Sahd steps down as borough manager, Denlinger to take over

Greg Sahd
(Columbia Spy file photo)
Greg Sahd is stepping down as Columbia Borough’s manager and secretary/treasurer, effective this Friday, May 18, to take a job as parish manager at St. Philip the Apostle Church in Millersville. Sahd made the announcement at Monday’s borough council meeting. The resignation came as a surprise to many, since he was originally scheduled to retire at the end of the year. Assistant Borough Manager/Economic and Community Development Manager Rebecca Denlinger will take over as interim borough manager until a new borough manager can be voted in, a move likely to occur at the June borough council meeting.

Sahd became borough manager in December 2015 after being chosen from among five candidates. He is a former investment banker and financial consultant and advisor, and was vice president for government banking at Susquehanna Bank before retiring in 2010.

Sahd was county treasurer from 1996 through 2004, and was a congressional aide to then-U.S. Rep. Robert S. Walker. He was also deputy court administrator of Lancaster County and served on the county’s Government Study Commission and has worked on numerous political campaigns over the last four decades.

Rebecca Denlinger
(Columbia Spy file photo)

Rebecca Denlinger became Columbia’s Assistant Borough Manager/Economic and Community Development Manager on January 1, 2018. Before Sahd’s announcement, she was scheduled to become borough manager on January 1, 2019 when she would receive an increase in annual salary to $95,000, up from the current $65,000.

Denlinger previously served Columbia as an independent contractor with her company Rising Tide Collaborative, LLC, in the position of Economic Development Coordinator. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Delaware, and a Master’s in Public Administration from Penn State. She has worked with the Elizabethtown Area Chamber of Commerce, Rettew Associates, Inc., and the Lancaster County Planning Commission and has also served as a consultant for Marietta Borough.

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  2. 70,ooo to 95,000 dollars + benifets , Council what is wrong with you people, she is no more qualified , than other town folks , just brings other towns ideas here..

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  5. If Rebbecca is the manager she has to get the rest of these people under control, they have to answer to ONE manager , the controller is not the manager and saying bad things about tax payers is not the way this should work , she works for the people and should have the best intrestes of the people in every comment she makes or quite or be fired just like private companys. So please Rebecca get this borough under control , it is and has been out of control , and needs rained in and heads should roll. Would this stuff happen in Lancaster ? you all know it would not , so why here , some one needs to get control and now it looks like you are the one . good luck this includes the mayor who is also out of control.

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  6. Good luck with that,this group just likes to give our tax money away,fire Helm , he should have been going 10 years ago,and the self appointed controller should be sent back over the bridge to be nasty to her home town people. I bet Wrightsville borough don't make comments about there tax payers like she does about Columbia people. CLEAN HOUSE REBBECCA , GET THE RESPECT AND TRANSPARENTCY BACK IN COLUMBIA BOROUGH OR YOU WILL JUST BECOME ONE OF THEM!

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