{"id":37158,"date":"2017-10-26T09:39:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=37158"},"modified":"2017-10-26T09:39:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:39:04","slug":"letter-e-marlborough-needs-new-ethics-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=37158","title":{"rendered":"Letter: E. Marlborough needs new ethics, transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Letters1-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5571\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Letters1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>East Marlborough is our township.\u00a0 We all love it for its rural, peaceful environment.\u00a0 But I have had several people approach me to say it is time to make changes in how our township is governed.\u00a0 We have an opportunity to do this on Nov. 7.\u00a0 There are two Township Supervisor positions on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The incumbent contestant was also the Township\u2019s Road Master for many years. \u00a0When confronted with irregularities about how excess equipment ended up in his possession he stepped down from that role.\u00a0 This person was also the Township\u2019s Building Code Official.\u00a0 He signed off on several properties that did not meet code.\u00a0 The most well known example was the high school auditorium, which exceeded local height restrictions.\u00a0 Other examples are well documented by the PA Dept. of Labor &amp; Industry.\u00a0 Their reports pointed to, in their words, a pattern of \u201cinadequate performance.\u201d\u00a0 This person wants to continue to serve on our Board of Supervisors?\u00a0 We deserve better.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The other Republican candidate serves on the Township\u2019s Zoning Hearing Board with limited qualifying experience.\u00a0 The Supervisors we elect should bring more than a well-known name to the job.<\/p>\n<p>The two Democratic candidates, Julia McGovern Lacy and Robert McKinstry, Jr., do offer the type and depth of experience East Marlborough needs.\u00a0 Julia is a civil engineer with over 20 years of experience in Township engineering, regulation and ordinances.\u00a0 Her specialties include storm water management and flood control as well as sustainable land development.\u00a0 She is also trained and experienced in Emergency Management.<\/p>\n<p>McKinstry is an environmental lawyer and a long-term resident of the area.\u00a0 He is dedicated to the township\u2019s constitutional obligation as a trustee for the environment.\u00a0 He is also committed to increasing the transparency of township decision-making, creating greater opportunity for public involvement and increasing regional solutions for land use regulation, police and other government services to increase effectiveness and lower costs.<\/p>\n<p>It is time for fresh eyes in East Marlborough\u2019s governance. It is time for a higher level of experience, ethics and transparency.\u00a0 It is time to elect Julia McGovern Lacy and Robert McKinstry to East Marlborough\u2019s Board of Supervisors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Richard Bingham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>East Marlborough<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor, East Marlborough is our township.\u00a0 We all love it for its rural, peaceful environment.\u00a0 But I have had several people approach me to say it is time to make changes in how our township is governed.\u00a0 We have an opportunity to do this on Nov. 7.\u00a0 There are two Township Supervisor positions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[606,38,9130],"class_list":["post-37158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","tag-board-of-supervisors","tag-east-marlborough","tag-election-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37159,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37158\/revisions\/37159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}