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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Hatboro Mum on Code Officer's Departure

The Hatboro Borough Council has contracted with Code Inspections Inc. in place of its former code enforcement officer.

Saying only that the governing body wanted to "tighten up" the operations of the code office, the Hatboro Borough Council put in place a third party inspection and plan review agency recently. Code Inspections Inc. fills the void left from Code Enforcement Officer Keith Fugate's departure last month. During Monday night's meeting, the Hatboro Borough Council discussed a proposed permit fee schedule under the new code inspection company. "Their fee schedule may be more in line with reality than what ours was," Council President John Zygmont said of the fees that will be considered during the council's Jan. 28 voting meeting.  The firm is paid based on a percentage of permitting fees the borough collects, Zygmont said.  "I don't believe it's…

Monday, October 15, 2012

Hatboro Officials Mum on Firehouse Project

Citing the 'issue of litigation,' Hatboro Council President John Zygmont declined to say when the long-overdue construction at Enterprise Fire Company would conclude.

By all accounts, the volunteers of Enterprise Fire Company have a nearly completed 2,500-square-foot addition on the back of the firehouse that they cannot use. The contractor for the roughly $887,000 project, Mark Gill of Titanium Inc., since August has had two pages of punch list of items in need of reconciling. Gill told Patch in July that there was less than two days of work left. Yet, three months later, the building addition sits, unusable and unoccupied. And, Hatboro officials have declined to say when the addition will be complete, what steps are being taken to urge Gill to finish the work, or if the more than year-long delays have compromised a state grant reimbursement of $500,000. Borough Manager Fred Zollers, who is also a …

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