Like many local governments, Bristol Township uses a lot of paper.
The township is moving forward with plans to modernize its record-keeping by looking to use a paperless document management system.
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“We are getting into the 21st century and we are going forward with paperless and document management,” Mazur said. “The Scantech contract is approximately $600,000 from soup to nuts of everything that we would need — them scanning in most of the documents, setting up the whole document system that we have.”
To assist in covering the costs, officials are pursuing a $300,000 state grant.
“I don’t know if we’ll get the full 50 percent, but we have to put the $300,000 request in the grant application,” Mazur told council recently.
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The move comes after a cleanup at the municipal building where students from the Bucks County Intermediate Unit assisted the township in clearing out old files.
“We’ve cleaned a lot out,” Mazur said. “There was a busload of paperwork that was cleaned out by our students. And now we’re moving forward.”
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In other municipal business, council members voted in June to redirect $7.4 million from an existing $11 million loan taken out in 2021 at a 1.2 percent interest rate.
The funds were set aside for construction and renovation work at the township senior center and fire station.
With that construction wrapping up and $6 million in grant funding secured for the projects, council voted recently to allocate the remaining loan balance toward a variety of other township projects.
The plans for the money include renovations at the public works facility, updates to the park and recreation building to better accommodate rentals, potential audio-visual upgrades at the municipal park, and continued storm sewer abatement work.
