Candidate for
Tax Collector; Township of Abington

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)

• 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

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