PENN TWP — At a special meeting Wednesday night, July 29, the township’s board of supervisors voted to establish a second monthly meeting to be held on the fourth Tuesday of each month.

The change will take effect immediately, with two meetings scheduled for August.

Board Chairman Doug Roth said the township held two board of supervisors meetings per month at some point prior to 2020 — minutes stored on the township’s website only date back to 2020, and those only indicate one township meeting per month that year.

Roth said there is too much business going on in the township to be constrained to one meeting on the second Tuesday of each month.

“The second meeting is going to be similar to an agenda-setting meeting,” Roth said. “We will discuss purchases and issues, then vote on them at the next meeting. This will eliminate some confusion that sometimes comes up. It also will help us get things done a little quicker instead of having to wait a month.”

In addition, the monthly planning commission meeting has been shifted from the fourth Tuesday of the month to the third Tuesday.

Supervisors on Wednesday also created the position of finance administrator and appointed the township’s administrative assistant Nicole Tempalski to the position.