In the first meeting under the new Carbon County Board of Commissioners, the commissioners discussed or acted upon the following items:

• Approved the 2020 meeting schedule. Commissioner meetings will be held at 10:30 a.m. every Thursday in the commissioners’ meeting room, beginning Jan. 16, with the exception of Thanksgiving; salary board meetings will be held the first Thursday of the month during the commissioners’ meetings beginning Feb. 6; election board, the second Thursday of the month following the commissioners’ meetings beginning Feb. 13; retirement board, the third Thursday of the month following the commissioners’ meetings beginning Jan. 16; and prison board, the third Wednesday of the month at 1 p.m. at the Carbon County Correctional Facility.

• Approved a proposal from Master Locators, a ground penetrating radar system from Glen Mills, to scan and locate the path of the water line traveling from the well and also traveling from the treatment building at the Carbon County Animal Shelter. The cost is $1,100 for EM technology/single metallic line or if needed, $1,600 for the use of a tracer wire for plastic piping.

• Ratified proposals from Trane of Wilkes-Barre for repairs to several rooftop HVAC units at the correctional facility under a Co-stars contract. The total cost for repairing five units is $23,450.

• Adopted a resolution taking the position that the existing flow management for whitewater recreation and fishing opportunities on the Lehigh River should be maintained or improved at the Francis E. Walter Dam and not sacrificed for other uses.

Personnel

• Retirement: Marianne P. Butrie of Lehighton, executive secretary/open records officer, effective Jan. 16.

• Resignation: Jennifer E. Barnes of Weatherly, part-time dispatcher trainee, effective Jan. 3.

• Employment separation: Joseph J. Velitsky of Summit Hill, solicitor for the controller’s office, effective Jan. 5.

Changes of status

• Jennifer A. Boger of Jim Thorpe, from secretary III to executive secretary/open records officer trainee, commissioners’ officer, effective Jan. 7.

• Jenny YC Cheng-Serfass of Palmerton, from solicitor of register of wills/clerk of orphans courts and planning and development to solicitor of controller’s office, register of wills/clerk of orphans courts and planning and development, effective Jan. 6.

• Gregory L. Mousseau of Jim Thorpe, from chief public defender to chief public defender and solicitor of clerk of courts, effective Jan. 6.

• Paul J. Levy of Allentown, from first assistant public defender and solicitor of clerk of courts to first assistant public defender, effective Jan. 6.

• Heidi A. Skrimcovsky of Jim Thorpe, from automation/passport processing clerk, prothonotary; to first deputy trainee, recorder of deeds, effective Jan. 6.

• Cynthia Dydra-Hatton of Lehighton, from first assistant district attorney and solicitor for the prothonotary to first assistant district attorney, effective Jan. 6.

• Robert S. Frycklund of Lehighton, from third assistant district attorney and solicitor for tax assessment and tax claim to second assistant district attorney and solicitor of tax assessment and tax claim, effective Jan. 6.

• Barbara P. Miller of Jim Thorpe, from second deputy, register of wills to first deputy, register of wills, effective Jan. 6.

• Megan L. Veen of Lehighton, from part-time dispatcher trainee to 911 operator, effective Jan. 7.

Appointments

• Prothonotary: James R. Nanovic of Jim Thorpe, solicitor; and Allyson M. Kusko of Nesquehoning, automation/passport processing clerk, both effective Jan. 6.

• Register of wills: Hannah J. Robles of Jim Thorpe, second deputy, effective Jan. 6.

• Prison Board: Brandon L. Bohn of Mahanoy City and Courtney L. Frye of Lansford, part-time corrections officers, effective Jan. 6.

• Court: Kimberly J. Butala of Weatherly, part-time secretary I, magisterial district judge, effective Jan. 20.