“We need to target a number in excess of what we need,” Lauer said. The bond issue would also finance a new, $1 million ladder truck for the township fire department. In lesser terms – the local government can take a property from a private entity as long as the property is used for the greater good of the public, and in this case we are talking about the future site of the Peters Township High School and the Rolling Hills Country Club.Īs expected, Peters Township Council unanimously agreed to use eminent domain to acquire Rolling Hills Country Club, joining its partner, Peters Township School District, which voted earlier this month to take the same action.Īssistant township manager, Paul Lauer, who takes over for current manager Michael Silvestri at the end of the month, said at Monday’s special meeting the township is looking at doing a bond issue of around $9 million to finance its portion of the project. Webster’s Dictionary defines eminent domain as a right of a government to take private property for public use by virtue of the superior dominion of the sovereign power over all lands within its jurisdiction.
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