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It’s been nearly six years since Tingley Lake flooded the first time, damaging several homes when the heavy rains of June 2006 backed up to Stearns Road at the outlet. Mild discomfort compared to those who lost homes and businesses to the floods along the streams and rivers then and since, but a major annoyance to the owners nonetheless. At the time it was determined that the sluice under the road was collapsing and not allowing the heavy flow to escape down Leslie Creek. Harford Township Supervisors engaged engineers for some $16,000 to assay the situation and offer a solution.

Early on, one of the lake’s affected property owners himself offered an interest-free loan of $10,000 himself to help with the project. Instead, the Supervisors eventually found an interest-free $500,000 “infrastructure” loan from the state to help out with the replacement of a bridge over Butler Creek on Pennay Hill Road until the township was reimbursed by state and federal emergency management funds. The loan was originally intended to fund the Stearns Road project as well, but that one would not be eligible for funds from emergency management and the Supervisors balked at the estimated cost of over $200,000.

There were police and news cameras present at the February 14 special Montrose Borough meeting. The meeting was a special meeting, advertised for the purpose of establishing meeting policy. Present were Mr. Lamont, Mr. Granahan, Mr. Reimel, Ms. Julanne Skinner, and Tony Pickett.

Prior to the commencement of the meeting, one of the police officers came out and asked Vera Scroggins to move the camera and tripod from the middle of the room, on the advisement of the Montrose borough solicitor. The camera was called, he said, a health and safety issue, and the meeting would not begin until it was moved from the middle of the room. Some debate ensued between Ms. Scroggins, the policeman, and the borough solicitor. For the purposes of this meeting, the solicitor said, all cameras belonged in the back of the room where the other cameras were, and she had a citation in the law for it. She agreed to show it to Ms. Scroggins, when the latter asked, but declined to read it aloud. The citation was code 1202.74 of the borough code, which stated that for management of the meeting they had the right to make certain rules when it pertained to safety. She said that the camera placement caused a potential safety hazard to other people, and asked her to move it to the back. She also addressed allegations that there were violations of the Sunshine Act, stating that if someone felt this to be true it could be brought up through the court system after the meeting.

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