The meeting of June 11th, 2009 was called to order by Chairperson Mary Woznak. All Stood and pledged allegiance to the flag and observed a moment of silence for our Troops overseas.
ROLL CALL: JOSEPH PERUSO- Present, ROBERT SPANKO-Absent, ART THOMSON-Present, RANDY VOJTOWICZ-Present MARY WOZNAK-Present. ALSO Present: RUSS HEIPLE AND SHANNAN KESTER

GOOD AND WELFARE:
Robert Woloshuk 317 Parkhill Drive: Requesting a signature on a grant through DCED. We were here last year and the Township signed the grant for the problem we had down on Parkhill Drive and we did not get the grant and the grant application only stays on file for 1 year so we are reapplying.
Motion to sign Grant Application made by Vojtowicz. 2nd by Peruso. All Ayes. Motion Carried.
Jack Foust 435 Lyman Lane: Are you saying there is no asbestos in that gravel? Vojtowicz: We have no proof that there is, we told you to bring us something stating that there is. Mr. Foust: I know there is. I used to work there at Bethlehem. I know where they dumped it. They dumped everything in the North Dump.  I went through asbestos with Goldman and Perzinsky. I got settlements on that. I gave them all the information from working there 37 years. All that stuff was hauled out to the North Dump. I don’t know how someone is saying there is no asbestos in there.  They dumped all those bricks in there now you say you put ant skid on there, let me tell you that stuff was not anti skid. Bob Ritchey: Which one is the North Dump? Mr. Foust: Parkhill, you say you are approved to use that stuff? Peruso: I said the State approves it for use on the roads in the winter. Mr. Foust: that wasn’t anti-skid you put on there. Peruso: No I wasn’t over there that day. Mr. Foust: I’m telling you it wasn’t I saw pieces of bricks in it and then they rolled it. I t was the stuff from the North Dump. Peruso: I’m sure it was that is where we get it. Mr.Foust: no one is telling me that there is no asbestos in that dump; they used to bring in their garbage and burn it in the North Dump. I know what I am talking about. If I have to get Goldberg and Perzinsky to go over my case I will even if costs me my house I will. My wife is dying right now. She is dying a little bit everyday and she has to breathe this stuff from the road and you have my neighbor who is such a good neighbor, he takes his mower and rides with the blades on and stirs up the dust and I can’t even open my windows. He is working up there now with stuff all over the road and you say that is not a Township road? Well let me tell you I was there when Mr.Bittner signed over the right of way for there. Grove was a Supervisor and he asked me to go get Mr. Bittner to see if he would sign over the 13 feet, there was a 21 foot right of way, Mr. Bittner said he would sign it over and he would give us as much as he needed to get a road through there. Then you tell me that the papers must have got lost in the shuffle. Peruso: No that is not what I said. We get a list from the State and that road is not one of them. I never remember us taking over that road. Mr. Foust: Your dad, Al Coleman, they tarred and chipped it two times since they took it over. Two times in 4 years. Your dad said that it wouldn’t take us long we will keep you out of the dust. This is what I am going on about. I am 80 years old and this has been going on for I don’t know how long and I am up to here with it. I have to take care of my wife. You can’t breathe, she can’t breathe. Let me tell you I have had it, something is going to happen either I am going to blow my stack but before I blow my stack I think there is going to be a hell of a lot of stuff on. I am telling you what is going on. I have had it. I don’t care what you people do. If you don’t get it straightened out I am going to get it straightened out. Peruso: did you bring that paperwork up about the asbestos being in there? Mr. Foust: I don’t have proof. I know it. I am going to go to Goldman and Perzinsky and I am going to show them. Why should I have to do it when you know it and I know it that I am telling the truth. Someone said you have papers saying there is no asbestos in there? Vojtowicz: No you said you could bring proof because we don’t know of any asbestos down there. Mr. Foust: Why should I have to get it when you can get it? Bob Ritchey: The Dirt and Gravel Road Program did a chemical test on it for the Dirt and Gravel Roads. Vojtowicz: did it have asbestos in it? Bob Ritchey: I didn’t read it. Call Bobbi and tell her you need the chemical test they did and she will get it for you. Vojtowicz: Ok Jack we are going to see what we can do for you and get the results of this test and see what it says. Mr. Foust: This doesn’t help me at all. If you could see my wife. I had a boy die this August with all that dust and that didn’t do him any good. And someone is burning and you can smell chemicals and I can’t even open my windows.
Vikki Svencer: Thank you for cutting the weeds on East Jackson but guess what it is raining and 
Mr. Foust: Are you saying that is not a Township Road? Peruso: All I said that it is not recognized by the State for Funds. Mr. Foust: No what is the Township saying? No to the best of my knowledge. I go by the papers from the State. Mr. Foust: What about the papers from Grove and Bittner and they tarred and chipped it twice. Woznak: If something was signed it would be recorded right? So we need to go to the courthouse and find out. Peruso: They would adopt roads and then a year later abandon them. Bob Ritchey: You will have to find the Ordinance. It is over there. They would take care of a road for a few years and then abandon it. They did that quite often. Mr. Foust: how can they do that? Bob Ritchey: A Township can establish and abandon a road with a vote of the Board. Mr. Foust: Another thing, my mind doesn’t work right, thing come to me as I am talking, Am I in A residential zone? Woznak: Yes you are. Mr. Foust: I went to pay my sewage for the tap in fee and they told me they are not putting sewage in back there. Vojtowicz: The Sewage Authority is their own entity; we have no control over what they do. They are having a meeting right now, you can go up there and they will answer your questions. Mr. Foust: Who put me in A zone? Vojtowicz: Zoning has been around for years. Mr. Foust: I know I fought against it. I wanted in B Zone and they said no you are in A Zone. Grove Kranowsky and Coleman said A Zone. Vojtowicz: Everyone you are talking about is dead. Mr. Foust: I can’t help that. I am not dead yet but I will be soon. Vojtowicz: We can’t dispute anything that happened if we don’t have any records and these people aren’t even here to defend themselves. Mr. Foust: But you say I can’t do this and that then why can Mr. Kmett run a garage? Bob Ritchey: Certain businesses are permitted in A and B. Mr. Foust: You allow a paint shop you don’t need a permit for that? Vojtowicz: You need a permit from the State. MR. Foust: So I can put in a junkyard? Vojtowicz: No because we have to issue a junkyard permit from the Township. Mr. Foust: But he can get a permit for a garage? Vojtowicz: you are comparing apples to oranges. He is only working on 1 or 2 cars at a time. A junkyard you have thousands of cars. You can’t compare one guy trying to make a living and a junkyard. Mr. Foust: What’s the difference? Vojtowicz: There is a difference and anyway your 5 minutes are up, you are holding up the meeting, if you have a complaint about the sewage there is a meeting going on now. Mr. Foust: I was just asking why no sewage? Vojtowicz: I have no idea go have to go talk to them. Mr. Foust: I am asking how someone can paint cars and let the paint come down to my place. Vojtowicz: That has no bearing on the Township. You need to contact the State on that. Call the DEP. Shannan will get you the number. 
Audrey Vojtowicz: Why are the State Police doing traffic control here? Thomson: I believe that we didn’t have any officers on. Vikki Svencer: I though you raised taxes to have 24 hour coverage?  Thomson: When you have 9 officers and only 3 of them work 4 days a week you can’t cover all the shifts. Vikki: So what is the solution? Audrey: I have a solution, buy service, we will save a $100,000 a year and get 24 hour coverage plus a dog. I hate to see the State Police in here. And another thing these trucks. They fly up and down the road. They need to be stopped.
Chairperson of the Board Mary Woznak called an Executive Session at 7:27 P.M.

Meeting was called back to order by Chairperson Mary Woznak at 8:15
No votes taken. No decisions made. Discussion on personnel matters.

REVIEW OF THE MINUTES OF THE MONTHLY MEETING OF May 14th, 2009
Motion to accept the minutes of the May 14th, 2009 meeting made by Peruso. 2nd by Vojtowicz. All Ayes. Motion Carried.

TREASURER’S REPORT
Motion to accept the Treasurers Report made by Peruso. 2nd by Vojtowicz.  Roll Call Vote: Peruso-Aye, Thomson- Aye, Vojtowicz-Aye, Woznak-Aye. All Ayes. Motion Carried.

BILLS TO BE PAID
Motion to pay the bills except from Victoria Svencer for Notary Fees made by Vojtowicz. 2nd by Thomson.   .  Roll Call Vote: Peruso-Aye, Thomson- Aye, Vojtowicz-Aye, Woznak-Aye. All Ayes. Motion Carried.
 
CORRESPONDENCES:
1. Dirt and Gravel Road Training
Joe and Bob to attend.
Motion to send Rob Yahnert if he can go and pay him his regular rate made by Peruso. 2nd by Vojtowicz. .  Roll Call Vote: Peruso-Aye, Thomson- Aye, Vojtowicz-Aye, Woznak-Aye. All Ayes. Motion Carried.
2. Cable Franchise renewal agreement for our review. Copy in office
Motion to approve the Cable Franchise made by Vojtowicz. 2nd by Thomson.  Cable Franchise renewal agreement for our review. Copy in office
3. Letter From Conemaugh Valley Veteran requesting a donation for their Veterans program at the War Memorial
Motion to donate$100.00 to the Conemaugh Valley Veterans made by Woznak. 2nd by Vojtowicz. .  Roll Call Vote: Peruso-Aye, Thomson- Aye, Vojtowicz-Aye, Woznak-Aye. All Ayes. Motion Carried.
REPORT OF THE CHAIRPERSON-Mary Woznak
We are under $40,000 owed to us in Refuse payments. WE have $39,823.06 still not paid. We have collected $3,328.43 from March through May 31st. Sent out 82 letters and about 20% of those either paid in full or made payment arrangements. The Board needs to decide on a minimum payment that we will accept from people who want to make payments.  The Board decided that you must make a 10% payment on the amount you owe.
Bob Ritchey: these people that owe, is their garbage still getting picked up? Woznak-yes because Pro handles the billing now. These are past due garbage bills from when the Township handled the billing. Kester: Pro told me that if they had gotten a list of delinquents they wouldn’t have picked up the garbage until it was paid. Vojtowicz: Will they do that for us now? Woznak: I will call Pro and talk to them
I have an article here from the Johnstown Magazine and they have a write up in here about a Jessica Wagner from Conemaugh Valley Scholl District and she lives in Echo. She is founder of Soup Warms the Heart. She collects soup and gives it food banks. She really puts a lot of effort into this and this is great. I think that we should do something to recognize the effort. 
Motion to get an outstanding citizenship award plaque and a $50.00 donation for the Soup Warms the Heart in form of a gift card made by Thomson. 2nd by Vojtowicz. .  Roll Call Vote: Peruso-Aye, Thomson- Aye, Vojtowicz-Aye, Woznak-Aye. All Ayes. Motion Carried.
Joe will contact her for the next meeting so we can present her with the award and gift certificate.
Motion made to schedule a special personnel meeting for July 9th at 6:30 P.M. with the regular meeting to immediately follow made by Woznak. 2nd by Peruso. .  Roll Call Vote: Peruso-Aye, Thomson- Aye, Vojtowicz-Aye, Woznak-Aye. All Ayes. Motion Carried.

REPORT OF THE VICE-CHAIRMAN-Randy Vojtowicz
Nothing to Report.

REPORT OF THE ROADMASTER-Joe Peruso 
We got the Summer Youth kids so we have some free help this year.
What do we have to do to reduce a speed limit on a Township Road? Heiple It is done by Ordinance, I would suggest doing a few at a time instead of just one. Peruso: I will get a list together of some roads we want to change.

POLICE REPORT-Art Thomson
Gas money for the month of May 249.4 gallons used 
Fine money for the month of May $181.21
Motion made to pay an Officer 8 hours due to a schedule mix up made by Thomson. 2nd by Vojtowicz. .  Roll Call Vote: Peruso-Aye, Thomson- Aye, Vojtowicz-Aye, Woznak-Aye. All Ayes. Motion Carried.
I would like to resign as Police Commissioner and turn the position over to the Board as a whole.
Board accepted Art Thomson’s resignation with a unanimous vote. Peruso-Aye, Thomson-Aye, Vojtowicz- Aye, Woznak-Aye.
Vojtowicz stated that scheduling will be turned over to the Police Chief and that we will be following the contract and we will never deviate from the contract. Police Officers will report to Chief Price. The chain of command for the Police Department will be as follows: Chief, Chairperson, Vice Chairperson and then the Other Board members. If the complaint is about the Chief then the complaints goes to the Chairman, Vice Chairman and then the other Board members.

REPORT OF THE BUILDING SUPERVISOR-Bob Spanko
Absent
Art Thomson: The Veterans Memorial as of June 12th, 2009 has a balance of $3,695.00 and there are 82 names.

ENVIROMENTAL REPORT-Bob Ritchey
Shannan have you got anything on the Storm water? Shannan: No not yet.
Anyone call about the dry hydrant yet? Peruso-No. Bob: well someone should. Shannan will call Bobbi at the conservation district tomorrow.

SOLICITORS REPORT-Russ Heiple
Worked on some things for the Humans Relations Committee and the Johnstown Redevelopment Authority Ordinance

OLD BUSINESS
1. Proposal from First National Bank
Motion to untable the proposal made by Peruso. 2nd by Vojtowicz. 
Motion to deny proposal and formally close all the accounts completely made by Woznak. 2nd by Thomson.  .  Roll Call Vote: Peruso-Aye, Thomson- Aye, Vojtowicz-Aye, Woznak-Aye. All Ayes. Motion Carried.
2. Passage of the Johnstown Redevelopment Authority Pretreatment Ordinance
Motion to adopt the Johnstown Redevelopment Authority Pretreatment Ordinance made by Vojtowicz. 2nd by Woznak. Roll Call Vote: Peruso-Aye, Thomson- Aye, Vojtowicz-Aye, Woznak-Aye. All Ayes. Motion Carried.

NEW BUSINESS
1. Adoption of a Personnel Policy for East Taylor Township
Motion to adopt the personnel policy and sexual harassment policy with changes recommended by the Township Solicitor made by Vojtowicz. 2nd by Peruso. Roll Call Vote: Peruso-Aye, Thomson- Aye, Vojtowicz-Aye, Woznak-Aye. All Ayes. Motion Carried.
2. Motion to adopt a records retention policy made by Vojtowicz. 2nd by Thomson. Roll Call Vote: Peruso-Aye, Thomson- Aye, Vojtowicz-Aye, Woznak-Aye. All Ayes. Motion Carried.
3. Motion to hire a Business Records Management to shred our documents made by Vojtowicz. 2nd by Woznak. Roll Call Vote: Peruso-Aye, Thomson- Aye, Vojtowicz-Aye, Woznak-Aye. All Ayes. Motion Carried.
4. Thomson: What about the old police car? Do we want to sell it or are we going to keep it for a second vehicle? Peruso: Meanwhile the new one down there, I don’t care what you do with the old one, but the new one is in the way of where I weld. It needs to be moved. I have welding that needs done and it is way to close. And I guess you have the key? Thomson-The Chief has the key. Vojtowicz: Don’t we have room in the other building. Just put the new one over there and leave the old one in the garage. Peruso: I would rather have the old one over there. Vojtowicz: The old one is still in service with all the equipment. Woznak: What do we want to do with the old one? Vojtowicz: We can’t do anything with it yet, because it is still in service so we can wait until next month before we do anything. I was under the impression that was a brand new vehicle. We bought that new cruiser and when we got it, it had 25,000 miles on it. I was under the impression it was new, a leftover 2008 model and had some miles in it but not 25,000. We bought a used Police Car. Woznak: Shame on us for not asking.  It should have been disclosed to us. I am not happy about this at all. Thomson: They never disclosed the mileage. Shannan: No I don’t think they did. It was a demo model, we knew that but I don’t think in any of the paperwork they sent to Art that the mileage was disclosed. Vojtowicz: is there something we can do about it? Heiple: I would think there is, I will look into it.
5. Heiple: There is a lady down in WestPoint who would like to raise alpacas and we also have another resident raising animals down there but that area is residential and all the area around it is farm land so we might want to consider changing that area and blending it all in together to agricultural. And we also need work on getting the others areas we discussed changed. Vojtowicz: We need to get the input from the residents down there first. 
6. Motion to hold an informational meeting on zoning and advertise for July 8th, 2009at 10 A.M. and also send letters to everyone on WestPoint Road made by Woznak. 2nd by Vojtowicz. Roll Call Vote: Peruso-Aye, Thomson- Aye, Vojtowicz-Aye, Woznak-Aye. All Ayes. Motion Carried.

7. Motion to put Daniella Yahnert and Daniel Yahnert on the Recreation Committee made by Vojtowicz. 2nd by Woznak. All Ayes. Motion Carried.
Motion to adjourn made by Vojtowicz. 2nd by Peruso . All Ayes. Motion Carried.

ADJOURNEMENT  at 9:30 P.M.

Respectfully submitted,
Shannan Kester