SANATOGA PA – The one newly elected, and two re-elected, members of the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Board of Commissioners took their oaths of office and were sworn into civic duty Tuesday (Jan. 3, 2012) during the board’s annual reorganization meeting in the municipal building, Buchert Road, Sanatoga PA.

Elected in November and returning to the board after a two-year absence was Commissioner Stephen Klotz, above at right. His son held the Bible upon which his oath was pledged, as Magisterial District Justice Edward Kropp Sr. officiated.

Klotz, in turn, held the Bible as Kropp administered the oath for re-elected Commissioner Bruce Foltz, above at right, and;

Foltz performed Bible-holding duty for re-elected Commissioner Jonathan Spadt, center.

As part of the reorganization:

• Spadt was re-elected board president, and Foltz, vice president;
• Commissioners James Kaiser and Michael McGroarty were named as members of the board’s standing Finance and Budget Committee;
• Kaiser and Spadt were named as members of the standing Police Committee.

Named as representatives of the board’s occasional or reporting committees were:

• Kaiser and township resident Patty Bleakly, Pottsgrove Recreation Board;
• Klotz, Assistant Manager Allison Elliott, and McGroarty (as an alternate), Regional Planning Commission;
• Spadt, Economic Development;
• Foltz, for the Pottstown Area Council of Governments, township building, fire companies, trash collection, and highway department; and
• Former Commissioner James Phillips was named as the township’s representative to he MS4 Stormwater Coalition

The 2012 Board of Commissioners, from left: McGroarty, Kaiser, Spadt, Foltz, and Klotz.

Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners’ Jan. 3 meeting):

• All Sworn In And Ready To Work In Lower Pottsgrove
• Police Officer’s Heroism Acknowledged With Award
• Commissioners Ring In New At Tonight’s Township Meet