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Hamiltonban Midyear Newsletter 7/21/10

The Hamiltonban Township Midyear 2010 newsletter can be seen here. You will get a copy in the mail soon.

Hamiltonban Newsletter 4/8/10

The following newsletter was sent to everyone on the Township's newsletter email list. If you want to get Township news by email, please contact the office at hamiltonban@embarqmail.com or call 642-8509.

Dear Neighbor:
You are receiving this email so that we can keep you informed of the happenings within Hamiltonban Township.

* The Township office is currently being renovated. The major change will be relocating the secretary’s office to the front of the building thus increasing the size of the meeting room to accommodate more public during meetings. The Township has been approved for a grant to install an ADA compliant handicap ramp that will also be installed this month and a handicap restroom that will be installed late this year.

* You may have seen a new police vehicle driving thru the Township. The Police Department purchased a 2005 Ford Explorer from Cumberland Township . The 1997 Crown Vic police cruiser has been transferred to the Road Department.

* Be aware that there will be sponsored motorcycle runs that will pass through the Township on Saturday and Sunday, April 17th and 18th and Saturday, May 1st. Please be attentive to motorcycles, with the warm weather there are lots of motorcycles on the roads.

* The 5th Annual Hamiltonban Township Highway Clean Up is scheduled for Saturday, April 24th from 8AM to 7PM. Rain date is scheduled for Saturday, May 1st. Help keep the Township clean by picking up trash along roads; vests, gloves and trash bags will be provided. For more information, please contact the office or visit the Township webpage.

* Don’t forget to send in your 2010 Census form. Make sure you are counted. If you have not received your census form, visit the census website at www.2010.census.gov.

* The county wide reassessment has been completed. To learn more about the reassessment and to view your property reassessment, visit the Adams County website at www.adamscounty.us.

* The Recreation and Parks Commission would like to thank everyone that attended and assisted in the Easter Egg Hunt last weekend. The weather was a little chilly but that did not stop the Easter Bunny, it was a great time.

Please share this email with your neighbor and remember to check out the Hamiltonban Township webpage for meeting minutes, forms and the like.

Deborah K. Feiler
Secretary/Treasurer
Hamiltonban Township
P. O. Box 526
23 Carrolls Tract Road
Fairfield PA 17320
Voice717-642-8509
Fax 717-642-9511
hamiltonban@embarqmail.com

Highway Cleanup Day April 24

Be a part of the Hamiltonban 5th Annual Highway Cleanup. Hamiltonban Township is seeking volunteers to pick up trash along the roads in the Township as part of the Great American Cleanup of PA, on Saturday, April 24, 2010 from 8:00AM to 7:00PM.

The Great American Cleanup of PA is a statewide cleanup campaign involving local and state government, businesses, waste haulers, and environmental and civic groups. The PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Department of Transportation (PennDOT), in cooperation with Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, Inc., are sponsoring the Great American Cleanup of PA. See the Poster on the Cleanup Effort

Hamiltonban residents are invited to be part of this effort. Gloves, trash bags and safety equipment will be provided and are available at the Township Office Monday thru Thursday from 8:00AM – 12:30PM and 1:30PM – 4:30PM. Please pick up your supplies prior to the event. Full trash bags may be left in the Township Office parking lot.

Last year we had a great response that resulted in many miles of Township roads looking beautiful. So join your neighbors in helping to make a difference in our community. Please contact the Township Office at 642-8509 or by email a hamiltonban@embarqmail.com for more information.

Hamiltonban Newsletter 3/12/10

The following newsletter was sent to everyone on the Township's newsletter email list. If you want to get Township news by email, please contact the office at hamiltonban@embarqmail.com or call 642-8509.

Dear Neighbor:

You are receiving this email so that we can keep you informed of the happenings within Hamiltonban Township . Some notes of interest are;

The Recreation and Parks Commission is hosting an Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 27th from 10AM to 12PM at the Fellowship Baptist Church on Mount Hope Road. Please see the flyer located under the News tab on the Township website.

Anyone interested in helping out with the Easter Egg Hunt should contact the Township Office or show up at the Fellowship Baptist Church at 9AM. Volunteers are always welcome and needed.

The 5th Annual Hamiltonban Township Highway Clean Up is scheduled for Saturday, April 24th from 8AM to 7PM. Rain date is scheduled for Saturday, May 1st. We are looking for people interested in picking up trash along Township roads; vests, gloves and trash bags will be provided. For more information and how to help out, please contact the office. We are hoping for a great turnout to help beautify the roadsways.

Please be aware that the US Census Bureau has begun its 2010 Census campaign and Census workers will be in the area. The Better Business Bureau and the Adams County Department of Emergency Services are asking residents to be vigilant during the Census campaign, be cautious about giving any information to Census Workers. The Census Bureau does NOT conduct the 2010 Census via the Internet and does not send emails about participating in the 2010 Census. The Census Bureau never: asks for your full social security number, asks for money or a donation, sends requests on behalf of a political party, or requests PIN codes, passwords or similar access information for credit cards, banks or other financial accounts.

Please refer to the relevant URL to educate yourself on Census Workers.

Once again, the Board of Supervisors would like to thank everyone in the Township for their cooperation and patience during the two February snow storms. These were ones for the record books.

Please share this email with your neighbor and always please check out the Hamiltonban Township webpage.

Think Spring!

Deborah K. Feiler

Secretary/Treasurer

Hamiltonban Township
P. O. Box 526
23 Carrolls Tract Road
Fairfield PA 17320
Voice717-642-8509
Fax 717-642-9511
hamiltonban@embarqmail.com

Storm News

Update as of 02/18/2010

The snow emergency has been lifted, and all Township roads have been opened to traffic, although in some cases only one lane is open. The road crew is still working overtime to clear drifting snow, which still threatens to close roads in some places. This series of storms is the worst in many years, and since it is so unusual, our road crew and equipment is not able to handle it as quickly as we would like. If we got this kind of snow every winter, we would have to hire more staff and buy more equipment, which would be quite expensive. We haven't done that because in most years, we don't need it.

Update as of 02/11/2010 at 10:00 pm

Dear Residents,

We would like to thank you for your continued patience and support. The Township Road Crews have been working diligently throughout the past two days to maintain passable conditions on our roadways. We have encountered many challenges with the high winds and drifting snow. In some cases we had to wait until the State road crews could clear our main state arteries of impassable snow drifts so that we could reach our township roads. The following is the latest condition of our roads:

Hamiltonban Township: all roads are presently passable to traffic with the exception of the most western end of Cold Springs Road from just east of Moritz Road at Deer Track Lane following west to approximately Whipporwill Lane (which is east of the Michaux State Forest Teaberry Road ).

We presently have a track bulldozer and a plow working that portion of upper Cold Springs Road . We hope to have that open within the next two hours with at least one lane passable unless we run into unanticipated problems. We will be then suspending our operations until tomorrow morning. We expect to have further drifting on some roads overnight.

To this date the main drifting problems on Township Roads have been on upper Mount Hope Road from Elgin Lane to Gum Springs Road; upper Cold Springs Road in the area mentioned; Moritz Road from the intersection of Cold Springs Road for several hundred feet; Lower Cold Springs Road from Carrolls Tract Road to Brunner Lane; Knox Road from Carrolls Tract Road to the HBT line; Mount Carmel Road at the Mount Carmel Church. Because of our inability to reach the upper portion of the Township above Cold Springs Road , we will be attacking those areas tomorrow 02/12/2010.

This has been a much different storm from the one a few days ago and has been a trying time for everyone. Again, we appreciate your understanding and patience. If you do not need to drive, please remain off the roads to give our crews more time to properly clear them. Disabled vehicles on several roads have hindered our plowing efforts.

The State had problems on Iron Springs Road; Carrolls Tract Road ; Fairfield Station Road.

We hope that this information is helpful to you and to any emergency responders.

Hamiltonban Township
P. O. Box 526
23 Carrolls Tract Road
Fairfield PA 17320
Voice717-642-8509
Fax 717-642-9511
hamiltonban@embarqmail.com

Please Donate Blood

Fairfield Fire & EMS is having a blood drive, please donate! Monday, February 8, 2010, 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM, 106 Steelman St, Fairfield. See descriptive brochure here.

Receive Township Information by e-mail

To better communicate with our citizens, Hamiltonban Township is launching a program to create an e-mail distribution list of all residents interested in receiving information from the Township by e-mail. The kind of information that will be distributed will include budget messages, upcoming regular and special Board or Commission meeting dates and proposed agendas, emergency notifications and other similar information.

Your e-mail address will kept CONFIDENTIAL! It will NOT be sold or given to anyone and will only be used for official business. Also, your e-mail address will not be displayed in the e-mail itself, so no one else will be able to see who is receiving the e-mails.

Should you wish to participate in this voluntary program, please call Secretary/Treasurer Deborah Feiler at the office at 717-642-8509 or e-mail your information to: hamiltonban@embarqmail.com

New Time for all Public Meetings

Starting in 2010, all Hamiltonban Township public meetings will begin at 7:00 PM, local prevailing time. Previously, all meetings had been held at 7:30 PM. The change was made to allow more time for meetings without running too late into the night.

Township Budget for 2010 and the 2009 Budget Message

The Hamiltonban Board of Supervisors adopted the 2010 Township Budget at the December 1, 2009 Township meeting. The budget is divided into three parts, the General Fund, the State Liquid Fuels Fund, and the Sewer Fund for the Orrtanna Sewer Plant owned and operated by the Township. As has been the case for the past 5 years, no increase in the Township's real estate tax is proposed for 2010.

The Hamiltonban Township Board of Supervisors has issued the 2009 Budget Message in conjunction with the 2010 Budget. The purpose of the Budget Message is to make the budgeting process more understandable to the general public, to recap accomplishments in the prior year(s) and to lend support to the programs and initiatives that we hope to accomplish in the coming year(s).

New Trash Pickup Contract with Park's Garbage Service, Inc.

In order to get the best price for disposal of garbage, Hamiltonban Township has entered into a joint bidding process with 5 other municipalities located in Southwest Adams County. The other municipalities are Carroll Valley, Fairfield, Freedom, Highland, and Liberty. Bids were received from several waste management companies, and the low bidder offering acceptable service (combined waste and recycling) was Park's Garbage Service, Inc. Park's was awarded the contract, so for 2010, all trash pickup in Hamiltonban Township and the other 5 members of the Southwest Group will be done by Park's. Park's will be mailing out flyers to Hamiltonban Township residents on December 6, and your response to them is needed by December 18, 2009 in order to aviod interruption of service. Here is a copy of the flyer plus some additional information about Park's.

Adams County Real Estate Reassessment

Adams County is in the process of reassessing all real estate in the County. Hamiltonban Township real estate is being reassessed at this time. All County properties will be reassessed by the end of 2009. The reassessment will not necessarily increase your property taxes. The county will adjust all millage rates so that the total County-wide property tax will not change due to the reassessment. This means that the average tax across the County will remain the same in 2011 as it is in 2010, but some properties will see an increase and some will see a decrease. More information on the reassessment can be found in Page 1 and in Page 2 of the County brochure on Reassessment.

Free Disposal of Recyclable Trash

Recyclable trash may be disposed of at the Adams Rescue Mission, 2525 York Rd, Gettysburg, PA and at the Washington Township Refuse Transfer and Recycling Center at 12721 Buchannan Trail East, in Franklin County, PA. Items eligible for recycling and the hours of operation are listed at the Adams Rescue Mission website, and at the Washington Township website. At a future date, Hamiltonban Township plans to accept recyclable trash at the Township Office. When this service becomes available, a notice will be posted on this website. In the meantime, please use either the Adams Rescue Mission or the Washington Township recycling centers for your recyclable trash.

Online Link to State Resources

In December, Govdernor Rendell launched a new online resource for Pennsylvanians. The website allows citizens to find the resources they need through existing govenrment programs to help make ends meet during these difficult economic times.

The "Here to Help" website includes information on employment, family services, veterans' services, housing, seniors, economic development, and education.

If you or someone you know needs assistance in any of these areas, please visit www.heretohelp.pa.gov to explore the online tools and programs that exist to help you find a job, cope with heating expenses, apply for health and human services, and more

Census 2010 temporary employees needed.

The US Census Bureau has asked us to spread the word that temporary employees are being recruited for the 2010 Census, especially given the critical importance of accurate population counts to our township. See the Recruiting and Outreach documents and the Census Bureau website for additional details.

The pay is good, the hours are flexible, and the work is close to home. Census taker jobs are excellent for retirees, college students, persons who want to work part-time, persons who are between jobs, or just about anyone who wants to earn extra money while performing an important service for their community.Your community is counting on you. Every 10 years, we conduct a census of our population. The results help determine your representation in government, as well as how federal funds are spent in your community on things like roads, parks, housing, schools, and public safety. As a census taker, you'll play a vital role in making sure that everyone is included.

Conducting the census is a huge undertaking. Thousands of census takers are needed to update address lists and conduct interviews with community residents. Most positions require a valid driver's license and use of a vehicle.

Census takers receive competitive pay on a weekly basis. In addition, you will be reimbursed for authorized mileage and related expenses. Bilingual speakers are encouraged to apply!

All census takers must be able to speak English, but bilingual skills in English and other languages are needed in communities that have a large number of residents who speak a language other than English. If you have such skills, we encourage you to apply.

Get more than just a paycheck - Besides good pay, you'll have flexible hours, paid training, and the chance to work within your own community. You'll earn a place in history, as well as work experience you can add to your resume. Apply today by by calling 1-866-861-2010!

Hamiltonban Township 2008 Budget Message

The Hamiltonban Township Board of Supervisors issues this Budget Message in conjunction with the 2009 Budget. The purpose is to make the budgeting process more understandable to the general public, to recap accomplishments in the prior year(s) and to lend support to the programs and initiatives that we hope to accomplish in the coming year(s).

Hamiltonban Township Newsletters

The following newsletters were prepared by Hamiltonban Supervisors to inform residents about Township activities.

Articles from the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors

News About Preserving the Glatfelter Tree Farm



View of Glatfelter Tree Farm #1 on Mount Hope Road
Glatfelter Tree Farm #1