Clinton Township updating municipal building for ADA compliance
CLINTON TWP — Throughout 2023, Clinton Township has made plans to upgrade its municipal building, located on Saxonburg Boulevard, to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“We are not expanding the building; the physical space will remain the same,” said supervisor Kathy Allen. “The township is doing updates to make everything wheelchair- and handicap-accessible.”
According to township director Ashley Kohley, the planned upgrades include the widening of office doors to accommodate wheelchairs, upgrades to the restrooms, and a button at the front door which will open it automatically.
“It was something that we wanted to do,” Kohley said. “There wasn’t anything that really prompted it. We just realized there was a need for it. We saw that there were other townships doing it too.”
As part of this process, Clinton Township also had their building checked for both asbestos and lead, tests which needed to be performed before contractors performed any work on the ADA upgrades.
Mid-Atlantic Environmental Consultants of Gibsonia was contracted to perform the testing.
“There’s very little asbestos, and they don’t believe any lead at this time,” Kohley said. “So it shouldn’t affect the project cost very much at all.”
Kohley says the township hopes for the project to go out to bid by late January or early February, and for construction to begin in late winter or early spring.
“They’re hoping to have construction drawings completed soon so that we can go out for bid,” Kohley said. “We don’t have the final numbers yet on it.”
