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Though Township engineers have have completed design work for this $3.9 million project, Township Commissioners will have to decide how to pay for it.
Township Manager Melissa Shafer has reported that she's been given good news and bad news by State Senator Lisa Boscola's office. The good news. The Commonwealth Financing Agency really wanted to approve her grant request, but a clerical error on the state level led to an inadvertent snub. The bad news. The amount approved was just the grant amount was for $200,000, far short of the $3.9 million project and the $2.7 million request.
At the August 18 meeting, Shafer will ask Commissioners whether she should file another grant application or dive into a $10 million line of credit to pay for this work.
In the meantime, yet another construction season is slipping away.
Broadhead Road, located between Route 191 and 512, is a two-lane commercial artery roughly parallel to U.S. Route 22.
15 comments:
"Clerical error", these grants were so poorly written they didn't meet the minimum standard for review.
The operation in the Twp. is a zoo.
Even in Allentown the last parks director was fired for a performance like this.
These are not highly competitive grants,
Somebody (s) dropped the ball,
Has anyone ever been fired in the township? Some have gone to jail, that we know!
Whoever committed the clerical error, needs to be fired as I'm sure it wasn't the first time.
Are you sure you have the right section of Broadhead Road? Isn't part of that also Lower Nazareth Township. Also.....the thousands of dollars generated by taxes on the Commercial property in the Industrial park just isn't enough to pay for maintenance and upkeep of the roads. The heavy trucks that use that road actually destroy it and also that section of route 22 and route 191. That intersection needs to be completely redone. It is like a washboard when you drive over it. It is becoming very dangerous. The road actually steers your car right and left and an unsuspecting driver could easily lose control of their car. Also, Bethlehem Township gets little of the monies generated by taxes by the Industrial park because most of it is not in their Township.
Tsk tsk tsk, such a vey.
council and the administration are both laughable. Vote Trump
More bad government in the township. Nobody is responsible for nothing in Bethlehem Township. Sounds like county government and the clowns who run that circus show. Bring three stooges construction in they'll fix it cheap!
@7:09,
None of Brodhead Rd. is in Lower Nazareth. The Township line is north of Brodhead.
@7:09,
A great deal of the industrial park is in BT. It stretches west to Township Line Rd., south to the vicinity of 22, and includes the LV Post Office. Get a map that shows political boundaries and educate yourself.
The industrial park should have another access from 22 directly into the complex. The 191 and 512 would be rid of all the truck traffic
As previous readers have noted, none of Brodhead Road is in Lower Nazareth. The stretch between 191 and 512 lies in two townships, Hanover and Bethlehem Tp. I thought that Hanover's stretch ends at Township Line Road, but it might be a little more or less. The portion of roadway in Hanover Tp is very well maintained. The portion in Bethlehem Tp is not. The intersections at 512 and 191 are both pretty bad, thanks to tractor trailers, and those are under state control.
"Whoever committed the clerical error, needs to be fired as I'm sure it wasn't the first time. "
The clerical error occurred at the state, not township, level.
"these grants were so poorly written they didn't meet the minimum standard for review."
Ms. Shafer asked the state and was told there was nothing wrong with her applications. Just not enough money. My view is that politics was at play bc other townships were approved for virtually identical requests.
The main reason the roads in the Hanover section of Brodhead is that much of the warehousing is in the stretch between 191 and Township Line Rd. The western stretch has a lot of flex space (strip mall-like offices), and not much warehousing.
^Roads are in better shape
Take the $200,000 grant and repave 1,000 feet of it, anything is an improvement, that road is a colossal piece of crap.
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