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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2023-06-21 Commissioner Minutes WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 2023 The Franklin County Commissioners met Wednesday, June 21, 2023, with the following members present: David S. Keller and Robert G. Ziobrowski. Chairman Keller presided and after calling the meeting to order, a Moment of Silence, and the Pledge of Allegiance, proceeded with the business of the day. The meeting was live streamed. Chairman Keller announced that Commissioner Flannery is unable to attend the meeting this week. On a motion by Robert G. Ziobrowski, seconded by David S. Keller; unanimously approved to adopt the agenda. There was no public comment. On a motion by Robert G. Ziobrowski, seconded by David S. Keller; unanimously approved all bills presented and ordered paid. The minutes of the June 14, 2023 meeting were reviewed. On a motion by Robert G. Ziobrowski, seconded by David S. Keller; unanimously approved the minutes. The Board reviewed Agreements, Contracts and Reports. The items will be decided upon in the afternoon session. The Board recognized Minnie Goshorn, Director of Children & Youth, for winning an award for Social Work Month. Chairman Keller turned it over to Carrie Gray, County Goshorn, Director of Franklin County Children and Youth Services (CYS). Minnie was one of Education and Research Programs Facebook page for Social Work Month 2023. Minnie completed the child welfare education for leadership program through Shippensburg University in 2022. Minnie joined Franklin County in August 1998 as a caseworker in the truancy prevention program. Over the years, she has held a variety of roles with CYS. As a Caseworker III, Minnie handled out-of-home placement cases. She also developed and monitored the Kinship Care and Independent Living programs. She was promoted to a CYS supervisor position in 2007, and in 2015 became the Assistant Director of CYS. In September 2021, Minnie was promoted to CYS Director. In March 2022, Minnie was recognized as a Franklin County SERVICE Values award winner, receiving the Continuous Improvement Award. This award is given to a Franklin County employee who hones county processes, services and themselves, knowing that big results come from small changes over time. Minnie exemplifies the values that Franklin County employees bring to bear every day to ensure that our residents are provided the absolute highest quality of service possible. The Board of Commissioners said they see Minnie often with reviewing the budget or some urgent issues but today it is all in recognition of the hard work that Minnie has put in both professionally and personally to grow not only for herself but the department. Chairman Keller said that Minnie is establishing quite a track record of success. Just the fact alone that she has been at the helm at Children & Youth throughout the Pandemic and the workforce challenges, public safety and public health challenges that presented. He continued that just the fact that she was able to keep the department going with the support of her fine team and a lot of dedicated individuals is worthy of praise. The fact that she is being recognized by her peers both locally and across the state is they are very grateful. Commissioner Ziobrowski said he is speaking on behalf of Commissioner Flannery because he invariably says that he could never do the job they do and w to how and congratulated her on a job well done. Continued on page 2 James Eagler, Franklin/Fulton County Drug and Alcohol Administrator, was present to provide an update on the Opioid Settlement that he originally presented to the Commissioners on May 24, 2023. Mr. Eagler recommendations that the Opioid Settlement Steering Committee came up with, presented to the Advisory Board and also presented to the Commissioners a few weeks ago. The survey thth opened on May 25 and closed on June 15 and they received 115 responses. He explained added to their webpage for individuals, they sent it out to their treatment providers, list serve and sent out to their email list of all individuals that have worked with their department. He also sent it out to the recovery community and family members who are impacted as well. Mr. Eagler provided an overview on the survey questions and provided graphs of the survey results for each question. He provided a few of the open-ended responses from the survey that showed that ultimately there are individuals and families that have been hurt over the years due to the actions of those distributors and manufacturers of the comments since there is a lot their department and the county can learn from them. He of the services on how these dollars are being spent. Ms. Gray said she believes the survey was the sole vehicle for feedback, even though we had folks pointing people to a public comment form they also could contact their office directly as well as his email and office line if they wanted to provide feedback by call in or emailing. Mr. Eagler said no individuals reached out to him or his department so all feedback and comments they received were from the survey during the open comment period. Chairman Keller thanked James, his team and Sheena for great feedback to have. The plan James presented has been vetted and endorsed by the Drug & Alcohol Advisory Board which consists of folks from Franklin and Fulton County and the plan was presented to the Commissioners a couple weeks ago and it was well received. He thinks at public to get additional feedback which was strategic. Is he looking for their blessing and move forward or do they need to digest the public input? Ms. Gray said overall the feeling is the survey responses support the plan as presented with one possible exception that they could watch. It seems that prevention was more highly stressed than the distribution of percent of spending with the recovery infrastructure being at 55%, she thinks the prevention was 10% or 15%. James responded that of the deposits yes it was around 15% or 20%. Ms. Gray said in order to be responsive to the survey we will monitor our progress towards spending with respect to recovery infrastructure. If the prevention costs exceed what we have allocated on a percentage basis we can look to increase funds for prevention. We may be able to accomplish the feedback from the survey within those parameters already established. We ask commissioners for permission to move forward as presented and continue to monitor as we implement the recommendation from the task force. Commissioner Ziobrowski asked that we follow the direction of the feedback we got and use evidence based criteria. He continued that successful so we would want to use evidence based as best we can. Chairman Keller said he has no reason to believe that Commissioner Flannery would not be supportive of moving forward but he thinks it would be appropriate to withhold any formal direction or endorsing anything at this p He would like to have James back for any final questions or comments or other feedback or any tweaking that occurs between now and when we get back together and share that with the Board and seek their direction to move forward. Commissioner Ziobrowski stated that he agrees that not only are we talking about a very important program but we are talking about millions of dollars. The Board recessed and will reconvene at 2:00 p.m. for final approval of the items that were reviewed. The Board reconvened at 2:00 p.m. Continued on page 3 There was no public comment. The Board reviewed Fiscal matters. On a motion by Robert G. Ziobrowski, seconded by David S. Keller; unanimously approved the Supplemental Appropriation in the amount of $145,000.00 to provide budget for the Franklin County Jail Medication Assisted Treatment Grant. The Federal grant is passed through the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD). The Board reviewed additional Fiscal matters. On a motion by Robert G. Ziobrowski, seconded by David S. Keller; unanimously approved the Supplemental Appropriation in the amount of $85,675.00 to provide funds in the 2023 budget to pass the contract award through to House of Hope who obtained a Local Share Account Grant. The Board reviewed GIS matters. On a motion by Robert G. Ziobrowski, seconded by David S. Keller; unanimously approved for the Chairman of the Board to execute the quote from Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. to renew the yearly maintenance agreement for the use of GIS software & licensing within the County at a cost of $49,333.70. This covers multiple departments and allows the GIS department to perform daily duties and provide data for 911 and Tax, in addition to supporting other services used internally and externally by County partners and the public. The Board reviewed Human Resources matters. On a motion by Robert G. Ziobrowski, seconded by David S. Keller; unanimously approved for the Chairman of the Board to execute the agreement between the County of Franklin and Kegerreis Outdoor Advertising, LLC to provide four billboards placed across Franklin County for Human Resources recruitment efforts at a cost of $3,795.00 for the period of July 1, 2023 through July 30, 2023. In accordance with PA Act notifications, Navarro & Wright Consulting Engineers, Inc. notified the County of a Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Chapter 105 Water Obstructions and Encroachment General Permit 11 (GP-11) application being applied for On a motion by Robert G. Ziobrowski, seconded by David S. Keller; unanimously approved to enter an executive session at 2:03 p.m. for the purpose of reviewing real estate matters. Carrie Gray announced that she is anticipating a request for a decision by the Board as a result of the executive session. Chairman Keller said that the meeting will resume live but th reflected in the minutes that will be approved at the June 28 meeting. If anyone has any -261-3810. On a motion by Robert G. Ziobrowski, seconded by David S. Keller; unanimously approved to reconvene into regular session at 2:26 p.m. Carrie Gray is recommending a motion to enter into a contract to authorize William A. Brindle Associates to provide surveying support for a request for a rezoning map amendment for County properties located on Franklin Farm Lane, specifically to prepare and submit a petition and to handle the plot plan and initial filing fee. The contract amount is $3,000 and she requests that the motion include authorizing the County Administrator to sign documents as needed during the application process. Chairman Keller asked for additional background and ho Franklin Farm Lane. The rezoning request would bifurcate with the east side being rezoned at the request of Guilford Township from residential designation to R2 designation which would provide some transition from low density residential to commercial locations and the west side of Franklin Farm Lane would be rezoned to commercial. Chairman Keller said on the west side of Franklin Farm Lane if driving north it would begin just to the north of building 3 which is the same area as the cemetery connected with the nursing home, behind the nursing home so everything to the north up to almost to the interchange. Ms. Gray responded that it would stop at the Greene Township line and explained that it would be Franklin Farm Lane to 81. The Continued on page 4 southern boundary would be the land behind the nursing home, not including the cemetery and would move northward to the Greene Township line. Chairman Keller said for those who may be tuning in this is a process that began pre COVID when the County had entered into a sales agreement for 20-40 acres on the parcel in question on the west side of Franklin Farm Lane. That whole agreement was terminated by the party interested in purchasing the property because of economic concerns related to COVID so this process was put on the shelf. He feels acknowledging what we acknowledged three or four years ago the potential value in terms of commercially developing the west side of Franklin Farm Lane and creating a buffer between the residential properties to the east and on the other side of the hill of Franklin Farm Lane and the proposal to rezone the east side as R2 which is consistent with having commercial on the other side and also being consistent with the single family home ownership that is characterized by efforts for facilitating all this and we are familiar with the work of Brindle and Associates and the County has the utmost confidence that they can shepherd this for us. He is in favor of the proposal and welcomes a motion to that effect. On a motion by Robert G. Ziobrowski, seconded by David S. Keller; unanimously approved the proposal from William Brindle Associates in the amount of $3,000.00. This motion will also include authorizing the County Administrator to sign documents as needed during the application process. Commissioner to terms of use. He wanted to point out that at this point the County has no plans for use of that property and this is not a proceeding to some development although that certainly is possible in the future but we are just in accord with what Guilford Township is doing. Chairman Keller The meeting was adjourned at 2:33 p.m. with a motion by Robert G. Ziobrowski; seconded by David S. Keller. Carrie E. Gray County Administrator/Chief Clerk FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ____________________________________ David S. Keller, Chairman ___________________________________ Robert G. Ziobrowski Franklin/Fulton Drug and Alcohol AdministratorJune 2023 Presented by: James Eagler, CRS Opioid Settlement Franklin County Survey ●●●●●●●●The survey opened on May 25, 2023, and closed on June 15, 2023 (115 responses)individuals with an opioid use disorder?”“Are you currently employed by or volunteer with an organization that provides services to disorder?”“Are you a person in recovery and/or have a family/friend in recovery from opioid use Demographic Information: Zip Code, Gender, Age, Race, or Ethnicity.that you would like Franklin County to add to its efforts?”Followin Franklin County?” Openuse (first priority to last priority)Within each core strategy, the survey asked the public to rank each recommended approved last priority)The survey asked the public to prioritize recommended four core strategies (first priority to -Ended question asking, “In your opinion, how has the opioid epidemic affected families -up question asking, “Are there any strategies that have not already been mentioned Opioid Settlement Survey Overview Opioid Settlement Survey Results Opioid Settlement Survey Results Opioid Settlement Survey Results Opioid Settlement Survey Results Opioid Settlement Survey Results Opioid Settlement Survey Results Opioid Settlement Survey Results ●●●“It has affected them greatly. We lack resources, stable recovery homes, multiple to those who are in recovery.”services starting with younger groups of children while also offering as much support parents are losing their children as a result. It is vital that we provide more prevention “So many families are affected by this epidemic, children are losing their parents and lasting effects in the family unit, for generations.”treatment options and mental health care.” In your opinion, how has the opioid epidemic affected families in Franklin County? 75 responses ●‘feelings’ based. Show numbers and statistics to back it up.”is in treatment.”“Increased support/expansion of treatment courts, prevention, and ●●“Massively focus on evidence“Support for grandparents raising grandchildren/caregivers when parent family support earlier”-based training and education instead of Are there any strategies that have not already been mentioned that you would like Franklin County to add to its efforts? 71 responses Zip Code Gender Age Race or Ethnicity recovery from opioid use disorder? Are you a person in recovery and/or have a family/friend in Are you currently employed by or volunteer with an organization that provides services to individuals with an opioid use disorder?