SHENANDOAH HEIGHTS — The West Mahanoy Township supervisors hired three new police officers during Tuesday’s monthly meeting.
The supervisors approved the hiring of Joshua Pastucka, David Stamets and John Kaczmarczyk as part-time officers at $15 per hour. The motion also included raising the salary from $14.50 to $15 of police Officer Marvin Livergood, who serves as the township code enforcement officer.
The police department is headed by Chief Shawn Tray and include two full-time officers and four part-time officers.
In police business, Tray said, “Later in the month we will begin our aggressive driving grant program, with the target roadway being Route 61.”
The only agenda item under old business was the formal adoption of Ordinance 2015-1 that authorized the participation of the township in the Pennsylvania Townships Health Insurance Cooperative Trust.
The trust exists as an intergovernmental cooperative arrangement of municipalities to provide townships and certain other permitted governmental employers in Pennsylvania with a vehicle to pool resources and jointly leverage buying power to develop, administer and make available cost-effective medical, prescription, dental, life, disability and other employee welfare benefit insurance or self-insured programs for their employees.
Township Secretary-Treasurer Michael B. Michalik explained after the meeting that the ordinance only deals with life insurance coverage of employees. The township has its health insurance with a separate firm.