today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!

Quote for today… “Use by a public official or public employee of the authority of his office or employment or any confidential information received through his holding public office or employment for the private pecuniary benefit of himself, a member of his immediate family or a business with which he or a member of his immediate family is associated.” – Pennsylvania’s definition of “CONFLICT OF INTEREST.” – National Conference of State Legislatures Website

• Columbia bank robbery suspect. – Fox43 TV

• Union Bank may want to contract its cameras to the Borough. Good clarity and resolution. And they work!

• $450K – Isn’t that the normal severance for all Armstrong employees? – LancasterOnLine

• Someone to admire: “the quintessential cop” – a role model for all law enforcement – The York Dispatch

• You may have read about the citizens groups emerging in Marietta; each, concerned with public safety in emergencies. May be time in Columbia too? See this article about C.E.R.T. in York County. – York Daily Record

• Restaurant inspections – in the county, but not in Columbia – LancasterOnLine
  

• Columbia man found dead in Columbia County – MyColumbiaNews

• Legal Notice “Notice is hereby given that the Council of the Borough of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania will consider for adoption at its meeting on April 14, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in Council Chambers in the Municipal Building at 308 Locust Street, Columbia, Pennsylvania an ordinance titled and summarized as: an Ordinance of the Borough of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania creating an ordinance titled trucked waste ordinance for purposes of regulating the discharge of trucked waste into the Borough of Columbia treatment plant, establishing purposes, policies and objectives, defining terms, establishing a permitting process for companies delivering waste by truck to the treatment plant, authorizing the establishment of policies and procedures for the implementation of the ordinance, maintaining the right to reject and inspect trucked waste, requiring insurance, establishing an appeals procedure, providing provisions for the establishment of fees and charges by resolution of Borough Council, providing for violations and penalties and the recovery of fines, penalties and costs, providing for the severability of the ordinance, providing for the repeal of inconsistent ordinances, and providing that the ordinance shall take effect in accordance with Pennsylvania law. A complete copy of the Ordinance may be inspected at the Municipal Building, 308 Locust Street, Columbia, PA during regular business hours and the Lancaster Law Library, located at 50 North Duke Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania during regular business hours. Columbia Borough By: Samuel Sulkosky Borough Secretary” – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, April 4, 2014
  

• ATM slot machine – The York Dispatch