Former Weissport Mayor Tina Hagenbuch and her fiancee, Chuck Unrath appeared before Weissport Council on Monday night to ask for the suspension of the borough Police Chief Steve Armbruster.

Unrath said that he had recently purchased Hagenbuch's car and had temporary tags and license and had paperwork to prove it. He said that according to the vehicle code he had 10 days to have the registration and insurance paperwork completed, but before the 10 days elapsed, the car was towed."Even the tow driver said it was illegal tow," said Unrath.Hagenbuch said that because of the illegal towing, she wanted the police chief suspended.Present Mayor Jonathan Troutman said that he would talk to the police chief and get his side of the issue."We only have one side right now," said Troutman."You violated my fourth amendment rights," said Unrath.Unrath also noted that he had called the communication center and asked the police chief to call him back, but he never did. He also said that he called the mayor and other council members and still hasn't gotten an answer as to why the car was towed and that no one has called him back.Unrath said that he wanted to know if he was getting a ticket and also wanted to know if he had to pay the tow charge."I'm letting you know that if I am billed, I will refuse to pay," he said. "This was done illegally."Hagenbuch said that the tow was personal."You knew it was my car," she said. "That's why it was towed."Troutman said it was not personal and that two other cars were towed at the same time.Unrath said that normally before a car is towed, it is ticketed and the owners have at least 24 hours to respond.Tim Rehrig, council member, said that he had updates from J.D. Eckman, who is the contractor who successfully received the bid for the rehabilitation of the McCall bridge. He said the company will need additional property for the staging area for the crane."They need 30 feet more space to work," said Rehrig.Rehrig is serving as the borough's liaison officer for the bridge project.Rehrig said that the company also has looked at using the top of the levee, but that would require approval from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the Army Corps of Engineers."They also looked at the tennis court and an area on the other side of the levee, but then a stand of trees would have be taken down," said Rehrig. "They plan to build an alternate access road if that is the option of taking down the trees."Council President Gene Kershner said that if the area on the other side of the levee is used, it would have to be stabilized because the area is "soft."Rehrig said that PennDOT is also looking at closing sections of roads down for a week at a time, which would save them a lot of time."Anyone knows that setting up and tearing down takes twice as long," said Rehrig.Rehrig said that any closings would be announced a week ahead of time.Council is also looking at adopting a "Quality of Life" ordinance that would require residents to improve disreputable properties and adopting a handicapped ordinance.Council also discussed a dog situation, where a dog that was chained to a tree outside a residence on White Street was able to bite a child.One woman was able to produce a photograph of the dog which was able to go into the street because of the length of the chain. The woman, who declined to give her name, said that on days that the dog is chained that the letter carrier refuses to deliver mail. She said that her mail was held up to four days at a time.The woman said that since the incident of the dog bite, that the dog has been kept in the house and her mail is delivered.Council is also accepting bids for municipal trash collection. Bids are due to be opened at the Dec. 2 meeting.