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Lorain Borough Secretary Job Description

Part-Time up to 20 hours per week

$11.00/hr

Requires intermediate to advanced organizational skills, intermediate computer skills, an understanding of basic accounting, customer service skills, intermediate to advanced communication skills, intermediate time management skills, occasional weekend/evening hours and reliable transportation.

Secretarial Duties:

• Phone message taking and returning calls

• Handle any irate calls or messages with decorum

• Checking email through the day, responding to or forwarding messages to appropriate recipients

• Keeping inbox organized and free of unnecessary messages

• Filing, typing, scanning, copying

• Letter writing

• Depositing funds into bank accounts

• Bill paying and payroll

• Arranging for checks to be signed

• Accounting with QuickBooks Pro

• Communicating with the accounting firm when necessary

• Shopping for necessary supplies

• Save meeting minutes, agendas, ordinances, resolution to PDF files for posting to the website

• Computer literacy with experience in Windows 7, Microsoft Office programs, Hotmail and general online knowledge of safe browsing techniques.

• Keep all Borough computer files, especially QuickBooks, backed up on a separate media device (i.e. thumb drive) in the event of computer failure

Municipal Duties:

• Understanding and filing all necessary audits when they arrive and submitting before the deadline

• Gathering all necessary information for the accounting firm for yearly state audits

• Research ordinances when needed

• Modify, print and send nuisance form letters to those requiring them via regular first class mail and via certified mail

• Handle lien requests

• Handle sewer compliance certificates

• Handle moving in/out, excavation permit requests, if necessary

• Direct those requiring building permits to the codes agency

• Handle all burn permits including providing an updated list for the road crew and the Oakland Fire Department

• Handle all arrangements for Spring Cleanup

• Handle all Spring Cleanup permits providing an updated list for the road crew the day before cleanup begins

• Occasionally discussing legal matters with the Borough Solicitor

• Prepare all necessary financial reports for monthly Council Meeting

• Prepare prior month’s minutes of Council Meeting for next meeting

• Copy and assemble Council Meeting packets of financial information, prior meeting minutes and current meeting agenda

• Attend and take notes of monthly and special meetings

• Have ability to record meetings digitally for reference

• Filing and paying necessary taxes due (some monthly, some quarterly)

Park Duties:

• Handle all monies paid in for deposits and rental fees, track in the files and deposit

• Issue refund checks after the event is completed; write explanations to those not receiving entire security deposit back

• Be in contact with the Park Commission for the status of refunds to be issued

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Lorain Borough Veterans Memorial Park Project

Lorain Borough has been working with the Lorain/Stonycreek Hiking Trails and Keller Engineers to revitalize our park and borough land.   We are working on securing grant funding from DCNR and other sources to make our vision a reality.  Here are the plans of what we would like to do.

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PARK RENTALS

  2022  dates are filling fast for the Park!

Reserve your event date TODAY! Phone 814-535-2256 after 11AM and before 9 PM

No Sunday calls

Visit the park Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/LorainBoroughPark/?ref=br_rs

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2021-22 Burn Permits

$15.00

You must have a burn permit to burn recreational fires in the borough. If you are caught burning without one you will be subject to fines. Burn permits for this year are effective from 5/1/2022-5/1/2023

Applications will be in the newsletter or can be downloaded from our website.

http://www.lorainborough.org/home/permits