By MARCIE SCHELLHAMMER

marcie@bradfordera.com

A Bradford business owner bought a new roof to comply with the city’s Board of Health, but allegedly paid with a bad check — and the new roof leaks.

Kim Glenn, 63, of East Main Street was charged by Bradford City Police with one first-degree misdemeanor of writing a bad check.

According to the criminal complaint in the case, on Jan. 10, Glenn wrote a check to Liberty Roofing for $19,454.69 for final payment on roofing work at The New Keystone. Bradford City Police were contacted Feb. 21 by the owner of the roofing company who said the check was charged back for insufficient funds.

Police spoke to Glenn and told her the check bounced. She said the money came from a loan she had received for the work, and during the project, she had to use some of the funds to cover other expenses that arose. That caused a shortfall. An officer told her she had to pay off the roofer or she would be criminally charged, the complaint stated.

The officer contacted the lender, who said they were aware of the issue and that Glenn had applied for additional funds to take care of the debt. As of April 18, Glenn had not satisfied the debt to the roofer, the complaint stated.

She was arraigned Wednesday before District Judge Rich Luther and released on $10,000 unse-cured bail. She is scheduled to appear in Central Court on May 22.

With the New Keystone, Glenn has been involved with the Board of Health since 2023. The facility is a bar and a rooming house with a few tenants living upstairs. The building is in need of a great deal of work, which Glenn has been trying to accomplish.

On April 23, Health Director Brandon Plowman issued a cease and desist order to the business because of a sewage leak and necessary water shut off. Everyone was ordered to leave the building.

On Wednesday, Plowman told The Era the water was turned back on by April 28. On May 6, he delivered a letter stating that she could operate the business again.

While the building was to be closed and vacant, Plowman stopped by. ‘I did visit the property and there were several occupants present. (Glenn) was ordered to vacate and she didn’t. There were several people living in the property so she was issued a citation May 1 for the facility operating as a rooming house while not in possession of a valid rooming house permit,’ he explained.

Regarding the charge lodged against Glenn, Plowman said, ‘I don’t know that it’s going to affect the (board’s) process at all, but I can tell you the roof still leaks. Even after the roof had been replaced it is still leaking.’

That is a code violalist tion. When asked about progress on repairs to the building, Plowman paused before saying, ‘There are a large amount of interior and exterior repairs that still need to be made.’

Not all of the required repairs from the sewage leak have been made to the property behind the Keystone. The board ordered that among the remediation, the ground onto which the sewage had leaked had to be removed and the area had to be cleaned and sanitized.

Plowman told The Era, ‘There was an effort made with a small backhoe. There was (dirt) scraped off of the parking lot back there and piled up. They just piled it up and left it.’

The Bradford City Board of Health shut down The New Keystone on East Main Street in Bradford on Tuesday, due to a sewage leak under the building.

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