June Borough Council Round-up

Hello everyone - here's a brief summary of the June Council Meeting held last Monday for all those who are interested:

1. Dale Fern attended a class that discussed putting together a rental property inspection and presented the results of the class to Council. Council asked Dale to form a committee to determine the types of requirements and what would be needed to put together a program to inspect rental properties within the borough, to include fees, timing, etc. We will most likely readdress this next month.

2. Zoning Officer John Soloe presented a new proposed fee schedule; basically upgrading our permit and application fees to align with other municipalities, and to allow for more commercial development. Council tabled further discussion on this until next month.

3. Borough Engineer Bob Mack presented a few items:

- A report on the street lights in the new Chrin Commerce Center - they are in fact powered by PPL feeds, so we won't have to deal with the same issue that we've been dealing with for months now in the Tatamy Hunt subdivision with the change in power providers (MetEd vs. the borough's provider PPL Utilities) when it comes time to turn on the street lights. Speaking of the street lights in Tatamy Hunt, we are no closer to coming to an agreement on that one. I believe the borough is going to go back to the developer and make them resolve it.

- The contractor for the Chrin Commerce Center may be coming before Council next month to request i) a realignment of a few lot lines to make them align with the Palmer Township/Tatamy Borough line, and ii) to rename a few of the streets within the development to accomodate a potential tenant.

4. Council (me) presented a few ideas to the Borough Secretary on how to improve her meeting notes. For those of you who attend the meetings regularly, you will know that I and a few others are very particular with the minutes that are published, and will not hesitate to point out mistakes, misspellings, etc. that are contained in them. The minutes of our meetings are public records - they will go on in history forever - and if they are not 100% accurate, do not reflect what truly went on. Anyway, I gave her some suggestions, and hope to see some real improvement soon. We shall see . . .

5. Just a reminder, in preparation for the completion of the new High Street Park, the new stop sign has been installed at the corner of 6th and High Streets. This is now a 4-way stop intersection! Please pay special attention to it (e.g. don't go through it . . . ).

6. Larry Koehler, Chairman of the Sewer Authority, reported that they will, at this month's meeting, plan to adopt the new fee schedule. Sewer billing will be delayed by a week and will reflect the new schedule.

That's about it for this month. As always, let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks for stopping by.

Borough Council - Tonight 7:30

Well, since I was delinquent in providing the roundup for last month (shame on me), I wanted to remind you all that tonight at 7:30 we shall get together again for what I'm sure will be a most lively discussion (HA!).

Hope to see you there!

Memorial Day 2008 - A Recap

As usual, The Memorial Day service was super. We couldn't have asked for a better day weatherwise.

Mayor Duignam welcomed all of us shortly after 1PM on Monday:


It wouldn't be Memorial Day in Tatamy without Joe McHale singing "In Flanders Fields". Thanks Joe!



Ralph Romano provided the musical accompaniment. Thanks Ralph!



Boy Scout Troop 78, Awanas 2314, Brownie Troop 882 lead us with the Pledge of Allegiance and the placed of the Memorial Wreath:


Nathan Werkheiser read "It Was Our Veterans" (helped out a bit by Mayor Duignam):



SGT Phil Cohen (our only Marine Corps representative this year) told us a bit of his tour of duty in Vietnam. Did you know that Phil received a Silver Star, Bronze Star, Vietnamese Cross for Gallantry and TWO Purple Hearts?:


Here are some other shots from the day:

Our Police Chief (and Air Force Veteran) - George Achenbach (another shutterbug - HA!):


The Doughboy:


Tatamy's Veterans (what a motley looking bunch :-):


The only "disappointment" if there could be one was the amount of people who came to show their support. It seems that every year fewer and fewer people come to the service, and that's a disappointment. Hopefully we can get the word out next year and get some more folks to come and salute our veterans.

Memorial Day Service - ** REMINDER **

Don't forget - please join us at the Borough Hall at 1PM on Monday 5/26 for our Memorial Day Service.

There will be some light refreshments (Hot Dogs, Soda and ? ? ?) after the service.

Please come and honor our veterans, past, and present, who served our great country.

See you there!

Bike Rodeo - What a Day!

We had a nice turnout for our first ever Bike Rodeo. The kids who came out appeared to have a great time.

Thanks to the Tatamy Police Department, Chief Achenbach, Corporal Fred (sorry Fred, I'm not going to even attempt your last name - HA!); Colonial Regional Police Department, Nazareth Borough Police Department, Curt's Cyclery in Nazareth, and the rest of you who helped make our event a success (sorry, but I'm terrible with names so please forgive me).

The Express Times had a nice picture on their website tonite:

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I know that Chief Achenbach took quite a few pictures today also, and I will post them here when he sends them to me.