ORWIGSBURG - The Orwigsburg Borough Council voted to approve a resolution Wednesday appointing a part-time police officer for the borough.
Ronald Frederick, a Lake Wynonah resident, was appointed to fill shifts as needed.
Frederick will start "Whenever we can get him in uniform and ready to go," borough Manager Mike Lonergan said.
He is currently a full-time officer with a department in Dauphin County and will remain so, Lonergan said.
Lonergan said he did not have a set number of hours that Frederick will work. He will be paid $13 an hour to start until his probation ends, which could be a year, then the pay increases to $15 an hour.
With the addition of the new hire, the department will have four full-time and 10 part-time members, Lonergan said.
In other news, the council voted to adopt a resolution appointing Sarah I. McDonough as the custodian of Community Memorial Hall. Her work schedule will depend on how often the hall is used and the work required to clean it up. Lonergan could not recall exactly how much she would be paid.
Once again, the issue of the dog park and liability was discussed.
Council President Michele Rudloff asked borough solicitor Frank Tamulonis if their was much of a difference between the dogs permitted at Albright's Woods and those at the proposed dog park off Long Avenue in liability to the borough.
Albright's Woods is under the borough policy.
Tamulonis said their was little distinction, meaning the liability the borough faced was minimal.
By phone, he said a municipality is only liable for animals that it owns and the owner of the animal would be held liable if something happened, for example, at a dog park.
The borough's insurance carrier has given a quote of $1,000 for liability coverage for the park.
Also, a public hearing will be held at 7 p.m. April 3 for public comment on the cable franchise renewal.
The council approved three waiver requests of HJJT Family Partnership, to which members of the Boyer family belong, for a 4,800-square-foot building across the street from the current Boyer's Food Market in the borough. They addressed an issue of requirement to submit a preliminary plan prior to submission of a final plan, that the final landscape plans be certified by a landscape architect registered by the state and that the stormwater requirements be based on an all-grass lot. Exact use of the building is still unknown, Lonergan said.
The council also approved the Bartush Industries Land Development Plan, subject to review of comments from an engineering firm, and also approved 11 waiver requests. The Land Development Plan is for a pole building to store equipment on Industrial Road.