Police Chief Richard Hileman requested permission to hire a new part-time police officer, having been denied the ability to hire a fourth full-time officer as a result of 2021 budgetary cutbacks (See related story "FY 2021 budgets passed: No tax increases.").

Hilleman identified the new officer as Kyle Freeman, a police officer presently with the Conewago Township Police Department, adding that Freemen was a 2017 graduate from the Police Academy, and earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from York College. Freeman was also a graduate of Biglerville High School.

Officer Freeman was sworn in as a full-time member of the Conewago police force on January 17, 2019. Chief Hileman said Freeman’s record indicates the Freeman was obviously well-trained at Conewago, and his full-time schedule with the Conewago Police Department puts him in a position to be able to work a part-time schedule with Carroll Valley Borough.

The chief proposed the new officer’s starting salary be $22.15 per hour. The council voted unanimously to approve the hiring of the new part-time officer.

In other police business, Chief Hileman stated that police now have a year-round medication drop-box established at the borough office, which is accessible anytime the borough office is open. The purpose of the medication disposal is to remove unwanted medication in order to reduce drug accessibility, medication misuse, and accidental poisoning among children and teens.

The medication drop-box was made possible by the Carroll Valley Borough Police Department partnering with the Rite Aid Foundation and the KidCents Safe Medication Disposal Program, Hileman noted.

The council also approved an agreement that would allow Mill Trail to be extended in order to allow a potential property-owner in Liberty Township to access a two-tract property from Carroll Valley Borough.

Conditions under which the road could be extended at some unknown, future date include that; the plan to extend the road be approved by the borough; that any construction of any extension of Mill Trial to its western terminus be completed in compliance with borough standards; and that the proponent, buyer or seller, will pay all construction costs incurred,

Additionally, the agreement states that a cul-de-sac (to facilitate snow plowing) must be constructed at the end of the extension (within Liberty Township); that the party seeking to extend the road must post required financial securities, that the proponents make the plans known to Liberty Township, and that the proponents guarantee the property will not be further subdivided beyond the two existing lots.