DUBOIS – The Sandy Township Supervisors on Monday night were questioned about funding that was supposed to be designated for construction of a new municipal building.
Resident Roger Peace said so far as his knowledge, $100,000 per year was supposed to be designated for the new building for a 10-year period.
He said he wanted to know what happened to these funds because the township had levied a new tax for municipal building construction or renovation.
Supervisor Kevin Salandra said he’d reviewed budgets from the past four years, and he couldn’t find it anywhere. Supervisor Mark Sullivan also said he couldn’t recall this funding designation.
Sullivan went on to say that it was quite possible that any leftover funding at year’s end was intended to be used for a specific purpose.
When asked about the funding generated from the new tax, Salandra said the township didn’t plan to use it for the renovation of an existing building at the present time.
Before he returned to his seat, Peace accused some supervisors of having “puppet strings,” which he said belonged to DuBois City.
In other business, the supervisors discussed plans to explore the possibility of allowing all-terrain vehicles on township roadways. Township Manager Shawn Arbaugh also said they could test it out for a probationary period of six months.
Arbaugh reported that he and DuBois City Manager John “Herm” Suplizio met with U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson about utilizing “Qualified Opportunity Zones,” which would benefit local businesses.
Arbaugh also reported that he’d talked with Suplizio on Friday regarding the proposed consolidation of Sandy Township and DuBois City.
Arbaugh noted that city officials were still in talks over the issue of consolidation, and that the consolidation of the fire departments would be the subject of a second study.
The supervisors voted unanimously to move forward with the consolidation studies contingent upon their approval by DuBois City Council.
