Politics & Government
Upper St. Clair Commissioners Approve Five-Year Plan
The plan includes spending more than $9 million on the Community and Recreation Center at Boyce Mayview Park.
The Upper St. Clair Township Board of Commissioners have approved a plan that will serve as a guideline for the township's capital improvements budgets over the next five years.
An estimated $66.5 million was divided between capital equipment, street improvements, storm sewer projects, park resurfacing, public building and park improvements, sanitary sewer projects, and improvements to the Community and Recreation Center (CRC) at Boyce Mayview Park.
Part of the more-than-$9 million that could be spent on the CRC over the next five years includes a $3.5-million dollar expansion of the outdoor pool and expansions to the center's gym and locker rooms.
Upper St. Clair resident Robert Milavic spoke out during Monday's commissioners meeting against the amount of money allocated for the CRC, which he recognized as a nice thing to have but costly to the township.
"I really object to putting millions of the community's tax dollars into making a bigger pool or whatever," Malivac said.
Fellow USC resident Patrice Romzick said that she believed that, as nice as the center is to have, it needs to "stand on its own two feet."
"Roads, sewers, educational systems: Those are the real key things to attract people and keep them in Upper St. Clair," Romzick said.
Robert W. Orchowski, president of the board of commissioners, said that the numbers were only a "planning tool."
"This board does not want tax increases. Period," Orchowski said.
Fellow Commissioner Glenn R. Dandoy questioned whether or not $750,000 allocated for storm sewer updates would be enough after the destruction left by recent flooding.
The current plan was created prior to the recent rash of storms, according to the township's Director of Finance August G. Stache, Jr., who presented the plan.
Check out the pie chart above to see the rest of Upper St. Clair's budgeting for capital improvements over the next five years.
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