About Us
Offering health, Medicare Advantage, dental, disability, vision/hearing and life insurance plans to its 1,450-member townships.
About PSATS Trustees
Since 1959, the PSATS Trustees Insurance and Retirement Services have been offering a full range of quality insurance products to its 1,450-member townships. More than 4,000 township officials, employees and family members are covered under our health, Medicare Integrated, dental, disability, vision/hearing and life insurance plans. We also offer a defined benefit pension plan, a defined contribution plan (401-a) and a 457(b)-deferred compensation plan.
The PSATS Trustees Insurance and Retirement Services is governed by a Board of Trustees, made up of Association members, and administered by experienced insurance professionals whose sole focus is the needs of our Association members. Townships have come to know and expect the highest level of customer service from the Association and the Trustees Insurance and Retirement Services.
In addition, PSATS has formed a partnership with Municipal Risk Management, Inc. of Pittsburgh to provide liability and property insurance and workers’ compensation for our member townships. MRM, who has been in business for more than 20 years, is governed by a board made up of elected municipal officials and authority managers. They understand the needs of those they serve.
Board of Trustees
A board of Trustees who are current township officials administers the Pennsylvania Townships Health Insurance Cooperative Trust, the Pennsylvania Municipalities Pension Trust, and the PSATS Unemployment Compensation Group Trust. The Trustees are responsible for overseeing the various programs and ensuring that they continue to meet the needs of our member townships.
Trustees
Chairman
Jack Hines, a supervisor for West Bradford Township in Chester County, has been a Trustee since 2016 and is currently the chair of the Board of Trustees.
Hines also worked for many years as the manager and secretary-treasurer of West Bradford Township and served as vice chair of the Countywide Tax Committee.
Over the years, Hines has assisted PSATS as a workshop instructor and member of the Conference Planning, Secretary-Manager, and Townships Over 10,000 Population committees
At the county level, Hines has served the Chester County Association of Township Officials as chair of the Legislative and Nominations committees and as an alternate to the County Executive Board.
Hines has served as director of the Pennsylvania State Police Camp Cadet; chair of the Brandywine River Museum and Conservancy; treasurer of the Thorndale-Downingtown Rotary Club; member of the Downingtown Library Board; trustee of the Penguin Court; and member of the Collections and Humphrey Marshall Fund committees of the Chester County Historical Society.
Members
Clyde “Champ” Holman, a supervisor for Ryan Township in Schuylkill County, has been a Trustee since July 2020 when he was appointed to fill a vacancy and subsequently elected to a full term.
In addition to his seat on the Board of Trustees, Holman is a member of the PSATS Finance Committee. He has also served the Schuylkill County Association of Township Officials as president.
In addition to his township service, Holman had a long career in state government. He retired from the state Department of Community and Economic Development as Deputy Secretary for Community Affairs and previously served as chief of staff for the late state Sen. Jim Rhoades and senior counselor to state Sen. Dave Argall.
Holman is currently president of the Holman Group, which provides consulting services on local, state, and federal governmental affairs. He also serves as a consultant for Arro Consulting, a Pennsylvania engineering firm.
He was previously a member of the Schuylkill Economic Development Corporation and the Schuylkill County Chamber of Commerce.
Marvin Meteer, a supervisor for Wyalusing Township in Bradford County, was appointed a Trustee in April 2022.
In addition to prior service as PSATS President, Meteer also served PSATS as board chairman, first and second vice president, secretary-treasurer and assistant secretary-treasurer, board liaison to the Finance Committee, and a member of the Salary Board and the Conference Planning, Audit, Publications-Public Relations, and Resolutions-Legislative committees.
Meteer has also been active in the Bradford County Association of Township Officials, serving as president and vice president and a member of the Nominations and Resolutions committees. He also received the county association’s President’s Award.
Meteer is a retired teacher and former owner of the Main Street Sign Company.
He also served on the Governor’s Local Government Advisory Committee. Active in his community, Meteer has served on the Eastern Bradford County Council of Governments; Greater Wyalusing Valley Chamber of Commerce; Bradford County Farmland Preservation Board; Wyalusing Valley Rainbow Civic Club; Governor’s Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force; Wyalusing Industrial Development Corporation; Bradford County Comprehensive Planning Advisory Committee; Bradford County Economic Development Advisory Board; Bradford County Re-addressing Committee; Wyalusing Area Ambulance, Inc.; Bradford County Natural Gas Task Force; and Chesapeake Energy’s Bradford County Citizen’s Advisory Panel.
Cory Adams has had a long career in local government. Since 2012, he has been the manager of South Middleton Township in Cumberland County, a community of nearly 17,000 residents. He has also been active at the county level as a member and officer of the Cumberland County Association of Township Officials, including president for two years.
Adams first became involved with township government as a PSATS employee. Once the legislative analyst for the Association, since leaving PSATS in 2012, he has continued to volunteer with contest judging and serving on several PSATS standing committees.
Most recently, as chair of the Resolutions Committee, Adams oversaw the resolutions voting process at several annual conferences. He proved to be a skilled moderator in that role, balancing the voices of members and transparency with a disciplined process to keep discussion focused on township-related matters while setting PSATS legislative policy.
Adams has served as secretary, treasurer, vice president, and president of the Capital Region Council of Governments, and was Inspector of Elections for a neighboring township for two years prior to becoming a township manager. He is active in the Greater Carlisle Area Chamber of Commerce and the Association for Pennsylvania Municipal Management and has also served on the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System Board of Trustees.
Adams holds a master’s degree in public administration from Villanova University and a doctorate in the field from West Chester University.
Andrew “A.J.” Boni has more than two decades of local government experience. A foreman by
occupation, he is currently chair of the board of supervisors and the emergency management
coordinator for Perry Township in Fayette County, where he also served as the roadmaster. He
has been active at the county level as president, vice president, and second vice president of the
Fayette County Association of Township Officials.
Beyond his work at the township, Boni is a member of the Pennsylvania Sewage Advisory
Committee and the Governor’s Local Government Advisory Committee. He serves as chief of
the Perry Township Volunteer Fire Department, is a past president of the Fayette County
Firefighters’ Association, and has been involved in multiple community and civic organizations.
Boni has had a long involvement with PSATS. The Association’s immediate past president, he
also served as board chairman, first vice president, second vice president, secretary-treasurer, and
assistant secretary-treasurer.
He has served as a member of PSATS’ Salary Board; as the board liaison to the MS4 Work
Group, Finance Committee, and Townships Between 2,000 and 5,000 Population Committee;
and as a conference workshop moderator. He has also served on several PSATS standing
committees and the Grassroots Advocacy Network.
Staff
PSATS Trustees Insurance and Retirement Services include four employees that serve the needs of our member townships. Our insurance staff has more than 70 years of combined service to Pennsylvania’s townships and their employees and families.
Staff Members
- John Kulp, Director, Pension & Insurance Trusts.
- Melissa Dodge, Insurance Coordinator
- Harry Krot, Insurance & Pension Trust Membership/Promotion Manager
- Debbie Linn, UC Audit Coordinator
Contact Us
Phone: (800) 382-1268
Fax: (717) 730-0209
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