RENOVO — Even though they don’t always agree on how it should be done, much of the April council meeting in Renovo centered on cleaning up the town.

Borough council and Mayor Gene Bruno began developing a relationship for the town’s immediate future. A local business has even joined in providing what will undoubtedly give council a big kick start in cleanup efforts.

Renovo Disposal Service is hosting a town clean up April 29 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., even turning it into a contest offering, cash prizes and garbage stickers to those that pick up trash and have the heaviest bags.

Everyone is invited to join. Participants will meet at RDS in Renovo to be given specially marked bags. The volunteers will then be encouraged to go to Renovo, East Renovo or South Renovo to clean up the streets — no household garbage will be accepted.

RDS will be offering prizes to the top five collectors with the winning participant taking home $100.

Borough streets and removing abandoned cars triggered a disagreement by some after Bruno started a process of getting some off of the streets and away from people’s homes.

Bruno explained that he spoke to Charlie Rosamilia — owner of the former Yesterday’s Restaurant, asking if he could tow disabled or out of inspection cars to the parking lot to get them off of the streets. Bruno offered that one car had been on Fifth street for two years and another was right next to the parking lot but was illegally parked in front of a yellow curb which caused issues with PennDOT’s plowing efforts over the winter months.

Council president Ann Tarantella completely disagreed with the logic, stating that the actions are simply moving the problems to another area. Council member Kristy Serafini-Brooks said that she felt such an effort would entice people to start dumping their porch trash in the parking lot. Grant advisor Kari Kepler joined Tarantella and Serafini-Brooks by disagreeing with Bruno and said that Rosamilia is not the owner of the lot.

It seemed as though Bruno would stop the practice despite disagreeing with the other three.

The mayor was also excited to announce that the borough has hired Dave Walker as an ordinance officer and has already identified numerous violations and will be issuing citations if initial verbal warnings do not work.

“Dave is starting by looking at things like sidewalk obstruction, hazardous front porches, alleyways, garbage bags in front and out back of houses, starting with things that quite honestly should be easy to remedy,” Bruno said following the meeting. “When I ran for mayor, I said I want to work together as a team and I want thank those that we’ve talked to that then remedied their issues, but if you don’t, you will get a ticket.”

Council also accepted the resignation from former Police Chief Richard Simpson leaving part time officer Victor Foley as the only Renovo Police Department member.