The Butler Area Sewer Authority board reappointed several of its contracted services on Tuesday, Feb. 13, including its solicitor, consulting engineer, auditor, insurance consultant and financial adviser.

Dillon, McCandless, King, Coulter & Graham is still BASA’s solicitor; Maher Duessel is its auditor; Bailey Raabe & Associates is its insurance consultant; Jay Wenger is its financial advise;r and Hatch is the consulting engineer.

The board approved a 5% increase to Hatch’s rate, and the board approved the hiring of an alternate insurance consultant in Mitchell Insurance. The rate of the Hatch project manager who is assigned to BASA, for example, is now $139 per hour, according to Duane McKee, executive director of the authority.

McKee said the board of directors did not vote Tuesday on any items related to the authority’s pending sale to Pennsylvania American Water.

“The appointments were approved as advertised,” McKee said.

The board also approved a natural gas purchase from UGI Energy Services at a rate of $0.3740 per therm on a one-year contract, McKee said. The board of directors voted at its January meeting to search for an energy supplier via online auction.