READING, Pa. \u2013 The Berks County Board of 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, Jan. 20 at Schuylkill Valley Community Library, Leesport<\/p>\n
Tuesday, Feb. 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, Sept. 14 at Sinking Spring Public Library, Sinking Spring<\/p>\n
Wednesday, Oct. 6 at West Lawn-Wyomissing Hills Library, West Lawn<\/p>\n
Tuesday, Nov. 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.<\/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) \u2014 which we are currently doing \u2014 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 Board of Commissioners voted Thursday to adopt a resolution to set the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,33894,116479,116471,43668,116477,116478,24013,8040,28,128,130,129,116476,116473,83265,42257,116474,116472,116475],"class_list":["post-281850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","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-immigration-to-the-united-states","tag-library","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-schuylkill-valley-community-library","tag-sinking-spring-public-library","tag-town-hall-meeting","tag-united-states-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","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\/281850","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=281850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}