The Salisbury Township assistant manager is retiring.

The Salisbury Township board of commissioners voted 4-0, with one commissioner absent at the Oct. 9 meeting, to approve a motion to accept the retirement of Salisbury Township Assistant Manager-Community Development Director Alessandro “Sandy” Nicolo.

Salisbury Township Commissioner Alex Karol said, “I will sadly make the motion,” and Commissioner Alok Patnaik said, “I will sadly second the motion” to bring the motion to a vote.

Nicolo’s last township meeting as assistant manager is expected to be the next meeting, 7 p.m. Oct. 23, in the meeting room of the municipal building, 2900 S. Pike Ave.

“I’ll miss everyone,” Nicolo said.

Also, at the Oct. 9 meeting, commissioners voted 4-0 for resolutions to approve:

— Resolution approving the Preliminary-Final Plan with Itemized Waivers and Deferrals for the Girl Scouts’ Adventure Place at Mountain House Project, 2638 W. Rock Road.

Board of Commissioners’ Vice President Rodney Conn made the motion, seconded by Karol, to bring the resolution to a vote.

The township planning commission voted 6-0 with one planner absent at its June 25 meeting to recommend approval by commissioners of revisions to the Girl Scouts’ project.

The Girl Scouts of Eastern PA, Inc. proposes to expand the existing nonprofit, private, recreation facility and convert an existing single-family, detached dwelling (Persing House) into camp activity space. A previously-approved new activity building (Mountain House) was removed from the project.

The Salisbury Township Zoning Hearing Board approved the project April 16.

The 17.6503-acre property is in the CR, Conservation Residential Zoning District, west of the Interstate 78 interchange at Summit Lawn on South Mountain.

The Girl Scouts acquired the 3,238-square-feet Persing House, 2660 W. Rock Road, on 40 acres, 38 acres of which was donated to Wildlands Conservancy, in 2021. Persing House will be renovated for use as meeting rooms, with bathrooms added and with a “Trading Post” for the sale of Girl Scouts’ items.

Township zoners voted unanimously at its March 9, 2020, hearing to approve the project, first presented to township planners at its Dec. 10, 2019, meeting.

The Girl Scouts have owned and operated Mountain House since 1942. An estimated 80 Girl Scouts are expected to attend the camp, 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekly June to mid-August.

“This is the Girl Scouts’ project we’ve been talking about since before COVID,” attorney Stephanie A. Kobal, Fitzpatrick Lentz & Bubba, said at the Oct. 9 meeting.

“The Girl Scouts’ needs were very much different at that time,” Kobal said. “The Girl Scouts realized they could have less impact to the residents, less impervious surface, less trees removal impact.”

— Resolution denying the Sheffield Square North Land Development Submission, 206 E. Lynnwood St.

Patnaik made the motion, seconded by Karol, to bring the resolution to a vote.

The resolution was denied “without prejudice.”

Attorney John F. “Jack” Gross, Managing Partner at Gross McGinley, LLP, township solicitor, said the project could be resubmitted.

Township commissioners had granted a time extension to the Preliminary-Final Land Development Plan for Sheffield Square at its May 9, 2024, meeting. A sketch plan for Sheffield Square North, presented at the township planners’ Jan. 26, 2022, meeting, indicated 82 town houses on 10.39 acres.

“We’ve done numerous extensions,” Debra J. Brinton, board president, said of the project before the vote.

The development is undertaken by 7D Development Group, Douglassville, Berks County, said Zachery Arnold, project director.

— Ordinance amending Audible Alarms (False Alarms) Regulations. Karol made the motion, seconded by Patnaik, to bring the ordinance to a vote.

— Motion authorizing the hiring of an Entry-Level Police Officer from the Eligibility List. Karol made the motion, seconded by Conn, to bring the motion to a vote. Salisbury Township Chief of Police Donald Sabo said one of the officers on the eligibility list accepted an offer from another police department.

In his report to commissioners, Salisbury Township Director, Public Works, Jim Levernier said the Salisbury Township Public Works Department will conduct curbside branch collection for residents during the week of Oct. 13.

Residents were to have placed their branches (clean; no other yard waste mixed in) at the curb after 6 p.m. Oct. 12 for crews to collect during the week.

Branches may be no larger than five-feet long and five inches in diameter, and they should be bundled and tied with twine. An open container may be used for small twigs, but no bags or lids are permitted. No more than five bundles-cans per property is permitted.