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This meeting featured the adoption of a proclamation honoring Boy Scout Troop 23's 100th anniversary, multiple consent agenda items, and a series of action items including a new ordinance regulating temporary dumpsters, a resolution for transitioning fire personnel to full‑time duties, and approvals for contracts, policies, and community partnerships. Public comments addressed maintenance of community gardens, sidewalk weed enforcement, and flag replacement funding.
Thank you. Um can we have a roll call, please, Mr. Sinner? Yes. Uh Mayor Walsh. Councilman Rieger. Here. Uh Councilman Ledford. Uh Councilwoman Mizako. Here. Councilwoman Ventreska. Here. Councilman Kip here. Councilwoman Fabus. Here. Councilwoman Downs. Here. All are presently counter for it. Thank you. All right. So we have a very important agenda item that is up here. So do I have a motion for this item? Yes. I'll make a motion to approve proclamation 5, 2025. A proclamation of the borough of Dormont celebrating 100 years for Boy Scout Trip 23, Eagle Valley District, Florida Highlands Council. Saturday. Thank you. Danielle, did you want to read any of it or part all whatever you want? I can read the um whereas Troop 23 submitted their application for charter on March 9th, 1925, and their charter approved, had their charter approved on September 18th, 2025. That was a typo, 1925. So the trip was chartered under the Dormont Methodist Episcopal Church, later named the Dormont United Methodist Church, located in Dormont PA. And whereas 15 boys between the ages of 12 and 14 were named on the initial charter application with eight more joy eight more joining the first year. And whereas Troop 23 has a long history of service to the community that continues to this day, including taking part in Pittsburgh's sixth annual Boy Scout traffic count in the 1930s, serving as shriners of the American Revolution, doing special holiday duty and caring for the graves of soldiers from the American Revolution, participating in holiday parades, performing color guard duties for veterans in assisted living facilities, and collecting multiple truckloads of food for the annual Scouting for Food event. And whereas starting October 2nd, 1965, Scouts in the Troop have posted 190 full-size American flags along the Dormont section of West Liberty Avenue on seven holidays each year. And following the events of September 11th, 2001, they posted the flag daily for 30 consecutive days. And whereas since 2002, Troop 23 holds a special flag retirement ceremony during a weekend campout at Camp Rolling Hills, putting a hundred putting hundreds of old faded and tattered flags to rest during a sober ceremony. Whereas Troop 23 has a proud legacy of helping scouts obtain the rank of Eagle, seeing 78 scouts earn this prestigious rank to date. Now therefore be proclaimed on this fourth day of August 2025 that the borough of Dormont Council and Mayor Walsh honor Boy Scout Troop 23 for 100 years of service, leadership, and adventure. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any council discussion? I I will just say like my son was briefly a member of Boy Later. I think he lasted about a year. Um first one of my three to make it uh into Boy Scouting. Um and he had a wonderful time.