Borough Manager's Activity Log
January 2002

Date	Activity
12-28	Snow off and on all day. Salting roads to keep them from freezing up. Rassmussen planted low shrubs around flagpole spotlight at Boro Hall. Haul sludge from Bellman Filter basement. Work on water lines to garage bathroom. Take information on land purchase by stp to Jack & Pam Kelly. Left paperwork for them to look at.
12-31	Work in garage bathroom. Unpack new recirculating pump for stp and take down to install in pit. Have to cut pipes to fit, so will finish up on Wednesday. Dave & Bev Jones bring repaired Boro computer back to office and set up. Replaced existing 3GB with 20GB.
1-1-2002	Water leak in meter pit at Mitchell's trailer park. Shut water off and repair tomorrow.
1-2	Dig up meter pit at Mitchell's trailer park and replace ruptured expansion tank. Discuss Growing Greener grants with Boro engineer. Grants are not allowed for permitting or construction of new water sources, so not able to use for new well site. Replace garage windows that were broken by BB gun last weekend. Install new recirculating pump in pit at stp. Authority meeting-vote to give delinquent water and sewer customers until 4/1/02 to pay up bills or be shut off.
1-3	Mark catch basins around town that are hard to find after snowstorms with fiberglass stakes. Turn off Island Park frost-free spigots for winter. Someone leaving on and water freezing up parking lot by Recreation Building. Probation will send person to work community service next Monday. Meeting between STSD and Booster Club about football field lights. M. Stoudt wired up second booster pump at Bellman filter.
1-4	Take down Christmas lights and store in Boro Hall basement. Start collecting Christmas trees around town. Reverse gear in old Boro pickup broke. Will take to Cleveland Auto shop for repair next week. Left message with Dan Strine about electrical cost comparison at Sportsman's well. Clean ditch on Parkhurst St. so storm water doesn't run out onto road. Dave & Bev Jones take Authority computer so they can transfer information onto better computer that Authority is going to buy.
1-6	Snow start late in afternoon. Ray salt roads first then I called crew in to plow roads at night. Dave and Bev Jones delivered Authority computer to office and set up.
1-7	School closed because of snow. Crew work all night plowing snow. Work until noon, and then come back in at night to clean snow off Main St. Took old Boro truck to Cleveland Auto for them to work on transmission. Council meeting-vote to hire Bob Kelly full time. Possibility that Brian Laverty may be leaving town. Should know for sure at the next Council meeting.
1-8	Community Service person start today. Lost 4WD in Dan's truck. Take to Cole & Burd for repair. Dave Jones brought old Authority computer to garage. Will set up in employee shed and use to inventory water, sewer and Borough stock. Check out Employee Personnel Policy.
1-9	Freezing rain in morning. Out cindering and salting roads. Cinder sidewalks then pick up Christmas trees and clean snow off catch basins. Cole-Burd repaired 4WD in Dan's truck. Go down and pick up in afternoon.
1-10	Pick up Christmas trees and clean catch basins. Take old metal table from Boro Hall basement to employee shed and set up computer on it. Mount light in garage bathroom. Dan and I attend Local Managers meeting in Towanda with PRWA. They are trying to set up a place in this area to put equipment for local communities to use.
1-11	Freezing rain last night. Salt and cinder roads. Cinder walks around town then pick up more Christmas trees. Mike Stoudt had to order new electrical parts for stp pump house. Original items are wearing out. Meeting about Boro Personnel Policy at Boro Hall. Finish up delinquent water and sewer calculations and mail out 89 letters with current water bills.
1-14	Start putting shower stall together for garage bathroom. Work on maintenance schedule for garbage truck and gave to Rich for review. Cut firewood for garage.
1-15	Start installing conduit for garage bathroom electric. Work on partition wall for garage shower. Contract for section of new Route 15 by stp to be bid out later this month. Dan to compare chemical costs for water and sewer plants with another distributor we found out about that sells to Athens and Towanda Authorities.
1-16	Finish up shower partition wall and start on ceiling. Work on equipment. Go to Wellsboro for revised paperwork on land purchase by STP from Kelly. Have to set up Watershed meeting on 2/6 at 6:30 PM.
1-17	1"-2" snow in morning. Plowed a little, but salt took care of most of snow. Work on putting gabion baskets together at garage in preparation of St. Mary's wall project in spring. Meeting with hydro, Jack Eckman, Scott Bray and Dan Grinnell about study of old well on Ruah St. Took signed papers for land purchase by STP to Cox office so information can be recorded at Court House.
1-18	Pick up another 3 pickup loads of Christmas trees. Dan start work on yearly water reports. Work on electrical conduit for garage bathroom. Meet with Senator Joe Scarnati at Boro Hall. He took over Senator Madigan's prior area after redistricting.
1-19	Snow start in morning. Salted roads held up good until afternoon, when heavy snow started again. Call in crew to plow at night.
1-21	More snow in morning. Salt roads in morning then plow off slush in afternoon. Finish electrical conduit run to garage bathroom. Call Dave Jones about wiring bathroom tomorrow. Talk to Williamson Land Co. about storm water management for commercial property on old Rt. 15. Send information on Ruah St. well to another hydrologists in Towanda.
1-22	Dave Jones work with Boro employee to wire up garage bathroom. Talk to Dave about wiring for rest of garage. Will try and do a little at a time. Temperature raising and melting snow. Clean off catch basins and clean snow off Main, Carpenter and Hannibal Sts. so ice will not form when temperatures drop at night.
1-23	Dave Jones at garage to design electrical conduit runs. Work with Boro employee to run conduit for receptacles around work bench and tool room. Install meter pit on Taylor Run blowoff so water can be accounted for in yearly water reports. Larry Lock Smithing at Boro Hall to discuss security measures around town. Peg Darby called and said water is cleaner since Authority started running blowoff on Hannibal St. Order parts needed so meter pit can be installed on blowoff next week. Deliver preliminary wellhead reports to Committee. Next meeting is set for 2/6 @ 6:30 PM.
1-24	Mount toolbox on garbage truck so Rich can remove loose items in cab. Pick up one more load of Christmas trees. Install headlights, with turn signals, on 1 ton plow for better visibility during snowstorms. Pump # 1 at STP pump house is turning harder than other 2 pumps. Will disconnect drivershaft from motor so we can determine if motor or pump is starting to set up. Judge Dalton rule against second curative amendment submitted by lawyers for proposed landfill on Barney's Hill.
1-25	Order 23 more gabion baskets for St. Mary's Street wall so we can put together before project is started. Dave Jones shows Bob where to install electric conduit runs at garage so he can do as time allows. Repair water leak on 4" CIP water main at intersection of Ruah and Carpenter Streets. Estimate +20 GPM leak. Finally locate distributor for flag posts and bases for Council Room. Order items needed. Mayor discuss making up a "Wish List" of projects needed around town and submitting to TCDC to see if any grant funds are available for any project. Mayor to bring up at Council meeting.
1-28	Work in water garage organizing water fittings. Cold patch road on Carpenter St. where water leak was repaired last Friday. Meeting with PaDot to discuss putting weight limit on roads in Blossburg and what has to be done. Recreation meeting. Coal Festival people in to discuss carnival. Booster Club proceeding with bleachers at park.
1-29	Dan and I attend PA. Rural Water class at Recreation Building on Daily Monitoring reports and Chapter 94 reports for STP. Cut 4 trees along Island Park Road that Ray Kaminski had marked. Will chip up branches once we get chipper from NTSWA. Haul sludge from Bellman Filter. Check out sludge pump in afternoon and discover why discharge pipes came apart. Repair problem. Discuss prices for treatment plants chemicals with another supplier. Costs a lot lower than prices from current distributor. Order some material from new company. Call 5 companies about backhoe prices. Work on electric conduit runs in garage. Chemung Supply deliver gabion baskets. Call 2 employees to come in early tomorrow to salt and cinder.
1-30	Freezing rain in morning. Crew out early to salt and cinder roads. Repair piping on sludge pump at Bellman filter. Jim Smith weld braces under 6" valve. Put gabion baskets together in garage. Receive letter from Freda Weller resigning as Tax Collector because of health problems, call Council members and advise.
George Lloyd Borough Manager