Credit: Bristol Township
The controversial manager who previously led Bristol Township has landed a new job.
Bill McCauley was appointed to the interim township manager post for Warminster Township in Central Bucks County by their Board of Supervisors on Thursday evening. McCauley was hired through his consulting business.
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Warminster terminated the employment of their last township manager at their Thursday meeting. The reason was not disclosed.
For McCauley, he will again working with attorney Randy Flager, who is the solicitor for both Bristol Township and Warminster.
After leaving Bristol Township, McCauley consulted for Warminster, which is facing financial troubles.
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Warminster Supervisor Mark McKee voted against hiring McCauley. He raised concerns “about his character,” but said he wasn’t concerned with his competence.
“McCauley has 40 years in government and management and has never had any complaints about his character,” Warminster Board of Supervisor Chairperson Kenneth Hayes said during the meeting.
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McCauley was hired by Bristol Township in 2012 and his time was filled with controversy and displeasure among some employees and residents due to his style and actions. However, McCauley was given credit by residents and councilmembers for his actions on improving Bristol Township’s financial condition.
McCauley’s relationship soured with members of Bristol Township Council last year and that led to him resigning in December. He worked until mid-2020 as a consultant for Bristol Township.
Prior to coming to Bristol Township, McCauley had worked as director of administration for Bensalem, a consultant at Keystone Municipal Services, and manager in Phoenixville Borough and Lower Providence Township in Montgomery County, and several towns in New England.
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McCauley was involved in a hit-and-run crash that happened while he was intoxicated in 2007.
“I’ve had personal failings,” McCauley told the council when he was hired in 2012. “I have read that when you make a mistake the best thing to do is to acknowledge the mistake, learn the experience and move on with your life.”
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A county grand jury said McCauley “unethical,” but did not charge him with any crimes in 2015.
“Bristol Township has been a political cesspool for at least 40 years. I accepted the job of trying to clean-up the mess of corruption, incompetence, and mismanagement in January 2012. The most amazing thing I have observed and experienced is the amount of resistance to my instilling integrity and ethics into the local government and complete lack of support from so many varied parties,” McCauley wrote in a response to the 2015 grand jury report.
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Over his tenure, McCauley has been involved in legal actions filed by former employees and had to apologize after he called the Delaware Valley Vietnam Veterans group “freeloaders” as the township was fighting with them over a repair bill.
During his time, McCauley oversaw projects to completely revamp and upgrade the Municipal Complex, add a park to the property, add spiffy new signage at the township’s gateways, improve the look of Croydon along Route 13, upgrade the wastewater treatment plant, created a full-time parks director post, and implement a major road repair and paving program.
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Bristol Township is now led by Township Manager Randee Elton.
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