UPDATE: Board of Supervisors Talk Rough Roads

The Board of Supervisors will and pump stations in Lower Southampton Saturday, June 11 at 9 a.m. They will be inspecting the roads to determine which ones the limited funds will be used to pave.

The public is welcome to join the tour, township manager Ted Taylor said May 25. The tour will begin at the .

“We’re going to try to repair or pave the worst roadways,” McMenamin said May 11.

During the board’s April 27 workshop session, Charles Bosco, director of public works, presented the board with a color-coded map of roads that need to be paved.

The map showed roads that should have been paved in 2008 and 2009 that have not yet been paved. According to Bosco, these roads haven’t been paved because the “paving can only go as far as funding will allow.”

In the Oakford section, Phillips Place, Wood Road and Marshal Avenue were supposed to be paved in 2008, but haven’t. However, Bosco told the board not to paved these roads year because the area has a “major drainage problem” that needs to be addressed first. He said that there needs to be capital project set aside for drainage in this area before paving takes place.

Currently, Bosco said that there is $200,000 to pave roads with. Instead of the public works department paving, he suggested that the township bid the entire project out. Other townships have been doing the same thing and are “getting roads paved fairly reasonably,” Bosco said.

Though there are many roads in the township that need to be paved, Bosco told the board his first choice road to be paved is Pennsylvania Avenue.

His reasoning was that Pennsylvania Avenue is a “major thruway” for businesses and the project would utilize the whole $200,000. However, Bosco said that was just his recommendation and that it is up to the board which roads get paved.

“I think we need to take care of the residents first rather than the businesses,” McMenamin said. He added that he would like to see roads done that are the worst.