Tyrone Borough has been running without a borough manager since February 10, 2003 when Al Drayovitch resigned. Since February, the borough has been running on all cylinders.
\n\u201cThe department heads have been handling things extremely well,\u201d said Tyrone Borough Director of Administration Phyllis Garhart. \u201cEvery department head knows their responsibility and everything has and is being taken care of.\u201d
\nFollowing Drayovitch\u2019s resignation, the borough started advertising the position and the borough will be taking applications until June 30. Thus far 25 resumes for the position have been received by the Borough.
\nThe Borough Manager has oversight responsibilities over the water, sewer and highway departments and is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the borough.
\n\u201cIt has been business as usual,\u201d said Garhart.
\n\u201cAnything that has needed addressed has been taken care of.\u201d
\nIn the past department heads went to the borough manager when something needed taken care of. Now they could contact one of three people to assist.
\n\u201cWhen there is a legal matter, the department heads contact the solicitor (Larry Clapper), Mayor Stoner assists when called upon and the borough engineer Ray Myers will assist in an engineering capacity.
\n\u201cIt depends on what the situation dictates on who gets the first call,\u201d said Garhart. \u201cOur department heads know their jobs and haven\u2019t had to ask for much help.\u201d
\nWith things running smoothly, The Daily Herald asked Garhart why have a borough manager if things are running so smooth?
\n\u201cThe borough needs to have one person in place for the department heads to report to,\u201d said Garhart. \u201cEveryone has been working well together to get through this time without a borough manager, but the borough needs a manager in place on a full-time basis.\u201d
\nWith the application deadline of June 30, 2003, and the length of time to interview and settle on a new manager, the 2004 budget will be planned by the department heads.
\n\u201cI will be sending out the worksheets to the department heads at the end of July to estimate the end of 2003 and plan for 2004,\u201d said Garhart.
\n\u201cWe get a lot the information needed for the budget in August. Our department heads will fill out their requests and we will start the preliminary budget work.\u201d
\nGarhart is quick to point out that it has been a team effort that has kept things working smooth at the borough.
\n\u201cWe have an excellent work force,\u201d said Garhart. \u201cThe highway, water and sewer department is at full staff. Everyone has been working hard together. It took a lot of hard work from Tim Nulton at the sewer department, Gary Barr at the water department and Vern Latchford with the highway department to keep things running as smooth as they have.
\n\u201cIf one person wasn\u2019t working hard, we would have experienced problems. Thankfully, things are working smooth.\u201d
\nThe deadline for applications for the Borough Manager position is June 30, 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tyrone Borough has been running without a borough manager since February 10, 2003 when Al Drayovitch resigned. Since February, the borough has been running on all cylinders. \u201cThe department heads have been handling things extremely well,\u201d said Tyrone Borough Director of Administration Phyllis Garhart. \u201cEvery department head knows their responsibility and everything has and is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}