Pribulka becomes Bellefonte Borough’s new manager after 6 months in interim role
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- Bellefonte Borough Council unanimously voted in David Pribulka as permanent manager.
- Pribulka will earn an annual salary of $130,000 as the borough’s manager.
- Pribulka will begin full-time on July 1 when his Keystone contract ends.
A familiar face in Centre County has been chosen as Bellefonte Borough’s permanent manager following months of serving in an interim role in the municipality.
David Pribulka, who previously served as Ferguson Township’s manager, was unanimously voted in by the borough council as the permanent Bellefonte Borough manager during the council’s meeting Monday. He will receive an annual salary of $130,000.
This action came after Pribulka’s six-month stint as the borough’s part-time interim manager, which started in September following former manager Ralph Stewart’s retirement in March 2025.
“Over these last six months I’ve had the honor and priviledge of working with each of you [council members] and staff here at Bellefonte Borough as your interim manager, and I’m thrilled to be able to drop the ‘interim’ from that title this evening,” Pribulka said Monday.
He continued, “I look forward to continuing to support council in achieving your vision for the community in the years ahead, and I commit my full faith and effort to the principles of ethical and professional management, and the office to which I’ve been entrusted.”
Pribulka won’t begin full-time work with the borough until July 1, when his work as a contracted employee with Keystone Municipal Solutions — the service that the council initially hired him through — ends.
In an email to the CDT on Tuesday, Pribulka wrote that the council “graciously” allowed him to continue that part-time arrangement so that he and his family could relocate from upstate New York — where Pribulka previously worked — after his sons’ school year there ends.
Prior to Pribulka’s appointment as interim (then permanent) manager, he was a county administrator in Livingston County, New York. He also worked for just over two years as the manager of Susquehanna Township in Dauphin County, and spent nine years with Ferguson Township before that.
“The professional staff here are all dedicated public servants who take great pride in their work, and I look forward to doing whatever I can to help them be successful,” Pribulka wrote.
Pribulka’s move to permanent manager was widely celebrated by the council.
“It’s been a trying time for Borough Council over the past year and a half, so we’re excited about this,” council chair Doug Johnson said.