FACTORYVILLE — The borough’s Junior Mayor for April told Factoryville Borough Council on Wednesday that developing a community garden is the most important thing council can address.
Anabel Gaynor, a fifth-grader at Lackawanna Trail Elementary Center, will coordinate a tree planting that was set in motion during the tenure of the previous Junior Mayor, Colin Gow, said the borough’s elected mayor, Lou Jasikoff.
Jasikoff started the junior mayor program in coordination with the elementary center soon after he took office in January. He said he wanted to get young people involved in local governance and hear their ideas about how to improve their community.
On Wednesday, Gaynor touted a community garden and also suggested that high school students could serve as tutors or mentors for younger students in the school district, to explain what it is like to move up to higher grade levels.
In other business, council approved a resolution that authorized a cooperative agreement with Clinton Twp. to share an emergency management coordinator.
Council also adopted ordinances that amended the pension plan for borough employees. That was strictly a procedural process, borough solicitor Paul Litwin said. Council had previously approved resolutions that amended the pension plan, but that should have been done by ordinance, he said.
Also, borough resident Allie Hancock proposed a clean-up day in Christy Mathewson Park. Council members expressed support for the idea. Councilman Colin Fricke said he remembered park clean-up days from when he grew up in the borough.
Jasikoff said he will meet later this month with the mayors of Dalton, Nicholson, Tunkhannock and Hop Bottom, to share ideas and concerns that apply to boroughs along the Route 6 corridor.
Not all of the mayors know one another and “it’s a great idea to put names to faces,” he said.
Council also voted to create a three-member parking committee.
Council recessed into executive session but took no action after the executive session ended, Jasikoff said.
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