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Resident questions legal billing, CDBG spending and bond reimbursements during public comment
Summary
A resident pressed council about legal billing for election-related email research, use of Community Development Block Grant and bond funds, and repeated engineering invoices; staff and council members provided procedural explanations about reimbursement and fund use.
During the public-comment period on Feb. 11 resident Sharon Littner raised questions about legal bills and the borough's use of bond money and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds.
Lede: Sharon Littner asked why the borough had paid a solicitor $525 for exchanges about election-related emails she said could have been collected from the borough website for free, and she pressed whether heavy equipment and asphalt paid with bond money had been reimbursed or instead left as a bond expense.
Nut graf: Littner also highlighted repeated invoices from an engineering firm during the bond-spending period and questioned whether a former…
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