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Resident Adele Kubel criticizes township record-keeping and raises blight and safety concerns during public comment
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Multiple residents used the March 12 public-comment period to criticize township record-keeping and to raise concerns about blight, streetlight outages, and public-safety enforcement on Old York Road; no board response addressing the allegations was recorded at the meeting.
Residents used the March 12 public-comment period to press Abington Township officials on a range of quality-of-life concerns, from alleged biased meeting minutes to deteriorating medians on Old York Road and what they described as insufficient community policing.
Adele Kubel, who identified herself during the agenda-item public-comment period, criticized how meeting minutes are compiled. "Every compliment will be recorded verbatim without mistakes... The propaganda must ganda must stop. The history of board meetings is being falsified," she said, alleging that minutes favor 'lobbyists for billionaire developers' over ordinary residents.
Kubel raised multiple concerns about Old York Road, saying the island medians were "disintegrating" and asking why ready-mix concrete had not been used for repairs. She also accused the Economic Development Corporation and named private actors of contributing to local decline: "The EDC, with Richard Manfredi and Karen Sanchez's law firm, must go," she said. Those are assertions made during public comment; no township staff member or elected official offered an on-the-record rebuttal during the meeting.
Kubel further alleged that several streetlight poles along Old York Road had never been replaced after being struck and urged the police to use the township's Facebook pages and code enforcement tools to address what she described as escalating blight and safety hazards.
Other residents raised separate concerns and offers of assistance. Joe Rooney thanked township public-works crews for a rapid response to a storm-sewer backup and spoke generally about community safety and school matters. Joe Brocious introduced himself as a retired investor and offered to volunteer his financial-analysis expertise to help the township improve revenue and control expenses; he said he had left his resume with township staff.
During a later public-comment exchange, Rooney asked whether an appointee to the soon-to-be-vacant Ward 13 seat would need to run this November; the board clarified the appointee must run at the next municipal election, which the board said will be held next year (odd-numbered year). The meeting closed with no formal board action taken in response to the allegations about minutes, the EDC or streetlight replacements.
