December 2025

Minutes

VFSA Board Meeting Minutes
December 8, 2025

The Valley Forge Sewer Authority monthly meeting was held on Monday, December 8, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. In attendance: Board members William LaPorte, Terri Woodman, David Demey, Richard Stipa and Samuel Cupp. Also in attendance were General Manager Leonard Pinchok, Operations and Engineering Manager Matthew Jackson, Laboratory Manager Richard Taylor, and David Shirk, representing the Authority’s Engineer of Record, Buchart Horn, Inc.

The meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance.

Public Comment
Mr. Eric Freedman, counsel representing Delaware Valley Paving (DVP), wanted to discuss the current state of affairs between neighbors to see if a dialogue could be continued regarding the formally leased property from Valley Forge Sewer Authority. Mr. Freedman briefly shared the history of the licensing agreement dated July 10, 2006. He noted the Delaware Valley Paving received notice of termination not to renew the license agreement. Mr. Freedman referred to some settlement discussions that took place in this very boardroom trying to come up with a more long term permanent plan for that relationship in April. Then in June, the sewer authority sent over to Delaware Valley Paving basic terms as to what the authority considered to be acceptable. Mr. Freedman continued, moving fast forward a few months, there were conversations back and forth between the Authority and Delaware Valley Paving. His understanding was 2 issues the authority was concerned with in terms of the response to the offer. The first issue was an environmental concern. The authority wanted a more comprehensive environmental inspection and cleanup of the leased area. The second issue was limitation and/or control of the development that could or may eventually take place at 335 Pawling Road. On October 29, 2025, Mr. Freedman sent a letter to Mr. Pompo agreeing to do what the Authority was asking to address both issues. Delaware Valley Paving would take on the cost of any environmental cleanup and limit any potential future development into the footprint of the plans that were sent over. In other words, I sent over a letter conceding to the terms of what the sewer authority was looking for. On November 18, 2025, Mr. Freedman received a letter through your counsel basically saying we are not interested in resuming any of these discussions, please remove all your items from the authority property and vacate.
Mr. Freedman then reported some background information of the Faggioli family and how they have been part of this community for more than 50 years. They have owned a lot of property around here and enjoy and take it on themselves to invest in this community. The Faggioli’s are proposing to do here, like other areas in this community, is to improve it, stand upon it and to make it good for the Authority and themselves. Mr. Freedman shared how things will transpire without an agreement and reiterate the key benefits the Faggioli’s and Delaware Valley Paving are offering to the Authority in hope to convince this board to reconsider. Without an agreement, DVP will move their items from the property, including another neighbor occupying some of the area. In return, the Authority would need to remove its light post from DVP property and 100-200 foot of fencing currently located on DVP property. Mr. Freedman noted that if an agreement is not reconsidered, this would be a losing proposition for both sides. He is asking the board to reconsider and resume the dialogue, there is a lot in it for the Authority, the community and the folks who work right here. For starters, DVP is offering $250,000 in a cash deal to buy a small piece of the rear lot. DVP will perform a full environmental inspection of Phase I and if it calls for any Phase II cleanup, DVP will take on at their own expense. In addition, DVP offered to spend $100,000 to expand the driveway near Pawling Road and create a safer exit point. DVP will create a clean and clear access point to the rear portion of the authority property. DVP would also agree to rearrange lot lines so that all existing fencing could remain in place. Mr. Freedman is asking for a path forward to continue this relationship that has existed for about 20years.Mr. Freedman is trying to understand the reasons why the Authority is shutting down these communications. Finally, he asked the board to reconsider future discussions with DVP and the formally leased property.

Meeting Minutes
Ms. Woodman made a motion to approve, upon adding her name as an attendee, the November 10, 2025, meeting minutes, seconded by Mr. Stipa, and the board unanimously approved the motion.

VFSA Joint Board Meeting
Mr. Pinchok reviewed the Joint Board agenda items from the December 3, 2025, meeting. He reviewed each item with a brief discussion for each topic. Mr. Pinchok presented the 2026 Draft Treatment Plant Operating and Construction Budgets for review and discussion. After a brief discussion with the Joint Board members, a motion to approve, then seconded, was approved by a unanimous vote. Mr. Shirk briefly provided an update on the Act 537 Special Study Plan reporting a PADEP decision is expected within a few weeks.

Administration and Finance Committee
The Administration and Finance Committee met on Monday, December 8, 2025, to review the 2026 Draft Revenue and Treatment Plant budgets. After several discussions regarding the budgets and financial statement, the board agreed to postpone the approval of the budgets to a future meeting. The staff was directed to review and revise as needed.

Operations Report
Mr. Taylor stated at the time of the printing of the reports that all parameters for the monitoring period of November 2025 are in accordance with the NPDES permit numerical limits. There were no permit violations during the month of November. All outstanding/pending reports for October 2025 were received with no violations. There was no order complaints reported to VFSA during November 2025. Mr. Cupp made a motion to accept the operations report as presented, seconded by Mr. Demey, and the board unanimously approved the motion.
Financial Report

Mr. Pinchok presented the combined statement of operations for all accounts at the end of November with a balance of $27,333,670. Fund balances were presented for review, including budget-to-actual summaries, where the revenue fund actual for the month is operating at a surplus of $517,176 and the treatment plant fund actual for the month has a surplus of $774,669. Mr. Stipa made a motion to approve agenda item B, 1 through 5, seconded by Mr. Demey, and the board unanimously approved the motion. Mr. Pinchok reported a change to the October accounts payable invoice total from $303,607.05 to $344,164.26 that included adding a payment to the Central PA Teamsters Fund totaling $40,557.21. The board approved the additional funding via email last month. Mr. Stipa made a motion to approve, seconded by Mr. Cupp, and the board unanimously approved the motion. Mr. Pinchok presented the November 2025 accounts payable invoices totaling $293,965.60. Mr. Stipa made a motion to approve, seconded by Mr. Cupp, and the board unanimously approved the motion.
The financial report continued with requisitions totaling $401,565.02. The monthly Treatment Plant Construction Fund requisition expenses were $256,013.65. The monthly Capital Improvement Fund requisition expenses were $145,551.37. Mr. Stipa made a motion to approve the requisitions as presented, seconded by Ms. Woodman, and the board unanimously approved the motion.

New Business
Mr. Pinchok reported the 2026 Draft Revenue and Treatment Plant Budgets will be presented in a future meeting.

Old Business
Act 537 Special Study
Mr. Shirk reported an approval from PADEP on the Act 537 Special Study Plan is expected within a few weeks. In addition, Mr. Shirk indicated one item still open. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are required to sign off on the plan. The authority submitted several reports to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service indicating there are no environmental issues including wildlife displacement that would be caused by the Act537 Special Study Plan. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife are asking for additional information which is currently being gathered by Buchart Horn staff. Mr. Shirk expects the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to sign off on the project once the information is received.

Other
Mr. Jackson reported all capital fund projects are substantially completed. The treatment plant construction fund had 12 projects for the year, 8 are completed to date with the remaining projects to be completed in January 2026.
Executive Session
The VFSA board entered into executive session at 7:35 pm to discuss a real estate and personnel matters. The executive session ended at 7:55 pm. Mr. Pinchok reported no changes to the real estate matter.

Adjournment
Mr. Cupp made a motion to adjourn the meeting, seconded by Ms. Woodman, and the board unanimously approved the motion. The meeting adjourned at 7:56 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Dave Demey
VFSA Board Secretary