Our Community Clean Up Day is a cooperative project between the Office of the Mayor, Council’s Culture & Recreation department, and community volunteers. Our first clean up day started in 2022 with just a handful of citizens, but we’ve continued to grow enough to partner with the state’s Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful program, part of the national Great American Clean Up effort.

Councilmembers serve a legislative role governing the Borough. They are responsible for passing local laws (ordinances), creating policies, setting the annual budget, determining property tax rates, and overseeing essential community services like public safety, public works, and planning/zoning.

With nearly 10 miles of roadway, the Borough is tasked with not only filling potholes, paving, and making sure stormwater flows properly away from roadways, it’s also responsible for traffic safety. This includes the installation and maintenance of pavement markings and road signage–such as all 106 stop signs throughout the Borough.

In addition to enhancing operational efficiency, a well managed municipal records program provides maximum transparency & accountability–a focus of the current Council. “This is really about providing good governance where it had previously been lacking in our local government,” Council President Farkas says. “Sure, this is a lot of tedious administrative work on our part, but citizens deserve nothing less.”