Two part-time police officers from the Schuylkill Township Police Department have not worked in three months.

Supervisor Board Chairman Charles Fayash, who is also the board’s liaison to the police department, said Chief Frank DiMarco and Sgt. Anthony Stanell have not been working.

The issue came up at Monday night’s supervisors’ meeting, where there was an item on the agenda to advertise to hire another officer.

The supervisors voted 2-1, with Supervisor Gary Feathers voting no, to advertise for another officer. Feathers took issue with the two absent officers.

Feathers asked Fayash why they haven’t worked, but Fayash said the answer to the question is a personnel matter he couldn’t discuss at the public meeting.

Both officers have full-time jobs. DiMarco operates an auto body and repair shop in New Philadelphia, and Stannell is a full-time officer in Tamaqua.

At the beginning of the meeting, the supervisors received a letter from DiMarco in which he resigned as chief, but wanted to stay on as a patrolman. He recommended Patrolman Doug Litwhiler to act as officer in charge in his sted.

But resident Richard Magnani pointed out DiMarco could not resign and take another position without first applying for it.

In February, the supervisors - on the same 2-1 vote - hired Tim Walsh, who also serves as an officer in Port Carbon Borough and Walker Township - after DiMarco did a background check on Walsh.

But Walsh resigned a month later.

At the time, Walsh replaced Officer Jason Lex, who was suspended in December after he was charged with using a police computer to find his ex-girlfriend and then confront her and her new boyfriend last May.

Citing the Pennsylvania Law Enforcement Safety Act of 2004, which states Lex, 49, of Ringtown, had to be suspended until the charges are disposed of, the supervisors voted to suspend Lex in December - who had been off-duty after the incident, but was reinstated in September.

In a letter to council dated Feb. 4, Lex resigned as an officer. The supervisors subsequently voted to formally accept Lex’s resignation.

Garbage bill change

The township ordinance regarding delinquent garbage bills says the supervisors should be tacking on $20 per year bills are delinquent, not just $20. So in the future, they will be charging $20 per year. So if the bill is in arrears for three years, it will be $60.

The supervisors voted to purchase two Automatic External Defibrillator machines, for $$4,817.

Feathers said he found the AED machine the township had sitting on a shelf, and it is outdated.

A fully automatic AED will be placed in the township building, and another, semi-automated machine in the township police vehicle.

Mark Buccieri, the township road foreman, said a place for residents to dispose of green waste will be established at the site of a proposed parking lot near the Mary D Fire Co.

Fayash asked if the monthly meeting on the first Monday of the month be eliminated, because there is already a meeting the third Wednesday.

But Feathers said if there is no reason for a meeting, it can be canceled.