Clarion County Names New Street, Approves Street and Parking Lot Paving

Ron Wilshire

Ron Wilshire

Published July 26, 2017 4:33 am
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CLARION, Pa. (EYT) — Clarion County Commissioners created a new street in recent months and voted to pave it at Tuesday morning’s meeting.

The new street, Administrative Drive, is located behind the Main Street Administration Building, and the paving project will also include paving of an employee parking lot behind the building.

Hager Paving Inc., of Strattanville, was the low bidder at $29,936.00, and Commissioners Ted Tharan, Wayne Brosius, and Ed Heasley approved the bid, pending review by the county solicitor.

Tharan explained the location of the new street that winds in a circle through the parking lot may be entered from two locations on Merle Road. He said the road had been added to the county’s GIS Department on official maps.

“PennDOT came up and looked at it,” said Tharan. “We were using the theory that since you can’t park on it, then it’s got to be a street. We also talked with Clarion Borough before we started this. The paving will also raise the level of the road to what is now a high curb off the rear steps.”

An advantage of declaring the road is that County Liquid Fuels money could be used for paving Administrative Drive, and Clarion County will pay for the paving of the parking places.

In terms of storm water drainage from a newly paved large surface, storm water will flow on to catch basins on Merle Road. When the building was first built, the entire area was gravel because that was recognized as a porous material and allows fluids to pass through it. Since that time, according to Tharan, a paved area is treated the same as gravel-covered area.

The commissioners approved Resolution No. 11 for Fair Housing, an annual requirement of the Commonwealth’s Community Development Block Grant program. The resolution is proclaiming fair housing practices in the county, as well as Clarion Borough and Clarion Township that are separate entitlement communities because of the population. Clarion County Planning and Development handles the applications for the county plus the borough and township.

Clarion County also received a $52,258.00 grant from July 1, 2017, until June 30, 2018, on behalf of county corrections with Time Keeping Systems and PCorp. There is no cost for Clarion County.

“It tracks the guards as they go through and do their checks, and it tells them where they were and when they did it as they made their rounds and our insurance company funds this,” said Tharan about the system.

Brosius said the system keeps track electronically of all members of the prison’s staff.

In other business:

• Commissioners approved a request by the Clarion County Coalition for Suicide Prevention for the use of Veterans Memorial Park and Gazebo for the Suicide Awareness Walk on Sept. 14, 2017, from 3:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

• Approved county expenditures of:

  • General Fund dated from July 10 to July 21, 2017–Total: $894,270.52
  • 911 Checking dated from July 14 to July 21, 2017–Total: $192,568.32
  • Human Services, dated from July 12 to July 24, 2017–Total: $246,815.80
  • Transportation, dated from July 12 to July 24, 2017–Total: $161,759.06

 

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