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POTTER TOWNSHIP

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

MEETING OF FEBRUARY 6, 2006

 

The first monthly meeting of the Potter Township Board of Supervisors was held on Monday, February 6, 2006 at 7:00 P.M. at the Township Building, 124 Short Road, Spring Mills, PA.  Supervisors Paul Zerby, Monty Strouse, Richard Poorman and Tom Sharer were present.  Also attending were Solicitor Robert Rayman, Road Superintendent Budd Brooks, and Secretary Brenda Burd.  Bob Corman was absent.

 

Also attending were Tim Geibel, Alan Decker, John Zerby, Stacy Zerby, Melicent Sammis, Dick Decker, Mary Ramsey, Irene Cummins, Penny Waltz, Eric Casanave, George and Milena Bucek and Mick Rowles.

 

Chairman Zerby called the meeting to order at 7:00 P.M.

 

Minutes of January 9, 2006 were approved as presented on a motion by Tom and seconded by Rich.  Motion carried unanimously.

 

Citizens Concerns

·         Mel Sammis asked the Board if there is anything new on the Sinking Creek Development.  No.

 

Centre Hall Fire Company

·        Brian Long did not attend but Monty presented two bills one for towing for $700 and one for transmission repairs for $960.71 for payment out of the Fire Tax Account. The Township and Borough will each pay one-half.  Brenda was asked to have a resolution ready for next meeting.  Secondly, Monty wanted to be sure the Board received their invitations to the banquet.

 

Subdivisions

·        Stan Wallace presented a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for TeeJ.  Paul made a motion that Brenda sign the MOU, seconded by Rich, motion carried unanimously.  MOU was signed and sealed and Brenda told Stan she would fax the engineer’s fees to him Feb. 7th.  Stan said they want to submit plans to Don Franson for his review before submitting them to the County.  This was okay with the Board.

 

Secretary’s Report

·        Invitation from Wanda Guenot, CCATO breakfast at PSATS convention April 25th.

·        Spring Creek Watershed Commission needs the 2006 appointee.  Ann Glaser currently serves on the Commission.  Paul made a motion to reappoint Ann Glaser, seconded by Monty, motion carried unanimously.

·        Presented SEO Memorandum of Understanding for Harold Murray, Dominion Gas for signatures.  Signed.

·        Presented SEO Memorandum of Understanding for Lew Fulare for signatures.  Signed.

·        Presented Municipal Response Request for Josh Tobey, Lot 3 into Lots 3R & 5.  Comments are:  1. They need to identify the right-of-way as 50’ on the plan.  2.  Add a note that a shared Right-of-Way Agreement is required and the Township Solicitor must review and approve the Agreement.  Tom made a motion to approve the Municipal Response Request with those comments, seconded by Paul.  Motion carried unanimously.  Request was signed.

·        Financial Ethics Statements were distributed for completion.  Please return.

·        Request from Elections office for use of the Township Building May 16th Primary and November 7th General Elections.  Approved.

·        ClearWater Conservancy asks for a letter of support to go with their grant application.  Tom made a motion for Brenda to draft a letter for next meeting, seconded Monty, motion carried unanimously.

·        Presented the new Nextel phone bill.

·        Received an E-mail from Linda Marshall regarding a meeting Feb. 6th at Gregg Township with PennScapes giving a presentation.

 

Mt. View Estates Correspondence

·        Brenda read the letter of concern received from Todd and Betsy Hockenberry during the 30-day comment period and her letter of response to them.  This correspondence will be attached to the DEP Planning Module for Mt. View Estates.

 

Correspondence

·        Letter from County Planning regarding Tanis’ Subdivision replot of Lot 1 is final

·        Letter from County Planning regarding Tanis’ Subdivision replot of Lot 2 is final

·        Invitation for the Board to Centre Hall Fire Company 2006 banquet  (copied to Board)

·        Letter from C. Herr to Mr. Leightley (copied to Board)

·        Tim Geibel’s January 25th Park & Ride meeting notes distributed to Board

 

Park and Ride

·         Tim Geibel, Centre Region Planning Agency (CRPA) discussed the meeting on January 25th with PennDOT, American Legion, Potter Township and CRPA. This land is owned by the Legion.  Two sites were plotted by PennDOT for 52 cars.  A sink hole was identified in the back corner of the Rte 45 plot and would be very costly to remediate.  The Board is not happy with the location because it floods there but this is what the Legion is willing to provide.  Tom is also unhappy with the location because it’s on the wrong side of the road – traffic leaving the lot will have to cross traffic on Rte 45.  This park and ride is the first of its kind. 

 

Open Discussion – Zoning

·        Paul said with the Zoning Officer’s lack of response to calls and to requests, the permit problems people have and their complaints at having to go to the Zoning Officer’s house since he won’t return their calls, people afraid to come to public meetings to discuss their zoning problems because of the repercussions they will get from the Zoning Officer, his phone bills being too high, him changing his phone and phone contract on his own without bringing the information to the Board first for authorization, Paul made a motion to replace Jeff and was seconded by Rich.

·        Bob R. advised the Board they can’t not have a Zoning Officer. 

·        John Z. told Bob R. he can’t tell the Board what to do, he can’t tell them they can’t fire Jeff, and told him that he works for the Board too.  Tom thinks they need to talk more with Jeff. 

·        Paul said he will change his motion to replace the Zoning Officer as soon as they find a replacement for the Zoning Officer, seconded by Rich, vote was called for and carried with Paul, Rich and Monty voting for and Tom opposing.

 

At 7:42 P.M. Chairman Zerby recessed the regular meeting and opened the work session where Monty discussed the January 30th Regional meeting at the Penns Valley High School and the need to update maps.

 

At 7:47 P.M. Chairman Zerby closed the work session and reconvened the regular meeting and recessed the meeting for an executive session on a legal issue.

 

At 8:07 P.M the executive session was closed and the regular meeting was reconvened. 

 

Mary R. raised questions about the Mt. View Estates Subdivision and the Township taking over water and sewer and increasing taxes.  She was informed the sewer authority and the water authority are their own entities, the Township does not own them, Mt. View Estates is private property and we cannot step in and take care of anything.  Only people who directly benefit from these utilities can be charged.

 

Adjourn

At 8:15 P.M. Chairman Zerby adjourned the meeting.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

 

Brenda K. Burd

Secretary/Treasurer

 

 

CCATO – Centre County Association of Township Officials

SEO – Sewage Enforcement Officer

DEP – Department of Environmental Protection

THE MINUTES POSTED HERE ARE NOT OFFICIAL.  THE MINUTES ARE POSTED ON THIS SITE AS A CONVENIENCE TO TOWNSHIP RESIDENTS.  THE OFFICIAL MINUTES ARE AVAILABLE AT THE TOWNSHIP OFFICE FOR REVIEW.

 

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