Distributed at the meeting were January Workshop 'musings', which I guess during my holiday break I must have missed (I thought the workshop was canceled). None-the-less, some of the points made include:
On December 28 the closing on the two new borough properties was held.
A grant was filed with State Rep. Grucela for $10,000 in additional funding for the skate park.
The yearly assessment from the county is now at $122,116,700 resulting in over $11,000 of additional tax revenue.
Still need two citizens to serve on Shade Tree Commission and one on Recreation Board. Contact the borough if you are interested.
The borough's books will be closed on Friday December 29 and Rev. Matz will have a report end of January.
Mayor Keller and Paul Kokolus have been conversing with Monroeville about their web site. The town has 30,000 residents and a full time IT staff member, not something Nazareth can do, but have asked for guidance.
My own comment: You can visit the Monroeville web site here. This community is much larger than Nazareth and is a very near suburb of Pittsburgh. If in fact this is what the borough wants, the first thing they need to do is map out the site and create a scope of work outlining what they want, determining which pages require functionality and which are simply copy, and indicating how they want it managed. There are many shelf and open software publishing system solutions out there and I'm sure someone would be willing to sit down with them and give options if they had a scope of work. Of side interest, when viewing this site is that they have a new municipal building and they televise select meetings. While I'm not sure on what channel we'd do this, it'd be interesting to record and broadcast meetings even if it was all done via internet.
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