Council Highlights 11/13/24

​Among other things, council: 
• Voted to advertise the borough’s preliminary budget with no real estate tax increase or sewer user fee increase.
• Voted to advertise a short term rental ordinance. (this would regulate short term rentals like those on AirBnB, VRBO, or similar types of listings).
• Voted to advertise an ordinance repealing the borough’s current occupation privilege tax and implementing a local services tax. (Both of these are taxes on people who work in the borough, whether they live here or not. Essentially, this changes the amount someone working in the borough is charged from $10/year to $52/year. Most municipalities made this change years ago.)
• Opened bids for a sanitary sewer project on Sycamore and 9th Streets. This project is to be funded by CDBG grant funding.
• Discussed paving the borough parking lot with leftover grant funding from the basketball court project. State approval was granted for this.
• Discussed ongoing grant applications for equipment.
• Discussed possible methods/options to collect sewer user fee payments from those who have not paid.
• Discussed ongoing work to the borough’s emergency management plan.