Commonwealth’s Open Records Law Heads to the House…again!

One of the many blogs/web sites I monitor is the Keystone Politics, a blog dedicated to covering Pennsylvania politics. They recently reported on the latest on the proposed update to Pennsylvania’s “much maligned” Open Records Law.

If you are interested, you can get an RSS feed for Keystone Politics here.

New Year, New Council.

The Council held its reorganization meeting on Monday, January 7th, as required by Commonwealth law. Returning councilors Henry Farley and myself, as well as newcomers Gene Cerutti and Bob Dydynski were sworn in by Mayor Denny Thomas.

Henry Farley was selected to be our president; Tom King will serve as vice president, and Steve Novak will serve as President Pro Temp.

We appointed the Morning Times as our official newspaper and the 1st Citizens Bank as our official depository. We also set up our meeting schedule on a new day and time, the third Thursday at 6 PM. Our first meeting will be January 17th.

President Farley made committee assignments and I will once again chair the Emergency Management Committee. Henry surprised me by including the phrase “Public Safety” in the committee title and appointing all councilors to the meeting. My committee will start meeting in February on the second Wednesdays at 4 PM at the Sayre Borough Hall.

We appear to have a fairly good council, albeit one member is a disappointment – I really wonder why that individual volunteered to serve. Oh well, c’est la council (?) I am looking forward to serving with the new guys, Gene and Bob. It’s been a while since the council had a pair of fresh eyes on the issues before us.

Good luck to them, and to all of us!