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Contested Zoning Hearing Board retention and solicitor billing prompt debate at Lehigh Township meeting
Summary
Supervisors clashed with Zoning Hearing Board members over executive sessions, legal bills and board procedures; a motion to remove longtime member Katherine Mack failed and the township raised the Zoning Hearing Board solicitor rate to $130 per hour.
Lehigh Township supervisors and Zoning Hearing Board members debated governance practices and legal billing at the Board’s Jan. 6 organizational meeting, centering on whether a longtime board member should be retained.
Supervisor Cindy Miller moved to not retain Zoning Hearing Board member Katherine Mack, saying "the interactions of higher legal fees are unnecessary, the meetings that are occurring that are unnecessary, and the accusations that have gone on that are unnecessary have to stop." The motion…
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