COUNCIL — Scranton, PA
Date: 2025-05-21

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 1 COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF SCRANTON

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 GERALD SMURL - PRESIDENT
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 MARK MCANDREW, VICE PRESIDENT
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 JESSICA ROTHCHILD
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 THOMAS SCHUSTER
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 WILLIAM KING
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 FRANK VOLDENBERG, CITY CLERK
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 KATHY CARRERA, ASSISTANT CITY CLERK
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 THOMAS GILBRIDE, ESQ., COUNCIL SOLICITOR
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 1 (Pledge of Allegiance.)

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 3 MR. SMURL: Please remain standing

 4 for a moment of silent reflection for our

 5 service men and women throughout the world and

 6 for those who have passed away in our

 7 community, especially Vince Narcoonis, Angela

 8 Glazer and William Lavelle. Thank you. Roll

 9 call, please.

10 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King.

11 MR. KING: Present.

12 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Schuster.

13 MR. SCHUSTER: Present.

14 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild.

15 DR. ROTHCHILD: Here.

16 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew.

17 MR. MCANDREW: Present.

18 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl.

19 MR. SMURL: Here. Dispense with the

20 reading of the minutes.

21 MR. VOLDENBERG: THIRD ORDER.

22 3-A. SINGLE TAX OFFICE CITY FUNDS

23 DISTRIBUTED COMPARISON REPORT FOR YEAR-TO-DATE

24 MAY 2, 2025 AND YEAR-TO-YEAR COMPARISON REPORT

25 FOR MAY 3, 2024 THROUGH MAY 2, 2025.
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 1 MR. SMURL: Are there any comments

 2 on any of the Third Order items? If not,

 3 received and filed. Do any Council members

 4 have any announcements at this time?

 5 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes, I have two

 6 announcements. So this Saturday the Northeast

 7 PA Armed Forces Day Parade will take place in

 8 downtown Scranton. It kicks off at 11 a.m. at

 9 Gino Merli Veterans Center. It's going to end

10 at the courthouse square. So it kicks off at

11 11:00.

12 And then next week there's going to

13 be regular trash and refuse pickup for Election

14 Day as DPW will be working.

15 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Anyone else?

16 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you.

17 DR. ROTHCHILD: I have one as well.

18 On Saturday, June 7th beginning at 10 a.m.,

19 NeighborWorks is going to have their West

20 Scranton Garbage Olympics which they've been

21 doing for several years now and I've been able

22 to be a part of in the past.

23 And I think it's just a really great

24 event, a great opportunity to be involved in a

25 cleanup. And there's -- I feel like that
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 1 competition factor. There's that too because

 2 there's prizes depending on if you have the

 3 largest team or the amount of garbage that you

 4 are able to pick up within the timeframe and

 5 then usually have a little party back at

 6 headquarters afterwards to celebrate.

 7 So if you would like to join in on

 8 that, you could go through NeighborWorks. It's

 9 also part of the Scranton City Pride Project.

10 So you could go to Scranton City Pride.org to

11 find out more as well.

12 And they will be meeting at

13 NeighborWorks office which is at 815 Smith

14 Street in Scranton. And that's once again,

15 Saturday, June 7th. Thank you.

16 MR. SMURL: Thank you.

17 MR. MCANDREW: Yeah, I have a quick

18 one. So being National Police week, I want to

19 thank the brave men and women of the Scranton

20 Police Department that protect and serve us

21 every day.

22 And I'd also like to extend the same

23 thank you to all the brave men and women of the

24 other police departments in local

25 municipalities.
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 1 Secondly, the Victor Alfieri Club in

 2 West Scranton will be having a spaghetti

 3 dinner. It's going to be Wednesday, May 14th

 4 and Thursday, May 15th. So this isn't their

 5 lunch. This is their dinner. It's for take

 6 out or eat in.

 7 Both days will be from -- 5 p.m.

 8 will be take out. From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. you

 9 could also eat in and take out. It's $12 for

10 adults and $15 for children. And that is all I

11 have. Thank you.

12 MR. SMURL: Thank you. The

13 Residential Electronic Recycling Event is this

14 Saturday, May 17th from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., at

15 Scranton High School, 63 Munchak Way. You

16 could go on the Scranton website and visit

17 Scranton PA.gov recycling.

18 And you could register on that to

19 get a $30 discount off of your entire dropoff

20 that you are donating. Registration is

21 required as space is limited. And it is only

22 open to Scranton residents. We will put this

23 on our website, Frank, so we can advertise it?

24 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, sir.

25 MR. SMURL: Okay. Thank you.
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 1 MR. VOLDENBERG: FOURTH ORDER.

 2 CITIZENS PARTICIPATION.

 3 MR. SMURL: First, Joan Hodowanitz.

 4 MS. HODOWANITZ: Joan Hodowanitz,

 5 Scranton, correct me if I'm wrong, but next

 6 Tuesday, isn't that election -- Primary

 7 Election Day?

 8 MR. SMURL: What was that?

 9 MS. HODOWANITZ: Are you going to

10 reschedule the Council meeting?

11 MR. SMURL: Yes, we are rescheduled

12 to Thursday.

13 MS. HODOWANITZ: Thursday at the

14 same time.

15 MR. SMURL: Same time, yes.

16 MS. HODOWANITZ: Okay. All right.

17 And I hope everybody that is registered does go

18 out to vote. Also, on Saturday from 10 to 3:30

19 in the afternoon, the Public Library is having

20 a sidewalk book sale right in front of the

21 Albright Memorial Library.

22 So come early, go get your books and

23 head on down to the parade. It ought to be a

24 good time. And as you notice, I'm starting to

25 wear my Swingin on Vine T-shirt. Friday, May
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 1 23rd at 5 p.m. is Swingin on Vine which is the

 2 library's major fundraising event right in

 3 front of the library on Vine Street.

 4 I believe the band again is Picture

 5 Perfect. And it's 21 and over because there

 6 will be alcohol. So if you're a downtown

 7 resident like I am, you could drink to your

 8 heart's delight and walk on home.

 9 I'm sure all the -- our friendly

10 police department will take care of us.

11 Speaking of taking care, are we still in

12 negotiations for DPW's collective bargaining

13 agreement?

14 MR. SMURL: I asked yesterday. And

15 there is a day scheduled for them to begin

16 again.

17 MS. HODOWANITZ: Okay. And May 31st

18 is just around the corner. If we were adhering

19 to the Home Rule Charter, that would be

20 drop-dead date for the 2024 audit. And I know

21 we're not going to make that milestone. But

22 are they working up in the BA's office

23 feverishly on pulling together the data for the

24 audit?

25 MR. SMURL: Absolutely, yes.
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 1 MS. HODOWANITZ: Okay. That's

 2 great. I noticed on the agenda looking at the

 3 backup that several of the resolutions were

 4 tied into the 2026 federal appropriations

 5 committee project funding. And they are all

 6 worthy projects, Pine Brook, Pittston Avenue,

 7 so on and so forth even the Emergency Operation

 8 Center; and that's fine.

 9 But I'm not all -- I'm not all that

10 confident that federal funding can be assured

11 after what happened with BRIC. Have you had

12 any information or update on that they might

13 give us something after taking away the BRIC

14 money?

15 MR. SMURL: Nothing at all.

16 MS. HODOWANITZ: Okay. In speaking

17 of the 2026 projects, this Emergency Operation

18 Center, you know, I get terribly confused

19 because I go back several years to the Serrenti

20 Center.

21 And I remember them mentioning that

22 that might become an emergency operations

23 center. So we're going to go now with the one

24 from Career Technology Center's property,

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 1 MR. SMURL: Correct.

 2 MS. HODOWANITZ: And is this a

 3 backup or is this aligned in any way with the

 4 county's emergency operations center in Jessup?

 5 MR. SMURL: Well, actually, Joan,

 6 it's mostly it's our fire department and

 7 training like that and try to bring the

 8 students across to that to -- into that

 9 program.

10 MS. HODOWANITZ: I was just

11 wondering because, you know, Scranton is the

12 largest municipality, should something happen

13 to the emergency operation center in Jessup,

14 maybe the two of you can work together in an

15 MOU that one can support the other in some

16 event. You never know.

17 MR. MCANDREW: That might be a

18 possibility.

19 MS. HODOWANITZ: Yeah. And, you

20 know, you hear very often about how the

21 Scranton Times-Tribune has deteriorated to a

22 great degree since it was sold and it's gotten

23 thinner and shorter and far less local

24 coverage.

25 But every once in a while the paper
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 1 will surprise you like on May 10th there were

 2 three things. Under the news feed, US Poet

 3 laureate criticize Trump's firing of the

 4 Librarian of Congress, number one. So they

 5 fired the Librarian of Congress.

 6 Then the Pentagon directed the

 7 military to pull all books -- library books

 8 that had anything to do with DEI, okay. But

 9 the kicker was today in history 1933, book

10 burnings were held in 34 cities across Germany.

11 This is all on May 10th. That was 1934. The

12 others are now. That made me get chills up and

13 down my spine. I don't know about you. Thank

14 you.

15 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Joan.

16 Angela Ramone. Angela?

17 MS. RAMONE: I just want to make

18 sure that everyone in the audience can hear me.

19 I was told last time I spoke I was a little too

20 far away from the microphone. So can I get a

21 thumbs up from the back? All good.

22 All right. So to begin, I would

23 like to talk a little bit about what some other

24 people here earlier were discussing about our

25 roads. And something I didn't hear come up
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 1 when it comes to all the damage that

 2 accumulates on our roads is that most of it is

 3 done by personal vehicles, by cars, by pickup

 4 trucks, by SUVs because the City of Scranton

 5 for decades now has done all of their city

 6 planning around the idea that we must sprawl

 7 out in our development and all new development

 8 should be centered around the use of personal

 9 vehicles as opposed to any other modes of

10 transportation, such as, walking, biking, using

11 public transit, such as, buses or trolleys.

12 And that adds a significant amount

13 of wear and tear onto our roads and a

14 significant tax burden to our residents to

15 maintain them. So a suggestion that I would

16 like to make that I did not hear today is that

17 for many of the roads within Scranton -- I know

18 some are owned by PennDOT so there's

19 restrictions on what the city can do with

20 those; but even for many city-owned roads they

21 are often far too wide for the purposes that

22 they are being used for.

23 Take South Washington Avenue, for

24 example, I don't recall if that is PennDOT

25 owned or city owned. But anyone who has driven
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 1 on that road is aware that it's very difficult

 2 to even know if you are in the correct lane

 3 because of the way that the road is like, what,

 4 80 feet wide, right, and you have people

 5 essentially driving one lane in each direction

 6 on this 80 foot wide road.

 7 And then the city still has to pay

 8 to maintain all of that. It's an excessive

 9 burden on us. And we should really be focusing

10 on allowing that road to be used for all sorts

11 of other purposes besides just personal

12 vehicles.

13 In addition, in order to encourage

14 the use of other modes of transportation, the

15 city should consider allowing different modes

16 of development outside of just single family

17 homes. I'm aware that with the new zoning

18 ordinances passed the past couple years, the

19 city has allowed for slightly more dense

20 development in certain pockets of the city.

21 But it's not nearly enough to meet

22 the demand for housing that the city has. We

23 have been at a shortage for many, many years.

24 It's caused an undue burden on everyone living

25 in the city with the increasing cost of
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 1 housing.

 2 And we do deserve to have different

 3 options available for housing to meet our

 4 various needs. So that's the main thing I

 5 wanted to discuss today. And for another point

 6 unrelated, I do recall the last time I was here

 7 I asked each and every one of you about your

 8 commitments to protecting the rights of LGBT

 9 residents within Scranton.

10 And since then I'm sure many of you

11 are aware State Senator Marty Flynn had decided

12 to vote yes on SB9 which is a bill that would

13 ban transgender athletes from competing in

14 sports cross Pennsylvania and would require

15 genital inspections for any player that is

16 accused of being transgender, specifically

17 playing in women's sports.

18 This bill is incredibly, incredibly

19 invasive and disgusting and hurtful, not just

20 to transgender athletes in Pennsylvania which

21 there aren't many to be very clear. It hurts

22 everyone that wants to participate in sports

23 across our Commonwealth.

24 So with that in mind, I've heard

25 that Tom Schuster has received campaign
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 1 donations from Marty Flynn. And I would like

 2 clarification from you on whether or not those

 3 donations are received from Marty Flynn and

 4 irrespective of that, if you are willing to

 5 openly condemn his decision to vote yes on SB9

 6 in light of you stating your commitment to

 7 protecting all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and

 8 trans residents of Scranton. Thank you very

 9 much for your time. Have a good night.

10 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Bob Bolus.

11 MR. BOLUS: Good evening, Council,

12 Bob Bolus, Scranton. You know, listening to

13 some of the crazy stuff around here once in a

14 while; but first off, I am running for Mayor in

15 Scranton as a Republican write-in.

16 I was taken off the ballot by a

17 rhino Charlie Spano. However, I'm up for

18 expungement and it will be granted. And I will

19 be able to take the seat in November if

20 elected. So I want to set that very clear.

21 I filed suits recently on the tax

22 assessment and the tax increase. What have the

23 other candidates done? I haven't seen anybody

24 file a lawsuit that gives a damn about the

25 people in the city or the community other than
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 1 here we are a few weeks to election and all of

 2 a sudden everybody is doing something.

 3 I've been coming here for how many

 4 years in defense of City of Scranton.

 5 Thirty-one years I do a dinner. I don't pat

 6 myself on the back. I'm a Scrantonian. And

 7 that's an important thing to me. You know, I

 8 filed a federal lawsuit to have the officials

 9 that are going to El Salvador to bring the scum

10 back here that they pay out of their own

11 pockets if they want to go.

12 But you don't represent this

13 country. And any money that we did spend, we

14 want it back. If you want to come to this

15 country, you come in here legally. And if you

16 can't, too damn bad. I want to see an ICE

17 office here in the City of Scranton.

18 I want to let them know if you're

19 here illegal, you're getting the hell out of

20 here. You want to come here, come through

21 legally, come through honestly. If you don't,

22 you're getting the hell out of here. I intend

23 to make our police force a reckon to be --

24 nobody will want to come here.

25 They'll have the resources. They'll
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 1 have everything they need. I see stuff going

 2 on today. Why wasn't it done a long time ago?

 3 Where is the legislation been here? It's been

 4 all BS. You know, when you turn around and you

 5 sit here and look, I ask you guys to get rid of

 6 the Biden signs.

 7 Well, if I get elected Mayor in the

 8 City of Scranton, those damn signs are going

 9 down ASAP because it's a disgrace. It's a

10 humiliation. The scum we have coming into this

11 city, thank you, Joe Biden. What's in El

12 Salvador, belongs in El Salvador, not our

13 officials going there saying we want to bring

14 you back into the United States.

15 If they like it so much, let them

16 stay the hell over there if you don't like our

17 country anymore. That flag would have our vets

18 this coming weekend. All of those that didn't

19 come home gave it all so we could sit here

20 today so I could stand here, so other

21 candidates could stand here.

22 Our fellow vets gave it all. And if

23 anybody is to be honored in this country it's

24 them. And as far as men in women's supports,

25 adamantly opposed. If you don't like it, it's
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 1 too damn bad. That's your gender. That's

 2 where you belong in it. If you can't compete

 3 there and you lose and you can't win, that's

 4 too bad.

 5 But don't take on women because you

 6 think you're a tough guy. It's not the way it

 7 is. And it's not the way it will ever be. You

 8 know, what makes this here Scranton, all you

 9 guys are here. It makes it personal. People

10 say why are you running for Mayor again? Why

11 are you going through this, because this is my

12 city.

13 This is where I'm born and raised.

14 This is where our companies have been here for

15 almost 100 years. I raised my family here.

16 And I'm not going to sit back and get bullied

17 by people like Spano or the rest of them. They

18 can't come out and do what I'm trying to do or

19 what we're trying to do here.

20 We're looking at four years. Now

21 they're paving the streets. Where have they

22 been? Where's everybody been? If Scranton

23 wants to change, you got to make it happen.

24 You lead by example. You could leave the BS

25 outside. I lead by example.
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 1 I'm not for sale. You don't

 2 intimidate me. And you'll never own me, not

 3 when it comes to my city. And I've defended

 4 this city from day one and I'll continue until

 5 the day I die. My parents are buried in the

 6 city, my grandparents.

 7 Those that came here, they came here

 8 legally. That's a big word, legally. I'm

 9 asking anybody out there that sees this today

10 I'm wearing my shirt that says Scranton's next

11 Mayor, Bob Bolus. If you want a change in the

12 City of Scranton, as a Republican write-in

13 write in Bob Bolus.

14 And you'll have a city that you wish

15 somebody else did in the past. But as I stand

16 here, Scranton will be a new city if I'm

17 elected Mayor in the city.

18 MR. SMURL: Thank you.

19 MR. BOLUS: Thank you, gentlemen.

20 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Bolus.

21 Chris Matthew.

22 MR. MATTHEWS: Hi, Chris Matthews

23 from up in the Yesu development. I e-mailed

24 all of you multiple times. Jerry, Tom, thank

25 you for getting back to me about this property
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 1 damage. I have a substantial amount of damage

 2 to my property, at least well over $100,000

 3 all because of a 5 foot section of curb that

 4 has been never put in by the city during the

 5 paving project causing all the water to come

 6 off the road right onto my neighbor's sidewalk

 7 which goes underground and comes onto my

 8 property.

 9 Now, my -- at first it was just

10 property. It was just my yard. It was my wall

11 shifting. My roof has now begun to fall off my

12 front porch. And I have been since February

13 20th, contacted the city about this and March

14 3rd.

15 February 20th and March 3rd, DPW

16 arrived out to my house with a backhoe just to

17 tell me that they are not allowed to do any

18 type of work on East Mountain whatsoever that

19 they were getting instructed by someone --

20 someone in city. I cannot find out by who

21 until a water table study is done, which also I

22 cannot find any information.

23 No one has come to my property to do

24 a water table study. My water level in the

25 ground in my house is -- I have nine other
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 1 properties around me also being destroyed by

 2 virtually underground stream which comes

 3 through my property, filters around my pool and

 4 goes into -- I lost -- my neighbors lost two

 5 trees got uprooted.

 6 Their properties are sinking with

 7 cracks in their ceilings and their foundations.

 8 They pump out water constantly. And the

 9 stormwater study that HRG and the engineers did

10 for the stormwater determined that there is

11 water coming out of the ground over near the

12 fire station next to the culvert that runs from

13 Robinson Park, the runoff, which I found and

14 it's just ground water -- there's just a

15 question mark on it.

16 No one knows where it's coming from.

17 No one bothered to look at it. I believe that

18 this water is what's coming through the whole

19 neighborhood, at least -- at least nine

20 properties I know of. I've counted two dozen

21 sinkholes, over a dozen in my yard alone.

22 Yeah, my backyard is completely

23 sinking. I'm losing my back roof. I'm losing

24 my front roof. March 10th is when I e-mailed

25 everybody. And I was told -- Jerry said you
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 1 were giving this over to the business agent, I

 2 believe.

 3 And then city engineering was

 4 supposed to get in contact with me. By 9:00

 5 that night, I got -- that was at 8:00 at night.

 6 9:00 at night I got an e-mail from Scranton 311

 7 stating that this determination is naturally

 8 hydronic pressure from ground water and the

 9 city's not going to do anything about it.

10 Hydronic pressure has nothing to do

11 with groundwater. Hydronic pressure's in

12 pipes. And the only person that ever told me

13 that was Steve Teaman who is a highway

14 supervisor. No way, shape or form as his words

15 exactly is he is not an engineer.

16 He cannot make that determination

17 whatsoever. But yet somehow in between the

18 hour of eight and nine when the last thing you

19 said to me, Jerry, was you'll pass this over to

20 the city engineering.

21 I inquired about it April 3rd. I

22 have not got any type of information, no

23 engineer showed up to my house. I need to know

24 the process to find out that determination

25 within an hour of e-mails, like, that -- that's
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 1 my big question is how that determination was

 2 done within 8:14 e-mailing everyone on Council

 3 until 9:14 getting that determination.

 4 And now there is like every rain

 5 fall, every rain fall my property just keeps

 6 sinking. There's telephone poles. The

 7 telephone poles are falling down. All the

 8 utilities running to all the houses are being

 9 eaten away by underground water erosion.

10 It is clearly underground water

11 erosion because we have exposed roots. We have

12 sinkholes. And it follows all the utilities

13 where there are pipes into all houses up there

14 because I have nine -- nine houses I found that

15 have this extensive damage.

16 What just happened in Honesdale last

17 week with the storms, that is imminent up there

18 because everything is running obviously

19 downstream. And in the stormwater report,

20 nobody looked at the Yesu development

21 whatsoever, went right around it, went Cherry

22 Street where they're getting -- and down

23 Florida Avenue is getting flooded.

24 East Mountain, those houses are

25 getting flooded from what -- the report has a
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 1 question mark on they just don't know where the

 2 groundwater is coming from. So I believe I

 3 know where this groundwater is coming from. I

 4 believe it's starting on my property because I

 5 have so much damage to my property alone. And

 6 like I said, there's at least nine different

 7 properties up there all behind me.

 8 MR. MCANDREW: Excuse me, Mr.

 9 Matthews -- is it Matthew or Matthews?

10 MR. MATTHEWS: Matthews --

11 M-A-T-T-H-E-W-S.

12 MR. MCANDREW: How long are you

13 living there?

14 MR. MATTHEWS: I've been up there

15 for seven years. I've owned it for five.

16 MR. MCANDREW: So all of this damage

17 is recent and you believe it's because improper

18 paving or the curb. Is that --

19 MR. MATTHEWS: Yeah, I mean, I have

20 the pictures here.

21 MR. MCANDREW: No, I understand. I

22 saw your e-mail, but I thought there was --

23 MR. MATTHEWS: This --

24 MR. MCANDREW: I did see your

25 e-mail. And I thought it was being taken care
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 1 of because of the response. So -- but I'm

 2 curious as to --

 3 MR. KING: -- looked into it, right?

 4 MR. SMURL: Yes, if I could explain

 5 this, I did speak to administration about this

 6 because it was a big concern, not only of his

 7 but other people up there.

 8 The City Engineer was up there

 9 twice. I have not seen the report. But I know

10 they were there twice. And I know our DPW

11 Director was there and every supervisor from

12 DPW was up there.

13 MR. MATTHEWS: On my property.

14 MR. SMURL: Not on your property.

15 They went up to look at whatever the situation

16 was that you reported. So I have not seen the

17 report from them. But I guess we will ask for

18 it or -- and see what it is. But the City

19 Engineer was there twice.

20 MR. MATTHEWS: I phoned the City

21 Engineer today and they did not give me any

22 information on that. I talked to them --

23 MR. SMURL: Well, I don't know if

24 the City Engineer --

25 MR. MATTHEWS: I talked to Tom.
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 1 MR. SMURL: -- will tell you

 2 anything. You've got to go through the city.

 3 I will find out tomorrow and see if there is a

 4 report or if there is some kind of information

 5 that they have on this. But I know they've

 6 been there.

 7 MR. MATTHEWS: All right. But, I

 8 mean, you know, my house is being destroyed.

 9 While this process -- while this process is

10 taking so long, all of these people were there,

11 they should notice that this is underground

12 water erosion.

13 MR. SMURL: Yeah, I'm not an

14 engineer so I don't know. But we will ask

15 again for you. Okay.

16 MR. SCHUSTER: So, Mr. Voldenberg,

17 did we have any updates?

18 MR. VOLDENBERG: We did reach out

19 today and requested that the DPW Director and

20 supervisor call and meet with Mr. Matthews.

21 MR. SCHUSTER: Can we get -- can you

22 leave all of your contact information with

23 Alison here?

24 MR. MATTHEWS: Absolutely.

25 MR. SMURL: We have e-mails from
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 1 him.

 2 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll ask them to

 3 include the City Engineer tomorrow.

 4 MR. SMURL: Ron Ellman.

 5 MR. ELLMAN: Good evening, Council.

 6 You people -- the residents, not you all, just

 7 don't read the handwriting on the wall. Last

 8 month I related standing right here that the

 9 overpaid prima donnas that we consider the

10 zoning board have brought up a solar farm right

11 inside river city here.

12 It seems like there wasn't no

13 interest in it, so it passed. Then the doo-doo

14 hit the fan. These residents realized what

15 they're going to be looking at the rest of

16 their lives. They realize their home values

17 just fell in half of what the reassessments

18 have.

19 These reassessments, no wonder

20 there's thousands of people crying about it.

21 My insurance told me I stood here like a year

22 ago and told you what my reassessment would be

23 and anybody said it couldn't happen.

24 My insurance had it a year ago. And

25 they sent me in my reassessment, they said by
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 1 the board foot -- my house could be completely

 2 built $25,000 cheaper than the reassessment.

 3 These people were from out of town. They had

 4 no interest whatsoever in the city.

 5 This was a big huge waste of energy

 6 and money. Well, I guess it was two weeks ago

 7 this same bunch, this mob of useless, worthless

 8 employees of the city voted on making 4

 9 properties into 10.

10 If you think I'm lying, go read the

11 paper about the last reassessment meeting.

12 Four properties into 10, can you imagine? Ten

13 rooms of undesirables like Bob was talking

14 about filling up our city, maybe ten cars that

15 are always illegal parked on the sidewalk so

16 your children and pedestrians can't use them,

17 just exactly what's happening in my

18 neighborhood for years.

19 Nobody in this government cared.

20 Well, you know, in my wanderings every day I

21 talk to probably in the last month 15, 20

22 people. And nobody was overwhelmed by the

23 candidates. And the general feeling is that

24 Cognetti will reign over us again.

25 You know, she favors non-profits
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 1 galore. You saw that when Geisinger's problem

 2 come up. She would like to see a nonprofit

 3 college town, a nonprofit medical center on the

 4 backs of who? On the backs of some low income

 5 people that still are lucky enough to have

 6 their houses and some seniors that are holding

 7 onto their property. It's a shame.

 8 The plan would be raise taxes again

 9 like always. Nobody has any kind of plan

10 whatsoever except raise taxes. I'll tell you,

11 before it's all over, this newspaper will have

12 to be twice as thick to handle all the

13 foreclosures and sheriff sales on Fridays.

14 Thank you.

15 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Ellman.

16 Rick Sabetta.

17 MR. SABETTA: Hello, distinguished

18 members of Council, woman. Just to refresh,

19 I'm the property owner of 423-427 10th Avenue.

20 My name is Richard Sabetta. April 29, two

21 weeks ago Tuesday I was at City Council

22 concerning a property in rear adjoining mine.

23 It was in the process of collapsing.

24 This was a followup of four written official

25 complaints to the City Clerk right outside here
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 1 and two prior visits to City Council. Now two

 2 weeks ago I was up here. I'm sure you

 3 remember.

 4 And I said this building is ready to

 5 fall down. And I hate to refer to it as a

 6 garage because the dimensions were

 7 approximately 30 by 50 by 30. It's a big

 8 structure with an attached 30 foot wooden

 9 telephone pole.

10 Well, needless to say at Council I

11 was told somebody would get back to me within

12 two days. That was April 29th. And then on

13 May 7th, the building actually collapsed.

14 Scranton Police, fire, EMS, city engineers

15 responded.

16 They issued, I guess, emergency

17 declaration for bid to remove the debris that

18 had fallen. Luckily by the grace of God it

19 fell the most perfect way totally forward onto

20 Aswell Court so no one was damaged as far as

21 life or even minimal adjoining property damage.

22 Okay, so that was done. Now the

23 information I received and I don't know how

24 accurate it is, is there were three bids. One

25 was for 10,000, one was for 14, and one was for
 31

 1 17. Well, the bid was awarded to the person

 2 for 10,000. It was REL. I don't know if I'm

 3 allowed to say that. No problem.

 4 They came and they removed it. The

 5 problem that exists now is the foundation of

 6 the garage was abating a retaining wall on my

 7 property. I guess they did the best they

 8 could. But when they removed it, the bulldozer

 9 or whatever actually took down part of this

10 retaining wall.

11 So now I'm left with my retaining

12 wall which is approximately 12 feet and the

13 property is sloped with the height of --

14 varying from about 3 to 6 feet. Now, the dirt

15 from my yard is literally 180 degree dropoff.

16 And there's nothing holding it back.

17 So now we have the problem of soil

18 erosion. Naturally it's going to fall. And

19 there's two trees just sitting there with the

20 roots partially exposed. Now, of course, kids

21 are playing there again.

22 And now we're going to have, like,

23 maybe 70 cinderblocks that are sitting there

24 with the impact force of disturbed two trees

25 ready to come over. Based on the action from
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 1 two weeks ago, nothing was done to correct what

 2 was a hazardous situation.

 3 And now we have a retaining wall.

 4 So it's both a safety issue. And secondly, I'm

 5 going to have major soil erosion very shortly.

 6 I come asking what type of followup do I get or

 7 what should I do?

 8 MR. SMURL: Well, I could explain to

 9 you a bit because I did have a meeting with our

10 Business Administrator today about yours

11 because I did ask about that wall. And the

12 emergency declaration was signed the day before

13 it caved in. It fell down.

14 So the contractor was already hired.

15 As far as the wall, I don't know. Did you say

16 it's the wall on your property or is it the

17 wall belonged to that structure that was

18 removed?

19 MR. SABETTA: On my property.

20 MR. SMURL: So it is your wall.

21 MR. SABETTA: Yes.

22 MR. SMURL: So it is your wall.

23 Okay, so that was the first thing they had to

24 find out who owned the wall, okay? And then I

25 said, well, what will we -- what can the city
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 1 do since, you know, we removed all the other

 2 stuff.

 3 And we really didn't come up with a

 4 plan except that they will send this week the

 5 City Engineer up and look at it and see if the

 6 city could do anything to, I guess, to support

 7 or brace the wall. I did not see it. So I

 8 don't know exactly what it looks like. But

 9 that's what I was told about three hours ago.

10 MR. SABETTA: And during the

11 collapse, correct me if I'm mispronouncing the

12 names, but I believe her name was -- her last

13 name was Frable. I apologize for not

14 remembering the first. I believe she was in

15 OECD, whatever.

16 And there was a person -- a

17 gentleman by the name Connors from Scranton

18 Redevelopment and city engineers. They took

19 many pictures including, I guess, is a

20 publicist or a PR person that does video,

21 photographer. He was there, a young gentleman.

22 He has it all.

23 So there's numerous, numerous

24 pictures taken of the problem and both

25 Mr. Connors and Miss Frable addressed it. They
 34

 1 said, yes, something has to be done with that

 2 wall because that whole dirt is going to fall.

 3 MR. SMURL: Okay. I didn't hear

 4 about it until, like, this morning. And I did

 5 have a meeting this afternoon. So they will

 6 contact you and come up and look at it.

 7 MR. SABETTA: And the second issue

 8 like we mentioned last week, now we have the

 9 house that belonged to that garage, that's

10 falling down. And now the City Engineer

11 himself said --

12 MR. SMURL: Last two weeks ago you

13 asked me about the house. I did as much as I

14 could to get that moved. So now we'll move on

15 the wall. And then I will see what we could do

16 about the other structure. Thank you.

17 MR. SABETTA: Okay. I appreciate

18 anything you could do. Thanks.

19 MR. SMURL: Lynn Labrosky.

20 MS. LABROSKY: Good evening,

21 Council, Lynn Labrosky, homeowner, business

22 owner, lifelong resident and taxpayer. So what

23 I wanted to talk about tonight was the primary

24 election is a week away. As some of you are

25 well aware, I'm running for Scranton Mayor, a
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 1 Republican ballot candidate.

 2 I just want to remind anyone out

 3 there that is a registered Democrat who will

 4 receive a Democrat ballot that they can write

 5 me in as a Republican candidate on their

 6 Democrat ballot. And anyone -- a Republican

 7 can write on a Democrat.

 8 A lot of people that I talk to

 9 weren't aware of that. And I just wanted to

10 put that out there. I had a woman the other

11 day that said she already mailed in. She would

12 have written me in had she known. So I just

13 wanted to put that out there and also mention

14 that the last day to request the mail-in is

15 today.

16 So if you need to do that, you

17 should go online and do that today. The other

18 thing I wanted to talk about was that being

19 new to politics I filed my first campaign

20 finance report and so did the other ballot

21 candidates.

22 So I found it very interesting. And

23 by the way, this is public information. Anyone

24 that wants to look at campaign finance reports

25 for any candidate can call Lackawanna County
 36

 1 Voter Registration and they could request that

 2 information.

 3 The people down there are very nice

 4 and they would gladly e-mail that to you. It

 5 was pretty astonishing to me to see what some

 6 of the candidates are spending on their

 7 campaign. So when I first decided to run for

 8 Mayor I was told by my own party that if I ran

 9 opposed in a primary I would need $350,000 to

10 beat my opponent.

11 I think that's insane. So I guess

12 from what I gathered looking at the campaign

13 finance reports, Paige Cognetti was on top for

14 the most donations. And it might be

15 interesting to some people out there listening

16 that a lot of her donations came from area law

17 makers, progressive packs.

18 And over $22,000 of her donations

19 came from out of state donors, donors that are

20 not even in the State of Pennsylvania. And

21 then another 14,000 was a loan to her campaign

22 from herself.

23 So I found that very interesting.

24 Most of her expenses were spent on consulting.

25 The other mayoral candidate, Trish Beynon, her
 37

 1 campaign took in $88,000 and spent 86,000 on

 2 mostly advertising. And her funding came

 3 from -- she self-funded as loans to the

 4 campaign. And also her money was spent on

 5 mostly on advertising.

 6 Bob Sheridan, his campaign took in

 7 $62,000 and 47,000 of that was spent on mostly

 8 advertising. And again, same as with Trish

 9 Beynon, his campaign was mostly self-funded

10 through loans to the campaign. And there was a

11 few local donors. So he actually did get quite

12 a few local donors.

13 Lynn Labrosky's campaign raised

14 approximately $9,000, spent less than 8,000.

15 And most of those donations were in-kind

16 donations. My business did loan $3,000 to my

17 campaign, which I did as a gamble because I

18 don't expect to pay that back.

19 So my campaign is grass roots. And

20 up until now, I've been sacrificing. I have

21 been working hard budgeting every penny trying

22 to get out there on the radio, City Council,

23 volunteering, things I've done for many years,

24 social media, door knocking, phone calls, etc.

25 I certainly don't have 88,0000,
 38

 1 72,000 or $47,000 to spend on a primary

 2 election. So again, I ask everybody out there

 3 to please get out and vote next Tuesday. It's

 4 so important to vote local. I just want to

 5 remind everyone that in the last local election

 6 which made me really want to run was the voter

 7 turnout.

 8 So only 13,500 people out of 47,000

 9 registered voters participated in the last

10 municipal election. And that was actually the

11 general election. So I think, you know, our

12 city needs to get rid of wasteful spending. I

13 think it lacks leadership and common sense

14 decisions.

15 And that's what kept me motivated.

16 Somebody told me once that prayers cannot win

17 an election. But God is good and he's mighty

18 and he's in control. So I disagree with that

19 wholeheartedly. And again, May 20th is the

20 primary. I want to make sure everybody gets

21 out to the poles and makes their voice heard.

22 So I appreciate your time. Thank you, Council.

23 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mrs.

24 Labrosky. Rik Little.

25 MR. LITTLE: Hello. I'm Rik Little.
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 1 And I am an Independent candidate for Mayor of

 2 Scranton, Pennsylvania. I'd like to talk

 3 tonight how America's divided into 3,144

 4 counties. All the corruption starts in each

 5 one of these counties, drug trafficking,

 6 pedophilia, sex trafficking, corrupt judges,

 7 corrupt police, corrupt sheriffs, corrupt

 8 district attorneys, and corrupt attorney

 9 generals, regional attorney generals.

10 Everything has become a matter of

11 law. And I think that's evident in this county

12 where the -- Judge Nealon suddenly is a County

13 Commissioner working in the Election Board

14 because all of this -- everything hinges on who

15 gets elected in the democracy.

16 But democracy has gone way haywire

17 in the last decade. And it's got to stop.

18 And it is stopping. I mean, just look at

19 Nashville's Mayor who tried -- tried some

20 shenanigans and, you know, I know this isn't a

21 sanctuary city. But I know in Scranton

22 Housing, a lot of people -- they're filling up

23 the building, emptying out the building,

24 filling up the building.

25 But they're filling them up with
 40

 1 Democrat voters. I lived there for 14 and a

 2 half years. So Scranton Housing Authority

 3 spends about six figures every month on what

 4 they call delinquents. So they just pick a

 5 person and call them a delinquent. It's

 6 usually an elderly disabled person or just a

 7 person they don't want living in their little

 8 private hotel Scranton Housing Authority, which

 9 is federally funded.

10 And it's a fiefdom onto its own,

11 which is against the lease that they give you.

12 It's supposed to be a HUD lease, you know, when

13 something -- something goes wrong, it's

14 supposed to go under the 1951 Landlord Tenant

15 Act. But they don't do that. They have their

16 own judges in there, their own magistrates.

17 Each month they pay -- they have a

18 magistrate fee. I'll get to that, you know.

19 And there's no privacy in there. They just --

20 they just walk into your room. They

21 confiscated my stuff for two and a half years.

22 And they could do this and they could say to

23 you, well, if you don't like it, why don't you

24 move?

25 But it's just really stealing Social
 41

 1 Security. And there's so much money involved

 2 in the whole thing. The Treasurer's report of

 3 Scranton Housing Authority available -- should

 4 be available to you. The minutes have always

 5 come to you.

 6 Now it's on Electric City TV was,

 7 you know, you know, they have balances in their

 8 checking and money market accounts for 1

 9 million 269 dollars 653 dollars and 62 cents,

10 over a million dollars investments.

11 So I guess they, you know, all of

12 this money comes in. It's called Scranton

13 Housing Authority. Scranton has lost housing.

14 There's a housing problem. And this is exactly

15 where it went to the people that are running

16 the board, the DAs and their connection with

17 the police and the courts.

18 I mean, I'm reading from the

19 transcript of the April -- April 7th, 2025,

20 Scranton Housing Authority meeting. In March

21 there were 326 delinquents. And that -- they

22 spent 231 thousand dollars -- 231 thousand

23 dollars, 182 and then in February 252 thousand

24 dollars, and in January 286 thousand dollars.

25 But this is never reflected in the
 42

 1 public of what housing is available. They

 2 empty it. And yet the thing for open

 3 apartments for the elderly, the poor, it's not

 4 reported.

 5 MR. SMURL: Thank you.

 6 MR. LITTLE: You have to look into

 7 that.

 8 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Little.

 9 Dave Dobrzyn.

10 MR. DOBRZYN: Good evening, Council,

11 Dave Dobrzyn, resident, taxpayer. I've been

12 riding around the city at different places and

13 it's pretty much the same all over. The pave

14 cuts are not filled with the grooves.

15 They do a third rate job filling

16 them up. And I don't expect them to pave every

17 street every time they have to make a dig. But

18 there and again, it's leaving room for water to

19 get down in. And you get a little ice, it

20 expands. It contracts. And the next thing you

21 know, the street's pushed up.

22 So we really need to clamp down on

23 this and get that corrected because it

24 generally contributes to the road dilapidating

25 over time. And they're ripping us off the
 43

 1 people that are digging these streets up.

 2 They have to -- I mean, down in

 3 Allentown there was a gas explosion that killed

 4 nine people a few years back. You know, so you

 5 have to fix a gas leak. You can't just leave

 6 it there.

 7 And by the way, you're paying more

 8 for gas because anything they lose on the way,

 9 you get to pay for as a customer.

10 And once again, we really need a

11 Council on tax exempts, not to suggest that

12 they pay taxes, only to suggest that the state

13 with their constitution starts to bring money

14 in, send money in to take up because these

15 institutions service for everybody.

16 If you need a hospital, you don't go

17 to Moscow. You come here. If you live in

18 Clarks Summit, you come here or you go to one

19 of the new hospitals in Dickson City, Lehigh,

20 or whatever. But I don't see where they're

21 really big enough at this time.

22 So we can't have 40 percent. We

23 can't support 40 percent. And on Wall Street

24 with the stocks and bonds, there's 5 trillion

25 lost over the last couple weeks. And somebody
 44

 1 was handed a good stockmarket and economy.

 2 There was some inflation, yeah, but it's still

 3 there.

 4 And prices are going up everywhere

 5 constantly. And nothing has been done with --

 6 it's -- I'm very concerned about police and

 7 fire and clerical unions losing money. And us,

 8 we're responsible to pay the pension

 9 irregardless, teachers, police, fire, clerical.

10 Whoever works for the government, we

11 are responsible to finally pay the pension even

12 if the money is lost that was paid into it.

13 And I was by the old swimming pool. And I

14 don't know, the roof was torn off the entry

15 building.

16 And there was a sign when I got my

17 binoculars out because $5 admission. So

18 anything we do with that and if it requires

19 raising my taxes, please don't do it. I think

20 we have things good enough. And we have to

21 live within our means, especially with the

22 situation with the federal government.

23 Now, here's a little food for

24 consideration. Pam Biondi, our Attorney

25 General was a lobbyist for Qatar over there
 45

 1 next to Saudi Arabia on the Saudi Peninsula at

 2 $115,000 per month. That translates into

 3 $1,380,000 a month she was paid to be a

 4 lobbyist. Now she's Attorney General of the

 5 United States.

 6 I would call that corrupt. I don't

 7 think it could be any different. Maybe we

 8 should be a little more woke in this society.

 9 Thank you. Have a good night.

10 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Dobrzyn.

11 That's all for our sign-in sheet. Anyone else

12 wish to address Council?

13 MS. JEFFRIES: Norma Jeffries,

14 Scranton resident. And of all nights I wanted

15 to talk about the rules and regulations of

16 Council. But it's not on the sheet tonight.

17 So you'll have to help me. I went online to

18 see if I could find what it says about the

19 words that you should be using from the podium.

20 I think it says something like you

21 shouldn't use offensive or profanity or

22 something like that. So as I'm sitting here

23 listening to some of the speakers, some of the

24 words that are being used are very offensive to

25 me.
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 1 I call myself a believer. And I'm

 2 not patting myself on the back or anything.

 3 And I'm sure there's a lot more here. But you

 4 have to be careful of your tongue. The tongue

 5 can say and do things that are very hurtful to

 6 people.

 7 The words I heard tonight I don't

 8 use these words so it's very difficult for me

 9 to say them. I heard damn. I heard hell. I

10 heard scum. I heard useless. I heard

11 worthless. And I would just like Council then

12 to explain to me what that line -- that bullet

13 point on our rules and regulations of Council,

14 what does that mean to us?

15 What's offensive to someone is

16 offensive to me. And when I hear different

17 words like that, think about your children,

18 think about your grandchildren. Are we going

19 to have to make our Council meetings R rated so

20 that our kids cannot listen to our government

21 and what goes on?

22 We don't want them running around

23 saying these kinds of words. I know I don't

24 with my grandkids. And I'm always correcting

25 them and the words -- their choice of words.
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 1 So as I sat there tonight, I just thought about

 2 that. I said, oh, great, of all nights it's

 3 not on the back of here.

 4 So I'm sure it was because of

 5 space. So, you know, I just thought I would

 6 just mention that. And I'm sure I'm not alone.

 7 And I'm sure that there's public out there is

 8 just as offensive and offended by some of the

 9 words and the choice of words that are used.

10 And like I said, it may not be

11 offensive to others, but it is offensive to me.

12 Now, the other thing that I'll start to talk

13 about -- it won't be next week but the

14 following week. If everyone could put on their

15 calendars for June 21st. It's going to be our

16 Electric City Flower Show.

17 I'll be getting the fliers made and

18 trying to get my hands on them and I'll be

19 giving them out so that we could get it

20 publicized as much as we can. ECT always --

21 ECTV always does a great job and comes and

22 helps us out with that.

23 So I just wanted to say that as

24 well. I won't be here next week, but the

25 following week hopefully I'll have that
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 1 information. Okay. Thank you.

 2 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Norma.

 3 Anyone else?

 4 MR. ARGENTA: Virgil Argenta. This

 5 is National Police Week. Thank you to the men

 6 and women in law enforcement for protecting us

 7 from what we fear.

 8 On April 29th, 2025, concerned

 9 resident Richard Sabetta addressed City Council

10 to highlight a pressing issue regarding a

11 hazardous property located at 423-425 10th

12 Street and 425 Aswell Court. This concern has

13 been going on for three years without any

14 adequate resolution.

15 On May 5th, 2025, driven by a

16 concern for safety of city residents, I

17 personally visited the site which poses a very

18 significant risk and subsequently shared the

19 photographs on Facebook to raise public

20 awareness about one of Scranton's numerous

21 neglected hazardous properties.

22 On the morning of May 8th, 2025, an

23 emergency transmission through 911 dispatched

24 emergency response teams along with police

25 units to the site of a building collapse in the
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 1 400 block of Aswell Court. Scranton mayoral

 2 candidate Bob Sheridan aware of this hazardous

 3 property while door knocking in the

 4 neighborhood heard sirens, went to the scene.

 5 Upon his arrival he found a

 6 demolition company RLE onsite, along with two

 7 city officials Sherry and Andrew from the City

 8 Blight Department. They are conflicting

 9 reports. Neighbors claim there was a collapse

10 without any demolition crews present while the

11 city states it was a scheduled demolition.

12 If the city statements are accurate,

13 why did the neighbor make a frantic 911 call?

14 Moreover, if I'm not mistaken, the City of

15 Scranton has trained and qualified demolition

16 crew and the Department of Public Works who we

17 call the DPW, possesses all the necessary

18 equipment for property demolition.

19 This makes the city's claim even

20 more questionable. According to the April 29th

21 minutes of the Council meetings page 25 and

22 line 22, Schuster states, "This property may be

23 on the demo list. However, the last update we

24 got was there's no timeline for demolition of

25 it."
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 1 On page 26 line three, Schuster

 2 further adds, "It may be on the demo list; but

 3 there's no timeline for the administration as

 4 to when it will be demolished." Will the

 5 Council defend the Department of Public Works,

 6 DPW and explain why city employees who are

 7 qualified and equipped to do this job and have

 8 done other jobs like this are being bypassed?

 9 Please provide the taxpayers with

10 the cost paid to RLE and who authorized this

11 demolition. Given that emergency demolition

12 exists, why aren't we cleaning up our

13 neighborhoods by rotating through sections of

14 Scranton and demolishing the worst buildings in

15 each section of the city?

16 Are we going to stand up for DPW and

17 make sure that work is not being taken away

18 from them by private contractors? Geisinger

19 parking lot at Nay Aug recently had all new

20 lines painted for their parking area. DPW did

21 not paint those lines.

22 Was this bid out? What was the

23 cost? Why are we taking work again away from

24 our DPW union members? We should be protecting

25 them. They're out there with no contract again
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 1 still while the lawyers are making money.

 2 Pave cuts, for instance, has anyone

 3 thought about reaching out to the former pave

 4 cut inspector that the city employed for 25

 5 years? I did. He left in July, 2020. Would

 6 you be surprised to know that in that year

 7 alone he brought $550,000 into the city and you

 8 people don't advocate for a pave cut inspector,

 9 a moneymaker for the city?

10 There's two stop signs missing at

11 Electric and Dickson. Good luck in the

12 election.

13 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Argenta.

14 Anyone else?

15 MS. REKUS: Hi, Tracy Rekus, West

16 Side, Scranton. I don't usually come here.

17 The last time I came, Pat Rogan was on Council.

18 So, yeah, so I wanted -- I've been watching and

19 it's just gone crazy. So the potholes, there's

20 some on Luzerne and Main yet.

21 And Capouse and Olive right

22 underneath the trestle. I go on those streets

23 every single day and it's ruining my car and

24 most of Capouse Street, especially right in

25 front of the bakery. So I've been hearing a
 52

 1 lot about the homeless people.

 2 So I did some research. There's a

 3 bunch of counties that are like actually doing

 4 something with the homeless people. They're

 5 either building or renovating apartment

 6 buildings for the homeless individuals. Now in

 7 Montgomery County is building a new 24/7

 8 homeless shelter in Lansdale.

 9 And they're also working on an

10 emergency hoteling program in Pottstown.

11 Luzerne County approved a plan to house the

12 homeless families in apartments in

13 Wilkes-Barre. And Allegheny is renovating

14 existing buildings and moving individuals out

15 of shelters into stable homes.

16 Now, the trash, why is it in other

17 major cities that I've been to lately, the

18 streets are cleaner than Scranton? People

19 around here just don't care to even put their

20 trash in the garbage cans. This has been going

21 on for years and years.

22 So I don't -- I just don't

23 understand it. The recycling, people would

24 recycle more if more things could be recycled.

25 The crime, I believe the kids in the middle
 53

 1 schools and the high schools should have

 2 mandatory gun safety classes.

 3 I know we did when I was in school.

 4 Granted, I went to a country school where we

 5 have hunting. But they need it up here more.

 6 I mean, we never had a problem until they

 7 took -- took that course out of the schools.

 8 Now, as most people talked about our

 9 lovely President, handing hands on my man is

10 pretty is sad. If you could do the job better,

11 run for President. You have to be 35.

12 MR. SMURL: Ma'am, please address

13 Council.

14 MS. REKUS: Sorry. Yeah, if you

15 can't -- if you think that you can do his job,

16 run. You have to be 35 years old so -- and,

17 oh, and for Act 9, it's for girls' sports. Us

18 girls came a long way. We don't want boys in

19 our sports.

20 Granted, when I was in high school

21 there was boys on the field hockey team. But

22 they were actual boys. So that's my little

23 thing about that. And don't forget to vote on

24 May 20th. Thank you.

25 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Anyone else?
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 1 MR. COYNE: Tom Coyne, Minooka.

 2 First off, I just want to let you know that my

 3 area in Minooka was built in 1965, has never

 4 had any storm drains. We have about roughly --

 5 MR. SMURL: Please. Sorry.

 6 MR. COYNE: -- roughly four block by

 7 six block area that never has had storm drains

 8 in a period. So we have runoff issues back

 9 there because we have nothing collecting it.

10 Going on, I assume we're still over

11 just 88 percent of the recycle refusal rate --

12 recycle refusal rate. So we've now paid out at

13 a constant 1,597.75, not including multiple

14 recycle runs, duplicate costs for the fuel in

15 trucks and wear and tear.

16 To date, the minimum we've wasted by

17 not taking our recycling and just moving it

18 over to the trash is $97,324.75. We're just on

19 the cusp of $100,000 that we've thrown in the

20 dump. I still have not seen any mystery bid

21 for -- bid or searches from the Mayor come down

22 as she said was coming in line for a new

23 recycling vendor. Can we get an update on

24 that?

25 Moving on, I could talk again about
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 1 the Mayor's state of the city address and how

 2 the stormwater projects and the park

 3 investments in the majority are not her doing

 4 but happenstance from a national handout. But

 5 that's really not important tonight.

 6 On the subjects for tonight are the

 7 emergency operation centers. They are to be

 8 used for Lackawanna County as a whole. It

 9 seems that the body is of the entire resolution

10 is stacked with the same BS that was used for

11 the Serrenti Center. It's for all of

12 Lackawanna County. Maybe we'll even make a

13 profit off it.

14 Other municipalities will use it and

15 the resources. Except like the fire company

16 when we send our firemen to other regions and

17 other areas, we don't get paid back for that.

18 We have an agreement that isn't on paper. It's

19 a verbal agreement not to charge other counties

20 for our fire trucks going to help someone else

21 because we're a flow in money and we just like

22 offering city services to everyone else free of

23 charge.

24 It's going to be Lackawanna County

25 community -- center, then maybe Lackawanna
 56

 1 County who increased the taxes 33 percent

 2 should get their foot in the game and own it,

 3 not the City of Scranton even if it's housed

 4 here because housed here is still housed in

 5 Lackawanna County.

 6 Now onto the Scranton Times and the

 7 opinion column by Chris Kelly. Magacrats.

 8 Well, Les -- is Les Spindler a closet Magacrat

 9 because at Christmas at Bob Bolus's Christmas

10 party, he was back there serving food for the

11 poor? He was helping side by side Bob Bolus.

12 And we know where Bob Bolus stands.

13 Does that mean that Les is a Magacrat just

14 because he's seen with him? So Sean McAndrew

15 was spotted with Republicans at a charity event

16 and somehow he gets painted guilt by

17 association.

18 Even in a charity event you have to

19 be partisan and not go up and shake the hands

20 and say thanks for being here without getting

21 painted as a MAGA Republican for someone who

22 has stated I like Chermak because he was

23 standing up for reduction of the 33 percent

24 increase when it came down the line.

25 But just like Biden Street, some of
 57

 1 the chosen party decided not to go there. I'll

 2 shake the hand of Bob Bolus or anyone. I don't

 3 accidently leave a Republican -- you don't

 4 accidently leave a Republican candidate out of

 5 the paper and then toss a photo in the obits as

 6 it seems a Republican tilt.

 7 I do have an issue with Sean

 8 McAndrew whose Mark McAndrew and nepotism and

 9 how that might impact two of the three votes on

10 this body making it hard to overturn. But on

11 the contrary, the Mayor and the Chief of Police

12 have ruled as well that nepotism is fine as

13 long as someone else votes them in.

14 That became the rule under this

15 administration. And I guess since that's the

16 rule now, anything's open. Good night.

17 MR. SMURL: Thank you.

18 MS. SCHUMACHER: Marie Schumacher,

19 resident, taxpayer in the City of Scranton. I

20 guess I don't know quite what to do. I was

21 looking at pictures of my -- on my phone. I

22 could show you later, cuts into 307. And the

23 cuts on 307 were made by the bottoms of cars or

24 maybe trucks too. I don't know -- but that

25 came off Seymour Avenue.
 58

 1 Now, where do you go to get

 2 something done? I mean, I myself had -- I

 3 spent $2,200 this year because I also made that

 4 same cut -- got out and went down 307 and hit

 5 the bottom and I paid out $2,200. Now what can

 6 be done and where do you go? Do you go to the

 7 city or do you go to the state?

 8 MR. SMURL: Marie, is it -- 307 is a

 9 state road. Were you on that or were you on

10 the city road coming down?

11 MS. SCHUMACHER: Half and half.

12 MR. SMURL: I'm sorry?

13 MS. SCHUMACHER: I said half and

14 half. Half on Seymour and half on the --

15 MR. SMURL: Where is the road cut?

16 You said there was a cut.

17 MS. SCHUMACHER: It's on -- on 307.

18 MR. SMURL: It's on 307. So that

19 would be who you would call. I mean if it's

20 307, that would be state road, right?

21 MS. SCHUMACHER: Well, yes, but it

22 wouldn't be there on 307 if it wasn't coming

23 out from Seymour Avenue which is a city street.

24 MR. SMURL: Okay.

25 MS. SCHUMACHER: So what do you do?
 59

 1 MR. SMURL: Are you saying that the

 2 road is cut? There's a cut in the road?

 3 MS. SCHUMACHER: I'll show you after

 4 the meeting.

 5 MR. SMURL: Okay.

 6 MS. SCHUMACHER: I got it on my

 7 little camera here. But I'll show you.

 8 It's -- so we don't know where you go. Okay.

 9 Thank you.

10 MR. SMURL: Thank you.

11 MR. VOLDENBERG: Mr. Smurl, I'll

12 reach out to PennDOT in the morning.

13 MR. SMURL: Thank you.

14 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll have them look

15 at it and determine if it's theirs or the

16 city's.

17 MR. SMURL: Okay.

18 MR. MANCINI: Good evening, Scranton

19 City Council, Mike Mancini, true resident of

20 our City of Scranton. To quote an old hair

21 band, Rat, what comes around goes around. I'll

22 tell you why. This evening I will call a spade

23 a spade.

24 Last week I questioned about our --

25 there was a question raised about my residency
 60

 1 by a sitting Council member, Mr. Schuster. You

 2 know that I reside in Scranton based upon the

 3 time together as part of the West Scranton

 4 Crime Watch. Maybe you should ask the Mayor

 5 about her residency, yet you won't do that.

 6 You walked around your neighborhood

 7 with her four years ago. There are more

 8 questions about her residency than mine. With

 9 that being said, I'm here tonight to talk about

10 our recent interactions regarding the only

11 crime watch program that you disbanded and used

12 lies about me to put your own personal vendetta

13 over on something special to help our

14 community.

15 Need I remind you that one of our

16 Scranton Police Officers, our brave police

17 officers was critically injured and another one

18 passed a while on duty both in West Scranton.

19 You work with children daily. I commend you

20 for that. What I will not commend you for is

21 the fact that you targeted me personally via

22 e-mail shared by all members of the West

23 Scranton Crime Watch.

24 And unlike Dr. Rothchild who turned

25 two syllables into a four syllable word, you
 61

 1 chose to take two things about me, one

 2 involving my vehicle which was in a garage and

 3 worked on for 22 days and an engine repair that

 4 still isn't fixed.

 5 I have a date with a district

 6 magistrate to correct that wrongdoing. It's

 7 the same very vehicle that I visit my son

 8 daily. I drive around for about 20 minutes

 9 before I visit him, then I don't want to leave.

10 The other thing you twisted was the time that I

11 spent helping the Washburn Street Cemetery.

12 Mr. Schuster, you are careless with

13 the truth. The good people of Scranton would

14 be careless if they voted for you to single out

15 a father who lost his only child, an active

16 Marine to an opioid crisis. It's

17 disheartening. I carry my truths.

18 I pretty much put my life on hold

19 after my son's passing working out of home with

20 a compression fracture in my elbow and

21 vertebrae as a tribute to him. And then

22 thankfully beating stage two classic Hodgkin's

23 lymphoma.

24 I'm still waiting my closure. June

25 18th he will be sentenced. I will be in San
 62

 1 Diego speaking to a judge requesting a life in

 2 prison sentence. Yet locally, do not prosecute

 3 those who impact families in my very same

 4 hometown. That will change.

 5 How many families were impacted by

 6 that pill press found in Scranton? Gang

 7 members who were found with that pill press

 8 were pictured with the Mayor and a child.

 9 I'm running to become the 37th Mayor

10 of Scranton because our city needs to be given

11 back to its citizens. We need to flip this

12 script. We continuously vote for the same type

13 of people, keep getting the same type of

14 results.

15 This is time to put away the

16 bandages and the first aid kit and start fixing

17 things. I mean well, Mr. Schuster. I want to

18 do my part to make our city safer. Better

19 roads, fiscal responsibility, take that extra

20 set of doors off and open the city for

21 business.

22 This is the most important election

23 in my lifetime. Getting out to vote is

24 critical to our future success. In about 168

25 hours from now, the polls will close. Speak
 63

 1 your mind. Get out and vote. Don't vote for

 2 those that take four deep end pools away, 155

 3 million in grants and not visibly seen.

 4 Our police officers are 40 plus

 5 short or those who disband the only crime watch

 6 program because of lies and politics. Next

 7 week, my qualifications. Change is coming.

 8 Good evening, Council.

 9 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Anyone else?

10 MR. VOLDENBERG: FIFTH ORDER. 5-A.

11 MOTIONS.

12 MR. SMURL: Mr. King, do you have

13 any motions or comments?

14 MR. KING: No, just a few quick

15 comments. I appreciated having Eileen

16 Cipriani, Scott Gassenmeyer and the other two

17 gentlemen here this evening to talk about the

18 pave cuts and the process that's being used

19 now. So that was very informative.

20 It seems like we're on the right

21 track now so I appreciate that. Other than

22 that, I would want to wish everyone who's

23 running for public office on Tuesday, I wish

24 you the best of luck.

25 I give anyone credit that's willing
 64

 1 to go out and get petitions and put your name

 2 on a ballot. So that means that you want --

 3 you want to serve your city. So I wish each of

 4 you the best of luck on Tuesday. That it's.

 5 Thank you.

 6 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. King.

 7 Mr. Schuster, do you have any motions or

 8 comments?

 9 MR. SCHUSTER: So, yes, I do have a

10 few. Last week I asked, Mr. Voldenberg, if you

11 could check up on an update on Ferdinand

12 Street. Back in March we talked with Eileen

13 Cipriani who said that that project was out to

14 bid. Did we get an update on that?

15 MR. VOLDENBERG: We did request a

16 few weeks ago that section, the 1800 block of

17 Ferdinand be added as an alternate to the 2025

18 paving list. And I'll follow up.

19 MR. SCHUSTER: And Kirst Court was

20 another one that you had -- you had sent to me.

21 MR. VOLDENBERG: That's another one

22 that we added that was not on the record.

23 MR. SCHUSTER: All right. Thank you

24 very much.

25 MR. VOLDENBERG: 700 block of Kirst
 65

 1 Court.

 2 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Thank

 3 you. Last week I did ask for an update on our

 4 HUP test. I asked about -- the last update we

 5 got were that letters didn't go out but the

 6 answer that we got today was that the County

 7 Tax Assessor's office mailed the HUP test

 8 related letters out on May 7th with a return

 9 date of June 30th.

10 So the county is going to process

11 those responses once they are returned. But

12 that return date is June 30th. I also see that

13 there was a question about basins. Mr.

14 Voldenberg, we were looking into getting the

15 city owned basins and the water company basins

16 compiled.

17 I know you reached out to Jim Mack

18 and Steve Osellinski from the water company.

19 And I see that there -- we also had a DPW

20 request. Have we gotten any updates on that

21 list of basins?

22 MR. VOLDENBERG: They are still

23 compiling the list.

24 MR. SCHUSTER: All right. Thank

25 you. Have we heard from the water company on
 66

 1 that?

 2 MR. VOLDENBERG: No, I haven't.

 3 I'll follow up.

 4 MR. SCHUSTER: All right. Thank

 5 you. A couple other addresses that I had on

 6 the one on Yesu Drive I was glad that the

 7 resident came out tonight. We forwarded that

 8 e-mail over. And if we could try to get that

 9 meeting with that resident and city engineers

10 and those involved --

11 MR. VOLDENBERG: We asked that

12 question today. I'll involve the City Engineer

13 tomorrow.

14 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. I also in

15 the last few days sent over 421 Campbell

16 Street. The resident did inform me that

17 somebody was out at about 9:00 in morning but

18 the residents weren't home or didn't answer the

19 door. So I'll send another e-mail about that

20 address tonight so we could follow up on that

21 and stay on top of it because it seems like a

22 dangerous situation.

23 MR. VOLDENBERG: It is.

24 MR. SCHUSTER: The last one, we did

25 get a response back from Code Enforcement
 67

 1 regarding Main Avenue. I believe it was the

 2 100 block of Main Avenue. It was an appliance

 3 store. So the complaint that we got from the

 4 resident was that appliances were out on the

 5 city streets.

 6 And they went out and they stated

 7 that the appliance store was zoned correctly.

 8 But the complaint from the resident was that

 9 the appliances were out on the street. So can

10 we just follow up on that -- on that complaint

11 to see where we could go when it comes to those

12 appliances being on the street?

13 I understand that it is an appliance

14 store. But to have those -- those items out on

15 the road doesn't seem correct.

16 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, sir.

17 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much.

18 That's it.

19 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Schuster.

20 Dr. Rothchild, do you have any motions or

21 comments?

22 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes, I do. First, I

23 just wanted to check with Mr. Voldenberg about

24 one of the responses we received in reference

25 to something I brought up last week about the
 68

 1 city owned basins and sewage drains. There's

 2 one intersection in particular I was asking

 3 about last week downtown.

 4 And that was for Penn Avenue and

 5 Biden Street. Was that one sent along to DPW

 6 to take a look at that corner?

 7 MR. VOLDENBERG: That was submitted.

 8 But we have not had an answer as to their next

 9 steps.

10 DR. ROTHCHILD: Okay. All right. I

11 appreciate that for clarity.

12 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll follow up.

13 DR. ROTHCHILD: And then I also

14 received a status on the paving and marking

15 that we were looking for Lackawanna Avenue.

16 And I was told that the city and its engineers

17 have reached out to the utility companies for

18 an update on scheduled resurfacing.

19 The locations have been marked and

20 utilities anticipate work beginning in two to

21 three weeks, weather depending. The

22 streetscape work is still pending PennDOT

23 permitting. So this road, we'll keep an eye on

24 that and see what happens within the next

25 couple weeks. And we'll stay on top of it to
 69

 1 ensure that it gets completed soon hopefully.

 2 And there was someone that asked

 3 about the homeless population within Scranton.

 4 And I did want to ask the administration if I

 5 could get a date for the next unsheltered task

 6 force meeting because I haven't seen anything

 7 as of late. And I think it's been a few months

 8 since they met. I know it's headed by the

 9 Mayor. So I wanted to see if there was a

10 meeting --

11 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll get that.

12 DR. ROTHCHILD: Okay. Thank you.

13 And let's see, and a few other concerns I'll

14 just have forwarded along to Mr. Voldenberg so

15 they could be taken care of. There were just a

16 couple other things I just want to make a few

17 comments on.

18 First the SB9 was brought up, Senate

19 Bill 9 from last week that I wanted to make a

20 comment on. And there were a couple of other

21 comments too in reference to transgender people

22 involved in sports. So I just want to say I

23 was really disheartened and disappointed with

24 how our Senator voted on the bill last week.

25 I think that bills like this are
 70

 1 really only meant to hurt the transgender

 2 community. But I think it could also in turn

 3 hurt women and girls in sports who could be

 4 subject to questioning about their gender or

 5 even invasive exams.

 6 And no one is transitioning to

 7 another gender just so they could be on a

 8 sports team. That's -- that's not happening.

 9 And I think what this really is about is

10 erasure, erasure of transpeople from our

11 society, not wanting them to be a part of our

12 society because they don't fit into what, you

13 know, we think that -- that they should be.

14 And I think that's -- that's really

15 sad because I think they could be incredible

16 people and incredible parts of our society.

17 And I think that is just trying to create fear

18 and getting them from anywhere that we can,

19 sports, bathrooms.

20 So I think it's really terrible that

21 this is a priority of our Senate instead of the

22 issues that really matter to Pennsylvanians and

23 Scrantonians and real things that are affecting

24 people's lives that could be addressed as

25 opposed to caving into these falsities.
 71

 1 So another thing that I just wanted

 2 to make note of, Miss Jeffries brought up the

 3 language in Council which I know I've addressed

 4 many times myself. I think it's really

 5 offensive to call immigrants scumbags. I think

 6 they are productive members of our society.

 7 And you don't know someone's legal

 8 status. You might think that you do from where

 9 the person is from or the language they speak

10 or the color of their skin. But you don't know

11 what their legal status is.

12 And people are being taken across

13 our country without due process. And there's

14 evidence of this. I'm not just spreading

15 rumors. That's what's happening. And I really

16 hope that that does not happen in our city.

17 And I would be against any ICE office from

18 opening in our city.

19 So I just wanted to make that stance

20 known. And I want to protect our immigrants.

21 That's all that I have for tonight. Thank you.

22 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Dr.

23 Rothchild. Mr. McAndrew, do you have any

24 motions or comments?

25 MR. MCANDREW: So I have a couple
 72

 1 responses that I received. So last week I

 2 asked about an update on the study at Engine 10

 3 on East Mountain. What I got back was, the

 4 city submitted an LSA Grant application. So

 5 this is to fund the study. And there's still

 6 -- which is still pending. So that's the

 7 answer to that.

 8 And then for a couple weeks I've

 9 been talking about this group, you know, and I

10 said I'm thrilled to have them. We should

11 embrace them. We should support them. You

12 know, and it's nickname is the Scranton Lovers

13 Beautification Group.

14 And they have been asking for

15 permission to plant flowers because this is the

16 time to do it. You know, they have people

17 committed to donating them. And so this is the

18 third response I got. So they didn't answer

19 the question if they're allowed to plant them

20 at all.

21 And that's what they want to hear

22 because they're going to clean up more than one

23 space. But this one in -- this one was

24 specific that they wanted to do it -- property

25 off Front Street after they clean it up.
 73

 1 You know, of course, it said please

 2 see the attached e-mails sent and received to

 3 311 and forwarded to OECD. For some reason

 4 OECD had to make the final call. But they

 5 got -- you know, they went through a couple

 6 departments with no response or feedback.

 7 So OECD says for the final review.

 8 So the -- okay, the response we finally got was

 9 the city does not have site control over any

10 parcels on Front Street. Two small parcels

11 list the city as owners but not -- are treasury

12 deeds, which does not give the city site

13 control.

14 So I asked our solicitor --

15 Solicitor Gilbride, can you just explain

16 because I'm going to be asked the question what

17 does a treasury deed mean and why can't we, you

18 know, plant some flowers there so if you could

19 explain that. I hate to put you on the spot

20 but --

21 ATTY. GILBRIDE: Well, I'll give you

22 the best answer I could give you because I did

23 not speak with the administration in regard to

24 this question. It did not come up until

25 earlier today when you asked me.
 74

 1 But basically what the treasury deed

 2 is is when a property is taken by a

 3 governmental entity due to tax issues not being

 4 paid. If they don't then follow through with

 5 the actual process to assume control of that

 6 property, they have legal control but they

 7 don't have the ability. They don't actually

 8 own the property.

 9 It's not a property the city could

10 then do something with. I assume that's what

11 they are saying when they say treasury deed.

12 MR. MCANDREW: I appreciate your

13 opinion. I still think they should be allowed

14 to plant flowers there. No one is using it.

15 And if the city actually owns it in some

16 perspective, I think it should be allowed.

17 But with that said, so I'm

18 assuming -- and I'm going to let the group know

19 that, okay, at any other property they're

20 allowed to do it, not someone's personal

21 property. But any other city owned property as

22 long as it's not treasury deeds, they should do

23 that because this is the time to do it.

24 They're anxiously awaiting to do

25 this and they keep getting some speed bumps.
 75

 1 But like I said last week, time is their enemy.

 2 So they got to get flowers. They got to get

 3 this done. So thank you, Solicitor Gilbride.

 4 And thank you to the Scranton Lovers

 5 Beautification Group. They're out there, you

 6 know, cleaning up and trying to make the city

 7 look better.

 8 All right. So also Mr. Coyne talked

 9 about a bid update for the recycling contract.

10 This is a couple months now. And I initially

11 proposed, okay, so we're paying almost 100

12 grand now because they're taking our commingled

13 recyclables and throwing them in the garbage.

14 That's basically what's happening.

15 I proposed a solution months ago,

16 just do a separate pickup for glass and

17 plastic. It's not a big deal. Pick them up

18 separately, then they don't have to throw them

19 away. Then they could be properly recycled.

20 I remember suggesting that. And

21 all I got was we'll think about it. We'll

22 negotiate it so or then we finally get another

23 response that we're looking -- we're now

24 looking for a recycling contractor. So that's

25 been months. It's been months. So can we get
 76

 1 a final update to see where they're at?

 2 I mean, it's approaching 100 grand

 3 that we shouldn't be paying. That's absurd.

 4 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, sir.

 5 MR. MCANDREW: All right. And then

 6 also, the building directly next to the fire

 7 station, I don't know the name of the building

 8 but it's huge and it has a huge gutter that

 9 runs the whole length of it. And the gutter is

10 huge. It's not like a house gutter. It's

11 about this big.

12 I don't know what material it's made

13 from. But it's tilted and hanging and poses a

14 great public safety risk if you could have --

15 send that over and have it looked at.

16 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll send it over.

17 MR. MCANDREW: Before someone gets

18 hurt. We don't want that to happen. And that

19 is all I have. Thank you.

20 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. McAndrew.

21 I have just have a few things. The memorandum

22 of agreement between the City of Scranton and

23 the International Association of Firefighters

24 Local Number 60 repealing the residency

25 requirements for the city employees, it was
 77

 1 signed yesterday by both the -- Al Lucas and by

 2 the Mayor. So I believe that is finally

 3 finished.

 4 Also, while I was on the recreation

 5 Authority at Nay Aug Geisinger took care --

 6 the deal was if they parked there, they donated

 7 money. But they did maintain that parking lot.

 8 They plow it. They clean it. And they also do

 9 the line painting.

10 So I would assume it's them again

11 because they seem to do it every two years.

12 And I've seen it done probably four times

13 already. So I believe that's what it is. Now,

14 the building on South 10th Avenue, the

15 building did go down before the contractor got

16 there.

17 So the contractor basically cleaned

18 it up. But it did fall down before we got

19 there. Also, there was another onsite

20 emergency demolition bid today at 801 South

21 Webster Avenue. I believe it was about 1:00

22 this afternoon.

23 So I don't know what condition that

24 building was in. But they were there today to

25 start that. Also, I forgot in announcements
 78

 1 May 17th, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. South Scranton

 2 Neighborhood Association is having their

 3 neighborhood cleanup.

 4 They are meeting at August Haas

 5 Funeral Home at 202 Pittston Avenue. And I got

 6 this request or this information for

 7 information from the county. They were told

 8 that St. Patrick's Day Parade there was an

 9 automobile accident.

10 A car went around the garbage truck

11 down Biden Street and up the one way, and I

12 believe they said it struck somebody or

13 something. I did ask our Chief and they had

14 sent me a message a little while ago that there

15 was an arrest made there. So I guess it did

16 happen.

17 So they were wondering if it was

18 ever reported. So, yes, it was reported and

19 there was an arrest there made. And also, I

20 guess, tonight again we're all asking and I

21 hope this is last time, but e-mails, texts and

22 all the phone calls does the Mayor live in the

23 city.

24 Now why you would continue on with

25 this? So I did look up her house and see where
 79

 1 she lives. She lives on Euclid Avenue but also

 2 on Euclid Avenue when I was up there, there are

 3 two parcels across the street, empty lots,

 4 trees on them. But there is also trail cams on

 5 them.

 6 So one would assume if there's trail

 7 cams on that why would we ask if the Mayor

 8 lives in Scranton anymore? Let's find out

 9 whose trail cams they are and maybe you could

10 find out the truth once and for all. Maybe

11 that's why there is no evidence brought forward

12 that she doesn't live in the city. That's all

13 I have.

14 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-B. FOR

15 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - REAPPOINTMENT OF

16 JESSICA NOLAN AS A MEMBER OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL

17 ADVISORY COUNCIL, EXPIRING MAY 31, 2028.

18 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll

19 entertain a motion that Item 5-B be introduced

20 into its proper committee.

21 MR. KING: So moved.

22 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

23 MR. SMURL: On the question? All

24 those in favor of introduction signify by

25 saying aye.
 80

 1 MR. KING: Aye.

 2 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.

 3 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

 4 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.

 5 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes

 6 have it and so moved.

 7 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-C. FOR

 8 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - RATIFYING AND

 9 APPROVING THE EXECUTION AND SUBMISSION OF A

10 FISCAL YEAR 2026 FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS

11 COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING REQUEST APPLICATION

12 BY THE CITY OF SCRANTON FOR UP TO $3,000,000

13 FOR THE PITTSTON AVENUE INFRASTRUCTURE

14 STREETSCAPE PROJECT.

15 MR. KING: So moved.

16 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

17 MR. SMURL: On the question? All

18 those in favor of introduction signify by

19 saying aye.

20 MR. KING: Aye.

21 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.

22 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

23 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.

24 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes

25 have it and so moved.
 81

 1 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-D. FOR

 2 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - RATIFYING AND

 3 APPROVING THE EXECUTION AND SUBMISSION OF A

 4 FISCAL YEAR 2026 FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS

 5 COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING REQUEST APPLICATION

 6 BY THE CITY OF SCRANTON FOR UP TO $363,618 FOR

 7 THE PINE BROOK BROWNFIELD CLEANUP AND SITE

 8 PREPARATION PROJECT.

 9 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll

10 entertain a motion that Item 5-D be introduced

11 into its proper committee.

12 MR. MCANDREW: So moved.

13 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

14 MR. SMURL: On the question? All

15 those in favor of introduction signify by

16 saying aye.

17 MR. KING: Aye.

18 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.

19 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

20 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.

21 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes

22 have it and so moved.

23 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-E. FOR

24 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - RATIFYING AND

25 APPROVING THE EXECUTION AND SUBMISSION OF A
 82

 1 FISCAL YEAR 2026 FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS

 2 COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING REQUEST APPLICATION

 3 BY THE CITY OF SCRANTON FOR UP TO $1,000,000

 4 FOR THE PURCHASE OF POLICE TECHNOLOGY AND

 5 EQUIPMENT.

 6 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll

 7 entertain a motion that Item 5-E be introduced

 8 into its proper committee.

 9 MR. KING: So moved.

10 MR. SCHUSTER: Second.

11 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

12 MR. SMURL: On the question? All

13 those in favor of introduction signify by

14 saying aye.

15 MR. KING: Aye.

16 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.

17 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.

18 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes

19 have it and so moved.

20 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-F. FOR

21 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - RATIFYING AND

22 APPROVING THE EXECUTION AND SUBMISSION OF A

23 FISCAL YEAR 2026 FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS

24 COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING REQUEST APPLICATION

25 BY THE CITY OF SCRANTON FOR UP TO $2,343,750
 83

 1 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EMERGENCY OPERATIONS

 2 AND TRAINING CENTER (EOC).

 3 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll

 4 entertain a motion that Item 5-F be introduced

 5 into its proper committee.

 6 MR. MCANDREW: So moved.

 7 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

 8 MR. SMURL: On the question?

 9 MR. KING: On the question, this is

10 the Career Tech Center Project? Okay.

11 MR. SMURL: All those in favor of

12 introduction signify by saying aye.

13 MR. KING: Aye.

14 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.

15 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

16 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.

17 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes

18 have it and so moved.

19 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-G. FOR

20 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - AUTHORIZING THE

21 MAYOR AND OTHER APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS TO

22 EXECUTE AND ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH BARRY

23 ISETT AND ASSOCIATES FOR THE DESIGN AND

24 ENGINEERING OF THE GRACE STREET PLAYGROUND.

25 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll
 84

 1 entertain a motion that Item 5-G be introduced

 2 into its proper committee.

 3 DR. ROTHCHILD: So moved.

 4 MR. KING: Second.

 5 MR. SMURL: On the question? All

 6 those in favor of introduction signify by

 7 saying aye.

 8 MR. KING: Aye.

 9 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.

10 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

11 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.

12 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes

13 have it and so moved.

14 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-H. FOR

15 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - APPROVING THE

16 INTERMUNICIPAL TRANSFER OF A RESTAURANT LIQUOR

17 LICENSE R 3518, CURRENTLY OWNED BY DEBRA LYNN

18 REESE, AND LOCATED AT 138 SMITH STREET,

19 DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 18512-

20 2358, TO DAVIDG, LLC, LOCATED AT 667 SOUTH

21 RIVER STREET, PLAINS, LUZERNE COUNTY,

22 PENNSYLVANIA 18705, AS REQUIRED BY THE

23 PENNSYLVANIA LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD.

24 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll

25 entertain a motion that Item 5-H be introduced
 85

 1 into its proper committee.

 2 MR. MCANDREW: So moved.

 3 MR. KING: So moved.

 4 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

 5 MR. SMURL: On the question? All

 6 those in favor of introduction signify by

 7 saying aye.

 8 MR. KING: Aye.

 9 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.

10 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

11 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.

12 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes

13 have it and so moved.

14 MR. MCANDREW: I make a motion to

15 table Item 5-H.

16 MR. SMURL: There's a motion on the

17 floor and a second --

18 MR. KING: Second.

19 MR. SMURL: There's a motion on the

20 floor and a second to table Item 5-H. This

21 piece of legislation is being tabled to allow

22 for advertisement of a public hearing to be

23 held on Tuesday, May 27th, 2025 at 5:45 p.m.

24 On the question? All those in favor signify by

25 saying aye.
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 1 MR. KING: Aye.

 2 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.

 3 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

 4 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.

 5 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes

 6 have it and so moved.

 7 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-I. FOR

 8 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - RATIFYING AND

 9 APPROVING THE EXECUTION AND SUBMISSION OF THE

10 GRANT APPLICATION BY THE CITY OF SCRANTON TO

11 THE PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION &

12 NATURAL RESOURCES FOR UP TO $175,000.00 IN

13 FUNDS FOR PHASE 2 OF THE ALL-INCLUSIVE

14 PLAYGROUND AT NAY AUG PARK, THAT INCLUDES THE

15 DESIGN, PURCHASE, AND INSTALLATION OF ALL-

16 INCLUSIVE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT.

17 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll

18 entertain a motion that Item 5-I be introduced

19 into its proper committee.

20 MR. KING: So moved.

21 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

22 MR. SMURL: On the question? All

23 those in favor of introduction signify by

24 saying aye.

25 MR. KING: Aye.
 87

 1 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.

 2 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

 3 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.

 4 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes

 5 have it and so moved.

 6 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-J. FOR

 7 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - RATIFYING AND

 8 APPROVING THE EXECUTION AND SUBMISSION OF THE

 9 GRANT APPLICATION BY THE CITY OF SCRANTON TO

10 THE PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION &

11 NATURAL RESOURCES FOR UP TO $118,289.00 IN

12 FUNDS FOR FELLOWS PARK IMPROVEMENTS.

13 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll

14 entertain a motion that Item 5-J be introduced

15 into its proper committee.

16 MR. MCANDREW: So moved.

17 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

18 MR. SMURL: On the question? All

19 those in favor of introduction signify by

20 saying aye.

21 MR. KING: Aye.

22 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.

23 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

24 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.

25 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes
 88

 1 have it and so moved.

 2 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-K. FOR

 3 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - ACCEPTING THE

 4 RECOMMENDATION OF THE HISTORIC ARCHITECTURAL

 5 REVIEW BOARD ("HARB") AND DENYING THE

 6 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS FOR THE

 7 CONVERSION OF TWO (2) EXISTING STATIC

 8 BILLBOARDS LOCATED 320 MULBERRY STREET.

 9 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll

10 entertain a motion that Item 5-K be introduced

11 into its proper committee.

12 MR. MCANDREW: So moved.

13 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

14 MR. SMURL: On the question?

15 MR. KING: On the question, I'm

16 going to refer to our Solicitor. Attorney

17 Gilbride, the reason that the HARP has denied

18 this is due to the fact that this billboard is

19 in the historical section of the city; is that

20 correct?

21 ATTY. GILBRIDE: That's correct.

22 MR. KING: Okay. And the electronic

23 billboard as you enter the city off of, I guess

24 it would be Moosic Street and Biden Expressway

25 that sits above the jewelry store there,
 89

 1 that's not in the architectural or the

 2 historical section of the city?

 3 ATTY. GILBRIDE: That's correct, nor

 4 is the one that comes as you come from North

 5 Scranton into the city onto Mulberry Street.

 6 That is outside of the historic district as

 7 well.

 8 MR. KING: So the issue would be if

 9 we were to grant this, that would just open the

10 door to --

11 ATTY. GILBRIDE: It would take away

12 your right to further limit any of these LEDs

13 in the historic section.

14 MR. KING: Thank you.

15 MR. SMURL: All those in favor of

16 introduction signify by saying aye.

17 MR. KING: Aye.

18 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.

19 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

20 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.

21 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes

22 have it and so moved.

23 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-L. FOR

24 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - RATIFYING AND

25 APPROVING OF THE EXECUTION AND SUBMISSION OF
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 1 THE GRANT APPLICATION BY THE CITY OF SCRANTON

 2 AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND OTHER APPROPRIATE

 3 CITY OFFICIALS TO ACCEPT THE GRANT IN THE

 4 AMOUNT OF $1,000.00 AWARDED BY LACKAWANNA

 5 COUNTY FOR AN ELECTRONICS RECYCLING EVENT.

 6 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll

 7 entertain a motion that Item 5-L be introduced

 8 into its proper committee.

 9 MR. MCANDREW: So moved.

10 MR. KING: Second.

11 MR. SMURL: All those in favor of

12 introduction signify by saying aye.

13 MR. KING: Aye.

14 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.

15 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

16 MR. MCANDREW: Aye.

17 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes

18 have it and so moved.

19 MR. VOLDENBERG: SIXTH ORDER. No

20 business at this time.

21 SEVENTH ORDER. 7-A. FOR

22 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES - FOR

23 ADOPTION - FILE OF THE COUNCIL NO. 75, 2025 -

24 AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND OTHER APPROPRIATE

25 CITY OFFICIALS TO EXECUTE AND ENTER INTO AN
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 1 INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN

 2 THE CITY OF SCRANTON AND COMMONWEALTH OF

 3 PENNSYLVANIA FOR USE OF AMERICAN DIGITAL

 4 CARTOGRAPHY, INC. (ADCI) PRODUCTS.

 5 MR. SMURL: As Chairperson for the

 6 Committee on Rules, I recommend final passage

 7 of Item 7-A.

 8 MR. SCHUSTER: Second.

 9 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll

10 call, please.

11 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King.

12 MR. KING: Yes.

13 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Schuster.

14 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes.

15 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild.

16 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes.

17 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew.

18 MR. MCANDREW: Yes.

19 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl.

20 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare

21 Item 7-A legally and lawfully adopted.

22 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-B. FOR

23 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC

24 WORKS - FOR ADOPTION - FILE OF THE COUNCIL NO.

25 76, 2025 - RATIFYING AND AUTHORIZING THE
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 1 EXECUTION OF TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION EASEMENT

 2 AGREEMENTS FOR PARCELS LOCATED AT 2709 JACKSON

 3 STREET AND 8 FAWNWOOD DRIVE SCRANTON,

 4 PENNSYLVANIA FOR THE SINKHOLE REPAIR PROJECT.

 5 MR. SMURL: What is the

 6 recommendation of the Chairperson for the

 7 Committee on Public Works?

 8 MR. SCHUSTER: As Chairperson for

 9 the Committee on Public Works, I recommend

10 final passage of Item 7-B.

11 MR. KING: Second.

12 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll

13 call, please.

14 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King.

15 MR. KING: Yes.

16 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Schuster.

17 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes.

18 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild.

19 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes.

20 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew.

21 MR. MCANDREW: Yes.

22 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl.

23 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare

24 Item 7-B legally and lawfully adopted.

25 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-C. FOR
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 1 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY

 2 DEVELOPMENT - FOR ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO.

 3 202, 2025 - RESOLUTION FOR PLAN REVISION FOR

 4 NEW SINGLE FAMILY HOME LAND DEVELOPMENT LOCATED

 5 AT 111 MONTEREY ROAD.

 6 MR. SMURL: What is the

 7 recommendation of the Chairperson for the

 8 Committee on Community Development?

 9 DR. ROTHCHILD: As Chairperson for

10 the Committee on Community Development, I

11 recommend final passage of Item 7-C.

12 MR. KING: Second.

13 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll

14 call, please.

15 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King.

16 MR. KING: Yes.

17 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Schuster.

18 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes.

19 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild.

20 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes.

21 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew.

22 MR. MCANDREW: Yes.

23 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl.

24 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare

25 Item 7-C legally and lawfully adopted.
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 1 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-D. FOR

 2 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES - FOR

 3 ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO. 203, 2025 -

 4 APPOINTMENT OF SAMANTHA BODE, SCRANTON,

 5 PENNSYLVANIA, AS A MEMBER OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL

 6 ADVISORY COUNCIL TO FILL THE UNEXPIRED TERM OF

 7 ROBERT SCHUMAKER, WHO RESIGNED. SAMANTHA

 8 BODE'S TERM IS EFFECTIVE UPON EXECUTION OF THIS

 9 RESOLUTION AND WILL EXPIRE ON JULY 31, 2026.

10 MR. SMURL: As Chairperson for the

11 Committee on Rules I recommend final passage of

12 Item 7-D.

13 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

14 MR. SMURL: On the question?

15 MR. KING: On the question, I want

16 to thank Mr. Schumaker for all the work and

17 dedication he gave to that committee. And I

18 know -- I believe he moved out of the city. So

19 but, I mean, often times you go up to Nay Aug

20 Park, you'd find this guy putting mulch out and

21 just working and always contributing to the

22 betterment of the city. So I want to thank

23 Mr. Schumaker and wish him well.

24 DR. ROTHCHILD: I agree. I also

25 wanted to thank Mr. Schumaker for his
 95

 1 commitment to the city and participating on the

 2 Environmental Advisory Council as well as all

 3 the work he's done at Nay Aug. We appreciate

 4 that.

 5 And then also wanted to welcome

 6 Samantha Bode to the Council. I was very

 7 impressed with her -- with her resume. And she

 8 clearly has a passion for -- for the

 9 environment. Thank you.

10 MR. SMURL: Roll call, please.

11 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King.

12 MR. KING: Yes.

13 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Schuster.

14 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes.

15 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild.

16 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes.

17 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew.

18 MR. MCANDREW: Yes.

19 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl.

20 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare

21 Item 7-D legally and lawfully adopted.

22 MR. VOLDENBERG: EIGHTH ORDER. No

23 business at this time.

24 MR. SMURL: Before we adjourn, I'd

25 like to thank the Scranton Police Department
 96

 1 and all our police officers for everything they

 2 do for all of us in the City of Scranton every

 3 day.

 4 If there's no further business, I'll

 5 entertain a motion to adjourn.

 6 MR. MCANDREW: Motion to adjourn.

 7 MR. SMURL: Thank you. This meeting

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 92:2 67:9, 67:12 76:23, 78:2 80:23, 80:24, 81:17, belong [1] - 18:2
aid [1] - 62:16 APPLICATION [7] - assume [5] - 54:10, 81:18, 81:19, 81:20, belonged [2] - 32:17,
Al [1] - 77:1 80:11, 81:5, 82:2, 74:5, 74:10, 77:10, 81:21, 82:15, 82:16, 34:9
Albright [1] - 7:21 82:24, 86:10, 87:9, 79:6 82:17, 82:18, 83:13, belongs [1] - 17:12
alcohol [1] - 8:6 90:1 assuming [1] - 74:18 83:14, 83:15, 83:16, best [5] - 31:7, 63:24,
Alfieri [1] - 6:1 application [1] - 72:4 assured [1] - 9:10 83:17, 84:8, 84:9, 64:4, 73:22, 97:6
aligned [1] - 10:3 apply [1] - 97:23 astonishing [1] - 36:5 84:10, 84:11, 84:12, better [3] - 53:10,
Alison [1] - 26:23 APPOINTMENT [1] - Aswell [3] - 30:20, 85:8, 85:9, 85:10, 62:18, 75:7
ALL [2] - 86:13, 86:15 94:4 48:12, 49:1 85:11, 85:12, 86:1, betterment [1] - 94:22
ALL-INCLUSIVE [1] - appreciate [6] - 34:17, AT [5] - 84:18, 84:20, 86:2, 86:3, 86:4, BETWEEN [1] - 91:1
 86:13 38:22, 63:21, 68:11, 86:14, 92:2, 93:5 86:5, 86:25, 87:1, between [2] - 22:17,
Allegheny [1] - 52:13 74:12, 95:3 athletes [2] - 14:13, 87:2, 87:3, 87:4, 76:22
Allegiance [1] - 3:1 appreciated [1] - 14:20 87:21, 87:22, 87:23, Beynon [2] - 36:25,
Allentown [1] - 43:3 63:15 attached [2] - 30:8, 87:24, 87:25, 89:17, 37:9
 approaching [1] - 73:2 89:18, 89:19, 89:20, bid [8] - 30:17, 31:1,
allow [1] - 85:21
 76:2 Attorney [2] - 44:24, 89:21, 90:13, 90:14, 50:22, 54:20, 54:21,
allowed [7] - 13:19,
 APPROPRIATE [3] - 45:4 90:15, 90:16, 90:17 64:14, 75:9, 77:20
 20:17, 31:3, 72:19,
 83:21, 90:2, 90:24 attorney [3] - 39:8, ayes [12] - 80:5, 80:24, Biden [6] - 17:6,
 74:13, 74:16, 74:20
 APPROPRIATENES 39:9, 88:16 81:21, 82:18, 83:17, 17:11, 56:25, 68:5,
allowing [2] - 13:10,
 S [1] - 88:6 attorneys [1] - 39:8 84:12, 85:12, 86:5, 78:11, 88:24
 13:15
 appropriations [1] - ATTY [4] - 73:21, 87:4, 87:25, 89:21, bids [1] - 30:24
almost [2] - 18:15,
 9:4 88:21, 89:3, 89:11 90:17
 75:11 big [8] - 19:8, 23:1,
alone [4] - 21:21, 24:5, APPROPRIATIONS audience [1] - 11:18 25:6, 28:5, 30:7,
 47:6, 51:7 [4] - 80:10, 81:4, audit [2] - 8:20, 8:24 B 43:21, 75:17, 76:11
alternate [1] - 64:17 82:1, 82:23 Aug [4] - 50:19, 77:5, biking [1] - 12:10
 BA's [1] - 8:22
America's [1] - 39:3 approved [1] - 52:11 94:19, 95:3 Bill [1] - 69:19
 backhoe [1] - 20:16
AMERICAN [1] - 91:3 APPROVING [8] - AUG [1] - 86:14 bill [3] - 14:12, 14:18,
 backs [2] - 29:4
amount [3] - 5:3, 80:9, 81:3, 81:25, August [1] - 78:4 69:24
 backup [2] - 9:3, 10:3
 12:12, 20:1 82:22, 84:15, 86:9, Authority [6] - 40:2, billboard [2] - 88:18,
 87:8, 89:25 backyard [1] - 21:22
AMOUNT [1] - 90:4 40:8, 41:3, 41:13, 88:23
 April [7] - 22:21, bad [3] - 16:16, 18:1,
AN [3] - 83:1, 90:5, 41:20, 77:5 BILLBOARDS [1] -
 29:20, 30:12, 41:19, 18:4
 90:25 authorized [1] - 50:10 88:8
 48:8, 49:20 bakery [1] - 51:25
AND [33] - 3:24, 80:8, AUTHORIZING [4] - bills [1] - 69:25
 Arabia [1] - 45:1 balances [1] - 41:7
 80:9, 81:2, 81:3, 83:20, 90:2, 90:24, binoculars [1] - 44:17
 ARCHITECTURAL [1] ballot [6] - 15:16,
 81:7, 81:24, 81:25, 91:25 Biondi [1] - 44:24
 - 88:4 35:1, 35:4, 35:6,
 82:4, 82:21, 82:22, automobile [1] - 78:9 bisexual [1] - 15:7
 architectural [1] - 89:1 35:20, 64:2
 83:2, 83:21, 83:22, available [4] - 14:3, bit [2] - 11:23, 32:9
 area [4] - 36:16, 50:20, ban [1] - 14:13
 83:23, 84:18, 86:8, 41:3, 41:4, 42:1 Blight [1] - 49:8
 54:3, 54:7 band [2] - 8:4, 59:21
 86:9, 86:15, 87:7, Avenue [15] - 9:6, block [6] - 49:1, 54:6,
 areas [1] - 55:17 bandages [1] - 62:16
 87:8, 88:5, 89:24, 12:23, 23:23, 29:19, 54:7, 64:16, 64:25,
 ARGENTA [1] - 48:4 bargaining [1] - 8:12
 89:25, 90:2, 90:24, 57:25, 58:23, 67:1, 67:2
 Argenta [2] - 48:4, 67:2, 68:4, 68:15, Barre [1] - 52:13
 90:25, 91:2, 91:25, BOARD [2] - 84:23,
 92:3, 94:9 51:13 77:14, 77:21, 78:5, BARRY [1] - 83:22
 88:5
Andrew [1] - 49:7 Armed [1] - 4:7 79:1, 79:2 based [2] - 31:25, 60:2
 board [3] - 27:10,
angela [1] - 11:16 arrest [2] - 78:15, AVENUE [1] - 80:13 basins [5] - 65:13,
 28:1, 41:16
Angela [2] - 3:7, 11:16 78:19 awaiting [1] - 74:24 65:15, 65:21, 68:1
 Board [1] - 39:13
 arrival [1] - 49:5 awarded [1] - 31:1 bathrooms [1] - 70:19
announcements [3] - Bob [11] - 15:10,
 4:4, 4:6, 77:25 arrived [1] - 20:16 AWARDED [1] - 90:4 beat [1] - 36:10
 15:12, 19:11, 19:13,
answer [6] - 65:6, AS [3] - 79:16, 84:22, aware [6] - 13:1, beating [1] - 61:22
 28:13, 37:6, 49:2,
 66:18, 68:8, 72:7, 94:5 13:17, 14:11, 34:25, Beautification [2] - 56:9, 56:11, 56:12,
 72:18, 73:22 ASAP [1] - 17:9 35:9, 49:2 72:13, 75:5 57:2
anticipate [1] - 68:20 assessment [1] - awareness [1] - 48:20 became [1] - 57:14 BODE [1] - 94:4
anxiously [1] - 74:24 15:22 aye [12] - 79:25, 80:19, become [3] - 9:22, Bode [1] - 95:6
apartment [1] - 52:5 Assessor's [1] - 65:7 81:16, 82:14, 83:12, 39:10, 62:9 BODE'S [1] - 94:8
apartments [2] - 42:3, ASSISTANT [1] - 2:9 84:7, 85:7, 85:25, begin [2] - 8:15, 11:22 body [2] - 55:9, 57:10
 52:12 ASSOCIATES [1] - 86:24, 87:20, 89:16, beginning [2] - 4:18, Bolus [8] - 15:10,
apologize [1] - 33:13 83:23 90:12 68:20 15:12, 19:11, 19:13,
 3

 19:20, 56:11, 56:12, CERTIFICATE [1] - 76:22, 96:2 collapse [3] - 33:11,
 C
 57:2 88:6 city [79] - 12:5, 12:19, 48:25, 49:9
BOLUS [2] - 15:11, calendars [1] - 47:15 certificate [1] - 97:22 12:20, 12:25, 13:7, collapsed [1] - 30:13
 19:19 camera [1] - 59:7 certify [1] - 97:3 13:15, 13:19, 13:20, collapsing [1] - 29:23
Bolus's [1] - 56:9 campaign [14] - 14:25, certifying [1] - 97:25 13:22, 13:25, 15:25, collecting [1] - 54:9
bonds [1] - 43:24 35:19, 35:24, 36:7, Chairperson [6] - 17:11, 18:12, 19:3, collective [1] - 8:12
book [2] - 7:20, 11:9 36:12, 36:21, 37:1, 91:5, 92:6, 92:8, 19:4, 19:6, 19:14, college [1] - 29:3
books [3] - 7:22, 11:7 37:4, 37:6, 37:9, 93:7, 93:9, 94:10 19:16, 19:17, 20:4, color [1] - 71:10
born [1] - 18:13 37:10, 37:13, 37:17, CHAMBERS [1] - 1:12 20:13, 20:20, 22:3, column [1] - 56:7
bothered [1] - 21:17 37:19 change [4] - 18:23, 22:20, 26:2, 27:11, coming [12] - 16:3,
bottom [1] - 58:5 Campbell [1] - 66:15 19:11, 62:4, 63:7 28:4, 28:8, 28:14, 17:10, 17:18, 21:11,
bottoms [1] - 57:23 cams [3] - 79:4, 79:7, charge [2] - 55:19, 30:14, 32:25, 33:6, 21:16, 21:18, 24:2,
boys [3] - 53:18, 79:9 55:23 33:18, 38:12, 39:21, 24:3, 54:22, 58:10,
 53:21, 53:22 candidate [7] - 35:1, charity [2] - 56:15, 42:12, 48:16, 49:7, 58:22, 63:7
brace [1] - 33:7 35:5, 35:25, 36:25, 56:18 49:11, 49:12, 50:6, commend [2] - 60:19,
brave [3] - 5:19, 5:23, 39:1, 49:2, 57:4 Charlie [1] - 15:17 50:15, 51:4, 51:7, 60:20
 60:16 candidates [5] - Charter [1] - 8:19 51:9, 55:1, 55:22, comment [1] - 69:20
BRIC [2] - 9:11, 9:13 15:23, 17:21, 28:23, cheaper [1] - 28:2 58:7, 58:10, 58:23, comments [8] - 4:1,
bring [4] - 10:7, 16:9, 35:21, 36:6 check [2] - 64:11, 62:10, 62:18, 62:20, 63:13, 63:15, 64:8,
 17:13, 43:13 cannot [5] - 20:20, 67:23 64:3, 65:15, 66:9, 67:21, 69:17, 69:21,
 20:22, 22:16, 38:16, checking [1] - 41:8 67:5, 68:1, 68:16, 71:24
BROOK [1] - 81:7
 46:20 71:16, 71:18, 72:4, commingled [1] -
Brook [1] - 9:6 Chermak [1] - 56:22
 cans [1] - 52:20 73:9, 73:11, 73:12, 75:12
brought [6] - 27:10, Cherry [1] - 23:21
 Capouse [2] - 51:21, 74:9, 74:15, 74:21, Commissioner [1] -
 51:7, 67:25, 69:18, Chief [2] - 57:11,
 51:24 75:6, 76:25, 78:23, 39:13
 71:2, 79:11 78:13
 car [2] - 51:23, 78:10 79:12, 88:19, 88:23,
BROWNFIELD [1] - child [2] - 61:15, 62:8 commitment [2] -
 89:2, 89:5, 94:18,
 81:7 care [6] - 8:10, 8:11, children [4] - 6:10, 15:6, 95:1
 94:22, 95:1
BS [3] - 17:4, 18:24, 24:25, 52:19, 69:15, 28:16, 46:17, 60:19 commitments [1] -
 77:5 city's [3] - 22:9, 49:19,
 55:10 chills [1] - 11:12 14:8
 59:16
budgeting [1] - 37:21 cared [1] - 28:19 choice [2] - 46:25, committed [1] - 72:17
 city-owned [1] - 12:20
building [14] - 30:4, Career [2] - 9:24, 47:9 committee [12] - 9:5,
 83:10 claim [2] - 49:9, 49:19
 30:13, 39:23, 39:24, chose [1] - 61:1 79:20, 81:11, 82:8,
 careful [1] - 46:4 clamp [1] - 42:22
 44:15, 48:25, 52:5, chosen [1] - 57:1 83:5, 84:2, 85:1,
 careless [2] - 61:12, clarification [1] - 15:2 86:19, 87:15, 88:11,
 52:7, 76:6, 76:7, Chris [3] - 19:21,
 61:14 clarity [1] - 68:11 90:8, 94:17
 77:14, 77:15, 77:24 19:22, 56:7
 CARRERA [1] - 2:9 Clarks [1] - 43:18 COMMITTEE [4] -
buildings [3] - 50:14, Christmas [2] - 56:9
 carry [1] - 61:17 classes [1] - 53:2 90:22, 91:23, 93:1,
 52:6, 52:14 cinderblocks [1] -
built [2] - 28:2, 54:3 cars [3] - 12:3, 28:14, classic [1] - 61:22 94:2
 31:23
bulldozer [1] - 31:8 57:23 clean [3] - 72:22, Committee [6] - 91:6,
 Cipriani [2] - 63:16,
 CARTOGRAPHY [1] - 72:25, 77:8 92:7, 92:9, 93:8,
bullet [1] - 46:12 64:13
 91:4 cleaned [1] - 77:17 93:10, 94:11
bullied [1] - 18:16 cities [2] - 11:10,
 caused [1] - 13:24 cleaner [1] - 52:18 common [1] - 38:13
bumps [1] - 74:25 52:17
 causing [1] - 20:5 cleaning [2] - 50:12, COMMONWEALTH
bunch [2] - 28:7, 52:3 citizens [1] - 62:11
 caved [1] - 32:13 75:6 [1] - 91:2
burden [3] - 12:14, CITIZENS [1] - 7:2
 caving [1] - 70:25 CLEANUP [1] - 81:7 Commonwealth [1] -
 13:9, 13:24 CITY [15] - 1:1, 2:8,
 ceilings [1] - 21:7 cleanup [2] - 4:25, 14:23
buried [1] - 19:5 2:9, 3:22, 80:12,
 celebrate [1] - 5:6 78:3 Community [2] - 93:8,
burnings [1] - 11:10 81:6, 82:3, 82:25,
 Cemetery [1] - 61:11 clear [2] - 14:21, 15:20 93:10
buses [1] - 12:11 83:21, 86:10, 87:9,
 CENTER [1] - 83:2 clearly [2] - 23:10, COMMUNITY [5] -
Business [1] - 32:10 90:1, 90:3, 90:25,
 91:2 95:8 80:11, 81:5, 82:2,
business [7] - 22:1, center [5] - 9:23, 10:4,
 10:13, 29:3, 55:25 City [31] - 5:9, 5:10, clerical [2] - 44:7, 44:9 82:24, 93:1
 34:21, 37:16, 62:21,
 Center [6] - 4:9, 9:8, 12:4, 16:4, 16:17, CLERK [2] - 2:8, 2:9 community [5] - 3:7,
 90:20, 95:23, 96:4
 9:18, 9:20, 55:11, 17:8, 19:12, 25:8, Clerk [1] - 29:25 15:25, 55:25, 60:14,
BY [14] - 80:12, 81:6,
 83:10 25:18, 25:20, 25:24, close [1] - 62:25 70:2
 82:3, 82:25, 84:17,
 84:22, 86:10, 87:9, Center's [1] - 9:24 27:3, 29:21, 29:25, closet [1] - 56:8 companies [2] -
 90:1, 90:4, 90:22, centered [1] - 12:8 30:1, 33:5, 34:10, closure [1] - 61:24 18:14, 68:17
 91:23, 93:1, 94:2 centers [1] - 55:7 37:22, 41:6, 43:19, Club [1] - 6:1 company [5] - 49:6,
bypassed [1] - 50:8 cents [1] - 41:9 47:16, 48:9, 49:7, Code [1] - 66:25 55:15, 65:15, 65:18,
 certain [1] - 13:20 49:14, 56:3, 57:19, Cognetti [2] - 28:24, 65:25
 certainly [1] - 37:25 59:19, 59:20, 66:12, 36:13 COMPARISON [2] -
 4

 3:23, 3:24 75:9 56:1, 56:5, 65:6 data [1] - 8:23 86:11, 87:10
compete [1] - 18:2 contractor [4] - 32:14, county [3] - 39:11, DATE [1] - 3:23 Department [5] - 5:20,
competing [1] - 14:13 75:24, 77:15, 77:17 65:10, 78:7 date [6] - 8:20, 54:16, 49:8, 49:16, 50:5,
competition [1] - 5:1 contractors [1] - county's [1] - 10:4 61:5, 65:9, 65:12, 95:25
compiled [1] - 65:16 50:18 couple [10] - 13:18, 69:5 departments [2] -
compiling [1] - 65:23 contracts [1] - 42:20 43:25, 66:5, 68:25, Dave [2] - 42:9, 42:11 5:24, 73:6
complaint [3] - 67:3, contrary [1] - 57:11 69:16, 69:20, 71:25, DAVIDG [1] - 84:20 deserve [1] - 14:2
 67:8, 67:10 contributes [1] - 72:8, 73:5, 75:10 days [4] - 6:7, 30:12, DESIGN [2] - 83:23,
complaints [1] - 29:25 42:24 course [3] - 31:20, 61:3, 66:15 86:15
completed [1] - 69:1 contributing [1] - 53:7, 73:1 dead [1] - 8:20 destroyed [2] - 21:1,
completely [2] - 94:21 Court [7] - 1:24, deal [2] - 75:17, 77:6 26:8
 21:22, 28:1 CONTROL [1] - 84:23 30:20, 48:12, 49:1, DEBRA [1] - 84:17 deteriorated [1] -
compression [1] - control [6] - 38:18, 64:19, 65:1, 97:11 debris [1] - 30:17 10:21
 61:20 73:9, 73:13, 74:5, courthouse [1] - 4:10 decade [1] - 39:17 determination [5] -
concern [3] - 25:6, 74:6, 97:24 courts [1] - 41:17 decades [1] - 12:5 22:7, 22:16, 22:24,
 48:12, 48:16 CONVERSION [1] - coverage [1] - 10:24 decided [3] - 14:11, 23:1, 23:3
concerned [2] - 44:6, 88:7 COYNE [2] - 54:1, 36:7, 57:1 determine [1] - 59:15
 48:8 COOPERATION [1] - 54:6 decision [1] - 15:5 determined [1] - 21:10
concerning [1] - 29:22 91:1 Coyne [2] - 54:1, 75:8 decisions [1] - 38:14 Development [2] -
concerns [1] - 69:13 copy [1] - 97:5 cracks [1] - 21:7 declaration [2] - 93:8, 93:10
condemn [1] - 15:5 corner [2] - 8:18, 68:6 crazy [2] - 15:13, 30:17, 32:12 development [6] -
condition [1] - 77:23 correct [12] - 7:5, 51:19 declare [4] - 91:20, 12:7, 13:16, 13:20,
confident [1] - 9:10 9:25, 10:1, 13:2, create [1] - 70:17 92:23, 93:24, 95:20 19:23, 23:20
confiscated [1] - 32:1, 33:11, 61:6, credit [1] - 63:25 dedication [1] - 94:17 DEVELOPMENT [2] -
 40:21 67:15, 88:20, 88:21, crew [1] - 49:16 deed [3] - 73:17, 74:1, 93:2, 93:4
conflicting [1] - 49:8 89:3, 97:6 crews [1] - 49:10 74:11 Dickson [2] - 43:19,
confused [1] - 9:18 corrected [1] - 42:23 Crime [2] - 60:4, 60:23 deeds [2] - 73:12, 51:11
Congress [2] - 11:4, correcting [1] - 46:24 crime [3] - 52:25, 74:22 die [1] - 19:5
 11:5 correctly [1] - 67:7 60:11, 63:5 deep [1] - 63:2 Diego [1] - 62:1
connection [1] - 41:16 corrupt [6] - 39:6, crisis [1] - 61:16 defend [1] - 50:5 different [6] - 13:15,
Connors [1] - 33:17 39:7, 39:8, 45:6 critical [1] - 62:24 defended [1] - 19:3 14:2, 24:6, 42:12,
connors [1] - 33:25 corruption [1] - 39:4 critically [1] - 60:17 defense [1] - 16:4 45:7, 46:16
CONSERVATION [2] - cost [3] - 13:25, 50:10, criticize [1] - 11:3 degree [2] - 10:22, difficult [2] - 13:1,
 86:11, 87:10 50:23 cross [1] - 14:14 31:15 46:8
consider [2] - 13:15, costs [1] - 54:14 crying [1] - 27:20 DEI [1] - 11:8 dig [1] - 42:17
 27:9 Council [30] - 4:3, culvert [1] - 21:12 delight [1] - 8:8 digging [1] - 43:1
consideration [1] - 7:10, 15:11, 23:2, curb [2] - 20:3, 24:18 delinquent [1] - 40:5 DIGITAL [1] - 91:3
 44:24 27:5, 29:18, 29:21, curious [1] - 25:2 delinquents [2] - 40:4, dilapidating [1] -
CONSIDERATION [4] 30:1, 30:10, 34:21, CURRENTLY [1] - 41:21 42:24
 - 90:22, 91:23, 93:1, 37:22, 38:22, 42:10, 84:17 demand [1] - 13:22 dimensions [1] - 30:6
 94:2 43:11, 45:12, 45:16, cusp [1] - 54:19 demo [2] - 49:23, 50:2 dinner [3] - 6:3, 6:5,
constant [1] - 54:13 46:11, 46:13, 46:19, customer [1] - 43:9 democracy [2] - 16:5
constantly [2] - 21:8, 48:9, 49:21, 50:5, cut [7] - 51:4, 51:8, 39:15, 39:16 direct [1] - 97:24
 44:5 51:17, 53:13, 59:19, 58:4, 58:15, 58:16, Democrat [5] - 35:3, directed [1] - 11:6
constitution [1] - 60:1, 63:8, 71:3, 59:2 35:4, 35:6, 35:7, direction [1] - 13:5
 43:13 95:2, 95:6 cuts [5] - 42:14, 51:2, 40:1 directly [1] - 76:6
CONSTRUCTION [2] - COUNCIL [7] - 1:1, 57:22, 57:23, 63:18 demolished [1] - 50:4 Director [2] - 25:11,
 83:1, 92:1 1:12, 2:10, 79:17, demolishing [1] - 26:19
 90:23, 91:24, 94:6 dirt [2] - 31:14, 34:2
consulting [1] - 36:24
 counted [1] - 21:20
 D 50:14
contact [3] - 22:4, demolition [9] - 49:6, disabled [1] - 40:6
 26:22, 34:6 counties [4] - 39:4, daily [2] - 60:19, 61:8 49:10, 49:11, 49:15, disagree [1] - 38:18
contacted [1] - 20:13 39:5, 52:3, 55:19 damage [7] - 12:1, 49:18, 49:24, 50:11, disappointed [1] -
contained [1] - 97:4 country [6] - 16:13, 20:1, 23:15, 24:5, 77:20 69:23
continue [2] - 19:4, 16:15, 17:17, 17:23, 24:16, 30:21 denied [1] - 88:17 disband [1] - 63:5
 78:24 53:4, 71:13 damaged [1] - 30:20 dense [1] - 13:19 disbanded [1] - 60:11
continuously [1] - COUNTY [3] - 84:19, damn [5] - 15:24, DENYING [1] - 88:5 discount [1] - 6:19
 62:12 84:21, 90:5 16:16, 17:8, 18:1, discuss [1] - 14:5
 department [2] - 8:10,
CONTRACT [1] - County [10] - 35:25, 46:9 discussing [1] - 11:24
 10:6
 83:22 39:12, 52:7, 52:11, dangerous [1] - 66:22 disgrace [1] - 17:9
 DEPARTMENT [2] -
contract [2] - 50:25, 55:8, 55:12, 55:24, DAs [1] - 41:16 disgusting [1] - 14:19
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disheartened [1] - Dr [8] - 3:14, 60:24, Eileen [2] - 63:15, 30:14, 33:18, 66:9, 89:25, 92:1, 94:8
 69:23 67:20, 71:22, 91:15, 64:12 68:16 exempts [1] - 43:11
disheartening [1] - 92:18, 93:19, 95:15 either [1] - 52:5 ensure [1] - 69:1 existing [1] - 52:14
 61:17 DR [34] - 3:15, 4:17, El [3] - 16:9, 17:11, enter [1] - 88:23 EXISTING [1] - 88:7
dispatched [1] - 48:23 67:22, 68:10, 68:13, 17:12 ENTER [2] - 83:22, exists [2] - 31:5, 50:12
Dispense [1] - 3:19 69:12, 79:22, 80:3, elbow [1] - 61:20 90:25 expands [1] - 42:20
distinguished [1] - 80:16, 80:22, 81:13, elderly [2] - 40:6, 42:3 entertain [11] - 79:19, expect [2] - 37:18,
 29:17 81:19, 82:11, 83:7, elected [4] - 15:20, 81:10, 82:7, 83:4, 42:16
DISTRIBUTED [1] - 83:15, 84:3, 84:10, 17:7, 19:17, 39:15 84:1, 84:25, 86:18, expenses [1] - 36:24
 3:23 85:4, 85:10, 86:3, election [10] - 7:6, 87:14, 88:10, 90:7, EXPIRE [1] - 94:9
district [3] - 39:8, 86:21, 87:2, 87:17, 16:1, 34:24, 38:2, 96:5 EXPIRING [1] - 79:17
 61:5, 89:6 87:23, 88:13, 89:19, 38:5, 38:10, 38:11, entire [2] - 6:19, 55:9 explain [6] - 25:4,
disturbed [1] - 31:24 90:15, 91:16, 92:19, 38:17, 51:12, 62:22 entity [1] - 74:3 32:8, 46:12, 50:6,
divided [1] - 39:3 93:9, 93:20, 94:13, Election [3] - 4:13, entry [1] - 44:14 73:15, 73:19
Dobrzyn [3] - 42:9, 94:24, 95:16 7:7, 39:13 environment [1] - 95:9 explosion [1] - 43:3
 42:11, 45:10 drains [3] - 54:4, 54:7, Electric [3] - 41:6, ENVIRONMENTAL [2] exposed [2] - 23:11,
DOBRZYN [1] - 42:10 68:1 47:16, 51:11 - 79:16, 94:5 31:20
dollars [7] - 41:9, drink [1] - 8:7 Electronic [1] - 6:13 Environmental [1] - Expressway [1] -
 41:10, 41:22, 41:23, Drive [1] - 66:6 electronic [1] - 88:22 95:2 88:24
 41:24 drive [1] - 61:8 ELECTRONICS [1] - EOC) [1] - 83:2 expungement [1] -
donated [1] - 77:6 DRIVE [1] - 92:3 90:5 equipment [1] - 49:18 15:18
donating [2] - 6:20, driven [2] - 12:25, Ellman [2] - 27:4, EQUIPMENT [2] - extend [1] - 5:22
 72:17 48:15 29:15 82:5, 86:16 extensive [1] - 23:15
donations [7] - 15:1, driving [1] - 13:5 ELLMAN [1] - 27:5 equipped [1] - 50:7 extra [1] - 62:19
 15:3, 36:14, 36:16, drop [1] - 8:20 embrace [1] - 72:11 erasure [2] - 70:10 eye [1] - 68:23
 36:18, 37:15, 37:16 drop-dead [1] - 8:20 Emergency [2] - 9:7, erosion [5] - 23:9,
done [17] - 12:3, 12:5, dropoff [2] - 6:19, 9:17 23:11, 26:12, 31:18, F
 15:23, 17:2, 20:21, 31:15 EMERGENCY [1] - 32:5
 23:2, 30:22, 32:1, drug [1] - 39:5 83:1 especially [3] - 3:7, Facebook [1] - 48:19
 34:1, 37:23, 44:5, due [3] - 71:13, 74:3, emergency [11] - 9:22, 44:21, 51:24 fact [2] - 60:21, 88:18
 50:8, 58:2, 58:6, 88:18 10:4, 10:13, 30:16, ESQ [1] - 2:10 factor [1] - 5:1
 75:3, 77:12, 95:3 dump [1] - 54:20 32:12, 48:23, 48:24, essentially [1] - 13:5 fall [7] - 20:11, 23:5,
donnas [1] - 27:9 DUNMORE [1] - 84:19 50:11, 52:10, 55:7, etc [1] - 37:24 30:5, 31:18, 34:2,
donors [4] - 36:19, duplicate [1] - 54:14 77:20 Euclid [2] - 79:1, 79:2 77:18
 37:11, 37:12 during [2] - 20:4, employed [1] - 51:4 evening [8] - 15:11, fallen [1] - 30:18
doo [2] - 27:13 33:10 employees [3] - 28:8, 27:5, 34:20, 42:10, falling [2] - 23:7,
doo-doo [1] - 27:13 duty [1] - 60:18 50:6, 76:25 59:18, 59:22, 63:8, 34:10
door [4] - 37:24, 49:3, empty [2] - 42:2, 79:3 63:17 falsities [1] - 70:25
 66:19, 89:10 E emptying [1] - 39:23 EVENT [1] - 90:5 families [3] - 52:12,
doors [1] - 62:20 EMS [1] - 30:14 Event [1] - 6:13 62:3, 62:5
down [20] - 7:23, e-mail [7] - 22:6, encourage [1] - 13:13 event [5] - 4:24, 8:2, family [2] - 13:16,
 11:13, 17:9, 23:7, 24:22, 24:25, 36:4, end [2] - 4:9, 63:2 10:16, 56:15, 56:18 18:15
 23:22, 30:5, 31:9, 60:22, 66:8, 66:19 enemy [1] - 75:1 everywhere [1] - 44:4 FAMILY [1] - 93:4
 32:13, 34:10, 36:3, e-mailed [2] - 19:23, energy [1] - 28:5 evidence [3] - 71:14, fan [1] - 27:14
 42:19, 42:22, 43:2, 21:24 enforcement [1] - 48:6 79:11, 97:4 far [6] - 10:23, 11:20,
 54:21, 56:24, 58:4, e-mailing [1] - 23:2 Enforcement [1] - evident [1] - 39:11 12:21, 17:24, 30:20,
 58:10, 77:15, 77:18, e-mails [4] - 22:25, 66:25 exactly [4] - 22:15, 32:15
 78:11 26:25, 73:2, 78:21 Engine [1] - 72:2 28:17, 33:8, 41:14 farm [1] - 27:10
downstream [1] - early [1] - 7:22 engine [1] - 61:3 example [3] - 12:24, father [1] - 61:15
 23:19 EASEMENT [1] - 92:1 Engineer [8] - 25:8, 18:24, 18:25 favor [12] - 79:24,
downtown [3] - 4:8, East [3] - 20:18, 25:19, 25:21, 25:24, exams [1] - 70:5 80:18, 81:15, 82:13,
 8:6, 68:3 23:24, 72:3 27:3, 33:5, 34:10, except [3] - 29:10, 83:11, 84:6, 85:6,
dozen [2] - 21:20, eat [2] - 6:6, 6:9 66:12 33:4, 55:15 85:24, 86:23, 87:19,
 21:21 eaten [1] - 23:9 engineer [3] - 22:15, excessive [1] - 13:8 89:15, 90:11
DPW [12] - 4:14, economy [1] - 44:1 22:23, 26:14 excuse [1] - 24:8 favors [1] - 28:25
 20:15, 25:10, 25:12, ECT [1] - 47:20 ENGINEERING [1] - EXECUTE [2] - 83:22, FAWNWOOD [1] -
 26:19, 49:17, 50:6, ECTV [1] - 47:21 83:24 90:25 92:3
 50:16, 50:20, 50:24, EFFECTIVE [1] - 94:8 engineering [2] - 22:3, EXECUTION [9] - fear [2] - 48:7, 70:17
 65:19, 68:5 eight [1] - 22:18 22:20 80:9, 81:3, 81:25, February [3] - 20:12,
DPW's [1] - 8:12 EIGHTH [1] - 95:22 engineers [5] - 21:9, 82:22, 86:9, 87:8, 20:15, 41:23
 6

FEDERAL [4] - 80:10, fit [1] - 70:12 foundations [1] - 21:7 generally [1] - 42:24 78:15, 78:20, 88:23
  81:4, 82:1, 82:23 five [1] - 24:15 four [8] - 18:20, 28:12, generals [2] - 39:9 guilt [1] - 56:16
federal [4] - 9:4, 9:10, fix [1] - 43:5 29:24, 54:6, 60:7, genital [1] - 14:15 gun [1] - 53:2
  16:8, 44:22 fixed [1] - 61:4 60:25, 63:2, 77:12 gentleman [2] - 33:17, gutter [3] - 76:8, 76:9,
federally [1] - 40:9 fixing [1] - 62:16 FOURTH [1] - 7:1 33:21 76:10
fee [1] - 40:18 flag [1] - 17:17 Frable [2] - 33:13, gentlemen [2] - 19:19, guy [2] - 18:6, 94:20
feed [1] - 11:2 fliers [1] - 47:17 33:25 63:17 guys [2] - 17:5, 18:9
feedback [1] - 73:6 flip [1] - 62:11 fracture [1] - 61:20 GERALD [1] - 2:2
feet [3] - 13:4, 31:12, flooded [2] - 23:23, FRANK [1] - 2:8 Germany [1] - 11:10 H
  31:14 23:25 Frank [1] - 6:23 Gilbride [3] - 73:15,
fell [3] - 27:17, 30:19, floor [2] - 85:17, 85:20 frantic [1] - 49:13 75:3, 88:17 Haas [1] - 78:4
  32:13 Florida [1] - 23:23 free [1] - 55:22 GILBRIDE [5] - 2:10, hair [1] - 59:20
fellow [1] - 17:22 flow [1] - 55:21 Friday [1] - 7:25 73:21, 88:21, 89:3, half [9] - 27:17, 40:2,
FELLOWS [1] - 87:12 Flower [1] - 47:16 Fridays [1] - 29:13 89:11 40:21, 58:11, 58:13,
Ferdinand [2] - 64:11, flowers [4] - 72:15, friendly [1] - 8:9 Gino [1] - 4:9 58:14
  64:17 73:18, 74:14, 75:2 Front [2] - 72:25, girls [2] - 53:18, 70:3 hand [1] - 57:2
feverishly [1] - 8:23 Flynn [3] - 14:11, 73:10 girls' [1] - 53:17 handed [1] - 44:1
few [12] - 16:1, 37:11, 15:1, 15:3 front [5] - 7:20, 8:3, given [2] - 50:11, handing [1] - 53:9
  37:12, 43:4, 63:14, focusing [1] - 13:9 20:12, 21:24, 51:25 62:10 handle [1] - 29:12
  64:10, 64:16, 66:15, follow [6] - 64:18, fuel [1] - 54:14 glad [1] - 66:6 handout [1] - 55:4
  69:7, 69:13, 69:16, 66:3, 66:20, 67:10, fully [1] - 97:4 gladly [1] - 36:4 hands [3] - 47:18,
  76:21 68:12, 74:4 fund [1] - 72:5 glass [1] - 75:16 53:9, 56:19
fiefdom [1] - 40:10 following [2] - 47:14, funded [3] - 37:3, Glazer [1] - 3:8 handwriting [1] - 27:7
field [1] - 53:21 47:25 37:9, 40:9 God [2] - 30:18, 38:17 hanging [1] - 76:13
FIFTH [1] - 63:10 follows [1] - 23:12 funding [3] - 9:5, 9:10, government [4] - happenstance [1] -
figures [1] - 40:3 followup [2] - 29:24, 37:2 28:19, 44:10, 44:22, 55:4
FILE [2] - 90:23, 91:24 32:6 FUNDING [4] - 80:11, 46:20 HARB [1] - 88:5
file [1] - 15:24 food [2] - 44:23, 56:10 81:5, 82:2, 82:24 governmental [1] - hard [2] - 37:21, 57:10
filed [4] - 4:3, 15:21, foot [5] - 13:6, 20:3, fundraising [1] - 8:2 74:3 HARP [1] - 88:17
  16:8, 35:19 28:1, 30:8, 56:2 FUNDS [3] - 3:22, GRACE [1] - 83:24 hate [2] - 30:5, 73:19
FILL [1] - 94:6 FOR [42] - 1:1, 3:23, 86:13, 87:12 grace [1] - 30:18 haywire [1] - 39:16
filled [1] - 42:14 3:25, 79:14, 80:7, Funeral [1] - 78:5 grand [2] - 75:12, 76:2 hazardous [4] - 32:2,
filling [5] - 28:14, 80:12, 80:13, 81:1, future [1] - 62:24 grandchildren [1] - 48:11, 48:21, 49:2
  39:22, 39:24, 39:25, 81:6, 81:23, 82:3, 46:18 head [1] - 7:23
  42:15 82:4, 82:20, 82:25, G grandkids [1] - 46:24 headed [1] - 69:8
filters [1] - 21:3 83:1, 83:19, 83:23, grandparents [1] - headquarters [1] - 5:6
final [7] - 73:4, 73:7, 84:14, 86:7, 86:12, galore [1] - 29:1 19:6 hear [7] - 10:20,
  76:1, 91:6, 92:10, 86:13, 87:6, 87:11, gamble [1] - 37:17 grant [1] - 89:9 11:18, 11:25, 12:16,
  93:11, 94:11 87:12, 88:2, 88:6, game [1] - 56:2 GRANT [4] - 86:10, 34:3, 46:16, 72:21
finally [4] - 44:11, 89:23, 90:5, 90:21, gang [1] - 62:6 87:9, 90:1, 90:3 heard [10] - 14:24,
  73:8, 75:22, 77:2 90:22, 91:3, 91:22, garage [4] - 30:6, Grant [1] - 72:4 38:21, 46:7, 46:9,
finance [3] - 35:20, 91:24, 92:2, 92:4, 31:6, 34:9, 61:2 granted [3] - 15:18, 46:10, 49:4, 65:25
  35:24, 36:13 92:25, 93:2, 93:3, Garbage [1] - 4:20 53:4, 53:20 hearing [2] - 51:25,
fine [2] - 9:8, 57:12 94:1, 94:2 garbage [4] - 5:3, grants [1] - 63:3 85:22
finished [1] - 77:3 force [3] - 16:23, 52:20, 75:13, 78:10 grass [1] - 37:19 heart's [1] - 8:8
fire [8] - 10:6, 21:12, 31:24, 69:6 gas [3] - 43:3, 43:5, great [7] - 4:23, 4:24, height [1] - 31:13
  30:14, 44:7, 44:9, Forces [1] - 4:7 43:8 9:2, 10:22, 47:2, HELD [1] - 1:4
  55:15, 55:20, 76:6 foreclosures [1] - Gassenmeyer [1] - 47:21, 76:14 held [2] - 11:10, 85:23
fired [1] - 11:5 29:13 63:16 grooves [1] - 42:14 hell [4] - 16:19, 16:22,
Firefighters [1] - foregoing [1] - 97:22 gathered [1] - 36:12 ground [4] - 20:25, 17:16, 46:9
  76:23 forget [1] - 53:23 gay [1] - 15:7 21:11, 21:14, 22:8 hello [2] - 29:17, 38:25
firemen [1] - 55:16 forgot [1] - 77:25 geisinger [1] - 50:18 groundwater [3] - help [3] - 45:17, 55:20,
firing [1] - 11:3 form [1] - 22:14 Geisinger [1] - 77:5 22:11, 24:2, 24:3 60:13
first [11] - 7:3, 15:14, former [1] - 51:3 Geisinger's [1] - 29:1 group [2] - 72:9, 74:18 helping [2] - 56:11,
  20:9, 32:23, 33:14, forth [1] - 9:7 gender [3] - 18:1, Group [2] - 72:13, 61:11
  35:19, 36:7, 54:2, forward [2] - 30:19, 70:4, 70:7 75:5 helps [1] - 47:22
  62:16, 67:22, 69:18 79:11 General [2] - 44:25, guess [13] - 25:17, HERBSTER [25] -
FISCAL [4] - 80:10, forwarded [3] - 66:7, 45:4 28:6, 30:16, 31:7, 3:10, 3:12, 3:14,
  81:4, 82:1, 82:23 69:14, 73:3 general [2] - 28:23, 33:6, 33:19, 36:11, 3:16, 3:18, 91:11,
fiscal [1] - 62:19 foundation [1] - 31:5 38:11 41:11, 57:15, 57:20, 91:13, 91:15, 91:17,
 7

 91:19, 92:14, 92:16, hour [2] - 22:18, 22:25 INCLUSIVE [2] - 90:7 judge [1] - 62:1
 92:18, 92:20, 92:22, hours [2] - 33:9, 62:25 86:13, 86:16 INTRODUCTION [11] - Judge [1] - 39:12
 93:15, 93:17, 93:19, house [10] - 20:16, income [1] - 29:4 79:15, 80:8, 81:2, judges [2] - 39:6,
 93:21, 93:23, 95:11, 20:25, 22:23, 26:8, increase [2] - 15:22, 81:24, 82:21, 83:20, 40:16
 95:13, 95:15, 95:17, 28:1, 34:9, 34:13, 56:24 84:15, 86:8, 87:7, JULY [1] - 94:9
 95:19 52:11, 76:10, 78:25 increased [1] - 56:1 88:3, 89:24 July [1] - 51:5
hereby [5] - 91:20, housed [3] - 56:3, increasing [1] - 13:25 introduction [11] - June [6] - 4:18, 5:15,
 92:23, 93:24, 95:20, 56:4 incredible [2] - 70:15, 79:24, 80:18, 81:15, 47:15, 61:24, 65:9,
 97:3 houses [5] - 23:8, 70:16 82:13, 83:12, 84:6, 65:12
herself [1] - 36:22 23:13, 23:14, 23:24, incredibly [2] - 14:18 85:6, 86:23, 87:19,
hi [1] - 19:22 29:6 Independent [1] - 39:1 89:16, 90:12 K
Hi [1] - 51:15 Housing [6] - 39:22, individuals [2] - 52:6, invasive [2] - 14:19,
High [1] - 6:15 40:2, 40:8, 41:3, 52:14 70:5 KATHY [1] - 2:9
high [2] - 53:1, 53:20 41:13, 41:20 inflation [1] - 44:2 investments [2] - keep [3] - 62:13,
highlight [1] - 48:10 housing [6] - 13:22, inform [1] - 66:16 41:10, 55:3 68:23, 74:25
highway [1] - 22:13 14:1, 14:3, 41:13, information [12] - involve [1] - 66:12 keeps [1] - 23:5
himself [1] - 34:11 41:14, 42:1 9:12, 20:22, 22:22, involved [4] - 4:24, Kelly [1] - 56:7
hinges [1] - 39:14 HRG [1] - 21:9 25:22, 26:4, 26:22, 41:1, 66:10, 69:22 kept [1] - 38:15
hired [1] - 32:14 HUD [1] - 40:12 30:23, 35:23, 36:2, involving [1] - 61:2 kicker [1] - 11:9
historic [2] - 89:6, huge [4] - 28:5, 76:8, 48:1, 78:6, 78:7 irregardless [1] - 44:9 kicks [2] - 4:8, 4:10
 89:13 76:10 informative [1] - 63:19 irrespective [1] - 15:4 kids [3] - 31:20, 46:20,
HISTORIC [1] - 88:4 humiliation [1] - 17:10 INFRASTRUCTURE IS [1] - 94:8 52:25
historical [2] - 88:19, hunting [1] - 53:5 [1] - 80:13 ISETT [1] - 83:23 killed [1] - 43:3
 89:2 HUP [2] - 65:4, 65:7 injured [1] - 60:17 issue [5] - 32:4, 34:7, kind [3] - 26:4, 29:9,
history [1] - 11:9 hurt [3] - 70:1, 70:3, inquired [1] - 22:21 48:10, 57:7, 89:8 37:15
hit [2] - 27:14, 58:4 76:18 insane [1] - 36:11 issued [1] - 30:16 kinds [1] - 46:23
hockey [1] - 53:21 hurtful [2] - 14:19, inside [1] - 27:11 issues [3] - 54:8, King [5] - 63:12,
Hodgkin's [1] - 61:22 46:5 inspections [1] - 70:22, 74:3 91:11, 92:14, 93:15,
Hodowanitz [2] - 7:3, hurts [1] - 14:21 14:15 Item [20] - 79:19, 95:11
 7:4 hydronic [3] - 22:8, inspector [2] - 51:4, 81:10, 82:7, 83:4, king [2] - 3:10, 64:6
HODOWANITZ [10] - 22:10, 22:11 51:8 84:1, 84:25, 85:15, KING [36] - 2:6, 3:11,
 7:4, 7:9, 7:13, 7:16, INSTALLATION [1] - 85:20, 86:18, 87:14, 25:3, 63:14, 79:21,
 8:17, 9:1, 9:16, 10:2, I 86:15 88:10, 90:7, 91:7, 80:1, 80:15, 80:20,
 10:10, 10:19 instance [1] - 51:2 91:21, 92:10, 92:24, 81:17, 82:9, 82:15,
hold [1] - 61:18 ICE [2] - 16:16, 71:17 instead [1] - 70:21 93:11, 93:25, 94:12, 83:9, 83:13, 84:4,
holding [2] - 29:6, ice [1] - 42:19 institutions [1] - 43:15 95:21 84:8, 85:3, 85:8,
 31:16 idea [1] - 12:6 instructed [1] - 20:19 items [2] - 4:2, 67:14 85:18, 86:1, 86:20,
home [5] - 8:8, 17:19, illegal [2] - 16:19, insurance [2] - 27:21, 86:25, 87:21, 88:15,
 27:16, 61:19, 66:18 28:15 27:24 J 88:22, 89:8, 89:14,
HOME [1] - 93:4 imagine [1] - 28:12 intend [1] - 16:22 89:17, 90:10, 90:13,
Home [2] - 8:19, 78:5 immigrants [2] - 71:5, JACKSON [1] - 92:2 91:12, 92:11, 92:15,
 interactions [1] -
homeless [6] - 52:1, 71:20 January [1] - 41:24 93:12, 93:16, 94:15,
 60:10
 52:4, 52:6, 52:8, imminent [1] - 23:17 JEFFRIES [1] - 45:13 95:12
 interest [2] - 27:13,
 52:12, 69:3 impact [3] - 31:24, 28:4 Jeffries [2] - 45:13, Kirst [2] - 64:19, 64:25
homeowner [1] - 57:9, 62:3 interesting [3] - 35:22, 71:2 kit [1] - 62:16
 34:21 impacted [1] - 62:5 36:15, 36:23 Jerry [3] - 19:24, knocking [2] - 37:24,
homes [2] - 13:17, important [4] - 16:7, INTERGOVERNMEN 21:25, 22:19 49:3
 52:15 38:4, 55:5, 62:22 JESSICA [2] - 2:4, known [2] - 35:12,
 TAL [1] - 91:1
hometown [1] - 62:4 impressed [1] - 95:7 79:16 71:20
 INTERMUNICIPAL [1]
Honesdale [1] - 23:16 improper [1] - 24:17 Jessup [2] - 10:4, knows [1] - 21:16
 - 84:16
honestly [1] - 16:21 IMPROVEMENTS [1] - 10:13
 International [1] -
honored [1] - 17:23 87:12 76:23
 jewelry [1] - 88:25 L
hope [3] - 7:17, 71:16, IN [3] - 86:12, 87:11, Jim [1] - 65:17
 intersection [1] - 68:2
 90:3 Joan [4] - 7:3, 7:4, Labrosky [3] - 34:19,
 78:21 intimidate [1] - 19:2
 in-kind [1] - 37:15 10:5, 11:15 34:21, 38:24
hopefully [2] - 47:25, INTO [2] - 83:22,
 INC [1] - 91:4 job [5] - 42:15, 47:21, LABROSKY [1] -
 69:1 90:25
 include [1] - 27:3 50:7, 53:10, 53:15 34:20
hospital [1] - 43:16 introduced [10] -
 INCLUDES [1] - 86:14 jobs [1] - 50:8 Labrosky's [1] - 37:13
hospitals [1] - 43:19 79:19, 81:10, 82:7,
 including [2] - 33:19, Joe [1] - 17:11 LACKAWANNA [2] -
hotel [1] - 40:8 83:4, 84:1, 84:25,
 54:13 join [1] - 5:7 84:19, 90:4
hoteling [1] - 52:10 86:18, 87:14, 88:10,
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Lackawanna [7] - level [1] - 20:24 25:3, 76:15 52:17 96:6
  35:25, 55:8, 55:12, LGBT [1] - 14:8 looking [9] - 9:2, majority [1] - 55:3 McAndrew [10] - 3:16,
  55:24, 55:25, 56:5, Librarian [2] - 11:4, 18:20, 27:15, 36:12, makers [1] - 36:17 56:14, 57:8, 71:23,
  68:15 11:5 57:21, 65:14, 68:15, man [1] - 53:9 76:20, 91:17, 92:20,
lacks [1] - 38:13 Library [2] - 7:19, 7:21 75:23, 75:24 MANCINI [1] - 59:18 93:21, 95:17
LAND [1] - 93:4 library [2] - 8:3, 11:7 looks [1] - 33:8 Mancini [1] - 59:19 McCool [2] - 1:24,
Landlord [1] - 40:14 library's [1] - 8:2 lose [2] - 18:3, 43:8 mandatory [1] - 53:2 97:10
lane [2] - 13:2, 13:5 LICENSE [1] - 84:17 losing [3] - 21:23, March [5] - 20:13, mean [14] - 24:19,
language [2] - 71:3, lies [2] - 60:12, 63:6 44:7 20:15, 21:24, 41:20, 26:8, 39:18, 41:18,
  71:9 life [3] - 30:21, 61:18, lost [6] - 21:4, 41:13, 64:12 43:2, 46:14, 53:6,
Lansdale [1] - 52:8 62:1 43:25, 44:12, 61:15 Maria [2] - 1:24, 97:10 56:13, 58:2, 58:19,
largest [2] - 5:3, 10:12 lifelong [1] - 34:22 lovely [1] - 53:9 Marie [2] - 57:18, 58:8 62:17, 73:17, 76:2,
last [30] - 11:19, 14:6, lifetime [1] - 62:23 Lovers [2] - 72:12, Marine [1] - 61:16 94:19
  22:18, 23:16, 27:7, light [1] - 15:6 75:4 mark [2] - 21:15, 24:1 means [3] - 44:21,
  28:11, 28:21, 33:12, limit [1] - 89:12 low [1] - 29:4 MARK [1] - 2:3 64:2, 97:23
  34:8, 34:12, 35:14, limited [1] - 6:21 LSA [1] - 72:4 Mark [1] - 57:8 meant [1] - 70:1
  38:5, 38:9, 39:17, line [6] - 46:12, 49:22, Lucas [1] - 77:1 marked [1] - 68:19 media [1] - 37:24
  43:25, 49:23, 51:17, 50:1, 54:22, 56:24, luck [3] - 51:11, 63:24, market [1] - 41:8 medical [1] - 29:3
  59:24, 64:10, 65:3, 77:9 64:4 marking [1] - 68:14 meet [3] - 13:21, 14:3,
  65:4, 66:15, 66:24, lines [2] - 50:20, 50:21 luckily [1] - 30:18 Marty [3] - 14:11, 15:1, 26:20
  67:25, 68:3, 69:19, LIQUOR [2] - 84:16, lucky [1] - 29:5 15:3 meeting [12] - 5:12,
  69:24, 72:1, 75:1, 84:23 lunch [1] - 6:5 material [1] - 76:12 7:10, 28:11, 32:9,
  78:21 list [6] - 49:23, 50:2, LUZERNE [1] - 84:21 matter [2] - 39:10, 34:5, 41:20, 59:4,
late [1] - 69:7 64:18, 65:21, 65:23, Luzerne [2] - 51:20, 70:22 66:9, 69:6, 69:10,
lately [1] - 52:17 73:11 52:11 Matthew [2] - 19:21, 78:4, 96:7
laureate [1] - 11:3 listen [1] - 46:20 lying [1] - 28:10 24:9 meetings [2] - 46:19,
Lavelle [1] - 3:8 listening [3] - 15:12, lymphoma [1] - 61:23 MATTHEWS [10] - 49:21
law [3] - 36:16, 39:11, 36:15, 45:23 LYNN [1] - 84:17 19:22, 24:10, 24:14, MEMBER [2] - 79:16,
  48:6 literally [1] - 31:15 Lynn [3] - 34:19, 24:19, 24:23, 25:13, 94:5
lawfully [4] - 91:21, LITTLE [2] - 38:25, 34:21, 37:13 25:20, 25:25, 26:7, member [1] - 60:1
  92:24, 93:25, 95:21 42:6 26:24 members [6] - 4:3,
lawsuit [2] - 15:24, 29:18, 50:24, 60:22,
 live [4] - 43:17, 44:21, M Matthews [5] - 19:22,
  16:8 78:22, 79:12 24:9, 24:10, 26:20 62:7, 71:6
lawyers [1] - 51:1 lived [1] - 40:1 M-A-T-T-H-E-W-S [1] - MAY [4] - 3:24, 3:25, memorandum [1] -
lead [2] - 18:24, 18:25 lives [5] - 27:16, 24:11 79:17 76:21
leadership [1] - 38:13 70:24, 79:1, 79:8 ma'am [1] - 53:12 Mayor [18] - 15:14, Memorial [1] - 7:21
leak [1] - 43:5 living [3] - 13:24, Mack [1] - 65:17 17:7, 18:10, 19:11, men [5] - 3:5, 5:19,
lease [2] - 40:11, 24:13, 40:7 MAGA [1] - 56:21 19:17, 34:25, 36:8, 5:23, 17:24, 48:5
  40:12 LLC [1] - 84:20 Magacrat [2] - 56:8, 39:1, 39:19, 54:21, mention [2] - 35:13,
least [4] - 20:2, 21:19, loan [2] - 36:21, 37:16 56:13 57:11, 60:4, 62:8, 47:6
  24:6 loans [2] - 37:3, 37:10 Magacrats [1] - 56:7 62:9, 69:9, 77:2, mentioned [1] - 34:8
leave [6] - 18:24, lobbyist [2] - 44:25, magistrate [2] - 40:18, 78:22, 79:7 mentioning [1] - 9:21
  26:22, 43:5, 57:3, 45:4 61:6 MAYOR [3] - 83:21, Merli [1] - 4:9
  57:4, 61:9 Local [1] - 76:24 magistrates [1] - 90:2, 90:24 message [1] - 78:14
leaving [1] - 42:18 local [6] - 5:24, 10:23, 40:16 Mayor's [1] - 55:1 met [1] - 69:8
LEDs [1] - 89:12 37:11, 37:12, 38:4, mail [8] - 22:6, 24:22, mayoral [2] - 36:25, microphone [1] -
left [2] - 31:11, 51:5 38:5 24:25, 35:14, 36:4, 49:1 11:20
legal [3] - 71:7, 71:11, locally [1] - 62:2 60:22, 66:8, 66:19 MCANDREW [37] - middle [1] - 52:25
  74:6 located [1] - 48:11 mail-in [1] - 35:14 2:3, 3:17, 5:17, might [6] - 9:12, 9:22,
legally [8] - 16:15, LOCATED [5] - 84:18, mailed [4] - 19:23, 10:17, 24:8, 24:12, 10:17, 36:14, 57:9,
  16:21, 19:8, 91:21, 84:20, 88:8, 92:2, 21:24, 35:11, 65:7 24:16, 24:21, 24:24, 71:8
  92:24, 93:25, 95:21 93:4 mailing [1] - 23:2 71:25, 74:12, 76:5, mighty [1] - 38:17
legislation [2] - 17:3, LOCATION [1] - 1:10 mails [4] - 22:25, 76:17, 80:4, 80:23, Mike [1] - 59:19
  85:21 locations [1] - 68:19 26:25, 73:2, 78:21 81:12, 81:20, 82:17, milestone [1] - 8:21
Lehigh [1] - 43:19 look [12] - 17:5, 21:17, Main [3] - 51:20, 67:1, 83:6, 83:16, 84:11, military [1] - 11:7
length [1] - 76:9 25:15, 33:5, 34:6, 67:2 85:2, 85:11, 85:14, million [3] - 41:9,
Les [3] - 56:8, 56:13 35:24, 39:18, 42:6, main [1] - 14:4 86:4, 87:3, 87:16, 41:10, 63:3
lesbian [1] - 15:7 59:14, 68:6, 75:7, maintain [3] - 12:15, 87:24, 88:12, 89:20, mind [2] - 14:24, 63:1
less [2] - 10:23, 37:14 78:25 13:8, 77:7 90:9, 90:16, 91:18, mine [2] - 29:22, 60:8
letters [2] - 65:5, 65:8 looked [3] - 23:20, major [3] - 8:2, 32:5, 92:21, 93:22, 95:18, minimal [1] - 30:21
 9

minimum [1] - 54:16 86:6, 86:20, 87:5, 82:18, 82:20, 83:3, municipal [1] - 38:10 19:16, 35:19, 43:19,
Minooka [2] - 54:1, 87:16, 88:1, 88:12, 83:6, 83:8, 83:9, municipalities [2] - 50:19, 52:7, 54:22
 54:3 89:22, 90:9, 90:18, 83:11, 83:13, 83:14, 5:25, 55:14 news [1] - 11:2
minutes [4] - 3:20, 94:18 83:16, 83:17, 83:19, municipality [1] - newspaper [1] - 29:11
 41:4, 49:21, 61:8 moving [3] - 52:14, 83:25, 84:4, 84:5, 10:12 next [14] - 4:12, 7:5,
mispronouncing [1] - 54:17, 54:25 84:8, 84:9, 84:11, must [1] - 12:6 19:10, 21:12, 38:3,
 33:11 MR [279] - 3:3, 3:11, 84:12, 84:14, 84:24, mystery [1] - 54:20 42:20, 45:1, 47:13,
Miss [2] - 33:25, 71:2 3:13, 3:17, 3:19, 85:2, 85:3, 85:5, 47:24, 63:6, 68:8,
missing [1] - 51:10 3:21, 4:1, 4:5, 4:15, 85:8, 85:9, 85:11, N 68:24, 69:5, 76:6
mistaken [1] - 49:14 4:16, 5:16, 5:17, 85:12, 85:14, 85:16, nice [1] - 36:3
mob [1] - 28:7 6:12, 6:24, 6:25, 7:1, 85:18, 85:19, 86:1, name [6] - 29:20, nickname [1] - 72:12
modes [3] - 12:9, 7:3, 7:8, 7:11, 7:15, 86:2, 86:4, 86:5, 33:12, 33:13, 33:17, night [6] - 15:9, 22:5,
 13:14, 13:15 8:14, 8:25, 9:15, 86:7, 86:17, 86:20, 64:1, 76:7 22:6, 45:9, 57:16
moment [1] - 3:4 10:1, 10:5, 10:17, 86:22, 86:25, 87:1, names [1] - 33:12 nights [2] - 45:14,
money [14] - 9:14, 11:15, 15:10, 15:11, 87:3, 87:4, 87:6, Narcoonis [1] - 3:7 47:2
 16:13, 28:6, 37:4, 19:18, 19:19, 19:20, 87:13, 87:16, 87:18, Nashville's [1] - 39:19 nine [7] - 20:25, 21:19,
 41:1, 41:8, 41:12, 19:22, 24:8, 24:10, 87:21, 87:22, 87:24, National [2] - 5:18, 22:18, 23:14, 24:6,
 43:13, 43:14, 44:7, 24:12, 24:14, 24:16, 87:25, 88:2, 88:9, 48:5 43:4
 44:12, 51:1, 55:21, 24:19, 24:21, 24:23, 88:12, 88:14, 88:15, national [1] - 55:4 NO [4] - 90:23, 91:24,
 77:7 24:24, 25:3, 25:4, 88:22, 89:8, 89:14, NATURAL [2] - 86:12, 93:2, 94:3
moneymaker [1] - 25:13, 25:14, 25:20, 89:15, 89:17, 89:18, 87:11 nobody [5] - 16:24,
 51:9 25:23, 25:25, 26:1, 89:20, 89:21, 89:23, naturally [2] - 22:7, 23:20, 28:19, 28:22,
MONTEREY [1] - 93:5 26:7, 26:13, 26:16, 90:6, 90:9, 90:10, 31:18 29:9
 26:18, 26:21, 26:24, 90:11, 90:13, 90:14, NAY [1] - 86:14 NOLAN [1] - 79:16
Montgomery [1] - 52:7
 26:25, 27:2, 27:4, 90:16, 90:17, 90:19, Nay [4] - 50:19, 77:5, non [1] - 28:25
month [6] - 27:8,
 27:5, 29:15, 29:17, 91:5, 91:8, 91:9, 94:19, 95:3 non-profits [1] - 28:25
 28:21, 40:3, 40:17,
 32:8, 32:19, 32:20, 91:12, 91:14, 91:18, Nealon [1] - 39:12
 45:2, 45:3 nonprofit [2] - 29:2,
 32:21, 32:22, 33:10, 91:20, 91:22, 92:5,
months [5] - 69:7, near [1] - 21:11 29:3
 34:3, 34:7, 34:12, 92:8, 92:11, 92:12,
 75:10, 75:15, 75:25 nearly [1] - 13:21 Norma [1] - 48:2
 34:17, 34:19, 38:23, 92:15, 92:17, 92:21,
Moosic [1] - 88:24 necessary [1] - 49:17 norma [1] - 45:13
 38:25, 42:5, 42:6, 92:23, 92:25, 93:6,
moreover [1] - 49:14 need [10] - 17:1, North [1] - 89:4
 42:8, 42:10, 45:10, 93:12, 93:13, 93:16,
morning [4] - 34:4, 22:23, 35:16, 36:9, Northeast [1] - 4:6
 48:2, 48:4, 51:13, 93:18, 93:22, 93:24,
 48:22, 59:12, 66:17 42:22, 43:10, 43:16, note [1] - 71:2
 53:12, 53:25, 54:1, 94:1, 94:10, 94:14,
Moscow [1] - 43:17 53:5, 60:15, 62:11 notes [1] - 97:5
 54:5, 54:6, 57:17, 94:15, 95:10, 95:12,
most [8] - 12:2, 30:19, needless [1] - 30:10 nothing [6] - 9:15,
 58:8, 58:12, 58:15, 95:14, 95:18, 95:20,
 36:14, 36:24, 37:15, needs [3] - 14:4, 22:10, 31:16, 32:1,
 58:18, 58:24, 59:1, 95:22, 95:24, 96:6,
 51:24, 53:8, 62:22 38:12, 62:10 44:5, 54:9
 59:5, 59:10, 59:11, 96:7
mostly [5] - 10:6, 37:2, neglected [1] - 48:21 notice [2] - 7:24,
 59:13, 59:14, 59:17, MS [48] - 3:10, 3:12,
 37:5, 37:7, 37:9 negotiate [1] - 75:22 26:11
 59:18, 63:9, 63:10, 3:14, 3:16, 3:18, 7:4,
motion [15] - 79:19, negotiations [1] - 8:12 noticed [1] - 9:2
 63:12, 63:14, 64:6, 7:9, 7:13, 7:16, 8:17,
 81:10, 82:7, 83:4, neighbor [1] - 49:13 November [1] - 15:19
 64:9, 64:15, 64:19, 9:1, 9:16, 10:2,
 84:1, 84:25, 85:14, neighbor's [1] - 20:6 number [1] - 11:4
 64:21, 64:23, 64:25, 10:10, 10:19, 11:17,
 85:16, 85:19, 86:18, Neighborhood [1] - Number [1] - 76:24
 65:2, 65:22, 65:24, 34:20, 45:13, 51:15,
 87:14, 88:10, 90:7, 78:2 numerous [3] - 33:23,
 66:2, 66:4, 66:11, 53:14, 57:18, 58:11,
 96:5, 96:6 neighborhood [5] - 48:20
 66:14, 66:23, 66:24, 58:13, 58:17, 58:21,
MOTIONS [1] - 63:11 58:25, 59:3, 59:6, 21:19, 28:18, 49:4,
 67:16, 67:17, 67:19,
motions [4] - 63:13, 68:7, 68:12, 69:11, 91:11, 91:13, 91:15, 60:6, 78:3 O
 64:7, 67:20, 71:24 71:22, 71:25, 74:12, 91:17, 91:19, 92:14, neighborhoods [1] -
motivated [1] - 38:15 76:4, 76:5, 76:16, 92:16, 92:18, 92:20, 50:13 obits [1] - 57:5
MOU [1] - 10:15 76:17, 76:20, 79:14, 92:22, 93:15, 93:17, neighbors [2] - 21:4, obviously [1] - 23:18
Mountain [3] - 20:18, 79:18, 79:21, 79:23, 93:19, 93:21, 93:23, 49:9 OECD [4] - 33:15,
 23:24, 72:3 80:1, 80:2, 80:4, 95:11, 95:13, 95:15, NeighborWorks [3] - 73:3, 73:4, 73:7
move [2] - 34:14, 80:5, 80:7, 80:15, 95:17, 95:19 4:19, 5:8, 5:13 OF [40] - 1:1, 79:15,
 40:24 80:17, 80:20, 80:21, MULBERRY [1] - 88:8 nepotism [2] - 57:8, 79:16, 80:9, 80:12,
moved [26] - 34:14, 80:23, 80:24, 81:1, Mulberry [1] - 89:5 57:12 81:3, 81:6, 81:25,
 79:21, 80:6, 80:15, 81:9, 81:12, 81:14, mulch [1] - 94:20 never [7] - 10:16, 19:2, 82:3, 82:4, 82:22,
 80:25, 81:12, 81:22, 81:17, 81:18, 81:20, multiple [2] - 19:24, 20:4, 41:25, 53:6, 82:25, 83:1, 83:24,
 82:9, 82:19, 83:6, 81:21, 81:23, 82:6, 54:13 54:3, 54:7 84:16, 86:9, 86:10,
 83:18, 84:3, 84:13, 82:9, 82:10, 82:12, NEW [1] - 93:4 86:11, 86:13, 86:15,
 Munchak [1] - 6:15
 85:2, 85:3, 85:13, 82:15, 82:16, 82:17, new [8] - 12:7, 13:17, 87:8, 87:9, 87:10,
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 88:4, 88:6, 88:7, 83:1 painting [1] - 77:9 pending [2] - 68:22, photographs [1] -
 89:25, 90:1, 90:4, operations [2] - 9:22, Pam [1] - 44:24 72:6 48:19
 90:23, 91:2, 91:3, 10:4 paper [4] - 10:25, Peninsula [1] - 45:1 pick [3] - 5:4, 40:4,
 91:24, 92:1, 94:4, opinion [2] - 56:7, 28:11, 55:18, 57:5 Penn [1] - 68:4 75:17
 94:5, 94:6, 94:8 74:13 parade [1] - 7:23 PennDOT [4] - 12:18, pickup [3] - 4:13,
offended [1] - 47:8 opioid [1] - 61:16 Parade [2] - 4:7, 78:8 12:24, 59:12, 68:22 12:3, 75:16
offensive [8] - 45:21, opponent [1] - 36:10 PARCELS [1] - 92:2 PENNSYLVANIA [8] - Picture [1] - 8:4
 45:24, 46:15, 46:16, opportunity [1] - 4:24 parcels [3] - 73:10, 84:19, 84:22, 84:23, pictured [1] - 62:8
 47:8, 47:11, 71:5 Opposed [12] - 80:5, 79:3 86:11, 87:10, 91:3, pictures [4] - 24:20,
offering [1] - 55:22 80:24, 81:21, 82:18, parents [1] - 19:5 92:4, 94:5 33:19, 33:24, 57:21
office [6] - 5:13, 8:22, 83:17, 84:12, 85:12, park [1] - 55:2 Pennsylvania [4] - piece [1] - 85:21
 16:17, 63:23, 65:7, 86:5, 87:4, 87:25, PARK [2] - 86:14, 14:14, 14:20, 36:20, pill [2] - 62:6, 62:7
 71:17 89:21, 90:17 87:12 39:2 Pine [1] - 9:6
OFFICE [1] - 3:22 opposed [4] - 12:9, Park [2] - 21:13, 94:20 Pennsylvanians [1] - PINE [1] - 81:7
Officers [1] - 60:16 17:25, 36:9, 70:25 parked [2] - 28:15, 70:22 pipes [2] - 22:12,
officers [3] - 60:17, options [1] - 14:3 77:6 penny [1] - 37:21 23:13
 63:4, 96:1 ORDER [6] - 3:21, 7:1, parking [3] - 50:19, pension [2] - 44:8, PITTSTON [1] - 80:13
official [1] - 29:24 63:10, 90:19, 90:21, 50:20, 77:7 44:11 Pittston [2] - 9:6, 78:5
Official [2] - 1:24, 95:22 part [6] - 4:22, 5:9, Pentagon [1] - 11:6 place [1] - 4:7
 97:11 order [1] - 13:13 31:9, 60:3, 62:18, people [33] - 11:24, places [1] - 42:12
officials [3] - 16:8, Order [1] - 4:2 70:11 13:4, 15:25, 18:9, PLAINS [1] - 84:21
 17:13, 49:7 ordinances [1] - 13:18 partially [1] - 31:20 18:17, 25:7, 26:10, plan [4] - 29:8, 29:9,
OFFICIALS [3] - Osellinski [1] - 65:18 participate [1] - 14:22 27:6, 27:20, 28:3, 33:4, 52:11
 83:21, 90:3, 90:25 OTHER [3] - 83:21, participated [1] - 38:9 28:22, 29:5, 35:8, PLAN [1] - 93:3
often [3] - 10:20, 90:2, 90:24 participating [1] - 36:3, 36:15, 38:8, planning [1] - 12:6
 12:21, 94:19 ought [1] - 7:23 95:1 39:22, 41:15, 43:1, plant [4] - 72:15,
old [3] - 44:13, 53:16, outside [4] - 13:16, PARTICIPATION [1] - 43:4, 46:6, 51:8, 72:19, 73:18, 74:14
 59:20 18:25, 29:25, 89:6 7:2 52:1, 52:4, 52:18, plastic [1] - 75:17
Olive [1] - 51:21 overpaid [1] - 27:9 particular [1] - 68:2 52:23, 53:8, 61:13, player [1] - 14:15
Olympics [1] - 4:20 overturn [1] - 57:10 partisan [1] - 56:19 62:13, 69:21, 70:16, PLAYGROUND [3] -
ON [5] - 90:22, 91:23, overwhelmed [1] - parts [1] - 70:16 71:12, 72:16 83:24, 86:14, 86:16
 93:1, 94:2, 94:9 28:22 party [4] - 5:5, 36:8, people's [1] - 70:24 playing [2] - 14:17,
once [7] - 5:14, 10:25, own [9] - 16:10, 19:2, 56:10, 57:1 per [1] - 45:2 31:21
 15:13, 38:16, 43:10, 36:8, 40:10, 40:16, pass [1] - 22:19 percent [5] - 43:22, Pledge [1] - 3:1
 65:11, 79:10 56:2, 60:12, 74:8 passage [4] - 91:6, 43:23, 54:11, 56:1, plow [1] - 77:8
one [37] - 4:17, 5:18, owned [9] - 12:18, 92:10, 93:11, 94:11 56:23 plus [1] - 63:4
 9:23, 10:15, 11:4, 12:20, 12:25, 24:15, passed [4] - 3:6, Perfect [1] - 8:5 pockets [2] - 13:20,
 13:5, 14:7, 16:5, 32:24, 65:15, 68:1, 13:18, 27:13, 60:18 perfect [1] - 30:19 16:11
 19:4, 20:23, 21:16, 74:21 passing [1] - 61:19 period [1] - 54:8 podium [1] - 45:19
 21:17, 30:20, 30:24, OWNED [1] - 84:17 passion [1] - 95:8 permission [1] - 72:15 Poet [1] - 11:2
 30:25, 39:5, 43:18, owner [2] - 29:19, past [3] - 4:22, 13:18, permitting [1] - 68:23 point [2] - 14:5, 46:13
 48:20, 60:15, 60:17, 34:22 19:15 person [8] - 22:12, pole [1] - 30:9
 61:1, 64:20, 64:21, owners [1] - 73:11 Pat [1] - 51:17 31:1, 33:16, 33:20, poles [3] - 23:6, 23:7,
 66:6, 66:24, 67:24, owns [1] - 74:15 pat [1] - 16:5 40:5, 40:6, 40:7, 38:21
 68:2, 68:5, 70:6, 71:9
 Patrick's [1] - 78:8 Police [7] - 5:18, 5:20,
 72:22, 72:23, 74:14, personal [6] - 12:3,
 P patting [1] - 46:2 30:14, 48:5, 57:11,
 78:11, 79:6, 89:4 12:8, 13:11, 18:9,
 pave [6] - 42:13, 60:16, 95:25
online [2] - 35:17, p.m [7] - 6:7, 6:8, 6:14, 60:12, 74:20
 42:16, 51:2, 51:3, POLICE [1] - 82:4
 45:17 8:1, 78:1, 85:23 personally [2] - 48:17,
 51:8, 63:18 police [11] - 5:24,
onsite [2] - 49:6, PA [1] - 4:7 60:21
 paving [5] - 18:21, 8:10, 16:23, 39:7,
 77:19 PA.gov [1] - 6:17 perspective [1] -
 20:5, 24:18, 64:18, 41:17, 44:6, 44:9,
open [5] - 6:22, 42:2, packs [1] - 36:17 74:16
 68:14 48:24, 60:16, 63:4,
 57:16, 62:20, 89:9 page [2] - 49:21, 50:1 petitions [1] - 64:1
 pay [8] - 13:7, 16:10, 96:1
opening [1] - 71:18 paid [7] - 44:12, 45:3, PHASE [1] - 86:13
 37:18, 40:17, 43:9, politics [2] - 35:19,
openly [1] - 15:5 50:10, 54:12, 55:17, phone [3] - 37:24,
 43:12, 44:8, 44:11 63:6
Operation [2] - 9:7, 58:5, 74:4 paying [3] - 43:7, 57:21, 78:22 polls [1] - 62:25
 9:17 Paige [1] - 36:13 75:11, 76:3 phoned [1] - 25:20 pool [2] - 21:3, 44:13
operation [2] - 10:13, paint [1] - 50:21 pedestrians [1] - photo [1] - 57:5 pools [1] - 63:2
 55:7 painted [3] - 50:20, 28:16 photographer [1] - poor [2] - 42:3, 56:11
OPERATIONS [1] - 56:16, 56:21 pedophilia [1] - 39:6 33:21
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population [1] - 69:3 82:2, 82:24, 92:4 qualified [2] - 49:15, receive [1] - 35:4 related [2] - 27:8, 65:8
porch [1] - 20:12 Project [2] - 5:9, 83:10 50:7 received [8] - 4:3, remain [1] - 3:3
poses [2] - 48:17, projects [3] - 9:6, questionable [1] - 14:25, 15:3, 30:23, remember [3] - 9:21,
 76:13 9:17, 55:2 49:20 67:24, 68:14, 72:1, 30:3, 75:20
possesses [1] - 49:17 proper [10] - 79:20, questioned [1] - 59:24 73:2 remembering [1] -
possibility [1] - 10:18 81:11, 82:8, 83:5, questioning [1] - 70:4 recent [2] - 24:17, 33:14
potholes [1] - 51:19 84:2, 85:1, 86:19, questions [1] - 60:8 60:10 remind [3] - 35:2,
Pottstown [1] - 52:10 87:15, 88:11, 90:8 quick [2] - 5:17, 63:14 recently [2] - 15:21, 38:5, 60:15
PR [1] - 33:20 properly [1] - 75:19 quite [2] - 37:11, 50:19 remove [1] - 30:17
prayers [1] - 38:16 properties [7] - 21:1, 57:20 reckon [1] - 16:23 removed [4] - 31:4,
PREPARATION [1] - 21:6, 21:20, 24:7, quote [1] - 59:20 recommend [4] - 91:6, 31:8, 32:18, 33:1
 81:8 28:9, 28:12, 48:21 92:9, 93:11, 94:11 renovating [2] - 52:5,
present [3] - 3:11, property [32] - 9:24, R RECOMMENDATION 52:13
 3:13, 49:10 19:25, 20:2, 20:8, [1] - 88:4 REPAIR [1] - 92:4
Present [1] - 3:17 20:10, 20:23, 21:3, radio [1] - 37:22 recommendation [2] - repair [1] - 61:3
PRESIDENT [2] - 2:2, 23:5, 24:4, 24:5, rain [2] - 23:4, 23:5 92:6, 93:7 repealing [1] - 76:24
 2:3 25:13, 25:14, 29:7, raise [3] - 29:8, 29:10, record [1] - 64:22 REPORT [2] - 3:23,
President [2] - 53:9, 29:19, 29:22, 30:21, 48:19 recreation [1] - 77:4 3:24
 53:11 31:7, 31:13, 32:16, raised [4] - 18:13, recyclables [1] - 75:13 report [7] - 23:19,
press [2] - 62:6, 62:7 32:19, 48:11, 49:3, 18:15, 37:13, 59:25 recycle [4] - 52:24, 23:25, 25:9, 25:17,
pressing [1] - 48:10 49:18, 49:22, 72:24, raising [1] - 44:19 54:11, 54:12, 54:14 26:4, 35:20, 41:2
pressure [2] - 22:8, 74:2, 74:6, 74:8, Ramone [1] - 11:16 recycled [2] - 52:24, reported [4] - 25:16,
 22:10 74:9, 74:19, 74:21 RAMONE [1] - 11:17 75:19 42:4, 78:18
pressure's [1] - 22:11 proposed [2] - 75:11, ran [1] - 36:8 Recycling [1] - 6:13 Reporter [2] - 1:24,
pretty [4] - 36:5, 75:15 Rat [1] - 59:21 RECYCLING [1] - 90:5 97:11
 42:13, 53:10, 61:18 prosecute [1] - 62:2 rate [3] - 42:15, 54:11, recycling [6] - 6:17, reporter [1] - 97:25
prices [1] - 44:4 protect [2] - 5:20, 54:12 52:23, 54:17, 54:23, reports [3] - 35:24,
Pride [1] - 5:9 71:20 rated [1] - 46:19 75:9, 75:24 36:13, 49:9
Pride.org [1] - 5:10 protecting [4] - 14:8, RATIFYING [8] - 80:8, Redevelopment [1] - represent [1] - 16:12
prima [1] - 27:9 15:7, 48:6, 50:24 81:2, 81:24, 82:21, 33:18 reproduction [1] -
primary [4] - 34:23, provide [1] - 50:9 86:8, 87:7, 89:24, reduction [1] - 56:23 97:23
 36:9, 38:1, 38:20 PUBLIC [1] - 91:23 91:25 REESE [1] - 84:18 Republican [9] -
Primary [1] - 7:6 Public [5] - 7:19, reach [2] - 26:18, refer [2] - 30:5, 88:16 15:15, 19:12, 35:1,
priority [1] - 70:21 49:16, 50:5, 92:7, 59:12 reference [2] - 67:24, 35:5, 35:6, 56:21,
 92:9 reached [2] - 65:17, 69:21 57:3, 57:4, 57:6
prison [1] - 62:2
 public [8] - 12:11, 68:17 reflected [1] - 41:25 Republicans [1] -
privacy [1] - 40:19
 35:23, 42:1, 47:7, reaching [1] - 51:3 reflection [1] - 3:4 56:15
private [2] - 40:8,
 48:19, 63:23, 76:14, read [2] - 27:7, 28:10 refresh [1] - 29:18 REQUEST [4] - 80:11,
 50:18
 85:22 reading [2] - 3:20, refusal [2] - 54:11, 81:5, 82:2, 82:24
prizes [1] - 5:2
 publicist [1] - 33:20 41:18 54:12 request [5] - 35:14,
problem [7] - 29:1,
 publicized [1] - 47:20 ready [2] - 30:4, 31:25 refuse [1] - 4:13 36:1, 64:15, 65:20,
 31:3, 31:5, 31:17,
 pull [1] - 11:7 real [1] - 70:23 regard [1] - 73:23 78:6
 33:24, 41:14, 53:6
 pulling [1] - 8:23 realize [1] - 27:16 regarding [3] - 48:10, requested [1] - 26:19
proceedings [1] - 97:3
 pump [1] - 21:8 realized [1] - 27:14 60:10, 67:1 requesting [1] - 62:1
process [8] - 22:24,
 PURCHASE [2] - 82:4, really [17] - 4:23, 13:9, regional [1] - 39:9 require [1] - 14:14
 26:9, 29:23, 63:18,
 65:10, 71:13, 74:5 86:15 33:3, 38:6, 40:25, regions [1] - 55:16 required [1] - 6:21
productive [1] - 71:6 purposes [2] - 12:21, 42:22, 43:10, 43:21, register [1] - 6:18 REQUIRED [1] - 84:22
 13:11 55:5, 69:23, 70:1, registered [3] - 7:17, requirements [1] -
PRODUCTS [1] - 91:4
 pushed [1] - 42:21 70:9, 70:14, 70:20, 35:3, 38:9 76:25
profanity [1] - 45:21
 put [11] - 6:22, 20:4, 70:22, 71:4, 71:15 Registration [1] - 36:1 requires [1] - 44:18
profit [1] - 55:13
 35:10, 35:13, 47:14, REAPPOINTMENT [1] registration [1] - 6:20 reschedule [1] - 7:10
profits [1] - 28:25
 52:19, 60:12, 61:18, - 79:15 regular [1] - 4:13 rescheduled [1] - 7:11
program [4] - 10:9,
 62:15, 64:1, 73:19 rear [1] - 29:22 regulations [2] - research [1] - 52:2
 52:10, 60:11, 63:6
 putting [1] - 94:20 reason [2] - 73:3, 45:15, 46:13 reside [1] - 60:2
progressive [1] -
 36:17 88:17 reign [1] - 28:24 residency [4] - 59:25,
project [3] - 9:5, 20:5, Q reassessment [4] - rEKUS [1] - 51:15 60:5, 60:8, 76:24
 64:13 27:22, 27:25, 28:2, REKUS [1] - 53:14 resident [12] - 8:7,
 Qatar [1] - 44:25 28:11
PROJECT [7] - 80:11, Rekus [1] - 51:15 34:22, 42:11, 45:14,
 qualifications [1] - reassessments [2] -
 80:14, 81:5, 81:8, REL [1] - 31:2 48:9, 57:19, 59:19,
 63:7 27:17, 27:19 66:7, 66:9, 66:16,
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  67:4, 67:8 58:15, 58:20, 59:2, 82:16, 83:14, 84:9, Security [1] - 41:1
 S
Residential [1] - 6:13 67:15, 68:23 85:9, 86:2, 87:1, see [21] - 16:16, 17:1,
residents [8] - 6:22, ROAD [1] - 93:5 Sabetta [3] - 29:16, 87:22, 89:18, 90:14, 24:24, 25:18, 26:3,
  12:14, 14:9, 15:8, roads [6] - 11:25, 29:20, 48:9 91:8, 91:14, 92:8, 29:2, 33:5, 33:7,
  27:6, 27:14, 48:16, 12:2, 12:13, 12:17, SABETTA [6] - 29:17, 92:17, 93:18, 95:14 34:15, 36:5, 43:20,
  66:18 12:20, 62:19 32:19, 32:21, 33:10, Scott [1] - 63:16 45:18, 65:12, 65:19,
RESIGNED [1] - 94:7 ROBERT [1] - 94:7 34:7, 34:17 SCRANTON [11] - 1:1, 67:11, 68:24, 69:9,
resolution [2] - 48:14, Robinson [1] - 21:13 sacrificing [1] - 37:20 80:12, 81:6, 82:3, 69:13, 73:2, 76:1,
  55:9 Rogan [1] - 51:17 sad [2] - 53:10, 70:15 82:25, 86:10, 87:9, 78:25
RESOLUTION [15] - roll [4] - 3:8, 91:9, safer [1] - 62:18 90:1, 91:2, 92:3, seem [2] - 67:15,
  79:15, 80:8, 81:2, 92:12, 93:13 safety [4] - 32:4, 94:4 77:11
  81:24, 82:21, 83:20, Roll [1] - 95:10 48:16, 53:2, 76:14 Scranton [67] - 4:8, sees [1] - 19:9
  84:15, 86:8, 87:7, ron [1] - 27:4 sale [2] - 7:20, 19:1 4:20, 5:9, 5:10, 5:14, self [2] - 37:3, 37:9
  88:3, 89:24, 93:2, roof [4] - 20:11, 21:23, sales [1] - 29:13 5:19, 6:2, 6:15, 6:16, self-funded [2] - 37:3,
  93:3, 94:3, 94:9 21:24, 44:14 Salvador [3] - 16:9, 6:17, 6:22, 7:5, 37:9
resolutions [1] - 9:3 room [2] - 40:20, 17:12 10:11, 10:21, 12:4, Senate [2] - 69:18,
RESOURCES [2] - 42:18 SAMANTHA [2] - 94:4, 12:17, 14:9, 15:8, 70:21
  86:12, 87:11 rooms [1] - 28:13 94:7 15:12, 15:15, 16:4, Senator [2] - 14:11,
resources [2] - 16:25, roots [3] - 23:11, Samantha [1] - 95:6 16:17, 17:8, 18:8, 69:24
  55:15 31:20, 37:19 San [1] - 61:25 18:22, 19:12, 19:16, send [6] - 33:4, 43:14,
responded [1] - 30:15 rotating [1] - 50:13 sanctuary [1] - 39:21 22:6, 30:14, 33:17, 55:16, 66:19, 76:15,
response [7] - 25:1, ROTHCHILD [35] - 34:25, 39:2, 39:21, 76:16
 sat [1] - 47:1
  48:24, 66:25, 72:18, 2:4, 3:15, 4:17, 40:2, 40:8, 41:3, seniors [1] - 29:6
 Saturday [5] - 4:6,
  73:6, 73:8, 75:23 67:22, 68:10, 68:13, 41:12, 41:13, 41:20, sense [1] - 38:13
 4:18, 5:15, 6:14,
responses [3] - 65:11, 69:12, 79:22, 80:3, 45:14, 49:1, 49:15, sent [6] - 27:25, 64:20,
 7:18
  67:24, 72:1 80:16, 80:22, 81:13, 50:14, 51:16, 52:18, 66:15, 68:5, 73:2,
 Saudi [2] - 45:1
responsibility [1] - 81:19, 82:11, 83:7, 56:3, 56:6, 57:19, 78:14
 saw [2] - 24:22, 29:1
  62:19 83:15, 84:3, 84:10, 59:18, 59:20, 60:2, sentence [1] - 62:2
 SB9 [3] - 14:12, 15:5,
responsible [2] - 44:8, 85:4, 85:10, 86:3, 60:3, 60:16, 60:18, sentenced [1] - 61:25
 69:18
  44:11 86:21, 87:2, 87:17, 60:23, 61:13, 62:6, separate [1] - 75:16
 scene [1] - 49:4
rest [2] - 18:17, 27:15 87:23, 88:13, 89:19, 62:10, 69:3, 72:12, separately [1] - 75:18
 scheduled [3] - 8:15,
RESTAURANT [1] - 90:15, 91:16, 92:19, 75:4, 76:22, 78:1,
 49:11, 68:18 Serrenti [2] - 9:19,
  84:16 93:9, 93:20, 94:13, 79:8, 89:5, 95:25,
 school [3] - 53:3, 55:11
restrictions [1] - 12:19 94:24, 95:16 96:2
 53:4, 53:20 serve [2] - 5:20, 64:3
results [1] - 62:14 Rothchild [8] - 3:14, Scranton's [2] - 19:10,
 School [1] - 6:15 service [2] - 3:5, 43:15
 60:24, 67:20, 71:23, 48:20
resume [1] - 95:7 schools [3] - 53:1, services [1] - 55:22
 91:15, 92:18, 93:19, Scrantonian [1] - 16:6
resurfacing [1] - 68:18 53:7 serving [1] - 56:10
 95:15 Scrantonians [1] -
retaining [4] - 31:6, SCHUMACHER [8] - set [2] - 15:20, 62:20
 roughly [2] - 54:4, 70:23
  31:10, 31:11, 32:3 57:18, 58:11, 58:13, seven [1] - 24:15
 54:6 script [1] - 62:12
return [2] - 65:8, 65:12 58:17, 58:21, 58:25, SEVENTH [1] - 90:21
 RPR [2] - 1:24, 97:10 scum [3] - 16:9, 17:10,
returned [1] - 65:11 59:3, 59:6 several [3] - 4:21, 9:3,
 ruining [1] - 51:23 46:10
REVIEW [1] - 88:5 Schumacher [1] - 9:19
 Rule [1] - 8:19 scumbags [1] - 71:5
review [1] - 73:7 57:18 sewage [1] - 68:1
 rule [2] - 57:14, 57:16 Sean [2] - 56:14, 57:7
REVISION [1] - 93:3 SCHUMAKER [1] - sex [1] - 39:6
 ruled [1] - 57:12 searches [1] - 54:21
rhino [1] - 15:17 94:7 Seymour [3] - 57:25,
 rules [2] - 45:15, seat [1] - 15:19
Richard [2] - 29:20, schumaker [3] - 58:14, 58:23
 46:13 second [16] - 34:7,
  48:9 94:16, 94:23, 94:25 shake [2] - 56:19, 57:2
 RULES [2] - 90:22, 79:22, 80:16, 81:13,
Rick [1] - 29:16 Schuster [12] - 14:25, shame [1] - 29:7
 94:2 82:11, 84:4, 85:4,
rid [2] - 17:5, 38:12 49:22, 50:1, 60:1, shape [1] - 22:14
 Rules [2] - 91:6, 94:11 85:17, 85:18, 85:20,
riding [1] - 42:12 61:12, 62:17, 64:7, shared [2] - 48:18,
 rumors [1] - 71:15 87:17, 90:10, 91:8,
rights [1] - 14:8 67:19, 91:13, 92:16, 60:22
 run [4] - 36:7, 38:6, 92:11, 93:12, 94:13
Rik [2] - 38:24, 38:25 93:17, 95:13 sheet [2] - 45:11,
 53:11, 53:16 Second [4] - 82:10,
ripping [1] - 42:25 schuster [1] - 3:12 45:16
 running [9] - 15:14, 83:7, 86:21, 88:13
risk [2] - 48:18, 76:14 SCHUSTER [34] - 2:5, shelter [1] - 52:8
 18:10, 23:8, 23:18, secondly [2] - 6:1,
river [1] - 27:11 3:13, 4:5, 4:16, shelters [1] - 52:15
 34:25, 41:15, 46:22, 32:4
RIVER [1] - 84:21 26:16, 26:21, 64:9, shenanigans [1] -
 62:9, 63:23 section [6] - 20:3,
RLE [2] - 49:6, 50:10 64:19, 64:23, 65:2, 39:20
 runoff [2] - 21:13, 54:8 50:15, 64:16, 88:19,
road [14] - 13:1, 13:3, 65:24, 66:4, 66:14, Sheridan [2] - 37:6,
 runs [3] - 21:12, 89:2, 89:13
  13:6, 13:10, 20:6, 66:24, 67:17, 80:2, 49:2
 54:14, 76:9 sections [1] - 50:13
  42:24, 58:9, 58:10, 80:21, 81:18, 82:10, sheriff [1] - 29:13
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sheriffs [1] - 39:7 3:3, 3:19, 4:1, 4:15, sorry [3] - 53:14, 54:5, statements [1] - 49:12 20:24, 21:9, 72:2,
Sherry [1] - 49:7 5:16, 6:12, 6:25, 7:3, 58:12 States [2] - 17:14, 72:5
shifting [1] - 20:11 7:8, 7:11, 7:15, 8:14, sorts [1] - 13:10 45:5 stuff [4] - 15:13, 17:1,
shirt [2] - 7:25, 19:10 8:25, 9:15, 10:1, SOUTH [1] - 84:20 states [2] - 49:11, 33:2, 40:21
short [1] - 63:5 10:5, 11:15, 15:10, South [4] - 12:23, 49:22 subject [1] - 70:4
shortage [1] - 13:23 19:18, 19:20, 25:4, 77:14, 77:20, 78:1 STATIC [1] - 88:7 subjects [1] - 55:6
shorter [1] - 10:23 25:14, 25:23, 26:1, space [3] - 6:21, 47:5, stating [2] - 15:6, 22:7 SUBMISSION [7] -
shortly [1] - 32:5 26:13, 26:25, 27:4, 72:23 station [2] - 21:12, 80:9, 81:3, 81:25,
Show [1] - 47:16 29:15, 32:8, 32:20, spade [2] - 59:22, 76:7 82:22, 86:9, 87:8,
show [3] - 57:22, 59:3, 32:22, 34:3, 34:12, 59:23 status [3] - 68:14, 89:25
 59:7 34:19, 38:23, 42:5, spaghetti [1] - 6:2 71:8, 71:11 submitted [2] - 68:7,
showed [1] - 22:23 42:8, 45:10, 48:2, Spano [2] - 15:17, stay [3] - 17:16, 66:21, 72:4
side [2] - 56:11 51:13, 53:12, 53:25, 18:17 68:25 subsequently [1] -
Side [1] - 51:16 54:5, 57:17, 58:8, speakers [1] - 45:23 stealing [1] - 40:25 48:18
 58:12, 58:15, 58:18, speaking [3] - 8:11, steps [1] - 68:9 substantial [1] - 20:1
sidewalk [3] - 7:20,
 58:24, 59:1, 59:5, 9:16, 62:1 Steve [2] - 22:13, success [1] - 62:24
 20:6, 28:15
 59:10, 59:13, 59:17, special [1] - 60:13 65:18 sudden [1] - 16:2
sign [2] - 44:16, 45:11
 63:9, 63:12, 64:6, specific [1] - 72:24 still [15] - 8:11, 13:7, suddenly [1] - 39:12
sign-in [1] - 45:11
 67:19, 71:22, 76:20, specifically [1] - 14:16 29:5, 44:2, 51:1, suggest [2] - 43:11,
signed [2] - 32:12,
 79:18, 79:23, 80:5, 54:10, 54:20, 56:4, 43:12
 77:1 speed [1] - 74:25
 80:17, 80:24, 81:9, 61:4, 61:24, 65:22, suggesting [1] - 75:20
significant [3] - 12:12, spend [2] - 16:13,
 81:14, 81:21, 82:6, 68:22, 72:5, 72:6, suggestion [1] - 12:15
 12:14, 48:18 38:1
 82:12, 82:18, 83:3, 74:13
signify [12] - 79:24, spending [2] - 36:6, suits [1] - 15:21
 83:8, 83:11, 83:17, stockmarket [1] - 44:1
 80:18, 81:15, 82:13, 38:12 Summit [1] - 43:18
 83:25, 84:5, 84:12,
 83:12, 84:6, 85:6, spends [1] - 40:3 stocks [1] - 43:24 supervision [1] -
 84:24, 85:5, 85:12,
 85:24, 86:23, 87:19, spent [8] - 36:24, stood [1] - 27:21 97:24
 85:16, 85:19, 86:5,
 89:16, 90:12 37:1, 37:4, 37:7, stop [2] - 39:17, 51:10 supervisor [3] - 22:14,
 86:17, 86:22, 87:4,
signs [3] - 17:6, 17:8, 37:14, 41:22, 58:3, stopping [1] - 39:18 25:11, 26:20
 87:13, 87:18, 87:25,
 51:10 61:11 store [4] - 67:3, 67:7, support [4] - 10:15,
 88:9, 88:14, 89:15,
silent [1] - 3:4 Spindler [1] - 56:8 67:14, 88:25 33:6, 43:23, 72:11
 89:21, 90:6, 90:11,
SINGLE [2] - 3:22, spine [1] - 11:13 storm [2] - 54:4, 54:7 supports [1] - 17:24
 90:17, 91:5, 91:9,
 93:4 sports [9] - 14:14, storms [1] - 23:17 supposed [3] - 22:4,
 91:20, 92:5, 92:12,
single [3] - 13:16, 14:17, 14:22, 53:17, stormwater [4] - 21:9, 40:12, 40:14
 92:23, 93:6, 93:13,
 51:23, 61:14 53:19, 69:22, 70:3, 21:10, 23:19, 55:2 surprise [1] - 11:1
 93:24, 94:10, 94:14,
SINKHOLE [1] - 92:4 70:8, 70:19 stream [1] - 21:2 surprised [1] - 51:6
 95:10, 95:20, 95:24,
sinkholes [2] - 21:21, spot [1] - 73:19 Street [16] - 5:14, 8:3, SUVs [1] - 12:4
 96:7
 23:12 spotted [1] - 56:15 23:22, 43:23, 48:12, swimming [1] - 44:13
 Smurl [6] - 3:18,
sinking [3] - 21:6, sprawl [1] - 12:6 51:24, 56:25, 61:11, Swingin [2] - 7:25, 8:1
 59:11, 91:19, 92:22,
 21:23, 23:6 spreading [1] - 71:14 64:12, 66:16, 68:5, syllable [1] - 60:25
 93:23, 95:19
sirens [1] - 49:4 square [1] - 4:10 72:25, 73:10, 78:11, syllables [1] - 60:25
 Social [1] - 40:25
sit [3] - 17:5, 17:19, St [1] - 78:8 88:24, 89:5
 social [1] - 37:24
 18:16 stable [1] - 52:15 STREET [5] - 83:24, T
 society [5] - 45:8,
site [4] - 48:17, 48:25, stacked [1] - 55:10 84:18, 84:21, 88:8,
 70:11, 70:12, 70:16,
 73:9, 73:12 stage [1] - 61:22 92:3 T-shirt [1] - 7:25
 71:6
SITE [1] - 81:7 stance [1] - 71:19 street [5] - 42:17, table [4] - 20:21,
 soil [2] - 31:17, 32:5
sits [1] - 88:25 stand [4] - 17:20, 58:23, 67:9, 67:12, 20:24, 85:15, 85:20
 solar [1] - 27:10
sitting [4] - 31:19, 17:21, 19:15, 50:16 79:3 tabled [1] - 85:21
 sold [1] - 10:22
 31:23, 45:22, 60:1 standing [3] - 3:3, street's [1] - 42:21 targeted [1] - 60:21
 solicitor [1] - 73:14
situation [4] - 25:15, 27:8, 56:23 streets [5] - 18:21, task [1] - 69:5
 SOLICITOR [1] - 2:10
 32:2, 44:22, 66:22 stands [1] - 56:12 43:1, 51:22, 52:18, TAX [1] - 3:22
 Solicitor [3] - 73:15,
six [2] - 40:3, 54:7 start [3] - 47:12, 67:5 tax [5] - 12:14, 15:21,
 75:3, 88:16
SIXTH [1] - 90:19 62:16, 77:25 streetscape [1] - 15:22, 43:11, 74:3
 solution [1] - 75:15
skin [1] - 71:10 starting [2] - 7:24, 68:22 Tax [1] - 65:7
 someone [8] - 20:19,
slightly [1] - 13:19 24:4 STREETSCAPE [1] - taxes [5] - 29:8, 29:10,
 20:20, 46:15, 55:20,
sloped [1] - 31:13 starts [2] - 39:4, 43:13 80:14 43:12, 44:19, 56:1
 56:21, 57:13, 69:2,
small [1] - 73:10 State [2] - 14:11, struck [1] - 78:12 taxpayer [3] - 34:22,
 76:17
SMITH [1] - 84:18 36:20 structure [3] - 30:8, 42:11, 57:19
 son [1] - 61:7
Smith [1] - 5:13 state [6] - 36:19, 32:17, 34:16 taxpayers [1] - 50:9
 son's [1] - 61:19
SMURL [113] - 2:2, 43:12, 55:1, 58:7, students [1] - 10:8 teachers [1] - 44:9
 soon [1] - 69:1
 58:9, 58:20 study [5] - 20:21, team [3] - 5:3, 53:21,
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  70:8 thrown [1] - 54:19 14:13, 14:16, 14:20,
 U V
Teaman [1] - 22:13 thumbs [1] - 11:21 69:21, 70:1
teams [1] - 48:24 Thursday [3] - 6:4, transit [1] - 12:11 under [4] - 11:2, values [1] - 27:16
tear [2] - 12:13, 54:15 7:12, 7:13 transitioning [1] - 40:14, 57:14, 97:24 various [1] - 14:4
Tech [1] - 83:10 tied [1] - 9:4 70:6 underground [5] - varying [1] - 31:14
Technology [1] - 9:24 tilt [1] - 57:6 translates [1] - 45:2 20:7, 21:2, 23:9, vehicle [2] - 61:2, 61:7
TECHNOLOGY [1] - tilted [1] - 76:13 transmission [1] - 23:10, 26:11 vehicles [3] - 12:3,
  82:4 timeframe [1] - 5:4 48:23 underneath [1] - 12:9, 13:12
telephone [3] - 23:6, timeline [2] - 49:24, transpeople [1] - 51:22 vendetta [1] - 60:12
  23:7, 30:9 50:3 70:10 undesirables [1] - vendor [1] - 54:23
TEMPORARY [1] - Times-Tribune [1] - transportation [2] - 28:13 verbal [1] - 55:19
  92:1 10:21 12:10, 13:14 undue [1] - 13:24 vertebrae [1] - 61:21
ten [2] - 28:12, 28:14 TO [15] - 3:23, 3:24, trash [4] - 4:13, 52:16, UNEXPIRED [1] - 94:6 Veterans [1] - 4:9
Tenant [1] - 40:14 80:12, 81:6, 82:3, 52:20, 54:18 union [1] - 50:24 vets [2] - 17:17, 17:22
TERM [2] - 94:6, 94:8 82:25, 83:21, 84:20, Treasurer's [1] - 41:2 unions [1] - 44:7 via [1] - 60:21
terrible [1] - 70:20 86:10, 86:12, 87:9, treasury [5] - 73:11, United [2] - 17:14, VICE [1] - 2:3
terribly [1] - 9:18 87:11, 90:3, 90:25, 73:17, 74:1, 74:11, 45:5 Victor [1] - 6:1
test [2] - 65:4, 65:7 94:6 74:22 units [1] - 48:25 video [1] - 33:20
texts [1] - 78:21 today [16] - 11:9, trees [4] - 21:5, 31:19, unless [1] - 97:24 Vince [1] - 3:7
thankfully [1] - 61:22 12:16, 14:5, 17:2, 31:24, 79:4 unlike [1] - 60:24 Vine [3] - 7:25, 8:1,
THAT [1] - 86:14 17:20, 19:9, 25:21, trestle [1] - 51:22 unrelated [1] - 14:6 8:3
THE [51] - 1:1, 79:16, 26:19, 32:10, 35:15, Tribune [1] - 10:21 unsheltered [1] - 69:5 Virgil [1] - 48:4
  80:9, 80:12, 80:13, 35:17, 65:6, 66:12, tribute [1] - 61:21 up [56] - 5:4, 8:22, virtually [1] - 21:2
  81:3, 81:6, 81:7, 73:25, 77:20, 77:24 tried [2] - 39:19 11:12, 11:21, 11:25, visibly [1] - 63:3
  81:25, 82:3, 82:4, together [3] - 8:23, trillion [1] - 43:24 15:17, 19:23, 22:23, visit [3] - 6:16, 61:7,
  82:22, 82:25, 83:1, 10:14, 60:3 Trish [2] - 36:25, 37:8 23:13, 23:17, 24:7, 61:9
  83:20, 83:23, 83:24, Tom [4] - 14:25, 19:24, trolleys [1] - 12:11 24:14, 25:7, 25:8, visited [1] - 48:17
  84:15, 84:22, 86:9, 25:25, 54:1 truck [1] - 78:10 25:12, 25:15, 27:10, visits [1] - 30:1
  86:10, 86:11, 86:13, tomorrow [3] - 26:3, trucks [4] - 12:4, 28:14, 29:2, 30:2, voice [1] - 38:21
  86:14, 87:8, 87:9, 27:3, 66:13 54:15, 55:20, 57:24 33:3, 33:5, 34:6, Voldenberg [5] -
  87:10, 88:3, 88:4, tongue [2] - 46:4 true [1] - 59:19 37:20, 39:22, 39:24, 26:16, 64:10, 65:14,
  88:5, 88:6, 89:25, tonight [12] - 34:23, Trump's [1] - 11:3 39:25, 42:16, 42:21, 67:23, 69:14
  90:1, 90:2, 90:3, 39:3, 45:16, 46:7, truth [2] - 61:13, 79:10 43:1, 43:14, 44:4, VOLDENBERG [38] -
  90:22, 90:23, 90:24, 47:1, 55:5, 55:6, truths [1] - 61:17 50:12, 50:16, 53:5, 2:8, 3:21, 6:24, 7:1,
  91:2, 91:23, 91:24, 60:9, 66:7, 66:20, try [2] - 10:7, 66:8 56:19, 56:23, 64:11, 26:18, 27:2, 59:11,
  91:25, 92:4, 93:1, 71:21, 78:20 trying [6] - 18:18, 64:18, 66:3, 66:20, 59:14, 63:10, 64:15,
  94:2, 94:5, 94:6 took [7] - 31:9, 33:18, 18:19, 37:21, 47:18, 67:10, 67:25, 68:12, 64:21, 64:25, 65:22,
theirs [1] - 59:15 37:1, 37:6, 53:7, 70:17, 75:6 69:18, 71:2, 72:22, 66:2, 66:11, 66:23,
they've [2] - 4:20, 26:5 77:5 Tuesday [7] - 1:7, 7:6, 72:25, 73:24, 75:6, 67:16, 68:7, 68:12,
thick [1] - 29:12 top [3] - 36:13, 66:21, 29:21, 38:3, 63:23, 75:17, 77:18, 78:11, 69:11, 76:4, 76:16,
thinner [1] - 10:23 68:25 64:4, 85:23 78:25, 79:2, 94:19 79:14, 80:7, 81:1,
third [2] - 42:15, 72:18 torn [1] - 44:14 turn [2] - 17:4, 70:2 UP [6] - 80:12, 81:6, 81:23, 82:20, 83:19,
THIRD [1] - 3:21 toss [1] - 57:5 turned [1] - 60:24 82:3, 82:25, 86:12, 84:14, 86:7, 87:6,
Third [1] - 4:2 totally [1] - 30:19 turnout [1] - 38:7 87:11 88:2, 89:23, 90:19,
thirty [1] - 16:5 tough [1] - 18:6 TV [1] - 41:6 update [11] - 9:12, 91:22, 92:25, 94:1,
thirty-one [1] - 16:5 town [2] - 28:3, 29:3 twice [4] - 25:9, 25:10, 49:23, 54:23, 64:11, 95:22
THIS [1] - 94:8 track [1] - 63:21 25:19, 29:12 64:14, 65:3, 65:4, volunteering [1] -
THOMAS [2] - 2:5, Tracy [1] - 51:15 twisted [1] - 61:10 68:18, 72:2, 75:9, 37:23
  2:10 trafficking [2] - 39:5, two [25] - 4:5, 10:14, 76:1 vote [10] - 7:18, 14:12,
thousand [4] - 41:22, 39:6 21:4, 21:20, 28:6, updates [2] - 26:17, 15:5, 38:3, 38:4,
  41:23, 41:24 trail [3] - 79:4, 79:6, 29:20, 30:1, 30:12, 65:20 53:23, 62:12, 62:23,
thousands [1] - 27:20 79:9 31:19, 31:24, 32:1, UPON [1] - 94:8 63:1
three [7] - 11:2, 30:24, trained [1] - 49:15 34:12, 40:21, 49:6, uprooted [1] - 21:5 voted [3] - 28:8,
  33:9, 48:13, 50:1, TRAINING [1] - 83:2 51:10, 57:9, 60:25, US [1] - 11:2 61:14, 69:24
  57:9, 68:21 training [1] - 10:7 61:1, 61:22, 63:16, USE [1] - 91:3 Voter [1] - 36:1
thrilled [1] - 72:10 trans [1] - 15:8 68:20, 73:10, 77:11, useless [2] - 28:7, voter [1] - 38:6
THROUGH [1] - 3:25 transcript [3] - 41:19, 79:3 46:10 voters [2] - 38:9, 40:1
throughout [1] - 3:5 97:6, 97:22 TWO [1] - 88:7 utilities [3] - 23:8, votes [2] - 57:9, 57:13
throw [1] - 75:18 TRANSFER [1] - 84:16 type [5] - 20:18, 22:22, 23:12, 68:20
throwing [1] - 75:13 transgender [5] - 32:6, 62:12, 62:13 utility [1] - 68:17
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 20:18, 22:17, 23:21,
 W Y
 28:4, 29:10
waiting [1] - 61:24 WHO [1] - 94:7 yard [3] - 20:10, 21:21,
walk [2] - 8:8, 40:20 whole [5] - 21:18, 31:15
walked [1] - 60:6 34:2, 41:2, 55:8, YEAR [7] - 3:23, 3:24,
walking [1] - 12:10 76:9 80:10, 81:4, 82:1,
wall [16] - 20:10, 27:7, wholeheartedly [1] - 82:23
 31:6, 31:10, 31:12, 38:19 year [4] - 27:21, 27:24,
 32:3, 32:11, 32:15, wide [3] - 12:21, 13:4, 51:6, 58:3
 32:16, 32:17, 32:20, 13:6 YEAR-TO-DATE [1] -
 32:22, 32:24, 33:7, Wilkes [1] - 52:13 3:23
 34:2, 34:15 Wilkes-Barre [1] - YEAR-TO-YEAR [1] -
Wall [1] - 43:23 52:13 3:24
wanderings [1] - WILL [1] - 94:9 years [21] - 4:21, 9:19,
 28:20 WILLIAM [1] - 2:6 13:18, 13:23, 16:4,
wants [3] - 14:22, William [1] - 3:8 16:5, 18:15, 18:20,
 18:23, 35:24 willing [2] - 15:4, 24:15, 28:18, 37:23,
Washburn [1] - 61:11 63:25 40:2, 40:21, 43:4,
Washington [1] - win [2] - 18:3, 38:16 48:13, 51:5, 52:21,
 12:23 wish [6] - 19:14, 53:16, 60:7, 77:11
waste [1] - 28:5 45:12, 63:22, 63:23, yesterday [2] - 8:14,
wasted [1] - 54:16 64:3, 94:23 77:1
wasteful [1] - 38:12 WITH [1] - 83:22 Yesu [3] - 19:23,
Watch [2] - 60:4, woke [1] - 45:8 23:20, 66:6
 60:23 woman [2] - 29:18, young [1] - 33:21
watch [2] - 60:11, 63:5 35:10
watching [1] - 51:18 women [6] - 3:5, 5:19, Z
water [16] - 20:5, 5:23, 18:5, 48:6,
 20:21, 20:24, 21:8, 70:3 zoned [1] - 67:7
 21:11, 21:14, 21:18, women's [2] - 14:17, zoning [2] - 13:17,
 22:8, 23:9, 23:10, 17:24 27:10
 26:12, 42:18, 65:15, wonder [1] - 27:19
 65:18, 65:25 wondering [2] - 10:11,
wear [3] - 7:25, 12:13, 78:17
 54:15 wooden [1] - 30:8
wearing [1] - 19:10 word [2] - 19:8, 60:25
weather [1] - 68:21 words [11] - 22:14,
website [2] - 6:16, 45:19, 45:24, 46:7,
 6:23 46:8, 46:17, 46:23,
Webster [1] - 77:21 46:25, 47:9
Wednesday [1] - 6:3 works [1] - 44:10
Week [1] - 48:5 Works [4] - 49:16,
week [20] - 4:12, 5:18, 50:5, 92:7, 92:9
 23:17, 33:4, 34:8, WORKS [1] - 91:24
 34:24, 47:13, 47:14, world [1] - 3:5
 47:24, 47:25, 59:24, worst [1] - 50:14
 63:7, 64:10, 65:3, worthless [2] - 28:7,
 67:25, 68:3, 69:19, 46:11
 69:24, 72:1, 75:1 worthy [1] - 9:6
weekend [1] - 17:18 write [5] - 15:15,
weeks [11] - 16:1, 19:12, 19:13, 35:4,
 28:6, 29:21, 30:2, 35:7
 32:1, 34:12, 43:25, write-in [2] - 15:15,
 64:16, 68:21, 68:25, 19:12
 72:8 written [2] - 29:24,
welcome [1] - 95:5 35:12
West [6] - 4:19, 6:2, wrongdoing [1] - 61:6
 51:15, 60:3, 60:18,
 60:22
whatsoever [5] -