the amphitheater was completed this year and the grand opening was held on june third with joker shecky performing in food trucks to my growing cost one creamery president night since the grand opening there have been many even scheduled at the into theater i think the numbers well since that opening night and there are three main events on the schedule shelter for playground construction was completed with the opening on april eighteenth field five restroom in concession building poor the holding tank has been installed and walks are going in weather as costs under way but the project is moving all the soccer association has committed three hundred thousand dollars contribution over the next six years toward the project d or grant project the project is still in the design phase we're expecting to design this week and hope to send up the dead by mid october the community day was held june twenty fourth the event was a success even though it was a significant rainfall the previous day that made for somebody spots throughout the park the board members that work the event included brittany smith john hills and digger in myself the board made a recommendation of council to allow w p a all to rent the fields at peter other items review reviewed by the board include the board approved a request from northwood realty for the use of the trio for a fund raising event for patriots house the board reviewed the list of programs in which to have alcohol consumption there were a for the board of issues that the department is having with the baseball association the board decided to suspend the use of the rec center concession stand for two weeks in june the president of the baseball was invited to attend the next person recreation board meeting to discuss  doing a lot of programming on the cable channel a baseball coach was arrested for aggravated assault and his coaching privileges have been reviewed the board discussed a request for an access path from edgewood drive bill across from part due to legal issues concerning a portion of that property we are not able to consider the project at this time standing documents by the sports associations with discussing how to address the deficiencies the board asked for an typically we do have a refund policy in place after the second class they are not allowed to withdraw for a refund if they if they withdraw from a class once it's started there's a five dollar processing fee and of there are two significant changes for i believe from what we had seen previously on the previous version the school district attempted to wrap this road to the very edge of their property come back down with the goal of keeping all of their property on one side of the roadway it's now their position that they would prefer this alignment in part because it greatly shortens the road and will resolve the cost that was proposed originally reached out into this area and then came back in they modified that to be able to accommodate what has been proposed by the township for development in this  and what it means in terms of grading so you know when when mackin did the original design for the township was part of the master plan one of the things that you saw was you know there was some that i don't think anybody should assume that this is exactly where the road is until an engineer gets a chance to lay this out and we'll get to come on tours now one of the things that i'm design of that road since we're going to have to maintain it in a war a contract to build it that should be coming out of the township and on the school district and running this through our department didn't hire him in a consulting engineer to assist the reestablish their parking lot in its totality so that will take away from the total property owned by both in the way that it's all said and done this line it's right here that is the divide between the do i  was that at some point in time in the future they would want to deal a a stadium in our suggested to them was it would be better to have the stadium on the back inside the pro about how the design designed with the exception of this discussion about getting everything on the locked inside what they do over here and how they choose to do it there's room for parking there there's room for as they need there i don't know what what it is and they intend to do and i'm not even sure that the school boards focused on that except for the fact that they want to make sure they have the capacity to do with some point in time in the future so i think the capacity there to do  how it gets laid in the future i'm not quite sure when the school district originally looked at this they were looking at making this a road to connect back to here they have now decided that they don't want to bear the expense of putting  and so this comes in there's a little parking lot here there's a couple practice field so i think they've got it as a dash line saying that that could possibly be of the future connection in on what we're celebrating this year and how we'd like to celebrate it is a big year for us sixty years ago in one nine hundred fifty seven was when the first library opened under the administration well actually it started in the high school the old high school moving to the old school administration house which was there beneath that was the very first library so lots of changes and you're all invited and i placed invitations there for you sunday october the twenty second we're having a wonderful ice cream social and open house with lots to discover so we hope you can join us for that in addition to celebrating that this year course we're having several we've already had several bestselling authors we have another one coming and i placed her card there for you as well in november jessie is from stanford university graduate of stanford and created the book wrote a book called home going that traces two half sisters through their lives one being sold into the slave trade and one being married and by a slave owners though every other chapter reveals their story and their future generations so it's highly acclaimed many top list of last years though she's coming in november also this year when it was whoever highlights were two of our big grants the thinking money grant that we received in national grants in april and then just recently are world war one and america grant from gilder lehrman that was in august and also probably the most  interesting aspect of this year was that we were noted as the first star library in one the wagon system so washington area fayette green counties and also in the first in allegheny county so team effort on the part of the staff and our programming they set forth a lot of benchmarks so my goal was actually to have received achieve that by we've already achieved it we had to go through steps of receiving a bronze and silver accreditation and then we moved on to to meet all those benchmarks so we have that to celebrate this year as well so how we'd like to celebrate first of all with you know we're having this big community celebration with the community we did this back in twenty sixteen as you recall it was back in february we did in with random act of kindness week which is a national event and we forget that that particular week seven days we forgave approximately three thousand dollars in fines and but more than that what was best was that we received over five hundred overdue items that were returned and there was a lot of good that was generated was created from that in twenty sixteen we had budgeted for twenty thousand dollars in fines that would come in and we had brought in i think you're right we brought in twenty eight thousand two hundred eighty five dollars in fines just in last year so this year we bumped up the anticipated income to thirty thousand and we've already brought in twenty thousand dollars so and we're just into september so i'm asking here on behalf of my staff and the library board to have you consider allowing us to have a fine amnesty week or i know we have brought this back up in february and it was councils opinion to have it more of a random type of event which i understand problem with making it random you don't always have enough time to let people know that all those books that they have that they haven't returned can be returned at no cost to them no shame so there is a benefit to letting them know that that's a possibility there are i was down in nashville the national public library this summer they have done away with fines completely chicago public library as well so it is it is something that communities are exploring and i'm not looking to abandon them completely but i think that this is such a great time to celebrate our community and to a way to give back and to get back and to welcome home those materials that are sitting out there in people's houses and cars or they might be so that is what i'd like to ask tonight that council consider  part of our celebration and ten dollars so ten if you hit ten dollars you are not able to check out your fine and your account is blocked so that's all those people who are going well so four hundred people who were between ten dollars and a penny and fifty dollars that's what the statistic was and there were seventy to seventy people more than fifty dollars in fines so we're looking for those long overdue items most of the time that the ten twenty cents to ten dollars comes back because it's it's really not that much but we would like to be able to obviously offer that incentive in that surprise to the people that come  pleasantly surprised they're ready to get their wallets out guess what you know it's random act of kindness week to pay it forward and you know help somebody else in that way so it was really funny when it wasn't as though you know we did have some people that you know put their things in the book drop and we never saw them and that's ok i understand your point thinking about it is bad behavior however a lot of the people truly find themselves faced with fines just through accidental you know forgetting you know they're on vacation and they took all the d v d s with them and they forgot their library card they can't remove it on line so i mean we hear stories like this and there are times that you know we understand that or some he's been in the hospital or where sometimes they just couldn't find it and then they were afraid to come in for fear of retribution of some sort but we really want to dispel all of that and like i said let people know that we're celebrating and we want them back we went them back in with you know because like i said they had their holding materials that and that question if you want to that time maybe on the wrong foot here of the chief himself has said that he doesn't feel they're a necessary part of the uniform i mean why spend the money moving for i know there are a lot of departments i don't wear them anymore this plea and before it caught the council one of the things that we go this was that this did not permit a connection on to the neighboring property and i realize it's a church that is located here what has been done since then is that this right away has been extended so that in fact given this property ever developed there would be any a chance for a meter connection between the in regard to drainage ways we have an existing drainage way the kurds right along the edge of the problem you live here to the east and we do have the existing pond located along through here which will be preserved in the overall plan know you have a little bit of brick there of essentially just have brick surrounding the garage door mean on the other on the unit on the units with the back entrance garages you have some brick going up on the first floor whereas on these you know and quite honestly i think you needed more on these peak us you have century no brick on the front talks about is the don't want to have your police chief bring your fire chief in that position you want someone else and and the thing we know is that mr mclaughlin is has the training and the experience chambers there's going to be a recognition of the police officers from the various communities that aided in the arrest of the the two individual who had committed from four or five different jurisdictions and like so that's a fun o'clock next monday i'll send remind your to everybody in case some of once the come the other thing is next monday is the first budget us three or four ways in which they believe council should be made to perform and so their department and i would like council could do this think about that and do the same i can tell you from having discussions with apartment heads one of the things they would like from council some clearing you know how you perceive their department into how do you make your individual to be back in time so that we stuck in a hurry somewhere since we're back on the issue of traffic i know a couple years ago before i was on this panel we put a stop sign at the intersection of johnston road and center church there for a while that slowed down the traffic on johnson but i will tell you on the in the last three or four months the number of cars speeding on johnston road has become excessive we had an accident there a couple weeks ago on sunday night kid was driving wasn't paying attention to fast slammed into a tree every day and i take my daughter to  buses cars flying by waving them down i don't know what we can do about it i know at one point there was a proposal to put a traffic island in my front yard which i would support at this point nor to slow it down but i just wanted to bring that there a body tension that though the problem had gone away for a while it's back again officers to make contacts with with citizens and two of the squad have taken that to her and there were eight hundred stops last month and they intend to try to hoarder on top of this and we're going to be sending out a letter shortly asking anyone up for an appointment whether or not they're interested in continuing to serve so that we can do that as we did last year and try to get to the beginning of the year with