L The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Thursday, January 16, 2003 7 p | @Dallas again holds back payments on middle school Staff report DALLAS TWP. — Chronic problems with auditorium seats in the newly renovated Dallas Middle School — including an elderly lady falling when a seat broke — prompted stinging questions from the school board, and refusal to pay bills. “There are 1,034 seats, about 70 percent of them were put in wrong, and five were broken and had to be fixed,” Principal Anthony Martinelli said at Mon- day’s meeting of the board. The seats were removed dur- ing renovation, then reinstalled last year. Martinelli said the seats in the back of the audito- rium are supposed to be slightly wider than in the front. This keeps the aisles straight. 1 Martinelli said, five seats have ) @® since the school started sing them heavily around | Christmas. “The first time, a 70-year-old grandmother sat in the second seat of the first row and it broke,” Martinelli said. Architect Paul Degillio said a letter has been sent to the sub- contractor responsible for the seats warning they must be fixed and that payment would be withheld, but the board was- n't satisfied. Neither Degillio nor Superin- tendent Gilbert Griffiths knew the total cost of the seat re-in- stallation, or how much has been paid for it so far. Len Gallo, from Reynolds By SCOTT VINNACOMBE II Post Correspondent ) & KINGSTON TWP. — The Kingston Township Planning Commission is waiting for direc- tion from the state before sug- gesting changes to zoning or building codes. The state of Pennsylvania, like other states, is currently sorting through methods and ideas that would serve to unite counties, townships and municipalities under the same set of zoning laws and regulations. Pennsyl- vania legislators are in the process of weighing the pros and | cons of such a move and it ap- pears the ball will drop in favor | the process. ) e Kingston Township Plan- ing Commission met to discuss zoning issues and to elect their officials on Tuesday. Elected of- ficials are the same board mem- bers who served in 2002 and consist of Ed Price Jr. as Chair- man, Vice Chairman Sam Mer- rill and Secretary Frank Grabowski. ‘Commission members tend to believe that the idea of Uniform Code Council, which is what state legislators are trying to ini- tiate, would be an overall im- provement over the way zoning Indoor Soccer Registration Please Call 823-2191 ext.129 4 Year Old Soccer Clinic Also Available * PHILADELPHIA 76ERS AT NJ NETS March 16 FLYERS HOME HOCKEY + BROADWAY: "OKLAHOMA" Jan. 25 (Reduced Price! Hurry! Call Now?)... “PRODUCERS” Feb. 22..." 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Additional problems were not- ed, including a new sound sys- tem in the natatorium that is hard to understand, and shod- dy or incomplete furniture in- stallations by Institutional Fur- nishings Inc. in the classrooms and science labs. The board ultimately gave the construction heads five days to research the seat problem and give a report, and until the next meeting on Jan. 27 on the other problems. The board also refused to pay $59,579 to Miller Bros., $87,578 to Institutional Fur- nishings and $4,820 to Fore- man Architects/Engineers Inc., Degillio’s company. This article appeared in origi- nal form in the Times Leader. Planners wait for direction from state before next move is done now. At this point, there are many different codes and regulations throughout the state’s numerous municipalities, counties, townships and bor- oughs. William M. Eck, Zoning Code Enforcement Officer, plans to go over new ordinances that would be initiated under the UCC (Uni- form Code Council) in order to ascertain which of the policies would be useful in Kingston Township. Eck will then recom- mend, to the Planning Commis- sion that they take these sug- gestions to the Board of Supervi- sors and recommend they be adopted. From there these sug- gestions, as well as those from municipalities statewide, will be sent to state officials, where de- cisions will be made based on those suggestions. At this point, nothing is cer- tain as to how municipalities will be able to deviate from whatever rules and codes are fi- nalized. According to Eck, new amendments to zoning codes and rules will need to be decided upon within the state legislature before decisions closer to home can be made. This, he says, will only happen after all smaller or- ganizations check in with their own recommendations. Small Wonders gift drive The families of Small Wonders Day Care School collected many toys for the Toys-for-Tots program. Pictured in the photo are children from the small wonders before and after school program, displaying a few of the many toys collected. These items were donated to the United States Marine Corps and were distributed to children for Christmas. From left, first row sitting: Rebecca Sweetra, Mackenzie Brennan, Brandon Goble, Emily Banta. Second row: Danielle Bloomfield, Casey McAndrew, Michael Carey, Kayla Kaufmann, Jeremy Geisinger. Vision (continued from page 1) Visioning is an ongoing process, in which participants look ahead 10 years or more and take steps make their reams for an area a reality. “If we put everyone's talents together and work for the good, we can improve the future of the Back Mountain,” said Eck- ert. One of the purposes of the upcoming meeting is to adopt a vision statement. 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It will provide citizens that have been unable to attend previous meetings an opportunity to get involved and for those individu- als who have not yet joined a task force to join.” The meeting will include pre- sentations by regional program facilitators and refreshments will be served. Any questions about the visioning process or meeting can be addressed to the Dallas Borough administra- tive office, 25 Main St., Dallas, 18612. Or call 675-1389 for more information. Bridge (continued from page 1) board to have a traffic light in- stalled at the intersection of Manor Drive, Dug Road and Carverton Road. Township Police Chief James Balavage presented an accident report from the in- tersection, which provided fig- ures warranting the board ap- proving a request that PennDOT do a traffic study in that area. It was also requested that Green Road be properly paved so that commuters would be more will- ing to travel on it. ; On another topic, Supervisor ™ Chris Yankovich presented the board with an illegal parking is- sue. Throughout the township, vehicles are continuously park- ing over yellow lines directly in lanes of traffic. The particular lo- cation used as an example was Warden Avenue. Supervisors agree that the problem has oc- curred on more than one street however, and that something must be done about it. This type of illegal parking is obstructing the traffic flow during all times of the year and does not allow for plows to get through during treacherous weather. Solicitor Benjamin Jones sug- gested the posting of an over- abundance of no parking sig- nage would be cost prohibitive and that appearance would be an issue. O'Neill recommended that a warning system could be put into affect. In this way, parking offenders would be made aware of the situation by receiving a written warning, the information would then be logged on file and should that same vehicle be found parking illegally again there would be a fine and towing. Jones felt that the main rea- son for the dangerous parking situation is that many of today’s families have more vehicles than their lots can handle. Bigger families with older children who drive sometimes own three or four vehicles and they are forced to find somewhere other than their own lots to park. Jones now says he has enough infor- mation to go to PennDOT and discuss the exact rules and pos- sible options. Tell our advertisers you saw them in The Dallas Post. They'll appreciate it, and so will we. Member FDIC Monday-Thursday, 9 am - 5 pm | INSURANCE We're behind you in retirement. ICR LAVAGE) E=Te [= When it comes to Individual Retirement Accounts, First Federal delivers a powerful advantage. 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