LOWER ALLEN TOWNSHIP
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

REGULAR MEETING

November 12, 2024 6:00 PM

AGENDA

1. Call to Order by President Villone. Proof of Publication.

2. Prayer and Pledge of Allegiance.

3. Approval of Meeting Minutes: Regular Meeting of October 14, 2024

4. Presentation: Harrisburg Magazine Readers’ Choice Award

5. Audience Participation: Any item on the agenda.

6. CONSENT AGENDA
Any Commissioner, staff member, or anyone in attendance who would like to have an item on the Consent Agenda removed for further discussion can request so now. Is there a request for the removal of an item(s) on the Consent Agenda?

Accept motion to approve the items on the Consent Agenda, which are listed as follows:

a. Check Register of November 1, 2024, in the amount of $460,100.81.

b. Check Register of November 8, 2024, in the amount of $115,660.00.

c. Payment of Estimate No. 4 to Kinsley Construction, LLC for labor for the 2024 Paving and Infrastructure Project in the amount of $98,047.24

d. Moving Patrick Dudzinski, EMT/PSO Hybrid, from probationary to regular full-time status, effective November 6, 2024.

e. Moving Nancy Hughes, Police Records Specialist, from probationary to regular full-time status, effective November 14, 2024

7. PRESIDENT VILLONE

a. Accept a motion to approve a manual Check Register of November 7, 2024 in the amount of $2,188.50 to Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott for legal services.

b. Accept a motion to adopt Resolution 2024-R-39, requesting a Statewide Local Share Assessment (LSA) grant in the amount of $682,778.00 from the Commonwealth Financing Authority in support of the Beacon Hill Radar Site Park Master Plan Project, Phases 2 & 3.

c. Accept a motion to adopt Resolution 2024-R-40, a Resolution of the Board of Commissioners of Lower Allen Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, appointing Benjamin E. Powell as Public Works Director, effective December 4, 2024.

8. Any business pertinent to the Township. Discussions will be limited to ten (10) minutes per person.

9. PUBLIC SAFETY

a. Discussion and possible action: Authorization to preorder police and fire vehicles listed in the 2025 working budget along with the provision to cancel orders contingent upon the approved 2025 budget.

b. Discussion and possible action: Approve reallocating remaining 2024 Capital Budget funds originally designated for the CAD-to-CAD software project towards the purchase of Knox MedVault and MedVault Mini safes for the quoted amount of $17,367.

10. COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

a. Discussion: To address comments from the public hearing held on October 14, 2024, for the adoption of proposed Ordinance 2024-02, which amends Chapter 65 Animals and Chapter 220-151 Non-intensive Agricultural Uses to provide for the keeping of domestic fowl as a permitted accessory use in the R-1 Zoning District.

b. Discussion and possible action: Accept a 90-day extension for SLD #2024-06 Arcona Neighborhood 9 Preliminary/Final Subdivision & Land Development Plan.

c. Discussion and possible action: Approve a recording deadline extension request for SLD #2023-03 Interstate Towing & Recovery Final Land Development Plan to December 31, 2024.

11. PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR

a. Discussion and possible action: Authorization to preorder the Public Works vehicle listed in the 2025 working budget along with the provision to cancel the order contingent upon the approved 2025 budget.

12. MANAGER

a. Discussion: 2025 Budget

13. COMMISSIONERS REPORTS

14. EXECUTIVE SESSION

a. Employee Compensation

b. Appointments/reappointments to authorities, boards, and commissions.

15. Adjourn.