Locally elected and appointed officials voted on the following matters in the past two weeks:

Federal

• The Senate was out of session.

• The House was out of session.

State

• The Senate was out of session.

• The House was out of session.

County

• Lycoming County commissioners voted 3-0 to approve a $44,200 agreement with Paul Albert Architect LLC for design and engineering work for a property at 2107 Lycoming Creek Road. The building is to be the new site for the offices of District Judge William Solomon. Commissioners Tony Mussare, Rick Mirabito and Scott Metzger voted yes.

Municipal

• Williamsport City Council voted 4-3 to accept a contract between the city and River Valley Transit and its Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1496. The agreement calls for a 14-percent increase for employees over the length of the five-year contract. Voting yes were Randall Allison, Liz Miele, David Banks, and Jon Mackey. Voting no were Bonnie Katz, Vincent Pulizzi and Adam Yoder.

School Districts

• Dr. Brian Ulmer, Jersey Shore Area School District’s superintendent, told the school board that the district is continuing to monitor the latest guidance recently released by Gov. Tom Wolf to help districts determine plans to reopen classrooms for the fall. Under the latest guidelines, the state’s department of education ranks counties as low, moderate and high transmission of COVID-19 rates, Ulmer said.

• East Lycoming School District’s plans to reopen schools Aug. 26 with in-person instruction five days a week were reinforced by District Superintendent Michael Pawlik at the school board meeting last week Pawlik noted that parents can choose other options, such as a blended model or total remote learning for their child, but that they need to decide so that transportation schedules can be formulated. Plans are for communications to go out to parents within the next few days concerning this.

• Loyalsock Township District Superintendent Gerald McLaughlin told the district’s board that plans to bring students back to school for the fall five days a week for in-person instruction are moving forward with the date for opening set at Aug. 31.