Votes at a glance: Yeadon council approves personnel actions, ordinances and grant applications on Sept. 18, 2025

Yeadon Borough Council on Sept. 18, 2025, approved a set of routine personnel and administrative items, voted to advertise several ordinances, approved applications and resolutions for grants and benefits, and authorized an insurance settlement stipulation. Most votes were unanimous or passed by recorded roll call.

Key approvals and actions (selected items taken from the meeting record):

- Completion of probationary periods: The council approved completion of the probationary period with full benefits for employee #10283 and employee #10284, effective Sept. 22, 2025. Both motions passed on roll calls recorded in the transcript.

- Remote-work (work-from-home) policy: Council approved the borough’s remote-work policy after noting it was discussed by the personnel committee and included a requirement for prior approval; the motion passed unanimously by roll call.

- Library hires and promotion: The council approved hiring Veronica Gleason as a part-time library assistant at $14 per hour, pending background check, and approved promotion of Tiffany Simmons to full-time library administrative assistant with full benefits effective Sept. 29, 2025. Both motions passed by roll call votes recorded in the transcript.

- Ordinances advertised/adopted: • Ordinance 2025-012 (amendment to 285-191 Way Street to formally add McDade Boulevard between Church Lane and West Cobbs Creek Parkway) — motion to advertise approved by roll call. • Ordinance 2025-013 (amend 285-85 to prohibit parking on Admittate Boulevard south side between Church Lane and West House Booth Parkway, no parking 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Thursdays) — motion to advertise approved by roll call. • Amendment to Ordinance 2025-003 (special purpose/special permit parking) to add availability of 10 overnight parking spots in the Gunther municipal lot — the motion carried by roll call. • Ordinance 2025-014 (to require annual commercial use-and-occupancy inspections and associated fee for commercial properties) — motion to advertise approved.

- Grant applications and resolutions: • The council approved submitting a Local Share Account (LSA) grant application for a public works facility upgrade. During discussion members amended the resolution to include both the public works facility and the police department so the borough would submit a consolidated application; the amendment and the underlying resolution passed by roll call. • Council approved reentering a two-year agreement with the Delaware County School Health Trust to provide health and related benefit coverage effective Jan. 1, 2026 — motion carried.

- Public safety and personnel processes: • Council authorized the civil service commission to advertise and hold testing for the police officer position to fill a current vacancy — motion carried by roll call.

- Financial and administrative items: • The council approved the September accounts payable list and the Aug. 2025 cash-balance report — motions carried. • The council adopted Resolution 2025-011 authorizing the sale of the 2025 delinquent borough real estate taxes to Municipal Revenue Service — motion carried.

- Insurance settlement: Council approved settlement terms for docket number 4,824,027 (subject to the solicitor’s final review and approval); the motion carried by roll call.

Votes and roll-call notes: Where the transcript recorded roll call, individual yes/no/abstain responses were read into the record and motions carried. Several votes were recorded as unanimous; a small number of motions in the afternoon included abstentions. The transcript does not show any defeated motions on the items listed above.

Ending — administrative follow-up: The council instructed staff to complete standard administrative follow-ups: recording personnel status changes, posting ordinance advertising notices, and preparing the consolidated LSA grant application for submission. Where background checks or probationary-conclusion conditions were noted, final employment actions are contingent on successful completion of those checks.