The Kennett Township Board of Supervisors welcomed its newest member during the annual reorganization meeting on Jan. 2.
Pat Muller, who was elected in November to fill Scudder Stevens’ seat, was sworn in and then addressed the residents and township staff in attendance.
Muller encouraged the township residents to be civically engaged and to volunteer with community organizations.
“Kennett Township is fortunate … to be a community that values public input and civil engagement,” she said. “Ultimately we are all neighbors looking to find solutions.”
She joins supervisors Geoff Gamble and Richard Leff on the three-person board.
Also at the reorganization meeting, Gamble was re-elected chairman for the second year, and Leff was re-elected vice chairman.
“As we begin our 320th year as a township, I want to express my gratitude for the privilege of serving,” Gamble said.
The supervisors appointed representatives to a number of positions, including Planning and Zoning Director Diane Hicks as the voting delegate to the PA State Association of Township Supervisors convention; Muller as the board’s representative to the Chester County Association of Township Officials, the voting delegate to the Pennsylvania Municipal League, and the alternate voting commissioner to the Kennett Fire and EMS Regional Commission; Leff as the voting commissioner to the fire and EMS commission; township Manager Eden Ratliff as the voting delegate to the Chester County Tax Collection Committee; and Finance Director Amy Heinrich as the alternate to the county tax collection committee.
The board also appointed its staff and consultants, including Ratliff as manager and right-to-know officer, Heinrich as finance and HR director, Hicks as planning/zoning director and codes enforcement officer, Matthew Gordon as police chief, and Bruce Mitchell and AJ McCarthy as fire marshal and deputy marshal respectively.
A full list can be found on the township’s website at kennett.pa.us.
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.