DAUPHIN COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Legislative Meeting
May 18, 2005 (10:00am)

MEMBERS PRESENT

Jeff Haste, Chairman
Dominic D. DiFrancesco, II, Vice Chairman
George P. Hartwick, III, Secretary

STAFF PRESENT

Robert Dick, Treasurer; Marie Rebuck, Controller; Chip Vance, Solicitor's Office; Bruce Foreman, Solicitor's Office; Chad Saylor, Chief Clerk; Diane McNaughton, Press Secretary; Melanie McCaffrey, Solicitor's Office; Gary Serhan, Controller's Office; Garry Esworthy, Risk Assessment Officer; Randy Baratucci, Director of Purchasing; Kay Sinner, Personnel Office; Barry Wyrick, Director of MH/MR; Carolyn Thompson, Court Administrator; Edgar Cohen, Director of Facilities Maintenance; Dave Schreiber, Personnel Office; Elke Moyer, Human Services; Mike Yohe, Director of Budget and Finance; Julia Nace, Assistant Chief Clerk; Richie Martz, Commissioners' Office; Mike Pries, Director of Safety and Security; Bill Tully, County Solicitor; Jena Wolgemuth, Commissioners' Office.

GUESTS PRESENT

Brad DeLancey, Susquehanna Township EMS; Scott Buchle, Susquehanna Township EMS.

MINUTES

CALL TO ORDER

Mr. Haste, Chairman of the Board, called the meeting to order at 10:00 a.m.

MOMENT OF SILENCE

Everyone observed a moment of silence.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

Everyone stood for the Pledge of Allegiance.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Mr. Haste: We have the April 20, 2005 Legislative Meeting minutes and the April 27, 2005 Workshop Meeting minutes. Is there a motion to approve?

Mr. Hartwick made the motion to approve the April 20, 2005 Legislative Meeting minutes and the April 27, 2005 Workshop Meeting minutes. Mr. DiFrancesco seconded the motion. All were in favor. Motion carries.

EXECUTIVE SESSIONS HELD BETWEEN MEETINGS

Mr. Saylor: There were none.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

(There was none.)

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS/GUESTS

1. Commissioners
   1. Presentation of a Proclamation recognizing May 15, - May 21, 2005 as "Emergency Medical Services Week".

Mr. DiFrancesco: I have my second honor of the morning. The first honor was hosting a bunch of Legislators at the EMA Center, which was terrific. Keeping with that theme, today the Board is delighted to bring credit to the individuals who work to protect our communities every day. There are many of them out there and this particular team, the EMS Providers, serve our communities in many ways. Never knowing exactly what they are going to have to get involved with when called to a scene, but do a tremendous job. At this moment I would like to read the proclamation from the Board. (The Commissioner read the proclamation.)

Office of County Commissioner
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Proclamation

We, the Dauphin County Board of Commissioners, join friends, family members and fellow co-workers in honoring the caring, capable men and women who provide emergency medical service within Dauphin County;

Whereas, the emergency medical service teams provide a vital public service, ready to provide lifesaving care to those in need 24 hours a day, seven days a week;

Whereas, access to quality emergency care dramatically improves the survival and recovery rate of those who experience sudden illness or injury;

Whereas, the emergency medical services system consists of physicians, nurses, medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, educators, administrators and others;

Whereas, the members of emergency medical service teams in Dauphin County, whether career or volunteer, engage in thousands of hours of specialized training and continuing education to enhance their lifesaving skills;

Therefore, we join with the 251,300 residents of Dauphin County in honoring these often unnoticed heroes; we thank them for the work they do to keep Dauphin County safe; and in grateful recognition thereof, we do hereby proclaim May fifteenth through May twenty-first "Emergency Medical Services Week" in Dauphin County.

Mr. DiFrancesco: With us in the audience are Brad DeLancey and Scott Buchle to receive the proclamation, if you would please come forward.

(Applause were given and pictures were taken.)

Mr. DeLancey: Commissioners, I'd like to take a quick moment and a little bit of your time if I may to speak about the EMS tax. It is a real challenge for us to provide service every day financially. All of the EMS Services in Dauphin County have unique financial burdens. The EMS tax has put a further strain on that due to the misconception that that tax is an EMS, as in Emergency Medical Services tax. Whereas, the actual EMS tax is, Emergency and Municipal Services tax. That money, as far as we have been told, has not gone to the EMS Services. There is not a single ambulance company in Dauphin County that has received a penny of that tax. However, all of the ambulance companies in Dauphin County have been getting phone calls saying that the public is glad to hear that we are getting money but now why are you asking for our membership.

The memberships are very important to us. They are what keeps our companies going. However, the citizens feel that this tax goes to the ambulance companies and that their memberships aren't needed because now we are getting tax dollars. Anything you guys could do to help educate the public or to help try to change that tax so that some of those funds would go to the ambulance companies would be greatly appreciated.

Mr. DiFrancesco: I think the Council has taken a good step in trying to educate the public. I have said that I will do what I can to help educate as well. We all know and I think I was particularly close to a situation where we lost our local ambulance provider because the bottom line is that ambulance services these days do not generate enough revenue on their operations to pay the expenses. It is a losing proposition and business but it is one that is incredibly critical to our communities. Over the past year and a half we've tried to do a lot to strengthen the EMS system and the providers in the county. We will continue to do that but I do agree that we need to make sure that the public is aware that you still need those membership dues to survive. This is a non-profit business. While it is a business and it needs to be a business to protect life and safety it is not one that is generating profit. It is certainly not one in which the folks that put their lives on the line every day and go out to save lives every day are making a big fortune that they are amassing for themselves either. We all are well aware of that. It is a message that we have to keep out there in the public eye. I can honestly say that I have never ever been approached by a member of the general community in any elected position I have ever had and said, please raise my taxes. But when Lower Swatara EMS went under we actually had people come to our meeting and say if that's what it takes this service is so important to us that we would be willing to pay more taxes for it in that situation. I think the public is well aware how important it is to know that when they pick up the phone and call 911 they want someone at their house. They want someone there in a time of crisis. We are not out of the stormy weather yet. A lot has been done, like I said, a lot of people are communicating now and it sort of seems like we hit a phase where things aren't quite as bad as they were, but it only takes one company going under to throw us back into that crisis phase again. We appreciate the job you do every day. We certainly will partner with you and do whatever we can to educate the public to try and make your life a little easier. We value you and thank you for coming in today.

Mr. Hartwick: I just have a question. Have you researched what the local municipalities are using those tax dollars for?

Mr. DeLancey: At this time they haven't put out any exact figures for where they are going to distribute the money. However, like I said as far as I know, no ambulance company has been told that they should expect to see any of that money. In fact it has been the other way around.

Mr. Hartwick: Legislatively Jeff, do you know how much flexibility the local municipality has to use those funds for whatever purpose and bill it as sort of an EMS tax?

Mr. Haste: I don't.

Mr. DiFrancesco: Counselor do you have any insight?

Mr. Foreman: Under the state law the local governments that collect that tax can use it for any emergency or normal municipal service. So specifically they are allowed to use it for police and highways. I don't think there is any municipality in Dauphin County that couldn't consume the entire tax for that. In that sense since money is sort of fungible each municipality if it wished to could use all of that money for those purposes which are already coming out of the general fund.

Mr. DiFrancesco: I think most of the communities looked at it as an opportunity to not increase the property taxes and use another revenue source, but it would be general fund type budgets.

Mr. Foreman: Yes, in every municipality their two largest items are police and highways. Those are both allowed funds. I know there were a few communities that used a portion of those funds to reduce property taxes, which is another suggested use in the state law.

Mr. Hartwick: Thanks for that clarification. We will continue to advocate for you.

Mr. Buchle: I would like to add one thing too in closing about the EMS tax. I would like to echo what Brad said. The problem here is what's in a name. For the past couple months here in Dauphin County a lot of the people have heard on the radio, TV and the paper about Lower Swatara unfortunately going out of service and other EMS services struggling. Now along comes the EMS tax.

The money, yes, would be nice, but it is not earmarked for emergency services. It would be nice if that money 100% would go to police, fire and EMS. If the money does not come to us, again, nothing gained and nothing lost. We are used to getting by as best we can. The problem is though that we can't get by as best as we have in the past because of the name that is attached to it. The EMS tax as I understand it is something that cannot be changed at a county level, it must be done at the state level. In taking this position with the Dauphin County EMS Council and also my own management position with South Central EMS I have got a very eye opening experience on how politics works in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I do not anticipate any type of immediate change to the name but any type of publicity to advocate about the name and that it is not specifically Emergency Medical Services. I think rather than saying the EMS tax, people automatically think Emergency Medical Services, it could be stressed that it is Emergency and Municipal Services. Because I think a lot of people, especially South Central EMS, we cover the largest of the communities in Dauphin County. We have eight municipalities that we service. We started our fund drive and we now are starting to see people calling in saying that the state and the county enacted this tax for you, why are you still sending out fund drives? You took $50 some dollars out of my paycheck, why do you now want more money? Didn't that $52 dollars from all the people you serve, didn't that help you out? Then we have to educate over the phone and waste valuable resources and time to educate someone just because of the name.

That is the only thing I have to say about the tax.

In closing one thing that I would like to say, I would like to publicly thank Dauphin County from the highest level down to the lowest level for their support of the resurrection of the Dauphin County EMS Council. Years ago the EMS services of Dauphin County got together and tried to talk about merging. That did not work. There were still a lot of people who were very territorial. EMS is a business. We do compete with each other as far as business, non-emergency transports and so forth. That initial round of talks about mergers did not go anywhere. The dust settled and I would like to say that a new blood got into the business in the EMS field. Not to pat ourselves on the back, but Brad and myself and a couple others came up with this crazy idea one day of trying to bring back to life the EMS council. The other thing that we realized that we were missing out on was the Counter-Terrorism Task Force funding and various other WMD funding that is out there because we didn't have a county council. What we realized at first we kind of thought it would be a suicide mission trying to get everyone together to play in the same sandbox and to our surprise it has actually worked. I would like to publicly thank the Commissioners all the way down to the representatives from Dauphin County Emergency Management, even down as low as the dispatchers in the COMM Center and everyone else in between who, I'm not prepared to publicly single everyone out today, but everyone who has been very supportive of us and we thank you for supporting us and giving us what we need to get this organization up and running again.

Mr. Haste: Very good, thank you.

Mr. Hartwick: Thanks for your leadership.

Mr. DiFrancesco: Thank you. We will see you later on this evening.

Mr. DeLancey and Buchle: Thank you.

1. Barry Wyrick, Administrator, MH/MR
   1. Authorization to submit a Forensic Diversion Application for Mental Health/Mental Retardation. (NEEDS A VOTE)

Mr. Wyrick: Good morning Commissioners. On behalf of President Judge Lewis, District Attorney Ed Marsico and Chief Public Defender George Schultz, I am here this morning to present Dauphin County's proposal for a federal grant for a mental health jail diversion project. The collaboration that we have experienced in developing this proposal has been incredible. I would like to note that the work between the President Judge, the District Attorney, the Chief Public Defender and my office gives us the opportunity at this time to actually do something different for individuals who have a mental illness who come into contact with the criminal justice system. Whether we receive the federal grant or not the relationships that have been developed in the preparation of the grant will enable us to make significant changes in our system.

This grant opportunity comes at a time where it allows us to maximize and formalize many of the services that we proposed in the State Hospital closure plan just two weeks ago. The timing is bad with this federal grant as it is with all federal grants in that we had a very short time period to get it done. We are proposing the services before the current federal grant, which we have to study mental health diversion in the county, is actually complete. With the study being completed this fall and if we receive this grant the funding for these services would come to us in the fall, the timing would actually be perfect. At the close of the study, we would see what the best practices are, and would then receive funding to actually implement those practices.

The proposal recognizes the fact that we have over 1,000 individuals at the Dauphin County Prison, 200 of which receive psychiatric medications and around 50 of which have a diagnosis of a severe or persistent mental illness. With 50 individuals having a severe or persistent mental illness Dauphin County Prison is actually the third largest mental institution in Dauphin County. This proposal seeks to divert non-violent individuals with a serious mental illness who come into contact with the criminal justice system from incarceration. Currently we have a diversion process between our crisis and police departments where an individual may be identified to be hospitalized, even before they are brought to booking. Then our other diversion is our work with the Prison to get individuals discharged into treatment services.

This proposal seeks to establish diversion processes at every stage of the criminal justice system. With the police contact, booking, arraignment, final disposition, probation and parole, and the County Prison. This is where we have the opportunity to identify non-violent offenders who have a mental illness and identify the most appropriate treatment resources for those individuals. Then refer them into those treatment resources. The actual assessment services are being proposed to be done by the Dauphin County Crisis Intervention Program without the addition of any staff or cost in doing that. The actual costs involved relate to a coordinator of the program and then the treatment services that would be provided to the individuals. We have highlighted two specific treatment programs in this grant.

The first being our community treatment team, which is currently being operated. We are proposing to expand that with the addition of a forensic team. Then also highlighting our specialized forensic community residential rehabilitation programs, which are proposed in the hospital closure plan.

This grant takes proposals to use the federal funds available and matching those with the state hospital closure funds that are available to create a state of the art diversion system in Dauphin County.

The actual budget proposed for the project is $795,000. The federal grant is for an amount of $400,000, which is an annual amount for 3 years. The additional funds would be coming directly from the MH budget, specifically the hospital closure funds. As the services we are proposing in this grant were actually in the services proposed in the hospital closure budget. It is anticipated that at the end of the grant the mental health system would be able to cover the total cost of this program with no additional expense to the jail or the court system.

Any questions?

Mr. Haste: Did you say there's a new staff person coming through this?

Mr. Wyrick: Yes, there will be a program coordinator.

Mr. Haste: How much time is that person going to spend out at the Prison?

Mr. Wyrick: Out at the Prison? I'm not sure how much time they will spend at the Prison because they will be coordinating all of the different diversion points of contact. Probably 1/6 of their time because there are really six points of contact.

Mr. Haste: Okay.

Mr. Wyrick: The grant proposal has at its start a six month planning phase where those types of issues would actually be worked and planned out with all of the individuals who are involved in the system currently. While the Warden and Terry Davis were not actually involved in the preparation of this grant proposal they would be very involved in the planning cycle at the beginning of this grant, were we to receive it.

Mr. DiFrancesco: What was the amount of the grant again?

Mr. Wyrick: $795,000 is the proposed budget for the project. The federal monies would be $400,000 per year for 3 years.

Mr. Hartwick: I have a quick question. I know in another lifetime it seems Commissioner Haste appointed Commissioner DiFrancesco and me to a task force to look at prison overcrowding. One of the suggestions that came out of that was taking a look at how a mental health court would actually impact the process of identifying folks with mental illness and moving them through the system to get them into a position of appropriate care more efficiently. Have you examined that in the proposal or the transition? What are your feelings on that?

Mr. Wyrick: We did in fact examine the establishment of the mental health board and the decision was made that the number of individuals that we would be talking about would not justify a separate court session. Instead what we would be doing is before individuals that get to the court in that disposition phase, we would be implementing special interventions with the District Attorney's office, the Public Defender's office in the context of a regular court session. It is just not a big enough group of people to justify a separate court session. It also keeps the cost down by not having it be a separate court session.

Mr. Haste: Any other questions? (There were none.) Is there a motion to approve the submission of a grant request for a Forensic Diversion?

Mr. DiFrancesco made the motion to approve the submission of a grant request for a Forensic Diversion Application. Mr. Hartwick seconded the motion. All were in favor. Motion carries.

Mr. Haste: Barry, I believe you need the paperwork and I believe it is signed.

Mr. Wyrick: There is one form for you to sign and if you could.

Mr. Haste: I think it is signed and you are ready to go.

SALARY BOARD

A complete set of Salary Board Meeting Minutes are on file in the Chief Clerk's Office.

PERSONNEL

Ms. Sinner: I just distributed an addendum this morning for a new hire in Security for a part-time Security Officer. Yesterday I distributed an addendum, which includes requests to fill some vacancies. On our end a Staff Development Instructor at Spring Creek, four part-time Security Officers in Security, they are very short handed there, a full-time Accountants position in the Treasurer's Office and in Court Administration a full-time Jury Clerk. That position was just filled a month ago and the person has resigned so we are requesting that position be filled again. A new hire in Security is listed here too. One of the new hires that were approved last week didn't accept the position.

I have no changes to the packet that I presented last week.

Mr. Hartwick: Any comments from the Hiring Review Committee?

Mr. Saylor: No comments.

Mr. Haste: Is there a motion to approve the Personnel Packet?

Mr. Saylor: Please wait, may I make a comment? Did Lowell talk to you about the 2 tipstaffs? Did we change the...

Ms. Sinner: No, he didn't talk to me about it.

Mr. Saylor: Can we pull the 2 tipstaff positions? I did ask him to contact you on that. I believe they are numbers 18 and 19 in the original Personnel Packet?

Mr. Hartwick: They were pulled last week.

Ms. Sinner: We actually put them on hold so we will pull them.

Mr. Saylor: Would you talk to Lowell and see if some point after July we can accommodate? I think July 13, 2005 is the next window.

Ms. Sinner: Sure. That's all.

Mr. Haste: Can I now have a motion?

Mr. Hartwick made the motion to approve the amended Personnel Packet. Mr. DiFrancesco seconded the motion. All were in favor. Motion carries.

Mr. Hartwick: Kay, we should set up a meeting to do that vacancy list to make sure everything is cleaned up. I know we said we were going to do it after the last hiring window. Let's try to do it before June 4th.

Ms. Sinner: I will call Kacey.

PURCHASE ORDERS

Mr. Baratucci: Commissioners, the packet that you have is the same as last week including the one item that I said would be included for Spring Creek for the replacement purchase order for those doors. We were doing a new purchase order because we decided to switch the type of the doors that we were getting. That item is included in the packet. All of the budget issues have been resolved so the packet that you have today is there for your approval unless you have any questions.

Mr. Haste: Is there a motion to approve?

Mr. DiFrancesco made the motion to approve the Purchase Order packet. Mr. Hartwick seconded the motion. All were in favor. Motion carries.

MATTERS REQUIRING BOARD ACTION

Mr. Haste: We are going to put the Budget Report on hold for a moment and take the Matters Requiring Board Action. We have items A through V, is there anything there that needs to be pulled out separately?

Mr. Hartwick: No.

Mr. Hartwick made the motion to approve Matters Requiring Board Action items A through V. Mr. DiFrancesco seconded the motion. All were in favor. Motion carries.

1. Training Packet
2. Approval of FY04/05 Per Diem Rates between Children & Youth Agency and:
   1. Families United Network, Inc.
      1. Arborvale Manor for male's $149.29/day
   2. Northwestern Human Services of PA, Inc.
      1. Respite Rate for L.F. $40.00/day
3. Satisfaction Piece with Cesar Rodriguez and Olga DeJesus for property located at 347 Spruce Street, Steelton, PA
4. Subordination Agreements for the following individuals:
   1. Neil and Reyna Scott for property located at 932 Cocoa Avenue, Hershey, PA
   2. Brenda Jefferies for property located at 538 Seneca Street, Harrisburg, PA
5. Shopping Center Exhibition & Entertainment Contract between Children & Youth Agency
   and Feldman Lubert Adler Harrisburg, LP (Harrisburg Mall) for a bake sale during Community Day, May 21, 2005 and an Addendum to Harrisburg Mall Exhibitor Contract
6. F. Settlement with Department of Public Welfare for Spring Creek's Medical Assistance ("MA") Audit Appeals for FYE 12/31/94 and FYE 12/31/95 for $283,786.00.
7. Addendum to State and Local Government Master Operating Lease Agreement Nos. 103108000003, 000004 and 000005 to include the return shipping costs for of the leases to be paid during the length of the leases with HP Financial Services. (Information Technology)
8. Adoption Assistance Agreements
   1. 2005-17
   2. 2005-20
9. Human Services Development Fund Grant Agreement between Human Services Director's Office and Puerto Rican Organizing Committee.
10. Agreement between Human Services Director's Office and Harrisburg School District.
11. Purchase of Service Agreement for FY05/06 between Mental Health/Mental Retardation and Aurora Club.
12. Cross Systems Collaborative Infrastructure Family Services System Reform (FSSR)) Grant Application for Children & Youth Services.
13. Purchase of Service Agreement for FY04/05 between Children & Youth Agency and Valley Youth House, Inc.
14. Amendment to FY04/05 Purchase of Service Agreements between Children & Youth Agency and:
    1. Adelphoi Village, Inc. - Amendment #2
    2. Community Service Group, Inc., t/d/b/a Chariots, LLC - Amendment #2
15. Provider Agreement between Spring Creek and Pinnacle Health Hospice.
16. Inpatient Respite Care Provider Agreement between Spring Creek and Visiting Nurse Association Hospice.
17. Respite Care Skilled Nursing Services Agreement between Spring Creek and Gateway Health Plan.
18. Grant Agreement - Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency Radiation Emergency Response Fund - Application and Grant Agreement. (Emergency Management Agency)
19. Real Estate Tax Refunds/Exonerations:
    1. Refund of 2004 Interim real estate taxes to William & Dorothy Lenahan, 2362 Forest Hills Dr., Lower Paxton Township, Harrisburg, parcel #35-107-113, in the amt. of $54.06.
    2. Refund of 2005 real estate taxes to Lawrence & Cheryl Wieder, 2342 Forest Hills Dr., Lower Paxton Township, Harrisburg, parcel #35-107-105, in the amt. of $155.79.
    3. Refund of 2005 real estate taxes to AMP Dr. L1A, Lower Paxton Township, Harrisburg, parcel #35-034-117, in the amt. of $5,060.43.
    4. Refund of 2005 real estate taxes to Mahalia Minnaugh, 28 Sweet Arrow Dr., Hummelstown Borough, parcel #31-002-014, in the amt. of $249.27.
    5. Refund of 2002, 2003, & 2004 real estate taxes to George & Gale Krahling, 18 Carolyn St., Lower Paxton Township, parcel #35-030-151, in the amt. of $803.32.
20. Approval of the proposed Settlement Agreement with Szeles Investment Company - Tax Assessment Appeal for property located at 939 and 945 East Park Drive, tax parcel #35-074-038.
21. Recommend Garry Esworthy to the Dauphin County Executive Commission on Drugs & Alcohol.
22. Appoint President Judge Richard Lewis to the Schaffner Youth Center Advisory Committee. (Term will expire December 31, 2007)

Mr. Haste: Thank you, Mr. DiFrancesco now has to go to the Police Chiefs Meeting.

REPORT FROM BUDGET & FINANCE - MIKE YOHE, BUDGET DIRECTOR

Report from the Office of Budget & Finance

• May 6, 2005 transferred $177,421.41 to the Payables account from the County's Concentration account for checks issued that week.
• May 13, 2005 transferred $9,004,043.83 to the Payables account and $1,833,697.62 to the Payroll account from the County's Concentration account for checks issued that week.
• Total Term Investments - N/A
• Balance today in INVEST account $123,741.96 rate 2.90%
• Balance today in Community Banks investment account $21,033,640.49 rate 2.990% (This rate is good through 5/31/05)
• Balance today in Commerce Bank investment account $41,000,571.79 rate 3.100% (This rate equals today's 91-day T-Bill rate of 2.800% plus 30 basis points)
• Balance today in Sovereign Bank investment account $21,000,597.75 rate 2.931% (This rate equals today's 1-month Libor of 3.090% less 10% reserve plus 15 basis points)

$10M TRAN Line-of-Credit Status at PNC: No activity to date.

Mr. Yohe: I'm working on that RFP that should go out by the end of the week to be effective July 1, 2005. I've got two more banks, PNC and Citizens, that I'll be coming to you for signatures to establish the account.

Mr. Haste: Any questions? (There were none.) Thanks Mike.

REPORT FROM CHIEF CLERK/CHIEF OF STAFF - CHAD SAYLOR

Mr. Saylor: I have only one item and that is to note in an hours time the best and brightest from Dauphin County will be gathering at the Wildwood Center at HACC for the first ever Economic Summit. We have received an excellent response and we're looking for a lot of good discussion and it should be very productive for the County.

SOLICITOR'S REPORT - BILL TULLY, ESQ.

Mr. Tully: I have nothing to add, but would be happy to answer questions.

FORMER BUSINESS

(There was none.)

NEW BUSINESS

(There was none.)

COMMISSIONERS' DISCUSSION & ACTIONS

(There was none.)

CORRESPONDENCE

Mr. Haste: We have correspondence A through L received by the Board, which will be handled appropriately by the staff.

1. Notification from United Water indicating they are in the process of applying to DEP for renewal of the NPDES permit for their water treatment facility located at 400 North Duke Street, Hummelstown, PA.
2. Notification from United Water indicating they are in the process of applying to DEP for renewal of the NPDES permit for their water treatment facility located at 4405 North Sixth Street, Harrisburg, PA.
3. Notification from Mellott Engineering, Inc., on behalf of The McNaughton Company, indicating they intend to file an application with the Dauphin County Conservation District for the NPDES permit in reference to the Ridgeview Commerce Park located in Swatara Township, Dauphin County.
4. Notification from Peter Andrulis & Assoc., on behalf of Louis Rossi, Jr., indicating he intends to apply to DEP for a NPDES permit in reference to 2.36 acre land development plan located in East Hanover Township, Dauphin County, PA.
5. Notification from Alicia Vega indicating the intent to submit an application to DEP for a permit to erect a deck off the back door of their home located at 3940 Rutherford St., Swatara Township, Dauphin County.
6. Notification from Johnston and Associates, Inc., on behalf of Oakwood Custom Homes, Inc., indicating they intend to apply to DEP for the NPDES permit for development of a 3.18 acre site located in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County.
7. Received a copy of a letter addressed to Meadowbrook Coal Company, Inc., from DEP in reference to surface Mining Permit at Game Commission Bank, Wiconisco Township, Dauphin County.
8. Received a copy of a letter addressed to Bear Gap Coal Company from DEP in reference to Phase 1 - request to conduct exploration by alternate methods for the Bear Gap Mine Operation, Wiconisco Township, Dauphin County.
9. Notification from Ronald G. Gray indicating he has submitted an application to DEP for General permit 7: Minor Road Crossing for planned construction of a new home at Lot #9, Miller Road, Wayne Township, Dauphin County.
10. Notification from Foreman & Foreman, on behalf of the Township of Derry Industrial and Commercial Development Authority, indicating they have filed application to PUC for approval of construction of a pedestrian overpass over the tracks of the Norfolk Southern Railway at Milepost HP 99.45 in Derry Township, Dauphin County.
11. Notification from Rettew, on behalf of Pittsburgh Terminals Corp - Harrisburg Terminal, indicating their intent to submit a synthetic minor operating permit renewal application to DEP for the bulk gasoline terminal located at 5140 Paxton Street, Harrisburg, Swatara Township, Dauphin County.
12. Notification from CET Engineering Services, on behalf of the Lykens Borough Authority, indicating intent to submit application to DEP for a joint application for PA Water Obstruction & Encroachment permit & US Army Corps of Engineers Section 404 permit to repair the stream banks of the Rattling Creek located in Jackson Township, Dauphin County.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

Ms. Thompson: This might have gone under Director's but I just wanted to thank you for the employee ceremony on Monday. It was at Fort Hunter and it was perfect. It was beautiful and one of the nicest most gracious ceremonies I have ever been too. I hope it is something that we can continue because it was a real joy to be out there. Thank you.

Mr. Hartwick: Thanks for your comments.

Mr. Haste: Thank you.

ADJOURNMENT

Mr. Hartwick made the motion to adjourn the meeting. Mr. Haste seconded the motion. All were in favor. Meeting adjourned.