Nesquehoning Borough Council acted on or discussed the following items during its monthly meeting last Wednesday.

• Adopted a proclamation naming July 29 as Frank Jacobs Sr. day in the borough after the late councilman who passed away earlier this year.

• Adopted a resolution in honor of Jacobs. Both the proclamation and resolution were presented to members of the Jacobs family.

• A resident of East Railroad Street approached the board to ask for help with a junkyard that is forming on a nearby property. The resident contacted the owner of the property and told him what was being done. She said he was unaware that junk was being stored on his land. Council said they would look into the matter.

• Borough secretary RoniSue Ahner outlined the first installment of funds the borough received from the COVID relief money. A total of $170,000 was received and allocated as follows: $11,000 went to legal fees to a company that was hired to oversee how the money could be used; $14,000 went to the Nesquehoning water authority for a water meter project in the Hauto Valley Estates; $35,000 is going to the sports complex to help with renovations of the Johnson-Jacobs Memorial Park; $100,000 to the 2022 road paving projects. Approximately $10,000 is left from the first allocation. A second allocation is forthcoming.

• Approved addresses of 20, 89 and 122 Public Safety Lane for the new Carbon County Emergency Operations and Training Center, located on the Broad Mountain in the borough.

• Approved Iron Horse Way for the Reading and Northern Railroad property, which was formerly the northern side of the KME/Rev Group complex. Building numbers will be determined at a later date.

• Councilman Louis Paul announced that the borough was able to save approximately $30,000 in street paving costs by not doing complete reconstruction, but rather doing milling and new overlay. Paving was completed along High Street, Ridge Street, Upper High, and DaVinci Avenue for a cost of $125,000, plus half of Ratcliff done at no additional cost due to the contract having extra fill from the job. The project initially was budgeted for $155,000.

Paul said that he hopes to be able do more paving projects like this to improve streets in the borough moving forward.

• Council announced that the Recreation Commission is holding its annual community yard sale Aug. 13 and 14. Anyone wishing to register to be on the map should contact the recreation commission through the group’s Facebook Page.

• Councilwoman Abbie Guardiani said that she hopes to figure out a way to bring recycling back to the town in some way. Council ended its recycling contract earlier this year.