LANSDALE — Borough officers have declared a sudden departure from, and a new addition to, their leadership crew.
“On Monday, August 9th, I recognized the letter of resignation of finance director Melissa Gemelli,” borough supervisor John Ernst announced Wednesday night.
“Our new finance Director, Glenn Dickerson, will be starting on Monday, August 30th,” he explained.
The unexpected departure announcement Wednesday night marks the stop of a temporary borough vocation for Gemelli, who was hired in February to fill a emptiness produced by the departure of prior finance director John Ramey in December 2020 following four several years with the borough. By early March, Gemelli experienced presently begun reorganizing regular monetary studies to give council and the general public much more facts on the influence of COVID-19 on city finances, and led a discussion from April by way of July on when and how to restart late costs and fees for borough electrical expenses that experienced long gone unpaid thanks to the pandemic.
Ernst extra a single more accomplishment Gemelli oversaw during her tenure: securing federal COVID aid dollars for the borough.
“Melissa was with us for 6 months, and was instrumental with environment up our acceptance of the $1.8 million in American Rescue Approach Act funding, and I thank her for all those efforts,” he reported.
Taking around the posture will be Dickerson, whom Ernst said will get started on Aug. 30 and is at this time an adjunct professor at DeSales University in finance and accounting, and at Lehigh College in accounting. He has also gained a bachelor’s diploma in company administration and finance from Temple University and a master’s degree in business enterprise accounting from LaSalle University, in accordance to the manager.
“Glenn will come with monetary encounter in municipal government and electric powered utilities, as perfectly as supplemental encounter in the non-public sector,” Ernst mentioned.
“We glimpse forward to Glenn starting, and jumping appropriate into this funds year,” he said.
Ernst claimed Thursday “it would not be appropriate for me to remark any further” on the motive for Gemelli’s departure, and council President Denton Burnell did not answer to a ask for for remark. Burnell did insert thanks to the manager for getting a new director just in advance of the town’s talks on their 2022 spending budget beginning in September.
“I just required to say thanks for how quickly you moved to solve the finance director scenario. That acquired fixed really speedily,” Burnell explained.
“Panic will do a lot,” Ernst replied.
Lansdale’s borough council up coming fulfills at 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 1 with the administration and finance committee conference at 6:30 p.m., the two at the borough municipal creating, 1 Vine St. For additional information check out www.Lansdale.org.
