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Machamer elected chair; Brown wins vice chair 3-2 as Board approves appointments and liaison changes
Summary
At its Jan. 5 reorganization meeting, Silver Spring Township supervisors elected Carldon R. Machamer chair and Laura Brown vice chair (3-2). The board approved a slate of township and committee appointments, and a contested Planning Commission liaison vote also passed 3-2.
Carldon R. Machamer was elected chair of the Silver Spring Township Board of Supervisors during the board’s Jan. 5 reorganization meeting; the vote followed a nomination by Supervisor Laura Brown and carried on a Brown/Potteiger motion. Laura Brown was elected vice chair on a Potteiger/Machamer motion that passed 3-2, with Supervisors David R. Lenker II and Harry D. Kotzmoyer Jr. voting no.
The votes came as the board moved through its annual reorganizational business, approving new and continuing appointments for township officials and advisory boards. On a Lenker/Kotzmoyer motion the board confirmed Raymond Palmer as township manager, Subashini Krishnamurthy as treasurer, Willetta Huth as township secretary, and Sean M. Shultz, Esq., as township solicitor, among other appointments.
The board also approved multiple committee and board memberships, including agricultural, conservation and planning panels. The New Kingstown Vision Committee (NKVC) roster included a contingent reappointment of Kathi Pifer "contingent upon the revision of the current NKVC Resolution to permit non-Township resident members," as noted in the minutes.
A separate motion to appoint supervisors as liaisons to committees produced the meeting’s closest margins. The board appointed Laura Brown as liaison to the Planning Commission on a Potteiger/Machamer motion; the motion carried 3-2 with Lenker and Kotzmoyer opposed. During discussion, Solicitor Shultz’s guidance that a liaison should attend a commission meeting only in an observatory role — and should not offer testimony on behalf of the board — was noted.
Board procedures and rules also were formalized: the board adopted official bylaws and Rules of Order, and appointed Machamer as temporary chair at the meeting’s start. Several routine administrative items were approved by motion, including the 2026 holiday schedule and authorization for signature cards and fixed expense payments.
Votes recorded in the meeting minutes show the board resolving annual governance roles and filling committee positions; tallies were recorded when noted in the minutes (vice chair and Planning Commission liaison each passed 3-2). Where the minutes simply report "the motion carried," the board approved the listed action without a recorded roll-call in the transcript.
The board adjourned at 7:24 p.m.
