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Resident of Reservoir Road asks supervisors to do something about hazard.
DALLAS TWP. – Resident Joseph Sharkness asked the township supervisors on Tuesday night for help in getting motorists to slow down on Reservoir Road.
Sharkness, who lives on Reservoir Road, wanted to know if the township could trim a tree that he says is partially obstructing a 35 mph speed limit sign located on the road, right off of Overbrook Road. Sharkness also asked for two white lines, used by the police to measure a vehicle’s speed, to be painted on the road to deter speeding.
Roadmaster Ronald Buchman told Sharkness he would see what he can do about having the tree trimmed.
In other business, the supervisors passed a resolution to prohibit tobacco use in public parks and playgrounds in the township. The township was invited to take this measure by the Steps to a Healthier PA Luzerne County and the Luzerne County Tobacco-Free Coalition to help eliminate children’s exposure to secondhand smoke.
By participating, the township will receive 12-inch-by-18-inch metal signs to place along the border of the tobacco-free areas.
The supervisors also passed a resolution to appoint Mark Van Etten, accounting manager at Misericordia University, as the earned income tax representative and Karen Rose, tax collector for Kingston Township, as the alternate EIT representative to the township.
Pennsylvania Act 32 amended the Local Tax Enabling Act to require the collection of earned income tax on a countywide basis.
The appointments were requested in July by the Back Mountain Community Partnership, an intermunicipal group of which the township is a member.
Partnership members will vote on a resolution this month to decide whether to appoint the two as the EIT representatives for the municipalities of the partnership. If approved, each municipality that chooses to participate will be required to pass a resolution at its own municipal meeting to appoint Van Etten and Rose, as the township did.