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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOMM - Meeting Minutes - 428 - 12-17-1992 - COMMISSIONER572 MINUTE BOOK BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA FRANK R MASCARA, METRO PETROSKY, JR , JOSEPH A FORD, COMMISSIONERS Minute No. 428 Washington County Commissioners Washington, PA, December 17, 1992 The Board of Washington County Commissioners met in regular session in the Public Meeting Room, Courthouse Square, Washington, Pennsylvania, with the following members being present: Commissioners Mascara, Petrosky and Ford. Also being present: Chief Clerk Dallatore; Mel Bassi, Solicitor; Linda Hands, Clerk -Steno II; Brian Bark, 911 Coordinator; Duane Kavka, Director of Human Services; Jim Henry, Children and Youth Administrator; Ron Barshick, MHJMR Administrator; Dennis Martinak and Floyd Laubham, Planning Commission; Attorney Eric Held; Jon Stevens, Observer -Reporter; Jim Jefferson, WJPA; and Chris Enzerra, Herald Standard. Chairman Mascara called the meeting to order at approximately 10:05 a.m. and entertained a motion to approve Minute No. 426. Moved by Mr. Petrosky, seconded by Mr. Ford, approving Minute No. 426 as written. Roll call vote taken: Mr. Ford - Yes; Mr. Petrosky - Yes; Mr. Mascara - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. Chairman Mascara noted that approval of Minute No. 427 would be held in abeyance. SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS Brian Bark, 911 Coordinator, reported to the Board that a representative of Regional Planning Technologies has begun driving county roads to compile the information for the geographic database that will be the heart of Washington County's Enhanced 911 System. When operational, the Enhanced 911 System will instantly display the responding police, fire and ambulance service for each 911 caller. The database that will relate the caller's address to the appropriate emergency service providers is called the Master Street Address Guide or MSAG. Working from borough maps, the representative is driving county roads to record high and low house numbers for each segment of road bound by intersecting roads. Duane Kavka, Director of Human Services, reported that the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare recently completed its Annual Survey and Evaluation of the Children and Youth Program. He noted that special mention was made by the reviewer of the tremendous effort that has been made by the staff and management of the program and of the overall improvement made during the past year with regard to the general office operations. The Commissioners congratulated Jim Henry, Administrator of the Children and Youth Program, for this excellent evaluation. Jim Henry thanked the Commissioners for their support. Attorney Eric Held of the law firm of Retos and Held, Solicitor for the Washington County Hospital Authority, presented to the Board for their consideration and approval a Resolution relative to a project for Shadyside Hospital consisting of the advanced refunding of its 1985 Bonds. 573 I MINUTE BOOK BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA FRANK R MASCARA, METRO PETROSKY, JR, JOSEPH A FORD, COMMISSIONERS WE above. Moved by Mr. Petrosky, seconded by Mr. Ford, adopting the Resolution as per Roll call vote taken: Mr. Ford - Abstained; Mr. Petrosky - Yes; Mr. Mascara - Yes. Motion carried. The Commissioners had Certificates to present to the sponsors of the Christmas Concerts, but unfortunately representatives of Trombino Music Centers, Cameron Coca-Cola and Four Star Pizza were not able to attend the meeting to accept the Certificates. CITIZENS' COMMENTS There were no citizens' comments. OLD BUSINESS Solicitor Bassi recommended that the bids for the Collection and Disposal of Solid Waste be awarded as follows: Location Bidder Chambers Development Courthouse, Courthouse Square and Jail Mingo Park Cross Creek Park Ten Mile Park Health Center Airport Chambers Development Waste Management Waste Management Chambers Development Chambers Development He also recommended that authorization be given to readvertise for bids for the Cross Creek Senior Citizens Center, Vestaburg Senior Citizens Center and Claysville Senior Citizens Center due to the fact that either no bids were received or the bids received were too high. Moved by Mr. Petrosky, seconded by Mr. Ford, awarding the bids as per above; these being the lowest responsible bids received in accordance with specifications; and authorizing the Chief Clerk to readvertise for bids for the locations noted above. Roll call vote taken: Mr. Ford - Yes; Mr. Petrosky - Yes; Mr. Mascara - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. NEW BUSINESS Chief Clerk presented to the Board for their consideration and approval an Agreement with Mr. Fire Extinguisher of Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of inspecting the fire extinguishers and fire suppressant systems twice a year in April and October at five (5) senior citizens centers at a cost of $45.00 per inspection, effective January 1, 1993. Moved by Mr. Petrosky, seconded by Mr. Ford, approving the Agreement as per above. Roll call vote taken: Mr. Ford - Yes; Mr. Petrosky - Yes; Mr. Mascara - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. 574 MINUTE BOOK BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA FRANK R MASCARA, METRO PETROSKY, JR, JOSEPH A FORD, COMMISSIONERS Chief Clerk presented to the Board for their consideration and approval an Agreement with Columbia County which provides for the transfer of a 1991 eleven passenger lift van which was purchased through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to be used for the senior citizens and handicapped transportation program. above. Moved by Mr. Petrosky, seconded by Mr. Ford, approving the Agreement as per Roll call vote taken: Mr. Ford - Yes; Mr. Petrosky - Yes; Mr. Mascara - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. Chief Clerk presented to the Board for their consideration and approval an Agreement with Community Action Southwest, Inc., for the provision of service coordination services for FY92/93 for an amount of $10,000.00 to be funded through the Human Services Development Fund (HSDF). above. Moved by Mr. Petrosky, seconded by Mr. Ford, approving the Agreement as per Roll call vote taken: Mr. Ford - Yes; Mr. Petrosky - Yes; Mr. Mascara - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. Chief Clerk presented to the Board for their consideration and approval a proposal from Royal Maccabees Insurance Company (through Morris Insurance, Broker) for the provision of employee group life insurance at the rate of $.22 per thousand for a two-year period, effective January 1, 1993. It was noted that this is the current carrier and the new rate reflects a decrease of $.03 per thousand. Moved by Mr. Ford, seconded by Mr. Petrosky, accepting the proposal as per above. Roll call vote taken; Mr. Ford - Yes; Mr. Petrosky - Yes; Mr. Mascara - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. Chief Clerk presented to the Board for their consideration and approval a Resolution authorizing various budget transfers in accordance with P.S. 16, Section 1784. Moved by Mr. Petrosky, seconded by Mr. Ford, adopting the foregoing Resolution. Roll call vote taken: Mr. Ford - Yes; Mr. Petrosky - Yes; Mr. Mascara - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. Chief Clerk presented to the Board for their consideration and approval an extension of the Lumber bid award to West Elizabeth Lumber Company on a month -to -month basis through March 31, 1993. Moved by Mr. Petrosky, seconded by Mr. Ford, approving the extension of the Lumber bid award as per above. 575 Mr. Ford - Yes; Mr. Petrosky - Yes; Mr. Mascara - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. Chief Clerk presented to the Board for their consideration the following items relative to the JTPA Program: 1. Modification to the Title III-EDWAAA Agreement with Community College of Allegheny County which increases the amount by $2,275.00 in order to cover underestimated tuition charges for one participant. The new contract total will be $15,480.00. 2. Modification to the Title II -A Agreement with R.D.P. Consultants which increases the amount by $600.00 for books which were inadvertently omitted from the original agreement. The new total will be $10,600.00. Moved by Mr. Petrosky, seconded by Mr. Ford, approving the Modifications as per above. Roll call vote taken: Mr. Ford - Yes; Mr. Petrosky - Yes; Mr. Mascara - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. Chief Clerk presented to the Board for their consideration and approval Agreements, each in the amount of $2,600.00, with the following volunteer fire departments for the purpose of disseminating legislative initiative funds for the purchase of automated electronic defibration equipment (Lifepak 300) for FY92/93: above. Bentleyville VFD Claysville VFD East Bethlehem VFD Elrama VFD Hanover VFD Lone Pine VFD McDonald VFD Midway VFD Morris VFD Mount Pleasant VFD West Alexander VFD Moved by Mr. Petrosky, seconded by Mr. Ford, approving the Agreements as per Roll call vote taken: Mr. Ford - Yes; Mr. Petrosky - Yes; Mr. Mascara - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. Chief Clerk presented to the Board for their consideration and approval a Resolution expressing the Board's opposition to the creation of a statewide retirement system requiring mandatory participation of county employees, without permitting the county and its employees the option of non -participation and maintaining a local retirement system for county employees in accordance with the provisions of the County Pension Law. 576 MINUTE B❑❑K BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA FRANK R. MASCARA, METRO PETROSKY, JR, JOSEPH A FORD, COMMISSIONERS above. Moved by Mr. Petrosky, seconded by Mr. Ford, adopting the Resolution as per Roll call vote taken: Mr. Ford - Yes; Mr. Petrosky - Yes; Mr. Mascara - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. Chief Clerk presented to the Board for their consideration and approval the following travel requests: (0) 1. Duane Kavka, Director of Human Services, to attend a Guardianship (Reimbursable) Program Pre -Proposal Conference sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Aging in Harrisburg, Pa., on December 22, 1992 (R) 2. Jim Henry and Jeff Dykstra of Children and Youth, four State (Reimbursable) Police Officers, Attorney William Mitchell and Psychologist William Hambacher to appear at a child abuse appeal hearing (#63-015712) in Harrisburg, Pa., on January 4-6, 1993 (0) Optional (R) Required Moved by Mr. Petrosky, seconded by Mr. Ford, approving the foregoing travel requests and authorizing payment of all necessary expenses related thereto. Roll call vote taken: Mr. Ford - Yes; Mr. Petrosky - Yes; Mr. Mascara - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. ANNOUNCEMENTS Chief Clerk made the following announcements: 1. Due to the Christmas holiday, the Agenda and Board Meetings scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, December 23rd and 24th, have been cancelled. 2. Agenda and Board Meetings will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 29th and 30th 3. The monthly Retirement Board Meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 30th There being no further business, Chairman Mascara declared the meeting adjourned at approximately 10:20 a.m. THE FOREGOING MINUTES SUBMITTED FOR APPROVAL: 1992 ATTEST: CHIEF CLERK I