Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

== Government ==
The municipal government operates under the Pennsylvania Borough Code, with the town council holding both legislative and executive authority. The ten council members are elected from five wards; two from each ward with staggered four-year terms. The mayor administers the police department and can cast tie-breaking votes on the council. Other departments are administered by the Borough Manager. The current Borough Manager is Jeffrey Stonehill.<ref name="borough appointed">{{cite web | url=http://www.borough.chambersburg.pa.us/government/appointed-officials.html |title = Appointed Officials|publisher=Borough of Chambersburg | access-date = May 27, 2018}}</ref><ref name="borough structure">{{cite web | url=http://www.borough.chambersburg.pa.us/html/structure.asp|title =Structure|publisher=Borough of Chambersburg|  access-date = September 21, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928152652/http://www.borough.chambersburg.pa.us/html/structure.asp |archive-date = September 28, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> The municipal budget of Chambersburg is abnormally large for a borough of its size, and the borough is one of only a few municipalities nationwide to have a municipal electric and gas utility.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Electric {{!}} Borough of Chambersburg |url=http://www.borough.chambersburg.pa.us/government/electric.html |access-date=2022-12-20 |website=www.borough.chambersburg.pa.us}}</ref> As a result of these in-house facilities, Chambersburg has the 14th largest municipal budget in the state.

Walter Bietsch became Mayor on January 2, 2018.<ref name="mayor office">{{cite web | url=http://www.borough.chambersburg.pa.us/government/mayors-office.html |title =Mayor's Office |publisher=Borough of Chambersburg|  access-date = May 27, 2018}}</ref>

As of January 2020, the town council members are:
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Sharon A. Bigler, 4th Ward (D)
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Amer Chaudhry, 4th Ward (D)
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Allen B. Coffman, 1st Ward (R)
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Barbara Beattie, 3rd Ward (D)
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Alice C. Elia, 1st Ward (D)(Council President)
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Bill Everly, 5th Ward (R)
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John Huber, 2nd Ward (R)
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Kathy J. Leedy. 3rd Ward (D)
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Mike Herbert, 2nd Ward (R) (Council Vice President)
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Heath E. Talhelm, 5th Ward (D)

Chambersburg is part of the 13th Congressional District of Pennsylvania and represented by [[John Joyce (American politician)|John Joyce]] (R) in the House of Representatives, and by [[John Fetterman]](D), and [[Bob Casey Jr.]](D) in the Senate.<ref name="town council">{{cite web | url=http://www.borough.chambersburg.pa.us/government/council-directory.html |title =Town Council Directory |publisher=Borough of Chambersburg|  access-date = May 27, 2018}}</ref>