Draft Agenda - Borough Council Meeting January 9, 2017
Columbia's decision to ban former employee from its property may be 'unconstitutional' [Lancaster Watchdog]
Chris Vera [Columbia Spy file photo] The following information is excerpted from a December 6, 2025 LNP Watchdog article by LNP | LancasterOnline reporter Jade Campos. Still reeling from an abrupt firing from his role as head of the Columbia Market House in March, Chris Vera was surprised to get a letter in the mail from a Columbia Borough attorney two weeks later telling him he was banned indefinitely from borough property. The letter gave no reason for the ban. Nine months later, Vera, who has served as president of the Columbia Historic Preservation Society for more than a decade and has helped with the borough’s comprehensive plan, is still banned from borough property. He believes the ban includes borough parks, which is part of the reason he moved his annual Albatwitch Day festival, which celebrates the myth of a local cryptid, to Wrightsville. Vera said he’s not sure why the borough went to such lengths to keep him away from public spaces given his termination from the borough s...
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Christmas lights when so many other things are wrong here!
Downtown look just fine this year, even the young artists who devoted their time to the business's windows were awesome.
Wake UP
I can NOT figure out what this council is thinking? i guess they don't have to live within a budget! More offices at borough hall??? WHO are they for??? Rumor has it "A SUB CONTRACTOR". Are you serious? Are you for real? It's NOT hard to see that with the recent addition of hiring 4 or 5 CODE officers that Your employees are packed in like sardines...stop in and look through the window, see for yourself like I did! and this is what you choose to do with that space???? Someone needs their head examined. COUNCIL-WHAT are you thinking to approve this? WHY would you approve this? HOW MUCH DID THIS IRRESPONSIBLE PROJECT COST US FINE TAXPAYERS??? You really should be ashamed of the blatant wasteful spending. It's outrageous! As a WORKING TAXPAYING HOMEOWNER I am outraged at the lack of respect for us homeowners (WHO BY THE WAY CARRY THIS BORO) and for councils negligance for allowing such wasteful, blatant, unneccesary spending.
COUNCIL..Do you have ANY idea how many in this town are on disability, social security, assistance, food stamps, welfare, etc? This is a poverty stricken town and you, Council see fit to approve to spend $15,000.00 on freakin snowflakes????? Oh and last month it was $35,000.00 for a trolley and that doesn't include insurance liability maintenance and upkeep...but hey thats ok, it will run for a couple hours a few times a week over the summer....and guess what? It'll only cost us taxpayers more money!