Without explanation, Ross' engineer, Art Gazdik resigned on Monday.
Commissioners Monday night accepted his resignation, then voted to hire JMT Engineering of Baltimore to provide "on-call engineering" and support services at a rate not to exceed $125 an hour.
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Mr. Gazdik had been the Ross engineer for 13 years. Neither commissioners nor manager Wayne Jones would discuss why Mr. Gazdik resigned.
He did not respond to a phone call.
In other action, commissioners granted permission for The Friendship Group to use the community center free of charge one to three afternoons a week in June, July and August.
The Friendship Group offers programs for visually impaired senior citizens, said Andrea Schwartz of Gibsonia.
Ms. Schwartz said the organization uses the Berkeley Hills Lutheran Church in Ross, but the church is too hot in the summer.
The Friendship Group works with 28 visually impaired adults between the ages of 58 and 100.
"Our seniors really are not having anybody who is really working with them to get them out of their houses, give them the opportunity to have a place to go, something to do, activities that do not have anything to do with sight," she said.
She added that the group will likely use the computer or "quiet" room in the community center. Mr. Jones said they could also use the commissioners' meeting room if it is available.
Commissioners also approved several items that were recommended by the planning commission:
• Frank Veltri received approval to transfer a liquor license from Upper St. Clair in order to serve beer and wine at Italian Village Pizza, 4885 McKnight Road.
• Thomas Wolf received approval for a home-based business, a home brewery, at 247 Wallingford Drive. Mr. Wolf said he has been brewing beer at home for "a number of years" for personal consumption and for friends. But his friends have been telling him that he should be selling the beer. "I just want to get enough product out of my house to go to a few beer tastings and see if there is a market out there for it," he said, adding that "if it catches on," he will move the brewing elsewhere.
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