Pennsbury Township supervisors
passed a budget for 2012. While the spending plan is balanced and there are no
tax increases, not everyone is happy.
Resident Bob Orenshaw reacted
negatively over the amount of money the township pays toward employee health
insurance. He said it was ridiculous that the township should be paying $62,000
for health insurance for five employees.
The figure was announced when
Township Manager Kathy Howley said there was an adjustment to the budget
because the spouse of one employee was coming off the township-paid policy. The
change brought the 2012 premium down from $71,500.
Orenshaw said the rate sounded
high, but Howley said the policy is the standard policy from the Pennsylvania
State Association of Township Supervisors and is the same one most townships
use for their employees.
Another resident, Kendal
Reynolds, a member of the Parks Committee, wanted to see an adjustment with
more money earmarked for events at the park.
Supervisors’ Chairman Wendell
Fenton said it would be better for the committee to come to the supervisors
with an idea for an event that can be funded, rather than for the supervisors to
put up a bunch of money and have people look for ways to spend it.
“This isn’t the federal
government,” Fenton said.
Other business
• Howley announced the meeting
schedule for 2012. The Board of Supervisors will continue to meet on the third
Wednesday of the month except for the first three months of the year. The board
will reorganize in January on Jan. 3. In February it will meet on Feb. 29 and
the March meeting will be on March 28.
The board meetings will be at
the township building at 7 p.m.
• Donna Murray of the Bayard
Taylor Library made her annual report to the board. She asked Pennsbury
supervisors for $37,000 as its fair share for the library for 2012.
Murray said 29 percent of
Pennsbury residents have library cards and township residents make up 12
percent of the library’s membership.
About Rich Schwartzman
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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