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1 1 COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF SCRANTON 2 3 4 HELD: 5 6 7 Tuesday, October 28th, 2025 8 9 10 LOCATION: 11 12 COUNCIL CHAMBERS 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Maria McCool, RPR Official Court Reporter 25  2 1 C O U N C I L M E M B E R S: 2 GERALD SMURL - PRESIDENT 3 MARK MCANDREW, VICE PRESIDENT 4 JESSICA ROTHCHILD 5 THOMAS SCHUSTER 6 WILLIAM KING 7 8 FRANK VOLDENBERG, CITY CLERK 9 KATHY CARRERA, ASSISTANT CITY CLERK 10 THOMAS GILBRIDE, ESQ., COUNCIL SOLICITOR 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  3 1 (Pledge of Allegiance.) 2 3 MR. SMURL: Please remain standing 4 for a moment of silent reflection for our 5 service men and women throughout the world and 6 for those who have passed away in our 7 community, Ann Marie Stulgis. Thank you. Roll 8 call. 9 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King. 10 MR. KING: Here. 11 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Schuster. 12 MR. SCHUSTER: Present. 13 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild. 14 DR. ROTHCHILD: Here. 15 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew. 16 MR. MCANDREW: Present. 17 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl. 18 MR. SMURL: Here. Dispense with the 19 reading of the minutes. 20 MR. VOLDENBERG: THIRD ORDER. 21 3-A. MINUTES OF THE 22 SCRANTON/LACKAWANNA HEALTH AND WELFARE 23 AUTHORITY MEETING HELD JUNE 26, 2025. 24 3-B. OVERTIME REPORT FOR ALL 25 DEPARTMENTS FOR OCTOBER 2025, AS PROVIDED BY  4 1 CITY CONTROLLER, RECEIVED OCTOBER 24, 2025. 2 3-C. CORRESPONDENCE DATED OCTOBER 3 24, 2025, FROM CITY BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, 4 REGARDING DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS BUDGET 5 TRANSFER. 6 3-D. CORRESPONDENCE DATED OCTOBER 7 16, 2025 FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON 8 PRESIDENT REV. JOSEPH G. MARINA REGARDING 9 SUPPORT FOR DOWNTOWN SCRANTON WALKABILITY 10 STREETSCAPE PROJECT. 11 MR. SMURL: Are there any comments 12 on any of the Third Order items? 13 MR. SCHUSTER: Mr. Voldenberg, on 14 3-C, can we just get clarification on what the 15 professional services that the public works 16 budget transfer is being used for? 17 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, Mr. 18 Schuster. 19 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. 20 MR. SMURL: Anyone else? If not, 21 received and filed. Do any Council members 22 have any announcements at this time? 23 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes, I have one. I 24 was asked to announce that the Brooks Mine over 25 at Nay Aug Park this year is going to have  5 1 their first haunted attraction. So it's going 2 to be family friendly. 3 It will be taking place this 4 Thursday, October 30th and Friday, October 31st 5 from 5:30 to 9:30 as well as on Saturday. So 6 the Halloween fun doesn't necessarily stop 7 after Friday, but on Saturday from 12 to 9:30. 8 So it sounds like something family friendly to 9 do to go down into the mines. 10 So I'm interested in checking it 11 out. But I just wanted to share that with the 12 public. 13 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Anyone else? 14 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. Thank you. 15 MR. MCANDREW: So it's no secret 16 that we're heading into a critical moment for 17 families across Scranton and Lackawanna County. 18 Because of the ongoing federal government 19 shutdown, the Department of Ag has warned that 20 SNAP benefits scheduled for November may not be 21 issued. 22 So I'm asking that, you know, all of 23 our residents, they always step up that we, you 24 know, look towards some of these food pantries, 25 donate some nonperishables, consider a monetary  6 1 donation, even volunteering your time. 2 I know that every little bit counts. 3 And if we come together, we could help fill the 4 gap for our neighbors facing food insecurity in 5 the days ahead. What I would like to do is 6 maybe have -- ask administration to put a list 7 of all the local food pantries. 8 I know there's more than you think 9 there are. I know, you know, the Catherine 10 McAuley Center. I know Friends of the Poor has 11 a couple locations. Catholic Social Services 12 has a few locations, United Neighbor Centers. 13 So with that said, I mean, I think 14 this information will not only help the people 15 in need. But it will help inform people that 16 really want to donate and help out where to 17 actually go in that process if you'd, again, 18 please ask the city administration if they'd 19 partner with us and get that information out 20 there. 21 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, sir. 22 MR. MCANDREW: Thank you. 23 MR. SMURL: Anyone else? 24 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes, I have one 25 announcement. Misses -- wanted me to remind  7 1 everyone that the Department of Public Works 2 will be working on Tuesday, November 4th for 3 Election Day. That's all. 4 MR. SMURL: And also, next Tuesday 5 on Election Day, the meeting will be moved to 6 Thursday, November 6th. And then also the 7 following week for Veterans Day, we will be 8 moving the Tuesday, the 11th meeting to 9 Thursday the 18th. 10 MR. VOLDENBERG: FOURTH ORDER. 11 CITIZENS PARTICIPATION. 12 MR. SMURL: First, Joan Hodowanitz. 13 MS. HODOWANITZ: Joan Hodowanitz, 14 Scranton. Well, speaking of veterans, I got an 15 e-mail from the University of Scranton alumni 16 organization inviting me to the opening of a 17 special exhibit honoring a life of service 18 celebrating David Wenzel. 19 You all remember Mayor Wenzel? 20 Apparently he graduated in '69 from the 21 University and graduate school '74. But for 22 those who don't know much about Mayor Wenzel, I 23 was out of town when he was Mayor. So I wasn't 24 around. 25 He was a young lieutenant in the  8 1 Army. He was sent to Vietnam. He was in the 2 country about 30 days and he stepped on a mine. 3 And he lost both legs and one arm. 4 Now, he could have spent the rest of 5 his life sitting back doing nothing supported 6 by the government, which is an entitlement he 7 had earned. How many people pay that kind of 8 price serving their country? 9 But he didn't. He worked, you know, 10 many ways including as Mayor of this city. He 11 and I are both life members of VFW Post 3451. 12 So I'm going to be there. 13 Now, it looks like they sent this 14 invitation out to alumni. But if you are 15 interested in going, you have to register. And 16 you should e-mail alumni at Scranton dot EDU. 17 It's November 5th from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the 18 Weinberg Memorial Library, the Heritage Room on 19 the 5th floor. 20 And there will be light 21 refreshments. So if you want to go, please 22 send them an e-mail. I don't know if they are 23 going to take others, but I think that the 24 whole City of Scranton should show up and the 25 fire marshals should say move this to the  9 1 stadium or something like that. 2 But I can't think of a Scrantonian 3 that I'm more proud of than David Wenzel, so 4 for what it's worth. Also, for what it's 5 worth, voting next week, I come here every week 6 and I listen to a lot of people come up here 7 voice and vent their issues. 8 And I wonder how many people even 9 bother to vote. And if they do vote, how they 10 prepare for making that kind of decision. Is 11 it, well, so and so didn't raise my taxes so 12 I'll vote for that person. Like, you know, 13 expenses never go up and you could never have a 14 tax increase for the rest of your life. 15 Or my father was in this party, so I 16 vote the same way and my whole family votes in 17 this party. But if you can, please go out and 18 vote, exercise your right. People like David 19 Wenzel paid a hell of a price for you to have 20 that opportunity, so do it. 21 I was pleased to see that the Police 22 Department earned the Pennsylvania Law 23 Enforcement Accreditation rating. There are 24 only three police departments in the county 25 that have achieved that goal. And of the 1,072  10 1 police departments in the state, only 189. 2 And it's an indicator that our 3 police department is adhering to the highest 4 professional standards, doesn't mean that 5 they'll never make a mistake and that every 6 police officer will be perfect. 7 But they are making the effort to 8 serve the community as best as they can. And I 9 appreciate it. I noted that there's an 10 amendment to the capital budget in the reserve 11 fund coming up. 12 I was kind of surprised. It's being 13 increased by 5.6 million dollars. But it was 14 only a few weeks ago that they released the 15 capital budget for 2025. And I'm wondering, 16 you know, did they not have time to prepare 17 properly or, you know, why this -- the 18 turnaround to have to amend it so quickly. 19 Maybe you could explain that when you get time. 20 And I see that overtime is at 97 21 percent. So it looks like we're going to top 22 our overtime budget. Thank you. 23 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Joan. Bob 24 Bolus. 25 MR. BOLUS: Council, Bob Bolus,  11 1 Scranton. First off, regarding the assessment, 2 we filed a lawsuit against the tax assessor who 3 is responsible for authenticating the 4 assessment and that's not going to happen any 5 time soon so everybody is aware of that until 6 we get our ducks in a row. 7 You go into this assessment and 8 everything that they did, they're a bunch of 9 idiots and very incompetent. And they'll be 10 held accountable. That's why we filed this 11 suit so there's fairness and justice for 12 everybody in this community. 13 I went to the Commissioner meeting 14 yesterday. And I'll tell you what, Gaughan and 15 Cappeletti, were at the kings protest. And 16 I'll tell you what, I've seen a lot of people, 17 but Cappeletti was so unhinged and screaming 18 and all, it's pathetic to think this is a guy 19 who wants to be our commissioner. 20 They're out there bitching about it. 21 I brought the trailer from the Harris campaign. 22 It had Pelosi. It had Hillary, had Biden 23 kissing her butt as a centurion. Those are the 24 queens that they voted for. 25 And that's who they wanted,  12 1 including Biden. Yet, they didn't honor our 2 flag. They stood out there going against the 3 President of the United States which was 4 ridiculous. And these -- this guy wants to be 5 our county commissioner. 6 I hope people have common sense and 7 pay attention and what we're doing here and put 8 the right people in that seat. I'm happy to 9 see the way it took place with the change 10 there. 11 We got commissioners now that are 12 doing it. We took out a dictator and put him 13 in his place. And I hope he takes another job 14 somewhere and gets the hell out of our city. 15 Then all of a sudden, I look around 16 and I see our Mayor Paige. And she's doing 17 this and she's doing that and photo ops here 18 and there. When did she decide to come out of 19 her cage City Hall and go out and tell us what 20 she's been doing when for the last four years 21 she hasn't done a damn thing in this city. 22 The roads, Nay Aug Park was a 23 disaster because of incompetence and the other 24 pools, West Side, Novembrino, all the things 25 they did. And now she's standing out there  13 1 saying, oh, what a great person I am. Look at 2 the Lookout, look at this, everything I'm 3 doing. 4 Well, it's not going to help her to 5 beat Rob Bresnehan. He's our Congressman. 6 He's doing a hell of a job. And she's got a 7 hell of a fight. And she's only going to be 8 here two years if she wins and then walk out 9 the door and tell us, jeez, too bad? No way in 10 hell. It's time to make a change. 11 And the 26 million dollars I saw 12 here to change the streets, streetlights, stop 13 signs. People go through stop signs just as 14 easy as they'll go through a red light. So 15 anybody who thinks we're going to get it and 16 building the road out making it more difficult 17 for vehicles to travel by narrowing the streets 18 is pure stupidity. 19 And if you guys vote for it and say 20 that should be done, you just wasted a hell of 21 a lot of money for nothing. You know, I got 22 here a letter -- a hate letter from some 23 cowards that said they actually feel sorry for 24 me. I'm basically a slime ball the way I talk, 25 the way I dress.  14 1 Well, I defend my city. I'm the 2 only one in this city that will be in the 32nd 3 year, a Christmas Day dinner feeding the people 4 in this community on Christmas Day where I am 5 there personally. 6 But if these scumbags want to write 7 anonymous letters to me, come to my face. I'll 8 be more than happy to have a dialog with you. 9 But if you want to match what I've done for 10 this city, the hundreds of thousand of dollars 11 of disinfectant wipes that have been donated to 12 this city and everything else I've done. 13 My dinner on Christmas Day, come 14 match me before you talk about me the way I 15 dress because I don't like the queer flag 16 outside on our building and it's still in 17 litigation. And we're going to suffice and 18 that flag is never going to fly again and 19 Cognetti wants to have it there. 20 This is the stuff we got to be done 21 with. And Lackawanna County we have a lawsuit 22 coming they're into me for over 18 and a half 23 million dollars so people who are worried about 24 me paying taxes, let the county pay me my 18 25 million bucks. Thank you.  15 1 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Bolus. 2 Frank Dubas. 3 MR. DUBAS: Good Evening. I'm Frank 4 Dubas. And I really enjoy living in this city. 5 I'm here to support the resolutions if I use 6 the term wrong, I apologize, for making the 7 city more liveable, more walkable this evening. 8 I live on the 500 block of 9 Lackawanna Avenue. I purchased a condo there 10 several years ago. I also own three commercial 11 properties on Lackawanna Avenue that I intend 12 to develop. 13 And I also intend to develop them in 14 a way that I would offer a portion of the 15 residences as affordable. Now, I want to tell 16 you a brief story. About a year ago I had 17 dinner with some friends at AV, which is in the 18 300 block of Penn Avenue. 19 And I left there about 9:00 at 20 night. And I walked back. It's about a nine 21 block walk if you zigzag to the 500 block of 22 Lackawanna Avenue. And on the way back, I saw 23 three women walking dogs. And this was at 24 about 9:15, 9:30 at night. 25 What does that tell me? What does  16 1 that tell you? That tells you that people feel 2 safe and that people live here in this city. 3 It's becoming a living city versus a city where 4 people would come to work during the day and 5 leave or maybe 50 years ago shop on a Monday or 6 a Thursday night and then leave. 7 I live here. If when I walk back to 8 my condo -- my residence a little bit later 9 this evening, I will look and I will see lights 10 on at the Stoehr and Fister building. I'll see 11 lights on in the Connell building. I'll see 12 lights on in the old Samter's building and a 13 number of buildings that are out there. 14 I will not see lights on in the 15 Globe building, the old building, the county 16 building. And I look and I say we're people 17 who would like to walk around these streets, 18 cross Biden Street, okay, in a way that 19 we're -- you don't have to look up to where the 20 University of Scranton is or where you come off 21 the Biden Expressway to cross safely. 22 I think that if you pass these 23 resolutions this evening that you will have 24 more people downtown walking around. And we 25 could be cities like Easton, Lancaster, or Jim  17 1 Thorpe. And we could have people enjoying 2 street level activities and commercial 3 businesses on street level. So I'm very much 4 in support of slowing traffic down a little 5 bit, making it easier for a number of us who 6 are pedestrians to walk around and enjoy the 7 city and maybe some of the people who drive 8 through here very, very quickly, they'll also 9 slow down and maybe they'll stop and maybe 10 they'll also make our city a little bit better 11 and enjoy themselves. Thank you. 12 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Lee Morgan. 13 I'm sorry, Lee Morgan. If you please keep your 14 applause on silent, it's not allowed during 15 Council meetings. And speaking back there, we 16 can't hear when you speak back there. It's 17 unfair to the speaker. Thank you. 18 MR. MORGAN: Good evening, Council, 19 Lee Morgan. You know, I would just like to 20 start off by saying that, you know, in the next 21 couple years I'll be 70 years old. And I've 22 lived in this city all my life. And I've 23 watched a lot of projects take place in this 24 city. 25 The one we're talking about now in  18 1 the downtown has absolutely no merit because 2 the downtown isn't a neighborhood. You've 3 tried to make it into a neighborhood. And when 4 you look at the downtown, we just have too many 5 vacant buildings. 6 And the people in business in the 7 downtown, the few that are there, I think an 8 infusion of jobs in this community would help 9 this city with a reasonable wage base so that 10 they could spend money in these shops and we 11 could develop the whole city on the ground 12 floor of these buildings. 13 But you know what we've done is 14 we've taken state and federal money and 15 injected it into the downtown and not for the 16 betterment of the residents because the 17 residents in the city that live in the 18 neighborhood in a lot of places, there's a lot 19 of squalor there. 20 A lot of the grant money that should 21 have been spent in the neighborhoods was 22 diverted away from it, okay. And, you know, 23 everybody wants people to be successful. But 24 the residents in this city have picked the 25 wrong mayors over most of my life.  19 1 Jimmy Connors was terrible. Bill 2 Courtright was not on the same par as him. But 3 he was more interested in lining his pockets 4 than doing the job of the residents. Jimmy 5 Connors is probably one of the only people that 6 had it right even though he was an entertainer 7 in some ways. 8 And people thought it was funny that 9 he'd be at fires and where there were police 10 calls. But he was a guy that generally cared 11 about the city. And there were others that 12 cared about the city like Ed Pisano who made it 13 possible for the Hill Neighborhood Association 14 to have its own building which later on the 15 Hill Neighborhood is -- just jettisoned the 16 building. 17 Okay, and a major -- other major 18 problem we have in the building is neighborhood 19 groups. Why aren't they at these Council 20 meetings voicing their opinions instead of 21 hiding? You know, you watch the decline 22 of a city and you wonder why is it that way? 23 Well, there's a lot of different 24 reasons. You know, we have to ask what's 25 happened to decorum in our county and why is it  20 1 the way it is. You know, I remember having a 2 discussion with the Bishop of Scranton a long 3 time ago when they went to sell the CYC. 4 And I asked him when he was going to 5 come out and walk amongst his flock and talk to 6 people because of the decline of religion. And 7 you have to ask yourself where are the 8 ministers and the rabbis at? Why are they 9 hiding? 10 Okay, we look at the decline of our 11 society, you know, the only guy that I see at 12 this point in my life that's trying to turn our 13 country around is the President of United 14 States to be bluntly honest. 15 And some people could think that's 16 funny because there's a lot of hatred in this 17 room for that man. Okay, but he's out 18 arresting criminals, thousands and thousands of 19 them that were out raping and murdering 20 citizens and they aren't all illegals. 21 You know, you ask where are the 22 judges like Judge Robinson at one time. Most 23 people never heard of his name. He'd stand you 24 up in front of him in his courtroom and say to 25 you, "This is the first time you're here.  21 1 There won't be a second time because the next 2 time you'll be in jail for a long time." 3 We don't have those people anymore. 4 They've just disappeared. The things that 5 hold up a society are the people you elect and 6 the people that are appointed, either the 7 commissions or authorities. And they have to 8 have a bedrock to stand on. 9 They have to know where they're 10 directing people to. And they have to create 11 opportunity for the people, okay, but buy the 12 same token, people have to have the ability to 13 be educated because ignorant and stupid people, 14 they're more dangerous than an intelligent 15 person. 16 And anybody who doesn't think that's 17 true, maybe should do a little reading. Okay, 18 the city has had a lot of people waste their 19 vote. This mayor has been a waste of time. 20 We've done so many projects backwards. Maybe 21 it's time for people to wake up. Thank you. 22 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Morgan. 23 Ron Ellman. 24 MR. ELLMAN: I'm sorry, I thought I 25 was further down. Well, tonight I'm not going  22 1 to talk about the crooked Scranton and its 2 mayor. Instead, I'd like to mention Kelly's 3 article in the Wednesday's paper about the 4 greatness and glory of Antifa. 5 Antifa is nothing more than a 6 criminal organization. And the no kings is a 7 spin off. Ten or 12 years ago, people, I was 8 associated with some of the leaders of Antifa. 9 It's nothing more than a -- well, they get 10 their funding from the Soros's foundation. 11 I know that as a fact. And Antifa 12 is just a -- their tactics are for violence. 13 I've been to meetings. It's composed mostly of 14 people that want monarchies, communism, 15 socialism. 16 And all of these signs about 17 antifascism -- a fascist is against communist. 18 You know, that's how Mussolini founded it in 19 1919 or '20 or something. That was their only 20 goal was against communism. And here, you got 21 Antifa is for communism and against the 22 principles that this country is made off. 23 And these people, these crowds don't 24 even know what they are there for. When the 25 riots were in Ferguson, Missouri, I don't  23 1 remember, 10 years ago or so, I happened to 2 know a boy that was a friend of my son's. 3 He said he was there for $15 a day 4 and room and board, paid for from the 5 foundation. You people are -- just been taken 6 in because of the hatred for the Republican 7 party and Trump. I watch all of this 8 hate-filled rhetoric at no kings marches 9 whether they were nonviolent or not, it's not 10 the subject. 11 They're not patriotic. Now, 12 listening to the pro-people for downtown, 13 they're not on the -- they don't know what's 14 happening in the city. Your children walk 15 probably two thirds of the city with no curbs 16 and cars going way above the speed limits on 17 every street. 18 Every street in this city is 19 deplorable. And the one that's been fixed are 20 just the worst kind of repair jobs in the 21 world. Now, you're trying to ramrod and 22 obligate the city to 27 million dollars that 23 ought to go to the people of the city because 24 it's tax money. It's not grant money. It's 25 tax money.  24 1 It's a shame. Like I said last 2 week, you ought to be ashamed of yourself to 3 vote because you won't be here. Thank you. 4 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Leslie 5 Collins. 6 MR. KING: I'll be here until my 7 term runs out. 8 MS. COLLINS: Good evening, Council. 9 I'm Leslie Collins, President and CEO of 10 Scranton Tomorrow. As you know, I attended 11 last week's meeting to express Scranton 12 Tomorrow's strong support for the streetscape 13 project. 14 With the final vote taking place 15 this evening, I felt it was very important to 16 come here once again to reaffirm that support 17 and to highlight a few key points. Scranton 18 Tomorrow has had a longstanding interest in 19 this specific initiative. 20 Developer Charlie Jefferson and 21 former Councilman, Mayor, and current Scranton 22 Tomorrow Board Member Wayne Evans brought the 23 concept and the idea to Scranton Tomorrow 24 encouraging us to host urban planner Jeff Speck 25 back in 2018 in conjunction with the University  25 1 of Scranton. 2 The purpose of that event was to 3 share nationally recognized best practices for 4 downtown walkability and for urban design. 5 Following Jeff's presentation, there was an 6 overwhelming interest from community 7 stakeholders developing a comprehensive and 8 more modern action plan. 9 We do believe that the city 10 exercised their due diligence holding public 11 sessions with Jeff, engaging professional 12 engineers, and collaborating with PennDOT to 13 create a plan that is grounded in best 14 practices. 15 This plan addresses our outdated 16 infrastructure and our complex traffic patterns 17 while positioning the downtown for future 18 economic growth and safety. The proposal as we 19 all know focuses on key priorities of 20 walkability, vehicular and pedestrian safety, 21 onstreet parking, traffic calming and enhancing 22 the visibility and/or visibility of our small 23 businesses. 24 Do we believe that there will be a 25 period in time that there will be adjustments  26 1 needed to be made, yes, we absolutely do. 2 But we need to look forward and we 3 need to look to the future competitiveness of 4 the district and the projects that address our 5 long-term growth and investment. I do know 6 that for the past few weeks that there have 7 been numerous questions regarding community 8 outreach. 9 And I would like to note that when 10 the recent parking legislation regarding 11 Saturday enforcement which was proposed, 12 Scranton Tomorrow received numerous calls from 13 downtown businesses expressing their great 14 concern about Saturday hours which prompted me 15 to appear before Council at that time to oppose 16 that specific piece of legislation. 17 In contrast, I do think it is 18 important for Council to know that Scranton 19 Tomorrow has not received any calls from any 20 small business owner opposing the streetscape 21 legislation. And I do think that that is an 22 important piece for you to know. 23 And for those reasons, I 24 respectfully urge Council to approve this 25 legislation in the form that it has been  27 1 presented. Thank you very much. 2 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mrs. Collins. 3 Tom McLane. 4 MR. MCLANE: Hello, Tom McLane, 5 Scranton resident, landscape architect and 6 businessman. I moved back to this city in 7 1989. I graduated from college, Keystone 8 College, graduated from West Virginia with a 9 degree in landscape architecture, worked for an 10 engineering company in Clarks Summit in the 11 early 80s and had to leave the area because of 12 a recession. 13 And when I moved back here no one 14 knew what a landscape architect was never mind 15 wanting to hire one. Well, in that 37 years 16 since then I've cultivated that market along 17 with other professionals. And the government 18 has also realized the value of it. 19 And most of the work I've done has 20 been public. I have to acknowledge that I've 21 had numerous contracts with the City of 22 Scranton. And I think I've done a good job 23 with those. But I currently have none. I 24 don't expect to make any -- I'm in the process 25 of retiring.  28 1 I don't expect to make any money off 2 of this plan, to put any proposals in. I have 3 no professional or -- I have personal interest 4 in it as a citizen that I'd like to see. I 5 think it's long overdue. 6 I've spend most of my career in this 7 area but also working in the DC market on 8 Pennsylvania Avenue, in New York City, in New 9 Jersey, Philadelphia and around the state and 10 other states. So I see that in downtown areas, 11 walkability is key. 12 If people do not -- as Frank said, 13 people feel safe walking on these streets at 14 night. I went to a movie Friday night, came 15 out. The movie was crowded. The streets were 16 crowded. The restaurants were crowded. That's 17 life in the city. That was not here in 1989. 18 So I'm glad that the city has 19 invested over these years. I want to express 20 my support as a professional and as a citizen 21 for this study. I think it's long overdue. I 22 also have an interest in biking. I've been 23 biking all my life. 24 And I have been hit by cars a number 25 of times. The streets are treacherous. If you  29 1 sit on your own front porch in the city and 2 watch traffic, you'll see people in a hurry. 3 They're in a hurry to get nowhere. 4 So I agree that we have to slow 5 things down. I know a lot of people disagree 6 with it for traditional reasons. But I think 7 it's the way forward for the city. The city is 8 building on success now. And I'd like to see 9 that continue. And I thank you all for the job 10 that you do. 11 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. McLane. 12 Doug Heller. Doug? 13 MR. HELLER: Hello. My name is Doug 14 Heller. I am a resident of the Hill Section of 15 Scranton. I've been a homeowner there for 21 16 years. And I've been a resident of Scranton 17 for a little longer than that. 18 I'm here I think to speak on behalf 19 of what others have spoken of. It's -- 20 according to the agenda I think it's Items 7-B 21 and 7-C which is the streetscape and redesign 22 of some of the downtown urban setting. 23 I attended some of the presentations 24 where that redesign was presented to the public 25 and outlined and, you know, shown how to  30 1 flourish in other cities. 2 And, you know, I think the goal as 3 people have said is to make the city more 4 walkable, maybe more bikable, slow things down. 5 For instance, I just walked down here tonight 6 from the Hill Section. And some of the streets 7 I have to cross, people are really moving. 8 So I think there's value in slowing 9 traffic down, moving away from one-way streets 10 with two lanes of traffic to one-way streets 11 with stop signs. It will force people to slow 12 down. And I think if they slow down, they 13 might say as others have thought or suggested, 14 they might say, hey, look at that restaurant or 15 look at that store or look at whatever. 16 Maybe we should get out and, you 17 know, spend some of our dollars here instead 18 of, you know, a big box retail store in a kind 19 of commercial district only. So as I said, I, 20 you know, walk and bike a fair bit. And 21 whether it's the post office or restaurant or 22 whatever, you know, I see firsthand this, you 23 know, the -- I think I see firsthand the 24 benefit of slowing things down. 25 Because when I do it -- and  31 1 personally -- particularly if I'm walking with 2 someone else, it's -- I guess I just get 3 concerned sometimes at the speed of which 4 things are moving. 5 And again, I think they're in a rush 6 more often than not to nowhere. So if you look 7 at some other cities, whether it's big cities 8 like a Pittsburgh or it's bike infrastructure 9 or pedestrian infrastructure or how New York 10 City took, you know, the Times Square district 11 and kind of redesigned that to be more 12 pedestrian friendly or Easton or Lancaster or 13 Greensburg, Pennsylvania. 14 If you look at any of these towns, 15 you know, this move to migrate urban core to 16 being pedestrian friendly and to migrate it 17 away from being kind of built around the 18 automobile and to build it around the 19 pedestrian or the bicyclist tends to, in my 20 experience, result in an economically more 21 vibrant and healthier urban core. 22 So I urge you guys as Council 23 members to act upon this opportunity to make 24 Scranton -- downtown Scranton better for 25 pedestrians, better for bicyclists and better  32 1 for the businesses in downtown. I thank you 2 for listening to me. And I thank you for your 3 service. 4 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Heller. 5 Les Spindler. 6 MR. SPINDLER: Good evening, 7 Council, Les Spindler, city resident, 8 homeowner. Well, I, for one spoke here the 9 last couple weeks against this project. Well, 10 I think my wife is right. She asks me every 11 week why do you go to these meetings? They 12 don't listen to what you say. 13 And I'm beginning to believe she's 14 right because at least three of you have not 15 listened to the people that spoke here the last 16 two weeks. Experts have been at this table 17 speaking, Fire Chief John Judge said every 18 second counts in a fire. 19 Replacing traffic lights with stop 20 signs is going to slow the fire trucks down. 21 They have to stop at every stop sign. When 22 there's traffic lights, they push a button in a 23 truck and all traffic lights change. So how is 24 that going to affect fires? The fire trucks 25 are going to get there slower than if there's  33 1 traffic lights. 2 Moving on, last week former City 3 Engineer John Pocius was here and said 4 streetlights don't slow -- they don't slow the 5 traffic down and the stop signs don't slow 6 traffic down either. He said the traffic 7 lights do slow the traffic down more than stop 8 signs. 9 And he had a study with him that 10 said that. The stop signs don't slow traffic 11 down. I would trust a traffic light crossing 12 the street than I would people stopping at a 13 stop sign. I urge you people not to vote for 14 this legislation. But I know you will because 15 three of you up there do what the Mayor tells 16 you. 17 That's why next week on election 18 day, we have to vote a super majority in that 19 doesn't listen to the Mayor, whoever the Mayor 20 may be and they could overrule her veto or his 21 vote, whoever it's going to be. So when you 22 vote next week, we need to put a super majority 23 in. 24 Next thing, leaving my house this 25 morning trying to get to Main Avenue from  34 1 Euclid Avenue, well, what do you know, another 2 truck is stuck under the bridge on Main Avenue. 3 And this was really a bad one. It's 4 the worst one I've ever seen. And I'm just 5 wondering every time that bridge gets hit by a 6 truck, does the railroad come and inspect that 7 bridge because I'm not sure it's structurally 8 sound. 9 I spoke about this for years. You 10 look at the steel holding it up and there's 11 holes rusted out on the bottom of some of those 12 beams. Now, the last two weeks the railroad's 13 been -- there's some cracks on the walls on 14 either side. 15 They're fixing the walls, but they 16 are not fixing the bridge. That bridge can't 17 be structurally sound after all the hits it's 18 been taking from these trucks. Something's got 19 to be done. 20 Lastly, thank God, finally the 21 subsidence on Dorothy Street is being fixed. I 22 walked by last Friday and DPW was there digging 23 it out. They were also there yesterday. I 24 went by today. Like I said, I don't know what 25 the next step is because there's a big steel  35 1 plate over the hole. 2 So I don't know what the next step 3 is. But DPW shouldn't have been responsible 4 for fixing that. It was the water company that 5 originally dug that spot up. The water company 6 should have been doing that, not our DPW. They 7 have other stuff to do. 8 I commend them for doing this 9 because if they didn't do it, I don't think 10 that street would ever get fixed. That's 11 another thing you people dropped the ball with. 12 You let our utilities get away with murder. 13 They dig up our streets. They don't fill it in 14 right. 15 And that's what happened with this 16 subsidence right there on Dorothy Street. So, 17 like I said, we need to elect people next week 18 that are for the people and not for the Mayor. 19 You people work for us. You don't work for the 20 Mayor. 21 We put you in office. So when you 22 vote next week, make sure you put somebody in 23 that's going to honor your vote and not going 24 to honor the Mayor. Thank you for your time. 25 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Todd  36 1 Pousley. 2 MR. POUSLEY: Good evening, Council, 3 Todd Pousley. I'm here wearing a few hats 4 tonight. First and foremost, I'm a proud 5 Scranton resident. I'm also the Director of 6 Community at NeighborWorks Housing and 7 Community Development nonprofit based here in 8 Scranton. 9 We work every day to improve this 10 city and other communities around Northeast PA. 11 I'm also the Chair of the City Planning 12 Commission. I'm a proud board member of the 13 Pennsylvania Downtown Center that works with 14 communities all across the state to improve 15 their downtowns. 16 I'm here tonight for one thing 17 primarily. That's to ask all of you to vote 18 yes to the proposed changes to our downtown. 19 These are the types of improvements that I and 20 other community development professionals all 21 across the state advocate for in the 22 communities that we serve. 23 I mention that the Pennsylvania 24 Downtown Center, that organization administers 25 a program called Walk Works that again,  37 1 encourages these types of improvements to 2 cities because they realize what the benefits 3 are. 4 I'm pleased to come tonight to also 5 let you know that Planning Commission has had 6 an opportunity to review the downtown 7 walkability plan, discuss it with City Engineer 8 Tom Reilly. And our Planning Commission fully 9 endorses implementation of the plan, which 10 includes some of the recommendations that 11 you'll be voting on tonight. 12 So I rattled off a list of people, 13 organizations that support these types of 14 improvements in downtowns. Why do you ask? 15 It's because they work. They've been proven 16 to work. They've been proven to slow down 17 traffic, reducing the number of accidents and 18 the severity of accidents. 19 They make it safer for people not 20 just driving but people walking, riding 21 bicycles, trying to get around in wheelchairs. 22 They improve public health. They encourage 23 people to get out of their cars, walk around 24 the city instead of driving around and parking 25 in it.  38 1 And they're good for business. 2 They've been shown to promote economic 3 development. You heard speakers talking about 4 people getting out, slowing down in their 5 vehicles to encourage them to actually see 6 what's there and get out of their cars and 7 patronize business. 8 I also want to talk a little bit 9 about the -- you know, what I think's been one 10 of the real sticking points which is the 11 concept of replacing traffic signals with stop 12 signs. 13 You know, when it comes to that, I 14 would encourage all of you to really focus on 15 what the experts have to say about that. 16 Leslie Collins brought up Jeff Speck who helped 17 the city design the original downtown 18 walkability plan. He's an internationally 19 recognized and respected urban planner 20 walkability expert. 21 You know, he would tell you things 22 like stop signs slow down traffic. All 23 vehicles need to stop at a stop sign unlike 24 vehicles going through a green light. So 25 again, that is going to slow down traffic, you  39 1 know, and reduce the likelihood of accidents. 2 And if there are accidents, assure 3 that they're at slower speeds and there's less 4 risk of loss of life. He would tell you again 5 that, you know, encouraging people to walk 6 around a community instead of driving is going 7 to improve business. 8 You know, for all of these reasons, 9 you know, I'd encourage all of you to take this 10 once in a lifetime opportunity utilizing 11 American Rescue Plan dollars that aren't going 12 to come around again to vote yes, support the 13 projects that are on the agenda tonight. Thank 14 you. 15 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Pousley. 16 Owen -- 17 MR. WOROZBYT: Good afternoon, 18 Council members. I appreciate you guys for 19 taking the time listening to all of us talk 20 about our passions and our thoughts about what 21 should be done with some of these different 22 projects we're going to be discussing. 23 Following up on what Todd was just 24 saying, I have the disadvantage of going right 25 after him as he must have been reading my  40 1 talking points. But I've been involved in 2 these studies for the walkability program for 3 the past seven years. 4 I'm involved with the city on a 5 number of different levels and then also worked 6 on the plan through the Metropolitan Planning 7 Organization. I serve on the Transportation 8 Advisory Council for our local MPO. And we did 9 our own study of both downtown Scranton and 10 downtown Wilkes-Barre which was also done but 11 within the past seven or eight years. 12 So we've been planning and we've 13 been discussing opportunities for how to 14 improve a lot of our downtown infrastructure. 15 And I think that the result of what the city is 16 looking to do is overall based on what the 17 experts have had to say a positive improvement 18 for what we can -- what we can see here in the 19 downtown. 20 I'm an avid cyclist and frequent 21 walker throughout downtown. I'm a member of 22 the Anthracite Bicycle Coalition in Scranton 23 Rotary Club. So every Monday I'm walking down 24 from my office to the Hilton for rotary 25 meetings.  41 1 I'm a big fan of just making 2 downtown more and more walkable. The thing 3 that I would like to mention is we've heard 4 some of the other members here talk about the 5 improvements in downtown living and the number 6 of people now living in downtown Scranton. 7 There's probably more people living 8 in downtown now than there have been in the 9 past hundred years. And having safe walkable 10 streets for them to be able to go to work, walk 11 their dog, go to a movie, that's a really 12 important thing. 13 You heard some people talk earlier 14 about seeing all the lights in the windows lit 15 up at night. There are people living downtown 16 now. So I think it would make more sense to 17 actually implement a lot of what we have been 18 discussing with different engineers and 19 planners over the past number of years. 20 The money is allocated solely to 21 improve the downtown infrastructure. There's 22 26 million dollars that we have allocated to us 23 through different grant funding sources. If we 24 don't spend the money, it goes back. So it's a 25 once in a generational opportunity for us to  42 1 really take and improve a lot of what we see as 2 shortcomings with the downtown infrastructure. 3 And if we don't do it now, there may 4 never be an opportunity to do it. So I'm 5 urging Council to make a look at a lot of -- a 6 lot of what's in the plan. We look at other 7 similar cities down at Lehigh Valley like 8 Bethlehem and Easton, or if you go up to 9 Binghamton and to upstate New York, a lot of 10 similar sized communities to the population of 11 the City of Scranton have already done this. 12 So we always used to say that we're 13 20 years behind up here. Let's take advantage 14 and not become 40 years behind and just do what 15 we have the money for now. So again, I am 16 urging Council to seriously consider this 17 request tonight. 18 And it would be silly for us to turn 19 the money back and not take advantage of it 20 while we have the opportunity. So thank you, 21 Council. 22 MR. SCHUSTER: Owen, what's your 23 last name? 24 MR. WOROZBYT: Worozbyt, 25 W-O-R-O-Z-B-Y-T. I work at 213 Railroad  43 1 Avenue. 2 MR. SCHUSTER: And what -- you were 3 involved with writing this plan? 4 MR. WOROZBYT: I've been involved on 5 the planning committee for the plan, correct. 6 That's representing the MPO that I had 7 referenced. So I have been involved on the 8 planning committee while we've been developing 9 it over the past number of years. 10 MR. SCHUSTER: So you were on the 11 planning committee that developed this plan 12 here. 13 MR. WOROZBYT: I'm volunteer member 14 working as a transportation professional in the 15 field here, yeah. 16 MR. SCHUSTER: Okay. And you live 17 on Railroad Ave? 18 MR. WOROZBYT: I work on Railroad 19 Avenue. 20 MR. SCHUSTER: Where are you from -- 21 or where do you live? 22 MR. WOROZBYT: I live in Dunmore. 23 MR. SCHUSTER: All right. Thanks. 24 MR. WOROZBYT: Yep. 25 MR. SMURL: Kuba Jennes.  44 1 MR. JENNES: Good evening, Council. 2 Thank you for your time. My name is Kuba 3 Jennes. I'm the Executive Director of the 4 Anthracite Bike Coalition. We are a 501C3 5 nonprofit operating here in Scranton and in the 6 greater Lackawanna County advocating for 7 cyclist, cycling safety and doing community 8 outreach work. 9 I particularly work a lot with our 10 community bicycle shop in South Scranton. It's 11 called the Cycle Kitchen. It's a do it 12 yourself community shop where youth and adults 13 can learn to use tools, earn bicycles for no 14 money, get free helmets, free lights, 15 reflective safety equipment that they need. 16 And I'm here in that context to 17 encourage you all to vote yes on the proposals 18 towards the downtown streetscape. I can't 19 speak to the greater demographics of the whole 20 city. But I could tell you that in Connell 21 Park where we operate the Cycle Kitchen that 30 22 percent of households don't even own a car. 23 And it's something like double that 24 number are stuck sharing a car with a family 25 member, one household with multiple people, one  45 1 vehicle that they have to use together. I went 2 to the meeting at Lackawanna College when Jeff 3 Speck presented the final findings of this 4 study. 5 And I left it incredibly excited. 6 And I'm here tonight because I think it would 7 be absurd for us to take the -- what Owen 8 before me called a generational opportunity to 9 take this funding and invest it in the downtown 10 for us to take that money and to simply turn it 11 back. 12 I think that many downtown drivers 13 enter downtown from two entrances that are 14 essentially highways off of Route 6 or on the 15 Biden Expressway. And when they enter 16 downtown, they are met with an urban landscape 17 that encourages them to continue drive as if 18 they're on the highway. 19 You have two lane one-way roads that 20 encourage passing behaviors. You have stop 21 lights that encourage people to not slow down 22 at intersections. We have wide intersections 23 that for many take a long time to cross and in 24 many ways can just be a recipe for danger 25 downtown.  46 1 The plan that Mr. Speck presented I 2 think is a net benefit to all downtown users. 3 I think that what he brought up in his plan was 4 that first responding times in other cities 5 that have adopted similar plans across the 6 board go up. 7 Removing one ways increases the 8 ability for police, fire, EMTs to get to the 9 scene of an issue across the board quicker. I 10 hear that this plan is going to increase 11 parking up to 70 spaces I think was the number, 12 60-something. So we're not even cutting into 13 that. 14 Shorter crossings for the 15 pedestrians, I'm excited to see something like 16 that and just better visibility and safety for 17 all pedestrians and cyclists downtown. I think 18 that we have an incredible asset running right 19 along downtown, the Lackawanna Heritage Trail. 20 And I think that there are a lot of 21 ways that users on that trail that might be 22 coming from up or down valley are not 23 necessarily encouraged to venture into the 24 downtown area and enjoy some of the things that 25 we have to offer there.  47 1 I think that this streetscape plan 2 has the potential to change that. I think that 3 you guys have done a great job looking into 4 the feasibility of this. I think that you've 5 hired the correct professionals that have 6 decades of experience looking into this kind of 7 thing and coming back with reasonable 8 actionable goals that cities like ours could 9 take. 10 I think that you've done a great job 11 at securing the funding that we need to make 12 those things happen. And I don't want to see 13 it simply be turned back. We say no. We keep 14 things exactly the way we are. Yeah, there's 15 problems, but what could you do about it. 16 What you could do about it is what's 17 before us tonight. And so I do hope that you 18 vote yes. And the last think that I would like 19 to leave you with is the thought that, like, 20 I'm here on behalf of the Bicycle Coalition. 21 I bicycle downtown all the time. 22 But tonight I drove. But even when I drove 23 here, at the end of that trip I was a 24 pedestrian getting into this building. Anyone 25 that didn't drive their car into this room  48 1 tonight at some point of their trip tonight was 2 a pedestrian. And I think that's a valuable 3 thing to think about. Thank you for your time. 4 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Next is I'll 5 probably destroy the name Geo -- McDonova? 6 MR. MCDONOUGH: Gene McDonough. My 7 handwriting is sloppy. I didn't have my 8 glasses on. Once again, Council, I want to 9 thank you for having us here and thank you for 10 service. Thank you for your time. Gene 11 McDonough, I am the Executive Director of the 12 Anthracite Bicycle Coalition. 13 And I too am involved with these 14 plans going back to the days of Chris Doherty 15 talking about getting cycling -- safe cycling 16 throughout the city. That's our main goal is 17 getting safe cycling throughout the city and 18 further. 19 I've been born and raised here. 20 However, I have spent the last 30 years of my 21 life, my professional career traveling. I've 22 spent it in most of the major cities throughout 23 the US. I've visited most of the state 24 capitals and worked in most of them. 25 And what we've heard here time and  49 1 time again is the investment of better 2 walkability increases business, increases 3 livability of the downtown, increases happiness 4 in overall. 5 City of Scranton residents right now 6 are sitting on a 27 million dollar opportunity 7 and we're talking about walking away from it. 8 This is not the first time we've been here. 9 We've been here two or three times. One or two 10 times we made it, we've made small pieces. 11 Right now we have a huge opportunity 12 to make a big impact. It's a once in a 13 lifetime opportunity for us. And if we walk 14 away from it, it's foolish. I'm a number's 15 guy. I don't like to, you know, I heard a lot 16 of people saying, yeah, it will do this. It 17 will do that. 18 According to the -- I have some 19 numbers of cars versus bicycles. According to 20 the Department of Transportation, the people 21 obtaining driver's licenses down 20 percent 22 year over year. Less and less people are 23 driving. They can't afford it. It's more 24 stressful. 25 It's become too expensive. On the  50 1 other hand, bikability is on the increase. You 2 look at e-bikes are up 13 percent year over 3 year compound sales. Bikes are up 8 percent 4 year over year compound sales. Sales are 5 expected to go up from 83 billion this year to 6 137 billion in 3030. 7 You see more and more e-bikes on 8 these streets and we're not prepared for it. 9 If more and more bicycles are using the roads, 10 it also means less and less cars which means 11 less traffic which means less investment in the 12 macadam. 13 We don't have to be paving all the 14 time if more and more bikes are on the road. 15 We heard time and time again stop signs versus 16 streetlights. This isn't a hard stop from what 17 I'm told. We have a 30 day and another 60 days 18 to relook at this and make changes. And what 19 I've seen -- so we should be able to at least 20 try this and see what happens. 21 We're not ripping streetlights out 22 day one. According to Science Direct, a 23 research company, by introducing stop signs in 24 approved areas, it typically reduces injuries 25 for pedestrians by 18 percent and death by 30  51 1 percent and a 53 percent decrease in bike and 2 car incidents. 3 And we're thinking about walking 4 away from this. Average speed of -- is reduced 5 by 60 percent to 12 miles per hour when 6 approaching a stop sign. When you're 7 approaching a streetlight, you're looking for 8 that yellow. 9 If it starts to turn yellow, cars 10 speed up. If somebody's walking into the 11 intersection they don't see that. They're 12 looking at the street light. Somebody gets 13 hit, injury's worse. You have stop signs, 14 people are anticipating signs. 15 Again, based on -- to me, I have 16 concerns over stop signs, don't get me wrong. 17 I live in the Hill Section. I watch day in and 18 day out people running stop signs. What I'm 19 being told is part of this investment is an 20 increased enforcement in -- on stop signs and 21 in general traffic. 22 And education, people in Scranton 23 don't know how to cross the street. People in 24 Scranton don't know how to let people cross the 25 street. People in Scranton don't know how to  52 1 ride with bikes next to them. That's 2 education. 3 I'm told that those three things 4 come together, I think we have a winning plan 5 here. My twist on this is the current plan -- 6 I mean, I don't drive downtown simply because I 7 hate the lights down here. The timing on them 8 is horrendous. 9 You sit at lights. I came through 10 Mulberry Street the other day. I sat at 11 lights, no traffic going by. I sat there for 12 30 seconds, 40 seconds. If we have stop signs 13 again, I don't know if I'd put them on Mulberry 14 Street. 15 I forget where the plans are. 16 You're not sitting at these lights. We're not 17 wasting energy. We're not wasting time. 18 People are -- you know, again, it comes down to 19 education. Sales, I hear trying to increase -- 20 I'm going to run out of time. 21 I want to say thank you for your 22 time. Thank you for your service and please 23 vote yes on this. It's a once in a lifetime 24 opportunity, don't walk away from it. 25 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr.  53 1 McDonough. Bob Durkin. 2 MR. DURKIN: Good evening, Council. 3 Thank you very much for giving me the 4 opportunity to come before Council. I'm Bob 5 Durkin. I'm President and CEO of the Greater 6 Scranton Chamber of Commerce. In this instance 7 representing over 450 businesses, Scranton 8 based businesses from which we have some 30,000 9 employees. 10 So Leslie Collins mentioned before I 11 thought it was interesting that she hadn't 12 heard anything negative about this. And 13 that's -- I think that speaks volumes. Let me 14 layer something else on top of that. This past 15 week we brought Tom Reilly in to do a 16 presentation to ultimately -- in a virtual 17 setting for some 50 of the Scranton based 18 businesses that are members of the Chamber of 19 Commerce. 20 Not one of them had anything bad to 21 say. In fact, overwhelmingly that group was 22 totally in favor of this. So I'm standing here 23 before you today asking you to support this. 24 We think it's a great idea. I want to pause 25 and tell you a little story here as it were.  54 1 This last week we had over at the 2 Hilton, an organization called the Pennsylvania 3 Economic Development Association, their annual 4 conference. And we hosted it at the Chamber. 5 I was the host, some 160 to 170 economic 6 development professionals from all over the 7 Commonwealth, professionals who are involved in 8 this type of work, that is to say, community 9 based economic development. 10 And it was really fun because I had 11 a chance to do an opening speech as it were and 12 talk to these folks. And I asked them while 13 they were going to be in town for two and a 14 half days to please spend some time walking 15 around the downtown, take a look, see what you 16 see. 17 And one of the stories I told them 18 was that over the last several years, probably 19 I've been in this position for 12 years, I've 20 probably had -- and I'm not exaggerating when I 21 say this, 30 or 40 different media outlets 22 from all over the globe, all over the globe 23 and the biggest elements in North America call 24 and talking about Scranton for various reasons. 25 One of the reasons early on they  55 1 used to call about, they wanted to compare us 2 to Detroit. Detroit was going through 3 bankruptcy. These media elements were looking 4 for somebody or some community that looked like 5 a mini Detroit. 6 And those that came and many have 7 come, again, for from all over the globe, when 8 they have, invariably what they say to me is, 9 "I just walked around the downtown. This isn't 10 what I was expecting." They're expecting 11 something really bad and it's not. 12 This downtown is fantastic. And 13 when I was talking to those PEDA as it's 14 called, Pennsylvania Economy Development 15 Association of Professionals and challenged 16 them to take a look around the downtown, it was 17 fun for me to sort of just stand there and say 18 just look at what's happening just around the 19 square and around the perimeter of the square. 20 It has a concentric circle. 21 You can hardly find a single block 22 where there hasn't been major development. And 23 the major developers, we all know who they are, 24 including Scranton's own Casey Donahue with the 25 work that they've done at the time Community  56 1 Bank Building and Oppenheim's building, Charlie 2 Jefferson, John Basalyga, Don Mammano, Art 3 Russo, and others. 4 They've invested literally hundreds 5 of millions of dollars, mostly their own 6 dollars into this downtown. And I think this 7 plan, this is an opportunity to complement what 8 the private sector has done already by making 9 downtown Scranton that much better. 10 Courthouse square is a gem. But you 11 can't drive around it. You have to go way out 12 of your way to loop around this. The 13 downtown -- the opportunities also as a part of 14 this plan to take the quality of the 15 streetscape improvements that have been made at 16 courthouse square and bring it to the other 17 side of the streets are just going to make our 18 downtown that much better. 19 It's a great city. It's a great 20 town. It's a great opportunity to add to the 21 investments that have already been made to 22 Scranton and downtown Scranton even better. So 23 I hope you'll support this downtown walkability 24 study. 25 MR. SCHUSTER: Mr. Durkin, that  57 1 meeting you had the other day, you said it was 2 a virtual meeting. 3 MR. DURKIN: Yeah. 4 MR. SCHUSTER: And there was about 5 50 downtown business or Scranton -- 6 MR. DURKIN: Scranton businesses. 7 MR. SCHUSTER: Do you have any input 8 from that meeting or a list of those businesses 9 that you could provide Council? 10 MR. DURKIN: We didn't take minutes 11 on it, Tom. We just basically -- basically it 12 was Tom Reilly giving a presentation, Q and A 13 afterwards, an opportunity for me to talk to 14 people. We had about 20 -- 25 in the room and 15 25 virtually. 16 MR. SCHUSTER: Okay. Thanks. 17 MR. DURKIN: Thank you. 18 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Dan 19 Santaniello. 20 MR. SANTANIELLO: I'll be very 21 brief, but thank you for having me today, Dan 22 Santaniello, President and CEO of Fidelity 23 Bank. I'm here tonight to show my support of 24 the walkability study. 25 We're making a significant  58 1 investment as I'm sure you folks know in the 2 downtown. And in April, we'll be moving 165 3 bankers into the iconic Scranton Electric 4 Building. And I got the opportunity to attend 5 the session at the Chamber of Commerce where 6 the engineer spoke about the project. 7 And, you know, I truly believe that 8 this project will make the downtown much safer 9 for my 165 bankers that will be in the downtown 10 on daily basis as well as all of those that 11 live in the city. So I strongly encourage you 12 to support this ordinance and appreciate you 13 allowing me this opportunity to talk. Thank 14 you. 15 MR. SMURL: Thank you. That is all 16 for our sign-in sheet. Anyone else like to 17 address Council? 18 MS. SMITH: Hi. My name is Shannon 19 Smith. I didn't know I had to sign in to -- 20 this is my first time coming to one of the 21 Council meetings. So thank you for letting me 22 come up here and speak with yous. 23 MR. KING: Can you pull the mic down 24 a little closer, yeah, so we could hear you. 25 Thank you.  59 1 MS. SMITH: Okay, thank you. Thank 2 you for letting me speak with yous and taking 3 my concerns. And like I said, this is the 4 first time I've ever come to one of the City 5 Council meetings and did not know I had to sign 6 in. 7 But the other day I was down there 8 to pay my taxes. And as I was standing in 9 line, the garbage fees are put in with the 10 taxes, no problem. That's fine. That's 11 beautiful; do you know what I mean? But when 12 you fall behind on them and you have to make 13 arrangements, it going to Portnoff Law 14 Associates. 15 And they -- I don't know if you've 16 had done your investigations on them and due 17 diligence, whatever you would like to refer to 18 it as, but they're not the best company to be 19 going through. The garbage fee -- the refuse 20 fee is $300. If you do not -- and one year we 21 had the 2024 ones I owed. 22 And when I went down to pay my 23 taxes, I was talking about it with the nice 24 lady that was working there, you know, to get 25 everything set to go pay my taxes.  60 1 And she said, don't pay them because 2 as soon as I was there, another lady came in 3 and starting talking about the refuse fees too 4 and how they go to Portnoff Law Associates. 5 Their fees are outrageous. 6 And the fee that you guys charge for 7 the garbage is 300. And that's acceptable, 8 right, I could understand that. I fell behind 9 on my fees. They send me a letter to call them 10 and talk to them to get this. 11 Now I owed -- it come out to $409. 12 I said, well, I don't have $409 to pay right 13 now. And they refused -- blatantly refused. I 14 have a letter here that says they do not make 15 payment arrangements for such low fees. So 16 they gave me 10 days to come up with $409 17 dollars. I get paid every two weeks. And it 18 made it virtually impossible. 19 And within 22 days, I received a 20 letter in the mail that I owed $584 for their 21 fees that they had taxed onto it. Now, that's 22 in 22 days between it jumped from 409 -- it 23 went from $300 to $409 to $584. That's 24 doubling the fees on people who are of low 25 income.  61 1 And you can't afford to pay it. So 2 it is putting people in a financial chokehold. 3 They send the letter. And with the letter, 4 they threatened to put liens on people's 5 houses, $175 extra fee if it was not paid 6 within that 10 days and just outrageous things. 7 And then what concerned me too is 8 because of them doing that is borderline 9 criminal. Actually it might be criminal. 10 There has been multiple lawsuits against them. 11 And what they are -- what it is, is it's called 12 the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. 13 They were being sued for that in the past. 14 The Pennsylvania Fair Credit 15 Extension Uniformly Act that they were being 16 sued for, the Pennsylvania Unfair Trade 17 Practices and Consumer Protection Law. And now 18 I had to make arrangements. 19 I have to ask to speak with the 20 supervisor on this situation and was told since 21 I'm a reoccurring customer because I had fallen 22 once before behind on my garbage refuse fees, 23 that she would knock $75 off of it. 24 I said, you're a collection agency. 25 You're able to barter with people and make  62 1 arrangements so it makes it affordable. So 2 you're taking people who are on low income and 3 throwing them back farther, putting liens on 4 their houses which would make people go up for 5 foreclosure. 6 When you drive around the City of 7 Scranton and you see the houses, you cannot -- 8 you see all of these homes. And they're nice 9 homes. But guess what, they're falling apart 10 and ragged. And when they did these home 11 assessments, it's going to raise everybody's 12 taxes. 13 A friend came to my home the one day 14 and said, Share, you've been living here up 15 in -- because I'm from the valley. He goes, 16 you've been living here for 10 years. He goes 17 how come -- I bought a fixer upper house -- how 18 come I did not do any upgrades on my home, out 19 of fear of what the taxes are going to raise to 20 and not being affordable. 21 Right now I'm collecting 22 unemployment. I go down to the unemployment 23 office. The kiosk machines, I have to pay to 24 go in there being on low income right now and 25 pay all of these extra fees that are going on.  63 1 And it's not fair. It's making it unaffordable 2 for people to live within the city. And I have 3 a huge concern. And it's not just me. 4 MR. SMURL: Can I ask you -- can I 5 ask you, will you leave your phone number and 6 information to Alison so that we could contact 7 you tomorrow? This is a lot to go over and 8 really to do it here is impossible. If you'll 9 give her your contact information and then I 10 will move it forward tomorrow. 11 MS. SMITH: Thank you very much. I 12 appreciate that. Yes, I see that the timer 13 that you have here, so thank you very much for 14 all that. 15 MR. SMURL: Just a number or an 16 e-mail address. 17 MR. MCANDREW: And maybe at some 18 point we could have Portnoff come in for a 19 caucus and have a little chat with them, 20 Mr. Voldenberg, if can you see if that's a 21 possibility? 22 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, sir. 23 MR. MCANDREW: Thank you. 24 MR. SMURL: Thank you. 25 MS. SMITH: Thank you, sir.  64 1 MR. COYNE: Tom Coyne, Minooka. The 2 last -- this is the Council for people to see 3 and decide who to vote for back at the polls. 4 Lights versus stop sign, people watch your 5 government at work and vote based on it. 6 There's a stop sign -- when a stop 7 sign, there is no duration to stop versus a 8 light. And that makes a stop sign a lot less 9 safe for pedestrians. Mr. King put forth the 10 false argument of would you prefer to be hit by 11 a car going 35 or one going 50? 12 If a car slows -- if a car slows 13 down -- if cars will slow down and not dart 14 from intersection to intersection because of 15 stop signs. To answer to the question is, 16 being hit by car going 35 or 15 miles per hour, 17 I'd prefer not to be hit by a car at all. 18 If your basis is what speed you want 19 to get hit by, you're not doing it right. Dr. 20 Rothchild, who is not here, had a very good 21 argument that had a conversation with her kid 22 on crossing the street. Repeating back is not 23 understanding. 24 They do not get the concept of a 25 driver not seeing them over the steering wheel  65 1 and over the hood of a vehicle or what getting 2 hit by a car and dragged or being run over by 3 2,500 pounds would do to them. 4 The question for many of you and 5 your children at the age where they would start 6 crossing the streets by themselves going to 7 school or just walking is, would you tell them 8 if they had the options to cross at a light or 9 a stop sign where would you send them to. 10 Stop signs are safer than stop 11 light -- if stops are safer than stop lights, 12 are we planning to mandate the removal of stop 13 lights across the city near schools and putting 14 up stop signs because it's safer to cross at 15 stop signs? 16 We better remove all the stop lights 17 at schools then. We know it's not going to be 18 addressed because it defies logic and does not 19 support the intent of the walkability reasoning 20 the administration puts forward. Don't address 21 something that doesn't support the agenda. 22 Mr. King said it best, now if he 23 can't speed to catch lights and he has to deal 24 with stop signs, he will avoid Center City. So 25 how will that improve downtown's businesses?  66 1 The administration held off submitting this for 2 a vote. I get this. The administration 3 repeatedly and with intent holds the voting 4 choice off until there is no time to evaluate 5 it, rob the people of any input. 6 The walkability study was presented 7 at Lackawanna College on April 4th, 2024. It 8 took over a year and a half to get here. And 9 we're now in a rush. Because after that 10 meeting when the public comment identified 11 issues we were promised followup meetings, 12 never happened. 13 It was hidden from the public and 14 they were intentionally not included. They 15 listed only the filet mignon oops, I mean 16 stakeholders and made choices directly and 17 introduced it late enough in the game to create 18 urgency. 19 It's going to be a 3 to 2 tonight. 20 Smurl already said this on introduction and 21 listening to the public. His voice was cast in 22 stone before the people had an input. So we 23 might as well move on because it's already done 24 until the next Council comes forward and has a 25 chance to reverse or amend it.  67 1 Moving on, the Mayor contends she 2 could put a deputy mayor in place for a job 3 they're not allowed to do. Yes, we have 4 internet connectivity and texting is an option. 5 But Mayor is not supposed to be a phone-in job. 6 Was she available when she was 7 delivering her child on text? Was she actively 8 working when she was in Ireland with Biden or 9 when she was at the White House for the 10 appointment to the Biden Administration? Did 11 anything off -- anyone off have things 12 authorized on her behalf at any time she was 13 away that she signed on return? But we'll 14 never know. 15 Yes, the Mayor can assign anyone as 16 Deputy Mayor. But the limit on that power is 17 you can't assign someone to cover a position 18 that violates the Home Rule Charter. But we 19 ignore that anyway, so why do we care. The 20 Mayor puts forth open and transparent 21 government. We see that by a locked City Hall. 22 She talks about the unsheltered 23 task force that does nothing because if it was 24 a decisionmaking body, it would have to have 25 minutes and meetings open to the public. And  68 1 we know that is not happening. She puts forth 2 caring, but I have not heard from a firm code 3 blue solution on the books, nor any plans with 4 food stamps on hold how the city will step up, 5 not even a sponsored DPW food drop-off to take 6 care of the population. 7 She stole the people's choice with 8 the recovery fund by telling us with Nay Aug 9 pool that it couldn't be done. They lied 10 multiple times saying the fund couldn't be used 11 there. I've done multiple right to know 12 requests. 13 And it seems that public information 14 isn't the right to know and they need to check 15 if -- for legal review on things that are 16 listed as public information. Stonewalling 17 from this administration is horrible and it 18 lacks clarity. 19 MR. SMURL: Thank you. 20 MR. COYNE: Thank you and good 21 night. 22 MR. ARGENTA: Good evening, Council, 23 Virgil Argenta, Scranton city resident, Council 24 candidate. I'm here today to discuss an 25 ongoing concern impacting both our neighborhood  69 1 and the wider community, frequent incidents of 2 trucks colliding with the North Main Avenue 3 railroad bridge at Euclid Avenue. 4 As a lifelong resident of Scranton 5 Tripp Park neighborhood and current resident of 6 North Main Avenue, Hyde Park, I'm deeply 7 concerned about the daily disruptions this 8 issue has been causing. 9 These accidents affect children on 10 the way to school, individuals commuting to 11 work or attending appointments placing 12 additional strain on our already understaffed 13 and overworked police department. 14 Let's not forget we also have Tripp 15 Park Elementary School that's affected when 16 this road is shut down. Today it was down for 17 over four hours. Furthermore, attempts by 18 truck drivers to avoid the bridge have resulted 19 in property damage including cracked sidewalks, 20 damaged vehicles, damaged lawns and in some 21 cases down wires when they get lost trying to 22 maneuver through the Tripp Park section to get 23 back onto North Main Avenue. 24 The increased impact of these 25 incidents is significant and warrants prompt  70 1 attention. Lack of enforcement and lack of 2 proper signage contributes to this problem. 3 Lackawanna Avenue and North Main Avenue, the 4 gateway to West Scranton has no signage. 5 Linden Street, North Main Avenue, one sign 6 obscured by a sign on a pole. 7 Oram Street and North Main, one sign 8 stating 12'8, 500 feet ahead. Farr Street and 9 North Main, one sign 12'8 plus a flashing light 10 for traffic for a light ahead which is 11 confusing. 12 Some ARPA funds could be used more 13 effectively elsewhere than only on the downtown 14 traffic light changes. For instance, we 15 previously had specialized highway motorcycle 16 units full time in our police department to 17 handle traffic calls. 18 You're the legislative body, 19 Council. It's recommended that all signage on 20 both approaches to the bridge clearly indicate 21 height restrictions. Ordinances, maybe? 22 Another suggestion is to restrict 23 tractor-trailer access beyond a certain point 24 permitting only local delivery vehicles. 25 Coordinate with DOT or the PUC  71 1 patrols to enforce regulations. I'll guarantee 2 those drivers will pay attention after a couple 3 of times being pulled over by those guys. Make 4 sure the drivers are properly licensed. You 5 watch the same news that we all do, the traffic 6 accidents with the trucks. 7 As the legislative body, Council, 8 you should draft an ordinance with some very 9 hefty fines. When my wife and I owned the West 10 Scranton Wendy's, we partnered with the traffic 11 officials and Corporal Bachman to use our lot 12 for inspecting trucks that ignored the bridge 13 signs and the violations. 14 Let's work together to keep the 15 community safe. A few elected officials and 16 candidates, you've highlighted your links to 17 Tripp Park and West Side in previous campaigns 18 and campaign fliers. Now is the time to show 19 your real commitment for Tripp Park, West Side. 20 Speaking of Tripp Park, is there any 21 truth that the Tripp Park Community Center is 22 going to be returned to the city? How are we 23 making out with the welcome sign to Tripp Park 24 on North Main Avenue that we've been waiting 25 for years for?  72 1 Maybe we could talk about the Tripp 2 Park West Scranton Crime Watch that was 3 disband? How about the numerous bnbs in our 4 neighborhood that nobody addresses? How about 5 the illegal camp where the woman overdosed with 6 the daughter in the house for three days that's 7 still sitting there? 8 Is this your idea of representing 9 Tripp Park? If you're from Tripp Park, I'm 10 sure you know that 1952, number 20 Samuel 11 Morris Scranton Public School 8th grade 12 touchdown football league held the champion's 13 title for four years from 1949 to 1952. 14 Number 20, Sam Morris won 14 15 championships. You know who was on that team? 16 My dad. 17 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Argenta. 18 Anyone else? 19 MR. MANCINI: Good evening, Council, 20 and resident, Mike Mancini, Scranton. As an 21 independent, I see things for what they truly 22 are. I pay attention to local stuff and help 23 however I can because I care. I ask important 24 questions and remain unanswered. 25 Most of our public officials neglect  73 1 to fulfill their duties and answer those who 2 elected them. They do not earn their votes 3 from those who oppose them with good quality 4 work and a willingness to do whatever possible 5 to make Scranton a safe and proud city. 6 While every business in Scranton is 7 inviting open doors, City Hall remains closed. 8 Scranton is the future for so many families or 9 has been for decades. Ask yourselves, would 10 your parents, grandparents vote for a mayor 11 with her own plans above yours? 12 To return our city to each of us, we 13 all need to vote. This critical local election 14 includes judges, district attorney, county 15 commissioner, school board, mayor, three 16 council seats that will require your voice. 17 Personally I will vote for character and 18 experience. 19 We will be blessed with whomever we 20 choose for Scranton School Board. We have an 21 amazing district attorney who will ensure with 22 the right administration in Scranton, he will 23 become the best DA in decades. 24 I have known Tom Welby for a long 25 time. His resume, experience and natural  74 1 ability to always do the right things for 2 others is what's needed in one of those Council 3 chairs. God bless your family in this time of 4 need. 5 Three Council seats are up for vote. 6 I cannot vote for anyone who is currently under 7 investigation by State District Attorney 8 General's Office for election fraud and hides 9 behind three attorneys. You could not even get 10 100 votes. You need to answer the citizens and 11 the state Attorney General. Mr. Smurl, good 12 luck with your legal agenda -- dilemma. 13 Two years ago we voted for two 14 Council members. However, Dr. Rothchild only 15 serves the Mayor. Not once did she oppose the 16 Mayor. We got that last one wrong. 17 Mr. Schuster, you shut down the West Scranton 18 Crime Watch and went into business for 19 yourself. 20 Like Mr. Smurl, you deserve not one 21 vote. I gathered 267 signatures on petitions 22 for Mayor that I personally witnessed. I took 23 the time to speak to many city residents and 24 could see their same concerns. I show up for 25 them. The timing was not right.  75 1 December 12th will be sentencing for 2 the person who took my son's life. That chair 3 downstairs will welcome the 80th anniversary of 4 National Bakery, 250 years as a country, 5 possibly a railway system and so many other 6 choices to be made daily for our future. 7 For most of his life, he served our 8 community in various capacities -- his resume 9 and wanting a welcoming future for our families 10 speaks volumes. He knows a glass ceiling 11 because he witnessed things firsthand with the 12 Jimmy Connors' administration. 13 Our future needs to be in the hands 14 of those who choose to do the right things who 15 knows how to put the pieces back together. 16 Gene Barrett deserves your vote. I will be 17 proud to vote for him on Election Day. Look at 18 our roads, four less deep end pools and our 19 current climate when you vote for the future of 20 Scranton. 21 We have 19 murders -- I'm sorry, 14 22 murders, 19 arrests in five years, 73 opioid 23 related deaths in five years, not one arrested. 24 In seven days we get the city back to the 25 citizens where it belongs with zero percent  76 1 reporting, Paige Cognetti, you're fired. 2 That's not a prediction. It's a spoiler. 3 Veterans gave their time and lives 4 to allow for our freedoms. Voting is one of 5 them. Our police and firefighters put their 6 lives on the line daily. DPW currently does 7 functions that most cannot accomplish. 8 Our clerical staff continues to meet 9 the requirements of our citizens currently 10 behind locked doors. Vote for character for 11 your future. Once a few fall, they all fall. 12 Our city deserves so much better. We deserve 13 better. It's time to flip the script and get 14 the city back where it belongs. Good evening, 15 everyone. 16 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Anyone else? 17 MR. LITTLE: Hello, Scranton. I'm 18 Rik Little. Very interesting things have 19 happened in the last day with the governance of 20 this area. We got the -- we got the local 21 governance. We got the county governance. We 22 got the state governance. We got the national 23 governance. 24 And we just had a no kings day, a 25 lot of paid protesters. But that's an  77 1 argument. I mean, they're paid. I'm just -- 2 I'm glad Mr. King survived. 3 MR. KING: I wasn't allowed to go. 4 There was no kings. 5 MR. LITTLE: They were out to get 6 you, right? 7 MR. KING: Yeah. 8 MR. LITTLE: Well, as an elderly 9 person who's lived in Scranton for 20 years and 10 I lived in Adams Avenue high rise for 14 and a 11 half years, I spent all of my time downtown. I 12 was in family court for 15 years trying to get 13 the visitation orders enforced so I could see 14 my daughter. 15 And to do that, I had to have a car. 16 And I worked construction. I had four cars. 17 And I ended up in the building that was built 18 for the elderly, Adams Avenue high rise. And 19 I'm living in there. And the moment I walked 20 in there I could see that this was -- this was 21 a criminal racket. 22 I mean, the way it was doing -- 23 things were happening all the time, just 24 flooding all the time, mainly water but, you 25 know, from sprinklers. And I got to see that  78 1 it was an insurance scam and it involved 2 Scranton Police and Scranton Fire Department 3 signing off. 4 And I'm living in there and they're 5 violating my human rights, my 4th Amendment 6 Rights just bursting into my room and I called 7 the police and the police always say see the 8 manager, which I did. And I've spent five 9 years learning law and trying to hold onto my 10 apartment there which I eventually lost and 11 became homeless. 12 And that's why I'm running for Mayor 13 of Scranton because I have a great 14 understanding of all of these -- these things 15 that have gone on. And I realize that where I 16 was living was an election farm. Everything is 17 connected to the Board of Elections. 18 I mean, you look at Lackawanna 19 County, Mr. Frederickson is the lawyer for 20 Lackawanna County. He's also the lawyer for 21 the Election Board. Everything is connected 22 with elections. But about the elderly thing 23 and the walkability thing, I walked all over 24 around here. 25 It seems the whole walkability thing  79 1 is a diversion, a diversion from the bigger 15 2 minute city evil globalist plan coming to this 3 area. Most of the people are either elderly or 4 they're students. 5 That's basically how it was and how 6 it is, I believe. We'll never know because I 7 haven't had a census. You know, I haven't had 8 a lot of things. 9 I think -- I think focus should be 10 on representative governance, fair 11 representative governance. So when a person 12 has a problem, there is structure and they 13 could go someplace. Now, I came here about six 14 years ago because they confiscated all of my 15 stuff in the storage area which they did until 16 the end when I got evicted. 17 And I get evicted and I'm dealing 18 with bad, bad judges. And I'm running out of 19 time, but do not retain any judges anywhere, 20 anyhow, anywhere and please vote. 21 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Anyone else? 22 MR. VOLDENBERG: FIFTH ORDER. 5-A. 23 MOTIONS. 24 MR. EVANS: Good evening, Council. 25 It's been a while since I've been here, five  80 1 years, I guess. My name is Wayne Evans. I'm a 2 downtown resident. I'm not here tonight as a 3 former Mayor or a City Councilman or a City 4 Planner. 5 I'm here tonight as a resident of 6 downtown Scranton and the current owner of 7 four downtown properties. My wife Nancy and I 8 moved to downtown Scranton over eight and a 9 half years ago. It is our home. This is our 10 neighborhood. 11 This is where I walk every single 12 day. Over the last eight and a half years, 13 I've been a pedestrian in downtown Scranton 14 crossing these streets and the sidewalks on 15 probably well over 3,000 different occasions. 16 This is where I talk to my neighbors, engage 17 business owners and all of the great local 18 developers. 19 And, yes, I discussed this project 20 and walkability of our downtown with many of 21 the people I come in contact on a daily basis. 22 In fact, tonight I have letters of support 23 from a highly impactful group. 24 The following developers have 25 invested hundreds of millions of dollars in our  81 1 downtown who collectively own dozens of 2 buildings, provide even more storefronts and 3 have built at least 600 luxury apartments and 4 thousands and thousands of square feet of 5 office space. 6 Their support speaks volumes to the 7 importance of this project, Charlie Jefferson, 8 Jefferson Warner, LLC, Art Russo, ATR 9 Properties, Don Mammano, DFM Properties, Nick 10 Dye and Casey Donahue from D and D Realty, John 11 Basalyga, JBAS Realty. 12 I'm honored to be here tonight as a 13 downtown resident and to represent this -- 14 these accomplished individuals and have them -- 15 who have done so much for our downtown. You 16 know, I've always been interested in urban 17 planning. 18 And quite a few years ago I was 19 accredited by the Congress of New Urbanism 20 through the University of Miami School of 21 Architecture. I'd like to think that my 22 passion for urban planning help bring Jeff 23 Speck to Scranton seven years ago. 24 And after reading his book Walkable 25 City How Downtown Can Save America One Step At  82 1 a Time, I find Jeff's book to be a wake-up 2 call, not only for me but for urban planners in 3 downtowns across America. His concept was 4 basic and simple. 5 The status quo in many cities like 6 Scranton was not working. And our car centric 7 downtowns were unsafe for pedestrians and 8 deeply bad for small businesses that were 9 struggling in downtowns everywhere. 10 But before I get into some of the 11 details of the actual streetscape project, I 12 want to explore the status quo that got us to 13 point. So on October 15th, 2015, a resident of 14 downtown Scranton appeared before this 15 Council -- the Council in these chambers. 16 The following is an excerpt of the 17 comments made that evening by that resident. 18 "I'm also very concern about the number of 19 pedestrian injuries and fatalities in downtown 20 Scranton over the last few years. As you may 21 know, on October 4, 2015, Loretta Kempinski, a 22 resident of the Jermyn Hotel was killed at the 23 intersection of Wyoming and Lackawanna Avenue. 24 And now there was another pedestrian 25 killed at the same intersection by a bus not  83 1 many years ago. And then there was a resident 2 I believe from Mulberry Towers that was in a 3 wheelchair that was killed at intersection of 4 Mulberry and North Washington not many years 5 ago. 6 There was another incident of a 7 pedestrian killed at the intersection of North 8 Washington and Linden Street not many years 9 ago. My point is, we have invested 5.6 million 10 dollars with PennDOT for these wonderful 11 traffic signal systems, which I'm not sure were 12 ever properly synchronized. 13 The intent was to make the flow of 14 traffic better for motorist and hopefully the 15 safety of pedestrians. But I don't think it's 16 working. I think it's something the city 17 should be looking into. And I think Council 18 should be pushing for some answers." 19 That was a resident in 2015. So as 20 a City Council in 2015, I took the request 21 seriously, especially as pedestrian deaths and 22 injuries continued for the next 10 years. I 23 also took notice of the time of the failure of 24 traffic light project mentioned by the resident 25 that spoke before City Council.  84 1 This is the same project that was 2 discussed by a speaker just last week. To 3 offer some additional perspective, the traffic 4 light project referred to was started in 2012. 5 It was still being worked on into mid 2013. It 6 was riddled with delays and issues with 7 synchronization at the lights. 8 It was, in fact, a PennDOT spokesmen 9 in June of 2013 comment on that exact process 10 that an article written by Jim Lockwood for the 11 Times-Tribune by saying the following: 12 "It's sort of like a 50-sided 13 Rubik's cube. As soon as you change one, the 14 timing of the intersection, it affects the 15 others. So I guess the question remains, with 16 this complicated 50-sided Rubik's cube design 17 of a traffic light system was ever properly 18 synchronized." 19 So thank you to that resident, Joan 20 Hodowanitz for your insightful comments 10 21 years ago. Your comments about a broken system 22 designed by PennDOT, designed whose primary 23 features are one-way streets and overabundance 24 of traffic signals, a design whose main 25 priority was moving cars officially over basic  85 1 pedestrian safety, design that still haunts us 2 today. That is our status quo. 3 And what is before Council this 4 evening for a final vote is what I believe is 5 the appropriate answer to that failed effort. 6 So before -- briefly I want to discuss two main 7 components of the plan's project. 8 First one-way streets versus two 9 way, what are the safety benefits of two-way 10 streets? We've heard some tonight, one, slower 11 traffic speed, two, fewer severe collisions, 12 three, better navigation for emergency 13 vehicles, for improved pedestrian safety. 14 There are also business friendly 15 aspects of the plan as well for two-way 16 streets, one, improved access and visibility; 17 two, more direct routes; three, more inviting 18 streetscape; four, supports mixed use 19 development like storefronts and restaurants 20 on the floor first and residential units on the 21 upper floors. 22 In fact, it should also be noted 23 that the studies have shown an increase of 30 24 percent in commerce of stores and businesses 25 along two-way street versus also one-way  86 1 streets. So in conclusion, two-way streets 2 balance mobility with livability. 3 They slow cars down, make places 4 safer, easier to navigate and more appealing, 5 all of which supports downtown vitality, 6 business success and pedestrian safety. 7 So briefly I want to talk about 8 four-way stops; number one, they slower vehicle 9 speeds. Drivers must come to a full stop at a 10 four-way stop reducing vehicle speeds near 11 crosswalks. Slower speeds give drivers more 12 time to see and yield to pedestrians. Any 13 collisions are much less severe. 14 In many cases, these slower speeds 15 are the difference between life and death for 16 pedestrian crossing a crosswalk. Two, it 17 increases eye contact awareness. At four-way 18 stop signs, drivers have been -- often make eye 19 contact increasing mutual awareness. 20 Three, pedestrians cross one lane at 21 a time because cars from all directions stop, 22 pedestrians typically only have to worry about 23 one lane or vehicle at a time. This is 24 especially helpful for children, the elderly, 25 and the disabled pedestrians.  87 1 Four, no conflicting turn movements. 2 At traffic lights right and left turning signal 3 turning vehicles often conflict with 4 pedestrians crossing with walk signal. Fewer 5 signal compliance issues as traffic signals, 6 drivers more often than not run red lights or 7 rush to get through yellow lights which can be 8 deadly for pedestrians in the crosswalk. 9 And there is more, but I'll 10 continue. I would also like to reenforce and 11 someone overstated 35 traffic lights are not 12 being removed for four-way stops. The truth 13 and the facts are that in a core of downtown 14 Scranton, the area between Jefferson Avenue and 15 Mifflin and Mulberry Street and Lackawanna 16 Avenue, there will be grand total of six 17 intersection that will have four way stops, 18 another two that will have two way stops. 19 So I hope you all believe the choice 20 is clear, one choice what we know as the status 21 quo. The current failed plan that our own 22 history has shown is littered with pedestrian 23 fatalities, injuries, and danger as it exists 24 even today when you can choose the path that is 25 before you tonight, a safer, more walkable  88 1 business and pedestrian friendly plan whose 2 core principles have proven to work and thrive 3 in the cities large and small across America. 4 This plan project just may be the 5 final link to having a downtown Scranton that 6 will once again be the economic hub that drives 7 the entire northeast. It will once again be 8 the undeniable, social, and Cultural Center and 9 will continue to be the historic core of our 10 community by bringing vibrant quality of life 11 for our residents, businesses, and visitors. 12 And finally, maybe even more 13 importantly than all of that after all of these 14 years, it will be safer to cross the street in 15 downtown Scranton. Thank you for your time 16 and your consideration. 17 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Anyone else? 18 Frank? 19 MR. VOLDENBERG: FIFTH ORDER. 5-A. 20 MOTIONS. 21 MR. SMURL: Mr. King, do you have 22 any motions or comments? 23 MR. KING: Yes, I have a few. I 24 love how people come in and criticize -- a good 25 percentage of people can criticize, take pop  89 1 shots when we sit here respectfully and listen. 2 We take it. That's fine. I'm a big boy. It's 3 water off a duck's back. I could take it. 4 I find it interesting how none of 5 them stay to listen to us speak. They're all 6 gone, most of them -- the vast majority. That 7 having been said, one individual said shame on 8 me for voting whichever way I'm going to vote. 9 Well, I was elected to a four-year 10 term. And my term does not end until the last 11 meeting in December. So I plan to be here to 12 vote like I have all four years. It wasn't 3 13 years and 10 months. It's four years. So I 14 will be here to do that. 15 I sit here and listen to criticism 16 about Joe Biden. Well, I could give you 67 17 million reasons why Joe Biden was good for the 18 City of Scranton. It was said, you know, shame 19 on me for voting for streetscapes which I'm 20 telling you right now I'm voting for. I think 21 it's the right thing to do. 22 Shame on me for supporting 23 23 million dollars in stormwater remediation on 24 East Mountain, North Scranton, West Scranton, 25 Minooka, all projects which several of them are  90 1 well underway now. 2 Shame on me for voting to support 24 3 million dollars in park upgrades, Connell Park, 4 Nay Aug Park, Robinson Park, Oakmont Park, 5 Weston Field, Weston Park, Doherty Park, 6 Novembrino Park and more. 7 Shame on me for voting to put 8 funding for 4.1 million dollars to renovate 9 this beautiful building, this historic 10 building. 11 Shame on me for supporting 12 refinancing 36 million dollar bond which saved 13 the taxpayers 2 million dollars in interest 14 payments. Shame on me. 15 Shame on me for supporting all the 16 paving projects that have gone on throughout 17 the city, including most of the -- huge portion 18 of East Mountain, a number of major streets in 19 South Side and all over the city. Is there 20 more that needs to be done, absolutely. And 21 hopefully that will continue over the next few 22 years. 23 Shame on me for supporting small 24 business loans. Shame on me for trying to do 25 the right things in support of this city. When  91 1 I started here, we had no credit rating, no 2 credit rating. We were 30 years financially 3 distressed. 4 Now we have a BBB plus investment 5 grade S and P rating. If that isn't progress, 6 I don't know what is. I was an Eagle Scout 7 when I was a kid. And we were always taught to 8 leave a place in better shape than when you got 9 there. 10 I'll tell you what, when I leave 11 here in December, I have no regrets and I'm not 12 ashamed of any vote that I've taken. And my 13 vote is my vote. It's nobody else's vote. And 14 that's it. So thank you. Appreciate it. 15 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. King. 16 Mr. Schuster, do you have any motions or 17 comments? 18 MR. SCHUSTER: A few. So we had a 19 while back now -- I'm switching the subject. 20 But a while back we had -- we spoke about MS-4 21 permitting. I wanted to get an update on where 22 we're at in terms of communication with other 23 municipalities in regards to stormwater and as 24 well as MS-4 permitting. 25 That was something that was -- that  92 1 was something we had to do fast at that point 2 in time. And we haven't heard an update since 3 so if we could just get an update on that. 4 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will. 5 MR. SCHUSTER: I did reach out to 6 Mr. Romantics over on 2501 Boulevard Avenue. 7 Can we please send the administration a message 8 to please give him a call? He sent -- he gave 9 City Council a call probably three weeks ago. 10 We asked them to reach out and he hasn't heard 11 from them since. 12 He's left several messages. But if 13 they could just reach out to him about his -- 14 his water problem that he has here. That would 15 be -- 16 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll follow up with 17 them in the morning. 18 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much. 19 There was a property, 3103 McCarthy Street in 20 Minooka. There was a fire there a couple years 21 ago. The house is in disrepair. There's 22 rodents. There's some drug activity that the 23 neighbors are seeing. They came to the zoning 24 in past. 25 They've sent e-mails and made some  93 1 phone calls. But in speaking to some of the 2 neighbors, they were looking for an update on 3 what's occurring with this property, so if we 4 could get an update on that property. 5 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, sir. 6 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you. Also, can 7 we send correspondence to DPW regarding the 8 2200 of Gallagher Court, many potholes that are 9 there in that area and the resident's been 10 calling for a few months and hasn't heard 11 anything back. 12 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will. 13 MR. SCHUSTER: All right. I did get 14 some calls from the people near Weston Field. 15 I'm very happy about skate park and park 16 renovations that are occurring over at Weston 17 Field. They're thrilled that the city is 18 investing in their neighborhood. 19 They did have a concern, however, 20 because a couple nights during the week there 21 were people there skating until, like two and 22 three in the morning. So they just wanted an 23 update on when does the park close, will it be 24 closed at dusk, what are the hours and is the 25 city going to enforce those hours?  94 1 MR. VOLDENBERG: I'll investigate. 2 MR. SCHUSTER: Thank you very much. 3 Also tonight, I did get a petition from 4 residents of East Mountain regarding Airbnbs. 5 I did turn that over to Mr. Voldenberg so 6 Council could take a look at. He could get it 7 to all of us. 8 There was about 200 signatures on 9 that and something to consider we're looking to 10 make amendments to our zoning ordinance if 11 that's the case. 12 MR. VOLDENBERG: That's correct. 13 MR. SCHUSTER: All right. Thank you 14 very much. That's all, Mr. Smurl. 15 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. Schuster. 16 Dr. Rothchild, do you have any motions or 17 comments? 18 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes, I wanted to 19 bring this up. It was mentioned a couple times 20 tonight. There's some good ideas from a 21 resident regarding the issue we have with 22 trucks, tractor-trailers hitting bridges in our 23 city, which happened again today. 24 So I know in the past we've 25 advocated for clear signage to be posted. And  95 1 obviously that hasn't done the trick because 2 these trucks are still trying to get under the 3 bridge anyway. 4 So I do want to look at as a Council 5 anything that we can do to strengthen our 6 ordinances and to really enforce it as well as 7 taking a look at the quality of those bridges 8 making sure that the Railroad Authority gets 9 out to investigate them and maintain the 10 safety. 11 And anything in reference to 12 legislation that we have in Seventh Order 13 tonight, I'll reserve for when we get there. 14 Thank you. 15 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Dr. 16 Rothchild. Mr. McAndrew, do you have any 17 motions or comments? 18 MR. MCANDREW: I got a couple. So I 19 did drive by again on the way to work the truck 20 that got stuck under the bridge on main. I 21 brought up somewhat of a solution maybe two or 22 three years ago. So when a truck approaches, 23 comes up Lackawanna and approaches Main Avenue, 24 the signage that tries to deter them, first of 25 all, isn't clear.  96 1 And it's too late. By the time you 2 see that signage, you're already turning right. 3 And then, guess what, once you turn right, 4 there is no turning back. So you either go 5 straight down Main, try to take an artery up 6 through West Side, and your GPS is going to try 7 to take to you Keyser. 8 But there is no path to Keyser on 9 that part of Main Avenue. So then they chance 10 it, I guess, I don't know. I'm not in the cab 11 when they make this decision. But they chance 12 it and it gets stuck under the bridge. So I 13 believe we have to revisit this again. 14 And if it's PennDOT or us where we 15 just have communication or a little 16 collaboration, I think we need a larger sign, a 17 lot lower coming up Lackawanna before they even 18 come anywhere near Main Avenue to alert them 19 and address what can happen. 20 I still can't fathom in 2025 that 21 there is not really a good app out there or GPS 22 or something that can help navigate these 23 drivers away from all of this. So please send 24 that correspondence or inquiry to see if we 25 could have a little more conversation about  97 1 this because it's constant. 2 It's not just on Main, but what's 3 been done isn't working. So we have to find 4 something that's going to work. I'm going to 5 speak to tonight instead of in Seventh Order, 6 okay? 7 So, first of all, thank all of you 8 for coming. This is good government when 9 people come and share and voice their opinions 10 and concerns. The same amount of people or 11 even more I heard from outside of here, which 12 is good government too. 13 Like I said last week, I sit at the 14 pleasure of the taxpayer in this seat, the 15 taxpayer and the voter. I represent them, no 16 one else. And I take my role seriously. So 17 I'm a good listener, right? 18 And there are studies and data to 19 support both ways, all right, replacing stop 20 signs or replacing lights with stop signs. 21 There is pros and cons to each. And I actually 22 looked at it and did my own little research. 23 And to be clear that this -- what we're voting 24 on 7-B and 7-C, isn't contingent to the whole 25 project, all right?  98 1 Do I like that it is going to be a 2 little bit more walkable, right? Maybe it's 3 still walkable without 7-B and 7-C passing. 4 All right. Are we going to get enhanced 5 lighting that I'm for down near the Radison, 6 yeah. 7 We're going to get new sidewalks, 8 new curbs, new paving. Is the stormwater going 9 to be addressed during this project, yes. 10 Underground utilities, like it? Love it. 11 There's a whole project. There is not just the 12 street signs and the lights. 13 And a vote no tonight doesn't turn 14 the money back, all right? A vote no tonight 15 doesn't -- we're not walking away from this 16 whole project. This money's already been 17 targeted. It's already going to be spent. 18 And, you know, it's unfortunate that 19 it took a 100 year global pandemic where 20 millions of people died to actually have 21 everybody in this room right now with that 22 amount of money, all right? 23 Is Scranton thriving, yes. I'm 24 here -- living here long enough to know that 25 Scranton is thriving. And the gentlemen that  99 1 Mr. Evans and Mr. Durkin mentioned are great 2 people doing great things and have faith in our 3 city. And they should be commended. And it's 4 admirable for what they do. 5 But if 7-B and 7-C doesn't pass, 6 this project doesn't die. All of the other 7 things that are associated with this overall 8 project will continue. I just want that for 9 clarity's sake. All the infrastructure things 10 that need to be done will be done. 11 And I was great -- I was also glad 12 to hear the gentleman who lives on Washington 13 Avenue that feels safe to walk downtown nine 14 blocks. That's fantastic. 15 Like I said earlier, I've lived long 16 enough to know when it wasn't safe to walk 17 downtown almost every night or any night even 18 on the weekends. But like I said earlier, in 19 the past couple weeks, I just wish, you know, 20 this one time huge revenue stream coming to us 21 in the form of ARPA money, some of that -- some 22 more of that money maybe would have transcended 23 into some of the neighborhoods where people who 24 live in West Scranton, South Side, North 25 Scranton don't feel safe walking down Main  100 1 Avenue at night. 2 And that's a fact. I mean, I hear 3 it all the time. So I just wish, like I said, 4 I'm for this project. I don't have to like all 5 of it. And I'm being honest that I don't. But 6 I did my homework too. So with that said, 7 like I said, I wish, you know, some more of 8 the money was targeted more so in the 9 neighborhoods, not just new parks. 10 They were needed. And that money 11 was allocated, but in the form where not all of 12 it is put downtown, some more in the 13 neighborhood where it's needed. And also what 14 I find very interesting is we had two caucuses 15 two weeks in a row, right? 16 We heard from administration that we 17 got to slow everything down. That's part of 18 this whole walkability thing. We're slowing 19 everything down for everybody, right? But last 20 week there was a question posed to 21 administration. 22 It's question 1-C. And this 23 question was posed to administration. Are the 24 stop signs being installed to prevent speeding 25 in the downtown? The PA state MUTCD guide  101 1 states stop signs should not be used for speed 2 control. It's a question. It's fair enough. 3 I didn't pose it. But the answer we 4 got from administration, like I said, for the 5 past two weeks I've heard -- we got to slow 6 everything down. That's why we're putting in 7 these stop signs, replacing the streetlights 8 with stop signs because everybody is going too 9 fast. 10 The response from administration is, 11 the stop signs are not for speeding. Well, 12 then what are they for? If I was told the past 13 two weeks they were to slow everything down, 14 then what are they for? They're only to 15 replace signalized intersections where the 16 signal is not warranted. So -- I don't know, 17 you know. All right, so that is all I have. 18 Thank you. 19 MR. SMURL: Thank you, Mr. McAndrew. 20 City Council received a letter called Fire Tree 21 Limited. It's from West 4th Street in 22 Williamsport. And the purpose of this letter 23 is to inform you that Fire Tree Limited has 24 submitted and offered to provide residential 25 reentry center services or halfway house  102 1 services for federal offenders releasing within 2 the City of Scranton limits. 3 This action is being taken in 4 response to request, an RFP by the Federal 5 Bureau of Prisons. I'm not going to read this 6 entire letter. This will be put into Third 7 Order for next week so everyone could look at 8 it. 9 Fire Tree Limited is proposing to 10 provide these services at 409-411 Olive Street, 11 Scranton, Pennsylvania. This property was 12 purchased from the Diocese of Scranton who 13 operated the reentry facility under the name of 14 Catholic Social Services until their contract 15 was terminated. 16 So this is a reentry program. And I 17 believe everybody should look into this. So we 18 will have this in Third Order next week. Thank 19 you. 20 MR. SCHUSTER: Quick question, 21 Mr. Smurl, last week -- during the summer I 22 asked a question and I asked again last week 23 about the West Side Gateway Project. I asked 24 about funding if the funding was available 25 because I was told that the funding was  103 1 available. 2 And the answer that I got back was 3 funding is in place for gateway signage. So 4 that's great. Can we find out what the funding 5 source is for that gateway signage? It's been 6 something I've been asking for for quite 7 sometime. 8 MR. VOLDENBERG: I will, sir. 9 MR. SCHUSTER: Another answer that I 10 got was, recently the magistrate's hearing held 11 on October -- midOctober for 1405 Cherry Street 12 due to illegal short term rental, what was to 13 be next or what was going to happen next for 14 this property owner. 15 And the answer that came back was, 16 the owner of 1405 Cherry Street did not attend 17 the magistrate hearing. The city received 18 default judgment in the amount of $675.25. 19 Should the owner continue to operate the 20 short-term rental, the city's option is file 21 for additional civil suits in magisterial court 22 or attempt an injunction in Common Pleas Court. 23 So internet listing showed the home 24 as for sale with the new buyers pending. So 25 they are the next actions that are going to  104 1 happen. Sorry, I forgot to report that out. 2 MR. SMURL: Thank you. 3 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-B. FOR 4 INTRODUCTION - AN ORDINANCE - AMENDING FILE OF 5 THE COUNCIL NO. 31, 2024, AN ORDINANCE, AS 6 AMENDED, ENTITLED "APPROVING AND ACCEPTING THE 7 CITY OF SCRANTON CAPITAL BUDGET, WHICH INCLUDES 8 A CAPITAL RESERVE FUND SPENDING PLAN, FOR THE 9 YEAR 2025 PURSUANT TO SECTION 904 OF THE CITY'S 10 HOME RULE CHARTER AND FILE OF THE COUNCIL NO. 11 11 OF 2024," BY AMENDING CERTAIN LINE ITEMS IN 12 THE 2025 CAPITAL BUDGET AND THE 2025 CAPITAL 13 RESERVE FUND SPENDING PLAN AND TO ADD NEW LINE 14 ITEMS IN THE 2025 CAPITAL BUDGET AND THE 2025 15 CAPITAL RESERVE FUND SPENDING PLAN. 16 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll 17 entertain a motion that Item 5-B be introduced 18 into its proper committee. 19 MR. KING: So moved. 20 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second. 21 MR. SMURL: On the question? All 22 those in favor of introduction signify by 23 saying aye. 24 MR. KING: Aye. 25 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye.  105 1 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye. 2 MR. MCANDREW: Aye. 3 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes 4 have it and so moved. 5 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-C. FOR 6 INTRODUCTION - AN ORDINANCE - AMENDING 7 ABANDONED PROPERTY CODE TO EXPAND REGISTRATION 8 REQUIREMENTS FOR VACANT PROPERTIES, STRENGTHEN 9 ENFORCEMENT, PLACE ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS ON 10 VACANT PROPERTIES, AND ENACT RELATED 11 PROVISIONS. 12 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll 13 entertain a motion that Item 5-C be introduced 14 into its proper committee. 15 MR. MCANDREW: So moved. 16 MR. KING: Second. 17 MR. SMURL: On the question? Well, 18 on the question, this is the ordinance that 19 I've been -- I drafted and I've been working on 20 for a few weeks. It's to create a vacant or 21 abandoned property registry to go along with 22 the blight committee and also the other things 23 that we're doing there. 24 But what I want to make perfectly 25 clear is, this does not affect any that are  106 1 already listed for the rental registration, any 2 government buildings or any Lackawanna County 3 Library tax buildings or tax burden registry. 4 So none of those properties have to 5 be and neither does any -- this is very 6 important because we've had a lot of people 7 call and request that they've been being billed 8 for multifamily units. 9 If you live in the multifamily unit, 10 a double block and I'll take, for example, a 11 lady that called a few months back. She was 12 being billed for two apartments. Her family 13 had moved out years ago and she has two 14 electric meters. 15 So we cannot bill someone for vacant 16 property that has been existing. And really, 17 if it's owner occupied, there is no reason to 18 make them pay for an apartment or anything at 19 all. So that is stipulated in this that you 20 are not responsible to the city to report any 21 of that so that it won't be a headache going 22 forward. 23 And it should delineate it from all 24 the other ones. That's it. Anyone else? All 25 those in favor of introduction signify by  107 1 saying aye. 2 MR. KING: Aye. 3 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. 4 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye. 5 MR. MCANDREW: Aye. 6 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes 7 have it and so moved. 8 MR. VOLDENBERG: 5-D. FOR 9 INTRODUCTION - A RESOLUTION - AUTHORIZING THE 10 MAYOR AND OTHER APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS TO 11 EXECUTE, ENGAGE IN, AND RECORD ANY AND ALL 12 DOCUMENTS NECESSARY TO GRANT THE COMMONWEALTH 13 OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION A 14 RIGHT-OF-WAY AND TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION 15 EASEMENT RELATED TO REPLACING THE CULVERT ON 16 THE CORNER OF YARD AVENUE AND WEST MARKET 17 STREET AND ACCEPT PAYMENT FROM THE COMMONWEALTH 18 OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 19 FOR THE RIGHT-OF-WAY AND TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION 20 EASEMENT. 21 MR. SMURL: At this time I'll 22 entertain a motion that Item 5-D be introduced 23 into its proper committee. 24 MR. KING: So moved. 25 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second.  108 1 MR. SMURL: On the question? All 2 those in favor of introduction signify by 3 saying aye. 4 MR. KING: Aye. 5 MR. SCHUSTER: Aye. 6 DR. ROTHCHILD: Aye. 7 MR. MCANDREW: Aye. 8 MR. SMURL: Aye. Opposed? The ayes 9 have it and so moved. 10 MR. VOLDENBERG: SIXTH ORDER. No 11 business at this time. 12 SEVENTH ORDER. 7-A. FOR 13 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC 14 WORKS - FOR ADOPTION - FILE OF THE COUNCIL NO. 15 97, 2025 - INSTALLING ALL-WAY STOPS IN CERTAIN 16 DOWNTOWN INTERSECTIONS FOR ADDED PEDESTRIAN 17 SAFETY. 18 MR. SMURL: What is the 19 recommendation of the Chairperson for the 20 Committee on Public Works? 21 MR. SCHUSTER: As Chairperson for 22 the Committee on Public Works, I recommend 23 final vote of Item 7- A. 24 MR. KING: Second. 25 MR. SMURL: On the question?  109 1 MR. SCHUSTER: On the question, the 2 last two weeks it's been brought up. I think 3 Miss Leslie Collins brought it up that this has 4 a -- there's two modes with this, one is aging 5 infrastructure that needs to be replaced and 6 the other is difficult traffic patterns. 7 With this plan, I do agree with the 8 aging infrastructure. I do agree with 9 bump-outs near the Ritz Theater. I do agree 10 with water issues and storm basins by Downtown 11 Deli and some of these other places. I do 12 agree with the infrastructure piece. 13 As it was said before, this plan 14 isn't contingent upon two-way streets and stop 15 light removal. And it's not a lot of stop 16 light removals. However, everybody that I've 17 spoken to, my constituents do not like the 18 removal of these stop lights. 19 It is around courthouse square. And 20 as I said prior, this plan is not contingent 21 upon these actions. So I will be voting no to 22 7-A tonight. 23 MR. SMURL: So on the question, when 24 I was at all of these meetings and I attended 25 another meeting with the Sectary of  110 1 Transportation of Pennsylvania. And at that 2 meeting, we spoke about the entire package. 3 And at that point it was probably nine or ten 4 months in waiting for approval from PennDOT on 5 the entire package. 6 They don't approve one section of 7 this. They approve the entire package. If we 8 change one section of it, it goes back to 9 PennDOT and then this simply will not happen 10 because PennDOT doesn't do anything fast. 11 MR. SCHUSTER: So, yes, that was 12 stated at the meeting last week I believe by 13 Eileen Cipriani that if the plan changes, it 14 will have to go back out to PennDOT for those 15 permits. And I would be in agreement with that 16 to try to get this moving along and to go back 17 out to PennDOT for those permits. 18 MR. KING: On the question, I will 19 be voting for progress. 20 DR. ROTHCHILD: On the question, 21 I'll be voting yes on this. For the past 22 couple of weeks I've explained why I'm in 23 support of this piece of legislation. I 24 appreciate all the people who came out tonight 25 to express their thoughts on this as well to  111 1 share their expertise and those experts that 2 we have heard from over the past few weeks, 3 I've also in the past attended presentation 4 from Jeff Speck. 5 And I've heard from people over the 6 years about this and the different things that 7 were proposed initially and then from what we 8 see here tonight. I do believe that there is a 9 pedestrian safety issue within Scranton. And 10 that's evident by the data showing the 11 accidents, the pedestrians that have been hit 12 and some killed as a result. And I want to 13 make downtown as safe as possible. 14 I know that one person who spoke 15 tonight did not feel that downtown was 16 considered a neighborhood. However, the 17 definition of a neighborhood is that it's a 18 geographic area where people live, often 19 defined by its character, local institutions, 20 or physical boundaries like streets. 21 So I think that definition fits for 22 downtown. There are people who live here and 23 we have had a lot of progress in downtown over 24 the years. It's a lot more lively. I enjoy 25 often coming downtown. And I believe that the  112 1 these changes will be impactful and helpful for 2 our downtown. 3 I also, you know, I don't believe 4 that the status quo is working and so sometimes 5 change is needed for that. And not everyone 6 welcomes change or feels comfortable with that. 7 And I understand that. But, you know, I think 8 there's opportunity to try this and see how 9 it's working and make changes down the line, if 10 needed. 11 And there were a couple of -- I 12 mean, I have been taking people's concerns into 13 account as well. And we did responses to 14 Mr. Pocius's questions from last week. I know 15 Councilman McAndrew had mentioned one of them 16 already on some of the other questions. 17 I just wanted to bring up two we 18 received responses to. He had asked if this 19 study considered the flashing beacons like 20 those near the university and some patrol 21 crossings in the city as an additional 22 safeguard of pedestrians. 23 And they said that they have 24 included flashing beacons at the intersections. 25 There's another question regarding the turning  113 1 safety if there would be enough space for fire 2 trucks to turn. And they said they have truck 3 turn simulations at each intersection that 4 include fire trucks and larger delivery 5 vehicles. 6 And those exhibits are included in 7 the study. And there is also a question about 8 easement for the Radison. But I just wanted 9 to offer responses we received on that. So I 10 feel comfortable with the information that I 11 have moving forward. Thank you. 12 MR. SMURL: Thank you. Anyone else 13 on the question? Roll call, please. 14 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King. 15 MR. KING: Yes. 16 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Schuster. 17 MR. SCHUSTER: No. 18 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild. 19 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes. 20 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew. 21 MR. MCANDREW: No. 22 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl. 23 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare 24 Item 7-A legally and lawfully adopted. 25 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-B. FOR  114 1 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC 2 WORKS - FOR ADOPTION - FILE OF THE COUNCIL NO. 3 98, 2025 - AUTHORIZING THE CONVERSION OF 4 CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THE DOWNTOWN FROM ONE-WAY 5 STREETS TO TWO-WAY STREETS AND FROM TWO-WAY TO 6 ONE-WAY STREETS AS OUTLINED AND SPECIFIED 7 HEREIN. 8 MR. SMURL: What is the 9 recommendation of the Chairperson for the 10 Committee on Public Works? 11 MR. SCHUSTER: As Chairperson for 12 the Committee on Public Works, I recommend 13 final vote of Item 7-B. 14 MR. KING: Second. 15 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll 16 call, please. 17 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King. 18 MR. KING: Yes. 19 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Schuster. 20 MR. SCHUSTER: No. 21 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild. 22 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes. 23 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew. 24 MR. MCANDREW: No. 25 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl.  115 1 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare 2 Item 7-B legally and lawfully adopted. 3 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-C. FOR 4 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC 5 WORKS - FOR ADOPTION - FILE OF THE COUNCIL NO. 6 99, 2025 - ESTABLISHING "NO PARKING" ZONES FOR 7 PORTIONS OF CERTAIN ROADWAYS TO CONFORM TO 8 STATE REGULATIONS AND TO IMPROVE PEDESTRIAN 9 SAFETY. 10 MR. SMURL: What is the 11 recommendation of the Chairperson for the 12 Committee on Public Works? 13 MR. SCHUSTER: As Chairperson for 14 the Committee on Public Works, I recommend 15 final passage of Item 7-C. 16 MR. KING: Second. 17 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll 18 call please. 19 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King. 20 MR. KING: Yes. 21 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Schuster. 22 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. 23 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild. 24 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes. 25 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew.  116 1 MR. MCANDREW: Yes. 2 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl. 3 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare 4 Item 7-C legally and lawfully adopted. 5 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-D. FOR 6 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES - FOR 7 ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO. 272, 2025 - 8 REAPPOINTMENT OF MICHAEL HANLEY AS A MEMBER OF 9 THE SCRANTON HOUSING AUTHORITY BOARD FOR A TERM 10 TO EXPIRE SEPTEMBER 27, 2030. 11 MR. SMURL: As Chairperson for the 12 Committee on Rules, I recommend final passage 13 of Item 7-D. 14 MR. KING: Second. 15 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll 16 call, please. 17 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King. 18 MR. KING: Yes. 19 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Schuster. 20 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. 21 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild. 22 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes. 23 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew. 24 MR. MCANDREW: Yes. 25 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl.  117 1 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare 2 Item 7-D legally and lawfully adopted. 3 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-E. FOR 4 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC 5 SAFETY - FOR ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO. 273, 6 2025 - ACCEPTING A DONATION PRESENTED TO THE 7 CITY OF SCRANTON FIRE DEPARTMENT FROM WAYNE AND 8 KATHRYN BECK IN THE AMOUNT OF ONE HUNDRED 9 DOLLARS ($100.00). 10 MR. SMURL: What is the 11 recommendation of the Chairperson for the 12 Committee on Public Safety? 13 MR. MCANDREW: As Chairperson for 14 the Committee on Public Safety, I recommend 15 final passage of Item 7-E. 16 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second. 17 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll 18 call, please. 19 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King. 20 MR. KING: Yes. 21 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Schuster. 22 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. 23 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild. 24 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes. 25 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew.  118 1 MR. MCANDREW: Yes. 2 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl. 3 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare 4 Item 7-E legally and lawfully adopted. 5 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-F. FOR 6 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY 7 DEVELOPMENT - FOR ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO. 8 274, 2025 - AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND OTHER 9 APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS TO EXECUTE AND 10 SUBMIT A GRANT APPLICATION BY THE OFFICE OF 11 ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY 12 OF SCRANTON TO THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA 13 ACTING THROUGH THE COMMONWEALTH FINANCING 14 AUTHORITY FOR A LOCAL SHARE ACCOUNT (STATEWIDE) 15 GRANT, FOR UP TO $314,768.00 TO BE USED TOWARDS 16 THE ROUTE 307/MOOSIC STREET SCENIC LOOKOUT 17 RENOVATION PROJECT. 18 MR. SMURL: What is the 19 recommendation of the Chairperson for the 20 Committee on Community Development? 21 DR. ROTHCHILD: As Chairperson for 22 the Committee on Community Development, I 23 recommend final passage of Item 7-F. 24 MR. KING: Second. 25 MR. SCHUSTER: Second.  119 1 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll 2 call please. 3 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King. 4 MR. KING: Yes. 5 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Schuster. 6 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. 7 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild. 8 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes. 9 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew. 10 MR. MCANDREW: Yes. 11 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl. 12 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare 13 Item 7-F legally and lawfully adopted. 14 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-G. FOR 15 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY 16 DEVELOPMENT - FOR ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO. 17 275, 2025 - AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND OTHER 18 APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS TO EXECUTE AND 19 SUBMIT A GRANT APPLICATION BY THE OFFICE OF 20 ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY 21 OF SCRANTON TO THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA 22 ACTING THROUGH THE COMMONWEALTH FINANCING 23 AUTHORITY FOR A LOCAL SHARE ACCOUNT (STATEWIDE) 24 GRANT, FOR UP TO $1,000,000.00 TO BE USED 25 TOWARDS THE LACKAWANNA AVENUE STREETSCAPE  120 1 PROJECT. 2 MR. SMURL: What is the 3 recommendation of the Chairperson for the 4 Committee on Community Development? 5 DR. ROTHCHILD: As Chairperson for 6 the Committee on Community Development, I 7 recommend final passage of Item 7-G. 8 MR. KING: Second. 9 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll 10 call, please. 11 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King. 12 MR. KING: Yes. 13 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Schuster. 14 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. 15 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild. 16 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes. 17 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew. 18 MR. MCANDREW: Yes. 19 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl. 20 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare 21 Item 7-G legally and lawfully adopted. 22 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-H. FOR 23 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES - FOR 24 ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO. 276, 2025 - 25 AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND OTHER APPROPRIATE  121 1 CITY OFFICIALS TO EXECUTE AND ENTER INTO A 2 CONTRACT WITH BASELINE CONTRACTING, INC. FOR 3 THE WEST SIDE GATEWAY STREETSCAPE PROJECT. 4 MR. SMURL: As Chairperson for the 5 Committee on Rules, I recommend final passage 6 of Item 7-H. 7 DR. ROTHCHILD: Second. 8 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll 9 call, please. 10 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King. 11 MR. KING: Yes. 12 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Schuster. 13 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. 14 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild. 15 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes. 16 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew. 17 MR. MCANDREW: Yes. 18 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl. 19 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare 20 Item 7-H legally and lawfully adopted. 21 MR. VOLDENBERG: 7-I. FOR 22 CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC 23 WORKS - FOR ADOPTION - RESOLUTION NO. 277, 24 2025 - AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND OTHER 25 APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS TO EXECUTE AND ENTER  122 1 INTO A CONTRACT WITH LEEWARD CONSTRUCTION INC. 2 TO PERFORM FAWNWOOD PHASE 1 STORMWATER 3 IMPROVEMENTS (CONTRACT 2) SERVICES. 4 MR. SMURL: What is the 5 recommendation of the Chairperson for the 6 Committee on Public Works? 7 MR. SCHUSTER: As Chairperson for 8 the Committee on Public Works, I recommend 9 final passage of Item 7-I. 10 MR. KING: Second. 11 MR. SMURL: On the question? Roll 12 call, please. 13 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. King. 14 MR. KING: Yes. 15 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Schuster. 16 MR. SCHUSTER: Yes. 17 MS. HERBSTER: Dr. Rothchild. 18 DR. ROTHCHILD: Yes. 19 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. McAndrew. 20 MR. MCANDREW: Yes. 21 MS. HERBSTER: Mr. Smurl. 22 MR. SMURL: Yes. I hereby declare 23 Item 7-I legally and lawfully adopted. 24 MR. VOLDENBERG: EIGHTH ORDER. No 25 business at this time.  123 1 MR. SMURL: Before we adjourn, 2 Mr. Evans, will you -- will you give us copies 3 of those letters from the -- thank you. Thank 4 you. 5 If there's no further business, I'll 6 entertain a motion to adjourn. 7 MR. MCANDREW: Motion to adjourn. 8 MR. SMURL: Thank you. This meeting 9 is adjourned. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  1 124 1 C E R T I F I C A T E 2 3 I hereby certify that the proceedings and 4 evidence are contained fully and accurately in the 5 notes taken by me of the above-cause and that this copy 6 is a correct transcript of the same to the best of my 7 ability. 8 9 10 Maria McCool, RPR 11 Official Court Reporter 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 (The foregoing certificate of this transcript does not 22 apply to any reproduction of the same by any means 23 unless under the direct control and/or supervision of 24 the certifying reporter.) 25  1 $ 300 [2] - 15:18, 60:7 109:22, 113:24 access [2] - 70:23, 2 3030 [1] - 50:6 7-B [7] - 29:20, 97:24, 85:16 $1,000,000.00 [1] - 2 [3] - 66:19, 90:13, 307/MOOSIC [1] - 98:3, 99:5, 113:25, accidents [7] - 37:17, 119:24 122:3 118:16 114:13, 115:2 37:18, 39:1, 39:2, $100.00) [1] - 117:9 2,500 [1] - 65:3 30th [1] - 5:4 7-C [7] - 29:21, 97:24, 69:9, 71:6, 111:11 $15 [1] - 23:3 20 [6] - 42:13, 49:21, 31 [1] - 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13:22, listed [3] - 66:15, 78:18, 94:6, 95:4, Maria [2] - 1:24, means [4] - 50:10, 60:9, 60:14, 60:20, 68:16, 106:1 95:7, 102:7, 102:17 124:10 50:11, 124:22 61:3, 101:20, listen [6] - 9:6, 32:12, looked [2] - 55:4, Marie [1] - 3:7 media [2] - 54:21, 55:3 101:22, 102:6 33:19, 89:1, 89:5, 97:22 MARINA [1] - 4:8 meet [1] - 76:8  11 MEETING [1] - 3:23 ministers [1] - 20:8 27:13, 80:8, 104:19, 107:6, 107:8, 117:23, 117:25, meeting [14] - 7:5, 7:8, Minooka [3] - 64:1, 105:4, 105:15, 107:21, 107:24, 118:2, 119:3, 119:5, 11:13, 24:11, 45:2, 89:25, 92:20 106:13, 107:7, 108:1, 108:4, 108:5, 119:7, 119:9, 57:1, 57:2, 57:8, minute [1] - 79:2 107:24, 108:9 108:7, 108:8, 119:11, 120:11, 66:10, 89:11, minutes [3] - 3:19, movements [1] - 87:1 108:10, 108:18, 120:13, 120:15, 109:25, 110:2, 57:10, 67:25 movie [3] - 28:14, 108:21, 108:24, 120:17, 120:19, 110:12, 123:8 MINUTES [1] - 3:21 28:15, 41:11 108:25, 109:1, 121:10, 121:12, meetings [10] - 17:15, Miss [1] - 109:3 moving [10] - 7:8, 109:23, 110:11, 121:14, 121:16, 19:20, 22:13, 32:11, Misses [1] - 6:25 30:7, 30:9, 31:4, 110:18, 113:12, 121:18, 122:13, 40:25, 58:21, 59:5, Missouri [1] - 22:25 33:2, 58:2, 67:1, 113:15, 113:17, 122:15, 122:17, 66:11, 67:25, 109:24 mistake [1] - 10:5 84:25, 110:16, 113:21, 113:23, 122:19, 122:21 Member [1] - 24:22 mixed [1] - 85:18 113:11 113:25, 114:8, MS-4 [2] - 91:20, 91:24 member [4] - 36:12, mobility [1] - 86:2 MPO [2] - 40:8, 43:6 114:11, 114:14, Mulberry [5] - 52:10, 40:21, 43:13, 44:25 modern [1] - 25:8 MR [227] - 3:10, 3:12, 114:15, 114:18, 52:13, 83:2, 83:4, MEMBER [1] - 116:8 modes [1] - 109:4 3:16, 3:18, 3:20, 114:20, 114:24, 87:15 members [7] - 4:21, 4:11, 4:13, 4:17, 115:1, 115:3, multifamily [2] - moment [3] - 3:4, 8:11, 31:23, 39:18, 4:19, 4:20, 5:13, 115:10, 115:13, 106:8, 106:9 5:16, 77:19 41:4, 53:18, 74:14 5:14, 5:15, 6:21, 115:16, 115:17, multiple [4] - 44:25, monarchies [1] - Memorial [1] - 8:18 6:22, 6:23, 6:24, 7:4, 115:20, 115:22, 61:10, 68:10, 68:11 22:14 men [1] - 3:5 7:10, 7:12, 10:23, 116:1, 116:3, 116:5, municipalities [1] - Monday [2] - 16:5, mention [3] - 22:2, 10:25, 15:1, 15:3, 116:11, 116:14, 91:23 40:23 36:23, 41:3 17:12, 17:18, 21:22, 116:15, 116:18, murder [1] - 35:12 monetary [1] - 5:25 mentioned [5] - 53:10, 21:24, 24:4, 24:6, 116:20, 116:24, murdering [1] - 20:19 money [20] - 13:21, 83:24, 94:19, 99:1, 27:2, 27:4, 29:11, 117:1, 117:3, murders [2] - 75:21, 18:10, 18:14, 18:20, 112:15 29:13, 32:4, 32:6, 117:10, 117:13, 75:22 23:24, 23:25, 28:1, merit [1] - 18:1 35:25, 36:2, 39:15, 117:17, 117:20, Mussolini [1] - 22:18 41:20, 41:24, 42:15, message [1] - 92:7 39:17, 42:22, 42:24, 117:22, 118:1, must [2] - 39:25, 86:9 42:19, 44:14, 45:10, 43:2, 43:4, 43:10, 118:3, 118:5, MUTCD [1] - 100:25 messages [1] - 92:12 98:14, 98:22, 99:21, 43:13, 43:16, 43:18, 118:18, 118:24, mutual [1] - 86:19 met [1] - 45:16 99:22, 100:8, 100:10 43:20, 43:22, 43:23, 118:25, 119:1, meters [1] - 106:14 money's [1] - 98:16 43:24, 43:25, 44:1, 119:4, 119:6, Metropolitan [1] - months [4] - 89:13, 119:10, 119:12, N 40:6 48:4, 48:6, 52:25, 93:10, 106:11, 110:4 53:2, 56:25, 57:3, 119:14, 120:2, name [8] - 20:23, Miami [1] - 81:20 Morgan [4] - 17:12, 57:4, 57:6, 57:7, 120:8, 120:9, 29:13, 42:23, 44:2, mic [1] - 58:23 17:13, 17:19, 21:22 57:10, 57:16, 57:17, 120:12, 120:14, 48:5, 58:18, 80:1, MICHAEL [1] - 116:8 MORGAN [1] - 17:18 57:18, 57:20, 58:15, 120:18, 120:20, 102:13 mid [1] - 84:5 morning [3] - 33:25, 58:23, 63:4, 63:15, 120:22, 121:4, Nancy [1] - 80:7 midOctober [1] - 92:17, 93:22 63:17, 63:22, 63:23, 121:8, 121:11, narrowing [1] - 13:17 103:11 Morris [2] - 72:11, 63:24, 64:1, 68:19, 121:13, 121:17, National [1] - 75:4 Mifflin [1] - 87:15 72:14 121:19, 121:21, 68:20, 68:22, 72:17, national [1] - 76:22 might [5] - 30:13, most [13] - 18:25, 122:4, 122:7, 72:19, 76:16, 76:17, nationally [1] - 25:3 30:14, 46:21, 61:9, 20:22, 27:19, 28:6, 122:10, 122:11, 77:3, 77:5, 77:7, natural [1] - 73:25 66:23 48:22, 48:23, 48:24, 122:14, 122:16, 77:8, 79:21, 79:22, navigate [2] - 86:4, mignon [1] - 66:15 72:25, 75:7, 76:7, 122:20, 122:22, 79:24, 88:17, 88:19, 96:22 migrate [2] - 31:15, 79:3, 89:6, 90:17 122:24, 123:1, 88:21, 88:23, 91:15, navigation [1] - 85:12 31:16 mostly [2] - 22:13, 123:7, 123:8 91:18, 92:4, 92:5, Mike [1] - 72:20 56:5 Nay [4] - 4:25, 12:22, 92:16, 92:18, 93:5, MS [55] - 3:9, 3:11, miles [2] - 51:5, 64:16 motion [5] - 104:17, 68:8, 90:4 93:6, 93:12, 93:13, 3:13, 3:15, 3:17, million [14] - 10:13, 105:13, 107:22, near [7] - 65:13, 94:1, 94:2, 94:12, 7:13, 24:8, 58:18, 13:11, 14:23, 14:25, 123:6, 123:7 86:10, 93:14, 96:18, 94:13, 94:15, 95:15, 63:11, 63:25, 23:22, 41:22, 49:6, MOTIONS [1] - 88:20 98:5, 109:9, 112:20 95:18, 101:19, 113:14, 113:16, 83:9, 89:17, 89:23, motions [5] - 79:23, necessarily [2] - 5:6, 102:20, 103:8, 113:18, 113:20, 90:3, 90:8, 90:12, 88:22, 91:16, 94:16, 46:23 103:9, 104:2, 104:3, 113:22, 114:17, 90:13 95:17 NECESSARY [1] - 104:16, 104:19, 114:19, 114:21, millions [3] - 56:5, motorcycle [1] - 70:15 107:12 104:21, 104:24, 114:23, 114:25, 80:25, 98:20 motorist [1] - 83:14 need [14] - 6:15, 26:2, 104:25, 105:2, 115:19, 115:21, mind [1] - 27:14 Mountain [3] - 89:24, 26:3, 33:22, 35:17, 105:3, 105:5, 115:23, 115:25, Mine [1] - 4:24 90:18, 94:4 38:23, 44:15, 47:11, 105:12, 105:15, 116:2, 116:17, mine [1] - 8:2 move [4] - 8:25, 31:15, 68:14, 73:13, 74:4, 105:16, 105:17, 116:19, 116:21, mines [1] - 5:9 63:10, 66:23 74:10, 96:16, 99:10 107:2, 107:3, 107:5, 116:23, 116:25, mini [1] - 55:5 moved [11] - 7:5, 27:6, 117:19, 117:21, needed [6] - 26:1,  12 74:2, 100:10, nonperishables [1] - 115:5, 115:7, 116:8, 86:8, 86:20, 86:23, 71:8, 94:10, 105:18 100:13, 112:5, 5:25 117:7, 117:8, 87:20, 89:7, 97:16, ordinances [2] - 112:10 nonprofit [2] - 36:7, 118:10, 118:11, 99:20, 109:4, 110:6, 70:21, 95:6 needs [3] - 75:13, 44:5 118:12, 119:19, 110:8, 111:14, Organization [1] - 90:20, 109:5 nonviolent [1] - 23:9 119:20, 119:21 112:15 40:7 negative [1] - 53:12 North [13] - 54:23, offenders [1] - 102:1 one-way [6] - 30:9, organization [4] - neglect [1] - 72:25 69:2, 69:6, 69:23, offer [4] - 15:14, 30:10, 45:19, 84:23, 7:16, 22:6, 36:24, Neighbor [1] - 6:12 70:3, 70:5, 70:7, 46:25, 84:3, 113:9 85:8, 85:25 54:2 Neighborhood [2] - 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