North Strabane Township Makes Use Of State Grants

North Strabane Township Supervisors approved two items that will make use of two separate grants from Harrisburg. The first grant is from the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for $38,000. It will partially fund a study conducted by a consultant to develop a master plan for the North Strabane Park. One of the requirements of that grant is to appoint a committee to act as a point of contact between the consultant and the community. Supervisors approved a nine person committee that includes a township supervisor, the current parks and recreation director and two members of the parks and recreation board and five other members of the community at large. The total cost of the study is $76,000. The township received an additional $15,000 grant from the Washington County Tourism Promotion Agency making the township responsible for only $23,000 of the total bill. A second $1 million grant was received from the Pennsylvania Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. According to Township Manager Andrew Walz that grant will be used to offset costs associated with the recently completed fire station in Eighty Four and the ongoing construction of the Public Safety building now under construction at the former fire station on Rt. 19.Walz credited State Senator Camera Bartolotta and State Representative Tim O’Neal for their work on delivering that grant.