Carlisle, PA

This Council meeting will be conducted in person and virtually using Zoom. Town Hall will be limited to 25 persons that wish to attend the meeting.  Anyone wishing to participate in the meeting via Zoom, please email the Borough Secretary, Joyce Stone (jstone@carlislepa.org).  All emails must be received by, Thursday, July 9, 2020, by 4:00 pm for the Zoom sign-in registration information that is required to attend this meeting.

Please contact the Assistant Borough Manager at 717-601-0184 if there are any difficulties connecting to the meeting using the sign-in information.  Telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) users may contact this number by using the Pennsylvania Relay System at 800-654-5894.

Prior to the Council meeting, Borough citizens may submit questions or comments by email to the Borough Secretary, Joyce Stone (jstone@carlislepa.org).  All emails must be received by 4:00 pm on July 9, 2020.

The Borough will also offer a livestream of the Council meeting via Facebook for interested parties. We encourage those participants who simply want to watch the meeting without participating in public comment to view it on Facebook, rather than calling into the Zoom meeting. The public comments on the Facebook stream will not be monitored during the Council Meeting.

Agenda Details
Mayor's Report
Borough Council may approve a resolution affirming its commitment to equity in the wake of the combined disparate effects of COVID-19 on our community and a long history of police violence against African Americans.

Over the past few months, the Borough of Carlisle has taken a number of steps to maintain the safety of the community while encouraging responsible public action to communicate concerns with incidents in other cities across the nation.

As noted in the Resolution, the Borough of Carlisle –

• Supports strengthening efforts to promote accountability for individual law enforcement officers and police departments

• Supports immediate steps to analyze police department structures, policies, and budgets

• Is committed to centering the community’s responses

• Will dedicate resources, platforms, political will and authority

• Is committed to not using fear and setting a tone that will reject this tendency

• Will lift up the medical and social needs of the most marginalized