September 3 2013 Perkasie Council Meeting

Well it appears the local newspaper the News Herald forgot to report all the important information from the borough council meeting of Sept 3 2013. There were a lot of new faces and some from the previous meeting who were back expecting accountability from this council for the Menlo pool fiasco, in fact public comment lasted a full hour and even caused the VP Purcell to shift the meeting agenda to deal with the questions and call the Interim Police Chief forward to address concerns.

 A Sellersville resident came forward to display her disgust that the borough was lying and trying to play down the situation especially the shots fire on the night of the pool party. She was the resident whose house the shots were fired outside of. She also notes that shots were apparently fired over by south school which was a separate location.

Comments were also echoed by new attendees that someone was trying to down play the event and that was accompanied by more calls of council leadership to resign and do the right thing for the community so we can get some true leadership on council. There were also more calls for the borough manager to be held accountable and fired.

Once again all these calls fell on deaf ears as they always do further proving to the residents the council is up there for the wrong reasons. They are not there for the town and the townspeople. They are there for power and status nothing more. In fact Councilman Steve Pizzollo interrupted one resident as she spoke and continued heckling audience members. Another violation of council policy on public comment.

The new pool rental procedures were discussed and they sound like they will prevent episodes like the pool party from happening again by why do we always have to wait for something to happen and the public to be affected before council does anything? The new rules and regulations are fine and well but it was the current rules being broken by management that allowed for the pool party to happen and our town to be trashed and taken advantage of.

How do we know these new rules won’t be broken for profit? When will someone be held accountable?

Shots were fired in our community! People’s personal space and properties were violated! Our youth were left to deal with this issue while our $115,000 a yr “manager” was at home in the next county over enjoying his peace and quiet without the violation of his property. The only thing this council is showing is their arrogance by not listening to the community.

Email your council members.  Demand they do the right thing! 

Otherwise the community is going to continue to spiral downward.

Also discussed was spending $20,000 for a study on our electric rates regarding the tiered billing that the borough currently uses.  Hiring expensive consultants is another hallmark of Manager Dan Olpere to avoid being held personally accountable for decisions.