Kennett Township supervisors will look Wednesday at drafting an ordinance that could increase new supervisors’ salaries beginning in 2026.
Under Pennsylvania Act 94, supervisors in second-class townships like Kennett can elect to be paid for each meeting. If approved, Kennett Township Manager Alison Dobbins wrote in a memo, the township solicitor would draw up a resolution that could increase a new supervisor’s salary to $4,190 a year.
“The current compensation rate of $2,500 per year does not reflect the hours that the current supervisors choose to put into their positions,” Dobbins said in the memo. “The twice-per-month Board of Supervisors meetings require hours of advance review of all documents for consideration. There is also active involvement in the monthly meetings of the various boards, commissions, and committees.”
Wednesday’s meeting begins at 7 p.m.
Dobbins said in the memo that adopting this wouldn’t affect the 2025 budget “aside from the cost to advertise the ordinance. The earliest anyone would benefit from this increase is 2026 when a new supervisor would be eligible for the new compensation rate of $4,190.”
The memo also clarifies that supervisors currently serving wouldn’t be eligible for the increase. Supervisors’ Chairman Richard Leff’s term expires at the end of 2025, while Supervisor Geoffrey Gamble’s term is up at the end of 2027 and Vice Chairwoman Patricia Muller’s term is up at the end of 2029.
About Monica Fragale
Monica Thompson Fragale is a freelance reporter who spent her life dreaming of being in the newspaper business. That dream came true after college when she started working at The Kennett Paper and, years later The Reporter newspaper in Lansdale and other dailies. She turned to non-profit work after her first daughter was born and spent the next 13 years in that field. But while you can take the girl out of journalism, you can’t take journalism out of the girl. Offers to freelance sparked the writing bug again started her fingers happily tapping away on the keyboard. Monica lives with her husband and two children in Kennett Square.
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