Williamsport City Council’s public works committee discussed streets with the public works team and city engineer Bill Scott, as the asphalt plants prepare to
Williamsport City Council Public Safety Committee learned Tuesday that the Williamsport Bureau of Police has two candidates ready for hire as police officers. I
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City Council on first reading decided to add annual fees to access the brush/mulch pile.
It is part of a plan to make residents and others purchase an access “key” card to get into the locked gate.
Chris Cooley, who works for River Valley Transit, said the fees are needed to issue the cards to enter the brush disposal and mulch collection area at 1500 W. Third St.
Cooley said the information will be put online so people can review it and download the forms from the city website or go to River Valley Transit headquarters to pick up a form to begin the process.
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City Council’s Ad Hoc City Hall Committee met Tuesday and honed in on two final options to remain at the current City Hall or to renovate office space the city owns at Trade and Transit Centre I or II.
“I think we are making progress to the point of completion for the committee,” said Councilman Adam Yoder, its chairman.
Short of a funding plan, which is estimated to be $4 million to $5 million for either option, the committee has narrowed its intent to either make a decision on staying at City Hall or moving the administrative offices to one of the transit buildings, with the exception of the Williamsport Bureau of Police.
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UPMC Susquehanna will soon have its own armed police force at Williamsport and Divine Providence hospitals, a hospital executive said.
Steven P. Johnson, president of UPMC in the Susquehanna Region, told City Council Thursday about the idea under development at the hospital.
He said he wanted to see it happen in the next 90 days and will work with the city administration and council on the project.
The hospital police officers would be
empowered to make arrests on the hospital campuses but not outside of that jurisdiction, he said.
Hospital executives worked out some details with police this week.