(1/22) At the reorganization portion of the Board of Supervisors meeting, Edward Deardorff and Doug Woerner were reappointed Supervisor Chairman and Vice Chair respectively. Nina Garretson was reappointed township secretary/treasurer, CDL coordinator and right-to-know officer.
Supervisor Coleen Reamer was appointed Township Safety Officer as well as Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Coordinator. Woerner was appointed the alternative to those positions.
Supervisors were also appointed delegates and alternatives to the various committees.
Reamer was named representative to the Adams County Council of Government. Supervisor Ryan Picarelli was appointed as representative to the Adams County Tax Collection Committee with LuAnn Dille serving as secretary to the committee.
Deardorff will serve as Planning Commission Liaison as well as representative to the Ag Security Council. Newly elected supervisor Ed Spence was appointed delegate to the Adams Tax Bureau with Picarelli as an alternative.
Township traffic engineer McMahhon Transportation Engineers and Planners is now a part of Bowman, but still has a representative of Jodie Evans, according to Garretson.
Reamer and Picarelli were appointed delegates to the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors (PSATS) Annual Educational Conference.
Board Hears Fire Service Updates
Cashtown Community Fire Department Fire Chief Jeff Bowling presented updates regarding county wide fire box cards to the Hamiltonban Board of Supervisors on January 2.
Adams County is looking to go live with a new computer-aided dispatch network system in May and has taken the opportunity to adopt standardization protocol for emergency fire department responses across the county, according to Bowling.
Fire box cards map out locations and determine which Department responds to a ‘first due’ area and what departmetns will follow up with additional resources.
Fire departments have then been working to make minor changes to ensure all residences are receiving the closet responding departments.
The hope is the upgraded layout system will improve logistics and response times for both First Responders and backup/relief operators.
Four fire departments service Hamiltonban Township: Cashtown, Fairfield Fire and EMS, Fountaindale Volunteer Fire Department, and South Mountain Volunteer Fire Department.
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