By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer
MONTGOMERY – Township Committee approved a $4.69 million bond ordinance last week that would allocate money for the 2015 road program, as well as the replacement of assorted Department of Public Works trucks and equipment.
The bond ordinance, which was approved at Township Committee’s June 18 meeting, includes money to purchase several dump trucks with snowplow attachments and a snow blower, plus a mower and pickup trucks with snowplow attachments for the Department of Public Works.
The Police Department is in line to receive new mobile data terminals in the patrol cars, plus in-car video cameras in the patrol cars, body armor and a new sport utility vehicle.
And there is funding in the bond ordinance to undertake an assortment of road projects, including the reconstruction of an approximately 2,000-foot stretch of Cherry Valley Road, east of Cherry Hill Road to the area of Jefferson’s Curve. Reading Boulevard, off Route 601/Belle Mead-Blawenburg Road, also is slated for reconstruction.
Several streets are slated for an overlay, which means removing the top layer of asphalt and putting down a new layer of asphalt. Among the streets that will receive an overlay are Bridgepoint Road, between Dead Tree Run Road and Updikes Mill Road.
Also, Duncan Lane, off Rolling Hill Road, and Dogwood Lane, off Pin Oak Road, are on the list for an overlay of new asphalt. A section of Hollow Road, between Route 518 and Camp Meeting Avenue, will be given an overlay.
Burnt Hill Road, between Schoolhouse Corner Road and Main Boulevard; Platz Drive, off Route 206, and Hillcrest Court, off Spring Hill Road, are included on the list of streets slated for an overlay of new asphalt.
The bond ordinance also earmarks money for various improvements to township-owned buildings, including park lot repairs and window replacements at the Municipal Building, and a renovation study of the Otto Kaufmann Community Center.
