RANSOM TWP. — At the Ransom Township supervisors’ meeting April 5, supervisor Dave Bird announced the Keep PA Beautiful: Alliance Spring Cleanup, which will be on Friday, May 7, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday, May 8, from 7 a.m. to noon. The cleanup will be outside the Ransom Township Municipal Building and the Mount Dewey Community Center.
“Anybody in the township that has a road or wants to do a cleanup, you just contact the township here, and we’ll take care of it through the landfill,” Bird explained.
Supervisor Allan Myers added that the supervisors will provide gloves and bags.
In other business, auditor Richard Tenio summarized the auditor’s report. He mentioned that on March 13 and 20, the township auditors, including himself, Shane Cawley, and Sandra Powell, met with secretary Pat Myers. He said that they reviewed statements, governmental activities, business activities, and remaining funds information for Jan. 1, 2020, to December 31, 2020. He said that they looked at general ledgers, cash receipts, bank statements, voided checks, duplicate deposit tickets and all vouchers, meetings, leases and contracts, and a copy of documents in support of advertising and bidding procedures. He said that they also looked at financial records from Ransom Township are the PA local government investment trust, the liquid fuels fund, the fire pact fund, the general fund, and the Lions Club fund as well as procurement cards, local real estate tax collection, and building permits.
“Each major fund and the aggregate funds for Ransom Township were presented correctly,” he said.
Tenio made two recommendations. He asked the supervisors to hire a second supervisor for Alliance Landfill. Bird replied that the supervisors just received the funding for it.
“We’ve been working on that for two years,” he said. Tenio then suggested to improve the control of petty cash. He mentioned that people were just putting receipts in a folder last year.
“There was no documentation,” he said. “No reporting of those.”
Tenio said that Myers is already taking it upon herself to get it corrected for this year.
“Other than that, it was a nice audit,” he said. “Things look really good. You guys are doing a great job keeping the information available to the public and to the auditors.”
Tenio handed copies of the audit to the supervisors, who then voted to accept the audit.
In his treasury report, chairman Dennis Macheska announced the general fund: $949,640.53; liquid fuels: $830,697.65; revenues: $35,854.88; expenditures: $49,902.83. He said that the recycling for March was 4.61 tons. This month’s recycling date will be April 23. The next planning commission meeting will be on Monday, April 19. The next supervisors’ meeting will be on Monday, May 3.
