HONESDALE, PA — Meeting on January 15, the Wayne County Commissioners accepted $125,000, recognized some new local officials, appointed a new employee and offered support for a local project—and wrapped it all up in about 17 minutes.

The commissioners accepted a renewed $125,000 state STOP grant, issued through the PA Commission for Crime and Delinquency, for the continuation of Wayne’s prevention of violence against women program.

As required by law, they officially recognized three new township deputy tax collectors: Joseph Kmetz in Palmyra, and Arthur Keast and Susan Keyes in Mount Pleasant.

Chad Hankinson, a former full-time deputy sheriff who had left for another position, was reinstated as a part-time deputy at $15.09 per hour.

The commissioners issued a letter of support for the Monarch Development Group’s application for federal low-income housing tax credits. The federal credits are related to the $9.3 million proposed development of a two-story, 41,000 square-foot project which would provide 40 low-income apartments.

The project, on the site of the former Hamlin Elementary School, applied for the tax credit last year and was unsuccessful.

The site, south of Hamlin Corners, already has seen Wayne Memorial Hospital’s development of a health center.

From the northern end of the county, the commissioners were copied on a Pleasant Mount Emergency Services letter to PennDOT. The volunteers, who also cover communities in nearby Susquehanna County, expressed concern about a 7.5-mile detour between their base and Pleasant Mount that would be created by the closure of the state Route 371 bridge near the Pleasant Mount Fish Hatchery. PennDOT plans to replace the bridge.

The commissioners were not asked to intervene and took no action.