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New Middletown Township manager outlines priorities, flags $3.5 million operating shortfall

5563685 · August 11, 2025
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Manager Eden Ratliff told the board he spent his first month listening to staff and stakeholders, meeting with Simon Properties about Oxford Valley Mall, raised concerns about volunteer fire funding and said the township starts fiscal year with a $3.5 million operating deficit.

Eden Ratliff, who began as Middletown Township manager about a month before the Aug. 11 meeting, told the Board of Supervisors he spent his opening weeks meeting staff and external partners, conducting listening sessions and beginning preparations for budget development.

Ratliff said he met with representatives of Simon Property Group and the local mall management to discuss possible futures for the roughly 100-acre Oxford Valley Mall property and “how that kind of partners with the board’s vision and what the community’s vision” might be. He said the developer responded positively to exploratory discussions and staff expects follow-up…

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