A Fountain Hill organization would like Salisbury Township to get in the swim.

A representative is offering a line of communication between his organization and Salisbury.

“We were organized to save the Fountain Hill pool,” Mike Zovko, representing the Fountain Hill Community Coalition, said at the Salisbury Township Board of Commissioners’ April 11 meeting.

The coalition, a 501(c)(3) organization founded to reopen the Fountain Hill swimming pool, Zovko said, formed in 2022.

He told a reporter for The Press the coalition raised $8,000 for the pool project.

The pool is expected to reopen in June. Visit https://www.fountainhill.org/ for employment information.

“My children and myself enjoyed the Fountain Hill pool for years,” township Commissioner Heather Lipkin, who represents Ward 1 on Salisbury’s east side, said.

“While we are a Fountain Hill organization, we’ve grown by leaps and bounds,” Zovko said. “We have a number of Salisbury members. We are nonrestrictive.”

The coalition’s second annual “Restaurant Week,” Zovko said, included restaurants in Salisbury Township.

“We’re trying to build a sense of community, Zovko said, adding, “We’ve lost a number of organizations, including churches.”

The coalition is exploring the idea of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1059 Delaware Ave., Fountain Hill, becoming a community center, Zovko said. A meeting on the topic was held April 2 at St. Paul’s.

“I’m not here for money. I’m not here for favors. I’m here to put you on our email list,” Zovko said, who can be reached at mzovkofhcc@gmail.com.

Fountain Hill Borough is 478 acres. There are 4,800 residents, based on 2020 census figures. Fountain Hill annexed 255 acres from Salisbury Township in 1919.

In other business at the April 11 meeting, commissioners voted 4-0 to approve:

- Motion authorizing reactivation of the township K-9 Program with two K-9 officers-handlers. Lipkin made the motion, seconded by commissioner Vice President Rodney Conn, to bring the motion to a vote.

“Historically, we had one K-9 working on one patrol,” Salisbury Township Chief of Police Donald Sabo said before the vote.

Salisbury Township police announced Oct. 14, 2023, the death of township K-9 Patrol Dog Miklo, the township’s fourth K-9 dog.

Funding has been received for one dog and training. “We also have many donations for another dog,” Sabo said, adding, “We’d like to have a dog on every platoon.”

- Resolution authorizing removal of Act 319 designation for the Charles R. Nippert Jr. and Carolyn C. Nippert property, 126 Crestmont St., which was donated to the township.

“It’s really a formality. We are tax-exempt,” Salisbury Township Manager Cathy Bonaskiewich said.

The property was entered into Act 319, the Pennsylvania Clean and Green Program, by the prior owners in 2008. “Salisbury Township may plan to develop the property in a form which would not be in conformity with Act 319 and, therefore, wishes to have the property removed from this classification,” states the resolution.

Salisbury Township Director, Public Works, Jim Levernier said work is progressing on the township police department training center. “We have almost completed the whole back wall and we will be starting on the berm.”

Salisbury Township meetings in the municipal building, 2900 S. Pike Ave., include: 7 p.m. April 17, environmental advisory council; 7 p.m. April 24, planning commission and 7 p.m. April 25, board of commissioners.