Walker Twp. road program on hold due to incomplete audit

Walker Township’s road program is on hold due to an unfinished audit.

Township secretary Ann Ostergaard informed the board of supervisors on Thursday that the program is in “limbo.”

Ostergaard said the 2015 audit has been completed, and the 2016 audit is in the works.

However, she said the holdup is that the 2017 audit remains unfinished.

In November, supervisors agreed to apply for and prepare the application for a $500,000 loan through the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Bank for this year’s road program.

The loan would be for seven years, with a 2.125 percent interest rate, with the total cost of the project estimated at about $589,000, though final numbers won’t be learned until after the job is bid out, Ostergaard had said.

Ostergaard said supervisors are planning to bid the jobs with several alternate plans. Once they get the bids, that’s when they will make their final decision of the cost and area which will be done.

The project would pave Valley Road, from Wildcat Road to the township line; Catawissa Road, from the township line to the steel grate bridge over Cold Run; and Wildcat Road, from Valley Road to Reynolds Road, and from Reynolds Road to the railroad tracks.