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Munhall Council approves routine bills, personnel hires and planning moves; tax collector balance exonerated
Summary
At its Feb. 18 meeting Munhall Borough Council approved a slate of motions including payment of January bills, payroll, hiring and advertising for police and public works positions, and accepted a tax-collection exoneration; council also moved forward on a planning commission subdivision and instructed drafting of fee/commission ordinances.
Munhall Borough Council on Feb. 18 approved a series of routine and personnel measures, including payments for January, payroll, hiring conditional on a police exam and actions related to planning and fee schedules.
The council voted to pay the reported expenditures for January (totaling $556,111, not including payroll) and to approve payroll disbursements for the listed pay periods, a consolidated set of motions that passed on voice vote. Council also voted to exonerate the tax collector for a remaining unpaid 2024 balance of $441,371.50 and to turn that balance over to delinquent tax collection services, a routine administrative step described at the meeting.
Council approved several personnel-related motions. It voted to hire Michael Miller as a full-time police officer "subject to successfully passing the MPOTEC police examination," as the motion was amended and adopted. The body authorized advertising for civil service exams for future police hires and for a police promotion (sergeant) exam, and approved filling a replacement public-works position (an upcoming retirement) and advertising for two seasonal/public-works supplemental positions. The council also approved hiring William Zelonius as an alternate/back-up crossing guard.
On planning and land-use matters, the planning commission's recommendation on the Plate Mill site subdivision was adopted. Council instructed the solicitor to draft an ordinance to amend planning commission size and to prepare a consolidated fee-schedule ordinance that would allow future fee changes to be made by resolution. The council voted to join the state STN program (information provided in meeting packets) and tabled action on selecting a borough third-party building-inspection vendor pending further information.
Procedural motions — approving minutes from the Jan. 14 workshop, accepting the resignation of council member Kevin Ondo, and routine approvals of reports and motions — were completed during the meeting. Several votes were taken by voice and recorded as "all in favor / aye"; no roll-call tallies were recorded in the meeting transcript for those items.
Ending: The council scheduled follow-up work for some items — for example, obtaining additional estimates for repairs to the old municipal building and returning some items to the March workshop — and closed the meeting after the recorded votes.
