Townships reorganize for 2013
With the beginning of a new year, reorganization meetings for local townships were held the first Monday of the year.
There was no shakeup of the Hilltown Board of Supervisors at its reorganization meeting Monday, Jan. 7, so Barbara Salvadore will continue her post as chairwoman, Jack McIlhinney will stay on as vice chairman and Jim Groff will continue as supervisor.
The board approved several personnel reappointments at its Monday meeting and tabled the reappointment of Township Manager Richard Schnaedter.
Barry Casper, who also serves as a member of the Pennridge School Board, was appointed to serve the two-year remainder of Lori McCauley’s four-year term with the planning commission. The position was vacant because McCauley had resigned. Also, David Christ Jr. was appointed to planning commission, as well as Eric Nogami.
After its reorganization meeting, Hilltown’s board chose to table
raising tax collectors’ compensation for 2014 through 2017.
The board’s meeting Monday, Jan. 14, was canceled, so the next meeting will take place Monday, Jan. 28.
In Bedminster, Glenn Wismer and Morgan Cowperthwaite swapped positions on the Bedminster Township Board of Supervisors, Jack Terry, township manager, said.
Wismer, who was vice chairman, becomes chairman, with Cowperthwaite moving to the vice chairman position. Mark Schmidt is the third board member.
John Rice, of Grim, Biehn & Thatcher, was reap- pointed township solicitor; Thomas Fountain, of Keystone Municipal Engineering, was reappointed township engineer; Dunlap & Associates was reappointed to audit township financial records; George Spotts, of Castle Valley Consultants, was reappointed as township planner; and Shawn McGlynn, of Keystone Municipal Services, was reappointed as zoning officer and building inspector.
Ron Dise was reappointed to a new five-year term on the Bedminster Township Planning Commission; Craig Trauger was reappointed to another five-year term on the Bedminster Municipal Author- ity; Kenneth Goldenberg was reappointed to another three-year term on the Bedminster Township woning Hearing Board; and Joseph Phillips was reappointed to a new three-year term on the township’s rniform Construction Code Appeals Board. The existing members of the Bedminster Township Land Preservation Advisory Committee were all reappointed to another one-year term.
The Bedminster Township Board of Supervisors meets at 7:30 p.m. the second Wednesday of the month. The board also has a work session meeting 8:30 a.m. the day before the evening meeting.
In West Rockhill, Jay Keyser and Donald Du- vall swapped positions on the West Rockhill Township Board of Supervisors, Greg Lippincott, township manager, said. Keyser becomes chairman and Duvall board member. John Mann, the board’s vice chairman, remains in that position.
Keyser and Duvall were appointed West Rockhill’s 2013 representatives to the Pennridge Regional Police Commission.
Mary Eberle, of Grim, Biehn & Thatcher, was reappointed township solicitor, and Steve Baluh, of C. Robert Wynn Associates, was reappointed township engineer.
The members of the zoning hearing board, planning commission and park and recreation committee remain the same as last year.
West Rockhill Township Board of Supervisors meets at 7 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month.
In East Rockhill, Gary Volovnik continues as chairman of the East Rockhill Township Board of Supervisors and James Nietupski continues as vice chairman, Marianne Morano, township secretary/treasurer, said. David Nyman is the third board member.
Nietupski was appointed as East Rockhill’s 2013 representative to the Pennridge Regional Police Commission.
John Rice, of Grim, Biehn & Thatcher, was reappointed township solicitor; C. Robert Wynn Associates was reappointed township engineer.
The members of the zoning hearing board, planning commision and park and recreation board remain the same as last year.
East Rockhill Township Board of Supervisors meets at 7 p.m. the second and third Tuesdays of the month unless posted otherwise on the township website calendar. East Rockhill’s website is www.eastrockhilltownship.org.
In another matter at the Jan. 7 meeting, the East Rockhill Township Board of Supervisors set the salary for the tax collector’s next term in office, beginning in 2014, at $8.50 per tax bill. The salary for tax collectors must be set in time for possible candidates for the elected position to know the salary before choosing whether to run in the election. This will be an election year for tax collectors.
Along with the rate set by the township for property taxes collected for the municipality, the Pennridge School District and Bucks County separately set the rates for school and county property taxes collected by the tax collector.