Plans are moving forward on three projects in Salisbury Township with the approval of applications for grants.

The projects are for a flood-warning system at Lehigh Street and 33rd Street, pedestrian safety improvements at East Emmaus Avenue and South Dauphin Street and improvements to Laubach Park.

The Salisbury Township Board of Commissioners, in separate unanimous 5-0 votes at the Nov. 13 meeting, approved applications for grants for each project:

- Salisbury is seeking a Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development Local Share Account Statewide grant of $1 million, the maximum allowed request, from the Commonwealth Financing Authority for Laubach Park Improvements.

- Also sought is a DCED Local Share Account Statewide grant of $147,887 from the Commonwealth Financing Authority to fund the Salisbury Police Department’s initiative to purchase and install a flood detection pole and eight flood-warning signs at the intersection of Lehigh Street and 33rd Street to better protect motorists near the South Mall, an area often subject to sudden flooding.

- The third DCED Local Share Account Statewide grant sought is for $157,956 from the Commonwealth Financing Authority for school pedestrian safety improvements at East Emmaus Avenue and South Dauphin Street in the vicinity of Salisbury High School.

“Hopefully, we can get it all paid for without using township funds,” Stan G. Wojciechowski, department head, Municipal Engineering Services, Barry Isett & Associates, Inc., township consulting engineering firm, said. “We expect to hear back between April and June of next year,” he said.

“These grants total $1.7 million. It’s definitely a way to help contain the budget,” Commissioner Alex Karol said.

In other business at the Nov. 13 meeting, commissioners voted 5-0 to approve:

- Appointment of Barry Isett & Associates, Inc., 85 S. Route 100, Allentown, and its representative Scott Hoch, as the primary building code official for the remainder of 2025 with the term to expire Jan. 1, 2026, and Michele Lopez-Gudino, Salisbury Township assistant zoning officer, as alternate building code official.

- Lower Macungie Zoning Ordinance Changes. “This is another zoning review. Lower Macungie is required to let us know about revisions. None have an impact on the township,” Salisbury Township Manager Cathy Gorman said.

- Six-month probationary period of Gorman.

- Payment No. 1 of $64,180.22 to Bracalente Construction Inc. for Edgemont Drive and Fairfield Drive paving project.

- Payment No 1 of $42,932.36 to Bracalente Construction Inc. for paving parking lot at Eastern Salisbury Fire Department.

In his report to commissioners, Salisbury Township Police Chief Donald Sabo said, “We have some traffic enforcement coming up and some joint ventures with Allentown.”

In his report, Salisbury Township Director, Public Works, Jim Levernier said, “Leaf collection continues. We’re updating the website as to where they are, and the public can always call us.

“We’re starting to attach the plows for winter and put the salt spreaders on,” Levernier said.

A board of commissioners meeting was scheduled for Nov. 25 in the meeting room of the municipal building, 2900 S. Pike Ave.