Carlisle council confirms appointments, awards chemical purchases and joins intermunicipal yard‑waste contracting

Carlisle Borough Council on Feb. 5 approved a series of routine personnel appointments, authorized purchases for treatment‑plant chemicals and adopted an intergovernmental agreement to jointly solicit bids for yard‑waste processing.

The council voted to appoint Allen Galbraith to a partial term on the borough zoning hearing board, to appoint Dan (last name transcribed as "Hacker") to a full five‑year alternate term on the Carlisle Borough Zoning Hearing Board, to appoint Wanda Hunter to a partial alternate term on the Human Relations Commission and to reappoint Thomas Easterly to a second term on the Historical Architectural Review Board. Each appointment was moved, seconded and approved by voice vote during the workshop session.

The council’s public‑works agenda included two procurement actions. Members awarded the bid for purchase of hydrated lime used at the Carlisle Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants to the lowest responsive bidder as shown in the bid tabulation and approved a staff purchase of potassium chloride for which no bids were received in two consecutive bidding periods. The council authorized staff to buy potassium chloride from the department’s vendor of choice for an amount described in the meeting as “not to cause an [exceedance] of the wastewater treatment plant chemicals budget allotment for February 2025”; the meeting did not specify a dollar total.

Finally, council adopted a resolution entering into an intergovernmental cooperation agreement with neighboring municipalities to jointly procure services of a third‑party contractor for processing, grinding and disposal of yard waste and to accept the lowest responsive bidder. The motion as read at the workshop named North Middleton Township, South Middleton Township, Middlesex Township and the borough of Shippensburg, and during the motion language later in the reading also included Hamburg; the resolution text and participating municipalities will be finalized in the intergovernmental agreement documents.

The minutes for the Dec. 4, 2024 workshop also were approved by voice vote at the opening of the meeting.

No recorded roll‑call tallies were given in the workshop minutes excerpt; motions were carried by voice vote with the meeting chair calling the question and members answering "aye." The meeting concluded with an announcement that council would meet in executive session after adjournment on acquisition of real estate; no votes were taken in executive session.

Actions recorded at the Feb. 5 workshop will appear on the council’s regular agenda and in the formal minutes for ratification and for any items that require further documentation (contracts, intergovernmental agreement signatures, or purchase orders).