Politics & Government

Codey Removal Not Final

Council tabled resolutions and ordinances related to the budget and the removal of Ray Codey, saying the budget and positions need more consideration.

The Borough Council tabled resolutions and ordinances related the 2012 budget and borough administrator Ray Codey's firing at its Monday meeting, saying the spending plan and positions need more consideration.

Mayor Robert Conley said he is hopeful that means the governing body will ultimately rescind its resolution to terminate Codey, and that he wishes the resolution would have been rescinded Monday night.

No one who spoke during the public hearing said they were in favor of Codey's removal for budgetary or any other reasons.

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Some echoed Bill Cole, who said the council dug itself into a hole with the unpopular decision to fire Codey and that it should "stop digging."

So many people attended the first Borough Council meeting to discuss the removal of Codey since the meeting was adjourned at and then moved to the across the street.

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More than a dozen residents queued up to question his removal. They wondered why the plan to consolidate the positions of borough administrator and assistant borough administrator weren't discussed publicly.

Some council members said the move was done according to the law, it was a difficult decision and was not done for political reasons as some people suggested.

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