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Ridgway Township supervisor Sarah Dickinson peers at her agenda last night during a 50-minute meeting.

By Joseph Bell
Staff Writer

The Act 167 Stormwater Management Plan, an effort to provide "comprehensive stormwater management designed to preserve and restore the flood-carrying capacity of state streams" among other things has been under the gun as of late with Ridgway Township supervisors being the latest to jump onboard.
"If we don't adopt it, then they call the Treasury and withhold any money that we have coming into our general fund," supervisor Milly Bowers said last night during a 50-minute meeting. "The DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) can actually call the Treasury. It's absolutely terrible.
"We're all in agreement that there needs to be common sense and there's no common sense on it at all."
According to fellow supervisor Sarah Dickinson, the plan is ill-timed and hasty.
"I want to know how they can wait 32 years and then start jumping down our throats and with the proposals, it takes an engineer to read them," Dickinson said. "They want us to bow to this within six months, June 30."
Supervisors also discussed the importance of the upcoming census as the important document will soon be arriving at households.
"It's not hard to do and Ridgway Township out of all the municipalities in the county was really low last time and we'd like to have that up," Dickinson said. "They use it for counting purposes, there is nothing to hide.
"There's a rumor going around that Pennsylvania will lose a congressional member and that's not really necessarily true, not if everyone fills out the census. There's no reason to lose one this time around."
The supervisors also received a tax bill from county officials and according to Bowers, the tab has increased drastically over the past two years.
"That is highway robbery," said Bowers as she indicated that new software was to blame for multiple mistakes coming out of the township's tax office. "There were many, many mistakes on the tax bills and they were not our tax collector's fault."
Supervisors also changed the dates of their next two meetings: officials will meet Tuesday, April 13 at 4:15 p.m. and Thursday, May 20 at 4:15 p.m.