The Lower Towamensing Township supervisors remain unchanged in their decision to keep Golf Road closed.

At their meeting on April 2, Robin Cressley, the township’s road foreman, said it looked like people have been going around the barricade and using Golf Road.

Steve Meining, a resident of the township, asked if the supervisors could put up a concrete barrier. Supervisor Jay Mullikin said they can put up a movable barricade, but they are not allowed to put in concrete barricades, because they need to be able to get back in there.

Cressley said that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation told him that if Golf Road is going to stay closed, then it will have to be removed from the Liquid Fuels map. Liquid Fuels tax money is used by municipalities for road maintenance.

“I don’t know what the exact dollar amount is that we get,” he said.

Former supervisor Brent Green said the township gets about $3,000 per mile.

“You’re probably going to lose $1,500,” Green said. “You’re not losing $20,000.”

Township solicitor James Nanovic said, “Don’t open it for the money.”

The supervisors decided that since the township does not get enough in Liquid Fuels money to cover the cost of repair of Golf Road and continued repair of it due to commercial truck traffic, it isn’t cost effective to reopen the road.

The supervisors also approved the following items:

• Having Keystone Technology do the firewall replacement for the computer system. Equipment to cost $650. With installation, the total is $1,000;

• Having Hometown Press do a newsletter once a year. The township covers postage at about $500. Advertising would pay for the cost of printing. The newsletter this year would probably come out in October;

• Cleaning streets sometime around April 11;

• Paying Stahler Brothers Services LLC to wash the municipal building and the recreation building at Stoney Ridge Park for $1,500 and $1,550 respectively;

• Putting out a request for bids for materials to do repairs to the roads. The materials consist of 200 tons of 2B stone; 1,800 tons of 2A stone, 200 tons of #3 stone. Bid award in May, and work to be done in June, and;

• Appointing Steven Kuhns to the planning commission.