Residents of East Penn Township will not face a tax increase for the 2017 year.

The board of supervisors voted during its Monday night meeting to keep the millage rate at 8.135, the same as the 2016 tax year.According to Schwab, an estimated $2,500 of the $10,000 in attorney's fees have been collected from the Troxell code violation enforcement case.The fire department will receive new insulated fiberglass doors to be installed before the end of the month. The board received a bid for $6,164 from OMNI Construction for the exterior entrance door.The supervisors have instructed road crew members to keep watch for people illegally dumping trash along the township roads.Supervisor Steven Heckman said while completing the repairs to the municipality's roadways the crew has run across old televisions, tractor tires, mattresses and "other real crazy stuff. Some of it's a little shocking."Heckman and the rest of the board agreed that anyone caught dumping trash in the township will face the highest fines applicable for the act."When we find out who's doing it we're going to impose the strictest fines. Some places it's becoming a pig sty," he said."We will try to nip this in the bud," he said.Vice Chairman Deanna Cunfer said it cost the township $18 to dispose of tires recovered earlier in the month.The road crew has continued its shoulder and repair work on Stone Mountain and Quarry roads while gravel and dirt roads Sports Club, Bake Oven, Hoffman and Eidem remain on the upcoming work schedule."We will have Sporting Club Road finished before the end of the month," Heckman said.Plows will soon be attached to trucks as the crew begins its winterization of township equipment and install the snow fence around the borough building."We are going to practice with the snow plows on the trucks so everyone knows their route," Heckman said.Before the close of the meeting the board voted to hire Brandon Bradford for a 90-day-probation promotion to roadmaster."If it doesn't work out he can go back to his position on the road crew," Chairman William Schwab said.The position will take effect immediately and will include a raise to $25 per hour for the job.The Recreation Committee will host its monthly breakfast at the Social Hall from 8 a.m. to noon Sunday.