Lehigh County Executive Phillips Armstrong attended the March 15 Macungie Borough Council meeting stating stimulus money is coming to area municipalities.

Money can be used for various items including library needs and fire company issues. An example is to add an air purifying system to sheriff’s cars. Any COVID-19 related expenses are considered. Another example is supplemental income for first responders. Specific money will come for housing and rental assistance.

In other business, council discussed the creation of a permit for food trucks. Discussion involved if a permit would include private property and rights of way. It was decided for now, it will just include private properties. A permit would not be required for an ice cream truck as they are mobile. The request is for an inexpensive permit for any form of food truck. This permit is to be displayed and enforcement will occur through code enforcement and/or police.

There was discussion on the types of food trucks allowed. There are situations where CBD items are sold by what appears to be food trucks.

Ordinance 2021-03, the revision of the sewer lateral inspection ordinance, is ready for advertising for a public meeting. This amends the definition of who can perform the video inspection.

The ownership of the walls on Mountain Creek on Route 100 will go to the next step. Barry Isett & Associates will perform a survey to learn the boundaries and to determine ownership.

Authorization was given to purchase flowers for the flower garden. Eden East Landscapers has offered to donate mulch to the project.

The street sweeping quote was approved. Stanley Sweeping will sweep Macungie’s streets. It was recommended to try and divide the borough into sections so parking will not be difficult.

Chalk the Walk will be held Aug. 14 with a rain date of Aug. 15.

The request to vacate Oak Street was discussed. The property in discussion is a piece of land set aside to be made into a road which never happened. The borough actually owns the land. The resident would like to combine this land and make one property.

Authorization was given to purchase electrical materials for the Lumber Street lights; $2,264.76 was paid to Colonial Electric Supply Co. and PPL was paid $1,541 for electrical materials. These amounts will be deducted from the grant that was received.

An executive session was held to discuss personnel issues.