Not unlike final grades garnered before the end of a school semester, Salisbury Township has received excellent marks on its financial audit.

“It’s a clean opinion that you guys have gotten,” Christopher W. Betley, shareholder, Buckno Lisicky & Company, said of the 2024 township financial audit to Salisbury Township officials at the board of commissioners May 8 meeting.

“In addition, you didn’t have any findings, Betley continued. “In addition, we didn’t’ find any disagreements.

“And we didn’t find any management adjustments,” Betley said, adding, “That’s not always the case.”

The township financial audit was for the year ending Dec. 31, 2024. The 57-page audit report was submitted April 3 to the township.

The net position for the water fund is: $1,688,721; for the sewer fund, $4,073,683 and for the refuse fund, $114,202.

The township fund balance is $4,567,288.

The township government total net position is $12,730,926.

“You guys have a positive net position, which is rare for a municipality,” Betley said.

“I think you’re telling us a lot of good news,” board of commissioners President Debra J. Brinton said to Betley.

“Obviously, it’s a lot of good news for Paul [Ziegenfus, Salisbury Township Director of Finance],” Brinton added.

Township commissioners voted 4-0 for a motion to approve the audit.

Buckno Lisicky & Company, Certified Public Accountants and business consultants, with offices in Allentown, Bethlehem, Lehighton and Cedar Knolls, N.J., is in year two of a three-year contract as township auditor.

In other business at the May 8 meeting, commissioners voted 4-0 to approve:

- Resolution appointing Cathy Gorman as township secretary and assistant treasurer.

- Resolution appointing Cathy Gorman to the police pension committee.

The meeting was Gorman’s first as Salisbury Township Manager. Former Salisbury Township Manager Cathy Bonaskiewich retired May 2.

Commissioners voted 5-0 to approve:

- Motion to accept the time extension for Sheffield Square North Development, 206 E. Lynnwood Avenue, to Nov. 11.

“We sent them [Sheffield Square North Development] a letter that no further extensions would be extended,” Attorney Jason A. Ulrich, partner, Gross McGinley LLP., Attorneys at Law, the solicitor firm for Salisbury Township, said before the vote.

The project has been outstanding since 2022, it was said.

Sheffield Square North Development, an 82-unit town house development, was tabled by a unanimous 7-0 vote at the Nov. 30, 2022, township planning commission meeting. The developer of record was D.R. Horton, Harleysville, Montgomery County.

At the Nov. 30, 2022, planners’ meeting, Salisbury Township Planning and Zoning Officer Kerry Rabold said, referring to her Nov. 23, 2022, review letter, “There are zoning issues in my letter. The planning commission can’t take any action. It [the town houses plan] must go to the [township] zoning hearing board.”

“There’s a lot of infrastructure that needs to be done,” Stan G. Wojciechowski, department head, Municipal Engineering Services, Barry Isett & Associates, Inc., consulting engineering firm for Salisbury Township, said before the May 8 commissioners’ vote.

“We will bring this to your attention [before the development extension deadline,” Ulrich said to commissioners before the vote.

Commissioners acknowledged proclaiming May 18-24 as Emergency Medical Services Week.

In his report to commissioners, Salisbury Township Police Chief Donald Sabo said, “Traffic is in full swing, so our patrols are in full swing.

“The parties have been active in Laubach Park, so we are [police patrols] getting visible there,” Sabo said.

There was no workshop following the meeting.

The upcoming township meeting schedule in the Salisbury Township Municipal Building, 2900 S. Pike Ave, is: 7 p.m. May 14, zoning hearing board, canceled; 7 p.m. May 22, board of commissioners and 7 p.m. May 28, planning commission.