Lansford Borough Council wants truck trailer parking at the former Silberline complex to end.

The borough owns the former industrial site and leases one of the buildings to Construction Clearance, which has placed multiple trailers in the parking lots.

“I think we should charge him for them to be in there or he has to get them out,” Council President Bruce Markovich said. “He does not lease the parking lots.”

Other council members felt the trailers should just be removed, as discussed with business owner, George Atiyeh, and agreed upon. Councilwoman Michele Bartek said he was given a deadline to remove items from another building that he doesn’t lease.

“Taking whatever is in there, moving it into those trailers and keeping it logistically to store stuff on our property is like having it in our building,” she said.

The borough needs to pen a letter to him instructing him to remove the trailers from the property by the end of October, as promised in a closed-door meeting with the borough, Bartek said.

“We did make an arrangement with him. We are holding up our part and sending him a letter is the honorable thing to do,” she said. “But we’re not extending it any further.”

They also noted that there are trucks filled with debris near the former Silberline office building as well.

“Debris?” Councilman George Gilbert asked. “If that was a rental property (Code officer) Shane (Monk) would be at it every day. The problem is, it’s our property.”

He also heard from a resident that Construction Clearance is still storing items inside the Silberline building that he no longer rents, and the locks have been changed on the building from when he did rent it, Gilbert said.

“They’re our buildings,” Markovich said. “We should be able to go down and just cut the locks off and go in. He’s not leasing any of those other buildings.”

Resident and council candidate Joe Genits pointed out that there was no follow up letter after the meeting with Atiyeh regarding the agreement, so there is nothing in writing.

Markovich said the written documentation is the lease with the borough for one building.

“He has no right to lease the parking lot,” he countered. “We were being nice about the entire thing. He has no right to have anything in the parking lot.”

Genits said there aren’t any notice of violations against the property either, or tickets from police or the code officer. He suggested they enforce the lease.

“I’m sorry. This man has made us a laughingstock in the borough for the last five years and I’m sick of it,” Gilbert said, pointing out that there were deadlines for cleaning up the former Kiddie Kloes building and nothing was done.

“Now, we have another deadline, and you want us to pitter pater around?” Gilbert said. “I’m done dealing with this man. He’s not listening to us.”

Markovich said that the borough has a signed lease and that should be sufficient documentation.