{"id":25478,"date":"2015-05-05T13:28:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T17:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=25478"},"modified":"2015-05-06T10:50:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:50:42","slug":"em-supervisors-wont-foot-bill-for-fire-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=25478","title":{"rendered":"EM supervisors won’t foot bill for fire dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traditions residents complain about high school stadium noise, light<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By Karen Cresta<\/strong><\/span>, Correspondent, The Times<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"PoMarLin\"<\/a>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2013 All the agenda items needing a vote were approved on Monday night at the township’s Board of Supervisors\u2019 meeting \u2014 except for an additional $240 contribution request to help pay for the catering at a scheduled party to thank first responders.<\/p>\n

In addition, the board heard from residents regarding complaints about noise emanating from Unionville High School\u2019s public address (PA) system at the stadium during early morning and late night hours.<\/p>\n

Shelley Mincer, a resident of Traditions and a liaison for the township and fire companies, stood in front of the board for permission to advertise the event on the township website and requested a contribution to pay for 20 responders\u2019 meals in the amount of $12 a head ($240 total) as additional monies above and beyond the tax funds.<\/p>\n

The event serves to thank all first responders of Po-Mar-Lin, Modena and West Bradford Fire Companies and raise awareness to the community to hopefully increase volunteer staff.\u00a0 The event will be held on October 10, from 4-9 p.m., at the ChesLen Preserve in Coatesville.\u00a0 All responders\u2019 meals are free of charge and their families get a reduced rate. \u00a0The township agreed to promote the event on its Facebook page (not the website since that is for official township business only) but did not agree to a motion to vote on the approval of the additional monies.<\/p>\n

Bob Weer responded to the request by informing Mincer that in 2014, per the Po-Mar-Lin Fire Company\u2019s audit, $365,000 was allocated to the fire companies that serve the township and 97% came by the four municipalities (East Marlborough, West Marlborough, Newlin and Pocopson).\u00a0 East Marlborough accounted for 84% of those funds and the other three municipalities accounted for 16%.\u00a0 (The 2015 fire tax was increased from .65 mils to .75 mils.)<\/p>\n

\u201cMy point to you is – and I think I can speak for East Marlborough Township – I feel we have done our fair share.\u00a0 I realize we are only talking about $240 but that an additional expense you\u2019re asking East Marlborough Township residents to take\u201c,\u00a0 Weer said.<\/p>\n

Mincer pressed on and explained that this event would give the board the chance to thank its first responders apart from the tax burden.\u00a0 Weer expressed his gratitude to the first responders and stated that he thanks them every day.<\/p>\n

Board Chairman Cuyler Walker thanked Weer and Mincer but the motion for a vote to contribute the $240 was not given by any of the five board members.\u00a0 Mincer asked if she could make the motion herself as she got a good laugh from all and took her seat and said to her colleague, \u201cAlright, oh well\u2026 it\u2019s small potatoes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marie Ford, a resident of Traditions for ten years, presented to the board her concerns over the increased noise emanating from the UHS stadium that became much more prominent after the remodel to the high school was completed approximately two years ago. The side of her home faces the high school and she was aware they would hear events at the stadium when the lot was chosen.\u00a0 Her specific concern was the lighting direction and placement and volume of the speakers for the PA system and if there were ordinances in place for the high school.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s becomes a property value and a quality of life issue. We need restrictions in place to be able to coexist and be good neighbors to each other,\u201d Ford added.<\/p>\n

Board member John Sarro spoke to Unionville High School Athletic Director, Joe Derickson, whom he said is more than willing to help resolve the issues and wanted to relay to Ford to call Derickson directly.\u00a0 There is also a call into the sound system people to look at the configuration of the speakers.<\/p>\n

Walker stated, \u201cLighting is a much more tangible item to address for zoning but I can tell you we go around and around with noise ordinances.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We have to have language that applies to every speaker everywhere for every use.\u00a0 It may well be that these speakers are bouncing off the building so even compliance with the ordinance is not going to necessarily resolve this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

The board at Traditions has a meeting scheduled with Superintendent of Unionville-Chadds Ford School District John Sanville on June 10.\u00a0 Walker urged Ford to come back to the township if the issue wasn\u2019t resolved.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would be disappointed if the school district didn\u2019t address the situation.\u00a0 I would be surprised if they didn\u2019t understand and take action,\u201d Walker informed Ford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Traditions residents complain about high school stadium noise, light By Karen Cresta, Correspondent, The Times EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2013 All the agenda items needing a vote were approved on Monday night at the township’s Board of Supervisors\u2019 meeting \u2014 except for an additional $240 contribution request to help pay for the catering at a scheduled party […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[38,7070,742,7427],"class_list":["post-25478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-east-marlborough","tag-pomarlin","tag-traditions","tag-unionville-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25492,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25478\/revisions\/25492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}