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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOMM - Meeting Minutes - 127 - 3-10-1966 - COMMISSIONERMINUTE BOOK M7 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA MICHAEL R. FLYNN, JOHN P. SEVEC, JOHN MAZZA, COMMISSIONERS 11 NO. 127 Office of the County Commissioners Washington, Pa., March 10, 1966 Board of County Commissioners met in regular session with the following mem- bers being present: Commissioners Flynn, Bevec and Mazza. Also present being: County Solicitor Capano, Chief Clerk Kittridge, Mr. Basich of the Washington County Planning Commission and Reporter Robertson. Meeting called to order by Chairman and roll call taken: Mr. Bevec - Present; Mr. Mazza - Present; Mr. Flynn - Present. Chairman asked if there were any corrections, additions or omissions to Minute No. 126, each Commissioner having received a copy. Moved by Mr. Bevec, seconded by Mr. Mazza, that Minute No. 126, be approved as read. Roll call vote taken: Mr. Bevec - Yes; Mr. Mazza - Yes; Mr.. Flynn - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. Old Business: None Appointments: Moved by Mr. Bevec, seconded by Mr. Mazza, that the following persons be appointed as temporary replacements in the Surplus Food Department; this action to be effective February 28, 1966. George Pasterchalk Tony Angott Roll call vote taken: Mr. Bevec - Yes; Mr. Mazza - Yes; Mr. Flynn - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. Chief Clerk presented statements for payment for the months of January and February, 1966 (Request No. 2 and 3), submitted by Baldwin Electric Company, electrical contractor for work on the electrical distribution system; said statements having been j approved by G. A. Mattern, consulting engineer. Moved by Mr. Bevec, seconded by Mr. Mazza, that Request Numbers two and three (2 and 3) for payment in the amount of $1, 530. 00 and $5, 400. 00 respectively, as I submitted by the Baldwin Electric Company, 393 West Chestnut Street, Washington, Penn - I Sylvania, be approved for payment. Roll call vote taken: Mr. Bevec - Yes; Mr. Mazza - Yes; Mr. Flynn - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. 578 MINUTE BOOK BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA MICHAEL R. FLYNN, JOHN P. SEVEC, JOHN MAZZA, COMMISSIONERS Correspondence: Chief Clerk presented budget allocation requests received from: (a) Cooperative ,Extension Service, Agriculture and Home Economics - letter under date of March 7, 1966, requesting a portion of their budget appropriation. (b) Roland H. Bourke, Jr., Executive Director of the Washington County Redevelopment Authority under date of March 4, 1966, requesting their first quarterly payment of Eight thousand five hundred ($8, 500. 00) Dollars against the budget appropria (c) Harry R. Sutherland, Jr., Executive Director of the Washington -Greene County Tourist Promotion Agency under date of March 7, 1966, requesting the second quarter allocation in the amount of Three thousand seven hundred forty-four ($3, 744. 00) Dollars, against the budget appropriation. Moved by Mr. Bevec, seconded by Mr. Mazza, that the Cooperative Extension Service, be granted one-third (1/3) of their budget allocation for the year 196.6, to be approved for payment, and that the sum of $8, 500. 00 as requested by the Redevelopment Authority and the sum of $3, 744. 00 as requested by the Washington -Greene County Tourist Promotion Agency, be approved fqr payment. Roll call vote taken: Mr. Bevec - Yes; Mr.� Mazza - Yes; Mr. Flynn- Yes. Motion carried unanimously.. County Solicitor Capano entered the meeting. A request submitted by Mr. Louis Sheehan, Adult Probation Officer, that two (2) persons from the Adult Probation Office be authorized to attend a "Short Course in Social Work" conducted by the Washington County Health and Welfare Council at the Citizens Library, College Street, Washington, Pennsylvania, was tabled by the Board until a further check into the matter. Memorandum to the Chief Clerk from the Deputy Controller concerning the establishment of amounts of required employee blanket bonds for the Offices of the County Treasurer, the Prothonotary, and the County Sheriff, was turned over to Mr. Capano. Letter under date of February 23, 1966, from George K. Leary of the Municipal Management Company was reviewed by the Board. Mr. Leary, of the under- standing that tentative permission had been granted by the County for the new industry to i be located:_ in Aredn Park to discharge their sewage into the County Home's sewage pumpin pit from which it would be pumped by the County Home sewage pump into the force main extending to the Disposal Plant at Arden; asked the Consulting Engineers for the Washing- ton -East Washington Joint Authority to determine what probable effect, if any, this would have onthe County Home and R.C.A. which utilize the same force main. Said letter enclosed a copy of the conclusions reached by Morris Knowles, -Incorporated, that recommended the connection be proposed permitted if both the Home and R. C.A. , are in agreement and the proposed industry and the County Home can arrange a satisfactory agreement. n E MINUTE BOOK 579 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA MICHAEL R. FLYNN, JOHN R. BEVEC, JOHN MAZZA, COMMISSIONERS 11 1 1 Quotation submitted by the Stonrcraft Company, Inc., P. O. Box .122, Woodville, Pennsylvania 15149, under date of February 28, 1966, in the amount • of $3, 530. 00 for marble repair work which is needed at the Washington County Courthouse (this is a budget item) will be tabled at this time. i In letter under date of February 23, 1966, Robert W. Fulton, business enterpris agent on behalf of the State Office for the Blind, proposed the installation of a snack bar facility at the newly planned Washington County Home and Hospital, similar to the operation installed at the Courthouse. The .State Office for the Blind would install the physical facilities; pay for the cost of "roughing in" the necessary utilities. However, this would be unnecessary if the utilities are properly placed at the. time of final approval of the i architectural plans. In letter under date of March -4, 1966, Mr. Joseph F. Bontempo of Bontempo & Associates (having received a copy of the letter from Mr. Fulton and receivin4 a letter from the Chairman of the Board), informed the Board they would be happy to cooperate and furnich the necessary layout data of the proposed snack bar for the Washing ton County Home and Hospital building, subject to the approval of the Board of County Commissioners. Moved by Mr. Bevec, seconded by Mr. Mazza, that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare, Office for the Blind, be granted permission to install a snack bar in the new proposed County Home and Hospital. Roll call vote taken: Mr. Bevec - Yes; Mr. Mazza - Yes; Mr. Flynn - Yes. Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Bevec reported the completion of approximately one-half of the final budget hearings, and as a result requests from the various departments have been reduced $192, 000. 00. It was also reported that a meeting was held with representatives of the Pennsylvania Economy League at which time the League volunteered their services to conduct a fiscal analysis for the County. Moved by Mr. Bevec, seconded by Mr. Mazza, that the Board of County Commissioners request the Pennsylvania Economy League to make a fiscal anaylsis and projection of the Capital Improvements Program for Washington County. Remarks: Mr. Mazza commended the Board for their farsight in having the Pennsylvania Economy League perform said service. Roll call vote taken: Mr. Bevec - Yes; Mr. Mazza - Yes; Mr. Flynn - Yes. Motion carried unanimously.