Occasionally a township board will be politically or philosophically divided to the point that it makes it very difficult to operate. In this webinar, we will discuss a variety of common “divided board” issues, including filling vacancies on the board of supervisors, what to do when a supervisor abstains from voting to avoid controversial issues, the role of the chair in bringing order to the meeting, and the rights of supervisors to address topics that are not on the agenda.

This virtual full-day offering is a must-attend for anyone who has responsibility for HR and personnel management in their township.

In this webinar, representatives from the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission will review key issues that are important to your township’s comprehensive planning and implementation efforts (using Susquehanna Township as an example), including infrastructure, land development, open space, housing/building stock, cultural resources, and transportation. They will also discuss how you can most effectively use the tools in the Planning Toolkit developed by TCRPC.

If you're not focused on volunteer recruitment and retention for your volunteer fire departments -- what are you focused on? This conversation will outline some of the forces converging on today's volunteers and will focus on offering solutions for the community and its first responders to move forward together towards adequate and affordable public safety services.

This webinar is your opportunity to get answers to all of your Right-to-Know Law-related questions (or stump the presenters!). George Spiess with the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records and Scott Coburn with PSATS will be prepared to cover all sorts of issues, from pulling records from databases to drafting affidavits to when is an appropriate time to invoke a 30-day extension and much more. If you would like to submit questions beforehand to make sure that they get covered, please send them to scoburn@psats.org.

This webinar will help townships better navigate the Department of Labor & Industry’s new unemployment compensation filing website. It will also provide best practices for how townships should be using the website to more efficiently answer unemployment compensation claims made by former employers and better protect themselves against fraudulent claims.

In this webinar, Jason Wert with RETTEW will review the many benefits – financial, long-term resiliency, and sustainability – that grid-independent solar operations can bring municipalities and municipal authorities. He will use as a case study the University Area Joint Authority in State College, which incorporated a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) into its original solar array and has since achieved approximately 80% grid-based energy independence through this integrated system at its wastewater treatment and reuse facilities.

If you are unsure whether you have everything ready for your township's 2021 Organization Meeting, required to be held the first Monday of January, then make sure to attend this webinar. Holly Fishel of PSATS will review best practices and checklists to help ensure that your township has a smooth organization meeting.

Attend this session to learn the basics about liquid fuels funding, including how it's allocated, what can be purchased, and where townships can turn for support and assistance. PennDOT staffers will also review recent audit findings and explain how your township can avoid similar LFF mistakes.

This webinar is designed to address the potential audit of township expenditures of ARPA funds by the federal government. Ryan Gonder and Tim Horstmann of McNees Wallace & Nurick will review the process, the most recent guidance and/or regulations that townships and the federal government will be following, what township need to do to prepare for a potential audit, and other timely advice as practicable.