Editor’s note: I think this incident illustrates how broken Pottstown‘s municipal government really is. Apparently, in the past, it was anything goes in borough hall. While, BM Flanders isn’t on my hit parade (and I am sure the feeling is mutual) at least he is handling this situation rather than sweeping it under the carpet. The carpet in borough hall is very lumpy…there has been a good deal of crap kicked under the rug in that building for years.
Frankly, we think Codes should be outsourced. It’s the poster child for a dysfunctional department. Maybe after a period of time passes, the department could be reinstated and an entirely new staff hired.
POTTSTOWN — The firing of zoning work leader Michelle Fry from the codes office is just one of the developments in the borough department that has recently received so much scrutiny.
Of Fry, formerly known as Michelle Borzick, Borough Manager Mark Flanders would say only that “she is no longer employed by the borough,” and said he would neither confirm nor deny that her departure was connected to a police investigation of her alleged acceptance of a check from developer and convicted thief Frank McLaughlin of East Coventry.
Fry, however, confirmed to The Mercury Tuesday that she is using a standing borough process to appeal her termination. She declined to comment further.
McLaughlin was sentenced in Montgomery County Court last month to three years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of theft by unlawful taking in connection with his use of devices to by-pass water meters so he would not have water bills at his property.
