COUNCIL — Scranton, PA
Date: 2026-03-25

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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. VOLDENBERG: THIRD ORDER.

21 3.A. AFTER ACTION SNOWSTORM REPORT

22 RECEIVED FEBRUARY 24, 2026 FROM CITY BUSINESS

23 ADMINISTRATION.

24 3.B. CONTROLLER'S REPORT FOR THE

25 MONTH ENDED FEBRUARY 28, 2026 RECEIVED MARCH
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 1 16, 2026.

 2 MR. SCHUSTER: Are there any

 3 comments on any of the Third Order items? If

 4 not, received and filed. Do any Council

 5 members have any announcements at this time?

 6 MR. FLYNN: Yeah, I have a few.

 7 Just first, I want to wish everyone a happy St.

 8 Patrick's day. I hope you had a great weekend

 9 with all the celebrations going on. I hope you

10 celebrated safely. I hope you continue to

11 celebrate safely tonight, but happy St.

12 Patrick's Day to everyone.

13 And just one announcement, the Green

14 Ridge Neighborhood Association will be hosting

15 their annual Easter egg hunt, Sunday, March

16 29th at Pretzel Park on the corner of North

17 Washington and Electric Street. It starts at 1

18 p.m. It's free entry. And to RSVP for the

19 hunt to Green Ridge Neighborhood Association at

20 gmail dot com. And the potential rain date

21 will be April 4th. I hope to see everyone

22 there.

23 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Do any

24 other Council members have any announcements at

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 1 DR. ROTHCHILD: I also wanted to

 2 wish everyone a St. Patty's Day. I think we

 3 had another successful parade day on Saturday

 4 this year. And I just wanted to thank our city

 5 departments, the Scranton Police, Scranton

 6 Fire, DPW, all of our departments that, you

 7 know, work together that day to make sure that

 8 everyone was safe and able to enjoy the day and

 9 the parade and celebrations -- I do find myself

10 each year being a bit disappointed by the

11 amount of calls, especially in the Hill Section

12 where a lot of university students are

13 involved.

14 And I know that our police

15 department worked very hard that day to

16 maintain order. So I do appreciate that. I

17 just wanted to say that. Thank you.

18 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much.

19 I'd also like to wish everyone a happy St.

20 Patrick's Day. Also to echo Dr. Rothchild's

21 comments, thank you to DPW, SPD, SFD and other

22 city departments that, you know, help with

23 traffic control that day, Road Scholar for

24 their help as well to keep traffic off the

25 parade routes and the race routes. So thank
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 1 you for what you do.

 2 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Okay. So I'd

 3 also like to wish everybody a very happy St.

 4 Patrick's Day today and I'd also like to thank

 5 the public safety departments, the police,

 6 firefighters, DPW, everyone else that was

 7 involved in keeping it a safe and enjoyable

 8 parade.

 9 They do a great job every year.

10 It's a heavy lift. But it's almost seamless

11 and I want to applaud them for their efforts.

12 Thank you.

13 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Yeah, I'd like

14 to agree with all of my colleagues, first of

15 all, wish everybody a happy St. Patrick's Day.

16 It was great. I hope everybody enjoyed it with

17 their family. Thank you again to our police to

18 make sure everybody is safe and to our DPW for

19 the cleanup. I drove downtown the day after

20 and it looked great. So thank you to everybody

21 and enjoy St. Patrick's Day.

22 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Yeah, the

23 cleanup was pretty fast and they had the street

24 sweepers out within I'd say a half hour of the

25 end of the parade.
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 1 MR. VOLDENBERG: FOURTH ORDER.

 2 CITIZEN PARTICIPATION.

 3 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. The first

 4 speaker is Joan Hodowanitz.

 5 MS. HODOWANITZ: Joan Hodowanitz,

 6 Scranton, excuse me. With regard to the St.

 7 Patrick's Day Parade, it is certainly a

 8 different parade than it was 20 or 25 years ago

 9 when you could buy 17 cents beer at 7:00 in the

10 morning and there were fist fights and public

11 urination and all kinds of rowdiness.

12 And you didn't see any of that in

13 the last several years. So I'm very happy, not

14 only with the way our public safety departments

15 keep us safe and DPW does the cleanup and a lot

16 of other tasks; but it is a much more family

17 oriented and safe environment.

18 And those who want to celebrate in

19 the bars, they do so. But the rowdiness and

20 the uncleanliness is all gone. So that's a

21 great improvement. Now, if you could just do

22 something about the damn weather, you know, it

23 would have been perfect.

24 You know, the Scranton Public

25 Library is always trying to find out why people
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 1 patronize the library and why others don't.

 2 And one of the obvious impediments to going to

 3 the library downtown is parking. And a lot of

 4 people don't realize that the library has gone

 5 to great efforts to assist in that dilemma.

 6 They have an agreement with the

 7 Adams garage, right, I guess it's right over

 8 there. You can get a two-hour parking discount

 9 Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

10 and Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

11 The library will discount up to two

12 hours of parking at the garage. If you go

13 three hours, you only get charged for one hour.

14 Now, before you all say, oh, I'll park at the

15 Adams garage and I won't go to the library, but

16 I'll get two free hours of parking, it doesn't

17 work that way.

18 You know, we may be nice, but we're

19 not stupid. So you have to actually go to the

20 library so that you can get the credit for the

21 two hours of parking at the garage. But, you

22 know, why should somebody not be able to enjoy

23 the services of the Scranton Public Library or

24 the Children's Library during the week just

25 because they can't find reasonable parking?
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 1 So this is an opportunity for those

 2 who want to patronize the library to do so to

 3 get two free hours of parking at the Adams

 4 garage. So I just want to make sure that that

 5 got put out. I don't know of any other

 6 nonprofit organization in the downtown area

 7 that has an agreement like that. I wish more

 8 people did.

 9 Next, 441 days since the DPW

10 contract expired. So is there any hope on the

11 horizon?

12 MR. SCHUSTER: I've only heard that

13 there were some meetings. But, Mr. Voldenberg,

14 can we officially ask if there had been any

15 meetings and what the dates of those meetings

16 are and if there is any movement on the DPW

17 CBA?

18 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll get that

19 information.

20 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: I believe they

21 might even have one tomorrow from what I heard.

22 MS. HODOWANITZ: As I recall, we're

23 still scheduled for a caucus on April 7th with

24 DPW to discuss the storm -- the cleanup after

25 the winter storm, correct?
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 1 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes.

 2 MS. HODOWANITZ: I would hope that

 3 as many DPW workers as possible come to

 4 personally listen to that presentation, that

 5 caucus and that they stay for the following

 6 meeting so that if there are any comments they

 7 would like to make on what was presented, they

 8 do so.

 9 Because there are always two sides

10 to every story. And I don't want just to hear

11 one side. I want to hear both sides of the

12 story. And again, I want to remind everybody

13 that the Friends of the Scranton Public Library

14 is sponsoring a trip to the Bronx Zoo on

15 Saturday, May 2nd.

16 If you're a member of the Friends,

17 the cost is $85. If you're not, it's 90.

18 Children are $80. But get out of town, you

19 know, see something wonderful. And if you're

20 at least 50 years old, you could become a

21 member, excuse me, of the Friends for only $5

22 and the discount pays for your membership.

23 So think about it. The bus is going

24 to fill up awfully fast. So do not wait.

25 Thank you.
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 1 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Our next

 2 speaker is Mike Mancini.

 3 MR. MANCINI: Council President

 4 Schuster, good evening, Council and residents

 5 of Scranton. Tonight part two, my version of

 6 the state of Scranton. The topic, HUP testing

 7 and property assessment.

 8 Council and residents, allow me to

 9 draw your attention to two important issues

10 that need more than just talking points. The

11 HUP test has been in limbo for years. To those

12 who do not know what a HUP test is, it

13 determines the ability of a nonprofit to pay

14 property taxes to be considered a purely public

15 charity nonprofits must.

16 One, advance a charitable purpose;

17 two, donate or render a substantial portion of

18 its services; three, benefit a substantial and

19 indefinite class of persons who --

20 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Mr. Mancini, can

21 you turn it up? I'm having trouble hearing.

22 MR. MANCINI: Four, relieve the

23 city, county, and school district with the

24 burden; and five, operate entirely free from

25 private profit motive. I could understand
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 1 Council member Mark McAndrew's frustration

 2 asking repeatedly for information. He gets it

 3 too.

 4 Honest taxpayers carry the burden

 5 of inflated taxes while others do not pay their

 6 fair share. We need answers to these

 7 questions. Has the University of Scranton

 8 replied to the request for information?

 9 Were all their properties assessed?

10 Could a time limit for a reply be established?

11 What happens if an entity like the University

12 of Scranton does not reply? These are

13 questions that deserve answers. 124k per year

14 from the U does not sit well with me.

15 Utilize Attorney Gilbride's skill

16 set and guidance to bring this very important

17 talking point to a resolution. Honest

18 taxpayers deserve it. Help prevent tax

19 increases. The city, school district and

20 county needed that income yesterday.

21 Bring all parties to caucus ASAP.

22 To the University of Scranton, allow me to be

23 the first to say, this is an attempt to collect

24 the debt rightfully owed to honest taxpayers.

25 Any information will be used solely for that
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 1 purpose.

 2 Regarding the recent assessment, the

 3 first since 1968, has many property owners

 4 addressing proper values. Appraisers are

 5 booked over a month out because of appeals.

 6 While many pay property taxes on time, others

 7 have had substantial rehabilitation to their

 8 properties to include garages, expanding square

 9 footage, and even just for land while a home

10 sits while without paying their fair share.

11 Mr. Gilbride mentioned over a year

12 ago that there are thousands just like I

13 described. Permits need to be pulled. Figure

14 out who threw the middle finger at the system

15 and honest property owners who struggle with

16 their bills. There are no statute of

17 limitations to collect. This time to the

18 cheaters, this is an attempt to collect the

19 debt.

20 Any information will be used for

21 that purpose. Here are six recommendations to

22 help the future stability of Scranton and

23 relieve some of the burden on honest taxpayers.

24 Finalize the results of the HUP testing,

25 retroactively collect taxes from those who
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 1 deceive Commonwealth property tax laws, make

 2 the cheaters pay up, look into the delinquent

 3 property taxes, trash fees, and any other

 4 monies owed to the city and determine that we

 5 have the best options in place to recover what

 6 is owed, enact ordinances and fines regarding

 7 blocked or defective storm drains, enact

 8 ordinances and fines regarding defective power

 9 poles and arching wires, enact an ordinance to

10 allow a 3 percent hotel tax for all 811 hotel

11 rooms within city limits.

12 The county charges 7 percent.

13 There's about 3 million dollars just sitting.

14 These are just some recommendations to help

15 allow honest property owners to become as whole

16 as possible. Acknowledge this important

17 conversation or don't. The choice is yours.

18 Next week, part three, our amazing

19 hardworking unionized employees. Good evening,

20 Council, and the good people of Scranton, and

21 happy St. Patrick's Day.

22 MR. SCHUSTER: Our next speaker, Les

23 Spindler.

24 MR. SPINDLER: Good evening,

25 Council, Les Spindler, city resident and
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 1 homeowner, taxpayer. First thing I have

 2 tonight, spoke about the Green Ridge Street

 3 bridge last week, said how they took like a

 4 month off.

 5 Well, last Monday they came, started

 6 taking that dirt pile away. And up to

 7 Thursday, they were doing it. I drove by

 8 Friday. They weren't doing it Friday. I went

 9 by yesterday. They weren't there yesterday.

10 Finally they showed up today again.

11 So hopefully by the end of the day

12 today, the rest of that dirt was gone. And

13 hopefully they won't take another month off.

14 Once that happens -- hopefully they finish.

15 That project should be done no later than next

16 month or no later than May.

17 Moving on, I forgot to bring this up

18 last week. I go up and down Green Ridge Street

19 twice every day, Monday to Friday, taking a

20 child to school, picking him up. That road is

21 one of your roughest roads to ride in this city

22 from the railroad viaduct up to Monroe Avenue

23 going up to Dunmore, Green Ridge Street is

24 terrible, especially the 900 block and the 1000

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 1 There's pave cuts and potholes and

 2 cracks in the pavement. I brought this up over

 3 a year ago. I don't know what PennDOT is

 4 looking at. But that's one of the worst

 5 streets to travel in the city. The 900 block

 6 is littered with pave cuts. It's like driving

 7 on a washboard. It's terrible, terrible.

 8 And in coming down, the other

 9 problem is manhole covers that don't meet the

10 surface of the road. It's like hitting a

11 pothole. And I had three corners. There's one

12 on Penn Avenue in Green Ridge. There's an

13 orange line drawn around it for like since the

14 winter nothing's been done.

15 And there's two on Monsey, corner of

16 Monsey and Green Ridge. And there's two more

17 on Capouse and Green Ridge. Hitting those

18 manhole covers is like hitting a pothole. So,

19 like I said, that's one of the most travelled

20 streets in the city and it's terrible,

21 terrible.

22 Moving on, anybody that's been

23 coming to these meetings for as long as I have,

24 knows not a fan of the University of Scranton.

25 The pilot that they pay to the city is nothing
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 1 near what they should be. For all the

 2 taxpaying properties that they bought and taken

 3 them off the tax rolls, they don't pay nearly

 4 what they should be.

 5 But on a good note though, I want to

 6 wish the University of Scranton Lady Royals the

 7 best of luck at the final four this week in

 8 Virginia. I started going to watch their games

 9 in January because whether you know it or not,

10 their leading scorer is named Casey Kranson.

11 She's the daughter of one of

12 Scranton's finest, Patrol Officer Jill Foley.

13 I know Jill for like 23 years. And I said --

14 when I saw Jill a while back, I said I got to

15 come and see some games. I started going.

16 They weren't just beating people.

17 They were beating by 30, 40, 50

18 points. I left one game after the third

19 quarter. They were winning 83 to 22. And last

20 weekend they were good games because tougher

21 competition. They beat a team from Minnesota

22 on Saturday ended up by 16 points.

23 But they were up by 20-some. But

24 and I went to the athletic director before the

25 game started Saturday. I said, you know what
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 1 would be a good idea to have a watch party at

 2 the Long Center. A lot of people won't make it

 3 to Virginia. So he liked the idea. But he

 4 said, he said, let's see what happens tonight.

 5 Well, they won. So hopefully

 6 they'll do that. And I met so many people

 7 going to those games. And I got to give a

 8 shoutout to one special person. The first game

 9 I went to I sat down. This young man waived to

10 me and said, Hi, Les. Didn't know who he was.

11 And he his mother went onto say they

12 don't live in the city but they watch the

13 Council meetings every week. And they said --

14 not to be cocky, but they said they love the

15 things I say and this and that. And he's a

16 wonderful young man.

17 He just told me that night that he

18 got his driver's permit. So, Grayson, I hope

19 you're watching. I'm going to miss seeing you

20 at the games. Hopefully we'll run into each

21 other again.

22 Good luck with your driving. And I

23 said it was nice meeting you. It was lot of

24 fun. So that's all I have tonight. Thank you.

25 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much,
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 1 Les. Next speaker is Ron Ellman. Mr.

 2 Voldenberg --

 3 MR. VOLDENBERG: Yes, sir.

 4 MR. SCHUSTER: There is some

 5 pavement restoration included with the Green

 6 Ridge Street project that I know we did get an

 7 update. Can we find out if they're going to

 8 pave further than just the area of the bridge

 9 that they plan on going several blocks or what

10 the area is they plan on restoring when it

11 comes to Green Ridge Street.

12 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll ask them.

13 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you.

14 MR. ELLMAN: Council, well, last

15 week was another birthday for me. Rose Ann

16 decided that I didn't want to come to a council

17 meeting. Anyway, I heard all of that BS about

18 how fortunate we are to have these new programs

19 overtaking our cities and towns and forest and

20 everything else.

21 You know, I was listening. How

22 could people be so naive to think that as the

23 paper said this past week, they're going to use

24 a small amount of water. They don't need these

25 quantities of electricity that there will be
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 1 thousands of jobs.

 2 They only need a small concision of

 3 not highly paid people to watch monitors.

 4 That's what's being done right now in the ones

 5 that are running. They don't have a bunch of

 6 people. And right now while we're sitting here

 7 and I'm standing here, you know as well as I'm

 8 here, somebody somewhere is working on a better

 9 system than these big buildings full of all

10 kinds of equipment.

11 I have one of my friends that died.

12 His son's in the business. He told me on the

13 phone -- it must be a year ago now. I was

14 telling him I need a new refrigerator. And he

15 said he honestly believes all these house

16 explosions are from the gas being used in

17 refrigerators.

18 Anyway, that long ago he mentioned

19 these big centers that are becoming and buying

20 property. So it's not new. Well, to change it

21 a little bit, my friend the Mayor, the worst

22 mayor of American cities, she seems like her

23 running is getting to her a little bit.

24 I think she's calling -- it's like

25 the pot calling the kettle black. I just
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 1 wondered if she does get anywhere if she'll

 2 Scrantonize and Bidenize the whole country like

 3 being a Biden protege as she is.

 4 Maybe she wants to be more like

 5 Clinton or Harris. And this Mayor -- our Mayor

 6 couldn't hold a candle to those two ladies. At

 7 least they had something good during their

 8 times in office.

 9 You know, it said that the

10 government isn't supposed to go against the

11 will of the people. But we see it coming.

12 These -- these people are -- our elected

13 officials are softening up getting us ready

14 like -- ready for the kill that we're going to

15 have these units all over everywhere.

16 You know why? Because they don't

17 have to worry about the people out here, what

18 the will of the people is. This is -- this is

19 a terrible thing to come because these

20 buildings 5, 10 years, these buildings will be

21 needless, useless big eyesores. Thank you.

22 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Would

23 anyone else like to address Council?

24 MR. COYNE: Good evening, Tom Coyne,

25 Minooka. First on the data centers, I'm glad
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 1 that after I talked before Council about the

 2 issue of if a zoning does not address a usage,

 3 it's allowed everywhere and that everyone

 4 jumped on the band wagon.

 5 Yes, it needs to be added to the

 6 zoning to make it as easy as possible even in

 7 the areas that it may be allowed, it should be

 8 set as SE, special exception requiring them to

 9 deal with neighbors, public hearings and

10 gaining a zoning variance exception.

11 I believe there needs to be set

12 conditions of reduced operations during

13 emergencies such as mandatory reductions during

14 droughts and grid issues. Data centers are

15 fixed locations but for most operations, AI and

16 storage, it could be shifted to other

17 facilities and they should be required to

18 provide a Sarbanes-Oxly type process in the

19 application for an exception to the rules for

20 the center.

21 Redundancy and the ability to shift

22 operations to another region is a prudent

23 measure. As the ordinance says, get it on the

24 books and then you could fine tune it, even if

25 it only says in all of the zones, a special
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 1 exception is required for data centers. That

 2 covers the point.

 3 Off to the snow report. First, it

 4 looks good on the surface level but it lacks

 5 specific details that the city should offer

 6 clarity. And I'll address them. Of the total

 7 snow vehicles, 7 require CDLs and 11 do not.

 8 Of the listing of staff -- short

 9 staff on the shift I see a number, but it lacks

10 the clarity of out of the ones who responded

11 how many had the CDL licenses.

12 Thursday, January 29th and Friday,

13 January 30th of 2026, 2 p.m. to 6 a.m. shifts,

14 five drivers reported, including one operator

15 at salt shed. Four drivers is an obviously

16 short. And I'm not sure if included was proper

17 as use for the salt shed operator unless he had

18 a CDL license or if it was five reporting, plus

19 the salt shed operator.

20 So two of out seven days we're

21 unclear if all CDL drivers who would have

22 covered the seven trucks were available and

23 reported to work and if the city was factoring

24 in mandatory downtime for a CDL driver's

25 license.
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 1 Workers do not need -- the workers

 2 who do not need CDLs are listed as reported in

 3 were not broken out in the numbers. And if

 4 there is a shortage of non CDL plow drivers

 5 there, then cross training should be mandated

 6 so everyone can run a plow.

 7 Does the Director of DPW and the

 8 managers have a CDL license? And were they out

 9 plowing? Second, regarding the time of the

10 shifts, 2 p.m. to 6 a.m. for an entire week,

11 that's 16 hours off -- 16 on and 8 off.

12 CDL forbids more than 8 hours and

13 then requires 10 off. And even under the

14 emergency rule of the Federal Motor Carriers

15 Safety Administration, the 14 hour rules

16 extends it 14 and then 10 off. This

17 requirement is a DOT requirement.

18 If you plan to run emergency shift

19 for longer hours, then sleeping facilities need

20 to be made available at the DPW garage as you

21 do with the fire department as 16 hour shifts

22 are unreasonable and unsafe.

23 Third, it bills the call out numbers

24 and excuse for staffing and the need to

25 outsource contractors and then states city
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 1 officials deploy DPW staff insufficient --

 2 sufficient to reach full capacity throughout

 3 the storm event and subsequent cleanup.

 4 So we had callouts that caused us to

 5 be understaffed. But we had sufficient staff.

 6 Which is it? The report says both. Again,

 7 they follow after that with if staffing

 8 shortfalls continue, they have to -- as they

 9 have been trending, the city may have to

10 consider one or more vendors available to

11 perform snowplowing or removal.

12 So to clarify, we did not have

13 enough, but we had enough and because we don't

14 when we did, we may need outside vendors.

15 Something is wrong in this evaluation. So

16 cross training on the non CDL plows should be a

17 part of the plan or hiring more CDL drivers to

18 cover the callouts in excessive shifts.

19 And last, how about park service

20 crews? They do drive trucks. Are they

21 available to be called in for emergency for

22 running non CDL plows? Why isn't other city

23 resources who run trucks put on the call-in

24 list for city emergencies? That would be

25 prudent. Good night.
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 1 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Fifth

 2 Order.

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

 4 MOTIONS.

 5 MR. SCHUSTER: Hang on. Yep, sorry,

 6 Frank. Rik Little.

 7 MR. LITTLE: Hello, Rik Little.

 8 It's still hard to hear anything. I'd like to

 9 talk to Chris about seeing if there's -- if I

10 could bring my blue tooth headphones here

11 because it's hard to hear. And I missed it

12 last week. You should ring a bell or something

13 when the last speaker -- I just came from the

14 library, the greatest institution in this city,

15 the greatest library I've ever been to.

16 Fantastic place, you could learn

17 about anything, get anything and do anything

18 through the library should be greatly

19 supported. And I was reading the newspaper.

20 Newspaper doesn't come out yesterday, but the

21 one newspaper came out today. And I read it

22 and the editorials about transparency and

23 Sunshine Laws.

24 And that is what has to happen. I'm

25 seeing a little movement in the government
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 1 because things are changing fast all over the

 2 world. And, you know, they are talking about

 3 data centers. I mean, this has been coming up

 4 the pike a real long time.

 5 It's my opinion that the data

 6 centers as they are now will just completely

 7 destroy this whole community. And they're not

 8 necessary. You know, I'm watching the war in

 9 the middle east. And, you know, I've always

10 read about weapons, especially in, you know,

11 Lebanon and Syria, you know, in the past 20

12 years and, you know, it's attributed to

13 Starlink satellites, you know, because people

14 are fighting with drones and, you know, the

15 iron domes and everything.

16 But that's -- it seems to me that's

17 the future. And energy is nuclear efficient.

18 And that's the future. But, you know, if they

19 come in here it's just going to be bad water,

20 bad sound, bad taxes. And taxes are really bad

21 now.

22 And people have to know what's going

23 on getting back to the Sunshine Law. And, you

24 know, I had a hell of a time staying in

25 Scranton Housing Authority, you know, that's
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 1 when I originally started coming here. I

 2 couldn't even find out who owned the building,

 3 you know, and then the attorney here tells me

 4 it's owned by HUD.

 5 Well, you know, that's the sort of

 6 answers I'm getting from, you know, all of this

 7 Medicare and Medicaid stuff. And I spent a lot

 8 of time walking around seeing all this -- you

 9 know, Rob Bresnahan is stealing your Medicare

10 and Medicaid and all of this stuff.

11 It's a complicated system. But when

12 you start thinking about, this area -- I mean,

13 the whole state is run by Geisinger. You know,

14 it started in Danville. It's a medical thing.

15 Everything is about behavioral health.

16 And, you know, any crime in this

17 area -- you look at any bus, it's like the, you

18 know, the -- what do they call it, Treatment

19 Court and they got like four of the eight

20 judges in on that.

21 You know, people commit crimes and

22 you realize you see, oh, $50,000 bail and you

23 see another crime, you know, for going to the

24 Geisinger Hospital in there. They tie him up

25 and it's crazy, you know, it's crazy that I go
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 1 down to the Capital Record plant where the

 2 Beach Boys and Beatles records were all printed

 3 on this side of the country. And it's Scranton

 4 Behavioral Health, you know, which used to be

 5 right there on Adams.

 6 You know, everything is behavioral

 7 health. And all the remedies are legal.

 8 There's too much legal stuff because they cheat

 9 in all the legal stuff. There's no due

10 process. And that's the problem with the, you

11 know, the former government we have here

12 because everybody is acquiescing to the legal.

13 And we're going into a big computer

14 age. And I'm certainly, you know, AI is the

15 thing. And things are compounding daily going

16 faster and faster. And, you know, we're not in

17 a war, you know, we haven't had a declared war

18 in many, many years in my whole life, you know,

19 and the purpose of Congress and the purpose of

20 our representatives, it has to be made clear

21 and that's a hard thing to do without a media.

22 I guess my time is up, but thank you.

23 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Anyone

24 else like to address Council?

25 MR. VOLDENBERG: FIFTH ORDER. 5-A.
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 1 MOTIONS.

 2 MR. SCHUSTER: Dr. Rothchild, do you

 3 have any motions or comments?

 4 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes, just a couple.

 5 First, last week I had asked again about a

 6 couple of properties that I wanted to see

 7 prioritized for potential demolition.

 8 And I was -- we received a response

 9 that the OECD team will look further into the

10 two properties I had mentioned to see if they

11 should be prioritized for demolition.

12 I have some followup questions to

13 this. I know that in the past I believe there

14 was a committee that had met or a group of

15 employees to determine what to do with the

16 condemned properties or creating that

17 demolition list.

18 I'd like to know now if there's

19 still a committee or a group in place that

20 needs to do that. If so, how often; and then

21 when they will anticipate having a demolition

22 list ready for -- for 2026. And I would also

23 like to know a little bit more about how the

24 demolitions are prioritized.

25 I'm assuming but I don't want to
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 1 assume that, you know, safety is number one if

 2 something has to be brought down because of

 3 that or then perhaps the amount of time that

 4 property's been condemned. I know some of

 5 these do also get stuck legally and in court

 6 and that could hold up the process.

 7 But I would just appreciate if we

 8 had some more information to provide the public

 9 with the -- on the process of the demolitions

10 and condemnations since there are a number of

11 properties that continue to get brought up to

12 me and I'm sure other Council members as well

13 that have been in that condition for a long

14 period of time.

15 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll get that

16 information, Dr. Rothchild.

17 DR. ROTHCHILD: Thank you. And even

18 if a property is not currently on the

19 demolition list, some of the longstanding

20 condemned properties I'd still like know what

21 their status is.

22 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll get that also.

23 DR. ROTHCHILD: Thank you. I

24 appreciate that. And I wanted to bring up

25 another topic I had a motion last week about --
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 1 I believe it's last week for sending out a

 2 letter to the county assessors office for the

 3 letters that were sent out to tax exempt

 4 organizations nonprofits to determine their

 5 eligibility if they were still going to be able

 6 to remain a nonprofit if that was still

 7 appropriate or if there is potential for them

 8 to pay taxes.

 9 And we're asking for the list of

10 properties that were ineligible or did not

11 respond and I know that our solicitor had a

12 conversation with someone within that office.

13 But we still have not gotten that list. I know

14 that they were also on vacation, but I

15 honestly, I'm tired of the excuses.

16 I think we've been getting a lot of

17 them. And I really would like to see that

18 happen. So I just wanted to reiterate the

19 importance of Council sending a letter to them

20 and demanding that we receive the list.

21 I know that the city's been asking

22 for it for months and months too. So that's

23 all that I have. Thank you.

24 MR. SCHUSTER: Mr. Sean McAndrew, do

25 you have any motions or comments?
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 1 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Yeah, a few.

 2 Last week again I stressed my concern about not

 3 getting the Fidelity inspection a public

 4 document. The administration originally wanted

 5 to speak to us in executive session to go over

 6 that.

 7 I was happy to see that we got a

 8 document on Friday. But after reading it, I

 9 wasn't as happy as I thought I would be because

10 it was only a summary of the inspection. And

11 it was marked confidential.

12 So now none of us can share out what

13 was found in it, not how much repairs are going

14 to make or what repairs need to be done. So

15 that is very concerning to me. Again, I'm

16 going to reiterate I don't understand why a

17 building inspection has to be confidential and

18 talked about behind closed doors.

19 It's the taxpayers' money we are

20 spending to purchase a building -- to purchase

21 a building that two of us didn't even vote on.

22 The start of this entire Fidelity purchase to

23 me has been rushed.

24 They did it before the new board --

25 the Council came on. Inspections were -- there
 34

 1 was inspections done before and reports from

 2 our engineers before they even voted on

 3 those -- and voting on passing to purchase the

 4 building.

 5 And then there was delays with us

 6 getting the inspections and now we can't even

 7 get a copy of it to discuss in public. So I'm

 8 extremely upset about it. Unfortunately, since

 9 it is marked confidential, I will not be giving

10 it out.

11 But I'm definitely concerned about

12 that going forward. And it just lacks

13 transparency to me. And I think that's the

14 number one thing we keep hearing of this Mayor

15 and administration is how transparent they are.

16 Well, this is just another example of not being

17 as transparent as they say.

18 Onto the Mulberry Street billboard.

19 Attorney Gilbride, I know we spoke last week.

20 I asked if you could -- see if you could get

21 any information from the law department on why

22 all of a sudden there was a settlement and the

23 billboard received permits and they're allowed

24 to change to a digital billboard. Have you

25 received anything from the city?
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 1 ATTY. GILBRIDE: I have not received

 2 anything. That issue did come up yesterday.

 3 And when Council President Schuster and myself

 4 met with the administration, we were informed

 5 at that point that a settlement had been

 6 arrived at which we already knew.

 7 But we were not provided with

 8 information on the actual merits of the

 9 settlement and then other information was given

10 as to the current situation with the owner of

11 the building that the sign sits next to that

12 requires -- they were required to provide

13 energy and they're not requiring it.

14 And so the sign is not currently

15 functioning apparently. But that was the

16 information that was provided to us at our

17 meeting.

18 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Okay. I

19 appreciate that. Again, more lack of

20 information that I'm upset about. I mean, if

21 there are settlements we should be knowing

22 because this is something that Council voted

23 on. I was surprised to see at the end of last

24 week that there was article in the paper. And

25 if the article is correct, that means the Times
 36

 1 knows a little bit more than we do.

 2 There was a complaint that claimed

 3 the city missed the 45 day working window

 4 deadline under the City Code app and the HARB's

 5 decision. So because of that it looks like the

 6 Court granted them to move forward and be able

 7 to get the permit.

 8 So, Mr. Gilbride, can we please ask

 9 is that the correct reason why we have to

10 settle now because of the city. It's not the

11 HARB. I believe it's the city missed the

12 window, the timing window to bring this down to

13 Council to properly vote on it.

14 I know Council voted on it, but they

15 voted on it late because the city did not get

16 it down to the previous Council. Can you look

17 into that and see if that is actually correct?

18 ATTY. GILBRIDE: Yes, sir.

19 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: I also asked for

20 the original permit of the billboard because

21 my understanding was the billboard never even

22 had a permit to begin with or a correct permit

23 to begin with. The response we received was,

24 "The city issued a sign permit for the

25 installation of a digital billboard at 320
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 1 Mulberry Street."

 2 Well, that's not what I'm wondering.

 3 I'm wondering when the original billboard that

 4 was placed there years ago, was there actually

 5 a permit. If so, can we please have a copy of

 6 it. So, Mr. Voldenberg, if you could ask for

 7 when the -- when it was permitted for it, can

 8 we please have a copy of it?

 9 And again, this is for the original

10 billboard, not the digital one, the original

11 billboard that was put there 10 years ago.

12 MR. VOLDENBERG: I did reference the

13 original billboard. I'll ask again.

14 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Appreciate it.

15 Thank you very much. Next, I did get some

16 calls regarding the homeless camps that were

17 popping up down by the schools. Before I even

18 was able to bring it up here or talk to anybody

19 in administration, I found out that the DPW

20 from the Mayor's direction has been taking down

21 the homeless camps.

22 So can we just have confirmation if

23 that is true and is that something they're just

24 doing now because it's the spring or will they

25 be doing that throughout the whole year?
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 1 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll ask those

 2 questions.

 3 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Okay. And that

 4 is all I have for now. Thank you very much.

 5 Have a good week.

 6 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you.

 7 Mr. Gilbride, Sean had brought up the

 8 confidential piece of that document. Can we

 9 just clarify that and see if we could have that

10 deemed otherwise so some of that can be

11 discussed? And have we missed that 30 day

12 window that the extension went out for the

13 inspection?

14 ATTY. GILBRIDE: I don't know the

15 answer off the top of my head because I have

16 not even seen the actual extension paperwork.

17 So without seeing that original paperwork, I

18 don't want to give you an incorrect answer.

19 MR. SCHUSTER: Okay. We could work

20 on that.

21 ATTY. GILBRIDE: It's got to be

22 close though.

23 MR. SCHUSTER: Yeah, so we could

24 work after the meeting and find out those

25 answers. Thank you. Mr. Mark McAndrew, do you
 39

 1 have any motions or comments?

 2 MR. MCANDREW: Yeah, I got a couple.

 3 So NeighborWorks was here a couple weeks ago

 4 talking about the upcoming programs that they

 5 have coming. And they mentioned the West

 6 Scranton hometown hero second round of banners.

 7 And I thought, well, you know what,

 8 I remember starting that project in Scranton

 9 because I made a motion right here about three

10 years ago because Mr. Gattens -- Mr. Bob

11 Gattens already started in South Side.

12 And since then, he took over Green

13 Ridge, North Scranton. I'm not sure where else

14 he went with that. But the rest of the city,

15 but West Scranton didn't have that program

16 started. So I made a motion. I got that

17 program up and running.

18 NeighborWorks has been a great

19 steward of this program. I'd like to give them

20 credit. But I remember initially we were told,

21 you know, they're going to hang them for a

22 couple years and that's fine.

23 And they stated last week they're

24 going to return the original banners to the

25 residents. And that's a great idea too.
 40

 1 But along the way I made mention of

 2 what can we do after that? So -- and the idea

 3 I had is because when you applied for the

 4 banner, you had to send in an e-mailed picture

 5 or a file which they retain right now. So what

 6 I would like to do is reach out to

 7 NeighborWorks because they're stewards of this

 8 program.

 9 If when they return the original

10 banner that they could return that file or

11 picture electronically so family members could

12 if, you know, can buy the garden variety flag.

13 Did you ever see the little ones you change out

14 for holidays in your yards? I think that would

15 be a great idea if these residents are made

16 aware that they had the opportunity --

17 opportunity because their flag is coming down.

18 They'll still be able to display it

19 when they feel it's pertinent, holidays or

20 anything related they would want displayed in

21 their yard. And maybe we'll get some buy-in

22 from Jaworskis who actually handles the West

23 Side banners.

24 And, if not, there's a bunch of

25 places online that sell them very
 41

 1 inexpensively. So if you could put all that

 2 together and see if they would provide, you

 3 know, help the residents maybe lead them

 4 towards that way when they take home their

 5 banner because the -- let's face it.

 6 The banners they're going to take

 7 home are pretty big and where are you going to

 8 display them. I think a garden variety they

 9 call them would be pretty cool to, you know, to

10 continue to display, you know, the proud

11 veterans in their family.

12 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll reach out to

13 Gerard Hetman tomorrow.

14 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Thank you. Then

15 I got from a concerned resident up East

16 Mountain across from the Salvation Army on East

17 Mountain Road needs some attention. This week

18 a load of rocks was dumped at the base of the

19 concrete barrier and is still -- and is still

20 very weedy there waiting for a thrown lit

21 cigarette to ignite and cause a fire.

22 So the resident states -- and I

23 agree that they pay very high taxes on the

24 mountain. So I agree something should be done.

25 This is kind of a yearly thing with some of
 42

 1 this debris. And I know there's discussion,

 2 like, there and then before the Lookout

 3 entering the city that's always -- and

 4 PennDOT's pretty good about it.

 5 They have to be reminded of cleaning

 6 it up. But, Mr. Voldenberg, I have pictures

 7 sent to me that I will definitely forward to

 8 you so you could pass this onto the proper

 9 departments to address.

10 MR. VOLDENBERG: Thank you, sir.

11 MR. MCANDREW: And you already took

12 care of Third Avenue because some residents

13 reached out to me about Third Avenue. That's

14 near the Elm Street Bridge Project where, you

15 know, since -- since it started, there was

16 redirection of traffic on Third Avenue, mostly

17 trucks.

18 And the poor residents there are

19 dealing with a lot of debris and dirt and dust.

20 And, you know, the people that reached out to

21 me said, you know, before this started there

22 was some Councilmen down there or people and

23 the Mayor -- I wasn't one of them because I

24 don't remember this -- that agreed to do

25 periodic street cleaning because this resident
 43

 1 is like my house is filthy. My car is

 2 constantly filthy, my porch.

 3 It's not just her. It's her

 4 neighbors. So but I did see that you forwarded

 5 this inquiry of mine. And we did get a

 6 response back. So I'd like to let them know

 7 that this is going to happen for them.

 8 Let me see what else here. So I do

 9 want to bring up -- I brought this up a couple

10 weeks in a row. And I reached to our Solicitor

11 to maybe help me out with maybe a little

12 research because -- and as I mentioned, the

13 so-called ghost telephone poles, right, which

14 I'm referring to when the utility company puts

15 a new pole in, they leave the old one, right?

16 I was reminded by a resident there's

17 three at one site in West Scranton and by

18 another resident that it appears to be a

19 danger. I do believe it's a public safety

20 issue. I mean, these poles are dangerous.

21 They could fall. They could hurt somebody,

22 plus they're unsightly.

23 I mean, it's like they're leaving

24 their garbage when they put a new pole in.

25 And, you know, these utility companies come in
 44

 1 here like they stated last week they want to be

 2 good neighbors. They want to be good partners

 3 in our community.

 4 Well, I don't think that that's

 5 being a good partner. I know there is some

 6 legislation in the works at the state level

 7 that should address it or will. But it's

 8 only -- I think it was only passed in the House

 9 and has to go to the Senate.

10 But I did ask Mr. Gilbride if there

11 is anything we could do locally. I don't know

12 if we should wait for the state and then

13 help -- maybe that will help us craft something

14 locally. Can you -- can you touch on that for

15 us, Solicitor Gilbride?

16 ATTY. GILBRIDE: Yeah, in

17 Pennsylvania Public Utility Act, local

18 municipalities are only allowed to pass

19 ordinances with regard to public safety issues

20 regarding ghost poles.

21 And, of course, what designate --

22 what is a ghost pole safety problem is

23 something that the Court decides. So if they

24 are unsightly or whatnot, that's not a reason.

25 You are not allowed to do that. You're
 45

 1 correct. There is legislation moving through

 2 the state legislature right now.

 3 It's kind of been stuck for a while.

 4 So it certainly would be helpful to have some

 5 guidance from the state to know what we will be

 6 able to do or not able to because at this

 7 point, I'm not an engineer.

 8 I'm not an engineer so I can't tell

 9 what a public -- in my opinion on what public

10 safety issue is meaningless. And ultimately it

11 would have to be something a judge would decide

12 if it was -- if that was threatened -- if a

13 lawsuit was threaten by them for trying to

14 force an ordinance through.

15 MR. MCANDREW: All right. Well,

16 thank you.

17 ATTY. GILBRIDE: But I'm not even

18 sure -- truthfully, I'm not even sure how -- we

19 would have to issue whether it from the police

20 or the zoning would have to issue something

21 against them saying you must take this down and

22 then they'd have to file with the court saying,

23 you know, you can't do that. That's not a

24 safety issue.

25 And so then we're just getting into
 46

 1 litigation. So it's really messy with the way

 2 the law is currently situated because there is

 3 no guidance at all other than what is a safety

 4 issue.

 5 I mean, certainly if something is

 6 right in the middle of the road, that's a

 7 safety issue. But does it have to be a foot

 8 off? Does it have to be 6 inches? I -- like,

 9 that's the -- and the case law is not developed

10 on that probably for that reason. Nobody wants

11 to spend money on litigation constantly over

12 something like that.

13 MR. MARK MCANDREW: I get it. I

14 just don't agree with the position of the state

15 allowing the utility companies to actually just

16 leave their -- you know, poles --

17 ATTY. GILBRIDE: Well, the current

18 state of the law in Pennsylvania is they are

19 allowed to do it. That is the law in

20 Pennsylvania.

21 MR. MARK MCANDREW: I know. I don't

22 like it and the residents don't. So let's keep

23 our eye on that legislation. Hopefully it will

24 put us in a direction where we might be able to

25 do something or at least, you know, just
 47

 1 because they don't want to do it doesn't --

 2 just because the utility company say, hey, we

 3 don't have to do it, doesn't mean they

 4 shouldn't when they came that, you know, that

 5 they want to work with us and be good neighbors

 6 and partners.

 7 And -- but they have no problem

 8 raising our, you know, their rates at a whim.

 9 You know, so thank you though for looking into

10 that. We'll just keep our eye on that. And

11 that is all I have. Thank you.

12 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Mr.

13 Voldenberg, two years ago we had a list of over

14 100 double poles in North Scranton and West

15 Side alone. We did turn that list over. Do

16 you recall the -- sorry to put you on the spot.

17 Do you recall the answer we got because I do

18 believe that Don King had reached out and --

19 MR. VOLDENBERG: That's right. He

20 was working with a representative at PPL to

21 resolve it. But they weren't able to do so.

22 MR. SCHUSTER: Can we reach back out

23 to him and see if any of those poles on that

24 list that we gave him if they've been taken

25 care of or if they are still up?
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 1 MR. VOLDENBERG: I have the list.

 2 I'll follow up.

 3 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Mr.

 4 Flynn, do you have any motions or comments?

 5 MR. FLYNN: Yes, thank you. First,

 6 I got word from UGI today that they will be

 7 coming to Electric Street tomorrow to restore

 8 their pave cuts, long overdue.

 9 So I really hope that they get out

10 there tomorrow. It's a nightmare out there.

11 So let's see what happens with that. And then

12 also, you know, I wasn't aware until Mr. Sean

13 McAndrew just talked about taking down some of

14 the encampments and some of the tents.

15 And my hope is that as the city is

16 doing this that they would partner with some of

17 these nonprofits that came before us. And

18 Social Contract last week was talking so much

19 about how all the nonprofits come together so

20 well in Scranton that they would hopefully get

21 some to go out to these sites with DPW or the

22 police or whoever is going out there to offer

23 some services to these individuals as they're

24 losing what is at that point their home to have

25 the availability of services there for them
 49

 1 would be I think not only impactful, but the

 2 right and moral and ethical thing to do as

 3 we're tearing down their tents and their homes

 4 at that point to offer them some sort of

 5 services, whether they may be, whether it be

 6 just, you know, guidance on some of the

 7 shelters or some other more extensive services

 8 that they may need to help themselves.

 9 So, Mr. Voldenberg, if we could

10 please ask the administration if they are doing

11 that; and, if not, if they could please figure

12 out who the right nonprofits are to go out with

13 them as they are doing this to help these

14 individuals get some of these services.

15 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, Mr. Flynn.

16 MR. FLYNN: And that's all I have.

17 Thank you.

18 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. I have a

19 few comments tonight. One, can we just reach

20 out again -- I know we spoke to the

21 administration about the Meadow Brook Project.

22 But can we just reach out to keep that on the

23 radar as to where we are with easements for

24 that project?

25 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, sir.
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 1 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. And it

 2 was mentioned tonight, Grayson, someone in

 3 Fourth Order had mentioned him. He had sent me

 4 several messages online. And I had the chance

 5 to meet him recently. I was glad that he said

 6 hello and expressed some of the -- expressed

 7 some of his opinions with me.

 8 Mark did get the bottom of East

 9 Mountain. On the way to the meeting, I did get

10 a message about 1703 Washburn Street. So that

11 is 1703 Washburn Street just in front of the

12 sidewalk, there's a small subsidence that

13 opened up.

14 They were able to send some

15 pictures. I sent them over to you, Frank.

16 They were able to cover it with their recycling

17 can. So it's a small subsidence about the size

18 of recycling can. If we can send that over

19 to --

20 MR. VOLDENBERG: I received that and

21 I'll follow up.

22 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much.

23 In caucus tonight we did discuss pilots. We

24 did discuss some of the larger nonprofits in

25 the city and trying to follow up on some other
 51

 1 pilots. Frank, can we ask for a list of the

 2 individuals that over the last three years have

 3 sent pilot payments into the city?

 4 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll get that.

 5 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much.

 6 We spoke about some other actions we could

 7 possibly take. But we'll wait until we get

 8 that back before we make any moves or any

 9 action on that. That's all I have for tonight.

10 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-B. FOR

11 INTRODUCTION - AN ORDINANCE - AMENDING THE

12 ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SCRANTON TO

13 AMEND PROVISIONS RELATED TO DATA CENTERS AND

14 RELATED PROVISIONS AS OUTLINED HEREIN.

15 MR. SCHUSTER: At this time I'll

16 entertain a motion that Item 5-B be introduced

17 into its proper committee.

18 MR. FLYNN: So moved.

19 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

20 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question?

21 MR. FLYNN: On the question, I just

22 want to say I'm glad to see this ordinance

23 being introduced tonight -- both of these

24 ordinances. I appreciate the work that went in

25 to putting it together. I believe that these
 52

 1 ordinances put us in a position to be proactive

 2 rather than reactive.

 3 By updating our zoning code now,

 4 we're making sure that if opportunities come to

 5 Scranton down the road, we have the right

 6 safeguards, regulations, and review processes

 7 already in place.

 8 Being proactive with our zoning code

 9 is just good governance. I look forward to

10 continuing to review the proposal, hearing

11 from -- input from stakeholders and residents

12 as we move through this process and just

13 overall excited to see this be introduced and

14 what comes of it. But I'm glad this is being

15 introduced tonight.

16 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much.

17 Anyone else on the question?

18 DR. ROTHCHILD: On the question,

19 Councilman Flynn there took many of the words

20 out of my mouth that I was also thinking in

21 reference to 5-B and 5-C tonight. I'm also

22 happy to be introducing these pieces of

23 legislation.

24 And what's come to my -- the word

25 that's come to mind as well is proactive, being
 53

 1 proactive in doing this and seeing this as a

 2 way to protect the city. It's important to me.

 3 And I know important to the public as well.

 4 But we do need to add definitions

 5 and language into our zoning ordinance because

 6 they do not already exist for data centers.

 7 And that's why I'll be voting on these pieces

 8 tonight. Thank you.

 9 MR. SCHUSTER: Anyone else on the

10 question?

11 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Yeah, I agree

12 with both of my colleagues. I'm very happy

13 that this is proactive or getting it out there.

14 And we're, you know, make sure we're protecting

15 our city. That is the biggest point, make sure

16 we're protecting our city.

17 And I'm also very happy and thankful

18 that the administration is including us in it.

19 President Schuster has been meeting with

20 administration regarding going back and forth,

21 taking our questions.

22 So I think this is a great example

23 where we could work together to provide a great

24 ordinance to protect our city. So I'm very

25 happy to be voting on this and looking forward
 54

 1 to working together to create the ordinance.

 2 Thanks.

 3 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much.

 4 Also on the question?

 5 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Yeah, on the

 6 question, so the law -- so it's clear to the

 7 public that we're not just introducing

 8 legislation because we want data centers in the

 9 city.

10 The law requires us to allow four to

11 eight percent of land in Scranton for data

12 centers, doesn't mean I like it. It doesn't

13 mean I'm personally for data centers. But like

14 stated earlier, we don't have anything on the

15 books related to data centers.

16 So when we don't have anything on

17 the books when people come before zoning, there

18 might be a perception that they're allowed.

19 So, of course, if you look at the legislation,

20 we're voting on introducing amending or

21 provision on zoning or for zoning that didn't

22 exist.

23 But we're going to have the ability

24 to amend, supplement, or repeal. And I could

25 tell you, I will, you know, and I'm sure my
 55

 1 colleagues will do our due diligence to protect

 2 the city and regulate these data centers.

 3 And we have time to do it. So I'm

 4 glad we're introducing it. I'm glad we're

 5 voting on it so we could work on it. Like I

 6 said, it doesn't mean I'm for them. It doesn't

 7 mean I like them. But we'll have the

 8 opportunity to do it right on behalf of all of

 9 you.

10 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Also on

11 the question, everything that has been stated

12 before me I have the similar sentiments. We're

13 taking a proactive stance to protect the

14 interest of city. There's several state --

15 pieces of state legislation regarding same

16 topic.

17 So it's going to give us the time to

18 see how those -- that state legislation pans

19 out. It's going to give us time for public

20 input and public comment. And I'm happy we're

21 going to be moving -- introducing and having

22 discussion on this topic as we move forward.

23 All those in favor of introduction signify by

24 saying aye.

25 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.
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 1 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Aye.

 2 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Aye.

 3 MR. FLYNN: Aye.

 4 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. Opposed? The

 5 ayes it and so moved.

 6 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-C. FOR

 7 INTRODUCTION - AN ORDINANCE - AMENDING THE

 8 ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SCRANTON TO

 9 AMEND PROVISIONS RELATED TO DATA CENTERS AND

10 RELATED PROVISION AS OUTLINED HEREIN.

11 MR. SCHUSTER: At this time I'll

12 entertain a motion that Item 5-C be introduced

13 into its proper committee.

14 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

15 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question? All

16 those in favor of introduction signify by

17 saying aye.

18 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

19 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Aye.

20 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Aye.

21 MR. FLYNN: Aye.

22 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. Opposed? The

23 ayes it and so moved.

24 MR. FLYNN: I make a motion to table

25 items 5-B and 5-C.
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 1 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Second.

 2 MR. SCHUSTER: There's a motion on

 3 the floor and a second to table items 5-B and

 4 5-C. These ordinances are being tabled until a

 5 public hearing can be held at a later date. On

 6 the question? All those in favor signify by

 7 saying aye.

 8 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

 9 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Aye.

10 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Aye.

11 MR. FLYNN: Aye.

12 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. Opposed? The

13 ayes it and so moved.

14 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-D. FOR

15 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - AUTHORIZING AND

16 APPROVING THE EXECUTION AND SUBMISSION OF A

17 FISCAL YEAR 2027 FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS

18 COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING REQUEST APPLICATION

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

20 FOR THE PURCHASE OF POLICE TECHNOLOGY AND

21 EQUIPMENT.

22 MR. SCHUSTER: At this time I'll

23 entertain a motion that Item 5-D be introduced

24 into its proper committee.

25 MR. FLYNN: So moved.
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 1 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

 2 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question? All

 3 those in favor of introduction signify by

 4 saying aye.

 5 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

 6 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Aye.

 7 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Aye.

 8 MR. FLYNN: Aye.

 9 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. Opposed? The

10 ayes it and so moved.

11 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-E. FOR

12 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - AUTHORIZING AND

13 APPROVING THE EXECUTION AND SUBMISSION OF A

14 FISCAL YEAR 2027 FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS

15 COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING REQUEST APPLICATION

16 BY THE CITY OF SCRANTON FOR UP TO $529,879.00

17 FOR THE PINE BROOK BROWNFIELD CLEANUP AND SITE

18 PREPARATION PROJECT.

19 MR. SCHUSTER: At this time I'll

20 entertain a motion that Item 5-E be introduced

21 into its proper committee.

22 MR. MCANDREW: So moved.

23 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

24 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question? All

25 those in favor of introduction signify by
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 1 saying aye.

 2 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

 3 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Aye.

 4 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Aye.

 5 MR. FLYNN: Aye.

 6 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. Opposed? The

 7 ayes it and so moved.

 8 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-F. FOR

 9 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - AUTHORIZING AND

10 APPROVING THE EXECUTION AND SUBMISSION OF A

11 FISCAL YEAR 2027 FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS

12 COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING REQUEST APPLICATION

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

14 FOR THE PITTSTON AVENUE INFRASTRUCTURE

15 STREETSCAPE PROJECT.

16 MR. SCHUSTER: At this time I'll

17 entertain a motion that Item 5-F be introduced

18 into its proper committee.

19 MR. FLYNN: So moved.

20 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

21 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question? All

22 those in favor of introduction signify by

23 saying aye.

24 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

25 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Aye.
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 1 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Aye.

 2 MR. FLYNN: Aye.

 3 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. Opposed? The

 4 ayes it and so moved.

 5 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-G. FOR

 6 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - AUTHORIZING AND

 7 APPROVING THE EXECUTION AND SUBMISSION OF A

 8 FISCAL YEAR 2027 FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS

 9 COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING REQUEST APPLICATION

10 BY THE CITY OF SCRANTON FOR UP TO $500,000 FOR

11 THE FRANCIS WILLARD SCHOOLYARD PROJECT.

12 MR. SCHUSTER: At this time I'll

13 entertain a motion that Item 5-G be introduced

14 into its proper committee.

15 MR. FLYNN: So moved.

16 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

17 MR. SCHUSTER: All those in favor of

18 introduction signify by saying aye.

19 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

20 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Aye.

21 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Aye.

22 MR. FLYNN: Aye.

23 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. Opposed? The

24 ayes it and so moved.

25 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-H. FOR
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 1 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - AUTHORIZING AND

 2 APPROVING THE EXECUTION AND SUBMISSION OF A

 3 FISCAL YEAR 2027 FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS

 4 COMMUNITY PROJECT FUNDING REQUEST APPLICATION

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

 6 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EMERGENCY OPERATIONS

 7 AND TRAINING CENTER (EOC).

 8 MR. SCHUSTER: At this time I'll

 9 entertain a motion that Item 5-H be introduced

10 into its proper committee.

11 MR. FLYNN: So moved.

12 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Second.

13 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question?

14 All those in favor of introduction signify by

15 saying aye.

16 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye.

17 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Aye.

18 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Aye.

19 MR. FLYNN: Aye.

20 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. Opposed? The

21 ayes it and so moved.

22 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-I. FOR

23 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - AUTHORIZING THE

24 MAYOR AND OTHER APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS TO

25 EXECUTE AND ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH RHL
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 1 COMPANIES, INC. TO PERFORM LINDY CREEK

 2 STORMWATER IMPROVEMENTS.

 3 MR. SCHUSTER: At this time I'll

 4 entertain a motion that Item 5-I be introduced

 5 into its proper committee.

 6 MR. FLYNN: So moved.

 7 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.

 8 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question? All

 9 those in favor of introduction signify by

10 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.

17 MR. VOLDENBERG: SIXTH ORDER. No

18 business at this time.

19 SEVENTH ORDER. 7-A. FOR

20 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY

21 DEVELOPMENT - FOR ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO. 28,

22 2026 - AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND OTHER

23 APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS TO REQUEST FUNDING

24 FROM LACKAWANNA COUNTY'S ART AND CULTURE

25 DEPARTMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE COUNTY'S
 63

 1 AMERICA250PA INITIATIVE.

 2 MR. SCHUSTER: What is the

 3 recommendation of the Chairperson from the

 4 Committee on Community Development?

 5 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: As Chairperson

 6 for the Committee on Community Development, 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 SAFETY - FOR ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO. 29,

25 2026 - AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND OTHER
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 1 APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS TO SUBMIT A GRANT

 2 APPLICATION FOR A PENN DOT GREEN LIGHT GO

 3 PROGRAM IN THE AMOUNT OF $402,220.00 TO BE USED

 4 TOWARDS UPGRADES AT THE INTERSECTION OF

 5 PROVIDENCE ROAD AND ALBRIGHT AVENUE.

 6 MR. SCHUSTER: What is the

 7 recommendation of the Chairperson on the

 8 Committee on Public Safety?

 9 MR. MARK MCANDREW: As Chairperson

10 for the Committee on Public Safety, I recommend

11 final passage of Item 7-B.

12 MR. FLYNN: Second.

13 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Second.

14 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question?

15 Roll call, please.

16 MS. CARRERA: Dr. Rothchild.

17 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes.

18 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Sean McAndrew.

19 MR. SEAN MCANDREW: Yes.

20 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Mark McAndrew.

21 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Yes.

22 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Flynn.

23 MR. FLYNN: Yes.

24 MS. CARRERA: Mr. Schuster.

25 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. I hereby
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 1 declare Item 7-B legally and lawfully adopted.

 2 MR. VOLDENBERG: EIGHTH ORDER has no

 3 business at this time.

 4 MR. SCHUSTER: If there's no further

 5 business, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

 6 MR. MARK MCANDREW: Motion to

 7 adjourn.

 8 MR. SCHUSTER: This meeting is

 9 adjourned. Good night.

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behalf [1] - 55:8 bunch [2] - 20:5, 54:8, 54:12, 54:13, cleanup [5] - 6:19, concern [1] - 33:2
behavioral [2] - 28:15, 40:24 54:15, 55:2 6:23, 7:15, 9:24, concerned [2] - 34:11,
 29:6 burden [3] - 11:24, CENTERS [2] - 51:13, 25:3 41:15
Behavioral [1] - 29:4 12:4, 13:23 56:9 CLEANUP [1] - 58:17 concerning [1] - 33:15
behind [1] - 33:18 bus [2] - 10:23, 28:17 cents [1] - 7:9 clear [2] - 29:20, 54:6 concision [1] - 20:2
believes [1] - 20:15 BUSINESS [1] - 3:22 certainly [4] - 7:7, CLERK [2] - 2:8, 2:9 concrete [1] - 41:19
bell [1] - 26:12 business [4] - 20:12, 29:14, 45:4, 46:5 Clinton [1] - 21:5 condemnations [1] -
benefit [1] - 11:18 62:18, 65:3, 65:5 certificate [1] - 66:22 close [1] - 38:22 31:10
best [3] - 14:5, 17:7, buy [3] - 7:9, 40:12, certify [1] - 66:3 closed [1] - 33:18 condemned [3] -
 66:6 40:21 certifying [1] - 66:25 cocky [1] - 18:14 30:16, 31:4, 31:20
better [1] - 20:8 buy-in [1] - 40:21 Chairperson [4] - code [2] - 52:3, 52:8 condition [1] - 31:13
Biden [1] - 21:3 buying [1] - 20:19 63:3, 63:5, 64:7, Code [1] - 36:4 conditions [1] - 22:12
Bidenize [1] - 21:2 BY [7] - 57:19, 58:16, 64:9 colleagues [3] - 6:14, confidential [4] -
big [5] - 20:9, 20:19, 59:13, 60:10, 61:5, CHAMBERS [1] - 1:12 53:12, 55:1 33:11, 33:17, 34:9,
 21:21, 29:13, 41:7 62:20, 63:23 chance [1] - 50:4 collect [4] - 12:23, 38:8
biggest [1] - 53:15 change [3] - 20:20, 13:17, 13:18, 13:25 confirmation [1] -
billboard [10] - 34:18, com [1] - 4:20 37:22
 C 34:24, 40:13
 34:23, 34:24, 36:20, changing [1] - 27:1 coming [8] - 16:8, Congress [1] - 29:19
 36:21, 36:25, 37:3, call-in [1] - 25:23 charged [1] - 8:13 16:23, 21:11, 27:3, consider [1] - 25:10
 37:10, 37:11, 37:13 callouts [2] - 25:4, charges [1] - 14:12 28:1, 39:5, 40:17, CONSIDERATION [2]
bills [2] - 13:16, 24:23 25:18 charitable [1] - 11:16 48:7 - 62:20, 63:23
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considered [1] - 11:14 court [2] - 31:5, 45:22 14:8 district [2] - 11:23, dust [1] - 42:19
constantly [2] - 43:2, cover [2] - 25:18, definitely [2] - 34:11, 12:19
 46:11 50:16 42:7 document [3] - 33:4, E
CONSTRUCTION [1] - covered [1] - 23:22 definitions [1] - 53:4 33:8, 38:8
 61:6 covers [3] - 16:9, delays [1] - 34:5 dollars [1] - 14:13 e-mailed [1] - 40:4
contained [1] - 66:4 16:18, 23:2 delinquent [1] - 14:2 domes [1] - 27:15 easements [1] - 49:23
continue [4] - 4:10, COYNE [1] - 21:24 demanding [1] - 32:20 Don [1] - 47:18 East [3] - 41:15,
 25:8, 31:11, 41:10 Coyne [1] - 21:24 demolition [5] - 30:7, donate [1] - 11:17 41:16, 50:8
continuing [1] - 52:10 cracks [1] - 16:2 30:11, 30:17, 30:21, done [6] - 15:15, east [1] - 27:9
contract [1] - 9:10 craft [1] - 44:13 31:19 16:14, 20:4, 33:14, Easter [1] - 4:15
Contract [1] - 48:18 crazy [2] - 28:25 demolitions [2] - 34:1, 41:24 easy [1] - 22:6
CONTRACT [1] - create [1] - 54:1 30:24, 31:9 doors [1] - 33:18 echo [1] - 5:20
 61:25 creating [1] - 30:16 department [3] - 5:15, dot [1] - 4:20 editorials [1] - 26:22
contractors [1] - credit [2] - 8:20, 39:20 24:21, 34:21 DOT [2] - 24:17, 64:2 efficient [1] - 27:17
 24:25 CREEK [1] - 62:1 DEPARTMENT [1] - double [1] - 47:14 efforts [2] - 6:11, 8:5
control [2] - 5:23, crews [1] - 25:20 62:25 down [15] - 15:18, egg [1] - 4:15
 66:24 crime [2] - 28:16, departments [6] - 5:5, 16:8, 18:9, 29:1, eight [2] - 28:19,
CONTROLLER'S [1] - 28:23 5:6, 5:22, 6:5, 7:14, 31:2, 36:12, 36:16, 54:11
 3:24 crimes [1] - 28:21 42:9 37:17, 37:20, 40:17, EIGHTH [1] - 65:2
conversation [2] - cross [2] - 24:5, 25:16 deploy [1] - 25:1 42:22, 45:21, 48:13, elected [1] - 21:12
 14:17, 32:12 CULTURE [1] - 62:24 described [1] - 13:13 49:3, 52:5 Electric [2] - 4:17,
cool [1] - 41:9 current [2] - 35:10, deserve [2] - 12:13, downtime [1] - 23:24 48:7
copy [4] - 34:7, 37:5, 46:17 12:18 downtown [3] - 6:19, electricity [1] - 19:25
 37:8, 66:5 cuts [3] - 16:1, 16:6, designate [1] - 44:21 8:3, 9:6 electronically [1] -
corner [2] - 4:16, 48:8 destroy [1] - 27:7 DPW [14] - 5:6, 5:21, 40:11
 16:15 details [1] - 23:5 6:6, 6:18, 7:15, 9:9, eligibility [1] - 32:5
corners [1] - 16:11 D determine [3] - 14:4, 9:16, 9:24, 10:3, Ellman [1] - 19:1
correct [7] - 9:25, 30:15, 32:4 24:7, 24:20, 25:1, ELLMAN [1] - 19:14
 35:25, 36:9, 36:17, daily [1] - 29:15 determines [1] - 11:13 37:19, 48:21 Elm [1] - 42:14
 36:22, 45:1, 66:6 damn [1] - 7:22 developed [1] - 46:9 dr [2] - 63:11, 64:16 emergencies [2] -
cost [1] - 10:17 danger [1] - 43:19 DEVELOPMENT [1] - Dr [4] - 3:9, 5:20, 30:2, 22:13, 25:24
council [1] - 19:16 dangerous [1] - 43:20 62:21 31:16 EMERGENCY [1] -
Council [21] - 4:4, Danville [1] - 28:14 Development [2] - DR [25] - 3:10, 5:1, 61:6
 4:24, 11:3, 11:4, data [11] - 21:25, 63:4, 63:6 30:4, 31:17, 31:23, emergency [3] -
 11:8, 12:1, 14:20, 22:14, 23:1, 27:3, died [1] - 20:11 51:19, 52:18, 55:25, 24:14, 24:18, 25:21
 14:25, 18:13, 19:14, 27:5, 53:6, 54:8, different [1] - 7:8 56:14, 56:18, 57:8, employees [2] - 14:19,
 21:23, 22:1, 29:24, 54:11, 54:13, 54:15, digital [3] - 34:24, 58:1, 58:5, 58:23, 30:15
 31:12, 32:19, 33:25, 55:2 36:25, 37:10 59:2, 59:20, 59:24, enact [3] - 14:6, 14:7,
 35:3, 35:22, 36:13, DATA [2] - 51:13, 56:9 dilemma [1] - 8:5 60:16, 60:19, 61:16, 14:9
 36:14, 36:16 date [2] - 4:20, 57:5 diligence [1] - 55:1 62:7, 62:11, 63:8, encampments [1] -
COUNCIL [3] - 1:1, dates [1] - 9:15 direct [1] - 66:24 63:12, 64:17 48:14
 1:12, 2:10 daughter [1] - 17:11 direction [2] - 37:20, drains [1] - 14:7 end [3] - 6:25, 15:11,
Councilman [1] - days [2] - 9:9, 23:20 46:24 draw [1] - 11:9 35:23
 52:19 deadline [1] - 36:4 Director [1] - 24:7 drawn [1] - 16:13 ENDED [1] - 3:25
Councilmen [1] - deal [1] - 22:9 director [1] - 17:24 drive [1] - 25:20 ended [1] - 17:22
 42:22 dealing [1] - 42:19 dirt [3] - 15:6, 15:12, driver's [2] - 18:18, energy [2] - 27:17,
country [2] - 21:2, debris [2] - 42:1, 42:19 23:24 35:13
 29:3 42:19 disappointed [1] - drivers [5] - 23:14, engineer [2] - 45:7,
county [4] - 11:23, debt [2] - 12:24, 13:19 5:10 23:15, 23:21, 24:4, 45:8
 12:20, 14:12, 32:2 deceive [1] - 14:1 discount [3] - 8:8, 25:17 engineers [1] - 34:2
COUNTY'S [2] - 62:24, decide [1] - 45:11 8:11, 10:22 driving [2] - 16:6, enjoy [3] - 5:8, 6:21,
 62:25 decided [1] - 19:16 discuss [4] - 9:24, 18:22 8:22
couple [6] - 30:4, decides [1] - 44:23 34:7, 50:23, 50:24 drones [1] - 27:14 enjoyable [1] - 6:7
 30:6, 39:2, 39:3, decision [1] - 36:5 discussed [1] - 38:11 droughts [1] - 22:14 enjoyed [1] - 6:16
 39:22, 43:9 declare [2] - 63:21, discussion [2] - 42:1, drove [2] - 6:19, 15:7 ENTER [1] - 61:25
course [2] - 44:21, 65:1 55:22 due [2] - 29:9, 55:1 entering [1] - 42:3
 54:19 declared [1] - 29:17 dispense [1] - 3:19 dumped [1] - 41:18 entertain [9] - 51:16,
Court [5] - 1:24, deemed [1] - 38:10 display [3] - 40:18, Dunmore [1] - 15:23 56:12, 57:23, 58:20,
 28:19, 36:6, 44:23, defective [2] - 14:7, 41:8, 41:10 during [4] - 8:24, 21:7, 59:17, 60:13, 61:9,
 66:11 displayed [1] - 40:20 22:12, 22:13 62:4, 65:5
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entire [2] - 24:10, family [4] - 6:17, 7:16, FLYNN [25] - 2:3, 3:16, fun [1] - 18:24 4:19, 15:2, 15:18,
 33:22 40:11, 41:11 4:6, 48:5, 49:16, functioning [1] - 15:23, 16:12, 16:16,
entirely [1] - 11:24 fan [1] - 16:24 51:18, 51:21, 56:3, 35:15 16:17, 19:5, 19:11,
entity [1] - 12:11 fantastic [1] - 26:16 56:21, 56:24, 57:11, FUNDING [6] - 57:18, 39:12
entry [1] - 4:18 fast [3] - 6:23, 10:24, 57:25, 58:8, 59:5, 58:15, 59:12, 60:9, GREEN [1] - 64:2
environment [1] - 7:17 27:1 59:19, 60:2, 60:15, 61:4, 62:23 grid [1] - 22:14
EOC) [1] - 61:7 faster [2] - 29:16 60:22, 61:11, 61:19, future [3] - 13:22, group [2] - 30:14,
EQUIPMENT [1] - favor [9] - 55:23, 62:6, 62:14, 63:18, 27:17, 27:18 30:19
 57:21 56:16, 57:6, 58:3, 64:12, 64:23 guess [2] - 8:7, 29:22
equipment [1] - 20:10 58:25, 59:22, 60:17, flynn [2] - 63:17, 64:22 G guidance [4] - 12:16,
especially [3] - 5:11, 61:14, 62:9 Foley [1] - 17:12 45:5, 46:3, 49:6
 15:24, 27:10 FEBRUARY [2] - 3:22, follow [4] - 25:7, 48:2, gaining [1] - 22:10
ESQ [1] - 2:10 3:25 50:21, 50:25 game [3] - 17:18, H
established [1] - Federal [1] - 24:14 following [1] - 10:5 17:25, 18:8
 12:10 FEDERAL [5] - 57:17, followup [1] - 30:12 games [5] - 17:8, half [1] - 6:24
ethical [1] - 49:2 58:14, 59:11, 60:8, foot [1] - 46:7 17:15, 17:20, 18:7, handles [1] - 40:22
evaluation [1] - 25:15 61:3 footage [1] - 13:9 18:20 hang [2] - 26:5, 39:21
evening [4] - 11:4, fees [1] - 14:3 FOR [25] - 1:1, 3:24, garage [6] - 8:7, 8:12, happy [14] - 4:7, 4:11,
 14:19, 14:24, 21:24 few [3] - 4:6, 33:1, 51:10, 56:6, 57:14, 8:15, 8:21, 9:4, 5:19, 6:3, 6:15, 7:13,
event [1] - 25:3 49:19 57:19, 57:20, 58:11, 24:20 14:21, 33:7, 33:9,
everywhere [2] - Fidelity [2] - 33:3, 58:16, 58:17, 59:8, garages [1] - 13:8 52:22, 53:12, 53:17,
 21:15, 22:3 33:22 59:13, 59:14, 60:5, garbage [1] - 43:24 53:25, 55:20
evidence [1] - 66:4 Fifth [1] - 26:1 60:10, 60:25, 61:5, garden [2] - 40:12, HARB [1] - 36:11
example [2] - 34:16, FIFTH [2] - 26:3, 29:25 61:6, 61:22, 62:19, 41:8 HARB's [1] - 36:4
 53:22 fighting [1] - 27:14 62:21, 63:22, 63:24, gas [1] - 20:16 hard [4] - 5:15, 26:8,
exception [4] - 22:8, fights [1] - 7:10 64:2 Gattens [2] - 39:10, 26:11, 29:21
 22:10, 22:19, 23:1 figure [2] - 13:13, forbids [1] - 24:12 39:11 hardworking [1] -
excessive [1] - 25:18 49:11 force [1] - 45:14 Geisinger [2] - 28:13, 14:19
excited [1] - 52:13 file [3] - 40:5, 40:10, foregoing [1] - 66:22 28:24 Harris [1] - 21:5
excuse [3] - 7:6, 45:22 forest [1] - 19:19 Gerard [1] - 41:13 head [1] - 38:15
 10:21, 24:24 filed [1] - 4:4 forgot [1] - 15:17 ghost [3] - 43:13, headphones [1] -
excuses [1] - 32:15 fill [1] - 10:24 former [1] - 29:11 44:20, 44:22 26:10
EXECUTE [1] - 61:25 filthy [2] - 43:1, 43:2 forth [1] - 53:20 Gilbride [6] - 13:11, health [2] - 28:15,
EXECUTION [5] - final [3] - 17:7, 63:7, fortunate [1] - 19:18 34:19, 36:8, 38:7, 29:7
 57:16, 58:13, 59:10, 64:11 forward [6] - 34:12, 44:10, 44:15 Health [1] - 29:4
 60:7, 61:2 finalize [1] - 13:24 36:6, 42:7, 52:9, GILBRIDE [8] - 2:10, hear [4] - 10:10,
executive [1] - 33:5 finally [1] - 15:10 53:25, 55:22 35:1, 36:18, 38:14, 10:11, 26:8, 26:11
exempt [1] - 32:3 fine [2] - 22:24, 39:22 forwarded [1] - 43:4 38:21, 44:16, 45:17, heard [3] - 9:12, 9:21,
exist [2] - 53:6, 54:22 fines [2] - 14:6, 14:8 four [5] - 11:22, 17:7, 46:17 19:17
 finest [1] - 17:12 23:15, 28:19, 54:10 Gilbride's [1] - 12:15 hearing [4] - 11:21,
expanding [1] - 13:8
 finger [1] - 13:14 FOURTH [1] - 7:1 given [1] - 35:9 34:14, 52:10, 57:5
expired [1] - 9:10
 finish [1] - 15:14 Fourth [1] - 50:3 glad [6] - 21:25, 50:5, hearings [1] - 22:9
explosions [1] - 20:16
 Fire [1] - 5:6 FRANCIS [1] - 60:11 51:22, 52:14, 55:4 heavy [1] - 6:10
expressed [2] - 50:6
 fire [2] - 24:21, 41:21 Frank [2] - 26:6, 50:15 gmail [1] - 4:20 held [1] - 57:5
extends [1] - 24:16
 firefighters [1] - 6:6 frank [1] - 51:1 GO [1] - 64:2 HELD [1] - 1:4
extension [2] - 38:12,
 first [11] - 4:7, 6:14, FRANK [1] - 2:8 governance [1] - 52:9 hell [1] - 27:24
 38:16
 7:3, 12:23, 13:3, free [4] - 4:18, 8:16, government [3] - hello [2] - 26:7, 50:6
extensive [1] - 49:7
 15:1, 18:8, 21:25, 9:3, 11:24 21:10, 26:25, 29:11 help [11] - 5:22, 5:24,
extremely [1] - 34:8
 23:3, 30:5, 48:5 Friday [6] - 8:10, 15:8, GRANT [1] - 64:1 12:18, 13:22, 14:14,
eye [2] - 46:23, 47:10
 FISCAL [5] - 57:17, 15:19, 23:12, 33:8 granted [1] - 36:6 41:3, 43:11, 44:13,
eyesores [1] - 21:21
 58:14, 59:11, 60:8, friend [1] - 20:21 Grayson [2] - 18:18, 49:8, 49:13
 61:3 Friends [3] - 10:13, 50:2 helpful [1] - 45:4
 F 10:16, 10:21 great [11] - 4:8, 6:9, hereby [3] - 63:20,
 fist [1] - 7:10
face [1] - 41:5 five [3] - 11:24, 23:14, friends [1] - 20:11 6:16, 6:20, 7:21, 8:5, 64:25, 66:3
facilities [2] - 22:17, 23:18 FROM [2] - 3:22, 39:18, 39:25, 40:15, HEREIN [2] - 51:14,
  24:19 fixed [1] - 22:15 62:24 53:22, 53:23 56:10
factoring [1] - 23:23 flag [2] - 40:12, 40:17 front [1] - 50:11 greatest [2] - 26:14, hero [1] - 39:6
fair [2] - 12:6, 13:10 floor [1] - 57:3 frustration [1] - 12:1 26:15 Hetman [1] - 41:13
fall [1] - 43:21 Flynn [4] - 3:15, 48:4, full [2] - 20:9, 25:2 greatly [1] - 26:18 Hi [1] - 18:10
 49:15, 52:19 fully [1] - 66:4 Green [11] - 4:13, high [1] - 41:23
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highly [1] - 20:3 53:3 58:12, 59:9, 60:6, lady [1] - 17:6 limits [1] - 14:11
Hill [1] - 5:11 improvement [1] - 61:1, 61:23 land [2] - 13:9, 54:11 LINDY [1] - 62:1
hiring [1] - 25:17 7:21 involved [2] - 5:13, language [1] - 53:5 line [1] - 16:13
hitting [3] - 16:10, IMPROVEMENTS [1] - 6:7 larger [1] - 50:24 list [12] - 25:24, 30:17,
 16:17, 16:18 62:2 iron [1] - 27:15 last [19] - 7:13, 15:3, 30:22, 31:19, 32:9,
Hodowanitz [2] - 7:4, IN [2] - 62:25, 64:3 issue [9] - 22:2, 35:2, 15:5, 15:18, 17:19, 32:13, 32:20, 47:13,
 7:5 INC [1] - 62:1 43:20, 45:10, 45:19, 19:14, 25:19, 26:12, 47:15, 47:24, 48:1,
HODOWANITZ [3] - inches [1] - 46:8 45:20, 45:24, 46:4, 26:13, 30:5, 31:25, 51:1
 7:5, 9:22, 10:2 include [1] - 13:8 46:7 32:1, 33:2, 34:19, listed [1] - 24:2
hold [2] - 21:6, 31:6 included [2] - 19:5, issued [1] - 36:24 35:23, 39:23, 44:1, listen [1] - 10:4
holidays [2] - 40:14, 23:16 issues [3] - 11:9, 48:18, 51:2 listening [1] - 19:21
 40:19 including [2] - 23:14, 22:14, 44:19 late [1] - 36:15 listing [1] - 23:8
home [4] - 13:9, 41:4, 53:18 Item [12] - 51:16, law [7] - 34:21, 46:2, lit [1] - 41:20
 41:7, 48:24 income [1] - 12:20 56:12, 57:23, 58:20, 46:9, 46:18, 46:19, litigation [2] - 46:1,
homeless [2] - 37:16, incorrect [1] - 38:18 59:17, 60:13, 61:9, 54:6, 54:10 46:11
 37:21 increases [1] - 12:19 62:4, 63:7, 63:21, Law [1] - 27:23 littered [1] - 16:6
homeowner [1] - 15:1 indefinite [1] - 11:19 64:11, 65:1 lawfully [2] - 63:21, LITTLE [1] - 26:7
homes [1] - 49:3 individuals [3] - items [3] - 4:3, 56:25, 65:1 live [1] - 18:12
hometown [1] - 39:6 48:23, 49:14, 51:2 57:3 laws [1] - 14:1 load [1] - 41:18
honest [6] - 12:4, ineligible [1] - 32:10 Laws [1] - 26:23 local [1] - 44:17
 12:17, 12:24, 13:15, inexpensively [1] - J lawsuit [1] - 45:13 locally [2] - 44:11,
 13:23, 14:15 41:1 lead [1] - 41:3 44:14
honestly [2] - 20:15, inflated [1] - 12:5 January [3] - 17:9, leading [1] - 17:10 LOCATION [1] - 1:10
 32:15 information [12] - 23:12, 23:13 learn [1] - 26:16 locations [1] - 22:15
hope [10] - 4:8, 4:9, 9:19, 12:2, 12:8, Jaworskis [1] - 40:22 least [3] - 10:20, 21:7, longstanding [1] -
 4:10, 4:21, 6:16, 12:25, 13:20, 31:8, JESSICA [1] - 2:5 46:25 31:19
 9:10, 10:2, 18:18, 31:16, 34:21, 35:8, Jill [3] - 17:12, 17:13, leave [2] - 43:15, look [6] - 14:2, 28:17,
 48:9, 48:15 35:9, 35:16, 35:20 17:14 46:16 30:9, 36:16, 52:9,
hopefully [7] - 15:11, informed [1] - 35:4 Joan [2] - 7:4, 7:5 leaving [1] - 43:23 54:19
 15:13, 15:14, 18:5, INFRASTRUCTURE job [1] - 6:9 Lebanon [1] - 27:11 looked [1] - 6:20
 18:20, 46:23, 48:20 [1] - 59:14 jobs [1] - 20:1 left [1] - 17:18 looking [3] - 16:4,
horizon [1] - 9:11 INITIATIVE [1] - 63:1 judge [1] - 45:11 legal [4] - 29:7, 29:8, 47:9, 53:25
Hospital [1] - 28:24 input [2] - 52:11, judges [1] - 28:20 29:9, 29:12 lookout [1] - 42:2
hosting [1] - 4:14 55:20 jumped [1] - 22:4 legally [3] - 31:5, looks [2] - 23:4, 36:5
hotel [2] - 14:10 inquiry [1] - 43:5 63:21, 65:1 losing [1] - 48:24
hour [5] - 6:24, 8:8, inspection [4] - 33:3, K legislation [8] - 44:6, love [1] - 18:14
 8:13, 24:15, 24:21 33:10, 33:17, 38:13 45:1, 46:23, 52:23, luck [2] - 17:7, 18:22
hours [8] - 8:12, 8:13, inspections [3] - KATHY [1] - 2:9 54:8, 54:19, 55:15,
 8:16, 8:21, 9:3, 33:25, 34:1, 34:6 keep [6] - 5:24, 7:15, 55:18
 34:14, 46:22, 47:10, M
 24:11, 24:12, 24:19 installation [1] - 36:25 legislature [1] - 45:2
house [2] - 20:15, 49:22 Les [4] - 14:22, 14:25, mailed [1] - 40:4
 institution [1] - 26:14
 43:1 keeping [1] - 6:7 18:10, 19:1 maintain [1] - 5:16
 insufficient [1] - 25:1
House [1] - 44:8 kettle [1] - 20:25 letter [2] - 32:2, 32:19 man [2] - 18:9, 18:16
 interest [1] - 55:14
Housing [1] - 27:25 kill [1] - 21:14 letters [1] - 32:3 managers [1] - 24:8
 INTERSECTION [1] -
HUD [1] - 28:4 64:4 kind [2] - 41:25, 45:3 level [2] - 23:4, 44:6 Mancini [2] - 11:2,
hunt [2] - 4:15, 4:19 INTO [1] - 61:25 kinds [2] - 7:11, 20:10 Library [4] - 7:25, 11:20
HUP [4] - 11:6, 11:11, introduced [11] - King [1] - 47:18 8:23, 8:24, 10:13 MANCINI [2] - 11:3,
 11:12, 13:24 51:16, 51:23, 52:13, knowing [1] - 35:21 library [10] - 8:1, 8:3, 11:22
hurt [1] - 43:21 52:15, 56:12, 57:23, knows [2] - 16:24, 8:4, 8:11, 8:15, 8:20, mandated [1] - 24:5
 58:20, 59:17, 60:13, 36:1 9:2, 26:14, 26:15, mandatory [2] - 22:13,
 Kranson [1] - 17:10
 I 61:9, 62:4 26:18 23:24
 introducing [5] - license [3] - 23:18, manhole [2] - 16:9,
idea [5] - 18:1, 18:3, 52:22, 54:7, 54:20, L 23:25, 24:8 16:18
  39:25, 40:2, 40:15 55:4, 55:21 licenses [1] - 23:11 MARCH [1] - 3:25
ignite [1] - 41:21 lack [1] - 35:19
 introduction [8] - life [1] - 29:18 March [2] - 1:7, 4:15
impactful [1] - 49:1 LACKAWANNA [1] -
 55:23, 56:16, 58:3, lift [1] - 6:10 Maria [2] - 1:24, 66:10
impediments [1] - 8:2 58:25, 59:22, 60:18, 62:24
 LIGHT [1] - 64:2 mark [1] - 50:8
importance [1] - 32:19 61:14, 62:9 lacks [3] - 23:4, 23:9,
 limbo [1] - 11:11 Mark [5] - 3:13, 12:1,
important [5] - 11:9, INTRODUCTION [8] - 34:12
 limit [1] - 12:10 38:25, 63:15, 64:20
  12:16, 14:16, 53:2, 51:11, 56:7, 57:15, ladies [1] - 21:6
 limitations [1] - 13:17 MARK [21] - 2:4, 3:14,
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 6:2, 41:14, 46:13, 38:24, 50:9, 53:19, 60:13, 61:9, 62:4, 57:25, 58:2, 58:6, new [6] - 19:18, 20:14,
 46:21, 54:5, 56:2, 65:8 65:5, 65:6 58:7, 58:8, 58:9, 20:20, 33:24, 43:15,
 56:20, 57:1, 57:10, meetings [5] - 9:13, MOTIONS [2] - 26:4, 58:11, 58:19, 58:22, 43:24
 58:7, 59:4, 60:1, 9:15, 16:23, 18:13 30:1 58:24, 59:3, 59:4, newspaper [2] -
 60:21, 61:18, 62:13, member [3] - 10:16, motions [4] - 30:3, 59:5, 59:6, 59:8, 26:19, 26:21
 63:16, 64:9, 64:21, 10:21, 12:1 32:25, 39:1, 48:4 59:16, 59:19, 59:21, Newspaper [1] - 26:20
 65:6 members [4] - 4:5, motive [1] - 11:25 59:25, 60:1, 60:2, next [8] - 9:9, 11:1,
marked [2] - 33:11, 4:24, 31:12, 40:11 Motor [1] - 24:14 60:3, 60:5, 60:12, 14:18, 14:22, 15:15,
 34:9 membership [1] - Mountain [3] - 41:16, 60:15, 60:17, 60:20, 19:1, 35:11, 37:15
MAYOR [3] - 61:24, 10:22 41:17, 50:9 60:21, 60:22, 60:23, nice [2] - 8:18, 18:23
 62:22, 63:25 men [1] - 3:5 mountain [1] - 41:24 60:25, 61:8, 61:11, night [3] - 18:17,
Mayor [5] - 20:21, mention [1] - 40:1 mouth [1] - 52:20 61:12, 61:13, 61:17, 25:25, 65:9
 21:5, 34:14, 42:23 mentioned [7] - 13:11, move [3] - 36:6, 52:12, 61:18, 61:19, 61:20, nightmare [1] - 48:10
mayor [1] - 20:22 20:18, 30:10, 39:5, 55:22 61:22, 62:3, 62:6, NO [2] - 62:21, 63:24
Mayor's [1] - 37:20 43:12, 50:2, 50:3 moved [16] - 51:18, 62:8, 62:12, 62:13, nobody [1] - 46:10
MCANDREW [50] - merits [1] - 35:8 56:5, 56:23, 57:13, 62:14, 62:15, 62:17, non [3] - 24:4, 25:16,
 2:4, 2:6, 3:12, 3:14, message [1] - 50:10 57:25, 58:10, 58:22, 63:2, 63:5, 63:9, 25:22
 6:2, 6:13, 9:20, messages [1] - 50:4 59:7, 59:19, 60:4, 63:14, 63:16, 63:18, none [1] - 33:12
 11:20, 33:1, 35:18, messy [1] - 46:1 60:15, 60:24, 61:11, 63:20, 63:22, 64:6, nonprofit [3] - 9:6,
 36:19, 37:14, 38:3, met [3] - 18:6, 30:14, 61:21, 62:6, 62:16 64:9, 64:12, 64:13, 11:13, 32:6
 39:2, 41:14, 42:11, 35:4 movement [2] - 9:16, 64:14, 64:19, 64:21, nonprofits [6] - 11:15,
 45:15, 46:13, 46:21, middle [3] - 13:14, 26:25 64:23, 64:25, 65:2, 32:4, 48:17, 48:19,
 53:11, 54:5, 56:1, 27:9, 46:6 moves [1] - 51:8 65:4, 65:6, 65:8 49:12, 50:24
 56:2, 56:19, 56:20, might [3] - 9:21, moving [4] - 15:17, MS [18] - 3:9, 3:11, North [3] - 4:16,
 57:1, 57:9, 57:10, 46:24, 54:18 16:22, 45:1, 55:21 3:13, 3:15, 3:17, 7:5, 39:13, 47:14
 58:6, 58:7, 58:22, MR [176] - 3:3, 3:12, 9:22, 10:2, 63:11,
 Mike [1] - 11:2 note [1] - 17:5
 59:3, 59:4, 59:25, 3:14, 3:16, 3:18, 63:13, 63:15, 63:17,
 million [1] - 14:13 notes [1] - 66:5
 60:1, 60:20, 60:21, 3:20, 4:2, 4:6, 4:23, 63:19, 64:16, 64:18,
 mind [1] - 52:25 nothing [1] - 16:25
 61:12, 61:17, 61:18, 5:18, 6:2, 6:13, 6:22, 64:20, 64:22, 64:24
 mine [1] - 43:5 nothing's [1] - 16:14
 62:12, 62:13, 63:5, 7:1, 7:3, 9:12, 9:18, Mulberry [2] - 34:18,
 Minnesota [1] - 17:21 nuclear [1] - 27:17
 63:14, 63:16, 64:9, 9:20, 10:1, 11:1, 37:1
 Minooka [1] - 21:25 number [4] - 23:9,
 64:13, 64:19, 64:21, 11:3, 11:20, 11:22, municipalities [1] -
 minutes [1] - 3:19 31:1, 31:10, 34:14
 65:6 14:22, 14:24, 18:25, 44:18
 Miss [1] - 3:7 numbers [2] - 24:3,
McAndrew [9] - 3:11, 19:3, 19:4, 19:12, must [3] - 11:15,
 miss [1] - 18:19 24:23
 3:13, 32:24, 38:25, 19:13, 19:14, 21:22, 20:13, 45:21
 missed [4] - 26:11,
 48:13, 63:13, 63:15, 21:24, 26:1, 26:3,
 64:18, 64:20
 36:3, 36:11, 38:11
 26:5, 26:7, 29:23, N O
 moment [1] - 3:4
McAndrew's [1] - 12:1 29:25, 30:2, 31:15, obvious [1] - 8:2
 Monday [3] - 8:9, 15:5, naive [1] - 19:22
McCool [2] - 1:24, 31:22, 32:24, 33:1, obviously [1] - 23:15
 15:19 named [1] - 17:10
 66:10 35:18, 36:19, 37:12, OECD [1] - 30:9
 money [2] - 33:19, near [2] - 17:1, 42:14
Meadow [1] - 49:21 37:14, 38:1, 38:3, OF [20] - 1:1, 51:12,
 46:11 nearly [1] - 17:3
mean [11] - 27:3, 38:6, 38:19, 38:23, 56:8, 57:16, 57:19,
 monies [1] - 14:4 necessary [1] - 27:8
 28:12, 35:20, 43:20, 39:2, 41:12, 41:14, 57:20, 58:13, 58:16,
 monitors [1] - 20:3 need [14] - 11:10,
 43:23, 46:5, 47:3, 42:10, 42:11, 45:15, 59:10, 59:13, 60:7,
 Monroe [1] - 15:22 12:6, 13:13, 19:24,
 54:12, 54:13, 55:6, 46:13, 46:21, 47:12, 60:10, 61:2, 61:5,
 Monsey [2] - 16:15, 20:2, 20:14, 24:1,
 55:7 47:19, 47:22, 48:1, 61:6, 62:25, 64:3,
 16:16 24:2, 24:19, 24:24,
meaningless [1] - 48:3, 48:5, 49:15, 64:4
 month [4] - 13:5, 15:4, 25:14, 33:14, 49:8,
 45:10 49:16, 49:18, 49:25, offer [3] - 23:5, 48:22,
 15:13, 15:16 53:4
means [2] - 35:25, 50:1, 50:20, 50:22, 49:4
 MONTH [1] - 3:25 needed [1] - 12:20
 66:23 51:4, 51:5, 51:10, office [3] - 21:8, 32:2,
 months [2] - 32:22 needless [1] - 21:21
measure [1] - 22:23 51:15, 51:18, 51:20, 32:12
 moral [1] - 49:2 needs [4] - 22:5,
media [1] - 29:21 51:21, 52:16, 53:9, Officer [1] - 17:12
 morning [1] - 7:10 53:11, 54:3, 54:5, 22:11, 30:20, 41:17
Medicaid [2] - 28:7, Official [2] - 1:24,
 most [2] - 16:19, 55:10, 56:1, 56:2, Neighborhood [2] -
 28:10 66:11
 22:15 56:3, 56:4, 56:6, 4:14, 4:19
medical [1] - 28:14 officially [1] - 9:14
 mostly [1] - 42:16 56:11, 56:15, 56:19, neighbors [4] - 22:9,
Medicare [2] - 28:7, OFFICIALS [3] -
 mother [1] - 18:11 56:20, 56:21, 56:22, 43:4, 44:2, 47:5
 28:9 61:24, 62:23, 64:1
 motion [15] - 31:25, 56:24, 57:1, 57:2, NeighborWorks [3] -
meet [2] - 16:9, 50:5 officials [2] - 21:13,
 39:9, 39:16, 51:16, 57:9, 57:10, 57:11, 39:3, 39:18, 40:7
meeting [8] - 10:6, 25:1
 56:12, 56:24, 57:2, 57:12, 57:14, 57:22, never [1] - 36:21
 18:23, 19:17, 35:17, often [1] - 30:20
 57:23, 58:20, 59:17,
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old [2] - 10:20, 43:15 originally [2] - 28:1, Patrol [1] - 17:12 pilots [2] - 50:23, 51:1 pretty [4] - 6:23, 41:7,
ON [2] - 62:20, 63:23 33:4 patronize [2] - 8:1, 9:2 PINE [1] - 58:17 41:9, 42:4
once [1] - 15:14 OTHER [3] - 61:24, Patty's [1] - 5:2 PITTSTON [1] - 59:14 Pretzel [1] - 4:16
one [24] - 4:13, 8:2, 62:22, 63:25 pave [4] - 16:1, 16:6, place [4] - 14:5, 26:16, prevent [1] - 12:18
 8:13, 9:21, 10:11, otherwise [1] - 38:10 19:8, 48:8 30:19, 52:7 previous [1] - 36:16
 11:16, 15:21, 16:4, OUTLINED [2] - 51:14, pavement [2] - 16:2, placed [1] - 37:4 printed [1] - 29:2
 16:11, 16:19, 17:11, 56:10 19:5 places [1] - 40:25 prioritized [3] - 30:7,
 17:18, 18:8, 20:11, outside [1] - 25:14 pay [8] - 11:13, 12:5, plan [4] - 19:9, 19:10, 30:11, 30:24
 23:14, 25:10, 26:21, outsource [1] - 24:25 13:6, 14:2, 16:25, 24:18, 25:17 private [1] - 11:25
 31:1, 34:14, 37:10, overall [1] - 52:13 17:3, 32:8, 41:23 plant [1] - 29:1 proactive [6] - 52:1,
 42:23, 43:15, 43:17, overdue [1] - 48:8 paying [1] - 13:10 Pledge [1] - 3:1 52:8, 52:25, 53:1,
 49:19 overtaking [1] - 19:19 payments [1] - 51:3 plow [2] - 24:4, 24:6 53:13, 55:13
ones [3] - 20:4, 23:10, owed [3] - 12:24, 14:4, pays [1] - 10:22 plowing [1] - 24:9 problem [4] - 16:9,
 40:13 14:6 PENN [1] - 64:2 plows [2] - 25:16, 29:10, 44:22, 47:7
online [2] - 40:25, owned [2] - 28:2, 28:4 Penn [1] - 16:12 25:22 proceedings [1] - 66:3
 50:4 owner [1] - 35:10 PennDOT [1] - 16:3 plus [2] - 23:18, 43:22 process [5] - 22:18,
opened [1] - 50:13 owners [3] - 13:3, PennDOT's [1] - 42:4 point [7] - 12:17, 23:2, 29:10, 31:6, 31:9,
operate [1] - 11:24 13:15, 14:15 Pennsylvania [3] - 35:5, 45:7, 48:24, 52:12
operations [3] - 22:12, Oxly [1] - 22:18 44:17, 46:18, 46:20 49:4, 53:15 processes [1] - 52:6
 22:15, 22:22 people [20] - 7:25, 8:4, points [3] - 11:10, profit [1] - 11:25
OPERATIONS [1] - P 9:8, 14:20, 17:16, 17:18, 17:22 program [4] - 39:15,
 61:6 18:2, 18:6, 19:22, pole [3] - 43:15, 43:24, 39:17, 39:19, 40:8
operator [3] - 23:14, p.m [5] - 4:18, 8:9, 20:3, 20:6, 21:11, 44:22 PROGRAM [1] - 64:3
 23:17, 23:19 8:10, 23:13, 24:10 21:12, 21:17, 21:18, poles [7] - 14:9, 43:13, programs [2] - 19:18,
opinion [2] - 27:5, paid [1] - 20:3 27:13, 27:22, 28:21, 43:20, 44:20, 46:16, 39:4
 45:9 pans [1] - 55:18 42:20, 42:22, 54:17 47:14, 47:23 PROJECT [8] - 57:18,
opinions [1] - 50:7 paper [2] - 19:23, per [1] - 12:13 Police [1] - 5:5 58:15, 58:18, 59:12,
opportunities [1] - 35:24 percent [3] - 14:10, POLICE [1] - 57:20 59:15, 60:9, 60:11,
 52:4 paperwork [2] - 38:16, 14:12, 54:11 police [5] - 5:14, 6:5, 61:4
opportunity [4] - 9:1, 38:17 perception [1] - 54:18 6:17, 45:19, 48:22 project [6] - 15:15,
 40:16, 40:17, 55:8 Parade [1] - 7:7 perfect [1] - 7:23 poor [1] - 42:18 19:6, 39:8, 42:14,
Opposed [9] - 56:4, parade [6] - 5:3, 5:9, perform [1] - 25:11 popping [1] - 37:17 49:21, 49:24
 56:22, 57:12, 58:9, 5:25, 6:8, 6:25, 7:8 PERFORM [1] - 62:1 porch [1] - 43:2 proper [11] - 13:4,
 59:6, 60:3, 60:23, park [2] - 8:14, 25:19 perhaps [1] - 31:3 portion [1] - 11:17 23:16, 42:8, 51:17,
 61:20, 62:15 Park [1] - 4:16 period [1] - 31:14 position [2] - 46:14, 56:13, 57:24, 58:21,
options [1] - 14:5 parking [7] - 8:3, 8:8, periodic [1] - 42:25 52:1 59:18, 60:14, 61:10,
orange [1] - 16:13 8:12, 8:16, 8:21, permit [7] - 18:18, possible [3] - 10:3, 62:5
order [1] - 5:16 8:25, 9:3 36:7, 36:20, 36:22, 14:16, 22:6 properly [1] - 36:13
ORDER [7] - 3:20, 7:1, part [3] - 11:5, 14:18, 36:24, 37:5 possibly [1] - 51:7 properties [9] - 12:9,
 26:3, 29:25, 62:17, 25:17 permits [2] - 13:13, pot [1] - 20:25 13:8, 17:2, 30:6,
 62:19, 65:2 PARTICIPATION [1] - 34:23 potential [3] - 4:20, 30:10, 30:16, 31:11,
Order [3] - 4:3, 26:2, 7:2 permitted [1] - 37:7 30:7, 32:7 31:20, 32:10
 50:3 parties [1] - 12:21 person [1] - 18:8 pothole [2] - 16:11, property [10] - 11:7,
ordinance [7] - 14:9, partner [2] - 44:5, personally [2] - 10:4, 16:18 11:14, 13:3, 13:6,
 22:23, 45:14, 51:22, 48:16 54:13 potholes [1] - 16:1 13:15, 14:1, 14:3,
 53:5, 53:24, 54:1 partners [2] - 44:2, persons [1] - 11:19 power [1] - 14:8 14:15, 20:20, 31:18
ORDINANCE [4] - 47:6 pertinent [1] - 40:19 PPL [1] - 47:20 property's [1] - 31:4
 51:11, 51:12, 56:7, party [1] - 18:1 phone [1] - 20:13 PREPARATION [1] - proposal [1] - 52:10
 56:8 pass [2] - 42:8, 44:18 picking [1] - 15:20 58:18 protect [4] - 53:2,
ordinances [6] - 14:6, passage [2] - 63:7, picture [2] - 40:4, present [3] - 3:12, 53:24, 55:1, 55:13
 14:8, 44:19, 51:24, 64:11 40:11 3:14, 3:18 protecting [2] - 53:14,
 52:1, 57:4 passed [2] - 3:6, 44:8 pictures [2] - 42:6, presentation [1] - 53:16
organization [1] - 9:6 passing [1] - 34:3 50:15 10:4 protege [1] - 21:3
organizations [1] - past [3] - 19:23, 27:11, piece [1] - 38:8 presented [1] - 10:7 proud [1] - 41:10
 32:4 30:13 pieces [3] - 52:22, PRESIDENT [2] - 2:2, provide [5] - 22:18,
oriented [1] - 7:17 PATRICK [1] - 2:3 53:7, 55:15 2:3 31:8, 35:12, 41:2,
original [8] - 36:20, Patrick's [7] - 4:8, pike [1] - 27:4 President [2] - 11:3, 53:23
 37:3, 37:9, 37:10, 4:12, 6:4, 6:15, 6:21, pile [1] - 15:6 35:3 provided [2] - 35:7,
 37:13, 38:17, 39:24, 7:7, 14:21 pilot [2] - 16:25, 51:3 president [1] - 53:19 35:16
 40:9 patrick's [1] - 5:20 PROVIDENCE [1] -
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 64:5 real [1] - 27:4 remind [1] - 10:12 restoration [1] - 19:5 24:18, 25:23, 28:13
provision [1] - 54:21 realize [2] - 8:4, 28:22 reminded [2] - 42:5, restore [1] - 48:7 running [4] - 20:5,
PROVISION [1] - really [4] - 27:20, 43:16 restoring [1] - 19:10 20:23, 25:22, 39:17
 56:10 32:17, 46:1, 48:9 removal [1] - 25:11 results [1] - 13:24 rushed [1] - 33:23
PROVISIONS [3] - reason [3] - 36:9, render [1] - 11:17 retain [1] - 40:5
 51:13, 51:14, 56:9 44:24, 46:10 repairs [2] - 33:13, retroactively [1] - S
prudent [2] - 22:22, reasonable [1] - 8:25 33:14 13:25
 25:25 receive [1] - 32:20 repeal [1] - 54:24 return [3] - 39:24, safe [5] - 5:8, 6:7,
public [17] - 6:5, 7:10, RECEIVED [2] - 3:22, repeatedly [1] - 12:2 40:9, 40:10 6:18, 7:15, 7:17
 7:14, 11:14, 22:9, 3:25 replied [1] - 12:8 review [2] - 52:6, safeguards [1] - 52:6
 31:8, 33:3, 34:7, received [7] - 4:4, reply [2] - 12:10, 12:12 52:10 safely [2] - 4:10, 4:11
 43:19, 44:19, 45:9, 30:8, 34:23, 34:25, REPORT [2] - 3:21, RHL [1] - 61:25 SAFETY [1] - 63:24
 53:3, 54:7, 55:19, 35:1, 36:23, 50:20 3:24 ride [1] - 15:21 Safety [3] - 24:15,
 55:20, 57:5 recent [1] - 13:2 report [2] - 23:3, 25:6 Ridge [11] - 4:14, 4:19, 64:8, 64:10
Public [6] - 7:24, 8:23, recently [1] - 50:5 reported [3] - 23:14, 15:2, 15:18, 15:23, safety [10] - 6:5, 7:14,
 10:13, 44:17, 64:8, recommend [2] - 63:7, 23:23, 24:2 16:12, 16:16, 16:17, 31:1, 43:19, 44:19,
 64:10 64:10 reporter [1] - 66:25 19:6, 19:11, 39:13 44:22, 45:10, 45:24,
PUBLIC [1] - 63:23 recommendation [2] - Reporter [2] - 1:24, rightfully [1] - 12:24 46:3, 46:7
pulled [1] - 13:13 63:3, 64:7 66:11 Rik [2] - 26:6, 26:7 salt [3] - 23:15, 23:17,
purchase [4] - 33:20, recommendations [2] reporting [1] - 23:18 ring [1] - 26:12 23:19
 33:22, 34:3 - 13:21, 14:14 reports [1] - 34:1 ROAD [1] - 64:5 Salvation [1] - 41:16
PURCHASE [1] - Record [1] - 29:1 representative [1] - road [4] - 15:20, Sarbanes [1] - 22:18
 57:20 records [1] - 29:2 47:20 16:10, 46:6, 52:5 Sarbanes-Oxly [1] -
purely [1] - 11:14 recover [1] - 14:5 representatives [1] - Road [2] - 5:23, 41:17 22:18
purpose [5] - 11:16, recycling [2] - 50:16, 29:20 roads [1] - 15:21 sat [1] - 18:9
 13:1, 13:21, 29:19 50:18 reproduction [1] - Rob [1] - 28:9 satellites [1] - 27:13
put [8] - 9:5, 25:23, redirection [1] - 42:16 66:23 rocks [1] - 41:18 Saturday [4] - 5:3,
 37:11, 41:1, 43:24, reduced [1] - 22:12 REQUEST [6] - 57:18, roll [3] - 3:7, 63:10, 10:15, 17:22, 17:25
 46:24, 47:16, 52:1 reductions [1] - 22:13 58:15, 59:12, 60:9, 64:15 saw [1] - 17:14
puts [1] - 43:14 redundancy [1] - 61:4, 62:23 rolls [1] - 17:3 scheduled [1] - 9:23
putting [1] - 51:25 22:21 request [1] - 12:8 Ron [1] - 19:1 Scholar [1] - 5:23
 reference [2] - 37:12, require [1] - 23:7 rooms [1] - 14:11 school [3] - 11:23,
 Q 52:21 required [3] - 22:17, rose [1] - 19:15 12:19, 15:20
 referring [1] - 43:14 23:1, 35:12 ROTHCHILD [26] - schools [1] - 37:17
quantities [1] - 19:25 reflection [1] - 3:4 requirement [2] - SCHOOLYARD [1] -
 2:5, 3:10, 5:1, 30:4,
quarter [1] - 17:19 refrigerator [1] - 20:14 24:17 31:17, 31:23, 51:19, 60:11
questions [5] - 12:7, refrigerators [1] - requires [3] - 24:13, 52:18, 55:25, 56:14, Schuster [6] - 3:17,
 12:13, 30:12, 38:2, 20:17 35:12, 54:10 56:18, 57:8, 58:1, 11:4, 35:3, 53:19,
 53:21 regard [2] - 7:6, 44:19 requiring [2] - 22:8, 58:5, 58:23, 59:2, 63:19, 64:24
 regarding [8] - 13:2, 35:13 59:20, 59:24, 60:16, SCHUSTER [69] - 2:2,
 R 14:6, 14:8, 24:9, research [1] - 43:12 60:19, 61:16, 62:7, 3:3, 3:18, 4:2, 4:23,
 37:16, 44:20, 53:20, resident [6] - 14:25, 62:11, 63:8, 63:12, 5:18, 6:22, 7:3, 9:12,
race [1] - 5:25 10:1, 11:1, 14:22,
 55:15 41:15, 41:22, 42:25, 64:17
radar [1] - 49:23 18:25, 19:4, 19:13,
 region [1] - 22:22 43:16, 43:18 Rothchild [5] - 3:9,
railroad [1] - 15:22 30:2, 31:16, 63:11, 21:22, 26:1, 26:5,
 regulate [1] - 55:2 residents [9] - 11:4,
rain [1] - 4:20 64:16 29:23, 30:2, 32:24,
 regulations [1] - 52:6 11:8, 39:25, 40:15,
raising [1] - 47:8 41:3, 42:12, 42:18, Rothchild's [1] - 5:20 38:6, 38:19, 38:23,
 rehabilitation [1] -
rates [1] - 47:8 46:22, 52:11 roughest [1] - 15:21 47:12, 47:22, 48:3,
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rather [1] - 52:2 RESOLUTION [8] - round [1] - 39:6 49:18, 50:1, 50:22,
 reiterate [2] - 32:18,
reach [6] - 25:2, 40:6, 57:15, 58:12, 59:9, routes [2] - 5:25 51:5, 51:15, 51:20,
 33:16
 41:12, 47:22, 49:19, 60:6, 61:1, 61:23, row [1] - 43:10 52:16, 53:9, 54:3,
 RELATED [4] - 51:13,
 49:22 62:21, 63:24 55:10, 56:4, 56:11,
 51:14, 56:9, 56:10 rowdiness [2] - 7:11,
reached [4] - 42:13, resolution [1] - 12:17 56:15, 56:22, 57:2,
 related [2] - 40:20, 7:19
 42:20, 43:10, 47:18 resolve [1] - 47:21 57:12, 57:22, 58:2,
 54:15 Royals [1] - 17:6
reactive [1] - 52:2 resources [1] - 25:23 58:9, 58:19, 58:24,
 relieve [2] - 11:22, RPR [2] - 1:24, 66:10
read [2] - 26:21, 27:10 59:6, 59:16, 59:21,
 13:23 respond [1] - 32:11 RSVP [1] - 4:18
reading [3] - 3:19, 60:3, 60:12, 60:17,
 remain [2] - 3:3, 32:6 responded [1] - 23:10 rule [1] - 24:14
 26:19, 33:8 60:23, 61:8, 61:13,
 remedies [1] - 29:7 response [3] - 30:8, rules [2] - 22:19,
ready [3] - 21:13, 61:20, 62:3, 62:8,
 remember [3] - 39:8, 36:23, 43:6 24:15
 21:14, 30:22 62:15, 63:2, 63:9,
 39:20, 42:24 rest [2] - 15:12, 39:14 run [5] - 18:20, 24:6,
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 63:20, 64:6, 64:14, sentiments [1] - 55:12 skill [1] - 12:15 17:8, 17:15, 17:25, summary [1] - 33:10
 64:25, 65:4, 65:8 service [2] - 3:5, 25:19 sleeping [1] - 24:19 28:1, 28:14, 39:11, Sunday [1] - 4:15
scorer [1] - 17:10 services [7] - 8:23, small [4] - 19:24, 20:2, 39:16, 42:15, 42:21 Sunshine [2] - 26:23,
SCRANTON [8] - 1:1, 11:18, 48:23, 48:25, 50:12, 50:17 starting [1] - 39:8 27:23
 51:12, 56:8, 57:19, 49:5, 49:7, 49:14 snow [2] - 23:3, 23:7 starts [1] - 4:17 supervision [1] -
 58:16, 59:13, 60:10, session [1] - 33:5 snowplowing [1] - state [11] - 11:6, 66:24
 61:5 set [3] - 12:16, 22:8, 25:11 28:13, 44:6, 44:12, supplement [1] -
Scranton [26] - 5:5, 22:11 SNOWSTORM [1] - 45:2, 45:5, 46:14, 54:24
 7:6, 7:24, 8:23, settle [1] - 36:10 3:21 46:18, 55:14, 55:15, SUPPORT [1] - 62:25
 10:13, 11:5, 11:6, settlement [3] - 34:22, so-called [1] - 43:13 55:18 supported [1] - 26:19
 12:7, 12:12, 12:22, 35:5, 35:9 Social [1] - 48:18 states [2] - 24:25, supposed [1] - 21:10
 13:22, 14:20, 16:24, settlements [1] - softening [1] - 21:13 41:22 surface [2] - 16:10,
 17:6, 27:25, 29:3, 35:21 solely [1] - 12:25 status [1] - 31:21 23:4
 39:6, 39:8, 39:13, seven [2] - 23:20, SOLICITOR [1] - 2:10 statute [1] - 13:16 surprised [1] - 35:23
 39:15, 43:17, 47:14, 23:22 solicitor [1] - 32:11 stay [1] - 10:5 sweepers [1] - 6:24
 48:20, 52:5, 54:11 SEVENTH [1] - 62:19 Solicitor [2] - 43:10, staying [1] - 27:24 Syria [1] - 27:11
Scranton's [1] - 17:12 several [4] - 7:13, 44:15 stealing [1] - 28:9 system [3] - 13:14,
Scrantonize [1] - 21:2 19:9, 50:4, 55:14 someone [2] - 32:12, steward [1] - 39:19 20:9, 28:11
SE [1] - 22:8 SFD [1] - 5:21 50:2 stewards [1] - 40:7
seamless [1] - 6:10 share [3] - 12:6, somewhere [1] - 20:8 still [11] - 9:23, 26:8, T
SEAN [25] - 2:6, 3:12, 13:10, 33:12 son's [1] - 20:12 30:19, 31:20, 32:5,
 6:13, 9:20, 11:20, shed [3] - 23:15, sorry [2] - 26:5, 47:16 32:6, 32:13, 40:18, table [2] - 56:24, 57:3
 33:1, 35:18, 36:19, 23:17, 23:19 sort [2] - 28:5, 49:4 41:19, 47:25 tabled [1] - 57:4
 37:14, 38:3, 53:11, shelters [1] - 49:7 sound [1] - 27:20 storage [1] - 22:16 tasks [1] - 7:16
 56:1, 56:19, 57:9, shift [3] - 22:21, 23:9, South [1] - 39:11 storm [4] - 9:24, 9:25, tax [5] - 12:18, 14:1,
 58:6, 59:3, 59:25, 24:18 SPD [1] - 5:21 14:7, 25:3 14:10, 17:3, 32:3
 60:20, 61:12, 61:17, shifted [1] - 22:16 STORMWATER [1] - taxes [9] - 11:14, 12:5,
 speaker [5] - 7:4,
 62:12, 63:5, 63:14, shifts [4] - 23:13, 62:2 13:6, 13:25, 14:3,
 11:2, 14:22, 19:1,
 64:13, 64:19 24:10, 24:21, 25:18 story [2] - 10:10, 27:20, 32:8, 41:23
 26:13
Sean [6] - 3:11, 32:24, short [2] - 23:8, 23:16 10:12 taxpayer [1] - 15:1
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 38:7, 48:12, 63:13, shortage [1] - 24:4 Street [12] - 4:17, taxpayers [4] - 12:4,
 22:8, 22:25
 64:18 shortfalls [1] - 25:8 15:2, 15:18, 15:23, 12:18, 12:24, 13:23
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Second [3] - 51:19, shoutout [1] - 18:8 19:6, 19:11, 34:18, taxpayers' [1] - 33:19
 spend [1] - 46:11
 60:16, 62:7 showed [1] - 15:10 37:1, 42:14, 48:7, taxpaying [1] - 17:2
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second [12] - 24:9, side [2] - 10:11, 29:3 50:10, 50:11 team [2] - 17:21, 30:9
 spent [1] - 28:7
 39:6, 56:14, 57:1, street [2] - 6:23, 42:25 tearing [1] - 49:3
 Side [3] - 39:11, Spindler [2] - 14:23,
 57:3, 58:1, 58:23, streets [2] - 16:5, TECHNOLOGY [1] -
 40:23, 47:15 14:25
 59:20, 61:12, 63:8, 16:20 57:20
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 64:12, 64:13 STREETSCAPE [1] - telephone [1] - 43:13
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Section [1] - 5:11 59:15 tents [2] - 48:14, 49:3
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 36:24 spot [1] - 47:16
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 signify [9] - 55:23, spring [1] - 37:24
 21:11, 23:9, 28:22, stuck [2] - 31:5, 45:3 21:19
 56:16, 57:6, 58:3, square [1] - 13:8
 28:23, 30:6, 30:10, students [1] - 5:12 test [2] - 11:11, 11:12
 58:25, 59:22, 60:18, St [9] - 4:7, 4:11, 5:2,
 32:17, 33:7, 34:20, stuff [4] - 28:7, 28:10,
 61:14, 62:9 5:19, 6:3, 6:15, 6:21, testing [2] - 11:6,
 35:23, 36:17, 38:9, 29:8, 29:9
 silent [1] - 3:4 7:6, 14:21 13:24
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seeing [6] - 18:19,
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sell [1] - 40:25
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Senate [1] - 44:9 60:11, 61:2, 61:5,
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send [3] - 40:4, 50:14, 61:6, 61:23, 62:20,
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 50:18 62:22, 62:25, 63:23,
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sending [2] - 32:1, 63:25, 64:3, 64:4
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 32:19 themselves [1] - 49:8
 SIXTH [1] - 62:17 start [2] - 28:12, 33:22 sudden [1] - 34:22
sent [5] - 32:3, 42:7, they've [1] - 47:24
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 50:3, 50:15, 51:3 thinking [2] - 28:12,
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THIRD [1] - 3:20 26:22, 34:13 21:13, 27:3, 28:24, wagon [1] - 22:4 workers [3] - 10:3,
Third [4] - 4:3, 42:12, transparent [2] - 29:22, 31:6, 31:11, wait [3] - 10:24, 44:12, 24:1
  42:13, 42:16 34:15, 34:17 31:24, 35:2, 37:17, 51:7 works [1] - 44:6
THOMAS [2] - 2:2, trash [1] - 14:3 37:18, 38:7, 39:17, waiting [1] - 41:20 world [2] - 3:5, 27:2
  2:10 travel [1] - 16:5 41:15, 42:6, 43:9, waived [1] - 18:9 worry [1] - 21:17
thousands [2] - 13:12, travelled [1] - 16:19 47:25, 48:2, 50:13, walking [1] - 28:8 worst [2] - 16:4, 20:21
  20:1 Treatment [1] - 28:18 50:21, 50:25 wants [2] - 21:4, 46:10
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threaten [1] - 45:13 trending [1] - 25:9 war [3] - 27:8, 29:17 Y
threatened [1] - 45:12 trip [1] - 10:14 59:13, 60:10, 61:5 washboard [1] - 16:7
three [7] - 8:13, 11:18, trouble [1] - 11:21 upcoming [1] - 39:4 Washburn [2] - 50:10, yard [1] - 40:21
  14:18, 16:11, 39:9, trucks [4] - 23:22, update [1] - 19:7 50:11 yards [1] - 40:14
  43:17, 51:2 25:20, 25:23, 42:17 updating [1] - 52:3 Washington [1] - 4:17 year [8] - 5:4, 5:10,
threw [1] - 13:14 true [1] - 37:23 UPGRADES [1] - 64:4 watch [4] - 17:8, 18:1, 6:9, 12:13, 13:11,
throughout [3] - 3:5, truthfully [1] - 45:18 upset [2] - 34:8, 35:20 18:12, 20:3 16:3, 20:13, 37:25
  25:2, 37:25 trying [3] - 7:25, urination [1] - 7:11 watching [2] - 18:19, YEAR [5] - 57:17,
thrown [1] - 41:20 45:13, 50:25 usage [1] - 22:2 27:8 58:14, 59:11, 60:8,
Thursday [3] - 8:9, Tuesday [1] - 1:7 USED [1] - 64:3 water [2] - 19:24, 61:3
  15:7, 23:12 tune [1] - 22:24 useless [1] - 21:21 27:19 yearly [1] - 41:25
tie [1] - 28:24 turn [2] - 11:21, 47:15 utility [5] - 43:14, weapons [1] - 27:10 years [14] - 7:8, 7:13,
timing [1] - 36:12 twice [1] - 15:19 43:25, 44:17, 46:15, weather [1] - 7:22 10:20, 11:11, 17:13,
tired [1] - 32:15 two [16] - 8:8, 8:11, 47:2 weedy [1] - 41:20 21:20, 27:12, 29:18,
TO [14] - 51:12, 51:13, 8:16, 8:21, 9:3, 10:9, utilize [1] - 12:15 week [21] - 8:24, 37:4, 37:11, 39:10,
  56:8, 56:9, 57:19, 11:5, 11:9, 11:17, 14:18, 15:3, 15:18, 39:22, 47:13, 51:2
  58:16, 59:13, 60:10, 16:15, 16:16, 21:6, V 17:7, 18:13, 19:15, yesterday [5] - 12:20,
  61:5, 61:24, 62:1, 23:20, 30:10, 33:21, 19:23, 24:10, 26:12, 15:9, 26:20, 35:2
  62:23, 64:1, 64:3 47:13 vacation [1] - 32:14 30:5, 31:25, 32:1, young [2] - 18:9,
today [5] - 6:4, 15:10, two-hour [1] - 8:8 values [1] - 13:4 33:2, 34:19, 35:24, 18:16
  15:12, 26:21, 48:6 type [1] - 22:18 variance [1] - 22:10 38:5, 39:23, 41:17,
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  53:23, 54:1 vehicles [1] - 23:7 17:20
Tom [1] - 21:24 UGI [1] - 48:6 vendors [2] - 25:10, weeks [2] - 39:3, zoning [10] - 22:2,
tomorrow [4] - 9:21, ultimately [1] - 45:10 25:14 43:10 22:6, 22:10, 45:20,
  41:13, 48:7, 48:10 uncleanliness [1] - version [1] - 11:5 West [5] - 39:5, 39:15, 52:3, 52:8, 53:5,
tonight [13] - 4:11, 7:20 veterans [1] - 41:11 40:22, 43:17, 47:14 54:17, 54:21
  11:5, 15:2, 18:4, unclear [1] - 23:21 viaduct [1] - 15:22 whatnot [1] - 44:24 ZONING [2] - 51:12,
  18:24, 49:19, 50:2, under [3] - 24:13, VICE [1] - 2:3 whim [1] - 47:8 56:8
  50:23, 51:9, 51:23, 36:4, 66:24 Virginia [2] - 17:8, Zoo [1] - 10:14
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  52:15, 52:21, 53:8 understaffed [1] - 18:3 21:2, 27:7, 28:13,
took [4] - 15:3, 39:12, 25:5 VOLDENBERG [31] - 29:18, 37:25
  42:11, 52:19 unfortunately [1] - 2:8, 3:20, 7:1, 9:18, WILLARD [1] - 60:11
tooth [1] - 26:10 34:8 19:3, 19:12, 26:3, window [4] - 36:3,
top [1] - 38:15 unionized [1] - 14:19 29:25, 31:15, 31:22, 36:12, 38:12
topic [4] - 11:6, 31:25, units [1] - 21:15 37:12, 38:1, 41:12, winning [1] - 17:19
  55:16, 55:22 University [5] - 12:7, 42:10, 47:19, 48:1, winter [2] - 9:25,
total [1] - 23:6 12:11, 12:22, 16:24, 49:15, 49:25, 50:20, 16:14
touch [1] - 44:14 17:6 51:4, 51:10, 56:6, wires [1] - 14:9
tougher [1] - 17:20 university [1] - 5:12 57:14, 58:11, 59:8, wish [7] - 4:7, 5:2,
towards [1] - 41:4 unless [2] - 23:17, 60:5, 60:25, 61:22, 5:19, 6:3, 6:15, 9:7,
TOWARDS [1] - 64:4 66:24 62:17, 63:22, 65:2 17:6
town [1] - 10:18 unreasonable [1] - Voldenberg [6] - 9:13, WITH [1] - 61:25
towns [1] - 19:19 24:22 19:2, 37:6, 42:6, women [1] - 3:5
traffic [3] - 5:23, 5:24, unsafe [1] - 24:22 47:13, 49:9 won [1] - 18:5
  42:16 unsightly [2] - 43:22, vote [2] - 33:21, 36:13 wondered [1] - 21:1
TRAINING [1] - 61:7 44:24 voted [4] - 34:2, wonderful [2] - 10:19,
training [2] - 24:5, up [35] - 8:11, 10:24, 35:22, 36:14, 36:15 18:16
  25:16 11:21, 14:2, 15:6, voting [5] - 34:3, 53:7, wondering [2] - 37:2,
transcript [2] - 66:6, 15:10, 15:17, 15:18, 53:25, 54:20, 55:5 37:3