City Council

1 Borough of Akron Council Meeting-May 22, 2023 2 3 Council Members Present: Nathan Imhoff, President; Justin Gehman, Vice-President; Kleon 4 Zimmerman, Paul Swangren, Jr., Ryan Cochran, Bonnie Young, 5 6 Others Present: Mayor John McBeth, Susan Davidson, Borough Manager; Sean Molchany, Asst 7 Borough Manager; Suzanne Lausch, Minute Taker 8 9 Visitors: 10 John Taylor, 216 S 8th St Akron 11 Tom Burnett 724 Fulton St. Akron 12 Larry Alexander-Ephrata Review 13 Sue Glick-119 S. 10th St Akron 14 West Earl Police Sergeant Dawn Ray 15 16 Roll Call 17 Kleon Zimmerman-present 18 Paul Swangren, Jr-present 19 Randall Justice-absent 20 Ryan Cochran-present 21 Bonnie Young-present 22 Nathan Imhoff President-present 23 Justin Gehman Vice President-present 24 Mayor John McBeth-present 25 26 Meeting opened at 6:30pm with the Pledge of Allegiance. 27 28 Approval of Minutes 29 Motion to approve minutes for May 8, 2023 30 Motion by Paul Swangren, Jr; second by Ryan Cochran 31 Motion carried 32 33 Visitors/Comments from Public 34 35 Zoom-none 36 37 Bills- 38 39 Reports/Announcements 40 Mayor Report 41 Monthly Mayor meeting was held last week. Local District Attorney was present at the 42 meeting. Discussion of Drug Task Force and homeless issues was held during the 43 meeting. County wide problem for homeless residents. 44 Manager’s Report-none 1  1 2 Finance Report -none 3 4 Parks & Property 5 Borough Manager Davidson mentioned that over 300 golf discs removed from the Roland Park 6 pond. Paul Swangren, Jr. remarked that all the amenities were being used in Roland Park this 7 past Sunday. Sean Molchany mentioned that a building permit for the Colonial Park Pavilion has 8 been submitted and is in the review process. 9 10 Community Relations- Daryl Witmer and Akron resident is planning to show movies in Broad 11 Street Park. When more information is available Bonnie Young will write an article. 12 13 Personnel Report 14 Paul Swangren, Jr. mentioned that a Personnel Meeting was held and discussion was about the 15 new administrative assistant and her progress. Other items discussed was Public Works staff 16 and their progress. Personnel Committee and staff are still gathering information in regard to 17 finding an Emergency Management Coordinator. 18 19 Streets Report 20 Sean Molchany mentioned that the Street Project for Edgehill/Manor Ridge Drives was 21 completed Friday, May 19, 2023. Penn Dot will inspect within the next few weeks. 22 23 Public Utilities Report 24 Sean Molchany mentioned the Sanitary Sewer Project is still ongoing. Nathan Imhoff suggested 25 that a communication about the completion of the project be put on the Akron Borough 26 Facebook page for the affected residents. The Borough engineer is overseeing project with 27 current report updates to staff. 28 29 Public Hearings/Presentations/Appointments 30 31 Old Business 32 33 New Business 34 A. Resolutions 35 B. Ordinances 36 C. Motions and Decisions 37 D. Acknowledgments 38 E. Other Business/Deliberations 39 F. Correspondence and Petitions 40 Nathan Imhoff mentioned that Gregg Zimmerman from Ephrata Council shared some 41 information from Ephrata Seniors during the Hibschman Scholarship meeting. More support for 42 the library, more amenities at Roland Park, more communication of events, improve 43 playgrounds at the Akron parks, fund to help the feral cat problems. 44 2  1 2 Cocalico VFW letter Annual Day of Service letter 3 Trash pickup by Cocalico VFW volunteers along the Akron Rail Trail took place a few weeks ago 4 and the VFW thanked Akron Public Works Department for doing a good job keeping Rail Trail 5 clean 6 7 Adjournment -Motion to adjourn meeting made by Paul Swangren, Jr. and second by Kleon 8 Zimmerman 9 Motion carried. 10 Meeting adjourned at 6:59 p.m. 11 12 Respectfully submitted, 13 14 Susan Davidson 15 Borough Manager/Secretary 16 17 SD 18 3