SUN-GAZETTE FILE PHOTO Fourth of July fireworks can be seen from the Susquehanna River in this 2021 photo.

Hughesville Borough will be hosting the Fourth of July fireworks display this year, Neal Winder, president of the Hughesville Volunteer Fire Department, announced at this week’s Lycoming County Commissioners’ meeting.

Winder said that the fire department’s carnival building should be opening around 3 p.m. on July 4th and will stay open into the evening. Parking will be at the site and carnival foods will be available.

The fireworks display had been held at Williamsport until this year when it was canceled due to an incident following last year’s event.

In regular business, the commissioners approved: a letter of credit application for post-closure bonding for the landfill with C& N Bank in the amount of $35,295,618; an agreement with Applied Health Physics, LLC in the amount of $3,500, for the mandated calibration of meteorological meters to be paid with grant funds; an agreement with Larson Design Group in the amount of $13,268 to be paid out of ARPA funds; a renewal agreement with eGoldFax in the amount of $311 monthly to be paid out of operating expenses; the switch support renewal with ePlus in the amount of $31,914 to be paid out of operating expenses; a three-year mService agreement with Northern Star Services in the yearly amount of $4,833 to be paid out of operating expenses; the three-year subscription renewal with ServicePro in the amount of $15,015 for healthdesk software for IT to be paid from operating expenses; and an agreement with Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP in the amount of $3,386 for a service renewal for the fire system at the Courthouse to be paid out of operating expenses.

Under personnel, the board okayed filling the following positions at the rates of pay listed: Matthew Andrus, full-time maintenance III/HVAC, at $28 per hour; Kaleb Way, full-time correctional officer at the Prison, a union position, at $21.50 per hour; and Andrew Miller, equipment operator at Resource Management, $22,33 per hour.

Commissioners Scott Metzger, Marc Sortman and Mark Mussina, along with Nicki Gottschall, controller, acting as the Salary Board, approved the following items related to the TDA: remove administrative co-ordinator at the Department of Public Service; add operations and communications center administrator at the Department of Public Safety; add administrative support specialist at Resource Management; removed community and economic development planner and add a planner position in the Planning Department; and add a temporary part-time law clerk in the District Attorney’s Office.

The next commissioners’ meeting will be at 10 a.m., June 4, in the Commissioners’ Board Room, 3rd floor Third Street Plaza, 33 West Third St.