READING, Pa. \u2013 The Berks County Commissioners voted Thursday to adopt a resolution to set the 2027 dates for the Commissioners\u2019 town hall meetings.<\/p>\n
The town halls will be held:<\/p>\n
Wednesday, January 20 at Schuylkill Valley Community Library, Leesport<\/p>\n
Tuesday, February 9 at Fleetwood Area Public Library, Fleetwood<\/p>\n
Tuesday, March 2 at Brandywine Community Library, Topton<\/p>\n
Wednesday, April 21 at Womelsdorf Community Library, Womelsdorf<\/p>\n
Tuesday, May 4 at Hamburg Public Library, Hamburg<\/p>\n
Tuesday, September 14 at Sinking Spring Public Library, Sinking Spring<\/p>\n
Wednesday, October 6 at West Lawn-Wyomissing Hills Library, West Lawn<\/p>\n
Tuesday, November 9 at the Village Library of Morgantown, Morgantown<\/p>\n
The Town Halls begin at 6:30 p.m. and give residents of communities the opportunity to discuss local issues with the commissioners.<\/p>\n
No town halls are held in June, July, August, and December.<\/p>\n
In other business, the commissioners adopted a resolution to authorize the deputy\/outreach services coordinator for the Berks County Public Libraries to execute the Berks County Intermediate Unit Head Start Library visit agreement between the libraries and participating local preschools.<\/p>\n
The library system supplies a community engagement specialist to provide story times and information about library services to children who are part of early literacy programs.<\/p>\n
During public comment, the commissioners heard from three residents asking the county to stop its cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n
The comments against ICE have recently become common during the public comment portion of the Thursday meetings, and the commissioners do not address the comments.<\/p>\n
Crystal Kowalski, Wyomissing, said it is time for the people to understand what is happening in every detention facility.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we choose to partner (with the federal government) – which we are currently doing- we are sending people off to institutional brutality,\u201d Kowalski said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis just does not square with me for who I know all of you to be, and it has not squared with me for a while, and I\u2019m asking you to change your minds,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 The Berks County Commissioners voted Thursday to adopt a resolution to set the 2027 dates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[33894,116479,116471,43668,116477,116478,128,130,129,116476,116473,116474,116472,116475],"class_list":["post-278226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county-intermediate-unit","tag-berks-county-town-hall-meetings","tag-brandywine-community-library","tag-crystal-kowalski","tag-fleetwood-area-public-library","tag-hamburg-public-library","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-schuylkill-valley-community-library","tag-sinking-spring-public-library","tag-village-library-of-morgantown","tag-west-lawn-wyomissing-hills-library","tag-womelsdorf-community-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}