Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Board of Health will introduce code amendment at its next meeting.
Mobile vendors like hot dog and ice cream trucks will remain—on a limited basis—on Butler streets. After a heated audience urged the Butler Board of Health on Wednesday night to reconsider a code amendment that would ban mobile food vendors in the borough, the board agreed to an amended ordinance that will limit the food vendors to five. The ordinance will be introduced at the board's April 25 meeting. The issue drew interest mostly from patrons and supporters of Tommy's Franks, a mobile hot dog stand parked outside Trackside Bar & Grill on Main Street. Tom Frank, the owner of the business and a Bloomingdale native, said he obtained all the proper permitting for his business and that he saw the board's actions as personally against him. …
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Special meeting to be held Wednesday night.
The Butler Board of Health will hold a special meeting Wednesday night to entertain public comments on a recent vote to amend a borough code and no longer allow mobile food vendors in the borough. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the conference room at One Ace Road. Sandra Alviene, president of the Board of Health, said even though the board already voted to approve the amendment, the board will be hearing public comments on the measure on Wednesday and possibly vote again at the board's regular meeting on April 25. Alviene said the board discussed the amendment initially after reviewing the more than 20-year-old existing code. The way the code is written now, there is no limit on how many mobile food vendors can apply for permits to …
Friday, April 6, 2012
Tom Frank said he is upset over health board's consideration of banning mobile food vendors.
Since Tommy's Franks owner Tom Frank opened his mobile hot dog stand on March 7, he thought things were going well. He's seen a steady stream of customers and he said he has followed all of the permitting rules of the Borough of Butler. But now Frank feels like he's playing catchup after learning that the Butler Board of Health has voted to amend the borough's code relating to canvassers, solicitors and peddlers to no longer allow mobile food vendors in the borough. Mayor Bob Alviene said at Tuesday's Butler Borough Council meeting that the Board of Health is concerned about childrens' safety with mobile food vendors. "This is something that I always wanted to do and I get smacked in the face," Frank said Thursday. Frank grew up in …
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Board working to remove part of ordinance to allow mobile food vendors, clerk said.
The Butler Board of Health has recently voted to amend the borough code as it pertains to canvassers, solicitors and peddlers which would severely limit—and essentially eliminate—the opportunity for mobile refreshment vendors, such as ice cream trucks, to do business within the Borough of Butler. “They’re going to limit what can and cannot be done as far as mobile vendors are concerned,” Butler Borough Clerk Mary O’Keefe said. “They don’t want mobile vendors, so they’re in the process of adopting an ordinance to amend the code.” O’Keefe went on to explain that the board of health voted to take out the section of the ordinance that allowed mobile vendors. This is a move that, in essence, makes it possible for the board to prohibit any …
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Sherry
5:38 pm on Thursday, April 19, 2012
Did anyone read april 18 trends? The article was a liltle late. But i guess better late then never more ›