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Glassport Council approves property transfers, police agreements and two large monthly payments
Summary
At its Nov. 19 meeting, Glassport Borough Council adopted two property-acquisition resolutions, approved a Teamsters memorandum affecting police salaries, ratified hiring of three patrol officers and authorized payment of $659,098.65 in general-fund bills and $495,587.35 in sewer-fund bills. All recorded motions passed unanimously.
Glassport Borough Council adopted multiple resolutions and memoranda of understanding and approved large monthly fund payments at its Nov. 19, 2024 regular meeting.
The most consequential actions came when the council approved two resolutions under the Vacant Property Recovery Program to transfer Parcel Nos. 558-H-055 and 558-H-049 to Harold Case and adopted a Memorandum of Understanding with Teamsters Local No. 205 adjusting terms for Glassport police salaries and benefits. Solicitor Falco Muscante introduced the parcel resolutions; both passed on unanimous recorded votes of six yes, zero no and one absence.
“The motions carried,” Council President Anthony Colecchi said after the roll calls. The meeting minutes record each action as approved with the same unanimous tally.
The council also ratified the termination of employee #11824 and then approved hiring three patrolmen to replace officers who recently left the department; both personnel motions passed unanimously. Council additionally approved a separate memorandum changing holiday-pay terms for Chief DeVerse.
Financial approvals included adoption of the monthly financial reports and payment of General Fund bills for October totaling $659,098.65 and Sewer Revenue Fund bills totaling $495,587.35. Treasurer Elaina Skiba presented the reports and copies were made available on the public desk; council voted to approve and pay the listed amounts.
The meeting record shows standard procedural approvals—including minutes and safety meeting minutes—and a series of smaller motions (donations, equipment sale advertisements and the listing of borough-owned properties). All recorded motions in the minutes passed with the same six-yes, zero-no, one-absent tally.
What’s next: the minutes state the council will meet again Nov. 26; no further timetable for implementation of the adopted MOUs or the parcel transfers appears in the minutes.
