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The Muncy Borough Council is in the early stages of finding a new borough hall to seat its operations.
The current borough hall is a historic building in a floodplain and is not accessible to disabled residents. So, the borough council is working on finding the best location for a borough hall either through construction, expansion or renovation.
An option standing at the fore of the borough’s conversation is purchasing the Muncy Area Volunteer Fire Company’s fire hall, which it intends to sell, and renovating it.
However, Borough Council President Ed Feigle said the costs may be too high. The fire department is asking for $275,000, but Feigle anticipates renovations to make the building functional as a borough hall might push the total cost up to half a million dollars.
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Three months after releasing its former borough manager from his contract, the Muncy Borough Council has decided to hire a new borough manager under a part-time arrangement.
Charley Hall, a former 25-year district administrator to former state representatives Brett Feese and Garth Everett, will assume the $28-an-hour position and will work 20 to 35 hours as needed by the borough, according to Ed Feigles, the borough council president and acting borough manager.
The borough council voted to hire Hall unanimously after it parted ways with Dennis Holt as borough manager during an unadvertised meeting back in January.
The borough council later reaffirmed the decision in February after properly advertising the meeting; Holt had been responsible for officially advertising meetings, and the council did not advertise the January meeting after Holt was disallowed from conducting borough business in December.