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Commissioners approve consent agenda, contracts and grants; residents urge investigations and raise stormwater concerns
Summary
The board approved a broad consent agenda and multiple contracts (including child- and health-services amendments, IT leases and library/public health grants) and heard public comments alleging nursing-home neglect and urging the formation of an investigative grievance committee; a resident also raised serious stormwater and eminent-domain concerns about a Willistown Township culvert project.
At its April 29 meeting the Chester County Board of Commissioners approved a multi-item consent agenda and a slate of departmental contracts and grants presented by county directors.
Contracts and amendments approved included: Daikon Child, Family and Community Ministries ($267,840) for a dependency court parent-advocate service; an amendment to Family Service of Chester County ($3,424,800) for family-units programming; a Maternal and Child Health Consortium amendment ($720,000) for in-home services; a Blue Raster LLC amendment ($75,000) for GIS consulting; a First Citizens Bank lease/financing for laptops and PCs (presented as $1,424,150.60); and an ePlus Technologies agreement ($1,137,213.06) for Cisco security and enterprise licenses. Additional contract items included pathology lab fee schedule updates and county transportation and vehicle-upfit grants.
Grant items: the Office of Adult Probation reported returning $106,302 to the Commonwealth because the grant funds arrived after the 2025 books were closed; the county also noted a $50,000 PCCD award for an accredited Child Advocacy Center and multiple public-health infrastructure grants to improve surveillance and data capacity.
Public comment: Mary Bush (West Bradford) asked the board to establish an investigative grievance committee to provide the public a formal path to raise concerns about county employees, vendor contracts and the use of taxpayer funds; she also presented a 66-page Department of Health report she said documents neglect at a nursing facility and requested investigation and contract review, including a contract described in the transcript as $450,000 to Carol J. Hershey. The board acknowledged receipt and staff said a county contact (Faith) would follow up.
Richard Glunk (Willestown Township) raised long-standing stormwater concerns affecting his Maple Leaf Farm property, alleging a proposed township culvert design would dramatically increase flow to West Crum Creek, damage a historic bridge abutment and risk condemnation of farmland; he urged county intervention.
The board approved the contracts and grants by voice vote and closed the meeting with no further action listed on either public demands.
