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The new leadership of Old Lycoming Township made more progress toward reorganization since two former supervisors and numerous employees resigned last month.
At a special meeting Thursday morning, new supervisor Richard Metz was appointed as the vice chairman of the board and as a member of the Lycoming Regional Police Commission. Mark Lusk was appointed an alternate to the police commission.
Supervisor Justin Kastner was appointed as a liaison and spokesman for the local baseball complex.
The supervisors also appointed William Fink to the Authority Board, Cliff Bower to the Zoning Hearing Board and Scott Williams as new solicitor for the township.
Acting for the second time as the new board, Metz, Kastner and David Shirn voted on a number of resolutions, including an agreement with Freedom System to handle the township's accounts payable in lieu of an on-staff treasurer, who also resigned last month.
"We have a large water treatment bill that has gone up about $6,000 because of late fees," Shirn said. "The agreement would allow us to take care of this bill."
Shirn said they are in active negotiation to try and waive those late fees considering the recent turnover and will begin interviewing for the positions next week.
Looking ahead as a board, Shirn said that burning in the township will be revisited and that he would be exploring the possibility of allowing residents to pay their sewer bills through the Citizens and Northern bank drive-thru.
"I watched a lot of people come into the township office to pay that bill," Shirn said. "And I am thinking it would be much easier for many people if they could pay that bill through the drive-thru."
Kastner said he wanted to look into the possibility of building a splash pad in the township. Splash pads, like the one recently put in at Memorial Park, is a lower maintenance alternative to a community pool.
"I know that there are grants available to put those in and I just want to see what the process is like," Kastner said. "I want to look into fundraising and see if we can give our kids the opportunity to enjoy that."
In other business, the supervisors opened bids for pave patching and the Dudek stream bank restoration project.
The lowest bids were $24,472 for patching and $8,750 for the erosion project. Both were accepted upon review from the township's roadmaster.