Several chief administrative officers announced their intentions to leave their respective posts in Lehighton and Palmerton.

Lehighton

On a 5-0 vote, Lehighton Borough in August hired Stephen Travers as its new borough manager.

Travers, of Kunkletown, was hired at a salary of $105,000 on a one-year contract.

He started as Lehighton’s borough manager Aug. 15.

Travers most recently served as Catasauqua borough manager, resigning in June after 4½ years. His last day was July 27.

Before that, Travers was borough manager of Sharon Hill borough for five years.

In June, council unanimously approved a proposal for interim assistance by former borough Manager Nicole Beckett as it continued its search for a new borough manager.

The proposal calls for a starting date retroactive to May 21, and continues through Aug. 21, at the rate of $1,200 per month for Beckett’s services.

In May, council hired Kim Rubin as interim borough manager until a permanent borough manager is chosen.

Rubin began as interim borough manager on May 23 at a rate of $40 an hour. Rubin had been serving as the borough’s assistant secretary-treasurer.

Beckett, who resigned May 20, accepted the position of associate director of public service at the Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government at Lafayette College.

Beckett’s salary was $97,031 with the borough.

Palmerton

Palmerton Borough council on a 6-0 vote in October accepted the retirement of borough Manager Donna McGarry, effective April 11.

Afterward, council agreed to hire the Lafayette College Meyner Center at the rate of $105 an hour, with an amount not to exceed $7,000, to help it find McGarry’s eventual successor.

McGarry became borough manager in April 2019, after she succeeded longtime borough Manager Rodger Danielson.

McGarry, 61, has been employed by the borough for 35 years.

Her salary is $86,000.