Jan 28, 2016 By Rachel Basinger for The 2 min read

BULLSKIN TWP. — Union employees will once again get the days of the primary elections and general elections added to their contract as holidays.

Township supervisors approved the action at their Wednesday meeting.

Secretary Deb Wiltrout said they actually removed the two days from the list of holidays about three or four years ago after the township auditors eliminated the days from the supervisors’ holiday list of days off.

“We couldn’t have the employees here working without us here to supervise them, so we had to remove them from their list of holidays,” said Supervisor Scott Keefer.

At their meeting earlier this month, the auditor’s agreed to give the two days back to the supervisors as holidays.

“The new auditors took a look at what had been going on the last few years and gave us the days back,” Wiltrout said.

In other business, supervisors agreed to exonerate the township’s tax collector, Louis Bell, from collecting unpaid property taxes from 2015.

Finally, supervisors will look into money owed to a property owner in the township.

Wiltrout said they received a letter from the Fayette County Tax Assessment office telling the supervisors that the owner of just over eight acres of property that crossed over both Springfield and Bullskin townships was charged for the total amount of acreage in both townships.

The total acreage in Bullskin Township is 4.59 and the total acreage in Springfield Township is 3.49.

Wiltrout said the letter states that both parcels were assessed in error from 2009 to 2014.

He added that they will talk to Bell in the next few days to find out exactly how much money needs to be reimbursed before taking any action.