Sunday, August 23, 2009 THE DALLAS POST PAGE 9 DALLAS BOROUGH Council approves bidding of stormwater projects By REBECCA BRIA rbria@timesleader.com Borough council approved the idding out of two separate Stormwater infrastructure im- provement projects at its regular monthly meeting on August 19. The first project will install stormwater drainage piping in the area of Norton Avenue and Spring Street. The area of the borough qualified for $100,000 from the Luzerne County Office of Community Development (OCD). Borough manager Tra- cey Michael Carr says the bor- ough hopes to use all of this year’s OCD grant money on the project. The second project calls for demolition of the Orchard Street Bridge. Stormwater drainage pip- ing will also be installed on Or- chard Street. i Council voted unanimously on April 15 to eliminate the replace- ment of the bridge in lieu of Fed- eral Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Pennsylva- nia Emergency Management Agency (PEMA)-approved alter- nate projects. The bridge, which crosses Toby Creek, was dam- aged during the flood of June 2006. Carr says the Orchard Street bridge demolition and stormwa- ter infrastructure project is one of the approved FEMA and PEMA alternate projects that will occur in the borough. Plans for other FEMA and PEMA alternate pro- jects include repair of the munici- pal building and maintenance ga- rage, the purchase of a police cruiser and dump truck and im- provements for storm water and storm sewer systems. According to Carr, the borough can only use 75 percent, or $227,194, of its approved FEMA and PEMA award for the alter- nate projects. Crime concerns Mayor Tim ‘Carroll advised council and residents to be vigi- lant and not to leave valuable items in their cars due to recent automobile break-ins and other crimes in the Back Mountain. Carroll mentioned. car break-ins that he says recently occurred at the Dallas Shopping Center. Members of council also dis- cussed a recent robbery at Fino’s Pharmacy in the borough and a daytime residential burglary in Dallas Township. “It looks to me like the Back Mountain is becoming a little crime-ridden recently...,” Carroll said. “We've been talking about it coming out this way and it really seems to have hit in the last month or so.” Street paving Carr announced that Maple- wood and Highland avenues are scheduled for paving the week of August 24. Masonry repairs bids Council authorized the solic- itation for price quotations and bids for masonry repairs to the Center Hill Road Bridge. Police vehicle bids Authorization was granted to solicit bids for the sale of a used 2004 Ford Crown Victoria police cruiser upon acceptable delivery of a replacement 2009 vehicle. MMO budget Council approved the Finan- cial Requirement and Minimum Municipal Obligation (MMO) budget for 2010 for the borough’s uniformed pension plan in the amount of $21,530 and the non- uniform pension plan in the amount of $10,973 in compliance with Act 205. Master plan payment Payment was approved in the amount of $5,320.59 to Johnson Mirmiran & Thompson for work completed on the Kenneth Young Memorial Park master plan for the period of June 16, 2009 to July 15, 2009. Tax Collection Committee Mark Van Etten was appointed the delegate and Karen Rose the alternate delegate to the borough for the Luzerne County Tax Col- lection Committee. The Back Mountain Commu- nity Partnership, of which the borough is a member, passed a resolution on August 17 for each member municipality to appoint the same delegate (Van Etten, of Misericordia University) and al- ternate delegate (Rose, Kingston Township tax collector) to the committee. Residential lease Authorization was granted for the borough manager to execute a residential lease for the second floor apartment at 25 Main St., which is the borough building. Carr says she received two appli- cations for the apartment and has not yet decided on a tenant. Borough health insurance Council authorized borough officials to execute a plan docu- ment for the Dallas Borough Group Health PPO Plan as draft- ed and submitted by the Benecon Group. DALLAS TOWNSHIP Paving project will temporarily close Rice Drive during August By REBECCA BRIA rbria@timesleader.com Township engineer Tom Doughton told the board of su- pervisors on August 18 that a - paving project will temporarily close part of Rice Drive next month. Doughton said Rice Drive will be closed to traffic from Lower Demunds Road to the Pulverman driveway for ap- proximately the first three weeks in September. There were nine bids sub- mitted for the paving project. Pikes Creek Site Contractors, of Sweet Valley, was the lowest bidder and was awarded the project at a total cost of $88,530. American Asphalt was the second lowest bidder at ‘$89,479. Doughton says engineers es- timated the project would cost $154,000. He also said that United Water will reimburse the township $6,696 for the project because the company is - installing a new water line. Daytime burglaries Dallas Township Police Chief Robert Jolley said the re- gion is experiencing an in- crease in daytime home bur- laries. One burglary occurred noon on Tuesday while the wners were at home. Jolley asked township resi- dents to be vigilant and report any suspicious activity by call- ing 911. “We have someone aval at all times,” Jolley said. “No one’s bothering us, believe me when I tell you. Times are changing and when there’s a downturn in the economy, this is what we're looking at.” Park clean-up Dallas Township Police Chief Robert Jolley said the region is experiencing an increase in daytime home burglaries. One bur- glary occurred at noon on Tuesday while the owners were at home. Also, the supervisors gave Chris Fioti, of Shavertown, and Chelsea Kon, of Dallas, permis- sion to clean up the township park located behind CVS store. Fioti and Kon are entering their senior year at Holy Re- deemer High School and hope to perform 40 hours of commu- nity service at the park as part of their senior completion pro- ject. The students say they will do general clean up, plant flow- ers, cut the grass and’ paint lines on the basketball court along with the help of some of their friends. They will work - on the project from now throughout the fall. Nuisance property Westminster Drive resident Marilyn Gregorski asked the supervisors for an update on an alleged nuisance property near her home. Gregorski at- tended a July supervisors meeting and said she and her neighbors helped pass a town- ship nuisance property ordi- nance last year because of such a property near their homes. Gregorski said that, despite the ordinance, the property had gotten worse and she asked the township in July to enforce it. | Solicitor Thomas Brennan said activity did occur to clean up the property and that the side and front grass was cut. Gregorski said the grass in the back violates a township high- grass ordinance. Township zon- ing officer Leonard Kozick agreed to send a letter to the property owner, informing her she has five days to cut the grass. Fixed hole John Newman, a resident of Wedgewood Way, told the su- pervisors that a hole he previ- ously complained about had been fixed. Newman said at the last supervisors meeting the two-foot deep hole re- mained in between houses sev- en and eight on his road from a paving and storm water drain- age project that took place-last year. Newman alleged that a pile of stone and a large rock are covering the hole that he says is left over from Comcast’s portion of the project. Newman also asked if the township police vehicles are old and suggested the super- visors apply for grant money for new police cruisers. The su- pervisors said no new vehicles were needed at the time. Rebecca Bria is a staff writer for The Dallas Post. She can be reached at 970-7436. EVENT BENEFITS CCK Donald Searfoss, right, a Lake-Lehman student, held.a fun- draiser at his high school in which the winning class (Cave and Novrocki) won a pizza party donated by Hogan's Heroes and Pizza in Dallas. Monies raised were used to purchase Blanket Buddies for the Community Cares for Kids (CCK) organiza- tion led by Dr. Francis Collini, above left. CCK is comprised of volunteers who travel to Ecuador to perform life-altering sur- .geries on needy children. Paving hegins Monday in Dallas Bor The Dallas Borough Road De- partment will begin work to re- surface Maplewood Drive and Highland Drive the week of Au- gust 24, weather permitting. Once the street has been re- surfaced, the borough will not approve any utility pave cuts (other than for emergencies) for a period of up to five years. 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