The Slatington Borough Council approved a motion Monday evening to authorize the Human/Community Services committee to make decisions on relocating or removing playground equipment at Victory Park.

Council member Jason Ruff, who is chairman of the committee, said the Northern Lehigh Recreation Authority would like to have the area ready for a Fourth of July festival it is working on with the borough. He turned it over to borough Manager Dan Stevens to give the council more information on the authority’s ideas.

Stevens said he met with Lindsay Taylor, the executive director of the authority, and they walked around the area of the park in question.

The authority wants to move some older playground equipment in the lower section that has swings and monkey bars. The plans are in the early stages. No final determination has been made on which playground equipment would be moved or where it would be put, Stevens said.

“It’s really the only flat area of the park down there where you could put in the food trucks,” he said. The area could also accommodate stands.

Stevens said he thought authorizing the committee to make decisions would be better than making the authority come to council meetings every time it needs approval.

The Northern Lehigh Recreation Authority received approval from council in January for its amphitheater project. The project had been in the works for more than six years.

In other business, the electronic recycling event on April 3 was a success.

Stevens said they weren’t sure how many people would come out to recycle, since they have been having the event twice a year for a while. They thought they might need to scale it back, but there were more people this time than last year.

In all, the borough collected 53 televisions, five LCD monitors, five CRT monitors and lots of other electronics. Residents can recycle one television or monitor for free, but have to pay if they bring in two. The borough covers the cost for the first one.

The cost to the borough and residents is $38 per television, $12 per LCD, and $17 per CRT. Stevens said the cost for the recycling events is in the borough budget, and it provides a service to the community.

He said he’d rather have the recycling events, “instead of these sitting alongside the road, because that’s where they were ending up before.”

Ruff said he would schedule another recycling event for October and bring dates to the next council meeting.

“People look forward to it, because they don’t know what to do with it,” Stevens said.