Weissport Borough Council reminds homeowners and landlords that all rental tenants must get a moving permit from the borough in order to move into or out of the borough.

Council member and Constable James Osborne said that he had recently met with tenants at an apartment building in Weissport.

“I asked them why none of them got a moving permit; and, the response I got was that the homeowner never let them know anything. They didn’t know,” Osborne said.

Osborne said he spoke with the homeowner who said they knew nothing about needing a moving permit.

Council member Arland Moyer said that there is a sign by Dunkin’ Donuts at the bridge coming into the borough that says permits are required. A second sign that used to be near the Lunchroom will be replaced.

Other business

• Moyer and Secretary/Treasurer Aimee Shank will be moving the trash and tax records from one computer to another. The license for QuickBooks on the trash department computer expired. Shank estimates it will take about two days to transfer the approximately 150 customers to the new system, then the new trash bills will be mailed out.

• For December, 2023, the borough collected $2,657.41 in garbage fees, for a total for the year of $74,768.14. Taxes collected for December were $5, for a year’s total of $56,591.88.

• Borough council voted to have the borough solicitor, Greg Mousseau, advertise an ordinance that the borough will opt out of the Pennsylvania Construction Code.

“If the borough does not have an inspection officer, it can adopt a uniform construction code, but then notify the state that it will not be doing the inspections according to that code,” Mousseau said. “Then another entity can do the inspections.”

• Two motions were passed to update two borough computer software packages.

The computer security software to protect the computer must be updated at a cost of $69.99, and another to update Microsoft Office also at a cost of $69.99.