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Franklin compiles list of items to buy through COVID-19 funds

Franklin Township has compiled a list of uses for funds it received from last year’s COVID-19 stimulus package.

Supervisors on Tuesday approved the revised budget for the American Rescue Plan Act to allocate the 2021 monies.

It was stated the township has $218,694 in total ARPA funds.

Among the items listed for purchase are the following:

• Salt shed

• Radios

• Pagers

• Knox Box supplies

• Rescue Sled (fire company and fire police)

• Street signs

• Chevrons, Arrows etc.

• 4G Cameras (for virtual and Zoom meetings

• Cameras

• Removal of electrical wires and new wiring (Phifer’s Ice Dam Park)

• License plate reader, speed signs (police department)

The balance is still undetermined, as right now, the board is getting estimates for a Generac Generator for the police office, new server for the township administrative office, and a new flail mower or tractor to cut along the roadways.

Board Chairman Fred Kemmerer noted the board held two public workshop meetings to discuss where the best possible places would be to spend the ARPA funds.

Kemmerer said the list addresses the expansion, parks, fire company, police department, and road crew, among others.

“I feel (the township) did a great job,” Kemmerer said.