North Strabane To Consider Use Of Rescue Plan Funds

North Strabane Supervisors set out their agenda for next week’s voting meeting on Tuesday night. One of the main actions that will be considered is how to spend funding from the American Rescue Plan. Those funds are appropriated from the federal government to help ease the financial strain put on municipalities by the Covid-19 pandemic. North Strabane is in line to receive more than $1.5 million in funding that will be distributed over two years. Two of the items under consideration are an appropriation of $200,000 to the North Strabane Township Municipal Authority and the balance to be spent on construction projects, particularly the new public safety building. During the public comment period, supervisors were met with push back on an agenda item that would have a recreation designation taken away from a plot of ground on Demar Blvd. That piece of ground known locally as the Borland Manor Parkette was supported by nine nearby residents. They called it a jewel in the neighborhood. Supervisors and the township solicitor were presented with a deed from 1947 conveying the land to the township with covenants and restrictions for use of the land as a park. Township Solicitor Gary Sweat will review the document before any action will be taken by the township.