HARRISVILLE — Borough clerk Doug Cook hauled extra chairs across the floor of the Harrisville Municipal Building on Monday, July 3, as people squeezed into the room, waiting for the meeting to come to order.

Council deliberated a second time in executive session Monday evening on whether to cap the number of police hours at 30 a week, eventually deciding to table the vote, and approved $1,200 toward the Harrisville Police Department’s purchase of a second Taser.

The decision to hold off on further deliberations on police staffing follows a council decision made June 5 in which members voted 5-1 to cap police hours. However, because the discussion was not announced to the public before council voted in executive session, it had to be put back on the agenda before it could legally be considered an official action.