Franklin Township has been asked to do a review of its entire road service program.

Resident Jill Renfrew asked supervisors at Tuesday’s meeting how many hours the road crew is putting in and what the projects were that they were working on.

Board Chairman Nick Storm then read the road crew report that mentioned the work that was done.

“I would hope that you guys would be requesting more of a report in the future that would tell you which roads they were working on and how much time was spent on each project,” Renfrew said. “I still worry that we have a lot of roads that don’t seem to be being kept up as well as they should be.”

Renfrew said she was just curious how many total hours they had as well as how much overtime they put in.

Another resident said there were branches everywhere, and that the work is not getting done on the roads he mainly travels on.

Supervisor Leroy Kemmerer Jr. said he understood the resident’s concerns.

The resident said the trees should be trimmed back to the edge of the asphalt.

Supervisor Fred Kemmerer Jr. asked township fire Chief Lynn Diehl whether the fire department runs into any problems with the firetrucks on any of the township’s roads with the height.

Diehl said they have some issues here and there.

Fred Kemmerer Jr. said they understand how important it is to plan things out.

Leroy Kemmerer Jr. said the “gloves are coming off.”

“We need to do something here because all the potholes aren’t even fixed right,” Leroy Kemmerer Jr. said. “Our freaking roadmaster ain’t doing his job, point blank.

“I’m sitting here listening to this (week after week, month after month), and it wasn’t until I (expletive) about my farm equipment that he came out to do my road.

“He’s not doing his damn job; we catch him on things, people are noticing stuff.”

Leroy Kemmerer Jr. said he sympathizes with the resident.

“I’m getting tired of this; he can’t do his job, we get somebody in that can do it,” Leroy Kemmerer Jr. said. “I offered youse that I would even take it, I’d be a roadmaster.”

Leroy Kemmerer Jr. said he knows the township, as he was born and raised there.

“In the winter time, he don’t even salt the roads, when I go out with the school bus I’m spinning. He knows to go out a couple hours ahead of time.

“This winter we seen it with all the snow plows, the roads weren’t wide at all. By far, everybody’s been talking.

“You still see the white lines on the roads where he painted that he had to fix the potholes and the potholes are still there.

“I might be out of place here but I’m just tired of seeing this month after month and everyone’s complaining and nothing’s getting done.”

Fred Kemmerer Jr. noted that the township has had equipment issues where it put out a lot of money in.

He noted in the last year, the township got a brand-new roadside tracker “to (ensure) that whoever has that job does that job right.”

“So part of that is making sure that whoever is doing this job has the tools,” noting that the township put out a lot of money to make sure things were taken care of. “We’ve done everything that we could do to make sure that the tools are there.”

Renfrew said she’d like to request that the supervisors review how things are happening with the road crew “to make sure that we can bring the program into alignment with what we’re supposed to have as citizens.”

“I would say that your roadmaster was new to this now and it’s tough going into a new job, so perhaps it’s additional responsibility on your shoulders,” Renfrew said. “I’m requesting that the board do the review of the entire road service program so that citizens get what they need.

Storm said “there’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes.

“He is new, he did not get hired as like an assistant where he had someone to learn from for a certain period of time,” Storm said. “He had good experience as a worker, as the person doing the job and he’s in that transition period, and I think his planning is a lot of the issue, and we’ve been doing the best to try to push him in the right direction as far as how to productively tackle tasks.

“We have jobs, we can’t physically go there and force him to do something. The best we can, we’re trying to encourage make a plan, get out ahead of it and accomplish tasks on time.”

Fred Kemmerer Jr. said sometimes things come up and things go awry.

Storm cited the Fourth of July storm, for example.

“That was almost a week of cleanup between all the roads and stuff,” Storm said. “Whatever maybe would have got down that week got pushed into the following week, stuff like that does kind of throw a wrench into (things).”

In January, the board hired Troy Williams as roadmaster, at the rate of $31 per hour, effective Jan. 12.