{"id":5856,"date":"2011-11-21T08:52:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T13:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=5856"},"modified":"2011-11-21T08:52:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T13:52:42","slug":"stumpo-excited-by-new-role-in-pocopson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=5856","title":{"rendered":"Stumpo excited by new role in Pocopson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Township’s receptionist wins election to board of supervisors, ready to meet new challenges<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By Mike McGann<\/strong>, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Pocopson's Ricki Stumpo won election to the township's Board of Supervisors.<\/p><\/div>\n

POCOPSON \u2014 She\u2019s used to being something like the face of the township, but now as an elected official things are likely to be a little different for Ricki Stumpo.<\/p>\n

Stumpo, who is often the first person people meet when entering the township building \u2014 she\u2019s worked as the receptionist for the township for a number of years \u2014 won election as Township Supervisor earlier this month and will take office in January, winning election over Carol Haaf.<\/p>\n

Although her race started as a write-in back in May, it had been something she had considered earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was asked by a lot of people to run,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The race proved to challenging, she said, with some strong opinions on both sides. Because of her long involvement in various township matters \u2014 such as Founders Day and serving on the township\u2019s Parks, Recreation and Trails committee, she already knew a lot of people and, she said, had a pretty good sense of the issues that the average township resident was concerned about.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think for us, it was a grass roots effort,\u201d she said. \u201cI talked to a lot of people and I was really encouraged.\u201d<\/p>\n

She plans to continue working for the township \u2014 which is legal and has precedent in recent history in the township, as former township roadmaster Bill Harwood was a supervisor while employed by the township. Similar situations with employees serving on board of supervisors continue in neighboring towns such as East Marlborough and Newlin, so Stumpo said she\u2019s not overly concerned about the issue. One change: her salary will now be set by an auditor, rather than the board of supervisors.<\/p>\n

While she said she has some opinions about a number of the key issues supervisors are likely to grapple with in the coming months \u2014 ranging from the renovation of the Barnard House, communications, working with the township\u2019s various volunteers and taxes, she said she feels a responsibility to sit down with her soon to be colleagues, supervisors Steve Conary and Georgia Brutscher and talk before saying anything publicly.<\/p>\n

And while both Brutscher and Conary supported her opponent, Haaf, Stumpo said she doesn\u2019t think there will be any long-term animosity, noting that both were very gracious following the election in offering congratulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Township’s receptionist wins election to board of supervisors, ready to meet new challenges By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com POCOPSON \u2014 She\u2019s used to being something like the face of the township, but now as an elected official things are likely to be a little different for Ricki Stumpo. Stumpo, who is often the first person […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[182,10,57],"class_list":["post-5856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-election-2011","tag-pocopson","tag-township-supervisors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856","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=5856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}