A year ago, as Pennsylvania restricted restaurants and bars to minimize spread of COVID-19, Wrightsville Borough Council suspended the boroughâs open container law in an effort to boost business for local establishments.
Now with COVID-19 cases receding, people getting vaccinated and the state opening up, Borough Council discussed at its May 17 meeting whether or not to reinstate the open container law.
If it were up to council President Eric J. White, he would extend the suspension for another six months âjust to get us through the summer.â
âWeâve had good results with this,â he said. âPeople seem to like it.â
A popular food truck event that moved from Lititz Springs Park to the Lancaster Airport could be moving to Wrightsville this summer.
Food Truck Frenzy, sponsored by the radio station Fun 101.3, will likely move to Riverfront Park or nearby in the York County borough. Ronnie Ramone, Fun 101.3âs program director, spoke at Borough Councilâs May 3 meeting and said the event outgrew Lititz Springs Park after three years and moved to the Lancaster Airport.
âWe like that the nightlife is growing by leaps and bounds here,â he said.
The event was popular with downtown businesses in Lititz because it drew a crowd of customers, some of whom patronized restaurants and bars afterward.
Wrightsville Borough hired Commonwealth Code of York County in October for the townâs code enforcement and for issuing building permits.
But after months of complaints about delays in issuing building permits, Borough Council voted unanimously at its April 19 meeting to cancel that contract. On May 1, it will start working with Solanco Engineering Associates in Quarryville for zoning and property maintenance matters and and Code Administrators in Lancaster for building permits.
Mark Deimler, from Solanco Engineering, attended the meeting via conference call. He said his firm started taking on code compliance for municipalities over the years and itâs become a specialty.
Wrightsville Borough Council President Eric J. White stopped the April 5 council meeting and called 911 after a resident interrupted a discussion of a resolution pressuring the local municipal authority to sell the water and sewer systems to a private company.
White banged his gavel several times and told Mel McDonald that she was not allowed to comment on the matter. Public comment was held at the beginning of the meeting, at which time McDonald was the sole resident to offer any.
McDonald, wife of council member Rick McDonald, who has attended meetings via conference call during the pandemic, refused to leave voluntarily even after Vice President Frederick C. Smith Jr. asked her politely.