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==Government== Murrysville is governed by a [[mayor]] (currently Regis J. Synan)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://murrysville.com/about/welcome-from-the-mayor/|title=Welcome from the Mayor|work=The Municipality of Murrysville|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en-US}}</ref> who is elected every two years and has executive/administrative powers, and a seven-member [[city council|council]], whose members are elected every four years and have precise legislative powers.<ref>[http://www.murrysville.com/Council.html Murrysville Council] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512021938/http://www.murrysville.com/Council.html |date=2012-05-12 }}</ref> In the mid-1970s, as suburban growth began to occur, the community rapidly transitioned through three forms of government (township, borough, and home rule) and four legal name changes (Franklin Township, Franklin Borough, Murrysville Borough, and Municipality of Murrysville). Since 1976, it has operated under its Home Rule Charter as the Municipality of Murrysville. On Dec. 6, 2023, Murrysville Council approved gas [[fracking]] beneath its two largest parks, Duff and Murrysville Community Park, over the objections of at least 174 residents who petitioned Council. No plan was presented for using the incoming money from the leases. Council member Jason Lemak pointed to fracking operations around the Beaver Run Reservoir “We’re talking about parks, but there has been fracking going on for a long time below the water supply for us and 120,000 people,” he said.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Varine |first=Patrick |date=2023-12-06 |title=Murrysville Council OKs lease for gas, oil rights under 2 parks |url=https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/murrysville-council-oks-lease-for-gas-oil-rights-under-two-parks/ |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=TribLIVE.com |language=en-US}}</ref> On Dec. 18, 2023, the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County issued a mandatory water conservation order for Murrysville and others, including energy companies using water from the Beaver Run Reservoir for fracking, due to an ongoing [[drought]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cholodofsky |first=Rich |date=2023-12-18 |title=Westmoreland municipal authority issues mandatory water conservation order |url=https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/mawc-issues-mandatory-conservation-order-customers-told-cut-water-use-by-10/ |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=TribLIVE.com |language=en-US}}</ref> In the Department of Environmental Protection’s 2021 [[Climate change|Climate Change]] Impacts Assessment, it is noted that precipitation patterns are expected to change over the next century. Those changes are likely to include more extreme and intense rainfall — something scientists already have reported noticing — and increased drier weather in between and drought, along with higher temperatures.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Impacts |url=https://www.dep.pa.gov/Citizens/climate/Pages/impacts.aspx |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=Department of Environmental Protection |language=en-US}}</ref> “In general, we expect worse drought over most of the U.S. as a result of human-caused warming, and Western Pennsylvania is no exception,” said [[Michael E. Mann|Michael Mann]], a professor and director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media at the University of Pennsylvania and author of “Our Fragile Moment.” <ref>{{Cite web |last=Signorini |first=Renatta |date=2023-12-20 |title=Shrinking resource: Customers heed conservation order but Beaver Run Reservoir continues drop toward record-low level |url=https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/shrinking-resource-customers-heed-conservation-order-but-beaver-run-reservoir-continues-drop-toward-record-low-level/ |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=TribLIVE.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
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