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The new month began with a New Milford meeting, as the borough council met November 1st. Codes enforcement, as usual, was the first item discussed. A property owner had a second application for campers on his property denied. The first application had been declined due to lot size; the owner had combined two properties to make the land larger and reapplied. The second application was denied due to being in a flood plain. The CEO had notified the man of the process to pursue such items within a flood plain.

Mr. Ainey wished to speak further on the subject of campers. He had been asked why he was opposed to the campers by a community member. Ms. Gulick had also been questioned as to why he felt this way. Mr. Ainey wanted to make it clear that he wasn’t against campers, but it had been his duty, being a council member, to bring before council a concern a resident had brought to him. Council in general, it was stated, was not against campers, they had just seen enough flooding that they did not want them in a flood plain, and they wanted them to be somehow secured. The mayor said that if they had the proper water and sewer they were fine. It was reiterated that camper trailers did not pay taxes, as they were considered recreational vehicles. The mayor said that the person owning the lot paid taxes, but it was responded that they only paid tax on the land. Mr. Ainey said that every mobile home which went out of the trailer park and was replaced with a camper trailer meant that the borough was losing money. He wasn’t saying he was against them, but he wanted the issues surrounding them known. The Codes Enforcement Officer had received even more applications for the vehicles, it was stated.

According to Mike Crook, the Great Bend Fire Company spent a lot of hours preparing for hurricane Sandy and were mighty relieved when the area dodged another potential disaster. The Borough Council spent some time at its regular November meeting on the 1st considering the budget for next year, and will spend some more time on it a week hence.

The budget doesn’t look like a potential disaster. In fact, the Borough is expecting to receive a check for almost $16,000 from the state Public Utility Commission from the “impact fees” imposed on natural gas drillers under Act 13 of 2012. Borough Secretary Sheila Guinan, who develops the draft budget for Council to review, isn’t counting that money until it arrives. But Council decided to use it to help pay off the big loan they took out to pave some Borough streets this past summer.

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