Weatherly Borough Council hopes to make repairs to three streets this year, and is looking ahead to paving projects for the following year as well.

Borough Manager Harold Pudliner on Monday told council that the borough has $77,000 in state Liquid Fuels funds for this year, and will work on Dunnigan Street, Doney Run and Fern Alley.

He estimated the cost at around $76,000.

Next year, the borough is looking at North Street, as well as Second Street, which would cost around $88,000 or $89,000, he said.

“We’d like to have some money left over for salt application, but it doesn’t look like once we start some of the longer streets, and even these three streets, that we will have much left over in Liquid Fuels (funds) for salt,” Pudliner said. “That will come out of the budget.”

Council approved putting the work on Dunnigan Street, Doney Run and Fern Alley out to bid for this year.

Grant

Council also applied for a $250,000 state grant to demolish the Schwab School Annex Building.

Council authorized Pudliner to apply for the Keystone Communities Grant from the state Department of Community and Economic Development to raze structure adjacent to the old school.

The borough hopes to work with the Alliance for Building Communities in Allentown on a potential project to put 30 apartments in the school building. The $12 million housing project is dependent on the group securing funding, Pudliner has said.

Trail

Council approved the Norfolk Southern subdivision for the borough’s hiking and biking trail project.

The borough’s trail will connect to the 164-mile Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor at Penn Haven inside the Lehigh Gorge State Park.

This section of trail stretches from the trailhead to the end of Yeakle Street, where there will be a bridge crossing the creek, Pudliner said. The section is 20 feet by 900 feet, he said.

The Carbon County Planning Commission approved the subdivision last week and the borough’s planning commission also approved it, he said.

This section of trail is in the first phase of the project, Pudliner said. The borough awarded contracts for tree clearing and base trail construction last week, and applied for grants for the second phase, which is expected to cost $2.5 million.