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Locally elected and appointed officials voted on the following matters in the past week:
State
• The Senate and House were out of session.
County
• Lycoming County commissioners voted 3-0 to approve an application for a $297,172 Emergency Management Performance Grant to offset costs for Department of Public Safety personnel salaries and benefits. Voting yes were Rick Mirabito, Scott Metzger and Tony Mussare.
• The Lycoming Housing Authority voted 3-0 to approve Horizon Data Services to upgrade its software in an amount not to exceed $49,990. Voting yes were Kenneth Young, George Girio and Nicoya Catino. Holly Baker and Alfreda Baer were absent.
Municipal
• The Loyalsock Township Supervisors approved in a 3-1 vote a one lot subdivision and waiver for a vacant property space on Heim Hill Road for Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co. and Brooks Holding Group with conditions from the township planning commission. Supervisors Virginia Eaton, Paul Nyman and Marc Sortman voted yes while Supervisor John Bower Jr. abstained from the vote.
• The Loyalsock Township Supervisors unanimously approved the restatement of their non-police pension plan.
• The Loyalsock Townshp Supervisors unanimously approved the following bids for work to be done in the township: Hammaker East LTD, $118,914.90 for single sealcoat, HRI, Inc., for low bids for paving materials, Hanson Aggregates, $16.50 per ton for AASHTO and $10.35 per ton for Limestone, Glenn O. Hawbaker, $13 per ton for AASHTO and $8.75 per ton for 2A stones and Mid Atlantic Marking Inc., $21,868.44 for line painting.
School District
• The Jersey Shore Area School District board agreed to place on the agenda for a vote at the next meeting a donation of almost $6,000 in welding equipment from the Pennsylvania College of Technology. The equipment will be used in the CTE Manufacturing program at the high school. Members present were: David Becker, Patrice Doebler, Harry Brungard, Craig Allen, Angela Grant, Michelle Stemler, Nancy Petrosky, Wayne Kinley and Mary Thomas.