With the success of this year’s fireworks day at the Penn Forest Township park, supervisors agreed to provide the park and recreation committee $1,000 toward next year’s event.

At their regular meeting Aug. 5, supervisors discussed turning it into a daylong festival.

The committee was also given $500 for candy and supplies for the trunk-or-treat event on Oct. 29, and $500 for decorations for the Christmas tree lighting Nov. 25.

The Jim Thorpe cross-country team will use the park on Mondays and Thursdays from Aug. 14 to Sept. 28.

The concession stand at the park will have rain gutters installed for $1,400.

Lehighton Ambulance Association managers came to the meeting and gave a services presentation, then answered questions.

Other business

• The new garage doors at the Transfer Station will have automatic door openers installed, by the John Door Company, for $4,090 for five doors.

• The salt shed project is complete, and Dutchman Contracting will be paid its final invoice of $1,750.

• Work on the new ramp and retaining wall at the Transfer Station is underway and the contractor has submitted its first payment request for $85,129.

• Supervisors were unanimous in accepting the 98.39-acre Behrens tract into the township’s agricultural security area.

• The township plans to start a tree-trimming project along all township roads. After a lengthy discussion, supervisors chose to have township solicitor Tom Nanovic prepare bids on each of the roads, starting with the busiest. The project likely will take two years to complete.

• Supervisors agreed to schedule a workshop meeting for Natural Lands Trust to return with a presentation and more information on what they propose for the township, and what the money being asked for will actually do for the township.

• In reports, Roadmaster Roger Meckes has the crew trimming branches and brush. The drainpipe on Old Stage Road has been replaced, and the gravel fill is now settling ahead of paving.

• Zoning reports approvals from the Dom & Ali’s addition and parking lot work. There were 69 zoning permits issued in July, 18 of those for short term rentals. Of 23 construction permits, 5 were for new homes.