In other business at Summit Hill borough council on Monday:

• Plans already are being made to host a Hootenanny event in 2016. The council gave permission for use of Ludlow Park and the community center for this event next June 26 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.• The council agreed to allow the Coaldale-Lansford-Summit Hill Joint Sewer Authority file a joint Act 537 Sewage Facilities Plan with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources on behalf of the municipality. The sewage facilities plan is to address improvements to the central sewage systems of the three municipalities.The council said it wants copies of any correspondence the authority has with the DEP on this matter.• New computers will be purchased for the police department at a total cost of $2,800 from Les Tech Computers in Jim Thorpe.• A new mini-mart opened Monday at the corner of Pine and Amidon streets. The council said there are now two gas stations in the borough. Police officers will alternate filling cruisers with gas at the two sites.• The borough will purchase a new police cruiser from KME Inc. in Nesquehoning at a cost of $31,997. It will pay $3,000 down and finance the car over a three-year period.• The council will buy eight 6-foot street barricades at a cost of $5,475. Chief of Police Joseph Fittos Jr. said the borough presently doesn't own any barricades. When parades or running events are held, his department has to borrow barricades from other sources.• Councilman Billy O'Gurek issued a warning that a skunk problem exists in the borough so residents should make sure they put garbage into cans and not plastic bags. It was noted that a borough ordinance prohibits placing garbage bags at curbside and trash must be kept in cans.• Resident Karen Ruzicka asked if the borough was going to have an electronics recycling event before the end of the year. Steber said such recycling is stipulated in the contract with its trash hauler, Tamaqua Transfer, but no date has been set. She said she was informed that the trash hauler presently has no place to get rid of such items and is looking into the matter.