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4/28/2009 10:29 PM

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North Franklin Township supervisors will file an open records complaint today against the local business and recreation authority that paved way for Consol Energy Park, claiming it is refusing to turn over business and financial records.

The supervisors voted 2-0 to authorize township solicitor Dennis Makel to file the appropriate legal action to obtain the authority’s minutes and a list of its outstanding debts.

“I want an injunction. They were suppose to give us the information,” supervisors Chairman Don Hazlett said Tuesday after the board returned from a closed door meeting.

Makel interrupted, saying he was unclear what Hazlett wanted because an “injunction means you want to stop them from doing something.”

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“Do you want a right-to-know action?” Makel said.

Hazlett has been calling for months for supervisors to dissolve the authority, but he hasn’t been able to garnish enough votes to accomplish that goal. He has blamed the authority for shutting out the public and pursuing projects that are not in the best interest of local residents.

The authority replied to the township on time, and remitted the information the supervisors requested, authority solicitor Gary Sweat said.

The reply indicated the authority’s meeting minutes should already be on file at the municipal building, Sweat said Tuesday night.

“I told them, ‘Tell us what you are missing.’” Sweat said.

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