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.