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  • City of Scranton Council Responses – March 31, 2026 | PDF

    Mar 31, 2026

    ·Scranton, PA
    Other

    On March 31, 2026, the City of Scranton provided council responses to questions from a March 24 meeting, addressing budget and operational matters. Key items included clarification that a $3 million line item funds the city's Workers' Compensation account as required by Pennsylvania law, that the $650K non-departmental contingency fund serves as a risk management tool for unforeseen expenses, and that the city's OPEB Trust fund balance stood at $3,451,299.51 as of February 28, 2026. The city also provided homelessness data showing a Point-In-Time count of 221 people (77 in emergency housing, 74 in transitional shelter, 10 in safe havens, and 60 unsheltered) as of January 29, 2025, and confirmed that the Parks Department would accept casual employee applications in April.

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  • City of Scranton Council Responses – March 23, 2026 | PDF

Mar 23, 2026

·Scranton, PA
Other

On March 23, 2026, the City of Scranton Council responded to inquiries from the March 17 meeting regarding two major initiatives: the Meadow Brook Project in Green Ridge has secured 32 easement agreements with 12 properties still outstanding and no legal claims filed to date, and 21 properties have been demolished since January 1, 2025, with remaining undestroyed properties from the 2025 list carrying over to 2026. The city uses third-party engineering firm Barry Isett & Associates to assess demolition eligibility, with the Housing Inspectors condemning properties under supervision of Andrew Sunday or Tom Oleski; as of March 23, 2026, there are 225 condemned properties in the city, and a property must remain condemned for at least one year with no improvements before being considered for demolition.

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