News & Events

The Moon Township Board of Supervisors is recruiting residents who are interested in contributing their skills and perspective to their local government. .

The board currently is accepting resumes and letters of interest from citizens interested in serving on the township's various citizen advisory boards and committees ranging from the Planning Commission to the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board. Appointments will be made at the January 2012 Board of Supervisors meeting. Township residents interested in serving should submit a letter of interest and resume to: Moon Township Manager, 1000 Beaver Grade Road, Moon Twp., PA 15108.

Find a complete list of available positions here. For details about each advisory body, visit the Boards & Committees page.

For a meaningful gift this year, consider honoring a friend or family member with an engraved brick in the Moon Township Memorial Garden walkway. Bricks are available for $65 for an engraved 4x8" brick or $200 for an 8x8" business brick.

Engraved bricks will be placed in the walkway circling the September 11 Memorial and memorials honoring Moon Township's public safety professionals and military service members.

Donations support the Moon Township Memorial Fund for continued development of this public memorial space. Find order forms and details here.

The Moon Township Board of Supervisors on Nov. 16, approved Moon Township’s 2012 Preliminary Budget, which maintains flat tax rates and the full range of municipal services.

Moon Township’s 2012 property tax rate remains at 3.28 mills, which includes a .2-mill fire tax to fund equipment and training costs for the Moon Township Volunteer Fire Company. The township’s 2012 General Operating Budget totals to approximately $11.4 million. An additional $1.37 million will be transferred to the township’s capital reserve fund for 2012 capital projects including the summer road resurfacing program. View the Preliminary Budget here.

Copies of the preliminary budget also will be available for a 20-day public review period at the Moon Township Municipal Building, 1000 Beaver Grade Road; Moon Township Public Safety Building (open 24/7), 1000 Beaver Grade Road; and the Moon Township Public Library, 1700 Beaver Grade Road. The preliminary budget also will be posted online at www.moontwp.com.

The Board of Supervisors will consider adoption of the 2012 Final Budget at its Dec. 14, workshop meeting at 6 p.m. in the Moon Township Municipal Building, 1000 Beaver Grade Road.

The New Year will introduce new withholding and collection procedures for Earned Income Tax across the state of Pennsylvania. Beginning January 1, 2012, all employers will be responsible for withholding local EIT from employee paychecks. Both employees and employers can prepare for the transition by learning more about Pennsylvania’s Act 32 with one of the flyers below:

Act 32 for Employees
Act 32 for Employers

Know the Code to Moon Township
Under Act 32, employees will be responsible for submitting to their employer a Residency Certification Form to ensure that their taxes are paid to the municipality and school district that provide services in their community. To complete the form, employees will need the six-digit Political Subdivision Code identifying their place of residence. Moon Township’s PSD code is 731102; find a Residency Certification Form completed with the code here.

Submit your views on community development as Moon Township updates its long-range Comprehensive Plan. Take the 2011 Comprehensive Plan survey here. Learn more about the Comprehensive Planning process here.

The first roundabout built in Allegheny County in recent years has opened at the Ewing Road interchange in Moon Township.

The Allegheny County Airport Authority funded the $950,000 project to improve traffic flow at the eastbound on and off ramps of Ewing Road and Business Loop I-376. The Allegheny County Airport Authority and officials from both the township and state cut the ribbon on the roundabout on Oct. 31.

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, roundabouts bring a 90 percent reduction in fatal crashes and a 75 percent reduction in crashes with injuries. At the same time, they carry about 30 percent more vehicles in peak traffic than signalized intersections.

A roundabout, which is like a traffic circle, eliminates traffic signals, stop signs and left turns against traffic. Traffic flows continuously, and vehicles entering the loop yield to those already in it.

The Airport Authority spearheaded the project to improve access for existing businesses and also to accommodate future development expansion in the Cherrington Corporate Center and surrounding areas.

Find a diagram here that illustrates traffic flow through the roundabout.

A few hours after the polls close on Municipal Election Day, Moon Township voters can tune in to Moon Community Access Television to follow live returns from races for the Moon Township Board of Supervisors and Moon Area Board of Education.

MCA-TV's Live Election Returns program will air at 10 p.m. Tuesday, November 8, on Comcast channel 14 and Verizon FiOS channel 35. MCA-TV will go on-air live with the unofficial results of the 2011 Municipal Election collected from 13 voting districts in Moon Township and two wards in Crescent Township, where voters will cast ballots for school board seats.

MCA-TV will report the final results, break down the numbers by each voting district and provide background information on the candidates throughout the program.
For more information about election season programming on MCA-TV, check the program schedule at www.mca-tv.com.