Your Township Government at Work
  Your Board of Commissioners  
Your Township Web Site   
Meetings & other calendar items and updates
Agendas for these meetings are found by clicking on Boards & Commissions on the Township site
Issues   ( Development Projects / Access Channel 43 / Trash /  etc.  )
   Other Elected Officials- Our  Representatives in Montgomery County, Harrisburg and Washington
  Election and Voting information ( Sample  Ballots, polling places, election results etc )

 Something Abington Residents  Should Know  -
           where the "work" is done on the issues in our Township
While most issues of government are approved at the Full Board of Commissioners Meetings held monthly,  (generally on the 1st Thursday) , the work on any of these issues is most often delegated to a Committee or Council. It is in these meetings that the discussions are held and the input by citizens is most effective. The Committee or Council  then makes  its recommendations  to the full Board of Commissioners who exercise final approvals. Because this is the process, citizens have been trying to get the Township "WORKING meetings" all  filmed and aired on Comcast Channel 43, our Public Access, Government and Education Channel.   Those who are interested in joining this effort, or learning more about it should click on Channel 43.   As of 3-11 Some meetings are there - but many are not that would be more than helpful in keeping residents informed.

Boards, Councils and Committees
Here are just a few that are part of the government process in Abington  Township
The names of those on the Committees can be found inside your  Township  Calendar .....

The current board is here  or at (http://www.abingtonpa.gov/boardscomm/board.htm).
Economic Development Council
Environmental Advisory Council
Finance Committee 
Planning Commission  
Zoning Board
Public Affairs
Public Safety
Public Works

The School Board is a separate entity.
   School Board Members are elected independently & the Schools tax separately.

A Map of the wards can be found  at    http://www.abingtonpa.gov/info/voting.htm.

TOWARD BETTER GOV'T

Model ordinances  from other Townships on:
 Waste/ Use of Chemicals / Mining/ Eminent Domain/ Corporations/ etc etc
http://www.celdf.org/section.php?id=39

Reform - open access, right to know,  spending control etc.  
Promisepa.com - Reform platform from the senate
Grassrootspa.com - keep abreast of the latest developments in the conservative reform arena
Democracy Rising - reform issues
ElectionReformNetwork.us

The Constitution of the United States  
 

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Abington Township revamped the entire Township website at the end of 2015 and broke all the links to the information. In 2017, under Richard Manfredi, someone inexperienced was assigned to redo the entire website again. The public was not asked what problems they would like to see fixed. Their new plan was not well thought out, so everything was very hard to find and there were giant paragraphs you had to slog through in order to find the pertinent one or two lines that you needed. Or if you were lucky enough to even find the meetings and agenda page, there was (and still is) a whole page of nonsense on top, so you think you're on the wrong page. Zoom limks are burrid in a giant paragraph, so people can't find them to attend the meeting. They know about these  problems - but have just decided to ignore us.... for the whole of Richard Manfredi's time here (with Tom Hecker's consent).

 Now, in 2025, we are due to get a new Manager, and there are funds put aside to, once again, upgrade the Township website. We can only hope for a fresh chance at fixing some of these things, as our Township website is the best tool we have for communication and should be an easy, user friendly site for all.

We need volunteers willing to work together to help improve the Township site that everyone has to use,  to make it functional and accessible. 

 We will be repairing our broken links in this Abington Citizens site, too, and fixing some of our many, many typo's as much as is possible. (Yes, it's quite evident that, unlike the Township, WE don't have a paid staff of 275+ or a $93 million budget).

 So...please let us know if you find broken links or typos. Send us the URL and/or and the name of the page it is on, so we can correct it.
Thanks for the help.

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