It's done.

By a vote of 6-1, Coplay Borough Council Tuesday night raised the rent for Commitment to Family and Community on Cherry Street to $550 a month with a $125 monthly discount for allowing the Coplay Senior Citizens to meet there 24 times a year. This, effectively, sets the monthly rent at $425.

Councilman Steve Burker said he believes the amount is fair.

"I think the CFC has been a good neighbor," he said, calling it a "valuable asset to the community."

Councilman Bill Leiner Jr., cast the sole dissenting vote.

"It is an awful deal for the Coplay taxpayer," he said after the meeting. At council's workshop last week, Leiner refused to say what he believed the rent amount should be.

The CFC had been paying $300 a month for the past several years. The new lease goes into effect March 1 and expires Feb. 28, 2016.

Councilman Charles Sodl had proposed the $550 figure based on a rate of 10 cents a square foot which, he said, is considerably less than the approximately $1.10 a square foot charged by local commercial storage facilities.

Also at issue are the rents paid by Explorer Post 101 for its train display and the Coplay Athletic Club which has a weight room.

The Explorer Post pays $30 a month and the athletic club pays $41.67 a month for space in the municipal building.

At previous meetings, Sodl pointed out that the CFC pays its own utilities. However, the Explorer Post and athletic club do not. They use the heat and electricity paid for by the borough.

In order to be fair, Sodl said, the two groups should pay not only 10 cents a square foot, as CFC does, but also a share of the utility costs.

Electricity at the municipal building averages $600 a month and heating averages $1,417.

Sodl proposed the athletic club be charged 10 percent of the borough's monthly utility costs and that the Explorer Post pay 5 percent of the monthly utilities, based on the amount of space each group is renting.

That means the athletic club would pay $60 a month toward electric and $141.70 for heat. This, in addition to a rental fee of 10 cents a square foot, would bring the total rent to $345.70 a month.

The Explorer Post should pay $181.85 based on their taking on 5 percent of the monthly heating and electric bills and paying 10 cents a square foot, Sodl said.

"I'd like to make something clear," he said Tuesday night during the meeting. He referred to Leiner's comment last week that these figures were his facts but not the true facts.

"These are not just numbers pulled out of the sky," Sodl said. "These are actual numbers that can be verified."

The numbers for both utility costs and rents currently being paid, he said, came from borough Secretary-Treasurer Sandra Gyecsek.

But Leiner said Tuesday night Sodl got his numbers "out of thin air."

He said the borough should not charge the Explorer Post 10 cents a square foot when that same rate is assessed to the CFC which has a kitchen, parking lot, two bathrooms and a stage.

He called the rate of 10 cents a square foot for these groups "ludicrous."

Council did not discuss the athletic club, but club President Mike Miller attended the meeting. He said during public comment he and Sodl talked before the meeting and plan to get together "so everyone knows what we do in Coplay besides the weight room.

"If we would have known, we would have been here last month," he said.