Township supervisors will set aside a date later this month for residents and officials to give input and make suggestions on improving the quality of life ordinance that went into effect last year. The date and time for the meeting will be advertised.

"We will be taking public comments, and the police will be there to discuss difficulties with enforcement," Chairman Bob Lengle said.There have been numerous complaints since the ordinance went into effect last year. Many of the complaints come from the more rural areas of the township, where the "city" aspects don't fit the lifestyle.One resident at a previous township meeting said he has a field of grass that he grows to 10 inches, then he cuts it for feed. That violates the grass height set by the ordinance. The same resident also collects scrap metal for recycling, and he was cited for that as well.Building renovationsLast year township manager Lisa Klem applied for a grant for the purpose of renovating the municipal building.The grant was received in the amount of $79,199. In addition, the 2014 budget included a set aside of $200,000 for that purpose.At Thursday's meeting the supervisors accepted a combination of three bids for the renovations from three contractors totaling $410,815. The general contractor will be C.E. Ankiewicz, the HVAC contractor will be Spotts Brothers Inc. and the electrical contractor will go to Richard E. Angelo."This will leave us about $120,000 to possibly $150,000 short," Lengle said.When asked where the additional money will come from, Lengle said, "The money is coming from surplus."Supervisor Thomas Lafond was the only supervisor to vote against accepting the bid and spending the surplus funds.Stormwater updateTownship engineer Dave Osavage of ARRO Engineering gave an update on the stormwater concept plan."We have met with a number of residents as well as the homeowner associations. At this point we are plotting out the problems and mapping out the hotspots. In yesterday's heavy rainstorm we took a look at a number of these spots and we saw some significant problems," Osavage said.Osavage also said a number of places where residents had constructed "rain gardens" were actually causing more dirty water to enter the lake, rather than stopping it.In other business, Lake Harmony Rescue Squad has appointed a new director of operations. Scott Wuttke took over in August.The township has received a number of complaints regarding the need for line painting on the roads that have recently been tarred and chipped. Roadmaster Lafond has looked into the problem and reported that both of Carbon County's line painting trucks are currently out of commission, but that Kidder Township is "first on the list" as soon as one of the trucks is fixed.Township bills in the amount of $256,613.37 were paid, $171,827 of which went into the mandatory police and nonpolice pension fund.Police Chief Matt Kuzma asked residents to be aware of a possible phone scam from someone posing as PPL and demanding immediate payment, by credit card, for past due accounts. According to Kuzma, the scam seems to be mainly aimed at businesses.