A deadline to correct issues at the Lansford borough garage has come and gone.

Council members say that they should be packed up and in a new temporary home before any penalties take effect.

Borough council discussed the garage situation at the meeting Wednesday night. The Department of Labor and Industry identified five areas of violation with their current home, on Spring Street, back in December, and gave them until March 23 to correct them.

Borough officials favor finding a new facility rather than fixing up the current one.

They found a temporary home on the 300 block of West Bertsch Street, but they won’t be able to move in until May 1.

The property is owned by Tyrone Rarick, who has agreed to lease it to the borough for $1 per year.

Councilman Bob Silver said Labor and Industry is aware of their plans, but they’re continuing to enforce the violations as long as the borough is still occupying the Spring Street garage.

He said inspectors visited the site on March 24. Following that visit, they issued an order to show cause why the building hasn’t been vacated.

They set a new deadline, April 29, for the borough to “show cause” as to why they haven’t complied with L&I.

Silver said he estimates the move to West Bertsch Street will be completed by May 1.

The borough shouldn’t receive any penalties from L&I until late May, Silver said.

Meanwhile, the borough also solicited bids for a new garage to be constructed across the street from the Spring Street site. After Wednesday’s meeting, council members said they plan to reject the bids they received because they exceeded their budget.

This was actually a rebid of the project, after council rejected all bids last fall because they were over budget.

The borough has a $160,000 LSA grant earmarked for the garage project.

In other business

• Council voted 4-3 to buy a 2018 Ram 1500 pickup for the police department.

• Council approved the repository sale of properties at 803 E. Patterson and 21½ Center St.

• Christine LeClair announced that the Legion Post is planning to erect Hometown Hero banners in the downtown. Banners are $200 and will hang during the summer for three years before being returned to the buyer.

• Council awarded a bid for materials to Lehigh Asphalt. No other bids were received.

• Lansford Alive requested approval to hold its annual cleanup on April 21 at 9 a.m. at Kennedy Park.

• Mayor James Romankow announced that a dart tournament had raised $1,500 for American Fire Co. No. 1.

• Resident Bob Clewell asked council for an update on a borough-owned wall which is collapsing adjacent to his property.