The Northwest Regional Planning Commission is working to establish a bulk purchasing program to upgrade traffic signals with LED units – multiple light emitting diodes – and hope to be able to use grant money to offer the units to municipalities at low cost.

The units would normally cost about $85 each, township secretary Jacqui Blose said, but Northwest Planning hopes to offer them for $19 each.

LED’s would reduce the electric bill for the flashing signal lights by 80 to 90 percent, and will last much longer than incandescent lamps, Blose said.

“I’m all in favor of LEDs, it’s worth it,” supervisor Bob Carbaugh said before supervisors voted unanimously to participate in the purchasing program.

Road master Terry Bemis said ten of the township’s road signs have gone missing and he asked for approval to replace them.

Bemis said he did not report the missing signs as thefts, as it is unlikely the signs would be recovered. Supervisors voted to authorize purchase of the replacements.

Clarion County is developing hazard mitigation plans, Blose told supervisors, and wants townships to submit ideas on the kinds of disasters that might occur and what might be needed to deal with such disasters.

Blose also told supervisors the township will be required to submit information on potential stormwater problems to Clarion County by marking the location of such problems on a map.

The Department of Environmental Protection is initiating the program, and can restrict the issuing of environmental permits in municipalities that do not comply; Blose said state disbursements of funds, such as the liquid fuels fund, could also be affected.