2020 reorganization: Franklin to operate under same leadership

Franklin Township’s board of supervisors kept Jason Frey as board chairman at the reorganization meeting Monday.

Supervisor Robin Cressley was reappointed as board vice chairman, with Brenda Neeb reappointed as secretary-treasurer. Christine Green will remain as assistant secretary-treasurer.

Other appointments were:

• Cressley, roadmaster and road foreman

• Jason Doll, police chief

• Attorney Tom Nanovic, township solicitor

• Attorney Jenny Cheng, zoning hearing board solicitor

• Tracy Herman and Paul Jarrett, zoning officer and BOCA Property Maintenance Code Enforcement Officer

• Paul Jarrett/LVIS; and Bureau of Veritas North America Inc., Uniform Construction Code Officers and assistant BOCA Property Maintenance Code Enforcement Officers.

• Scott Bieber, of Lehigh Soils and Wetlands, sewage enforcement officer, with Steve Gitch and Charyn Ayoub, alternate sewage enforcement officers

• ARRO Consulting Inc., township engineer for sewage

• Carbon Engineering, Gregory Haas, Michael Tirpak, township engineer for general purposes, with Keystone Consulting Engineers as alternate.

• Larry Diehl, emergency management coordinator

• Howard Boehringer, vacancy board member

• Michael Quinn, planning commission member, five-year term

• Kim Hunsicker, new planning commission member, four-year term, to fulfill vacancy left by the resignation of Matthew Neeb.

• Tabled the appointment of a new zoning hearing board, three-year term, due to the recent resignation of Kim DePue, zoning board member.

• Robin Cressley, representative, and Barbara Beltz, alternate representative, to the Carbon County Council of Governments

• Open records officers: Jason Doll, police department; Brenda Neeb, township administration office, and Christine Green, administration office

• Brenda Neeb, representative, and Christine Green, alternate representative, to the Carbon County Tax Committee, one-year term

• Robert Maholick, municipal authority member, five-year term

• Willard Ahner, Dr. John DeMatte Sr., Erik Markell, Gail Maholick, and Rod Green, property maintenance appeals board, two-year term

• Jason Frey, representative to the Carbon County Solid Waste Advisory Committee

• Joseph Connaughton, township advisory recreation and parks board, five-year term

• Travis Hunsicker, township advisory recreation and parks board, to fulfill the unexpected term of prior board member Anthony Fristick

• Dennis Bauchspies, canal commission representative

• Approved the schedule of township meetings for 2019 to be at 6:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month

• Approved the setting of wages of nonunion and nonuniformed employees, full-time, part-time, with a 3 percent increase.

• Set daily fees for storage at $40 per day.

• Appointed Buckno Lisicky & Co. PC-CPA, in place of the elected auditors to examine all township accounts for 2019.