WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP RESIDENTS

SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS

 

 

1.   Rank in order of priority the following statements to best describe how you believe the Washington Township Police Department should be managed now and in the future:  (Show priority 1 – 2 – 3, with 1 being your highest priority and 3 being your lowest priority)

 

      a.   The Washington Township Police Department should continue

            as a separate township only police department.                                                    _______

 

      b.   The Washington Township and Waynesboro Police Departments

            should be combined in a joint police department.                                                  _______

 

      c.   The Washington Township and Waynesboro Police Departments

            should be combined with Antrim Township and Greencastle Police

            Departments to form a new regional police department.                                       _______

 

2.   Thinking five to twenty-plus years in the future, rank in order of priority the following statements: 

      (Show priority 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5, with 1 being your highest priority and 5 being your lowest priority.)

 

      a.   The Township should sell the present buildings and property on

            Welty Road and re-locate Township administrative function, police

            department and public works at a new facility without the WTMA

            if this move can be accomplished without a substantial tax increase.                     _______

 

      b.   The Township should sell the present buildings and property on

            Welty Road and re-locate Township administrative function police

            department and public works at a new facility with the WTMA

            so that all township functions are at one location if this move can be

            accomplished without a substantial tax increase.                                                  _______                     

      c.   The Township should sell the present buildings and property on

            Welty Road and re-locate Township administrative function police

            department and public works at a new facility with the WTMA

            so that all township functions are at one location and provide land

            area for a senior center, district justice and substation for fire and

            ambulance at the site to be constructed sometime in the future if

            needed if this move can be accomplished without a substantial

            tax increase.                                                                                                     _______

 

      d.   The Township should not plan for future growth at this time.                                _______

 

      e.   The Township should keep the Welty Road site for public works

            and the police department and co-locate the administrative office

            with the WTMA at another location.                                                                   _______

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                    Strongly                  Neutral/                         Strongly

                                                                                      Agree      Agree   Undecided     Disagree     Disagree

3.   Washington Township should jointly with Waynesboro

      Borough attempt to purchase the National Guard Armory

      site when it becomes available for a combined municipal

      government location in the future.                                                                                               

                                                                                   

4.   The Washington Township Municipal Authority should sell

      currently available Washington Township water to Quincy

      Township.                                                                                                                                 

 

5.   The Township Recycle Center meets the needs of the         

      Township citizens.                                                                                                        

 

6.   The Township Transfer Station meets the Township

      disposal needs.                                                                                                                           

 

7.                    The Township Transfer Station should be built larger

      to provide faster service.                                                                                                            

     

8.   The Township should conduct a study to determine if

      a fire and/or ambulance substation is needed in the

      Rouzerville area of Washington Township and assist

      Blue Ridge Fire and Rescue Squad to establish this

      substation.                                                                                                                                 

 

9.                                                                                                                                                                           The Township should continue to expand the recreational

      opportunities at the Pine Hill Regional Recreation Park

      off Mentzer Gap Road.                                                                                                              

 

10.  The Township should continue to purchase additional

      property surrounding Happel’s Meadow Wetland In

      Blue Ridge Summit to protect the wetland.                                                                                  

 

11.  The Township should build a nature center and wooden

      walkway in the present Happel’s Meadow Wetland Park

      in Blue Ridge Summit when funding becomes available.                                                               

 

12.                 The Township should develop a local plan to add trails

      that connect to existing paths and walkways to the

      Township.