Menlo Pool incident fallout continues

Video of council members responding at 8/19/13 council meeting, sorry for the poor quality the accoustics are terrible- you will need to turn up the volume.

In the days after the most recent Perkasie Borough meeting where pool staff, residents, and the police expressed their anger and frustration about the pool party incident, it is becoming increasingly apparent that Borough Officials are more concerned with damage control than accountability:

Borough Manager Dan Olpere abruptly notified council the day after the meeting (Tuesday August 20) that he would be away for personal time starting the following day for a week.

One of the members of Perkasie First submitted a Right to Know request for public record of the audio recording of the August 19th council meeting in the days following the meeting.  The $20 fee was paid and a CD was received that was blank.  Upon contacting the borough, a new CD was issued that had only 42 minutes of the meeting and was cut off in the second public forum.  When an inquiry was made for the complete record the email reply from the Borough came back: "I checked with our IT person who made the CD. The digital recorder only recorded the first 42 minutes of the meeting. There must have been a malfunction. Sorry."

To be clear- despite published reports from the borough and police- at least one employee testified in the second public forum that youth pool employees found at least one USED NEEDLE on pool grounds the next day in addition to the numerous drug paraphernalia   In fact a resident questioned the Borough on whether OSHA regulations were followed in having employees clean up this medical waste despite not having proper training and safety equipment. 

Will residents demand accountability from the Borough for putting the safety of the pool employees, residents, and police in jeopardy?  

Please attend the next Borough Council meeting where according to Council Vice President Jim Purcell "all the work gets done" on Tuesday September 3rd at 7:00 pm at Borough Hall located at 7th and Chestnut Streets.

Meanwhile, neighboring West Rockhill Twp learns from Perkasie Borough mistakes...  http://montgomerynews.com/articles/2013/08/28/perkasie_news_herald/news/doc521d81bba2549328253727.txt?viewmode=fullstory