"Stench From Sewage Authority Still Flows, Twp Chair Should contact Attorney General"

And we have continuing Hempfield News - Twp Supervisor Chair has yet to resolve this issue!

3 Hempfield officials miss meeting
By Richard Gazarik
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
On the night Bob Davidson planned to publicly demand that three colleagues on the Hempfield Township Municipal Authority resign for allegedly misusing credit cards, the members failed to attend, forcing a cancellation of the meeting."My intention was to come and request the resignations of Bob Regola, Brian Melenia and Kathy Hopkin," he said.Their absence forced authority manager Rege Ranella to cancel the session for lack of a quorum. He said Regola had been hospitalized and was just released; Melenia is in Maryland on a job; and Hopkin couldn't attend……

• Melenia has charged the authority for alcohol purchases, sightseeing and nightclub visits.
• Melenia and Regola attended seven conferences in a two-year period costing the authority $8,000.
• Davidson said he has reviewed $20,000 worth of charges and said he can't find receipts for any of the charges.
• Davidson said Hopkin charged nearly $11,000 from 2002 to 2005.
• He discovered that one member went to conferences at Seven Springs and Nemacolin Woodlands Resort within a five-day period.
• Another member went to three conventions within two months.
• Authority member Matt Pecarchik admitted last night that he reimbursed the authority this past Friday for expenses charged to an authority credit card for his girlfriend for a convention in 2005. He would not say where the convention was held, how much he repaid the authority, or why it took so long for him to repay the money……

Hopkin, who surrendered her credit card last week, accused Davidson of using the news media to discredit her, Melenia and Regola."It certainly is political," she said. "Why don't the supervisors speak to us? Why do they speak to us through the media? I believe this is all political. Their communication with us is zero."Davidson noted that his colleagues have traveled to San Francisco, San Antonio and New Orleans for conventions held by the American Water Works Association, which he said, deals with drinking water issues, not sewage. Read the complete article