The resurfacing of the floor in the township’s fire station was the main topic of discussion at Weisenberg Township Board of Supervisors’ meeting July 13.

Fire Chief Justin Oswald began the discussion after giving his monthly report to the board.

Replacing the station floor is something the fire department has talked about for a couple of years, he said.

“We’re looking to get your opinion on the possibility of resurfacing the floor with an epoxy style coating that will prevent the existing concrete from incurring further damage and also improve the drainage of concrete floors in the station,” he said. “My biggest support of this particular project would be protecting what we have currently.”

Oswald said while it’s not going to fully fix the issue, resurfacing will help prevent slip and fall hazards caused by wet concrete.

He said the quote the fire company received was to do the entire concrete floor which includes the engine bay, the SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus) room and the gear room.

All the concrete floors in that part of the station would be prepped, coated and get an anti-skid coating, Oswald said.

“We basically have some folks at the department that said let’s do it now because the Quint [a firetruck headed for refurbishing] is going to be leaving soon and we’ll have that bay open,” he said. And we have some folks that say let’s do it but let’s wait until 2027 so we can plan for it. We also have some folks that say let’s not do it at all.”

The department as a whole did say let’s get supervisors’ opinion so they know how they may wish to more forward, Oswald said. As the chief of the department he said he does support the project.

“I do feel it is needed. I personally don’t think there’s a rush to do it this second, but I think it would be advantageous for us to do it maybe in like January of 2027 while the Quint is likely still out of the building for refurbishment,” Oswald said. “We will have that extra space we can move the apparatus around and our engine bay has heat. I think [January] is the right time to do it.”

In discussing the financial cost, he said the low bid they received was for $49,500 from KS Coatings and Linings LLC and the highest was for $58,000.

“We have some folks that have had a personal experience with KS Coatings and Linings LLC,” he said. “We did receive a five-year warranty on the workmanship.”

When questioned about the timing of resurfacing the floors now, Oswald said the biggest driver of this right now is twofold.

“One is budget planning and with the Quint leaving and having that empty bay,” he said. “We are going to have this open bay and the Cascade [system] is being replaced, so we will have that room open, so we will have a little bit more room to maneuver the apparatus around to apply the actual product itself.”

Consensus of the supervisors was that if the majority of the members of the fire company want the resurfacing, they should have it.

Oswald said the fire department was having a meeting the next night, so he would take this information back to the department and let them know what the supervisors said and let them do their thing.

“We will follow up with you on this,” Oswald said.

Under new business, Herbert, Rowland and Grubic Inc., (HRG engineering) was approved as the alternate engineer for the township.

Brian Carl, township manager, said currently the township has Keystone Consulting Engineers as their alternative engineer.

“We can keep them on as well,” he said.

Barry Isett has had some personnel changes recently, Carl said.

“Our old team is at HRG Engineering, and we have talked about bringing them on as an alternate. So if we want to do that, we can appoint them, and when the next project comes up, we will see some familiar faces and be a little bit more comfortable with them, he said.

A motion was unanimously approved to appoint Herbert, Rowland and Grubic Inc., (HRG Engineering) as an alternate engineer for the township.

Also, under new business was the Blacksmith Road culvert bid award.

“Barry Isett bid out the culvert itself,” Carl said. “This is not for an install or replacement of the culvert. It’s for the precast structure. The bid they received was from Keystone Concrete for $117,100.”

He said that is their base bid and Barry Isett was fine with everything in that proposal and recommend that the township go with Keystone.

A motion was unanimously approved to award the bid to Keystone Concrete.

Under township manager’s comments, the only thing Carl said he had concerned Telco, the company that did the traffic signal maintenance. Telco notified the township and all the other township’s in the area that they are no longer going to do traffic signal maintenance.

“We did get prices from Signal Services and CM High Inc., Carl said. “Currently, CM High Inc., is the company that installed all of our signals.”

After further discussion, board officials approved a motion to go with CM High Inc., as the new traffic signal maintenance provider.