Board provided with community center update
Weisenberg Community Center Advisory Committee updates were discussed at the township’s Jan. 12 board of supervisors meeting.
Township Manager Brian Carl said that an advisory meeting before the board meeting had gone well.
“We went through some options for the event website,” he said. “When this thing gets kicked off, people will be able to reserve fields, get memberships and things like that.”
Carl said committee members had looked at hex signs design, so they can get those ordered for the community center. He asked the board for its approval for up to $3,400 to pay for the hex signs so he can get them ordered.
“We will do four of them four-foot in diameter. Three facing north along Route 863 on the long side and then one on the gable facing the fields and pond in the park. We’re mixing it up a little bit,” Carl said.
“We tried to stick with the black and gold for the school district colors and red, white and blue for the colors of our country. They are native Lehigh and Berks stars.”
He said the main ones are Lehigh stars. Two of them are Berks stars because the township is on the border.
The board unanimously approved a motion to purchase the hex signs for the community center.
He said going down the agenda the building itself is chugging along pretty well.
“We did get delayed a little bit because of the cold temperatures we had. That was holding up our concrete pours. The floors were poured between the holidays and we’re back at it now,” Carl said. “The doors have been put on; the roofs have been put on; the garage door has been put on. Windows have been installed, and the tempered trusts for the front porch arrived. We will finish the siding on the outside, get the front porch built and then go inside and start framing the interior walls.”
He said the committee is not ready to purchase the turf this month and is still looking at options.
Carl said in regard to the website, he has been talking to the township’s web designer NA Studios.
“Long term, it seems like we’re going to outgrow having a combination website with the township stuff and community center stuff. So what he would like to do is build a new website just for the Community Center,” Carl said. “We’ll have it linked to our regular township website and then that kind of morphs into where we’re looking at going with a third-party vendor that would handle scheduling and memberships payments, reservations of the courts and all of that stuff.”
He said the committee looked at a couple samples including one from Bethlehem Township which does something similar.
“They have a regular website and then if you want to reserve a pickleball court or do a membership, it directs you to a third-party vendor where you would buy a membership or reserve something, like the birthday party room,” Carl said. “The cost is going to be probably in that $2,000 to $3,000 range to get the website up and running. We’ll get the photos on there and at least have a platform to do that because right now the community center has one page on our township website.”
After further discussion, the board unanimously approved a motion to set up the website for somewhere between $2,000 and $3,000.
In other business, the board approved the Forgotten Felines and Fidos 2026 contract.
“The price is the same price as last year,” Carl said. “Seemed to work out pretty good last year. It’s just for the low cost spay and neuter.”








