July 9, 2002 The meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Franklin Township, held in the Township office, was called to order by Chairman John Sachar at 2000 hours with the Pledge of Allegiance. Present were Sachar, Jarrett Miller, David Henderson, Gary Truitt and Christine Houser. Sachar announced that two executive sessions were held to discuss legal matters. VISITORS/PUBLIC COMMENT Christine Houser Mylar – Mrs. Houser is subdividing her property on Silverthorn Road. Lot 1 located at 10468 Silverthorn will be separated from Lot 2 at 10484 Silverthorn. Each parcel has an existing house. Lot 1 has 13 acres with 364.37 ft. of frontage with a 50' right-of-way on the north boundary. Lot 2 is the residual with 86 acres. Mylar contained an error on the scale that will be corrected to read 1"/200 ft. Miller moved to accept the Houser Mylar with the correction noted, Sachar seconded. Carried. Mylar was signed. Mrs. Houser left the meeting at 2013 hours. MINUTES Miller moved to accept the minutes of 6/27/02 as presented. Henderson seconded. Carried. REPORTS Superintendent – Dave reported that we are in the process of getting the tanker inspected and will be getting a new master cylinder for the 1-ton. Mowing is being done and the rest of the crew is working on the Eureka Road #4 paving project. Two pipes at Foy's and Truitt's were blown out by National Vacuum. The project is going well. Geotextile – Chemung's suppliers will send 20 rolls of 17'2"x327 l.f. and 20 rolls of 8'x327 l.f. for $24,506.83. This is an increase in cost of $899.33 due to the unavailability of 12.5 ft. wide rolls of Geotextile fabric. Sachar – if they want to supply it at their convenience, they should take the extra cost off. They should supply it at what they bid. Henderson – we can accept this bid as it stands or they can refuse to supply it and we'd go to the second bidder at much more money and they would have the same problem with roll size. The whole industry went to wider roll width. Miller – why can't they cut it at 12.5 ft at the factory? Discussion. Henderson – the other alternative is to send in the signed contract from the bid and just pay what the bid price was and not sign this letter from Chemung. Sachar – this bothers me. Henderson – we bid at PennDOT Publication 408 specs, at square yards. If we had bid by linear feet, we'd have them. The proper way to bid is by the State's specs of square yards and not by linear feet. Discussion. Miller – the second bidder is higher than the extra $900 in cost from Chemung. Sachar moved to accept Chemung Supply's proposal for Geotextile fabric. Miller seconded. Carried. Agility, Diesel Engine, Intersection Lighting at Crane and Route 98, Falls Road Bridge #1 – nothing. FINANCIAL AND TAXES Bills – Miller moved to pay the bills as listed totaling $5,750.58 general fund; $8,403.81 state fund and $74.18 Silverthorn Road Assessment fund. Sachar seconded. Carried. Payroll – Henderson moved to approve payroll #14-02 as presented. Miller seconded. Carried. PLANNING, ZONING, RECREATION, SAFETY, SANITATION/RECYCLING, HEALTH AND THE COMMON GOOD Planning Commission Minutes – reviewed. Edinboro Regional Planning Commission Draft By-Laws – the committee is looking for suggestions on their draft. Our Planning Commission suggested a cap on spending to budgeted items with no surprise expenses. Budgeted and non-budgeted items should be limited to an annual approved budget. A letter with the suggested changes will be sent to Terry Carcella at Washington Township. Update Comprehensive Plan, Industrial Park/KOZ, Storage Trailers, History Grant, Census Undercount, OTM Bulk Sewer, Maintenance Agreement for SFTF, Repairs to Francis Cemetery – nothing new to report. Junk Car Letters – letters will be sent. SOLICITOR GMSD EIT Collection Revisions, Western Trail – nothing. Animal Density – waiting for more information on this issue from PSATS. Verizon DSL – Henderson moved to authorize the Solicitor to send a letter to Verizon concerning this issue. Miller seconded. Carried. OLD BUSINESS Newsletter/July – members of the Board will write articles on the ideas listed. Dedication of Civil War Memorial at Francis Cemetery – Dave reported that the ceremony was very nice and well attended. Photos of the event are on the Township website. Guiderail at Falls and Francis – sections of guiderail were damaged in an accident in March. The person responsible is from Conneaut Ohio with Ohio registration and no insurance. A certified letter to the Conneaut address was returned, will try the Porky Road, Albion address listed in the PSP report. Township will repair the damage. NEW BUSINESS Gas/Diesel Bid/COG Pricing – Henderson moved to accept the COG bid pricing for gas and diesel fuel for a 3-year period from Erie Petroleum. Sachar seconded. Carried. Henderson – only one supplier responded to the bid request. We will pay 9 cents more a gallon. The only refinery operating is Warren and Erie Petroleum is their exclusive distributor. PennDOT Corridor Stakeholders Seminar – John will attend the meeting at Cross Creek Resort on July 17th. Political Signs – some organization is suing municipalities for requiring an escrow for the removal of political signs. Henderson – I read the Watchtower court case and it contradicts itself. I don't know where we stand. Since we've had the escrow, we've not had as much trouble getting people to take their political signs down. They are dangerous when they have wire in them and are hit by the mower and blown all over. Miller – isn't there a State requirement for sign removal? Henderson – our sign ordinance requires them to be on private property. Most stick them in the road right-of-way. Working Together to Fight Littering and Illegal Dumping – will try to get 575 copies of the report and mail one to each of our residences. CORRESPONDENCE Garbage Haulers Permit – Senator Earll sent a letter concerning the State preempting municipalities right to license haulers. They are concerned with the safety issue of the trucks hauling the waste. Municipalities with a haulers ordinance in effect are grandfathered. We are grandfathered with our ordinance as it stands. It could not be made more stringent. Training sessions were reviewed. ADJOURN Sachar called the meeting adjourned at 2107 hours. Bonnie J. Bernhardt, Secretary