Meeting roundup
• Date: March 5
• Action: Supervisors ratified a new police liability insurance agreement with Lexington Insurance, which will cover the township’s police force through March 2014 at a cost of $161,975. The township’s old insurance policy was priced at roughly $113,000. The plan covers Hanover Township police as well as a part-time supplementary force of officers who work at First Niagara Pavilion during concert season.
Supervisors also approved the hiring of Roberta Sarraf as a planning consultant with a contract for $2,000. Sarraf will be tasked with rewriting the township’s subdivision and land-use ordinance to include fire regulations.
• Next meeting: 7:30 March 21 in the municipal building
• Date: March 7
• Action: The board approved the location of a new well site and conceptual drawings prepared by Range Resources of a Marcellus Shale well site in Cross Creek County Park, Hopewell Township. The vertical well will have four horizontal legs. The commissioners approved a supplemental reimbursement agreement with the state Department of Transportation for the Daisytown Bridge, known as Pike Run No. 11 in California, increasing state taxpayers’ total to $1,208,000, while Washington County taxpayers’ share will be $67,000. Construction of the bridge, which is open, is likely to be advertised for bids this summer with completion of the project scheduled for 2014.
As expected, the board approved the offering of contracts to two additional defense attorneys, known as “conflict attorneys” in criminal cases, each to be paid $25,000 per year, prorated, to decrease the caseload for each attorney. The board agreed to review the need for the two positions in 2014.
The commissioners accepted the renewal of the $113,778 Victims of Crime grant from the state Commission on Crime and Delinquency through June 30, 2015.
• Next meeting: 10 a.m. March 20 in the public meeting room of the Courthouse Square office building