Carbon County needs a few high school graduates or college-aged boys to work on its bridge crews this summer.

On Thursday, Commissioner William O’Gurek announced that there are still five or six vacancies on the summer bridge crews, which puts a strain on getting work done around the county-owned bridges.

“This is the first time in my time as a commissioner that we didn’t have enough applicants,” O’Gurek said.

Commissioners’ Chairman Wayne Nothstein added that years ago there used to be a waitlist of dozens of applicants for the crews.

The position pays $9 an hour and is open to boys who are either just graduating high school this year and entering college or are already in college.

As of right now, only one of three crews that go out are able to be fully staffed.

O’Gurek said if a boy is interested, visit the county’s website at www.carboncounty.com and click on employment opportunities to download an application or stop in at the Carbon County Human Resources department, located on the second floor of the Carbon County Administration Building in Jim Thorpe during business hours.

In other matters, Mary Shorten of Jim Thorpe asked the board if the conditional approval for the original building project on Susquehanna Street has been withdrawn from the borough yet. A lawsuit against Jim Thorpe for that approval cannot be dropped until the withdrawn has taken place.

County solicitor Dan Miscavige said that it has not been finalized yet due to paperwork and the number of permits associated with the application.

He said the county is working with its land use attorney to complete the withdrawal.

Shorten then asked about the lower roof on the rear of the former archives/maintenance building that is built into the retaining wall at the base of the mountain in which St. Mark’s and St. John’s Episcopal Church is built upon.

Nothstein said that nothing has been determined on if that roof can safely be removed or not, but the county has had many issues with leaking from that roof.

Shorten offered a copy of the engineer’s report that the church had done to help the county with its decision moving forward.