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Experience
- Incumbent - 8 years
- Accountant and auditor - 42 years
- Maintains current accounting license
- Sold accounting firm to be full time Abington Township Tax Collector
- Member of various accounting & tax collector associations
- PA Society of Accounting & Tax Professionals
- Montgomery County Tax Collectors Association
- PA State Tax Collectors Association
- PA State Mercantile Tax Collectors Association
- Instituted & Chair of Audit & Regulatory Committee of Aria Health System
- Past Audit Committee Chair of Jefferson Health System (billion $ + budget)
Innovative, Effective, & Efficient
- Consistently exceeded budget revenue collections
- Implemented bar-coding system (faster turnover = more earnings for Twp.)
- Provided for more accessibility to the Tax Office by increasing:
- office staff & office hours at his own cost
- methods & availability to pay taxes
- Set up e-mail notifications
- community reach out - through town meetings, fairs, newsletters, & online
- accessible & responsive to community - even on nights & weekends
- during hard economic times, voluntarily reduced income as Twp. Treasurer
- provides informational tax facts write up
- availability to get facsimile of tax bills on line
Extensive & Life Long Community Service
Abington Art Center - (past board member, Vice Chair); Aria Health System Board of Directors, (Chairman, Vice Chairman, Treasurer, Chair of various committees, member of all committees); Aria Foundation Board; past Jefferson Health System Board of Trustees (Audit Committee Chair, Finance & Executive Committees); Disabled Veterans; Helping Hand Foundation (Treasurer), Glenside Patriotic Association; Kiwanis (member, past President); PAL (Treasurer); 24 Hr. Relay; past Huntingdon Valley Fire Co. fire police
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