BOROUGH OF GLENOLDEN

GLENOLDEN, PENNSYLVANIA

 

COUNCIL MEETING                                       AUGUST 21, 2007

 

MR. DANZI                                                          MR. MCGARVEY        

MR. PFAFF                                                                   MR. QUINN                  

MR. BOOTHBY                                                   MR. MCGETTIGAN

MR. PUPPIO                                                        MR. KERSTETTER               

MS. WILLIAMS

                                               

                           

PRESIDENT DANZI – Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.

 

 

MOTION by Mr. Quinn seconded by Mr. Pfaff to approve the minutes of the previous meeting. MOTION CARRIED

 

MOTION by Mr. Quinn seconded by Mr. McGarvey to approve the Treasurer’s Report.

MOTION CARRIED

 

BIDS & CORRESPONDENCE – None

 

MOTION by Mr. Quinn seconded by Mr. Pfaff to go out of the regular order of business to hear from the public with any questions pertaining to the motions listed on the agenda.

MOTION CARRIED

 

PRESIDENT DANZI – Any questions on agenda items tonight? 

 

 

COMMITTEE REPORTS

 

FINANCE & LAW – Mr. McGettigan         No new report

 

 

PUBLIC & SAFETY – Mr. Quinn

 

 

CASH

CHECKS

TOTAL
Parking Tickets

905.00

1,085.00

1,990.00
Accidents

80.00

  310.00

390.00
Dog/Weeds/Snow

0.00

0.00

0.00
Magistrate Tozer

0.00

*5,698.21

*5,698.21

D.U.I.

0.00

459.66

459.66

Totals

$985.00

$7,552.87

8,537.87

          * June fines

 

   51

Crimes Code Arrests

   88

Vehicle Code Arrests/Citations Issued

   312

Parking Tickets Issued

     2

Borough Ordinance Citations

    638

Incidents

 

 

Glenolden Fire Company Report for July 2007

 

Maintenance Report:

- All trucks were kept clean throughout the month

- Weekly inspections and routine maintenance performed on each truck.

- Weekly equipment checks performed on each truck.

 

The following is a list of extra repairs and/or maintenance performed on the apparatus.

 

Extra Activities performed by the members:

Training on the new Engine. 

Equipment mounting on the new Engine, saving expenses for the Borough and Fire Company

Attended block party Sparks Circle

Attended birthday party of borough child on E. Knowles Ave., and distributed fire prevention material.

 

 

Fire/ Drill Report for July 2007

 

No. Of Alarms

In Town

Out of Town

Y.T.D.

Answering

Alarms

Minutes in Service

Man

Minutes

15

10

5

222

22

361

2334

 

 

No. Of Drills

YTD

Total Members

Attending

Total Minutes

In Service

Total Man

Minutes

3

28

17

360

3900

 

 

Nature of Alarms

 

 

House

Trash

Oil

Spill

PECO

Equip.

Fire Alarms

2

1

1

1

5

Mutual Aid - Assist for Fire: 5

 

 

HIGHWAY & LIGHTS – Mr. Boothby

 
STORM INLETS

Routine maintenance was performed and storm inlets cleaned:  July 6, 19

 

POTHOLES

Patched and filled various potholes throughout the borough

 

GRASS CUTTING

Cut grass and weed whacked around the bridges.

 

STREET CLEANING

Ran street sweeper throughout the borough

 

OTHER JOBS PERFORMED

Routine cleaning & maintenance done throughout the borough as needed

Signs replaced and straightened throughout the borough

Cleaned street sweeper

 

EQUIPMENT

All fluids checked and maintained

 

TOTAL HOURS WORKED              147.5

TOTAL OVERTIME                     0

TOTAL COMP                                       0

 

 

HEALTH AND SEWER – Mr. McGarvey

Sewers were checked and maintenance performed on the following dates: July 4, 11, 18.

 
OTHER JOBS PERFORMED

Checked & cleared various blockages throughout the borough.

 

EQUIPMENT

Cleaned and maintained machinery

 

TOTAL HOURS WORKED           22

TOTAL OVERTIME                       0

TOTAL COMP TIME                    0

 

 

·        Health & Sewer Report for the month of July 2007

 

Street Openings                                  1        Total fees collected         $50.00      

          Plumbing permits issued                        0           Total fees collected     $ 0.00

          Plumbing Registrations issued             1 Total fee collected     $ 75.00

 

Turned over to the Borough Secretary the total sum of:     $125.00

 

 

PARKS & PROPERTY – Mr. Kerstetter

Picked up trash at all borough buildings and in the parks

 

OTHER JOBS PERFORMED

Cut and trimmed grass at all borough properties

Completed routine maintenance, repairs and cleaning as needed throughout the parks

Picked up tables and chairs for 4th of July

Cleaned rest rooms and painted floor at park guard station

 

EQUIPMENT

All fluids checked and maintained

Repaired riding mower

 

 

 

TOTAL HOURS WORKED    327.5

TOTAL OVERTIME                0

TOTAL COMP TIME                         0

 

 

BUILDING & ZONING – Mr. Pfaff

 

·        Building and Zoning Report for the month of July 2007

 

          Total Building/Zoning Permits issued   38      Total fees collected           $4,138.00

          Total Contractor Registrations            14      Total fees collected          $ 900.00

 

Total Building and Zoning fees turned over to the Borough Secretary:   $5,038.00

 

  ·          Use and Occupancy Report for the month of July 2007

 

          U&O’s issued                                             32      Total fees collected         N/A

          U&O application fees collected           19      Total fees collected         $2,455.00

Re-inspection fees collected                         2       Total fees collected         $ 100.00

 

Total Use and Occupancy fees turned over to the Borough Secretary:           $2,555.00

 

 

ENGINEER – Ms. Nelson                 No report

 

 

SOLICITOR – Mr. Puppio                No new report      

 

 

PRESIDENT DANZI – Old / New business

 

 

PUBLIC SAFETY – Mr. Quinn                           

 

MOTION by Mr. Quinn seconded by Mr. Pfaff to adopt Resolution 15-07 declaring September 9-15, 2007 Suicide Prevention Week. MOTION CARRIED

 

 

FINANCE & LAW – Mr. McGettigan                   No new report

 

 

HEALTH & SEWER – Mr. McGarvey                 No new report

 

 

PARKS & PROPERTY- Mr. Kerstetter               

 

MOTION by Mr. Kerstetter seconded by Mr. McGarvey to adopt Resolution 16-07 to make application for the Delaware County Revitalization Program to provide for Public improvements. MOTION CARRIED

 

 

HIGHWAY & LIGHTS – Mr. Boothby               No new report

 

 

BUILDING & ZONING – Mr. Pfaff          

 

MOTION by Mr. Pfaff seconded by Mr. Quinn to adopt Resolution 14-07 amending the building permit fee schedule. MOTION CARRIED

 

PRESIDENT DANZI – We don’t have the Mayor here tonight, so we won’t be able to hear from the Mayor.

 

PRESIDENT DANZI – Now, a motion to go out of the regular order of business to hear from the public tonight.

 

MOTION by Mr. Quinn seconded by Mr. Pfaff to go out of the regular order of business to hear from the public.  MOTION CARRIED

 

PRESIDENT DANZI – Anyone from the public wish to address us tonight?

 

Bob McGovern, 298 E. Ashland Ave.- Just want to let you know that the bridge on Ashland Ave. has been vandalized again, heavy, heavy red paint. Just to let you know.

President Danzi- Appreciate that Bob, we’re short a highway guy. Is Dennis still in the hospital?

Ms. Williams- He’s still in the hospital.

President Danzi – We’ve been short a man but I’ll talk to Sgt. Kelly after the meeting also, that’s been hit quite a few times.

Mr. McGovern- Thank you.

President Danzi – Okay, thank you Bob.

 

Brian Sharkey, 4 N. Ridgeway Ave. – I also am beside the Ashland Ave. Bridge. Already we’re getting like a lot of traffic recently going over that bridge, a lot of kids. I want to try and see to talk to the Council here about maybe planting some trees to try and keep the noise down from the Ashland Ave. Bridge. They can plant them on the side of the hill, I think it would also beautify and hide some of the stuff from the houses and hide for us to have some privacy in our backyard.

President Danzi – I’m not sure what we could do. I’ll be glad to talk to you after the meeting. I’m not totally familiar with that or whose land is that besides the bridge?

Mr. Sharkey – I think the hillside is the boroughs.

President Danzi – I’ll be glad to talk to you after the meeting and see if I can do some research on that. The Borough manager is not here tonight; he’ll be back on Thursday, just not sure who owns that area and if it is Borough land. You’re thinking more of it as a sound barrier too?

Mr. Sharkey – Yes, something that can keep the noise down from the kids and the traffic going over the bridge. Try to get a little privacy so if I’m sitting out back I’m not looking at that, because I’m also having a problem with landscaping out back the building there I always notice the roof is a rusted roof and then the piles of wood back there is creating more mice. My neighbors and me have been getting more mice in our house and rats running around our back yard.

President Danzi – If you see anything like that I’d call over here immediately so we can at least get the health officer over there and take a look at it immediately. As far as the bridge I’ll take a look at it myself and see whose land it is. I don’t know if we have a contact at the railroad and what their thought would be. I don’t know if they would even allow you to plant anything.

Mr. Puppio –I would be surprised if they would. It would become a maintenance issue and liability issue.

President Danzi – I’ll certainly drive by and take a look at it.

Mr. Sharkey – I’d really appreciate it, because I plan on putting a deck on the back of the house. We like to sit out back to relax. One more thing too, stormwater. I know when that bridge was built, there was nothing I guess put in, stories from what I heard, the landlord who owned that corner property didn’t allow a stormwater drain to be put in there. I don’t know if anything can be done. I put a sub pump in my basement, pumping out that corner it pumps out the side of the house, I get a lot of water that seeps down from there right behind my house, everything’s on a slope.

President Danzi – I don’t know the full history of that bridge going in there, I know there is some history. I think that Mr. McGovern also had some issues.

Mr. Pfaff – Is there any curbing going along there?

Mr. Sharkey – No, there’s no curbing.

Mr. Pfaff- That’s one problem. Curbing is a diverter.

President Danzi – I’ll ask Donna to make a note if you can put on Brian’s desk, but if you can even call over here and get a hold of Brian we’ll try to get him over there and see if there’s anything we can do on our end.

Mr. Sharkey – Appreciate it. Thank you.

 

Anna Montague Boland, 104 E. Oak Lane – Did I understand from Mr. Boothby’s report that the street sweeper went on all streets the past month?

President Danzi – I don’t know if we’ve gotten to every street or not, Mrs. Boland, I can’t answer that. I can tell you that beings that we never had a street sweeper and our streets have never been cleaned, we’ve been trying to do each street, the whole street, from one side to the other as opposed to running curb wise. I honestly can’t answer whether we’ve hit every street or not. That’s the intent.

Mrs. Boland- My question is when did you notify the residents the days the street sweeper would come?

President Danzi – We’re not yet, because we’re doing trial runs, we’re trying to learn the machine, we have to write an ordinance before we can start having signs made up to enforce it.

Mrs. Boland – I understand that, that was all discussed before. But I would have thought you would have something basically in your mind what to do. It’s unfair that when cars are parked on the street the person in the middle of the two cars doesn’t get their street cleaned.

President Danzi – I understand.

Mrs. Boland – You do?

President Danzi – I do. As soon as we’re comfortable in how we’re going to run, what streets, what days, up one side down the other side, we’re going to post it, write an ordinance, and we’ll be able to ticket…

Mrs. Boland – But I’m not interested in the tickets, you have to notify the people. It’s not really fair to them if they leave their cars parked, however it isn’t fair to the person whose paid their taxes that pays for the gas, pays for the person to run it, not to get theirs clean and the rest of the street cleaned but because two cars are there the one in the middle doesn’t get it done. But that’s all right, Mr. Danzi, my husband and I will continue to clean in front of our street but I think you all were remiss that you didn’t set this up tentatively before.

President Danzi – Thanks for your input Mrs. Boland.

Mrs. Boland – I hope you don’t take too long; you don’t tarry too long with this.

President Danzi – Thank you for your input.

 

Bill Kelly, 484 Andrews, Glendale Heights- We’ve been getting quite a few ambulances in there and the guys are doing a good job. But I want to say our Police department is terrific. They are very nice when talking to people, they treat them very nicely and the people love it. I just thought I’d mention that to let them know what a fine department we have.

President Danzi – We’ll ask Sgt. Kelly to pass that along to Chief Donohue and the men will be glad to hear it.

 

PRESIDENT DANZI – Any one else wish to address Council tonight, okay.

 

 

MOTION by Mr. Quinn seconded by Mr. McGarvey to pay all bills as presented. MOTION CARRIED

 

MOTION by Mr. Quinn seconded by Mr. Pfaff to adjourn this meeting. MOTION CARRIED

 

 

Adjourned meeting at 7:50 PM

 

 

ATTEST

 

 

 

Brian H. Hoover

Borough Manager

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