talking about possibly accepting property to maintain a trail right of way on it may get to the point where acquisition is going to be discussed and frankly from the monterey council perspective being landowners for trail right of way and here is down to doesn't make a great deal of sense because we're not the property owners for the one township i'm bringing it out just to let you know that these discussions are taking place to give you time to think about what that means to the township whether that's something that you would be in favor of our general  rule of thumb when it comes to connections for travels to the monterey trails if it's connecting something that makes sense and it's well thought out well planned out we're generally in favor of it  would certainly be in favor of committing to maintenance and you know ongoing care of the tree of property but like i said it doesn't really make sense for us to actually own any underlying property so at some point if they continue the the trail was continuous from miles hero to pleasant street in south park township there are still some at grade crossings that were at big crossings back in the railroad was here  going east there are a couple of gaps yet we're working hard to get those closed up and there are is one section where there's right away that we don't yet that would be the section just to the east of route fifty one we've had discussions with some owners of the property there and when we get close to an agreement the soul for me is there is one there the other thing i want to report on april twelfth i attended a ceremony at the governor's residence where governor walker presented peters township the two thousand and seventeen governor's award for local government primarily because once school board members had stated our finance committee committee meeting that there would be no new pool in the plans for a new high school apologies were made about that comment and we were told that it had been made in jest to another board member however we were left with many questions regarding how who fit into the township plans the school district plans and if a joint project is still being pursued by the two groups the comprehensive recreation park in space plan published by the township in march two thousand and sixteen the most requested recreation facility indicated through the public input process with the swimming pool and the survey conducted at the top identified by residents number one was an outdoor pool and number one was an indoor pool so they occupy the top two later the acquisition of the new ruling house property that was something the hope might be discussed this evening i've also been advised that is tearing committee is being formed by this council to investigate further the possibility  any there's a great deal of interest in the pool and in the amenities that will be available possible with that possibly the new site so i just want to urge you to continue to work with the school board on this project in timely manner so the joint decisions can be made in time frame in which they are are five you know this is the location where the synthetic term is in the soccer field the township soccer association has entered into a contract with a township to cover revue percent of the cost of the project up to three hundred thousand dollars and that would be paid back to the township over a period of five years on april seventeenth we opened bid there were seven did for the project  the that is located down near the road it's also getting to that concession building which will be located over here so there are a row there's a retaining  wall that's associated with the project we do not have series in this project area right now and so what we are going to do is extend a sewer line from here and have a holding tank located down here with the idea of eventually along here and building a small retaining wall to be able to get out the access to a ten foot wide so it's restrooms are going to be here for this it's going to be in the same building sexually moved back slightly so there is this why a roadway that comes in here there this is a wall there's this is an elevator here so you can see this small wall section status again such a small section i don't think that it would be you know that that maintenance is going to be an issue one way or the other i think it's a different static quite honestly i think we have these changes this same king was  we feel like this joint partnership with parks right in the township in the soccer association woman in willingness to contribute half the cost represents a true spirit of what peter's township's all about so we beg construction it was also committed by another one of the bidders and when we went back to rafa to get a clarification he recognized that his interpretation of that the doctor in our interpretation it was was different and he came back in to his credit did not suggest that the deduct be the lowest number that someone else would use but rather based on his own calculation in that's all you get to thirteen thousand five hundred what mr lewis is absolutely correct about is if you wore the base period there is no question as to whether or not the appropriateness of this give you change  comfortable with the doctor given the error my recommendation would be not to do stainless steel bands i can understand mr lewis his argument about not clouding whether or not who is actually the low b and i would have to surmise that a during the course of construction something else came up and it was a change order that created and we may want to at that point bargain something to me i have no qualms about seeking with the motion as it was m year hopefully shortly thereafter we'll have some idea of what the property ultimately cost the township and the school district i want to talk a little bit about the master plan process itself you know as as council was well a master plan is simply a guy it is not a commitment to do do do any aspect of what's on there are those kind of commitments come out of the budgeting process but it is a guy as to the logical development of the property to the committee in the recreation board council and those will be coming from miss harman so that we can we all stay on the same page and everybody has a common understanding about what's being developed in terms of the master pla will be just like a workshop meeting on a bill they're welcome to attend but there is not an opportunity for input from from residents we are still working on a contract with mack and i think we're real close at this point i would expect that  quickly go through these guiding principles for the master plan these are in fact what were contained in the request for proposals these came out of discussions with council during the budgeting process they reflect what  makin engineers responded to and again my concern is that since we're going to have limited membership from council on the steering committee that we all begin with a set of parameters to be able to give to this theory parks the parks to include pick the facilities if deemed feasible the clubhouse will be retained as a community slash conference center the park facilities consideration will be given to moving the bigger townships tennis center to the site axes the arrowhead trail as well as a walking trail contained within the site will be incorporated into the same page if there are other principals that there is a consensus among council that we need to be telling the steering committee i i think we needed to talk about those tonight so that in fact on m including that but that's just my opinion i've said it before and you've got me on tape on that some days i do read history here ok there's i do think we're going to need to address number five which is the issue about and that master play and as right now as as i have seen it includes a number of athletic facilities but what dr related to me is that there he may have been is first to their academic facilities and that what the discussion at the school district is that this point is the move forward with the academic vassil these ind point what she is saying it is the school district not committed to doing that now and there that's a different person between saying no there won't be a they would certainly be willing to lease space inside of our facility that's what what i have been told and from what i have heard my understanding is that the cost to build an indoor pool in the high school where swimming is now i jam requirement is excessively for them what it would cost to actually build an outdoor indoor pool and that as mr lewis sa my understanding is that they're focused on the academic requirements for the school and that they in fact know that there is a large population of swimmers who are actually like a record program because it is not doing so i mean i think we need to look at the money overall personally i mean if they if their school districts want to spend money on a school and we're going to spend money to develop this and we can share resources for example they're going to have to have a parking lot i would hope that we can figure out a way that we don't have to replicate parking for the whole when there's a pool if there is high school parking and the i think really this is a critical project that is probably the best opportunity for us to collaborate that we have and that we need to because the money that we're spending comes from the residents whether it's going to the school if you're going to the town to sell whatever we need to do my about i would agree with you and i think our approach ought to be to the extent that there are things that make sense for us to do together we ought to be doing that so for instance you know we talk about shared access to this we should be we should be share even access and the cost associated with developing that into the same is true when you look at stormwater management on the site there ought to be some ability do i have a i will tell you this in the end we've looked at this in the ball you will not find relief i haven't been able to and i asked the school district if they could a municipality that owns a competitor be indoor swimming pool where anywhere in the state of pennsylvania i don't think it exists because i was out trying to find an example of just such a thing so that we would have something to the benchmark and i can find what you find firm municipal swimming pools are what you would expect them to be summer outdoor pools that have multiple uses that are recreational or recreational in nature but may have some  committee to define what that is i would tell you that i think that regardless of what it is the township bill's near term future we need to reserve enough space inside of this park to have a a community aquatics priscilla tea because you know what always the you know since i've been here since eighty four and every time we asked the community what they would like the o d always comes out on top in the impediment to that up to this point has been there hasn't been lay in to do it well that has been resolved with the virtues of this piece of property we should not get be done ok what would what the public i think needs to know is that once we have that installed necessarily something that's going to be developed extra years in the next two years  that the reason why it's written the way it is it wasn't to be vetted to the outdoor competitor to pool it was to be a community pool so if we want to change that to read as a community pool i think that has you people here want eighteen you find a way to satisfy those needs is all i'm asking i think it needs to be considered which is why i would rather not have written that phrase i mean if you just and we give you each property of we have this make sure we reserve property for appropriate uses you're not designing the facilities you know we're not going to sit here and design the facilities you know and i think if you put a period after two communit and so those pools you should be prepared to absorb all of the operating cost these kind of pulls have shown themselves when run  telling you what people have told and whether the number five million or two million maybe it's five million of it's part of an existing building i don't know or we don't but it's you know it's a lot of money whichever it is and so that's what we need to determine that's it i mean that's why i don't want to try and make those decisions great here it's a it's a it's a decision that we want to make sure we have the opportunity the space th of these two express an interest let's just interview these two and if we find one of them except the war the wires we can put out for more applicants why don't we push it back to may twentieth then and then by then we should have had an opportunity t one from e c be so you could appoint both of them in fact i'll make a motion we do appoint both me and alice and william m comes in just like for every other now the question is do you want to have you know and this is not difficult to do but it'll be a regulation that all like everyone in the regulation would say they have to be store behind the front of your home so that they're on the we took it from  there's a reference to the variety of work and how public works and engineering spending a lot of time on issues caused by horizon do we have any recourse to them you know because we jason have been spending a considerable amount of time out working with residents we have been told by a rise in that within the next couple weeks that they will be done we have a list of people who have contacted us and we're going to go out and do small things with the inside of each department in the if we could i i think it's good to be able to report with people who do we do last year each department was given the ability to spend a thousand dollars on something that would would improve that department so like for instance of the police department they bought some audio visual equipment that they put into their their area and there was some safety equipment that was purchased board has promoted using our facilities for the b p i a competitions for baseball and softball shells concerned is that what the recreation board has recommended it would take out the approval to do it is to reduce the be substantially on the field from what we would be charging others so instead of it being one hundred dollars an hour which we would be charging others i think it's fifty dollars again and so you're going to be charging i mean i don't know that i'd have a problem with fifty dollars an hour because i would recommend i recognize are some value in having the p i all events here but not to essentially take eighty percent less you for instruction with the lights sure i just like to comment that the library down here in peters is the only library in the state who is able to get that thinking money exhibit and if you have not yet gone into the exhibit it's really a wonderful interactive from opportunity to get some education about spending and saving and it hits all wages and down this is a lank and mrs meller you were responsible for getting that home have done a great job in bringing something very neat to the township you can go in your own pace and i think it's only going to be there for another week so if you haven't been there and encourage you to do that i mean we have so many wonderful programs at the library and this is another example on a commercial message from the library