The routine approval of minutes from Heidelberg Township’s Jan. 20 meeting got pushback at the Feb. 17 regular meeting.

Embedded in the text of the minutes from the meeting was a sentence indicating that Heidelberg Township’s office on Route 309 would “remain closed until the parking lot is safe to access by the office staff.”

Approval of the minutes as written would have made that official but it didn’t happen.

While a discussion of access to the building during and after snow and icy weather apparently did occur at the last meeting there was no decision to close the building as described in the minutes.

Supervisor and Chairman of the Board Steve Bachman opened the discussion asking the other Supervisors David Fink and Jonathan Jakum if they recalled approving an action to close the township’s office because of snow or ice. Both indicated that they did not recall such an action.

Township Secretary Janice Myers said in an interview that she had added the sentence to draw the supervisors’ attention to the ongoing issue or problem of the office door being blocked from access when it snows and that the road crew are out on other jobs.

Meeting minutes are normally transcriptions of the motions and results of the vote on those motions and in many cases include an account of the discussions preceding the final vote.

Supervisors approved the January minutes after striking the portion about the office being closed.

In other business, Supervisors heard reports from the Germansville Fire Company and other officers.

According to the report, in January, the fire company received 26 calls and responded to 29 percent of them with an average response time of 16.19 minutes.

The Veterans’ Memorial Committee in charge of the veteran’s memorial at Ontelaunee Park, 7344 Kings Highway, New Tripoli, is $90,000 short of its goal.

According to the report, the original projected cost of $300,000 has gone to “well over $500,000” due to cost increases including the cost of granite.

Opening date for the memorial is still scheduled for Memorial Day 2022.

Bachman, who is also the director for Parks and Recreation, reported that unknown people have been driving over the traffic-control pylons on the trail near the recreation field and that someone’s car had lost a bumper.

“We’re hoping that parents will read this in the paper and get their kids to step up.”