Author: Monica Fragale

The following timeline of events relating to the criminal charges against former Kennett Township Manager Lisa Moore contains information from the Chester County District Attorney’s press release dated Dec. 10, a 43-page criminal complaint filed by county detectives, a Kennett Township press release dated Dec. 10, and Kennett Township Board of Supervisors’ meetings from April to December of 2019. A number of executive sessions listed…

The Kennett Township Board of Supervisors voted to advertise a preliminary version of the 2020 budget Wednesday night that contains a temporary tax increase to fund construction of the new library and also a sewer rate increase for some residents and businesses. It also contains suggestions to hold public meetings next year to develop, including a capital plan for operations, a sewer rate structure, and…

Kennett Township supervisors continue to plan out their next steps following the anticipated conclusion of the Chester County district attorney’s investigation into suspected financial irregularities in the township’s financial accounts. There is no word on when the investigation will be finished. But once the district attorney and a forensic accountant release their findings, the supervisors will do three things, according to supervisors’ Chairman Scudder Stevens.…

The Kennett Township supervisors will continue the 2020 budget discussion at a special meeting Monday, where they are expected to discuss the possibility of a sewer rate increase. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the township building. The township manager and finance director discussed the general fund budget with the supervisors and the public at Wednesday’s almost four-and-a-half hour-long meeting but were not…

As dual investigations continue into suspicious transactions in financial accounts earlier this year, Kennett Township supervisors continue to take steps to improve the financial and administrative health of the township. Those steps include: Hiring a full-time financial/human resources director; Hiring a human resources consultant to help the township craft policies for things like sexual harassment and whistleblowers; Holding a special meeting announcing a switch in…

Kennett Township’s supervisors are looking to spend some money on two sewer projects in the coming months. The first project, at a cost of about $530,000, has two different parts and will focus on repairing and replacing parts of the Rosedale Road sewer line. The second project, at a cost of about $1 million, will focus on extending the sewer main on Creek Road. Township…

Kennett Township supervisors will soon begin the budget process, and the new township manager wants to hear from residents about what they think the priorities should be. “The budget is a statement of the priorities of the township,” Eden Ratliff said at the Oct. 2 supervisors’ meeting, his first official one as township manager. “The priorities of the township really need to come from the…

Two Kennett Township police officers were recognized at the last Kennett Township supervisors’ meeting for “changing the course of people’s lives.” Township Police Chief Lydell Nolt commended Officers Miguel Juarez and Kevin Urbany for their actions in two separate incidents that both involved narcotics – one in which a life was saved from overdose, and another in which a large amount of heroin and drug…

Kennett Township Supervisors officially hired a new township manager on Wednesday. Eden R. Ratliff, currently the manager and chief administrative official of Greencastle Borough in Franklin County, Pa., will start Sept. 23. “Municipal management to me is personal, because local government impacts your personal life,” Ratliff told the audience at Wednesday’s supervisors’ meeting. “I knew that I wanted to be in a position to make…