the manager's report writing and you have a letter from tony so koski the school to she was the school district's appointee she no longer works for the district she's retired the school board has recommended drawn down levy to serv representative and you do have an application from megan jones r or the mr mcateer has resigned to accept his resignation or that already been think you've already done that required reading and there is one applicant that i would hope that in the advertisement that we might have an opportunity to have some other names for that board where you advertised in the number of places and so far we only have the one applicant although we did have an application that came in today from the fact that she's an alternate in the koran she doesn't need to show how so she doesn't show a lot but there are times when she comes anyway for to space in the discussion and so i don't know why she only me to  change michael's recommendation to continue with their second and fourth mondays i don't think so moving memorial day changed tuesday the twenty ninth december seventeenth instead of the twenty require renewal but some of the assessments have been paid off and normal payments made we only have one of the road assessments that has not made any payments with them than younger than my understanding is that the request is at the sheriff's office rate down and it's it's a matter of a process to get to the sheriff's office i'm sure one of the things that's happened here it's like everything else that has to do with collection of taxes that that everything is slowed down because of actory to because everybody focused on that and i think george snotting different than anyone else i know one of the forestry paid off in its entirety including the family interest so there are three more outstanding people are put on notice when we when we go to leave their properties they understand that the taxpayers are paying your mill not waste management they understand i would hope that they would i would hope they do do grammar sure they do because the problem is that  the cost of the service that's wrong they need it and i can't imagine willingly accept the idea that their property is being lean from the amount of dollars that are being talked a on the the resolutions that are put forth by the various counties can't remember and that sets is supposed to set the policy is followed by piece as for the the following year the question was asked rather directly of them how can people say that you supported when you say that you denied he didn't support it and may have done very little to really just weight that particular currently misstatements from this perception of her election maybe to the bank but in any case they are not very actively helping us is really the issue and we've been discussing how can and i think the only reason we didn't get it was because we sent a letter to  giving them our frustration they had to check personally delivery but no apologies put in there is a fair sum of money to go through that absolutely what am i doing here with minutes you said the minister included are we down to that point in time the regular agenda yes i and it we have prison minutes of december nineteenth december twelfth hasn't been submitted i will my name is ron books and i live at eight fifty five b by road before i get to the principal issue that i came here for the season and i'd like to remind you that this past year we had a conversation about term limits and what i've seen here tonight is a whole lot of reappointment i'm just wondering if if since many of you had the idea that it was perhaps a good thing maybe you want to revisit that issue this year on the other issues the reason i'm here tonight is i told you so it's another one of those i told you so i want to talk about tree cleanup beautification and safety as well as cost savings as you know three years ago i came to before council and told you about the situation that existed on valley brook road prior to the entrance to the federal route plan organization and there were a number of trees there well if you recall we had a big snowstorm and a lot of those trees came crashing down and for the most part that portion of valley brook road was blocked for a week and it happened of course during the snowstorm which meant that our public works people were overworked and as a result we act actually had to bring in some outside crews to get the cleanup well not all of that cleanup was done nor has the issue been addressed sense that in viewing the portion of valley brook between the tar outdoor storage area ok if you look on the left hand side take a look at some of those trees it should bring some concern to you again we've got them leaning on wires we've got them leaning on other trees these are dead  falls that's what they're called dead falls are called dead falls for a reason what is even is more concerning to me is when i look at that portion of the hillside i'd like misters a mite just to take a look at it because it looks to me like we can probably anticipate that hillside sliding down now talking about is very simply this perhaps we need to be more proactive in dealing with some of these situations now sense that large no storm a few years ago we've had a substantial number of trees damaged of course there's been no cleanup for the most part so those trees are still there and they look like pardon the expression help the people coming through the community see these dead trees bark stripped off of them just doesn't look good and also the danger associated with those trees we talked about a telephone pole on the other side of the old where where the bridge used to be if you take a look at the other side of where the bridge used to be next to the parking lot if you look to the left you'll see a tree no bark when's it going to come  it's an inevitable situation presents a danger but i'm certain it's just common throughout the township what i would suggest is a plan too late in the year to do it but a plan for this coming year that would permit us to get this cleaned up i'd like to see a good plan now we did see the utility company financing a cleanup in a in a tree trimming throughout the community but they didn't address a lot of the trees that had fallen somewhere on our list to do and frankly i'll go back and just mention that jail labor is available to do these kinds of cleanups and i talked to somebody who actually has used some of this in a community function and they said they did very well the only thing that they mentioned was we may want to have disability or worker's comp insurance to cover them in the event of a potential injury but that dead would could also be given to people low income who may use that to heat their homes particularly since the price of oil is up just a couple of other things a put in your mind last year five percent of the social security payments that were made i know i run on the time five percent of the social security payments that were sent out came from the general fund in other words we had to dip into the general fund because the quotes on quotes trust fund wasn't big enough this year it's anticipated to be fifteen percent so the quotes unquote lockbox isn't locked any longer finally by the year twenty twenty which is a mere eight years from now some of you have served on council longer than i believe fifty percent of the population in the united states is going to be sixty five years of age or older that's a big number how will that affect our wage tax what kind of a problem is that going to present to the community these are the kinds of things i think all of you may want to be aware of because somewhere in the future we're going to have to deal with them and the sooner we get ready to plan to deal with them the better off i think we might be thank you thank you sir mr bouck yes i'm disappointed you didn't point out that westinghouse has developed a small nuclear reactor that they're that but at the same point in time i feel that we ought to make a public statement that we are reaching out to that individual needs to sit down attempting to convene a meeting with him which would be at least from my point the first line of a chance to it in the drawing up there that the red area is the sections of street that would be accepted by the township the the cross winds drive one would be the connection that they were going to keep it on site so we agreed the eight thousand dollars reduction which was fair but that didn't last that a week they went on out there ever since not on a daily basis i don't regress garnered a letter that i the end of the horse farm to the rear lots of valleyview drive and this project has been talked about for five years or more probably you are but the first phase is started which provide the the liability insurance as opposed to the authority do we need to have that and we agree because we can certainly add that if that would be my preference i would agree good point  granting peters township authority after the say clear hospital property maintain the traffic signal you seem to kate did we not done this in the past for you might want to clone yourself this isn't a new that's what purpose would be i can recall maybe about two months ago being told we probably wouldn't see the configuration of this intersection again it's a scalpel and i'm looking at it this time and i'm sad it's here again and i still don't understand it so we could probably explain address you have thirty nine twenty eight in washington road and that's i think the edges of the property i think it should be our interest here binay motion carries seven zero the next item on the agenda and ordinance relative to establishing the proposed salary increases that the actual salary would be based on your performance of the employees and their performance reviews that could be anywhere from two percent three percent  descriptions and positions are that at some point every position reaches a maximum and based on the grades i'm not sure whether i'm adding a turn happy or sound everything makes an appropriate sense  maximums for anybody who might be at the maximums in the ra what the c p i says there are a lot of people who are residents out there who aren't getting any breaks there are people who are not in a position that there are they can even count to two percent sales i'm torn with this because i really do recognize the prohibition on people still getting an adjustment if their performance is identified as meriting and it just in five years five years ago were our range were grossly everybody will be there we're not there like we're far from being there right now and i'm not saying it doesn't need to be looked at i'm just not prepared at this point to agree to that i think we ron books eight fifty five b buck just some thoughts on this number one mrs merril's right salaries are actually dropping in this country we now have a number of companies that had reestablished overseas that are moving back to the united states because a drop in salary purchasing power of the average american is a gone down rather than up i understand there is an inflation problem out there but sooner or later we're going to have to face this and that is what are we going to do i would like to suggest that maybe we take a real hard look at how we apportion salaries in races now mr sylvester talked her talked earlier last meeting  about an evaluation system so that managers and for that matter employees can be evaluated and i think that perhaps what i would suggest would be to put this on the back burner for the time being and not make a decision and then look at this in the context of a merit system that can be evaluated that way we will have to deal with potential employee layoffs in the future thank you i'm just wondered what i mean i still go back to what i said why why are we reaped why are we increasing the minimum salaries why not just increase the maximum i mean if you have somebody that comes in here and in and we're at it let's say a great for we're according to this chart here says is the minimum salary fifty two six but you know we're not competitive in the marketplace than that it doesn't hurt us we can  adjusting this to leaving it where it is is not going to prevent those people from being recognized but to some degree call it a symbolic gesture it keeps things in line so that down went forward we have a point a find them to be in order and now one of the larger expenditures is for the first installment to marie keogh i said that correctly for the bebop bridge work and those that we approve them and pay them as present of timetable for next impact to events that we have to face it will be the latter part of february weather permitting and when actually arrives that will be a closing of that lives for the last year and i am certainly willing to do that again however we have a new vice chair and if someone else would like to take that opportunity feel free to make the offer and what  know that i would think there would be well i would think if you were going to compare it with that you know that degen understanding that's climate not money but there will be because i think what we have to do is to process a formal not have a practical matter to weigh but what i give shoulder i select for credit for is they're doing what we have asked them to do when you know when you first see that there's a way and there's going to cause to ask for that extension at that time to supposedly into the project so