Sizemore to head Human Services / By Martha Knight

SMETHPORT—Lee Sizemore, longtime executive at The Guidance Center, has been chosen to fill the recently reinstated post of Director of Human Services.

The announcement was made at the end of the McKean County Commissioners’ regular meeting Tuesday morning.

Chairman Joe DeMott said Sizemore will be paid $84,000.

In regular business the commissioners agreed to enter into a grant agreement with the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency governing the use of Pennsylvania Housing Affordability and Rehabilitation Enhancement (PHARE) funds. It calls for a $90,000 grant to be used in a McKean County Housing Authority effort and one being carried out in Bradford.

The county will enter into a landowner-grantee agreement with the McKean County Conservation District, commissioners decided, in a stormwater management project. It involves the county itself as landowner in a project involving former county home/county farm property.

Commissioners authorized arrangements for a tax revenue anticipation note for 2014, the amount not to exceed $3.5 million. A similar borrowing in that amount has been done in recent years, to ease cash-flow strictures in the early portion of the revenue year.

National Fuel will be the emergency standby gas supplier, according to another decision voted by the commissioners. It is also the regular gas vendor to the county.

Mary Lou Stidd of Mt. Jewett was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Peg Coulter on the McKean County Housing and Redevelopment Authorities. She will serve through next November.

Steve Sherk of Bradford was reappointed public director on the McKean County Conservation District board for a four-year term, and county commissioner Cliff Lane was reappointed county representative on the same board for one year.

Five service agreements were approved at the request of the Department of Human Services.

A payment of $9,807 to Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services, Inc. (ADAS) was approved. It covers their budget allotment for the third quarter of 2013.

Also approved were eight payments to municipalities for liquid fuel fund supported projects. The municipalities and the amounts were these:

Bradford City, $16,992; Bradford Township, $11,275; Hamilton Township, $8,337; Keating Township, $10,114; also

Lafayette Township, $5,747; Liberty Township, $9,222; Port Allegany Borough, $14,295; and Sergeant Township, $1,112.