Friday, March 2, 2012
Newtown Township Board of Supervisors also amended the Apartment-Office zoning code, hired a bookkeeper for the Municipal Authority, approved to sponsor for a Marple Newtown Youth Rec Night.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–At the March 26th Newtown Township Board of Supervisors meeting, Township Manager Mike Trio updated the Board on several items including revenues that are coming to the township. Trio stated that 51 building permits have been issued in the township over the last two weeks. In the past month, the construction value has totaled to approximately $630,000 and bringing in permit revenue of approximately $20,000 to the township. To date, the township has collected $2,360,996 in real estate taxes and $137,000 in Local Service Taxes from the fourth quarter of 2011, according to Trio, or about "55 percent of our total revenue expected for at face value." In addition, a potential revenue includes the sale of the old Newtown Public …
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Newtown Board of Supervisors approved the 2012 SR-2 and SR-3 districts' sewer rates for the township as well as appointed a sanitary sewer enforcement officer and provided an update on an agreement being made with the township and Kelly & Close Engineers.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–At a Newtown Township Board of Supervisors meeting on Feb. 13, supervisors unanimously approved the revised 2012 sewer rates for the SR-2 and SR-3 districts in the township. 2012 sewer fees and rates for the SR-2 district are as follows: 2012 sewer fees and rates for the SR-3 district are as follow: New Metering System Possible for 2013 According to Township Manager Mike Trio, Newtown is currently considering changing the possibility of using a separate deduction metering system, such as an irrigation system, on residents' properties and charging separately for that metering. Trio said the possibility of changing the metering system may occur for next year. A few residents of Springton Pointe Woods, Springton Pointe Estates …
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Newtown Board of Supervisors approved the final draft of the Ashford cluster development plan for the Department of Environmental Protection's approval at a meeting on Sept. 26.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–The Rouse Group/Ashford Land Company sought final approval from the Newtown Board of Supervisors at a meeting on Monday evening for their Ashford cluster development planning module. The board unanimously approved the final draft of the 449-unit, sub-division cluster development of single-family homes located at the former John duPont estate and Biddle Farm off of Route 252/Newtown Street Road. The plan will now be sent to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for their approval. At a meeting in June, Tina Makoulian, a representative for The Rouse Group, said the plan was getting down to the fine details. Since then, Makoulian said DEP returned an earlier submission of their plan for administrative and technical …
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Newtown Township's Municipal Authority appointed a new chairman, while two new members filled vacant seats on the board, and a moment of silence was taken for the passing of former Chairman Bob Jackson at a meeting on Sept. 6.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–With just over two months since he's been appointed, newly appointed board member of Newtown Township's Municipal Authority Joseph Sweeney was given another hat to wear by the end of Tuesday evening's Municipal Authority meeting. Sweeney, who was appointed by the Board of Supervisors on June 27, was appointed by the board members of the Municipal Authority as the chairman of the board. Two new members also joined the board on Tuesday evening to fill the final two vacancies. Recently appointed members, also approved by the supervisors, Raymond Lopez, and former Municipal Authority member Jack DiPompeo sat on the board. Lopez motioned to appoint Sweeney to chair the Municipal Authority, which was seconded by Vice Chairman Mark…
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
The township will sell 103,000 gallons of capacity that according to Upper Providence Township Engineer James Kelly, it will not need in the foreseeable future.
MEDIA–A resolution to sell 103,000 gallons of Upper Providence's sewer capacity to Newtown Township was passed unanimously last Thursday evening. "Newtown is in dire need of capacity," Upper Providence Township Engineer James Kelly said. "We feel comfortable that we can let them have that [capacity] because our measured flows are being reduced as we speak because with the new system we're putting in, we're well below the standard acceptable rates." Upper Providence Township has more than 400,000 gallons of capacity, Kelly said. The township will sell Newtown Township the 103,000 gallons of capacity at the rate Upper Providence paid for the capacity initially. Newtown, who is currently working on their comprehensive plan and working on a …
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
The Newtown Board of Supervisors appointed two members of the public to fill the last two seats on the Municipal Authority.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–Newtown supervisors approved the appointments of two candidates to fill the vacant seats on the township's Municipal Authority at a Board of Supervisors meeting on Aug. 9. Raymond Lopez, president of the Homeowner's Association of Springton Pointe Estates, and Jack DiPompeo, a former supervisor who served for six years on the board, were unanimously approved in a 3-0 vote (Supervisors Linda Houldin and George Wood were not present at Monday night's meeting) to fill the remaining empty seats of the Municipal Authority. At a supervisors meeting on June 27, Joseph Sweeney was appointed to fill one of the three vacant seats and sat in on his first Municipal Authority meeting on Aug. 2, and discussed the Act 537 Plan. Two empty …
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Newly appointed member Joseph Sweeney joined the few members left on the Municipal Authority at their meeting on Aug. 1.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–Newtown Township's Municipal Authority held its first meeting without former Chairman Bob Jackson and with a newly appointed member Joseph Sweeney on Aug. 1. Within a few days of each other, the Board of Supervisors approved the appointment of Sweeney to the Municipal Authority on June 27 and Jackson resigned as chairman on June 29. That currently still leaves the board with two vacant seats. Despite the new changes on the board, residents didn't skip a beat and demanded answers and direction from the remaining members Mark Caldwell and Jack Lear as well as newly appointed member Sweeney in regards to the Act 537 Plan and an update on the Florida Park and Echo Valley special studies. Although he was please to have Sweeney on…
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Former Municipal Authority Chairman Bob Jackson invited residents in Newtown to attend his meeting on sewers on July 21.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–"I'm not here to criticize the township. I'm not here to grind any axe," stated former Newtown Municipal Authority Chairman Bob Jackson at the beginning of his meeting on July 21. "But the project that was ready to go has been short-circuited." The project Jackson referred to was the latest version of the Act 537 Plan involving two special studies for Echo Valley and Florida Park sewage plans. At the last Planning Commission meeting in June, Jackson and Kevin Matson, the municipal authority engineer, sought the approval for both the special studies and two planning modules for the Olde Masters golf course and the Marville site, in which they only approved the Echo Valley special study. "I would've approve both the Echo …
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Newtown Supervisors Chairman Joseph Catania shares with Patch his reaction to Municipal Authority Chairman Bob Jackson's resignation on Wednesday.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–In an email sent out on late Wednesday afternoon, Newtown Municipal Authority Chairman Bob Jackson stated his resignation to members of the Board of Supervisors, administrators and a few others from the community. "In view of the township's position, I have chosen to resign as chairman of the Newtown Township Municipal Authority," states Jackson in his email. "It has been a pleasure working with all of you and I regret that I could not finish what we started. I do hope that the momentum we created will continue to a successful conclusion for the project. Thank you for the opportunity to serve and good luck to all." In a previous email on June 20, Mike Trio, acting interim township manager, sent an email out to the Board of …
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Municipal Authority Chairman Bob Jackson resigns through email after two of his requests were denied by the Board of Supervisors.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–In an email dated June 29 at 3:04 p.m., Newtown Township's Municipal Authority Chairman Bob Jackson stated his resignation from the Authority after two requests that were denied by the Board of Supervisors. In the email, Jackson requests that the supervisors move forward with two approvals: to convert the Newtown Township Municipal Authority to an operating authority and to agree to employ Jackson as a paid executive director of the Municipal Authority at a salary of $7,500 per month on a part-time basis. An email dated on June 20 was sent to the Board of Supervisors from Mike Trio, acting interim manager, seeking direction on Jackson's requests. In another email dated on June 29 at 10:54 a.m., Trio responds to Jackson that …
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Walt
8:18 pm on Friday, February 17, 2012
It is much appreciated how well the Township is running now with the new administration, newly elected supervisors and new solicitor. Good riddance to the games and problem makers we had before. more ›