Towamencin finance director leaves for Lower Merion Township

Last week, the new finance director in Lower Merion Township was appointed by the board of commissioners, and he is Towamencin Township’s former one, come July 8.

Adam Szumski – who was with Towamencin, a Home Rule municipality, for two years – was nominated by the township manager and then appointed by 14 commissioners, per The Main Line Times.

Per the report, Szumski beat out 37 candidates to become, according to Manager Ernie McNeely, “the most qualified candidate for the position.”

Szumski’s first order will be working on Lower Merion’s upcoming year’s budget, per reports.

Meanwhile, Towamencin has yet to name an appointment to its finance director vacancy. Szumski was hired in June 2022 to replace outgoing finance director Brooke Neve, who resigned after three years into the job. The township’s finance director position at the time of Neve’s resignation remained vacant for four months, as a firm hired by supervisors in March 2022 sought out a new director, ultimately Szumski.

Neve was hired in January 2019 to replace Maureen Doyle, who died in October 2018. Doyle was hired as Towamencin’s finance director in September 2006.

A job description was posted on its website June 3 seeking a finance director “responsible for the development and management of the township’s $23 million operating and capital budget, a $3 million capital budget, and an $8 million sewer system budget.”

Towamencin’s finance director would oversee a two-person staff and administer payroll, recordkeeping, payment of expenses, recording revenue, financial reporting, collection of real estate taxes, and managing the budget process.

Szumski holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Wilkes University in Wilkes Barre and a Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.