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Held March 12, the Clifford Township regular business meeting began in an ordinary fashion, with a motion to advertise for spring road work bids. “Hopefully, we can start in May,” commented James Locker, road master.

April 21 was set as the date for spring clean-up, which was requested by the volunteers and coincides with the Great American Clean-up.

Lest county residents be agitated by the outpouring of civic-minded individuals (112) who turned out for the commissioners’ special meeting when impact fees were a hot topic, they may rest assured citizenry have refocused their gaze on other matters, and commissioners’ meetings have returned to what passes for normalcy in this county. Commissioners Alan Hall, Michael Giangrieco, and Mary Ann Warren met at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14, in the commissioners’ meeting room. They passed - with little more than a yawn and as the sixteenth item on their 21-item agenda - a motion “to authorize the Commissioners and the Chief Clerk to carry out all steps necessary to adopt Act 13 ordinance.” In governmentalese, that’s what’s called “enabling legislation.” With its passage, commissioners can move ahead expansively in whatever directions they need, including legal advertising, to impose the unconventional gas well fee itself.

The nonchalance with which commissioners passed the motion relating to Act 13 was typical of their rote pattern in commissioners’ meetings over the last few months. In a highly-stylized manner perfected through attendance and participation in meetings, Chairman Hall and fellow commissioners demonstrated extreme proficiency in dispatching each agenda item with minimal expenditure of time and effort. Motions, resolutions, proclamations, and ordinances are only on the rarest occasion read aloud. March 14 was not the rarest occasion. Meeting attendees were permitted to read the half-dozen hand-outs, the meeting’s agenda, and minutes of two previous meetings, for at least two minutes prior to the meeting’s call to order.

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