{"id":224045,"date":"2026-06-20T19:31:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/224045\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T19:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:31:31","slug":"worth-its-salt-bensalem-township-has-more-than-ever-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/224045\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Its Salt: Bensalem Township Has More Than Ever This Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We get calls from communities to do their streets,&#8221; Pilieri said.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Director John Chaykowski said the township has budgeted $600,000 for winter maintenance and contractors and uses those funds first before dipping into the public works department budget.<\/p>\n<p>Chaykowski said costs depend on how many storms, snow, or inclement weather the township gets each year. He said the township had spent $344,000 through September and was up to $450,000 in early December.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t budget enough,&#8221; Pilieri said. &#8220;We&#8217;d rather have more than less.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Councilwoman Stacey Champion said she notices the impact the public works department makes on keeping township streets in tip-top shape during the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We get calls from communities to do their streets,&#8221; Pilieri said. Finance Director John Chaykowski said the township&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-224045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}