At the Coplay Borough Council workshop Tuesday night, Police Chief Vincent Genovese and Mayor Dean Molitoris gave police officers Kurt Shumberger and Ryan Emerick letters of commendation for their recent efforts in capturing a serial burglar in the borough.

According to Genovese, Shumberger saw a car reported as stolen in a neighboring municipality parked in Coplay. The driver had taken to the streets. When Emerick heard the radio report, he found the suspect.

“This is the kind of dedication we know exists on our police force,” Genovese said.

The officers found a driver’s license of a local resident in the suspect’s possession and later confirmed that the Coplay home belonging to the owner of the driver’s license had been burglarized. According to Genovese, the suspect later admitted to several local robberies in and around the borough.

Emerick is a recent addition to the force, and Shumberger has served with the department for four years.

Councilman Charles Sodl read a resignation letter from EMA Coordinator David Buskaritz. The letter is effective at the end of July. The borough will begin its search for a new EMA coordinator.

At the regular meeting July 12, borough council will ask that the workshop scheduled for Aug. 2 be rescheduled for Aug. 1. The first Tuesday of the month of August is designated as National Night Out. The borough and its Town Watch group have a long-standing relationship with the program and have won several national awards for attendance.

Borough Secretary Sandra Gyecsek gave council a draft of the borough’s Report to Our Citizens 2016. The report is intended to show the accomplishments of the borough during the previous year. It will be on the borough’s website, coplayborough.org, but Sodl suggested the report be mailed to each resident.

Daniel Witczak, the borough engineer, reported that preconstruction conferences are scheduled for this week for the North Front Street project. He expects work to start the following week.

Councilwoman Janet Eisenhauer announced a new fee policy that will be on the agenda at council’s regular session. In addition to the regular fees, patrons who do not return borrowed books from the borough library are responsible for the cost of a replacement.

“We are also enforcing a policy where if there is a delinquent book in a household, no one in the household is allowed to use the library until the book is returned or replaced,” she said.

According to Eisenhauer, the library is owed more than $5,000 in unpaid fines.