SLIPPERY ROCK — Borough council on Tuesday voted down a motion to cancel the remaining scheduled project meetings for the year.

The project meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month, and were created in 2009.

Councilwoman Regina Greenwald said she was against canceling the meetings, noting that she is a new council member and has never even seen one held. Councilman Itzi Meztli agreed, and said that the meetings should be considered on a monthly basis.

“Something might come up,” Meztli said.

Councilman Bob Bowser said, when the meetings were created, the borough was dealing with a lot of big issues, necessitating the extra meeting. Now, they are not really needed, he said.

Councilman Ken Harris recommended canceling the meetings on a month-to-month basis.

Council voted the measure down 5-1, with Vice President Ron Steele voting in favor of canceling the meetings and Bowser, Meztli, Harris, Greenwald and Christy Tichy voting against it. Council also voted to cancel next week’s project meeting.

Council also:

• Heard from resident Chuck Brochetti, who asked why council President Dave Miller has missed so many meetings. Miller has not attended a council meeting since February.

“People have noticed this,” Brochetti said.

Steele, who has run the meetings in Miller’s absence, could not answer the question.

“I don’t know why (he has been absent),” Steele said.

Borough administrator Lucinda Lipko said council does not have to answer the question. Miller did not return a call for comment.

• Voted to disallow parking on South Main Street between Franklin and Cooper streets from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 12 for street sweeping.

• Heard again from Brochetti, who also noted that blue, 95-gallon recycling bins from Tri-County Industries have been distributed to apartment complexes in the borough.

At previous meetings, members of the public noted that every household that pays for trash is entitled to a bin, but that renters at apartment complexes with Dumpsters did not get bins. Tri-County told them that it is up to the borough as to who gets bins.

He asked whether the borough would retain Ordinance 542, which prohibits recyclable items from being thrown out with trash punishable by a fine. He asked why the ordinance is on the books if it is not being enforced and recommended borough solicitor Neva Stanger look into the matter.

John Trant, who assists Stanger, said that the borough’s trash contract, including recycling, will be discussed April 15.

• Heard from Bowser, who asked about obtaining video copies of council meetings. Resident and landlord Bonnie Davis pays to have a videographer tape the meetings.

Davis was not at the meeting, but Brochetti said he does not think it will be a problem for the borough to get copies. He said that some other municipalities have videos of public meetings that are shown online or on television. Meztli said the videos could be posted on the borough’s website, which Bowser said was an excellent idea.