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All votes are for APPROVAL of the motion. “No” votes are indicated in Red with voters identified. Abstentions are noted in Green. Councilpersons absences or early departures are noted for clarification of differing vote totals for each meeting, or vote totals changing during meetings. A Council in full attendance would have 7 members present. A quorum requires 4 members present. When a meeting loses a quorum after having started the meeting, it is forced to adjourn.

January 11 (Councilman Nixon absent)

• Expenditures as presented: 6-0
• Deposits and Receipts: 6-0
• Minutes from December 14, 2020 Council Meeting: 6-0
• Treasurer’s Report: 6-0
• Resolution 2021-01, Approve $20,000 Donation to Safety First Volunteer Company: 6-0
• $9,000 Donation to Mary Meuser Library: 6-0
  
• Resolution 2021-03, $150 Donation to Suburban EMS: 6-0
  
• Resolution 2021-04, $1000 Donation to West Easton Scholarship Fund: 6-0
  
• Resolution 2021-05, Pay Rates for Borough Employees: 6-0
  
• Resolution 2021-06, Disposition of Records: 6-0
  
• Resolution 2021-07, Adopt a Code of Conduct for the Borough of West Easton Police Department: 6-0
  
• To Adjourn: 6-0

February 8 (Councilman Nixon absent)

• Expenditures as presented: 6-0
• Deposits and Receipts: 6-0
• Minutes from January 3 Council Meeting: 6-0
• Treasurer’s Report: 6-0
• Up to $3500 to repair the SUV police car: 6-0
  
• Call in Bean Construction for one or two days, not to exceed
  $10,000, to get rid of piles of snow from the major snow event: 6-0
  
• Order speed signs from Eloncity as presented in a quote, at a cost of $5829: 6-0
  
• Accept the resignation of Ron Nixon: 6-0
  
• To Adjourn: 6-0

March 8 (Full Council)

• Expenditures as presented: 7-0
• Deposits and Receipts: 7-0
• Minutes from February 8 Council Meeting: 7-0
• Treasurer’s Report: 7-0
• Resolution 2021-12, Adopt an Addendum No. 1 to the 1988
  Sewage Treatment Service Agreement between the Borough of West Easton and the EAJSA: 7-0
  
• Transfer the matured Sewer CD of $159,000+ from PLGIT into the sewer account at Fidelity Bank: 7-0
  
• Transfer the matured General CD of $249,570+ from PLGIT into the Fidelity Bank General account: 7-0
  
• Appoint Mr. Paul Brown to the Zoning Board: 7-0
  
• Appoint Mr. Robert Adams to the Zoning Board: 7-0
  
• Allow Wilson Baseball and Softball Association the use of the field at Gross Park: 7-0
  
• $2189 for the purchase of Fortigate Firewall as presented by Curtis Scott: 7-0
  
• To Adjourn: 7-0

April 12 (Full Council)

• Expenditures as presented: 7-0
• Deposits and Receipts: 7-0
• Minutes from March 8 Council Meeting: 7-0
• Treasurer’s Report: 7-0
• Advertise Ordinance 2021-19, TO REGULATE THE PARKING OF TRAILERS AND THE TARPING OF VEHICLES ON PUBLIC STREETS: 7-0
  
• To Adjourn: 7-0

May 10 (Full Council)

• Expenditures as presented: 7-0
• Deposits and Receipts: 7-0
• Minutes from April 12 Council Meeting: 7-0
• Treasurer’s Report: 7-0
• Accept the declaration of Laurel Hills as presented and for it to be approved once it is in its final format: 7-0
  
• Council President Dees sign the Pre-construction Agreement only after the developer has met all the requirements in the Pre-
  construction Agreement as well as posted the bond pursuant to the Improvements Agreement: 7-0
  
• Approve Ordinance 2021-19, TO REGULATE THE PARKING OF TRAILERS AND THE TARPING OF VEHICLES ON PUBLIC STREETS: 7-0
• Getting an estimate for a surveillance system at Gross Park near the basketball and playground area: 7-0
  
• To purchase supplies for a United States flag mural with the cost
  not to exceed $250: 7-0
  
• Extend the Advanced Disposal/Waste Management contract another year based on our original contract: 7-0
  
• Authorize Solicitor to take appropriate action to remedy violations at property adjacent to 805 Ridge Street property: 7-0
  
• Approve Solicitor to enter amounts due to the Borough by placing liens on properties with balances over $700: 7-0
  
• To Adjourn: 7-0

June 14 (Full Council)

• Expenditures as presented: 7-0
• Approve two checks to Brown & Brown, LV in the amount of $14,477 and $1,682.42: 7-0
  
• Deposits and Receipts: 7-0
• Minutes from May 10 Council Meeting: 7-0
• Treasurer’s Report: 7-0
• Allow volunteer basketball practice for West Easton children as
  long as waivers are signed: 7-0
  
• approve Ordinance 2021-20, AMENDING
  THE ORDINANCES AT CHAPTER 18, ENTITLED “SEWERS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL” TO COMPLY WITH UPDATED REQUIREMENTS OF THE FEDERAL EPA: 7-0
• Hi-Tech Security Alarms install a camera system at Gross Park at a cost of $4875: 7-0
  
• Revise the scope of work at the Public Works Pole Barn Project to exclude the bathroom and plumbing: 7-0
  
• Solicitor to take appropriate action to have all illegal vehicles
  removed from Borough property: 7-0
  
• To Adjourn: 7-0

July 12 (Full Council)

• Expenditures as presented: 7-0
• Deposits and Receipts: 7-0
• Minutes from June 14 Council Meeting: 7-0
• Treasurer’s Report: 7-0
• Use of Borough Hall by West Easton Scholarship Committee to hold a clothing drive to raise funds in September: 7-0
  
• Advertise AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION OF HANDICAPPED PARKING SPACES: 7-0
  
• Approve the Employee Handbook as presented by the Borough
  Manager: 7-0
  
• To Adjourn: 7-0

August 9 (Full Council)

• Expenditures as presented: 7-0
• Deposits and Receipts: 7-0
• Minutes from July 12 Council Meeting: 7-0
• Treasurer’s Report: 7-0
• To have Leon Stull serve as an alternate for the Zoning Board: 7-0
  
• Approve Ordinance 2021-23, PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION OF HANDICAPPED PARKING SPACES: 7-0
  
• Pursue LSA grants for the removal of the trestle over Iron Street
  and the trestle over Spring Street in the amount necessary to complete the removal project: 7-0
  
• To Adjourn: 7-0

September 13 (Councilperson Jones Brown absent)

• Expenditures as presented: 6-0
• Deposits and Receipts: 6-0
• Minutes from August 9 Council Meeting: 6-0
• Resolution 2021–26, to Approve the Application for LSA Northampton Lehigh County Grant for Removal of Trestles in the amount of $290,200: 6-0
  
• Resolution 2021–27, to Approve the Application for LSA Monroe County Grant for Removal of Trestles in the amount of $290,200: 6-0
  
• Applying for a GROW NORCO grant in the amount of $35,042
  with our match being up to $18,000: 6-0
  
• The continuation of the employment of Brandon Moffit, past the summer: 6-0
  
• To Adjourn: 6-0

October 11 (Councilman Decker absent)

• Expenditures as presented: 6-0
• Deposits and Receipts: 6-0
• Minutes from September 13 Council Meeting: 6-0
• Treasurer’s Report: 6-0
• Conditional award of the Storage Building Project to Kobalt Construction, based on the approval of the grantors to our change in the scope of work to be done and subject to the final approval of the engineer, solicitor and staff: 6-0
  
• Advertise AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE PENALTIES FOR LATE PAYMENT OF SEWER AND REFUSE SERVICES: 6-0
  
• $250 transfer from the General Fund to the Activities Committee Fund: 6-0
  
• $25,000 transfer from the General Fund to the Capital Reserve Fund: 6-0
  
• $10,000 from the Volunteer Fire Company’s contingency fund to Safety First Volunteer Fire Company No. 1: 6-0
  
• To Adjourn: 6-0

November 8 (Councilperson Jones Brown absent)

• Expenditures as presented: 6-0
• Deposits and Receipts: 6-0
• Minutes from August 9 Council Meeting: 6-0
• Minutes from October 11 Council Meeting: 6-0
• Treasurer’s Report for September: 6-0
• Treasurer’s Report for October: 6-0
• Release of funds from the Developer’s Escrow in the amount of $301,723.22 for completed work to date, based on the inspection of the Borough Engineer: 6-0
  
• Meeting dates for 2022, as presented: 6-0
  
• The sale of the old leaf vac and box for $4400: 6-0
  
• The revised Ordinance 2021-29, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE PENALTIES FOR LATE PAYMENT
  OF SEWER AND REFUSE SERVICE: 6-0
  
• The advertising of the 2022 proposed budget: 6-0
  
• The following pay rate adjustments starting January 2022:
  Brandon Moffitt, public works helper, $14/hr
  David Gehman, clerk $16.75/hr
  Dane Thatcher, public works supervisor, $20.50/hr
  Part-time police officers, $22/hr
  Robert Mahady, Police chief, $26/hr
  Joan Heebner, Borough Manager/Secretary/AORO, $26/hr: 6-0
  
• To Adjourn: 6-0

November 22 (Councilman Decker absent)

• Minutes from November 8 Council Meeting: 6-0
• Advertising Ordinance 2021-34, AMENDING THE
  ZONING ORDINANCE AT §27-1116(E) RELATING TO NOISE: 6-0
  
• To Adjourn: 6-0

December 13 (Councilmen Decker, *Mammana, and **Klaver absent)

• Expenditures as presented: 4-0
• Deposits and Receipts: 4-0
• Minutes from November 22 Council Meeting: 4-0

* Councilman Mamamma joins meeting.

• Treasurer’s Report: 5-0
• $9,000 to Kobalt Construction based on the recommendation of Doug Brown (BIA): 5-0
  
• Bean contract for emergency snow removal: 5-0
  
• Chief Mahady to sign paperwork and received delivery of the new police vehicle: 5-0
  
• Payment of $48,273 for the new police vehicle: 5-0
• Resolution 2021–36, to adopt the 2022 Budget as presented and advertised: 5-0
  
• Resolution 2021–37, providing for the fixing of the tax rate and collecting of an annual tax, remaining at 11.7 mills, for the calendar year 2022: 5-0
  

**Councilman Klaver joins meeting

• Ordinance No. 2021-20A, “An Ordinance Amending Ordinance 2021-20, entitled “An Ordinance of the Borough of West Easton Amending the Ordinances at Chapter 18, entitled “Sewers and
  Sewage Disposal” to Comply with Updated Requirements of the Federal EPA”: 6-0
  
• Ordinance No. 2021-29, “An Ordinance Amending the Penalties for Late Payment of Sewer and Refuse Services.”: 6-0
  
• Ordinance 2021-34, “An Ordinance Amending the
  Zoning Ordinance at §27-1116(E) relating to noise.”: 6-0
  
• Hiring Attorney Syzane Arifaj to replace Attorney Jeremy Clark who offered his letter of resignation: 6-0
  
• Solicitor Goudsouzian to take appropriate action against Steel Valley Renegades to recover monies due to the Borough of West Easton: 6-0
  
• To Adjourn: 6-0