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.

11/4/12 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.

9/11/12 Perkasie Constituent Outreach Meeting

Discussion centered on the police shooting of Michael Marino and the electric company

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Proposed Master Electric Plan

Borough council is considering a new master electric plan which aims to diversify purchases on a timeline to avoid drastic rate fluctuations like the 68% increase in 2008.  Here is an article from the Intelligencer.

While on the surface it sounds like a good idea, the notion that the borough would continue to purchase power through AMP Ohio seems like a bad idea since this is the middleman company that we signed onto the bad deal in 2008 with.

Here is a letter to the editor from resident questioning the wisdom of the Borough in this plan - Denied Free Market Choices 

Here is video of the Utility meeting on May 14

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4