The Bethel Park Borough Council held its regular meeting on September 14, 2026, with seven members present. The meeting began with the introduction of three junior council members, followed by reports from officials, recognitions, resident comments, and the approval of multiple agenda items.
Okay, calling the uh regular council meeting for September 14th, 2026 to order. Please call the rule. Ms. Ward. Here. Ms. Kamanaki. Here. Mr. Oakes ha has called in with an absence. Mr. Sensi called in with an excused absence. Mr. Janisak. Here. Mr. Jenkins. Here. Mrs. Caltsman. Here. Miss Garris. Here. Mrs. Piccolino. Here. Seven in attendance for tonight. Uh please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. My Pledge of Allegiance to the United States of America. And to the Republic for which is the first time. Something about young kids doing the pledge always uh tickles me a little bit. Thank you, everyone, for coming tonight. Can you close the door, please? Okay, chair announcements. Uh first item under chair announcements is the introduction of our junior council members and program. So uh we decided as a council last year that we were gonna do, or earlier this year maybe, uh, that we were gonna have a junior council program. There's many other communities that do that, and we just thought it would be a good idea to get some of the young folks in the community involved. And so we went through a process where we took applications, we did some interviews, and we settled on three great candidates that we're happy are here tonight. And uh we're gonna have them come up uh one at a time to do uh little introduction of themselves. And just like all the other speakers here tonight, you're gonna have up to three minutes uh to introduce yourselves. You don't have to take the whole time, of course, but uh you'll have that opportunity. And I do want to uh just um call on uh Mrs. Piccolino, who was instrumental in putting the program together and uh doing all the hard work behind the scenes on it. And so uh Alison, if you could. And I do want to uh just uh good evening, everyone. It's a great day. We are here to introduce to you this evening our uh junior council. As our president said, this is a is an opportunity to get um, you know, we want to hear everyone's voice and to have some of our our wonderful youth here uh in Bethel Park that you know stood up, showed interest, and are we excited to hear from you and we hope that you help us get that voice um on the community level. So thank you very much. Uh we are going to introduce them no particular order, but uh on behalf of the council and mayor welcome.