Franklin Township plans to revamp its garbage and sewer billing system to ensure a better process.

Board Chairman Nick Storm said last week that gWorks is the township’s garbage and sewage department collection group.

“We’re revamping the system,” Storm said. “We’re trying to streamline it to make it a little bit easier for the people in the office and the residents.”

Storm added they’re going to try to incorporate garbage and sewage into one bill instead of a yearly bill for garbage and then the quarterly billing for sewage.

“We’re going to try to incorporate both together into quarterly payments,” he said. “So garbage and sewage will be on the same bill quarterly, four payments and garbage and sewage is covered.”

Storm added that nothing will change with the senior citizen rates or prices.

“We’re also going to include online payments, ACH payments, just to try to limit the amount of cash and checks and foot traffic and everything else going through here,” he said. “It will streamline that process a little bit or maybe a lot, save us a lot of time or the girls in the office a lot of time from having to count it, make sure it’s the right amount, drive to the bank, deposits, so on and so forth.”

Storm said the township is almost to that point.

“We’re close,” he said. “We’re in the last quarter of getting everything done and the people who need a garbage and sewage bill together and the people who just need the garbage bill.”

Supervisor Fred Kemmerer Jr. explained that the main holdup with the bills being out.

“It’s something that we wanted to do for a while, and when Nick came in, it was finally that time to approach them to do so, and trying to get the two worlds to mesh the garbage, mesh them with the sewage, is where the initial issue is,” Kemmerer Jr. said. “It literally took a computer engineer to get the files meshed, and that’s what took the bulk of the time, but now that it’s just about there, our lives are going to be a lot easier moving forward and it’s going to be a better product for the people that we serve.”

Kemmerer Jr. then thanked Storm for “wanting to do such a drastic move to make everybody’s life easier (right out the gate).”

The township posted on its Facebook page Thursday morning that garbage and sewer bills have not been sent out yet.

The township said it’s currently waiting for the green light to mail them, and hopes to have an update soon.

It was noted that no late fees will be applied to the first billing cycle once statements are issued.