Lansford Borough Council during a more than two-and-a-half hour meeting Wednesday acted on the following items:

• Approved shifting to a workshop-style meeting. In May, instead of six individual committee meetings split over two nights an hour apart. The meeting will be May 5 at 6 p.m. Council also floated the idea of shifting to two council meetings a month and will discuss the proposal in May.

• Approved writs of execution from Portnoff Law for delinquent trash fees and real estate taxes.

• Approved a request from Lansford Alive seeking $6,000 for program events during the Lansford 150th anniversary observance. The organization expects to spend upward of $15,000 on two bands and fireworks and needs funds now for the commitment on the bands.

• Tabled and then approved a handicapped parking request from Melanie White at 125 E. Bertsch St. for a spot at the corner of Bertsch and Walnut streets. A resident had questioned the ownership of the home, which council found to be an owner-occupied residence.

• Tabled a request from the No. 3 Café on West Ridge Street for one to two designated customer parking spaces near their business to improve accessibility and parking availability.

• Approved a special event application for June 18 from 2 to 9 p.m. at Ashton Park for the nation’s 250th anniversary and Lansford’s 150th anniversary to include an interactive Freedom 250 truck/mobile museum along with a movie and scavenger hunt.

• Approved a special event application for June 28 for food trucks around Kennedy Park for the borough’s 150th anniversary celebration. Lansford Halloween, Lansford Alive and Friends of Lansford Recreation are submitting the application, and nonprofits interested in selling food are encouraged to sign up.

• Approved the water authority turning on water and/or making repairs at the Ashton Park concession stand and complex, and borough workers fixing any problems.

• Approved paying the water bill for the train station with a request for the authority to waive accumulated interest on the bill. The historical society agreed to reimburse the borough with the transfer of the building.

• Approved the bills and expenditures totaling $261,444.64.

• Posting requirements for a custodial/cleaning person for the work at the borough building and police department on the borough’s website and on Facebook only.

• Posting vacancies for boards and commissions on the borough website and Facebook page only.

• Noted that the borough hasn’t received word on the state Strategic Management Planning Program grant yet. The borough also has not received a bill from Lafayette College’s Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Center for its evaluation of the borough.

• Discussed painting rainbow crosswalks per a resident’s request for the LGBTQ+ community, but found that crosswalks by law must be painted white with no colors in them upon research. Councilman Jack Soberick said this was a trend, but many cities have been forced to remove them or repaint them.

• Discussed getting more information from interested auction companies for the sale of the former borough garage on Spring Street. No real estate companies were interested in the listing.

• Advertise the gaming ordinance for adoption.

• Heard from Jared Soto of the Carbon Chamber and Economic Development Corp. on what services are available.

• Approved opening a fire escrow account for 505 E. Ridge St. at Jim Thorpe Neighborhood Bank for $21,340.

• Tabled consolidating borough accounts, seeking more information from the borough treasurer.

• Tabled a request for a borough 150th Anniversary Motorcycle Ride/Run June 27, departing the Lansford Legion at 10:30 a.m. and ending at 5 p.m. The borough would like more information.

• Approved a request for Detective Josh Tom to attend training on June 4 and 5 in Reading on Sexual Assault Cases. The cost is $445 to be paid from the police training budget.

• Obtain a quote from ARRO Engineering for the firm to redesign, bid and supervise the Powell Street Sewer Project, changing the location of the sewer line from the previous contract to the street.