COUNCIL — Scranton, PA
Date: 2026-03-16

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 1 COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF SCRANTON

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 THOMAS SCHUSTER - PRESIDENT
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 PATRICK FLYNN, VICE PRESIDENT
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 MARK MCANDREW
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 JESSICA ROTHCHILD
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 SEAN MCANDREW
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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. SCHUSTER: Please remain

 4 standing for a moment of silent reflection to

 5 our service men and women throughout the world

 6 and for those who have passed away in our

 7 community. Thank you. Roll call, Miss

 8 Carrera.

 9 MS. CARRERA: Dr. Rothchild.

10 DR. ROTHCHILD: Here.

11 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Sean McAndrew.

12 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Present.

13 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Mark McAndrew.

14 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Present.

15 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Flynn.

16 MR. FLYNN: Here.

17 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Schuster.

18 MR. SCHUSTER: Present. Please

19 dispense with the reading of the minutes.

20 MR. FLYNN: I make a -- I make a

21 motion to take from the table Resolution No. 25

22 of 2026.

23 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

24 MR. SCHUSTER: There's a motion on

25 the floor and a second to take from the table
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 1 Resolution 25 of 2026. This resolution is the

 2 HARB denial of the demolition of the Mattes Law

 3 Office building at 324 North Washington Avenue.

 4 It's being taken from the table and

 5 placed in Seventh Order tonight for a final

 6 vote. Anyone who would like to speak on this

 7 piece of legislation may do so in Fourth Order

 8 at Citizens Participation.

 9 On the question? All those in favor

10 signify by saying aye.

11 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

12 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Aye.

13 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Aye.

14 MR. FLYNN: Aye.

15 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. Opposed? The

16 ayes it and so moved. Please dispense with the

17 reading of the minutes.

18 MR. VOLDENBERG: THIRD ORDER. No

19 business at this time.

20 MR. SCHUSTER: Are there any

21 comments on any of the -- we received and filed

22 them. Any Council members have any

23 announcements at this time?

24 MR. FLYNN: I have a few. One, we

25 have some information from the county that was
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 1 sent over. One, on the new fraud notifying

 2 instructions for any fraudulent activity

 3 happening. I have it here. I'm not going to

 4 read it all. It's a lot of information, but it

 5 will be outside on the table after the meeting

 6 if you want to take a picture of it or grab a

 7 copy of it.

 8 And the other is Lackawanna County

 9 Conservation District's 2026 seedling sale that

10 is now starting. So I'll have the information

11 on what seedlings are for sale, how much, how

12 to purchase them. And that will also be on the

13 table outside after the meeting.

14 The third and final thing I have is

15 something personal I told my aunt I would do.

16 My aunt turned 90 years old last week. My aunt

17 Patricia Ward, lifelong resident of Scranton,

18 has lived in the Bellevue section her entire

19 life.

20 And 90 is a very big deal. I'm so

21 happy for her. And I just wanted to publicly

22 wish my Aunt Pat a happy birthday. And that's

23 all I have. Thanks.

24 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Any other

25 announcements at this time?
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 1 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Yeah, I got two

 2 of them. So this Saturday is parade day. I

 3 hope everybody has a great time and stays safe

 4 obviously. But also, the Ukavets on Railroad

 5 Avenue asked me to announce that after the

 6 parade they are going to have their annual ham

 7 and cabbage dinner, $13. Or if you want a ham

 8 sandwich, it's $5.

 9 It's at the American Ukrainian

10 Veteran's Association of Lackawanna County.

11 It's on 237 Railroad Avenue. I'm proud to say

12 that my students are helping with preparing the

13 food for this fundraiser for these guys. So if

14 you have a chance, stop by. It's open to the

15 public.

16 And they also asked me to mention

17 that on Sunday, March 29th, they have their

18 annual ham and kielbasa raffle. It's from 2 to

19 5. They have light snacks. If you want to

20 bring some snacks, that's fine also at the same

21 location.

22 But they have a lot of great

23 raffles. And it's a good time and helps with

24 their fund-raising. And that is all I have.

25 Thank you.
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 1 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Yeah, I have

 2 one. It's the Lackawanna County and Scranton

 3 Wilkes-Barre RailRiders invite you to a free

 4 groundskeeping workshop. So if anybody is a

 5 coach or team volunteers, there will be a

 6 workshop, tools of the trade from mount care

 7 and play care, infield and game prep, creating

 8 foul lines, pretty much everything to do to get

 9 the field ready to play on. This will be

10 Sunday, March 29th noon to 1:30 at the PNC

11 Field in Moosic.

12 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Any other

13 announcements? I have two announcements to

14 make. There is going to be a Hop on the

15 Trolley with the Easter Bunny. It's Saturday,

16 March 28th and Sunday, March 29th. Trolley

17 departure times are 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m.,

18 11:30 a.m., 12:45 and 1:30 p.m.

19 They are going to have rides and the

20 museum. Adults are $15, seniors are $14 and

21 children are 13. There's going to be balloon

22 art and face painting from 10:30 to 2:30. And

23 for reservations call 570-963-6590. And that's

24 the Lackawanna County is Hop on the Trolley

25 with the Easter Bunny.
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 1 Also, this Saturday is going to be

 2 the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. The

 3 Parade steps off at 11:45 at St. Peter's

 4 Cathedral on Wyoming Avenue. So all are

 5 welcome. Come in and enjoy the City of

 6 Scranton. Have fun and be safe. That's all I

 7 have for tonight.

 8 MR. VOLDENBERG: FOURTH ORDER.

 9 CITIZEN PARTICIPATION.

10 MR. SCHUSTER: Our first speaker

11 tonight is Tyler Warden.

12 MR. WARDEN: Council, I'm here to

13 discuss some issues I have regarding helping

14 the homeless again. I know that Mr. Mark

15 McAndrew had a lady come in here and talk about

16 the how the shelter is, like, overall the worst

17 shelter in Lackawanna County being that is the

18 only shelter we have for overnight in

19 Lackawanna County.

20 The one main problem I have with the

21 shelter is that they do not allow non

22 Lackawanna County residents into the shelter

23 even when they are homeless and they need

24 services.

25 That is a big issue because right
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 1 now we are facing an influx of homeless

 2 individuals coming into Scranton that cannot

 3 access that resource. So my one thing I wanted

 4 to ask was to make the shelter open for all

 5 homeless individuals regarding Lackawanna

 6 County status.

 7 On top of that, I also had -- the

 8 thing I want to talk about was on homelessness

 9 was the fact that me being a homeless

10 individual and going through like Mr. McAndrew

11 said the winter how bad it was this winter with

12 like how people are struggling and how I have

13 seen being homeless these people struggle in

14 tents and not have the resources and not have a

15 lot of things that we need.

16 So the only one place where you

17 could go now since the Keystone Mission has

18 closed down is the CIC. And they are doing

19 their very best to accommodate all the

20 individuals that are homeless in this city.

21 I'm asking is there anything we

22 could do to open more overnight shelters by

23 using some of the buildings we have that are

24 sitting out here falling apart, not being

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 1 I was -- in the budget -- I know

 2 there's a budget for fixing up infrastructure.

 3 And I think some of that should go to the

 4 buildings that we have in this city that are

 5 not being used to transform them into more

 6 overnight shelters to accommodate more of these

 7 individuals.

 8 And I think that's more important

 9 because we are people. We are not animals. We

10 should not be living out in tents. And that's

11 what I have to say on that. Thank you,

12 Council, for hearing my thoughts.

13 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much.

14 Next speaker is Joan Hodowanitz.

15 MS. HODOWANITZ: Joan Hodowanitz,

16 Scranton. First thing I want to announce is

17 that the Friends of the Scranton Public Library

18 are hosting a bus trip to the Bronx Zoo on

19 Saturday, May 2nd.

20 The bus is going to fill up very,

21 very fast because a lot of people have

22 expressed interest. And if you aren't a member

23 of the Friends, you might want to join because

24 then you get a cheaper price.

25 The trip would cost you only $85.
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 1 But it's a great way to get out of Scranton.

 2 And if you have ankle biters, you know, carpet

 3 commandos or, you know, young ones, take them

 4 to see a beautiful zoo. It's a great

 5 educational opportunity for a Saturday in May.

 6 And you could get more information

 7 by stopping in your Friendly Scranton Public

 8 Library. That's all I'll say on that. I also

 9 understand that Saturday, the parade day, the

10 firefighters' headquarters here on Mulberry

11 Street is inviting the public into to see their

12 historical display from 10 to 2 p.m.

13 This is another thing, you know,

14 bring your kids to the parade and take them to

15 see, you know, the firehouse and talk to the

16 firefighters. It's great. Maybe they'll even

17 let you blow the horn. So I would.

18 I know you're tired of hearing me

19 ask this and I'm tired of asking. But what is

20 the status of DPW's collective bargaining

21 agreement?

22 MR. SCHUSTER: At this point I

23 haven't heard anything officially.

24 MS. HODOWANITZ: Well, I could tell

25 you it's been 434 days since the last contract
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 1 expired. And speaking of DPW, I know you are

 2 scheduling a caucus on April 7th, I guess with

 3 DPW Director on the efforts for the January

 4 snowstorm. Is that correct, April 7th? Okay.

 5 A couple weeks ago I remember

 6 somebody asking that when you got the report

 7 put in Third Order. But it never went into

 8 Third Order. Is that because it's

 9 confidential?

10 MR. SCHUSTER: No, I don't think at

11 this point it's confidential. But we could get

12 in Third Order.

13 MS. HODOWANITZ: Yeah, please put it

14 in Third Order because I think the general

15 public would like to see that document and

16 would probably be interested in that caucus,

17 especially since personnel from DPW came in the

18 other week to basically give their side of the

19 story.

20 So I think this is something we want

21 to pursue because even though there may be no

22 more snowstorms this season, you turn around

23 twice and it will be November, December. And

24 so we need to get this right and which we

25 haven't in a long time.
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 1 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Frank, just --

 2 that document is on the website, correct?

 3 MS. HODOWANITZ: Is it on the

 4 website?

 5 MR. VOLDENBERG: It's on the

 6 website.

 7 MS. HODOWANITZ: Not on Third Order

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 9 MR. SCHUSTER: No, it hasn't been in

10 Third Order. But, yeah, I misspoke.

11 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll place it in

12 Third Order also.

13 MS. HODOWANITZ: Where on the

14 website is it?

15 MR. FLYNN: On the City Council

16 page.

17 MS. HODOWANITZ: Under where?

18 MR. FLYNN: On the City Council

19 page.

20 MS. HODOWANITZ: Okay, I'll look for

21 it. Thank you. But I got to say this, you

22 know, people forget that residents and

23 taxpayers are stakeholders in this city and

24 that public officials and municipal employees

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 1 So we have a vested interest in

 2 issues like this. And we should not be -- not

 3 given a seat at the table when we ask for it.

 4 Also in Fifth Order motions, could someone in

 5 25 words or less tell me what was said during

 6 that public caucus?

 7 A, we couldn't hear back here; and

 8 B, about the only words we heard was

 9 sustainability and the future. So I'd like to

10 know what did that group accomplish in two

11 years. I agree with Chief Carroll that you

12 can't prove a negative so that, you know, what

13 may have been accomplished was things that

14 never happened.

15 But still, you know, there should be

16 some specific accomplishments that they could

17 point to in two years other than, you know,

18 we're talking, we're planning, we're

19 programming and we're coordinating, you know,

20 you've had long enough.

21 And then in Fifth Order also, would

22 you explain what's going on with the amendment

23 to the zoning ordinance with regard to the data

24 centers? There's been some confusion, you

25 know, it was in the legals and then it's not on
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 2 we stand. Thank you.

 3 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Our next

 4 speaker is Mike Mancini.

 5 MR. MANCINI: Thank you, Council

 6 President Schuster. Good evening, members of

 7 Council, residents of Scranton. Tonight the

 8 first of several parts, the state of Scranton,

 9 infrastructure and safety. I love Scranton.

10 That's why -- exactly why I'm standing here

11 frustrated and frankly alarmed.

12 Over the past several years the gap

13 between the story we tell about Scranton and

14 the reality people live every day has grown too

15 wide. Residents see it every time they hit a

16 crater-sized pothole, cross a crumbling bridge,

17 or worry about walking at night.

18 First, our infrastructure is not

19 just aging. It's in poor and in some cases

20 dangerous condition. Construction costs have

21 shot up roughly 70 percent since 2021.

22 Residents don't experience the same numbers --

23 residents don't experience this as numbers on a

24 page.

25 They experience it as closed roads,
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 1 weight restricted bridges, detours that kill

 2 small businesses, and damage to their cars that

 3 they can't afford to fix. Look at our roads

 4 and stormwater systems. Water runoff and

 5 drainage problems have been ignored for far too

 6 long.

 7 We all know these are not isolated

 8 trouble spots. They're symptoms of city wide

 9 pattern of deferring maintenance until it

10 becomes an emergency. When higher level

11 governments are stepping up to fix the arteries

12 around us like I-81, yet neighborhood streets

13 were made patchwork and unsafe.

14 Residents understandably ask, where

15 are our priorities? But again, most

16 Scrantonians that live on a near -- on or near

17 courthouse square walk their kids across

18 chaotic intersections near schools. They wait

19 for buses on streets with no safe crossings.

20 They push strollers past speeding

21 with no enforcement. We cannot pretend that a

22 beautified downtown area fixes our systemic

23 systems safety issues. Financially we have

24 been given an enormous lifeline.

25 Scranton received about 68.7 million
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 1 in ARPA funds. Many residents look around and

 2 ask, if we had almost nearly 70 million extra

 3 dollars, why are our basic systems, streets,

 4 bridges, drainage, and public safety still in

 5 such poor shape?

 6 Why weren't more of these once in a

 7 generation dollars visibly invested in the

 8 neighborhoods that have gone ignored for

 9 decades? We see large flashy projects downtown

10 while longstanding neighborhood issues gets

11 push back to the next capital budget or the one

12 after that.

13 We read about big transportation,

14 the beltway schemes to speed traffic around

15 Scranton. Yet people in the city are stuck

16 with unsafe intersections and unreliable

17 underresourced public safety on the streets

18 where they live and work every day.

19 So what do I want from this Council,

20 a binding time specific plan to address our

21 worst bridges and streets neighborhood by

22 neighborhood with clear timelines. When a

23 third party pave cut inspector appears before

24 caucus on May 24th, throw fastballs.

25 Our city cannot afford another
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 1 softball. Consider an increase in violations

 2 for ordinance regarding the pave cuts. Other

 3 municipalities who have utility responsible for

 4 storm drain -- fine them for violations against

 5 their ordinance. Scranton does not.

 6 There are 1,800 storm drains that

 7 are the responsibility of PA Water. When you

 8 choose to do nothing about these issues, you

 9 fail our residents and business owners of

10 Scranton every time.

11 The thought process of not your idea

12 or your question, not your problem is

13 unacceptable. Scranton does not need more

14 slogans. It needs honest acknowledgement of

15 how far we've fallen since 2021 on basic

16 infrastructure.

17 And they need you to act with

18 urgency and transparency. The residents are

19 paying for it twice, once with their tax bills

20 and again, bent rims, flooded basements, and

21 higher insurance. I'm asking you tonight to

22 stop treating these as talking points and start

23 treating them as emergencies.

24 Fix our streets. Fix our bridges.

25 Make our neighborhood safe. Use your money and
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 1 your time wisely. Show us the proof. People

 2 of Scranton deserve nothing less. Next week,

 3 HUP test for nonprofits and the property

 4 assessment. Good evening, Scranton.

 5 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Up next

 6 is Judy Laske.

 7 MS. LASKE: Good evening, Council.

 8 I'm here to address the homeless situation. I

 9 live across the street from Weston Field. I

10 see it day in and day out, morning and night.

11 They are allowed to go in from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m.

12 Most of the time I see them leaving

13 around 5:30 in the morning on my ring camera.

14 I appreciate you giving them a place to sleep.

15 But if it's only negative 2 to like 14 degrees,

16 I don't see why they can't say until it warms

17 up until at least about 20 degrees and why you

18 can't have a police officer over there to stay

19 with them.

20 And I think the city needs to find

21 like that gentleman said, a building that's not

22 being used in the city that could be possibly

23 occupied by the homeless where they are not put

24 out during the day, not only for the winter

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 1 summertime. There's heat waves.

 2 A lot of them that are over at the

 3 homeless, some of them elderly. One is a

 4 veteran. And I think it's disgusting that a

 5 veteran of all -- of all people that are over

 6 there, a veteran is over there. I do try to

 7 help them.

 8 I don't want to make this about me.

 9 But I -- I can't stand watching out my door and

10 seeing them standing in a line over there.

11 It's freezing out. I did reach out to friends

12 on Facebook for hand warmers. To whoever

13 donated -- kind of have an idea of who did it.

14 I did hand them out. I did give

15 them some hand warmers because I was in a

16 situation a little over a month ago I was out

17 in the cold. I was down in Allentown at a

18 venue, forgot where I parked my car, was never

19 down there before.

20 And by the time I got to my car I

21 could not feel my fingers or my toes. I don't

22 know how these people survive in this. I

23 really do not. Some people think that, you

24 know, they're all drug addicts. They're all

25 drunks. They just don't want to get a job.
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 1 There's one woman over there.

 2 She's a younger woman that now they

 3 basically all trust me because I go over there

 4 and I do help out with the volunteers that are

 5 over there. I do -- I'm just going to say I

 6 send some things over there to make them a

 7 little happier, whatever.

 8 I try to help out with clothing,

 9 whatever I could possibly give them. The one

10 girl said -- she asked me. She said, "Do you

11 know where I could get an apartment? I'm

12 trying to save up money. Do you know where

13 there's an apartment that I could get for $450

14 or $500 a month?"

15 I'm, like, oh, dear God, like, I

16 don't know where she was thinking that. But

17 she did tell me that she tried to get a job.

18 And because she's a recovering drug addict for

19 15 years, go girl. People take advantage of

20 her. People take advantage of most of them.

21 They wanted in her, quote/unquote,

22 she came up to me. I explained to her that

23 this shirt I have on right now is for my

24 nephew. I wear it for my nephew. My nephew

25 struggled for years with mental health. He
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 1 was -- he did have an addiction. But he did --

 2 I was proud of him. He did clean up. He was

 3 clean for -- I would say at least seven years.

 4 And unfortunately last year he took

 5 his life. And these people over there I

 6 connect with them because I know how it is to

 7 have somebody treat you like garbage. Like,

 8 they look at you like you're worth nothing

 9 because that's how my nephew felt.

10 These people trust me. I am willing

11 if there is some sort of homeless task force,

12 I'm all for it. I'll run it. I don't care. I

13 want to do what I can do to help these people

14 because I don't want anybody else to suffer

15 what I'm suffering and going through losing my

16 nephew because he was a stigma that people

17 think that he was.

18 And he was more than that. And I

19 was proud of him. And I'm proud of these

20 homeless people that are over there because I

21 don't know how -- I couldn't survive 30 minutes

22 looking for my car without breaking down

23 because I couldn't feel my body.

24 How do they do it? I don't know.

25 God bless them. And that's another thing they
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 1 tell me. God bless you for everything do you

 2 and everything that you do to help us. I'm,

 3 like, I'm blessed. I have a warm house to

 4 sleep in. I have a car. God bless you because

 5 I don't know how you do it.

 6 I don't know how you survive without

 7 no help. They don't know where to go. The

 8 volunteers over there I do have to say, God

 9 bless them, because they're over there. And

10 the DPW workers, they -- I don't know if you

11 are aware of this, but they're over there too

12 with the volunteers.

13 They have to be, I guess, because of

14 for whatever reason, for safety reasons or

15 whatever. But they did tell me and I want to

16 let, you know, like, don't believe everything

17 you read in the paper either because the

18 gentleman that I did talk to from DPW, when all

19 of those workers called off, they left out that

20 they were working 18 to 24 hours straight.

21 So I want to make sure that that's

22 brought out. But I am -- I know I'm -- I don't

23 want to go over my time. But if there is a

24 homeless task force, I'm all in because these

25 people don't deserve to be treated the way
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 1 they're treated.

 2 And I don't think they should be

 3 kicked out in the morning. There has to be

 4 someplace in the city that you could put them

 5 in, for instance, Bancroft. Bancroft --

 6 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you, Mrs.

 7 Laske.

 8 MS. LASKE: It's closed down.

 9 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you.

10 MS. LASKE: So please do what you

11 could do. And, like I said, please -- you

12 could reach out to me. I'm available anytime

13 to help with the homeless.

14 MR. SCHUSTER: Our next speaker is

15 Lee Morgan.

16 MR. MORGAN: Good evening, Council,

17 Lee Morgan. The first thing I have here is,

18 you know, I was listening to the presentation

19 that was going on here. I couldn't hear a lot.

20 But I thought it had a lot to do with youth.

21 And I'd just like to say that I know

22 that the Court of Common Pleas is working

23 through issues of custody. And I guess they're

24 trying to change their format.

25 Women researchers seem to believe
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 1 the solution is more fathers in homes. And I

 2 really think that we need a real discussion on

 3 all of the issues going on. And it should be

 4 honest, truthful, straightforward and should

 5 include everything, not just a political

 6 discussion.

 7 The next thing I have here is, 8-A.

 8 You know, that building that's at 324 North

 9 Washington Avenue is not beyond being salvaged.

10 Somebody remodeled that building. It's built

11 with lime mortar. It probably has drywall

12 inside and a lot of moisture.

13 So it has a mold problem. It's been

14 closed for a long time. That would be an

15 excellent place for a women's shelter. And I

16 don't think it would cost a lot money to

17 renovate it.

18 Somebody probably insulated it a

19 long time ago and the building can't breathe

20 because it wasn't designed to be insulated

21 probably and have drywall put on it because

22 drywall doesn't breathe and plaster does.

23 The next thing I have here is that I

24 did a motion for reconsideration to Judge

25 Bloom's issuing of a summary judgment for ECTV.
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 1 And I sat here or stood here and spoke about

 2 how biassed the judge was.

 3 And I think that if people want to

 4 look at it, it's 3.23 CV 1635. And I've made

 5 legal argument as to where the judge made

 6 mistakes in his ruling. And they're blatant.

 7 And he blocked discovery. So we're going to

 8 see what the Appeals Court says after I file

 9 notice on the opposing party. After this

10 motion, they got 30 days.

11 Now, I gave the -- I gave the

12 Council a request, okay, and, you know, nobody

13 wants to litigate anything. But somebody's got

14 to start doing something. And it's got to

15 start hopefully today. We have a terrible

16 feral cat problem in this city.

17 One animal control officer can't

18 handle that burden. And the women up at Nay

19 Aug trying to neuter cats are so overwhelmed

20 they don't even have a chance. The humane

21 society is so overwhelmed they don't have a

22 chance.

23 We need to hire one or two people to

24 go out and set cages and start collecting these

25 animals and fixing them because you've got to
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 1 get ahead of it. And the whole city is

 2 overrun. You just don't see them. But they're

 3 everywhere. And, you know something, it has to

 4 do with being human.

 5 Okay, these -- just like for the

 6 homeless, you know, something needs to change.

 7 The other thing is the public component needed

 8 to come back to ECTV, not for me but for

 9 everybody in this community because that's what

10 the Congress and Senate created that channel

11 for.

12 And at one time it was run by the

13 Scranton Public Library. There were no

14 problems. That board has to be removed and

15 something has to be done to give the citizens

16 in this community a voice. And the last thing

17 is Pennsylvania American Water, they're a

18 monopoly.

19 They're buying assets all over the

20 Commonwealth. Read all the things about them

21 on the stockmarket and what the projections are

22 for themselves. The Council has to send a

23 letter to the PUC and ask -- tell them that

24 it's a monopoly. The rates have to be cut.

25 And the city has to use eminent domain to
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 1 capture that asset.

 2 Yes, we're going to sell bonds to

 3 make it happen. But read the history of

 4 Pennsylvania American Water AM Water in this

 5 city from 1866. Residents can't live here if

 6 they can't afford the water.

 7 And you know something, Council,

 8 it's time for you to do something. It's time

 9 to make a stand, make some changes propel

10 litigate -- legislation as legislators with the

11 Mayor and enhance the life of Scrantonians.

12 That's all I'm trying to do here.

13 I'm trying to get you to get moving and do

14 something. I've come here for 40 years. And

15 I've listened to politics. You're capable.

16 You have to take the first step. Try it.

17 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Up next,

18 Les Spindler.

19 MR. SPINDLER: Good evening,

20 Council, Les Spindler, city resident. You

21 know, finally all the snow is melted. And I

22 talked about what happened on my corner a few

23 weeks ago.

24 Last week since all the snow melted

25 I really got to get a good look at my corner.
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 1 The DPW did a beautiful job last year fixing

 2 everything that I complained about for probably

 3 20 years now. And in one morning, the

 4 incompetent crew that the city hired ruined

 5 half of my corner, half the job they did.

 6 I gave pictures to Mr. Schuster. I

 7 want to know what the Mayor's going to do.

 8 That company should pay to repair what DPW did.

 9 They did a beautiful job from the corner all

10 the way to the front of my house. And they

11 destroyed half of it. I'm sick about it.

12 Next thing, last week Tom Coyne

13 talked about the sound system. And I agree

14 with him because I watched the meeting last

15 week. I couldn't make it. And half of what

16 Councilwoman Rothchild said I couldn't hear.

17 But I heard something about the

18 Green Ridge Street Bridge Project isn't going

19 to be done until like November. That's

20 ridiculous. That's ridiculous. The temporary

21 bridge was taken down February 11th. I wrote

22 that date down.

23 From then until yesterday, nothing

24 was done. They started taking the dirt pile

25 away yesterday. That could have been done --
 30

 1 that dirt could have been gone by now. And

 2 then there's these -- an eyesore. Once the

 3 dirt's taken away, there's huge steel rusted

 4 beams sticking out of the ground.

 5 They have to go. That's an eyesore.

 6 And then once that's done, I can't see how much

 7 more work has to be done. They have to fix the

 8 road leading up to the bridge. But there's no

 9 way that -- if they work every day, that could

10 have been done by next month if they didn't

11 take a month off.

12 I don't know what PennDOT was doing,

13 but they're dragging their feet. I think they

14 should get in here and answer questions why

15 this possibly might take until November to get

16 fixed. It's inconveniencing businesses on Nay

17 Aug Avenue.

18 It's inconveniencing drivers. It's

19 a mess. They work there for a month. It's

20 ridiculous. That project could be done in a

21 few more weeks if they didn't sit on their

22 butts for a month.

23 Oh, last week I heard the DPW worker

24 saying how they were low on salt so they

25 couldn't pretreat for that snowstorm. Well,
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 1 two weeks ago tomorrow, we had like a light

 2 dusting. By the time I got up, my road was

 3 wet.

 4 I wouldn't even know it snowed if

 5 there wasn't a light dusting on my lawn. A

 6 couple hours later I see a DPW truck going by

 7 my house salting the road. The road was wet.

 8 It was 43 degrees that day. It wasn't

 9 freezing.

10 I said to my wife, Why in God's name

11 are they wasting salt on a wet road? And we're

12 low on salt. Who sent that truck out to salt

13 that day? The road was wet. It's ridiculous.

14 Last week this gentleman said how low they are

15 on salt and that was just a waste of salt that

16 day. This city is out of control.

17 Oh, next thing, the vehicle I keep

18 talking about at 2005 Farr Street, last time I

19 spoke about this, the police officer who was

20 here followed me out in the hallway. He said

21 that was tagged. He tagged it he told me. So

22 this will be the last time I'll talk about it.

23 But he said it's a process. The owner passed

24 away. It's a process.

25 But I want to know what happens to
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 1 those cars once they're towed away. Are they

 2 put up for auction or --

 3 MR. SCHUSTER: We could find out

 4 that process.

 5 MR. SPINDLER: Because that vehicle

 6 I'm talking about is a nice vehicle. I

 7 wouldn't mind bidding on it. Pave cuts, I

 8 talked about this a few weeks ago. Sterling

 9 Street and North Main Avenue just past the

10 firehouse, three big pave cuts. It's really

11 bad.

12 And then there is ones I spoke about

13 a long time ago. It's 108 South Main Avenue to

14 114 South Main Avenue, terrible. Yeah, and

15 this -- like I said, this sound system has to

16 be fixed. It's terrible. I'm going leave on a

17 lighter note.

18 I saw this on Facebook last week.

19 How could you spot a drunk driver in

20 Pennsylvania? They're the ones driving

21 straight while everybody else is swerving to

22 avoid the potholes. Thank you for your time.

23 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Marie

24 Schumacher is next.

25 MS. SCHUMACHER: Good evening, Marie
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 1 Schumacher from the East Mountain of Scranton.

 2 I have to go along with the potholes. It was a

 3 couple years ago but I came off Seymour Avenue

 4 and went north on 307. And the way that is

 5 slanted, I hit it wrong and it only cost me

 6 $2,200 to get it fixed. So, you know, it is

 7 bad.

 8 Then also, a little further down on

 9 307 and we get to the graffiti I guess I'll

10 have to say with huge letters that were there.

11 And I believe they were white and painted. And

12 I want to thank the DPW. They came out -- I

13 don't remember if it was yesterday or today.

14 But they took it off. You'd never

15 know it had been there. So it -- you could

16 take it off but it doesn't look good until it

17 can be.

18 So what else, I guess that's it --

19 well, I think DPW did a pretty good job with

20 the snow. They did it I thought on our avenue

21 and East Mountain Road. I think they were

22 pretty well done. And I thank them. But it's

23 not -- it's not 100 percent yet.

24 So that's it. If you could please

25 go after these potholes and -- and do something
 34

 1 with the -- well, with the Lookout. That would

 2 be nice. Thank you.

 3 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much.

 4 Would anyone else like to address Council?

 5 MS. KOLOSKI: Good evening, Doris

 6 Koloski, Scranton resident. Okay, so first of

 7 all, a couple people contacted me because they

 8 know I come here and they asked me to report on

 9 two sinkholes, one was on the intersection of

10 Linden Street and Prescott Avenue, the

11 northwest corner. They said there is a

12 sinkhole.

13 And then there was also -- there is

14 also a large one in front of White House near

15 the alley in the 1500 block of Linden Street on

16 the odd side. Now, I didn't see these. These

17 are things that people had asked me about.

18 Now, I know you all got my stuff with the

19 sidewalks on the other side of the street.

20 And I want to talk about my street.

21 My street is the 400 block of Colfax. I think

22 we have -- I have one streetlight on the whole

23 street. On the opposite side where the

24 hospital bought, there are no telephone poles

25 at all except on each corner.
 35

 1 And then on my side we have them.

 2 And I saw one light shining. But I don't see

 3 any -- somebody said they might be out and just

 4 get the pole number. But I don't see any

 5 lights. So I'm not sure if there is actually

 6 even lights on them.

 7 But it's very, very dark on that

 8 street when you're walking. And that's why --

 9 how I noticed again the sidewalk was not fixed

10 because I got stuck in it. It was dark and I

11 was coming down with the dogs from the park.

12 And I got stuck in the -- what do you call it,

13 all the broken up concrete.

14 And I went to go around onto the

15 grass like I usually have to do with my

16 flashlight on that I use for picking up after

17 my dog to make sure I didn't step in anything.

18 And the rocks were now on the grass. So on

19 that side of the street, it's very difficulty

20 to walk.

21 And on the other side, the side I

22 live on, we still have the problem with the 421

23 Colfax Avenue abandoned house that has been on

24 the demolition list. And that's hard to walk

25 around also onto the grass because there's all
 36

 1 kinds of broken sidewalk and chunks of concrete

 2 on the grass.

 3 So unless you walk down the middle

 4 of the street, it's kind of a problem to walk

 5 anywhere on the 400 block of Colfax Avenue

 6 which is pretty sad. So I still don't really

 7 fully understand what's going on with 421

 8 because it's been on the list. And they say

 9 they -- the guy puts a lawsuit against the city

10 for tearing it down.

11 But isn't there something? I know

12 they talked about the conservatorship. But, I

13 mean, there so many woodland creatures in

14 there. And now summer is coming again. And

15 I'm really worried about a fire. If it ever

16 catches on fire, it's going to be a mess.

17 So that's basically all I wanted to

18 say about the 400 block of Colfax. I'm hoping

19 though maybe they could just send somebody up

20 like that -- to take just a look to see about

21 the lights and see if there's just a reason

22 that there's no lights there.

23 I mean, how many lights are usually

24 on a block on a telephone pole. I don't

25 remember. When my kids were little we used to
 37

 1 say when those streetlights go on, come home.

 2 They wouldn't know when to come home now

 3 because there's no streetlights to go on. So

 4 it would be nice if somebody could just look

 5 into that. Thank you. Have a good night.

 6 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Frank, can you

 7 send that down to the admin?

 8 MR. VOLDENBERG: I made note of it.

 9 I'll take care it of.

10 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Thank you.

11 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Tom

12 Coyne.

13 MR. COYNE: Tom Coyne, Minooka.

14 First, a request from one of our viewers at

15 home. Is it possible that we could get a

16 street sign on Schlager and Sumner Avenue.

17 Evidently they had one at one point but the

18 signs are now missing.

19 So they'd like someone to go out

20 there and replace the signs on that street.

21 Moving on, I'm glad the sidewalk down the block

22 here is fenced off. February 11th of 2025, I

23 actually came before this body and brought to

24 the attention that the building was undercut

25 and you could see into the basement.
 38

 1 And I wasn't sure if there was a

 2 vault or not underneath it. But there was

 3 obviously a way for water and you could see the

 4 side structure starting to crumble away. Three

 5 doors down from license and inspection and it

 6 took a year to get a fence up and a year to

 7 figure out that the sidewalk was a hazard.

 8 It's fenced off because the sidewalk

 9 is unsafe. Yet it took a year for three blocks

10 for it to be inspected properly.

11 Moving on, I want to talk about the

12 HARB on Seventh Order. It's been tabled -- it

13 was tabled and explained further in a shorter

14 version I presented to Council by e-mail. What

15 appears to be one issue before Council tonight

16 is actually two separate decisions.

17 And they should not be confused.

18 First, the HARB decision. HARB denied the

19 request to demolish the building in a historic

20 district and replace it with a parking lot.

21 They did so because the applicant failed to

22 provide structural documentation because

23 demolition would create a gap in the historic

24 district and would provide -- and because a

25 parking lot is not compatible with the historic
 39

 1 charter, nor is it allowed in the zoning of

 2 that area.

 3 Under HARB's authority, the

 4 applicant did not meet its burden of proof. So

 5 that denial should stand. The second issue is

 6 public safety. If the structure is truly

 7 deteriorating and has an undermine sidewalk or

 8 has created a hazard, that is not a HARB

 9 question. It's a public safety issue.

10 Under Section 63A of Home Rule

11 Charter, Council has the authority to act to

12 protect the health and safety of the public,

13 including ordering an emergency inspection and

14 action, if necessary. So again, this is not

15 one issue. It's two.

16 So first, I would recommend that you

17 uphold the HARB decision. Second, Council

18 needs to address any genuine safety hazard

19 separately under Council's public safety

20 purview.

21 Keeping those two decisions separate

22 protects both the historic process and public

23 safety. Now moving onto earlier tonight's

24 presentations. Social Contract was in. And

25 again, we have an organization who was planning
 40

 1 to plan. They say that after two years they

 2 are getting a plan together when the original

 3 plan that they presented didn't even include

 4 talking to the school district.

 5 They did it based on other regions

 6 without even looking at this area itself. And

 7 they presented it to Council as if it was an

 8 in-depth study of all the stakeholders. And

 9 they didn't even bother to talk to the school

10 district.

11 Now we're looking to fund in the

12 future another nonprofit to do what they were

13 hired to do in the first place, not to analyze

14 it but to help make changes. And the only

15 change they are making is we're putting

16 together a board paid by the public who has no

17 publicly appointed board members, who are going

18 to move forward to do something eventually and

19 you'll get that plan later.

20 Something is wrong with that whole

21 calculous. It was full of buzz words. I've

22 heard those before. It's the same as Rubicon.

23 I've heard it before. It sounds like the

24 Unsheltered Task Force. We're going to do

25 something for the unsheltered eventually.
 41

 1 And last is the pilot. We hired

 2 them for the tax free review. We didn't hire

 3 them for the county. They need to come before

 4 this body here and explain where they are.

 5 We don't need to know if the county

 6 has paperwork outstanding they sent out. We

 7 need to know why they haven't acted in the best

 8 interest of this city and its people. Thank

 9 you and good night.

10 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Would

11 anyone else like to address Council?

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

13 MOTIONS.

14 MR. SCHUSTER: Dr. Rothchild, do you

15 have any motions or comments?

16 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes, I --

17 MR. SCHUSTER: Are you a resident of

18 the City of Scranton?

19 UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I was formally.

20 MR. SCHUSTER: Okay. You let me

21 know that you were originally from Dunmore.

22 But where are you a resident -- where do you

23 reside right now?

24 UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Inaudible.)

25 MR. SCHUSTER: Public comment is
 42

 1 reserved for residents and taxpayers. So you

 2 won't be speaking tonight in Fifth Order.

 3 UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Inaudible.)

 4 MR. SCHUSTER: For quite some time.

 5 I can't tell you off the top of my head.

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

 7 MOTIONS.

 8 MR. SCHUSTER: Dr. Rothchild, do you

 9 have any motions or comments at this time?

10 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes, I do. I wanted

11 to speak to something that's come up a few

12 times tonight, last week. Over the years we've

13 had people come to speak about the homeless

14 problem in Scranton. And many who -- okay,

15 also perhaps if people weren't talking in the

16 back, ma'am, that would help.

17 So over the years how many people

18 come to speak about the homeless problem in

19 Scranton.

20 MR. SCHUSTER: Excuse me.

21 DR. ROTHCHILD: And many of whom --

22 who are homeless themselves. And I am very

23 sympathetic towards those people who have come

24 to speak. I think it's very brave of them. I

25 appreciate them expressing their frustrations
 43

 1 with the lack of resources and services that we

 2 have in the city.

 3 And I want to do everything that we

 4 can as a city to be helpful towards that. I

 5 have been a part of -- as it keeps getting

 6 pointed out, I have been a part of the

 7 Unsheltered Task Force. But I'm not the one

 8 who runs it. The Mayor does.

 9 It's a collaboration between

10 multiple agencies, community organizations

11 within the city that are doing the work. I do

12 think it would be great if we had an option to

13 have a committee -- an ad hoc committee that

14 does include some community members because I

15 know we've had many who have expressed wanting

16 to do more and wanting to help or those who

17 have helped and are really interested in

18 helping us to solve this problem.

19 So that will be a suggestion of mine

20 to the Mayor and to the task force. Thank you.

21 I'm not aware of a new shelter being created.

22 But I know that has been part of the

23 conversations in the past.

24 Unfortunately that would take a

25 great deal of funding and staffing. So those
 44

 1 are problems to solve for in order to create

 2 such a shelter. We want it to be something

 3 that's sustainable. And I don't know that it

 4 could be city run.

 5 Even now our Code Blue Shelter even

 6 though we provide a place for it, we have

 7 Catholic Social Services helping to staff that

 8 shelter. And, you know, I think it's still

 9 something very important that needs to be

10 addressed. I don't want to brush it off as

11 something that's not possible or isn't an

12 urgent need for many.

13 But I'm open to any and all

14 suggestions about how we solve this problem

15 together. I did want to make note and provide

16 a number of resources tonight that are

17 available within the city to any who are

18 wondering or not aware.

19 I know it was made as a statement

20 last week that there're only being six beds

21 available for women within -- within all of

22 Lackawanna County. I do want to explain what

23 resources are out there and, yeah, so first

24 off, the Code Blue Shelter that I mentioned

25 that many do know about that, that's held at
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 1 Weston Field House.

 2 And that is during the wintertime

 3 when temperatures reach below 20 degrees or if

 4 there's a significant amount of snow, like snow

 5 predictions of 12 inches or more that would --

 6 that Code Blue Shelter to open.

 7 And the shelter that is open

 8 throughout the year at night is St. Anthony's

 9 Shelter. That is run by Catholic Social

10 Services. And that was the one that was

11 mentioned last week. They've been there for a

12 long time.

13 I've been inside the facility

14 before. It is quite small. I think they are

15 able to accommodate 20 men and 6 women each

16 night. I'm not sure why it's divvied up that

17 way between men and women. I just know

18 that's -- that's what they have available. And

19 I think that's been the same for quite a while.

20 The Community Intervention Shelter

21 is the day shelter that a lot of people utilize

22 and go to and when Keystone Mission was around

23 and active, they also I think acted as a day

24 shelter. There's St. Joseph's Center has the

25 Walsh Manor and this provides emergency housing
 46

 1 for pregnant women specifically and help with

 2 transitional housing for them, parent training,

 3 things like that. That houses up to four

 4 women.

 5 And then there is the Women's

 6 Resource Center, although they don't have

 7 specific housing, they do help women and

 8 children to find immediate housing, those who

 9 are fleeing domestic dating, sexual violence,

10 stalking and human trafficking.

11 The NEPA Youth Shelter, they have an

12 after school program specifically for high

13 school students between ages 14 and 19. They

14 also are able to help with finding emergency

15 housing for those between the ages of 18 and

16 21, those with an immediate need.

17 And that's actually a board that

18 I -- that I'm happy to serve on and be a part

19 of. And then there's also United Neighborhood

20 Center, which helps specifically with

21 transitional housing support as well as a lot

22 of other things.

23 And then actually I believe without

24 mentioning the Catherine McAuley Center too,

25 which I had mention last week they had a recent
 47

 1 merger with the Friends of the Poor. And they

 2 are located at 430 Pittston Avenue. And that's

 3 the shelter that has housing for -- just for

 4 women and children.

 5 So I know that they -- they have

 6 maybe a couple dozen beds. I've also visited

 7 there before and got to see it and hear about

 8 the programs that they have to offer there.

 9 And I know that's a really great resource for

10 women.

11 So a lot of these that I mentioned,

12 there's different ways in finding them.

13 There's the Lackawanna County Publishing for

14 Housing. And they have a great list of

15 information such as what I mentioned, also

16 through the county government website and then,

17 you know, even through the state.

18 So there are resources out there. I

19 would like to have some more information or

20 links to these pages through our city website

21 because again, people who are residing in the

22 city would like to, you know, find out through

23 the city where they could go. That might be,

24 like, a first stop. So I want to make sure

25 that we have that information available too.
 48

 1 So I would like to make that request of the

 2 administration.

 3 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll take care of

 4 it, Dr. Rothchild.

 5 DR. ROTHCHILD: Thank you. And

 6 that's all I have to address with regards to

 7 that for now. There is something that I had

 8 asked about last week that I just wanted to

 9 make mention that I received a response to and

10 that I was asking about the list for 2026 for

11 demolitions if that's available.

12 And there were several properties

13 I've been asking about for a long period of

14 time, some that I've been told in the past have

15 been on the demolition list and possibly taken

16 off. And I was informed that the city's OECD

17 team is in the process of developing final

18 demolition list for 2026, public properties,

19 Council has asked about at this time, 231-233

20 Harrison Avenue is currently considered for

21 demolition.

22 Council should note that demolition

23 in the property was stopped by a court

24 injunction last year but followup is needed.

25 And then the two other properties, 429 Prescott
 49

 1 and 526 Mulberry, those have been condemned but

 2 have not been considered for demolition as of

 3 this time.

 4 So I'd like them to reconsider those

 5 properties and once again get a list of once

 6 they do develop the 2026 list to see what is

 7 currently on there. And if there's any input

 8 that -- that Council could provide in the

 9 development of that list too because I think we

10 hear about many of these properties and see

11 them in our neighborhoods too. And I would

12 like to give input. Thank you.

13 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much.

14 Mr. Sean McAndrew, do you have any motions or

15 comments?

16 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Yeah, I have a

17 few. First, we got an update from

18 administration regarding the Fidelity building

19 inspection. They said it is complete finally.

20 And they said they would have a discussion with

21 us in executive session to review the

22 inspection and also the floor plans of what

23 they want to make into building.

24 Now, I understand having in

25 executive session talking about the floor
 50

 1 plans. We're going to have police offices in

 2 there. And that's a safety security issue. I

 3 completely agree with.

 4 I do disagree with speaking and

 5 reviewing the inspection in executive session.

 6 That's something that Council should get and

 7 the public should be able to see because it's

 8 taxpayers' dollars that's going into buying

 9 this building.

10 Hopefully everything is fine with

11 the building. But again, we need to see it and

12 the public needs to see it. I did ask Frank to

13 request by the end of the day on Friday a copy

14 of it. And as of now, we still have not

15 received. We sent another update I think

16 yesterday, no answer.

17 MR. VOLDENBERG: That's correct.

18 We'll follow up again.

19 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Appreciate that.

20 It's frustrating when, you know, things are

21 available for us to review and we don't get

22 them in a timely manner because now we know

23 the deal is going to be completed soon. So

24 hopefully going forward they'll have some more

25 respect for us as a council to get us the
 51

 1 information so we would review it.

 2 Next, the Unsheltered Task Force. I

 3 requested a list of who is on the task force.

 4 Administration gave us an updated one. So I

 5 appreciate them giving me an updated list.

 6 There is close to like 50 people on this.

 7 I mean, sometimes when there's so

 8 many people on a board or a task force, it's

 9 hard to get things done. So I'm going start

10 possibly reaching out to these individuals

11 asking them how their experience is on it,

12 what -- and some feedback that they could

13 provide us regarding what transpires there.

14 And I think it's possibly something

15 we need to look into as a Council of creating

16 our own committee or something and taking the

17 initiative to see what we could do to get

18 things done. That's another board or committee

19 that's been put together for years and what are

20 the results? What are the goals they have too

21 as well?

22 So we need to get some more

23 information from them. I know Bancroft was

24 brought up about being used. And that has been

25 discussed with the school district a few times
 52

 1 a couple years ago.

 2 Unfortunately we can't use Bancroft

 3 because there's a ventilation issue. So that

 4 is one reason why there's no -- not students in

 5 there right now. On top of that, it's been

 6 used for storage for last three or four years.

 7 So it's going to take a lot of money to get

 8 that up and running if the school district

 9 wanted to use it for anything.

10 MR. SCHUSTER: No, sorry --

11 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: No. No showers

12 at Bancroft. Next, I spoke with Police Chief

13 Carroll in the hallway. I also sent him an

14 e-mail regarding the safety assessment of City

15 Hall. I was told there was a document. I

16 agree we should not have a copy of the

17 document.

18 But I'm going to be sitting down

19 with him to review it. I have a lot of

20 questions on some of the decisions that have

21 been made with locking the front doors and the

22 reasons for that. And truly is that safe? I

23 think there should be an armed guard at the

24 door. I think there's -- locked doors don't do

25 much. But I think -- I would like to see who
 53

 1 created the plan and what the plan entails and

 2 make sure this building is as safe as possible

 3 for our residents and open to the public.

 4 Every other municipality has a -- in

 5 this area is open to the public when they need

 6 to come in. So that will be hopefully reported

 7 back on soon. And then finally, I do have some

 8 questions regarding the digital billboard on

 9 320 Mulberry Street.

10 I know my understanding was

11 originally the HARB Board denied it. And then

12 it got brought to the previous Council and they

13 upheld the HARB Board's ruling. Now my

14 understanding is the city has settled and now

15 it's approved and they have a permit for it.

16 So I guess my question,

17 Mr. Gilbride, if you could reach out to the

18 legal department to say what happened there,

19 why did they settle and provide us some

20 information why now they have a permit and they

21 are able to put up these digital billboards.

22 I think this is some more

23 information because we -- we're the ones the

24 residents contact most or they come here to

25 speak. The Mayor and her administration don't
 54

 1 have meetings like we do to allow residents to

 2 come to speak and ask questions.

 3 So when we get these questions

 4 asked, we need answers. And this is --

 5 sometimes they need to be a little bit more

 6 proactive. So going forward when they have

 7 settlements in general, can they please provide

 8 us information so in case we do get questions

 9 we're able to provide those answers as soon as

10 possible?

11 And another part of this billboard,

12 I believe I was told that the original

13 billboard never even had the proper permits to

14 be built. And that was probably back in

15 2014-15, I'm not even sure. Frank, can we look

16 into the original permits that were awarded to

17 the original billboard and see if there were

18 actually permits and then what is the

19 ramifications if a structure or something was

20 built without permits and everything?

21 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll do that, sir.

22 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: And that's all I

23 have. Thank you.

24 MR. SCHUSTER: Mr. Mark McAndrew,

25 any questions or any motions or comments?
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 1 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Yeah, I have a

 2 couple. So I'm going report out on inquiries I

 3 presented last week. So I asked for an update

 4 on the status of the Elm Street Bridge Project.

 5 And PennDOT reports that the project is on

 6 schedule with the completion date projected

 7 midJuly, okay, 2026.

 8 So that's good to hear. I'm sure

 9 people will be thrilled to hear that. So

10 regarding the limited number of beds for women

11 at overnight shelters for the unsheltered, Mr.

12 McAndrew asked if the administration may advise

13 the number of beds for each women at each venue

14 and additional beds may be considered.

15 And I also asked for an update on

16 the next scheduled homeless task force meeting

17 and any progress by the committee. So to

18 answer the first question, the city is aware of

19 six beds reserved for women at the St.

20 Anthony's Haven, which is a space operated

21 solely by Catholic Social Services.

22 Scranton's Code Blue Shelter at

23 Weston Field for which the city provides venue

24 that's staffed by CSS does not restrict the

25 number of beds reserved for women. We have
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 1 provided spaces as many as 19 women in a single

 2 evening on an average of nine women each time

 3 the Code Blue Shelter has opened for extreme

 4 weather conditions in '25 and '26.

 5 All right. So, you know, it's

 6 another issue we talked about in caucus the

 7 public needs to be aware, education and

 8 awareness. You know, that information needs

 9 to get out. And that's up to the task force to

10 figure out how to put it out there.

11 So I also asked for an update of

12 the task force. So the next meeting of the

13 Unsheltered Task Force is April 29th. In the

14 112 days from November 10 to March 2nd, the

15 city has hosted 70 code blue emergency shelters

16 at Weston Field operated by Catholic Social

17 Services.

18 On those evenings Weston hosted an

19 average of 31 persons in need, 23 males on

20 average and nine females on average when the

21 city experienced deep freezing temperatures in

22 early February.

23 Weston Field reaches maximum

24 capacity of 50 unhoused persons twice with 34

25 men and 16 women on February 5th and with 31
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 1 men and 19 women on February 7th by comparison.

 2 The St. Anthony's Haven shelter

 3 which is operated nightly by CSS whether or not

 4 code blue exists was open 79 days from November

 5 10th to March 2nd serving an average of 18

 6 people per night, 13 of whom were male and 5

 7 females on average.

 8 So with that said, so I was great --

 9 I'm very proud to meet you tonight in the back

10 that you're a champion. You live, eat -- it's

11 unfortunate that you live, see, and eat

12 homelessness every day because of proximity

13 where you live.

14 And I applaud your efforts and what

15 you do for them is honorable and admirable.

16 Thank you. Well, no, I believe in recognizing

17 people when they deserve it. Okay, so -- and

18 the poor -- I'm still sick to my stomach of the

19 poor young woman who was here last week.

20 And I was -- and I was embarrassed

21 and disgusted to say I didn't know this

22 information to provide to her, you know, the

23 mission with six beds only. But you brought up

24 some key points.

25 This young lady did too. She's just
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 1 trying to, you know, trying to survive. But we

 2 have this unsheltered or homeless task force

 3 with how many members did you say, Mr.

 4 McAndrew?

 5 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Close to 50.

 6 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Fifty. I mean,

 7 50 minds, 50 ideas, something has to come

 8 together. So I know we've asked in the past.

 9 We never got a straight answer because some

10 people who are homeless or other people,

11 residents -- because I don't know how the task

12 force was selected.

13 But I'm hearing it's mostly

14 nonprofits which is fine. They have some

15 expertise. That's their wheelhouse. But like

16 I said, you experience it every day, the issue.

17 Right, the poor young lady lives it every day,

18 God bless her.

19 I believe women like you and her

20 should have a seat at the table. All right.

21 They need your perspective. Like I said -- I

22 mean, you know, the other organizations I get

23 it. I get it. You know, they bring value and

24 expertise. But, you know, they don't live it.

25 I mean, I'd rather hear from someone the needs
 59

 1 and interest if I was on that committee through

 2 people actually experiencing this.

 3 So I know we asked in the past if

 4 these people could have a seat at the table.

 5 We didn't get a straight answer. I don't know

 6 if we got a -- we'll look into it. So I'm

 7 going to ask again considering, you know,

 8 what's been going on and, you know, people that

 9 are coming forward to us, we have to help.

10 We got to do better like I said last

11 week. So I would request that these ladies

12 have a seat at the table. All right. I know

13 there's a way someone forwarded me some

14 information on a way to contact the young lady

15 who was here last week.

16 I'm not sure if she'd want to be

17 part of that, but I think she should be offered

18 it to say the least. All right?

19 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll reach out

20 tomorrow morning.

21 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Thank you.

22 Update on the Yeshiva school on Hickory Street,

23 people ask me about that. Council should note

24 that the project is not a city project. That's

25 fine. But it's in the city.
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 1 The contractor provided the

 2 following update this week as a courtesy. The

 3 two story -- the two story old building will be

 4 demolished in the next two weeks. Once

 5 demolished they will start replacing sidewalks

 6 and curbs around building and finish the

 7 landscaping, total time four to six weeks.

 8 So I'm sure the person that's

 9 concerned is watching right now. And if not,

10 I'll forward her this information. So last

11 week I brought up the telephone poles that

12 remain after they install new ones.

13 And then I did a little research.

14 And they're called ghost poles, right, and

15 during that meeting when I brought them up

16 because Mr. Schuster has been bringing this up

17 for as long as he's here and unfortunately to

18 no avail.

19 So I asked the question, what's the

20 policy? Do we have one regarding the side by

21 side utility poles at the same location being

22 erected throughout the city? And during the

23 meeting, like I said, someone texted me and

24 said there's three ghost poles at one location

25 on the corner of Everett and Pettibone. So how
 61

 1 long have they been there?

 2 These are safety issues. These

 3 should be taken care of. So the response I got

 4 back from the city is, in Pennsylvania side by

 5 side telephone poles also called utility poles

 6 fall under the regulatory authority of the

 7 Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission, PUC,

 8 which oversees poles attachments to utility

 9 poles, ducts, conduits, rights-of-way, etc.

10 So I took a little deeper dive and

11 right now there is legislation that passed in

12 the House. Let me see. So the legislation

13 aims to eliminate common sight of old poles

14 lingering next to new ones by mandating a

15 structure removal process.

16 It's a PUC oversight. So that is

17 who we have to complain to. I would hope the

18 city would join us with that. There should be

19 removal deadlines, all right, civil penalties,

20 central registry of the poles and the new ones

21 and ratepayer protection.

22 So if they start removing them, they

23 shouldn't pass the cost onto us. So why these

24 poles linger is before this legislation, there

25 were no state laws mandating it. I get it.
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 1 You know, sometimes if people aren't going to,

 2 you know, step up and companies aren't going to

 3 step up and do what's right unless they're

 4 forced to and it's unfortunate.

 5 And utility companies, God, you

 6 know, PUC should be help us out here because

 7 they have no problem with increase rates

 8 constantly, whether it's water or gas or

 9 electric. So the current status of House Bill

10 825 which is referred to now is the most

11 current version of this bill.

12 And it's -- so it's -- we're waiting

13 on the Senate to take care of this. All right,

14 so we keep our eye on this. So my question,

15 Solicitor Gilbride, is do we wait for this

16 legislation and try to hammer it and force it

17 as a city or, hey, we can develop our own

18 ordinance with these utility companies. Is

19 that something we could explore?

20 ATTY. GILBRIDE: Ordinarily with

21 utility companies, that is something that's

22 controlled by the state. But I will look into

23 it to see if, in fact, there is any --

24 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Sorry to

25 interrupt, but also when I was doing a little
 63

 1 research, some cities have their own ordinance.

 2 So, like I said, just explore this for me. It

 3 was -- it was something to find out that the

 4 state's working on it too.

 5 But we should -- we should look into

 6 that, follow up on this because, if not, three

 7 years from now we're going to be saying it

 8 again. And I hate when we have to do that.

 9 All right. Next up -- what else do I have? I

10 don't want to miss this here. I think that's

11 all I have. Thank you.

12 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Mr.

13 Flynn, do you have any motions or comments?

14 MR. FLYNN: Yes, I do. Thank you.

15 I'll start off by also addressing the

16 homelessness issue that's happening in the City

17 of Scranton. I want to echo some sentiments.

18 Thank you for coming tonight and discussing

19 your experience with it.

20 This is something that I have been

21 talking about from the moment I got on Council,

22 you know, from lived experience. I'm not

23 ashamed to say I'm a person in long-term

24 recovery from addiction. I have been for 11

25 years.
 64

 1 I'm one of the lucky ones. My

 2 family always stood by my side or I would have

 3 been homeless. So I come at this from both

 4 lived experience but a bunch of empathy for

 5 individuals who get to that point.

 6 And I understand the stigma around

 7 homelessness and around addiction and mental

 8 health issues and how that drives individuals

 9 further into that despair. And we need to

10 change the narrative around that.

11 You know, I brought up numerous

12 times around the Code Blue Shelter bringing

13 resources into there to meet individuals where

14 they're at. You know, individuals could be

15 coming into a code blue shelter and be caught

16 in a moment of vulnerability or willingness to

17 get some of the help they may need.

18 And why not have some services there

19 to maybe try to map them into whether it be

20 mental health services, addiction services, or

21 figure out, you know, maybe tomorrow you could

22 go to place A and start working on some resume

23 building or trying to figure out how to talk in

24 an interview about those large gaps in

25 unemployment history because you're homeless
 65

 1 and dealt with addiction for so many years,

 2 right, and all of those different things that

 3 we could be doing.

 4 I hit a few snags along the way in

 5 these discussions and asking these questions.

 6 Our next step is I'm going to go and meet with

 7 the Director of the CIC in Scranton as well as

 8 the Fire Chief.

 9 And one of their concerns was

10 potentially -- I don't want to say definitely,

11 but potentially that if individuals think that

12 someone is going to be trying to provide them

13 services they don't want in an emergency

14 shelter situation, they may not come. And

15 that's an issue.

16 But my belief is the more touch

17 points you could have with individuals the

18 better. And you always have to get -- I'm not

19 saying run up to someone as soon as they come

20 in and say, hey, I need you -- I want you to do

21 this, this, this, but have it there in a more

22 passive way to be there because I believe the

23 homeless -- the homeless shelters are wonderful

24 things that we need to have.

25 But it's only a stopgap measure.
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 1 How do we get individuals onto a path of self

 2 sustainability. That's the real win here. So

 3 I appreciate you coming in. I won't stop

 4 working on this, fighting for those

 5 individuals. So thank you for that.

 6 Another thing, I just got a message

 7 from a constituent, Mr. Voldenberg. The corner

 8 of Madison and Poplar, there's overgrown trees

 9 and brush that are becoming a safety hazard.

10 If we could have DPW go out and look at that, I

11 would appreciate it for maybe some trimming or

12 whatever else may need to be done.

13 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will.

14 MR. FLYNN: Thank you. And then

15 shockingly enough, I'm going to be talking

16 about utility companies and pave cuts in Green

17 Ridge. So just yesterday we had a situation

18 where the gas company and their contractors

19 came and began digging directly in front of

20 peoples' driveways without giving the residents

21 any sort of notice whatsoever for the ability

22 to get their cars out before they start.

23 So people woke up, came out of their

24 homes and suddenly they couldn't access their

25 own driveways. I had a resident reach out in
 67

 1 the 1600 block of Wyoming Avenue which I have

 2 been talking about ad nauseam.

 3 And they sent me pictures. And the

 4 best way I could describe it is that a moat

 5 was dug in front of her driveway, right, about

 6 a 3 to 4 foot gap between her driveway and the

 7 street. That's utterly unacceptable.

 8 Basically communication with

 9 residents should be the bear minimum

10 expectation when work like this is being done.

11 Also it ties into a broader issue that I have

12 been raising since midJanuary, the condition of

13 the pave cuts throughout the city.

14 I specifically brought up the

15 failing pave cuts on Electric Street months

16 ago. Here was the direct response that I got

17 back from the administration after I asked a

18 question at our January 27th meeting.

19 They said, "The city is aware of

20 these issues and has been in direct contact

21 with relevant utilities many times over the

22 past few weeks. Inspectors have been sent out

23 to specific areas where restoration has failed.

24 Since these issues in Green Ridge have become

25 known, we have moved our monthly meetings with
 68

 1 the water and gas companies to biweekly to

 2 ensure safe and passable road conditions and

 3 flag areas directly needing attention."

 4 Here we are nearly two months later

 5 and the situation on Electric Street has not

 6 been touched. So I will now go to my question

 7 from last week was, what is the timeline and

 8 process for the pave cuts. Someone calls one

 9 in failing pave cut to 311 or through whatever

10 medium they choose, the pave cut inspector goes

11 out.

12 They realize it's failing and they

13 reach out to the utility company and the

14 utility company comes and fixes it. From start

15 to finish, what is that process? So the

16 response I got -- and bear with me, I'll read

17 it verbatim. "Failing pave cuts reported are

18 flagged via e-mail or phone to the respective

19 utility depending on severity.

20 This is done typically within three

21 days of report. Utilities have been very

22 responsive to this method. For instances in

23 which the utility is not responsive, the city

24 has a formal violation letter that could be

25 issued.
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 1 This mandates a five day restoration

 2 deadline or they will be fined $1,000 per day.

 3 Repair timelines very significantly based on

 4 whether material availability and excavation

 5 size. Restoring a pavement cut is a complex

 6 operation that often requires four or more

 7 crews at a single site.

 8 Even a temporary patch involves a

 9 heavy logistical lift, excavating tools such as

10 jackhammers, vac trucks or excavators, dump

11 trucks for hauling fill and crew for spreading

12 and tamping and final compaction using a

13 vibratory plate are all necessary to get the

14 job done. Permanent restorations are even more

15 labor intensive and involve additional steps."

16 So on January 27th, they were having

17 conversations biweekly, pave cut inspectors

18 were going out; and now the way I read this and

19 the public could make their own decisions, is

20 now they're making excuses for the utility

21 companies as to why this isn't being done.

22 But our residents see this every

23 day. They drive over these failing patches

24 that sink, break apart, create unpassable

25 conditions. When people ask why they haven't
 70

 1 been fixed, the explanation we hear is often

 2 the weather, the temperatures or conditions

 3 aren't right for proper patching, which I

 4 understand.

 5 But somehow the weather is never a

 6 hindrance when it comes time to dig the hole up

 7 in the first place. If the conditions are good

 8 enough to open the street, then we should be

 9 holding these companies to the same standard

10 when it comes to restoring the roadway properly

11 and promptly.

12 At the end of the day, these are our

13 streets and our residents who are dealing with

14 the consequences. We need better coordination,

15 better communication with homeowners certainly

16 because the resident that reached out to me

17 could not get out of her house all day with her

18 car because was she moated in and

19 accountability needs to happen to make sure

20 that when utilities cut into our roads, they

21 leave them in acceptable conditions.

22 So, Mr. Voldenberg, this has been an

23 issue now I'm seeing with UGI for a little

24 while now, especially the lack of communication

25 with homeowners and residents on some of this
 71

 1 expansive work they're doing. If my Council

 2 members would agree with me, I would love to

 3 try to get UGI to come in for a caucus to

 4 answer some questions that Council might have.

 5 So if we could try to schedule that with UGI to

 6 come in.

 7 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll contact them

 8 in the morning.

 9 MR. FLYNN: That would be great.

10 So, you know, I just hope at some point this

11 has been going on for months, we get some

12 answers. We hold the utility companies

13 accountable.

14 And maybe it's time to start

15 actually putting into effect some of these

16 violation letters and restoration deadlines

17 that the city says we have at our disposal. So

18 that's all I have for this evening. Thank you.

19 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much.

20 I might be shorter than some of the other

21 members up here. I want to address our data

22 center ordinance. It is going to be

23 readvertised this week. And it will be on our

24 March 17th agenda for Council to introduce. So

25 there was some confusion there. But it will be
 72

 1 readvertised this week and it will be on 17th

 2 agenda.

 3 In regard to pave cuts, on the 24th

 4 of March we have Pennoni, the third party pave

 5 cut inspector coming into a caucus here to

 6 speak to Council. In preparation for that

 7 among the other questions that we have about

 8 pave cuts, can we get a two year list of how

 9 many pave cuts we have identified as a city,

10 how many are completely completed, and then how

11 many of those are pending or still pending?

12 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll get that

13 information.

14 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much.

15 And if we can just ask, our own city database

16 that we have to track those pave cuts, did we

17 turn that list over to the new company when

18 they came in or what that process was?

19 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll ask that also.

20 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much.

21 The next thing was I had asked for an update on

22 PEL's five-year plan. So we have been getting

23 an updated five year financial analysis from

24 PEL.

25 And the city plans an anticipated
 73

 1 date of early April. So I'm really curious to

 2 get that five year plan, see what the

 3 projections are in terms of finances for the

 4 city. We have a lot of moving numbers moving

 5 into next year. We're losing some of the tax

 6 base from the hospital.

 7 We have some city expansion and on

 8 the expenditure side of our budget and I'm

 9 really curious to see what those finances are

10 going to look like and what they are projected

11 out. The last thing I have is, Mr. Voldenberg,

12 we had a petition for St. Francis Cabrini

13 Avenue. We had a street light that was -- the

14 neighbors there petitioned to come in.

15 MR. VOLDENBERG: With the vacant

16 lot.

17 MR. SCHUSTER: Yeah, we did -- we

18 did receive that. Can we just -- the business

19 administration just asked if we could resend

20 that petition over to them for that area.

21 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will.

22 MR. SCHUSTER: All right. Thank you

23 very much. And that's all I have for tonight.

24 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-B. FOR

25 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - AUTHORIZING THE
 74

 1 MAYOR AND OTHER APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS TO

 2 REQUEST FUNDING FROM LACKAWANNA COUNTY'S ART

 3 AND CULTURE DEPARTMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE

 4 COUNTY'S AMERICA250PA INITIATIVE.

 5 MR. SCHUSTER: At this time I'll

 6 entertain a motion that Item 5-B be introduced

 7 into its proper committee.

 8 DR. ROTHCHILD: So moved.

 9 MR. FLYNN: Second.

10 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question? All

11 those in favor of introduction signify by

12 saying aye.

13 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

14 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Aye.

15 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Aye.

16 MR. FLYNN: Aye.

17 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. Opposed? The

18 ayes it and so moved.

19 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-C. FOR

20 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - AUTHORIZING THE

21 MAYOR AND OTHER APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS TO

22 SUBMIT A GRANT APPLICATION FOR A PENN DOT GREEN

23 LIGHT GO PROGRAM IN THE AMOUNT OF $402,220.00

24 TO BE USED TOWARDS UPGRADES AT THE INTERSECTION

25 OF PROVIDENCE ROAD AND ALBRIGHT AVENUE.
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 1 MR. SCHUSTER: At this time I'll

 2 entertain a motion that Item 5-C be introduced

 3 into its proper committee.

 4 DR. ROTHCHILD: So moved.

 5 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Second.

 6 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question? On

 7 the question, it's great to see another one of

 8 these green light go programs occur in the

 9 city. This one is the amount of $402,220. A

10 couple of these projects have been completed.

11 And it's great to see this work moving forward.

12 All those in favor of introduction signify by

13 saying aye.

14 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

15 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Aye.

16 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Aye.

17 MR. FLYNN: Aye.

18 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. Opposed? The

19 ayes it and so moved.

20 MR. VOLDENBERG: SIXTH ORDER. No

21 business at this time.

22 SEVENTH ORDER. 7-A. FOR

23 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES - FOR

24 ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO. 24, 2026 -

25 REAPPOINTMENT OF DORIS KOLOSKI AS A MEMBER OF
 76

 1 THE SCRANTON HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION FOR A

 2 TERM EXPIRING FEBRUARY 23, 2031.

 3 MR. SCHUSTER: At this time I'll

 4 entertain a motion that Item 5-C be introduced

 5 into it property committee. Sorry, sorry, as

 6 Chairperson for the Committee on Rules, I

 7 recommend final passage of Item 7-A.

 8 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

 9 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question?

10 Roll call, please.

11 MS. CARRERA: Dr. Rothchild.

12 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes.

13 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Sean McAndrew.

14 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Yes.

15 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Mark McAndrew.

16 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Yes.

17 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Flynn.

18 MR. FLYNN: Yes.

19 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Schuster.

20 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. I hereby

21 declare Item 7-A legally and lawfully adopted.

22 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-B. FOR

23 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC

24 WORKS - FOR ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO. 26,

25 2026 - AMENDING RESOLUTIONS 180 OF 2019 AND 180
 77

 1 OF 2025 TO ALLOW THE MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION

 2 FUND (MTF) AWARDS OF $1,110,200.00 (PROJECT ID

 3 2020-04-35-098) AND $1,395,860.00 (PROJECT ID

 4 202411046274), RESPECTIVELY, TO BE USED FOR THE

 5 REPLACEMENT OF THE MYRTLE STREET BRIDGE

 6 PROJECT.

 7 MR. SCHUSTER: What is the

 8 recommendation of the Chairperson for the

 9 Committee on Public Works?

10 MR. FLYNN: As Chairperson for the

11 Committee on Public Works, I recommend final

12 passage of Item 7-B.

13 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Second.

14 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question? On

15 the question, this is a project that we had,

16 the Myrtle Street and Ash Street bridges that

17 are to be replaced -- they're on the list to be

18 replaced. This one here is the Myrtle Street

19 bridge.

20 The funding was originally secured

21 for the Ash Street bridge. But they did an

22 inspection and they deemed that the Myrtle

23 Street bridge was in more need.

24 So that funding has been transferred

25 over to the Myrtle Street Bridge as being in a
 78

 1 greater need prior to the Ash Street

 2 completion. So this bridge here on Myrtle

 3 Street's going to be replaced. After that,

 4 Myrtle Street is going to be replaced. Anyone

 5 else on the question? Roll call, please.

 6 MS. CARRERA: Dr. Rothchild.

 7 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes.

 8 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Sean McAndrew.

 9 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Yes.

10 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Mark McAndrew.

11 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Yes.

12 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Flynn.

13 MR. FLYNN: Yes.

14 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Schuster.

15 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. I hereby

16 declare Item 7-B legally and lawfully adopted.

17 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-C. FOR

18 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES - FOR

19 ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO. 27, 2026 -

20 AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND OTHER APPROPRIATE

21 CITY OFFICIALS TO EXECUTE AND ENTER INTO A

22 CONTRACT WITH CLIFTONLARSONALLEN LLP TO PERFORM

23 INDEPENDENT AUDIT AND SINGLE AUDIT SERVICES.

24 MR. SCHUSTER: As Chairperson for

25 the Committee on Rules, I recommend final
 79

 1 passage of Item 7-C.

 2 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

 3 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question?

 4 Roll call, please.

 5 MS. CARRERA: Dr. Rothchild.

 6 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes.

 7 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Sean McAndrew.

 8 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Yes.

 9 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Mark McAndrew.

10 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Yes.

11 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Flynn.

12 MR. FLYNN: Yes.

13 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Schuster.

14 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. I hereby

15 declare Item 7-C legally and lawfully adopted.

16 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-D. PREVIOUSLY

17 TABLED - FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON

18 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT -- FOR ADOPTION -

19 RESOLUTION NO. 25, 2026 - ACCEPTING THE

20 RECOMMENDATION OF THE HISTORIC ARCHITECTURAL

21 REVIEW BOARD ("HARB") AND DENYING THE

22 CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS FOR FIDELITY

23 BANK, 101 NORTH BLAKELY STREET, DUNMORE,

24 PENNSYLVANIA 18512 FOR DEMOLITION OF THE MATTES

25 LAW OFFICE BUILDING AT 324 NORTH WASHINGTON
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 1 AVENUE, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA 18503.

 2 MR. FLYNN: I make a motion to amend

 3 Item 7-D to read: Denying the recommendation

 4 of Historic Architectural Review Board and

 5 leaving the rest of the text the same.

 6 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Second.

 7 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question?

 8 ATTY. GILBRIDE: Mr. President, on

 9 the question, Mr. Flynn, in looking at the

10 language, you would also have to change from

11 denying the certificate of appropriateness to

12 allowing that certificate. So it would require

13 a friendly amendment by yourself and Mr.

14 McAndrew.

15 MR. FLYNN: I can't hear you.

16 ATTY. GILBRIDE: You would need to

17 change the language with regard to denying the

18 certificate of appropriateness to allowing that

19 certificate as well.

20 MR. FLYNN: Okay. So I make another

21 motion to change denying the certificate --

22 friendly amendment to change denying the

23 certificate of appropriate to allowing the

24 certificate of appropriateness.

25 MR. SCHUSTER: Do we have a second?
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 1 ATTY. GILBRIDE: Is that agreeable

 2 to you, Mr. McAndrew, since you seconded it?

 3 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Yes.

 4 ATTY. GILBRIDE: Now you could vote

 5 the bill.

 6 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. On the

 7 question? All those in favor signify by saying

 8 aye.

 9 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

10 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Aye.

11 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Aye.

12 MR. FLYNN: Aye.

13 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. Opposed? The

14 ayes it and so moved.

15 What is the recommendation of

16 Chairperson for the Committee on Community

17 Development?

18 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: As Chairperson

19 for the Committee on Community Development, I

20 recommend final passage of Item 7-D as amended.

21 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

22 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question?

23 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Yeah, on the

24 question, Mr. Gilbride, just can you explain to

25 everybody listening that if you deny it that
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 1 means they are able to tear down the building;

 2 is that correct?

 3 ATTY. GILBRIDE: That is correct.

 4 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Okay. One

 5 reason why I'll be voting in favor for denying

 6 it and letting them tear down the building is a

 7 safety issue. We've heard from business owner,

 8 from Fidelity workers themselves that the

 9 facade was falling down.

10 There's sidewalk issues. So to me

11 it is a safety issue and safety always comes

12 first. I was a little unhappy to hear when

13 they were at the HARB meeting that if it wasn't

14 approved that they were just going to let it

15 sit there and fall, be taken down.

16 And also hearing today from that the

17 owner of Abe's that he had to shovel their

18 sidewalks I think during the storm, so not

19 happy to hear that. I hope going forward

20 they're taking care of the property. But at

21 the end of the day, this is a safety issue for

22 our residents. And I will be in favor to

23 tearing it down for the safety.

24 MR. SCHUSTER: Anyone else on the

25 question?
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 1 MR. FLYNN: On the question, yeah, I

 2 had a conversation with the owner of Abe's. I

 3 wasn't sure which way I was going yet. I got a

 4 lot of insight from him from that conversation

 5 as to the impact that it's having on his

 6 business.

 7 I believe the business that is

 8 impacted the greatest by this structure of the

 9 Mattes and Mattes building is Abe's. So

10 hearing him in favor of the demolition of this

11 building made -- had an impact on me.

12 I also reviewed the report from

13 Reuther and Bowen in its entirety. I

14 personally do not believe that this building

15 is -- has a possibility of any sort of

16 rehabbing. I received numerous calls on this

17 issue, not one of those calls I received was in

18 favor of keeping this building.

19 Every single call I received was in

20 favor of the demolition of it. So for those

21 reasons, I will be voting to -- in favor of

22 demolishing the building.

23 MR. SCHUSTER: Roll call -- on the

24 question?

25 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Yeah, on the
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 1 question, so as Chairman for the Committee on

 2 Public Safety, that's my committee, and after

 3 listening to, you know, to the testimony of

 4 individuals here that, you know, are affected

 5 by it and testified to the safety issue and

 6 because it's an immense safety issue, my

 7 decision is a safety issue outweighs the desire

 8 for the HARB Board's -- theirs of preservation.

 9 So that's why I'll be voting yes to deny.

10 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. I might

11 as well speak to it as well on the question. I

12 did, you know, echo some of the sentiments

13 here. A lot of the feedback that I received,

14 whether it be here in public comment or out on

15 streets or calls, were all in favor of

16 demolition of the building.

17 So I would say all the feedback that

18 we received as a Council as a whole, I would

19 say were going in that direction. Anyone else

20 on the question?

21 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes, on the

22 question, I'm in agreement with my colleagues

23 on this. I also understand that it's a safety

24 issue and that the building is likely to be

25 demolished either way. So we'll let Fidelity
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 1 go ahead and do that.

 2 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Roll

 3 call, please.

 4 MS. CARRERA: Dr. Rothchild.

 5 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes.

 6 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Sean McAndrew.

 7 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Yes.

 8 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Mark McAndrew.

 9 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Yes.

10 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Flynn.

11 MR. FLYNN: Yes.

12 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Schuster.

13 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. I hereby

14 declare Item 7-D as amended, legally and

15 lawfully adopted.

16 MR. VOLDENBERG: EIGHTH ORDER. No

17 business at this time.

18 MR. SCHUSTER: All right. This

19 resolution was taken from the table and placed

20 in 7th order for final vote this evening. And

21 if there's no further business, I'll entertain

22 a motion to adjourn.

23 MR. FLYNN: So moved.

24 MR. SCHUSTER: This meeting is

25 adjourned. Thank you.
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 4 evidence are contained fully and accurately in the

 5 notes taken by me of the above-cause and that this copy

 6 is a correct transcript of the same to the best of my

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Chairperson [6] - 15:25, 24:8, 25:14 66:18, 68:13, 68:14, control [3] - 26:17, Coyne [3] - 29:12,
 76:6, 77:8, 77:10, clothing [1] - 21:8 72:17 31:16, 86:24 37:12, 37:13
 78:24, 81:16, 81:18 coach [1] - 7:5 comparison [1] - 57:1 controlled [1] - 62:22 crater [1] - 15:16
CHAMBERS [1] - 1:12 code [3] - 56:15, 57:4, compatible [1] - 38:25 conversation [2] - crater-sized [1] -
champion [1] - 57:10 64:15 complain [1] - 61:17 83:2, 83:4 15:16
chance [3] - 6:14, Code [6] - 44:5, 44:24, complained [1] - 29:2 conversations [2] - create [3] - 38:23,
 26:20, 26:22 45:6, 55:22, 56:3, complete [1] - 49:19 43:23, 69:17 44:1, 69:24
change [8] - 24:24, 64:12 completed [3] - 50:23, coordinating [1] - created [4] - 27:10,
 27:6, 40:15, 64:10, cold [1] - 20:17 72:10, 75:10 14:19 39:8, 43:21, 53:1
 80:10, 80:17, 80:21, Colfax [4] - 34:21, completely [2] - 50:3, coordination [1] - creating [2] - 7:7,
 80:22 35:23, 36:5, 36:18 72:10 70:14 51:15
changes [2] - 28:9, collaboration [1] - completion [2] - 55:6, copy [4] - 5:7, 50:13, creatures [1] - 36:13
 40:14 43:9 78:2 52:16, 86:5 crew [2] - 29:4, 69:11
channel [1] - 27:10 colleagues [1] - 84:22 complex [1] - 69:5 corner [8] - 28:22, crews [1] - 69:7
chaotic [1] - 16:18 collecting [1] - 26:24 component [1] - 27:7 28:25, 29:5, 29:9, cross [1] - 15:16
charter [1] - 39:1 collective [1] - 11:20 concerned [1] - 60:9 34:11, 34:25, 60:25, crossings [1] - 16:19
Charter [1] - 39:11 coming [8] - 9:2, concerns [1] - 65:9 66:7 crumble [1] - 38:4
cheaper [1] - 10:24 35:11, 36:14, 59:9, concrete [2] - 35:13, correct [6] - 12:4, crumbling [1] - 15:16
Chief [3] - 14:11, 63:18, 64:15, 66:3, 36:1 13:2, 50:17, 82:2, CSS [2] - 55:24, 57:3
 52:12, 65:8 72:5 condemned [1] - 49:1 82:3, 86:6 CULTURE [1] - 74:3
children [3] - 7:21, commandos [1] - 11:3 condition [2] - 15:20, cost [4] - 10:25, 25:16, curbs [1] - 60:6
 46:8, 47:4 comment [2] - 41:25, 67:12 33:5, 61:23 curious [2] - 73:1,
choose [2] - 18:8, 84:14 conditions [6] - 56:4, costs [1] - 15:20 73:9
 68:10 comments [6] - 4:21, 68:2, 69:25, 70:2, COUNCIL [3] - 1:1, current [2] - 62:9,
chunks [1] - 36:1 41:15, 42:9, 49:15, 70:7, 70:21 1:12, 2:10 62:11
CIC [2] - 9:18, 65:7 54:25, 63:13 conduits [1] - 61:9 council [1] - 50:25 custody [1] - 24:23
cities [1] - 63:1 Commission [1] - confidential [2] - 12:9, Council [34] - 4:22, cut [8] - 17:23, 27:24,
CITIZEN [1] - 8:9 61:7 12:11 8:12, 10:12, 13:15, 68:9, 68:10, 69:5,
Citizens [1] - 4:8 COMMISSION [1] - confused [1] - 38:17 13:18, 15:5, 15:7, 69:17, 70:20, 72:5
citizens [1] - 27:15 76:1 confusion [2] - 14:24, 17:19, 19:7, 24:16, cuts [12] - 18:2, 32:7,
city [47] - 9:20, 10:4, committee [10] - 71:25 26:12, 27:22, 28:7, 32:10, 66:16, 67:13,
 13:23, 16:8, 17:15, 43:13, 51:16, 51:18, Congress [1] - 27:10 28:20, 34:4, 38:14, 67:15, 68:8, 68:17,
 17:25, 19:20, 19:22, 55:17, 59:1, 74:7, connect [1] - 22:6 38:15, 39:11, 39:17, 72:3, 72:8, 72:9,
 24:4, 26:16, 27:1, 75:3, 76:5, 84:2 consequences [1] - 40:7, 41:11, 48:19, 72:16
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CV [1] - 26:4 department [1] - 53:18 dive [1] - 61:10 drivers [1] - 30:18 16:21
 DEPARTMENT [1] - divvied [1] - 45:16 drives [1] - 64:8 enhance [1] - 28:11
 D 74:3 document [4] - 12:15, driveway [2] - 67:5, enjoy [1] - 8:5
 departure [1] - 7:17 13:2, 52:15, 52:17 67:6 enormous [1] - 16:24
damage [1] - 16:2 depth [1] - 40:8 documentation [1] - driveways [2] - 66:20, ensure [1] - 68:2
dangerous [1] - 15:20 describe [1] - 67:4 38:22 66:25 entails [1] - 53:1
dark [2] - 35:7, 35:10 deserve [3] - 19:2, dog [1] - 35:17 driving [1] - 32:20 ENTER [1] - 78:21
data [2] - 14:23, 71:21 23:25, 57:17 dogs [1] - 35:11 drug [2] - 20:24, 21:18 entertain [4] - 74:6,
database [1] - 72:15 designed [1] - 25:20 dollars [3] - 17:3, drunk [1] - 32:19 75:2, 76:4, 85:21
date [3] - 29:22, 55:6, desire [1] - 84:7 17:7, 50:8 drunks [1] - 20:25 entire [1] - 5:18
 73:1 despair [1] - 64:9 domain [1] - 27:25 drywall [3] - 25:11, entirety [1] - 83:13
dating [1] - 46:9 destroyed [1] - 29:11 domestic [1] - 46:9 25:21, 25:22 erected [1] - 60:22
days [5] - 11:25, deteriorating [1] - donated [1] - 20:13 ducts [1] - 61:9 especially [2] - 12:17,
 26:10, 56:14, 57:4, 39:7 done [16] - 27:15, dug [1] - 67:5 70:24
 68:21 detours [1] - 16:1 29:19, 29:24, 29:25, dump [1] - 69:10 ESQ [1] - 2:10
deadline [1] - 69:2 develop [2] - 49:6, 30:6, 30:7, 30:10, Dunmore [1] - 41:21 etc [1] - 61:9
deadlines [2] - 61:19, 62:17 30:20, 33:22, 51:9, DUNMORE [1] - 79:23 evening [10] - 15:6,
 71:16 developing [1] - 48:17 51:18, 66:12, 67:10, during [6] - 14:5, 19:4, 19:7, 24:16,
deal [3] - 5:20, 43:25, DEVELOPMENT [1] - 68:20, 69:14, 69:21 19:24, 45:2, 60:15, 28:19, 32:25, 34:5,
 50:23 79:18 door [2] - 20:9, 52:24 60:22, 82:18 56:2, 71:18, 85:20
dealing [1] - 70:13 development [1] - doors [3] - 38:5, dusting [2] - 31:2, evenings [1] - 56:18
dealt [1] - 65:1 49:9 52:21, 52:24 31:5 eventually [2] - 40:18,
dear [1] - 21:15 Development [2] - Doris [1] - 34:5 40:25
decades [1] - 17:9 81:17, 81:19 DORIS [1] - 75:25 E Everett [1] - 60:25
December [1] - 12:23 different [2] - 47:12, DOT [1] - 74:22 everywhere [1] - 27:3
decision [3] - 38:18, 65:2 down [20] - 9:18, e-mail [3] - 38:14, evidence [1] - 86:4
 39:17, 84:7 difficulty [1] - 35:19 20:17, 20:19, 22:22, 52:14, 68:18 evidently [1] - 37:17
decisions [4] - 38:16, dig [1] - 70:6 24:8, 29:21, 29:22, early [2] - 56:22, 73:1 exactly [1] - 15:10
 39:21, 52:20, 69:19 digging [1] - 66:19 33:8, 35:11, 36:3, East [2] - 33:1, 33:21 excavating [1] - 69:9
declare [4] - 76:21, digital [2] - 53:8, 36:10, 37:7, 37:21, Easter [2] - 7:15, 7:25 excavation [1] - 69:4
 78:16, 79:15, 85:14 53:21 38:5, 52:18, 82:1, eat [2] - 57:10, 57:11 excavators [1] - 69:10
deemed [1] - 77:22 dinner [1] - 6:7 82:6, 82:9, 82:15, echo [2] - 63:17, 84:12 excellent [1] - 25:15
deep [1] - 56:21 direct [3] - 67:16, 82:23 ECTV [2] - 25:25, 27:8 except [1] - 34:25
deeper [1] - 61:10 67:20, 86:24 downtown [2] - 16:22, education [1] - 56:7 excuse [1] - 42:20
deferring [1] - 16:9 direction [1] - 84:19 17:9 educational [1] - 11:5 excuses [1] - 69:20
definitely [1] - 65:10 directly [2] - 66:19, dozen [1] - 47:6 effect [1] - 71:15 EXECUTE [1] - 78:21
degrees [4] - 19:15, 68:3 DPW [12] - 12:1, 12:3, efforts [2] - 12:3, executive [3] - 49:21,
 19:17, 31:8, 45:3 Director [2] - 12:3, 12:17, 23:10, 23:18, 57:14 49:25, 50:5
demolish [1] - 38:19 65:7 29:1, 29:8, 30:23, EIGHTH [1] - 85:16 exists [1] - 57:4
demolished [3] - 60:4, dirt [2] - 29:24, 30:1 31:6, 33:12, 33:19, either [2] - 23:17, expansion [1] - 73:7
 60:5, 84:25 dirt's [1] - 30:3 66:10 84:25 expansive [1] - 71:1
demolishing [1] - disagree [1] - 50:4 DPW's [1] - 11:20 elderly [1] - 20:3 expectation [1] -
 83:22 discovery [1] - 26:7 Dr [4] - 3:9, 41:14, electric [1] - 62:9 67:10
demolition [11] - 4:2, discuss [1] - 8:13 42:8, 48:4 Electric [2] - 67:15, expenditure [1] - 73:8
 35:24, 38:23, 48:15, discussed [1] - 51:25 dr [4] - 76:11, 78:6, 68:5 experience [8] -
 48:18, 48:21, 48:22, discussing [1] - 63:18 79:5, 85:4 eliminate [1] - 61:13 15:22, 15:23, 15:25,
 49:2, 83:10, 83:20, discussion [3] - 25:2, DR [20] - 3:10, 3:23, Elm [1] - 55:4 51:11, 58:16, 63:19,
 84:16 25:6, 49:20 4:11, 41:16, 42:10, embarrassed [1] - 63:22, 64:4
DEMOLITION [1] - discussions [1] - 65:5 42:21, 48:5, 74:8, 57:20 experienced [1] -
 79:24 disgusted [1] - 57:21 74:13, 75:4, 75:14, emergencies [1] - 56:21
demolitions [1] - 76:8, 76:12, 78:7, 18:23
 disgusting [1] - 20:4 experiencing [1] -
 48:11 79:2, 79:6, 81:9, emergency [6] -
 dispense [2] - 3:19, 59:2
denial [2] - 4:2, 39:5 81:21, 84:21, 85:5 16:10, 39:13, 45:25,
 4:16 expertise [2] - 58:15,
denied [2] - 38:18, dragging [1] - 30:13 46:14, 56:15, 65:13
 display [1] - 11:12 58:24
 53:11 drain [1] - 18:4 eminent [1] - 27:25
 disposal [1] - 71:17 expired [1] - 12:1
deny [2] - 81:25, 84:9 drainage [2] - 16:5, empathy [1] - 64:4
 district [6] - 38:20, EXPIRING [1] - 76:2
DENYING [1] - 79:21 17:4 employees [1] - 13:24
 38:24, 40:4, 40:10, explain [4] - 14:22,
denying [6] - 80:3, drains [1] - 18:6 end [3] - 50:13, 70:12,
 51:25, 52:8 41:4, 44:22, 81:24
 80:11, 80:17, 80:21, drive [1] - 69:23 82:21
 District's [1] - 5:9 explained [2] - 21:22,
 80:22, 82:5 driver [1] - 32:19 enforcement [1] -
 5

 38:13 82:8, 84:25 flooded [1] - 18:20 freezing [3] - 20:11, 58:18, 62:5
explanation [1] - 70:1 FIDELITY [1] - 79:22 floor [3] - 3:25, 49:22, 31:9, 56:21 God's [1] - 31:10
explore [2] - 62:19, field [1] - 7:9 49:25 Friday [1] - 50:13 government [1] -
 63:2 Field [6] - 7:11, 19:9, FLYNN [24] - 2:3, 3:16, Friendly [1] - 11:7 47:16
expressed [2] - 10:22, 45:1, 55:23, 56:16, 3:20, 4:14, 4:24, friendly [2] - 80:13, governments [1] -
 43:15 56:23 13:15, 13:18, 63:14, 80:22 16:11
expressing [1] - 42:25 FIFTH [2] - 41:12, 42:6 66:14, 71:9, 74:9, friends [2] - 10:17, grab [1] - 5:6
extra [1] - 17:2 Fifth [3] - 14:4, 14:21, 74:16, 75:17, 76:18, 20:11 graffiti [1] - 33:9
extreme [1] - 56:3 42:2 77:10, 78:13, 79:12, Friends [2] - 10:23, GRANT [1] - 74:22
eye [1] - 62:14 fifty [1] - 58:6 80:2, 80:15, 80:20, 47:1 grass [4] - 35:15,
eyesore [2] - 30:2, fighting [1] - 66:4 81:12, 83:1, 85:11, FROM [1] - 74:2 35:18, 35:25, 36:2
 30:5 figure [4] - 38:7, 85:23 front [5] - 29:10, great [13] - 6:3, 6:22,
 56:10, 64:21, 64:23 Flynn [3] - 3:15, 34:14, 52:21, 66:19, 11:1, 11:4, 11:16,
 F file [1] - 26:8 63:13, 80:9 67:5 43:12, 43:25, 47:9,
 filed [1] - 4:21 flynn [4] - 76:17, frustrated [1] - 15:11 47:14, 57:8, 71:9,
facade [1] - 82:9 fill [2] - 10:20, 69:11 78:12, 79:11, 85:10 frustrating [1] - 50:20 75:7, 75:11
face [1] - 7:22 final [9] - 4:5, 5:14, follow [2] - 50:18, 63:6 frustrations [1] - greater [1] - 78:1
Facebook [2] - 20:12, 48:17, 69:12, 76:7, followed [1] - 31:20 42:25 greatest [1] - 83:8
  32:18 77:11, 78:25, 81:20, following [1] - 60:2 full [1] - 40:21 Green [3] - 29:18,
facility [1] - 45:13 85:20 followup [1] - 48:24 fully [2] - 36:7, 86:4 66:16, 67:24
facing [1] - 9:1 finally [3] - 28:21, food [1] - 6:13 fun [1] - 8:6 GREEN [1] - 74:22
fact [2] - 9:9, 62:23 49:19, 53:7 foot [1] - 67:6 FUND [1] - 77:2 green [1] - 75:8
fail [1] - 18:9 finances [2] - 73:3, FOR [16] - 1:1, 73:24, fund [2] - 6:24, 40:11 ground [1] - 30:4
failed [2] - 38:21, 73:9 74:19, 74:22, 75:22, fund-raising [1] - 6:24 groundskeeping [1] -
  67:23 financial [1] - 72:23 75:23, 76:1, 76:22, FUNDING [1] - 74:2 7:4
failing [5] - 67:15, financially [1] - 16:23 76:24, 77:4, 78:17, funding [3] - 43:25, group [1] - 14:10
  68:9, 68:12, 68:17, fine [5] - 6:20, 18:4, 78:18, 79:17, 79:18, 77:20, 77:24 grown [1] - 15:14
  69:23 50:10, 58:14, 59:25 79:22, 79:24 fundraiser [1] - 6:13 guard [1] - 52:23
fall [2] - 61:6, 82:15 fined [1] - 69:2 force [11] - 22:11, funds [1] - 17:1 guess [6] - 12:2,
fallen [1] - 18:15 fingers [1] - 20:21 23:24, 43:20, 51:3, future [2] - 14:9, 40:12 23:13, 24:23, 33:9,
falling [2] - 9:24, 82:9 finish [2] - 60:6, 68:15 51:8, 55:16, 56:9, 33:18, 53:16
family [1] - 64:2 56:12, 58:2, 58:12, guy [1] - 36:9
 fire [2] - 36:15, 36:16
 62:16
 G
far [2] - 16:5, 18:15 Fire [1] - 65:8 guys [1] - 6:13
Farr [1] - 31:18 firefighters [1] - 11:16 Force [4] - 40:24, game [1] - 7:7
 43:7, 51:2, 56:13
fast [1] - 10:21 firefighters' [1] - gap [3] - 15:12, 38:23, H
fastballs [1] - 17:24 11:10 forced [1] - 62:4 67:6
fathers [1] - 25:1 firehouse [2] - 11:15, foregoing [1] - 86:22 gaps [1] - 64:24 half [4] - 29:5, 29:11,
favor [11] - 4:9, 74:11, 32:10 forget [1] - 13:22 garbage [1] - 22:7 29:15
  75:12, 81:7, 82:5, first [17] - 8:10, 10:16, forgot [1] - 20:18 gas [3] - 62:8, 66:18, Hall [1] - 52:15
  82:22, 83:10, 83:18, 15:8, 15:18, 24:17, formal [1] - 68:24 68:1 hallway [2] - 31:20,
  83:20, 83:21, 84:15 28:16, 34:6, 37:14, formally [1] - 41:19 general [2] - 12:14, 52:13
FEBRUARY [1] - 76:2 38:18, 39:16, 40:13, format [1] - 24:24 54:7 ham [3] - 6:6, 6:7, 6:18
February [5] - 29:21, 44:23, 47:24, 49:17, forward [7] - 40:18, generation [1] - 17:7 hammer [1] - 62:16
  37:22, 56:22, 56:25, 55:18, 70:7, 82:12 50:24, 54:6, 59:9, gentleman [3] - 19:21, hand [3] - 20:12,
  57:1 five [4] - 69:1, 72:22, 60:10, 75:11, 82:19 23:18, 31:14 20:14, 20:15
feedback [3] - 51:12, 72:23, 73:2 forwarded [1] - 59:13 genuine [1] - 39:18 handle [1] - 26:18
  84:13, 84:17 five-year [1] - 72:22 foul [1] - 7:8 ghost [2] - 60:14, happier [1] - 21:7
feet [1] - 30:13 fix [5] - 16:3, 16:11, four [4] - 46:3, 52:6, 60:24 happy [4] - 5:21, 5:22,
felt [1] - 22:9 18:24, 30:7 60:7, 69:6 Gilbride [3] - 53:17, 46:18, 82:19
females [2] - 56:20, fixed [5] - 30:16, FOURTH [1] - 8:8 62:15, 81:24 HARB [11] - 4:2,
  57:7 32:16, 33:6, 35:9, Fourth [1] - 4:7 GILBRIDE [7] - 2:10, 38:12, 38:18, 39:8,
fence [1] - 38:6 70:1 Francis [1] - 73:12 62:20, 80:8, 80:16, 39:17, 53:11, 53:13,
fenced [2] - 37:22, fixes [2] - 16:22, 68:14 frank [1] - 37:6 81:1, 81:4, 82:3 79:21, 82:13, 84:8
  38:8 fixing [3] - 10:2, Frank [3] - 13:1, girl [2] - 21:10, 21:19 HARB's [1] - 39:3
feral [1] - 26:16 26:25, 29:1 50:12, 54:15 given [2] - 14:3, 16:24 hard [2] - 35:24, 51:9
few [9] - 4:24, 28:22, flag [1] - 68:3 FRANK [1] - 2:8 glad [1] - 37:21 Harrison [1] - 48:20
  30:21, 32:8, 42:11, flagged [1] - 68:18 frankly [1] - 15:11 GO [1] - 74:23 hate [1] - 63:8
  49:17, 51:25, 65:4, flashlight [1] - 35:16 fraud [1] - 5:1 goals [1] - 51:20 hauling [1] - 69:11
  67:22 flashy [1] - 17:9 fraudulent [1] - 5:2 God [7] - 21:15, 22:25, Haven [2] - 55:20,
Fidelity [3] - 49:18, fleeing [1] - 46:9 free [2] - 7:3, 41:2 23:1, 23:4, 23:8, 57:2
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hazard [4] - 38:7, hold [1] - 71:12 ideas [1] - 58:7 68:10, 72:5
 J
 39:8, 39:18, 66:9 holding [1] - 70:9 identified [1] - 72:9 inspectors [2] - 67:22,
head [1] - 42:5 hole [1] - 70:6 ignored [2] - 16:5, 69:17 jackhammers [1] -
headquarters [1] - home [3] - 37:1, 37:2, 17:8 install [1] - 60:12 69:10
 11:10 37:15 immediate [2] - 46:8, instance [1] - 24:5 January [3] - 12:3,
health [4] - 21:25, Home [1] - 39:10 46:16 instances [1] - 68:22 67:18, 69:16
 39:12, 64:8, 64:20 homeless [25] - 8:14, immense [1] - 84:6 instructions [1] - 5:2 JESSICA [1] - 2:5
hear [12] - 14:7, 24:19, 8:23, 9:1, 9:5, 9:9, impact [2] - 83:5, insulated [2] - 25:18, Joan [2] - 10:14, 10:15
 29:16, 47:7, 49:10, 9:13, 9:20, 19:8, 83:11 25:20 job [7] - 20:25, 21:17,
 55:8, 55:9, 58:25, 19:23, 20:3, 22:11, impacted [1] - 83:8 insurance [1] - 18:21 29:1, 29:5, 29:9,
 70:1, 80:15, 82:12, 22:20, 23:24, 24:13, important [2] - 10:8, intensive [1] - 69:15 33:19, 69:14
 82:19 27:6, 42:13, 42:18, 44:9 interest [4] - 10:22, join [2] - 10:23, 61:18
heard [7] - 11:23, 42:22, 55:16, 58:2, IN [2] - 74:3, 74:23 14:1, 41:8, 59:1 Joseph's [1] - 45:24
 14:8, 29:17, 30:23, 58:10, 64:3, 64:25, in-depth [1] - 40:8 interested [2] - 12:16, Judge [1] - 25:24
 40:22, 40:23, 82:7 65:23 inaudible [2] - 41:24, 43:17 judge [2] - 26:2, 26:5
hearing [5] - 10:12, homelessness [4] - 42:3 interrupt [1] - 62:25 judgment [1] - 25:25
 11:18, 58:13, 82:16, 9:8, 57:12, 63:16, inches [1] - 45:5 INTERSECTION [1] - Judy [1] - 19:6
 83:10 64:7 include [3] - 25:5, 74:24
heat [1] - 20:1 homeowners [2] - 40:3, 43:14 intersection [1] - 34:9 K
heavy [1] - 69:9 70:15, 70:25 including [1] - 39:13 intersections [2] -
held [1] - 44:25 homes [2] - 25:1, incompetent [1] - 29:4 16:18, 17:16 KATHY [1] - 2:9
HELD [1] - 1:4 66:24 inconveniencing [2] - Intervention [1] - keep [2] - 31:17, 62:14
help [16] - 20:7, 21:4, honest [2] - 18:14, 30:16, 30:18 45:20 keeping [2] - 39:21,
 21:8, 22:13, 23:2, 25:4 increase [2] - 18:1, interview [1] - 64:24 83:18
 23:7, 24:13, 40:14, honorable [1] - 57:15 62:7 INTO [1] - 78:21 keeps [1] - 43:5
 42:16, 43:16, 46:1, Hop [2] - 7:14, 7:24 INDEPENDENT [1] - introduce [1] - 71:24 key [1] - 57:24
 46:7, 46:14, 59:9, hope [4] - 6:3, 61:17, 78:23 introduced [3] - 74:6, Keystone [2] - 9:17,
 62:6, 64:17 71:10, 82:19 individual [1] - 9:10 75:2, 76:4 45:22
helped [1] - 43:17 hopefully [4] - 26:15, individuals [14] - 9:2, INTRODUCTION [2] - kicked [1] - 24:3
helpful [1] - 43:4 50:10, 50:24, 53:6 9:5, 9:20, 10:7, 73:25, 74:20 kids [3] - 11:14, 16:17,
helping [4] - 6:12, hoping [1] - 36:18 51:10, 64:5, 64:8, introduction [2] - 36:25
 8:13, 43:18, 44:7 horn [1] - 11:17 64:13, 64:14, 65:11, 74:11, 75:12 kielbasa [1] - 6:18
helps [2] - 6:23, 46:20 hospital [2] - 34:24, 65:17, 66:1, 66:5, invested [1] - 17:7 kill [1] - 16:1
hereby [5] - 76:20, 73:6 84:4 invite [1] - 7:3 kind [2] - 20:13, 36:4
 78:15, 79:14, 85:13, hosted [2] - 56:15, infield [1] - 7:7 inviting [1] - 11:11 kinds [1] - 36:1
 86:3 56:18 influx [1] - 9:1 involve [1] - 69:15 known [1] - 67:25
Hickory [1] - 59:22 hosting [1] - 10:18 information [17] - involves [1] - 69:8 KOLOSKI [2] - 34:5,
high [1] - 46:12 hours [2] - 23:20, 31:6 4:25, 5:4, 5:10, 11:6, isolated [1] - 16:7 75:25
higher [2] - 16:10, house [5] - 23:3, 47:15, 47:19, 47:25, issue [21] - 8:25, Koloski [1] - 34:6
 18:21 29:10, 31:7, 35:23, 51:1, 51:23, 53:20, 38:15, 39:5, 39:9,
hindrance [1] - 70:6 70:17 53:23, 54:8, 56:8, 39:15, 50:2, 52:3, L
hire [2] - 26:23, 41:2 House [4] - 34:14, 57:22, 59:14, 60:10, 56:6, 58:16, 63:16,
hired [3] - 29:4, 40:13, 45:1, 61:12, 62:9 72:13 65:15, 67:11, 70:23, labor [1] - 69:15
 41:1 houses [1] - 46:3 informed [1] - 48:16 82:7, 82:11, 82:21, lack [2] - 43:1, 70:24
HISTORIC [1] - 79:20 Housing [1] - 47:14 infrastructure [4] - 83:17, 84:5, 84:6, LACKAWANNA [1] -
historic [4] - 38:19, housing [7] - 45:25, 10:2, 15:9, 15:18, 84:7, 84:24 74:2
 38:23, 38:25, 39:22 46:2, 46:7, 46:8, 18:16 issued [1] - 68:25 Lackawanna [10] -
Historic [1] - 80:4 46:15, 46:21, 47:3 initiative [1] - 51:17 issues [12] - 8:13, 5:8, 6:10, 7:2, 7:24,
historical [1] - 11:12 huge [2] - 30:3, 33:10 INITIATIVE [1] - 74:4 14:2, 16:23, 17:10, 8:17, 8:19, 8:22, 9:5,
history [2] - 28:3, HUMAN [1] - 76:1 injunction [1] - 48:24 18:8, 24:23, 25:3, 44:22, 47:13
 64:25 human [2] - 27:4, input [2] - 49:7, 49:12 61:2, 64:8, 67:20, ladies [1] - 59:11
hit [3] - 15:15, 33:5, 46:10 inquiries [1] - 55:2 67:24, 82:10 lady [4] - 8:15, 57:25,
 65:4 humane [1] - 26:20 inside [2] - 25:12, issuing [1] - 25:25 58:17, 59:14
hoc [1] - 43:13 HUP [1] - 19:3 45:13 Item [12] - 74:6, 75:2, landscaping [1] - 60:7
Hodowanitz [2] - insight [1] - 83:4 76:4, 76:7, 76:21, language [2] - 80:10,
 10:14, 10:15 I inspected [1] - 38:10 77:12, 78:16, 79:1, 80:17
HODOWANITZ [8] - inspection [6] - 38:5, 79:15, 80:3, 81:20, large [3] - 17:9, 34:14,
 10:15, 11:24, 12:13, I-81 [1] - 16:12 39:13, 49:19, 49:22, 85:14 64:24
 13:3, 13:7, 13:13, ID [2] - 77:2, 77:3 50:5, 77:22 itself [1] - 40:6 Laske [2] - 19:6, 24:7
 13:17, 13:20 idea [2] - 18:11, 20:13 inspector [3] - 17:23, LASKE [3] - 19:7,
 7

  24:8, 24:10 limited [1] - 55:10 Main [3] - 32:9, 32:13, 78:8, 78:10, 79:7, Miss [1] - 3:7
last [28] - 5:16, 11:25, Linden [2] - 34:10, 32:14 79:9, 80:14, 81:2, missing [1] - 37:18
  22:4, 27:16, 28:24, 34:15 maintenance [1] - 85:6, 85:8 Mission [2] - 9:17,
  29:1, 29:12, 29:14, line [1] - 20:10 16:9 McAuley [1] - 46:24 45:22
  30:23, 31:14, 31:18, lines [1] - 7:8 male [1] - 57:6 McCool [2] - 1:24, mission [1] - 57:23
  31:22, 32:18, 41:1, linger [1] - 61:24 males [1] - 56:19 86:10 misspoke [1] - 13:10
  42:12, 44:20, 45:11, lingering [1] - 61:14 MAN [3] - 41:19, mean [6] - 36:13, mistakes [1] - 26:6
  46:25, 48:8, 48:24, links [1] - 47:20 41:24, 42:3 36:23, 51:7, 58:6, moat [1] - 67:4
  52:6, 55:3, 57:19, list [14] - 35:24, 36:8, Mancini [1] - 15:4 58:22, 58:25 moated [1] - 70:18
  59:10, 59:15, 60:10, 47:14, 48:10, 48:15, MANCINI [1] - 15:5 means [2] - 82:1, moisture [1] - 25:12
  68:7, 73:11 48:18, 49:5, 49:6, mandates [1] - 69:1 86:23 mold [1] - 25:13
Law [1] - 4:2 49:9, 51:3, 51:5, mandating [2] - 61:14, measure [1] - 65:25 moment [3] - 3:4,
LAW [1] - 79:25 72:8, 72:17, 77:17 61:25 medium [1] - 68:10 63:21, 64:16
lawfully [4] - 76:21, listened [1] - 28:15 manner [1] - 50:22 meet [4] - 39:4, 57:9, money [4] - 18:25,
  78:16, 79:15, 85:15 listening [3] - 24:18, Manor [1] - 45:25 64:13, 65:6 21:12, 25:16, 52:7
lawn [1] - 31:5 81:25, 84:3 map [1] - 64:19 meeting [10] - 5:5, monopoly [2] - 27:18,
laws [1] - 61:25 litigate [2] - 26:13, March [9] - 1:7, 6:17, 5:13, 29:14, 55:16, 27:24
lawsuit [1] - 36:9 28:10 7:10, 7:16, 56:14, 56:12, 60:15, 60:23, month [6] - 20:16,
leading [1] - 30:8 live [10] - 15:14, 16:16, 57:5, 71:24, 72:4 67:18, 82:13, 85:24 21:14, 30:10, 30:11,
least [3] - 19:17, 22:3, 17:18, 19:9, 28:5, Maria [2] - 1:24, 86:10 meetings [2] - 54:1, 30:19, 30:22
  59:18 35:22, 57:10, 57:11, Marie [2] - 32:23, 67:25 monthly [1] - 67:25
leave [2] - 32:16, 57:13, 58:24 32:25 melted [2] - 28:21, months [3] - 67:15,
  70:21 lived [3] - 5:18, 63:22, mark [2] - 8:14, 54:24 28:24 68:4, 71:11
leaving [2] - 19:12, 64:4 Mark [5] - 3:13, 76:15, MEMBER [1] - 75:25 Moosic [1] - 7:11
  80:5 lives [1] - 58:17 78:10, 79:9, 85:8 member [1] - 10:22 Morgan [2] - 24:15,
Lee [2] - 24:15, 24:17 living [1] - 10:10 MARK [19] - 2:4, 3:14, members [7] - 4:22, 24:17
left [1] - 23:19 LLP [1] - 78:22 4:13, 6:1, 55:1, 58:6, 15:6, 40:17, 43:14, MORGAN [1] - 24:16
legal [2] - 26:5, 53:18 located [1] - 47:2 59:21, 62:24, 74:15, 58:3, 71:2, 71:21 morning [6] - 19:10,
legally [4] - 76:21, LOCATION [1] - 1:10 75:16, 76:16, 77:13, men [5] - 3:5, 45:15, 19:13, 24:3, 29:3,
  78:16, 79:15, 85:14 location [3] - 6:21, 78:11, 79:10, 80:6, 45:17, 56:25, 57:1 59:20, 71:8
legals [1] - 14:25 60:21, 60:24 81:3, 81:11, 83:25, mental [3] - 21:25, mortar [1] - 25:11
legislation [6] - 4:7, locked [1] - 52:24 85:9 64:7, 64:20 most [5] - 16:15,
  28:10, 61:11, 61:12, locking [1] - 52:21 material [1] - 69:4 mention [3] - 6:16, 19:12, 21:20, 53:24,
  61:24, 62:16 logistical [1] - 69:9 MATTES [1] - 79:24 46:25, 48:9 62:10
legislators [1] - 28:10 long-term [1] - 63:23 Mattes [3] - 4:2, 83:9 mentioned [4] - 44:24, mostly [1] - 58:13
Les [2] - 28:18, 28:20 longstanding [1] - maximum [1] - 56:23 45:11, 47:11, 47:15 motion [10] - 3:21,
less [2] - 14:5, 19:2 17:10 Mayor [4] - 28:11, mentioning [1] - 46:24 3:24, 25:24, 26:10,
letter [2] - 27:23, look [16] - 13:20, 16:3, 43:8, 43:20, 53:25 merger [1] - 47:1 74:6, 75:2, 76:4,
  68:24 17:1, 22:8, 26:4, MAYOR [3] - 74:1, mess [2] - 30:19, 80:2, 80:21, 85:22
letters [2] - 33:10, 28:25, 33:16, 36:20, 74:21, 78:20 36:16 motions [6] - 14:4,
  71:16 37:4, 51:15, 54:15, Mayor's [1] - 29:7 message [1] - 66:6 41:15, 42:9, 49:14,
letting [1] - 82:6 59:6, 62:22, 63:5, MCANDREW [42] - method [1] - 68:22 54:25, 63:13
level [1] - 16:10 66:10, 73:10 2:4, 2:6, 3:12, 3:14, middle [1] - 36:3 MOTIONS [2] - 41:13,
Library [3] - 10:17, looking [4] - 22:22, 4:12, 4:13, 6:1, 7:1, midJanuary [1] - 42:7
  11:8, 27:13 40:6, 40:11, 80:9 13:1, 37:6, 37:10, 67:12 mount [1] - 7:6
license [1] - 38:5 Lookout [1] - 34:1 49:16, 50:19, 52:11, midJuly [1] - 55:7 Mountain [2] - 33:1,
life [3] - 5:19, 22:5, losing [2] - 22:15, 54:22, 55:1, 58:5, might [7] - 10:23, 33:21
  28:11 73:5 58:6, 59:21, 62:24, 30:15, 35:3, 47:23, move [1] - 40:18
lifeline [1] - 16:24 love [2] - 15:9, 71:2 74:14, 74:15, 75:5, 71:4, 71:20, 84:10 moved [8] - 4:16,
lifelong [1] - 5:17 low [3] - 30:24, 31:12, 75:15, 75:16, 76:14, Mike [1] - 15:4 67:25, 74:8, 74:18,
lift [1] - 69:9 31:14 76:16, 77:13, 78:9, million [2] - 16:25, 75:4, 75:19, 81:14,
light [6] - 6:19, 31:1, lucky [1] - 64:1 78:11, 79:8, 79:10, 17:2 85:23
  31:5, 35:2, 73:13, 80:6, 81:3, 81:10, mind [1] - 32:7 moving [7] - 28:13,
  75:8 M 81:11, 81:18, 81:23, minds [1] - 58:7 37:21, 38:11, 39:23,
LIGHT [1] - 74:23 82:4, 83:25, 85:7, mine [1] - 43:19 73:4, 75:11
lighter [1] - 32:17 ma'am [1] - 42:16 85:9 minimum [1] - 67:9 MR [159] - 3:3, 3:12,
lights [5] - 35:5, 35:6, Madison [1] - 66:8 McAndrew [18] - 3:11, Minooka [1] - 37:13 3:14, 3:16, 3:18,
  36:21, 36:22, 36:23 mail [3] - 38:14, 52:14, 3:13, 8:15, 9:10, minutes [3] - 3:19, 3:20, 3:24, 4:12,
likely [1] - 84:24 68:18 49:14, 54:24, 55:12, 4:17, 22:21 4:13, 4:14, 4:15,
lime [1] - 25:11 main [1] - 8:20 58:4, 76:13, 76:15, miss [1] - 63:10 4:18, 4:20, 4:24,
 8

 5:24, 6:1, 7:1, 7:12, MTF [1] - 77:2 58:9, 70:5 OECD [1] - 48:16 38:12, 42:2
 8:8, 8:10, 8:12, Mulberry [3] - 11:10, new [6] - 5:1, 43:21, OF [13] - 1:1, 74:3, order [2] - 44:1, 85:20
 10:13, 11:22, 12:10, 49:1, 53:9 60:12, 61:14, 61:20, 74:23, 74:25, 75:25, ORDER [7] - 4:18, 8:8,
 13:1, 13:5, 13:9, MULTIMODAL [1] - 72:17 76:25, 77:1, 77:2, 41:12, 42:6, 75:20,
 13:11, 13:15, 13:18, 77:1 next [23] - 10:14, 15:3, 77:5, 79:20, 79:22, 75:22, 85:16
 15:3, 15:5, 19:5, multiple [1] - 43:10 17:11, 19:2, 19:5, 79:24 ordering [1] - 39:13
 24:6, 24:9, 24:14, municipal [1] - 13:24 24:14, 25:7, 25:23, offer [1] - 47:8 ordinance [6] - 14:23,
 24:16, 28:17, 28:19, municipalities [1] - 28:17, 29:12, 30:10, offered [1] - 59:17 18:2, 18:5, 62:18,
 32:3, 32:5, 32:23, 18:3 31:17, 32:24, 51:2, Office [1] - 4:3 63:1, 71:22
 34:3, 37:6, 37:8, municipality [1] - 53:4 52:12, 55:16, 56:12, OFFICE [1] - 79:25 ordinarily [1] - 62:20
 37:10, 37:11, 37:13, museum [1] - 7:20 60:4, 61:14, 63:9, officer [3] - 19:18, organization [1] -
 41:10, 41:12, 41:14, MYRTLE [1] - 77:5 65:6, 72:21, 73:5 26:17, 31:19 39:25
 41:17, 41:20, 41:25, Myrtle [6] - 77:16, nice [3] - 32:6, 34:2, offices [1] - 50:1 organizations [2] -
 42:4, 42:6, 42:8, 77:18, 77:22, 77:25, 37:4 Official [2] - 1:24, 43:10, 58:22
 42:20, 48:3, 49:13, 78:2, 78:4 night [7] - 15:17, 86:11 original [4] - 40:2,
 49:16, 50:17, 50:19, 19:10, 37:5, 41:9, officially [1] - 11:23 54:12, 54:16, 54:17
 52:10, 52:11, 54:21, 45:8, 45:16, 57:6
 54:22, 54:24, 55:1,
 N OFFICIALS [3] - 74:1, originally [3] - 41:21,
 nightly [1] - 57:3 74:21, 78:21 53:11, 77:20
 58:5, 58:6, 59:19, name [1] - 31:10 nine [2] - 56:2, 56:20 officials [1] - 13:24 OTHER [3] - 74:1,
 59:21, 62:24, 63:12, narrative [1] - 64:10 NO [4] - 75:24, 76:24, often [2] - 69:6, 70:1 74:21, 78:20
 63:14, 66:13, 66:14, nauseam [1] - 67:2 78:19, 79:19 outside [2] - 5:5, 5:13
 old [3] - 5:16, 60:3,
 71:7, 71:9, 71:19, Nay [2] - 26:18, 30:16 nobody [1] - 26:12 outstanding [1] - 41:6
 61:13
 72:12, 72:14, 72:19, near [4] - 16:16, non [1] - 8:21 outweighs [1] - 84:7
 ON [4] - 75:23, 76:23,
 72:20, 73:15, 73:17, 16:18, 34:14 nonprofit [1] - 40:12 78:18, 79:17 overall [1] - 8:16
 73:21, 73:22, 73:24, nearly [2] - 17:2, 68:4 nonprofits [2] - 19:3, once [8] - 17:6, 18:19, overgrown [1] - 66:8
 74:5, 74:9, 74:10, 58:14
 necessary [2] - 39:14, 30:2, 30:6, 32:1, overnight [4] - 8:18,
 74:14, 74:15, 74:16, noon [1] - 7:10
 69:13 49:5, 60:4 9:22, 10:6, 55:11
 74:17, 74:19, 75:1, North [3] - 4:3, 25:8,
 need [29] - 8:23, 9:15, one [37] - 4:24, 5:1, overrun [1] - 27:2
 75:5, 75:6, 75:15, 32:9
 12:24, 18:13, 18:17, 7:2, 8:20, 9:3, 9:16, oversees [1] - 61:8
 75:16, 75:17, 75:18,
 25:2, 26:23, 41:3, north [1] - 33:4 17:11, 20:3, 21:1, oversight [1] - 61:16
 75:20, 76:3, 76:9,
 41:5, 41:7, 44:12, NORTH [2] - 79:23, 21:9, 26:17, 26:23, overwhelmed [2] -
 76:14, 76:16, 76:18,
 46:16, 50:11, 51:15, 79:25 27:12, 29:3, 34:9, 26:19, 26:21
 76:20, 76:22, 77:7,
 51:22, 53:5, 54:4, northwest [1] - 34:11 34:14, 34:22, 35:2, own [6] - 51:16, 62:17,
 77:10, 77:13, 77:14,
 54:5, 56:19, 58:21, note [5] - 32:17, 37:8, 37:14, 37:17, 38:15, 63:1, 66:25, 69:19,
 78:9, 78:11, 78:13,
 64:9, 64:17, 65:20, 44:15, 48:22, 59:23 39:15, 43:7, 45:10, 72:15
 78:15, 78:17, 78:24,
 65:24, 66:12, 70:14, notes [1] - 86:5 51:4, 52:4, 60:20, owner [4] - 31:23,
 79:3, 79:8, 79:10,
 77:23, 78:1, 80:16 nothing [4] - 18:8, 60:24, 64:1, 65:9, 82:7, 82:17, 83:2
 79:12, 79:14, 79:16,
 needed [2] - 27:7, 19:2, 22:8, 29:23 68:8, 75:7, 75:9, owners [1] - 18:9
 80:2, 80:6, 80:7,
 48:24 notice [2] - 26:9, 77:18, 82:4, 83:17
 80:15, 80:20, 80:25,
 needing [1] - 68:3 66:21 ones [8] - 11:3, 32:12,
 81:3, 81:6, 81:10, P
 needs [10] - 18:14, noticed [1] - 35:9 32:20, 53:23, 60:12,
 81:11, 81:12, 81:13,
 19:20, 27:6, 39:18, notifying [1] - 5:1 61:14, 61:20, 64:1 p.m [3] - 7:18, 11:12,
 81:18, 81:22, 81:23,
 44:9, 50:12, 56:7, November [5] - 12:23, open [10] - 6:14, 9:4, 19:11
 82:4, 82:24, 83:1,
 56:8, 58:25, 70:19 29:19, 30:15, 56:14, 9:22, 44:13, 45:6, PA [1] - 18:7
 83:23, 83:25, 84:10,
 negative [2] - 14:12, 57:4 45:7, 53:3, 53:5, page [3] - 13:16,
 85:2, 85:7, 85:9,
 19:15 number [5] - 35:4, 57:4, 70:8 13:19, 15:24
 85:11, 85:13, 85:16,
 Neighborhood [1] - 44:16, 55:10, 55:13, opened [1] - 56:3 pages [1] - 47:20
 85:18, 85:23, 85:24
 46:19 55:25 operated [3] - 55:20, paid [1] - 40:16
MS [38] - 3:9, 3:11,
 neighborhood [5] - numbers [3] - 15:22, 56:16, 57:3 painted [1] - 33:11
 3:13, 3:15, 3:17,
 16:12, 17:10, 17:21, 15:23, 73:4 operation [1] - 69:6 painting [1] - 7:22
 10:15, 11:24, 12:13,
 17:22, 18:25 numerous [2] - 64:11, opportunity [1] - 11:5 paper [1] - 23:17
 13:3, 13:7, 13:13,
 neighborhoods [2] - 83:16 Opposed [4] - 4:15, paperwork [1] - 41:6
 13:17, 13:20, 19:7,
 17:8, 49:11 74:17, 75:18, 81:13 Parade [2] - 8:2, 8:3
 24:8, 24:10, 32:25,
 neighbors [1] - 73:14 O opposing [1] - 26:9 parade [4] - 6:2, 6:6,
 34:5, 76:11, 76:13,
 76:15, 76:17, 76:19, NEPA [1] - 46:11 opposite [1] - 34:23 11:9, 11:14
 78:6, 78:8, 78:10, nephew [5] - 21:24, obviously [2] - 6:4, option [1] - 43:12 parent [1] - 46:2
 78:12, 78:14, 79:5, 22:9, 22:16 38:3 Order [13] - 4:5, 4:7, park [1] - 35:11
 79:7, 79:9, 79:11, neuter [1] - 26:19 occupied [1] - 19:23 12:7, 12:8, 12:12, parked [1] - 20:18
 79:13, 85:4, 85:6, never [7] - 12:7, 14:14, occur [1] - 75:8 12:14, 13:7, 13:10, parking [2] - 38:20,
 85:8, 85:10, 85:12 20:18, 33:14, 54:13, odd [1] - 34:16 13:12, 14:4, 14:21, 38:25
 9

part [6] - 43:5, 43:6, 34:17, 41:8, 42:13, 12:11, 14:17, 37:17, priorities [1] - 16:15 provides [2] - 45:25,
 43:22, 46:18, 54:11, 42:15, 42:17, 42:23, 64:5, 71:10 proactive [1] - 54:6 55:23
 59:17 45:21, 47:21, 51:6, pointed [1] - 43:6 problem [11] - 8:20, proximity [1] - 57:12
Participation [1] - 4:8 51:8, 55:9, 57:6, points [3] - 18:22, 18:12, 25:13, 26:16, Public [7] - 10:17,
PARTICIPATION [1] - 57:17, 58:10, 59:2, 57:24, 65:17 35:22, 36:4, 42:14, 11:7, 27:13, 61:7,
 8:9 59:4, 59:8, 59:23, pole [2] - 35:4, 36:24 42:18, 43:18, 44:14, 77:9, 77:11, 84:2
parts [1] - 15:8 62:1, 66:23, 69:25 poles [12] - 34:24, 62:7 PUBLIC [1] - 76:23
party [3] - 17:23, 26:9, peoples' [1] - 66:20 60:11, 60:14, 60:21, problems [3] - 16:5, public [24] - 6:15,
 72:4 per [2] - 57:6, 69:2 60:24, 61:5, 61:8, 27:14, 44:1 11:11, 12:15, 13:24,
pass [1] - 61:23 percent [2] - 15:21, 61:9, 61:13, 61:20, proceedings [1] - 86:3 14:6, 15:1, 17:4,
passable [1] - 68:2 33:23 61:24 process [10] - 18:11, 17:17, 27:7, 39:6,
passage [4] - 76:7, PERFORM [1] - 78:22 Police [1] - 52:12 31:23, 31:24, 32:4, 39:9, 39:12, 39:19,
 77:12, 79:1, 81:20 perhaps [1] - 42:15 police [3] - 19:18, 39:22, 48:17, 61:15, 39:22, 40:16, 41:25,
passed [3] - 3:6, period [1] - 48:13 31:19, 50:1 68:8, 68:15, 72:18 48:18, 50:7, 50:12,
 31:23, 61:11 permanent [1] - 69:14 policy [1] - 60:20 program [1] - 46:12 53:3, 53:5, 56:7,
passive [1] - 65:22 permit [2] - 53:15, political [1] - 25:5 PROGRAM [1] - 74:23 69:19, 84:14
past [8] - 15:12, 16:20, 53:20 politics [1] - 28:15 programming [1] - publicly [2] - 5:21,
 32:9, 43:23, 48:14, permits [4] - 54:13, Poor [1] - 47:1 14:19 40:17
 58:8, 59:3, 67:22 54:16, 54:18, 54:20 poor [5] - 15:19, 17:5, programs [2] - 47:8, Publishing [1] - 47:13
Pat [1] - 5:22 person [2] - 60:8, 57:18, 57:19, 58:17 75:8 PUC [4] - 27:23, 61:7,
patch [1] - 69:8 63:23 Poplar [1] - 66:8 progress [1] - 55:17 61:16, 62:6
patches [1] - 69:23 personal [1] - 5:15 possibility [1] - 83:15 project [6] - 29:18, purchase [1] - 5:12
patching [1] - 70:3 personally [1] - 83:14 possible [4] - 37:15, 30:20, 55:5, 59:24, pursue [1] - 12:21
patchwork [1] - 16:13 personnel [1] - 12:17 44:11, 53:2, 54:10 77:15 purview [1] - 39:20
path [1] - 66:1 persons [2] - 56:19, possibly [6] - 19:22, Project [1] - 55:4 push [2] - 16:20,
Patricia [1] - 5:17 56:24 21:9, 30:15, 48:15, PROJECT [3] - 77:2, 17:11
PATRICK [1] - 2:3 perspective [1] - 51:10, 51:14 77:3, 77:6 put [9] - 12:7, 12:13,
Patrick's [1] - 8:2 58:21 potentially [2] - 65:10, projected [2] - 55:6, 19:23, 24:4, 25:21,
pattern [1] - 16:9 peter's [1] - 8:3 65:11 73:10 32:2, 51:19, 53:21,
pave [17] - 17:23, petition [2] - 73:12, pothole [1] - 15:16 projections [2] - 56:10
 18:2, 32:7, 32:10, 73:20 potholes [3] - 32:22, 27:21, 73:3 puts [1] - 36:9
 66:16, 67:13, 67:15, petitioned [1] - 73:14 33:2, 33:25 projects [2] - 17:9, putting [2] - 40:15,
 68:8, 68:9, 68:10, Pettibone [1] - 60:25 predictions [1] - 45:5 75:10 71:15
 68:17, 69:17, 72:3, phone [1] - 68:18 pregnant [1] - 46:1 promptly [1] - 70:11
 72:4, 72:8, 72:9, picking [1] - 35:16 prep [1] - 7:7 proof [2] - 19:1, 39:4 Q
 72:16 picture [1] - 5:6 preparation [1] - 72:6 propel [1] - 28:9
pavement [1] - 69:5 pictures [2] - 29:6, preparing [1] - 6:12 proper [4] - 54:13, questions [10] - 30:14,
pay [1] - 29:8 67:3 Prescott [2] - 34:10, 70:3, 74:7, 75:3 52:20, 53:8, 54:2,
paying [1] - 18:19 piece [1] - 4:7 48:25 properly [2] - 38:10, 54:3, 54:8, 54:25,
PEL [1] - 72:24 pile [1] - 29:24 present [3] - 3:12, 70:10 65:5, 71:4, 72:7
 pilot [1] - 41:1 3:14, 3:18 properties [5] - 48:12, quite [3] - 42:4, 45:14,
PEL's [1] - 72:22
 Pittston [1] - 47:2 presentation [1] - 48:18, 48:25, 49:5, 45:19
penalties [1] - 61:19
 24:18 49:10 quote/unquote [1] -
pending [2] - 72:11 place [8] - 9:16, 13:11,
 presentations [1] - property [4] - 19:3, 21:21
PENN [1] - 74:22 19:14, 25:15, 40:13,
PennDOT [2] - 30:12, 44:6, 64:22, 70:7 39:24 48:23, 76:5, 82:20
 55:5 placed [2] - 4:5, 85:19 presented [4] - 38:14, protect [1] - 39:12 R
Pennoni [1] - 72:4 plan [9] - 17:20, 40:1, 40:3, 40:7, 55:3 protection [1] - 61:21
 raffle [1] - 6:18
PENNSYLVANIA [2] - 40:2, 40:3, 40:19, preservation [1] - 84:8 protects [1] - 39:22
 raffles [1] - 6:23
 79:24, 80:1 53:1, 72:22, 73:2 President [2] - 15:6, proud [5] - 6:11, 22:2,
 RailRiders [1] - 7:3
Pennsylvania [5] - planning [2] - 14:18, 80:8 22:19, 57:9
 Railroad [2] - 6:4, 6:11
 27:17, 28:4, 32:20, 39:25 PRESIDENT [2] - 2:2, prove [1] - 14:12
 raising [2] - 6:24,
 61:4, 61:7 plans [3] - 49:22, 50:1, 2:3 provide [11] - 38:22,
 67:12
people [44] - 9:12, 72:25 pretend [1] - 16:21 38:24, 44:6, 44:15,
 49:8, 51:13, 53:19, ramifications [1] -
 9:13, 10:9, 10:21, plaster [1] - 25:22 pretreat [1] - 30:25
 54:7, 54:9, 57:22, 54:19
 13:22, 15:14, 17:15, plate [1] - 69:13 pretty [4] - 7:8, 33:19,
 65:12 ratepayer [1] - 61:21
 19:1, 20:5, 20:22, play [2] - 7:7, 7:9 33:22, 36:6
 provided [2] - 56:1, rates [2] - 27:24, 62:7
 20:23, 21:19, 21:20, Pleas [1] - 24:22 previous [1] - 53:12
 60:1 rather [1] - 58:25
 22:5, 22:10, 22:13, Pledge [1] - 3:1 PREVIOUSLY [1] -
 PROVIDENCE [1] - reach [7] - 20:11,
 22:16, 22:20, 23:25, PNC [1] - 7:10 79:16
 74:25 24:12, 45:3, 53:17,
 26:3, 26:23, 34:7, point [6] - 11:22, price [1] - 10:24
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 59:19, 66:25, 68:13 remain [2] - 3:3, 60:12 resolution [2] - 4:1, 83:23, 85:2 scheduled [1] - 55:16
reached [1] - 70:16 remember [3] - 12:5, 85:19 Roll [2] - 78:5, 79:4 scheduling [1] - 12:2
reaches [1] - 56:23 33:13, 36:25 RESOLUTIONS [1] - ROTHCHILD [21] - schemes [1] - 17:14
reaching [1] - 51:10 remodeled [1] - 25:10 76:25 2:5, 3:10, 3:23, 4:11, Schlager [1] - 37:16
read [8] - 5:4, 17:13, removal [2] - 61:15, resource [2] - 9:3, 41:16, 42:10, 42:21, school [7] - 40:4,
 23:17, 27:20, 28:3, 61:19 47:9 48:5, 74:8, 74:13, 40:9, 46:12, 46:13,
 68:16, 69:18, 80:3 removed [1] - 27:14 Resource [1] - 46:6 75:4, 75:14, 76:8, 51:25, 52:8, 59:22
reading [2] - 3:19, removing [1] - 61:22 resources [6] - 9:14, 76:12, 78:7, 79:2, schools [1] - 16:18
 4:17 renovate [1] - 25:17 43:1, 44:16, 44:23, 79:6, 81:9, 81:21, Schumacher [2] -
readvertised [2] - repair [2] - 29:8, 69:3 47:18, 64:13 84:21, 85:5 32:24, 33:1
 71:23, 72:1 replace [2] - 37:20, respect [1] - 50:25 Rothchild [9] - 3:9, SCHUMACHER [1] -
ready [1] - 7:9 38:20 respective [1] - 68:18 29:16, 41:14, 42:8, 32:25
real [2] - 25:2, 66:2 replaced [4] - 77:17, RESPECTIVELY [1] - 48:4, 76:11, 78:6, Schuster [8] - 3:17,
reality [1] - 15:14 77:18, 78:3, 78:4 77:4 79:5, 85:4 15:6, 29:6, 60:16,
realize [1] - 68:12 REPLACEMENT [1] - response [4] - 48:9, roughly [1] - 15:21 76:19, 78:14, 79:13,
really [10] - 20:23, 77:5 61:3, 67:16, 68:16 RPR [2] - 1:24, 86:10 85:12
 25:2, 28:25, 32:10, replacing [1] - 60:5 responsibility [1] - Rubicon [1] - 40:22 SCHUSTER [67] - 2:2,
 36:6, 36:15, 43:17, report [5] - 12:6, 34:8, 18:7 ruined [1] - 29:4 3:3, 3:18, 3:24, 4:15,
 47:9, 73:1, 73:9 55:2, 68:21, 83:12 responsible [1] - 18:3 Rule [1] - 39:10 4:20, 5:24, 7:12,
REAPPOINTMENT [1] reported [2] - 53:6, responsive [2] - Rules [2] - 76:6, 78:25 8:10, 10:13, 11:22,
 - 75:25 68:17 68:22, 68:23 RULES [2] - 75:23, 12:10, 13:9, 15:3,
reason [4] - 23:14, reporter [1] - 86:25 rest [1] - 80:5 78:18 19:5, 24:6, 24:9,
 36:21, 52:4, 82:5 Reporter [2] - 1:24, restoration [3] - ruling [2] - 26:6, 53:13 24:14, 28:17, 32:3,
reasons [3] - 23:14, 86:11 67:23, 69:1, 71:16 run [5] - 22:12, 27:12, 32:23, 34:3, 37:11,
 52:22, 83:21 reports [1] - 55:5 restorations [1] - 44:4, 45:9, 65:19 41:10, 41:14, 41:17,
receive [1] - 73:18 reproduction [1] - 69:14 running [1] - 52:8 41:20, 41:25, 42:4,
received [9] - 4:21, 86:23 restoring [2] - 69:5, runoff [1] - 16:4 42:8, 42:20, 49:13,
 16:25, 48:9, 50:15, request [6] - 26:12, 70:10 runs [1] - 43:8 52:10, 54:24, 63:12,
 83:16, 83:17, 83:19, 37:14, 38:19, 48:1, restrict [1] - 55:24 rusted [1] - 30:3 71:19, 72:14, 72:20,
 84:13, 84:18 50:13, 59:11 restricted [1] - 16:1 73:17, 73:22, 74:5,
 74:10, 74:17, 75:1,
recent [1] - 46:25 REQUEST [1] - 74:2 results [1] - 51:20 S
recognizing [1] - requested [1] - 51:3 resume [1] - 64:22 75:6, 75:18, 76:3,
 57:16 require [1] - 80:12 Reuther [1] - 83:13 sad [1] - 36:6 76:9, 76:20, 77:7,
recommend [5] - requires [1] - 69:6 review [5] - 41:2, safe [7] - 6:3, 8:6, 77:14, 78:15, 78:24,
 39:16, 76:7, 77:11, 49:21, 50:21, 51:1, 16:19, 18:25, 52:22, 79:3, 79:14, 80:7,
 research [2] - 60:13,
 78:25, 81:20 52:19 53:2, 68:2 80:25, 81:6, 81:13,
 63:1
recommendation [3] - REVIEW [1] - 79:21 Safety [1] - 84:2 81:22, 82:24, 83:23,
 researchers [1] -
 77:8, 80:3, 81:15 safety [24] - 15:9, 84:10, 85:2, 85:13,
 24:25 Review [1] - 80:4
RECOMMENDATION 16:23, 17:4, 17:17, 85:18, 85:24
 resend [1] - 73:19 reviewed [1] - 83:12
 [1] - 79:20 23:14, 39:6, 39:9, Scranton [27] - 5:17,
 reservations [1] - 7:23 reviewing [1] - 50:5
reconsider [1] - 49:4 39:12, 39:18, 39:19, 7:2, 8:6, 9:2, 10:16,
 reserved [3] - 42:1, rides [1] - 7:19
reconsideration [1] - 39:23, 50:2, 52:14, 10:17, 11:1, 11:7,
 55:19, 55:25 Ridge [3] - 29:18,
 25:24 61:2, 66:9, 82:7, 15:7, 15:8, 15:9,
 reside [1] - 41:23 66:17, 67:24
recovering [1] - 21:18 82:11, 82:21, 82:23, 15:13, 16:25, 17:15,
 resident [7] - 5:17, ridiculous [4] - 29:20,
 84:5, 84:6, 84:7, 18:5, 18:10, 18:13,
recovery [1] - 63:24 28:20, 34:6, 41:17, 30:20, 31:13
 84:23 19:2, 19:4, 27:13,
referred [1] - 62:10 41:22, 66:25, 70:16 rights [1] - 61:9
 sale [2] - 5:9, 5:11 33:1, 34:6, 41:18,
reflection [1] - 3:4 residents [22] - 8:22, rights-of-way [1] -
 salt [6] - 30:24, 31:11, 42:14, 42:19, 63:17,
regard [3] - 14:23, 13:22, 15:7, 15:15, 61:9
 31:12, 31:15 65:7
 72:3, 80:17 15:22, 15:23, 16:14, rims [1] - 18:20
 salting [1] - 31:7 SCRANTON [3] - 1:1,
regarding [9] - 8:13, 17:1, 18:9, 18:18, ring [1] - 19:13
 salvaged [1] - 25:9 76:1, 80:1
 9:5, 18:2, 49:18, 28:5, 42:1, 53:3, road [7] - 30:8, 31:2,
 sandwich [1] - 6:8 Scranton's [1] - 55:22
 51:13, 52:14, 53:8, 53:24, 54:1, 58:11, 31:7, 31:11, 31:13,
 sat [1] - 26:1 Scrantonians [2] -
 55:10, 60:20 66:20, 67:9, 69:22, 68:2
 Saturday [6] - 6:2, 16:16, 28:11
regards [1] - 48:6 70:13, 70:25, 82:22 ROAD [1] - 74:25
 7:15, 8:1, 10:19, SEAN [23] - 2:6, 3:12,
regions [1] - 40:5 residing [1] - 47:21 Road [1] - 33:21
 11:5, 11:9 4:12, 7:1, 13:1, 37:6,
registry [1] - 61:20 Resolution [2] - 3:21, roads [3] - 15:25,
 save [1] - 21:12 37:10, 49:16, 50:19,
regulatory [1] - 61:6 4:1 16:3, 70:20
 saw [2] - 32:18, 35:2 52:11, 54:22, 58:5,
rehabbing [1] - 83:16 RESOLUTION [6] - roadway [1] - 70:10
 schedule [2] - 55:6, 74:14, 75:5, 75:15,
RELATIONS [1] - 76:1 73:25, 74:20, 75:24, rocks [1] - 35:18
 71:5 76:14, 78:9, 79:8,
relevant [1] - 67:21 76:24, 78:19, 79:19 roll [4] - 3:7, 76:10,
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 81:10, 81:18, 81:23, 65:13 37:20 32:15 sticking [1] - 30:4
 82:4, 85:7 serving [1] - 57:5 silent [1] - 3:4 sounds [1] - 40:23 stigma [2] - 22:16,
Sean [6] - 3:11, 49:14, session [3] - 49:21, SINGLE [1] - 78:23 South [2] - 32:13, 64:6
 76:13, 78:8, 79:7, 49:25, 50:5 single [3] - 56:1, 69:7, 32:14 still [8] - 14:15, 17:4,
 85:6 set [1] - 26:24 83:19 space [1] - 55:20 35:22, 36:6, 44:8,
season [1] - 12:22 settle [1] - 53:19 sink [1] - 69:24 spaces [1] - 56:1 50:14, 57:18, 72:11
seat [4] - 14:3, 58:20, settled [1] - 53:14 sinkhole [1] - 34:12 speaker [4] - 8:10, stockmarket [1] -
 59:4, 59:12 settlements [1] - 54:7 sinkholes [1] - 34:9 10:14, 15:4, 24:14 27:21
second [11] - 3:23, seven [1] - 22:3 sit [2] - 30:21, 82:15 speaking [3] - 12:1, stomach [1] - 57:18
 3:25, 39:5, 39:17, SEVENTH [1] - 75:22 site [1] - 69:7 42:2, 50:4 stood [2] - 26:1, 64:2
 74:9, 75:5, 77:13, Seventh [2] - 4:5, sitting [2] - 9:24, specific [4] - 14:16, stop [4] - 6:14, 18:22,
 79:2, 80:6, 80:25, 38:12 52:18 17:20, 46:7, 67:23 47:24, 66:3
 81:21 several [3] - 15:8, situation [5] - 19:8, specifically [4] - 46:1, stopgap [1] - 65:25
Second [1] - 76:8 15:12, 48:12 20:16, 65:14, 66:17, 46:12, 46:20, 67:14 stopped [1] - 48:23
seconded [1] - 81:2 severity [1] - 68:19 68:5 speed [1] - 17:14 stopping [1] - 11:7
section [1] - 5:18 sexual [1] - 46:9 six [4] - 44:20, 55:19, speeding [1] - 16:20 storage [1] - 52:6
Section [1] - 39:10 Seymour [1] - 33:3 57:23, 60:7 Spindler [2] - 28:18, storm [3] - 18:4, 18:6,
secured [1] - 77:20 shape [1] - 17:5 SIXTH [1] - 75:20 28:20 82:18
security [1] - 50:2 shelter [17] - 8:16, size [1] - 69:5 SPINDLER [2] - 28:19, stormwater [1] - 16:4
see [37] - 11:4, 11:11, 8:17, 8:18, 8:21, sized [1] - 15:16 32:5 story [4] - 12:19,
 11:15, 12:15, 15:15, 8:22, 9:4, 25:15, slanted [1] - 33:5 spot [1] - 32:19 15:13, 60:3
 17:9, 19:10, 19:12, 43:21, 44:2, 44:8, sleep [2] - 19:14, 23:4 spots [1] - 16:8 straight [4] - 23:20,
 19:16, 26:8, 27:2, 45:7, 45:21, 45:24, slogans [1] - 18:14 spreading [1] - 69:11 32:21, 58:9, 59:5
 30:6, 31:6, 34:16, 47:3, 57:2, 64:15, small [2] - 16:2, 45:14 square [1] - 16:17 straightforward [1] -
 35:2, 35:4, 36:20, 65:14 snacks [2] - 6:19, 6:20 St [7] - 8:2, 8:3, 45:8, 25:4
 36:21, 37:25, 38:3, Shelter [9] - 44:5, snags [1] - 65:4 45:24, 55:19, 57:2, street [13] - 19:9,
 47:7, 49:6, 49:10, 44:24, 45:6, 45:9, snow [5] - 28:21, 73:12 34:19, 34:20, 34:21,
 50:7, 50:11, 50:12, 45:20, 46:11, 55:22, 28:24, 33:20, 45:4 staff [1] - 44:7 34:23, 35:8, 35:19,
 51:17, 52:25, 54:17, 56:3, 64:12 snowed [1] - 31:4 staffed [1] - 55:24 36:4, 37:16, 37:20,
 57:11, 61:12, 62:23, shelters [5] - 9:22, snowstorm [2] - 12:4, staffing [1] - 43:25 67:7, 70:8, 73:13
 69:22, 73:2, 73:9, 10:6, 55:11, 56:15, 30:25 stakeholders [2] - STREET [2] - 77:5,
 75:7, 75:11 65:23 snowstorms [1] - 13:23, 40:8 79:23
seedling [1] - 5:9 shining [1] - 35:2 12:22 stalking [1] - 46:10 Street [19] - 11:11,
seedlings [1] - 5:11 shirt [1] - 21:23 social [1] - 39:24 stand [4] - 15:2, 20:9, 29:18, 31:18, 32:9,
seeing [2] - 20:10, shockingly [1] - 66:15 Social [4] - 44:7, 45:9, 28:9, 39:5 34:10, 34:15, 53:9,
 70:23 shorter [2] - 38:13, 55:21, 56:16 standard [1] - 70:9 55:4, 59:22, 67:15,
seem [1] - 24:25 71:20 society [1] - 26:21 standing [3] - 3:4, 68:5, 77:16, 77:18,
selected [1] - 58:12 shot [1] - 15:21 softball [1] - 18:1 15:10, 20:10 77:21, 77:23, 77:25,
self [1] - 66:1 shovel [1] - 82:17 solely [1] - 55:21 start [12] - 18:22, 78:1, 78:4
sell [1] - 28:2 show [1] - 19:1 Solicitor [1] - 62:15 26:14, 26:15, 26:24, Street's [1] - 78:3
Senate [2] - 27:10, showers [1] - 52:11 SOLICITOR [1] - 2:10 51:9, 60:5, 61:22, streetlight [1] - 34:22
 62:13 sick [2] - 29:11, 57:18 solution [1] - 25:1 63:15, 64:22, 66:22, streetlights [2] - 37:1,
send [4] - 21:6, 27:22, side [15] - 12:18, solve [3] - 43:18, 44:1, 68:14, 71:14 37:3
 36:19, 37:7 34:16, 34:19, 34:23, 44:14 started [1] - 29:24 streets [8] - 16:12,
seniors [1] - 7:20 35:1, 35:19, 35:21, someone [8] - 14:4, starting [2] - 5:10, 16:19, 17:3, 17:17,
sent [7] - 5:1, 31:12, 38:4, 60:20, 60:21, 37:19, 58:25, 59:13, 38:4 17:21, 18:24, 70:13,
 41:6, 50:15, 52:13, 61:4, 61:5, 64:2, 60:23, 65:12, 65:19, state [4] - 15:8, 47:17, 84:15
 67:3, 67:22 73:8 68:8 61:25, 62:22 strollers [1] - 16:20
sentiments [2] - sidewalk [7] - 35:9, someplace [1] - 24:4 state's [1] - 63:4 structural [1] - 38:22
 63:17, 84:12 36:1, 37:21, 38:7, sometimes [3] - 51:7, statement [1] - 44:19 structure [5] - 38:4,
separate [2] - 38:16, 38:8, 39:7, 82:10 54:5, 62:1 status [4] - 9:6, 11:20, 39:6, 54:19, 61:15,
 39:21 sidewalks [3] - 34:19, soon [4] - 50:23, 53:7, 55:4, 62:9 83:8
separately [1] - 39:19 60:5, 82:18 54:9, 65:19 stay [1] - 19:18 struggle [1] - 9:13
serve [1] - 46:18 sight [1] - 61:13 Sorry [1] - 76:5 stays [1] - 6:3 struggled [1] - 21:25
service [1] - 3:5 sign [1] - 37:16 sorry [3] - 52:10, steel [1] - 30:3 struggling [1] - 9:12
SERVICES [1] - 78:23 significant [1] - 45:4 62:24, 76:5 step [5] - 28:16, 35:17, stuck [3] - 17:15,
Services [4] - 44:7, significantly [1] - 69:3 sort [3] - 22:11, 66:21, 62:2, 62:3, 65:6 35:10, 35:12
 45:10, 55:21, 56:17 signify [4] - 4:10, 83:15 stepping [1] - 16:11 students [3] - 6:12,
services [6] - 8:24, 74:11, 75:12, 81:7 sound [2] - 29:13, steps [2] - 8:3, 69:15 46:13, 52:4
 43:1, 64:18, 64:20, signs [2] - 37:18, Sterling [1] - 32:8 study [1] - 40:8
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stuff [1] - 34:18 36:24, 60:11, 61:5 Tom [3] - 29:12, 37:11, 28:16, 62:16, 64:19, unsheltered [3] -
SUBMIT [1] - 74:22 temperatures [3] - 37:13 71:3, 71:5 40:25, 55:11, 58:2
suddenly [1] - 66:24 45:3, 56:21, 70:2 tomorrow [3] - 31:1, trying [9] - 21:12, up [40] - 10:2, 10:20,
suffer [1] - 22:14 temporary [2] - 29:20, 59:20, 64:21 24:24, 26:19, 28:12, 15:21, 16:11, 19:5,
suffering [1] - 22:15 69:8 tonight [12] - 4:5, 8:7, 28:13, 58:1, 64:23, 19:17, 21:12, 21:22,
suggestion [1] - 43:19 tents [2] - 9:14, 10:10 8:11, 15:7, 18:21, 65:12 22:2, 26:18, 28:17,
suggestions [1] - term [1] - 63:23 38:15, 42:2, 42:12, Tuesday [1] - 1:7 30:8, 31:2, 32:2,
 44:14 TERM [1] - 76:2 44:16, 57:9, 63:18, turn [2] - 12:22, 72:17 35:13, 35:16, 36:19,
summary [1] - 25:25 terms [1] - 73:3 73:23 turned [1] - 5:16 38:6, 42:11, 45:16,
summer [1] - 36:14 terrible [3] - 26:15, tonight's [1] - 39:23 twice [3] - 12:23, 46:3, 50:18, 51:24,
summertime [1] - 20:1 32:14, 32:16 took [5] - 22:4, 33:14, 18:19, 56:24 52:8, 53:21, 56:9,
Sumner [1] - 37:16 test [1] - 19:3 38:6, 38:9, 61:10 two [17] - 6:1, 7:13, 57:23, 60:11, 60:15,
Sunday [3] - 6:17, testified [1] - 84:5 tools [2] - 7:6, 69:9 14:10, 14:17, 26:23, 60:16, 62:2, 62:3,
 7:10, 7:16 testimony [1] - 84:3 top [3] - 9:7, 42:5, 31:1, 34:9, 38:16, 63:6, 63:9, 64:11,
supervision [1] - text [1] - 80:5 52:5 39:15, 39:21, 40:1, 65:19, 66:23, 67:14,
 86:24 texted [1] - 60:23 total [1] - 60:7 48:25, 60:3, 60:4, 70:6, 71:21
SUPPORT [1] - 74:3 THE [19] - 1:1, 73:25, touch [1] - 65:16 68:4, 72:8 update [8] - 49:17,
support [1] - 46:21 74:3, 74:20, 74:23, touched [1] - 68:6 Tyler [1] - 8:11 50:15, 55:3, 55:15,
survive [4] - 20:22, 74:24, 75:23, 76:1, towards [2] - 42:23, typically [1] - 68:20 56:11, 59:22, 60:2,
 22:21, 23:6, 58:1 76:23, 77:1, 77:4, 43:4 72:21
sustainability [2] - 77:5, 78:18, 78:20, TOWARDS [1] - 74:24 U updated [3] - 51:4,
 14:9, 66:2 79:17, 79:19, 79:20, towed [1] - 32:1 51:5, 72:23
sustainable [1] - 44:3 79:21, 79:24 track [1] - 72:16 UGI [3] - 70:23, 71:3, UPGRADES [1] -
 theirs [1] - 84:8 trade [1] - 7:6 71:5 74:24
swerving [1] - 32:21
 themselves [3] - traffic [1] - 17:14 Ukavets [1] - 6:4 upheld [1] - 53:13
sympathetic [1] -
 27:22, 42:22, 82:8 trafficking [1] - 46:10 Ukrainian [1] - 6:9 uphold [1] - 39:17
 42:23
symptoms [1] - 16:8 there're [1] - 44:20 training [1] - 46:2 unacceptable [2] - urgency [1] - 18:18
system [2] - 29:13, they've [1] - 45:11 transcript [2] - 86:6, 18:13, 67:7 urgent [1] - 44:12
 32:15 thinking [1] - 21:16 86:22 under [6] - 13:17, USED [2] - 74:24, 77:4
systemic [1] - 16:22 third [3] - 5:14, 17:23, transferred [1] - 77:24 39:3, 39:10, 39:19, Utilities [1] - 61:7
 72:4 transform [1] - 10:5 61:6, 86:24 utilities [3] - 67:21,
systems [3] - 16:4,
 Third [7] - 12:7, 12:8, transitional [2] - 46:2, undercut [1] - 37:24 68:21, 70:20
 16:23, 17:3
 12:12, 12:14, 13:7, 46:21 undermine [1] - 39:7 utility [14] - 18:3,
 13:10, 13:12 underneath [1] - 38:2 60:21, 61:5, 61:8,
 T transparency [1] -
 underresourced [1] - 62:5, 62:18, 62:21,
 THIRD [1] - 4:18 18:18
table [10] - 3:21, 3:25, THOMAS [2] - 2:2, transpires [1] - 51:13 17:17 66:16, 68:13, 68:14,
  4:4, 5:5, 5:13, 14:3, 2:10 transportation [1] - understandably [1] - 68:19, 68:23, 69:20,
  58:20, 59:4, 59:12, thoughts [1] - 10:12 17:13 16:14 71:12
  85:19 three [7] - 32:10, 38:4, TRANSPORTATION unemployment [1] - utilize [1] - 45:21
tabled [2] - 38:12, 38:9, 52:6, 60:24, [1] - 77:1
 64:25 utilized [1] - 9:25
  38:13 63:6, 68:20 treat [1] - 22:7 unfortunate [2] - utterly [1] - 67:7
TABLED [1] - 79:17 thrilled [1] - 55:9 treated [2] - 23:25, 57:11, 62:4
tagged [2] - 31:21 throughout [4] - 3:5, 24:1 unfortunately [4] - V
tamping [1] - 69:12 45:8, 60:22, 67:13 treating [2] - 18:22, 22:4, 43:24, 52:2,
task [10] - 22:11, 60:17 vac [1] - 69:10
 throw [1] - 17:24 18:23
  23:24, 43:20, 51:3, unhappy [1] - 82:12 vacant [1] - 73:15
 ties [1] - 67:11 trees [1] - 66:8
  51:8, 55:16, 56:9, unhoused [1] - 56:24 value [1] - 58:23
 timeline [1] - 68:7 tried [1] - 21:17
  56:12, 58:2, 58:11 UNIDENTIFIED [3] - vault [1] - 38:2
 timelines [2] - 17:22, trimming [1] - 66:11
Task [4] - 40:24, 43:7, 69:3 41:19, 41:24, 42:3 vehicle [3] - 31:17,
 trip [2] - 10:18, 10:25
  51:2, 56:13 timely [1] - 50:22 United [1] - 46:19 32:5, 32:6
 Trolley [2] - 7:15, 7:24
tax [3] - 18:19, 41:2, unless [3] - 36:3, 62:3, ventilation [1] - 52:3
 tired [2] - 11:18, 11:19 trolley [1] - 7:16
  73:5 86:24 venue [3] - 20:18,
 TO [7] - 74:1, 74:21, trouble [1] - 16:8
taxpayers [2] - 13:23, unpassable [1] - 55:13, 55:23
 74:24, 77:1, 77:4, truck [2] - 31:6, 31:12
  42:1 78:21, 78:22 69:24 verbatim [1] - 68:17
 trucks [2] - 69:10,
taxpayers' [1] - 50:8 today [3] - 26:15, unreliable [1] - 17:16 version [2] - 38:14,
 69:11
team [2] - 7:5, 48:17 33:13, 82:16 unsafe [3] - 16:13, 62:11
 truly [2] - 39:6, 52:22
tear [2] - 82:1, 82:6 toes [1] - 20:21 17:16, 38:9 vested [1] - 14:1
 trust [2] - 21:3, 22:10
tearing [2] - 36:10, together [5] - 40:2, Unsheltered [4] - veteran [3] - 20:4,
 truthful [1] - 25:4
  82:23 40:16, 44:15, 51:19, 40:24, 43:7, 51:2, 20:5, 20:6
 try [7] - 20:6, 21:8,
telephone [4] - 34:24, 58:8 56:13 Veteran's [1] - 6:10
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via [1] - 68:18 27:17, 28:4 55:19, 55:25, 56:1,
vibratory [1] - 69:13 water [5] - 16:4, 28:6, 56:2, 56:25, 57:1,
VICE [1] - 2:3 38:3, 62:8, 68:1 58:19
viewers [1] - 37:14 waves [1] - 20:1 Women's [1] - 46:5
violation [2] - 68:24, ways [1] - 47:12 women's [1] - 25:15
 71:16 wear [1] - 21:24 wonderful [1] - 65:23
violations [2] - 18:1, weather [3] - 56:4, wondering [1] - 44:18
 18:4 70:2, 70:5 woodland [1] - 36:13
violence [1] - 46:9 website [6] - 13:2, words [3] - 14:5, 14:8,
visibly [1] - 17:7 13:4, 13:6, 13:14, 40:21
visited [1] - 47:6 47:16, 47:20 worker [1] - 30:23
voice [1] - 27:16 week [23] - 5:16, workers [3] - 23:10,
VOLDENBERG [25] - 12:18, 19:2, 28:24, 23:19, 82:8
 2:8, 4:18, 8:8, 13:5, 29:12, 29:15, 30:23, WORKS [1] - 76:24
 13:11, 37:8, 41:12, 31:14, 32:18, 42:12, Works [2] - 77:9,
 42:6, 48:3, 50:17, 44:20, 45:11, 46:25, 77:11
 54:21, 59:19, 66:13, 48:8, 55:3, 57:19, workshop [2] - 7:4,
 71:7, 72:12, 72:19, 59:11, 59:15, 60:2, 7:6
 73:15, 73:21, 73:24, 60:11, 68:7, 71:23, world [1] - 3:5
 74:19, 75:20, 76:22, 72:1 worried [1] - 36:15
 78:17, 79:16, 85:16 weeks [8] - 12:5, worry [1] - 15:17
Voldenberg [3] - 66:7, 28:23, 30:21, 31:1, worst [2] - 8:16, 17:21
 70:22, 73:11 32:8, 60:4, 60:7, worth [1] - 22:8
volunteers [4] - 7:5, 67:22 wrote [1] - 29:21
 21:4, 23:8, 23:12 weight [1] - 16:1 Wyoming [2] - 8:4,
vote [3] - 4:6, 81:4, welcome [1] - 8:5 67:1
 85:20 Weston [6] - 19:9,
voting [3] - 82:5, 45:1, 55:23, 56:16,
 Y
 83:21, 84:9 56:18, 56:23
vulnerability [1] - wet [4] - 31:3, 31:7, year [12] - 22:4, 29:1,
 64:16 31:11, 31:13 38:6, 38:9, 45:8,
 whatsoever [1] - 48:24, 72:8, 72:22,
 W 66:21 72:23, 73:2, 73:5
 wheelhouse [1] - years [19] - 5:16,
wait [2] - 16:18, 62:15 58:15 14:11, 14:17, 15:12,
waiting [1] - 62:12 white [1] - 33:11 21:19, 21:25, 22:3,
walk [5] - 16:17, White [1] - 34:14 28:14, 29:3, 33:3,
 35:20, 35:24, 36:3, whole [4] - 27:1, 40:1, 42:12, 42:17,
 36:4 34:22, 40:20, 84:18 51:19, 52:1, 52:6,
walking [2] - 15:17, wide [2] - 15:15, 16:8 63:7, 63:25, 65:1
 35:8 wife [1] - 31:10 Yeshiva [1] - 59:22
Walsh [1] - 45:25 Wilkes [1] - 7:3 yesterday [5] - 29:23,
wants [1] - 26:13 Wilkes-Barre [1] - 7:3 29:25, 33:13, 50:16,
Ward [1] - 5:17 willing [1] - 22:10 66:17
Warden [1] - 8:11 willingness [1] - 64:16 young [5] - 11:3,
WARDEN [1] - 8:12 win [1] - 66:2 57:19, 57:25, 58:17,
warm [1] - 23:3 winter [3] - 9:11, 59:14
warmers [2] - 20:12, 19:24 younger [1] - 21:2
 20:15 wintertime [1] - 45:2 yourself [1] - 80:13
warms [1] - 19:16 wisely [1] - 19:1 Youth [1] - 46:11
Washington [2] - 4:3, wish [1] - 5:22 youth [1] - 24:20
 25:9 WITH [1] - 78:22
WASHINGTON [1] - woke [1] - 66:23 Z
 79:25 woman [3] - 21:1,
waste [1] - 31:15 21:2, 57:19 zoning [2] - 14:23,
wasting [1] - 31:11 women [20] - 3:5, 39:1
watched [1] - 29:14 24:25, 26:18, 44:21, zoo [1] - 11:4
watching [2] - 20:9, 45:15, 45:17, 46:1, Zoo [1] - 10:18
 60:9 46:4, 46:7, 47:4,
Water [4] - 18:7, 47:10, 55:10, 55:13,