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Weissport Municipal Authority seeking two new members

Weissport is in a pickle when it comes to the Weissport Municipal Authority.

The authority needs new two members to make up the three-man board.Presently only Rusty Schoenberger is seated.Theresa Troutman is administrating the billing of customers.Attorney Gregory L. Mousseau, solicitor for the authority, has asked Weissport Council in a letter to help him seek two additional members and also asked if Troutman could have a key to the borough building to retrieve correspondence and make copies.Mousseau said that two members were needed because Timothy Rehrig recently retired from the authority.Anyone interested should contact a Weissport Borough Council member.Franklin Township secretary Brenda Neeb said that Weissport Municipal Authority has not billed Franklin Township in more than a year to have Franklin Township pay its share of the operating costs of the Weissport pumping station.She noted that Weissport failed to bill Franklin Township what amounts to nearly $2,000 a quarter. Presently Weissport is owed nearly $8,000."We can't pay the bill until there is an invoice," Neeb said.She said that Weissport must produce the bill for electricity and any other costs, and Franklin Township would pay its share.Carol Addy, secretary for the Central Carbon Municipal Authority, noted that Weissport has been paying its bills on time."In fact, I sent out the bill for April and I received payment a week later," she said.Addy said that Franklin Township installed its own flow meter to measure the effluents that Franklin Township produces so that the costs for Franklin Township and Weissport are separated.At one time, Weissport metered Franklin Township's effluent and billed Franklin Township for its share of the costs to transport the effluent across the river to the treatment plant.