The Rush Township Board of Supervisors approved an Economic Development Committee of township residents at the recent supervisors meeting. The main purpose of the committee is to have a group of people help in bringing business to Rush Township, like restaurants and stores.

According to Supervisor Robert Leibensperger, several people had approached township officials about starting such a committee.

“Right now, we’re passing this motion to get things started. We want to say to people, ‘This is what we’re looking at, these are the guidelines that you need to follow, this is how you have to represent yourself as a representative of the township.’ This is just the first step; it will take a few months until we get the program going. Some people had already sent emails to some companies to get them to come in. This way we can make it more official.”

In other business

With the increased popularity of food trucks and other food vendors, Rush Township adopted Ordinance 208 requiring permits for mobile food facilities, and adopted Resolution 2021-17 requiring an application for permit form and an application for permit fee for food truck facilities.

The purpose of these motions is to help keep track of the mobile food industry within the borders of Rush Township.

The supervisors made the following additional motions:

• Approved the purchase of 12 grinder pumps and 2 adapters from Site Specific in the amount of $23,239.

• Approved payment to Midland Asphalt in the amount of $66,690 for the 2021 Bituminous Seal & Coal Project.

• Approved the Eastern Schuylkill Recreation Committee Agreement.

• Made a motion to approve the Watermelon Realty Preliminary Subdivision Plan conditioned on addressing all requirements contained in the ARRO review correspondence dated Aug. 30.