{"id":421,"date":"2011-06-22T08:35:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T12:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2011-06-22T08:35:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T12:35:50","slug":"kennett-square-council-talks-crime-budget-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Kennett Square council talks crime, budget issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kennett Square Borough Council met to discuss issues pertaining to crime, the budget, and zoning<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By P.J. D’Annunzio,<\/strong> Staff Writer, KennettTimes.com<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Borough police continue to investigate the mugging of a man from a neighboring township in the alley next to the Genesis Building.<\/p><\/div>\n

KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 <\/strong>Police Chief Edward Zunino presented recent crime statistics before the Kennett Square Borough council during the Monday meeting at the Kennett Fire Company\u2019s Red Clay Room.<\/p>\n

Zunino reported that during the month of May there were 12 \u201cPart 1\u201d crimes or serious offenses such as robbery, aggravated and simple assault, burglary, and vehicle theft; there were also 58 less serious \u201cPart 2\u201d crimes comprised mostly of disorderly conduct. Zunino also detailed that No DUI arrests were made for May among the 66 traffic offenses and 52 traffic warnings.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a good thing. Our officers always know what to look for and they\u2019re trained in field sobriety testing,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/p>\n

There were also 741 police calls during May, an expected seasonal increase according to Zunino.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also detailed was the Borough Police\u2019s involvement in the DEA sponsored National Drug Take-back Initiative. The program encourages citizens to turn in unused or expired prescription drugs to local law enforcement for the purpose keeping them out of the hands of children or from finding their way onto the streets. This year borough police collected 57 pounds of old prescription medication, a substantial increase from the 25 pounds received last year. The program held last April saw12,055 lbs. collected statewide. Last year the program took in approximately 120 tons nationwide.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very successful event this April. I expect to see it again by the end of 2011,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zunino also\u00a0commented on last Wednesday\u2019s targeted mugging, perpetrated in the alley outside of the Genesis building on State Street \u2014 the victim reportedly is the son of a township supervisor from a neighboring township. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of leads. We have video from another position that the suspects were in prior to [the mugging]. A wallet was taken, a little bit of cash, they didn\u2019t take credit cards. We have things that they handled to help us with the finger printing process,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other news, the council considered the refinancing of several bonds held by the Borough.<\/span><\/p>\n

The borough has bonds covering three areas; general (pertaining to all matters), parking garage, and sewer (including building and planning) expenses. These bonds were furnished by RBC Capital in 1993.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s similar to someone refinancing their house,\u201d Councilman Geoffrey Bosley said, \u201cthe interest rates have dropped so we\u2019re going to save money by doing that. We\u2019re going to save about $540,000 over the next forty years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The council voted unanimously to refinance all but the sewer bond. <\/span><\/p>\n

Finally the council deliberated setting up a hearing date for the amendment of a zoning ordinance in relation to the prohibition of certain personal services in non-corresponding commercial zones.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe genesis of this was the body piercing branding and tattoo establishments\u2026but it does have other definitions,\u201d Councilman Brant Kucera said referring to the proposed amendments that would restrict shops like State Street Tattoo parlor located within the Borough\u2019s C-1 district from operating closely to restaurants or offices.<\/span><\/p>\n

The amendments will go on to clarify where line between office and service establishments is drawn, and will potentially include the removal and subsequent relocation of shops like the tattoo parlor into appropriate zones.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kennett Square Borough Council met to discuss issues pertaining to crime, the budget, and zoning By P.J. D’Annunzio, Staff Writer, KennettTimes.com KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 Police Chief Edward Zunino presented recent crime statistics before the Kennett Square Borough council during the Monday meeting at the Kennett Fire Company\u2019s Red Clay Room. Zunino reported that during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[91,16,92],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-crime","tag-kennett-square","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}