The Kennett Township office will reopen to the public beginning June 21.
But residents will have to wait a little longer to start attending township supervisors’ meetings in person. Kennett will continue virtual meetings until they can have hybrid meetings, township Manager Eden Ratliff said at Wednesday’s meeting.
The township office will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. during the week, starting next week. It had been closed to the public since March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic prompted municipalities, businesses, schools, and more across the nation to shut down.
“Our team will be here … on a hybrid schedule,” Ratliff said. “We look forward to greeting everyone. Frankly, the citizen engagement part of our job is the most fun.”
Ratliff explained that the township staff will work both remotely and in the office, and continue to “be accessible to residents as they were before and during the pandemic,” he wrote in his administration report. “The staff continues to be appreciative of the patience, understanding, and support of the community as we have navigated the complications of COVID-19.”
Staff and supervisors talked at their June 2 meeting about the possibility of technology that would allow them to have hybrid meetings, where people could attend either in-person or virtually and participate either way. Ratliff said at that meeting the township would need upgraded technology.
“We are working with our A/V company to figure out what upgrades are necessary,” he said Wednesday.
The office is at 801 Burrows Run Road.
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.
