Employment
Wanted: Qualified Applicants for the Part-time Receptionist Position
The part-time position is year-round, up to 35 hours per week, 8am to 4pm Monday through Thursday. The township office typically works 4, 10-hour days a week, Monday through Thursday. The position provides year-round employment and a competitive starting pay rate based upon the successful candidate’s skills and knowledge.
The position is responsible to receive incoming calls to township, greet visitors, direct inquiries, and complaints, provide routine information or direct inquiry to appropriate staff person; take telephone messages for staff; announce calls or visitors; provide general information regarding permits; distribute approved permits, receive fees for permits, publications and maps; provide general clerical assistance to zoning and codes; set up meeting room, record and transcribe minutes; perform general office duties; sort and distribute mail, prepare outgoing mail, assist with office projects and bulk mailings, operate office equipment, e.g. computer, copier, fax; provide office support for sewer and water billing department; accept water payments and provide general information; provide inspection reports to builders on sewer and water line installation; maintain bulletin board, publications rack, newspaper article scrapbook, and supply of township ordinance booklets; order office supplies and schedule maintenance of building repairs and services monitor PA One Calls; maintain Minute Books for Board of Supervisors, Zoning Hearing Board, and NWLCA; maintain records for on-lot sewage disposal systems and yard waste fobs; scan documents into and manage document retention system.
Successful applicant must be 18 years of age, and pass PA State Police Criminal Background Check. Qualified applicants are invited to submit an application for employment to the Penn Township Office, 97 North Penryn Road, Manheim, PA, between the hours of 7:00 am and 5:30 pm, Monday through Thursday. Penn Township is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Join our service-driven team with strong camaraderie.
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Mark Hiester, Manager
Penn Township, Preserving Our Past, Sustaining Our Future
Volunteer Opportunities
The Penn Township Zoning Hearing Board has one vacant, alternate member position available. An appointed alternate member of the Zoning Hearing Board may participate and may vote to meet quorum of the Zoning Hearing Board members present. Below is text which has been taken from a Pennsylvania Governor’s Center for Local Government Services publication; The Zoning Hearing Board – Planning Series #6 outlining the responsibilities of the Zoning Hearing Board:
Any municipality enacting a zoning ordinance must also create a zoning hearing board as required by Section 901 of the MPC. The primary purpose of the zoning hearing board is to help assure fair and equitable application and administration of the zoning ordinance. The zoning hearing board hears appeals from the zoning officer’s determinations and grants relief from the literal enforcement of the zoning ordinance in certain hardship situations by means of a variance. The right to appeal for relief is an important step in ensuring that due process is followed when restricting use of private property for a predetermined public good. The zoning hearing board also hears applications for special use and challenges to the substantive validity of ordinances. The Pennsylvania Municipalities planning Code (MPC) provides a specific set of rules that must be followed for applications submitted to the zoning hearing board.
The zoning hearing board has no legislative power; it can neither make nor modify zoning policy. Neither does the zoning hearing board have enforcement powers. The zoning hearing board schedules hearings on applications and appeals that come before it, takes evidence, and issues written decisions with findings of fact and conclusions of law.
The zoning hearing board is a quasi-judicial body that renders decisions on specific types of land use appeals and applications. Members of the zoning hearing board are appointed by the governing body. Although the zoning hearing board functions like a court, formal court procedures are not strictly required.
Section 909.1 of the MPC authorizes the zoning hearing board with exclusive jurisdiction to hear and decide the following:
1. Substantive challenges to the validity of any land use ordinance, except curative amendments (which are heard by the governing body)
2. Appeals from the determination of the zoning officer, including, but not limited to the following:
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- The granting or denial of any permit
- The failure to act on an application for any permit
- The issuance of any cease and desist order
- The registration or refusal to register any nonconforming use, structure, or lot
3. Appeals from a determination by the municipal engineer or zoning officer with respect to the administration of any floodplain or flood hazard ordinance or such provisions within a land use ordinance
4. Applications for variances from the terms of the zoning ordinance and flood hazard ordinance or such provisions within a land use ordinance
5. Applications for special exceptions under the zoning ordinance or floodplain or flood hazard ordinance or such provisions within a land use ordinance. For more information see Planning Series No. 5: Technical Information on Floodplain Management.
6. Appeals from the determination of any officer or agency charged with the administration of any transfers of development rights or performance density provisions of the zoning ordinance;
7. Appeals from the zoning officer’s determination for a preliminary opinion under Section 916.2 of the MPC [relating to obtaining a preliminary opinion of the zoning officer]
8. Appeals from the determination of the zoning officer or municipal engineer in the administration of any land use ordinance or provision with reference to sedimentation and erosion control or stormwater management insofar as the same relates to development not involving Article V (subdivision or land development) or VII (planned residential development) applications. In other words, appeals from erosion or stormwater provisions under a zoning ordinance dealing with building on a single lot.
A zoning hearing board is not authorized to render advisory opinions.