With her victory in last week's election, Beth Pirolli will join her brother on the dais.
Local officials believe the brother-sister team may be a first for the borough.
"I've never seen siblings, but back in the '80s my father was a borough councilman and I was a councilman," Mayor David Cutchineal said.
If the Pirollis and other Tullytown dynasties prevail, Cutchineal believes that's because many families remain there and get involved in the small borough of slightly more than 2,000 people.
"They just have to vote what's in their heart," Cutchineal said, adding that he and his father had a respectful relationship while serving together.
No rules prohibit relatives from serving on the same municipal bodies, state Ethics Commission chief counsel Vincent Dopko said. The only regulations apply to using such positions to benefit financially.
Beth and Matthew Pirolli's father was born in Tullytown in 1925, and never left. He's buried in the Tullytown Cemetery on Main Street. His wife, Ida, 74, still lives on Main Street, where five of her 15 children also bought houses.
Another sibling, Victoria Bleistein, lives in Tullytown, but on a different street. And sister Monica Pirolli will move back this month from Falls Township.
For now, only Beth, 47, and Matthew, 42, are carrying on their father's political tradition.
"It's not a power trip," Beth Pirolli said. "We're concerned about this town."
Matthew Pirolli declined to be interviewed, but Beth Pirolli said she and her brother, along with her running mate, Rich Altmiller, who also won a seat last week, expected to have more clout on council.
In her campaign, Beth Pirolli had to stave off the belief that she couldn't run because she was already the borough secretary, an administrative position. But according to the borough code and state ethics rules, her job, mostly clerical, does not present a conflict.
