Here we go again with another financial fiasco in Collegeville. You may recall we reported that Collegeville Borough has knowningly kept pension money (over $45,000.00) for the Collegevile Police that should have been appropriated for the Collegeville Trappe Joint Public Works employees. Well now we have been told that Collegeville Borough knowingly has been collecting the Berkheimer Earned Income Tax for an unknown number of Trappe Residents and has been keeping the money for years!
At this point we do not have all of the facts but we know this has been going on for years and when Collegevile was once again caught with their hands in the bank account of Trappe Borough we know that all they could say we will settle this with an offer of a repayment plan that covers a few years (around $22,000.00) and offered repayment over a period of unknown time with NO interest.
What Trappe Council should be seeking is ALL of the money misappropriated to them over all of the years and demand it now or seek criminal charges against longtime Borough Manager Jeff Thompson and and 12 year veteran and now Council President Terrie Stagliano.
And thank God for Trappe Council Members Nevin Scholl and Steven Kurcik as if it was not for their pushing this issue it certainly would have been buried by the Collegeville cronies on Trappe Council. Namely Council President Fred Schuetz, Vice-President Matthew Watson, Lew DiPrete, Paul Edwards and perhaps the worst offender, Mayor Conne Peck.
In our next blog we will cover Fred Schuetz and his antics at the last Trappe Borough Council meeting and we are still working on our post for Matthew Watson as a financial deadbeat.
