BUTLER TWP — The Butler Township commissioners Wednesday approved a two-year contract with a Pittsburgh company for traffic signal maintenance.

Commissioners unanimously approved the contract with Traffic Systems and Services, which is currently working for the township under a one-year contract. The term of the new contract begins in October.

Tom Knights, township manager, said the cost for services in the new contract is about the same as the current contract.

In unrelated business, police Chief John Hays reviewed information from a mobile speed evaluation unit that was set up on Belmont Drive due to complaints of speeding on the road, which has a 25 mph speed limit.

The Speed Alert 24 radar unit monitored eastbound traffic for 13 days and westbound traffic for 15 days in August and September.

From Aug. 8-20 in the eastbound lane, 18,198 vehicles were counted traveling an average of 20.13 mph and 85 percent of the vehicles traveled at or below 25.99 mph. There were 605 vehicles, or 3.1 percent, traveling 35 mph or more.

In the westbound lane from Aug. 21-Sept. 4, 12,791 vehicles traveled an average of 23.11 mph and 85 percent traveled at or below 27.86 mph. There were 320 vehicles, or 2.5 percent, traveling 35 miles and hour or more.

Hays said the unit displays the speeds vehicles are traveling when they pass it and it collects other data such as the highest and lowest speeds.

The Speed Alert 24 radar unit is now on East Brady Street.

In other business, the commissioners scheduled Halloween trick or treating for 6-7 p.m. Oct. 31.

In addition, Knights said the price of road salt is about $7 a ton higher than it was last year when the township paid $55 a ton. He said he obtained the price from Costars, the state cooperative purchasing program.