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WILKES-BARRE — City Attorney Tim Henry will be stepping down from his post sometime next month, City Administrator Rick Gazenski said Thursday.
He said assistant City Attorney Maureen Collins will replace Henry, who has worked for the city for 18 years. No reason was given publicly for the change.
“Maureen will be taking full duties,” Gazenski said.
City council unanimously approved all four items on its agenda during its regularly scheduled meeting.
The two resolutions and two ordinances passed 4-0:
• The reappointment of Dr. Elliot Silkowski of Noble Lane, Wilkes-Barre, to the city’s Board of Health for a five-year term that expires Dec. 31, 2023.
• An application for traffic signal approval by PennDOT on South Franklin Street between Ross and South streets. The city will assume ownership and maintenance of a signal for a pedestrian crossing installed as part of the Streetscape project at the Wilkes University campus.
• The first of two readings on an ordinance amending the garbage and refuse section of the city Code of Ordinances. The change inserts the new recycling fee of $60 a year. The fee was raised from $50 in Mayor Tony George’s $50.4 million balanced budget for this year.
• The second and final reading of an ordinance amending the 2018 Community Development Block Grant Consolidated Plan. The changed added the transfer of $798,925 in revolving loan funds for the purchase of a new ladder truck and engine for the fire department. The move increases the fund balance to $1,526,978.