REMEMBERING DAN PAVELKO - FOREVER!!! (1)

                          
                       DAN PAVELKO 
       ALWAYS SHOWED CONCERN FOR                                            OTHERS

30 YEARS OF LOYAL

AND DEDICATED SERVICE

TO OUR COMMUNITY

GONE TOO SOON

  

THE REGULAR COPLAY COUNCIL MEETING TOOK PLACE ON AUGUST 12, 2014. AFTER GOING INTO AN EXECUTIVE SESSION ON PERSONNEL, (ACCORDING TO THE MINUTES) PRES. BODISH RECONVENED THE MEETING AND ASKED THE SECRETARY IF THERE WERE ANY ADDITIONAL MOTIONS. THE SECRETARY SAID YES.

ON A MOTION BY SODL, SECONDED BY LUCKENBACH, TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY TO ADVERTISE FOR POSITION OF PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR FOR COPLAY BOROUGH - CARRIED. IN ESSENCE, THIS WOULD BE A DEMOTION FOR THE CURRENT PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR, D.PAVELKO.  ALTHOUGH NOT IN THESE MINUTES, COUNCIL STATED THAT D.PAVELKO WOULD REMAIN AS A COPLAY P.W. EMPLOYEE BECAUSE OF HIS MANY SKILLS, BUT STATED HE DID NOT HAVE THE MANAGERIAL SKILLS THEY REQUIRED. AFTER 15 YEARS AS HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT???  WHAT???

WHEN HE BECAME P.W. DIRECTOR SOME 15 YEARS AGO, THAT ADMINISTRATION  STATED, THAT DAN WOULD BE AFFORDED MANAGERIAL TRAINING.  IT DIDN'T HAPPEN ACCORDING TO WHAT DAN TOLD US.   THE CURRENT 2015 ADMINISTRATION HAD MENTIONED AT ONE TIME THAT DAN COULD BE GIVEN ACCESS TO MANAGERIAL TRAINING. 

DAN SAID IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. 

COUNCIL MEMBERS ON AUGUST 12, 2014 WERE, L. BODISH, C.SODL, J.GROLLER, D.ROYER, C.LUCKENBACH, B.LEINER,Jr. AND S. BURKER. OUR MAYOR, J.BUNDRA.

INCIDENTALLY, IT WAS ON THIS VERY DAY THAT DAN PAVELKO UNDERWENT MAJOR ROBOTIC SURGERY FOR HIS AFFLICTION.

DURING HIS RECUPERATION PERIOD, DAN STOPPED BY OUR HOME. WE TALKED OF HIS SURGERY AND THE SITUATION WITH WHICH HE WAS FACED. HIS WORDS TO US WERE:   "FRANK AND ANN, I DID NOTHING WRONG".  DAN WAS FACED WITH AN APPR. $8,000 REDUCTION IN SALARY, IF HE WERE ALLOWED TO FILL THE POSITION OF CREW CHIEF. THIS COULD ONLY HAPPEN IF THE UNION HONORED A REQUEST BY COUNCIL.  ANYTHING ELSE AT THIS POINT IS ONLY CONJECTURE BECAUSE IT IS A UNION POSITION. DAN WOULD BE THE LOW MAN ON THE ROSTER AS A NEW MEMBER OF THE UNION. (UNLIKE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR, WHO SERVES AT THE WILL (WHIM) OF COUNCIL). WE WILL NEVER KNOW BECAUSE OF THE UNTIMELY DEMISE OF A LOYAL AND DEDICATED BOROUGH EMPLOYEE, OUR FRIEND, DAN PAVELKO.

AT THE REGULAR BOROUGH COUNCIL MEETING ON OCTOBER 14, 2014, ON A MOTION BY SODL, SECONDED BY BURKER, TO HIRE PAUL BOYLE AS PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 15, 2014 - CARRIED. 

THE AFOREMENTIONED 7 COUNCIL MEMBERS WERE LISTED AS PRESENT AT THE OCTOBER 14, 2014 MEETING, AS WAS OUR MAYOR J.BUNDRA.

GOD BLESS,

 FRANK AND ANN DICKMAN