Franklin Township has named a lead contact person for a committee formed to oversee a new administration and police office building.

Township supervisors on a unanimous measure Tuesday appointed Larry Diehl as lead for the building committee, which will meet at 7 p.m. the first Thursday of each month.

Last month, the board decided to form the committee and named seven people to serve on it.

Franklin Township has agreed to form a building committee with an eye toward a new building.

They included Stan Graver, Kirk Cressley, Daniel Zeigler, Terry Shaner, Leon Kamowaki, Ty Poole and Diehl.

The group will seek out assistance in applying for grants.

After that vote, board Chairman Fred Kemmerer Jr. said the township was looking to move forward with the building project.

Kemmerer said the board believes the committee will add perspective and bring input from the community.

He added that the township’s initial thought is that the building will house the township’s secretarial staff, meeting room and police department.

In October, supervisors denied a motion to eliminate the township’s capital reserve building fund tax of 0.537 mills.

Township secretary Brenda Cressley noted that the tax brings in $56,374 in a year.

Cressley said the township has been getting at least $5,000 a month.

In total, she said the township has $1,302,153.

Supervisor Robin Cressley said that in the midst of building a building, it didn’t make sense to him.

The former Carpenter’s Hobby Shop building at 903 Fairyland Road was recently demolished to make room for a new administration and police building.

The township has $1.2 million set aside in its PLGIT Capital Reserve Building Fund for the project.

After an executive session, supervisors agreed to pay the overage charge of $7,000, in addition to $27,500 in contractual costs, for the extra work completed during the demolition of the Hobby Shop building.

The township wants to have enough room to accommodate eight police officers, administration, zoning officer, zoning hearing board and/or supervisors for when they have to go into executive session.

The current township building is 2,800 square feet.

The township would build a new 7,500-square-foot building in between the former Hobby Shop site and current administration office.

In April, supervisors on a 2-0 vote approved the construction of a new administration and police office building.