In progress
2027 budget
Work-session minutes from August through mid-October, with updated worksheets and pension MMOs in the fall packets.
What Penbrook council has been working on
Trends from the monthly reports in this year’s packets, plus a short watch list of the issues that keep coming back.
Trends
Numbers that move month to month
Quality-of-life tickets, citations, and building permits from monthly codes briefs.
Code enforcement
QoL tickets and citations from monthly codes briefs
- Jan trash related violations
- Aug high weeds & grass
Cash on hand
Total Checking/Savings from the month-end balance sheet (cash basis), with general and sewer fund shares.
$6.18M
General$2.39M
Sewer$1.84M
Trash$316k
Fire$208k
Bills paid
Sum of Bill Payment checks from the monthly check-detail workbook.
Aug was the heaviest month in this set ($78,978 across 45 payments).
Police activity
Arrest, incident, and complaint totals from department logs (June and August are in the packets).
Delinquent taxes
Unpaid parcels still on the collection master list (face RE tax). Q2 and Q3 reports show the same unpaid counts — collection notes changed, inventory did not.
2024 unpaid parcels74
2025 unpaid parcels70
2024 RE face$55,856
2025 RE face$58,961
2024 unpaid parcels74
2025 unpaid parcels70
2024 RE face$55,856
2025 RE face$58,961
Watch list
Issues to keep tracking
Fewer cards, higher signal — the open files behind the monthly numbers.
Active
Unsafe properties
2413 and 2901 Walnut Street remain the main unsafe-structure cases; 2413 secured a building permit in August to rebuild the deficient wall.
Open files
Police & fire
Teamsters CBA materials, fire-protection agreements, and an ~$81k mini-pumper quote.
Moving
Services & fees
Stormwater rate design, Harrisburg trash ICA through 2030, Verizon franchise approval, and Community Park grant resolutions.
Partly settled
Borough operations
ABM hiring earlier in the year; Appalachia managed-services proposal and website/ADA work in the fall.
Money on the table
Named capital asks
- $81,105Glick mini-pumper quote
- $62,200Sherman-Early paving estimate
- $57,550Spaulding 3-ton hotbox
- $47,469Arney Bros — Hoffers Ln
Budget trail
2027 work sessions
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Figures come from codes briefs, police log PDFs, check-detail workbooks, and month-end balance sheets in the Nate Shaw packets. Empty months mean the report was missing or the number was not clearly stated.