Clarks Summit volunteers seek borough sign-off to use CDBG funds for Hillside Park accessibility and senior repairs

Mark Spatz, co-chair of the Abington Area Joint Recreation Board and volunteer civil engineer, told the Clarks Summit Borough Council on Tuesday that work funded through borough-allocated Community Development Block Grant funds recently repaved the Hillside Park community center parking lot and that the park board now seeks the borough’s blessing to pursue a second project to improve handicap accessibility and drainage at the Lakeside Pavilion.

Spatz said the parking-lot paving began the prior Monday and crews finished the paving and striping by the day before the meeting. “They finished the paving part yesterday. They did the striping today,” he said. He described full-depth repairs on several areas where the underlying subgrade required re-compaction and said the contract was awarded through the county’s public-bid process; the county is the contract owner, he said. Spatz showed photographic progress slides during his remarks.

The next project the park submitted to the county would level settled concrete around the blue-roof Lakeside Pavilion, regrade…