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Votes at a glance: White Oak Council approves grants, transfers, hires and routine payments
Summary
At its April 21 meeting, White Oak Borough Council approved a series of routine motions including minutes, financial reports, interfund transfers, vendor payments, personnel actions, and two resolutions (2025-06 and 2025-07). All motions were carried by voice vote as recorded in the meeting transcript.
White Oak Borough Council on April 21 carried multiple routine motions by voice vote. The meeting record shows unanimous or unchallenged voice approvals for consent items and specific motions listed below.
Votes at a glance
- Approve minutes: Council approved minutes for the March 10, 2025 workshop and the March 17, 2025 council meeting (motion passed by voice vote).
- Treasurer's report: Council accepted the Treasurer’s report for March 2025. Beginning unrestricted balance $1,084,126.39; restricted $3,350,375.76; total $4,434,502.15. Actual revenues and expenditures recorded on the report and a fund balance of $4,396,254.15 were noted on the record. Motion passed.
- Check register: Motion approving the March check register and electronic fund transfers (check ranges reported in the transcript) passed.
- Interfund transfers: Council authorized interfund transfers for March totaling $105,845.30 (Liquid Fuels → General Fund $31,582.52; Solid Waste → General Fund $71,326.40; Post Retirement → General Fund $2,936.38). Motion passed.
- Vendor payments (animal control): Council authorized payments for March to Kevin Kane for wildlife control, $850, and to Hideaway Kennels for animal control services, $300. Motions passed.
- Electronics and household hazardous waste drop-off; borough cleanup day: Announcements were made about an electronics and household hazardous waste drop-off scheduled April 23 (registration required and pay-as-you-go) and an annual borough cleanup scheduled April 26 (volunteer sign-up). These were announcements, not votes.
- Planning/parcel consolidation: Council approved a rate/consolidation plan combining Parcels 461-K (Glass Street) into a single parcel as recommended by the Planning Commission. Motion passed.
- Penn E and R invoice: Council approved payment of Penn E and R Inc. invoice 26515 dated 04/08/2025 for $4,575. Motion passed.
- Personnel actions: Council accepted the retirement of public works employee Anthony Roush, effective July 7, 2025, and approved payment of his accrued time benefits as per his employment contract. Motion passed. Council also approved an agreement with AccuSure Mid Atlantic Partners Insurance Services LLC for actuarial services for borough pension plans; motion passed.
- Pool actions: Council established pool season rates and hired Helani Kumpf as seasonal pool manager at $8,300 (see separate article for details). Motions passed.
- Tax collector: Council accepted the tax collector’s report and authorized payment of commissions and fees due for March 2025. Motion passed.
- Solicitor fees: Council approved payment of solicitor fees to Tucker Ehrenworth Attorneys for March 2025 in the amount of $6,720.25. Motion passed.
- Resolutions: Council approved Resolution 2025-06 (refunds of certain real property taxes per county Board of Assessments, Appeals and Review actions/abatements) and Resolution 2025-07 (authorized official resolution to request a PA Small Water and Sewer Program grant for the storm sewer cleaning and televising project, request $425,000). Motions passed.
Each motion recorded in the transcript included the motion and a recorded “second,” followed by a voice vote. The transcript does not include roll-call vote tallies or names for movers and seconders in most cases; the meeting minutes show that motions were approved without recorded dissent. Where the transcript provides numerical detail (balances, transfer amounts, invoice totals, salaries), those figures are included here verbatim from the meeting record.
