April 12, 2005

The meeting of the Supervisors of Franklin Township, held in the Township 
office, was called to order by Chairman John Sachar at 2005 hours with the 
Pledge of Allegiance.  Present were Sachar, Jarrett Miller and David Henderson.

VISITORS/PUBLIC COMMENT
No visitors present.

MINUTES
Sachar moved to approve the minutes of 3/31/05 as presented.  Henderson 
seconded.  Carried.

REPORTS
Roadmaster – Dave reported on the spring snowstorm.  The roads needed to be 
plowed and the estimate is that the plow round cost us $14,000 (lost gravel etc.).  
The crew is back to work.  The last truck will be striped of its winter equipment 
this week.

Agility, Falls Road Bridge #1, CDL Driving Hours, Stop Sign Maintenance – 
nothing.

Equipment Repairs – the oil test on #5 was normal.  The Oshkosh’s 4-wheel 
drive is not working.  Jack’s Repair in New York said to take off the plows and 
chains and bring it to them and they will look at it.  Dave said that it has less than 
100 hours on it since the last repair.  

Sachar – sounds like a problem in the transfer case.

Henderson – the 1-ton is grinding in 4-wheel.  We checked the axles, u-joints etc. 
and can’t find the problem.  Discussion.

Anti-Skid Building – Dave reported that he is getting prices on blocks from Elk 
Creek Ready Mix and Edinboro Ready Mix.

FINANCIAL AND TAXES
Bills – Sachar moved to pay the bills as listed totaling $7,077.53 general fund 
and $1,765.79 state fund.  Miller seconded.  Carried.  We received 10 truckloads 
of gravel from Showman’s that cost $11.00 a yard delivered due to the high cost 
of fuel.

Payroll – Henderson moved to approve payroll #7-05 as presented.  Sachar 
seconded.  Carried.

Revote on Henderson Pay at Convention – Sachar moved to rescind the 
motion of 3/31/05 on this issue.  Miller seconded.  Carried.  Miller moved to pay 
Dave Henderson his regular wage for his attendance at the PSATS Convention.  
Sachar seconded.  Carried.  One abstention, Dave Henderson.

EMS Tax – nothing.

Benefits Credit – discussion on credit to be given for previous Township 
employment to those presently working.  Will check old payroll records and 
discuss further at the next meeting.

PLANNING, ZONING, RECREATION, SAFETY, SANITATION/RECYCING, 
HEALTH AND THE COMMON GOOD
Planning Commission Minutes – reviewed.  Requested letter was sent to 
Zachary Smith.  Discussion on the mobile home at 10916 Rt. 98 that appears to 
have fallen off it’s foundation.

Regional Planning Commission – meeting 4/13/05.

Industrial Park/KOZ, Storage Trailers – nothing.

History Grant – corrections are completed.

SFTF – Marshall Tolley, 11281 Eureka Road, still has not signed the agreement 
form.  Discussion.  He will be sent a letter instructing him to sign the form or 
submit an escrow of $1,000.

Ordinance Compliance – will do a spring drive-by before the trees leaf out.  Will 
try for April 24th at 1:30 p.m.

Recycling – Kathy Mielke will try to make the 4/28/05 meeting.

Shooting Range – no word as yet from Joe Weindorf.

Edinboro Lake Watershed – annual meeting is 4/27/05.  Discussion on the 
winter flood at the lake.

SOLICITOR
MDIA Contract – MDIA has agreed to the wording proposed in our 3/31/05 
letter.

Vittorio Property – waiting for the NIDMA meeting on 4/28/05.

OLD BUSINESS
Internet Survey, PA One Call – nothing.

Ordinance #1-05/EMA – Henderson moved to advertise a hearing for 4/28/05.  
Sachar seconded.  Carried.

NEW BUSINESS
Representative Good Meeting – meeting is 4/14/05 at 8:30 a.m. in his office.
Discussion on several projects that need funding.

Henderson – we need infrastructure.  The pipe project across Francis is $50,000, 
$15,000 for the pipe across Silverthorn by Ray Swift and $15,000 for the pipe on 
Mohawk south.  The Internet project could be included.

Miller – what about the anti-skid building, we could include that also.

Letter from Northwestern RECA/Power Outage – RECA sent a letter to their 
customers concerning the recent outage.

Henderson – there is absolutely no excuse for the outage.  Penelec’s feed lines 
go down and we all go down.  They have emaciated their work force.  We should 
send a letter of complaint to the PUC.

Miller – or a letter of support for RECA.  Penelec cut their lineman and have no 
equipment for repairs stored in this area.  It has to come from Johnstown.

Henderson – a transmission line is what went down.  This is not acceptable.  It 
resulted in a large-scale outage.  The utilities have the PUC in their back pocket.  
They use mutual aid agreements as a flag.  The investors are the only ones to 
benefit from their business practices, not their customers.

Will send a letter of support to RECA and a letter of complaint to the PUC.

CORRESPONDENCE
Letters from GMHS Students – we received letters from four students who live 
in the Township as a civics class project on local government.  Three complained 
about road conditions, one expressed thanks for Township efforts on the roads.

Sachar – maybe we should volunteer to teach a class on local government so 
they know what we are up against.

Henderson – we will respond to the school and the students.

ADJOURN
Sachar called the meeting adjourned at 2100 hours.

Bonnie J. Bernhardt, Secretary