| Sunday, August 23, 2009 THE DALLAS POST PAGE 5 LEHMAN TOWNSHIP Township roads are deplorable By CAMILLE FIOTI For the Dallas Post There is no way to maintain township roads without a tax increase, supervisors said Mon- day. “I'm ashamed of the roads in the township,” Roadmaster Doug Ide said. “They’re crum- bling. Were doing everything we can to try to save what we have.” The cost to pave a one-mile stretch of road is $150,000, Ide said, adding that there are 36 miles of paved roads in the township. Every four years, mu- nicipalities can apply fora Com- munity Development Grant to help fund road paving in low to moderate-income areas. The township received $100,000 from the grant pro- gram to fund this year’s paving project in the Lake Silkworth ar- ea. The streets to be paved in- clude Summit, Cedar, Willow, Jones, Eleanor and Thorny Ap- ple streets. To determine which areas of the township fall within the low tomoderate-income range so as to plan for Community Devel- opment projects, a map is used, Ide said. If the township wishes to use grant monies to pave streets that aren’t included on the map, then door-to-door in- ' come surveys must be taken, he added. To qualify for the grant, at least 51% of the residents in the area must fall within the low to moderate-income guide- lines. “I've tried everything possible. I've even counted the prisoners (at the State Correctional Institu- tion at Dallas). They're all low income.” Doug Ide Roadmaster, Jackson Township “There’s a lot of strings at- tached,” Ide said of the grant re- quirements. “I've tried every- thing possible. I've even count- ed the prisoners (at the State Correctional Institution at Dal- las),” he said. “They're all low income.” Oak Drive is one example ofa road that should qualify for the Community Development Grant because every resident “on that street is retired, Ide said. But because the road is connected to other streets in more affluent neighborhoods, the road doesn’t qualify. “I could not pave it because I had to count the residents on the upper streets,” Ide said of Oak Drive. In response to a resident’s question as to whether the township has a long-term plan for road paving, board presi- dent Dave Sutton said that, be- cause of money, it does not. “The only way that we can improve roads in this township is to increase taxes,” Sutton said. “Otherwise, they're just going to fall apart and we’ll have to resort to dirt roads.” Ide agreed, adding that the road department requires an operating budget of $150,000 to $200,000 per year. “That’s the kind of budget this township needs per year to have decent roads,” he said. At the meeting, paving bid proposals for the Lake Silk- worth project were opened. The proposals ranged in price from $137,407 to $168,748.00. The board tabled awarding a bid for further review. In other business, the board announced: e A zoning hearing will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 25, at the municipal building. The hearing is in response to an application from Mark and Marianna Oplinger seeking a “permitted use” variance. The Oplingers want to con- struct an 896 square foot resi- dential garage for personal use on a single residential lot locat- ed on Cook Street, Hunlock Creek. The lot is currently own- ed by Flap Jack Properties, LLC 25 Lakeside Dr., Hunlock Creek. ¢ The Back Mountain Com- munity Partnership meets at 3 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month at Misericordia University. 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