Community Outreach:
• Developed a New Resident Welcome Packet to provide new residents with
information on Boro services and events
• Took over the quarterly publication of InPlum Magazine to connect with
residents and reach out to more residents with Boro information
• Expanded the use and membership of our community/
emergency notification system SavvyCitizen App
(Register to become a “savvy citizen” by
downloading the free smartphone app)
• Expanded the BoroTV educational/
informational programming (Comcast
Channel 19 and Verizon Channel
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YouTube channel Plum
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jetting for storm water maintenance
• Invested $25,000 on new ballistic proof vests
• Boro crews replaced and repaired more
for all police officers with the option to wear
than 100 storm water inlets and replaced in
a concealed ballistic proof vest or wear their
excess of 1,000 linear feet of stormwater pipe
ballistic proof vest in an exterior carrier
including underdrain and conveyance lines
• Purchased and installed new mobile video
• Invested more than $1,000,000 in repairs to
recording cameras for the police fleet with a total
Route 286 (in front of Holiday Park Fire Hall),
of 5 cameras per vehicle and enhanced functionally
Short Street, the Edgemeade Housing plan,
including the ability to record officers during the
Center-New Texas Road, and East Oakmont
performance of their duties such as traffic stops,
• Paved approximately 20 lane-miles of roadway
emergency responses, crash and crime scenes
at a cost of $1.2 million dollars, exceed a
• Purchased body cameras as a secondary component
million dollars in road resurfacing for the fifth
to the vehicle camera system to assign each officer an individual body
consecutive year
cam to record police activities while away from the vehicles
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