The meeting garnered a small crowd of community members with various concerns.
Jane Bauber, one of the attendees, petitioned borough council to look into repairing Middle Alley, which passes by the DuBoistown Church. She said elderly church attendees use that alley to reach the handicap-accessible ramp leading into the church, and was concerned someone was going to be injured.
Borough Manager Ann Baker explained the borough could not take action because it does not own the alley, and if it were to fix that alley, it would have to fix all alleys which is not fiscally possible.
Richard Boyles, another community member, said in 1993, the alley only went halfway down, and the section in current disrepair was actually a dead-end. Eventually, homeowners whose property touched that alley opened it up for access to cars.
Borough Manager Ann Baker announced the borough’s website will launch April 24.
However, residents can visit the borough’s Facebook page under “DuBoistown PA Borough” in the meantime to learn about upcoming events in the borough.
Additionally, Baker, in her effort to encourage residents to follow borough ordinances and policy, has begun posting informative messages on the borough’s Facebook page.
The council also agreed on its part of a revised agreement between the borough and fire department, which share space. As it stands, the fire department is paying for costs within the building that, according to Baker, the borough should be paying for.
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