APPOINTMENT OF NEW MAYOR.

L TO R:  NEWLY APPOINTED MAYOR JOSEPH BUNDRA
WITH COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOU BODISH

AT 7:00PM THIS EVENING, JAN. 25, 2012, A SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING WAS OPENED FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF FILLING THE MAYORAL VACANCY CAUSED BY THE RESIGNATION, IN DECEMBER 2011, BY THE FORMER MAYOR, JOHN MILANDER. BY A UNANIMOUS VOTE OF THE FIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT, JOSEPH BUNDRA WAS APPOINTED MAYOR OF COPLAY.  MEMBERS PRESENT WERE COUNCIL PRESIDENT LOU BODISH, JOSEPH BUNDRA, MICHAEL MAZUR, MATT RECKER AND DAVID ROYER.
B. LEINER, Jr., WHO HAD SUBMITTED AN APPLICATION FOR THE VACANCY WAS NOT PRESENT BUT SUBMITTED A LETTER WITHDRAWING FROM CONSIDERATION.  JOE BUNDRA, WHO HAS SERVED ON COUNCIL FOR MANY YEARS AND SERVED AS CHAIR OF SANITATION, STREETS, INSURANCE AND HEALTH, AS WELL AS FIRE AND WATER,  PLEDGED TO FULFILL HIS NEW DUTIES TO THE BEST OF HIS ABILITY AND HE PERSONALLY THANKED EACH COUNCIL MEMBER FOR THEIR VOTE ON HIS BEHALF.  WE HAVE KNOWN JOE SINCE HIS YOUTH WHEN HE PARTICIPATED IN COPLAY SPORTS.  JOE IS A RETIREE FROM PPL WHO HAS WORKED TIRELESSLY WITH THE IRONTON RAIL/TRAIL ORGANIZATION WHICH CONSISTS OF THE BOROUGH OF COPLAY AND THE TOWNSHIPS OF WHITEHALL AND NORTH WHITEHALL.  JOE HAD RECENTLY BEEN PRESENTED WITH A PLAQUE AND A CASH AWARD BY COPLAY CRIME WATCH IN RECOGNITION OF HIS COUNTLESS HOURS OF PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT, DEDICATION AND PRESERVATION EFFORTS OF THE COPLAY BRANCH OF THE TRAIL AS WELL AS IN THE OTHER COMMUNITIES.  JOE CONTRIBUTED THE CASH AWARD HE RECEIVED TO THE BOROUGH OF COPLAY TO BE USED TOWARD FURTHER ENHANCING THE TRAIL.  I COULD NOT RESIST ADDING A PHOTO FROM THE JOHN & MARY ZSIGOVITS MEMORABILIA WHICH IS ON THE COPLAY PICTORIAL & TEXT CD, WHICH WAS PRODUCED BY THE COMMITTEE OF NINE OF COPLAY CRIME WATCH IN 2007. 

LOWER LEFT PICTURE HAS JOHN ZSIGOVITS

FACING THE 3 BUNDRA BROTHERS

                                      L TO R: JOHN, JERRY AND JOE.

JOSEPH, WE WISH THE GOOD LORD'S BLESSING FOR YOU AS MAYOR OF WHAT WE CONSIDER TO BE THE NEXT THING TO UTOPIA, COPLAY.