Cruise Night to Go to Rofo Biz Association

co-owner Anthony Berdomas stepped up during the visitors' comment portion of Tuesday's Royersford Borough Council meeting to ask council for permission to hold a on Fridays during the summer.

"What we'd do is have 10 or 15 cars, and we'd like to block off the parking lot [behind borough hall] from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday night," Berdomas said.

Berdomas told council that he has a car club, the Roxborough Ridge Runners, who will commit to coming out to Royersford one week a month. Berdomas also said he isn't looking to take anything away from , which will have a classic car show again this year.

Mayor John Guest spoke up in favor of allowing Berdomas to hold the Cruise Nights.

"As I said when this came up before, this has been successful in other municipalities - I've participated with friends and now with my own car," Guest said. "A car guy wants someplace to park his car and have people come up and look at it and talk to him."

Councilman Bruce Burns expressed concern over whether there would be enough supervision. Other council members were worried about how other local businesses might react.

"We don't want to unilaterally do it for one guy and the rest of the businesses don't support it," Councilman John Kring said.

Councilman Charles Bowers agreed.

"If they aren't advised in advance, they will resist it," Bowers said. "It's happened before."

Council advised Berdomas to talk to the Royersford Business Association and find out if the other companies on Main Street would support the event, then come back to council and let them know. 

In other council business, Bowers noted that Pennsylvania American Water will be doing a water main replacement on Washington Avenue between S. 2nd Avenue and Lewis Road. The work was supposed to start on May 18, but hasn't begun yet. 

During the public works report, Bowers also spoke about the ongoing vandalism at .

In April, Bowers said, trash cans were dumped, shingles were torn off the small pavilion, graffiti was written on the table and two lights were broken with rocks. Tulips planted at Victory Park and other parks were torn up and thrown on the grass.

Public Works director Conrad Bauer said in his report that he is "open to suggestions" on how to handle the vandalism.