CLARKS GREEN – During April’s Council meeting, Councilman Dave Rinaldi mentioned that a Department of Public Works employee passed away last month.
She said that secretary Jo Ann Culbertson interviewed candidates to fill the position. Culbertson said that Dickson City resident Mark Holeva, who was a commercial roofer, was able to start on Monday, April 3.
Council voted to hire Holeva as a DPW laborer at a rate of $18 an hour retroactive until April 3.
In his financial report, Rinaldi announced the following balances as of March 31, 2022: general fund checking, $631,463.63; capital fund account, $127,117.28; sewer fund checking, $498,002.30; state funds account, $216,471.03.
Also, Rinaldi recalled Council’s approval of getting a CD at the higher rate last month. Culbertson added that the original CD at Wayne Bank wasn’t going to mature until the end of the month.
“At the last council meeting, we got approval to take $50,000 out of the sewer account and invest it at FNCB, ” she said.
Culbertson said that FNCB told her that the CD is for customers only, not for businesses. She said that she argued that Council isn’t a business. She mentioned that two weeks later, she received an email that Council can use the CD so she did.
“At the same time, the Wayne Bank CD was ready to mature,” she said. “
Culbertson said that she let the CD to reinvest at Wayne Bank, so that Council has two CD’s with the other one being at FNCB both for ten months.
Council voted to ratify the purchase of the CD. The members then voted to accept the financial report and pay the bills.
In other business, Rinaldi said that he and Culbertson spoke to borough engineers about plans for the 2023 paving project, which is paving and stormwater work on the upper block of Greenbriar Drive. Culbertson announced that the land surveyor will be coming soon.
“We need that for them to put the plans together, so they can do the estimates and put a bid package together,” he said. “Hopefully, we’re going to have that (bid package) ready to be advertised, and we’ll consider that in the May meeting.”
In other business, Council voted to approve the second quarter payment to Abington Area Joint Recreation Board in the amount of $1,509.75.
