Leftover grant funding could go to upgrade street lights
By: DANNY ADLER
Bucks County Courier Times
MORRISVILLE
Now that work on the Morrisville Free Library is complete and the building opened its doors again last weekend, Morrisville is looking to redirect more than $12,800 in leftover grant money for new street lights.
Borough council voted 7-0 at its meeting Monday to ask the Bucks County Department of Community Development to use $12,856 remaining from a community development block grant to install between eight and 10 energy-efficient LED streetlights on some of the borough's secondary roads.
The money is left over from a block grant that funded the roughly $200,000 project to put air conditioning at the Morrisville Free Library. The library reopened Saturday after it was closed for nearly two months during renovations.
Councilwoman Rhonda Davis was absent from the meeting.
In other business, the council approved an agreement with the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission for a $56,300 curb and sidewalk project. The bridge commission announced recently that it was giving Morrisville the money as part of its Compact Authorized Investment program, which funds transportation-related initiatives in riverfront communities.
The money will fund work putting new curb and sidewalk along the west side of Delmorr Avenue from Corliss Alley to Bridge Street and along the east side of Delmorr from Corliss to Williamson Park, according to the bridge commission.
Also Monday, PECO presented Morrisville with a $7,500 check for upcoming work in Williamson Park.
The money, given through the utility company's open space grant program, will fund a 3,200-foot hard-surface trail in the Delmorr Avenue park, said Ted Dorand, PECO's external affairs manager in Bucks County.
Morrisville was one of four Bucks towns to receive $7,500 from PECO this year through its PECO Green Region program. The others were New Britain Borough, New Britain Township and Doylestown Township.
July 20, 2010 02:12 AM
