The Carbon County Commissioners acted on or discussed the following items during their weekly meeting last week.

• Authorized the advertisement of an invitation to bid for food services through the Area Agency on Aging.

• Adopted a new policy allowing all nonunion employees, full-time, part-time and seasonal, to be compensated at 1.5 times their regular straight hourly rate for working on a county observed holiday. This mainly affects the parking attendants and staff at Mauch Chunk Lake Park.

• Approved an allocation letter from the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services for the 2022-2023 MATP program listing the initial allocation of $617,771.

• Approved a service agreement with LANTA for transportation services under the Medical Assistance Transportation Program through June 30, 2023, at a per trip rate of $86.75.

Personnel

• Employment separations: Alexander W. Parker of Mountain Top, corrections officer, effective Aug. 11; and Thomas C. Ebinger of Effort, corrections officer, effective Aug. 15.

• Resignations: James S. Romankow of Lansford, sergeant, corrections, effective Aug. 12; Robert K. Maier of Lehighton, corrections officer, effective Aug. 12; and Terri L. Rock of Jim Thorpe, county caseworker supervisor I, Children and Youth Services, effective Aug. 26.

Acknowledgments

• Court appointment: Brittany A. Taylor of Lehighton, secretary I, district magistrate, Palmerton, effective Aug. 22.

• Resignation: Valerie A. Rodriguez of Hazleton, secretary I, district magistrate, Weatherly, effective Aug. 22.

• Controller’s office resignation: Jarrett R. Farina of Albrightsville, accounting manager, effective Sept. 2.

• Register of Wills change of status: Elizabeth A. Dodson of Summit Hill, from coordinator of records/genealogy/ancestry researcher to records/genealogy/ancestry file clerk, effective Aug. 22.