washington county for the drug program in washington county there was fifteen hundred pounds of corruption drives that were collected and i think that was the second highest county western pennsylvania and then within peter's township alone five hundred twenty pounds of drugs were collected on that day the only other thing that i would point out is that if people do have grown ups that they need to dispose of we do that on a daily basis  there's a collection container inside the lobby of the police department and people are welcome to drop those off there at any time now reach the point of the meeting universe first of all thank you thank you all so much for this recognition we truly appreciate it on my name is claire and her now on i've been a lifelong resident of peter's township and have been active with the historical society for i guess about sixty six or seven years on down i'm currently the treasurer of the historical society and board member and found we work very hard with very little funds to try to maintain  township three generations of my family attended the financial school and i was part of saving that building for our community and at that time i joined a historical society in two thousand and i'm currently a board member and the membership chair  very excited to be doing a celebration we love working with rites methodist church along with the school and we just have a wonderful little program we meet monthly the fourth monday of every month at seven of the community you're all welcome we always have wonderful speakers but on the twentieth of the twenty first we're having a big celebration and it will be at the house the right house at the church and the school will be something different going on in every each of the buildings and also our cabin in the back will be up and we'll have reactors i brought this for everybody here copy for everybody i'll put it up by the door if that's ok and it's all about the celebration and the activities that will be going on the today and we would love for all of you to come share this with your family and neighbors we're going to have an actor's we'll have  proven play and fifty percent of the cost of doing so can actually come from the funds that we have collected from developers to this point the thought was that the at the time when the budget was being developed is that given the is that rather than to redo the the plane is that we simply update the plane and by updating it we need to look at the intersection a galley road and water knee and where the traffic signal going in because we waive the traffic impact be there and you can really only do that if that projects are on the play and the other one that we need to look at is the intersection of valley road and be roads that was not originally included in the play and because of the time when the plan was done the thought was the penn dot was actually going to do a project in there that project never was completed in the project that they are putting forth now is something different so we we would want to include that project so that in fact we could expand traffic impact monies there we want to hear those who were proposal to do that and that work for ninety four hundred dollars and again half of that will come out of the traffic in bank be so it's a substantial savings that what was budgeted there for i recommend that we enter into a professional service agreement with traffic planning to design for the purpose of updating the peter tantrum traffic it is not a collection day that the get to be returned back to the home there was a stern express about the fact that you know we had talked about it being behind the bass in the home and in some homes that might be difficult to do you're received copies of the revised policy in your docket you notice there are both yellow highlights and blue highlights i'll get to those in one second the traffic calming policy guides the work of the traffic calming committee of peter's township which is made up of a representative from council the planning commission the planning engineering public works police the ministry of departments and school district yes the policy sets the criteria for the process by which you receive petitions from neighborhoods that are interested in traffic calming the criteria by which subsequent surveys of those areas traffic surveys are done and then the procedure for developing the traffic calming plan and soliciting feedback from the neighbors when i took over as representative on the traffic calming committee in late two thousand and sixteen was right about the time that the police department was developing its traffic complaint review policy and captain maloney approached me and asked if there was a way that the traffic calming committee could incorporate that policy that their traffic enforcement there increased traffic enforcement into the traffic calming policy and that's what we've done if you notice those are all the blue highlights it was it was done for several reasons i'd say that the two major ones it's the most immediate way to show residents who submitted a valid petition that the township is making a concerted effort to address speeding in their area the traffic calming process can be long the current considering north power hill road right now i believe petition for that one almost a year ago at this point so you go a year without really seeing anything adding this in force method allows us to show that we're doing something out there in areas those areas that have met the criteria the second thing it does is allows us to get on the ground feedback from from an officer who'd be stationed in that neighborhood noticing traffic movements noticing what's potentially causing speeding the other major changes to the policy is as we were looking at it within the traffic calming committee we noticed that there were several elements of the policy that really practically were difficult to implement and there were also as i said the time to develop these plans can be very long and it would just increase the time several of the points that you look at it calls for citizens of the area to be part of the committee establishing the survey i have not seen that ever done since i've been here it is scheduling means the traffic coming difficult enough if you start adding people to it it makes it even more difficult the other element to it and it's probably the one i went way to the last thing to bring up was increasing the threshold for traffic calming right now we have a greater than seven miles per hour the traffic calming calls for the speed limit to be ten miles per hour or greater than ten miles per hour before traffic calming is considered beyond that if you look at title seventy five the consolidated statutes it also states that no ticket can be given an area with the speed limits under fifty five unless the speeder is going in excess of ten miles an hour so sort of better defined speeding as we look at the guidelines of criteria laid down by and even our own police department and how they enforce traffic i'm willing to take any and all questions comments concerns  time comes in for example when you say that a theory is don't meet the criteria increase place in course that was just a question of trying to make sure people are communicating back to you because this is a hot button issue for a lot of that would be my only recommendation that i know we exchanged e mails on that i do think i think it's more a matter of practice than something necessarily that needs in the policy i know that was something that both michael and p stressed to me that we need to communicate with the residents in writing i've got no problem incorporating you know any rejection notice will be submitted in writing to the petition or if that would make everyone comfortable if that were made t actually he was given sixty days to either to remove the structure or have a valid building permit that time is ticking he is called an appeal to the construction appeal