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Carbon County commissioners

The Carbon County Commissioners acted on the following items during their weekly meeting on Thursday:

Reappointments

• Conservation District: Scott Mosier of Palmerton, farmer director; Merle B. Hunsicker of Lehighton, public director; and Wayne E. Nothstein, commissioner representative. Mosier and Hunsicker’s reappointments are four-year terms, while Nothstein’s is a one-year term.

• Hospital Authority: Scott Rehrig of Lehighton, five-year term.

• Industrial Development Authority: Ron Tirpak of Summit Hill, five-year term.

• Planning Commission: Dwight Eisenhower of Lehighton and Dennis J. DeMara of Lehighton, four-year terms.

Other actions

• Approved the purchase of rock salt from American Rock Salt Company LLC of Mount Morris, New York at a cost of $85 a ton. Delivery price is based on a minimum of 22 tons.

• Approved a nonexclusive license agreement with Scott Lignore of Scott Lignore Carriage Rides of Albrightsville for use of the county parking lot for departures and arrivals of a horse-drawn carriage. The agreement is through the end of the month and cost $100.

Personnel

• Employment separations: Michael R. McCuen of Albrightsville, corrections officer effective Nov. 17; and Thomas S. Radocha of Summit Hill, part-time corrections officer, effective Dec. 1.

• Retirement: Mary A. Watkins of Coaldale, corrections officer, effective Jan. 24.

• Resignations: Taylor M. Davis of Lansford, 911 operator, effective Nov. 23; Thomas J. Earley of Dunmore and Jerome W. Walsh of Wyoming, corrections assessors, corrections department, effective Oct. 21.

• Prison board appointments: Michael A. Moore of Lehighton, corrections officer, effective Nov. 29; Anthony J. Pompa of Jim Thorpe and Bridgett K. Thornton of Bowmanstown, corrections officers, both effective Dec. 6.

• Date of hire correction: Douglas P. Budziak of Nesquehoning, part-time corrections officer/Teamsters, effective Dec. 6.

• Changes of status: O’Neil O. Chambers of Albrightsville, from corrections officer to acting sergeant, effective Nov. 29; Samuel T. Hellen of Palmerton, from administrator, PCWDA to executive director, WOIA, effective Dec. 24; Heather N. Brown of Lehighton, from administrator trainee, PCWDA to administrator, effective Dec. 24.

• Acknowledgments: Clerk of Courts: Patricia A. Flood of Albrightsville, part-time clerical specialist, effective Dec. 7; Recorder of Deeds: Retirement of Joyce N. Nalesnik of Lansford, coordinator of records/indexer, effective Jan. 9.

- Amy Miller