{"id":260385,"date":"2026-08-06T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260385\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:04:10","slug":"salisbury-township-commissioners-approve-three-motions-one-involving-a-suspension-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/260385\/","title":{"rendered":"Salisbury Township commissioners approve three motions, one involving a suspension \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published August 06. 2026 10:30AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Salisbury Township board of commissioners approved several motions at its most recent meeting, July 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Salisbury Township Commissioner President Pro-Tempore Heather Lipkin chaired the meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Township commissioners voted 3-0 with two commissioners absent, to approve:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2014 Change Order of the CDBG 2026 Cured-In-Place Pipelining Project Awarded to Mobile Dredging and Video Pipe, Inc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cAs we looked at the project, it was a little bit over budget,\u201d Alan R. Fornwalt, P.E., Keystone Consulting Engineers, township engineers, said before the vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Approximately 286 feet of the project was removed, Fornwalt said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Township Commissioner Alok Patnaik made the motion, seconded by township Commissioner Allison Leayman, to bring the motion to a vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2014 Accept Completion of the 2024 Sewer System Rehabilitation Project and release Wexcon, Inc.\u2019s Maintenance Bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cEverything was good,\u201d Salisbury Township Director of Public Works Jim Levernier said before the vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Leayman made the motion, seconded by Patnaik, to bring the motion to a vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2014 Impose Disciplinary Action in Accordance to Section 14.1 of the Salisbury Civil Service Rules and Regulations, the Collective Bargaining Agreement and Departmental Procedures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cAs per the rules, I can\u2019t comment,\u201d Salisbury Township Police Chief Don Sabo said before the vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">It was stated that a five-day suspension was to have been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Patnaik made the motion, seconded by Leayman, to bring the motion to a vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Salisbury Township meetings in the municipal building, 2900 S. Pike Ave., include: 7 p.m. Aug. 12, zoning hearing board; 7 p.m. Aug. 13, board of commissioners; 7 p.m. Aug. 19, environmental advisory council; 7 p.m. Aug. 26, planning commission and 7 p.m. Aug. 27, board of commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>File photoThe Salisbury Township Board of Commissioners will next meet Aug. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published August 06. 2026 10:30AM The Salisbury Township board of commissioners approved several motions at its most recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-260385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260385","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=260385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}