Towamencin Township Board of Supervisors have hired a familiar face to be the interim township manager as the search continues for the replacement for outgoing Manager Donald Delamater, who has been on the job for less than a year.
Former Solebury Township Manager Dennis Carney, 68, who headed Towamencin’s Public Works department from 1996 to 2006, was named interim township manager effective immediately at a special meeting Wednesday night and, for a smooth transition, he will shadow Delamater for a week before his departure Sept. 16.
A Towamencin Township E-news email on Thursday stated that a search for the next township manager “is currently underway.”
Carney resigned from Solebury Township on June 30, after nearly 16 years of managing the Bucks County municipality, while also serving as its public works director. Solebury Township’s manager’s salary was between $135,000 and $165,000, per the Bucks County Herald.
In January, Carney, of Worcester Township, told The Bucks County Herald that he and his wife planned to “travel the country and Europe during his new-found leisure” after his retirement from Solebury Township.
Carney also led the Towamencin Township Infrastructure Authority from 2003 to 2006, where he managed the reconstruction of Route 63 through Towamencin. According to his LinkedIn, during his tenure as Towamencin’s Director of Public Works, Carney, who had seven years’ experience as a supervisor with contractor Allan A Myers Inc., was responsible for the maintenance and repair of the sanitary sewer collection system, and he also assisted in the design and selection of a closed-loop system for Towamencin.
Carney spent 10 years as a Philadelphia firefighter, starting in the mid-1970s, and was awarded the Citation of Valor.
Solebury Township, which, like Towamencin, is a second-class township, has a population of about 8,700, and is the home to communities like Lahaska, Lumberville, and Phillips Mill. It borders New Jersey and New Hope Borough to the east, Plumstead Township to the northwest and Buckingham Township to the southwest.
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