Meeting Minutes – September 2022

YORKANA BOROUGH MEETING

                                      OCT. 3, 2022

THE SEPT. 6, YORKANA BOROUGH COUNCIL MEETING WAS HELD AT BOROUGH OFFICE

WITH ALL MEMBERS PRESENT.

PATRONS PRESENT: RICK AND LINDA ROSS, TIM O’DONNELL AND CURTIS.

PRESIDENT STEVE DAUGHERTY OPENED THE MEETING AT  7;30 P.M. WITH

PLEDGE AND INVOCATION BY LYN McELHENNY

TIM UPDATED   COUNCIL ON LANDFILL  EXPANSION  CURRENT LANDFILL WILL BE

FULL IN 2025.  HE IS HOPING  LWT WILL RECONSIDER BEING THE HOST MUNICIPALITY

NEW EXPANSION WILL COVER 120  ACRES, THEY OWN 300 ACRES

17% OF TRASH COMES FROM MD.  83% FROM PA.

TIM PRESENTED T0 COUNCIL A CHECK OF $20,000 FOR NEW SIDEWALK INSTALLATION

ROSS’S .ISSUED COMPLAINT ABOUT PROPERTY ON 79 MAIN ST. OF HIGH WEEDS

AND TRASH, AND PEOPLE SLEEPING IN CARS

THAT ON  75 MAIN ST. PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN SHED OR BARN, USING A JIFFY JOHN.

SEC. WILL SEND VIOLATION LETTERS TO BOTH, AND CONTACT SEO.

SEC, REPORT WAS SUBMITTED,  RUTHANN PALACIOS MADE MOTION TO ACCEPT.

MARV HENISE SECONDED MOTION CARRIED.

TREASURER REPORT WAS REVIEWED, LYN MADE MOTION TO ACCEPT, DON DAUGHERTY

SECONDED, MOTION CARRIED.

OLD BUSINESS: REMODLES, RAILING WAS FINISHED,FRONT  ROOSTER-EAGLE WILL FINISH DOOR.

COUNCIL WILL THEN PAY HIM FINAL $500

COUNCIL VOTED TO NOT JOIN LWT WITH THEIR PLANNING COMMISSION.

NEW BUSINESS

VENABLE PROPERTY WAS SOLD

DON MADE MOTION TO PAY BILLS, LYN SECONDED, MOTION CARRIED.

RUTHANN MADE MOTION TO ADJOURN, CHRIS SECONDED, MOTION CARRIED.

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, JUANITA SMITH, SEC.