Morrisville Borough Council unanimously approved the contact and hiring of new Borough Manager Judith Danko on Tuesday night at a special meeting that took all of 12 minutes.

As exclusively reported by Lower Bucks Source,  Danko, is the Community Development Director for Kutztown Borough..

After the vote,  council members loudly cheered their new hire.

Danko attending the meeting through video conferencing said,  “thank you very much. I look forward to meeting everyone in person, I greatly appreciate being able to join you through zoom this evening here on Zoom.”

Danko who was on the job last night as she had a scheduled meeting to attend for her Kutztown position will be formally submitting her 30- day notice to Kutztown today.

Borough Solicitor Randy Flager detailed, at the request of Councilman Justin Bowers, the entirety of the hiring process.

“This process began a number of months ago with the unfortunate death of Scott Michelle bless his memory which came on very suddenly. Council for months has gathered resumes finally hired a firm to do that, and Dave Woglom, over at the university, put a very quick time table together and got a significant number of additional resumes council reviewed them, culled the herd and began to interview’s he said

Flager added  he was truly pleased with the and hard work of council ;pointing out “no one knew any of the applicants” on a personal level prior to the interview process taking place.

“I look forward to building a partnership with everyone. I thank you all for your due diligence, patience and all of your hard work put towards this process, because it certainly has been a lot of fun. Again thank you all. I appreciate all of your efforts,” said the new borough manager.

“Council is confident they have hired the best person” Flager said, “they bring a woman with enormous experience, strength, and vision, to the borough.”

“Thank you very much. I look forward to meeting everyone in person, I greatly appreciate being able to join you through zoom this evening here on Zoom”

Danko served as Borough Manager for Slatington Borough (2017-2018), Freemansburg on two separate occasions for a total of 15 years and Bath Borough for just over 7 and 1/2 years, according to her Linkdin profile.

Council is confident they have hired the best person” Flager said, “they bring a woman with enormous experience, strength, and vision, to the borough.”

Details of Danko’s contract were not revealed during the meeting,

Council President Ted Parker did not reply to a request for comment about the hiring.

Council is scheduled to meet next Monday night for a full agenda meeting.