East Penn Township wants to make its community center more accessible to people with disabilities.

But they are less enthused about the price tag for ADA-compliant doors — more than $13,000.

At the regular meeting Monday night, the township supervisors discussed the quote and decided to continue to seek more quotes.

The building, formerly known as East Penn Social Hall, is available for rent for parties and events. The supervisors have been doing small projects while they await a feasibility study into a full renovation.

One of those projects which has been discussed for more than a year is handicap-accessible doors. So far they contacted several contractors, some of whom visited the building but did not submit quotes.

Supervisor William G. Schwab said the only quote the township received was $13,000 to make the main door of the building accessible, meaning the door would be made automatic and the hardware to open it would be replaced. The quote included alternate bids to upgrade the other doors to the building at a total cost of $18,000.

Some of those in attendance thought that quote included new doors.

“Then we’d have new doors,” Supervisor John Strockoz said.

“No,” Schwab said.

“No?”

“This is not new doors. They’re keeping the doors we have, they’re just making them handicap accessible.”

One resident joked he thought they were golden doors before realizing they would not be getting any doors as part of the quote.

In other business

The supervisors discussed adding a bike lane to Riverview Drive, which is part of the Delaware & Lehigh Trail. Schwab said there are grants available from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to fund much of the project.

“We can’t get grants for roads, but we can get all types of money for recreation,” Schwab said.

The supervisors discussed an emergency culvert repair which took place on Gilberts Hill Road on Monday. Schwab said the township plans to rebuild the culvert, however they may have to complete a lengthy permit process because the pipe drains over 700 acres of property nearby. Schwab said they hope to learn more this week.

The supervisors received two applications for land development plans. One submitted by Dollar General is for a 9,100-square-foot retail building on the north side of West Lizard Creek Road (Route 895).

The other was submitted by Justin Cunfer to build a “roofed waste storage structure and heavy use area/agricultural building/roofed barnyard project located on Cunfer Road.

Both projects will be reviewed by the township planning commission at the March 20 meeting.