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Votes at a glance: Green Tree Borough Council actions, Aug. 4, 2025
Summary
The council approved a set of administrative and personnel items Aug. 4, including authorization to seek a free traffic-engineering assessment, ratification and payment of invoices across multiple funds, and appointments to the International Property Maintenance Code Appeals Board.
The Green Tree Borough Council recorded the following formal actions during its Aug. 4 meeting. Where meeting remarks identified amounts or identifiers, those figures are included; where the transcript did not provide a full tally or named mover/second, the meeting recorded a voice vote and the outcome is summarized below.
1) Resolution: Authorize borough manager to engage a traffic-engineering firm for a free assessment of School Street and other complaint streets. - Motion: To give the borough manager authority to contract/engage the firm the resident named (described in the meeting as offering a free assessment). The motion specified no borough funds would be expended as part of the initial assessment. - Mover/Second: Not specified in the meeting transcript. - Outcome: Approved by voice vote. - Notes: Assessment to examine sight distances, drainage, driveway impacts and provide cost estimates.
2) Ratification of July 2025 invoices (motion to ratify borough manager actions): - General Fund (July invoices): $50,456.91 - Farmers Market Fund: $589.00 - Gabriel account (transcript lists $468,457.37 — recorded as presented in meeting): $468,457.37 - Bridal card May 2025 (transcript item): $8,529.34 - Mover/Second: Not specified. - Outcome: Ratified by voice vote.
3) Approval of payment of August 2025 invoices (motion/roll call by voice): - General Fund (August invoices listed): $113,712.07 - Sewer fund: $7,154.90 - Sanitary Sewer Fund: $502,812.62 - Capital Projects Fund: $11,865.05 - Bond Fund: $29,412.00 - Mover/Second: Not specified. - Outcome: Approved by voice vote.
4) Appointments to the International Property Maintenance Code Appeals Board (three separate motions): - Jeffrey Diskin — term to expire 12/31/2026. Motion made and seconded; vote recorded with at least one abstention recorded in the meeting. - Ronald Urban — term to expire 12/31/2027. Motion made and seconded; one or more abstentions recorded in the meeting. - Greg Piper — term to expire 12/31/2028. Motion made and seconded; abstentions recorded in the meeting. - Mover/Second: Motions moved by councilors; specific mover/second names not consistently recorded in the transcript. - Outcome: All three appointments were approved (record reflects votes with abstentions but no roll-call tallies provided).
5) Approval of minutes for July 7, 2025 - Outcome: Approved (voice vote). The minutes motion recorded an abstention and otherwise carried.
Notes on votes and process: Several motions passed by unanimous voice vote recorded as "Aye," with occasional abstentions recorded but not attributed to specific members in the audible transcript. Where the transcript lists dollar amounts, those are reported above exactly as stated during the meeting.
Ending: Councilors asked staff to record these actions in the minutes and to follow up on implementation items tied to the votes (e.g., scheduling the traffic assessment and notifying appointees).
