Upper Tyrone studying options

Upper Tyrone Supervisors need another month to make a decision on how to comply with Act 537, which requires municipalities to install or have access to a sewage treatment facility.

Supervisor William Edwards said the board has looked at several alternatives including having residents tap into the nearby Westmoreland-Fayette Sewage treatment facility.

"We're trying to determine what direction we want to go with this," he said.

Supervisors are looking at building a facility. Supervisor Charles Cook said the board is looking at two options.

"We can buy a kit to build ourselves or we can buy a kit and have someone install it," he said.

Edwards said this is a big money issue.

"We will have to get a loan for the project, and it will be a long and arduous project," he said. "We want to make sure we know what we're looking at."

In other business, the township passed its tentative 2007 budget with no tax increase.

The revenues are estimated at $1,056,849, which reflects a carryover of $810,985. Expenses are estimated at $405,832.

The real estate property tax rate is set at .642 mills.

Cook said the budget will be available for the public inspection Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the municipal building.

= The completion date for a $40,000 waterline installation project along Broadford Road near South Everson toward Owensdale has been pushed back to April.

= A zoning hearing will be held at 2 p.m. Nov. 29 in the municipal building to address a special exception the township requested so a salt shed can be built on ground zoned agricultural.

= Edwards' motion to do away with township employees' personal days died due to lack of a second.