Franklin Township and Parryville Borough officials continue in their quest to hash out an intermunicipal agreement for the transmission of sanitary sewage.

The Franklin Township board of supervisors, along with Parryville Borough Council, held a joint meeting Wednesday at the Franklin Township Municipal Administration Office to discuss the matter.

A medical facility, along with an educational agency that serves school districts within Carbon County, is headed to Parryville.

Parryville Site LLC, Northampton, recently purchased the property at 770 State Road, the existing Keystone Harley-Davidson building, from Pequa Properties LLC for $2.2 million.

The property transfer was confirmed by Joe Bennett, managing partner of Bennett Family Properties LLC, who said that a Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit and a medical center, will go on the property, though he didn’t give specifics on the medical use.

Bennett was given permission to obtain 15 additional EDUs from Parryville and Franklin Township (in coordination with Weissport, Weissport Authority and Carbon County Municipal Authority).

An EDU is a unit of measurement for water service or sewer service.

Franklin Township secretary Brenda Cressley said the purpose of Wednesday’s meeting was for both municipalities to develop an intermunicipal agreement.

“Parryville had concerns about different things in the agreement, how much Franklin was giving them, the responsibility of billing and receiving the payment,” Cressley said. “The building is in Parryville; (and) years ago, Blockers connected, they went to go get exemptions from their planning modules, (but) DEP said the agreement was done incorrectly and that everyone should be signing that agreement.”

Cressley said that means Franklin, Parryville, Weissport and the municipal authority all need to be in agreement.

“That was why we had to do this over,” she said. “We normally bill the business or residents, but because it’s not in our township, the agreement said that Parryville would do the billing and they would pay us.”

Cressley added, “There was just items in the draft agreement that needed to be clarified, and things that maybe they want to add, so the attorneys will be working on the agreement together so everyone’s on the same page.

“We each have to go back now and see if this is what we want. We’ll be the ones presenting the agreement.”

Bennett said the CLIU will be located on a little over 18,000 square feet, with the medical center on the other 10,000 square feet.

There will be a period of time before Keystone Harley-Davidson relocates to a new facility being built in the Lehigh Valley behind Gilboy Ford on MacArthur Road, he said, adding that until such time as the owner completes the new building, they will remain at their current location in Parryville.

The dialysis center would operate as a separate entity from Keystone Harley-Davidson.

Bennett said remodeling will take place in the fall, as the school must be done by Jan. 1, 2021. He said the medical facility will take a little longer because it’s more intricate.

Just last year, a Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit building opened along Interchange Road in Franklin Township.