[Adopted by Ord. No. 48]
The Board of Supervisors shall enter into independent intermunicipal cooperative or shared services agreements for road maintenance services (hereinafter the "agreements") with Union Township and Mount Joy Township, the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The term of each of the agreements shall be for a period of one year, subject to automatic one-year renewals thereof and also subject to the right of termination by either Township upon 45 days' written notice to the other Township.
The purposes and objectives of the agreements are to eliminate duplicative services and to increase municipal efficiency, reduce costs and improve effectiveness of road repair, mowing, maintenance, plowing and other operations. Pursuant thereto, each Township shall furnish and make available to the other certain enumerated equipment with an operator to perform the shared services.
Each Township shall be responsible for purchase of materials used and the securing of all required consents and approvals of county, state and federal agencies for the performance of work within its boundaries.
Each Township shall be responsible for compliance with applicable safety rules, regulations, laws, statutes and ordinances which pertain to its performance of work in the other Township.
It is not anticipated that new equipment, vehicles or machinery shall be acquired by the Townships but, rather, that existing items or items otherwise subsequently acquired by a Township will be available, with an operator, to provide services in the other Township.
Reimbursement for services rendered by one Township in the other Township shall be in accordance with the valuation schedules attached to the agreement. Each Township shall maintain records as indicated in the agreement. Annual adjustments and/or reimbursements shall be made in order to account for discrepancies in usage of shared equipment and services.
No new entity or organization shall be created in order to implement the agreements, as same will be administered by the respective Township roadmasters and other existing staff and, ultimately, the Boards of Supervisors of each Township.
The provisions of the article are severable and should any of its provisions be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional, such determination shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions of this article. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Board of Supervisors that this article would have been adopted if such invalid or unconstitutional provision had not been included.