7/16/12 Council Meeting

The meeting agenda can be found here . Council voted to deny changing N. 8th Street at Callowhill into a 1-way street after speaking with several neighbors and discussion at the past few meetings.

Council also voted to approve a paving project worth $212,000 to pave Third St from Market to Callowhill and Chestnut St from 5th to 7th.    

There was discussion on the borough's workers compensation dilemma.  They have been dropped by their current insurer because of excess of claims and Finance director Joe Berardi explained that after speaking with the borough's broker as well as another broker that the options are limited because of their claims experience.   Manager Dan Olpere said that the best option would be to go with DVIT who also writes the liability coverage for the borough and several times mentioned an additional discount of $5,000 that would be gained by having another policy with them.  Not once did anyone mention the cost.  Well according to an article published the next day in the Intelligencer found here  we will be paying an additional $20,000 next year for a total of $153,000.  The residents are adults and should be told the whole picture not simply have sunshine attempted to be blown into our bottoms.  Another indication of the failure of leadership that Perkasie Borough continues to have.