Meeting roundup
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• Date: Oct. 28
• Action: Township residents will not see an increase in their quarterly trash bill next year, but beginning in 2015, the bills may increase and the way recyclables are collected will change.
In a split vote Monday, council voted to award a five-year- contract to Waste Management that will see recyclable collection become mechanized when the township will have 65-gallon green plastic containers that will need to be positioned in a specific way at the curb. During the collection, Waste Management trucks equipped with a mechanical arm will reach out from the truck and lift the container, emptying it into the recyclable truck. The township has applied for a state grant that will pay about 90 percent of the new bins. By the end of the contract, the bins will be owned by the township. During the contract, Waste Management will assume maintenance of the new bins.
Voting for the Waste Management bid with the mechanization were council members Monica Merrell, David Ball, MichaelMcCaig, James Berquist and Frank Arcuri. Voting for a bid from Republic Services and a continuation of a manual collection were council members Gary Stiegel Jr. and Robert Lewis.
The township will not learn if it has received the state grant until the spring. The bids were obtained through South Hills Association Council of Governments.
Council, minus Lewis, voted to approve six explosive charges to be placed on the former Simpson Farm along Bebout Road for seismic testing through Geokinetics. Testing will be conducted in mid-December and the property owner has given permission. Another request by Geokinetics to conduct seismic monitoring on several township-owned open spaces was denied with Lewis, McCaig, Arcuri and Merrell voting against. Voting to permit the monitoring were Ball, Steigel and Berquist.
Rocco Magrino was appointed to fill a vacancy on the township’s planning commission. There were six candidates for the opening.
Council approved installation of a stop sign, creating a three-way stop at Maple Lane and Julrich Drive as part of a traffic calming plan.
• Next meeting: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 11 at the municipal building.