CURWENSVILLE – Two new part-time police officers will be joining the force after a unanimous vote at Monday’s Curwensville Borough Council meeting.
Mayor John Adams said he and the police committee said they interviewed three candidates and decided on two of them.
Both Matthew Mallon and Daniel Farley have worked for Clearfield Borough’s police department in the past.
Currently Mallon is working as a corrections officer in Philipsburg, but Adams didn’t give any information on Farley’s employment status.
Each officer will work 16 hours per week, giving the department an additional 32 hours of police coverage.
Finance committee chairwoman Harriet Carfley added that the budget can handle the additions to the payroll.
Earlier in the meeting Carfley had noted that the borough is looking at a substantial decrease in liquid fuels money for 2021. In 2020, the amount was $104,906.54, but the projected amount for 2021 is $94,542.21.
She added that the turn back allocation for Ridge Avenue will be $0 next year. This year it was $2,880.
Good news included an H2O grant from Pennsylvania Small Water and Sewer at $343,527 for the Station Street storm sewer project. Council member David Donahue said the project would run from Grandview to Railroad streets and most of the digging will be on the sides of the street. The borough will need to provide a $60,000 match.
Council also heard a complaint from a resident regarding burning at the last house remaining in Arnoldtown. She said they are burning at various hours of the day and evening and it is noxious smoke resulting from plastic and building materials.
Council confirmed that there is a burning ordinance in the borough and also there shouldn’t be burning right now due to drought conditions.
Pictures of the burning were provided and council said they will have the police and code officer investigate.
In general, residents are reminded that the borough and surrounding townships have burning ordinances, noting that there was a structure fire over the weekend resulting from a fire in a fire ring that got out of hand.
Finally, council approved renaming the Arnoldtown area the Clara Stewart Memorial Park at the suggestion of several people, noting that Stewart had lived in Arnoldtown for more than 50 years and looked out for everyone there.