Thomas Davis of Cherry Street had a complaint regarding the recent snow emergency at the March 11 Coplay Borough Council meeting.

During the major snowstorm on Feb. 13, residents living on Cherry Street had to move their cars off the road due to the street being a snow emergency route.

Davis said he attempted to move his car to the parking lot belonging to the Commitment to Family and Community center. He had no problem with having to move his car, he said, but complained that he was told by police he could no longer park his car in the CFC lot.

Davis said he thought the lot was public parking because it was funded by taxpayers' money.

He also complained that the CFC did not notify residents in advance they were having an event and needed to reserve the parking spaces for their event and said CFC also failed to take down their "no parking" signs after the event.

Davis asked council if they could come to an agreement that would allow certain residents of Cherry Street to get parking permits for the CFC lot.

"As a borough, we have leased that lot," Councilman Charles Sodl explained. "It is our obligation to let the folks [CFC members and guests] park there when they're running an event. They've been instructed to put up those "no parking" signs during an event, and are instructed to take the signs down after an event. Then you folks are welcome to park there."

Council President Louis Bodish explained CFC had to cancel two fundraisers because there was no parking available.

"The parking lot was a mess during the last storm," he said. "People were parking all over the place, they didn't care how they parked, they just worried about parking."

Councilman William Leiner Jr. asked Davis for clarification.

"If I understand correctly, you're saying that residents of Cherry Street have never been told, regardless of the snow, that they could not park in that lot," he said.

Davis agreed with Leiner, and then asked once again where the residents of Cherry Street are supposed to park during a snowstorm.

Sodl mentioned that he made a suggestion at the last council meeting to make a neighborhood parking lot to the left of the fire department.

Davis said even if they did add an additional parking lot, it would not make him happy. All he wanted was for it to go back to the way it was before the storm, when residents were permitted to park in the CFC lot.

The conversation continued to go in circles, with arguments on both ends.There was ultimately no resolution.

In other business, Molly Graver appeared before council on behalf of the Coplay Saengerbund in regards to requesting a liquor ordinance.

Under the Pennsylvania liquor code, it is prohibited for businesses with liquor licenses to allow any amplified music to carry outside of property lines. The exception is if a municipality has its own noise ordinance.

In 2011, the borough filed and was granted a noise ordinance that would allow the borough to implement its own noise regulations at the Saengerbund, enforced by the police department. A reading of 85 decimals or higher is considered a violation of the Coplay noise ordinance. The current noise ordinance is set to expire in September of 2014.

Graver asked council if they would once again allow borough solicitor James Preston to file a petition that would exempt the Coplay Saengerbund from state noise regulations, and would allow the borough of Coplay ordnance to go forward.

Council authorized Solicitor James Preston to prepare a petition to the liquor control control board requesting the exemption.

Also, the council voted to authorize the purchase of a new 2015 Ford F550 dump truck using COSTARS vendor Milham Ford, at a cost of approximately $67,000.

Also at the meeting,the council hired Sarah Kemp as pool manager for the 2014 swimming season and Ronald Jany as 2014 pavilion cleaner.