Plowing issue is raised in Jackson Township

Vogt said he had not received any complaints and asked Eshelman if he had. “George Hawk Road,” Eshelman responded. “Plowed it back pretty hard there.”

Vogt said: “It is what it is. When you can’t see the edge of the road, you are guessing when the snow is 2 or 3 feet across the road. It is not something we can’t take care of.”

Trustee Vice Chairman Mark Wright said: “It is not good (or) great. But it is part of the job… When you are out there at 2, 3, 4 o’clock in the morning plowing, you have the wind blowing, you have snow coming up on the windshield. You have no clue where you’re at.”

Wright noted that plows on trucks are 10 to 11 feet wide. “It happens,” he said of property issues.

“There is nothing you can really do about it,” Wright said. “The safety of the residents is our main concern, getting the snow off the road and cleaned up as much as we can in a timely manner.”

Vogt said that he can “almost guarantee” that the property issues involved is right-of-way.

“But the people take it personally because they mow DAVID JACOBS/SDG Newspapers file photo and maintain that,” A Jackson Township snow plow IS SHOWN IN A file PHOTO FROM NOVEMBER 2020

Vogt added. AT THE TOWNSHIP GARAGE WHERE A TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES MEETING WAS HELD. DURING

Wright THEIR JAN. 5 MEETING, TRUSTEES ADDRESSED PLOWING CONCERNS.

acknowledged that. “But they need to weigh it out,” Wright continued. “If they want nice roads, if they want it cleaned, snow removed from them. That comes with the job. I understand.”

Vogt added: “I get it too. It is not something that’s purposefully done, either. You can’t see the edge of the road.”

In an interview after the meeting, Wright noted that the trustees speak from personal experience when it comes to snow plowing. He plows for the township and Richland County. “All of us trustees when we’re available to work, we’re on these trucks helping out, too,” Wright added.

In other business at the meeting, trustees received their special report from Jackson Township Road Superintendent Kurt Stumbo.

Highlights included plowing and salting roads several times, ordering two loads of roadway salt and noting plans to add a security light at the township building.

Trustees also voted 3-0 for a $500 clothing allowance for Stumbo and $250 for the township’s parttime road assistant Sam Sauder.