For the second time in three months Macungie Borough Council accepted an official resignation from civil service, this time from one of their own.

Linn Walker handed his resignation to council president Chris Becker just moments before the beginning of a 6:30 p.m. workshop at council's Sept. 3 meeting.

"I commend you all in your task to make this borough a better place to live," Becker read from the letter. It was brief and apparently sudden, although Becker indicated he had thought it might happen two months ago. But since then Walker had not made any moves toward resigning.

There had been calls for Walker to resign since last summer when he was charged with public lewdness but the former council member insists his recent decision to resign has nothing to do with that.

"If that were the case I would have resigned a year ago," Walker told The Press.

But it wasn't. Instead, "I felt I could not contribute anymore," Walker said. "It was like fighting against a brick wall."

Walker also serves Macungie on the Planning Commission and the Borough Authority and assists at the farmers market on Thursdays. "There," he said, "I make a difference." But, he pointed out, these are voluntary positions wherein he finds satisfaction and reward.

Walker does not wish to continue receiving remuneration from the borough in his capacity as council member for the remaining four months of his term.

Walker insists that even when residents of Macungie approached him and asked him to resign, members of council urged him to stay. But comparing the reward of his duties in Planning Commission and Borough Authority with the current council, Walker said he just wasn't walking away with any feeling of satisfaction anymore.

"I do what I can. I love this borough," Walker said, who still wants to continue contributing in his volunteer services.

Council approved Walker's resignation unanimously without comment from either side of the table. Their acceptance launches a series of official actions to fill the gap in their numbers.

Within 30 days, a new council member must be appointed, and as with the interim mayor's position, it will be filled by voting based on interviews. Walker's term, and therefore the term of his seat, is due to expire Dec. 31, by which point a new council member may have been publicly voted in to begin the new term in 2014.

Macungie Borough is now accepting applications for Walker's seat, with the intent to hold interviews beginning 7 p.m. at council's Sept. 16 meeting.