Board of Supervisors

About the Board

The Board of Supervisors consists of elected officials serving six year terms. Agendas for the meetings are available the Friday prior to the meeting date. The Board performs primarily legislative functions. These include setting policy, enacting ordinances and resolutions, adopting budgets and levying taxes. The Board also appoints and supervises the Township Manager, who handles the day-to-day administration of Doylestown.

The Board of Supervisors meets on the first and third Tuesdays of every month at 7 PM. 
All meetings are conducted at the Township Building, 425 Wells Road, Doylestown, PA.

Agenda information is available the Friday prior to each meeting; contact the Township at 215-348-9915 for additional information.

Please direct all Board of Supervisors correspondence to:
(member name)
Doylestown Township Supervisor
425 Wells Road
Doylestown, PA 18901

Approved Meeting Minutes

If you would like to review earlier minutes, please contact Doylestown Township at
215-348-9915.

Biographies

Barbara N. Lyons (December 31, 2015)
Email: bnlyons@aol.com Phone: 215-340-7655

E. Thomas Scarborough, Jr.  (December 31, 2013)

Thomas Scarborough has been a life-long resident of the Doylestown area. Prior to his election to the Board of Supervisors in January 1996, he served for several years as Chairman of the Township’s Cable TV Advisory Council. He also served as a Doylestown Borough Councilman before moving into the Township as well as on the Bucks County Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board, The Bucks County Social Services Sub-Committee, and he served as President of the Bucks County Association of Township Officials during the 2006-2007 period.

Mr. Scarborough has been involved in numerous community activities throughout the years such as The Bucks County Chapter March of Dimes (Past Chairman), The Fanny Chapman Pool Board (Past Vice Chairman), The Doylestown Athletic Association (Founding Member), The Central Bucks Family YMCA (Past Director), and he was selected as one of the "Outstanding Young Men in America" in 1973. Mr. Scarborough presently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Supervisors.

Mr. Scarborough attended Delaware Valley College and served in the United States Air Force.

He and his wife Carol have two children, Thomas II and Allison.

Barbara Eisenhardt, R.N.  (December 31, 2011)
Email: Superbl@aol.com  Phone: 215-859-2998

Barbara Eisenhardt, RN was elected to the Doylestown Township Board of Supervisors in 1999. Prior to becoming a supervisor, she served on the Sewer Study Committee. 

Mrs. Eisenhardt holds an Associate's Degree in Nursing from Bucks County Community College and was an emergency room nurse at Doylestown Hospital for 15 years. 

She has lived in Doylestown Township since 1980 and has been a resident of Bucks County for more than 40 years.  She lives in her Doylestown Township home with her husband Dr. Bruce Eisenhardt, stepson Nathan, and granddaughter Emily.  She has 3 married daughters and 9 grandchildren.

Cynthia M. Philo  (December 31, 2011)

Cynthia M. Philo, Esq. was elected to the Board of Supervisors in November 2005.  She also currently holds the position of Executive Director of the Old City District (OCD) in Philadelphia. The Historic TM 22-square block OCD is in the cultural heart of the City with over 250 restaurants, boutique retailers, art/design galleries and museums. 

Since 1998 Ms. Philo has been leading the OCD’s clean and safe programming, streetscape improvement efforts and the coordination of community and governmental initiatives, including the Old City Task Force and its hospitality/quality of life directives. With close to 4,000 residents within its boundaries, the OCD looks to balance the vibrancy of commercial interests with residential needs. 

Ms. Philo serves on many boards both locally and nationally. She is Vice-Chair of the Pennsylvania Downtown Center, which serves the Commonwealth’s Main and Elm Street Communities. She also serves on the Executive Board of the Citizens Crime Commission of the Delaware Valley. Most recently she was elected to the board of the International Downtown Association in Washington, D.C. 

Ms. Philo grew up in Churchville, graduating from the Council Rock School System. She holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Millersville University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. A licensed attorney in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Ms. Philo serves as an arbitrator for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and was appointed in 2005 by Philadelphia City Council as a Hearing Examiner for take-out beer licensing/permitting. 

Ms. Philo lives in beautiful Doylestown Township with her partner, David M. Rapoport, Esq. and their two Border Collies, Bandit and Shep. 

Ms. Philo can be reached via email at: supervisor.philo@gmail.com

Richard F. Colello (December 31, 2011)

Upcoming Meetings and Agendas

The next Board of Supervisors meeting will be on
Tuesday, September 21st at 7 PM
at the Doylestown Township Administration Building, 425 Wells Road.

AGENDA
 

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