Harrisburg City Council Legislative Session - 06/25/24

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we will conduct our legislative caucus

prior to the start of our legislative

session I will call the meeting to order

momentarily Mr trusdale will lead the

roll call I will lead the invocation

this evening followed by the Pledge of

Allegiance which will be led by

councilman Jones for communications this

evening we are joined by Mr Brad Jones

president and CEO of harrist toown

Development Corporation recognizing

their 50th Anniversary we are also

joined by Miss Gloria Martin Roberts

director of building and housing and Mr

Jason Graves Director of Business

Development who will share a

presentation on the

2024 annual action plan then we will

move to Courtesy of the

floor approval of minutes we have two

sets of minutes for approval this

evening the first uh will be approval of

minutes for the legislative session that

occurred on June 11th

2024 and the second set of minutes is

for the approval of minutes uh for the

legislative session that occurred on

June 18th

2024 we will then move to reports of

committees there is one report this

evening which I will deliver on behalf

of the administration committee on the

work session of June 18th 2024

we do not have any ordinances for first

reading there is one ordinance for

Amendment that's Bill three of

2024 we will then move to ordinances for

final passage Bill three of 2024 which

we will vote

upon then resolutions uh we have three

resolutions this evening resolution 41

of

2024 will move to the building and

housing committee resolution 42 of 2024

will move to the administration

committee and resolution 43 of 204 will

also move to the administration

committee is there any old Business

Council

Members okay seeing and hearing none any

new

business none okay and then we will

adjourn so the time is 6:02 p.m. I would

like to officially call our legislative

session to

order Mr trell could you please call the

role Miss

Daniels Miss Davis present Miss green

present Mr Jones here Miss Rose present

Mr

Rodriguez present Miss

Bowers present thank you

as I mentioned I will lead the

invocation this

evening I would like to ask everyone to

please keep the families of the

following Harrisburg residents in our

thoughts and prayers during their time

of bereavement Miss constant Greer miss

Connie as she was affectionately known a

1956 graduate of the former William Penn

High School Miss enjoyed shopping

traveling and attending cultural events

Miss Rita chase a 1969 graduate of the

former John Harris High School who

enjoyed playing cards Bingo and cooking

Miss Rita was a fashionista she loved

different colored sneakers glasses and

jewelry Miss Maddie Waters a 1964

graduate of the former William pen high

school she enjoyed swimming bowling

skating and spending time with her

family and friends and Mr Kyle Jackson

Kyle was a Sickle Cell Warrior who

fought and never gave up Kyle was

passionate about business the stock

market and Global Currency he also had a

great sense of humor and an

unforgettable smile please join me in a

moment of

silence thank you the Pledge of

Allegiance will be led by coun

[Music]

Jones I pledge allegiance to of the

United States of America to the Republic

for which stands one

nation indivisible with liberty and

justice

all thank you councilman Jones our first

order of communications this evening uh

we are joined by Mr Brad Jones who

serves as the president and CEO of

Harris Town Development Corporation and

recognition of their 50th

Anniversary thank you madam chair and

thank you members of council it's a very

nice um honor to be in front of you and

thank you for the invitation just to

come and uh give you a very brief update

on you know Harristown Development

Corporation was formed in 1974 with a

mission to redevelop re re uh Revitalize

downtown Harrisburg after the 1972 flood

and we've stayed focused on that mission

for the last 50 years and we hope to do

so for another 50 we've been involved in

a myriad of

projects many of which you know and

hopefully enjoy on a regular basis

Strawberry Square um you know the the uh

this building here actually was built by

us uh in partnership with the city in

1982 uh I know you spend a lot of time

here so uh also the Harrisburg Hilton um

the Whitaker Center for Science and the

Arts we were involved in the development

of the pen national headquarters here

and many other um projects I asked if uh

clerk would would pass out a copy of our

50-year anniversary booklet uh we tried

to capture sort of some of the you know

Salient history of the corporation and

just s it's really a history book of the

downtown and things that have happened

here in the downtown town uh and and the

progress that has been made I will say

more recently we've really been trying

to focus on providing a lot more

opportunities for small businesses we

signed about a dozen New Deals uh last

year uh many uh new businesses in

Strawberry Square on North thir Street

and South Third Street U many of those

are minority and women-owned businesses

and I invite you all to come down and

shop and visit some of those those

businesses and

uh we continue to make uh improvements

in I think the small business Community

here in the downtown and we're also been

hosting a lot of different events and

activities uh for the public both inside

Strawberry Square where we have a brand

new stage that we're opening up to the

you know School groups and nonprofit

groups and all kinds of other uh uh

activities and events to the public and

then we're also doing a whole host of of

different events in the south of Mark

area block parties last week we uh

joined with the young Professionals of

color for a juneth celebration uh we

have another block party this Thursday

um and we have a whole series of other

events in the Som neighborhood uh for

folks to come down and just enjoy all

the great things that are in the city so

uh with that I'll I'll stop and and just

uh again thank you for the time we

appreciate all the hard work you all do

here every week uh no it's not easy and

uh thank thank you for uh you know

giving us the opportunity to to

celebrate a little bit with you and if

there's something in here that that that

you're have a question there's a good

chance it's probably in the book we

tried to put every project we've ever

worked on in the back appendix so happy

to entertain any questions thank you

very much I will open the floor to my

colleagues to determine if they have any

questions for you Mr Jones yes are you

talking to who both of you councilman

Jones please no uh how you doing again

um I just want to be able to uh reach

out to you and and have some discussion

around um some of the things that you're

doing and and looking to do uh in the

city so um our clerk said that he can

get your information to me so um that's

all I don't have any other questions sir

forward to it yes sir yes sir thank you

president vs thank you uh councilman

Rodriguez do you have any

questions no questions for me thank you

Mr Jones and Miss Martin for joining us

this evening thank you thank you

councilwoman Ross any questions thank

you president Bowers good evening Mr

Jones thank you for joining us thank you

for the lovely booklet as well it was

really nice um taking a glimpse um

through history and seeing what

Harrisburg was like and um some changes

and updates you all have made it it was

great to see it in the 50s with downtown

and all the shopping and stuff so yes

that was really neat to see I've heard

of it but I I never really saw um

pictures my mom would always talk about

um pomoy so that was I know we all miss

pomoy yeah she she does too um that was

a big deal for her so it it's nice to

see it um but no questions just thank

you thank you thank you vice president

green any questions thank you I don't

have any questions thank you for being

here tonight thank you for the glimpse

of History uh if someone was interested

in getting a copy of it where could they

get it oh uh we have plenty of copies uh

there's a number in the book uh you can

just contact the clerk and I can bring

over as many copies as you'd like okay

thank I think having here in the

building would be great

absolutely thank you councilwoman Davis

any questions thank you president Bowers

no questions just wanted to say thank

you I do remember pommeroy as a kid also

but I think pommeroy was about the only

store downtown I think Eddie's Men's

Shop was there across the street but it

was a ghost town down here so bman was

it Bowman it was a ghost town other than

those

doors yeah

yeah wow that's good you remember make

sure bringing back memories yes um but

thank you um and as long as I think I

have your contact information um anytime

I have some ideas about the utilization

of the uh stage in Strawberry Square so

I'll reach out to you that'd be

fantastic we welcome any uh any groups

that you want to bring to the stage

there uh just let us know and and we

want to program that stage as much as

possible thank you absolutely thank you

so

much you mentioned a few of these things

I do have a proclamation and recognition

of the 50th Anniversary so please just

indulge me for a few

minutes the city of Harrisburg

Pennsylvania Proclamation whereas the

city of Harrisburg applauds harrist

toown Development Corporation for their

dedicated service for 50 years and

whereas harrist toown Development

Corporation is a nonprofit real estate

development company that has revitalized

downtown Harrisburg since

1974 and whereas Harristown Development

Corporation carries out their mission to

increase social cultural and economic

activity by excelling in urban planning

and development to better link the

downtown to harrisburg's Regional

Community and whereas Harr Town

development

corporations vision is to make downtown

Harrisburg a vibrant growing District

that attracts investment and is a

showcase location to live work and play

and whereas harrist toown Development

Corporation has partnered with the city

of Harrisburg over the years on

Commercial projects including Strawberry

Square 333 Market Street the Martin

Luther King Jr City Government Center

the Harrisburg Transportation Center

abine Muse the Harris the Hilton

Harrisburg the Whitaker Center kungle

building shops on Third and the

International House Harrisburg and

whereas harrist toown Development

Corporation has remained relevant over

the past 50 years and continues to

thrive while achieving their mission to

increase social cultural and economic

activity by excelling in urban planning

and development to better link

the downtown to harrisburg's Regional

Community and now therefore be it hereby

proclaimed that Harrisburg city council

commends Harristown Development

Corporation for their dedication to

revitalizing downtown Harrisburg and be

it further proclaimed that Harrisburg

city council wishes to extend best

wishes for a a successful 50th year

celebration signed and attested in the

city of Harrisburg Danielle El Bowers

Harrisburg City Council Michael J Parker

city clerk if you wouldn't mind joining

us we'd love to take a photo sounds Fant

celebration some of you can stay up

there e

thank you

everyone our second order of

communications this evening we are

joined by Miss Gloria Martin Roberts

director of building and housing and Mr

Jason GR Director of Business

Development they will share a

presentation on the

2024 annual action

plan I brought my glasses so it matches

all of your

outfits good evening honorable council

members um as you can see I uh brought

some of my uh staff and I wanted to

introduce you to um to M Moore who's to

my right uh TOA is actually the wind

underneath the sale of this program uh

all too

often those of us in senior management

positions come and and talk with you and

you never have the opportunity to really

know who the worker bees are uh in our

departments and uh you all know Jason uh

uh Jason is our our business guy but he

is also a very strong team player and um

is involved in helping us with our

community development block grant

processes we keep um uh the team very

involved in knowing what each other are

doing in the various um Federal grant

processes so I am going to ask my staff

to proceed with um I call it our dog and

pony show you have a copy in your

packets I have also provided in your

packets um other detailed information

that will update you on on the what's

happening with the 2022 Brock Grant

funds uh in addition to timelines

associated with the new Grant process

and these are things you can take home

and a copy of the slid so so you can

take these home and digest all that

information a copy of the plan is also

in your

packet Jason all right it's on me how's

everybody doing this evening all right

that's good to hear so what we are going

over today is going to be the PowerPoint

for the city of Harrisburg 2024 annual

action plan for the cdbg and ESG funds

um if you have your PowerPoint package

you can obviously scroll along um I have

an actual brief summary as far as like

summarized versions of each page so I

don't have to be very long- winded so uh

we will try to make the PowerPoint

available pretty soon so for the public

to actually view

themselves okay so the Consolidated plan

and the annual action plan itself um

this is going to go with the

Consolidated plan as far as ad ministers

for the cdbg home nesg through Huds Idis

online forms um will also determine the

activities and funds for a 5-year period

the annual action plan submitted

annually within the comp I'm sorry the

consolidation plan cycle uh specifies

Plan used for HUD programs and other

requirements that we may need going

forward as far as like administering

funds or

applications the 2024 action plan fun

funds so that would include funding for

cdbg home and ESG so for the HUD 2024

fund allocations for cdbg uh we're

looking at

1,864 th000 and sorry 64 530,000 program

income around $15,000 totaling the

1,879 53 sorry

$53 um home was a total of

$465,900

um the procr income would be around

$10,000 um totaling

4,790 sorry

93094 um ESG also will be

$165,400

um zero for that program income um

totaling amount for the same as far as

that the total allocation amount will be

1,000 I'm sorry 165 ,

432 all right strategic plan and

priority needs so this will go down the

line as priority needs and goals um

public facilities and infrastructure

improving and expanding access public

service and general public services

blight and demolishing of properties

removal blight affordable housing and

development rental and home ownership

Housing Development rehab programs

homelessness and Housing Services reduce

homelessness throughout the area and

section 108 loan repayment which is not

applicable for

this so Slide Five the annual action

plan

goals this again we'll go with public

infrastructure Public Service flight and

demolition housing and velopment

homelessness and

reduction in section 108 loan repayment

again which is not

applicable so for the goal outcome

indicators you're looking at around 500

5,000 for low to moderate income persons

assisted 20,000 to loow mod income

assistance and that will be for a one a

for improving and expanding

infrastructure which be the 5,000 for

the loow to Modern income 1B infrastruct

improvements of access to public fa faes

around

20,000 Public Services 2,000 uh for low

to moderate income persons

assisted blight and demolition again

buildings that need to be demolished

without the

area uh rental and Housing

Development that'll be rental units

constructed um home ownership and

Housing Development homeowner homeowner

housing and units

constructed owners and occupied housing

rehab home ownership and units

rehabilitations

and reduce homelessness and again 500

persons experience homelessness

providing a shelter for 15 persons at

risk homelessness provided Prevention

Services so the 2024 action plan

projects and

funding the amounts would be cdbg

Administration for $372,900

uh cdbg public services for

$279,600

18

$387,900

cdbg Housing Programs

$390,000 cdbg emergency demolition will

be

$224,000 cdbg Section 8 108 loons

permitted for payments would be 22

$5,000 home Administration

$446,500

home chto set aside 15% at

$69,900 home non- tootal housing

development at

$359,450

7.94 and the ESG 2024 would be at

$165,400

citizenship participation again public

comment period will be viewed between

June

26 of 2024 and July 25th of 2024 um

public hearing is actually what's going

on right now for the current time for

city council for the meeting for

tonight's

meeting the next steps so the action

plan availability downloadable to again

like I said earlier this will be an

actual downloadable form for people to

review later on for the City website um

any comments of submission can be

written to dbhd office or email dbhd

public comment harrisburgpa dgov um HUD

submissions deadlines will be August

16th of

2024 and the contact information is here

as always downtown Harrisburg 10 North 2

Street suet 206 Harrisburg PA

17101 um or you can reach us by

telephone which would be either 311 you

connect us to a facilitator up in our

office or contacts us directly outside

at 717 255

3040 and you again you can email us at

dbhd public comment harrisburgpa

Dogo thank you very much for your

presentation this evening um just wanted

to highlight the public comment period

again since it's this evening is serving

as the public hearing uh the city will

hold a public comment re review period

from June 26 2024 to July 25th of

2024 to give the public an opportunity

to review and make comments on the draft

action plan I also wanted to know that

the presentation has already been

uploaded to ecodes under

2024 meeting uh materials thank you Mr

trale so it is already accessible on the

city's

website um we will hold any questions to

ensure that council members have ample

time to review all of the documentation

shared this evening um so we will hold

our questions for next week's work

session and then discuss um the

materials further okay appreciate thank

you you're welcome guys have a good

evening Madam president as is a public

hearing on it the public comment on this

should be now okay that's

fine and Madam chair uh we will be

either addressing uh any questions that

the public has tonight or we'll get

their contact information and get back

with them um that's a HUD requirement

yes okay but you also are accepting uh

written comments as well absolutely yes

okay just wanted to clarify that okay at

this time uh we will open public comment

related to the

2024 action annual action plan excuse me

so if there's anyone that would like to

provide public comment related to the

2024 annual action plan

um please come forward

now excuse me hold on one second if you

wouldn't mind coming to the microphone

and stating your name and your address

for the meeting record if you don't feel

comfortable sharing your address please

State hold on please State the vicinity

and what you live within the city you'll

have four minutes to share your comments

Mr trale will serve as our timekeeper

you may proceed thank

you hold on

sorry I can speak loud I don't need that

well we'd like for you to speak into a

microphone because the meeting is

recorded that way those viewing online

are able want to there we

go my name is John Palmer I live at 518

Ry Street Harrisburg PA

17110 from the brief synop synopsis that

you just given us you said it's 500

homeless people in the city of

Harrisburg the mayor's office is only

providing housing for 25 of the

500 from from your slideshow that I just

gathered uh is there any other

programs that y'all have slighted for

this year for this these homeless these

500 homeless people that we have in the

blight a down in the downtown section

and up under the bridge and everywhere

else where they're being lived at at

this present time because it's coming

it's becoming a real problem all over

the city and he only slotted for 15 out

of

500 so that your comment is uh is duly

noted so this is is for a particular

program that's funded by Hud this is not

technically a city program we are the

administrators of this program so any um

questions you have as far as like what

we can do further on as far as dealing

with the homelessness that could

probably be something we could probably

talk about further on I could probably

get your information we can probably

talk about some more things on that okay

thank you also uh we are the city we're

also involved in a partnership with the

several organizations that are working

with the homeless population so um we

really rely on them uh when we're at the

table to um address with us the needs

that that they have um in terms of

funding needs and so forth to continue

to help the homeless

population thank you and as I mentioned

not sure if you're available next

Tuesday but our work session will begin

at 5:30 and there will be a fuller

discussion

during that time okay is there anyone

else uh that would like to offer public

comment related to the

2024 annual action

plan

anyone okay seeing and hearing no one

thank you for your presentation

welcome we will now move to Courtesy of

the floor again the same

housekeeping notes if you would like to

share public comment this evening please

state your name and your address for the

meeting record if you don't feel

comfortable sharing your address please

share the vicinity in which you live

within the city you will have four

minutes to share your comments Mr

trusdale will serve as our timekeeper is

there anyone to my right that would like

to offer public comment

a excuse me one second come closer to

the microphone or I don't know if

it I think it's turned off just there's

a switch at the top there we go yes I

think it's on

now

no is the battery low if not we can use

a different

microphone there we go okay hello Isa MO

is my name I live actually in pimbrook

but I am talking about a camp that is

going to be offered to our youth in the

city um so it's about the Empower um

evolve and Empower summer camp I

provided you all the information the

ages are 10 to 18 the camp will start

July 8th through August 16th 8:30 a.m.

to 4:00 p.m. and the reason I'm here is

just to give you the update because

initially the camp was offered at the

bridge Gary Gillum is still part of this

and um Pat Robinson Penn State Health

extension Milton Hershey but we'll be

housed now at Tim Ro bottoms building

333 south1 18 Street the youth will be

walking over to the farm that's about a

city block so we just wanted to bring

attention attention to the fact we'll be

there we'll be in the community the

youth will be walking so we invite csas

and police to come and you know surveil

our area where the youth will be I'm

representing because bread coin you know

I work for bread coin and so bread coin

is sponsoring the youth uh the family

and community meal which is on Thursdays

during the camp in the evening so that's

when the campers get to bring their

entire family and their siblings and

have a free meal and so we're going to

cycle through all of our different

I think the battery has died if you

wouldn't mind coming to a different

microphone and just speak closely into

that one I apologize for the

inconvenience thank

you so that's when the campers get to

bring their entire family is the

Thursday maal and so bread coins board

has put $5,000 towards that so we can

provide it and then all of our they get

to experience all of our variety of

vendors uh word of Health Isabelle's

cuisine uh palombos to name a few so yes

we'll be doing that I just wanted to

bring your attention and we invite you

all to um participate with us you can

volunteer with us and serve the mail

from 4: to 6:30 if you'd like with bread

coin or volunteer in any way at the camp

and so I'm excited that uh our youth

will be able to get this

experience and how can was families

register the the registration actually

has closed we have filled to capacity

the 40 participant slots that were

offered okay all right so is there any

contact person that they can reach out

to for any future things

website it's still I can provide it to

you it's probably still the uh you can

go right to the site evolve and Empower

if you put that in your Google there's a

whole uh site for that as well that's

what I have for right now the the uh

Camp uh leader Brian herd is the camp

manager um and he was going to come with

me tonight but he's not here so I don't

have that specific information but I can

give it to you um to your to make sure

that you receive it okay thank you yes

thank you for this opportunity to speak

thank you is there anyone

else hello this is my first time here so

I am Angela Bates and I live on in

Allison Hill so today I'm bring I'm

coming to you because I work for Dolphin

County drug and alcohol services in a

prevention um unit and we are doing a

youth summer Sports Fest and that will

be um scheduled every

Wednesday um for 6 weeks and we're going

to be starting at the Ratner Street um

ballpark um tomorrow from 12: to 2: so

it's free free um free admissions for

the children we'll have snacks and water

there we have people will be playing

soccer we have um different events um

information for the families to come out

and it's open to the public so anyone

can

councilman Jones you have a question

same question how can people get reach

out to anyone to contact them it is on

our Dolphin County website I emailed it

to you um however you can put it on

channel 20 or whatever um that would be

helpful too but we're just getting out

putting out on emails we're sending out

we go out to events we tell everybody so

we're just word them out okay and it's

on our do County okay you a have to call

me out but okay

no I'm messing with you no but I will I

will I will is there but if this is the

same flyer still isn't really I mean do

I give your phone number or who who who

would be of the point of contact that

would be um Dolphin County drug and

alcohol service that be 717 635

2254 and Mr Christian is in charge

okay not

Christen

Christian okay

thank you very

much thank EXC I'm sorry councilwoman

Davis you have a question thank you

president Bowers yes uh one question

what is the age range for the

children they can come but if they're

small their parents should be there too

okay so you don't have a limit or okay

nope we have different V variations of

games for everyone okay thank

you thank you is there anyone else to my

right that would like to offer public

comment good

evening my name is be Thomas John PA and

uh we're here representing the Mena

717 um group of individuals Pastor

leaders um Community leaders and just uh

you know men of concern and regards to

what's going on in our community so uh

we have an event that we're um hosting

on July

17th uh we're going to hold it on uh

Reservoir Park we're going to have

different events up there activities for

the kids for the

community uh we're going to have a

basketball tournament and

we just using this as means to bring

about a

truce in our community to bring uh an

end to this gun violence the best way we

can so we're asking everybody um to have

any interest and forward in our

community in our children's lives in a

better way uh to support us um because

it's not about us it's about our

children and um we just want anybody in

this commun Community to come join in

with us and um we are employing people

that have vendors that are vendors I

should say that have businesses and

journeymen's uh you know businesses that

have electric that are

electricians um Builders carpentry that

come and join in and teach these kids

how to live other than um these criminal

ways of thinking and uh activities so

we're going to do um this that's going

to be the spare head of something and

regards to the men of

717 uh producing positive things in our

community so we just employing any and

everybody in this community and the 717

area code because we're starting this

here in Harrisburg but we're extending

it in other uh areas that can confence

717 what time is the event on July 17th

it's going to start at 11: and it's

going to go until

11: 11: a.m. to 11 p.m. yes okay so is

this also some other details this is a

day of peace we okay I'm just want to

lead you on go ahead my apologies my

apologies you want to go yeah uh we also

have uh we're also vendoring with a lot

of brothers and sisters that are are

have the

trades we're trying to set up things

where our youth can go and learn trades

instead of learning how to sell drugs on

the corner we want to learn how to how

to get some Building Trades carpentry

educational uh we're doing

entrepreneurship we have people that's

coming in teach you how to be

entrepreneurs uh we we we started to

have it in four sections of Harrisburg

at the same time Uptown Hill Southside

and

uh the projects but it it came too fast

we want to have it on 717 which is July

17th because that's our area code 717 so

it's going to be on July 17th every year

and like I said we're spearheading this

right now to try to put a a stop to some

of this gun violence if we give these

children something to do in the city and

everybody something to do that deters

them from picking up guns and doing

violence and hurting each other you know

I mean it's getting hot and and these

children don't have nothing to do we we

don't offer them any resources as far as

training so they can do something else

you know in our committee we need to

offer more training more education we're

supposed to be at the school district

meeting today but they they canceled it

the Thursday so we'll be there too and

uh we want to give them something else

to do we want to we all came from this

environment we all grew up here we all

know what it takes to try to save our

community again because we were involved

in all this at one time in our in our

lives and now we have of us ministers uh

like we said

public leaders people that used to be in

little gangs that changed their lives

around and and Stu so that's what we're

trying to do we're trying to get back to

our community this a day of peace day of

peace no gunshots no gunshots no no

fights no no no stealing no robbing no

knocking old ladies down no nothing all

right day of peace all right make sure

we promote that yeah that's that's we

want we want a day of peace totally in

the whole city thank you thank you both

thank

you is there anyone else to my right

that would like to offer public

comment seeing and hearing no one anyone

in the middle

section

okay uh I have some handouts that

include pictures uh so if I can hand

those out you can share them with Mr

truth Dale and then you can begin your

remarks thank

you excuse

me

sorry thank you

my name is Jeff Glatt I live at

townhouse apartments it's 360 apartments

and it's 20 floors it's at 660 boa

Street Harrisburg

17102 I have lived in the same 11th

floor apartment for 23

years over the past few years I have

wondered about my safety living at this

location the outof state New York

landlord appears to be extremely cost

conscious does he have the staff and

equipment to keep the building in good

repair I have filed four different

complaints with the Pennsylvania

Attorney General Bureau of Consumer

Protection in the last

year the bureau advised me at one point

to contact my local police department if

I felt

unsafe

um there's a picture of the

building in

the this is 660 boa Street and as as you

can see it's a tall

building to my

mind the landlord's stewardship of the

four building elevators is symbolic of

his stewardship of the

building probably several thousand

passengers are transported daily up and

down the 20

floors however from March 1

2023 until August 29th 2023 a six-month

period each of the four elevators

operated with expired operating

certificate

and there's a picture of

the um operating

certificates and I've taken a uh a

newspaper with the date that I took the

photograph and that appears in the

picture so you can see the the the date

of these pictures was August

21st and the four certificates expired

at the end of February

from the time I I filed my BCP complaint

on August 8th 2023 until February

2024 the landlord did not bother to

respond to the

complaint in my mind operating elevators

without proper certificates not only

flaunts Pennsylvania laws but shows

utter disrespect for tenants

and their guests to the property while I

never contacted City police I did find

the complaint process for tenant

landlord with Harrisburg city code

enforcement in November 2023 an

inspector visited my apartment and found

some things not up to code with my

apartment number

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1119 because of my activism the New York

landlord has threatened to ter at the

lease on

1119 where I have lived for 23 years I

will move but it is a difficult mental

and physical

process I

suggest the

following one the city of Harrisburg do

a deep dive into any relationship that

it may have with this landlord property

owner if the property owner has any

obligations to the city I suggest the

city be scrupulous in reading the frine

print to ascertain if the owner is

abiding by his obligations to

Harrisburg and two finally uh I I

suggest that my apartment number

1119 be labeled unfit for human

habitation thank you very much thank you

for the opportunity to comment thank you

if if you wouldn't mind staying after

the meeting I believe councilman Jones

um may have some information that could

be helpful for you thank you thank you

is there anyone else in the middle

section that would like to offer public

comment okay I didn't know if you wanted

to say

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something how you doing my name is

Anthony Pierce Rodriguez I'm a founder

and owner of action to change Foundation

um I got a lot to say but I'm not going

to do

it but I can go laugh real quick um

about the violence that's been going on

these last couple

days I want to speak on

that yall sitting at their

chairs so y'all know about the violence

y all feel probably the same way that

everybody else out here in the city and

Community feels

if we all not going to stick together or

even bring it up to anybody

else or take the precautions where the

community or group

leaders go beyond and outside their

boxes cuz y'all feel safe in that boxes

right or on the power that you all fill

in but when you all go outside your

boxes it's like I want to do something

for my city instead of check collecting

that check and actually make something

different

I think Community will follow you and

give you more support if you bring it to

the

table instead behind that closed

door and for a couple of them that's

doing this fraudery

stuff and this fake

stuff and be honest with

you they put a name out there in the

beginning through people's help that

looked out for

but they want to go back to the old

slimy self and they

pass and turn your back on the help that

when they

needed cuz they in that position to do

it that person who the I'm talking

about excuse my

language huh oh Mr

Rodriguez the full person

always want the ability for people to

help you but then you don't give it back

for your selfish

needs I heard you in charge of class

cleanup I haven't seen you nowhere when

I know me and Mr another councilman been

out there on a weekly basis doing our

job with the

community at the end of the day day my

grandparents always told

me even though that you got the same

last name that I do which you

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disrespect what stays in the dark where

come the light and K's a

I heard you was trying to run for

Mar you already know that ain't going to

happen I want to get this off my chest

and I ain't want to do it here I want to

do it to you like a man man face to face

but you so much of a coward to even

reach out to

me and talk about

it I had to see if commission Carter was

here

um more the city councilmen need to

follow outside the box go outside the

box you need help even if you need help

you know I mean reach out yall got

websites y all got contact numbers you

know what I mean with people out here

like me that's in the mud

daily trying to keep trying to keep my

city

safe I do this on my own y'all ain't get

me no

funding a lot of people know who I am

I'm out here cutting the homelesses hair

doing the kids lower incomes and senior

citizens that can't get around I don't

see nothing oh my time's up yep thank

you for your comment uh thank you're

welcome uh Madame

President yes councilman

Rodriguez um I know usually I don't but

I would have to uh make a statement

because if you allow a lie to proceed it

can eventually turn into the truth so to

Mr Rodriguez's uh comments I appreciate

him coming in and being a part of the

community uh but we did support his um

his nonprofit to Total we paid him for

every event he came out we wanted to

give him a platform and also we've

attended a few of his events where I

took my kids to his event to go fishing

and the fishing never took place so you

know I'm here to still support Mr

Rodriguez but sometimes you have to

check a livee before you know it gets

out there and um anyone that knows me

really knows where my heart is and I'm

still here to support him in any way I'm

sorry he feels he feels that way and I

appreciate what he does with the mobile

Barber shop and he does a great job so I

have no nothing negative to say I just

have to definitely check a Li and to the

members on Council that encourage you

know negativity you know I I definitely

appreciate it because I get how

politicians can be but my heart is pure

and we always have great intentions so I

just needed that to be on the record

thank you and if you and if you talking

about me uh Mr Rodriguez I'm asking him

to speak I don't I don't encourage

negativity not being a public safety

chair I I didn't encourage negativity

but I don't like when people come to the

podium and and they say things and we we

are a body and if they have specific

issues it's he has a right as a taxpayer

to address you that's it absolutely I

appreciated that I never said a specific

council member I just said I understand

how politics work I'm sorry you were

offended by that yeah because you said

we well I I told him to say it I said

speak that's what I told him so no one

else said anything there's no way I

would know that sir I'm not there

there's no way I would know that

okay thank you is there anyone else to

my left that would like to off actually

I'm I'm at Camp sir taking care of our

youth but you have my number feel free

to call me excuse me councilman R come

talk to me right now sir thank you we're

moving forward with our meeting agenda

thank

you seeing and hearing no one to my left

as I mentioned we're going to move

forward with the meeting agenda as

printed next we have the approval of

minutes as I mentioned during our

legislative caucus there are two sets of

minutes for

approval the first uh are the minutes

for the legislative session that

occurred on June 11th 2024 council

members are there any revisions to those

meeting minutes okay seeing and hearing

none the minutes for the legislative

session of June 11th 2024 stand approved

next we have the approval of minutes for

the special legislative session that

occurred on June 18th

2024 council members are there any

revisions to those

minutes okay seeing and hearing none the

minutes for the special legislative

session that occurred on June 18th 2024

stand approved we have one committee

report this evening which I will deliver

on behalf of the administration

committee on the work session that

occurred on June 18th

2024 on Tuesday June 18th 2024 the

administration committee met to discuss

one bill bill three of

2024 an ordinance amending title two of

the codified ordinances of the city of

Harrisburg known as the administrative

code at chapter

2-7 7 police retirement system by

leading portions thereof in order to

satisfy a legal resolution reached

between the capitol city lodge number 12

the Fraternal Order of Police in the

city of Harrisburg Mr Neil Grover city

solicitor was present on behalf of the

administration solicitor Grover shared

background information related to

modifications that were made to the

police pension in December of

2021 um just a few more details on

December 14th 2021 Harrisburg city

council passed Bill 15 of

2021 Bill 15 of 2021 updated the same

chapter chapter

2-7 07 of the cified ordinances of the

city of Harrisburg governing the police

retirement system to provide technical

amendments and incorporate the

methodology for calculating final salary

to assure compliance with certain uh

Internal Revenue Service requirements

for governmental pension plans on or

about January 31st 2022 this Capitol

City lodge number 12 Fraternal Order of

Police filed an action in The Dolphin

County Court of Common Pleas civil

action number

on June 4th

2024 in order to resolve the issue the

party stipulated to the repeal and

deletion of two subsections of chapter

2-7 7 of the codified ordinances of the

city of Harrisburg those were

subsections C and

D there were three officers that were

impacted and negotiated three different

uh agreements City Council Members asked

the following questions uh clarifying

the subsections that were deleted so

that was subsections C and D um

questions around similar contracts and

retirement payouts I recommend that my

colleague support Bill 3 of

2024 um as it will maintain compliance

uh with the modifications that have been

made to the police retirement system

this concludes the report of the

administration committee we do not have

any ordinances for first reading we have

one ordinance for Amendment that's Bill

three of

2024 Mr trusdale could you please read

it into the

record Bill 3 2024 in ordinance amending

title two of the codified ordinances of

the city of Harrisburg known as the

administrative code at chapter

2707 police retirement system by

deleting portions thereof in order to

satisfy a legal resolution breed between

the capitol city lodge number 12 the

Fraternal Order of Police in the city of

Harrisburg thank

you we will now move to ordinances for

final passage again we have Bill three

of

2024 Mr chel could you plead it please

read it one more time Bill 3 2024 in

ordinance amending title two of the

codified ordinances of the city of

Harrisburg known as the administrative

code at chapter 2707 police retirement

system by deleting portions thereof in

order to satisfy illegal legal

resolution reached between the capitol

city lodge number 12 the Fraternal Order

of Police and the City of

Harrisburg thank you council members are

there any questions comments or concerns

related to Bill three of

2024 seeing and hearing none Mr trale

could you please call the vote Miss

Davis

yes Miss green

yes Mr Jones yay Miss Ro

yes Mr

Rodriguez yes Miss Bowers yes Bill 3

2024 passes by vote a 6 to Zer thank you

next we have resolutions the first

resolution for consideration this

evening is resolution 41 of 2024 Mr

trusdale could you please read it into

the record resolution 41 2024 a

resolution approving the 2024 annual

action plan for the city of Harrisburg

for the Community Development block

grant CBD home investment Partnerships H

and emergency Solutions Grant ESG

programs thank you resolution 41 of 2024

will move to the building and housing

committee next we have resolution 42 of

2024 Mr trusdale could you please read

it into the record resolution 42 2024 a

resolution appointing Mr Joel cers to

serve on the Coordinating Committee and

the technical Committee of the

Harrisburg area transportation study

thank you resolution 42 of 2024 will

move to the administration committee our

final resolution for consideration this

evening is resolution 43 of

2024 Mr trale could you please read it

into the record resolution 43 2024 a

resolution appointing Mr Todd Webb to

serve on the Coordinating Committee and

as an alternate member to the technical

Committee of the Harrisburg area

transportation study thank you

resolution 43 of 2024 will also move to

the administration committee is there

any old Business Council

Members okay seeing and hearing none any

new

business okay seeing and hearing none

the time is 7:01 p.m. I will entertain a

motion to adjourn motion to adjourn go

move okay thank you we stand a jour