After one of its members resigned on June 3, the East Marlborough Township Board of Supervisors will be accepting applications until June 14 to fill the empty seat.

The board, at its monthly public meeting, approved the resignation of supervisor Eric Matuszak and voted to advertise the vacancy. A notice appeared on the township’s website June 4, and was advertised elsewhere starting June 5.

To apply, candidates must be registered to vote in East Marlborough Township and meet residency requirements, according to the township website. They should submit a resume and letter of interest.

The job description can be found at eastmarlborough.org.

“Interested candidates should have the ability to attend monthly evening meetings, and special meetings as deemed necessary,” according to the website. “The appointed candidate shall serve through the reorganization meeting in January of 2025, but would have to run and win in the 2025 municipal election to retain the seat for a six-year term.”

Matuszak was one of five supervisors on the board.

Supervisors said interviews of potential candidates would be on June 25, with a goal of appointing someone at the July 1 supervisors meeting.

In other business, the township received a clean audit for 2023, which showed the township in good financial shape.

Carl Hogan of BBD, the independent auditing firm that has performed the township’s audits for the last serval years, said there were “no findings to report on internal control over financial reporting and on compliance.”

“Overall we’re very happy with the township,” Hogan said. “The township has a nice position to be in financially going forward.”

Appearing at the June 3 supervisors meeting, Hogan pointed out that revenues continue to be strong, not just in East Marlborough, but in the county.  

“Prior to 2021, the costs to the township were always running ahead of the revenue,” he said. “Now the revenues are kind of exceeding expenditures.”

He suggested the township should continue to budget the expenditures conservatively.

A copy of the audit has been filed with the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development.