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Maria Boileau is new city planner

Morgan Sweely tapped as finance director

WENDY STIVER/THE EXPRESS Maria Boileau, left, has been hired as the new planner and development coordinator for the City of Lock Haven, and Morgan Sweely, right, is the city’s new finance director.

WENDY STIVER/THE EXPRESS Maria Boileau, left, has been hired as the new planner and development coordinator for the City of Lock Haven, and Morgan Sweely, right, is the city's new finance director.

WENDY STIVER/THE EXPRESS
Maria Boileau, left, has been hired as the new planner and development coordinator for the City of Lock Haven, and Morgan Sweely, right, is the city’s new finance director.

By WENDY STIVER

wstiver@lockhaven.com

LOCK HAVEN — Maria Boileau will join the city’s administrators as planner and development coordinator starting next Monday.

City Council welcomed her during its meeting last night.

Also welcomed was Morgan Sweely who started Oct. 4 as the city’s finance director.

Council also voted to give its administrators a 2 percent raise at last night’s meeting.

Boileau is Clinton County’s voter registrar and deputy chief clerk. Although her job with the city officially starts Oct. 23, she will be working only part time for now, and she will still be involved on the county side up to and including the General Election on Nov. 7.

“It’s been an honor and a privilege to work for the county,” she said yesterday. “I’m ecstatic to be returning to the city, this time as city planner. It’s where I started when we moved here in 1996.”

Boileau first worked for the city as its director of the Federal Enterprise Program. She became Downtown Lock Haven Inc.’s director in 2004, and county voter registrar and deputy chief clerk in 2012.

As the new city planner, she will be paid a bit less than $51,000 annually, according to City Manager Richard W. Marcinkevage.

She will take over for longtime City Planner Leonora M. Hannagan when Hannagan retires later this year.

“The county’s loss is the city’s gain,” said Mayor William E. Baney III. “There couldn’t be any other person locally more fitting for the job than Maria.”

Sweely is the former accounting manager for Jersey Shore Hospital, and she received her degree in accounting from Bloomsburg University.

As the city’s finance director, she will head the Finance Department/treasurer’s office and will act as deputy treasurer and deputy tax collector on behalf of elected treasurer Paula Dickey.

SALARIES

Council set the salaries and wages for 2017 of all employees not covered under either of the two bargaining units. The vote was unanimous to grant raises of 2 percent to everyone, except for the fire relief drivers whose compensation is to increase from $7.25 to $8.

A second vote is required to make the raises official, and once they are, they will be retroactive to Jan. 1.

Receiving the 2 percent raise were two employees who received an additional salary increase last year to bring them above the cut-off line for automatic overtime. They are Code and Zoning Enforcement Officer Cyndi Walker and Sewage Treatment Superintendent Mike Glantz.

Employees under AFSCME Council 86 (the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) also received a 2 percent raise this year.

Those represented by the Lock Haven Police Officers Association received 2.5 percent increases.

The salaries of city administrators are:

r City Manager Richard Marcinkevage — $76,142.

r Police Chief Keith Kibler — $69,998

r City Planner Leonora M. Hannagan — $65,265

r City Engineer Jason Dershem — $63,443

r Assistant City Manager Gregory Wilson — $60,180

r Glantz — $48,425

r Walker — $48,425

r Fire department personnel Eric Brungard, Robert E. Neff and Tyler Wooding — $37,603.

Hourly employees include:

r Airport Manager Edward Watson, who is a part-time employee with limited benefits — $25 per hour.

r Streets Foreman Denny Furl — $20.87 per hour.

r Water Foreman Henry Cummings — $20.35 per hour.

r Sewer Field Crew Foreman Jay Frazier — $19.49 per hour.

r Levee Superintendent Gary L. Ferree — $19.49 per hour.

r Assistant Airport Manager Douglas Wenker — $16.40 per hour.

r GIS coordinator and draftsman Jonathan Hart — $16.40 per hour.

The compensation for elected officials remains the same as in 2016. The mayor receives $4,800, council members $3,600, city treasurer $1,200, and city controller $1,200. Their salaries are set in the year of election only.

Council also voted to establish a supplemental deferred compensation retirement plan for employees. The plan allows employees to contribute to it if they wish to, Marcinkevage explained, and there is no cost to the city to offer it.

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