There was some clarification in terms of the occupancy level at the Beach Club given at the Summit Township Supervisor meeting on September 1.

Summit Solicitor William Walker said that he contacted Middle Department Inspection Agency, MDIA, about the occupancy and other issues.

The occupancy saga has been unfolding for a few months ever since a dance was held at the facility and some complaints were launched in the direction of Pete Albaugh, Summit Fire Marshall, who began investigating the situation.

At the September meeting, Walker imparted that not only did he speak with MDIA, he also went over to the club on a Friday night to check it out.

MDIA told Walker that they are waiting for some drawings from local architect Robert Frost, but the main gist of the conversation was that 310 people were permitted in the Beach Club portion of the complex.

As for the other area of the building, the Dockside, it is not being utilized currently and is not to be until there is some clarification.

Walker said that it looked like the Beach Club group, Park Restoration LLC, had been bringing everything up to code in terms of the wiring, repairing the electrical system, getting rid of dead bolts on the doors, the installation of panic hardware and taking care of other violations.

The very bottom line is that MDIA is still waiting on the sketches, etc., from Frost but meanwhile, 310 people can enjoy the club legally.

Albaugh also presented supervisors with some correspondence from DEP concerning what was referred to as the Gillette property. This property has been a topic at recent meetings due to the condition. Evidently there was a renter in the house and it had many violations that prevented it from being able to be rented out legally.

Since then, the owner has taken certain measures to clean things up. An anonymous complaint was lodged recently since the caller thought that Gillette was moving some of the clean up and burying it on the property. This turned out to be an older land fill region on the parcel and there was nothing recent found in it.

Bottom line is that a local contractor is moving some of the items and things have been underway there now for some time. Albaugh is monitoring the situation closely.

In other news, the township carried a motion to give the fire department some funds for a new ambulance. The total cost of the vehicle will be approximately $152,000. The department will be obtaining money from other sources as well but needed something from supervisors too.

Ashley Porter, of Porter Consulting Engineers, was on hand and went over several issues with supervisors.

One topic was Gibson Park and getting some funding for a repair project. Supervisor Harry Mc- Grath gave some background on the situation at the park. He said that water was being taken from one side of the road via a pipe and was coming through to the recreation area. “It was designed by a soil conservation officer...We submitted a grant and got a Dirt and Gravel Road Project and it failed...”

He continued to explain that they have erosion problems now as the water is being channeled down a hill and is basically ending up in a parking lot. So, they are trying to get this remedied.

Porter Consulting was directed via motion to get some preliminary sketches together and move toward getting things in order in terms of the application so that it can get underway.

Porter also reported on the condition of the Rt. 618 Bridge which has, according to them, settled by about a foot since its completion. According to Porter's assistant, Justin Dickey, the area in question is about 100 feet from the bridge.

The township is aware of this, obviously, and is taking the measures needed to rectify the problem. PennDOT will actually be in charge of the bridge, so to speak,