Harrisburg City Council - Legislative Session - October 8th 2024

to order at 6 PM Mr Parker will lead our

roll call the invocation this evening

will be led by councilwoman RWS who is

joining us virtually the Pledge of

Allegiance will be led by councilwoman

Davis for communications we are joined

by Mary Olivera the president and CEO of

the Whitaker Center for Science and the

Arts on their 25th anniversary

recognition we will then move to

Courtesy of the floor followed by the

approval of minutes for the legislative

session that occurred on September 24th

20124 we have two reports of committees

the first report you will hear will be

delivered by our budget and finance

committee chair vice president green on

the work session of October 1st

2024 and the second report uh will be

shared by our Public Works committee

chair chair Rodriguez on the work

session of October 1st

2024 we do not have any ordinances for

first reading ordinances for Amendment

or ordinances for final passage we will

then move to resolutions the first

resolution for consideration is

resolution 49 of 20 24 which we will

vote upon next resolution 60 of 2024

which we will vote

upon resolution 61 of 2024 which we will

vote upon and resolution 62 of

2024 which we will vote upon resolution

63 of 2024 will move to the Public

Safety Committee resolution 64 of 2024

will move to the administration

committee and resolution 65 of 2024 will

also move to the administration

committee is there any old business for

discussion council

members okay any new business uh yes

Madam president um I have an update for

the final numbers for Hotspot Saturdays

okay yep thank you any other new

business yes president Bowers um there

will be a free transportation service

for for anyone who wants or needs a ride

to the polls on November 5th and the

more information is be coming out about

that okay any other new

business and then we will stand a journ

so let's get started the time is

6:01 p.m. I would like to officially

call our legislative session to

order Mr Parker could you please call

the role

Miss

Daniels Miss Davis

present M green

present Mr Jones

here Ms

rolls Mr Rodriguez

present Miss Bowers

present uh the I'm present I'm sorry if

you couldn't hear me did sorry oh that's

okay uh as I mentioned during our caucus

councilwoman Ros is joining us virtually

um and the invocation she will lead the

invocation this evening uh councilwoman

R thank you president Bowers uh good

evening everyone I would like for us to

just take a moment and keep the family

of the man in our prayers who was struck

by a car at a local toy store in

Harrisburg lost his life I'd also like

us to keep in mind and in prayers

anybody who's going through any

hardships or have lost any family

members this past week let's have a

moment of

silence thank

you thank you councilwoman Ros the

Pledge of Allegiance will be led by

councilwoman Davis let stand

please of the United States of America

thank you councilwoman Davis for

communications this evening we are

joined by the president and CEO of the

Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts

Miss Mary alera oh you can have a seat

here if you wouldn't mind you'll just

have to move the microphone close to you

when speaking

low um she is joining us joining us this

evening in recognition of the Whitaker

Center's 25th

anniversary indeed first of all thank

you very much for this opportunity to

come and address the council um hard to

believe it's been almost a year that

I've been your neighbor across the

street and this is my first opportunity

but they keep me busy over there that's

for sure I'm very excited to be serving

in this role uh I'm a local girl growing

up across the river on erford road and

uh went away for college and like

Dorothy came back home to raise my own

family in central

Pennsylvania and uh fun fact is that my

husband and I moved back to central

Pennsylvania the weekend that Whitaker

Center opened its doors in 1999 with our

six-month-old son so I think fate had it

in store for Whitaker and I to join

forces at some point in the future and

it happened wonderfully last year when

my predecessor uh returned back to the

Pittsburgh area and it was just perfect

timing both personally and

professionally for me to take on this uh

amazing and yet challenging uh role of

leading the Whitaker Center for Science

and the Arts as it's continuing to come

out of the pandemic and everything that

an event venue had to go through as a

shuttered venue um during that time 25

years it seems goes by in the blink of

an eye uh over that time Whitaker Center

has served as the hub for Science

Education entertainment and cultural

enrichment for the Harrisburg city as

well as the capital region in today's

world we actually serve close to 10,000

students from 22 different counties

surrounding Harrisburg proper and we're

so excited about reaching pre-pandemic

numbers with welcoming students from

around our city and within our city uh

Harrisburg School District itself sent

us over 600 students in this past school

year to come in and learn and explore

and have fun and play and uh to really

build those skills of curiosity and

excitement about potential stem careers

and they think they're there to just get

a free pass out of school but we're

really teaching them as they Embark upon

their daily adventures with their agenda

uh in September of this year we had our

25th anniversary as uh honorable Bowers

was able to join us for some of the

events and we really wanted to take an

opportunity to uh pay homage to the 25

years that we've been a part of

harrisburg's landscape and so we started

off our week on September 9th

fortuitously was a Monday this year and

99.99 is when Whitaker opened its doors

so we were able to celebrate with a

wonderful luncheon for our Founders we

celebrated with about 80 uh guests that

joined us including our 96-year-old

founding board chair Hal McInnis the

former president and CEO of amp

Incorporated uh we had our our founding

CEO and president Dr Thomas stone who

came in from Wisconsin and so many

wonderful Community leaders um

unfortunately not to be shared with a

Cornerstone of Harrisburg that really

was um who and why and how Whitaker came

to be and of course that was our mayor

Reed um who certainly was a driving

force behind so much in our city and

Whitaker being one of those uh

experiences that he he led and we had a

wonderful week of events where we

welcomed the community in and we had a

birthday bash on Tuesday which was free

admittance into Whitaker Center to

really welcome and embrace our community

and to introduce or reintroduce all the

Wonders that Whitaker has under its roof

and we had a fun day of movies in our

Digital Cinema Center where we played

1999 Blockbuster films again for a vast

array of audiences to encourage and

entice uh families alike as well as our

residents of the city to enjoy enjoy we

had a block party on Friday night with

the local band the martini brothers who

came and entertained a little over 200

guests and thank you for the permits

that we were able to get to shut down

Third Street between walnut and market

and have food vendors and drinks and

entertainments and it was really meant

to welcome you know people and encourage

and excite them about coming into

downtown Harrisburg on a Friday night

and let them know we can gather and we

can have fun together and it can be done

in a safe Manner and it can be done

where we can just enjoy each other's

company and everything that is to be

offered here in the city and the week

culminated with really the vision of

what Whitaker next wants to become and

how we're building that foundation for

the next 25 years and how we're setting

it up to again open our doors and

welcome and invite a very diverse and

inclusive audience to enjoy what's

happening within our doors whether it's

the science part in our traveling

exhibits whether it is exploring the

different documentaries or the fun

movies that we play in our Digital

Cinema and certainly bringing our

theater back to life just last week we

announced for the first time in a decade

that we have a season series of events

and programs happening in our sonoko

performance theater whether it's

comedians or dance companies or singers

there's a little something for everyone

happening at Whitaker and we want to

encourage not only our residents of the

city but our Capital Region to come

downtown have dinner enjoy a show bring

the family

and be a spot that they feel like they

can certainly spend time in so that's

what we're doing for our 25th

anniversary and I'm certainly happy to

take any questions

or thank you very much um I'll open the

floor I'm not sure if anyone has any

questions

no comments if I may just uh briefly

thank honorable Jones for his letter of

support we're currently working on our

file panel replacement um as part of our

safety and urement of our guests having

a great experience and that letter of

support I'm sure will go a long way

toward us with our Grant application so

I did want to acknowledge that and

appreciate that so awesome thank you I

do have a small token if I may offer to

all of you before I leave

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okay commemorative coin

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thank you we do have something for you

before you go um we just bear with me a

proclamation um I know you received many

so here's ours of the city of Harrisburg

Pennsylvania office of city council and

office of city

clerk Proclamation whereas the city of

Harrisburg applauds the Whitaker Center

for Science and the arts for their

dedicated service to to the city of

Harrisburg for 25 years and whereas on

September 9th 1999 the Whitaker Center

for Science and the Arts opened its

doors welcoming visitors to educate and

inform them and whereas the Whitaker

Center for Science and the Arts has

remained relevant over the past 25 years

by providing access and opportunity to

science Arts entertainment and cultural

enrichment initiatives and whereas the

Whitaker Center for science and the Arts

is comprised of the UPMC Science Center

featuring Hands-On exhibits steam based

learning programs and Exhibits the

sonoko performance theater a 700 seat

Theater which hosts nationally touring

acts local resident companies Jazz

classical folk Opera ballet Comedians

and musical theater and the PNC

Innovation Zone which features a new

purposeful gaming studio and the the

Select Medical Digital Cinema a

four-story tall screen showcasing 2D and

3D films and whereas in

2023 the Whitaker Center had 140,000

visits from 80,000 visitors over 200

schools and groups participated in

educational activities over 500 member

families

2475 General Admissions to the UPMC

Science Center 2 one participants in

girl stem workshops

1,616 participants in surgery live and

surgery live virtual 107 Whitaker on

Wheels van visits to the community

525 participants in Little Learners

758 participants in Girl Scout badge

workshops and over 500 participants in

summer camps and now therefore be it

hereby proclaimed that Harrisburg city

council commends the Whitaker Center for

Science and the arts for their

dedication to providing access to

science Arts andentertainment and

Cultural enrichment initiatives and be

it further proclaimed that Harrisburg

city council wishes to extend best

wishes for a successful 25th anniversary

celebration signed and attested in the

city of Harrisburg Pennsylvania Michael

J Parker city clerk Danielle El Bowers

Harrisburg city council we'd like to

take a photo but just fun fact about me

I spent a lot of time in the Whitaker

Center as a high schooler um

volunteering with the program called the

Stars program it's not in existence

anymore but I'm hopeful that it will

return um because it was a really cool

way to uh see science in action it's

nice to see that Whitaker on Wheels is

still present um so

yeah I volunteered over a thousand hours

there so

um we'd like to take a photo and thank

you for coming than you so

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see you

we will continue with our meeting agenda

next we have courtesy of the floor so

just a few housekeeping notes uh before

we begin please state your name and your

address for the meeting record if you

don't feel comfortable sharing your

address please share the vicinity in

which you live within the city um you

will have four minutes to share your

comments Mr Parker will serve as our

timekeeper and I'll begin to my right is

there anyone that would like to offer

public

comment hi I'm Brian keasling I live in

Midtown good evening Council uh I hope

you've all been well it's been a while

we've been organizing out in the

community pretty intensively for the

past few months uh the reason I'm here

tonight is to ask you for some guidance

and assistance uh as you may be aware on

Sunday the community came together

hundreds of people congregated and we

planted 40,000 Palestinian Flags along

the river each flag representing five

people who have been murdered by the

United States and Israel in the ongoing

genocide now this morning the city

removed those flags from the river and I

know that Council has nothing to do with

that you're not getting blamed for that

tonight but I do want to ask for some

guidance uh when people discovered that

the flags were coming down dozens of

community members contacted the city

particularly the mayor's office to ask

why it was happening what could be done

about it is there a way to keep the

memorial for the dead up and uh people

were given uh a lot of really

contradictory answers uh so some members

of the community reported that they were

told that the flags planted on public

property needed to be down within 24

hours

some people said that uh the city told

them that the city in the mayor's office

has nothing to do with taking down flags

from public property and they didn't

know what people were talking about some

people in the community said they were

told the rain was a reason that the

flags had to come down and that it might

have something to do with litter and

other people were told that solicitor

Grover might be looking into legalities

regarding Flags I'm not sure if that

meant legalities with planting them

legalities with pulling them up uh but

basically there's a lot of confusion in

the community right now on top of a lot

of hurt a lot of frustration with this

Memorial coming down on top of the

devastation of a year of genocide so we

are here tonight asking Council what

could be done to help us get some

answers uh regarding what decision was

made regarding the memorial when it was

made who made the decision if there's a

statute that was used regarding pulling

up the flags if there is is that statute

uniform applied to people we uh

understand that this is something that

happened through the mayor's office but

frankly uh I don't have confidence in

the mayor or her office to be

transparent about this because of the

contradictory answers that were given to

the community so I'm hoping that Council

might be able to provide us some

assistance so that people can understand

what happened and how we can work

together to move forward and commemorate

the Dead uh so thank you very much for

your time and for listening and I'm not

sure if this is a conversation to be had

uh if there's any answers that could

come now when we can talk about this how

we can find a way forward so thank you

thank

you is there anyone else that would like

to offer public

comment I have a problem

hi um my name is Sarah Pinter I live in

Midtown Harrisburg um I am just uh

following up on Brian's comments here um

I really wanted to thank the council for

the opportunity to speak today um and to

participate in this meeting and to uh

make my voice heard so first let me

express my sincere horror and disgust as

we mark one year that the occupying

forces started a genocidal campaign that

has senselessly killed over 200,000

people um and I want to Echo the pain

and solidarity expressed um by Brian and

and the other folks in this room whose

feelings are known to me um the people

of Harrisburg and our allies Statewide

took it upon themselves to express their

grief and horror at this campaign of

violence and mass murder and express

unwavering solidarity with the

Palestinian community and all of

humanity and while we must must hold

space for the outrage and righteous

anger um our community came together to

publicly memorialize Palestinians killed

and still suffering at the hands of a

genocidal regime in what was I think a

beautiful Act of nonviolent

commemoration that brought our community

together to grieve to pray and to hold

each other dearer and most importantly

to implore those that do not yet feel

impowered to take a stand to realize

that they are welcome and wanted in the

fight against the destruction of

humanity

however the conflicting messages

received as to the reason for the city's

opposition to the memorial raises

questions about how we can grieve as a

community um one such provided reason

for the removal of the flags that Brian

had mentioned um was the question of

letter and on that

note I have lived in downtown Harrisburg

for 5 years and truly I do love it here

it is a wonderful home and a beautiful

Community but it's no secret to anyone

present that this town has had a litter

problem long before last Sunday I have

with me a bag of trash that I collected

on the half mile walk here I'm an

environmentalist and I do certainly

believe it's incumbent upon all of us to

do our part in being good stewards of

the earth and our communities but I must

question the logic of selectively

enforcing ordinances against litter to

remove what is clearly the a memorial

for lives ended especially when that

Memorial was biodegradable and would

return to the Earth as pal inian Martyrs

have returned to the Earth instead of

spending that time effort and Public

Funding picking up litter on every

street in every Park floating through

our waterways and plaguing each and

every one of harrisburg's vibrant

neighborhoods particularly when the vast

majority of that litter has been uh

plastic and will not degrade in the

natural environment and leeches

chemicals dangerous to our health and

the health of the

environment um and moreover removing the

memorial as a means of litter removal

directly implies this Memorial amounts

to garbage and a nuisance which is

deeply harmful and insulting to

Palestinians across the diaspora and

especially to those Arab Americans here

in central Pennsylvania who worry for

the safety of their families abroad and

whose homelands are threatened with

death and destruction by the Zionist

regime and those who see themselves

reflected in the faces of Palestinians

who rest assured are receiving loud and

clear the message that their lives are

disposable to those of us going about

our business as usual here in the

Imperial

Corp I recognize Council does not

oversee the enforcement of these

ordinances which government waste

management and beautification of our

wonderful City but I call on the members

of this body and everyone present to

remember that we are all one Community

we are all responsible for each other we

are all beholden unto each other and

this is most particularly true of those

elected to represent us in office as

such I very respectfully ask that you

work together to protect and uplift our

community and ensure that the city

Administration show equal dignity to all

people and put an end to selective

enforcement of ordinances as a means to

advance or uphold specific political

agendas thank you once again for the

opportunity to speak in this meeting and

I end by urging you to call for a

permanent ceasefire total withdrawal of

Israeli forces from occupied lands and

to support divestment and a complete

arms embargo to end this genocidal

campaign thank you very much I yield my

time thank you is there anyone else to

my right that would like to offer public

comment

okay seeing and hearing no one anyone in

the middle

section how you doing my name is Jamal

Carter I'm from the uh uptown area

that's where I

reside uh it's just a lot of problems in

our community and I refer to Uptown

because there there's like no places for

our teenagers to go play at all no no

places for my kids to go play like

inside the hill has Boys and Girls Club

they have the uh Allison Hill Center up

toown don't have nothing they have the

YMCA but they don't allow our kids to

come in there they have uh an open gym

but it's only for like people 40 and

older and that's on Mondays they don't

have open gym for kids they don't have

no programs for the kids when I was

growing up I could go to the Y the Boys

and Girls Club I could just go anywhere

now it's just they can't go nowhere so I

think that's why we're having all the uh

shootings and all the real crazy stuff

because we have no guidance for our

teenagers nowhere especially Uptown the

uh the hill got the Southside and they

got the hill on bar Hill Street the

other boys and girls club in the back we

have nothing and we used to have the why

but they're not Community oriented no

more so I just want guidance to change

that please and thank you

city thank

you is there anyone else on the left

that would like to offer public

comment okay seeing and hearing no one

we will move forward with our meeting

agenda next we have have the approval of

minutes for the legislative session that

occurred on September 24th

2024 council members are there any

revisions to those

minutes seeing and hearing none the

minutes stand approved we will now move

to the reports of committees the first

committee report you will hear this

evening will be delivered by vice

president green uh on behalf of the

budget and finance committee on the work

session of October 1st

2024 vice president

green thank you president Bowers uh

during the work session of October 1st

2024 the budget and finance committee

discussed resolution 60 of 2024 which is

a resolution authorizing the city of

Harrisburg to amend its PR professional

service agreement with Meer dusu PC for

the purpose of providing additional

audit preparation services to the city

of Harrisburg uh we heard from uh our

accounting manager Mr Brian um mccutchin

and uh he gave us an overview uh

essentially we'd be adding some

Professional Services to this contract

uh with the added cost of about

$9,750 bringing the total to

$3,250 to ensure that we were able to

get our audit completed on time and get

us caught up uh to ensure that we stay

on track with our audits for the city

there were no questions for my

colleagues um and so I recommend this

for approval um I would ask my

colleagues to support this

thank you thank you uh the next

committee report you will hear will be

delivered uh by chair Rodriguez on

behalf of the Public Works committee on

the work session of October 1st

2024 thank you madam president during

the work session from October 1st of

2024 the Public Works committee met to

discuss a set of resolutions the first

of the pair was resolution 61 of 2024 it

was a resolution authorizing submission

of a dolphin County local share

Municipal Grant application of up to

$300,000 to fund the purchase and

installation of a new salt dome for the

public works facility joining us was Mr

John Watson from the public works

department questions were extremely

minimal and photos were shared with

Council to visualize the current state

of the salt Dome Mr Watson also stated

the new dome was important for keeping

the product as manufacturers intended

for maximum benefit to the residents the

second resolution discussed was

resolution 62 of 2024 this was a

resolution ratifying the United States

Department of Transportation Safe

Streets and roads for all Grant

applications and authorizing the city

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55,1 184 to implement traffic signal

timing in the downtown area joining us

was the current city engineer to respond

to questions from Council once again

questions were to a minimal but the

committee chair did encourage

engineering to look into funding to

bring the entire city up to date and not

just a selective section of the city I

encourage my colleagues on Council to

support both resolutions from the

committee and that concludes the report

from October 1 work session of the

Public Works committee thank you madam

president thank you we do not have any

ordinances for first reading ordinances

for Amendment or ordinances for final

passage we will move to resolutions the

first resolution for consideration this

evening is resolution 49 of 2024

Mr Parker could you please read it into

the

record

yes resolution 49 of

2024 a resolution appointing Connie

Ziggler to serve on the Harrisburg

architectur Architectural Review Board

of the city of

Harrisburg thank you council members are

there any questions comments or concerns

related to resolution 49 of 2024

I have one comment following our meeting

Miss Ziggler sent a series of

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um

rather aggressive emails I think that's

putting it mildly um and I'd just like

to remind everyone that she volunteered

for this position and she says that she

researched the vacancy on the city's

website but was very aggressive in terms

of followup with the statement of

financial interest and other information

that was needed of her so I hope that in

the future if someone volunteers for a

role that they do a little bit more

research or aren't as combative as she

became and that lasted about a week

following um our council meeting so as a

result I I'm not really sure um if Miss

Ziggler's interest is genuine I do

recognize that she has extended ensive

expertise in the area however I did not

find her followup to be necessary so I

will be voting no on this

resolution Mr Parker could you please

call the vote Yes Miss

Daniels

yes Miss Davis yes Miss green

yes Mr

Jones no

M

rolls we're currently having technical

difficulties with Miss rolls at the

moment Mr Rodriguez uh

no Miss Bowers

no so we have three y's uh and three

Nays uh if we

can get councilwoman rs's vote in that

would break the tie

know if you could even hear that

discussion it's it's uh Mr Parker and

we're you're on

speaker and um we just voted on

resolution

49 uh appointing Connie Ziggler who

sered on the Harrisburg Architectural

Review Board of the city of Harrisburg

uh and uh we have a three3 tie so you

have the

fortunate occasion of giving the

deciding

vote right on

it

goodness yes okay

alrighty so your yes

vote uh now

passes this yet that your yes vote now

uh pass passes resolution

49 with a vote of four y to three

Nays all

right thank

you

alrighty thank you we

okay okay

I don't think she heard

yeah Okay resolution 60 of 2024 Mr

Parker could you please read it into the

record yes resolution 60 of

2024 a resolution authorizing the city

of Harrisburg to amend its Professional

Services agreement with Mar duel PC for

the purpose of providing additional

audit preparation services to the city

of

Harrisburg thank you council members are

there any questions comments or concerns

related to resolution 60 of

2024 okay seeing and hearing none Mr

Parker could you please call the vote

Miss Daniels

yes Ms Davis

yes Ms Green

yes Mr Jones yay M rolls

no that's that's C certainly not your

fault resolution 60 a resolution

authorizing the city of Harrisburg to

amend its Professional Services

agreement with Mar duel PC for the

purpose of providing additional audit

preparation services to the city of

Harrisburg thank you is a yes vote for

me all righty

Mr Rodriguez yes and Miss

Bowers yes wonderful resolution

60 passes unanimously with a vote of

seven y to zero

Nays thank you next we have resolution

61 of 2024 Mr Parker could you please

read it into the record resolution 61 of

2024 a resolution authorizing the

submission of a dolphin County local

share Municipal Grant application of up

to 3,000 I'm sorry

$300,000 to fund the purchase and

installation of a new salt dome for the

public works facility thank you council

members are there any questions comments

or concerns related to resolution 61 of

2024 seeing and hearing none Mr Parker

could you please call the

vote Miss Daniels yes

Ms Davis

yes M green

yes Mr Jones yay M

RS

yes Mr Rodriguez yes misss Bowers yes

resolution 61 of 2024 passes unanimously

with a vote of seven y to zero Nays

thank you next we have resolution 62 of

2024 Mr Parker could you please read it

into the record resolution 62 of

2024 a resolution ratifying a United

States Department of Transportation Safe

Streets and roads for all Grant

application and authorizing the city of

Harrisburg to execute any agreements

forms and documents related to the award

of

95,4

$4 to implement the traffic signal

timing in the downtown area thank you

council members are there any questions

comments or concerns related to

resolution 62 of

2024 yes president Bowers I have a

question

okay is this grant specifically and only

for the use of this uh technology for

the downtown area

that is what I believe the application

and the award actually is for it's 25

intersections uh that they're trying to

modernize together for lack of a better

word okay thank

you any other questions or

comments okay seeing and hearing them Mr

Parker could you please call the role M

Daniels yes Ms Davis I strongly believe

that uh there are other areas in the

city that could utilize and could

benefit from this uh technology so my

vote will be no tonight for this Miss

green

yes Mr Jones yay M

rolls Mr Rodriguez yes misss Bowers yes

M rolls can you hear

us all right

wonderful okay we just we are uh ending

up voting on resolution

62 which is a

resolution ratifying the United States

Department of Transportation Safe

Streets and Road for all Grant

application and authorizing the city of

Harrisburg to execute any agreements

forms and documents related to the award

of $955,000

a unanimous vote I'm sorry we have a

vote of six Ys to one

nay and resolution 62

passes thank you next we have resolution

63 of 2024 Mr Parker could you please

read it into the

record resolution 63 of

2024 a resolution authorizing the city

of Harrisburg to negotiate and enter

into a Professional Services agreement

with the Research Foundation of the City

University of New York on behalf of the

national network for safe communities at

John J College to provide Consulting and

Training Services to support the group

violence Intervention Program thank you

resolution 63 of 2024 will move to the

Public Safety Committee next we have

resolution 64 of

2024 Mr Parker could you please read it

into the record resolution 64 of

2024 a resolution of the city of

Harrisburg to authorize the filing of a

statement of Revival of the Cumberland

dolphin Harrisburg Transit Authority

also known as Capital Area Transit

Authority pursuant to the municipalities

authorities act to extend its term of

existence for a period of not to exceed

50 years thank you resolution 64 of 2024

will move to the administration

committee our final resolution this

evening is resolution 65 of

2024 Mr Parker could you please read it

into the record resolution 65 of

2024 a resolution authorizing the city

of Harrisburg to negotiate and enter

into a multi-year agreement with Hera

property Reg registry LLC to register

for closed properties within the city

thank you resolution 65 of 2024 will

also move to the administration

committee is there any old business for

discussion council

members okay I have one order of old

business I forgot but since we took

action on resolution 49 I wanted to

provide an update on resolution 44 of 20

2024 that was a resolution appointing

Miss Elaine Barber to serve on the board

of directors of Capitol region water a

municipal Authority following our uh

work session miss Barber sent an email

notifying mayor Williams that she

appreciated the consideration but she

has decided not to accept the position

um after the council meeting and

questions uh she took a second look at

the role and she decided that the time

commitment and responsibilities are a

little bit more than she expected so I'm

not sure if we can expect um another

individual to be um presented before us

or not but I did want to let everyone

know the status of that

resolution new business councilman

Rodriguez thank you Madame President um

just wanted to update my colleagues here

on Council and appreciate all of their

support for Hotpot Saturdays uh within

the first 3 years 18 Saturdays we were

able to remove 150 tons of illegal waste

and um just litter from the city of

Harrisburg so we just got those dates

and numbers updated uh Monday um from

the Department of Public Works so I will

be connecting with Madame President to

see if we can do like an end of year

summary as we usually do and have

everyone that was involved but just like

to thank my colleagues here on Council

for their support um with this in

itative and also uh before the holiday

parade Saturday November 23rd stop by

the PA Farm Show for civics and me which

is an engagement with all different

local and state and federal um public

officials explaining what it is that

they do their positions how to file a

grievance Etc it will be in a career

kind of development Style with different

tables and vendors so I encourage all to

come it's a free event from 10: to 12

and then enjoy the uh holiday parade

shortly after

okay thank you councilwoman

Davis thank you president Bowers the

contact information for the uh free

rides to the polls uh no vote Left

Behind is the logo topic uh on behalf of

atome personal care they are offering

free rides there is a registration

requirement and anyone can email info

atom personal care. us or call 717

88961 one3 to

register thank you thank you councilman

Jones thank you uh Madam president yeah

I just um wanted to have take this

moment to respond to uh Brian and

everyone that was over there today and

the young lady that spoke um you know

you guys have my uh deepest sympathies

to what you're enduring I know this date

is um not one that you would like to

celebrate but uh you know I stand with

you guys and fighting for what's right

um and I hope that you guys aren't being

targeted when you put your flags down um

you you gave a great example of picking

up that trash um we have a lot of things

that are memorialized inside of the the

communities in in Harrisburg in the city

um that are not removed there graffiti

and and things like that so I just hope

and pray that you guys aren't being uh

targeted and hopefully we could find a

resolve and get you some answers um and

I just wanted to say uh I'm sorry for

everything that you guys are going

through and um I do stand with you guys

with a ceasefire so I hope um there's

some type of resolve when it at the end

of the day when this is all through so I

just wanted to let you guys know

that thank you president thank you any

other new

business okay okay seeing and hearing

none the time is 6:44 p.m. I will

entertain a motion to adjourn so move is

there a second second thank you we stand

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