Time for municipal change, with elections approaching residents of Slatington need to evaluate the four open seats for council.

Explain how three members of council who sat on the finance committee did not know financial audits dating back to 2019 were not done. I learned in March of 2022 as a new member of council that the audits were three years behind.

Questions were raised on how to catch up. Some suggestions were authorizing overtime strictly for working on the financials or hiring a person with financial experience to help correct this.

A lot of overtime was also spent in the police budget due to a decline in police dept. members and yet there were still open shifts resulting in state police coverage.

During my two years on council, I shamefully saw six members of the police department decide to resign and 14 members of the borough owned fire department resign or get terminated.

Unlike the public safety committee, I reached out to a lot of these paid and volunteer employees to see if we as council had some sort of internal issue or was this just a coincidence.

The answer for fireman serious internal issues still occurring and public safety committee still allowing.

It’s time to get people on council who truly believe in equal rights for all employees (paid and volunteers) and truly believe in being involved in the committees they sit on, because this is what residents tax dollars pay for, not for councilman to just sit back and have the borough manager do everything and believe his views are always right.

Former Councilman and Dedicated Volunteer,

Jeffrey S. Hausman

Slatington