The board also approved a $9,059,900.12 General Energy Savings Agreement with U and S Services for an HVAC project for Hydetown, Main Street and Pleasantville elementary schools, Cressman said. The project includes lighting upgrades; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning; and vestibule and exhaust fan replacement.
Lynn Cressman was re-elected Titusville Area School Board president at Monday evening's reorganization meeting. Jack Roberts was re-elected vice president. The terms of the secretary and treasurer expire at different times.
The board also approved a $9,059,900.12 General Energy Savings Agreement with U and S Services for an HVAC project for Hydetown, Main Street and Pleasantville elementary schools, Cressman said. The project includes lighting upgrades; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning; and vestibule and exhaust fan replacement.
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Screenshots from Stream TV meeting coverage The Titusville City Council gave the final approval needed for Charter Foods to build a new Taco Bell at the site of the former Perkins Restaurant and Bakery on East Central Avenue. "All aspects of the plans comply with all zoning codes and all planning codes and all recommendations set forth by the Titusville Planning Commission," Skip Welling reported to the council during a special hearing Monday night. Welling handles code enforcement, zoning and building inspection for the city.
"As a city, we are happy to see a vacant property change into something that is going to look a lot better than what's there," said mayor Jon Crouch.
"Skip, thank you very much for the work you put in on this project," councilperson William McCrillis said following the council's unanimous vote of approval. "It means a lot to us up here (council table) and it means a lot to the city... It gives us a foothold of where we need to be in the town." (Watch the entire hearing through the Stream TV recording posted on Facebook.) Updated to fix an error. The numbers given were the number of times an ambulance was not available, not number of hours. During Tuesday's meeting, Titusville City Council is likely to discuss and possibly approve the 2023 budget, which includes some major items meant to improve city operations and services without raising taxes. Renovations to Titusville City Hall, including work on the air quality and ventilation, new flooring and painting the outside, are part of the proposed 2023 budget. Titusville city manager Neil Fratus said it's long overdue. This was reinforced recently, Fratus said, when he was scolded by a visitor who complained about the poor shape of the historic building. The municipal parking lot beside city hall is also expected to have an overhaul of either major crack sealing or repaving next year. The city also plans to replace the old and broken parking meters with a new parking kiosk like ones found in several other cities, including Franklin. Fratus said the old-style parking meters are costly to replace and many are in need of immediate replacement. He said to come up with this year's budget, the city departments and council worked closely together to determine the "needs" of the city and not just the "wants." The result is a budget with not much money left over to spare, but with no tax hike for residents. One of the "needs" they determined was bringing an ambulance to the fire department. Fratus explained the city has relied on local ambulance services for its emergency transport needs, but has seen a steady increase in recent years where those companies weren't available if needed often because they were on other calls or transporting patients between facilities. Fratus said that in 2020 the City of Titusville did not have an ambulance available 617 times. That jumped to 966 in 2021 and is well over 1.000 so far this year. Those are times that if someone in the city had an emergency and needed an ambulance they would have to wait for one from another community to arrive. Fratus said that sometimes could take 20 or 40 more minutes than usual. Council and the city emergency responders agreed that purchasing and manning an ambulance is in the best interest of the city. They will use American Recovery Plan Act funds to seed the program that includes buying a used ambulance and hiring part-time staff. They are going to try it for the year and continue to look for funding to keep this going, Fratus said. “You can call it a Band-Aid to the problem,” he said, emphasizing that the local ambulance companies are strapped and trying their best to keep providing services themselves. He also said the city's ambulance is not going to take away work from those other companies and will only be used when they are not available. “It’s not going to make money, but it is a step forward in taking care of the people in Titusville,” Fratus said. "And we're doing for below $200,000. It’s a huge deal." Fratus said he is hoping to get this up and running as soon as they can in the new year. To read the proposed budget click here. The next meeting is at 7 p.m. Monday, December 12. For the thousands of folks who made the trek to Titusville's Grace Fellowship Church (a.k.a. Bethlehem) over the past Friday and Saturday, they got a chance to see over 160 actors recreate a little Roman-ruled town set at the time of the birth of Jesus Christ. The zigzag drive through the church's parking lot was loaded with tiny vignettes depicting shops and artisans as well as scenes of home life. Each elaborate set was a background for the hundreds of handmade costumes including very detailed Roman centurion uniforms complete with helmets. The helmets were the only things the church has purchased, according to one of the event organizers. Approximately 1,300 visitors came on Friday night and cars waited in line for more than a half hour for a chance to witness the spectacle on Saturday. Each one was stopped by the Roman soldiers who remind them to pay their taxes upon leaving, however, the event is always free. Not only did the display give the visitors, who drive through with their headlights off, a chance to see depictions of a different life and time, but it was a virtual tour of European art history as well. Carrivagio, Rembrandt, Rubens, Michelangelo and DaVinci could be found in scene after scene. The church has been doing this Living Nativity for about 10 years, expanding on it each year. They bring several live animals, including a camel that travels about two hours for the event. The show stopper though is the towering angel with an actor several feet in the air. And, of course, at end was the little manger scene with the light of the newborn rising up from the crib.
Shadow of the Statue gave an acoustic concert with Nathaniel Licht as part of the first day of the Titusville Chamber of Commerce's Home for the Holidays event in Titusville. The shopping event continues from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church, 216 N. Franklin Street. Along with craft vendors, the event includes the chamber 12 Days of Christmas Raffle and food by the members of the First Presbyterian Church. You can even get your Christmas family photos taken by Cheri Carbaigh of CheriAnn Photography.
The Early Childhood Learning Center held its Holiday Sounds concert Friday afternoon. and 128 spirited songsters gave quite a performance. The kindergartners joined together to sing a dozen holiday-inspired tunes, including "I Feel Like Fa La La La," "The Snowman," "Jingle Bells" and "Must be Santa." Near the end of the concert, the kiddos turned the spotlight over to the audience and challenged them to a sing-off. Each group got one chance to do their best and perform "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." After both groups gave it their all, it was determined the youngsters were the winners. The concert was directed by school music teacher Sarah Hofstetter.
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