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Board adopts flexible attendance policy, fills vacancies on advisory committees
Summary
Tinicum supervisors amended and adopted a committee attendance policy allowing discretion to remove volunteers who miss 50% of meetings, and they filled multiple volunteer committee vacancies (planning, EAC, historic commission, land preservation, building code appeals).
The board debated and amended a proposed committee attendance policy so that a member who fails to attend or participate in 50% of meetings "may" be removed rather than automatically removed, allowing the board discretion for excused absences such as health reasons. A resident, Barb Quimby, asked for clarification about which meetings the policy covered; the board confirmed it applies to the committee or board to which a member is appointed.
The board then moved through a series of volunteer appointments: Carl Ruth Hart was elevated from alternate to a full voting member of the zoning hearing board (term through 12/31/2028); Mike Kaufman was appointed to the planning commission; three members were named to the building code appeals board; and staggered terms were set for the Environmental Advisory Committee and the Land Preservation Committee to maintain continuity. "So amending the motion to replace the word 'will' in the last phrase with the word 'may,'" a board member said during the session.
Why it matters: volunteer committees implement zoning, environmental and historic review in the township; the attendance policy change balances accountability with flexibility for volunteers and the staggered appointments preserve institutional memory while filling vacancies.
