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Tuesday, May 07, 1996 Page: 2A
JENKINS TWP.
Board plans meeting with federal officials
Township officials are planning a public meeting with U.S. Rep. Paul
Kanjorski and other federal officials to discuss approved funding for flood
victims in the Port Blanchard sectionAt Monday night’s board of supervisors
meeting, President Robert A. Zigmund said there are 85 properties in Port
Blanchard that were heavily damaged by the flooded Susquehanna River in
January. He said he hopes enough federal funds are available to purchase the
properties.
Zigmund said the meeting would be held in a large hall at a date yet to be
determined.
He said he called Kanjorski, D-Nanticoke, and was told that the federal
government has approved $37 million for properties damaged in five counties
and 53 municipalities. County commissioners from those counties will allocate
the money.
In other business:
Zigmund assured a Union Street resident that a section of the street will
be paved.
The board told Frank Lavelle of Delmont Lane that the water runoff problem
on his street will be corrected.
Sherman Sartin, chairman of the local sanitary authority, told the Board of
Supervisors that someone vandalized the pumping station near Heather Highlands
within the last month and that it has been repaired.
Announced that the township office hours have changed. The office will be
open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through
Fridays.