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Votes at a glance: Lebanon Township Committee adopts routine resolutions, licenses and authorizes bills (Jan. 21, 2026)
Summary
The committee approved a set of resolutions and routine items, including accepting the tax collector's 2025 report, awarding a professional-service resolution for affordable housing counsel, approving a junkyard license and authorizing $158,930.91 in bill payments; it also authorized entry to executive session.
At its Jan. 21 regular meeting the Lebanon Township Committee approved a series of routine resolutions, licenses and motions. Key outcomes recorded on the public record included:
- Resolution 28-2026: Adopted to accept the tax collector's 2025 annual report; financial figures were read into the record (2025 taxes $27,221,070.11; total receipts reported $28,178,175.94).
- Resolution 29-2026 and 30-2026: Adopted to authorize a refund of a tax overpayment and to authorize redemption of a tax-sale certificate (numbers included in agenda).
- Resolution 31-2026: Adopted to award a professional-service agreement to Gephardt & Kiefer law offices as special counsel for affordable housing; one member recorded an abstention.
- Junkyard license: Committee approved the 2026 license for Berg Salvage Yard by motion.
- Boy Scout proclamations: Committee approved proclamations recognizing two Eagle Scout candidates.
- School crossing lights: Committee authorized a $1,821 additional expenditure to General Highway Products to add solar panels/light housing as part of prior work on school crossing lights; this was charged to the capital allocation in the approved budget lines.
- Resolution authorizing payment of bills: Adopted authorizing payment of $158,930.91 in current bills and claims.
- Executive session: Committee voted to enter executive session (Resolution 34-2026) for collective bargaining, contract negotiations, personnel and pending vehicle-store litigation.
Where specific individual roll-call tallies were recorded in the transcript, members responded in the affirmative or with abstentions as indicated; multiple routine minutes and other procedural motions were also approved earlier in the meeting.
