Perkasie First
Putting the Borough residents FIRST.
Monday, July 5, 2021
Reports of an OD at Menlo park in the bathroom?
Saturday, June 26, 2021
What do you get for your taxes?
Monday, June 21, 2021
Reefer madness!
Thursday, June 10, 2021
If you really want to know what council thinks of the residents have a look.
This is 2nd ward councilman Steven Rose talking to a resident at the polls last November. The CDC guidelines and rules put out by the bucks county board of elections was if someone had a medical reason or disability they did not have to wear a mask. Mr. Rose took it upon himself to make the rules and try to intimidate a resident who has a medical reason for not wearing a mask and was told so. The Judge of elections was apparently not made aware of the confrontation and intimidation tactic out front of borough hall. It’s not likely anything would have been done since the judge doesn’t even follow election laws herself. More on that incident in the near future. Bottom line this gentlemen does not deserve to be re elected since he doesn’t seem to want to represent all of the people of his ward just the ones that fit his political agenda. Residents should pay attention to these people that are running your town. Council president Jim Ryder and vice president Jim Purcell were made aware of Mr Rose using his council position and abusing his power. Nothing was done so we can only assume they agree with his intimidation tactics against residents.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Back to business as usual.....
Well it appears borough council and the administration is back to business as usual. The public stays in the dark as to the happenings in their town. Meeting minutes haven’t been uploaded in a few months now for public view. The open meetings law requires meeting minutes to be taken for each meeting and posted for public view. We will look further if a specified timeline is required. Most other municipalities have no problem keeping these records up to date for their residents. Perkasie borough on the other hand does what it wants.
Another issue that has been ongoing in the borough which is an unsolved issue still is on S 3rd and S 4th street. A traffic study was done as multiple residents showed up to a council meeting before the lockdown to express frustration for the amount of traffic and speeds on a secondary road due to people using it as a raceway, we mean cut through, to avoid a traffic light at Walnut and 5th street. Council in usual fashion appeared interested in the issue while having residents in front of them. The study showed over a two week period the volume of vehicles being 45,000 +!!!!!!!! This is a small secondary road in the borough. The borough council and administrations recommendation was to put up no truck traffic signs? No one that we are aware of complained about truck traffic. It was the volume of vehicles and speeds. But hey they represented the people and sprung into action right? Residents while pulling out in front of their residence have had vehicles plow into them, people have had mirrors taken off etc etc. Here we are over a year later and still nothing has been done and those no truck signs? Yea there are still large trucks passing through. Like everything else without enforcement and penalty no one will think twice. The Borough is always quick to pay a lawyer to draft up ordinances that they have no intention of enforcing anyway.
Ladies and gentlemen let’s call this what it is. Taxation without representation. But we should not expect anything less from our representatives that open their borough packets 15 minutes before the meeting to read what they intend to vote on that evening .
It’s time for a fresh start and new council members that are willing to put the time in that is required to do the job. What we have seen so far are the next in line from the political parties that want to do the bidding of the party instead of the residents they serve.
Stay tuned we have other matters we will bring forth as we continue to look out for the residents. Remember when Perkasie was quiet and peaceful before it was built up with subdivisions and building on any open piece of land? Increased traffic, crime and wear and tear on our infrastructure. It has been proven before strength in numbers. It can easily be proven again.
Perkasie First
Thursday, March 1, 2018
How long before we get the bill?
Council claims the cornice area was sealed but it has sat through 4 winters now with no repair. So the question is when will we the taxpayers be getting the bill for the costly repairs? Better yet will we foot an even bigger bill for a new building since they seem to be letting this one sit in disrepair? Either way the taxpayer pays. Why has council been silent on this?
This was brought up in public forum by a resident when they were charging ahead with spending over 200K the first time for a street sweeper and then 80k the most recent time which was a used machine with no maintenance records or warranty??!!! After that they spent 177k last year to redo the concrete retaining wall and parking lot out back of the building but no funds to fix the roof. Keep in mind this building was renovated in 2002-2003.
Bottom line the residents will foot the bill the question is how much is it going to be? Maybe council should spend less time creating a historic committee to tell people what to do with their buildings and fix their own first.
Until then we suggest wearing a hardhat when walking around borough hall.