Weissport Borough Council is seeking a person to fill the vacant seat on the borough council.

With the resignation of Shelley Fisher, the seat is now open. Interested parties should contact the borough at weissportborough4@gmail.com or call 610-377-5606 for information.

Council also is making a change to its meeting schedule.

The regular monthly meeting will continue to be held the first Monday of each month. The third Monday meeting will now be a workshop meeting.

It is still open to the public, but no official votes or decisions will be made at that meeting. Items needing votes will be done at the general meeting.

Movie night

Hope Community Fellowship Church, 306 Bridge St., Weissport, will continue its Movies in the Park in 2026.

Movie nights are planned for May 29 and Aug.14. More information regarding times and the movie to be shown will be released later.

“We appreciate you allowing us to use the park,” Sam Carey, pastor of Hope Church, said to the borough council. “It’s a free event, we don’t charge any money for it.”

Pastor Carey also asked Council if they could come up with a service project that a children’s group at the church could do for the borough.

“We would like them to do a service project before the end of the school year,” Carey explained. “We wanted to ask the Council if there is any kind of project or cleanup that would allow our kids to serve the community.”

Borough Council will discuss and determine what type of project they could do.

Officer

Weissport is still looking for a police officer to service the borough.

“We did have an interview,” Weissport Mayor Jodi Sonon said. “Unfortunately, she did not show up.”

Sonon said she also spoke with Lehighton Mayor Ryan Saunders about Lehighton officers patrolling Weissport.

“They want to do two 4-hour shifts, which would be overtime for them,” Sonon explained. “So it would end up costing us more for those eight hours than it would for a regular 20-hour week.”

The cost would be $60 per hour for a minimum of the eight hours.

Currently, Pennsylvania State Police and the Lehighton Police Department are covering incidents as needed. The above rate is for regular patrolling of the borough.

Other business

Weissport Public Works Department will be working on repairs to a fence near the garage that was damaged in 2025 and will be looking to replace various borough signs.

Fourteen Quality of Life tickets were issued on March 2, for violation including garbage scattered across yards, vehicles covered with tarps, vehicles placed on blocks, and open junk tires. Council is trying to get borough resident to clean up the town better, and will be enforcing the borough ordinances and will be issuing more tickets as needed.

Public works is also looking at purchasing smoke and CO2 detectors for the borough hall at 440 Allen St.

Following an executive session, Weissport Borough Council voted to transfer $790.97 from the Playground Account, to the general fund. The playground account had been open, and the money had not been used in a long time.

Council also made and passed a motion to move $7,000 from the general account in terms of a contract the Weissport Municipal Authority must do to replace a malfunctioning sewer system in the borough. The cost is part of the $14,000 cost of the project at 220 White Street.