BUTLER TWP — The township plans to administer an exam for its police officers looking to be promoted to the rank of sergeant.

Butler Township commissioners voted Monday, Oct. 7, to offer the sergeant test, which will be administered to officers eligible for promotion. Township manager Tom Knights said the exam likely will take place in November.

According to Knights, the police department is expecting a current sergeant to retire, and another officer soon may be sent on active military duty. Officers must complete the exam to be considered for promotion to sergeant, Knights said.

“We have to give an exam to offer the promotion,” Knights said. “There’s some prerequisites … we have several who are eligible to take the exam, go through the interview process.”

After the meeting, Knights said the township’s search for a new police chief is ongoing, and there are no updates since last month’s commissioners meeting. The township has been without a police chief since the former chief, John Hays, announced his immediate retirement in May. Hays had listed June 14 as the final day of his employment with the township but used his remaining vacation time up to that date.

Knights said at the May meeting when the commissioners accepted Hays’ retirement that the lieutenant with the department would perform the duties of chief while the township searches for a permanent replacement.

Knights gave the township’s household hazardous waste collection report for the third quarter. Butler Township collected 8,079 pounds of household waste from July to September, which includes items such as televisions, computer monitors, printers, flammable liquids, paint, oil and other electronics.

Following this report, chairman Jim Lokhaiser thanked the township’s trash contractor, Waste Management, and public works employees for their work clearing trash from a house on Atglen Street a few weeks ago.