The Lower Towamensing Township supervisors approved giving $25,000 to the Aquashicola Volunteer Fire Company to help cover the cost of repairs to the playground that is leased to them.

Supervisor Jay Mullikin, vice chairman, said the fire department wants to repair the paved area of the basketball court. The work would also include lights and possibly a new fence.

“From what Brent and I have discussed, the paving is worth about $25,000,” he said.

Mullikin was filling in as chairman for Brent Green, who was absent from the meeting.

“I believe the whole budget was $35,000,” Mullikin said. “I’m inclined to give them the money for the paving - the $25,000. They would take care of everything. Other than the money, we would not be involved.”

He said they would want to see the proper records of how the money was spent. Supervisor Connie Brown agreed and said she didn’t have any problem with making the donation.

In other business, the supervisors opted to table awarding the road bids.

“The bids came in well over budget,” Mullikin said.

He said he knows Greg Haas, the township engineer, looked into eliminating a road from the list, but it’s still way over budget.

“The cost of asphalt has gone up significantly, so I’m inclined to table this until we can have Greg give us another breakdown, and award it next month,” Mullikin said.

“Agreed,” Brown said.

“We are about $100,000 over budget,” Mullikin added.

The supervisors approved paying for a new sign for the owners of Lavender Farms. The owners said the township broke their sign with the snowplow.

Mullikin asked the township’s road foreman Brandon Gehringer if a snowplow driver for the township broke the sign with a plow. Gehringer said yes.

“If we broke it, we bought it,” Mullikin said.

The cost of the new sign is $325 plus tax, and the cost for delivery and installation is $95 plus tax.

The supervisors also approved the purchase of a new grease gun kit for $274 and an additional battery for $118. Gehringer said the electric grease gun charger they had is now broken. It’s been 12 years since the township purchased a grease gun.

Gehringer said he looked into purchasing just the charger, but found that it is only sold as a kit. He doesn’t think the township needs any additional batteries, because he has two extras.

“We gotta grease the equipment,” Mullikin said, so he made a motion to approve the purchase.