• Staying in touch with residents by sending mailers out with their utility bills and updating the borough’s Web site more often.

• Looking into contracting out public works and what kind of savings that could bring.

Miller said a lot of the recommendations –– such as contracting out –– are “boilerplate,” or a list of common-sense items Greenville ought to be doing. But the resolutions work by setting goals for the borough.

“Now this puts it in writing, puts a target out for council,” Miller said. “A level of operation they ought to reach.”

Other suggestions for the Act 47 plan were dropped. Among the highlights was a plan that would require the borough to roll over its year-end balance into a capitol improvement fund.

By going automatically into capital improvement, Miller said it locks government out for using the balance for other purposes or providing tax decreases.

Also nixed was locking in the earned-income tax for good, he said. “I thought they were painting themselves into a corner, not allowing flexibility.”