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oh ok, the current west vincent township manager and that federal law suit from east cocalico which seems to have reactivated and other curiosities….as the west vincent turns lives large, eh?

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West Vincent Manager Tommy Ryan far right

Holy run on title Bat Man! Yes I know but there’s so much right?

So West Vincent Township definitely in the opinion of many not only has a sketchy track record with supervisors (I mean hello? Everything old is new again 2x former manager Jim Wendelgass is now a supervisor, right?) and managers and solicitors? Things might be good or ok for a couple/few years and then it’s a swirling hot mess again, right?

So the newish manager, Tommy Ryan? First of all what kind of shlub later middle aged man goes by the name of Tommy? Does he have a Bobbie Sue and Jimmy John in his family tree too? So Tommy boy (that’s a fitting nickname right?) seems to play municipal hopscotch?

So this post on Facebook, December 8th made me take notice.

Cue the screenshots:

So if the doctor of this Fox Run Road property in question is the same one I researched from California, why would he pick West Vincent for his little real estate project?

So this is at 2 Fox Run Road in West Vincent. It’s 4.4 acres.

Here was a Zillow on it:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2-Fox-Run-Rd-Chester-Springs-PA-19425/54730468_zpid/

Here’s the deed etc:

11985789 fox run deedDownload
related to jochem stormwaterDownload

Here’s the website:

https://foxpointefarm1772.com

So….the website describes it as a site for micro events and a bed & breakfast?

I have no problem with a bed & breakfast inn but what defines a “micro event” ? Maybe Tommy boy should elaborate on the “gray area”? For a bed and breakfast inn, there is zoning in West Vincent but they had issues with short term AKA Air B n B rentals a while back right? Now I do not know enough about West Vincent Zoning to know if B & B owners have to be on site or not. I know they have a form:

Click to access B-and-B-Registration.pdf

Now I noodled around on the West Vincent website looking for historic commission mentions of this property. Couldn’t find anything and that property and barn did major reno right?

So yes, this is all curious, and might not be a problem if people simply understood what is going on, right?

But then West Vincent Township Manager Tommy Ryan appeared in a second post on Facebook December 9. Allow me to present verbiage and screenshots:

Thank you to those who have reached out to me about the new event venue that West Vincent Township is turning a blind eye to in my residentially zoned neighborhood (its apparently a “gray area” for how commercial businesses can be in residentially zoned spots). But who is this bumpkin that is running the township and making these decisions? Buckle in folks, and let me give you the background i found online about Tom Ryan…. complete with a lie he put on his resume when he applied at WVT (wait… maybe it’s a “micro” lie??).

When Tom Ryan applied to WVT for the manager spot, his resume stated the following jobs:

* 2010-2015: West Bradford Township Manager

* 2015-2022: Worcester Township Manager

* Jan 2023-current: East Cocalico Township Manager

The resume is an item you can RTK as is his cover letter. How do I remember these dates? Because I googled him to see what his history was, and what I found didn’t match the dates on his resume. Odd, isn’t it? And then I had other secretaries and his former coworkers who reached out to me before he started at WVT to “warn” me about him because his reputation as a horrible boss and questionable person compelled them to reach out. If you ever bump into me and want to hear MY stories as one of his employees, just ask. I’ve had many people ask me things, and I have zero-problems giving my impression and experiences (and I wrote down EVERYTHING as it happened).

Back to his work history that can be found online, and what I found that made me scratch my head…

* 4/2008-4/2010 (2 years): Trappe Borough Manager.

This was the SECOND job where Tom worked with WVT solicitor, Dave Onorato (the first place being at Towamencin Township). This was one of the jobs where I received “warning” calls about Tom from previous coworkers and various secretaries. I won’t detail those conversations in writing since legally some of that information was hearsay (although I fully believe this info since various sources told me the same naughty things). However, the information I received about how he treats people and his persona? SPOT ON! And I witnessed those things first-hand when he started (as have many of you). It does not surprise me AT ALL that he was no longer there after 2 years. I’ll leave it at that.

* 4/2010-3/2011 (11 mos): Hatboro Township Manager.

This is interesting because he said on his resume which he submitted to WVT that he was working at WEST BRADFORD in 2010. How is that so?? And he only held this job for 11 months. I found an interesting newspaper article mentioning that shortly after Tom was hired, the solicitor resigned. Here’s a portion of that article:

…..Interesting article, no?

And Tom was gone from that job before his one-year anniversary in March 2011. Sooooo, it doesn’t look like he was in West Bradford in 2010 like his resume detailed.

* 5/2011-9/2015 (4 years): West Bradford Township Manager (this was the job he said he started in 2010, but WBT BOS meeting minutes don’t show him being appointed until mid-2011).

Someone said this is the township where he lived. Hmm, so why leave? Ironically, he resigned when the Public Works Director resigned (accepted at the same meeting). I read some interesting articles about this double-resignation. When a boss and his employee leave like this, there’s always a story. I found out some questionable news about this, but we still have more jobs to cover, so let’s move on, shall we?

* 9/2015-8/2022 (7 years): Worcester Township Manager.

Sure, Tom was here for 7 years. But coincidentally, Tom’s resignation was at the same meeting where a Public Works Laborer resigned as well. A repeat of his last job maybe? The stories about this double resignation run rampant there, too.

* 1/2023-2/2025 (2 years): East Cocalico Township Manager.

Interestingly enough, the tax collector of that township filed a Federal Lawsuit right after Tom left alleging him and others of First Amendment violations. I’m sure the lead-up to this had nothing at all to do with him leaving.

* 3/2025-current (9mos and counting): West Vincent Township Manager.

And now he’s here in WVT. And he’s back together with Dave Onorato who is our solicitor (job #3 with him). OH! And I believe there was a short stint as the VP and Director of Water Services at ARRO Consulting. But I was told by ARRO-peeps that it was only a few-month thing “for obvious reasons” (didn’t ask for elaborations on that… I already got a good picture in my mind).

Now think back to when John Granger was WVT manager (SURPRISE: John also worked with both Dave and Tom at a previous job like three amigos; Tom spoke very highly of John Granger when he started at WVT). People asked about whether background checks were done on Granger. Did anyone do them for THIS hiring? And if they did, did they ask about these things that were found with simple googling? And if so, were all these things just easily explained (although that year assigned to West Bradford seems a bit harder to let go)?

So when I now hear from my neighbors that there is a “gray area” over having a commercial event venue in a residentially zoned neighborhood, I have to look at the man allowing it to happen (and being paid $160k to do so). And ultimately I need to look at the people who hired this man which is our elected Board of Supervisors (and I’m sure they are appointing him to another year as manager come the January reorg meeting). If zoning is open to this much “interpretation”, then maybe we need to get someone who can do a better job interpreting.

And a huge thank you to the county employees who reached out to me today to get more information about my previous post. At least they understand the difference between commercial and residential. I hope the township pays attention when they come knocking to discuss this with them.

Thanks for listening to my history lesson. Again, feel free to keep goggling and see what YOU come up with.

Kristina Casey used to work for West Vincent. So she is a woman who left a municipality this guy managed? Maybe I would not think twice except for this:

Hatboro solicitor resigns

Excerpt:

Hatboro’s solicitor, Christen Pionzio, faced with a situation she felt put both the borough and her law firm at risk, took everyone by surprise when she announced her resignation at Hatboro Council’s committee meeting Monday night.

In a prepared statement, she told officials it wasn’t working with the new borough manager, Tommy Ryan, because his way of operating prevents her from protecting the borough, exposing herself and her firm, Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell and Lupin, to liability.

“To continue to represent Hatboro under these circumstances would not only jeopardize the integrity of the borough, but my law firm as well,” said Pionzio, who has been Hatboro’s legal counsel since the winter of 2009.

Ryan, who came to Hatboro last month, declined to comment for this article.

“He told me directly that he has the expertise to identify legal issues and that he would let me know when my services were needed,” Pionzio said. “To have a non-lawyer prepare legal documents that could have far reaching liability for the borough is dangerous.”

According to Pionzio, Ryan will now draft documents, such as resolutions and ordinances. He had also requested Word documents of the easement agreements she had drafted for the borough, which she emphasized was her legal work product.

Resolutions are sometimes drafted by staff and always reviewed by solicitors, Pionzio said, but ordinances have real legal implications, such as granting rights to property owners or taking them away.

So yeah, Tommy boy was in Trappe for 2 years before Hatboro:

Ryan to leave Trappe to take position in Hatboro

Then (plot twist), not even a year after Tommy boy took his job in Hatboro and the solicitor (female) resigned, he leaves:

https://patch.com/pennsylvania/horsham/hatboro-manager-may-resign

Excerpt:

Before some members of Hatboro Borough Council even heard the news, two residents inquired about the resignation of Borough Manager Tommy Ryan.

During Monday’s meeting, a man said the news was already out there and asked when the council would discuss Ryan’s replacement.

Council Vice President Nancy Guenst, who chaired Monday’s meeting, refused to comment. …Ryan, who last spring filled the position vacated by Police Chief James Gardner, told Patch afterward that he has received a “conditional offer” from West Bradford Township in Chester County.

https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/2011/03/07/hatboro-manager-resigning/17053408007

Excerpt:

Hatboro Council will hold a meeting Wednesday at 7:15 at Borough Hall to consider the resignation of Manager Tommy Ryan.

https://patch.com/pennsylvania/horsham/hatboro-to-hold-special-meeting-wednesday

https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/2011/03/09/republicans-blamed-for-hatboro-manager/17148993007

Excerpt:

Two weeks shy of the anniversary of his hiring, Hatboro manager, Tommy Ryan is moving on.

Borough council voted to accept Ryan’s resignation Wednesday night at a contentious session during which Democrats claimed that Ryan was leaving because of the “intimidation” of the Republican minority.

Ryan was not present at the meeting. His last day is March 16.

So then traveling Tommy boy went to West Bradford where it also seemed messy:

West Bradford Township employee resigns following settlement agreement

Excerpt:

WEST BRADFORD >> Two township employees recently resigned, one being a mutual agreement with the township.

West Bradford Township supervisors accepted the resignations of both Public Works Director Randy Behmke and Township Manager Tommy Ryan during their September meeting. Additionally, supervisors accepted the “execution of a settlement agreement” with Behmke.

During that time, supervisors also appointed Douglas K. Kapp as interim township manager, among other duties.

The Daily Local News obtained the information via a Right-to-Know request, including the resignation letters from both Behmke and Ryan, the settlement agreement with Behmke, and the salary of Kapp….Ryan recently told the Daily Local News that he resigned to become a manager in Montgomery County.

“I resigned my position after being appointed township manager in Worcester,” Ryan said. “I loved my time in West Bradford – great community, great employees, great board (of supervisors). But I was offered a great opportunity in Worcester, and it was an opportunity I could not turn down.”

New Trappe manager hits ground running

Excerpt:

Tommy Ryan likes what he sees in the people of Trappe Borough. “I’m impressed with the pride and the passion of the residents, and with the sincerity and dedication of the elected officials,” Ryan, the new manager of the borough, said via e-mail last week.

A native of Boston, Ryan has lived in the Philadelphia region for 15 years and earned a master’s degree at Villanova University in public administration. He comes to the borough from the Heritage Building Group, a Bucks County-based property development company, where he held the positions of planning manager and approvals manager. His resume also includes stints as zoning officer and community planning director for Towamencin Township.

He is no stranger to Trappe. Ryan became familiar with the community through his previous positions, but many of the elected officials he’d come to know have since moved on.

“I previously worked with the borough’s solicitor, engineer, and zoning hearing board solicitor, so this has helped to smooth the transition,” Ryan said.

Attorney Robert Brant appointed Worcester solicitor

Worcester residents oppose proposed sale of ‘open space’ lots along Zacharias Creek Greenway

Then after a jaunt at ARRO, you know where West Goshen Casey LaLonde was for a while, Tommy Boy pops up at East Cocalico in Lancaster County? Tommy Boy gets around, huh?

https://lancasteronline.com/news/regional/east-cocalico-to-hire-new-township-manager/article_3950d1a6-9605-11ed-b33f-77452f0498a8.html

Excerpt:

What: East Cocalico supervisors meeting, Jan. 12.

What happened: The board announced that Thomas Ryan will serve as the new township manager. He is vice president and director of water services for Lititz-based ARRO Consulting Inc. His start date is yet to be determined pending his notice to his current employer.

The cost: Ryan’s salary will be $130,000, plus a $5,000 annual vehicle allowance and a $1,200 cell phone allowance.

Background: Ryan has served as township manager in Worcester Township in Montgomery County and in West Bradford Township in Chester County. He also worked as borough manager in Hatboro and in Trappe, both in Montgomery County. An instructor for the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors, Ryan will be allowed five days off per year to attend PSATS.

Quotable: “We have put countless hours into this search. We feel we have found the right person,” said Lorenzo Bonura, East Cocalico supervisor.

Wellll….then it gets spicy, right?

Lesbian tax collector Jill Cordan files antibias lawsuit

https://www.wgal.com/article/lancaster-county-tax-collector-sues-east-cocalico-township-lawsuit/65160905

https://lancasteronline.com/news/regional/east-cocalico-supervisors-vote-to-file-lawsuit-against-township-tax-collector/article_15d899e4-d57d-11ee-8b81-57e34c20026e.html

Oh here’s the first filing on the part of the tax collector and it does include Tommy boy, now in West Vincent:

United States District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania Jill Cordan vs. East Cocalico Township et al_RedactedDownload
West Vincent hires new township manager

Excerpt:

WEST VINCENT — The board of supervisors has appointed Tommy Ryan as the latest township manager.

The township has been on a bit of a merry-go-round with township managers of late.

On Jan. 1, 2023, John Granger was appointed as West Vincent township manager, but he resigned on June 13, 2023.

So the board of supervisors appointed Jacqui Guenther as interim manager and then on Jan. 1, 2024, they made the job permanent, naming her as the new township manager, but it didn’t last long.

By August, she had resigned to become borough manager of Marcus Hook in Delaware County.

So the township appointed Jim Wendelgass to serve as interim manager, an appointment that was re-affirmed by resolution on Jan. 6. Wendlegass served previously as township manager, but his appointment was not renewed in 2016.

According to the township website, although Ryan is listed as the township manager, Wendelgass remains in the township administration as the township’s treasurer.

According to a press release issued by the township on March 17, “Ryan brings 15 years of management experience to the post, including most recently serving as East Cocalico Township Manager in Lancaster County. Prior to that, he served as manager in Worcester Township, Montgomery County, and West Bradford Township, Chester County.

So Tommy Boy likes to do videos:

But hey now so in October, East Cocalico announced the case filed by the tax collector was over:

But heyyyyy it’s NOT over. it was refiled and here’s what I found:

Jill Cordan vs. East Cocalico Township 111725 filingDownload
12125 propsed orderDownload

So do West Vincent residents even know all that their current manager has been up to? What kind of background checks were performed prior to his hiring? Were thing of a litigious nature like this wild case that is not over yet made known?

I found part of his contract and what is he making at West Vincent? $160,000? And he’s the zoning officer too?

ryan emp agreDownload

So interesting to note, that the lady of the screenshots? Was the township or municipal secretary? Can’t seem to find one so is Tommy boy Jack of all township trades doing that too? Oh no wait for it….found an interesting item in the proposed 2026 budget:

Funding for a part-time receptionist position in lieu of a full-time Township Secretary position, saving an estimated $105,000 per year.

Ok that is SUPER offensive. A township secretary is more than a random office admin. It’s actually pretty specialized. I have had a few friends perform this job, and I actually interviewed for such a position gosh almost 15 years ago out of curiosity but was glad I was first runner up in the end when I realized how late meetings could go in this particular municipality not in Chester County I was peeking at. It’s a very important job for any municipality large or small and can’t just be a spot plugged by a part-time receptionist. If that is what Tommy boy is proposing well then that position will end up being advertised more than filled in my humble opinion.

But I am very curious about this manager. It’s literally intriguing the way West Vincent gravitates to certain kinds or classes of people isn’t it?

And Tommy boy is hardly universally loved is he?

Why is he there and how much of a raise is he suggesting for his position for 2026?

Just when you think West Vincent might stop the madness, they merely enlarge the lunatic asylum there don’t they?

Yikes, pass the popcorn, cue the drama, and good night.

you just don’t mess with the pledge of allegiance to our flag

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Check this one out. 

Freedom of speech is freedom of speech so he is certainly allowed to do whatever he wants but the pledge isn’t the place for his opinion. Just my 2 cents. 

This all comes courtesy of West Vincent Supervisor Bernie Couris.

Now Bernie is an interesting cat. He was the most devoted of Republicans when he was all those years on West Conshohocken  Borough Council then he moves to West Vincent and becomes Nouveau Bernie the Born Again Democrat.

I am a traditionalist when it comes to certain things and I don’t think you should mess with the Pledge of Allegiance do you? 

If you think Bernie should apologize to the residents and anyone else who might hear this, please email him at:

bcouris@westvincenttwp.org

Or call/email the manager who seems to have too much time on his hands his name is “Tommy” Ryan. 

manager@westvincenttwp.org

610-458-1601

Oh and let us not forget the mysterious evaporation of whomever the forager woman was whom they initially tapped to replace Sara Shick who passed away in August? I can’t remember the woman’s name but she literally lasted like four or five meetings and disappeared. She was done.

Why that is interesting because of the sheer lunacy of whom they replaced the disappearing woman with. This is none other than Jim Wendelgass. Yes, isn’t that a fantabulosa thing? First he’s a manager then he comes back as an interim manager and now he’s a politician.

Why is this important?

Wendelgassbag was the manager that a bunch of years ago they chose not to renew his contract so he kind of went bye-bye and then went over to West Pikeland as manager because that place is very Pennsyltucky and problematic as far as government (we’ve heard about them in recent months because they keep trying to get rid of their police department and because they don’t record meetings a lot of stuff doesn’t get out.)

Wendelgassbag was at West Pikeland until he retired I guess a couple of years ago now? Then he was brought back to life like Lazarus rising from the dead in West Vincent, as like some kind of interim manager. (See the link to the old post on this blog discussing that at the very bottom of this post. )

West Vincent is one of those places that you don’t pay attention to for a while and then you go back and look and then you shake your head because every time you think things can’t get more sketchy there, they do.

And other things that I always find curious when it comes to West Vincent are little things like this open records appeal from 2024 I think it was:

https://www.openrecords.pa.gov/Appeals/DocketGetFile.cfm?id=165119

I’m pretty sure this is the same woman who used to be the Township Secretary who used to get picked on by Sara Shick?

Click to access 2-page-west-vincent-letter.pdf

Interestingly enough they’re no longer seems to be a Township Secretary at West Vincent Township and why is that? What did they do to the last one?

You know it can get shady in certain municipalities in Chester County and West Vincent, well, it is definitely a place in need of sunshine and good government.

Don’t mess with the Pledge of Allegiance that’s like burning the flag IMHO.

lawd have mercy, it’s groundhog day in west vincent!

west vincent needs a quorum and they need a real manager. like yesterday!

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Ok look I have to ask: how can this one remaining supervisor in West Vincent Township sit here this past week at a gathering with bumble the solicitor and everything that is old is new again manager who was exited a bunch of years ago not because he was fab and came back as an interim with straight faces? They literally just held a meeting without a quorum which is really just a gathering right? How can you hold a meeting about the business of a municipality without a quorum? The answer is you’re not supposed to. It’s a second class township. This is the big flaw in the structure of second class townships because although you can have five supervisors too many places only have three like here.

You have one supervisor that I suspect people are not going to see again (Sara Shick) and you have another one also with obvious health issues (Bernie Couris formerly a Republican Borough Council person in West Conshohocken) given the gray pallor at the meeting they were last attending wearing a giant hospital mask and then leaving after 20 minutes. You may not see him again either, right?

Now many things people do not know about Bernie Couris is he was in the papers years ago for a heart transplant. I have never found him to be my type of politician either in West Vincent or West Conshohocken, but he had a heart transplant I want to say 1990-ish, and went on to run marathons etc, and that I do find truly amazing and inspiring. That being said, if he is not well, that could be super serious, right? (And if you don’t believe me check South Jersey papers archives, Inquirer, Daily News, etc.)

And Sara Shick is a breast cancer survivor – used to be a peer counselor at Living Beyond Breast Cancer which is actually one of the few breast cancer charities I believe in. BUT given the way she looked at meetings the past few months (wheelchair, suddenly a hair covering, looking frail, and a very wobbly voice) something is up and hasn’t been to a meeting or part of one since September?

Look, I am not being mean, these people are UNWELL and this township doesn’t have a quorum. So both of them need to put what is rumored to be some sort of competition or not getting along aside for the good of their township, don’t they? It is OK to say you are sick or whatever and step aside and release that stress from your lives if you have a medical condition that requires attention and less stress, correct?

back to west vincent. the supervisors aren’t doing so well, are they?


So who is running the township?


And I realize government in West Vincent can’t escape being Pennsyltucky once in a while, but you can have a meeting and just say you’re getting together so everybody can see literally who’s left! They’re not actually doing anything because legally they can’t do anything without a quorum can they? And that is exactly what the remaining supervisor Dana Allen did. Had a meeting without a quorum and did not know the basics of you can’t post minutes that have not been approved by quorum?


And then you have to wonder if any of the former supervisor(s) that people fought so hard to rid the township of are just waiting in the wings, looking to be placed as the pinch hitter(s)? Now one pinch hitter I would approve of is Mike Schneider, for example. Or even George Dulchinos, right?

I have to ask should the state be stepping in here because I think this is crazy town and if I was living or working in this municipality and they don’t even have like the audit from the prior year finished yet let alone how can they really be talking about 2024 because they can’t really do anything with that either, can they?


Because again…broken record time… there’s not a quorum now, so wouldn’t you be anxious as a resident ? Or even as a township employee? Truthfully residents shouldn’t be just anxious, they should be up in arms. And before anybody jumps down my throat and says I am unsympathetic to people dealing with health issues, that’s not the case at all. This is a broken down system in this municipality once again, and that is not fair to anyone is it???


Again, supervisors who are not at the table and haven’t been at the table now in one case for several meetings, and in another case for a couple of meetings need to do the right thing. It is OK to say their health comes first and they are sorry they cannot serve any longer… but you can’t just pretend nothing is happening here, can you? And should you?

And let’s talk the everything old is new again interim manager? A right to know uncovered he is billing $75 /hour. How is the recruitment going and how can they appoint a manager without a quorum of supervisors anyway?

West Vincent 1124 2Download


So then there is why are they using Keystone Municipal Services for manager searching when The Meyner Center at Lafayette has the better track record? Here, check this link because the Meyner Center has the track record IMHO:

Executive Recruitment

Here is the job posting for a new West Vincent manager, but again, without a healthy Board of Supervisors HOW do they interview and hire one??? Picking a new manager is not just playing that child’s card game of match, is it?

A resident asked at the meeting asked the question of what if there was no quorum in December and the solicitor basically told her not to worry her pretty little head about it? I mean for real?

And of course because there really is no local journalism anymore you have nothing about this in the Daily Local and I doubt the Inquirer even knows there’s a problem.

West Vincent is careening in my opinion. I am glad I don’t live there but oh hell if this is not a reason for second class townships to go to a five member board everywhere in PA, I don’t know what is.

West Vincent is Crazy Town and not in a good or productive way.

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lawd have mercy, it’s groundhog day in west vincent!

back to west vincent. the supervisors aren’t doing so well, are they?

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The last time West Vincent Supervisor Sara Shick, Vice chair of the Board of Supervisors was seen on a meeting recording seems to have been September 16, 2024 doesn’t it? Look it is no secret she is not well, and I actually do not wish her ill. I am a breast cancer survivor, and it’s pretty obvious she is dealing with something bad.

But that being said if her health is in decline, and you are among her people, she doesn’t have to literally die with her boots on. Help her find someone to step into her role, leaving her the dignity of dealing with whatever.

I am sure that whatever it is I say here, I will be attacked for writing about this. I am actually not writing with malice, although she has never been my favorite politician. I am writing about this because whatever is going on with her personally should be where her focus is. And she loves where she lives, but she has to know when to leave the party as an elected official, correct? For the good of her community? As in the greater good?

This is just how I feel. It’s is not casting aspersions, it is practical. It’s a three person board and now it seems that Supervisor Bernie Couris has something going on? Look at the October 24, 2024 meeting. He looks quite literally gray and pale, wearing a mask, and if you look at the meeting and about 21 minutes in, he leaves the meeting. That man is also not well.

This leaves ONE Supervisor, the Chair of the Board, Dana Alan. There was no quorum on November 4th, so the meeting was cancelled, correct? The next meeting is November 18th. Will they have a quorum? What if they do not?

Look, this is one of the largest problems I have with these 3 person boards. Life happens and then township business grinds to a halt.

The interim township manager is the one they kind of showed the door and not reappointed around 2016, correct? Then he leaves West Pikeland and wanders on back to West Vincent?

Where is the system of checks and balances here?

As an outsider looking in they need one replacement supervisor if not two. It’s not business as usual and needs to be addressed. If my research is correct, if two supervisors in a second class Pennsylvania municipality become sick and unable to serve, the remaining supervisors would typically fill the vacancies by appointing qualified individuals to serve until the next municipal election, where the positions would be filled by a public vote; if there are not enough remaining supervisors (which is a real worry in West Vincent), the vacancy board (consisting of the remaining supervisors and a registered elector) would appoint replacements, and if that fails, the court of common pleas would ultimately fill the vacancies upon a petition from township electors, right?

So West Vincent, what’s the plan? You actually have to deal with this. Of course you can say how horrible I am and probably will but y’all need to come to grips with what is happening. And that doesn’t mean bringing certain former supervisors back to the board for a second bite at the apple, either.

I close with this is why I like a 5 person board. It just makes more sense.

lawd have mercy, it’s groundhog day in west vincent!

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Well OMG everything old is new again in West Vincent Township. It’s literally GROUNDHOG day!

Wait, did you expect me to leave this alone?

Jim Wendelgass, like black mold or ants a picnic, is bacccccckkk! Jim Wendelgass last time around did not have his contract renewed, yet here he is with a temporary one or whatever? Gosh and when he retired at West Pikeland why was that really? (Oh and for fun check out DJ APPEAL 2022-07736-CV on Chester County’s civil dockets. It’s about West Pikeland and a pond. But I digress)

So the now among the dearly departed, Jacqui Guenther sure didn’t last long as West Vincent Township Manager, did she? If they are the least bit normal they are allergic to the Kool Aid and leave. Someone said she is possibly going to Marcus Hook? So if true, she’d rather be in the bowels of Delaware County and dealing with pipelines and big oil vs. West Vincent Township?

I have to ask, will Chickenman rise up from the dead or wherever they have been over this?

This is CRAZY. What’s next a pinch hitter for the upcoming election and perhaps instead of Sara Shick, the voters of West Vincent will be subjected to former Supervisor Roadmaster Farmer in the O’Dell KenOcrat? I mean I have heard tell of meetings between Shick, Wedelgas, and the KenOcrat already so is it very far fetched? And Speaking of Sara Shick, why is she seeming to wear the same outfit again to the stupidvisors meeting? And she is still in a wheelchair? All sarcasm aside, is she OK? And no sarcasm aside perhaps the current solicitor had best watch their six because doesn’t this crew have a preferred solicitor?

So in 2016, they shed Jim Wedelgass. But since snakes grow another skin, I guess it makes sense he’s back?

West Vincent supervisors and former township manager enter a transition agreement

WEST VINCENT >> Supervisors and a former township employee entered an agreement to help assist the new staff.

The West Vincent Township supervisors last Monday approved an agreement with James “Jim” Wendelgass, the former township manager, to help during a transition period.

Wendelgass was not reappointed by the supervisors during the January reorganization meeting. The supervisors decided to have an interim manager serve from the Local Government Management Services, LLC.

Wendelgass served as the township manager for 11 years.

The contract is an employment separation agreement between Wendelgass and the township with an agreement to help as a consultant.

The agreement is $15,000 for 80 hours. When asked by the public, supervisors’ Chairman John Jacobs said Wendelgass has worked roughly 55 hours so far.

And let us not forget, Wendelgass was the guy that made sure taxpayers paid for a former stupidvisor’s healthcare AFTER the eminent domain debacle caused her to separate from a a certain non-profit, right? And he was there for the failed eminent domain taking right?

West Vincent supervisor gets benefits after losing job at Trust

https://www.eastcoastequestrian.net/news2012/february/Township-Fails-to-Take-Ludwigs-Corner-Show-Grounds.php

Ludwig’s Corner Horse Show Grounds Escape Seizure By Eminent Domain

I just can’t with this choice. I didn’t think it could get worse than John Granger whom they 86’d , but here we are at Groundhog Day. Here are some vistas from his last ride in West Vincent:

West Vincent loves their cloudy days and when there were SO MANY cloudy days under a former manager why, why, why have they all fallen and hit their heads and think it’s a good idea to let a mangy fox back into the proverbial hen house? Or get another bite at the apple?

Just out of curiosity has anyone ever an analysis in West Vincent of how much did this guy cost that township LAST time?

Whatever, glad I don’t live there. (And so are the elected officials!)

one of the many stormwater issues in west vincent, richard nixon references, and solicitors behaving unusually.

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Soooo the most recent West Vincent Township Supervisors’ meeting was a study in old school West Vincent crazy.

You can pretty much always count on West Vincent Township to bring the absolute freaking #crazy.

A resident at end of meeting was making public comment, NOT making a threat. See 2:01:30 of recording below (unless of course it magically disappears) – the West Vincent solicitor accuses a resident of making THREATS. That’s crazy. He was expressing his opinion that perhaps made someone UNCOMFORTABLE but it was not a threat and yeah Colonel Sanders the Solicitor WAS out of order IMHO.

And Colonel Sanders the Solicitor might not like my opinion either but perhaps he needs to freshen up his knowledge of the United States Constitution, in particular the First Amendment.

Now maybe the resident could have chosen words differently but to me what he was saying is as he listens to the petty back and forth in West Vincent Township, that there are bigger problems in the world and people are dying overseas. To be honest, that has little to do with what is happening in West Vincent Township, but that was his public comment. It wasn’t a threat, it was a bit of a word salad, but it was opinion. And that gentleman lived that overseas in the Middle East and is owed an apology by the township.

You can’t just threaten residents. You can steer them to stay on track for what is going on in the municipality, but you don’t threaten them and then say he was threatening the township. He wasn’t.

Once again it’s obvious that West Vincent needs another solicitor, isn’t it?

Then there is the whole thing about stormwater management. So what’s the deal with 1352 Shady Lane and pardon the pun there is something shady going on there? And their neighbors are their stormwater management plan?

And then the plastics bans and paper vs. plastic and the harvesting of tuna which was off topic to an extent, yet that was also not a threat….it was opinion. And then the guy who brought Richard Nixon to the meeting.

Oy just oy. What’s next tractor tipping in a certain field? Oh wait….never mind that already happened didn’t it?

Sign this post everything old is suddenly very new again in West Vincent. Or the more things change the more things stay the same.

oh the things the media should be paying attention to…in west vincent…a revolution is brewing…..

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There is a real live revolution happening in West Vincent. The township employees want Supervisor Sara Shick GONE. First I will share a video snippet. Then I will share the entire meeting recording and then the letter. Yes, dear readers, I have the letter. Grandma Charlotte and the Chester County Democratic Committee might also wish to pay attention…..

I had gotten a head’s up from a resident who told me to go to the 1:22 mark…..Police and township employees attempt coup, want Sara Shick OUT. 1:33 mark…..Sara Shick brother-in law defends…..what’s going on in West Vincent? Will they talk in West Vincent Hears Voices or whatever the page is called? I mean can they send ol’ Bernie back to West Conshy first? Good lord what a board…again…I guess this was bound to happen considering the players, yes?

Popcorn 🍿 popcorn 🍿 popcorn 🍿

So yes indeedy, it’s crazy town time again in West Vincent, only this time the people the residents depend upon to run the township and keep them safe are saying they want the former handmaiden of former Supervisor Farmer Miller (hark do we hear Chickenman?) gone as in G-O-N-E.

Oh wait…I better not mention Chickenman…that gets the faithful in a lather, doesn’t it?

But I have minored in West Vincent craziness since the Board of Supervisors tried to exercise eminent domain for private gain on Ludwigs Corner Horse Show. It’s always something. It was calm for a while when Mike and John were supervisors because they cared and did the right thing. But then when they cycled off of the board, old bad habits seemed to emerge once again, didn’t they?

The LCHSA Board Looks Back on Four Years Ago and Sets The Record Straight

Anyway….this is quite the stunning turn of events in West Vincent, including employees wanting an actual set of HR rules — I can’t believe nothing existed until now, can you?

I have the letter:

2-page-west-vincent-letterDownload

I almost forgot…the October meeting recording:

And FYI I covered the French Maid of it all. That was PUBLIC information, not top secret documentation although I wonder what happened to the audit being made public that the taxpayers funded? What is it about audits and shady that go hand in hand anyway?

Again, I wonder if the West Vincent Hears Voices Facebook page which was started to prop up the old Farmer Supervisor in his last gasp at politics is chatting about this turn of events? They seem to be a secretive group now so I imagine being a fly on that Facebook wall is interesting right now? Or it might not be because it was pretty managed before. So they might delete all references to this because only happy fuzzy eco friendly recycling unicorns farting rainbows need apply, right?

Hey look, I told you all in 2019 I thought Ms. Shick was not a good choice for supervisor. She’s had a lot of health issues lately and great personal loss as per her chatty Cathy brother in law. Maybe she should indeed bow out. Because THIS? This is not going away.

Now discuss amongst yourselves…congratulations West Vincent I think you have usurped the crazytown award at least temporarily from West Goshen and Willistown. And I will note no West Vincent employee has spoken to me about this and if there is retaliation against any of them for standing in their truth that will be something I would be interested in knowing about.

Carry on.

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they had me at french maid costume….in west vincent
BREAKING: west vincent buries the lede with a last minute meeting and a manager going bye bye
meet the busy beaver of west vincent township AND new garden township
careful who you vote for in west vincent

bernie, bernie, bernie…we’ve got your number (still)

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Well….I warned West Vincent voters about former West Conshy Borough Councilman Bernie Couris in 2017 didn’t I? And you didn’t listen. Nope.

In 2017, I said:

Birds of a opportunistic political feather always flock together don’t they?

Outgoing West Vincent Supervisor David Brown who was a Lower Merion Two Montgomery County Republican before moving west to become a country squire in the ousted political regime has endorsed West Conshy Bernie who until very, very, very recently a Republican in West Conshohocken and isn’t that quaint?

Has anyone asked West Conshy Bernie how he feels about nepotism? Has anyone also asked West Conshy Bernie why when he was a Republican there why he said such truly awful things about Democrats? Has anyone asked West Conshy Bernie what he really wants?

And if it was where I lived I would be very leery of a Born Again Democrat who was until a minute before his first race it seems a Montgomery County Republican from West Conshohocken. But hey just my opinion…and if you all know he doesn’t pass the sniff test and you continue to vote for him, you get what you deserve, don’t you?

As the forever infamous in West Vincent political history Chickenman once pointed out, for local elections, that one National Party is no better than the other. Local elections should be about a person, what they believe, their knowledge, and their experience. A person that puts forth actual solid beliefs, not a campaign of what “what would you like to see” feel good platitudes. A history of actions provides a window into the future.

Or as another friend likes to say and I quote often – PAST IS PROLOGUE.

So now Born Again Bernie has been living in West Vincent for a bit, correct? Been a stupidvisor for a while? He’s slowly but surely sprinkling the fairy dust of West Conshy in West Vincent is he not? Maybe that is why y’all ended up with publicly funded French Maid outfits?

they had me at french maid costume….in west vincent

Maybe this is why you ended up with the manager who made a hasty exit that I also warned you about? And how you almost ended up with the extra money being paid to said manager although it ummm wasn’t in his contract?

meet the busy beaver of west vincent township AND new garden township
BREAKING: west vincent buries the lede with a last minute meeting and a manager going bye bye

To quote the guy Anthony Simonetti running against West Conshy South Jersey Bernie :

A concern in West Vincent is the lack of government transparency. The discussion of Township business and financial transactions must be made readily available to the public at large. However, over the last several years, the availability of this information is decreasing.

Here are a few examples:

Financial expenditure reports provided to the public provide minimal or no information on the transactions. This has been an intentional change in accounting practices. Considering the problems in the Township Treasurer’s office in 2022, the trend should be to provide more information, not less.  

Recorded meeting videos often have unintelligible audio or are missing completely. 

The regulations of the Open Meetings Law (Pennsylvania Sunshine Act) are not always followed, especially the guidelines on providing proper advance notice of public meeting agendas.

Excessive Executive Sessions are held with minimal detail given to the public.

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West Conshohocken from the Expressway.
Dig that open space disguised as a concrete jungle yo’

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People, people…Bernie is still BOGUS….and rumor has it even the Democrats don’t really like him….so maybe it is just food for thought, but are all of you such sheeple in West Vincent you will really vote for him AGAIN? He’s just repeating patterns from Republican days in West Conshohocken, isn’t he? And eventually some of those folks who remember all his shenanigans there like tearing down St. Gertrude’s School?

And isn’t it interesting that he served what? 8 years or so on West Conshohocken Borough Council and it’s like he scrubbed Google clean? He lost in 2007 to fellow Republican Harry Griffiths according to the The Times Herald. Most interesting is still the occasional chatter out of Montgomery Co which still says this “Democrat” hated Democrats when he was a West Conshy boy so how is he one now? A Democrat of Convenience is not really a Democrat is it?

I do not have a dog in this race, but West Vincent voters need to remember this is a guy who came up as a politician in West Conshohocken and that will never make him a saint, will it?

the obstacle course survived the zoning stuff in west vincent for non-profit events?

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Trying this again. THIS is a share of a public post from a public Facebook group or page. I can SEE this is a nonprofit event. What I do NOT understand is why events are still happening here? I thought this site was not wanted by residents and went to court etc?

West Vincent has such inept and incompetent supervisors it is worth asking, isn’t it?

People who left comments, Facebook removed the post although I was sharing from a PUBLIC post etc. I did not remove the post. I can’t figure out why since it was certainly not controversial.

https://casetext.com/case/martin-v-zoning-hearing-bd-of-w-vincent-twp

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AllThingsChesco/permalink/3129382780696767/?mibextid=S66gvF

And while we are at it can we ask why Facebook is on crack this morning? A public post was shared, and comments were not deleted OR heated. People were telling me how non-profit events were allowed. I was trying to understand how this happened because last time I heard about this place, neighbors were up in arms and packing meetings.

The question was in the area of follow-up on a place and issue I forgot about. So according to people who have been to non-profit events there in recent past, it seems that those kind of events are somehow allowed?

I was curious hence the question. Can’t see the place from my house but when you remember how upset neighbors were and then after a long time you see the place pop up it’s natural to ask how did that happen.

But because we couldn’t have a normal and civil conversation on Facebook, I decided to post it here. Their algorithms are fakakta.

they had me at french maid costume….in west vincent

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Excerpt from the 7/18/23 Board of Supervisors Meeting.

I don’t visit West Vincent Meetings very often. But I am thinking we have all been missing out. This week brought us the mysterious caper of the sexy French Maid’s Outfit. Apparently, some employee or someone ordered this on a township credit card a while back?

The supervisors didn’t seem keen on discussing it. I mean heck two out of the three used to be Republicans and didn’t leave because of Big Donnie Orange more like they weren’t wanted and people don’t mention that too often and we know THAT is not to be discussed, right?

…..But I digress. Easy to do in West Vincent and they have had a busy summer with flaming bodies from Brooklyn dumped on West Vincent Roads and such, right?

NY Daily News: NYC CRIME
2 Brooklyn men arrested for shooting death of drinking buddy dumped in the Pennsylvania woods and set ablaze: NYPD
By Rocco Parascandola
Police Bureau Chief
Published: Jul 06, 2023 at 9:02 am

Police arrested two Brooklyn men for shooting a drinking buddy and then dumping his body in the Pennsylvania woods and setting him on fire, police said Thursday. Luis Marroquin-Cerna, 27, and Rodolfo Lopez, 29, spent the night of June 18 at a bar with Rolando Blanco-Duarte, 32, police said.

At some point, the trio left the bar and went to a building on 41st St. in Sunset Park and got into an argument, and shot Blanco-Duarte twice, police said.

The suspects later drove the victim to a wooded area in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where they dumped the victim’s body and set it on fire, police said.

I still want to know why they chose West Vincent and it was not THAT remote a road, but compared to a city, I guess it was?

Back to the Oooh laa laa of summer meetings in West Vincent….

So I have NO idea what this is about or where this appeared, but would love to see a line item purchase for a French Maid’s costume wouldn’t you?

Many thanks to my friend for sending me a better recording than the township does. Go to the end of the meeting and
listen for the French maid.

Sorry not sorry but I have visions of West Vincent politicians going trick or treating as sexy French maids this Halloween, don’t you? I am sure two of those old dog politicians will have a fit of the vapors over lampoon below, but they need to revisit their US history. It’s allowed yo’.

Trick or treat all year round in West Vincent these days?

Au revoir!