Coaldale Borough Council wants to see finance and activity reports from the nonprofit Coaldale C.H.O.S.E. organization.

At a meeting this week, council voted to send a letter to the organization, asking for the information.

It is also asking that security cameras be returned because the borough bought the cameras and the organization’s headquarters are on borough-owned property.

“They have stuff that should be turned over to us as far as the cameras,” Council President Claire Remington said.

She said that it doesn’t seem like the organization, which conducts fundraisers, has been active lately, save for an event in September.

“I’m sure everybody in town wants to know what’s going on,” Remington said. “Since that building is on borough property, we should at least be receiving a quarterly report. They should be audited like (other nonprofit organizations). What’s going on?”

In the past, she said, the borough frequently received financial and activity reports from the group.

“We have the right to know what’s going on,” Remington said.

Councilwoman Yvonne Stoffey said she didn’t believe that nonprofits would need to share information with the borough.

“They’re probably not required to provide a report, but they should,” Borough Solicitor Robert Yurchak said.

One resident said he’s a member of the nonprofit Kellner’s Dam Association in Tamaqua, which operates on property it leases from Tamaqua. The group, he said, doesn’t have to supply any information to the borough.

“Well, that’s good to know - because I guess they don’t ask for it,” Remington said.

“But we have a reason to ask because, you know, there used to be all kinds of activities for the kids. Maybe there will be a Christmas thing there - I don’t know. None of us know. We thought there was going to be something for Halloween. We have a right to know.”

Also in her report to council, Remington mentioned that four new tires are missing. So, too, is a set of aluminum bleachers.

Councilman Jacob Adamitis said that the tires were from a truck purchased a few years ago for the police department.

“When the police truck was bought, it was bought as a standard pickup truck,” he said.

To qualify as a police pursuit vehicle, it needed different tires and rims, Adamitis said. The original tires went missing after they were swapped out.

“Four tires and rims were out in this garage two years ago, and now they’re MIA (missing in action),” Remington said.

The tires, she said, have a value of more than $2,000.

“I just want to make everyone aware of that,” she said.

Additionally, she said, there are no records of council approving the purchase of the recommended police vehicle tires.

“We’re not going to let it go just yet,” she said.

As for the missing bleachers, they were one of two sets purchased to replace wooden bleachers at the Coaldale Complex.

“When I went in there, I thought, ‘Where did this one whole set of bleachers go?’” Stoffey said.

During discussions, several council members recalled purchasing the replacement bleachers, but none remembered giving permission to relocate or remove them.

“We spent taxpayers’ money on that,” Councilman Francis Hutta said. “So everybody has the right to know where it is going.”