Perkasie Borough starts walking down the same dead end road again

Leaders of 2 borough churches are petitioning Council for special electric rates.  Nonprofits request lower electricity rate in Perkasie Borough

We'll see if Council learned from their previous Sunshine Law violation that it can't discuss giving preferential treatment to any person, business, or organization in private.

Our town churches should allow Jesus to be their Light and not try to use government to force people to subsidize their collection plates.  Next time you attend a service you may consider dropping an LED light bulb in their collection plate.

11/19/12 Perkasie Council Meeting

Council President Matt Aigeldinger reports for closed pre-meeting, claims it is just a planning meeting but will not allow resident in to public building to view meeting of public officials.  Also present at this particular pre-meeting were Mayor Hollenbach and VP Jim Purcell, and Borough manager Olpere.  If there is nothing to hide then why not invite public to witness?  It's not illegal without a quorum just not 100% transparency as we have been promised from Mr Aigeldinger.

Part 1 of Meeting- council is approached about creating a quality of life task force to help curb youth drug use in town.  Mayor Hollenbach reports on Chief Gura's report in regards to the Marino Shooting and says it is being reviewed and then will be presented to Borough Council and hopefully made public.

Part 2 of Meeting - recall bid for borough trash bags, vote on new power purchases, vote on businesses being allowed to connect to public electric for lighting events,   new appointment to Parks & Recreation board, resignation of Amanda Brooks, authorize solicitor to file action against Borough tenant for breach of lease, Pennridge FISH

Part 3 of Meeting - council addresses leaf collection concerns, resident questions connection between Perkasie Pride and Perkasie Regional Authority.  Executive session was held after the meeting.

Link to Philly Burbs story on the meeting

11/4/12 Perkasie Council Committee Meeting

Unfortunately no video from the meeting is available.  The agenda is available here.

Few notes:
High praise was given to our public works and electric company from the public and the borough for their response during the recent storm.  Most residents only had a power outage of about 12 hours.

Perkasie Regional Authority (PRA) is attempting to use Council to force people into connecting to their water supply by claiming traces of TCE gas present a danger to 165 Perkasie residents who still have their own private wells. The EPA study that was done in 2005 is summarized here.  If it is such a problem- has the EPA been notified by the PRA?  Or does PRA simply want more customers to pay for the new $4 million facility they are building on Ridge Rd?  The one that will leave Pennridge FISH homeless.

Council is considering a request from Perkasie businesses to connect to the electric on the lampposts for special events. As long as it does not exceed the rated amperage they seem to be ok with this.

A youth delegate was appointed to the Parks & Recreation board.

Council held an executive session for a personnel matter and did not return after that.


A Public Utility meeting will be held Monday November 12th at 6pm at Boro Hall to discuss wholesale electric purchases.

The next Constituent Outreach Meeting will be held Tuesday November 13th at 7pm at Boro Hall. This is an opportunity to have an informal discussion between 3 members of Council and residents. 

Next Council meeting is Monday, November 19th 2012 at 7pm at Boro Hall

Article in Daily Intelligencer here.

Article in Perkasie News Herald here.  Note on this story: the Borough does not utilize ReadyNotifyPA, no alerts have been sent from the Boro through this system.  A resident brought this up during public forum.

Past and future meeting agendas and also meeting minutes are available on the Borough website here.