City Council

1 Borough of Akron Council Meeting-March 25, 2024 2 3 Council Members Present- Justin Gehman, Vice-President; Kleon Zimmerman, Paul Swangren, 4 Jr.; Bonnie Young, Tonya Haynes; Max Herman-Junior Council Member; Rebecca Abraham- 5 Junior Council Member. (Nathan Imhoff, Ryan Cochran, Earianne Evangelista not present) 6 7 Others Present: Mayor John McBeth, Sean Molchany, Borough Manager; Susan Davidson, Asst. 8 Borough Manager; Valerie Wagner, Director of Finance; Suzanne Lausch, Minute Taker 9 10 Visitors: 11 John Taylor, 216 S 8th St Akron 12 Sue Glick 13 Larry Alexander, Ephrata Review 14 Chief Higgins-West Earl Police Department 15 16 Roll Call 17 Kleon Zimmerman-present 18 Paul Swangren, Jr.- present 19 Ryan Cochran-absent 20 Bonnie Young-present 21 Nathan Imhoff President-absent 22 Justin Gehman Vice President-present 23 Tonya Haynes-present 24 Mayor John McBeth-present 25 Earianne Evangelista-Junior Council Member-absent 26 Rebecca Abraham-Junior Council Member-present 27 Max Herman-Junior Council Member-present 28 29 Meeting opened at 6:30 pm with the Pledge of Allegiance. 30 31 Approval of Minutes 32 Motion to approve March 11, 2024 minutes by Paul Swangren, Jr; second by Tonya Haynes 33 Discussion: Bonnie Young addressed line 24 page 2. Tonya Haynes made statement regarding 34 checking with Lancaster about chipping animals not Bonnie Young. 35 Paul Swangren, Jr. motioned to amend council meeting minutes for March 11, 2024 regarding 36 Tonya Haynes, not Bonnie Young, making statement regarding checking with Lancaster about 37 chipping animals. Seconded by Tonya Haynes. 38 Motion approved 39 Visitors/Comments from Public 40 Zoom: none 41 Bills-none 42 Reports/Announcements 43 Police Report 1  1 “Coffee with a Cop” will take place from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Akron Borough Office on 2 Tuesday, March 26, 2024. 3 The next Akron Borough and West Earl Police Liaison meeting is scheduled for Wednesday April 4 10, 2024 at 6pm at Akron Borough Offices. 5 Chief Higgins answered a question from the Mayor McBeth regarding a call for Akron. 6 Reclassification of call type was made. 7 Mayor Report 8 Nothing to report 9 Manager’s Report 10 The next Council meeting on April 8, 2024 Herbein & Co will be on the agenda to review the 11 2023 annual audit. The Finance Chairperson and staff met with Herbein & Co to review the 12 audit and there were no issues. 13 Finance-none 14 Community Relations 15 Bonnie Young did two interviews including Chief Higgins and West Earl Police Department ; 16 Bonnie also interviewed Ryan Spenser from Rosenberger for a news release and requested a 17 photo op for the pavilion at Colonial Park. Bonnie mentioned that she wrote two articles for 18 this event. 19 Parks & Property 20 Roland Park project still in progress. Staff will be meeting next week with the engineer for a progress 21 report. 22 April 27, 2024 is the scheduled date for ribbon cutting for the Colonial Park pavilion. 23 Tonya Haynes and Earianne Evangelista are Planning a cultural night for Saturday, June 15, 2023 with 24 cultural foods for the community at the Roland Park Lodge. 25 Personnel Report 26 Senior Officials Workshop-All Hazards Preparedness-part of emergency management plan. Let 27 staff know if anyone wants to attend. Staff will send e-mail regarding the course with additional 28 details. 29 A Personnel meeting was held at 6pm prior to Council meeting to review transition from 30 Davidson to Molchany as Borough Manager. Both managers met with staff to update them on 31 changes. 32 The updated Emergency Management plan is moving forward. Staff will reach out to Randy 33 Gockley for a draft of the plan so Council can review. Paul Swangren, Jr. mentioned that the 34 plan is a living breathing document that will need updated at times because of things changing. 35 Streets Report 36 Street sweeping is scheduled for Thursday, April 4 & Friday April 5, 2024. 37 Public Utilities Report-none 38 Junior Council Members Report 39 Nothing to report 40 Public Hearings/Presentations/Appointments 41 Vacancy Board Appointment-John Taylor 42 Motion made by Kleon Zimmerman to appoint John Taylor to the Borough of Akron Vacancy 43 Board; second by Paul Swangren, Jr. 44 Motion carried 2  1 Old Business 2 New Business 3 Resolutions 4 A. Ordinances 5 B. Motions and Decisions 6 C. Acknowledgments 7 D. Other Business/Deliberations 8 E. Correspondence and Petitions 9 F. Executive Session 10 Adjournment -Motion to adjourn at 6:46 by Paul Swangren, Jr.; second by Kleon Zimmerman 11 Motion carried. 12 13 Meeting adjourned. 14 15 Respectfully submitted, 16 17 Susan Davidson 18 Assistant Borough Manager/Secretary 19 20 SD 21 3