Weissport Borough Council approved an agreement with the Weissport Municipal Authority this week. President Gene Kershner was not in attendance.

The agreement hires the two part-time authority employees as Weissport Borough employees for purposes of workers' compensation and insurance. The authority agrees to reimburse the borough for all expenses.The agreement states in part, "Weissport Municipal Authority desires and the Borough of Weissport shall hirethe two part-time maintenance workers as borough employees and agrees that the hourly wage, and all expenses, including but not limited to taxes, necessary insurances, potential claims or contribution to the unemployment and/or workers' compensation, that the preceding costs and expenses for said positions are to be borne solely by the Weissport Municipal Authority."Arriving moments after Vice President Arland Moyer called for an all-in-favor vote, Mayor Jonathan Troutman voiced concern over hiring employees that the borough does not want.Troutman said, "We hired an employee that we had gotten rid of because he was not working."Troutman also raised concerns about the use of borough equipment and tools.Moyer rebutted that the authority has its own tools.Council member Greg May made the motion to pass the agreement, and council member Brenda Leiby provided the second. After the discussion by Troutman, Leiby expressed some concerns about the agreement.Council member Linda Schoenberger pointed out that council had passed the motion and adopted the agreement.Moyer said, "If the agreement does not work out, we can simply vote to rescind the agreement."Troutman said "he arrived five minutes too late," and then abruptly left the meeting.In other discussion, council member Greg May asked, "What is the police department doing about the vehicles that have been ticketed?"Over the past few meetings, council has been looking into all of the abandoned vehicles parked on the borough streets.Schoenberger pointed out that one of the vehicles "still has the ticket waving in the wind."Moyer said he will ask borough secretary Jillyan Sterling to follow up with the police department.May also said, "That is another thing; if the police are not willing to work, we need to look into that as well."There were no comments from other members present at the meeting.