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p.m. I would like to call our work
0:16
order Mr Parker could you please call
0:30
present Mr Jones here M
0:37
present Mr Rodriguez present Miss
0:42
present thank you H just a few comments
0:46
before we begin um the committee
0:49
business for the building and housing
0:51
committee uh the ARA program status
0:54
update was supposed to be delivered by
0:56
interim director of the department of
0:58
building and housing Miss Martin Roberts
1:01
she's unable to attend this evening so
1:03
we will go over that and the community
1:06
and economic development committee
1:08
business resolution 56 of
1:11
2024 uh the applicants uh have sought an
1:17
extension um so we will look to
1:21
um provide an overview and receive
1:24
resolution 56 along with um two other
1:28
items sometime in November so we will go
1:32
over that so to begin this evening uh we
1:36
will begin with the work of the budget
1:39
and finance committee I will defer to
1:41
our budget and finance committee chair
1:43
vice president green thank you president
1:46
Bowers good evening everyone uh for the
1:48
budget and finance committee we'll be
1:49
going over resolution 60 of
1:52
2024 uh I believe we have Mr McCutchen
1:54
here to go over that so if you wouldd
1:55
like to come up I read the resolution uh
1:58
resolution 60 of 2024 is a resolution
2:01
authorizing the city of Harrisburg to
2:03
amend its professional service agreement
2:05
with Meer duu PC for the purpose of
2:08
providing additional audit preparation
2:10
services to the city of
2:12
Harrisburg if you wouldn't mind just
2:14
giving us a brief overview and
2:18
yourself yes uh don't mind at all uh
2:22
everyone thank you vice president green
2:24
uh Brian McCutchen accy
2:27
manager um this resolution is aimed at
2:31
the request to expand the 2023 audit
2:35
preparation services to be provided by
2:37
Myer dusel um the idea is we're trying
2:42
to jumpstart or fast track our catchup
2:44
on our audit prep our audit work within
2:47
the city uh currently we're in the draft
2:51
we we do have a financial draft of the
2:54
audited financial statements for
2:57
2022 uh and our we're in the report
3:00
phase uh the pieces that go that will
3:04
accompany the uh comprehensive report to
3:06
be issued by our Auditors and provide it
3:09
to the city's audit committee um so the
3:12
timeline is that is for that is to occur
3:14
over the next several weeks and my goal
3:16
was to have that completed prior to the
3:18
end of uh this month of October but in
3:24
also uh implemented our audit
3:26
preliminary audit early stages work for
3:28
the 2023 re audit which includes Meer
3:31
duel doing what they have already
3:34
contracted to do earlier this year
3:37
namely to uh provide audo preparation
3:41
services including the uh revenue and
3:44
receivables components of the
3:46
neighborhood services fund that's the
3:48
trash utility piece I I should say uh
3:52
and liabilities associated with uh
3:56
absences and the city's opep or post
3:59
post employment benefits
4:02
liability and also the assets and
4:05
liabilities associated with the pension
4:07
plans so this current resolution is an
4:11
an extra layer ask again to try to
4:14
expedite our uh performance of of the
4:18
2023 audit it includes three main areas
4:21
which are significant which will help me
4:25
concentrate on other areas to to uh
4:31
liability uh component of the city the
4:36
liability um also the the city's um real
4:40
estate Tax receivables and Revenue work
4:42
papers there's a receivable and a
4:45
deferred U section of of that part of
4:48
the audit and lastly the the city still
4:51
has in effect loans receivable that
4:54
relate back to uh both the prior mayor's
4:58
Economic Development economic
5:00
development program uh there's a
5:02
portfolio of loan balances that are
5:04
still outstanding and and and some
5:07
payments continue to uh materialize to
5:10
pay down those loans and then also on
5:13
the federal side uh building and housing
5:15
development through HUD funding we have
5:18
various U homeowner type loan
5:22
Improvement uh loans that involve both
5:25
the cdbg funds from HUD and the uh home
5:29
investment Partnerships uh program which
5:32
is also HUD funded so those are the
5:35
areas uh Meer dussel's original contract
5:40
earlier this year the the total fee
5:42
proposed or accepted was for
5:46
$2,500 this particular request for these
5:49
three main are uh significant areas is
5:51
is to add an additional
5:55
$9,750 uh to the total audit prep
5:58
assistance fee that would bring the
6:11
preparation that's those are the main uh
6:14
pieces to that all right thank you very
6:16
much uh so essentially we just be adding
6:19
adding more services for them to perform
6:21
in our audit preparation so that we can
6:23
um make for sure we're on track with our
6:25
2023 audit so that we can get it
6:27
expedited yes yes to catch up uh to
6:30
increase that that that process okay all
6:33
right um I don't really have any any
6:35
questions I know I discuss this with you
6:37
during the audit committee meeting so um
6:39
I'm definitely on board for this I feel
6:41
like us um getting this audit caught up
6:43
and and done in a timely fashion is
6:45
really important for the city to make
6:46
for sure that uh everything's on track
6:48
uh and everything's in order so I'm in
6:50
support of this I'm going to open it up
6:51
to my colleagues I'll start to my far
6:55
Jones Thank You vice president green uh
7:00
questions okay right thank you thank you
7:02
councilman Rodriguez thank you madam
7:04
chair no questions thank you councilman
7:07
Ros any questions good evening everyone
7:10
um no I don't have any questions thank
7:13
you president bers any questions no
7:16
questions thank you thank you councilman
7:18
Davis any questions thank you vice
7:21
president green no I uh trust your
7:24
judgment and operation with this so no
7:27
questions thank you and I meant to say
7:29
coun ccom Davis so excuse me and
7:32
councilwoman Daniels any
7:33
questions thank you um no further
7:36
questions from us thank you for the
7:37
presentation uh and look forward to
7:39
getting this audit completed so okay
7:41
thank you yes likewise thank you vice
7:43
president green and I appreciate the
7:44
consideration on this uh to all you cons
7:47
uh City Council Members thank you very
7:49
much thank you I'm going to recommend
7:51
this move to our next legislative
7:53
agenda and that that finishes the
7:55
business for the budget and finance
7:57
committee thank you vice president green
7:59
we will now move to the work of the
8:01
Public Works committee I will defer to
8:04
our Public Works committee chair
8:06
councilman Rodriguez thank you madam
8:08
president um today in the public works
8:10
committee we're discussing two
8:12
resolutions um Mr Parker do you mind
8:15
reading resolution 61- 2024 into the
8:20
certainly resolution 61 of
8:23
2024 a resolution authorizing the
8:25
submission of a dolphin County local
8:27
share Municipal Grant application of up
8:32
$300,000 to fund the purchase and
8:35
installation of a new salt dome for the
8:38
public works facility all right thank
8:40
you for that and I see Mr John with us
8:42
today will you be speaking on there
8:52
you Mr John please pull the mic close to
8:55
you when you speak it's great to see you
9:00
if you want to give us a rundown of
9:02
resolution 61 please yes good evening
9:05
good evening president everyone um yeah
9:10
so we are in need of a new uh salt Dome
9:14
um the one that we have now um is too
9:19
small for the city of Harrisburg for our
9:22
application so after going through a few
9:25
storms uh realize that these the salt
9:28
Dome that we present we have will only
9:30
hold salt enough for uh possibly two
9:33
storms and as we uh went through the
9:37
storms that we went through last year
9:39
they were so close uh that sometimes
9:42
getting sought in from the delivery from
9:45
the uh contractors was a little scarce
9:48
because of the snow storms are hitting
9:50
all of the counties all at one time um
9:53
it's hard for them to deliver to us as
9:55
well so to purchase a new salt dment
9:58
would give us about four storms worth of
10:02
salt which in turn can keep us that
10:05
we're safe that we know we have enough
10:07
salt to cover the storms and I believe
10:10
this is why not I believe but this is
10:12
why we're asking with the Grant
10:15
application um for for the grant funds
10:18
and also uh we'll use our uh if we don't
10:22
get the full amount through the grant we
10:25
will use our liquid fuse dollars um
10:28
through the state to complete the
10:30
purchase all right thank you for that
10:33
and um also with everything going on
10:35
with the strike it's uncertain when you
10:37
know bad storm coming we'd be uncertain
10:39
so that would definitely be a good move
10:41
um I uh actually Mr Jackson sent over
10:44
some photos I shared with counil so
10:45
they're aware of like the current
10:47
condition yes um how how much of a
10:49
hazard or how hard does it make the salt
10:51
to work with when the salt gets
10:52
saturated or wet before so the Sal is
10:55
very hard um once it gets wet we
10:58
actually have to our uh heavy equipment
11:01
to break it up and then in turn once we
11:04
load that into our trucks there are
11:06
spreaders on the back of our trucks and
11:07
if there's chunks there it could cause
11:10
mechanical damage to our spreaders so
11:12
keeping it dry is and potentially to
11:14
someone's vehicle if it's absolutely
11:16
absolutely so it makes more work if not
11:18
handled correctly and stored okay well I
11:20
have no um further questions I think
11:22
it's a no-brainer and the uh Municipal
11:24
grant for the gaming funds it does cover
11:27
that infrastructure part okay awesome
11:29
awesome um I have none but I will start
11:31
on my um far end on the far right with
11:37
shame I don't have any questions thank
11:40
you all right thank you councilwoman
11:42
Davis no questions all right Madam vice
11:45
president I don't have any questions
11:47
thank you Madame President I don't have
11:50
any questions thank you councilwoman
11:55
r no I don't have any questions thank
11:57
you thank you councilman Jones so no
12:03
questions um I think it's a great idea
12:06
and I definitely move to put resolution
12:08
61 of 2024 on our next legislative
12:10
session um moving forward resolution 62
12:13
of 2024 Mr Parker can you please read
12:16
resolution 62 of 2024 into the record
12:19
please yes resolution 62 of
12:23
20124 a resolution ratifying a United
12:27
States Department of Transportation Safe
12:29
Streets and roads for all Grant
12:32
application and authorizing the city of
12:34
Harrisburg to execute any agreements
12:37
forms and documents related to the award
12:45
to implement traffic signal timing in
12:48
the downtown area thank you for that
12:52
engineer thank you um can you please
12:55
shed a little bit of light on resolution
12:57
62 and just the components Within sure
13:00
thank you so this project came about as
13:03
part of our initial Vision zero
13:05
plan for the uh for the city of
13:08
Harrisburg um just to kind
13:11
of kind of rehash what the vision zero
13:13
plan was basically it's a data driven
13:15
program kind of looks at the high Injury
13:18
Network through the city and you could
13:21
start to see patterns and kind of
13:22
clusters of incidences that kind of
13:25
dictate where the projects come about
13:28
this project was one that we could kind
13:34
large kind of cluster of incidents in
13:37
the downtown area as we kind of look
13:41
more into it it was a lot of pedestrian
13:43
incidents and it makes sense uh
13:45
downtown's pretty desirable for
13:48
pedestrians there's a lot of businesses
13:50
restaurants we have Riverfront Park and
13:59
pedestrian sign say like a Walnut Street
14:04
both crosswalks activated at the same
14:06
time go down one block only one does it
14:10
same at once and further on some of them
14:13
require a push button it's really
14:15
confusing part of this project would be
14:18
to kind of make everything
14:20
uniform for the pedestrians and then for
14:24
themselves uh some of them don't have
14:26
emergency vehicle preemption makes it
14:29
very difficult for emergency vehicles to
14:32
remember which signals have this prevent
14:35
uh preemption so they're expecting a it
14:38
to turn green and it stays red if could
14:41
cause an incident and there's
14:45
also room to improve our traffic signal
14:49
timing throughout this 25 intersection
14:54
of improve the traffic flow which would
15:00
reduce any any further incidences with
15:06
pedestrians thank you for that um Vision
15:08
zero uh mitigation or to minimize
15:12
pedestrian cyclist deaths um do you feel
15:16
just in your opinion there are perhaps
15:18
other parts of the uh City where there
15:21
are a bit more higher rates of vehicular
15:23
deaths taking place yes and that's one
15:26
of the reasons that we when we do do
15:30
this it's it's all data driven so it's
15:31
not like we we kind of pick and choose
15:34
what we want to do we take the highest
15:39
incidences try to attack that problem
15:42
first and then move further down the
15:44
line so I agree it it might not seem
15:47
like it's um I would say 15th and her
15:50
should have been like the first you know
15:51
places like that where it's so
15:53
traditionally happening right um is
15:56
there what were the metrics or data that
15:58
we were looking for when we thought of
16:00
just like the downtown area for this it
16:04
um available traffic
16:12
just so this a gr see you hit your
16:15
button yeah I didn't think you were
16:16
going to say 15th and her I thought you
16:18
were going to say Cameron Street well
16:20
that's that's home by the state so
16:21
hopefully they'll chip in if that's the
16:22
case yeah they've actually declined us
16:24
doing a traffic study up on there which
16:26
has made it very frustrating very
16:28
coincident the uh um but I believe when
16:31
a pedestrian is struck by a vehicle or a
16:33
bicycle or another car each of those
16:35
involves a police accident report
16:37
requirement so the reported requirement
16:40
data would be published for not
16:42
specifics but the number of incidents
16:44
okay so that would be a driver of this
16:46
type of data okay okay I don't I don't
16:48
know how far behind they are when they
16:50
get to their report I don't know if it's
16:51
once a year I don't know how quickly
16:53
they get the data out okay how how far
16:55
of a radius will this near nearly
16:58
million dollars cover it would be a 25
17:00
intersection radius okay you know the
17:06
be if I can recall it's from
17:09
like see from 83 to almost forer then
17:14
s okay okay all right thank you um no
17:17
further questions for myself but I will
17:20
pass it along to my colleagues um
17:22
councilman Jones thank you um yeah that
17:25
was pretty much my question I think this
17:27
is like on the Front Street side of
17:29
things where you going to be making
17:33
correct it'll be within that whole area
17:39
area 25 intersections have been
17:41
identified to receive
17:43
improvements yeah yeah I read it's
17:46
pretty simple to me but yeah thank you
17:54
Ross no no questions thank you thank you
18:00
I don't have any questions thank you
18:02
madam vice president I don't have any
18:03
questions regarding this thank you
18:05
councilwoman Davis thank you councilman
18:08
Rodriguez I do have a couple
18:10
questions so it was uh determined that
18:15
the radius from Forester Street to I
18:20
mean from 83 to Forester and then from
18:25
seventh oh from front to seventh okay
18:33
to have this new technology attached to
18:39
them it could be some of the lights
18:42
might be able to be reused some don't
18:44
have the emergency vehicle preemption so
18:47
okay it require reinstall some of the
18:51
pedestrian push button signal or timing
18:55
that might have to be replaced as well
18:56
it it depends on which intersection
19:01
I would think that some of the
19:03
intersections on Cameron Street would
19:08
considered because of the accidents on
19:11
Cameron Street over the years and the
19:14
people many people who have gotten
19:15
killed down there on Cameron Street
19:17
Cameron and Market Cameron and
19:21
Paxton um um I don't think those are
19:24
state roads but Cameron and
19:27
Cameron State Road it is the entire road
19:33
okay um and then State
19:37
Street that's another one
19:40
okay okay well thank you very much no
19:43
other questions thank you councilwoman
19:46
Daniels Yeah so basically this is both
19:50
software and Hardware kind of upgrades
19:52
correct uh it be the hardware the lights
19:55
and signals themselves but then the the
19:58
software be the timing for pedestrians
20:01
we could even do like
20:03
something it was even stated in the
20:08
actual application that we could
20:11
lengthen the leading pedestrian interval
20:14
where they'll get the green walk before
20:17
the light turns green so we could even
20:19
lengthen that too to give pedestrians a
20:30
will that require expense on like the
20:32
vehicle side in terms of making sure the
20:34
vehicles then match up to like the
20:36
emergency vehicles or police vehicles
20:38
match up to to be compatible with the
20:41
preemption no this this is something
20:43
they already have they already have it
20:44
okay um it's just we would make sure
20:46
that all 25 intersections are equipped
20:48
with that technology okay and could you
20:51
give us a sense um I know it's probably
20:53
not specific but if you had to give us
20:55
an idea of what year um our current
21:00
system would be aged or would be
21:03
state-of-the-art for versus what this
21:06
would be paying for like what how many
21:08
Improvement how much of an improvement
21:14
see that that I'm not sure off hand I do
21:18
see some of them are very old if they
21:20
don't have the preemption they're quite
21:25
old I mean it it's it's even something
21:29
just because it's an older light we
21:32
could even we still have the ability to
21:36
timings but to to get the actual
21:39
technology built into the signal itself
21:43
is is what would bring it up to date
21:46
okay okay that's it for me thank you
21:49
thank you and uh excuse me right how
21:52
many lights do you have a count of how
21:55
many there are total or
21:58
that I don't have offand I know it's 25
22:03
might have maybe eight lights at each
22:06
intersection oh okay so each
22:08
intersection or each light is going to
22:12
so each intersection would have like um
22:14
if it's a two-way you would have maybe
22:18
lights on each cross right okay so
22:23
they're all going to get the same
22:24
technology so this price here9
22:30
5,184 is going to pretty much be spread
22:33
out over 25 lights 25 intersection 25
22:37
intersections okay thank you quick math
22:40
would be 200 lights plus plus pedestrian
22:44
improvements as well okay thank you
22:47
welcome thank you um does anyone have
22:50
anything further they' like to add
22:52
hearing none um I would like to add
22:54
resolution 62 of 2024 to our next
22:57
legislative session but also I'd like to
22:59
go on a record and say everything you
23:01
were saying as far as the safety and the
23:02
need I agree with but I also AG agree on
23:05
it being Citywide um because if we're
23:08
saying we're just improving one area
23:10
what is that signal or sign message
23:12
saying to the rest of the residents may
23:14
I just this is one part of vision zero
23:16
which encompasses oh absolutely in a
23:18
comprehensive plan it's mentioned a few
23:19
times pretty pretty wide and spread
23:21
we've heard about it for years but are
23:23
we saying these things sometimes to go
23:25
after grant funding for specific
23:27
projects or we could considering the
23:29
whole city oh we're considering the
23:32
this this opportunity came after we
23:35
already had the vision zero in place so
23:38
was kind of this opportunity presented
23:41
itself we had a plan we could move
23:43
forward with it so this was not done
23:46
just for Grant well I'm not saying the
23:49
grant I'm saying for perhaps maybe one
23:52
city throughout time historically showed
23:55
that certain elements have just really
23:56
been concentrated to maybe Midtown
23:58
downtown there great families on the
24:00
hill great families out the south Great
24:01
families out town they also get dark
24:04
they also need great traffic lights they
24:05
also need the same technology um so
24:08
although I do agree what you're saying
24:09
and I do um motion to put this on our
24:11
next legislative session I just would
24:13
hope and I can help in any way to go
24:15
after more dollars for the whole city or
24:17
section by section or there's 22
24:19
communities in Harrisburg I think we
24:21
could do a lot for them true I age yep
24:24
and that concludes the business of
24:25
Public Works um Madam president back to
24:27
you thank you very much councilman
24:30
Rodriguez we will now move to public
24:32
comment just a few housekeeping notes
24:34
before we begin please state your name
24:37
and your address for the meeting record
24:39
if you don't feel comfortable sharing
24:40
your address please share the vicinity
24:42
in which you live within the city you
24:44
will have four minutes to share your
24:46
comments Mr Parker will serve as our
24:49
timekeeper I'll begin to my right is
24:52
there anyone that would like to offer
24:53
public comment seeing and hearing no one
24:56
anyone in the middle section
24:59
seeing and hearing no one anyone to my
25:01
left seeing and hearing no one the time
25:05
is 6 o' p.m. I will entertain a motion
25:08
to adjourn move is there a second second
