A group of people in Greenville want leaders to re-evaluate certain changes to a local blight committee they say aren't fair to residents. 

Voters in Greenville are asking the council to repeal its decision to remove the residency requirement for one member of its Blighted Property Review Committee.

"Last month, the council voted to add a member that would be considered 'at-large," explained Greenville Manager Jasson Urey. "I'm the only resident in our administrative staff. I directly handle a lot of the redevelopment activities of the borough. To separate that, it was decided our assistant manager should be on the committee."

"As elected officials, you make rules, you break those rules, and then you change those rules in what appears as an attempt to bring your dreams to life," said Greenville resident Joy Peterson to the council on Monday.

Previously, committee members had to live in Greenville, but the council voted to make an exception for Rosalynn Reagle, the town's assistant manager who lives outside the borough.

"Terminology changes do not mean she is qualified," said Jackson Center resident Kim Brick. "If you don't want negativity brought to these meetings, I ask that you thoroughly understand what you are voting for before you cast a vote."

Disgruntled residents collected a petition presented to the council Monday with 151 signatures, requesting the change be rescinded. 

The residency requirement is still in place for the planning commission and redevelopment authority, which oversees the blight committee. The blight committee has no eminent domain or other power over property.

"It does not make any decisions," Urey said. "It's one of two steps of advisories that end up going to the redevelopment review authority. First, the blighted redevelopment committee has to review it. It has to come up with a majority. Then it would go to the planning commission. The code enforcement officer is the one who gathers the data that verifies that the property is blighted. It then presents that to the  Blighted Property Review Committee."

From trash service complaints to code violation repair concerns, borough officials told the crowd they continue to do what's best for the township.

"I don't think that it's a positive move forward to continue to disparage employees who are only trying to do their job and do what's best for the community," said Councilman Brian Shipley to the crowd on Monday. "You are putting out a false flag to scare people into something that is not real. To say because someone doesn't live in this town and they don't have an interest in what goes on here, that would mean a lot of people who are here tonight who don't live here should not be listened to, either. The world will not come to an end if someone who doesn't live in the borough is put on an advisory committee."

The board will now have 30 days to reconsider the language.