Last month, Lansford Borough Council voted unanimously to change some of its angled parking spaces on Ridge Street and convert them to parallel parking spaces.

On Wednesday, the council had a change of mind and voted unanimously to keep the parking spaces as they currently exist.

Attorney Michael Greek, the borough’s solicitor, had an ordinance ready to be advertised to change some parking spaces from angled lines to parallel.

Council member Bob Silver, who wasn’t at the March meeting, made a motion to rescind the action that council took last month.

On the advice of Greek, the motion was changed to not advertise the proposed ordinance, which means it wouldn’t be adopted. Bruce Markovich seconded it.

“Nobody talked to the business people, and they’re very irate about it,” Markovich said.

Silver said he has a petition circulating against removing the angle spaces.

Converting the angled spaces to parallel spaces would have resulted in less parking in the downtown.

“We don’t have a problem with angle parking,” he said. “We have a problem with parking meters.”

In other business

• Borough resident Mary Soberick asked about the status of a sewer transmission fee that was implemented in the borough in the mid-1980s.

The fee was applied to monthly sewage bills in Lansford as a result of a loan the borough had to make for repairs.

Silver said there’s a balance on the loan of about $900,000.

He also said the bank will impose a penalty fee if the loan is repaid early.

• Markovich said a sign placed by the borough on the scaffolding at the now-closed St. Michael’s Catholic Church was transferred by someone to the building itself.

He said the borough did not condemn the church. It also did not move the condemned sign from the scaffolding.

• Warren Balliet, a resident of the borough, complained that last year there was a problem with Fourth of July fireworks.

He said people were firing them “before the holidays, after the holiday, after midnight.”

The council said it is considering adopting an ordinance that would let police enforce state regulations regarding the pyrotechnics.

A committee will discuss not only such a potential ordinance, but how it can be enforced.

Mayor James Romankow said the police might operate with an extra patrolman on duty to curb such fireworks abuses.

Of fireworks, council President Jared Soto said, “It’s out of control. We do have to do something about it.”

• Councilman John Turcmanovich said police Civil Service exams will be given to eight candidates on May 18. The applicants receive written tests, physical fitness exams and oral exams.

• The council agreed to make the intersection of Center Street and West Ridge Street a three-way stop. Presently traffic traveling on Center Street and turning right onto Ridge Street don’t have to stop.

Turcmanovich made the recommendation about the three-ways stop at the triangular intersection, saying, “One of these days there’s going to be a tragedy happening there.”