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Butler City Council approves payments, hires and appointments totaling multiple capital and personnel actions
Summary
Council approved payments to vendors and agencies, several pay applications for capital projects, conditional hiring and permanent status for police officers, and reappointments to the Connoquenessing Creek Flood Control Authority. The city also approved bills totaling $2,663,904.80.
During the Jan. 29 meeting the Butler City Council approved multiple financial and personnel actions.
Payments and project pay applications approved included: $29,277.22 to the Butler Area Public Library (proceeds from the City's 2025 library tax); $5,864.79 to the Shade Tree Commission (proceeds from the 2025 Shade Tree tax); $38,250.00 to Neumeric Technologies Corporation for the City website; Pay Application #3 to Hiles Excavating, Inc. for $144,836.46 for the Father Marinaro Park Improvement Project; and Pay Application #5 to Troy Jay Construction, Inc. for $17,542.59 for the Farmers Market Project. Council also authorized a $411,789.76 prepayment to Glick Fire Equipment Company for a Pierce Saber pumper chassis (LIN 18 411 270). All motions were seconded and recorded as passing unanimously.
Personnel actions recorded by the minutes included conditional hiring of Brian Foley as a Parks Department laborer and the grant of permanent employment status to Patrol Officers Tiffany Fox (effective Jan. 28, 2026), Ryan Johns (effective Jan. 15, 2026) and John McFadden (effective Dec. 26, 2025). The council also reappointed John Reddick and David Malarkey to the Butler County-City Connoquenessing Creek Flood Control Authority for four-year terms ending Dec. 31, 2029, and reappointed Kerry Dowdy as the City's Section 504/ADA Officer for 2026.
Finally, the City Controller presented bills for payment totaling $2,663,904.80 across multiple funds; the council voted to approve the bills as presented.
Why it matters: these votes fund library and shade tree services, advance capital projects, authorize a major prepayment for fire apparatus, and confirm personnel necessary for municipal operations. The minutes record amounts, vendors, effective dates for personnel actions and reappointment term expirations; where additional detail was not recorded (for example vendor invoices or funding subaccounts), the minutes do not specify those items.
