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Coal company donation discussed

During a meeting Monday following their annual reorganization, Schuylkill Township supervisors took steps to clean up some housekeeping items.

One of those items was how an annual $1,000 donation from Tuscarora Coal Company was being handled. According to a court order from the 1970s, the coal company annually would give $1,000 each to Schuylkill Township and Middleport borough to help those entities maintain roads used by the coal trucks.According to the wording of the agreement, the money was to be kept in a designated account. Schuylkill Township stopped doing that a few years ago, citing the additional cost of monthly bank charges to maintain the account. In past meetings, residents had raised the question on whether or not the money could be deposited into the general fund, saying that doing so violated the agreement.Directed by council, township solicitor Mike Greek had written a letter to Tuscarora Coal Company to ask if it was acceptable to put the money into the general fund rather than a separate bank account. During the meeting Monday, the supervisors said they had received confirmation in writing from the coal company that depositing the annual donation in the general fund was acceptable.During the township's December meeting, supervisor Chuck Fayash had asked that each supervisor have a password to enable him or her to access the township's computer system. His motion to do so passed with an amendment by supervisor Christine Verdier that it be done as long as Schuylkill Computers, the firm that maintains the township's computer system, can do so. The topic was revisited during Monday's meeting, but is still not resolved.