Hanover Township, Lehigh County, voters in this month\u2019s primary election will be given a choice to update the way the township makes purchases and approves contracts. Voters don\u2019t need to be registered with a specific party to vote on the referendum question.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the original question, and the plain English version, from the Lehigh County Voter Registration and Elections office:<\/p>\n
Question on Ordinance No. 669:<\/p>\n
Shall Article VIII (Contracts), Section 8.01 (Requirements), 8.03(b) (Bidding Procedure), and 8.04(d) (Exceptions to Competitive Bidding) of the Home Rule Charter of Hanover Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania be amended, and shall a new Section 8.06 (Adjustment of Contract Ceiling) be added to the Home Rule Charter of Hanover Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, to establish base contract amount in the letting of contracts which are tied to the Consumer Price Index, thereby allowing for inflation related adjustments in such base contract amounts?<\/p>\n
And the plain English version of the question:<\/p>\n
The Township\u2019s Home Rule Charter is like the Township\u2019s constitution; it sets up the rules for Township government.<\/p>\n
Currently, Section 8.01 of the Charter requires all contracts or purchases of the Township involving sums in excess of $1,500 to be in writing, Section 8.03(b) requires multiple price quotes for all contracts or purchases in an amount in excess of $10,000, and Section 8.04(d) exempts contracts for labor, material, supplies or services aggregating less than $18,500 from the competitive bidding process. These thresholds were set in 1976, 2012 and 1990, respectively, and, as a result, are outdated. Updating these amounts requires a voter referendum, which requires significant time and resources to achieve. If you vote \u201cYes\u201d on this ballot question, it means that you support deleting the language from the charter and adding language providing for automatic inflation-related adjustment of the thresholds to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hanover Township, Lehigh County, voters in this month\u2019s primary election will be given a choice to update the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,836,182,139,50,432],"class_list":["post-182108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-election","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}