CHIPLEY - Members of the Chipley City Council quickly wrapped up their regular meeting Tuesday night after hearing from residents of Chestnut Street who protest the location of the proposed driveway for a new convenience story (see separate story, Page A1 of the July 12 edition of the Washington County News).

Council members also heard from Chipley Redevelopment Agency (CRA) President Ted Everett, who asked the council to give a formal vote regarding two improvement grants the CRA has available.

Everett pointed out the city had previously agreed to support the grants but had not actually voted on them.

The grants in question are a Special Improvement Grant intended to help cover facade improvements such as painting and awning and door replacements for residents within the CRA district, and a $6,000 commercial grant, geared to making electrical improvements for businesses within the CRA district.

Everett pointed out the city and CRA needs to consider bundling the grants due to lack of interest from local contractors, making it difficult for residents to receive two bids as required by grant guidelines.

Council members agreed to take Everett's suggestion allow the CRA to reopen the bid process.

In other action, council members heard audit results for the 2012 - 2013 fiscal year, conducted by Carr, Riggs, & Ingram.

"The city is in good shape," said the representative, whose only advice was for some existing debt to be refinanced at lower rates.

Council members also approved renewing the non-exclusive franchise to Waste Management, Inc. of Florida for the collection and disposal of residential and commercial solid waste collection. This contract is in effect until May 31, 2017.

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It might take longer than expected before two-way traffic resumes on the Kittanning Citizen's Bridge.

A rainy summer has slowed PennDOT's rehabilitation of the 82-year-old bridge, which has been limited to one lane. Though it was originally supposed to reopen in early October, traffic restrictions are expected to last until Halloween, project manager Nate Adams said.

The $4.7 million rehabilitation project includes painting and structural repairs to the bridge and its approach in Kittanning.

It's been a really humid, wet and difficult summer, Adams said. We may have tarps up, but they aren't waterproof, so the heavy rains soak everything and make it so we can't paint.

The tarpaulins also turn the work site into a greenhouse, making the air hot, while the bridge remains cool. It causes condensation to form on the bridge, making it difficult to paint, Adams said.

The bridge serves as one of the town's main throughways, bringing traffic from Market Street in Kittanning to Butler Road in West Kittanning. Each day, about 15,000 cars cross the bridge, which spans the Allegheny River, according to PennDOT.

Currently, vehicles can cross the bridge from Kittanning into West Kittanning.

Traffic from West Kittanning into Kittanning has been rerouted along Butler Road to Franklin Hill Road, past the Franklin Village Mall and Hilltop Plaza, and onto Route 422 eastbound. That takes traffic across its bridge over the Allegheny. Motorists can get into Kittanning by taking Route 422 Exit B onto South Water Street.

Contractors are applying a final coat of paint to the closed side of the bridge.

By the end of this month, crews plan to work on the other side of the bridge, but the detour and lane restrictions won't change.

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UNITY Two Unity Elementary School project workers who were arrested last week for alleged immigration violations returned to the job site on Monday, said SAU No. 6 superintendent Middleton McGoodwin.

I know that the individuals have been released and are back at work, McGoodwin said.

The new school building is on target to be completed by the end of August, said Ron Bauer, executive vice president of Trumbull-Nelson, the firm in charge of the Unity school building project.

Bauer said he does not know the men arrested, but said, Its my understanding this is just a misunderstanding.

There are up to 40 workers on the job site on a normal work day. About a dozen on site are his employees, Bauer said, the rest are employees from sub-contractors.

We have anywhere from six to eight sub-contractors working there at any given time and they all have their own crews, Bauer said. And sometimes sub-contractors have their own sub-contractors working under them.

McGoodwin said the men are employees of painting and plastering subcontractor House of Windsor in Georges Mills.

Apparently there were some paperwork problems, McGoodwin said. My understanding is that is not the case at all.

The House of Windsor is not commenting, an employee said Tuesday.

All I know is Trumbull-Nelson spoke with the owner. The company has been doing work for Trumbull-Nelson for decades and the individuals were released and they went back on the Unity job site the following Monday, McGoodwin said.

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