The Kennett Township manager will resign on Feb. 1 to take a new position in Virginia, according to a press release sent out this morning.
Eden Ratliff will be the deputy city manager for administration for the city of Charlottesville, Va.
“Charlottesville is on a mission to sustain stability within its local government and as I join that effort, I know the experiences I have gained in Kennett Township will serve me well,” Ratliff said.
The township hired Ratliff in 2019, the same year that former township Manager Lisa Moore was fired and charged with embezzling $3.2 million in township funds.
“Nearly four-and-a-half years ago, the township entrusted me with the responsibility of stabilizing the Kennett Township government and professionalizing the services we provide to this great community,” Ratliff said.
Ratliff was introduced to the public at the Aug. 21, 2019 meeting, and spent the next couple years growing the township staff and working with supervisors to strengthen policies and procedures in the aftermath of Moore’s charges.
“Working in Kennett Township was an intense rebuild project, and there are many great professionals who enthusiastically joined this team to help,” Ratliff said in the release. “They are dedicated public servants who make this government run smoothly and professionally daily. Collaborating with them has been a great honor, and I will cherish the memories and progress we made together.”
Township Finance and HR Director Amy Heinrich will be the interim manager while the supervisors search for a full-time replacement.
According to the press release, Roseann McGrath, a local government search consultant, will work with the township to fill that role. Kennett Township first contracted with McGrath in 2019, so she could help the then-newly hired Ratliff create human resources policies that the township lacked.
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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