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CANTON REORGANIZES
By Ken Bonnell
January 11, 2008
The Board of supervisors welcomed new supervisor Bob Franks at their reorganization meeting this week. Sam Bear was re-appointed Chairman of the board. Ron Harton was re-appointed Secretary/Treasurer at a salary of $18.00 per hour. Sharon Mosier was hired as a part time secretary at $11.00 per hour.
Dennis Makel was retained as solicitor. HMT was made the engineering and zoning. Robert Neitzele was hired as code enforcement officer at a salary of $18.00 an hour with a 30 hour work week.
The board accepted the resignation of Marlene Miller as Auditor and appointed Audine Beno to fill the position to the next municipal election.
The board also reappointed Ron Harton as Canton township superintendent Roadmaster with his salary to be set by the board of Auditors as described in the 2nd class township code section 606 (a&b) and further enumerated by the PSATS wage and salary survey.
Township office hours for 2008 are 8 am till 4:30 pm Monday through Thursday and 8 am till 2 p.m. on Friday.
Township meetings are at 6:30 p.m. on the 2nd Thursday of each month except January when it’s on January 17th.
Auditors
The Canton Auditors reorganized on Tuesday January 8th with newly elected auditor Donna Sheppard being elected chairman and Audine Beno now vice-chairman. Auditor Judy Vitteck declining the secretary position. The Auditor approved the treasure bond of $750,000.00. The board of Auditors voted to settle the Harton lawsuits and his overtime pay issues with Auditor Judy Vitteck voting no. Their action has to be approved with settlement agreements being done accordingly to township solicitor Dennis Makel.
The board voted to terminate the law firm of Keranko and Jeffries, which had being appointed by Judge Kathy Emery to represent the auditors in their lawsuit by Harton. The board set the salary of Harton at $45,510.40 for the 2008 calendar year.
This pay amount was based on PSATS survey of pay scales here in Western Pennsylvania as an average of the high salary and the low salaries of other roadmasters.
