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Township
Opposes County
Tax
Collections
The Aston Township Board of
Commissioners will be sending official letters to state senators
and representatives in Harrisburg declaring their unanimous
opposition to House Bill #1550. The pending measure would
authorize the county to collect all earned income tax (not
property taxes), instead of private companies like Centax - Aston
Township’s contracted collection agency.
“Commissioners
have a concern over how the township would receive their revenue
through county collection, versus now, when the township receives
it in a timely manner,” the letter will state.
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Public
Meetings and Special Events
March
4, 2008
(Tuesday)
6:30pm
at St. James Episcopal Church
Aston
Lions Club Dinner Meeting
March
10, 2008
(Monday)
6:30pm
in municipal building
Public
Works Committee Meeting
March
10, 2008
(Monday)
7:30pm
in municipal building
New
Construction Committee Meeting
March
11, 2008
(Tuesday)
6:30pm
in municipal building
Police
Committee Meeting
March
11, 2008 (Tuesday)
7:30pm
in municipal building
Executive
Committee Meeting
March
19,
2008 (Wednesday)
7pm
in municipal building
Board
of Commissioners Meeting
March
21,
2008 (Good
Friday)
Township
offices closed:
no
trash collections made
March
24, 2008 (Monday)
10:45am at St. James Episcopal Church
Aston-Chichester
AARP General Meeting
March
24, 2008 (Monday)
6:30pm
at SWDCMA, 1 Gamble Ln.
Southwest
Delaware County Municipal Authority Public Meeting
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March
24, 2008 (Monday)
6:45pm
at Community Center
General
Federation of Women Club General Meeting
March
25, 2008 (Tuesday)
7pm
in municipal building
Ordinance Committee
March
25, 2008 (Tuesday)
7pm
in municipal building
Zoning
Board Meeting
March
26, 2008 (Wednesday)
7pm
in municipal Building
Planning Commission Meeting
March
27, 2008 (Thursday)
10:45am
at Community Center
Aston
Senior Citizens Meeting
Seniors
Need Help
Volunteers are needed to help
Aston Senior Citizens deliver Meals-On-Wheels to Aston and
Brookhaven residents. If you are willing to work as little as two
hours a month, call Joan Hanlon at 610-485-2729
or Ralph Buschman at 610-494-3534.
Aston Senior Citizens will be hosting a trip to Philadelphia on March 25.
The tour will include the Liberty Museum and Fairmount Water Works
on the Schuylkill River. The $66 per person cost includes
transportation, taxes, tips and lunch at the Spaghetti Warehouse.
The bus departs at 9:15am and returns at 6pm. Call Betty Alexander
at 610-497
-1223 or Alice
Buschman at 610-494
-3534 for more
information.
SWDCMA
Meeting
Bears
Repeating
As of January, all Edgar Ave.
homeowners who suffered losses from a septic backup last spring
have had their insurance claims settled.
Representatives of the Southwest
Delaware County Municipal Authority met with several Edgar
residents on Feb. 4 at the municipal building. Discussion centered
on a recent engineering study and remediation options to guard
against future recurrences, with the favored choice of the
residents being the installation of two sets of check valves at
the sewer authority’s expense.
Grants
will be pursued to provide funding for the remediation measures,
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according to SWDCMA board member
Nelson Schaffer.
Only 8 of the 22 invited
families were represented at last month’s meeting, so another
meeting will be necessary. Edgar homeowners will be notified of
the pending second session by mail.
Commissioners Vice President
Frank Murphy recently reported on the progress of a Southwest
Delaware County Municipal Authority committee consisting of
himself and fellow commissioners Michael Higgins and Gary
Robinson. While further research is needed to chart the best
course for the sewer authority’s future, Murphy assured
residents that the township would not simply abandon its
investment in the facility.
“The situation is very
complicated,” Murphy noted. “Many hours have been spent
working with the sewer authority trying to figure out the best
path forward…After all the years of sacrifice by the people of
this township, the board of commissioners is not going to have a
fire sale for the sewer authority.”
A first step will be hiring a
firm or professional (at an expense of no more than $20,000) to
determine the market value of SWDCMA, and another entity at the
same cost cap to review “employee impact, rate stability,
customer service, and other non-valuation issues.”
Murphy noted that the outlined
research will take a few months to complete.
All SWDCMA public meetings are
held at the Aston Township municipal building, unless advertised
otherwise.
AARP Seeks Members
The
Aston-Chichester Chapter of AARP (American Association of Retired
Persons) is open to new members. Interesting meetings include a
low-cost lunch of steak sandwich, chips, dessert, and beverage for
$5. Call 610-494-2956 for more information.
Lions Hold Ladies Night
All Lions, Lionesses, spouses
and guests are invited to attend Ladies Night at St. James
Episcopal Church on March 19, starting at 6:30pm. Dinner is $12.00
per person. Come out and see Irish Step Dancers perform.
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