By Monica Fragale
Contributing Writer

Ellen Sosangelis became the official head of East Marlborough Township’s Board of Supervisors at the Jan. 6 reorganization meeting, and John Sarro became the vice chair. 

Sosangelis, then the vice chairwoman, became the acting board chair when then-chairwoman Kathryn Monahan resigned from the board of supervisors last September. Sarro has previously served as both the chairman and vice chairman of the board of supervisors.

Act 69 of 1933 sets the first Monday of the new year (or the first Tuesday, if the former is a holiday) as the day for township supervisors to reorganize their boards.

The board also voted to have Supervisor John Auger serve on the Unionville Area Regional Planning Commission, Sosangelis and Auger serve as East Marlborough’s representatives to the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors, and Supervisor Jim Chance serve as the voting delegate and alternate for the township on the Kennett Fire & EMS Regional Commission.

Other appointments made at East Marlborough’s reorganization meeting include the following:

• Neil Lovekin as township manager, secretary, and administration open records officer;
• Peter Barsz as treasurer;
• Jeffrey Simpson as public works director and roadmaster;
• Robert C. Clarke Jr. as police chief, emergency management coordinator, assistant fire marshal, and police open records officer;
• Charlie Shock as codes and zoning officer;
• The firm of Unruh, Turner, Burke & Frees as township solicitor;
• Berkheimer as tax collector and sewer user fee collector;
• Vandemark & Lynch as engineer;
• Margaret Egli and Corinne Raphel Sweeney as Kennett Library Board representatives;
• Mary Ann Gorko as registered elector;
• United Inspection Agency as fire marshal;
• The firm of Herbert, Rowland & Grubic as township wastewater engineer; and
• The firm of Glackin, Thomas and Panzak as landscape architect consultants.