The Jackson Township Supervisors held a special meeting at 8:00 a.m. at the Jackson Township Municipal Building. Members present were Supervisors Dave Bracken, Bruce Baker, Bob Stephens along with Secretary-Treasurer / Manager Dave Hirko and Solicitor Bill Barbin. The meeting was called to order by Dave Bracken, Chairman with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.

Board Roll Call was taken with all three Supervisors present.

Public Comments Concerning Agenda Items:
Steve Yurasek asked, what weight class is this roller for. Supervisor Baker answered, 6180 operating. Yurasek said, the State. . . . when they have a 10 ton class roller or an 8 ton class roller. . .that’s for different blacktops, different thicknesses and stuff like that. Baker said, actually all that stuff’s gone Steve and now with these vibrating rollers. . . this is a double drum drive, double drum vibrating and the minimum we can get away with is 5000 operating. . . this is going to be 6180. Yurasek asked, will this allow us to blacktop ourselves? Baker answered, yes. . .the minimum we can go is 5000 on a double drum vibrator. Yurasek said, in other words, on down the road if we pick a spreader up, you’d be able to do this work yourself? Baker answered, that’s where we’re headed. We do have our own paver now. . .it’s just so stinkin old that you can’t do any leveling of the base coat. Yurasek said, I’m aware of that and I’m also aware that the old roller we had. . . .I had an old roller and I know all about that breaking down and one time I had to go to Cambria Tractor and rent one to finish the job. Baker said, and the little one that we had. . it ran away from us last year and lucky nobody was hurt. . .there’s no brakes and it can’t be repaired. . . .but this will do our paving so it’s big enough to do the paving for wearing courses and it’s small enough that we can do shoulder work. That’s what we were looking for. Chairman Bracken said, see. . on that Superpave Steve. ..we have to have a 92% compaction rate. Yurasek said, that form 4088 that PennDOT puts out. . .basically they tell you what size of equipment you got to have for everything. Baker said, the other concern we have is if all of our work becomes prevailing wage, then we got to do it ourselves. . . we’re losing too much money. Bracken said, we’ll probably be back to that again. Will Michaels said, I’d like to say something there on that. Did you ever think about going down to the Federal Surplus in Harrisburg to look at. . .let’s say a paver? You know where it’s at? Baker replied, yes. . we have the online site to it too. . .we can do it online. Most of the time if something comes through there that’s worth getting, it’s gone before it ever gets there. Michaels said, I’ve been there a number of times and I couldn’t find anything right there at the Commonwealth Garage and they had some pretty nice stuff sitting there. I was down there last week and there was some pretty nice stuff. . . . on the back lot there. . that’s where they have the surplus vehicles. Baker said, there’s a website that will show you everything on there too that we’re signed up on. . ..just like we were looking for a Atlee belt loader. . anything any good. . . when you’re buying it as is, used. We have two guys that email us back and forth with equipment we might be interested in. We looked all last year for a roller so finally this year we couldn’t find anything that we felt was worth buying used. Michaels said, I know you have to watch those vibrators around pipes. Baker said, this one’s not big enough. . . when New Enterprise and Grannas come into town they’ll bust our water lines. . . we won’t let them vibrate some of these streets. . . and when they did 271 they broke all kinds of water lines. Michaels said, at the dump they had that one down at my place there and the vibration. . it impacts it.

New Business:
Motion Stephens, second Baker to purchase WolfPac 6100 Roller from Cambria Equipment on the State "Piggyback Program" Contract for the purchase price of $29,687.00. Vote-3 yes.

Public Comments:
Clair Michaels asked, what are they hauling in back there on top of Chickaree? They’re hauling from the east back in there. I noticed three trucks. Solicitor Barbin said, I watched the trucks turn and wondered the same thing. They’re supposed to becoming from the west. Michaels said, they’re supposed to be hauling fly ash in there from the west. Barbin said, yes but there’s something else coming in there from the other direction. I saw one coming out of there. . .it was all trucks. . construction. Michaels said, there was three of them going in when we were going back. Barbin added, I didn’t know if it was four or not. Michaels said, you can always tell when they’re full. . .the canvas is to the back. Barbin said, I didn’t notice that. Michaels said. . well I did. . .you’re driving and I wasn’t. Supervisor Baker said, but all the crushed stone is D.O.T. approved. Barbin asked, so you think they’re selling stone? Baker replied, I know they’re selling stone. Michaels said, It was coming from the east going in. You see the canvasses of the trucks were covered and they come up over the hill and turned into it from the east. Every now and then I keep seeing them doing that. I don’t go out that much but that’s about three or four different times I’ve seen them. Baker asked, it wasn’t New Enterprise? Michaels replied, no. I didn’t see New Enterprises name on it. Barbin said, no. . it had some blue color on it. . .I seen them pull out and I was wondering too. Chairman Bracken said, maybe find that out through the grapevine. Michaels said, I didn’t see any names on them either. Barbin added, I’m sure the names on them somewhere. . the way they turned, I couldn’t tell. They weren’t garbage trucks.

Adjournment:
Motion Baker, second Stephens to adjourn the meeting at 8:10 a.m. Vote-3 yes.