Times Observer photo by Jacob Perryman Youngsville Borough Council heard from a number of property owners at its meeting Monday night.

Youngsville’s cat problems may be on their way to being resolved, but complaints to council have shifted to other animals – rabbits and dogs.

At Monday’s meeting of Youngsville Borough Council, resident Terry Chiaravallotti expressed ongoing concerns about rabbits and dogs at a neighboring property on College Street.

According to Chiaravallotti, she has been in contact with the borough over the property owner keeping rabbits in homemade cages and barking dogs in kennels, as well as the smell from undisposed animal feces, including rabbit pellets being kept in bags as “fertilizer.”

Borough Manager Wendy Wilcox acknowledged she had been in touch with Chiaravallotti and had sent a registered letter to the property owner. She said she had spoken to the property owner and the issue was supposed to be taken care of by Tuesday.

She noted the issue fell within the recently adopted amended wording to the borough’s nuisance ordinance which was adopted in response to the feeding of feral cats in the borough.

IN OTHER BUSINESS

It was reported the borough has received its state aid for police pensions and fire relief funds.

The borough parks and recreation commission has met again with representatives of the Warren County Chamber of Business and Industry to try to solidify plans for a possible splash pad somewhere in the borough.

Council advised Wilcox to apply for state multi-modal grant funds for phase II of the borough’s streetscape project despite having been denied multiple times. The borough has grant match funds set aside should the application be approved.

The borough’s personnel committee met with patrolman Benjamin Leach on an agreement for his employment with the police department. An agreement was reached which will promote Leach to sergeant and allow him to take on more duties. Further details were not disclosed due to it being a personnel matter.

Leaf pick-up in the borough will begin on Oct. 16.

Council approved holding Halloween events on Halloween itself, rather than on a weekend as some residents had requested. The borough typically holds Halloween on the holiday itself.

Hometown Christmas events will be held from 4 until 6 p.m. on Dec. 2.