September 18 local desk: health follow-up and 15 properties on revised tax-sale list

Health follow-up—not a newly reported case: the county’s September 15 notice describes contact tracing and preventive treatment after an incarcerated person at George W. Hill tested positive for bacterial meningitis September 13. The notice identifies September 2–12 as the close-contact exposure period; it does not identify a Marple–Newtown community exposure. No newer county release resolving the response was found.

Health response: last officially described September 15; subsequent outcome not verified. Tax sale: scheduled, not completed. No new material action found in the local-government records reviewed; missing minutes do not establish that no vote occurred.

Delaware County Health Department and George W. Hill facility leadership; Delaware County Tax Claim Bureau. Local outcome checks: Marple commissioners and Marple Newtown School District.

Daily review: September 18, 2026. Revised tax-sale list: September 17. Sale: September 24, 2026, at 10 a.m.

No recorded vote.

• The September 17 tax-sale list contains seven Marple records totaling $80,531.34 due and eight Newtown records totaling $33,611.81 due. These are desk calculations from the listed TOTAL DUE amounts—not valuations or sale proceeds. The 15-record count replaces the earlier local snapshot. Entries may be removed before sale; inclusion is not proof a property will be auctioned.
• Aqua’s written alerts continue to show the August 29 lift of Marple’s boil-water advisory. No new Marple or Newtown drinking-water advisory was located there. The disruption map could not render because this browser lacks the required WebGL2 support; this is not an all-clear on outages.
• Marple’s Agenda Center still lists the September 14 agenda/backup, posted September 11, without corresponding minutes. This desk has not verified the meeting’s final motions or roll calls. The school district’s minutes index still ends with August 11 entries; that publication status does not establish the outcomes of later meetings.
• Useful September 24 service reminder: the county lists free naloxone distribution at Marple EMS, 8 North Malin Road, and The Bridge Foundation, 209 Bishop Hollow Road. Hours are not supplied for those two locations; confirm availability through the county wellness line, 484-276-2100.

The sale is less than a week away, and listed amounts and property eligibility can change. Residents need current official information, while meeting proposals must not be mistaken for final decisions.

• Why were individual entries removed or retained in the revised sale list? The list does not supply a change-by-change explanation.
• What were Marple’s final September 14 motions, conditions and individual votes?

No materially comparable prior decision identified.

No unequal treatment, misconduct or cause of an infrastructure problem is alleged. This briefing omits matters requiring independent conflict review.

• September 24, 10 a.m.: scheduled county upset sale. Contact the Tax Claim Bureau at 610-891-8294 about the current listing; do not rely on an older snapshot.
• September 24: naloxone distribution; confirm local hours before traveling.
• Next reporting checks: Marple’s enacted ordinance/conditional-use decision and roll calls; district outcome records; updated health response.

• County meningitis notice — September 15
• County upset-sale page — list revised September 17
• September 17 sale list — local entries on PDF pages 108–109 and 111–112
• Aqua written service alerts
• Marple Agenda Center
• MNSD 2026 minutes index
• County September 24 naloxone-distribution locations

None used. This report relies on official records only.

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