In light of flooding caused by rain falling heavily through Monday, the Clymer borough council discussed emergency planning, especially regarding getting kids out of school and back with their parents.
After several streets in the borough were evacuated on Monday due to the flooding of Two Lick Creek, Mayor Christina King explained the need for a more cohesive plan with Penns Manor to reunite kids with their parents in case of such an emergency:
“Our emergency coordinator contacted the school and told them, you know, we’re closing the road, we’re flooding, these are the streets that are affected… and somehow there was some miscommunication between whoever he talked to and, up there, as far as parents being able to get their kids, to be able to call and be like ‘take my kid here,’ you know, so we had kids showing up on buses and they couldn’t get to their bus stop, and the parents didn’t know where their kids were. So, it was some sort of miscommunication. It’s a system that we need to sit down with the school, you know… the school, myself, our emergency coordinator, and be like ‘Okay, what’s the solution for this?’”
No major issues getting kids back with their parents were reported and all affected students are safe. The council praised the work of emergency responders and King spoke to how well they worked together on Monday:
“It was amazing yesterday, I mean, just to see the cooperation between all the different departments… it was just a well-oiled machine.”
The only vote of the evening was to appoint Keith McKracken to the Municipal Authority on a motion by Steph Brilhart.
