The new equipment at the playground, which is a mile drive north of the Liberty-West Chester border, also will have shade canopies, a climbing rock, slides and a handicapped ramp, making it wheelchair accessible.
Liberty trustees recently voted to approve submitting an application for a 2014 Community Development Block Grant for the project.
Existing equipment at the playground includes a merry-go-round, swings, a climber and a metal slide.
“It’s a little outdated,” Plummer said. “It’s not in disrepair, but it’s not modern.”
The new equipment would replace the park’s merry-go-round, Plummer said.
Plummer said it’s too soon to know how long it will take to hear an answer on whether funding has been granted.
“It’s 2014 money, so probably not until the first of the year,” he said.
Denying computer access to fiscal officer was a “misunderstanding”
An article in Saturday’s Journal-News detailed the concerns of Bruce Jones, fiscal officer for West Chester Twp.
During comments made at a board of trustees meeting last week, Jones said he was “denied access” to multiple township files, including the township’s finance drive.
While it’s true that the drivers and servers were not there when Jones took office April 1, 2012, township officials clarified in a Sunday email to the Journal-News that Jones did receive access to the files by summer.
Township officials said removal of such drives is standard operating procedure for any employee who is not a part of its finance department.
Judi Boyko, the township’s administrator, said it was unfortunate that Jones used the term “denied access” instead of seeing the situation as the township staffers carrying out their usual organizational practices.
“Just like receiving any new employee, staff prepares, organizes and then loads the proper computer information to any particular position,” Boyko said. “I think it’s completely a misunderstanding that, depending on one’s perspective, you can see the good or the bad.”
Jones, it appears, is choosing to see the latter, calling Boyko’s reasoning “anemic, at best” because the action was undertaken without any prior discussion with him.
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