Summit Hill Borough Council has, for several months, discussed wanting to change a school bus stop in the borough because it interferes with daily business activity at the Summit Hill Post Office.

The issue was raised again Tuesday night and again it appears a solution is not immediately attainable.

After some discussion on the matter, the borough’s solicitor, Attorney Robert Frycklund, said it is not up to the borough to move the bus stop. It is up to the Panther Valley School District.

“The borough doesn’t have unilateral authority to move the bus stop. That’s up to the school district,” Frycklund said.

Council members said in the past the district told them the borough decides where bus stops will be located and has refused to get involved.

Attorney Frycklund said he will discuss the matter with the district’s solicitor, Attorney Robert Yurchak.

Most recently, the council suggested moving the bus stop to the area of Hazard and Chestnut Street. The Heritage Center, which owns a lot, wrote a letter to the council stating it doesn’t want the bus stop because of liability issues and seeing the issues caused at the park where a bus stop is located.

It was noted at the meeting parents sometimes congregate at the bus stop by the post office over an hour before the bus is due to arrive, taking parking spaces that could be used by postal patrons.

A letter several months ago by the Summit Hill Postmaster asked the bus stop be moved because of loitering by both parents and students in the post office lobby, as well as other issues such as parents smoking and littering. The postmaster in that August letter said a postal worker was verbally abused by a parent at the bus stop, and a customer was hit in the head with a football by youngsters playing at the bus stop.

Council members have stated they have seen the parking congestion there and have seen parents come so early they bring chairs with them.

Council member Sherri Buzik suggested the bus stop be moved a half-block down Hazard Street toward an apartment building. Council member Marlene Basiago said the owner of the apartments might object, and Chief of Police Todd Woodward said it likely wouldn’t alleviate the parking problem at the post office.

In other business, the borough tabled action on a proposal to limit the number of special parking permits, such as handicapped parking signs, to two per side of the street on every block.

Attorney Frycklund said the matter would have to be done as an amendment to the borough ordinance. Since other amendments are pending, he suggested a committee be formed to decide which should occur and advertise them all at once instead of individually, saving the borough some money.

The issue of a property owner having chickens and ducks on his property was again raised.

The council said the property owner, Craig and Korin Strohl, will be required to obtain a variance from the borough’s zoning hearing board to resolve the matter.